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A nice place, indeed ...
https://youtu.be/r93UaW_jAwE
https://youtu.be/-MvMoAqGyzU
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crack ... d-2.036561

I remember, that there should be a similar "crackpot cave" situation at the river Ladonas in Greece, which is somehow in Greek mythology the father of Daphne.
https://youtu.be/-8HHwGyhmRg
Another myth connected to river Ladonas is the forced sexual interaction between Demeter and Poseidon, which led to the birth of Despoina with the horse head and the horse Arion and to a furious mother Demeter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despoina
Thelpusa or Thelpousa (Ancient Greek: Θέλπουσα), or Telphusa or Telphousa (Τέλφουσα), was a town in the west of ancient Arcadia, situated upon the left or eastern bank of the river Ladon. Its territory was bounded on the north by that of Psophis, on the south by that of Heraea, on the west by the Eleia and Tisatis, and on the east by that of Cleitor, Tripolis, and Theisoa. The town is said to have derived its name from a nymph, the daughter of the Ladon, which nymph was probably the stream flowing through the lower part of the town into the Ladon.
It is first mentioned in history in 352 BCE, when the Lacedaemonians were defeated in its neighbourhood by the Thebans.[1] In 222 BCE, it was taken by Antigonus Doson, in the war against Cleomenes III, and it is also mentioned in the campaigns of Philip V of Macedon.[2][3][4] Its coins show that it belonged to the Achaean League. When Pausanias visited Thelpusa in the second century, the city was nearly deserted, so that the agora, which was formerly in the centre of the city, then stood at its extremity. He saw a temple of Asclepius, and another of the twelve gods of Olympus, of which the latter was nearly leveled with the ground.[5] Pausanias also mentions two temples of some celebrity in the neighbourhood of Thelpusa, one above and the other below the city. The one above was the temple of Demeter Eleusinia, containing statues of Demeter, Persephone and Dionysus, made of stone.[6] The temple below the city was also sacred to Demeter, whom the Thelpusians called Erinys (Fury). This temple is alluded to by Lycophron[7] and Callimachus.[8] It was situated at a place called Onceium, where Oncus, the son of Apollo, is said once to have reigned.[9][10] Below this temple stood the temple of Apollo Oncaeates, on the left bank of the Ladon, and on the right bank that of the boy Asclepius, with the sepulchre of Trygon, said to have been the nurse of Asclepius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelpusa
In Greek mythology, Oncius (Ancient Greek: Ὅγκιος Onkios) or Oncus (Ὅγκος Onkos) was a son of Apollo and a ruler over Onceium (Onkeion), a region of Arcadia adjacent to Thelpusa,[1][2] as well as eponym of a city Oncae.[3] He owned a herd of horses, in which Demeter tried to hide from Poseidon's advances, changing herself into a mare. Poseidon did mate with her in the shape of a stallion, which resulted in the birth of the fantastic horse Arion. Oncius kept Arion and later gave him away to Heracles as the latter was starting a military campaign against Elis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncius
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The turtle-dove appears in the Marziano deck as a suit sign.

Trygon in Thelphusa
(Τρυγών/Trygṓn, 'turtle-dove'). Nurse of Asclepius. According to Paus. 8,25,11 her grave was at his sanctuary in Thelphusa in Arcadia. According to Arcadian legends Antolaus, son of Arcas, handed the exposed Asclepius over to Trygon. The name suggests that Asclepius was fed by a dove; according to other versions of the legend Asclepius is suckled by a goat and guarded by a dog.
https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ ... n-e1221850

Thelphusa seems to be the name of a nymph of a river, which feeds the river Ladon at the location "Thelphusa". As already quoted:
The town is said to have derived its name from a nymph, the daughter of the Ladon, which nymph was probably the stream flowing through the lower part of the town into the Ladon.
Possibly the river-nymph Thelphusa was the original Daphne before Daphne decided to become a Daphne (Daphne = name of the laurel tree).

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Pausanias about Thelpusa

https://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8B.html#11
TROPAEA & CAUS
[8.25.1] XXV. As you go from Psophis to Thelpusa you first reach on the left of the Ladon a place called Tropaea, adjoining which is a grove, Aphrodisium. Thirdly, there is ancient writing on a slab:– "The boundary between Psophis and Thelpusa.”

