Symplegades

The Symplegades, or ‘Clashing Rocks’, situated at the Bosporus, are known in Greek mythology as one of the challenges encountered by Jason and the Argonauts. Pindar describes Jason’s journey to the ‘Inhospitable Sea’ (Black Sea) via the Clashing Rocks ^[1787.61].

Rosario Vieni has suggested the Symplegades were precursors of the Pillars of Heracles. John Lundwall in Mythos and Cosmos ^[1747.305-6] also suggests a linkage between the Symplegades and the Pillars of Herakles!^(a)

According to Atlantisforschung, Christine Pellech suggested that the Symplegades, was a reference to the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America^(b)!<

^(a) https://www.quora.com/Where-are-the-pillars-of-Hercules  (just over halfway down the page)

^(b) Symplegaden – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)