< Maceris >

1 Origin

In 1450 BC, Maceris was born in the Nile Delta of Egypt.

Maceris was called Egyptian Heracles or Phoenician Heracles.

Due to the time of his activity and his connection to Egypt and Phoenicia, he is presumed to be the brother of Phoenix, son of Agenor.

2 Family

Maceris had a son, Sardus.

3 Life

Maceris emigrated from Egypt to Phoenicia with Agenor.

At that time there lived in Tire Astynous, son of Phaethon, son of Tithonus, son of Cephalus, son of Herse, daughter of Cecrops, first king of Athens.

Later, Sandocus, son of Astynous, founded Celenderis in Cilicia Tracheia.

Maceris is presumed to have learned navigation from the clan of Astynous in Tyre.

Maceris then learned celestial knowledge from Actis (or Auges, Atlas) at Heliopolis in Egypt.

Actis, son of Rhodos, was one of the Heliadae of Rhodes and the founder of Heliopolis in Egypt.

Maceris, who incorporated knowledge of the celestial bodies into navigation, was a god-like being to the Phoenicians, a sea people. Maceris was called Egyptian Heracles or Phoenician Heracles.

In addition to Tyre, Heracles' sanctuaries and temples were located in Tartessus on the Iberian Peninsula, Canopus in Egypt, and on Thasos.

The 2nd century historian Arrian considered the Heracles worshiped at Tartessus to be the same as the Heracles of Tyre.

Phoenix, the son of Agenor, lived in Tire, and Thasus, the son of Cillix, the son of Agenor, lived on Thasos.

Maceris founded Heracleia (later Calpe, modern near Algeciras) in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, where he died.

Near Heracleia was the northern pillar (Mount Calpe) of the Pillars of Heracles.