Originally posted by abhilegendThats like watching me pick up a motorcycle by its front tire and lift it above my head, and then saying that I only lifted a tire.
So, he wasn't lifting the heavens, he was lifting Axis Mundi.
The bio you posted says that Atlas bore “heaven’s weight upon his shoulders” and that Hercules briefly took on Atlas’ “celestial burden.” So, Hercules bore the heavens. You have to be ignoring those words to read it any other way.