The Tower Of Hercules And Its Links To Irish and Greek Mythology.
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2024
- The Tower of Hercules also known as Flavum Brigantium is the only Roman Lighthouse still in use. Located in A Cruna, Galicia, the tower is steeped in legend and mystery.
Mentioned in Irish Mythology, the tower was said to have been built by Breoghan, descendant of Fenius, Scotia and Goídel Glas, and from the tower, his son Ith, first saw Ireland.
According to local legend, Hercules after his 10th Labour, took the head of Geryon and buried it alongside his weapons and ordered a city to be built on the site.
Multiple sources say the tower was built on top of an older site, which may have been Phoenician in origin.
You have perhaps officially blown my mind, friend. This is so good. Thank you for your thoughtful scholarship and beautiful presentations.
Thank you Nancy, that means a lot!
It is such a beautiful thing to see how this progression has brought such wonderful connections. Remind us Auld Boy how much of our ancestors left behind ways to find our truth and our way back to them, the Mystery and our personal truth.
Indeed they did, it’s like following that rope in the cave! I’ll be taking a look at the early letters they used soon. Thanks for watching 👌
@@tammy7249 yes it could easily become really expansive! For now I’ll focus on the Celtic Iberian script and it’s relation to Gaelic and it’s similarity to Pelasgian..I’ve got some interesting cool sources so fingers crossed you will find it interesting 😊🤞
thankyou for your presentation...Enjoyed watching and hearing the pronunciation of the olde word names.
Thanks for watching, im pleased you enjoyed it 👌
The greatest. Great, greatly edited.
Pleased you enjoyed it. This place seems really interesting. They even found a late bronze age metal working site in the area which has been taken away never to be seen again! Crazy!
I love your videos Auld thank you! Mind blowing
That’s really kind of you to say. Thank you, I’m pleased you enjoyed the video👌
I always assumed that the term pharos was associated with pyre and fire, and that the earliest "lighthouse" was actually just a signal fire on the beach, which was eventually elevated to make it easier to see, and then made into a formal tower.
I’d have to have a look into the linguistics but πυρ is fire..unless it’s from the same root as φαινο which is being to light or cause to appear etc. thanks for the info, I’ll take a look
Cheers auld boy
Thanks for all the support!
Great work, thanks. I think Iman wilkens talks about cadiz in where troy once stood. Too tired to check atm lol
Thanks Dave, I’ll have to take a look. Thanks for the info 👌
No wonder why the Greeks /Helellenics say that Hercules wondered /traveled to Europe and Eurasia! It's not a coincidence! Thanks for the info 👍
Yes, he certainly got around for sure. Im pleased you enjoyed it..while I was making some of these videos on the celts of the Iberian peninsula, I came across quite a lot of interesting info like this. Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment, I appreciate it!
@@auld_boy Another thing i know is, that the Argonauts reached also England, Wales, and Scotland,, they wondered /traveled to all Mediterranean and had a special ship, with AI, telling them they are and even set course automatically, this AI /talking machine was given by Athena /Minerva, how did Homer knew about AI in his days? Fantasy? Myth or.... truth? Weird eh?
I have been living in the interior of Portugal in lands which are considered to be proto-celtic and the mix here in this specific region of ancient Phoenician and Celtic has been my study for the last 20 years. There are many more connections than you can imagine, when is the local Village here called Medellin which claim that there is an ancient connection with the character of Merlin of Arthurian fame. I wondered how this was feasible, however I have found an ancient Celtic face on a stone which goes way before the Roman era and is now part of a fountain a spring with Healing Waters whose name is Mona. As you will know, Moana was the ancient Druid stronghold in North Wales and it has indeed connections with these lands here where I am living.
That’s amazing Tom. I can imagine are a great place to live with so much history. Thanks for the information, I’ll have to do some more digging. Thanks for sharing your story and info. I appreciate it 👍
A beautiful synchonicity that that Breogan's tower in old Brigantium, being the oldest lighthouse, looks out towards Hook head in Ireland where there sits a sister tower which is the world's oldest working lighthouse - which lies in the territory of the Brigantes on Ptolemy's map, stetching across Waterford and Wexford's coastlines. From Hook head we find ourselves moving in land into the 3 sisters river system which the old kingdom of Osraighe (Ossory) lies, literally the Deer people. Many tribes listed as occupying Osraighe are also existing in Britain. Following the river Barrow which derives from the same root as Brigante, Birgu - we reach deep into old leinster into Cill Dara, the church of the Oak, modern day Kildare. Other river systems converge in Kildare, including that which would have moved through the Kingdom of Brega on the East coast looking across at the Brigantian Kin in the Old North of Britain. In Cill Dara we find the heartland of Brigid's worship and it was here she had a temple where the goddess' priestesses maintained a sacred eternal flame which would last right up until the Gaelic cultural destructions...
That’s some fantastic info..I had no idea there was a sister lighthouse in Waterford. That’s blown my mind..thank you so much. I’ll have to do some digging! That really interesting about the Osraighe (deer people) as I’m from Cumbria and the native tribe there were also called the deer people and it is thought the area was a sub group of the Brigantes. The romans called the Carvetii which means the same thing.
It’s also interesting about the main river systems..as this shows they were sea farers and utilised the river systems and built settlements close by. A prime example is York which was inhabited by the Brigantes..close to two main rivers one of which gives access to the Humber estuary. Also Isurium brigantum built close to the river Ure. This is the same as the settlements in Castro culture Spain which I’ll look at in the next episode!
