Gargoris

Gargoris

Gargoris

Legendary king of Tartessos

Gargoris was a mythical king of the Cynetes, considered part of the people of Tartessos,[1] and, according to legend, the inventor of beekeeping.

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He exiled his own son, Habis, who was adopted by a female deer and saved from the sea, and who later inherited the kingdom.

References

  1. [1]
    Junta de Andalucía (ed.). "Legend of Gargoris and Habis" (PDF) (in Spanish). Andalucía: Centres TIC. Retrieved 2016-03-05.

Further reading

  • Carolina López-Ruiz. "Gargoris and Habis: A Tartessic Myth of Ancient Iberia and the Traces of Phoenician Euhemerism." Phoenix 71, no. 3/4 (2017): 265-87. Accessed June 29, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.7834/phoenix.71.3-4.0265.
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