In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male). Cross this and go on for about twenty-five stades, when you will arrive at the ruins of the village Caus, with a sanctuary of Causian Asclepius, built on the road.

THELPUSA & ONCEIUM
[8.25.2] Thelpusa is some forty stades distant from this sanctuary. It is said that it was named after Thelpusa, a nymph, and that she was a daughter of Ladon. The Ladon rises in springs within the territory of Cleitor, as my account has already set forth. It flows first beside a place Leucasium and Mesoboa, through Nasi to Oryx, also called Halus, and from Halus it descends to Thaliades and a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter.

[8.25.3] This sanctuary is on the borders of Thelpusa. In it are images, each no less than seven feet high, of Demeter, her daughter, and Dionysus, all alike of stone. After the sanctuary of the Eleusinian goddess the Ladon flows by the city Thelpusa on the left, situated on a high hill, in modern times so deserted that the market-place, which is at the extremity of it, was originally, they say, right in the very middle of it. Thelpusa has a temple of Asclepius and a sanctuary of the twelve gods; the greater part of this, I found, lay level with the ground.

[8.25.4] After Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The Thelpusians call the goddess Fury, and with them agrees Antimachus also, who wrote a poem about the expedition of the Argives against Thebes. His verse runs thus:--

There, they say, is the seat of Demeter Fury. Antimachus, unknown location.

Now Oncius was, according to tradition, a son of Apollo, and held sway in Thelpusian territory around the place Oncium; the goddess has the surname Fury for the following reason.

[8.25.5] When Demeter was wandering in search of her daughter, she was followed, it is said, by Poseidon, who lusted after her. So she turned, the story runs, into a mare, and grazed with the mares of Oncius; realizing that he was outwitted, Poseidon too changed into a stallion and enjoyed Demeter.

[8.25.6] At first, they say, Demeter was angry at what had happened, but later on she laid aside her wrath and wished to bathe in the Ladon. So the goddess has obtained two surnames, Fury because of her avenging anger, because the Arcadians call being wrathful “being furious,” and Bather (Lusia) because she bathed in the Ladon. The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of Parian marble.

[8.25.7] The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high. Those who think the image to be Themis and not Demeter Lusia are, I would have them know, mistaken in their opinion. Demeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter, whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion. For this reason they say that they were the first Arcadians to call Poseidon Horse.

[8.25.8] They quote verses from the Iliad and from the Thebaid in confirmation of their story. In the Iliad there are verses about Areion himself:
Not even if he drive divine Areion behind,
The swift horse of Adrastus, who was of the race of the gods. Hom. Il. 23.346

In the Thebaid it is said that Adrastus fled from Thebes:

Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion. Thebaid, unknown location.

They will have it that the verses obscurely hint that Poseidon was father to Areion, but Antimachus says that Earth was his mother:

[8.25.9] Adrastus, son of Talaus, son of Cretheus,
The very first of the Danai to drive his famous horses,
Swift Caerus and Areion of Thelpusa,
Whom near the grove of Oncean Apollo
Earth herself sent up, a marvel for mortals to see. Antimachus, unknown location.

[8.25.10] But even though sprung from Earth the horse might be of divine lineage and the color of his hair might still be dark. Legend also has it that when Heracles was warring on Elis he asked Oncus for the horse, and was carried to battle on the back of Areion when he took Elis, but afterwards the horse was given to Adrastus by Heracles. Wherefore Antimachus says about Areion:

Adrastus was the third lord who tamed him. Antimachus, unknown location.

[8.25.11] The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the temple of Oncaeatian Apollo, and on the right a sanctuary of Boy Asclepius, where is the tomb of Trygon, who is said to have been the nurse of Asclepius. For the story is that Asclepius, when little, was exposed in Thelpusa, but was found by Autolaus, the illegitimate son of Arcas, who reared the baby, and for this reason Boy Asclepius . . . I thought more likely, as also I set forth in my account of Epidaurus.36

HERAEA & RIVER LADON
[8.25.12] There is a river Tuthoa, and it falls into the Ladon at the boundary between Thelpusa and Heraea, called Plain by the Arcadians. Where the Ladon itself falls into the Alpheius is an island called the Island of Crows. Those who have thought that Enispe, Stratia and Rhipe, mentioned by Homer,37 were once inhabited islands in the Ladon, cherish, I would tell them, a false belief.

