Styx [Pron: stiks] [Alt sp: stix, sticks]

Styx: goddess of the river. Goddess Styx has miraculous powers to make someone invulnerable.

Styx: referred to in The Divine Comedy, a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (begun c1308, completed 1320.) Translated into English by Dorothy L Sayers, don’t you know. (Other scholars wrote other translations, but most were men, I think.)

The Styx: a modern Australian gothic novel, by Patricia Holland, published 2017 by Lacuna.

Styx River: Three Australian wilderness rivers. Extreme tidal river Styx runs through Ogmore, 155km north of Rockhampton. Another Styx River runs east of Armidale in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales. And yet another runs through southern Tasmania. All three wilderness areas share an ethereal, eerie quality.

The Styx/Sticks: a remote place out bush, esp in Australia.

Styx: a moon of Pluto (as of July 2, 2013).

The Styx: a river in Hades. Charon ferried the souls of the dead across Styx River. (Hades is a bit like Hell, but in Greek mythology.)

The gods occasionally swore by the river Styx. I do too, but only occasionally.

Styx: A 70s/80s progressive rock band, power ballads. (If it wasn’t progressive, I wouldn’t have mentioned it, of course.) Similar sounding (but far superior) to REO Speedwagon (of whom I also have no familiarity).

Stix: Variant spelling sometimes used in translations of Classical Greek before the 20th century.

Styx/Stix/Sticks: some may use a variant to refer to anything dark, dismal, and murky—but they are wrong (inaccurate translation)—actually means dark, disarming and mysterious.

STIX: short-term trading oscillator that compares the amount of volume flowing into advancing and declining stocks. (No idea what this means—may have something to do with fake money. Bitcoin, I’m told, is the go for next year. Ask Cable Nim—he bought in at the beginning. He’s now retired; expect for the odd pearl diving jaunt.)

Sticks: twigs, various uses.