Charon is the ferryman of the greek underworld. He is responsible for transporting the souls of the dead across the river Styx. He is not typically considered or worshipped as being a god but there are references of him being one. You could also see him as a minor god or maybe a minor deity like a daemon / spirit or supernatural being. His role is significant in the content of life and afterlife. He for sure is a psycopomp a creature that guides souls. Creatures that escort the deceased souls from the earth to the afterlife, wherever that may be. From birds in folklore, to angels and demons in Christianity.
The renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that Charon who he identied as the god of time, was a son of Erubus, who is described as one of the first beings to exist and the personification of darkness and Night (Nyx) the goddess and personification of the night. They were both primordial deities.
In the 1st century BC the Roman poet Virgil wrote
There Charon stands, who rules the dreary coast, a sordid god: down from his hairy chin Al engt of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
