Gorgon = Maria Magdalene ;
Heraklees = Barnabas
Gorgon
3 Gorgones snake-haired |
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by means of her own hair, Maria Magdalene |
tusked dragons (cf. Skt. /naga/ ‘elephant, dragon’) |
Chinese snake-oil anointing to alleviate pain |
christed (anointed) Iesous [in order to render him impervious to pain during his forthcoming crucifixion] |
other personages with name /Gorg-/
Quondam king of Epidauros, Gorgophonos found a fragment of the sword used to slay the Gorgon Medousa. |
Cephas (Peter) used sword. |
Son of Gorge was Andraimon (Andro-haimon ‘human blood’), |
The human blood of Stephanos. |
whose son Thoas disguised Odusseus. |
Andraios (Andrew). |
Sister of Gorge was Deianeira, whom Heraklees married at the urging (in the kennel of Kerberos the hell-hound) |
Paulos of Binjamin the wolf-tribe. |
by the shade of her dead brother Meleagros (GM 134.c, 142.a). |
Paulos was formerly named Saulos (S^a>ul, for whom was conjured up the ghost of the dead prophet S^mu^>el). |
Kerberos was brought out by Heraklees. |
Paulos was accepted by the apostles on account of Barnabas (Acts 9:27). |
Heraklees embarked on the Argo, another mariner whereon was Euphemos (GM 148.i, 149.1). |
Barnabas encountered Euphemos (AB – ANF08, p. 494). |
Heraklees murdered Iphitos (GM 135.b) : cf. the name /Apheta/ of the street whence started the race betwixt the Danaides women and their prospective bridegrooms (GM 60.m). |
At Kourion, a “race was being performed ... in the road near the city, where a multitude of women and men naked were performing the race.” (ANF08, p. 495) |
Heraklees was burned to death, due to a cloth (mantle) which he had donned. [cf. Roman custom of cremating corpse within a wrapping of asbestos] |
Barnabas : “they burned him with fire, so that even his bones ... they cast ... into a cloth” (AB – ANF08, p. 495). |
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
AB = Acts of Barnabas. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vii.xxvii.html