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M-am documentat despre Castor si Pollux. Ei nu au fost nascutzi din oo de lebada,asa cum a zis SOD .

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CHARON
Real Name: Charon
Identity/Class: Olympian god
Occupation: Ferryman
Affiliations: Olympian gods, Pluto
Enemies: None known.
Known Relatives: Erebus (father), Nox (mother), Aether, Moros, Keres,
Thanatos, Momus (brothers), Hemera, Nemesis, Ponos, Limos, Usmine, Mache, Phonos, Pseudea (sisters), Ophion (alleged grandfather, deceased), Eurynome (alleged grandmother), Ouranous (great-grandfather, deceased), Gaea (alleged great-grandmother)
Aliases: Charun (Etruscan Myth)
Base of Operations: the River Acheron, Hades
Powers/Abilities: Charon possibly possesses the same conventional
attributes of the Olympian gods including superhuman strength, extreme long life and resistance to injury. It is unknown as to whether he can manipulate any forms of magic or if his skeletal appearance is his true appearance or an illusion created for the sake of his position. If the latter is true, he may at least have skills in shapeshifting.

History: (Greek/Roman Myth)- Charon is the son of the ancient (possibly Hyborian) gods Erebus, god of day, and Nyx, goddess of night. Predating Zeus overthrowing the Titans, he was probably serving as a ferryman delivering the souls of mortals to underworld for millennia before Pluto began governing the underworld. He has only been negligent in this position on a few occasions as when Theseus, the Athenian King, and his best friend, Peirithous, leader of the Lapiths, paid their way through on their way to attempt to abduct the daughter of Zeus, Persephone. On his way to retrieve his beloved Eurydice, the Argonaut Orpheus tempted Charon’s heart with a song and on his last labor, Hercules was also allowed to pass. Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, was also allowed to pass through to consult the dead seer Teiresias and Aeneas, the wandering prince of Dardania, was also permitted to Underworld to consult with the souls that had passed over into the afterlife.

In Etruscan Myth, Charon is called the son of Mantus (Hades) and Mania
(either Persephone or Hecate). This is obviously erroneous.
--Obvious to whom?

The ocean goddess Eurynome is also mother of the three Charities (Roman
Graces) known as Pasithea (wife of Hypnos), Euphrosyne and Aglaea (Roman
Charis, second wife of Hephaestus) by Zeus. If the account of Eurynome as
Charon’s grandmother were true, the Charities would be his aunts.

A Hyborian version of someone resembling Charon also appears on Conan the
Barbarian #250. A skeletal ferryman transports others across the River of
Darkness :

The use of a coin to pay the ferryman for a trip across the River of
Darkness is obviously derived from the Greek/Roman Myth of paying Charon to
ferry the dead across the River Styx. The Hyborian era (16, 000 - 8, 000
BC) obviously predates the Greek and Roman Civilization, but it makes sense
for the Hyborian version to have simply continued into the later legend,
especially given the location of the real River Styx (Stygia, which became
Egypt) in the Hyborian Era, and its connection to the underworld's River of
Darkness.

While it is conceivable that Charon predates most of the Titans and their
progeny the Olympians, it is unsure if it is actually he or not.

Oribilul Mosh scrie:
Eu si cu SOD am avut o disputa. Voi ,cei care va pricepetzi la mitologie greaca.....raspundetzi la urmatoarea intrebare : Care a fost darul lui Poseidon pentru orashul Athena ?

SOD scrie:"Si Leda a adus pe lume la timpul cuvenit - ca pasarile - doo oo.Din unul s-a ivit Polux si sora lui Elena,de-o frumusete fara seaman,iar din celalat s-au ivit Castor si Clitemnestra"