Mythology. Power. Hercules: the strongest man on earth invited Death to come to him
Channel: Interpreting Tradition
Date: 30/01/2024

InTrad/13/24 . Story of Hercules. Quick note: Since my video finished abruptly with the showing of a picture:  the picture at the end of video is the "Tower of Hercules", in La Coruña, Galicia, North-Western Spain.  It dates back to the 1st century AD and it's a lighthouse for mariners - the oldest Roman lighthouse in operation. Fully functional.  180ft (68 mtrs) high, and its light can be seen from a 32 miles radius (52 Km) distance.  It has been in operation since the 1st century AD.

This is the second in a series of Readings.  Mythology Number 2.
From the book 'Mythology' by Edith Hamilton (1867-1963). Greek and Roman mythology is quite generally supposed to show us the way the human race thought and felt untold ages ago.  Through it, according to this view, we can retrace the path from civilized man who lives so far from nature to man who lived in close companionship with nature.  And the real interest of the myths is that they lead us back, back, back, to a time when the world was young and people had a connection with the earth, like trees, and seas, and flowers and hills.  Little distinction was made between the real and the unreal, the imagination was vividly alive and not checked by the reason. The Greek made their gods in their own image.  This had not entered into the mind of man before.  Until then, the gods had had no semblance of reality.  They were unlike all living things: towering colossuses, a woman with a cat's head, the sphynx, , men with birds' heads, and eagle wings... This was the pre-Greek world.  The miracle of Greek mythology is a humanized world, free from the paralyzing fear of the great Unknown.  
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