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Anonymous ID: 4db349 July 23, 2019, 5:13 p.m. No.26176   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6194 >>6200 >>6208 >>6216 >>6230 >>6247 >>6284 >>6298 >>6388 >>6529 >>6789 >>6803 >>6814

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>nautilus symbols around his initials.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%27s_Dog_Discovers_Purple_Dye

Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye or The Discovery of Purple by Hercules's Dog is an oil painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens painted circa 1636, towards the end of his career. It depicts the mythical discovery of Tyrian purple by Hercules and his dog, and was one of dozens of oil on panel sketches made by Rubens

 

The painting shows a scene from an origin myth in the Onomasticon (a collection of names, similar to a thesaurus) of Julius Pollux, a 2nd-century Graeco-Roman sophist. In Pollux's story, Hercules and his dog were walking on the beach on their way to court a nymph named Tyro. The dog bit a sea snail, and the snail's blood dyed the dog's mouth Tyrian purple. Seeing this, the nymph demanded a gown of the same color, and the result was the origin of purple dye.

(Some ancient sources attribute the myth to Melqart, a Tyrian deity identified with Heracles.)

 

Rubens's painting of this story depicts Hercules and the dog on the beach, with the dog's mouth stained. Although the snail in the story should be a spiny murex, the kind of snail from which Tyrian purple was made, Rubens instead depicts a large smooth shell that resembles a nautilus.

 

Rubens's painting was originally part of a cycle of paintings of Hercules, which Rubens painted for the Habsburg rulers of Spain as sketch for a painting intended to decorate their Torre de la Parada, a hunting lodge.

The paintings of the cycle contain allegorical references to the Habsburgs and the wealth they had obtained from the conquest of Peru.

 

The "royal purple" whose origin story this particular painting depicts was used to clothe emperors, and by the time of Rubens it had become a standard aspect of the depiction of royalty and divinity.

By showing a scene of Hercules's travels to Phoenicia, the painting also refers to a traditional warning, attributed to the Phoenicians, to stay within the bounds of the Pillars of Hercules, and to the Habsburgs' own passage beyond that limit.

Anonymous ID: 4db349 July 23, 2019, 5:49 p.m. No.26230   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>Some ancient sources attribute the myth to Melqart, a Tyrian deity

 

http://thingsinthree.blogspot.com/2013/05/melqart-burning-man.html

Between 980 to 947 BC King Hiram ruled Tyre and his town grew into perhaps the most important city along the coast. Its wealth was due to the skill of its people as ship builders and traders who travelled the seas to bring back ivory, gold, baboons and apes.

And the secret process of dying cloth purple.

 

According to the Bible, Hiram sent his architects, workmen and supplies of cedar wood, and gold to build the First Temple in Jerusalem. Josephus says that he also extended the Tyrean harbour at that time, enlarging the city by joining the two islands on which it was built, and constructed a royal palace and a temple for Melqart.

Tyre had once been 'offshore', an island build on rock. Nonnos-5th Century, AD recorded the 'foundation' myth of the The Ambrosial stones.

 

William F. Albright in Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Baltimore, 1953; pp. 81, 196) suggested that Melqart was a originally a god of the underworld, something more than a hero like Heracles.

 

MLK means Lord. and is more often found as Baal.

QRT is a Phoenician syllable meaning city.

 

As Tyrian trade and colonization expanded, Melqart became venerated in Phoenician and Punic cultures from Syria to Spain. The first occurrence of the name is in a 9th-century BCE stela inscription found in 1939 north of Aleppo in northern Syria, the "Ben-Hadad" inscription, erected by the son of the king of Arma