Ferryman on river in lower world (Charon)

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Ferryman on river in lower world (Charon).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A672.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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Irish mythCross
GreekFox 142
EgyptianMüller 176
Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 45
BabylonianJensen Gilgamesch-Epos X, XI, 46ff., cf. 136ff.

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Filed under Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame).

1 finer motif beneath it

Charon exacts fee to ferry souls across Styx

Filed beside it

Maiden at the bridge to hell

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