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to pay the ferry man Charon or Khraon whom the Greeks believed carried the dead across the river Styx. If you did not place the coins in the mouths or eyes of the person, you would wander the banks of the river for 100 years or be sent to Tarturas the place under Hades' realm.
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ProfessorThe ancient Greeks beleived tha in order to get to the land of Hades; were people went after they died, you had to cross the river Styx. The coin was so that the dead perosn could pay the boatman Charon to ferry them across the river. Otherwise you would be trapped forever on the shores of the Styx and never goet to Elisyum (paradise)
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