crushing stones of argofic commerce

The Clashing Rocks In thanks, Phineus informed the Argonauts of a danger just ahead on the route to the Golden Fleece - two rocks called the Symplegades, which crashed together upon any ship passing between them. The king even suggested a mechanism by which one might avoid the effects of these Clashing Rocks. If a bird could be induced to pass between the crags first, causing them to clash together, the Argo could follow quickly behind, passing through safely before they were ready to snap shut again. By means of this device, Jason caused the rocks to spring together prematurely, nipping only the tail feathers of the bird. The Argo was able to pass between them relatively unscathed. Only her very stern was splintered. from http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/jason/jason04.html here the trwo stones could be equated to a womb, a passage that could crush a bird or a ship full of seamen. However, the stones seem more a human made defence to keep ships from entering the other body of water. By using the bird to trigger the trap the ship following after would have extra time to pass through as the rocks needed to be reset before veing able to clash again. The end of this tail is the tails of both the bbird and argos being nipped. this represents an end, iy also represent that the argos could go as fast as a bird. to pass the passage one lost a tip of the hib that housed the Hellenist coven. THis ended the tail and closed teh trap forever, Jason conquesr the nation using the trap or vopens the way through an old system with traps that crush anyone not fast as a bird or at that symbolic hieght as was teh heroes of teh argos Jasons journey and teh rite of the passage through teh stones was forever made easier as teh stones were crushed together and teh system destyroued. mow of both stones represent two peoples and they crushed travellers even with taxes as they passed, crushing the stones permanetly together is unidieng these peoples peacefully into one people and ending the fighting that was crushing travel and commerce.