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1266 BC Halley’s Comet and the Golden Lamb
1266 BC Halley’s Comet and the Golden Lamb by Nicholas Costa © 2026 IntroductionThe myth of Atreus and Thyestes is one of the most infamous stories of the Greek heroic age, recounting a bitter struggle for the throne of Mycenae marked by adultery, betrayal, divine intervention, and revenge. Preserved in sources such as Homer, Apollodorus,…
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Halley’s Comet 1266 BC, Argo Navis, and the Argonaut Myth: A Celestial Hypothesis
Halley’s Comet 1266 BC, Argo Navis, and the Argonaut Myth: A Celestial Hypothesis by Nicholas Costa © 2026 Introduction This hypothesis proposes that elements of the Greek Argonaut tradition preserve cultural memory of recurring celestial phenomena associated with apparitions of Halley’s Comet during the Late Bronze Age. In this framework, the mythic cycle surrounding Jason,…
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Halley’s Comet 1266 BC -Ixion and the Centaurs
Halley’s Comet 1266 BC -Ixion and the Centaurs by Nicholas Costa © 2026 Who knows not the aye-returning (ever returning) rock, and the deceiving waters, and Tityos food of vultures, and Ixion swooning on the long circlings of the wheel (Statius, Thebaid, 4.536) Ixion, the myth:Ixion: was depicted as the ruler of a people known…
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1266 BC Halley’s Comet: Ixion, the Golden Lamb, and the Voyage of the Argonauts
1266 BC Halley’s Comet: Ixion, the Golden Lamb, and the Voyage of the Argonauts by Nicholas Costa © 2026 The Astronomical Background In 2007 Mikiya Sato and Jun-ichi Watanabe of the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan, published a paper entitled the Origin of the 2006 Orionid Outburst. They observed that the strong Orionid outburst observed…
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Halley’s Comet 1334 BC – the myth of Phrixus
Halley’s Comet 1334 BC – The Myth of Phrixus by Nicholas Costa © 2026 Phrixus was depicted as the son of Athamas and Nephele. In the myth his mother sent a flying Golden Ram to rescue him and his sister Helle. The abbreviated myth taken from Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.1. is as follows: Athamas begat a…
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Part Three: Airburst over Olympia- the Victims.
Part Three: Airburst over Olympia- the Victims. © Nicholas Costa 2026 Melampus and the Daughters of Proetus . There is another mythical cycle whose focus was also upon Olympia and the airburst of c1284 BC. Its protagonists were depicted as the three daughters of Proetus. They were afflicted with a divinely induced illness, and were…
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Airburst Over Olympia, c1284 BC Part Two
Airburst Over Olympia c1284 BC, Part Two by Nicholas Costa ©2026 Letrini & The Sanctuary of Artemis Alpheiaia: Distance from Olympia: 22 km (13.7 miles) Etymology: Named after Letreus son of Pelops. The etymology of the word is considered as ‘unknown’. However the etymology of the name of Atreus, another son of Pelops, is commonly…
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Olympia- the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC
Olympia- the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC. Part One ©Nicholas Costa 2026 After noting the modern viewpoints concerning why the Sacred Way to Olympia existed, I shall closely examine the route and the mythologies associated with it. They overwhelmingly point to an airburst. The myths have been consistently misunderstood and overlooked. The Sacred Way Nobody…
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Who was Pelops? c1284 BC
Who was Pelops? c1284 BC by Nicholas Costa © 2026 Has anybody ever wondered how strange it is that when Pelops travelled from Anatolia his landing place was at Pisa on the north west of the Peloponnese rather than somewhere on the east coast of the Greek mainland? This underlines the fact that Pelops was…
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Who was Tantalus?
Who Was Tantalus? Part Two. © Nicholas Costa 2026 “Aye, and I saw Tantalus in violent torment, standing in a pool, and the water came nigh unto his chin. He seemed as one athirst, but could not take and drink; [585] for as often as that old man stooped down, eager to drink, so often…