Santorini Lodging Rooms & Apartments Association - ... that there is <strong>a myth about the volcanic genesis</strong> of Thera?

... that there is a myth about the volcanic genesis of Thera?

The volcanic genesis of Thira seems to be evoked in the myth of Euphemus, one of the Argonauts, who, on the instructions of the local god Triton, threw a lump of earth into the sea, north of Lake Tritonis (in Tunisia). This lump of earth was transformed into the island of Thira.

God Triton