gates of the Sun

... tual can stand for the name of a mythical place that is associated with the given ritual. Such a mythical place is the ‘gates of the Sun’. By implication, the setting sun passes through the ... Continue reading

The idea of the ‘gates’ or pulai of Hadēs is a variant of the idea of a ‘gate’ or Pulos of the Sun, where the mythical idea of such a Pulos is parallel to the ritual reality of Pyl ... Continue reading

The constellation of words linked with pulē in the sense of ‘gate’, such as pul-artēs ‘gate-closer’ here (genitive πυλάρταο), is linked with the idea of the pulai ‘gates’ of Hādēs. ... Continue reading

The idea of a ‘gate’ of the Sun is linked here with Nestor’s Pylos and with the underworldly Pylos of I.05.397.In the course of this lengthy narrative, I.11.671-761, the idea of a ... Continue reading

... f Hādēs. (Further analysis in Greek Mythology and Poetics (GMP), 225–226.)Point 6. If, then, the gates of Hādēs are the gates of the Sun, then I can make more sense of what the psūkhē ‘spir ... Continue reading

... races of such landmarks (as in Alcman PMG 1.45–49; comments at GMP 224). But Homeric poetry does refer elsewhere to the Gates of the Sun: see the comments at I.05.395–404, I.05.646, I.11.67 ... Continue reading