"hooded old man at the rudder"", and seems to connect to the classic image of the Grim Reaper, a hooded being (usually a skeleton) who leads lost souls to ""the other side"", also a lyric in the song. The ferryman demanding his payment is also similar to the Greek ferryman of the dead, Charon. He demanded an obolus (coin) to ferry dead souls across the River Styx. Those who did not pay were doomed to remain as ghosts, remaining on the plane of the mare, the restless dead. In the bridge of the song, lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest can"
"The profession of the ferryman is embodied in Greek mythology in Charon, the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the Underworld. Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century Roman literature """"Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis"""". Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work and such a ferry, modified by using horses, was used in Lake Champlain in 19th-century America. See """"When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America"""" (Smithsonian Institution Press; Kevin Crisman, co-authored with Arthur Cohn, Executive Director of the"
"mouth of a dead person would pay the toll for the ferry across the river to the entrance of the underworld. It was said that if someone could not pay the fee, they would never be able to cross the river. The ritual was performed by the relatives of the dead. The variant spelling Stix was sometimes used in translations of Classical Greek before the 20th century. By metonymy, the adjective ""stygian"" () came to refer to anything dark, dismal, and murky. Styx was the name of an Oceanid nymph, one of the three thousand daughters of Tethys and Oceanus,"
"Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes – such as"
"travel to Gre'thor on a barge steered by a ferryman"". Religious studies scholars Ross Kraemer, William Cassidy, and Susan L Schwartz interpreted the representation of Gre'thor and Klingon spirituality as borrowing from Norse and Greek mythology, specifically the crossing of the rainbow bridge Bifröst or the river Styx. Exploring the influence of the Greek story of Odysseus (Latin: Ulysses) on ""Star Trek: Voyager"", the Classical philologist Otta Wenskus points to Siren-like creatures who call out with the voices of those loved by those on the barge. Though the motif of a barge and ferryman is not present in Homer's portrayal"
"Harry Manning Vice Admiral Harry Manning (February 3, 1897 - August 1, 1974) was an American master mariner, aviator, and an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He is most noted for his heroic role in the rescue of 32 crew members from Italian freighter ""Florida"" and for commanding the ""SS United States"" on her record breaking maiden crossings of the Atlantic. He was among those honored in two ticker tape parades: the first in 1929 as a crew member of the ""America"" and again in 1952 as master of the ""SS United States"". As an aviator, Manning served"
"Styx In Greek mythology, Styx (; ) is a deity and a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, often called ""Hades"", which is also the name of its ruler. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron, Lethe, and Cocytus all converge at the center of the underworld on a great marsh, which sometimes is also called the Styx. According to Herodotus, the river Styx originates near Feneos. Styx is also a goddess with prehistoric roots in Greek mythology as a daughter of Tethys, after whom the river is named and because of whom it had miraculous powers. The"
"Drayton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, James Shirley, John Ford, John Webster, and Richard Brome, among others — the ""neoterical refined wits"" of the age. Charon, however, refuses to ferry the group across the river Styx, because they can't pay his fee. (John Taylor the Water Poet tries to talk Charon into giving them a free ride...but unsuccessfully.) Eventually the poets obtain some of Mercury's quicksilver, and use that to pay the fare. Across the river, Randolph's finger is welcomed by Edmund Spenser, Geoffrey Chaucer, Rabelais, Plautus, Terence, and other worthies. An excerpt from the longer poem,"
"Conan's previous encounter with the two women, told in the story ""Hawks Over Shem"", and her magical curse is transforming Rufia's subjects into zombies. With a calvary of Baalurian soldiers, Conan begins his journey to retrieve a white lotus, the only known cure for the disease, said to be found at the source of the Styx, the infamous black river. His army marches across the city-state of Nedrezzar to the port city of Asgalun, where they set sail for the Styx, which serves as a boundary between Shem and the ancient kingdom of Stygia. They follow the river a long"
"decline of pagan tradition and beliefs in ancient Rome following the endorsement of Christianity as the official religion. The river is also mentioned in at least one of the poems of Victorian classicist and poet A.E. Housman (XXIII from More Poems). ""Crossing alone the nighted ferry Whom, on the wharf of Lethe waiting, The brisk fond lackey to fetch and carry, Expect him not in the just city Here the role of the Lethe as the final barrier to be crossed before reaching Elysium is invoked (NB ""Lethe"" is better rhyme for ""ferry"" than is ""Stix"") and the poem as"
"with Wolfe's name to make a plaque for the nearby Gilkey Memorial which at that time had the names of 52 other climbers who had died on K2. Dudley Wolfe Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American racing yacht owner and captain who was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels. He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to ""Smith"", to which he agreed before reverting back again. Wolfe became posthumously famous when he"
