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	Greek Mythology: ERIDANUS ERIDANOS River God of Hyperborea, Constellation River
		ERIDANOS was a River-God of the mythical northern land of Hyperborea.
		The Eridanos was a purely mythical river of the north which was later variously identified with the Istros (Danube) of Hungary and the Po of northern Italy.
		The river may have been named Eridanos (Early Burnt) after the story of Phaethon, the boy who attempted to drive the chariot of the sun, and fell flaming into the waters of this mythical river.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosEridanos.html (543 words)

	Eridanos (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The river Eridanos (or Eridanus) is an imagined river of Greek mythology whose name has been adopted by paleogeographers to describe the real ice age river that ran where the Baltic Seais now: see Eridanus (geology).
		The Eridanos is mentioned in ancient Greek writings as a river in northern Europe rich in amber.
		Amber originated from the tears of the Heliades shed when their brother, Phaeton, died and fell from the sky and tumbled into the Eridanos (Ovid, Metamorphoses II, 367-380), where, “along the green banks of the river Eridanos,” King Cygnus mourned him and was transformed into a swan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eridanos_(mythology) (298 words)

	The Ultimate Eridanos - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The river Eridanos (or Eridanus) is an imagined river of Greek mythology whose name has been adopted by paleogeographers to describe the real ice age river that ran in the bed of the Baltic Sea.
		Eridanos is also the small stream that flowed from a source in the foothills of the Lykabettos, through the Agora of ancient Athens, to the archaeological site of the Kerameikos, where its bed is still visible.
		Remnants of the Eridanos are found all through northern Europe, from the Netherlands at its western end to sediments in northern Lapponia.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Eridanos (513 words)

	Hades - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A contrasting myth of the Afterlife concerns the Garden of the Hesperides, often identified with the Isles of the Blessed.
		In Roman mythology, an entrance to the underworld located at Avernus, a crater near Cumae, was the route Aeneas used to descend to the Underworld.
		In Greek mythology, Hades (the "unseen"), the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hades (2905 words)

	Styx (mythology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Greek mythology, Styx (Î£ÏÏÎ¾) is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades.
		Styx was primarily a feature in the afterworld of Greek mythology, but has been described as a feature present in the hell of Christianity as well, notably in The Divine Comedy.
		The ferryman Charon is in modern times commonly believed to have transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the underworld, though in the original Greek and Roman sources, as well as in Dante, it was the river Acheron that Charon plied.
	www.brisbanecaus.com /profile/Styx_(mythology) (540 words)

	Archaeological educational programmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The educational programme was inspired by a year of drought and suggested that the young visitors should trace the course of the Eridanos on the map of the historical centre of Athens.
		The inhabitants of Athens were invited to discover the lost river and, with the aid of a map, to follow its course from its source in the foothills of the Lykabettos hill to the archaeological site of the Kerameikos, where its bed is still visible.
		Beginning with female figures in mythology (Medea, Clytemnestra, Antigone, and others) and ending with a female voice that speaks directly for itself, the programme attempted to examine the issue of segregation of the sexes on a historical basis.
	www.culture.gr /2/20/201/2011/201101/e201101c.html (2387 words)

	Europe
		.”The Eridanos is meridian 8°24’E which indicates the direction of the amber route from the western shore of Jutland and the estuary of the Elbe to the heart of Europe which was indicated by the Column of the Sun.
		The term Eridanos refers to a mythical concept, a river of the extreme west; the noun was applied to an infernal river and to real rivers in several parts of the earth.
		But since the Eridanos essentially is a mathematical line, Herodotus (III, 115) doubts its existence, as he doubts the existence of the equatorial Nile, which is a mathematical line to which the River Congo and the estuary Gabon give concrete existence.
	www.metrum.org /mapping/europe.htm (7568 words)

	The NEW Zarathu Astrology Forum
		Eridanos was considered to be a river flowing from the waters of Aquarius...
		This fallen angel, Lucifer (Venus), rules the angle of Fall (Libra, 7th) which is also the angle of sunset (and ties in with the mythology of â€œSetâ€).
		The mythology developing via observation of the planetary interplay within physical reality, unobscured by all the waste societyâ€™s pumped into our atmosphere, and I personally think their vision wouldâ€™ve been clearer.
	pub48.bravenet.com /forum/4095425731/show/569863 (11130 words)

	Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lennart Meri has analysed the possible reflections of the Kaali catastrophe in human recollections in his books "Hõbevalge" and "Hõbevalgem", connecting Saaremaa with the mythical Thule, supposedly visited by the Greek traveller Pytheas in 325 BC, and also with the place of worship of the Germanic goddess of land, Nerthus, described by Tacitus.
		Besides the written sources, the falling of the Kaali meteorite was indubitably reflected in the folklore and mythology of several peoples.
		The falling of Sun from the sky, which, depending of the location of the observer, could occur altogether in the wrong quarter of the horizon, the terrible crash, the all-demolishing impactwave, the cloud of dust and forest fires indubitably left a deep impression in the people of that time.
	www.muinas.ee /ecp/kaali/en/html/legends.html (646 words)

	Eridanus (mythology) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Eridanus (mythology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Greek mythology, the river into which Phaethon fell when struck down by Zeus.
		Originally placed beyond the limits of the Greek world, it was later, by both Greek and Roman authors, identified with the Padus (Po).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Eridanus+(mythology) (98 words)

	Hades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In Norse mythology the goddess Hel ruled the Underworld.
		His other ordinary attributes were the Narcissus and cypress plants, the Key of Hades and Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
		In Roman mythology, the god Dis Pater ("the wealthy father") was an underworld deity later subsumed by Pluto, the Roman Hades.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/hades.html (1822 words)

	CALENdeRsign
		That is why we have different seasons (different length of days and the sun varies in height at midday).
		In the ancient Greek mythology Helios is the sun-god, who drives the sun carriage.
		In all cultures the zodiac sign before the sunrise on special days was an important sign in the calendar.
	www.calendersign.com /en/pl_sun.php (911 words)

	Hades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Greek New Testament uses hades several times, with various connotations of bodily decay and the power of death, none of them applicable to the Hades of Greek mythology.
		But the person spoken of was a rich man who was in Hell, and Abraham's Bosom has nothing to do with the Hades of Greek Mythology, but is a distinct place in the Bible on its own, like Heaven.
		In Age Of Mythology, Hades is one of the Gods available.
	72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Unqrf (2966 words)

	Eridanos (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		The river which Eridanos inhabited is thought to be the modern Po or perhaps the Rhine.
		When the son of Helios (the Sun), Phaethon, drove his father’s chariot too close to the earth, Zeus struck Phaethon with a thunderbolt and he fell into the river Eridanos.
		Zeus gave the Rivers, Apollon and the Okeanids the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Eridanos_1.html (283 words)

	the TITANS & early Greek Mythology - Atlantis Rising
		According to mythology, the first inhabitant of Karpathos was the Titan Impetus who was the son of Uranus and Gaia.
		In Roman mythology, the Saturnalia was in honor of Saturn.
		Apollo is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
	forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000942-4.html (12280 words)

	Essays and Lectures - CHAPTER III
		Herodotus points out that the word ERIDANOS is essentially Greek in character, that consequently the river supposed to run round the world is probably a mere Greek invention.
		In the BACCHAE of Euripides there is an extremely interesting passage in which the immoral stories of the Greek mythology are accounted for on the principle of that misunderstanding of words and metaphors to which modern science has given the name of a disease of language.
		On the whole, however - for I have quoted these two instances only to show the unscientific character of early philology - we may say that this important instrument in recreating the history of the past was not really used by the ancients as a means of historical criticism.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/politicalscience/TheRiseofHistoricalCriticism/chap2.html (1672 words)

	Vacation in Athens, Hotels in Athens, Holidays in Athens, Athens Greece
		Each face is adorned with a relief representing the wind blowing from that direction, hence its nickname in Greek "aerides" meaning "the winds".(Thus Tower of Winds).
		Kerameikos was named after the community of the potters (kerameis) who occupied the whole area along the banks of river Eridanos or according to the traveller Pausanias was named after Keramos a hero of the demos of Kerameis.
		Dated to the end of the 5th century B.C. The Sacred Gate was one of the gates of the city wall built by Themistocles in 478 B.C. It allowed the passage of river Eridanos and of the Sacred Way, the processional way that led to Eleusis.
	www.vacation.gr /guides/attica/athens/culture_guide/historical_sites.htm (1352 words)

	Styx Tickets
		In Greek mythology, the river Styx formed the boundary between the living world and the underworld.
		Gods that did not follow through on such an oath had to drink from the river, causing them to lose their voices for nine years.
		Styx was an American rock and roll band, popular in the 1970s and early 1980s.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/193/styx-tickets.html (833 words)

