CHARON

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="049a11c3.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>ROMAN FUNERALS</B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ROMAN FUNERALS"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <B>CHARON</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COLUMBARIA"><U>COLUMBARIA</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MANO FICO"><U>MANO FICO</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="048f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> CHARON <A NAME="charon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="054c8c40.gif" border=0 width="456" height="452" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A soul being brought to Charon, the ferryman of the Underworld.</div> <div> For the fee of an obol, placed in the mouth of the dead at the time of burial, Charon would ferry souls across the river <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/mythology/acheron.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/69"><U>Acheron</U></A> and <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/mythology/styx.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/69"><U>Styx</U></A> into <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/mythology/hades.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/69"><U>Hades</U></A>. Those who did not have a funeral (and thus no payment for Charon) were condemned to wander the shore for a hundred years before being allowed to cross.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>