Antaeus

Antaeus was a mythical giant in Greek mythology. He is also known as a 'terræ filius' or son of the earth. Poseidon the god of the sea, water, earthquake, and horses was his father. He compelled all who happened to meet him to wrestle with him and then used to overcome and kill them. There was a secret about him. He was strong only when his foot was on the earth, lifted in air he became weak as water, a weakness which Hercules discovered to his discomfiture when wrestling with him and ultimately defeated. The fable has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests his faith on the immediate fact of things.

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