	The Swan and Meleagris
		The poet relates first the myth of Phaethon who was made to fall from the chariot of the Sun at the extreme west, that is, on meridian 8°24’E at the sources of the Eridanos, which I shall show is the river Reuss.
		Because of all the weeping the sisters of Phaethon were changed into trees at the sources of the Eridanos, whereas the sisters of Meleagros were changed into the bird meleagris, “guineahen,” living along the course of the Eridanos.
		Since they were expected to be found along the banks of the Eridanos, they may have been identified with waterfowl of some sort, whereas they are not waterfowl.
	www.metrum.org /mapping/swan.htm (2079 words)

	Greek Mythology: ERIDANUS ERIDANOS River God of Attica, Greece
		ERIDANOS was a River-God of Attica, in Southern Greece.
		The Eridanos stream was a tributory of the Ilissos.
		The two merged their waters near the city of Athens.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosEridanos2.html (63 words)

	Atlantis Rising: the TITANS & early Greek Mythology
		To the Greeks, mythology was literally a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey.
		Mythology tells us that when the Titans were defeated by Saturn they retreated into the interior of Spain; Jupiter followed them up, and beat them for the last time near Tartessus, and thus terminated a ten-years' war.
		The entire Greek mythology is the recollection, by a degenerate race, of a vast, mighty, and highly civilized empire, which in a remote past covered large parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
	forums.atlantisrising.com /cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=000942 (17815 words)

	Hades - Encyclopedia online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Some say Luke 16:23 could be referring to the Hades of Greek mythology which states:
		But the person spoken of was a rich man who was in hell, and Abraham´s Bosom has nothing to do with the Hades of Greek Mythology, but is a dictinct place in the Bible on its own, like heaven.
		The religion of the ancient Greeks did not separate gods into categories of good or evil, but most people today tend to think in terms of "God" and "Devil" archetypes.
	en.lorefans.com /article_Hades (2882 words)

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		I shall then in both cases take the succession of writers in their chronological order as representing the rational order - not that the succession of time is always the succession of ideas, or that dialectics moves ever in the straight line in which Hegel conceives its advance.
		Any honest belief, then, in the plain truth of these stories soon succumbed before the destructive effects of the A PRIORI ethical criticism of this school; but the orthodox party, as is its custom, found immediately a convenient shelter under the aegis of the doctrine of metaphors and concealed meanings.
		Religions, however, may be absorbed, but they never are disproved, and the stories of the Greek mythology, spiritualised by the purifying influence of Christianity, reappear in many of the southern parts of Europe in our own day.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext97/sandl10.txt (12922 words)

	Sacred Earth Newsletter - August 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The foliage of the sacred tree was the seat of Zikum, the Goddess of the heavens, while its stem was the holy abode of the Earth-Goddess Davkina and her son Tammuz.
		It is interesting to note, that in Mayan as well as in Greek mythology there are references to the Tree of Life or World Tree amidst the signs of the Zodiac, although astronomically there is no such constellation.
		The same image is repeated in other mythologies, in which the World Tree is often described as the place where disembodied souls dwell prior to their reincarnation.
	www.sacredearth.com /Ezine/August2002/Aug2002.htm (11105 words)

	Leo Nygren's Masterplan
		Hyperborea is by Greek mythology an area north of northwind, where there is eternal springtime and constant sunshine, that is; the land of Uden, in Finland.
		According to greek mythology, Apollo had a son, Anios, who became the king of Delos, and the first high-priest of the sanctuary of his divine father.
		The Dionysian mysteries must have been the fertility rites mentioned in the Mythology of Väinämöinen, where sperm was sacrificed from lower ”castes” men, to an upper caste man, in order to energize him, so that the breeder had enough energy to beget children, as is explained in the next part.
	www.bocksaga.de /Library/leo.htm (6613 words)

	Eridanos (2) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Eridanos (2) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Cut and paste the following text for use in a paper or electronic document report.
		andquot;People, Places andamp; Things: Eridanos (2)andquot;, Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Eridanos_2.html (206 words)

	The Masterplan_ Print Version
		And when and if the Väinämöinen’s mythology or Bock Saga are proved to be true, even partly, then we have to write the history of the world and mankind anew in many places.
		Still, that philosophy had left such deep marks to the lives on the people of the more southern latitudes that their stories and mythologies (logic myths) can be traced even today as of being from the same origin, as the historians of today can confirm.
		Herodotos mentions river Eridanos as the one which lets it’s waters to the sea where amber is being found.
	www.bocksaga.de /Library/leo_print.htm (19411 words)

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