Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pluto's 'Gate to Hell' uncovered in Turkey
www.iTech Post.com ^ | April , 2013 | Pierre Dumont

Posted on 04/02/2013 1:36:33 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Italian archaeologists have uncovered Pluto's Gate, the so-called "gate to hell," in southwestern Turkey.

In Greco-Roman mythology the cave was considered the portal to the underworld. It was found in the ancient ruins of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and was described by Cicero and the Greek geographer Strabo in their writings. According to Strabo, the opening was filled with deadly vapors.

"This space is full of vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death," Strabo wrote. "I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell...

(Excerpt) Read more at itechpost.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anatolia; ancient; godsgravesglyphs; greece; hell; pluto; turkey
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last
To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Mammoth Mountain is one hell of a big cinder dome!

You can see it clearly from the hills around Clayton almost any normal day.


21 posted on 04/02/2013 2:40:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: editor-surveyor

He lives at Hearst Castle?

;^)


22 posted on 04/02/2013 3:07:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Rio
Trees respire O2 just as animals do. The photosynthetic cycle using CO2 is in addition to that.


23 posted on 04/02/2013 3:14:57 PM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Rio

Not the roots, they take oxygen.


24 posted on 04/02/2013 3:22:14 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: dr_lew

They need Brawndo...It's Got Electrolytes!....It's what plants crave.

25 posted on 04/02/2013 3:23:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: editor-surveyor

Small service manholes for utilites are often death traps. Gases that push out breathable air and leave various non-breathable combinations in its place often seap in or collect in manholes from the earth or connected utilities.

Before the more restrictive rules on “confined space entry” utility workers of utility company people died quite often from just ducking down into a manhole to close a valve or take a measurement. I think Delphi had something similar.

When they collapse into the bottom of the hole, without a harness and a rescue tripod, there is often no way to get them out without ventalating the hole to a safe degree and then someone else entering the space to get them hoisted out.

In th case of this spot, a natural vent of such gas was noted and marked for a whole era in history — quite interesting.


26 posted on 04/02/2013 3:34:42 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: stayathomemom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_nyos


27 posted on 04/02/2013 3:42:45 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: KC Burke

Sanitary sewer systems make H2S, and CH4 in abundance, so any manhole is a potential death trap, but volcanic vents are not so easily recognized.


28 posted on 04/02/2013 4:25:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: KC Burke

There was an old well on my grandfather’s farm. They would tell about when the whole community of women would gather there to wash their clothes. Over the years it showed signs of needing to be cleaned out. A man went down to clean it out and he came up dead. The well had filled with gas. I remember my grandfather constantly telling us kids to stay away from that well, which was by then surrounded by woods. I was fascinated by it and I’m sure I tried to get as close as I could without falling in.


29 posted on 04/02/2013 5:22:51 PM PDT by WVNan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Beowulf9
 photo MontyPythonKillerRabbit_zps4618f6d8.jpg
30 posted on 04/02/2013 5:31:53 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WVNan

> “A man went down to clean it out and he came up dead.”<

If I was dead, I wouldn’t even bother to come up.


31 posted on 04/02/2013 6:01:00 PM PDT by GJones2 (Dangerous underground gases)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: NYer; a fool in paradise

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks NYer and a fool in paradise. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


32 posted on 04/02/2013 8:09:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Beowulf9

“To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘I know your works, and where you dwell... where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to my name, and did not deny my faith even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.’” Revelation 2:12
(it is in modern-day Turkey)


33 posted on 04/02/2013 10:06:19 PM PDT by beefree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: stayathomemom

Lake Nyos, Cameroon: carbon dioxide killed 1700 people in 1986.


34 posted on 04/02/2013 10:12:02 PM PDT by beefree
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: GJones2

I just knew I would get that observation. The other men let him down on a rope and pulled him back up shortly thereafter. LOL


35 posted on 04/03/2013 10:12:49 PM PDT by WVNan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: WVNan

I couldn’t resist. :-)


36 posted on 04/04/2013 7:39:24 PM PDT by GJones2 (Dangerous underground gases)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson