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In Greek mythology, Omphale was a daughter of the river Iardanus and queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; according to Bibliotheke she was the queen of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain of Lydia; after he was gored to death by a bull, she continued to reign on her own. The Greeks did not recognize her as a goddess. 

Heracles and Omphale 

In one of many variations on this theme, as penalty for his murder of Iphitus, the great hero Heracles was, by the Oracle's command, sold as a slave to Omphale for a time. There are many late references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles' olive-wood club. Unfortunately no full early account survives, to supplement the vase-paintings. 

But it was also during his stay in Lydia that Heracles enslaved the Itones, killed Syleus who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard, and captured the Cercopes. 

In some tellings Omphale freed Heracles and took him as her husband. 

Omphale's name, derived from Omphalos, a Greek word meaning Navel (or axis), may represent a significant Lydian earth goddess. Herakles' servitude thus may represent the servitude of the sun to the axis of the celestial sphere, the spinners being Lydian versions of the Moirae. Most earth goddess religions contained a priesthood which wore women's clothing, was effeminate, or involved eunuchs. The priest of Herakles, curiously, also wore female clothing, and this myth may represent an attempt to explain the fact. 
 

 
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