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...
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Mammoth Mountain is one hell of a big cinder dome!
You can see it clearly from the hills around Clayton almost any normal day.
He lives at Hearst Castle?
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Not the roots, they take oxygen.
They need Brawndo...It's Got Electrolytes!....It's what plants crave.
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.
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.
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.
> “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.
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“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)
Lake Nyos, Cameroon: carbon dioxide killed 1700 people in 1986.
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
I couldn’t resist. :-)
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