“Memory is a most wonderful dwelling; memory is a most painful dwelling. The Universe has a cruel, ironic wit. Memories are, at once, marvelous and terrible hauntings–a bittersweet paradox. The endless wrestling with hindsight. The lamenting song of “if I knew then, what I know now,” echos in the eternity of the mind–a torturous cacaphony. Tears never quell the fire of regret, nor blur the joy of a simple smile. Only Death will finally silence the spirits of sorrow, with his lethean kiss. The curs’ed boatman ferries no memories.”
~Monica R. Ashbaugh, 9/10/15
Charon and Psyche (1883) by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Charon_and_Psyche.jpg
Charon’s obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin as an obol, and explain it as a payment or bribe for Charon, the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. Archaeological examples of these coins, of various denominations in practice, have been called “the most famous grave goods from antiquity.” ~Wikipedia
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