Thirst given, be quenched, until the last man standing has fallen. I think Zues made it so that Atlis would not have the ability to. But if he did, then Earth would be destroyed. Well, this was a misnomer in translation - Atlas holds up the heavens from a place now known as the Atlas Mountains. He has been pictured holding the earth, hence why our golbal map is known as an Atlas, but other than that, you're spot on :P.
If he dropped the heavens, the sky would fall in and we would be even more messed up than if we had allowed George W. Bush t have a 3rd term in office. StoryShift Author. Interview with The-Great-One. Erm sorry to burst you bubble but we are all aware that Atlas is not real and does not support the heavens.
It's called a discussion, google it Jebend. Member since: Jan. Member Level 17 Musician. Oh the mighty arms of Atlas hold the heavens from the earth.
Member since: Dec. Member Level 11 Blank Slate. They'd just make a new earth of course. Member since: Aug. Member Level 23 Melancholy. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called Member Level 16 Blank Slate. Supporter Level 15 Reader. Member since: Jul. Member Level 05 Blank Slate. Wups, Forgot pic. Member since: Jun. Supporter Level 60 Movie Buff.
Atlas would never drop Earth. It's too big to be dropped. What is he standing on, though? Hint: It's a turtle. Sig by Some-Stupid-Idiot. Member Level 30 Blank Slate. Thanks a lot for ruining my fun. Now nobody's going to be an idiot. Member Level 46 Blank Slate. Well, no, because the Earth is held up by a massive turtle. Member Level 04 Blank Slate. Member Level 13 Audiophile. Member since: May. Member Level 30 Movie Buff. Atlas is holding up the heavens and the sky NOT the Earth!
Member since: Oct. Moderator Level 55 Musician. It'd probably be a huge metaphor for our capitalist elites abandoning us lesser filth.
Member since: Sep. Member Level 14 Art Lover. We'll all be in heaven in in 1 sec Literally. Supporter Level 23 Blank Slate. If Atlas dropped the Earth?? Member Level 02 Blank Slate. Member since: Apr. Member Level 19 Gamer. Member Level 04 Musician. It has already happened once, 65 million years ago. Member Level 60 Writer. As the son of the Iapetus and Clymene, Atlas is considered to be a second-generation titan. Despite this, he did not lack brute strength and tremendous power.
I mean, any being that could give Zeus paws would undoubtedly be a noteworthy adversary. Homer describes Atlas in the Odyssey as deadly-minded and that he knew the depths of all the seas. He was implying that not only was Atlas dangerous but that he was wise beyond the years of Zeus.
Despite Cronus being the cause of the war in the first place, Atlas was at the centre of the battles, leading the titans against the three Hecatoncheires , who, with their thousand arms, launched boulders at them. There were also the recently regurgitated Olympians for Atlas and the titans to worry about too.
Could this have been the reason why Atlas was so stubborn in leading the charge against Zeus? We know that not all the titans sided with Cronus in the war. The other brothers of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus took the side of Zeus and avoided much of, if not all, of the conflict. When a battle was done, and Zeus stood victorious, he did not show the surviving titans much mercy at all. Hesiod tells us that Atlas suffered a terrible fate at the hands of his conqueror, and that was, to bear on his back forever, the cruel strength of the crushing world and vault of the sky upon his shoulders the great pillar that holds apart the earth and heaven—a load not easy to be born.
So, instead of just being killed off, which I think would have been better for him, Zeus decided to kill a few birds with one stone or with one lightning bolt, I guess.
He established a means to hold up the sky or the heavens and make an example out of Atlas. And who better to make an example out of than the most brutal titan of them all, the war leader, Atlas. While other titans are seen to incur some nasty punishments, Atlas is the most extreme and perhaps the most famous.
And this, of course, gave Zeus more time to go sleeping around the entire world, with virtually anything with a pulse. Atlas, meanwhile, was forever forsaken to this endless burden. At the junction of what would become Africa and Europe, he stood as firm as he could, locked in place muscle straining, bones aching, his body in unimaginable agony as the weight of the sky rested on his shoulders.
In other versions, Atlas is described as holding pillars far out in the Atlantic Ocean, which contains the heavens apart from the earth. Zeus gives Atlas such a pivotal role in holding up the sky and never once considers that all of their fates would be sealed if Atlas broke free of it. This show makes Atlas seem more like a tragic protagonist than a vicious villain who waged against Zeus. The other characters in the mythology hardly mention Atlas, and when others do find themselves in his presence, he usually ends up suffering even more.
This would make Atlas a prisoner devoid of any free will and curse to hold the heavens. Atlas here becomes less of a tragic hero and more of a bitterly defeated villain, one whose struggle is almost justified, given that he would not hesitate to destroy everyone, including himself, to be free.
He would rather live in such eternal agony forever and ever than end his own life, even if it brought about the relief he indeed craves. One last idea is that Atlas will not drop the sky because he would be crushing his daughters if he does.
Those he had through the Oceanid nymph Pieone. The goddess nymph Calypso and then the seven sisters—the Pleiades and their children, one being the Greek god Hermes. In some versions, Atlas was also given children by the Oceanid Aethra, who bought him more daughters known as the Hyades, sisterhood of nymphs who bring the rain, and his only son Hyas. In some tales, Atlas is also the father of the evening and sunset nymphs known as the Hesperides and sometimes, coined as the Atlantides, after their father.
Some accounts have Atlas condemned to hold the sky at the western edges of the earth, right next to the garden of where the Hesperides lived. So, by this, if he was to shrug the sky off his shoulders, he might very well have felt like he was killing them himself. Additionally, the Pleiades, after being stalked by Orion, is eventually placed into the sky as a constellation by Zeus.
So, you might say that if Atlas were to drop the sky, he would also be plunging his daughters down to their deaths. Here Atlas gets some nobleness assigned to him, in that he bears this weight not because of his pride or because of his own need for self-preservation, but for the sake of his daughters and grandchildren so that they may live. In this, Atlas gives up his own life to infinite pain so that his offspring may know the joys of life. You might say that Atlas sure had a rough deal, and he certainly was not a fortunate titan.
Perhaps if he had sided with Zeus, he might have gotten a better deal. Although, if you look at how Prometheus is treated after that, it might not have been for the best after all. But there exists an idea that Atlas was doomed to his fate from the very beginning.
From before he was even born, in fact. In some legends, when Gaia was begging her children to kill Cronus for her, she went to Iapetus and Clymene, who was pregnant with Atlas and his brothers. When the Iapetus and Clymene refused to help Gaia in her quest to murder the terrible Cronus, she cursed a pair of them and, more importantly, cursed their sons. It seems the curse was no simple bluff given how it plays out for the second generation titans.
In the entirety of Greek mythology, Atlas is only included in two stories. That incorporated two of the greatest Greek heroes, Heracles and Perseus.
After Recovering his sanity, he wished to atone for his grievous mistake. After being advised by the oracle of Delphi, Pythia, to seek employment from the king Eurystheus — Heracles agrees.
It is the king who sets Heracles to perform ten tasks or ten labours.
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