Sea Peoples' Invasions, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, its Achaean allies, Lukka/Peleset, the Trojan War, Homer's Intentional Falsehood, and the Modern European Forgery 'Ancient Greece' (with 130 pictures & legends)
Содержание
Введение
I. Цивилизованный восточный мир и южно-балканская периферия
II. Хеттский имперский порядок и беспорядочные варвары Западной Анатолии, Южных Балкан, Крита и Анатолийского моря
III. Нашествия народов моря как определяющий исторический факт и Троянская война как бесполезная ложь
IV. Что скрывается за фальшивым термином «ахейский мир»?
V. Без глубокого понимания египетской, хеттской, анатолийской, ханаанской и месопотамской цивилизаций невозможно понять их отсталую периферию
VI. Почему исторические источники Диона Златоуста заслуживают доверия, а отговорки Гомера оказались отвлекающим маневром
VII. Абсолютное очернение позднеантичных греков древнеегипетским первосвященником как цели человеческой истории.
VIII. Египетский жрец, собеседник Диона Златоуста, читал «Анналы» Рамзеса III.
IX. Фальшивый термин «Древняя Греция» мешает нам оценить разрушительную неудачу Гомера.
Х. Заключение
Contents
Introduction
I. The civilized Oriental World & the South Balkan periphery
II. The Hittite imperial order and the disorderly barbarians of Western Anatolia, South Balkans, Crete and the Anatolian Sea
III. The Sea Peoples' invasions as a determinant historical fact and the Trojan War as a worthless falsehood
IV. What is hidden behind the false term 'Achaean World'?
V. Without an in-depth comprehension of the Egyptian, Hittite Anatolian, Canaanite and Mesopotamian civilizations, no one can possibly understand their backward periphery
VI. Why Dio Chrysostom's historical sources are trustworthy and Homer's pretenses are proven red herring
VII. The absolute denigration of the Late Antiquity Greeks by the Ancient Egyptian high priest as the destination of Human History
VIII. Dio Chrysostom's Egyptian sacerdotal interlocutor had read Ramses III's Annals
IX. The fake term 'Ancient Greece' prevents us from assessing Homer's devastating failure
X. Conclusion
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First published on 25th May 2023 here:
https://megalommatiscomments.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/sea-peoples-invasions-egypt-the-hittite-empire-its-achaean-allies-lukka-peleset-the-trojan-war-homers-intentional-falsehood-and-the-modern-european-forgery-ancient-greece/
This document provides a book review and commentary on the book "Trojan Horse of Western History" by Anatoly V. Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev. The reviewer critiques the authors' lack of consideration of important historical sources from Egypt, Ugarit, Assyria, and Babylon that are relevant to understanding the late 2nd millennium BCE Near East. The reviewer argues these sources could have provided crucial context for the authors' alternative interpretation of the Trojan War presented in their book. Additionally, the reviewer notes the authors did not conduct an extensive study of Hittite sources, which limits their analysis of developments in western Anatolia and beyond during this time period.
Contents
Introduction
I. A fictional concept: the origin of the fraud
II. A construct based on posterior textual sources
III. The deceitful presentation
IV. 5th century BCE texts found in 15th c. CE manuscripts do not make 'History'.
V. Abundant evidence of lies and deliberate distortions attested in the manuscript transmission
VI. Darius I the Great, the Behistun inscription, and Ctesias
VII. The historical Assyrian Queen Shammuramat and the fictional Queen Semiramis of the 'Ancient Greek sources'
VIII. The malignant intentions of the Benedictine liars: from the historical Darius I the Great to the fictional Semiramis
IX. The vicious distortions of the Benedictine liars: from Ctesias to Herodotus
This document discusses the origins and development of ancient civilizations in Europe and the Mediterranean. It provides evidence that early civilizations like Minoan Crete were Black civilizations, and that Black peoples were the original settlers of Europe. However, in the 19th century, white historians revised history to falsely portray Europeans as the indigenous peoples. The document examines archaeological, artistic and genetic evidence to show that Africa was the origin of the earliest European settlers and civilizations, contradicting the false, whitewashed history promoted by Europeans.
Epirus 4000 years of greek history and civilization, history written on wron...Rremy Bi
The document discusses the history of Epirus and the ethnicities that have inhabited the region over 4000 years. It argues that Greek nationalist historians have misrepresented Epirus' history by claiming it has always been exclusively Greek territory. While Greeks and Albanians have lived in close proximity for millennia, defined ethnic lines did not exist until the rise of nationalist states in the Balkans. The document critiques a book by a Greek historian that aims to bolster Greece's territorial claims over parts of southern Albania by rewriting Epirus' history from a nationalist Greek perspective rather than an objective scientific view.
Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (Facts on File Library of Religion ...KhiemNguyenBinh
This document provides an introduction to an encyclopedia about Greek and Roman mythology. It discusses how myths were used and viewed in the ancient world. Myths were not seen as strictly true or false, and were an important source of knowledge. Later classical authors engaged more consciously with myths through allusions, rationalizations, and adapting them for contemporary purposes. Myths permeated Roman culture as the Romans embraced Greek culture. The encyclopedia aims to present myths in their original literary and artistic contexts.
The Oxford Companion to Classical LiteratureImranEbrahim
The document provides a preface and list of plates and maps for "The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature" which was compiled and edited by S.P. Harvey. It was published in 1937 by the Clarendon Press in Oxford and aimed to provide convenient information for readers interested in the literatures of Greece and Rome as well as modern European literature containing classical allusions. The preface acknowledges the many sources consulted in preparing the book and thanks those who provided suggestions to improve the work.
亞里斯多德作為歷史偽造品,西方世界的虛假歷史和腐爛的基礎,金灿荣和他敏銳的評論
Аристотель как историческая подделка, фальшивая история и гнилые основы западного мира, и проницательные комментарии профессора Цзинь Канронга
Contents
I. Aristotle: a Major Founding Myth of the Western World
II. When, where and by whom was the Myth of Aristotle fabricated?
III. The Myth of Aristotle and its first Byproducts: Scholasticism, East-West Schism, the Crusades & the Sack of Constantinople (1204)
IV. Aristotelization: First Stage of the Westernization and the Colonization of the World
V. Aristotelization as Foundation of all the Western Forgeries: the so-called Judeo-Christian Heritage and the Fraud of Greco-Roman Civilization
VI. The Modern Western World as Disruption of History
VII. The Myth of Aristotle and the Monstrosity of Western Colonialism
First published on 29th May 2020 here:
https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/29-may-1453-the-most-useless-ottoman-victory/
Excerpt:
Who went beyond plots and schemes?
Surely only one! But he was great enough to do so: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
He terminated the otherwise useless status of the ominous city as a capital of two long lasted empires that were both defunct long before their respective death certificate's issuance dates.
Kemal Ataturk proved also to be the greater historian of his times, because he convincingly concluded what Eastern Roman 'basileis' and Ottoman sultans / caliphs failed to ever understand:
- either Constantinople or Istanbul, this city failed the two empires.
In other words, the capital city and the therein prevailing theological circles was the main reason the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate failed.
In both cases, the administration of the capital city was caught in conflict with overwhelming movements in Anatolia (Icon-fighters / Iconomachy and Paulicianism at the times of the Eastern Roman Empire; Qizilbash and Bektashi at the times of the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate).
In all of the aforementioned four cases, the ominous Constantinopolitan / Istanbulite administration acted as a heinous, heretic and lunatic, extremist group that brought about short term prevalence and long term disaster.
In all four cases, the imperial administration used the army to squelch the opponents, thus alienating the bulk of the Anatolian population which constituted for 1600 years the vertebral column of the imperial state.
Constantinople / Istanbul was unfit to become a capital city for empires controlling Anatolia and the Balkans to say the least. The capital had to be located in Anatolia, in Cappadocia; and Kemal Ataturk draw a correct conclusion that historians and academics had failed and still fail to conclude.
With capital at Caesarea, the Eastern Roman Empire would have lasted longer.
With capital at Kayseri, the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate would have lasted longer.
This document provides a book review and commentary on the book "Trojan Horse of Western History" by Anatoly V. Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev. The reviewer critiques the authors' lack of consideration of important historical sources from Egypt, Ugarit, Assyria, and Babylon that are relevant to understanding the late 2nd millennium BCE Near East. The reviewer argues these sources could have provided crucial context for the authors' alternative interpretation of the Trojan War presented in their book. Additionally, the reviewer notes the authors did not conduct an extensive study of Hittite sources, which limits their analysis of developments in western Anatolia and beyond during this time period.
Contents
Introduction
I. A fictional concept: the origin of the fraud
II. A construct based on posterior textual sources
III. The deceitful presentation
IV. 5th century BCE texts found in 15th c. CE manuscripts do not make 'History'.
V. Abundant evidence of lies and deliberate distortions attested in the manuscript transmission
VI. Darius I the Great, the Behistun inscription, and Ctesias
VII. The historical Assyrian Queen Shammuramat and the fictional Queen Semiramis of the 'Ancient Greek sources'
VIII. The malignant intentions of the Benedictine liars: from the historical Darius I the Great to the fictional Semiramis
IX. The vicious distortions of the Benedictine liars: from Ctesias to Herodotus
This document discusses the origins and development of ancient civilizations in Europe and the Mediterranean. It provides evidence that early civilizations like Minoan Crete were Black civilizations, and that Black peoples were the original settlers of Europe. However, in the 19th century, white historians revised history to falsely portray Europeans as the indigenous peoples. The document examines archaeological, artistic and genetic evidence to show that Africa was the origin of the earliest European settlers and civilizations, contradicting the false, whitewashed history promoted by Europeans.
Epirus 4000 years of greek history and civilization, history written on wron...Rremy Bi
The document discusses the history of Epirus and the ethnicities that have inhabited the region over 4000 years. It argues that Greek nationalist historians have misrepresented Epirus' history by claiming it has always been exclusively Greek territory. While Greeks and Albanians have lived in close proximity for millennia, defined ethnic lines did not exist until the rise of nationalist states in the Balkans. The document critiques a book by a Greek historian that aims to bolster Greece's territorial claims over parts of southern Albania by rewriting Epirus' history from a nationalist Greek perspective rather than an objective scientific view.
Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (Facts on File Library of Religion ...KhiemNguyenBinh
This document provides an introduction to an encyclopedia about Greek and Roman mythology. It discusses how myths were used and viewed in the ancient world. Myths were not seen as strictly true or false, and were an important source of knowledge. Later classical authors engaged more consciously with myths through allusions, rationalizations, and adapting them for contemporary purposes. Myths permeated Roman culture as the Romans embraced Greek culture. The encyclopedia aims to present myths in their original literary and artistic contexts.
The Oxford Companion to Classical LiteratureImranEbrahim
The document provides a preface and list of plates and maps for "The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature" which was compiled and edited by S.P. Harvey. It was published in 1937 by the Clarendon Press in Oxford and aimed to provide convenient information for readers interested in the literatures of Greece and Rome as well as modern European literature containing classical allusions. The preface acknowledges the many sources consulted in preparing the book and thanks those who provided suggestions to improve the work.
亞里斯多德作為歷史偽造品,西方世界的虛假歷史和腐爛的基礎,金灿荣和他敏銳的評論
Аристотель как историческая подделка, фальшивая история и гнилые основы западного мира, и проницательные комментарии профессора Цзинь Канронга
Contents
I. Aristotle: a Major Founding Myth of the Western World
II. When, where and by whom was the Myth of Aristotle fabricated?
III. The Myth of Aristotle and its first Byproducts: Scholasticism, East-West Schism, the Crusades & the Sack of Constantinople (1204)
IV. Aristotelization: First Stage of the Westernization and the Colonization of the World
V. Aristotelization as Foundation of all the Western Forgeries: the so-called Judeo-Christian Heritage and the Fraud of Greco-Roman Civilization
VI. The Modern Western World as Disruption of History
VII. The Myth of Aristotle and the Monstrosity of Western Colonialism
First published on 29th May 2020 here:
https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/29-may-1453-the-most-useless-ottoman-victory/
Excerpt:
Who went beyond plots and schemes?
Surely only one! But he was great enough to do so: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
He terminated the otherwise useless status of the ominous city as a capital of two long lasted empires that were both defunct long before their respective death certificate's issuance dates.
