Heraclès (Hercules), the legendary hero of Greek mythology takes his name built from the radical hr. This name, usually translated as " Glory of Hera Offers another understanding if we approach precisely the translation of the name "Hera", the goddess of Heaven. Hera, feminine form of Hesus, is the Latin which translates the "mistress of the house". It corresponds to Neb Hwt (Nabintou), from the Nilotic tradition, the “mistress of the palace”, the “mistress of the castle”, the one the Greeks call Nephthys. The suffix clès de kleos meanwhile, means "glory", "shine". Hera, like Horus, is a deity associated with light. Charles Ploix returns to this aspect of the goddess: “the relations of Hera, with Hestia, with Hephaistos, with Prometheus, testify to his character of luminous divinity. We know that Hestia and Hephaistos passed in the eyes of all antiquity to represent fire, that is to say light. Prometheus was its inventor. Now, Hestia was the sister of Hera, at the same time as she was the sister of Zeus. According to some legends, Prometheus was the son of Hera and the Titan Eurymedon. In Hesiod, Hephaistos is the son of Hera and Zeus, the late fruit of loves that had lasted for three hundred years. These alleged genealogies cannot affect the primitive conception of the goddess; they only prove an identity of nature between ascendants and descendants. They are from the same family because they are of the same kind. As the first manifestation of light, Hera is the eldest daughter of Kronos. Among the many epithets of Hera we know, those ofen Greek in the text, Homer, passim.), (in Greek in the text,Iliad. XIII, v. 396), (in Greek in the text, Hesych.), Contain the radical op which expresses the idea of seeing, of enlightening. Other nicknames attribute to the goddess a character of beauty which belongs only to the gods of light ”(La Nature des dieux…, p. 242).
Although the epithets mentioned by the author are presented in the Greek alphabet in the text, the radical oppointed out by Ploix can be retained as the one used to form the word " Aithiops "," burnt face », Which the author matches see,light. This allows to associate the etymology of Hera with face, do what, under the sun. Understood in this way, "Heracles" would certainly mean the Glory of Hera, but first of all the "Glorious Face", the " Burned Glorious ", The" Glorious Head ", the" Halo Head ", etc., which brings him closer to the figure of Horus as attested by studies conducted by Martin Bernal and the similarities established between the two characters. Heracles and the deities of the Greek tradition appear in Ethiopians on the Greek vases with black figures, the first representations of the heroes of Greek mythology. This makes it possible to establish the initial artistic canon that will have brought these heroes out of the hymns and poems chanted by the beasts of ancient Greece.
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Release Date | 2014-04-03T00:00:00.000Z |
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