{"id":31156,"date":"2016-08-09T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nortehispana.com\/blog\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T07:00:55","slug":"figura-mitologica-caronte-barquero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.occident.com\/\/blog\/figura-mitologica-caronte-barquero\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQui\u00e9n era la figura mitol\u00f3gica de Caronte o el barquero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_51 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >&Iacute;ndice<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\" role=\"button\"><label for=\"item-69d7a2fe869f1\" ><span class=\"\"><span style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #333333;color:#333333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #333333;color:#333333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input aria-label=\"Toggle\" aria-label=\"item-69d7a2fe869f1\"  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-69d7a2fe869f1\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.occident.com\/\/blog\/figura-mitologica-caronte-barquero\/#Caronte_el_barquero_de_la_otra_orilla\" title=\"Caronte, el barquero de la otra orilla\">Caronte, el barquero de la otra orilla<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.occident.com\/\/blog\/figura-mitologica-caronte-barquero\/#%C2%BFQuien_era_Caronte\" title=\"\u00bfQui\u00e9n era Caronte?\">\u00bfQui\u00e9n era Caronte?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.occident.com\/\/blog\/figura-mitologica-caronte-barquero\/#Las_representaciones_de_Caronte\" title=\"Las representaciones de Caronte\">Las representaciones de Caronte<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Caronte_el_barquero_de_la_otra_orilla\"><\/span>Caronte, el barquero de la otra orilla<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El paso a la otra vida ha fascinado a los hombres de todas las sociedades y culturas desde m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de los tiempos. La <strong>mitolog\u00eda griega<\/strong> cre\u00f3 figuras como la de <strong>Caronte<\/strong> para explicar que ocurr\u00eda cuando una persona fallec\u00eda y c\u00f3mo su alma consegu\u00eda pasar al otro mundo. Pese al paso de los siglos, y a pesar de que las creencias religiosas han evolucionado mucho, esta figura sigue siendo todav\u00eda un personaje mitol\u00f3gico de referencia, cuya representaci\u00f3n forma parte de muchas obras de arte.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%C2%BFQuien_era_Caronte\"><\/span>\u00bfQui\u00e9n era Caronte?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Caronte era el barquero de Hades<\/strong>, a cuyo reino se dirig\u00edan los esp\u00edritus despu\u00e9s de fallecer. Se le representaba como una figura gru\u00f1ona y desagradable, cuya misi\u00f3n era <strong>guiar a los reci\u00e9n fallecidos al otro lado del r\u00edo Aqueronte para su descanso eterno en el Averno<\/strong>. Esto significaba tener que\u00a0 cruzar la laguna Estigia\u00a0 y entrar, por fin, en el reino de los esp\u00edritus de Hades. Y no todo el mundo pod\u00eda hacerlo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Para hacer este viaje ten\u00edan que <strong>pagar una moneda<\/strong>, y si no la ten\u00edan vagaban 100 a\u00f1os por la ribera del r\u00edo hasta poder pasar. De hecho, los muertos se enterraban con una moneda para que pudieran hacer este pago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hijo de \u00c9rebo (la representaci\u00f3n de la oscuridad en la mitolog\u00eda griega) y Nix (que simbolizaba la noche), Caronte era uno de los grandes representantes del inframundo de la mitolog\u00eda griega. El papel importante que le otorgaba la mitolog\u00eda hizo que su representaci\u00f3n estuviera <strong>presente en numerosas obras de arte.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Las_representaciones_de_Caronte\"><\/span>Las representaciones de Caronte<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La imagen de Caronte aparece en numerosos <strong>jarrones funerarios de la Antigua Grecia<\/strong>, en cuyas escenas se le representa como el marinero que acoge a los muertos en su barca con un palo en la mano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Caronte lleg\u00f3 a ocupar un papel tan importante en la mitolog\u00eda griega que, incluso, <strong>aparece en una de las obras de Virgilio<\/strong>, el poeta romano del siglo I antes de Cristo que cant\u00f3 el viaje de Eneas al mundo de los muertos y su retorno al de los vivos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Es precisamente en la mitolog\u00eda griega donde podemos encontrar gran parte del simbolismo presente hoy en d\u00eda en nuestra cultura funeraria, como por ejemplo, la costumbre de vestir los cementerios con cipreses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caronte, el barquero de la otra orilla &nbsp; El paso a la otra vida ha fascinado a los hombres de todas las sociedades y culturas desde m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de los tiempos. La mitolog\u00eda griega cre\u00f3 figuras como la de Caronte para explicar que ocurr\u00eda cuando una persona fallec\u00eda y c\u00f3mo su alma consegu\u00eda pasar al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":""},"categories":[5527],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u00bfQui\u00e9n era la figura mitol\u00f3gica de Caronte o el barquero? - Blog de Occident<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00bfConoces la figura mitol\u00f3gica de Caronte? 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