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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1387111, member: 22004"]In mythology, certain coins are put on dead mens' eyes or in their mouths for the journey over the River Styx. What would be the right coins? The Wikipedia article says the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>"In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" rel="nofollow">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Charon</b> or <b>Kharon</b> (English pronunciation: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" rel="nofollow">/ˈkɛərɒn/</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English" rel="nofollow">/ˈkɛərən/</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">Greek</a> Χάρων) is the ferryman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades" rel="nofollow">Hades</a> who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx" rel="nofollow">Styx</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheron" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheron" rel="nofollow">Acheron</a> that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol" rel="nofollow">coin to pay Charon</a> for passage, usually an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolus" rel="nofollow">obolus</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danake" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danake" rel="nofollow">danake</a>, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29#cite_note-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29#cite_note-0" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>[/SUP] Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabasis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabasis" rel="nofollow">catabasis</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytheme" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytheme" rel="nofollow">mytheme</a>, heroes — such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" rel="nofollow">Heracles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus" rel="nofollow">Orpheus</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas" rel="nofollow">Aeneas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus" rel="nofollow">Dionysus</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_%28mortal%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_%28mortal%29" rel="nofollow">Psyche</a> — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon."</p><p><br /></p><p>How much would an obulus or a danake cost these days?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1387111, member: 22004"]In mythology, certain coins are put on dead mens' eyes or in their mouths for the journey over the River Styx. What would be the right coins? The Wikipedia article says the following: "In [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology"]Greek mythology[/URL], [B]Charon[/B] or [B]Kharon[/B] (English pronunciation: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English"]/ˈkɛərɒn/[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English"]/ˈkɛərən/[/URL]; [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek"]Greek[/URL] Χάρων) is the ferryman of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades"]Hades[/URL] who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx"]Styx[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheron"]Acheron[/URL] that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol"]coin to pay Charon[/URL] for passage, usually an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolus"]obolus[/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danake"]danake[/URL], was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29#cite_note-0"][1][/URL][/SUP] Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabasis"]catabasis[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytheme"]mytheme[/URL], heroes — such as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles"]Heracles[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus"]Orpheus[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas"]Aeneas[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus"]Dionysus[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_%28mortal%29"]Psyche[/URL] — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon." How much would an obulus or a danake cost these days?[/QUOTE]
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