User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/The Rules of Death and The Son of Neptune/@comment-99.231.150.128-20110920214904/@comment-3146855-20110922034325

With the revelation that he just guards the path, it means that Rick Riordan has made it so that (back then) when Sisyphus chained him up, people still died, but they could just waltz on back into their bodies like nothing happened, while in original myths it was that you got stabbed nothing happened; you bled, yet did not die, no matter the amount you lost. Your head is chopped off, your body will try to find it while your head tells it where you are (classic, right?), and so on. Rick Riordan has thus changed it like many other things, like Athena and Hecate having kids, while originally they were virgin goddesses (Athena still technically is, but it is unknown about Hecate)