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A metallic allegorical figure whose tears feed the rivers of hell and whose bodily composition encodes civilizational decline.
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old man of Crete
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...devastated land lies in mid -sea, a land that is called Crete, he answered me. Under its king the world once lived chastely. Within..."
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The old man of Crete allegorically generates hell's rivers through tears that drip from cracks in the metallic body and become Acheron, Styx, Phlegethon, and later Cocytus.
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"...devastated land lies in mid -sea, a land that is called Crete, he answered me. Under its king the world once lived chastely. Within..."
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"But it is withered now, like some old thing. It once was chosen as a trusted cradle for Rhea, for her son. To hide..."
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"...of above the cracked abyss. There lay outstretched the infamy of Crete, conceived within the counterfeited cow, and catching sight of us, he bit..."
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"...the Mediterranean. And over here are the islands of Cyprus and Crete. And then over here is the Mediterranean. And over here is a..."
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"Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze,..."
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