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He received the dead guided to the Underworld by Hermes and ferried them accross the Akheron (or Styx).

His mother was Nyx (Night); his father Erebus (Darkness).

The fee for his service was a single obolos coin which was placed in the mouth of a corpse at burial.

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What was the ferryman called in Hades?

Charon, The Ferryman.


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