The river leading to the underworld that the boatman Charon rides his ferry along. The gods swore oaths on the Styx because the minor river goddess styx (every river and tree etc had their own god/goddess) had the power to make them keep their word.
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In Greek mythology, river of Hades that the souls of the dead had to cross on their journey from the realm of the living. It was a sacred river, and by its name even the gods took their most solemn oaths. The river was personified as a nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother of Nike.
Goddess of the underworld (River Styx)
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The river Styx.
The River Styx.
Styx is a Underworld river in Greek mythology, and also a goddess. The ferryman Kharon crossed the Underworld river Akheron, not the Styx.
No, the River Styx is not in the Bible. According to the Webster Dictionary, it is the principal river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
The Styx river does not exist in real life. The Styx river is part of Greek mythology and was said to be the river that separated the world of the living from the world of the dead.
It is called Stix and Heraculs used it to get Cerberus out of the UnderWorld
In Greek mythology the river Styx is an important river of the Underworld.It was also the name given to a river in Arcadia,which belongs in ancient Greece.
Styx is a river which perhaps was imagined to flow in both Arcadia and in the Underworld of Greek mythology. Styx herself was imagined to dwell in a palace in the Underworld.
The River Styx is in the underworld. Dead souls are ferried across it by Charon the ferryman. The River Styx was a mythological river that flowed between the ends of the Earth and the beginnings of the Underworld.