Pillars of Hercules

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The Pillars of Hercules (Latin: Columnae Herculis , Greek: ??????????????????????? Helloql , Spanish: Columnas de HÃƒÆ' Ã‚ Â© rcules ) is a phrase applied in ancient times to a promontory that flanking the door into the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar. The corresponding North African summit is not dominant, the identity of the southern Pillar, Abila Mons, has been debated throughout history, with the two most likely candidates being Monte Hacho in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco.

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Histori Edit

According to Greek mythology adopted by Etruscans and Rome, when Hercules had to do twelve laborers, one of them (the tenth) would pick up Geryon's Cow from the west end and take them to Eurystheus; This marks a journey to the west. The missing part of Pindar quoted by Strabo is the earliest reference that can be traced in this context: "Pillars that Pindar calls the 'gates of Gades' when he affirms that they are the farthest boundaries achieved by Heracles." Since there has been a one-to-one relationship between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars of Melqart" in the temple near Gades/GÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¡deira (modern CÃƒÂ¡zdÃƒ) is sometimes considered the right Pillars of Hercules .

According to Plato's account, the lost Atlantean realm lies outside the Pillars of Hercules, which essentially places it in the Unknown. The Renaissance tradition says pillars bore the warnings of Ne plus ultra (also Non plus ultra , "nothing surpasses"), serves as a warning to sailors and navigators not to go further..

According to some Roman sources, while on a trip to the Hesperides park on the island of Erytheia, Hercules had to cross a mountain that used to be Atlas. Instead of climbing a large mountain, Hercules uses his super power to destroy it. By doing so, it connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and forms the Strait of Gibraltar. One part of the split mountain is Gibraltar and the other is Monte Hacho or Jebel Musa. These two mountains are unified ever since then known as the Pillars of Hercules, although other natural features have been associated with the name. Diodorus Siculus, however, states that instead of destroying the precarious land to create the Strait of Gibraltar, Hercules narrows the existing straits to prevent monsters from the Atlantic Ocean from entering the Mediterranean Sea. In some versions, Heracles instead built both to hold the heavens off the earth, freeing Atlas from his curse.

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Phenicia Connection Edit

Outside Gades, some important Mauretanian colonies (in modern Morocco) were founded by the Phoenicians as the Phoenician merchant marines pushed through the Hercules Pillars and began building a series of bases along the Atlantic coast beginning with Lixus in the north, then Chellah. and finally Mogador.

Near the east coast of the island Gades/Gadeira (modern CÃƒÂ¡zdÃƒ,, just outside the strait) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the deity with whom the Greeks associate Phoenicians and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca. Strabo notes that two bronze pillars in the temple, each eight feet high, are widely declared as true Pillars of Hercules by many who have visited the place and have sacrificed to Heracles there. But Strabo believes the account is a fake, to note that the inscriptions on the pillars do not mention anything about Heracles, just talking about the cost incurred by the Phoenicians in the making. The temple column of Melqart in Tire also has a religious meaning.

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Pillars in Syriac geography Edit

Syriac scholars are aware of the Pillars through their attempts to translate Greek scientific works into their language as well as to Arabic. The Syrian compendium of knowledge known as Ktaba d'ellat koll 'ellan . "Causes of All Causes", it is not uncommon to state that there are three, not two, columns

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Dante's Inferno Edit

In Inferno XXVI, Dante Alighieri mentions Ulysses in the line of Fraud Counselors and his voyage passes through the Hercules Pillar. Ulysses justifies his sailors with the fact that his goal is to gain knowledge of the unknown. After five months of navigating the ocean, Ulysses gazed at the mountain of Purgatory but found a whirlwind of him that drowned his ship and all above him because they dared to approach Purgatory while still alive, with their own strength and intelligence.

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Pillars as portals Edit

The Pillars emerged as supporters of the Spanish emblem, derived from the impression of the sixteenth century Spanish king Charles I, who is also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V. It bears the motto of Plus Ultra , Latin for further outside , implying that the pillar is the gate. It is modified from the phrase Nec plus ultra , Nothing more than after the invention of America, laid to rest him the idea of â€‹â€‹the Hercules Pillar as the westernmost tip of the inhabited world has been in effect since time immemorial.