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« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2007, 03:13:15 pm »

DIONYSOS & THE PILLARS OF INDIA

Dionysos in his wanderings was said to have erected pillars the pillars at the end of the earth in India. Presumably these were the world pillars believed to hold up the sky.

"[Dionysos] traversed Thrake and the whole of India and set up pillars there." - Apollodorus, The Library 2.29

"In India, too, there are no Pillars, it is said, either of Herakles or of Dionysos to be seen standing, and, of course, when certain of the places there were spoken of or pointed out to the Makedonians, they believed to be the Pillars those places only in which they found some sign of the stories told about Dionysos or of those about Herakles." - Strabo, Geography 3.5.6


http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/DionysosMyths3.html#India
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