"Harry McNish Henry McNish (11 September 187424 September 1930), often referred to as Harry McNeish or by the nickname Chippy, was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. He was responsible for much of the work that ensured the crew's survival after their ship, the ""Endurance"", was destroyed when it became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. He modified the small boat, ""James Caird"", that allowed Shackleton and five men (including McNish) to make a voyage of hundreds of miles to fetch help for the rest of the crew. After the expedition he returned"
"façade of Collège Jules Simon in Vannes, where he was a student. The French Navy frigate ""Le Brix"" (F715), which served as a weather ship while in commission from 1948 to 1958, was named in Le Brix's honor. Joseph Le Brix Joseph Le Brix (22 February 1899 - 12 September 1931) was a French aviator and a ""capitaine de corvette"" (lieutenant commander) in the French Navy. He is best known for an around-the-world flight he made as copilot and navigator in 1927-1928 which included history's first flight across the South Atlantic Ocean, and for record-setting nonstop long-distance flights he made"
"Richard Ferris (adventurer) Richard Ferris (fl. 1580-1606) was an English adventurer. Ferris was one of the five ordinary messengers attached to Queen Elizabeth's household. A subpœna was issued for him to give evidence in a suit in the court of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 7 November 1580. In July 1606 he was still filling the office of royal messenger. Although ‘never trayned upon the water,’ he resolved in 1590 to accomplish the daring feat of rowing in an open boat from London to Bristol. He embarked in a ‘new built’ wherry on Midsummer day at Tower Wharf, with two"
"ferryman by telling him a myth concerning Charybdis. With one gulp of the sea, she brought the mountains to view; islands appeared after the next. The third is yet to come and will dry the sea altogether, thus depriving the ferryman of his livelihood. Charybdis Charybdis (; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, , ""Kharybdis"") was a sea monster in the Greek Mythology, which was later rationalized as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina. The sea monster Charybdis was believed to live under a small rock on one side of a narrow channel. Opposite her was Scylla,"
"Herbert Haddock Herbert James Haddock, CB RNR (27 January 1861 – 4 October 1946) was an English naval reserve officer and ship's captain, and was best known as the captain of the RMS ""Olympic"" at the time of the sinking of the ""Titanic"". He was the first person to captain ""Titanic,"" overseeing the ship at Belfast while her delivery-trip crew was assembling there from 25 to 31 March 1912. A 1911 story in ""The New York Times"" described Haddock as the ""only skipper in the Atlantic trade who wears the mid-Victorian mutton chop whiskers without a beard or mustache"". Haddock"
"in the Baltic in the late 1700s, was said to have drowned all his victims by forcing them to walk the plank. In Charles Gayarré's 1872 novel ""Fernando de Lemos: Truth and Fiction"", the pirate Dominique Youx confessed to capturing the schooner ""Patriot"", killing its crew and making its passenger, Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – approximately January 2 or 3, 1813) walk the plank. ""She stepped on it and descended into the sea with graceful composure, as if she had been alighting from a carriage,"" Gayarré wrote in Youx's voice. ""She sank, and rising again, she, with an"
"Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely"
"the end of the film, implying his heroic reputation. He is shown standing next to Thomas Andrews, smiling as Rose drifts by and clapping along with the rest of the crowd of happy onlookers as she and Jack kiss. William McMaster Murdoch William McMaster Murdoch (28 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish sailor who served as First Officer aboard the . He was notable as the officer in charge when the Titanic collided with an iceberg. Mystery also surrounds his death. Born from a family of sailors, William Murdoch was an officer of the Royal Naval Reserve;"
"Joseph Le Brix Joseph Le Brix (22 February 1899 - 12 September 1931) was a French aviator and a ""capitaine de corvette"" (lieutenant commander) in the French Navy. He is best known for an around-the-world flight he made as copilot and navigator in 1927-1928 which included history's first flight across the South Atlantic Ocean, and for record-setting nonstop long-distance flights he made or attempted between 1929 and 1931. Le Brix was born on 22 February 1899 in Baden, Morbihan, in the Brittany region of northwestern France. Le Brix enrolled in the French naval academy, the ""École Navale"", in Brest on"
"early June 2014 the winner of the competition to name the new ferry was announced. (Corporal) Darrel MacDonald, a former member of The Princess Louise Fusiliers and a resident of Halifax, was the first person to submit the ""Christopher Stannix"" name for voting. He was awarded a full year transit pass and reportedly donated it to the IWK Health Centre (Women and Newborn Health Social Work Department). The passes were converted to sheets of single use transit tickets and will be passed out at the discretion of the staff within the department. Following completion of the Christopher Stannix, Halifax Regional"
"would be put around the deceased person’s neck. Then, coins would be put on the person’s eyes, it was believed that this would allow the individual to pay Charon, the ferryman of the dead, to transport them across the river Styx into the afterlife. In some cases, an amulet would be put on the mouth instead, while in some mystery cults, they would use a golden ornament, sometimes known as a ‘passport of the dead,’ which carried important information for helping the deceased to find their way around in the underworld. The following day, the body was laid out for"
