I researched this several years ago when I wrote my first draft of Chapter 22. Fascinating to revisit. How did mortals build Minyas’s treasury? Pausanias doesn’t say. Some latter-day mystics claim that those megalithic stones were moved by sound. And what became of the Treasury of Minyas? Did it ever exist and could the ruins be somewhere on the floor of the
14 February, 2012
THE TREASURY OF MINYAS
MYTHS, Chapter 22 of
28: Today I write about a monument that was built for Minyas, king of Orchomenus, first
Human after Deucalion’s Flood to build a stone city; first to die of natural
causes before his father did. Pausanias, 2nd Century A.D. travelogue writer,
described the monument, he called it a Treasury “not less wonderful than
the Pyramids.”
I researched this several years ago when I wrote my first draft of Chapter 22. Fascinating to revisit. How did mortals build Minyas’s treasury? Pausanias doesn’t say. Some latter-day mystics claim that those megalithic stones were moved by sound. And what became of the Treasury of Minyas? Did it ever exist and could the ruins be somewhere on the floor of theAegean Sea ? I
don’t have to say. I am not a mystic.
I researched this several years ago when I wrote my first draft of Chapter 22. Fascinating to revisit. How did mortals build Minyas’s treasury? Pausanias doesn’t say. Some latter-day mystics claim that those megalithic stones were moved by sound. And what became of the Treasury of Minyas? Did it ever exist and could the ruins be somewhere on the floor of the
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