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Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajökull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and is reputed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The water comes from the nearby Vatnajökull glacier, whose sediment-rich runoff colors the water a greyish white. The superlative of "most powerful" comes from its water flow times its fall distance. The water of the wide Jökulsá á Fjöllum river falls for more than 144 feet, causing a massive, crashing spray.
"Heracles ( or Hercules ) was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and the greatest of the Greek heroes..Prometheus was a champion of mankind, known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day."
Circe the daughter of the sun changed men into swine Homer's Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan War and she changes most of his crew into swine. He manages to persuade her to return them to human shape, lives with her for a year and has sons by her, including Latinus and Telegonus. Original edition from my own archives Source : Weltgeschichte 1898
Vulcan forging Prometheus to the rock. Oceanids implore for the liberation of Prometheus. Szene from the Greek Mythology. Woodcut engraving from the the book "Der Olymp oder die Mythologie der Griechen und Römer (The Olympus or the Mythology of the Greeks and Romans)", published by A.H. Petiscus in C.F. Amelang's Verlag, Leipzig (1878, 18th edition)
Sirens had been depicted as human animal chimeras - Homer's Odyssey in which Ulysses ( Odysseus ) resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song. Original edition from my own archives Source : Weltgeschichte 1898