Walking on water as Jesus Melikertes

Walking on water as Jesus Melikertes

"Oh ye of little faith."

It is my conclusion that Jesus was John the Baptist who was 
Melkarth, the "king of the city" he also known as Palaimon the 
comforter of sailors, and the calmer of turbulant waters.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2004


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PALAIMON
 
Palaimon
Melikertês      
Translation:     
Latin Spellling:        Palaemon
Melicertes      Roman Name:     Portunus                 
PALAIMON was a young SEA-GOD who came to the aid of sailors in 
distress. He was once a mortal child, but his mother Ino was driven 
mad by Hera and leapt into the sea with him in her arms, and the 
gods, out of pity, transformed the pair into sea gods.
He was depicted as a boy, usually in the company of Poseidon and 
seated upon the back of a dolphin.
Parents
ATHAMAS & INO-LEUKOTHEA (Apollodorus 1.80 & 3.28, Hyginus Fabulae 1 
& 239, Metamorphoses 4.542, Dionysiaca 5.556)
"To Palaimon, Fumigation from Manna. O nursed with Dionysos, doomed 
to keep thy dwelling in the widely spreading deep; with joyful 
aspect to my prayer incline, propitious come, and bless the rites 
divine; thy mystics through the earth and sea attend, and from old 
sea's stormy waves defend: for ships their safety ever owe to thee, 
who wanderest with them through the raging sea. Come, guardian 
power, whom mortal tribes desire, and far avert the deep's 
destructive ire." ?Orphic Hymn 75 to Palaemon
"Athamas, lord of Boiotia, sired by Nephele a son Phrixos and a 
daughter Helle. Then he took a second wife, Ino, by whom he had 
Learkhos and Melikertes." -Apollodorus 1.80
Hermes took him [Dionysos] to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to 
bring him up as a girl. Incensed, Hera inflicted madness on them, so 
that Athamas stalked and slew his elder son Learkhos on the 
conviction that he was a dear, while Ino threw Melikertes into a 
basin of boiling water, and then, carrying both the basin and the 
corpse of the boy, she jumped to the bottom of the sea. Now she is 
called Leukothea, and her son is Palaimon: these names they receive 
from those who sail, for they help sailors beset by storms. Also, 
the Isthmian games were established by Sisyphos in honor of 
Melikertes." -Apollodorus 3.28
"There are legends about these rocks [the Molurian Rocks on the 
coast of Megara] ? it is said that from it Ino flung herself into 
the sea with Melikertes, the younger of his children ? The n it was 
that she fled to the sea and cast herself and her son from the 
Molurian Rock. The son, they say, was landed on the Korinthian 
Isthmos by a dolphin, and honours were offered to Melikertes, then 
renamed Palaimon, including celebration of the Isthmian games. The 
Molurian Rock they though sacred to Leukothea and Palaimon." ?
Pausanias 1.44.7 
"Farther on [past Kromyon, Korinthos] the pine still grew by the 
shore at the first time of my visit, and there was an altar of 
Melikertes. At this place, they say, the boy was brought ashore by a 
dolphin; Sisyphos found him lying and gave him burial on the 
Isthmos, establishing the Isthmian games in his honour." ?Pausanias 
2.1.2
"[In the temple of Poseidon at Korinthos] ... On the car [of the 
chariot] stand [statues of] Amphitrite and Poseidon and there the 
boy Palaimon upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of ivory and 
gold ? The other offerings are images of Galene (Calm) and of 
Thalassa, a horse like a whale from the breast onwards [a 
hippokampos], Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasos ... 
Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaimon, with 
images in it of Poseidon, Leukothea and Palaimon himself. There is 
also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an underground descent 
to it, where they say that Palaimon is concealed. Whosoever, whether 
Korinthian or stranger, swears falsely here, can by no means escape 
from his oath." -Pausanias 2.1.7-9 & 2.2.1
"After the image of Hermes [at Korinthos] come Poseidon, Leukothea, 
and Palaimon on a dolphin." ?Pausanias 2.3.4
"Palaimon, to whom babes are slain [worshipped with the sacrifice of 
children in Tenedos], beholds the hoary Titanide bride [Tethys] of 
Ogenos [Okeanos] seething with the corded gulls." ?Lycophron 229
"He [Theseus] also instituted the games here [at Korinthos] ... so 
by his own appointment they should celebrate Isthmian games in honor 
of Poseidon. For the games already instituted there in honor of 
Melikertes [Palaimon] were celebrated in the night, and had the form 
of a religious rite rather than of a spectacle and public 
assembly." -Plutarch Theseus 25.4
"Athamas, son of Aeolus, had by his wife Nebula [Nephele], a son 
Phrixus and a daughter Helle ? and by Ino, daughter of Cadmus, two 
sons , Learchus and Melicertes." ?Hyginus Fabulae 1
"Athamas, driven mad by Jove [Zeus], slew his son Learchus. But Ino, 
with Melicertes her son, threw herself into the sea. Liber would 
have her called Leucothea, and Melicertes, her son the god Palaemon, 
but we call her Mater Matuta, and him Portunus. In his honor every 
fifth year gymnastic contests are held, which are called Isthmian." ?
Hyginus Fabulae 2
"Ino with the younger [son of her and Athamas], Melicertes, cast 
herself into the sea and was made a goddess." ?Hyginus Fabulae 4
"Mortals who were made immortal ? Ino, daughter of Cadmus, into 
Leucothea, whom we call Mater Matuta; Melicertes, son of Athamas, 
into the god Palaemon." ?Hyginus Fabulae 224
"Ino, daughter of Cadmus, killed her son Melicertes by Athamas, son 
of Aeolus, when she was fleeing from Athamas." ?Hyginus Fabulae 239
"Ino, daughter of Cadmus, hurled herself into the sea with her son, 
Melicertes." ?Hyginus Fabulae 243
"Raving through the palace Athamas [driven mad by Hera, snatched up 
his son Learkhos and threw him into a pot of boiling water] ? and 
then his mother [Ino], crazed by grief or by the sprinkled poison's 
power [the curses of Hera], screamed madly and with streaming hair 
rushed out with tiny Melicertes in her arms, and shouted `Bacchus! 
Bacchus!'; at the name of Bacchus Juno [Hera] smiled, `Well done, 
the brat you fostered, to bestow a boon like that!'
A cliff hung by the shore; the bottom part was hollowed by the waves 
and formed a roof to shield the waters from the storms; the top 
stood hard and high and faced the open sea. Here Ino climbed (her 
madness gave her strength) and with her burden launched herself, 
unchecked by any thought of fear, out and away, and where she fell 
the waves were white with spray.
But Venus [Aphrodite], pitying her grandchild's woes, so undeserved, 
addressed with winning words her uncle: `Lord of waters, whose power 
yields to heaven alone, great Neptunus [Poseidon], what I ask is 
much indeed, but pity those I love, now tossing in the vast Ionian 
sea, and make them gods to join your company ? ` Her prayer was 
granted. Neptunus removed their mortal essences, clothed them in 
majesty and awe, and changed features and names alike, the boy to be 
Palaemon, and his mother Leucothoe." ?Metamorphoses 4.542
"She gazed in wonder at his [the Sea-God Glaukos'] colour and his 
hair that clothed his shoulders and streamed down his back, and 
thighs that formed a twisting fish's tail ... [and] he said, ` ... I 
am a Deus Aquae (Sea-God). Over the open sea not Proteus, no, nor 
Triton nor Palaemon Athamantiades has greater power than I." -
Metamorphoses 13.918
"The suffix seen in Portunus (the harbour god) [Palaimon], derived 
from portus `a harbour." ?De Natura Deorum 2.26
"In Greece they worship a number of deified human beings ... 
Leucothea, formerly Ino, and her son Palaemon [worshipped] 
throughout the whole of Greece.." ?De Natura Deorum 3.15
"With Palaemon in her arms his mother [Ino] quailed not to leap into 
the vast Ionian Sea." ?Thebaid 1.12
"[The] Isthmos scarce withstood the waves on either side. With her 
own hand his mother [Leukothea] snatched Palaemon from the curved 
back of his straying dolphin steed and pressed him to her bosom." ?