Kemal Ataturk proved also to be the greater historian of his times, because he convincingly concluded what Eastern Roman 'basileis' and Ottoman sultans / caliphs failed to ever understand:
- either Constantinople or Istanbul, this city failed the two empires.
In other words, the capital city and the therein prevailing theological circles was the main reason the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate failed.
In both cases, the administration of the capital city was caught in conflict with overwhelming movements in Anatolia (Icon-fighters / Iconomachy and Paulicianism at the times of the Eastern Roman Empire; Qizilbash and Bektashi at the times of the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate).
In all of the aforementioned four cases, the ominous Constantinopolitan / Istanbulite administration acted as a heinous, heretic and lunatic, extremist group that brought about short term prevalence and long term disaster.
In all four cases, the imperial administration used the army to squelch the opponents, thus alienating the bulk of the Anatolian population which constituted for 1600 years the vertebral column of the imperial state.
Constantinople / Istanbul was unfit to become a capital city for empires controlling Anatolia and the Balkans to say the least. The capital had to be located in Anatolia, in Cappadocia; and Kemal Ataturk draw a correct conclusion that historians and academics had failed and still fail to conclude.
With capital at Caesarea, the Eastern Roman Empire would have lasted longer.
With capital at Kayseri, the Ottoman Empire / Caliphate would have lasted longer.
Cush-Meroe, Kemet-Egypt, Punt, Other Berberia, Azania & the Orientalization of the Roman Empire: Common Origin, Migrations, Ancestral Culture & Lands of Oromos, Sudanese & Other Cushites
First published on 24th March 2021 here:
https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/cush-meroe-kemet-egypt-punt-other-berberia-azania-the-orientalization-of-the-roman-empire-common-origin-migrations-ancestral-culture-lands-of-oromos-sudanese-other-cushites/
Initially published on 17th August 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles and Buzzle
Excerpt:
Continuing the series of articles on the insightful documentation provided by the Russian Military Officer, Explorer, and Orthodox Monk in his books about his deeds and excursions, observations and explorations in Abyssinia (undertaken over three years 1896 – 1899), I herewith republish another part from his second book titled "With the Armies of Menelik II", namely the Preface and the Introduction.
Beyond the various mistakes of Abyssinian History that are due to Amhara falsehood presented to Bulatovich disguised as "historical truth", this section offers an exemplary warning to present day governments of Sudan and Egypt. When Bulatovich considered options about possible expeditions to undertake in Abyssinia, one possibility was thought to be in Benishangul. On this occasion, the tsarist envoy marks the related geo-strategic target of the barbarous and heinous state of Abyssinia. Astounded we realize that the target remains the same either in 1897 or in 2010: the Nile.
This demonstrates that any cooperation between Sudan, Egypt and Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is futile, and that consequently, Khartoum and Cairo must systematically program and execute the destruction and the demise of the anti-African racist state of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), which secretively and with the support of the Anglo-French Freemasonry executes a vicious plan against the existence of Egypt, Sudan, and African Islam. I herewith highlight the aforementioned excerpt:
"Three main expeditions were proposed:
1) Ras Makonnen10, the governor-general of Harar and Somaliland, was supposed to move west with a thirty-thousand-man detachment and conquer the gold-region of Beni Shangul, and reach, if possible, the banks of the Nile."
The Greek Dark Ages occurred from 1100-750 BCE following the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. This impacted Greek society greatly as they lost their script and separated into different groups. However, they were able to emerge from the dark ages as the period brought developments like a new language, writing system, and artistic and poetic works during the Renaissance. Overall, the dark ages weren't as dark as initially thought - civilizations still existed and new cultural and technological developments later emerged.
The document provides background on life in medieval Europe during the Middle Ages. It discusses the political landscape following the fall of Rome, including the rise of smaller kingdoms and the role of the Catholic Church. It also describes economic and social changes over time, such as the development of feudalism, the impact of the Black Death, and increasing power of towns and trade guilds. Overall, the Middle Ages was a transformative period in European history marked by political instability, economic shifts, and significant social changes.
The Spread of New Ways in Eurasia, 200 CE to 1000 CERequired Rea.docxjoshua2345678
The Spread of New Ways in Eurasia, 200 CE to 1000 CE
Required Reading
We will all read Chapter 4 in The Human Journey as well as other readings and videos specific to the Discussion Board topic you choose. Those readings can be found in the Discussion Board itself. To access the required reading, click on the Discussion Board link below and then on the Week Three Discussion 1 link.
There are two topics for each Discussion Board this week but you only write on one topic. It should take you about a day to read the materials for a Discussion Board. To help you follow what is happening historically to whom by whom and where, be sure to consult the time lines at the start of each chapter and the maps printed throughout the book. They will help orient you to the main developments we are studying.
At the end of the module, students should be able to:
· Explain "southernization"
· Compare and contrast the rise and spread of the world's major salvation religions
· Analyze the role of "Silk Roads" in facilitating the transfer of ideas and material goods across Eurasia
Lecture Notes and Key Terms
Lecture Notes from the Instructor
Rome After People
The Roman Empire had its continuation in the east as the Byzantine Empire. But in the west, Europe was shattered by the destruction of Roman institutions. It literally crumbled as people vacated the dying or destroyed urban centers and fled to the country and simpler rural lifeways.
In onsite classes, I like to show the History Channel program called Life After People to demonstrate what it must have felt like to watch a sophisticated complex urban civilization devolve back to nature in the post-classical era. It uses Computer-Generated Imaging to show that, in a scenario where people are removed, time destroys the icons of our complex industrial civilization. Vines tear apart skyscrapers and algae clogs Hoover Dam. The lights go out and nature and wildlife cover the urban landscape.You can rent or stream this video from Netflix.
Rome’s collapse sent Europe backward into a simpler, non-urbanized period. Imagine all the complexities of urban life that we’ve discussed – diversified roles, complex religions and rituals, and levels of classism from elites to slaves – falling apart. The population of the City of Rome itself was reduced from about 1 million to around 10,000.
Without slaves and overseers to maintain baths, theaters, aqueducts and other public amenities of urban Roman life all over Europe, these structures and the customs associated with them fell to ruin. Even literacy and theoretical knowledge fell by the wayside. Historians called it the “Dark Ages” because of an absence of writing from this period to “illuminate” for us what happened then.
Janet Abu-Lughod in her book, Before European Hegemony, paints a picture of Europe as a virtual backwater in the post-classical period. Not so the rest of the Old World! Trade and commerce, exchange of ideas, language, and culture, and a steady stream of.
This document discusses why ancient Greek ideas and culture should be taught to all citizens, not just the privileged few. It argues that while the Greeks learned from other ancient cultures, they played an exceptional role in disseminating knowledge and asking philosophical questions that shaped Western democracy and ideas of happiness. However, currently classics education tends to be restricted to private schools and signals social privilege rather than exposing all to Greek intellectual traditions. The document calls for embracing classics for citizens to give everyone access to the intellectual skills and critical thinking developed by the ancient Greeks.
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The Nabataeans inhabited the ancient city of Petra in Jordan beginning around the 4th century BC. A nomadic Arab people, they developed a prosperous civilization at Petra due to its location at a crossroads of trade routes. The Nabataeans left behind many structures such as Ad-Dayr and Al-Khazeh carved out of sandstone, displaying a fusion of Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and other influences. They also developed sophisticated water collection and distribution systems that allowed Petra to flourish. However, by the 3rd century AD, the Nabataean civilization had declined as trade routes shifted, and Petra was incorporated into the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.
This document provides a summary of physical book holdings at a university library related to the Roman world. It lists several books that provide overviews of various aspects of Roman society, including daily life, women, marginalized groups, religion, art, and the transformation of the Roman empire. The books cover a wide range of topics and time periods related to the rise and fall of ancient Rome.
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This course is a required general education course for all first-year students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. My version of the course is structured as a kind of Art History and Culture course. Some of the content overlaps with my other Gen Ed course.
Week 1- A brief introduction to the world literature.pptxssuser438f97
This document provides an overview of the World Literature Before 1660 curriculum. It discusses what literature is, the importance of literature, and the periods and works that will be covered in the course. Literature is defined as written and sometimes spoken works that allow people to learn about past cultures and understand the human experience. The course will cover ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, and Greek literature from the archaic to classical periods, including important works like the Epic of Gilgamesh and texts by Homer, Sappho, and Aesop. Students are expected to attend class, write summaries and commentaries, give presentations, and take tests.
GUIDE 6Unit 2ETRUSCANS& ANCIENT ROMEI..docxaidaclewer
GUIDE 6
Unit 2
ETRUSCANS
&
ANCIENT ROME
I.
THE ETRUSCANS
Etruscan Necropolis
The tombs (partly under the ground now)
are our only source of information about amazing Etruscan culture.
[
Necropolis
- the city of the dead]
===================================================================
Before the Romans gained supremacy over the Italian peninsula, the latter was inhabited by many
indigenous peoples
.
Which one was the most significant?
*...
How long back does the Etruscans history date?
-
*...
If you still remember the previous section (guide 5) and if you think historically, you should say here :
‘Aha,
it means that the Etruscans lived at the same time when the Greeks lived,
painting the vases with the geometric patterns, and carving the statues of youths with an enigmatic ‘archaic smiles’ on their lips.
When two cultures coexist as neighbors, they always interact and influence each other.
What did
Etruria
and
Greece
have in common?
*...
*...
*...
When did the Romans vanquish the last of the Etruscans?
- *...
ARCHITECTURE
What is the only type of architecture that survived? -
*...
What were their interiors look like? -
*...
Why did the Etruscans want to duplicate their earthly environment?
- *...
Doesn’t it remind you about some other ancient civilization? Which one?
- * ...
SCULPTURE
How did we know what the exterior of Etruscan house looked?
- *...
Terms
CINERARY
URN
-
*…
SARCOPHAGUS
(pl. Sarcophagi) –
*…
.
*
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri
-
c.
*...
[when made?]
What scene is depicted on top of the coffin?
*...
What can you say about the facial expressions of
the spouses? Where did you see them before? -
….
That’s right; they do resemble the Greek
kouros
and
kore
from the Archaic period. What is different – the mood.
The early Greek statues look very rigid and solemnly. This is why the Greek Archaic style is also called
severe style.
Observe the faces of this couple reclining over the top of their sarcophagus.
Do the spouses look ‘severe’ to you?
Not really, right? Their joyful looks do not relate, in our perception, to a funerary object.
It is not accidentally either that the ancient sculptors chose the scene of the banquet to be on the lid of their coffin.
From what we know about the Etruscans, they seemed to be fun-loving people, spending life in numerous festivities.
Well, that’s it about the Etruscans. Unfortunately, you have too little in your book about this exciting culture. Yet, now you know who the Etruscans were. You know that their culture laid the foundation for Rome. You should also remember that the Etruscans borrowed a lot from the Greek culture and passed it, along with their own achievements, further down the road - to the Romans. Let us move on to the next great civilizations entering the stage of its Majesty History - grand Rome.
II.
ANCIENT
ROME
Rome existed for one thousand years -
500 years
before
common era and
500 years
a ...
This document provides an overview of Greek mythology, including its origins and influence. It discusses how Greek myths attempted to explain the origins of the world and detailed the lives of gods, heroes, and mythological creatures. Key figures and stories from mythology are mentioned, such as Zeus, Apollo, and the abduction of Europa. The document also outlines how Greek mythology influenced Western art and literature over centuries and continues to provide inspiration today.
This document provides an introduction and overview of Greece's history and culture from ancient to modern times. It discusses key periods and figures that shaped Greece, including Homer, Alexander the Great, and Saint Gregory Palamas. The document also highlights some of Greece's philosophical and scientific achievements and how ancient Greek ideals continue to influence modern conceptions of politics, economy, and more. Overall, the author argues that Greece played an important role in developing European civilization and ideals of beauty, truth, and wisdom that remain relevant today.
This document discusses the semantic slippage of the concept of "Europe" over time and argues against the Eurocentric view of modernity. It makes the following key points:
1) The modern concept of "Europe" developed from the 15th century onward and usurped a name that originally belonged to other regions. Europe was previously seen as uncivilized by classical Greeks.
2) There is no direct lineage from ancient Greece to modern Europe - various cultural influences from the Arab world, Byzantine Empire, and others were involved.
