Noah divided the earth among his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. […] Then Tartarus, the tremendous prison, surrounded by three massy walls, having three gates of solid brass, round which the flaming Phlegethon rolls his waves of fire, and Cocytus extends his stagnant marsh. […] The Fates are represented as three women bending under the weight of years. […] He slew Geryon, king of Spain, a cruel giant with three bodies. […] The pyramids of Egypt, three of which still remain to astonish mankind.