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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for checking. Perhaps I missed it, but this doesn’t mention how Charon became the ferryman of the dead, only that he was – which is what I remembered.
I looked at WikiPedia and discovered another ferryman:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Phlegyas, angry at Apollo for killing his daughter, torched the Apollonian<br>
temple at Delphi, causing Apollo to kill him with his arrows and condemn<br>
him to severe punishment in the lower world. […] In the Aeneid of Virgil, <br>
Phlegyas is shown tormented in Tartarus in the Underworld, warning<br>
others not to despise the gods. <br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegyas">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegyas</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This is a bit closer to what we know of Kortar: According to legend Kortar, the "first" Klingon, and his mate destroyed the gods who made them and turned the
heavens into ashes. (DS9 "You Are Cordially Invited...") As punishment he was condemned to ferry the souls of the dishonored dead over the River of Blood to the gates of Gre'thor. (VOY "Barge of the Dead") Cf.
<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kortar">https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kortar</a> for more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mayqel qunen'oS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2020 2:01 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">voragh:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">> For those up on their Greek mythology:<span style="color:#1F497D"> How</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">> did Charon get his job? Was he, too,<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>being punished?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">voragh, yIlaD: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Kharon.html__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tRhlfcCbOIkt_ZX025R3AdbuvvFbR_Xq1dZRF0TDbaAKIddUFkqDX4u9vb99nilQ2b4$" target="_blank">https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Kharon.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">'elaDya' Qunpu' rIchbogh 'Internet Daq law'qu''e' tu'lu', 'a Daqmeyvam'e'
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/theoi.com__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tRhlfcCbOIkt_ZX025R3AdbuvvFbR_Xq1dZRF0TDbaAKIddUFkqDX4u9vb99626IiWo$">
theoi.com</a> nIv law' Hoch nIv puS 'e' vI'Ir.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">charon bopbogh Daqvam De' vIlaDpu'be', 'Iqmo' De'vam, 'ej poH yap vIghajbe'mo'.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">'a wa' jaj charon vIqIH.. wa' jaj charon qIH Hoch.. Sanvam junlaH pagh; vaj Qu'Daj mung vIghojmeH, jajvetlh charon vIyu'.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">~ Q<o:p></o:p></p>
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