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ACHERON

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACHERON , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, the son of Gaea or See also:Demeter. As a See also:punishment for supplying the See also:Titans with See also:water in their contest with See also:Zeus, he was turned into a See also:river of Hades, over which departed souls were ferried by See also:Charon. The name (meaning the river of " woe ") was eventually used to designate the whole of the See also:lower See also:world (See also:Stobaeus, Ecl. Plays. i. 41, §§ 50, 54).

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