OMPHALE AND HERCULES

The history, we now want to tell, plays in the mountains Tmolos / Bozdağ. The Queen of Lydier Omphale is the wife of the Tmolos to the Bozdağ his name. Tmolos will one day in the hunt for a wild boar killed. The mountain, located in the south of Sardis rises, there is the name of the dead king. And the fabulously beautiful Queen Omphale is now widow.

The other hero of our history is the epitome of power, fearlessness and heroism, Hercules. His arrival in Lydia, his being with the Queen of Sardis verwitwten has something with the desire of the gods to be done. In other words, Hercules is forced to Sardis:

The Köinig the city Oichalia, Eurytus, had claimed that nobody could deal with him in archery measure. As much as he trusts in his ability that he promises his beloved daughter only person to give him in archery exceeds. Our hero Hercules occurs against the King Eurytus. And the king proposes the arch-shoot. But the king is not adhering to his word. His only beloved daughter he will not give the Hercules. The angry, and angry when Hercules, it is blind with rage. It follows the favorite of the four sons of the King, the Iphitos.

Hercules ertägt not the deep sorrow about the completely innocent Iphitos killed. He goes to the temple, questioned the oracle what he must do that to take advantage of that debt to be exempt. The Oracle says he will serve as a slave, lanf three years, it day and night to do everything he orders his mistress.

Thus begins the bondage of Hercules', the nine-dragon terrible Lerna killed. Everything his mistress, de lydische beautiful queen and widow, Omphale, it is in the vtut he said. It is said that this bondage would have the Herculean not overly saddened, on the contrary, he had in this very beautiful days and in his later life the days that he lydischen in the capital Sardis verbracte always keep in good memory.

Hercules is knees to the beautiful queen. The days and nights they spend together, always eyes on Aug ', knee to knee. He wears women's clothing, our Hercules. And although kunterbunte. He stickt and sew together with the queen. It's going to land. In the thymian-pfefferminz and tamariskenduftenden valleys of Bozdağ. The Queen bathes in oleanderbestandenen Sartçayı whose water and sand before the gold shine, it cools off the Omphale, which, although Queen, but only one woman, which is a beautiful woman. And Herhules, he was also a slave, but a man, and a strong, strong man And they love each other.

The Sardis collected over Bozdağ will witness an unforgettable love. Even today calls, it is said, the Sartçayı, of the summit of Bozdağ like a wild goat herabklettert and meckert and small waterfalls forms, "Hercules, Hercules" while the oleander and tamarisk "Omphlae, Omphale" whisper ...