"in 2007. Richard Ferris (adventurer) Richard Ferris (fl. 1580-1606) was an English adventurer. Ferris was one of the five ordinary messengers attached to Queen Elizabeth's household. A subpœna was issued for him to give evidence in a suit in the court of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 7 November 1580. In July 1606 he was still filling the office of royal messenger. Although ‘never trayned upon the water,’ he resolved in 1590 to accomplish the daring feat of rowing in an open boat from London to Bristol. He embarked in a ‘new built’ wherry on Midsummer day at Tower Wharf,"
"the goddess of the River Styx. In classical myths, her husband was Pallas and she gave birth to Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia (and sometimes Eos). In these myths, Styx supported Zeus in the Titanomachy, where she was said to be the first to rush to his aid. For this reason, her name was given the honor of being a binding oath for the deities. Knowledge of whether this was the original reason for the tradition did not survive into historical records following the religious transition that led to the pantheon of the classical era. As of 2 July 2013,"
"other Canadian soldiers when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device. Corporal Shaun Fevens was injured in the explosion and transported to a military hospital in Germany. The PLF performed a ceremonial Trooping the Colours at Citadel Hill in Halifax Nova Scotia on 23 April 2009. Inspecting the parade was His Royal Highness Duke of York Prince Andrew, The Colonel in Chief of the Princess Louise Fusiliers, with a large crowd in attendance. On May 14, 2014, a new passenger transit harbour ferry was christened the ""Christopher Stannix"" as it was brought into service as part of the Halifax"
"Cornelius Essex Cornelius Essex (died 1680) was an English buccaneer who took part in Captain Bartholomew Sharp's privateering expedition, the ""Pacific Adventure"", during the late 1670s. Although much of his early life is unknown, he is first recorded being brought with his ship, the ""Great Dolphin"", to Port Royal by HMS ""Hunter"" in November 1679 and tried with twenty of his crew for ""riotously comporting themselves"" as well as charges of looting the plantation of a Major Samuel Jenck's of St. James' parish for which two men were sentenced to death. Essex, as did the other Captains, held a commission"
"Dudley Wolfe Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American racing yacht owner and captain who was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels. He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to ""Smith"", to which he agreed before reverting back again. Wolfe became posthumously famous when he died on the 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 in controversial circumstances. Dudley Wolfe was born in New York on February 6, 1896 to Dudley Wolfe and Mabel"
"William May (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Henry May (31 July 1849 – 7 October 1930) was a Royal Navy Officer. As a junior officer he took part an expedition to rescue Commander Albert Markham who had got into difficulty trying to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound, the sea passage between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. May went on to higher command and served as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy before becoming Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet. He held the office of Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel and"
"or to the David Fincher film ""Seven"") is a hitman who ends up killed by his paymaster; Matthew (clearly Matthew Shepard, already referred to by the author in his previous novels ""Vellum"" and ""Ink"") is a young homosexual man who was beaten to death; Belle is a prostitute and a drug addict who is killed by her pimp for having tried to leave ""the profession"". The four characters see each other (but do not interact) on the ferry that takes them across the Styx and into Hell. After having been walked through gates bearing the Dante Alighieri words ""Abandon Hope"","
"William McMaster Murdoch William McMaster Murdoch (28 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish sailor who served as First Officer aboard the . He was notable as the officer in charge when the Titanic collided with an iceberg. Mystery also surrounds his death. Born from a family of sailors, William Murdoch was an officer of the Royal Naval Reserve; he was employed by the White Star Line in 1900 and quickly rose to the rank of officer. In 1903, his leadership became recognized when he avoided a collision with the ""Arabic"". In April 1912, Murdoch served as First"
"near death/very sick/badly injured""). During the Korean War, the Greek Expeditionary Force defended an outpost called Outpost Harry. The Greek soldiers referred to it as ""Outpost Haros"". Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not"
"Cemetery with the rank ""Captain, US Navy"", his rank at the end of WWII. Commodore Manning Receives the Hales Trophy Harry Manning Vice Admiral Harry Manning (February 3, 1897 - August 1, 1974) was an American master mariner, aviator, and an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He is most noted for his heroic role in the rescue of 32 crew members from Italian freighter ""Florida"" and for commanding the ""SS United States"" on her record breaking maiden crossings of the Atlantic. He was among those honored in two ticker tape parades: the first in 1929 as a crew"
"produce such a stillness that one would be awed by a knock on the door.” The title, which was conferred upon it by the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt in 1883, was not specified by Böcklin, though it does derive from a phrase in an 1880 letter he sent to the painting’s original commissioner. Not knowing the history of the early versions of the painting (see below), many observers have interpreted the oarsman as representing the boatman Charon who ferried souls to the underworld in Greek mythology. The water would then be either the River Styx or the River Acheron and"