Κυνηγημένος, γύρισε σε αρκετές χώρες και κέρδισε τον επιούσιο, επιδεικνύοντας την δύναμή του. Η περιπλάνησή, τον οδήγησε στο μακρινό Μοντεβιδέο της Λατινικής Αμερικής. Εκεί, έγινε παλαιστής και άρχισε να χτίζει τη φήμη του. Μετά τις πρώτες νίκες, το όνομά του έγινε συνώνυμο της δύναμης. Οι συγγραφείς της εποχής, παρουσίαζαν έναν υπεράνθρωπο, που πάλευε σε όλο τον κόσμο, με τους πιο απίθανους αντιπάλους και έκανε επιδείξεις μυϊκής δύναμης, που παρόμοιες δεν είχαν ξαναδεί τα μάτια τους. Τα κατορθώματά του έμοιαζαν απίστευτα. Μετακινούσε τεράστιες πέτρες και πάλευε με άγρια ζώα. Ξάπλωνε στο έδαφος, του έβαζαν πάνω στο στομάχι βράχους και τους έσπαγαν με βαριοπούλες, χωρίς να τραυματίζεται. Στις εμφανίσεις του, φορούσε πάντα το δέρμα μιας τίγρης,που είχε σκοτώσει μόνος του. Ωστόσο, κανείς δε γνωρίζει που σταματάει η υπερβολή και που αρχίζει η πραγματικότητα. Ο Κωστής ο Παλαμάς, ο ποιητής, σε ένα από τα διηγήματά του, αναφέρει την συνάντησή του με τον Κουταλιανό στην Αθήνα. Τότε που ήταν γνωστός από την Ινδία μέχρι την Αμερική. Μιλάμε για το 1880 περίπου. Ο μύθος τον ακολουθούσε, ακόμα και στο θάνατο του. Η αλήθεια δεν έγινε ποτέ γνωστή. Κάποιοι υποστήριξαν πως πνίγηκε, καθώς ψάρευε στο Μυριόφιτο της Ανατολικής Θράκης, ενώ άλλοι είπαν ότι πέθανε γύρω στα 80 του χρόνια, από γάγγραινα. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, έμεινε στην ιστορία, ως ο πιο δυνατός άνθρωπος της εποχής του!
Σημαντική προσωπικότητα απετέλεσε και για τους απογόνους των προσφύγων της Κούταλης, οι οποίοι κατάφεραν να ιδρύσουν ένα χωριό με την ονομασία ''Νέα Κούταλη'' στη Λήμνο! Είχαν ως συνοδοιπόρο και εμψυχωτή τον Παναγή τον Κουταλιανό! Ο θρύλος αυτός με την υπερφυσική δύναμή του έδωσε δύναμη στους ταλαιπωρημένους ανθρώπους να κάνουν μια νέα αρχή και τα κατάφεραν! Οικοδόμησαν ένα καινούργιο ''τόπο'' πάνω στα χνάρια της χαμένης Πατρίδας τους. Όμως ποτέ δε ξέχασαν τον ''υπεράνθρωπο'' - στο σώμα και στη ψυχή - Παναγή Κουταλιανό (Καλιοντζή). Έκλεισαν σε μουσείο, που έφτιαξαν οι ίδιοι, την ουσία και αξία των προγόνων τους, που ζόυσαν στην Προποντίδα. Η εξερεύνηση της θάλασσας και του βυθού (σπογγαλιεία) είναι το ένα (ουσία) και η αναφορά στο μεγάλο Θρύλο Κουταλιανό είναι το άλλο κομμάτι (αξία) του μουσείου αυτού!
Το όνομά του είχε γίνει θρύλος για ολόκληρο τον Ελληνισμό σε κάθε γωνιά της γης. Η ''θεϊκή'' δύναμή του ενέπνευσε πολλούς ποιητές και μη, ν'αποτυπώσουν στο χαρτί με στίχους τους ακατόρθωτους άθλους του!
