You pay with a coin, and then Charon the ferryman, takes you across the river styx.
The Underworld.
he punishes the evil spirits?
Cerberus' heads are said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave.
Anubis ancient Egyptian god of the underworld guided and protected the spirits of the dead
The Underworld. The abode of the spirits of the dead.
He was warned about the Sirens by one of the spirits he met in the underworld.
He learned how to enter and exit the underworld unharmed by being initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries.
If by "underground" you mean the underworld, it's Hades. His Roman equivalent was Pluto. They were both god of the Underworld, and presided over the spirits of the dead.
Dead people and spirits, hades and persephone, the river styx, and charon the ferryman.
There is a Greek goddess of ghosts that lives in the Underworld. Her name is Melinoe.
In mythology, the group of people who live in the underworld is often referred to as the "shades" or "spirits of the dead." In Greek mythology, the underworld is ruled by Hades, where souls go after death. These spirits are typically depicted as existing in a shadowy realm, separated from the living. Different cultures have their own terms and interpretations for the inhabitants of the afterlife.
Without him, the dead could not enter the Underworld.