Adamastor
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Adamastor is a mythological character created by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões in his epic poem Os Lusíadas (first printed in 1572), as a personification of the Cape of Good Hope, symbolizing the dangers of the sea and the formidable forces of nature challenged and ultimately overcome by the Portuguese during the Age of Discovery. Adamastor manifests itself out of a storm.
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- "Death with Interruptions" by José SaramagoThe Year Of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José SaramagoThe First Life of Adamastor by André Brink''L'Africaine (1865 opera)Essai sur la poésie épique by VoltaireLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Poésies et Lettres, by Comte de Lautréamont, Mensagem'', by Fernando Pessoa
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- Adamastor
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- Os Lusíadas
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- Adamastor no alto de Santa Catarina 1980.JPG
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- 250px
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- Adamastor no alto de Santa Catarina
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- Statue of Adamastor by Júlio Vaz Júnior, unveiled in 1927 at the Santa Catarina viewpoint, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Luís de Camões
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- Description
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- Greek-type mythological character
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Adamastor is a mythological character created by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões in his epic poem Os Lusíadas (first printed in 1572), as a personification of the Cape of Good Hope, symbolizing the dangers of the sea and the formidable forces of nature challenged and ultimately overcome by the Portuguese during the Age of Discovery. Adamastor manifests itself out of a storm.
==Background== Camões gave his creation a backstory as one of the Giants of Greek mythology, banished to the Cape of Good Hope by sea goddess Doris for falling in love with her daughter Tethis, now appearing out of a storm cloud and threatening to ruin anyone hardy enough to attempt passing the Cape and penetrate the Indian Ocean, which was Adamastor's domain. Adamastor became the spirit of the Cape of Good Hope, a hideous phantom of unearthly pallor: