The Origin of the Myths

Dan edelstein writes hercules's twelfth and last labour in the traditional sequence led him beneath ground to capture cer Cerberus. Just as persephone, another solar figure had disappeared underground for half the year. These episodes and others, bailey surmised, symbolized the complete disappearance of the sun. The inventors of the myth must therefore have lived in a latitude where the sun periodically vanished from the sky. Dismissing earlier theories about the location of atlantis, bailey thus reached the surprising conclusion that atlantis lay near the north pole.