3) By the 15th century, Europe was a peripheral region situated on the western edge of the larger Euro-Afro-Asian continent, not the center of
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Article first published in Buzzle, American Chronicle, and AfroArticles on 21 October 2007
An introduction into the pre-history of a Western European legend, which only later was extrapolated and associated with Eastern Africa; the legendary 'kingdom of Prester John' has nothing to do with Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians.
Initially published on 3rd August 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles, and Buzzle
Excerpt:
Although he tried to stay close to the facts, Bulatovich was overwhelmed by his own dream of an Orthodox alliance against the Anglo-French penetration in the wider area of Dar al Islam, the Islamic region. But his dreams could not outmaneuver the systematic diplomatic – military – economic – academic efforts of the Anglo-French Freemasonry that had taken place for almost 100 years before Bulaovich´s arrival in Abyssinia (French invasion of Egypt under Napoleon in 1798). In Abyssinia itself, Bulatovich arrived very late; he certainly advanced up to different points where no other European had set foot, but his diplomatic effort was deployed more than 125 years after the notorious James Bruce´s travel.
Worse, Bulatovich failed to realize that the deeply Anti-Christian nature of Abyssinia was the greatest obstacle in his path to promote an exclusive, Christian Orthodox alliance between Russia and Abyssinia. The incestuous character of the Amhara society, so explicitly narrated by Bulatovich, irrevocably placed Africa´s monstrous and alien state closer to the Anglo-French Freemasonic fornication than to the Orthodox Church.
Had he truly focused on the subject, Bulatovich would have realized that his best allies would be the Copts and the Muslims of Egypt. In fact, Bulatovich failure to take facts at face value has cost Russia as much as the case of the Armenians who, although neighboring with Russia and partly belonging to St Petersburg´s authority, were more effectively manipulated by Paris and London during WW I – to their terrible prejudice of course.
Content Area 2 part ii - Aegean & Ancient Greek Art Jackie Valenzuela
- This document provides an overview of ancient Mediterranean art from 3500 BCE to 300 CE, focusing on the Aegean/Ancient Greek and Etruscan/Ancient Roman periods. It discusses the major cultures and artistic periods of the Aegean Bronze Age and Ancient Greece, including the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures as well as the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods of Greek art. It also briefly outlines the artistic achievements of ancient Etruscan and Roman civilizations.
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean part 2amityapah
This document provides an overview of ancient Mediterranean art from 3500 BCE to 300 CE, with a focus on works from the Aegean/Ancient Greek period. It discusses the major artistic periods and cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, including the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. For Ancient Greece, it outlines the Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. It provides examples of prominent artworks from these eras, such as the Mask of Agamemnon and frescoes from Knossos. The document also summarizes key characteristics of Ancient Greek architecture, sculpture, and pottery styles.
Мировая политика как черное и белое: Иран и Израиль, или как люди становятся жертвами намеренно проецируемых на них заблуждений
Содержание
Введение
I. Каждый сектантский подход и каждая сектантская мысль являются порочной ошибкой и нетерпимым поступком
II. Политическая ситуация и международные отношения не определяют природу режимов, правительств и государств
III. Когда дело касается мировых дел, не существует шахматной доски с «черными» и «белыми» клетками
IV. Все СМИ сообщают одну и ту же ложь, меняя только «шахматные наборы»
V. Достоинство иранцев и палестинцев является наиболее спорным вопросом
VI. Вера в обещания, данные врагами, замаскированными под друзей, может оказаться смертельной
VII. Военные и фермеры против королевской семьи и аятолл
VIII. Нет никакой разницы между Ираном и Египтом, когда дело доходит до раболепия по отношению к крупным колониальным схемам
Contents
Introduction
I. Every sectarian approach and every sectarian thought are a vicious mistake and an intolerable act.
II. Political situations and international relations do not define the nature of regimes, governments, and states.
III. When it comes to world affairs, there is no such thing as a chessboard with "black" and "white" squares.
IV. All mass media report the same lies, changing only the «chess sets».
V. The dignity of the Iranians and the Palestinians is a most controversial subject.
VI. Believing promises given by enemies disguised as friends may be lethal.
VII. Military and farmers against the royals and the ayatollahs
VIII. There is no difference between Iran and Egypt when it comes to servility toward major colonial schemes.
За пределами афроцентризма: предпосылки для того, чтобы Сомали возглавила африканскую деколонизацию и девестернизацию
Содержание
Введение
I. Деколонизация и отказ афроцентрической интеллигенции
II. Афроцентристским африканским ученым следовало бы отобрать египтологию у западных востоковедов и африканистов.
III. Западная узурпация африканского наследия должна быть отменена.
IV. Афроцентризм должен был включать в себя резкую критику и полное неприятие так называемой западной цивилизации.
V. Афроцентризм как форма африканского изоляционизма, проводящая линию разделения между колонизированными странами Африки и Азии.
VI. Общая оценка человеческих ресурсов, времени и необходимых затрат
VII. Деколонизация означает, прежде всего, деанглификацию и дефранкизацию.
Contents
Introduction
I. Decolonization and the failure of the Afrocentric Intelligentsia
II. Afrocentric African scholars should have been taken Egyptology back from the Western Orientalists and Africanists
III. Western Usurpation of African Heritage must be canceled.
IV. Afrocentrism had to encompass severe criticism and total rejection of the so-called Western Civilization
V. Afrocentrism as a form of African Isolationism drawing a line of separation between colonized nations in Africa and Asia
VI. General estimation of the human resources, the time, and the cost needed
VII. Decolonization means above all De-Anglicization and De-Francization
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https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/cush-meroe-kemet-egypt-punt-other-berberia-azania-the-orientalization-of-the-roman-empire-common-origin-migrations-ancestral-culture-lands-of-oromos-sudanese-other-cushites/
Initially published on 17th August 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles and Buzzle
Excerpt:
Continuing the series of articles on the insightful documentation provided by the Russian Military Officer, Explorer, and Orthodox Monk in his books about his deeds and excursions, observations and explorations in Abyssinia (undertaken over three years 1896 – 1899), I herewith republish another part from his second book titled "With the Armies of Menelik II", namely the Preface and the Introduction.
Beyond the various mistakes of Abyssinian History that are due to Amhara falsehood presented to Bulatovich disguised as "historical truth", this section offers an exemplary warning to present day governments of Sudan and Egypt. When Bulatovich considered options about possible expeditions to undertake in Abyssinia, one possibility was thought to be in Benishangul. On this occasion, the tsarist envoy marks the related geo-strategic target of the barbarous and heinous state of Abyssinia. Astounded we realize that the target remains the same either in 1897 or in 2010: the Nile.
This demonstrates that any cooperation between Sudan, Egypt and Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is futile, and that consequently, Khartoum and Cairo must systematically program and execute the destruction and the demise of the anti-African racist state of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), which secretively and with the support of the Anglo-French Freemasonry executes a vicious plan against the existence of Egypt, Sudan, and African Islam. I herewith highlight the aforementioned excerpt:
"Three main expeditions were proposed:
1) Ras Makonnen10, the governor-general of Harar and Somaliland, was supposed to move west with a thirty-thousand-man detachment and conquer the gold-region of Beni Shangul, and reach, if possible, the banks of the Nile."
The Greek Dark Ages occurred from 1100-750 BCE following the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. This impacted Greek society greatly as they lost their script and separated into different groups. However, they were able to emerge from the dark ages as the period brought developments like a new language, writing system, and artistic and poetic works during the Renaissance. Overall, the dark ages weren't as dark as initially thought - civilizations still existed and new cultural and technological developments later emerged.
The document provides background on life in medieval Europe during the Middle Ages. It discusses the political landscape following the fall of Rome, including the rise of smaller kingdoms and the role of the Catholic Church. It also describes economic and social changes over time, such as the development of feudalism, the impact of the Black Death, and increasing power of towns and trade guilds. Overall, the Middle Ages was a transformative period in European history marked by political instability, economic shifts, and significant social changes.
The Spread of New Ways in Eurasia, 200 CE to 1000 CERequired Rea.docxjoshua2345678
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Required Reading
We will all read Chapter 4 in The Human Journey as well as other readings and videos specific to the Discussion Board topic you choose. Those readings can be found in the Discussion Board itself. To access the required reading, click on the Discussion Board link below and then on the Week Three Discussion 1 link.
There are two topics for each Discussion Board this week but you only write on one topic. It should take you about a day to read the materials for a Discussion Board. To help you follow what is happening historically to whom by whom and where, be sure to consult the time lines at the start of each chapter and the maps printed throughout the book. They will help orient you to the main developments we are studying.
At the end of the module, students should be able to:
· Explain "southernization"
· Compare and contrast the rise and spread of the world's major salvation religions
· Analyze the role of "Silk Roads" in facilitating the transfer of ideas and material goods across Eurasia
Lecture Notes and Key Terms
Lecture Notes from the Instructor
Rome After People
The Roman Empire had its continuation in the east as the Byzantine Empire. But in the west, Europe was shattered by the destruction of Roman institutions. It literally crumbled as people vacated the dying or destroyed urban centers and fled to the country and simpler rural lifeways.
In onsite classes, I like to show the History Channel program called Life After People to demonstrate what it must have felt like to watch a sophisticated complex urban civilization devolve back to nature in the post-classical era. It uses Computer-Generated Imaging to show that, in a scenario where people are removed, time destroys the icons of our complex industrial civilization. Vines tear apart skyscrapers and algae clogs Hoover Dam. The lights go out and nature and wildlife cover the urban landscape.You can rent or stream this video from Netflix.
Rome’s collapse sent Europe backward into a simpler, non-urbanized period. Imagine all the complexities of urban life that we’ve discussed – diversified roles, complex religions and rituals, and levels of classism from elites to slaves – falling apart. The population of the City of Rome itself was reduced from about 1 million to around 10,000.
Without slaves and overseers to maintain baths, theaters, aqueducts and other public amenities of urban Roman life all over Europe, these structures and the customs associated with them fell to ruin. Even literacy and theoretical knowledge fell by the wayside. Historians called it the “Dark Ages” because of an absence of writing from this period to “illuminate” for us what happened then.
Janet Abu-Lughod in her book, Before European Hegemony, paints a picture of Europe as a virtual backwater in the post-classical period. Not so the rest of the Old World! Trade and commerce, exchange of ideas, language, and culture, and a steady stream of.
This document discusses why ancient Greek ideas and culture should be taught to all citizens, not just the privileged few. It argues that while the Greeks learned from other ancient cultures, they played an exceptional role in disseminating knowledge and asking philosophical questions that shaped Western democracy and ideas of happiness. However, currently classics education tends to be restricted to private schools and signals social privilege rather than exposing all to Greek intellectual traditions. The document calls for embracing classics for citizens to give everyone access to the intellectual skills and critical thinking developed by the ancient Greeks.
This document discusses why ancient Greek ideas and culture should be taught to all citizens, not just the privileged few. It argues that while the Greeks learned from other ancient cultures, they played an exceptional role in disseminating knowledge and asking philosophical questions that shaped Western democracy and ideas of happiness. However, currently classics education tends to be restricted to private schools and signals social privilege rather than intellectual enrichment. The document calls for embracing classics for all through classical civilisation qualifications in every school to provide citizens with skills like critical thinking and expanding access to elite universities.
The Nabataeans inhabited the ancient city of Petra in Jordan beginning around the 4th century BC. A nomadic Arab people, they developed a prosperous civilization at Petra due to its location at a crossroads of trade routes. The Nabataeans left behind many structures such as Ad-Dayr and Al-Khazeh carved out of sandstone, displaying a fusion of Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and other influences. They also developed sophisticated water collection and distribution systems that allowed Petra to flourish. However, by the 3rd century AD, the Nabataean civilization had declined as trade routes shifted, and Petra was incorporated into the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.
This document provides a summary of physical book holdings at a university library related to the Roman world. It lists several books that provide overviews of various aspects of Roman society, including daily life, women, marginalized groups, religion, art, and the transformation of the Roman empire. The books cover a wide range of topics and time periods related to the rise and fall of ancient Rome.
Art and Culture - Module 05 - Hellenism and RomeRandy Connolly
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This course is a required general education course for all first-year students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. My version of the course is structured as a kind of Art History and Culture course. Some of the content overlaps with my other Gen Ed course.
