Primitive Souls reveal the ancient history of the mountain and the Psychic charm in the consciences of the ancient Greeks.
Atlas and Oceanida Pleioni gave birth to their 7 daughters, Pleiades, in Kyllini, the personification of the famous constellation. One of them, the Midwife, was secretly loved by Zeus from Hera in a cave in Kyllini, where Hermes was born. This is the eponymous cave.
Hermes is the god of the air and his capture, birth and survival in the cave are justified because, according to the Psychic conception of antiquity, the comfortable originate from the interior of the mountains. That is why as a god of the air he is fast, invisible, a thief, a messenger of the gods, a psychopath, a sleepwalker.
On the same day of his birth, Hermes wanted to know the world. Outside his cave he met a turtle and from its shell, in which he stretched strings from a lamb’s intestine, he made the first lyre. The echo of Psythos is preserved in the naming of a neighboring peak, Helidorea.
Then the Little God stole Apollo’s oxen and when he found out he gave him the lyre to appease him. Later, Hermes also invented the syringe, the polycrystalline organ of the shepherds, which will later be played by his son Panas.
In Kyllini, Hermes acquired the bride Dryopis, Panas and other brides, Daphne, the founder of bucolic poetry. Panas is the soul of the mountain peaks, the springs and the forests, the protector of the shepherds and the hunters, the lover of the brides. Kyllini, the highest of the Arcadian mountains (given that in ancient times it belonged to Arcadia), was the place of his action. It is possible that Panas fell in love with Bride Pitty here. The pine tree was a sacred tree. This bride was also loved by the North, she preferred to Pan as well, because the North was very noisy. Then the North, in order to take revenge on her, blew her under a rock. There, Panas found her exhausted and turned her into a fir tree. Since then, the bride cries every time the north wind blows and her tears are the drops of resin that drip every autumn from the pine branches.
All references to the life of Kyrenia show the importance of Kyllini for animal husbandry in antiquity, but also for the special mountain orphanage, which inspires Jussica and poetry.
Other Cold show the savagery of the mountain. Hesiod mentions that when Tiresias met two snakes in Kyllini, he hugged them and hurt them. Then the goddess Hera asked him to tell her which of the two, a man or a woman, was happiest with physical contact. Because he did not like his answer, he blinded him and Zeus, as compensation, gave him the art of Psantiki, so that he could see in the Wings of the soul.
Aipytos, the son of Elatos and brother of Kyllinas, once went to Kyllini to hunt wild animals, died from the bites of a small snake.
From Kyllini came Doli, the Psagian herb that Hermes gave to Odysseus, in order to escape the danger of being transformed into a pig by Circe. This particular plant has not been identified, even by the Designers, with certainty. According to one version, this is purely a psychological invention, given that its name comes from the language of the gods. However, the choice of Kyllini as the place of origin of the plant suggests a mountain in a rich and special flora that touched the Cold.
Pausanias mentions that in Kyllini there was also a temple of Helmes. Throughout history, the mountain has been a haven and refuge for militants (a period of Turkish rule and resistance against the Germans).
Source: https://www.ziria-ae.gr/2013-01-04-09-54-53/mythologia
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