Asian mythology 7 boatmen

To what deities address his prayers? Pausanias, Description of Greece To all others the place is forbidden and deadly. Then again, as you cross the sluggish stream, and old man now dead will float up to you, and raising his decaying hands will beg you to drag him into the boat; but you must not be moved by a sense of pity, for that is not permitted. The fare's two obols. Dionysos : I.

In the mythical narrative, Njord pronounced as Nyord was the god of the sea, while being also associated with both wealth and fertility. The old couple explain that they originally had eight daughters who were devoured, one after the other, by the dragon, Yamata no Orochi "eight-forked serpent", who is said to originate from Koshi—now Hokuriku region. The use of these terms in this category does not imply that any story so categorized is historically true or false or that any belief so embodied is itself either true or false.