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This document provides an overview of the World Literature Before 1660 curriculum. It discusses what literature is, the importance of literature, and the periods and works that will be covered in the course. Literature is defined as written and sometimes spoken works that allow people to learn about past cultures and understand the human experience. The course will cover ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, and Greek literature from the archaic to classical periods, including important works like the Epic of Gilgamesh and texts by Homer, Sappho, and Aesop. Students are expected to attend class, write summaries and commentaries, give presentations, and take tests.
GUIDE 6Unit 2ETRUSCANS& ANCIENT ROMEI..docxaidaclewer
GUIDE 6
Unit 2
ETRUSCANS
&
ANCIENT ROME
I.
THE ETRUSCANS
Etruscan Necropolis
The tombs (partly under the ground now)
are our only source of information about amazing Etruscan culture.
[
Necropolis
- the city of the dead]
===================================================================
Before the Romans gained supremacy over the Italian peninsula, the latter was inhabited by many
indigenous peoples
.
Which one was the most significant?
*...
How long back does the Etruscans history date?
-
*...
If you still remember the previous section (guide 5) and if you think historically, you should say here :
‘Aha,
it means that the Etruscans lived at the same time when the Greeks lived,
painting the vases with the geometric patterns, and carving the statues of youths with an enigmatic ‘archaic smiles’ on their lips.
When two cultures coexist as neighbors, they always interact and influence each other.
What did
Etruria
and
Greece
have in common?
*...
*...
*...
When did the Romans vanquish the last of the Etruscans?
- *...
ARCHITECTURE
What is the only type of architecture that survived? -
*...
What were their interiors look like? -
*...
Why did the Etruscans want to duplicate their earthly environment?
- *...
Doesn’t it remind you about some other ancient civilization? Which one?
- * ...
SCULPTURE
How did we know what the exterior of Etruscan house looked?
- *...
Terms
CINERARY
URN
-
*…
SARCOPHAGUS
(pl. Sarcophagi) –
*…
.
*
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri
-
c.
*...
[when made?]
What scene is depicted on top of the coffin?
*...
What can you say about the facial expressions of
the spouses? Where did you see them before? -
….
That’s right; they do resemble the Greek
kouros
and
kore
from the Archaic period. What is different – the mood.
The early Greek statues look very rigid and solemnly. This is why the Greek Archaic style is also called
severe style.
Observe the faces of this couple reclining over the top of their sarcophagus.
Do the spouses look ‘severe’ to you?
Not really, right? Their joyful looks do not relate, in our perception, to a funerary object.
It is not accidentally either that the ancient sculptors chose the scene of the banquet to be on the lid of their coffin.
From what we know about the Etruscans, they seemed to be fun-loving people, spending life in numerous festivities.
Well, that’s it about the Etruscans. Unfortunately, you have too little in your book about this exciting culture. Yet, now you know who the Etruscans were. You know that their culture laid the foundation for Rome. You should also remember that the Etruscans borrowed a lot from the Greek culture and passed it, along with their own achievements, further down the road - to the Romans. Let us move on to the next great civilizations entering the stage of its Majesty History - grand Rome.
II.
ANCIENT
ROME
Rome existed for one thousand years -
500 years
before
common era and
500 years
a ...
This document provides an overview of Greek mythology, including its origins and influence. It discusses how Greek myths attempted to explain the origins of the world and detailed the lives of gods, heroes, and mythological creatures. Key figures and stories from mythology are mentioned, such as Zeus, Apollo, and the abduction of Europa. The document also outlines how Greek mythology influenced Western art and literature over centuries and continues to provide inspiration today.
This document provides an introduction and overview of Greece's history and culture from ancient to modern times. It discusses key periods and figures that shaped Greece, including Homer, Alexander the Great, and Saint Gregory Palamas. The document also highlights some of Greece's philosophical and scientific achievements and how ancient Greek ideals continue to influence modern conceptions of politics, economy, and more. Overall, the author argues that Greece played an important role in developing European civilization and ideals of beauty, truth, and wisdom that remain relevant today.
This document discusses the semantic slippage of the concept of "Europe" over time and argues against the Eurocentric view of modernity. It makes the following key points:
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2) There is no direct lineage from ancient Greece to modern Europe - various cultural influences from the Arab world, Byzantine Empire, and others were involved.
3) By the 15th century, Europe was a peripheral region situated on the western edge of the larger Euro-Afro-Asian continent, not the center of
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Article first published in Buzzle, American Chronicle, and AfroArticles on 21 October 2007
An introduction into the pre-history of a Western European legend, which only later was extrapolated and associated with Eastern Africa; the legendary 'kingdom of Prester John' has nothing to do with Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians.
Initially published on 3rd August 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles, and Buzzle
Excerpt:
Although he tried to stay close to the facts, Bulatovich was overwhelmed by his own dream of an Orthodox alliance against the Anglo-French penetration in the wider area of Dar al Islam, the Islamic region. But his dreams could not outmaneuver the systematic diplomatic – military – economic – academic efforts of the Anglo-French Freemasonry that had taken place for almost 100 years before Bulaovich´s arrival in Abyssinia (French invasion of Egypt under Napoleon in 1798). In Abyssinia itself, Bulatovich arrived very late; he certainly advanced up to different points where no other European had set foot, but his diplomatic effort was deployed more than 125 years after the notorious James Bruce´s travel.
Worse, Bulatovich failed to realize that the deeply Anti-Christian nature of Abyssinia was the greatest obstacle in his path to promote an exclusive, Christian Orthodox alliance between Russia and Abyssinia. The incestuous character of the Amhara society, so explicitly narrated by Bulatovich, irrevocably placed Africa´s monstrous and alien state closer to the Anglo-French Freemasonic fornication than to the Orthodox Church.
Had he truly focused on the subject, Bulatovich would have realized that his best allies would be the Copts and the Muslims of Egypt. In fact, Bulatovich failure to take facts at face value has cost Russia as much as the case of the Armenians who, although neighboring with Russia and partly belonging to St Petersburg´s authority, were more effectively manipulated by Paris and London during WW I – to their terrible prejudice of course.
Content Area 2 part ii - Aegean & Ancient Greek Art Jackie Valenzuela
- This document provides an overview of ancient Mediterranean art from 3500 BCE to 300 CE, focusing on the Aegean/Ancient Greek and Etruscan/Ancient Roman periods. It discusses the major cultures and artistic periods of the Aegean Bronze Age and Ancient Greece, including the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures as well as the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods of Greek art. It also briefly outlines the artistic achievements of ancient Etruscan and Roman civilizations.
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean part 2amityapah
This document provides an overview of ancient Mediterranean art from 3500 BCE to 300 CE, with a focus on works from the Aegean/Ancient Greek period. It discusses the major artistic periods and cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, including the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. For Ancient Greece, it outlines the Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. It provides examples of prominent artworks from these eras, such as the Mask of Agamemnon and frescoes from Knossos. The document also summarizes key characteristics of Ancient Greek architecture, sculpture, and pottery styles.
Similar to Sea Peoples' Invasions, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, its Achaean allies, Lukka/Peleset, the Trojan War, Homer's Intentional Falsehood, and the Modern European Forgery 'Ancient Greece' (with 130 pictures & legends) (20)
Мировая политика как черное и белое: Иран и Израиль, или как люди становятся жертвами намеренно проецируемых на них заблуждений
Содержание
Введение
I. Каждый сектантский подход и каждая сектантская мысль являются порочной ошибкой и нетерпимым поступком
II. Политическая ситуация и международные отношения не определяют природу режимов, правительств и государств
III. Когда дело касается мировых дел, не существует шахматной доски с «черными» и «белыми» клетками
IV. Все СМИ сообщают одну и ту же ложь, меняя только «шахматные наборы»
V. Достоинство иранцев и палестинцев является наиболее спорным вопросом
VI. Вера в обещания, данные врагами, замаскированными под друзей, может оказаться смертельной
VII. Военные и фермеры против королевской семьи и аятолл
VIII. Нет никакой разницы между Ираном и Египтом, когда дело доходит до раболепия по отношению к крупным колониальным схемам
Contents
Introduction
I. Every sectarian approach and every sectarian thought are a vicious mistake and an intolerable act.
II. Political situations and international relations do not define the nature of regimes, governments, and states.
III. When it comes to world affairs, there is no such thing as a chessboard with "black" and "white" squares.
IV. All mass media report the same lies, changing only the «chess sets».
V. The dignity of the Iranians and the Palestinians is a most controversial subject.
VI. Believing promises given by enemies disguised as friends may be lethal.
VII. Military and farmers against the royals and the ayatollahs
VIII. There is no difference between Iran and Egypt when it comes to servility toward major colonial schemes.
За пределами афроцентризма: предпосылки для того, чтобы Сомали возглавила африканскую деколонизацию и девестернизацию
Содержание
Введение
I. Деколонизация и отказ афроцентрической интеллигенции
II. Афроцентристским африканским ученым следовало бы отобрать египтологию у западных востоковедов и африканистов.
III. Западная узурпация африканского наследия должна быть отменена.
IV. Афроцентризм должен был включать в себя резкую критику и полное неприятие так называемой западной цивилизации.
V. Афроцентризм как форма африканского изоляционизма, проводящая линию разделения между колонизированными странами Африки и Азии.
VI. Общая оценка человеческих ресурсов, времени и необходимых затрат
VII. Деколонизация означает, прежде всего, деанглификацию и дефранкизацию.
Contents
Introduction
I. Decolonization and the failure of the Afrocentric Intelligentsia
II. Afrocentric African scholars should have been taken Egyptology back from the Western Orientalists and Africanists
III. Western Usurpation of African Heritage must be canceled.
IV. Afrocentrism had to encompass severe criticism and total rejection of the so-called Western Civilization
V. Afrocentrism as a form of African Isolationism drawing a line of separation between colonized nations in Africa and Asia
VI. General estimation of the human resources, the time, and the cost needed
VII. Decolonization means above all De-Anglicization and De-Francization
What was Ordinary in the Antiquity looks Odd today, due to the Greco-centric Fallacy of the Biased European Colonial 'Academics'
Contents
Introduction
I. Fayoum, Al Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus), and Ancient Egyptian Papyri
II. Karl Wessely and his groundbreaking research and publications
III. Papyrus fragment 1224 of Karl Wessely's SPP VIII
IV. Βουλγαρικ- (Vulgarik-)
V. Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice's Strategicon and the Bulgarian cloaks
VI. Historical context and the Ancient History of Bulgars
VII. Historical context, the Silk Roads, and Bulgarian exports to Egypt
VIII. Academic context and the Western falsehood of a Euro-centric World History
i- the conceptualization of World History
ii- the contextualization of every single document newly found here and there
iii- the stages of historical falsification that were undertaken over the past 500 years
iv- the forgers themselves and their antiquity
v- and last but not least, several points of
a) governance of modern states
b) international alliances, and
c) the ensuing captivity of all the targeted nations, each one well-adjusted into the preconceived role that the forgers invented for it
Introduction
I. Chinese as the First Foreign Language in Egypt
II. Systematic Dissociation and Separation from Western Europe and North America
III. The Egypt - Sudan - Libya Confederation
IV. How the Chinese-Egyptian Alliance will reshape Africa into Five Mega-States
Contents
Introduction
I. Toshka or New Valley Project
II. Water Desalination Plants
III. Relocation of a Sizeable Part of Egypt's Population
IV. The Rafah-Taba Canal
V. Twenty (20) Chinese Universities to operate in Egypt
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First published on 18th January 2024 here:
https://megalommatiscomments.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/a-special-military-alliance-with-china-is-egypts-only-chance-for-survival-iv/
Contents
I. Grave Threats for Egypt's Existence and Serious Danger for China's Expansion
II. Perspectives of the Strategic Alliance between Egypt & China
III. Two Chinese Military Bases in Egypt: One Million Chinese Military on African Soil
IV. Joint Chinese-Egyptian Military Operations in Sudan and the Perspectives of a Chinese-Egyptian-Sudanese Alliance
V. Joint Chinese-Egyptian Military Operations in Libya and the Perspectives of a Chinese-Egyptian-Libyan Alliance
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First published on 16th January 2024 here:
https://megalommatiscomments.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/a-special-military-alliance-with-china-is-egypts-only-chance-for-survival-iii/
The rise of China as a world superpower has hitherto been a long path marked with several successes and advances, but also significant drawbacks and failures. The Arab Spring can be seen from many viewpoints and interpreted as per its impact on diverse states, but it was indisputably a severe impediment to China's attempt to penetrate in Africa and offer the numerous African nations a trustworthy perspective and a valuable support in terms of nation building and sustainable development. It goes without saying that, if the Chinese establishment truly intends to bring forth a groundbreaking change at the worldwide level, Beijing must carefully take the lesson of those circumstances before 13 years and overwhelmingly modify China's understanding of perplex situations and approach to long standing problems, notably the European colonialism in Africa and elsewhere.
