Re: Apam Napat = Hephaistos or Dionysos?

The Hellenic reflex of the Apam Napat/Child of the Waters myth is the
bit where Theseus dives into the sea, chasing a ring Minos has tossed
into it. Theseus is escorted to the undersea court of Amphitrite,
blablabla ... then continues on with his nationalistic heroic
adventures. Robert Graves covers this episode in _The Greek Myths_,
but with no inkling this is (a fragment of) the Apam Napat myth.

The Theseus cycle seems to have been stitched together from a number
of sources (some of them barely understood, if that) in order to do
service to early Athenian nationalism.

My views are influenced by Graves (many of his hard-reasoned
conclusions are now simply obsolete), but I agree with him that an
attempt was made to make Theseus a competitor of Herakles; Theseus
lost out, a mere hero: Herakles was bodily assumed out of Hades into
Olympus and divinized (as was his mother). Herakles and Semele:Jesus
and Mary? You betcha.