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Identifier: opencourt_nov1900caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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was formerly believed to represent Jasons strug-gle with the dragon, but is now interpreted as depicting a parallel to the Perseus legend preservedby Hellanikos (Ap. Schol. Iliad., Y. 146), who relates that Herakles in delivering Hesione, thedaughter of King Laomedon of Troy, descended into a dragon and slew him by severing his in-testines, a task that cost him three days labor, during which time the heros hair was burned bythe internal heat of the dragon. ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY. 651 Historians have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt thatHerakles is none other than the Phoenician Melkarth, the Baal ofSor (i. e., Tyre), and the Phoenician Melkarth again is none otherthan Bel Merodach, the Christ of the Assyrians and Babylonians.The Israelites knew him under the name of Samson and toldlegends of him that betray his solar origin. As the nations ofWestern Asia have inherited much of their civilisation as well as oftheir religion from the ancient Sumero-Accadians, the assumption
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Melkarth.^Colossal statue found at Ama-thus. (Gazette archeologique,1879, pi. XXXI.)

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