In the first part of this series of articles, I expanded on a) the centuries-old Western hatred of Egypt, b) the existing historical threats against the Valley of the Nile, c) the gradual process of decomposition that the criminal Western gangsters applied to Libya and the Sudan over the past 12 years, and d) the direct relationship between the otherwise worthless Renaissance Dam (also known as GERD), which has been built in the Occupied Benishangul land (currently province) of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), and the Abyssinian 'Prophecy' against Egypt and Sudan. This is the link:
https://megalommatiscomments.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/a-special-military-alliance-with-china-is-egypts-only-chance-for-survival/
In the present article, I will complete the presentation of the Egyptian approach to the need of the Egyptian-Chinese Military Alliance and I will expand on the Chinese perspective towards the topic.
Contents
I. The War in Gaza and the Destabilization of the Red Sea Region
II. The Rise of China as a World Super-power
III. The Irrevocable Prerequisites of China's Worldwide Predominance
The Western World hates Egypt terribly; that's why all the administrations of the country -pseudo-royal (khedivial), presidential (military) or Islamist (republican)- were always appointed after French, English and/or American decision or active involvement and with Western support only to function as local ignorant servants definitely unable to fathom the deeply self-destructive nature of the acts that their foreign masters force them to implement, and absolutely unsuspicious of the venomous hatred that their beastly superiors harbor against the Holy Land that is the Valley of the Nile down to Khartoum.
Contents
I. Western Hatred against Egypt and Plans against Mankind
II. The End of Egypt may be very close
III. Egypt and the Pulverization of Sudan and Libya
IV. The Renaissance Dam in the light of the Abyssinian 'Prophecy' against Egypt and Sudan
Περιεχόμενα
Α. Πνευματικότητα, Θρησκείες, Θεολογίες και Ιδεολογίες
Β. Αποδοχή μιας άλλης θρησκείας και δράση προσηλύτων
Γ. Εγκλήματα προσηλυτιστών
Δ. Αλλαγή θρησκείας, προσηλυτισμός και πολυπολιτισμικότητα
Ε. Δεν υπάρχει το Ισλάμ ως θρησκεία χωρίς τις ιστορικές ισλαμικές επιστήμες
Επίλογος
Προτάσεις για την Υπέρβαση της Θράκης, του Κοσμά Μεγαλομμάτη: Εξόρμηση, 5 Μαρτίου 1990; Πολιτικά Θέματα, 2-8 Μαρτίου 1990; Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος, Ιούλιος 1990
Proposals to transcend the problem in Thrace, by Cosmas Megalommatis: Exormisi (Sortie), 5 March 1990; Politika Themata (Political Matters), 2-8 March 1990; Oikonomikos Tahydromos (Economic Courier), July 1990
Предложения по преодолению проблемы во Фракии, автор Космас Мегаломматис: Exormisi (Вылазка), 5 марта 1990 г.; Политика Фемата (Политические вопросы), 2–8 марта 1990 года; Ойкономикос Тагидромос (Экономический курьер), июль 1990 г.
Σουννίτες και Σιίτες: στη ρίζα της διαφοράς, του Κοσμά Μεγαλομμάτη – Εποπτεία 119, Ιανουάριος 1987, σελ. 29-37
Sunnis and Shiites: at the root of the dispute, by Cosmas Megalommatis: Epopteia (‘Overview’) 119, January 1987, p. 29-37
Сунниты и шииты: в основе спора, (автор:) Кузьма Мегаломматис: Эпоптея («Обзор») 119, январь 1987 г., с. 29-37
Η διεθνής αντιμετώπιση της ισλαμικής Περσίας, του Κοσμά Μεγαλομμάτη: Εποπτεία 119, Ιανουάριος 1987, σελ. 38-48
How the international community treated the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Cosmas Megalommatis: Epopteia (‘Overview’) 119, January 1987, p. 38-48
Как международное сообщество относилось к Исламской Республике Иран, (автор:) Кузьма Мегаломматис: Эпоптея («Обзор») 119, январь 1987 г., стр. 38-48
Η Πολιτική Ζωή στην Ισλαμική Περσία, του Κοσμά Μεγαλομμάτη: Εποπτεία 119, Ιανουάριος 1987, σελ. 19-28
Political Life in Islamic Iran, by Cosmas Megalommatis: Epopteia (‘Overview’) 119, January 1987, p. 19-28
Политическая жизнь в исламском Иране, (автор:) Кузьма Мегаломматис: Эпоптея («Обзор») 119, январь 1987 г., с. 19-28
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Συνήθεις αναγνώστες μου θα παραξενευθούν επειδή χρησιμοποιώ τον όρο ‘Περσία’ αντί ‘Ιράν’ στο συγκεκριμένο άρθρο, καθώς και σε πολλά άλλα άρθρα, εγκυκλοπαιδικά λήμματα, επιστημονικ΄ά άρθρα, και βιβλία δημοσιευμένα στην δεκαετία του 1980 και στις αρχές του 1990. Αυτό οφείλεται στο γεγονός ότι ο όρος αυτός είναι περισσότερο γνωστός και αγαπητός στο ελληνόφωνο αναγνωστικό κοινό, ενώ ο όρος ‘Ιράν’ ακούγεται μάλλον ξενικός. Τότε έγραφα για να πληροφορήσω και να κατατοπίσω σχετικά με θέματα ιστορικού, πνευματικού, θρησκευτικού και πολιτιστικού ενδιαφέροντος σχετιζόμενα με το Ιράν, καθώς και για υποθέσεις επιμελώς αποκρυμμένες σε όλο τον δυτικό κόσμο, όπως επίσης και για δημιουργήσω συμπάθεια προς το Ιράν εναντίον του οποίου στρέφονταν η Δυτική Ευρώπη, το σοβιετικό μπλοκ, οι ΗΠΑ, άλλες δυτικές χώρες, και τα τρισάθλια σκουπίδια των εθελόδουλων κυβερνητών του ανύπαρκτου και ανυπόστατου “αραβικού” κόσμου. Βεβαίως και τότε γνώριζα πολύ καλά ότι ο εξεπίτηδες προτιμώμενος από την μεροληπτική, αποικιοκρατική, δυτική βιβλιογραφία όρος ‘Περσία’ είναι ολότελα λαθεμένος, επειδή το Φαρς (Περσία) αποτελεί μόνον ένα μικρό τμήμα του ιστορικού Ιράν.
Several of my readers may be astounded because I use the term ‘Persia’ instead of ‘Iran’ in this article, as well as in many other articles, entries to encyclopedias, scholarly articles and books published in the 1980s and the early 1990s. This is due to the fact that this term is better known and preferred by the Greek-speaking readership, while the term ‘Iran’ sounds rather foreign to them. At the time, I was writing in order to inform and enlighten about historical, spiritual, religious and cultural topics pertaining to Iran, as well as about matters carefully hidden throughout the Western world, and in order to generate sympathy for Iran against which Western Europe, the Soviet bloc, the USA, other Western countries, and the wretched, docile and useless rulers of the non-existent “Arab” world had formed an alliance. Of course, even then, I was fully aware of the fact that the term ‘Persia’, which is intentionally supported by the biased colonial Western scholarship, is wrong; this is so because Fars (Persia) is only a small part of historical Iran.
Κοσμάς Μεγαλομμάτης, Ουροβόρος: Παγκόσμια Μυθολογία, Ελληνική Εκπαιδευτική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια, 1989
Кузьма Мегаломматис, Уроборос (свернувшийся в кольцо змей или дракон, кусающий себя за хвост): мировая мифология, Греческая педагогическая энциклопедия, 1989
Kosmas Megalommatis, Ouroboros oder Uroboros (‘Selbstverzehrer’ oder ‘Schwanzverzehrender’ / eine zusammengerollte Schlange oder ein Drache, der sich in den Schwanz beißt): Weltmythologie, Griechische Pädagogische Enzyklopädie, 1989
Kosmas Gözübüyükoğlu, Ouroboros (kendi kuyruğunu ısıran bir yılan): Dünya Mitolojisi, Yunan Pedagoji Ansiklopedisi, 1989
قزمان ميغالوماتيس، اوروبروس (دُنبخوار/مار یا اژدهایی است که دماش را میخورد): اساطیر جهانی، دایره المعارف آموزشی یونانی، 1989
Côme Megalommatis, Ouroboros (un serpent ou un dragon qui se mord la queue): Mythologie mondiale, Encyclopédie pédagogique grecque, 1989
1989 قزمان ميغالوماتيس، الأوربوروس (الثعبان أو التنين وهو يأكل ذيله.) : الأساطير العالمية، الموسوعة التربوية اليونانية،
Cosimo Megalommatis, Urobòro (chiamato anche uroburo o uroboros o ancora ouroboros / un serpente o un drago che si morde la coda, formando un cerchio senza inizio né fine): mitologia mondiale, Enciclopedia pedagogica greca, 1989
Cosimo Megalommatis, Uróboros (uróboro o ouroboro o uroboro / serpiente que se come la cola): mitología mundial, Enciclopedia pedagógica griega, 1989
Cosmas Megalommatis, Ouroboros (or Uroboros / a serpent or dragon eating its own tail): World Mythology, Greek Pedagogical Encyclopedia, 1989
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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Sea Peoples' Invasions, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, its Achaean allies, Lukka/Peleset, the Trojan War, Homer's Intentional Falsehood, and the Modern European Forgery 'Ancient Greece' (with 130 pictures & legends)
1. Sea Peoples' Invasions, Egypt, the Hittite
Empire, its Achaean allies, Lukka/Peleset, the
Trojan War, Homer's Intentional Falsehood,
and the Modern European Forgery 'Ancient
Greece'
Вторжения народов моря, Египет, империя хеттов, ее
ахейские союзники, Лукка/Пелесет, Троянская война,
преднамеренная ложь Гомера и современная европейская
подделка «Древняя Греция»
Book review of the book 'Trojan Horse of Western
History' by Anatoly V. Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev
Рецензия на книгу Анатолия В. Белякова и Олега А. Матвейшева
«Троянский конь западной истории»
Yazilikaya, 1.5 km NE of Hattusa: the modern name of the Hittite religious capital and rock
sanctuary; the most important sacred location for the Hittites, the other Anatolian nations,
and the Achaean allies of the Hattusa emperors
Содержание
Введение
I. Цивилизованный восточный мир и южно-балканская периферия
2. II. Хеттский имперский порядок и беспорядочные варвары Западной
Анатолии, Южных Балкан, Крита и Анатолийского моря
III. Нашествия народов моря как определяющий исторический факт и
Троянская война как бесполезная ложь
IV. Что скрывается за фальшивым термином «ахейский мир»?
V. Без глубокого понимания египетской, хеттской, анатолийской, ханаанской и
месопотамской цивилизаций невозможно понять их отсталую периферию
VI. Почему исторические источники Диона Златоуста заслуживают доверия, а
отговорки Гомера оказались отвлекающим маневром
VII. Абсолютное очернение позднеантичных греков древнеегипетским
первосвященником как цели человеческой истории.
VIII. Египетский жрец, собеседник Диона Златоуста, читал «Анналы» Рамзеса
III.
IX. Фальшивый термин «Древняя Греция» мешает нам оценить
разрушительную неудачу Гомера.
