--- In cybalist@..., "mrcaws" <MrCaws@...> wrote:
> Do you happen to know where I could find info on the Talos/
Sun god
> connection? By the way, I posted something on connections
between
> Orion, Achilles, and Talos in #12328
About O, A, and T being attacked in the heel, I note that in India,
Krishna is described as being attacked there also. So this might
be a result of perceiving one's heel as especially vulnerable; I
can't think of any special reason for that, however.
As to the Talos/Sun connection, I've been unable to track down
anything like a primary source for that on the Internet. However,
checking at
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu and at http://
www.greekmythology.com Talos is described:
A brazen man, the work of Hephaestus, and given by Zeus to
Minos, king of Crete, to watch that island, which he did by
walking about it three times every day. When strangers
approached he heated himself red hot and then embraced
them, or, according to another version, threw showers of stones
upon them. He had one vein in his body through which his blood
ran and was stopped by a nail or plug in his foot. This plug
Medea drew out by magic, and he bled to death ( Apollod.i.9.26;
Ap. Rh. iv. 1638; Schol. ad Plato Rep.425).
Being shiny and bronze and fiercely hot does suggest the Sun,
though throwing stones is less Sunlike :-)