Thebaid 1.120
"The curved retreat of Lechaeum [the port of Korinthos] sacred to 
Palaemon." ?Thebaid 2.380
"Then [in the Isthmian Games] the dark cult of Palaemon is 
solemnizes about the gloomy altars, so oft as undaunted Leucothea 
renews her grief, and in the time of festival comes to the welcoming 
shores: from end to end Isthmos resounds with lamentation and 
Echionian Thebes makes answering wail." ?Thebaid 6.10
"Palaemon, when he hastes back to his darling mother's [Leukothea's] 
kisses, smites his tardy dolphin." ?Thebaid 9.328
"An innocent child ? was Palaemon, when his mother [Ino] flung her 
self on him as he lay shipwrecked and cast up from the sea in the 
Isthmian haven." ?Silvae 2.1.180
"But above all others thou, Palaemon, with the goddess mother 
[Leukothea], be favourable [on this sea-voyage], if `tis thy desire 
that I [the poet Statius] should tell of thine own Thebes, and sing 
of Amphion, bard of Phoebus, with no unworthy quill." ?Silvae 3.2.1
"Shaggy Portunus sporting his blue-green beard ... and Palaemon, the 
little charioteer on his dolphin." ?Apuleius 4.31
"She [Ino to Athamas] bore Learkhos destined to woe, and Melikertes. 
She was afterwards to find a home in the sea, as cherishing nurse 
for the childhood of Bromios: to both she gave one common breast, 
Palaimon and Dionysos." ?Dionysiaca 5.556
"The god [Hermes[ spoke to her [Ino] in friendly coaxing tones, and 
let pass a divine message from his prophetic throat:
` .... You shall ever live with Melikertes your immortal son as 
Leukothea, holding the key of calm waters, mistress of good voyage 
next to Aiolos. The merchant seaman trusting in you shall have a 
fineweather voyage over the brine; he shall set up one altar for the 
Earthshaker and Melikertes, and do sacrifice to both together; 
Seabluehair shall accept Palaimon as guide for his coach of the 
sea." ?Dionysiaca 9.59
"In the hall he [the insane Athamas] espied little Melikertes [his 
son] who had just been brought in, and setting a cauldron over the 
hearth, a steaming cauldron, he laid his son in it: the fire blazed 
up, the murderous cauldron bubbled with boiling water.
His son called out for `papa!' but none of the servants could help. 
Ino his mother came in like a stormwind, and snatched him from the 
cauldron parboiled and half-consumed. Then she ran out bounding with 
wild-roaming feet swift as the wind; she traversed the dust of the 
White Plain, and for that reason she was named after it Leukothea, 
the White Goddess. 
Athamas mad was out of the hall, stirring his knees like the wind 
and pursuing Ino over the hills in vain, - she was too quick for 
him. But when the raving husband with restless staggering foot 
caught her up, at that moment the unhappy woman had halted by the 
sea which washed her foot, moaning in plaintive tones over her 
crying child, while she upbraided Kronion [Zeus] and Maia's son 
[Hermes] his messenger:
`A fine reward you have given me, Flash-thunderbolt, for the care of 
Bakkhos! See this boy, Lyaios' agemate, half burnt to death! If it 
please you, strike down with your merciless bolt mother and son 
together, the little one I nursed in one bosom with you're your 
divine Dionysos! Child, Necessity is a great god! ? where will you 
flee? What mountain will receive you, now you have fled to the sea? 
What Kithairon will hide you in a dark hollow? What mortal man will 
pity you, when your father has no mercy? Either sword or water shall 
receive you: if needs must, better to perish in the sea than by the 
sword ... O that Poseidon, the hospitable friend of Glaukos, might 
save you, pitying your Ino as once he pitied Phoibos! I fear that 
after the fate of unburied Learkhos I may see you also dead, 
unburied, unwept, undone, panting under the bloody knife of your 
father. Make haste! escape from mad Athamas, and then you will not 
see the father who murdered his child, murder the mother.
`Receive me you too, O sea! I have done with earth. Receive 
Melikertes also with hospitable hand, O Nereus, as you received 
Perseus! ... '
She spoke, and with trembling feet sprang into the sea, swiftly 
diving with her son. Seabluehair [Poseidon] opened his arms to 
receive Leukothea, and took her into the divine company in the deep 
waters. She helps ever since the seamen who lose their way, and now 
she is Ino of the sea, a Nereis who has charge of untumultuous 
calm." ?Dionysiaca 10.67f
"Lykourgos indignant [that Dionysos had escaped him by fleeing into 
the sea] shouted aloud to the water ?
`I wish my father [Ares] had taught me not war alone, but how to 
deal with the sea! ... But since I have not learnt the work of 
seafaring fishers, and know nothing of the tricks of hunting in the 
deep with a cunning mesh of nets, you may have Leukothea's house in 
the watery deep, until I can dislodge both you and Melikertes as 
they call him, another of your kin ... 
