masculine Kháron

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Origin:
greek
Name Root:
kharopós > Kháron
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This name derives from the Ancient Greek “kharopós (χαρωπός) Kháron (Χάρων),” meaning “of keen gaze, referring either to fierce, flashing, or feverish eyes, or to eyes of a bluish-gray color.” In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually, was an obolus or danake (the small silver coin of the Persian Empire), was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a deceased person.

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