Christy suggested the name Charon after the mythological ferryman who carried souls across to the underworld. In Roman mythology, Pluto was the god of the underworld where the souls of the dead ...

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Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

They are akin to Charon, the ferryman of Greek mythology — only in reverse, carrying scholars back across the rivers they had once traversed to separate themselves from the rest of the working ...

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Instead, on June 24, 1978, the IAU approved the name suggested by Christy: Charon, the boatman who transported the souls of the dead into Hades, the realm of the dead in Greek religion and mythology.

It’s an old song … an old tale from way back when,” sings the character of Hermes in opening.” At its core, the musical is based on two ancient Greek myths ...

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...