In Greek literature, he is most explicitly described as personifying the region a soul enters immediately after they die but before they arrive at the world of the dead. As the personification of darkness, Erebus can be found in deep shadows and on moonless nights. The first of the five is Chaos, the sexless Void believed to have brought forth the other four primordial deities: Erebus, Nyx, Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day). According to Hesiod, the ancient Greek poet, Erebus is one of the five primordial deities that existed at the dawn of the universe. Some say Adrasteia is the daughter of Nyx alone, others say she is the daughter of both Nyx and Erebus, God of Darkness and Shadow. It is believed that Nyx stood at the creation of the universe and chanted while Adrasteia (also known as Nemesis) clashed cymbals, beat drums, and danced the heavens into their proper place. So great and powerful was her beauty that even Zeus, King of the Gods, stood in fear of her.
Charon’s Parentsīorn of Chaos, Nyx is the Goddess of the Night. The only break in the monotony of his task is the appearance of undead travelers such as Aeneas and Dante. The only joy in his job is the opportunity to push coinless or improperly buried souls out of his boat and into the deep below. Son of Darkness and Night, Charon grimly rows back and forth across the River of Woe bringing the newly dead to their eternal hereafter in Hades. In days of old, the dead were buried with a silver coin (the shiner the better) so that the souls of the faithful departed could pay the toll to the deathless demon ferryman of the underworld: Charon.
0 kommentar(er)
