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| Herkle Ἡρακλῆς | |
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| Abode | Olympus Barrow |
| Token | Club, lee skin |
Herkle (Greekish: Ἡρακλῆς, "wolder/lise of Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a godly heleth in Greekish folktales, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a greatneeve and half-brother (as they are both fathered by the god Zeus) of Perseus, and likewise a half-brother of Denizzy. He was the greatest of the Greekish heleths, the forefather of kingly theeds who called themselves Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a kemp of the Olympish order against fivels of the underworld. In Room and the latterday West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roomanish coasers, hour Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Roomers onnam the Greekish tale of his life and works essentially unwent, but eked anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the heleth with the landlore of the Middle Wendle Sea. Details of his cult were adapted to Room as well.
Wellspring[]
The pith of the tale of Herkle has been acknown by Walter Burkert as upspringing in New Stone Eld hunter-gatherer folkways and trends of shamannish crossings into the netherworld. It is comenly the tales forsetting Herkle are staddled on the life of a sooth fellow or feelfold folks whose fulendings became overspoken with time. There are even some sunderings of the Herkle tale that say his kinship came from the Greekish settling of Tiryns, a stead which some "ordfroms" say was home to a soothfast wyer, who was known for his great strength and was even thought to have a thorough link to the gods. This true same wyer, whose name is lost to time (although it may have been Alcides ("in the line of Alcaeus"), being shifted from "Alcaeus" in an unspowful fand to soothe Amphitryon's bitterness anent the thought of his stepson's begetting as being an outcome of his wife having been made barneken [allegedly] by the king of the gods himself; this thought being staddled upon it having been, in Pherecydes's edtelling, Herkle's stepfather who put the two snakes in his bed, for he would not know which of the two children was his), thewed the onewolder of the mighty kingdom known as Mycenae. Beliken that to how, in the tale, Herkle himself thews the king of Mycenae, his eamson Eurystheus, who gives him the twelve errands.[1]