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“Acheron”

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Αχερων

Acheronwas the god of the underworld river and lake of pain. Charon ferried the souls of the dead across its dark waters in his skiff.

Πυριφλεγέθων

Pyriphlegeton(sometimes only called Phlegeton) was the underworld river of fire and its god. He was one of five infernal rivers, the others being Acheron, Styx, Lethe and Cocytus. Plato describes it as “a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus”. It was parallel to the river Styx. It is said that the goddess Styx was in love with Pyriphlegethon, but she was consumed by his flames and sent to Hades. Eventually, when Hades allowed her river to flow through, they reunited.

Χαρων

Charonwas the Ferryman of the Dead, an underworld spirit in the service of Hades. He transported the souls of the dead across the underworld river Acheron in his skiff. His fee was a single obolos coin which was placed in the mouth of a corpse upon burial. Those who had not received proper burial were unable to pay the fee and were left to wander the earthly side of the Acheron, haunting the world as ghosts.

Who goes across those waters
On which the Moon ne'er shone,
With the passenger he came for
As in a dream moved on?
Cypress and yews o'ershadow
The verge on either side,
Within whose boughs for ever
The winds of woe abide.
And all the air is haunted
With a wail that seems to flow
From the living lips of Sorrow
As the ages come and go.
The boatman, dumb and hoary,
Pulls with a steady pull,
And the dead man seems to listen
To voices beautiful.
And it may be the weird River
Has sights we cannot see,
And the far shore burns its signals
Of eerie mystery.
And Charon knows each signal —
Above the River’s rim
The spectral lights that glimmer
Are pilot-stars for him.
Ay me! he knows the water
As few, few boatmen know;
‘Tis not the first he’s taking
Down where we all must go!

Charon - Robert Crawford