![]() When the bark is cut, it spills red sap, said to be Ladon's blood. A return to Eden would mean traveling west. This matches the Genesis account which describes civilization developing to the east of Eden. ![]() These dragon trees have enormous trunks, made of many wrap-around branches that are said to represent Ladon's hundred heads. The Hesperides, the nymphs who tend to the ancient garden, its tree, its apples, and its serpent, get their name from Hespere in Greek, which means evening, signifying the West where the sun sets. The story has it that when Hercules took the golden apples, the Hesperides in their. ![]() When Ladon was slain, his blood fell all over the Garden of the Hesperides, where each drop sprouted a dragon tree. The Garden of the Hesperides is the mythical symbol of fertility. In Greek mythology, the Hesperides ( Ancient Greek:, Greek pronunciation: hesperdes) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets. (The apples were subsequently given to the goddess Athena and she just gave them back to the Hesperides, so it was all a waste of time, then.) Hesiods Theogony describes the Nymphs of the Sunset as Daughters of the Night, but Greek mythology also had them as daughters of Zeus and. ![]() Atlas repays this lack of aggression by promptly killing the many-headed beast and steals the apples. There was a dragon, called Ladon, guarding these apples - not just any old dragon either, but one with 100 heads, breathing fire!īut, it turns out, Atlas knows this dragon, so Hercules goes to him (still holding up the sky, remember) and offers to look after this sky-holding-up business, if Altas will pop over and take some of those golden apples.Ītlas agrees (presumably glad to get the sky off his shoulders for a bit), goes to the sunny, mild island - let's call it.um.Tenerife, where the dragon recognises him and, therefore, doesn't attack him. He didn't just have to deal with three girls. ![]()
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