[8.25.13] For the Ladon could never show islands even as large as a ferry-boat. As far as beauty is concerned, it is second to no river, either in Greece or in foreign lands, but it is not big enough to carry islands on its waters, as do the Danube and the Eridanus.
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Spring of Ladon ... translated from http://www.argolis.de/ladon_quelle.htm
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Mystisches Leuchten aus der Tiefe. In hellem Türkis strahlt die Quelle des Ladon-Flusses. Es leuchtet (!) ein, dass dieses Naturschauspiel die alten Griechen zum Fabulieren anregte. So ranken sich nicht wenige Geschichten um diesen mysteriösen Ort am Fuße des Helmos-Gebirges, an dem urplötzlich ein Fluss geboren wird. Pan soll hier der Nymphe Syrinx nachgestellt haben, die leider seine Liebe nicht erwiderte. Als sie den Ladon-Fluss erreichte und Pan schon dicht hinter ihr war, ließ sie sich von Artemis in ein Schilfrohr verwandeln, das Pan statt ihrer umarmte. Daraufhin soll er aus Wut das Schilfrohr in Stücke geschnitten haben - und erfunden war die Panflöte, die übrigens griechisch Syrinx heißt... Am Ladon-Fluss hat Herkules die Hirschkuh von Keryneia überwältigt, die Göttin Demeter wusch sich in der Ladon-Quelle rein, nachdem Poseidon sie geschwängert hatte.... Die Mythologie hält noch weitere Geschichten bereit.
Mehrere Kubikmeter pro Sekunde sprudelt die Quelle. Die Schüttung ist abhängig vom "Nachschub" aus den Bergen. Das durch Mineralien reflektierte Sonnenlicht verleiht dem Wasser die herrliche blaugrüne Farbe. Nebenbei ist es ein billiges Wasserwerk, denn hier wird auch direkt Trinkwasser entnommen. Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass künftig nicht noch mehr Wasser direkt an der Quelle abgezweigt wird, so dass der schöne Fluss vielleicht eines Tages kaum noch Wasser bekommt. Rund um die Quelle, die einen Durchmesser von ca. 20 Metern hat, gibt es einen befestigten Weg. Wann man den läuft, ist man überwältigt von der Schönheit des Augenblicks und muss zwangläufig immer wieder auf den Auslöser der Kamera drücken.
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Mystical glow from the depths. The source of the Ladon River shines in bright turquoise. It makes sense (!) that this natural spectacle inspired the ancient Greeks to fantasize. There are quite a few stories about this mysterious place at the foot of the Helmos Mountains, where a river is suddenly born. Pan is said to have stalked the nymph Syrinx, who unfortunately did not return his love. When she reached the Ladon River and Pan was already close behind her, she let Artemis turn her into a reed, embracing Pan instead of her. Thereupon he is said to have cut the reed into pieces out of anger - and invented the pan pipe, which by the way is called syrinx in Greek... Hercules overpowered the hind of Keryneia on the Ladon river, the goddess Demeter washed herself clean in the Ladon spring, after Poseidon had made her pregnant.... Mythology has other stories in store.
The spring bubbles up several cubic meters per second. The discharge depends on the "replenishment" from the mountains. Sunlight reflecting off minerals gives the water its gorgeous blue-green color. It is also a cheap waterworks, because drinking water is taken directly from here. It is to be hoped that in the future more water will not be diverted directly at the source, so that the beautiful river may one day hardly get any water. There is a paved path around the spring, which has a diameter of about 20 meters. When you run it, you are overwhelmed by the beauty of the moment and inevitably have to press the camera shutter button again and again.
Spring of Ladon at youtube ...
https://youtu.be/xXphAK6DuAI

River Ladon at youtube ....
https://youtu.be/7RyenF-bpnY

Spring of Ladon at Google map ...
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ladon ... 22.1822865
... but it seems, that there are 2 Ladon rvers, which finally run together.

Other river Ladon ...
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//37.665 ... m2!4m1!3e2

Where the 2 Ladon rivers run together ....
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/37.6581 ... m2!4m1!3e2
Huck
http://trionfi.com