Ο Φώτης Κόντογλου έγραψε γα τον Κουταλιανό:
"Μου φαίνεται πως κανένα όνομα δεν έδεσε τους έλληνες μεταξύ τους ύστερα από τον Κωνσταντίνο Παλαιολόγο όσο ο Κουταλιανός.Γιατί είχε μεγάλη σημασία για μια φυλή ρημαγμένη και φτωχιά, σκόρπια σε κάθε μέρος του κόσμου, βασανισμένη και πολλές φορές στερημένη και πεινασμένη, να βγάλει τον πιο χειροδύναμο άνθρωπο της οικουμένης που έβαζε κάτω όλους τους παλληκαράδες που βγήκανε από έθνη πλούσια, δυνατά και καλοπερασμένα."
Βέβαια το πιο γνωστό τραγούδι που γράφτηκε για τον Κουταλιανό ήταν αυτό του Λευτέρη Παπαδόπουλου με τη μουσική του Μάνου Λοϊζου.
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού γράφτηκαν σε καφενείο της Νέας Κούταλης και στη θέα (όπως λέγεται) ενός μεθυσμένου Κουταλιανού που... "τις έτρωγε" από τη γυναίκα του. Οι στίχοι είναι οι εξής:
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού γράφτηκαν σε καφενείο της Νέας Κούταλης και στη θέα (όπως λέγεται) ενός μεθυσμένου Κουταλιανού που... "τις έτρωγε" από τη γυναίκα του. Οι στίχοι είναι οι εξής:
Σίδερα μασάει
ο Κουταλιανός
τραίνα σταματάει
ο Κουταλιανός
πέτρες ροκανίζει
ο Κουταλιανός
και βουνά γκρεμίζει
ο Κουταλιανός
Κι αν μασάει σίδερα
και κάνει το λιοντάρι
στο τσαρδί του ο Κουταλιανός
τρέμει σαν το ψάρι
στην κυρά του μπρός
αχ πως τη φοβάται
ο φτωχός Κουταλιανός
τρέμει σαν το ψάρι
στην κυρά του μπρός
αλλά μην το πήτε κανενός...
PANAGIS KOUTALIANOS
Panagis Koutalianos was born in 1853 in Koutali, a village in Propontis. According to oral tradition, shortly before leaving his village, he tore up a Turk in two because he stole his clothes while he was bathing in the river. Chased away, he wandered in several countries and earned his daily bread, by demonstrating his strength. The wandering led him to the distant Montevideo of Latin America. There, he became a wrestler and began to build his reputation. After his first victories, his name became synonymous with power. The writers of the time, presented him as a superman, who fought around the world, with the most incredible opponents and made demonstrations of his muscular strength, which similar they had never seen before. His achievements seemed incredible. He moved huge stones and fought with wild animals. While laying on the ground, they put rocks on his stomach and broke them with sledgehammers, without him being injured. At appearances, he always wore the skin of a tiger, which he had killed himself. However, nobody knows where the exaggeration stops and where reality begins. Kostis Palamas, the poet, in one of his short stories, wrote about his meeting with Koutaliano in Athens. He was then known from India to America. We are talking about around 1880. The myth followed him, even in death. The truth was never known. Some claimed he drowned while fishing in Myriofito of Eastern Thrace, while others said he died around 80 years old of gangrene. In all cases, he remained in history as the most powerful man of his time! He was an important personality for his descendants refugees of Koutali, who manages to set up a new village called “Nea Koutali” in Limnos! They had Panagi the Koutalian as a fellow traveler and animator. His legend with his supernatural strength gave strength to the weary people to make a new beginning and they made it! They built a new home on the footsteps of their lost homeland. But they never forgot the “Superman”-in body and soul- Panagi Koutaliano(Kaliontzi). They closed in a museum, which they built themselves, the essence and value of their ancestors, who lived in Propontis. The exploration of the sea and seabed (sponge diving)-essence- and the reference to the great Legend Koutaliano-value- are parts of this museum. His name had become a legend for the entire Hellenic community in every corner of the world. His “divine” power has inspired many poets and non to print on paper lyrics of his impossible feats! Fotis Kontoglou wrote about Koutaliano: “It seems to me that no name has tied the Greeks together, after Constantine Palaeologus as Koutalianos. Because it was important for a race torn and poor, scattered in every part of the world, tortured and often deprived and hungry, to have the strongest man of the world, who put down all men that came from nations