Stygian

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**Origin:** This word is directly related to the Styx river which, in Greek mythology, Charon ferried the souls of the dead to the Underworld. (Wiktionary) This is also the name of a Naiad who had a holy and sacred river. Styx was also the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and saved Zeus in the Titanomachy, which is the reason her name is now an oath. (Wikipedia) If the oath by her name was broken, the "oath-breaker" would spend 9 years in Tartarus, an underworld pit. (World Book) ======

** Works Cited: **
"Stygian". Dictionary.com. //The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition//. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stygian (accessed: October 03, 2008).

"Styx." __Wikipedia__. October 2, 2008. Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. 3 Oct 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx.

"Styx." __Wiktionary__. October 2, 2008. Wikimedia Foundation Inc.. May 9, 2008 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Styx.

Glenn, Justin. "Styx."__World Book__. 2003 ed.