Re: Hercules

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 04:08 AM 11/24/01, Larry Cartwright wrote:
> ...
>
> The heavens were originally held up above the Earth by a pair of great
> pillars owned by the rich and powerful Atlas.  As punishment, Zeus took
> away Atlas' treasured pillars and made Atlas take their place.  Or made
> Atlas hold the pillars on his shoulders, depending on whose version you
> want to believe.
>
> There is a mountain just south of Gibraltar which is what's left of old
> Atlas, turned to stone and still keeping the heavens in their rightful
> place.  And just beyond the remains of Atlas is the great watery expanse
> at the edge of the earth, Okeanos, which now bears Atlas' name.
...
> Larry Cartwright   <exit60@cablespeed.com>


The ascent of the Rock was guarded by Barbary apes who delight in
 stealing windshield wiper blades from the cars whose drivers stop
to admire them on the road uphill past the Governor's residence.

And at the pinnacle - there was a siren called "Eureka" calling to
airborne mariners, past the steep escarpments catching water,
under which, Spanish villagers in turn rode boats equipped with large
gas lights calling to the fruit of the deep at night, the swordfish
and the squid.


Brian Whatcott
  Altus OK                      Eureka!