Pluto's Gate Uncovered in Turkey, page 1

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Topic started on 1-4-2013 @ 08:53 AM by hp1229

Yet another interesting discovery. Pretty interesting to know that only the eunuchs and cybele were able to enter the gate without any damage to their health due to 'menomation' and 'divine providence'. Not sure much truth it holds.

A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced.

Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition.

Historic sources located the site in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and described the opening as filled with lethal mephitic vapors...
According to D'Andria, the site was a famous destination for rites of incubation. Pilgrims took the waters in the pool near the temple, slept not too far from the cave and received visions and prophecies, in a sort of oracle of Delphi effect. Indeed, the fumes coming from the depths of Hierapoli's phreatic groundwater produced hallucinations.

“This is an exceptional discovery as it confirms and clarifies the information we have from the ancient literary and historic sources,” Alister Filippini, a researcher in Roman history at the Universities of Palermo, Italy, and Cologne, Germany, told Discovery News.

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reply posted on 1-4-2013 @ 09:15 AM by NorthBlizzard

Like a movie in the making. Now all we need is some cocky scientist to open it and unleash hell upon earth.

reply posted on 1-4-2013 @ 01:21 PM by RooskiZombi

Interesting thread! Though I wonder if it really was some sort of "portal" or if it was all those hallucinations