No cowherd then came, no band of woodmen cutting timbers for a ship troubled the Nymphai (Nymphs) of the trees, their agemates, no clever shipwright clamped together a barge, the woodriveted car that travels the roads of the sea, until Bakkhos (Bacchus) on his travels passed by that peak, shaking his Euian thyrsos.Īs Lyaios (Lyaeus) passed, the huge son of Gaia high as the clouds attacked him. In those days melodious Pan never sat beside herds of goats or sheepcoates playing his tune on the assembled reeds, no imitating Ekho (Echo) returned the sounds of his pipes but prattler as she was, silence sealed those lips which were wont to sound with the pipe of Pan never silent, because the Gigante then oppressed all. No wayfarer then climbed the height of that rock, for fear of the raging Gigante (Giant) and his row of mouths and if one in ignorance travelled on that forbidden road whipping a bold horse, the son of Gaia spied him, pulled him over the rock with a tangle of many hands, entombed man and colt in his gullet! Often some old shepherd leading his sheep to pasture along the wooded hillside at midday was gobbled up. "The divine hand of Dionysos Giantslayer, who once beside the base of Tyrsenian Peloros smashed Alpos, the son of Gaia (Gaea, the Earth) who fought against gods, battering with rocks and throwing hills. ![]() "Dionysos with his fleshcutting ivy shore through Alpos, that godfighting son of Gaia (Gaea, the Earth), Alpos with a hundred vipers for hair, who touched the Sun, and pulled back the Moon, and tormented the company of stars with his tresses." He had vipers for hair and multiple sets of arms. ![]() ![]() ALPOS was a monstrous Sicilian giant slain by the god Dionysos.
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