{"id":6184,"date":"2013-01-02T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2013-01-02T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:35:43","slug":"another-source-for-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/another-source-for-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Another source for Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing the <em>Economist<\/em>&#8216;s Xmas issue I came across an unlikely-but-excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/christmas\/21568590-hundreds-years-hell-has-been-most-fearful-place-human-imagination-it\">article on Hell<\/a>.  Thanks to this article I also found a nugget that sounds very similar to the ending of <em>At The Mountains of Madness<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Trojan hero Aeneas in Virgil&#8217;s <em>Aeneid<\/em> toured Hades [Hell], with difficulty enough, and [while there] he merely glanced towards Tartarus [the prison of the defeated gods], glimpsing a high cliff with a castle below it surrounded by a torrent of flame. That single sighting fixed him to the spot in terror.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very similar to Danforth&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/04\/06\/what-does-danforth-see-at-the-end-of-mountains\/\">final backward glance<\/a> (in which he presumably glimpses Kadath), I thought.  As far as I can tell, no-one&#8217;s spotted this possible source before.  It suggests there may be further links between the <em>Aeneid<\/em> and <em>Mountains<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing the Economist&#8216;s Xmas issue I came across an unlikely-but-excellent article on Hell. Thanks to this article I also &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/another-source-for-mountains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}