The Duality of Hercules, An appreciation of Mr.
Sykes' Paper, By Leslie Young
(a summary of her account)
This is in regards to E. Sykes dealings
with the "Twelve Labours of Hercules" based on the themes importance
towards rationalization of heroic legends of classical mythology.
"After the complexities and extravagances of the theories propounded
by Muller and Cox, and the lethergic attitude of other mythologists who, being
unable to favour the extreme views of the German school, have sought to resolve
the personality of Hercules by regarding him as a hero who had delivered the
territory of Southern Greece from wild beasts, Mr. Sykes approach is both
startling and original."
The points Sykes makes are about the labors of Hercules with each animal
as representing a totem emblem of a clan, and the mastery of Hercules as
a battle technician. Hercules belonged to a period before the Trojan Wars and
may have been an amalgamated into some earlier cult hero figure as well as a
earlier god of a much more remote period actually called 'Alcaeus' of
his father Amphitryon, of Perseus. Hercules and his father were caught between
a coup between heirs of thrown as being sky
worshippers verses mother goddess worshippers (in mother worship as a revival
sense that the older Greeks were holding onto).
Webmaster D. Clarke's view of this -The antiquity of Hercules is proven
by the fact that Sky Worshippers first show up in Greece no sooner then 3,200 B.C. a
good 1,500 years before the Trojan War. The other factor is that Sky Worship
was not introduced by the Achaeans, but by an earlier culture almost back to
period of pre-dynastic Egypt
at least. Since Hercules is connected with twin sky worship it is likely he
falls under the Age of Gemini i.e. no sooner then 4,500 B.C. in cult
association and we may conclude from this that the cult was established 2,000
years before this i.e. 6,500 B.C. since
El Gyius of Al Caeus means in Egypt and Latin
'Way-God', or Agyius. Amphitryon his father has a very revealing
name AmpH-T-Ra-On, or Hit Ra-An i.e. 'The House or Hide of Ra and Osiris' as
twin Gods? Hercules is thus older then Stonehenge
or the Bronze Age as a story.
Hercules was reared in a newer cult then the Mother Goddess worshippers
of Greece
and he may go back as a story to the earliest Argo and Jason story. Zeus, was earlier known in Crete
as a Thunder and Woodpecker God of Twin Worship which was Hercules God.
Hercules first three battles were with Mother Goddess figures, Nemean Lion, the
Hydra, and the Iberian like Stag. As a child Hercules strangled two serpents
very similar to the depictions of Horus the Child holding two serpents and the
story of Bes a Ethiopian God who also strangled two
serpents. The story may be about the submission of Ethiopia
in Hercules time to a more northern state like Egypt
or Libya,
which occurred when he was a boy. His father was in exile in Thebes
if Greece or Egypt at
Hercules birth? The serpents of Greece
or Crete as a mother goddess may have denoted
the suppressing of sky worship as well which Hercules and His father repealed.
Both Diodorus and Herodotus mention a Hercules in Egypt who was said to be the son of
a Ammon. Not only was he a mortal warrior according to
Diodorus, but he took part in battles with giants and the gods, thus he was
canonized in Egypt in the night sky against Bootes and the other celestial gods
under the guise of Amun festivals. That he also saved Egypt from inundation on the Nile
when it flooded the banks and he deviated the water by turning back to its
source. These events are to have been said to occur when Osiris was alive as a
period that was 10,000 years before the Trojan War!!!!!
This date would be 10,000+1,600+2,000= 11,900 B.C. and is a date when E.
Cayce said Atlantis Flooded in its second to last major inundation??? He is
also connected to Baal which the Egyptians received by the Phoenicians. This is
connected to this myth is a inscription found at Ras Sharma in Palestine
showing Baal with a club holding a spear who is engaged in a battle with Lotan
a seven headed serpent which has been identified with Book of Revelations. This
cult hero is connected back to earlier Sumerian, and Ancient Libyan stories.
The significance of his story has much wider and deeper significance as
an over the epochs story about the Mediterranean
cultures amalgamated in framework from a more western source older source.
Osiris by the way lived before pre-dynastic Egypt
and is dated as no sooner then 4,500 B.C.
in Egypt
and may go back in the form of Anu at least 3,000 years earlier as a
post-diluvian god.
