Hellenic mythic site----------------------------------------identification

Hellenic mythic site-----------------------------identification

Hyperborea: according to Herodotos, islands reached by travelling eastward from Skythia (Ukraine) to the sea (Pacific). There, according to Diodoros Sikelos, a telescope is in use	Nippon / Japan: there, the Omoto and related sects regard the telescope as sacred, and use it for religious purposes
Borea: the land which Huperborea is to the north of	Taiwan / Formosa
Hellas (in mythology): the islands(+ mainland) which Boreas is to the north of	Indonesia + Australia

Io, peregrination of-----------------------------place-name identification

lake of LERna	lake of Chapala, fed by river LERma
crossing of the Bousphoros	Panama`
founding of Iopolis on the river ORoNTes	ARgeNTina: Ri`o Plata

Perseus, peregrination of----------------------place-name identification

*Seriphos (TeRiBho-) I.**	anTsiRaBe, Madagascar
kibisis (Skt. S`iBi-)	StellenBoSch, Cape of Good Hope
MEDOusa	MontsErraDO (Monrovia), Liberia
AndroMeDe at ASKalon	new AMsterDam: ESSeQUibo river

Heraklees, labors of---------------------------- place-name identification

*Emathion (EMaDhyon)**	MolDE, Norway
*Kaukasos (KAUKADhYo-)**	COntinental (CAnaDIan) shield
ATLa[nT]-s	TLiniT of ALexander archip., Alaska
LaDoN the dragon	ALDaN river, Siberia
"golden apple" orchard of the Hesperides	peach-orchard of Chinese

Argonautike--------------------------------------place-name identification

LemNos I.	Sandwich Is.: LahaiNa, Maui
Samothraike I.	Aleut Is.
the Doliones	Alaska penin.
the Bebrukes	Olympic penin.
*Phineus (BhINu-) & the Seirenes (TeiRan-)*	BurlINgame & TReasure I., San Francisco bay
the Symplegades: clashing rocks which closed together	the Gatun locks in the Panama` canal, which can be closed
the Mariandunoi	Zelaya
*Sinope (TiNo ...)**	TurNeFFe I., Belize
Thermodon river of the AMAzoNes	UsuMAciNta river
*Irid-s (WIRID- = Latin VIRIDis "green") river**	VERDe ("green") river, tributary to the Pa`nuco
Phasis river of KOlKHIs	Ri`o Grande nigh COrpus CHrIsti
IStros rivers, greater & lesser, interconnected	MissISSippi river & Chicago river, interconnected by canal
Tritonis lake: ruled by TRITon , builder of tripods which moved along the ground on their own	the Great Lakes: DeTRoIT, place of factories wherein automobiles are assembled
Krete	Ireland
Anaphe	Britain

Odusseis-------------------------------------------place-name identification

the Lotophagoi	Myanmar / Burma
Poluphemos	Od.ivis`a (Orissa)
Aiolos I.	Sim.hala (Ceylon) I.
narrow-entranced harbor of the LAistRugones	strait of Hormuz, entrance to the Persian gulf: LARistan
Aiaia of Kirke	Soqot.ra
land of the Kimmerioi	Tanganyika / Tan-zania
Skulle	bab al-Mandib
Kharubdis	Suez
Ogugia of KalUPso	KUPros (Cyprus)
Skheria	Kandia
petrified ship	Guados (Gozo)
cave of the Numphai	Melite (Malta)

The Odusseis, in asserting that Ithake is farthest out to sea of the Ionian islands, would suggest identification with Melite. It would seem that the Iliad would have been taken as a description of the occupation, by the Peoples of the Sea (= Italians), of the countries [in Hesperia / Hispania] of the ILergetes and the ILercaones, until ILion became identified as Kestrine of the ILLures (Albania).