ns. Since gods belong in the wilderness, Hercules is set on the mountain outside of Thebes. Athena tricks Hera into nursing Hercules, and Hercules bites her nipple, causing a stream of milk to flowinto the sky becoming the Milky Way. Hercules fight with the Lion-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lion skin is Hercules emblem. He encounters the Lion at Nemia which is a place associated with the old religion. The lion lives in a cave that opens into the underworld. Lion (Nemian Lion) is the consort of the goddess, and is associated with shamanism Hero changes this entheogen from the old meaning to the new, which requires a hallucinogen. It is harder to break the addiction from capturing the lion as you go deeper into the cave. Spring of Lerno-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opens up the underworld which is the stronghold of Hera. 100 mouths of water move up into the sky. Hydra is a water monster that has 100 heads (suggestive of a plant) As you cut off the heads of the Hydra more heads pop up, You must play against nature herself to defeat the hydra You must coterize the heads so they dont grow back. Eolaos= Hercules sidekick and the son of Iphikles, nephew of Hercules. Hera tricks Zeus She tricks him by making an agreement that whoever is born nine months after a certain date will inherit theOlympian tradition. Zeus thinks that the child who will be born on that day is Hercules and agrees to her proposal. Hera fastens the birth of Eurystheus born from Strong Cow, and delays the birth of Hercules fromAlkemene. And at the appointed time Eurystheus is born instead of Hercules. Date: 08-NOV-99 Semester: Fall '99 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He returns our midterms and the class is only 30 minutes long. Every time he does his labor, he gains Olympian heritage and eve...