Х. Заключение
Contents
Introduction
I. The civilized Oriental World & the South Balkan periphery
II. The Hittite imperial order and the disorderly barbarians of Western Anatolia,
South Balkans, Crete and the Anatolian Sea
III. The Sea Peoples' invasions as a determinant historical fact and the Trojan War as
a worthless falsehood
IV. What is hidden behind the false term 'Achaean World'?
V. Without an in-depth comprehension of the Egyptian, Hittite Anatolian, Canaanite
and Mesopotamian civilizations, no one can possibly understand their
backward periphery
VI. Why Dio Chrysostom's historical sources are trustworthy and Homer's pretenses
are proven red herring
VII. The absolute denigration of the Late Antiquity Greeks by the Ancient Egyptian
high priest as the destination of Human History
VIII. Dio Chrysostom's Egyptian sacerdotal interlocutor had read Ramses III's Annals
IX. The fake term 'Ancient Greece' prevents us from assessing Homer's devastating
failure
X. Conclusion
Introduction
What follows is an extensive discussion of the topics presented and the approaches
employed in the aforementioned, passionately and impressively elaborated book (St.
Petersburg: Piter, 2015 - 256 p.: pic / ISBN 978-5-496-01658-2) that I came to know
through an astute Russian friend, shrewd thinker and avid reader.
Links to the Russian and English Wikipedia do not constitute an approval of the texts
of the respective entries, but are offered for those among the non-specialized readers
of my book review, who wish to launch their own search, starting with the references
and the bibliography available of those entries.
3. Throughout the present article, I use the term 'Anatolian Sea', instead of 'Aegean Sea'
which is certainly a historically valid appellation and form of reference. However,
the latter term is academically inaccurate. This is so because throughout the last five
millennia, we have attested that civilizations, forms of spirituality, religious faiths,
cultural trends, ethnic migrations, cults, esoteric beliefs, intellectual movements,
artistic and aesthetic tendencies spread from Anatolia to the sea in question, and
thence to the South Balkans, and not vice versa. When it comes to Anatolian Sea,
which is undeniably a semi-closed sea, we observe that, although various influences
and diverse ethnic groups arrived there from the South (Libya), the Southeast (Egypt
and Canaan/Phoenicia), and the North (Thrace, Macedonia and the central part of
the Balkan Peninsula), the local evolution, historical creativity, and their main factors
and aspects depended on Anatolia.
All these scattered islands constitute therefore the Anatolian archipelago and they
consist in sheer projection and prolongation of the Anatolian civilization. This was
particularly ostensible whenever both lands, Anatolia and South Balkans, belonged
to the same empire. Within the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Caliphate,
Anatolia constituted the epicenter and the South Balkans represented a marginal
circumference. All the islands in-between depended on Anatolia and never formed
an entity of their own.
------- Response to a friend and comments about the aforementioned book ---------
Dear Fedor,
Now, I will write down several remarks and comments about the book of Anatoly V.
Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev that I have just read thanks to your email; I did
not know either the book or the authors, that's why I found a genuine interest in
searching about the authors before reading the book. So, I realized that both are
younger than me; Belyakov was born in 1971 (Анатолий Владиславович Беляков)
and Matveyshev (Олег Анатольевич Матвейчев) one year earlier; the latter
4. happens also to be a deputy in the Russian Parliament. Both have worked together
on several other publication projects, and both have published many books and
articles. About:
https://www.koob.ru/belyakov_a_v/
https://litvek.com/avtor/106780-avtor-anatoliy-vladislavovich-belyakov
http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/1055983/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Матвейчев,_Олег_Анатольевич
https://matveychev.ru/
Their topics cover History and Politics in general, and they seem to have an interest
in finding attractive topics to which they intentionally offer rather alternative
approaches. They did the same with the 'Trojan Horse of Western History'. Despite
the fact that they are not field specialists, they did their best to offer readers a truly
comprehensive presentation about how
a- the modern science of Philology (Classics) discovered Homer and his epics,
b- Archaeology was used by amateurs for the sake of their delusions,
c- the Ancient Ionian epic tradition was transformed into Alexandrian librarians'
tasks in the Antiquity, and
d- a multitude of topographical-geographical details can drastically change our
reading and perception of the narratives.
It is clear that they apparently visited the area they spoke about. In addition, they
offered readers (in the unit 'In lieu of an afterword') a theoretical polarization around
Modern European academic considerations and philosophical postulations. Being
well knowledgeable in a varied number of topics (which is still not easy to encounter
nowadays in Western Europe and North America), they contextualized their work in
an admirable manner. Their book is certainly rewarding for the general readership,
and also for the people who have the suspicion that things may not have been as
they have been narrated in modern times' schools and universities.
In fact, I don't have crucial remarks to make for the book itself, but this does not end
but it rather starts my response. As you can guess, the research you first undertake
predestines and predetermines the book that you will write afterwards. There lies the
major problem. As a matter of fact, there are also other critical issues for the authors,
and even more serious troubles for the entire Russian academic-intellectual class.
You will see why while reading what follows. From now on, I will concentrate my
review on several specific points.
I. The civilized Oriental World & the South Balkan periphery
First Point: lack of study of Ancient Egyptian, Ugaritic Canaanite, and
Assyrian Babylonian sources
The authors are evidently unaware of the existence of critical historical sources
pertaining to the History of the Anatolian Sea (also known as Aegean Sea) around
the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. This fact dramatically narrows the effort
undertaken to show an alternative interpretation of the Trojan War.
Both authors are well versed in Ancient Greek literature and they occasionally
mention Hittite historical texts. It is clear that they did not study Hittite historical
sources (in translation since they are not specialists) as extensively as they should
5. have had. The problem is that they did not acquire a sufficient background in Hittite
History which would enable them to fully comprehend the nature of the historical
developments that took place in the western confines of the Hittite Empire and
beyond; I say so, because the Hattusha-based emperors did not always control the
western circumference of Anatolia. About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тудхалия_IV
https://all-generals.ru/index.php
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ассува
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assuwa
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Арцава
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzawa
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ахейцы#Аххиява
https://web.archive.org/web/20131104112704/http://www.hittites.info/history.as
px?text=history%2fLate+Late+Empire.htm#Tudhaliya4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites#New_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tud%E1%B8%ABaliya_IV
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вилуса
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilusa
Кто сказал «нет» тухкантису хеттского царя?
Ещё раз о главном действующем лице начальных пассажей «Письма о
Тавагалаве»*
http://ancientrome.ru/publik/article.htm?a=1459579492
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawagalawa_letter
https://dzen.ru/media/adygiru/aheicy-i-troiancy-v-hettskih-tekstah-
5c4e1e696823bc046572fa44
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milawata_letter
https://dzen.ru/media/id/5e9e91e3c03183795a156c2b/hetty-i-ahhiiava-problemy-
vzaimootnoshenii-5ea34fcf9f8dc519e8675519
Hattusa/Hattusha: the location of the vast Hittite imperial capital
6. The Lion Gate, Hattusa
Hattusa – modern reconstruction
The Sphinx Gate, Hattusa
9. Seal of Tarkasnawa, King of Mira; 1220 BCE
Fıraktin relief: Hattušili III (2nd from left) Puduheba (far right)
A sword from the plunder taken by Tuthaliya I during an expedition against Aššuwa
10. Annals of Hattusilis I (left) - Seal of Mursilis III (right)
Hittite provinces
Yazilikaya, the religious capital and rock sanctuary of the Hittites
13. There is also a serious lack of Ugaritic Canaanite cuneiform documentation, and the
authors seem to believe that Canaan did not play an important role in the maritime
trade throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, the Anatolian and the Black Seas; this is
wrong. Ugaritic texts are the first to document the fall of the Hittite Empire. Even
more importantly, similar Ugaritic Canaanite epics antedate by several centuries the
Ancient Greek epics. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic_texts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Keret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danel
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Угарит
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Угаритская_литература
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Угаритский_язык
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Угаритское_письмо
15. The Canaanite kingdom of Ugarit and its neighbors, ca. 1500 BCE
Contract written in Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform
16. Tell Tweini (known as Gibala in Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform): the destruction layer
Caused by the Sea Peoples - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Tweini
Good knowledge of the Assyrian-Babylonian and Elamite sources of the 13th and the
12th c. would help the authors to better assess all the facts that took place at the
epicenter of the then known world, i.e. the triangle between Susa (Elam), Niwt
(Thebes of Egypt), and Hattusha; in fact, only when you know what happens in the
center of the civilized world, you can approximately grasp the reasons for what
occurred in the periphery and the margins. However, the authors did not explore
these historical sources.
17. https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/niwt-symbol-ancient-egyptian-city-
determinative-hieroglyph/
Хеттское царство и страны Верхней Месопотамии в правление Тудхалии IV и
его сыновей (2-я половина XIII — начало XII в. до н. э.): новые гипотезы и
источники
https://istina.msu.ru/publications/article/2738421/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тукульти-Нинурта_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukulti-Ninurta_I
The Edict of Tudhaliya IV
https://www.jstor.org/stable/602893
Хеттские походы на Кипр во второй половине 13 В. До Н. Э
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/hettskie-pohody-na-kipr-vo-vtoroy-polovine-13-
v-do-n-e
The Trials of Tudhaliya IV
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/153293
Копии хеттских международных договоров
https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=41045350
Babylon
18. The Laws of Hammurapi (1793-1750 BCE)
In mystical gesture, Hammurapi (standing) receives the royal insignia from Shamash
19. The zikkurat (Mesopotamian step pyramid) of Dur Kurigalzu in today's Aqarquf (30 km
from Baghdad) in Iraq; the Babylonian name means 'fortress of Kurigalzu', namely of the
Kassite king Kurigalzu I (died around 1375 BCE) whose name in Kassite means 'shepherd of
the Kassites'. After the Hittite conquest of Babylonia by Mursilis I (1596 BCE), the Hittites
descended from Zagros Mountains and established the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia (1596-
1155 BCE), which was terminated with the Elamite invasion of Babylonia. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dur-Kurigalzu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurigalzu_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassite_dynasty
20. The Kassite king of Babylonia Meli-Shipak II (1186-1172) on a kudurru (boundary stone)
21. And indisputably, the Iranian plateau, South Balkans, and the Horn of Africa
constituted the fringes of the great Oriental Empires of the 2nd millennium BCE
where the then world's most advanced civilizations flourished. Indicatively, Kerma
in Sudan (earlier an independent Cushitic kingdom but incorporated in Kemet /
Egypt during the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BCE) was more important than
Mycenae and Dur Untash (presently Chogha Zanbil) was more important than Troy.
About Chogha Zanbil:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дур-Унташ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chogha_Zanbil
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Эламская_мифология
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Зиккурат
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Унташ-Напириша
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshushinak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untash-Napirisha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
About Kerma:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Керма_(городище)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Керма_(царство)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerma_culture
https://www.biblio.com/book/kerma-kingdom-kush-2500-1500-
bc/d/1394529885?sscid=51k7_ac92d
Kerma and Egypt: The Significance of the Monumental Buildings Kerma I, II, and XI
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40000957
История древней Африки и Южной Аравии
https://civilka.ru/afrika/afrika.html
The Elamite zikkurat at Chogha Zanbil (30 SE of Susa in SW Iran) was known as Dur
Untash in the Antiquity (after its Assyrian name); dedicated to the Elamite god Inshushinak
and built by the Elamite king Untash Napirisha around 1300 BCE, it was the epicenter of the
religious capital of Elam (which was called Haltamti in Elamite).
22. The name of the Elamite king Untash Napirisha written on an axe.
Statue of Napir-Asu, wife of the Elamite king Untash Napirisha, in Louvre Museum
The worst deficiency in the authors' research, documentation collection, and study is
the lack of consideration of Ancient Egyptian sources pertaining to the fact that they
examine. Yet, there is a vast documentation in Egyptian hieroglyphics about the
23. great variety of peoples and nations that lived in Western Anatolia and in the islands
of the Anatolian and the Eastern Mediterranean seas.
Рамсес III — последний великий правитель Древнего Египта
https://diletant.media/articles/45279028/
http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_r/ramses3.php
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рамсес_III
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мединет-Абу
https://landioustravel.com/ru/egipet/yegipetskiye-khramy/khram-medinet-abu/
https://web.archive.org/web/19970605022021/http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/P
ROJ/EPI/Epigraphic.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_III
https://www.inside-egypt.com/the-temple-of-medinet-habu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medinet_Habu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_Temple_of_Ramesses_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines#Etymology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denyen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshwesh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekelesh
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кафторим
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ливийцы_(древние)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Техену
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мешвеш
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тевкры
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пеласги#Филистимляне_и/или_«народы_моря»
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шекелеш
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шерданы
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Данайцы#Ранние_контакты_с_египтянами
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ахейцы#Аххиява
https://paleocentrum.ru/science/kaftoryane-potomki-mitsraima-i-problema-krito-
egipetskikh-svyazey.html
Ramses III offers incense; wall-painting from Ramses III's tomb (KV11)
24. Isis and Ramses III as depicted on a wall painting of the tomb of Prince Amun-her-khepeshef
The mortuary temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu (Luxor West); many walls and columns
were used for the presentation of his Annals, involving texts and bas-reliefs.
