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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Perses - God of Destruction
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This reminded me I had a Rottweiler named Charon along time ago. Kick ass dog. (Had another named Roman who was a badass as well).
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Charon (Χαρων) was the son of the primordial Gods Erebus (God of Darkness) and Nyx (Goddess of Light). The name Charon means ‘fierce brightness’ in Greek, and the Romanīs equivalent was Charus.
He was the ferryman of the dead, an underworld daimon (spirit) in the service of King Haides. He received the shades of the dead from Hermes who gathered them from the upper world and guided them to the shores of River Acheron.
The Acheron was also known as the River of Pain that flowed from the Styx and believed to carry pains intended for mortals back to earth. It also carried the good souls from the Underworld that were sent back to earth to be reincarnated as mortals.
Those who had not received due burial and were unable to pay his fee, would be left to wander the earthly side of the Acheron, haunting the upper world as ghosts.
Although Hermes might have taken the souls of the dead to the banks of the river for free, Charon demanded his fee.
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