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Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for revealing many secrets of the gods and for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he ...
Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology, including: Tantalus , king of Lydia , a son of Zeus, was favored by the gods but made the fatal mistake of sacrificing his son Pelops to the Olympians, who hated human sacrifice and cannibalism.
Pelops was a son of Tantalus [1] and either Dione, [2] Euryanassa, [3] Eurythemista, [4] or Clytia. [5] In some accounts, he was called a bastard son of Tantalus while others named his parents as Atlas and the nymph Linos. Others would make Pelops the son of Hermes and Calyce [6] while another says that he was an Achaean from Olenus. [7] [8]
With the epithet Zeus Aetnaeus he was worshiped on Mount Aetna, where there was a statue of him, and a local festival called the Aetnaea in his honor. [300] Other examples are listed below. As Zeus Aeneius or Zeus Aenesius (Αινησιος), he was worshiped in the island of Cephalonia, where he had a temple on Mount Aenos. [301]
Scientists have re-created what they believe Jesus looked like, and he's not the figure we're used to seeing in many religious images. Forensic science reveals how Jesus really looked Skip to main ...
[148] [149] Images of Jesus as a healer replaced images of Asclepius and Hippocrates as the ideal physician. [149] Jesus, who was originally shown as clean-shaven, may have first been shown as bearded as a result of this syncretism with Asclepius, [150] [151] as well as other bearded deities such as Zeus and Serapis. [151]
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