PELOPS

The god Zeus had the dismembered body of his grandson Pelops again joined him life. The rest of his life of Pelops spends with his shoulder ivory happy days. We can say that he is the only from the sex of the Tantalus, is not approved by the wrath of the gods has been taken. Pelops Schenk made the mouth of the dominant sea god Poseidon, with his trident the earth quake was. After a while the Poseidon sends the Pelops back to the surface. He must have the services of the mouth as Pelops Schenk been satisfied, because he gave his winged horse.

From now on berreist Pelops the earth with its geflkügelten horses. One day he sees the daughter of the King of Elis Dinomaos, Hippodameia. No sooner has he seen it, since he is already in love. But the beautiful girls heimzuführen this beauty of it, is not an easy thing. Because the king Dinomaos has a condition, which is to meet before his daughter being made: the bridegroom in special needs him in Wagenrennn defeat. Who can beat him, he will kill. His palace has with the dead heads of the Free adorned, were with him when measured chariot races and lost. It is said that the king love his daughter very much and was in any Eifersüchtig, including at denjenign, they marry. It also means he think that, who they married, is also on his throne apart, so he is very afraid. That is why it is in the race unprecedented lists, as the case may be, he always takes at the end of the life of Freiers.

And the hero of our story, the Pelops with the elfernbeinerrnen shoulder, the grandson of the god Zeus, falls in just the daughter of such a cruel king. And what a love! Who love, and he was also mortal when it comes to a grandson of Zeus, and if he is the owner of the horse Meerebeherrschenden Poseidon, the fear of death yet know? Pelops, and keeps the king for the hand of his daughter, says he is ready to chariot races. Pelops completely trusts his horses. And what is more important, he is in love. Love is not always something blind? But this is a beautiful blindness: Is it not very significant, the man for his love of his life is at stake?

Pelops won the race with the winged horses, which he presented the god Poseidon. And he gets the beloved beautiful Hippodameia. But there is talk about how he won the race: In some states, the beautiful Hippodameia had been based on the first look at the Pelops love. And has set in the head, Pelops to marry. On the other side knows it, as well as her own behalf knows that this young man, like so many before him, the race will lose. It must do something, and at the first sight in love makes the following: In the darkness of the night to sharpen the car servant, what he has to do.

The day of the race breaks up. The on his car aufplusternde Dinomaos is sure of his victory. He trusts only himself, as well as his horses, a gift from God Ares war. As yet all so far, it is also this young man his only daughter does not get, he will be his corpse in the dust behind her haul. But his beautiful daughter Hippodameia, in honor of the lodge sits Hippodroms is not with him. She knows that her father will be the die. Because the car Myritos servant has the wheel of his car gentlemen relaxed.

The race begins under the screams of the people in the Hippodrome. But this race full of intrigue will not be long. During his horses run like the wind, dissolves the wheel from the car of the king Dinomaos. The king falls from the trolley and is fragmented among the hooves of horses schaumschnaubenden divine. After the race, get the two lovers. But the car myrtilus servant knows too much. It means servant, so much of their men know, do not live long. The myrtilus, in the darkness of the night to seduce his action had kills in the darkness of night the beautiful Queen Hippodameia. Although Pelops Hippodameia and led a carefree life, it was their sons, Atreus and Thystes, no luck decision. The two brothers advised aneinader. Thyrestes seduces the wife of his brother. The gehörnte Atreus divided the two small children of his brother, they can cook and puts it to his brother, that is, their own father, with the appetite verspeist.

The Tantalus starting a chain of disasters the whole family, with the exception of Pelops. Bloody crime, the hair Bertge leave, ereigenen. While some mythological stories to the fraud of the Gods by the Tantalus as the cause for these disasters show, hold the killing of other Wagendieners myrtilus by Pelops and his wife for the reason.

Either way, happiness and well-being, based on the blood of other built, it can not last forever! On the other hand, as long as there are people, the people raised their heads and gods this "debt" and great care is used, its relationship with the people on the ratio of "Crime and Punishment" there ...

Anyway, we come back to the heroes of our story, Pelops, to speak. It is said that the life of Pelops had been useful and glorious: He founded the Olympic Games. He brought by the Sipylos "Kordax" dance and his cult to Greece. The Kordaxkult of Artemis, with its choirs and dances, as in Anatolia as well as in Greece far.

It gives the peninsula its name Mora. It is called the peninsula still the Pelepones. The fact that a hero from Anatolia such succeed, has to mean something.