Because if you have no money to pay the ferryman, Charon,
he will not row you across the river Styx and you will have
to wander the shores of the river for one hundred years.
This is also true for people whose bodies are left unburied.
Gold and other types of metal was found underground, where Hades' Kingdom is also found.
he needed company, he was lonely.
I'm not sure if you mean this "symbol" but it has the power to make anyone who wears it invisible. The symbol is a gold helmet
blue blue is the WRONG answer Poseidon's trident is blue like the ocean hades is black like death Zeus is yellow or gold like a lightning bolt
Hades was the third king after the fall of the kingdom of Cronus, the other two being his brothers Zeus (heaven) and Poseidon (sea); all the dead and the wealth of the world (gold) belonged to he.
you need to present a coin to the ferryman as payment for passage into the underworld.
If you have a 20 dollar gold coin, it is worth a lot, at least $1500. You need to know what year the coin is from.
You need to provide a denomination, an estimate of condition and a mint-mark (if any) for us to accurately evaluate your coin.
The Styx is a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls- one of the five rivers that lead to Hades (in Greek Mythology Hades is both a place and a being) The only offering I can think of was a golden coin- The Greeksbelieved that putting a gold coin in the mouth of someone who recently died would help pay the toll for the ferry required cross the Styx
we need to know what the coin is. Repost with a description of the legends on the coin along with diameter and weight.
The coin is brass not gold, the names are on the front of the coin.
It depends on which denomination coin you have. A $10 coin has more gold than a $5 coin.
a gold coin of course Heads or Tails ? A gold coin
If the coin is dated between 1840-1907 there is .12094oz pure gold in the coin.
If the coin is a modern gold bullion coin it is 1/4oz of pure gold. If it's a pre-1933 coin it has .48375oz of pure gold in it.
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More information is needed. In 1907 ALL gold coins had Liberty on them, so you need to post a new question with the coin's denomination.