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4 years ago Goal is to retrieve the waters of the river Pactolus which reverse the effect of the curse. Maybe the end goal is to reach the river, or maybe a stand-in fountain / waterfall?
Maybe it's possible to obtain the waters along the way for temporary curse reversals?
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4 years ago According to Homer's Iliad, the Phrygians participated in the Trojan War as close allies of the Trojans, fighting against the Achaeans.
This later Midas was, however, also the last independent king of Phrygia before Cimmerians sacked the Phrygian capital, Gordium, around 695 BC.
The climate is harsh with hot summers and cold winters; olives will not easily grow here and the land is mostly used for livestock grazing and the production of barley.
South of Dorylaeum, there an important Phrygian settlement, Midas City (Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir), is situated in an area of hills and columns of volcanic tuff.
To the south again, central Phrygia includes the cities of Afyonkarahisar (ancient Akroinon) with its marble quarries at nearby Docimium (İscehisar)
Another possible early name of Phrygia could be Hapalla, the name of the easternmost province that emerged from the splintering of the Bronze Age western Anatolian empire Arzawa.
Homer calls the Phrygians "the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon". ... However, Pausanias believed that Mygdon's tomb was located at Stectorium in the southern Phrygian highlands, near modern Sandikli.
This Midas is thought to have reigned Phrygia at the peak of its power from about 720 BC to about 695 BC
This Midas appears to have had good relations and close trade ties with the Greeks, and reputedly married an Aeolian Greek princess.
A distinctive Phrygian pottery called Polished Ware appears during this period.
However, the Phrygian Kingdom was then overwhelmed by Cimmerian invaders, and Gordium was sacked and destroyed. According to Strabo and others, Midas committed suicide by drinking bulls' blood.
The "Great Mother", Cybele, as the Greeks and Romans knew her, was originally worshiped in the mountains of Phrygia, where she was known as "Mountain Mother". In her typical Phrygian form, she wears a long belted dress, a polos (a high cylindrical headdress), and a veil covering the whole body.
The earliest traditions of Greek music derived from Phrygia, transmitted through the Greek colonies in Anatolia, and included the Phrygian mode, which was considered to be the warlike mode in ancient Greek music.
Phrygian Midas, the king of the "golden touch", was tutored in music by Orpheus himself, according to the myth.
Another musical invention that came from Phrygia was the aulos, a reed instrument with two pipes.
The Phrygians are associated in Greek mythology with the Dactyls, minor gods credited with the invention of iron smelting, who in most versions of the legend lived at Mount Ida in Phrygia.
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4 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum
Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver,[1] with trace amounts of copper and other metals. The ancient Greeks called it 'gold' or 'white gold', as opposed to 'refined gold'. Its colour ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has also been produced artificially, and is often known as green gold.[citation needed]
The gold content of naturally occurring electrum in modern Western Anatolia [Phrygia] ranges from 70% to 90%, in contrast to the 45–55% of gold in electrum used in ancient Lydian coinage of the same geographical area. This suggests that one reason for the invention of coinage in that area was to increase the profits from seigniorage by issuing currency with a lower gold content than the commonly circulating metal.
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4 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality;[2] the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus_(alchemy)
The Great Work (Latin: Magnum opus) is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone.
The original process philosophy has four stages:[1][2]
nigredo, the blackening or melanosis albedo, the whitening or leucosis citrinitas, the yellowing or xanthosis rubedo, the reddening, purpling, or iosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metals_of_antiquity
Iron is the 4th (4.1% by mass) Copper is next at 26th (50ppm) Lead is 37th (14ppm) Tin is 49th (2.2ppm) Silver is 65th (70ppb) Mercury is 66th (50ppb) Gold is the 72nd (1.1ppb)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
It is said the wand would wake the sleeping and send the awake to sleep. If applied to the dying, their death was gentle; if applied to the dead, they returned to life.
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Collecting interesting Greek mythology and lore that could be interesting for generating content.