rich, powerful and well-do.” Of course the most famous song written for Koutaliano was this of Lefteri Papadopoulo with music by Mano Loizo. The lyrics of the song were written in a kafenio (traditional café) in Nea Koutali, in the sight (as said) of a drunk Koutalian who was … beaten by his wife! The lyrics go as followed: Irons he chews Koutalianos trains he stops Koutalianos stones he gnaws Koutalianos And he tears down mountains Koutalianos and though he chews iron and makes to the lion in his sack Koutalianos he trembles like a fish in his lady’s sight oh, how he fears poor Koutalianos trembles like a fish in his lady’s sight but do not tell anyone…
Panagis Koutalianos was born in 1853 in Koutali, a village in Propontis. According to oral tradition, shortly before leaving his village, he tore up a Turk in two because he stole his clothes while he was bathing in the river. Chased away, he wandered in several countries and earned his daily bread, by demonstrating his strength. The wandering led him to the distant Montevideo of Latin America. There, he became a wrestler and began to build his reputation. After his first victories, his name became synonymous with power. The writers of the time, presented him as a superman, who fought around the world, with the most incredible opponents and made demonstrations of his muscular strength, which similar they had never seen before. His achievements seemed incredible. He moved huge stones and fought with wild animals. While laying on the ground, they put rocks on his stomach and broke them with sledgehammers, without him being injured. At appearances, he always wore the skin of a tiger, which he had killed himself. However, nobody knows where the exaggeration stops and where reality begins. Kostis Palamas, the poet, in one of his short stories, wrote about his meeting with Koutaliano in Athens. He was then known from India to America. We are talking about around 1880. The myth followed him, even in death. The truth was never known. Some claimed he drowned while fishing in Myriofito of Eastern Thrace, while others said he died around 80 years old of gangrene. In all cases, he remained in history as the most powerful man of his time! He was an important personality for his descendants refugees of Koutali, who manages to set up a new village called “Nea Koutali” in Limnos! They had Panagi the Koutalian as a fellow traveler and animator. His legend with his supernatural strength gave strength to the weary people to make a new beginning and they made it! They built a new home on the footsteps of their lost homeland. But they never forgot the “Superman”-in body and soul- Panagi Koutaliano(Kaliontzi). They closed in a museum, which they built themselves, the essence and value of their ancestors, who lived in Propontis. The exploration of the sea and seabed (sponge diving)-essence- and the reference to the great Legend Koutaliano-value- are parts of this museum. His name had become a legend for the entire Hellenic community in every corner of the world. His “divine” power has inspired many poets and non to print on paper lyrics of his impossible feats! Fotis Kontoglou wrote about Koutaliano: “It seems to me that no name has tied the Greeks together, after Constantine Palaeologus as Koutalianos. Because it was important for a race torn and poor, scattered in every part of the world, tortured and often deprived and hungry, to have the strongest man of the world, who put down all men that came from nations rich, powerful and well-do.” Of course the most famous song written for Koutaliano was this of Lefteri Papadopoulo with music by Mano Loizo. The lyrics of the song were written in a kafenio (traditional café) in Nea Koutali, in the sight (as said) of a drunk Koutalian who was … beaten by his wife! The lyrics go as followed: Irons he chews Koutalianos trains he stops Koutalianos stones he gnaws Koutalianos And he tears down mountains Koutalianos and though he chews iron and makes to the lion in his sack Koutalianos he trembles like a fish in his lady’s sight oh, how he fears poor Koutalianos trembles like a fish in his lady’s sight but do not tell anyone…
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