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Re: "RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS A HUMAN RIGHT"-POPE [Re: Ishwa] #18389 - 07/05/02 08:20 AM Edit Reply Quote

More interesting information: Gadeiros was indeed the name of Heracles in Plato's work Critias. It was also the name of a part of Atlantis (there were actually Ten Kingdoms, sounding like the Ten Manus, and one Kingdom had 7 islands) Heracles happened to be the father of Skythes and the Skythian folk and also of the Spartan people. (Herodotos' Historia). This only underlines my suspicion of both (Gopala) Krshna, Greeks and Skythian Shakas as one tribe. The Mahabharata has named the Yavanas as Turvasus. More data: When he [Herakles] reached Erytheia he camped on Mount Abas. The dog smelled him there and went after him, but he struck at it with his club, and when the cowherd Eurytion came to help the dog, he slew him as well." -Apollodorus 2.106-108 "[Herakles] killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in that gloomy meadow beyond the fabulous Okeanos." -Theogony 293-294 Comment: It seems that Oceanos is near Erytheia and Mt. Abas (is that Arbuda/Abu in Sarasvati Land?) That situates the Oceanos reached through 'Pillars of Heracles" really in Dvaraka and Sagara reaching Sarasvati. Erytheias are Hesperiden or nymphs of a beautiful garden, where trees with golden apples grow (Paradise/Eden?), and are considered the daughters of Atlas, because they live near Mt. Atlas! The area was ruled by the threeheaded Geryon (Trishiras-Vrtra) aided by Orthos or the twoheaded hound (either Kubera or the S�rameyas) The only one who succeeded in obtaining some of the apples garded by a dragon, Hydra I think, (Vrtra?) was Heracles. He had to kill the Geryon to free the oxen (Vishnu aiding Indra and Krshna's fight with Indra to release the hidden cows) . There so many agreements in the heritage of Greeks and Indians, and the older and completer stories with many variations are to be found in India.