Pluto (Charon)

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Pluto (Moon Charon – Names from the Underworld)

Bia - personification of violence
Cerberus - dog that guards the underworld
Discord - ailment from Pandora’s box
Fortunate Islands - name for the Canary Islands
Furies - avenging Greek and female spirits
Golden Bough - Aeneas’s tree branch gift
Hydra - a nine-headed serpent monster
Ixion - king bound to a revolving wheel
Kratos - personification of strength
Lethe - river whose taste brings forgetfulness
Obolos - coin for tongues, the ferry crossing fee
Rhadamanthus - judge who brings crimes to light
Sisyphus - continually rolls a boulder up a hill
Toil - ailment from Pandora’s box
Vesuvius  - volcano entrance to Hades

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