Charon

Mm-hmm.

Charon...

the okay boat yeah guy ferryman medusa snake lady yep patrickless okay um uh from the ilion yes from so i don't know you bring up an interesting point i they haven't talked about any they did

it sounds to me like a uh percy jackson-esque it's horny percy jackson Yeah.

And this lawyer was like, I'm going to do it.

Yeah.

Charon, Patroclus, Hades and Persephone, Achilles and Augustus are characters we will be talking about in this section.

Augustus Caesar? Yeah.

Wherefore, to make no delay of what was not to be avoided, she goes to the top of a high tower to precipitate herself headlong, thus to descend the shortest way to the shades below.

But a voice from the tower said to her, "Why, poor unlucky girl, dost thou design to put an end to thy days in so dreadful a manner? And what cowardice makes thee sink under this last danger, who has been so miraculously supported in all thy former?" Then the voice told her how by a certain cave she might reach the realms of Pluto, and how to avoid all the dangers of the road, to pass by Cerberus, the three-headed dog, and prevail on Charon, the ferryman, to take her across the black river and bring her back again.

But the voice added, "When Proserpine has given you the box filled with her beauty, of all things this is chiefly to be observed by you, that you never once open or look into the box, nor allow your curiosity to pry into the treasure of the beauty of the goddess." Psyche, encouraged by this advice, obeyed it in all things, and taking heed to her ways, traveled safely to the kingdom of Pluto.

She was admitted to the palace of Proserpine.

So he was thinking about this kind of character and concept.

But while he was playing around with it, he suddenly pivoted, and he started thinking, "Don't Pay the Ferryman." Now, when I think of Ferryman, I think of the actual mythology, Charon, the River Styx.

The very first thing that comes to mind is, is Clash of the Titans.

I'm a movie guy-

... and there's a sequence-

Yep

... where he has coins, and the guy's telling Perseus, "You're gonna need this to pay Charon, the ferryman, to get over into the land of the dead." So he starts focusing on this, and let me ask you this, Matt.

Most songs I think of when it comes to embracing death or the next plane, it's usually more on a positive note.

Recorded by Tony Sheinman.

Charon by Lord Dunsany.

Charon leaned forward and rowed.

All things were one with his weariness.

It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide floods of time and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was of a piece with eternity.

It was strange that the dead nowadays were coming in such numbers.

They were coming in thousands where they used to come in fifties.

It was neither Charon's duty nor his wont to ponder in his gray soul why these things might be.

I come to lead you to the other shore, to the eternal shades in heat and frost.

And thou that yonder standest, living soul, withdraw thee from these people who are dead." But when he saw that I did not withdraw, he said: "By other ways, by other ports, thou to the shore shalt come, not here, for passage; a lighter vessel needs must carry thee." And unto him the guide: "Vex thee not, Charon; it is so willed where there is power to do that which is willed, and farther question not." Thereat were quieted the fleecy cheeks of him the ferryman of the livid fen, who round his eyes had wheels of flame.

But all those souls, who weary were and naked, their colour changed and gnashed their teeth together, as soon as they had heard those cruel words.

God they blasphemed, and their progenitors, the human race, the place, the time, the seed of their engendering and of their birth.

Thereafter altogether they drew back, bitterly weeping to the accursed shore which waiteth every man who fears not God.

Charon the demon, with the eyes of glede, beckoning to them, collects them all together, beats with his oar whoever lags behind.

As in the autumn time the leaves fall off, first one and then another, till the branch unto the earth surrenders all its spoils.

In similar wise the evil seed of Adam throw themselves from that margin one by one at signals as a bird unto its lure.

Orpheus' journey was treacherous.

He hypnotized Charon, the ferryman, with his playing to get across the River Styx, which separated Earth and the Underworld.

Then he had to charm Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld.

At long last, he arrived in the dark Underworld and found Hades on his throne with Eurydice at his side.