Tantalum (mythology)
For other uses of this term Tantalum is seen. Tantalum, of Goya In Greek mythology Tantalum (in Greek Τάνταλος) was a son of Zeus and oceánide Pluto, king of Frigia or the Sípilo mount in Lydia (Smaller Asia). One became one of the inhabitants of the Tartar, the deepest part of the Infraworld, reserved to the punishment of the evildoers. He was father of Pélope, Níobe and Broteas with the Pleiad Dione. Robert Serious says that her wife also could be Euritemista (a daughter of the Janto God-river), Eurianasa (daughter of the Pactolo God-river) or Clitia (daughter of Anfidamante).
The history of TantalumIt is known Tantalum for being invited by Zeus to the table of the Gods in the Mount Olympus. Boasting itself of it enters the mortals, it was divulging the secrets that had heard in the table and, noncontented with that, robbed something of nectar and ambrosia distributed and it between its friendly. Tantalum wanted to correspond to the Gods and it invited to them to a banquet that organized in the Sípilo mount. When the food began to be scarce, it decided to offer to his Pélope son. In which it constitutes a arquetípico rite of chamánica initiation, carved up the boy, it baked his members and it served the guests. The Gods, that had been noticed, avoided to touch the offering. Only Deméter, trastocada by the recent loss of its Perséfone daughter, “was not noticed than it was” and the left shoulder of the unfortunate one ate. Zeus ordered to Hermes that reconstructed the body of Pélope and it returned it to bake in a magical kettle, replacing his shoulder by one forged of dolphin ivory, done by Hefesto and offered by Deméter. The sparing ones gave life again him and thus it obtained new qualities. In order to reinforce its initiation in the divine mysteries, Poseidón kidnapped to the new Pélope and it took to the Mount Olympus, doing to him his lover to it. A last crime finished overwhelming the patience with the Gods: when Pandáreo robbed mastín of gold that had made him Hefesto to Criminal so that it took care of of new born Zeus, occurred it to Tantalum it hid so that it. Once passed the alarm initial without nothing of the dog was known, Pandáreo asked to him that was given back it, but Tantalum swore to him by Zeus who never had heard speak of him (another version has been changing roles and for of Tantalum the thief and Pandáreo the ocultador). Scandalized Zeus by the perjury or the robbery it squashed to Tantalum with a rock that hung of the Sípilo mount and ruined its kingdom. After dead, Tantalum eternally was tortured in the Tartar by the crimes that had committed. In which at the moment it is a proverbial example of temptation without satisfaction, its punishment consisted of being in a lake with the water around the chin, under a shaft of low branches filled with fruits. Whenever Tantalum, desperate by the hunger or the thirst, tries to take a fruit or to suck something of water, these retire immediately of their deficit. In addition it hangs envelope an enormous oscillating rock that threatens squashing to him. InterpretationsDiverse authors see in this myth a full rejection of the Olympic religion the human sacrifices, that although they were habitual in the first cults, mainly in the Deméter in his primitive incarnation like Great Goddess, considered then like taboo. The Greeks of épica accused Tantalum to try to deceive the Olympic Gods to give back them to their old identities offering to them a banquet-sacrifice of human meat. Alternatively, Tantalum is portrayed like a prometeica authority that disclosed divine secrets to the mortals and presided over consisting of sagradas ceremonies of initiation the mystical death and transfiguración. Tantalum the SecondAnother Tantalum, call the Second, was of Pisa of Broteas or, according to other son, heir and son, king sources Tiestes of Pélope, and descendant in both cases of the previous Tantalum, in whose honor it received his name. When son of Broteas considers itself him, was the first husband of Clitemnestra and died in battle at the hands of Agamenón, that soon would force its widow to marry with him. One tells that Agamenón also started violently of its chest to the Clitemnestra son, throwing it against stones and thus breaking its head. When son of Tiestes considers itself him, he tells that being to him invited his Atreo brother to a banquet to celebrate an amnesty, this one he assassinated to the infantryman Tantalum boiled, it he served and it to the table, next to the bodies also cooked of Plístenes, Áglao, Orcómeno and Calileonte, all relatives of Tiestes. When finishing the food, appeared in another tray the heads, feet and hands to him of its victims, so that account occurred than it had eaten. Tiestes vomited horrified what had in the stomach and launched a terrible curse to the descendants of Atreo. Other personages
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