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Greek mythology · titan · endurance, the burden of the sky

The Titan condemned after the Titanomachy to hold up the sky at the world's western edge. Heracles briefly shouldered the burden for him, and tricked him into taking it back.

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The Apples of the Hesperides

For the eleventh labor Heracles must fetch golden apples no mortal may pick. He frees Prometheus from his eagle for directions, then holds up the sky while Atlas fetches the fruit; when the Titan is slow to take the burden back, Heracles tricks him into it and walks away.