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Qoais
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    Re: Ancient War of the Gods
« Reply #28 on: June 05, 2009, 08:39:03 pm » Quote 

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"fates", "muses", "gods" - are they not all more or less the same?  Ultimate beings that were beyond the scope and ken of mere mortals?

Speaking of the demi-god Heracles, as I recall the story, Geryon chased him, and to prevent Geryon from catching him, he struck the mountain with his mace and split it in two - which supposedly created the Straits of Gibraltar.  So - if the cattle were in Spain, would it not be a waste of time then, to split a mountain in the south - the direction opposite to where he needed to go?  The Strait of Gibraltar is south of Spain.  Greece is East.  If Heracles was chasing the cattle homeward, and he split the mountain (supposedly now called the Pillars of Heracles) he would have had to be running south into Africa.

Therefore - Geryon was not in Spain - or Gibraltar is not the Pillars of Heracles -