Thanks so much..I’d like to get over to Ireland for a few days to check out some of these sites. Thanks for all the info..it’s much appreciated.
@@auld_boy I'm sitting on all this info myself so always happy to share with a Baird Nua - so much history has been hidden, destroyed or forgotten and you're doing good work here in helping preserving our history. Lean ar aghaidh lad!
on petroglyphs in Pedra do Altar which is located near the Tower of Hercules is the key for the founder tribe of faros
That’s great, thanks for the info..I’ll take a look 😊👍
nice research!!Mykines (Danish: Myggenæs) is the westernmost of the 18 main islands of the Faroese Archipelago,is another naval base, used by the Greeks to go from Iceland to Greenland and then to the copper mines in the Canadian lakes
When I heard the port was called Faro, it got me thinking of the Faroe Isles so thanks for this info..I’ll add it to the list of things to investigate further. I’m pleased you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts 😊👌
@@auld_boy thanks for your answer!if you have time you can search the travels of Pytheas of Massalia...Massalia was a colony of Milesians from Minor Asia!interesting is his description of the mythical Thuli from Pytheas too
@@irakliskazantzidis1147 that’s really interesting as the Gaels who came to Ireland are also called Milesians. I will certainly take a look. I heard Thule could possibly Iceland? Have you heard this too? Thank you 👌
@@auld_boy when you read about Pythea and Thule you will understand what he means Thule for him and draw your own conclusions ... the only ones who believed his story about Thuli were the German Nazis, wherever they were looking to find the entrance from the Poles
@@irakliskazantzidis1147 thanks for the info, I’ll certainly do some reading on Pytheas..I remember seeing an old map with it written on. Thanks for all the recommendations 👍😊
Interesting the tower is dedicated to the God of War, Mars as the God Nergal, is also known as Errakol, Ares and Hercules...
Great stuff. These days, when I hear "Hercules", I think "Phoenicians", in the belief that Hercules was originally a Phoenician culture-hero. Some of the labours of Hercules seem to represent Phoenician metal-voyaging, as you point out, and you also refer to the "Tyrian" Hercules, with Tyre being a Phoenician city. Therefore I wondered if the "Medacritus" mentioned by Pliny is some kind of corruption of "Melkart", which was the Phoenician name for Hercules. The switch between L and D could represent a linguistic change or a scribal error, either in the documents consulted by Pliny or in the transmission of Pliny's manuscript. Given the Phoenician-Hercules connection, it made sense when you said the Tower of Hercules may be built over a Phoenician original.
Thank you Marc..that’s a good point about Melkart and a potential scribal error..or evolution of the word due to its use in different groups..I’ll have to investigate further.
You raise some very good points about the Phoenicians and Hercules and given me some good threads to follow. It’s really interesting to me the connection between the account of Phineus’ sons being rescued by Hercules and joining the argonauts..and how one of their names as it is attested in one source, turns up in the Celtic regions of Spain…an area which is associated with Hercules. It was also exciting to draw the line between Brigantia in Spain and Ireland and seeing how close to the scilly isles the path was. There definitely seems to be some small truth buried in these old accounts.
Thanks for your insights and for giving me some more threads to follow. I’m pleased you enjoyed the video👌
@@auld_boy Yes, I really liked the line you drew between Brigantia (A Coruna) and Brigantia (Waterford) showing it go right past the Scillies, which I visited last summer in search of information about the Phoenicians. You are doing great work joining the dots and showing all these connections. I am reading "Where Troy once stood" by Iman Wilkens, which you might like. This is an excerpt I read this afternoon, where he is talking about the passage from the Odyssey where Odysseus says he was blown past Cape Malea by a north wind: "Cape Malea is now Cabo de Sao Vicente in the extreme southwest of Portugal. How do we know this...because in Homer's time this cape was named after Malios, an alternative name for Hercules...He was long venerated as the principal god of Spain, where he was considered to be the founder of Seville...a famous temple was dedicated to him in Cadiz. The Iberians called him 'Il Vinzente' ('the victorious'), whence the present name of Cape St Vincent." Looking forward to your next vid.
@@MarcWiddowson yes it was somehow satisfying drawing it on the map and seeing how it all lined up! Ah yes I remember you saying you were going. I’d like to visit myself sometime..is it a local boat crossing or are there flights? Did you make any discoveries when you were there?
You are the second or third person who has recommended that book, the excerpt you shared seems really interesting, I’ll have to pick it up. Thanks for sharing the excerpt, it seems to line up with tue topic at hand so I most certainly benefit from giving it a read. Thanks again 👍
@@auld_boy It's not so easy getting to the Scillies. You can go by boat, plane or helicopter. The main issue is accommodation, which seems to be booked up years in advance, especially in the summer. Definitely worth a visit, just plan in advance. I didn't make any breakthrough discoveries, but I saw what looked to me like a lot of tin ore in certain areas, though I'm not a geologist and I was just going by a paper that you referred to in one of your videos on the Phoenicians in Britain.
@@auld_boy Regarding the possible D for L linguistic change connecting MDKRT (Midacritus) and MLKRT (Melkart), note that such a D for L change occurs between Odysseus and Ulysses.
the tower is polar world tree symbolism.
Thanks for the info and thanks for watching.