Ferryman on river in lower world (Charon)

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Greek Fox 142
Egyptian Müller 176
Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 45
Babylonian Jensen Gilgamesch-Epos X, XI, 46ff., cf. 136ff.

Within the index

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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