26. Ramses III's names on the walls of the Khonsu temple at Karnak
What comes as an even worse outcome of the lack of study of Ancient Egyptian,
Assyrian Babylonian, and Ugaritic Canaanite cuneiform historical sources by the
authors is the fact that the associated documentation relates to another event far
more important than the Trojan War that the authors totally ignore, namely the
invasions of the Sea Peoples.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Народы_моря
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Девять_луков
https://dzen.ru/media/id/5bc46560dca03c00aba381e5/zagadochnye-narody-
moria-ili-kto-razrushil-drevnie-civilizacii-bronzovogo-veka-
5f06df42b810364d03378bbb?utm_referer=www.google.ru
«Девять Луков»: Египет и окружающий мир. Часть I.
https://victorsolkin.livejournal.com/47096.html
Битвы с народами моря
https://all-generals.ru/index.php?id=1473
https://scientificrussia.ru/articles/byli-li-narody-moria
Почему могущественные хетты покинули свою столицу
https://nplus1.ru/material/2023/02/08/the-end-of-hattusa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_bows
The northern side of the external wall of the temple of Medinet Habu is almost entirely
covered by inscriptions and bas-reliefs relating to the battles and the victory of Ramses III
over the Sea Peoples.
27. This situation generates an enormous contrast of which the authors are unaware: we
have historical (: contemporaneous) sources for a major event, whereas we have only
posterior, mythological and literary sources for a minor, and in any case ambiguous
28. and controversial, fact. This situation, in and by itself, concludes the case of the entire
literature about the Trojan War; yet the authors of this book know nothing about it.
As a matter of fact, the invasions of the Sea Peoples determined the World History.
Contrarily, the Trojan War is a historically insignificant circumstance that impacted
first, the imagination of people many hundreds of years after it happened and
second, the delusion of present day European and Greek racists, chauvinists,
revisionists and extremists, who want to rewrite World History as per the false
narrative of an otherwise obscure figure, namely Homer. That's why they take his
controversial narratives at face value whereas the authors intelligently enough
denounce them as utterly false.
So, what I want to say in brief, as regards Point I, is that the argumentation presented
in this book would be much stronger and more convincing, if the authors had spent
time reading Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian-Babylonian, Ugaritic-Canaanite historical
sources and focused more on Hittite historical documentation.
II. The Hittite imperial order and the disorderly barbarians of
Western Anatolia, South Balkans, Crete and the Anatolian Sea
Second Point: lack of knowledge (let alone mention) of the Sea Peoples'
invasions
By failing to study, examine, and integrate this topic (Sea Peoples' invasions) in their
research, the authors did not simply omit one of the most important worldwide
events of the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BCE. They mainly proved to be unable
to correlate the two events which were linked to one another in terms of cause and
effect; this is so because the Trojan War (and by using the term, I don't mean Homer's
narrative but the original fact of which the Homeric epic was certainly an intentional
distortion) triggered the invasions of the Sea Peoples.
I expanded on the topic twice back in the early 1990s; in my speech in the Second
International Congress (1991), I presented in French the topic: "The Sea Peoples and
the End of the Mycenaean World":
Les Peuples de la Mer et la Fin du Monde Mycénien. Essai de Synthèse Historique
Atti e Memorie del Secondo Congresso Internazionale di Micenologia (Roma-Napoli,
14-20 Ottobre 1991); (published by the Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Roma,
1996) My speech is available online here:
https://www.academia.edu/26344357/Les_Peuples_de_la_Mer_et_la_Fin_du_Mon
de_Myc%C3%A9nien_Essai_de_Synth%C3%A8se_Historique
Then, in the academic periodical JOAS, I published (in 1994) a comprehensive
contextualization of the invasions of the Sea Peoples; the article was written in Greek:
Η Ευρύτερη Περιοχή της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου κατά τον 13ο και τον 12ο Αιώνα
και οι Λαοί της Θάλασσας (The wider region of Eastern Mediterranean during the
13th and the 12th c. and the Sea Peoples)
Journal of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 6 (1994), p. 1-50 (with French résumé)
https://www.academia.edu/26287366/Η_Ευρύτερη_Περιοχή_της_Ανατολικής_Με
σογείου_κατά_τον_13ο_και_τον_12ο_Αιώνα_και_οι_Λαοί_της_Θάλασσας_κείμενο_κ
αι_σημειώσεις_
29. Ramses III smiting Sea Peoples in front of god Amun: reliefs and texts on the pylon of the
Medinet Habu temple (Luxor West)
Representation of one of the battles that Ramses III had to deliver to vanquish and disperse
the barbarian Sea Peoples; bas-reliefs and texts from the northern side of the outer wall of the
temple at Medinet Habu
Ramses III's tomb
30. Ramses III held Sea Peoples captives celebrates his victory in front of Amun and Maat, who
was the Ancient Egyptian representation of the Divine Order against which the disorderly
barbarians had rebelled; from the second pylon of the Medinet Habu temple
The preservation of the Universal Harmony and the Divine Order was the spiritual aspect
and ultimate target of Ramses III's battles against and victory over the Sea Peoples; this is
particularly demonstrated in his tomb at the Kings' Valley (Western Thebes: KV11) where in
two panels an harper is depicted at work, in front of first, Onuris-Shu (a pre-creational aspect
of the Divine, which through war brings Order instead of disorder and chaos/above) and
second, Shu-Son of Ra (conceptualization of an aspect of the Divine that establishes analogies
of energy and action between the pre-creational chaos and the creational order/below). In
31. other words, the irrevocable victory of Ramses III over the chaotic and barbarian elements (:
the Sea Peoples) was undeniably of cosmic consequences.
KV11: the tomb of Ramses III
Detail from the wall paintings
32. Red granite sarcophagus of Ramses III (Louvre)
In brief, I will now describe the sequence of the historical developments that took
place at the time, pinpointing the most determinant situations and facts.
I- There were no 'Greeks' in the wider region of South Balkans, Anatolian Sea,
Western Anatolia, Crete, and Cyprus, during the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE; there
were many different nations of indigenous (Anatolian and Balkan), Semitic, and
Hamitic ('Libyan'/Berber) backgrounds. And there were few Indo-European
invaders (the Achaeans). So, the term 'Greek' is mistaken, if not distorted. This is so
because the Achaeans constituted only one of the Ancient Greek tribes.
II- The establishment of a powerful imperial capital in Hattusha, at the center of the
Anatolian plateau, generated several reactions among the diverse populations that
lived in the Eastern (Hayasa, Azzi, Ishuwa), Northern (Kashka) and Western (Masa,
Wilusa, Seha, Arzawa, Lukka) confines of Anatolia, because these regions were
inhabited by barbarian, disparate and disorderly elements that did not want to
accept the imperial order. This is a constantly encountered topic in the historical
sources of the Hittites.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ишува#Хеттский_период
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seha_River_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_regions_of_Anatolia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapalla
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Киццуватна
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Каски_(народ)
III- The Hittite Empire was a multiethnic empire with several official languages and
writings; there was one imperial religion and several local spiritual variants; this
already means that there were several nations that wholeheartedly contributed to the
imperial rise of Anatolia (Hittites/Nasili, Hatti, Luwians, Pala) and other ethnic
groups or tribes that escaped the imperial order. Southern provinces (Kizzuwatna,
Tarhuntassa, and even the Amurru/Amorrites in today's NW Syria) accepted the
imperial more easily.
IV- The indigenous populations of the Western confines (the term 'Lukka' covers a
great number of tribes) rebelled quite often, notably when the Hittite armies were
engaged in the empire's most important war fronts opposite the Hurrians of the
33. Mitanni Empire (and after the middle of the 13th c. the Assyrians) and the Egyptians
in the territory of today's S-SE Turkey and NW Syria.
V- The indigenous populations of the South Balkans seem to have been of the same
ethnic and cultural background as the indigenous Anatolian Lukka and therefore
allied with them. They were called 'Peleset' in Ancient Egyptian texts; this term is
identical to the Pelasgians as mentioned (or rather mythologized) in the posterior
sources of the 1st millennium BCE Ancient Greeks.
VI- Populations of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds inhabited Crete, Alasia
(Cyprus) and the islands of the Anatolian Sea; this is not only highlighted by the
numerous names of peoples and ethnic groups that the Ancient Egyptian sources
mention with respect to this region, but it is also evidenced by the existence of many
different, hitherto undeciphered, writings that have been unearthed in the periphery
in question: Linear A, the so-called 'Cretan' hieroglyphic writing, another 'Cretan'
hieroglyphic writing, the 'Eteocretan' alphabet, the Phaistos disc writing, the so-
called Cypro-Minoan syllabary, and the Cypriot syllabary; all of them antedate the
Linear B, which was the (already deciphered in the early 1950s) writing system of the
2nd millennium BCE Achaeans. Archaeological findings (many different small
palaces in those islands) and interdisciplinary discoveries of historico-religious
nature (reference to the 'Horus of Kaeftiu' made in Ancient Egyptian inscriptions)
bear witness to why the Ancient Egyptians used also the collective description 'Nine
Bows' for this region where African Berbers, Anatolian Luwians, Semitic Canaanites,
and Egyptians were amalgamated with indigenous Peleset/Pelasgians. There were
many tiny kingdoms and no centralized authority with some ethnic groups being
spiritually and culturally guided from Egypt, and others from Anatolia, Canaan and
Libya. About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Эгейское_письмо
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Линейное_письмо_А
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan_hieroglyphs
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Критские_иероглифы
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eteocretan_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Этеокипрский_язык
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
h ttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фестский_диск
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypro-Minoan_syllabary
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кипро-минойское_письмо
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кипрское_письмо
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_syllabary
http://www.cyprusexplorer.globalfolio.net/rus/history/writing/rossi-
writing/index.php
https://www.academia.edu/7870351/_At_the_Edge_of_the_World_The_Keftiu_as_
a_Liminal_People_in_Early_New_Kingdom_Egypt_
VII- The Ahhiyawa (Achaeans or Achaians) were a rude foreigner invader in the
South Balkans, and as such they were reviled by the indigenous Pelasgians/Peleset
and their Lukka allies, who constituted the outright majority of the local population.
The Hittite - Achaean linguistic proximity suggests a conceptual kinship with the
Hittites; however, one has to notice that the tremendous difference is that the Indo-
European Hittites managed to impose an imperial authority in the central plateau of
34. Anatolia and thus become a major power of the then known world, whereas their
Achaeans relatives in South Balkans were always divided in many small and instable
kingdoms that were overwhelmingly but rightfully loathed by the subjugated local
populations, namely the Pelasgians/Peleset.
VIII. The rise in force of the Hittites in the Oriental chessboard (particularly after the
sack of Babylon by Mursili I at the very beginning of the 16th c. BCE) coincides with
the liberation of Kemet/Egypt from the Hyksos barbarians and the foundation of the
18th dynasty of Egypt, which brought about a period of incessant rivalries among the
major powers and alliances of the then known world, namely the Hittites, Assyria,
and Elam against the Hurrians (Mitanni kingdom), Cassite Babylonia, and Egypt. It
is during that period that the Achaeans, always as allies of the Hittites, seem to
prevail in the South Balkans, the Anatolian Sea, and Crete.
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/venus-and-the-hittite-sack-of-babylon
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мурсили_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mursili_I
IX. With the focus of the Hittite military machine made on the East and mainly
opposite the Hurrians and the Egyptians, the Hattusha-based Emperors needed their
Achaean allies in the West to take the initiative and secure the local order throughout
the South Balkans, the Anatolia Sea, Crete, and the western confines of Anatolia. For
this to be done, the Ahhiyawa had to establish (which they did) settlements in the
Anatolian coastland in order to intervene in favor of their Hittite allies every time a
Lukka rebel would cause instability. It was clear that Hattusha did not have enough
soldiers to transfer to a second front when all the stakes were placed on Amurru, i.e.
today's Syria's northwestern provinces where the major battles used to take place at
the time (notably the famous Battle of Kadesh).
