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Charon

living with myths

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Lit Up

5 min readJan 1, 2020

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”Neither the ferryman [Kharon (Charon)] nor the comrade [the Hydra] of the cruel beast [Kerberos (Cerberus)] bars the way [to the Underworld] to innocent souls.” —Statius, Silvae 2. 1. 228 ff

Tien Skye

Written by Tien Skye

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Lit Up

has a bad habit of referring to himself in third person point of view...and he just did it again...

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