`Ho Fishermen! Searchers of the haunts of Nereus! Spread not your 
nets for the denizens of the deep, but haul out Dionysos in the 
meshes! Let Leukothea be caught along with Lyaios, and let her come 
back to the land; let bold Palaimon come with them to my house, let 
him dry his body an be slave to Lykourgos! Then he [Palaimon, the 
manger of Poseidon] may leave the courses of his seabred horses 
round Ephyreia, and yoke my car beside a terrestrial manger, he and 
Bakkhos grooms together. Let there be one house ? one house for 
both, Palaimon and Dionysos.'
Thus full of fury he railed at the sea, and hoary Nereus, and wished 
to flog the deep." ?Dionysiaca 20.350
"In the Erythraian Sea, the daughters of Nereus [Nereides] cherished 
Dionysos [driven to refuge in the sea by Lykourgos] at their table, 
in their halls deep down under the waves. Mermaid Ino threw off her 
jealousy of Semele's bed divine, and struck up a brave hymn for 
winepouring Lyaios. Ino the nurse of Dionysos made music; and 
Melikertes his foster-brother ladled out nectar from the bowl, and 
poured the sweet cups for his agemate.
So he remained in the hall deep down in the waves under the waters, 
and he lay sprawled among the seaweed in Thetis' bosom; he embraced 
never satisfied Kadmos' daughter, Ino his nurse, mother of a noble 
son, sister of his own mother, and often he held in the loving 
prison of his arms Palaimon his yearsmate, his foster-brother." ?
Dionysiaca 21.170
"[When Poseidon led the Sea-Gods into battle against Dionysos and 
his allies, Dionysos threatens:] 'Bring that charioteer of the sea 
[Palaimon the charioteer of Poseidon] from the depths of the 
Isthmian brine to be a servant for Mother Rheia and to guide her 
lions with his whip, for I will no longer leave my cousin in the 
deep." -Dionysiaca 43.81
"[When Poseidon led the Sea-Gods into battle against Dionysos and 
his allies] The army of the brine took up their wet shields. Under 
the water beside the brinesoaked manger of Kronion [Poseidon], 
Melikertes shook the spear of the deep, and yoked the Isthmian team; 
he slung to the side the seaborne car the spear of the seafaring 
king, and scored the back of the water with its triple prong ? he 
yoked the Isthmian team, and the roar of Indian lions resounded 
along with the neighing of horses.
He drove his watery course; as the car sped, the hoof unwetted, 
unmoistened, scored only the surface." -Dionysiaca 43.192
"[When Poseidon led the Sea-Gods into battle against Dionysos and 
his allies] Melikertes [Palaimon] lunging at Dionysos with his 
trident of the sea went madly along in leaps like his mother's ... 
Companies of Bassarides marched to battle ? A Seilenos tore off a 
roof from a rocky hole and attacked Palaimon, and drove Ino 
wandering through the water with his ivy spear. ." -Dionysiaca 43.286
"[Ariadne curses the sailor who took Theseus from her:] `If he rides 
the raging storm, may Melikertes never look on him graciously or 
bring him a clam sea; but may Notos blow when he wants Boreas, may 
he see Euros when he needs Zephyros." ?Dionysiaca 47.356
"That was a wedding [the marriage of Dionysos and Pallene] of many 
songs: ... Companies of Nereides under the foothills of the 
neighbouring isthmus encircled Dionyoss with wedding dances and 
warbled their lay ... Melikertes crowned the seagirt wedding-reef of 
the isthmus chanting Euoi for Pallene's bridal." ?Dionyiaca 48.188
Sources:
?       The Orphic Hymns - Greek Hymns C? BC 
?       Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC 
?       Pausanias, Guide to Greece - Greek Geography C2nd AD 
?       Lycophron, Alexandra - Greek C3rd BC 
?       Plutarch, Lives - Greek Historian C1st-2nd AD 
?       Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd AD 
?       Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD 
?       Cicero, De Natura Deorum ? Latin Philosophy C1st BC 
?       Statius, Thebaid - Latin Epic C1st AD 
?       Statius, Silvae - Latin Epic C1st AD 
?       Apuleius, The Golden Ass ? Latin Epic C2nd AD 
?       Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD 
Other references not currently quoted here: Ovid Fasti 6.485
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