On Thursday October 5th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon joined by Frater Soun, Magister of Ubar Lodge in Dallas, will air a discussion on the evolution of thethe Solar Hero in mythology from the Sumerian Gilgamesh who was the model for the Phoenician Melqart, who in turninspired the Greek Heracles. Gilgamesh is a four thousand year old epic adventure story which circulated throughout thewhole Middle East with copies found among the Hittites and theCanaanites. Even as Ishtar and Tammuz were translatedinto Astarte and Ba'al, and subsequently became Aphrodite and Adonis.Gilgamesh like Hercules slays a lion, a bull, agiant and many-headed monster. His victories and Hercules' labours are seen as representing the sun's yearly progressthrough the signs of the Zodiac. So tune in and we'll go back to the days of myth and legend and make our way through"The Circle of the Beasts" as the Zodiac was originally called.