Vanth and Charun appear together on over a hundred Etruscan funerary monuments, she lifting her torch to light the way and he wielding his hammer at the gates — twin escorts of the dead working in grim partnership at the boundary between worlds.
Vanth stands at the threshold of the Etruscan Underworld with her torch raised high, guarding the passage and lighting the way for the newly dead entering Aita's realm.
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