I always liked this character, Charon, whose job is to take the souls of dead people to ‘the other side’. He has a small boat, which he rows across the Styx, the river that separates both worlds. I saw this picture at El Prado museum when I was a kid and I was deeply impressed. My aunt told me the story of Charon and his boat. Something about this myth has stayed with me ever since. The water, of course, is the common symbol for the unconscious, and the classical separation between life (at leas
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