La Roca AORNOS De: Alejandro Rivero
Fecha: sábado, 31-10-1999Veamos pues en que leyendas podia pensar el lider nizari, Hassan, cuando
sale en busca de un lugar donde instalar su paraiso e iniciar la guerra
santa del Dios de las Venganzas. Buen entretenimiento dominical :-)Pa empezar, ya me sonaba a mi, que el Philostrato se limitaba a copiar la
Anabasis Alexandri, de Arrian o com ose escriba, capitulo VIII,
sobre las tierras entre el "Cophen" y el "Indus"
The Nysaeans are not an Indian race; but part of
those who came with Dionysus to India; possibly even of those Greeks
who became past service in the wars which Dionysus waged with Indians;
possibly also volunteers of the neighbouring tribes whom Dionysus
settled there together with the Greeks, calling the country Nysaea
from the mountain Nysa, and the city itself Nysa. And the mountain
near the city, on whose foothills Nysa is built, is called Merus
because of the incident at Dionysus' birth. All this the poets sang
about Dionysus; and I leave it to the narrators of Greek or Eastern
history to recount them. Among the Assacenians is Massaca, a great
city, where resides the chief authority of the Assacian land; and
another city Peucela, this also a great city, not far from the Indus....
Before Alexander, too, there is a considerable tradition about
Dionysus as having also invaded India, and having subdued the Indians;
about Heracles there is not much tradition. As for Dionysus, the city
(...)
Dionysus. But of Heracles the memorials are slight. Yet the story of
the rock Aornos, which Alexander forced, namely, that Heracles could
not capture it, I am inclined to think a Macedonian boast; just as the
Macedonians called Parapamisus by the name of Caucasus, though it has
(...)
cave among the Parapamisadae, they said that this was the cave of
Prometheus the Titan, in which he was crucified for his theft of the
fire.
...
expedition.What is more, as the Sibae carried a club, and they brand
their cattle with a club, they referred this too to some memory of
Heracles' club. If anyone believes this, at least it must be some
other Heracles, not he of Thebes, but either of Tyre or of Egypt, or
some great king of the higher inhabited country near India.
Como la roca Aornos esta llama la atencion incluso mas que el Merus, me
juego de aventuras que la menciona junto con el hades y tal,
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/6991/hades1.txtUna localizacion "de historiador" dice:
marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, the
modern Pir-Sar, a few miles west of the Indus and north of the Buner River,
an impressive feat of siegecraft.
Y otra remarca
327/6 Alexander reaches Nysa (Jalalabad); the 'Dionysus
episode'.
Capture of Aornos (Pir-Sar).
Perol nombre tiene mas "resonancias":
Upon the death of his wife
Eurydice, he retired to a place in Thesprotia, called Aornos, where an
ancient oracle gave answers to such as evoked the dead.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~orpheus/burney.htm
de Robert GRaves, como siempre, recordamos: C'est
alors qu'Orphée descendit courageusement au Tartare dans l'espoir de
la ramener. Il utilisa le passage qui s'ouvre à Aornos en Thesprotie
et à son arrivée, non seulement il charma le pasteur Charon, le chienY entonces esta en brete el prestigio de los Britanicos, que dicen:
STEIN, Sir Mark Aurel (1862-1943). British archaeologist...
racing caravan routes between China and the West
and discovering the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas near Tan Huang;
traced Alexander the Great' s eastern campaigns, identifying (1926)
site of Alexander' s storming of the Rock of Aornos; investigated
relationship between Mesopotamian and Indus civilisations (1927-36).AUn mas cuando plinio el viejo dice:
2 Epiros in universum appellata a Cerauniis incipit montibus. in
ea primi Chaones, a quibus Chaonia, dein Thesproti, Antigonenses,
locus Aornos et pestifera avibus exhalatio, Cestrini, Perrhaebi,
quorum mons Pindus, Cassopaei, Dryopes, Selloe, Hellopes, Molossi,
apud quos Dodonaei Iovis templum oraculo inlustre, Talarus mons,
centum fontibus circa radices Theopompo celebratus.
Asi que vamos de punta a punta. Y un mito moderno aun recoloca:
Then they traveled to Lake Aornos (Lk. Avernus, near Naples), the
Mouth of the Underworld, where they established a home in the Great
Cave (near Baiae)
Se supone que de acuerdo con la Eneida o algo asi.aunque, pera acabar, y como consuelo, Shelley rebota de nuevo al otro lado
240 Till vast Aornos, seen from Petra's steep,
241 Hung o'er the low horizon like a cloud;
242 Through Balk, and where the desolated tombs
243 Of Parthian kings scatter to every wind
244 Their wasting dust, wildly he wandered on,
EN favor de la localizacion italiana, al menos para el AOrnos de Orfeo, me parece
que entra Julio Verne, pero justo ahora no recuerdo por que volcan salen
de su viaje al centro de la tierra.En la quinta punneta, estaria el esoterista que mencione alguna vez que localiza el
Mt Meru en la caldera del Krakatoa. Eso da una buena batida a las aguas si explota. Por cierto que de Verne tambien es otro indio que permanece encerrado en la caldera de un volcan y muere al explotar este (lo siento si a alguien de la lista le he chafado el final
de La isla misteriosa).En fin, como decia Woody Allen "Homenaje? Que va!, lo hemos copiado directamente."
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