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Битва_при_Кадеше
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kadesh
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Египетско-хеттский_мирный_договор
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Hittite_peace_treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amurru_kingdom
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Амурру
X. The disorderly forces of Western Anatolia, South Balkans, Crete and the Anatolian
Sea were in a position to control several maritime trade routes, particularly after
making an agreement with Egypt, at the detriment of the Hittites and their Achaean
allies. At this point, I have to state that, although it is plausible and reasonable to
identify the 'king of Ahhiyawa with the Achaean ruler of Mycenae, this cannot be
conclusively accepted, as long as we don't find the name of the Ahhiyawa capital in
Hittite sources. Ancient Egyptian texts mention many cities in the region in question,
but in the Boğazköy (Hattusha) Archives, we attest only a few, notably Miletus and
Ephesus. And it is quite clear that there was never a major Achaean kingdom in the
wider area; quite contrarily, and according to the posterior descriptions of the
Homeric epics, there were many petty kings and tribal chieftains in those narrow
valleys and constricted plains in-between the south-Balkan mountains. All the same,
for the time being, we have to content ourselves with the assumption that the
imperial Hittite documents refer merely to the most important among all these trivial
warlords. About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Богазкёйский_архив
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogazk%C3%B6y_Archive
35. From the northern side of the outer wall of the Medinet Habu temple
The naval battle
36. An Egyptian ship attacks a Peleset (Pelasgian-Philistine-Palestinian) ship
Ramses III savors his victory at Djahi over the Sea Peoples
III. The Sea Peoples' invasions as a determinant historical fact
and the Trojan War as a worthless falsehood
XI. The urgent demand of the Hittite Emperor addressed to the Ahhiyawa king
concerned a badly needed Achaean intervention in Western Anatolia against the
rebelled forces of the Lukka and their allies. This means that the Anatolian Empire
was being financially asphyxiated because of the Lukka-Egypt commercial alliance.
Wilusha (Ilion) and Taruisha (or Taruiyah/Troy) was a critical part of the Lukka
confederation. It is to be noted that all the disorderly elements have customarily been
regrouped in confederations, avoiding the establishment of a unified and unitary
empire. It is therefore clear that it is this Achaean intervention in Western Anatolia
that was later mythologized as Trojan War; although undertaken for the benefit of
the Emperor at Hattusha, the epic literature later developed around the military
campaign did not mention the Hittites anymore, because soon after an initial
Achaean success, the disaster fell on both, the Hittites and the Achaeans. The
troublesome situation appears clearly in-between the lines of the Hittite treaty
between Muwattalli II and Alakšandu (Alakshandus) of Wiluša (Ilion). From this
Anatolian Luwian origin name originates the well-known Macedonian and Greek
name Alexandros, which was the true name of Paris, prince of Troy, according to the
Homeric epics. However, it is improbable to identify the historical ruler of Ilion with
the mythological person to whom so many extraordinary and dubious stories have
been attributed in the myth. About:
37. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Алаксандус
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1913-1011-22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaksandu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apaliunas
Отвергнутый бог: Аполлон от греков и до наших дней
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/otvergnutyy-bog-apollon-ot-grekov-i-do-nashih-
dney
Medinet Habu is also one of the Ancient Egyptian monuments that preoccupied many
Egyptologists since the very dawn of Egyptology; these are some of the notes that J.-F.
Champollion took with respect to the hieroglyphic inscriptions ton the right tower of the
temple's second pylon.
The Sea Peoples and their invasions by land and by sea up to Egypt where they were defeated
in three successive battles by Ramses III at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 12th
c. BCE; dates of the events can vary among scholars, due to the co-existence of several
38. chronological systems; the search for the reasons of these invasions ended up with the
formulation of numerous interpretational schemes and scenarios most of which are irrelevant.
This is so because many non-specialized authors wanted to advance their agendas by
interpreting these events in one or another way and in the process they disregarded the
existing textual documentation.
Western Anatolian Lukka mentioned in the Abishemu Obelisk from Gubla (ْليَبُج; Jubayl or
Jbeil; Keben or Kebeny in Ancient Egyptian; Byblus in Ancient Greek and Latin) in Lebanon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abishemu_obelisk
Sea Peoples held captive
39. Sea Peoples depicted on the walls of the Medinet Habu Temple (left); Berbers (Lebu: Libyans)
Peleset/Pelasgians/Philistines alive (left) and dead (right)
Sherden (left) Shekelesh (right)
41. Peleset/Pelasgians/Philistines as depicted in Akrotiri, Santorini Island
Egyptian Art from Knossos
Caphtor-Keftiu-Carians, as members of the anti-Hittite Lukka alliance, depicted on the walls
of the Knossos edifice, which is not a palace as many still believe. The ahistorical and absurd
42. term 'Minoan' helps concealing the fact that several different ethnic-linguistic groups lived
side by side in Crete in the small cities-kingdoms, which is testified by the diverse writing
systems, temples, palaces, and structures of independent societies that we find in many
locations. The terribly unprofessional, entirely wrong and overwhelmingly biased
'excavations' undertaken by the racist colonial rascal Arthur Evans (in the early 20th c.) and
the extensive but purely hypothetical restorations only obscured our knowledge about 2nd
millennium BCE Crete. Evans' interminable mistakes have been revealed and denounced over
the past decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caphtor
This is how idiotically Arthur Evans restored the Knossos wall painting.
Below, you can see how modern scholars correct the messy and lousy work of the disreputable
English colonial.
XII. Last, whatever the Trojan War may have been in the historical reality (and not in
the posterior mythologization), the end result was truly calamitous for the Achaeans.
In fact, the overwhelming historical phenomenon that we call, according to the
Ancient Egyptian texts, 'Invasions of the Sea Peoples' deleted from the surface of the
43. Earth every remnant and every trace of Achaean kingdom. As a matter of fact, on the
basis of the existing historical sources, the invasions of the Sea Peoples can be
portrayed as a thunderous reaction to an earlier, antagonistic and calamitous, event
(and by this I mean the Trojan War); as protracted war activities, this enormous
historical development lasted about two decades and constituted the most brazen
attack of Barbarity against the World Civilization. At the end, only Egypt was able to
resist to their attacks, and Mesopotamia remained intact; but civilization in Hittite
Anatolia, Canaan, and the Achaean fortresses collapsed. The Sea Peoples' invasions
involved the following:
a- a well-prepared 'conspiracy' in their lands of origin (Western Anatolia, Anatolian
Sea, Crete and South Balkans): this textual reference suggests clearly that some local
ethnic groups turned violently against others;
b- a series of formidable and ultimately successful rebellions against several local
kingdoms that they collapsed: this only confirms the veracity of several conclusions
of many specialized archaeologists according to whom the 'Mycenaean world' fell to
pieces due to the 'burning of the Mycenaean palaces';
c- a precipitated attack against Hattusha and destruction of the capital of the Hittite
Empire: this sudden, unexpected, and earlier unimaginable development took place
apparently, when the bulk of the Hittite army was not there, and had a devastating
psychological impact that determined the historical evolution;
d- the continuation of attacks against Amurru (in today's NW Syria), Canaan and
Alasia/Cyprus, which involved also the destruction of Ugarit, the then world's most
advanced, multilingual center of academic learning and translation;
e- the devastation of the Canaanite coast lands, and
f- three successive attacks against Kemet/Egypt, during which Ramses III managed,
by means of detrimental spiritual superiority (according to the Ancient Egyptian
texts) to vanquish the Sea Peoples in three successive land and sea battles, thus
dispersing them once forever.
IV. What is hidden behind the false term 'Achaean World'?
Completing this unit, I have to highlight on a common mistake made by many
historians and archaeologists who attempt to carry out the very difficult task of
reconstructing and representing the historical reality of 2nd millennium BCE
Western Anatolia, Anatolian Sea, Crete, and South Balkans; I define the entire work
as difficult because, despite the abundance of the material record, the historical
sources are scarce because -as I already said- this region was peripheral to the center
of the then civilized world. The scarcity of historical sources' references to this area
has to also be associated with the existence of several undeciphered writings, which -
if decrypted, read and studied- would shed more light on the topic.
The repeatedly made common mistake is that, by using the absolutely false term
'Mycenaean Greece' (instead of '2nd millennium BCE South Balkans, Anatolian Sea,
and Crete'), historians and archaeologists get confused and seem to believe that only
one nation or ethnic group lived in the said region. This is extremely wrong and
misleading. Quite unfortunately, many different nations and ethnic groups coexisted
in the said circumference, and this did not happen peacefully, but involved many
strives, clashes, insurgences, riots, rebellions, destructions, population relocations,
migrations, and -last but not least- scores of casualties.
44. When we use the expression the 'Achaean world', we therefore don't mean all the
populations of Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Sparta, Orchomenos, Salamis, etc., but only
the Achaean inhabitants of those locations, who were safely accommodated within
their fortresses, whereas the outright majority of those places were the Pelasgian /
Peleset natives, who were oppressed and enslaved by their Achaean masters, whom
they vehemently loathed. At this point, I have to make clear that the absurd term
'Mycenaean world' is totally wrong, because certainly Mycenae was not the capital of
a unified empire, but of an independent and rather minuscule kingdom.
What is called as 'Mycenaean Greece' is a multi-composite fallacy and a sheer projection of a
deliberately distorted 1st millennium BCE 'Ancient Greece' onto the 2nd millennium BCE
South Balkans. There were no Greeks in the South Balkans during the 2nd millennium BCE;
there were only Achaeans. But there were also the ethnically different Peleset / Pelasgians /
Philistines who had ethnic-cultural affinities with the Western Anatolian Lukka and reviled
the Achaean invaders and oppressors as much as the Lukka loathed the Hittite imperial order
in Anatolia. Even worse, the kingdom of Mycenae was only one of the numerous tiny
Achaean kingdoms, which were facing constant Pelasgian rebellions until, following their
brazen but ill-fated attempt against Troy (a major Lukka ally), they were destroyed by the
Pelasgian-Lukka anti-Hittite and anti-Achaean alliance and attack, which ended it up in what
became known as Sea Peoples' invasions due to the Ancient Egyptian Annals.
In fact, the wider region of Western Anatolia, Anatolian Sea, Crete and South
Balkans was a most tormented area during the 2nd millennium BCE. Scholars, who
depict the then daily life in those peripheries as an 'idyllic' environment, deliberately
misrepresent the historical reality in a most fallacious and vicious manner. It was not
actually one 'world', but many opposite entities; the deep enmities, the incessant
hostilities, the foreign involvement (Hittite and Egyptian), the different religions, the
45. diverse spiritual concepts, the deeply opposite symbols, the ferocious hatred against
one another, the anti-Hittite, anti-imperial odium of the disorderly barbarians, and
their evil attitude (to strike an alliance with Kemet/Egypt only for their anti-Hittite
purposes) did not bode well for the extremely small Achaean minority in the South
Balkans.
Achaeans from Pylos, 1350 BCE – Achaeans from Tiryns, 1250 BCE
Peleset-Pelasgian-Philistine Art from Prosymna (near Argos, Peloponnesus); known as the
amphora with octopus, it is not a sample of Achaean Art, as the absurd pre-historic
archaeologists still assume.
46. Peleset-Pelasgian-Philistine statue from Phylakopi, Milos Island 14th c. BCE
The Achaean effort to establish a foothold in Miletus and Ephesus and thence to
support their major allies in Hattusha was a heroic deed, and without it there would
have never been Homeric epics. This is so because the transportation of army in the
Western confines of Anatolia would certainly weaken the tight control that they had
to maintain in South Balkan mainland, thus critically endangering the safety of their
fortresses. Unfortunately, the brazen and admirable effort was predestined to doom
due to the fact that the populations of the Lukka-Peleset alliance (i.e. the Sea Peoples
before the beginning of their invasions) outnumbered the Achaeans 10 to 1 or even
more.
V. Without an in-depth comprehension of the Egyptian, Hittite
Anatolian, Canaanite and Mesopotamian civilizations, no one
can possibly understand their backward periphery
No one can properly and pertinently study the History of Western Anatolia,
Anatolian Sea, Crete and South Balkans during the 2nd millennium BCE without
having first passed several postgraduate degrees in Assyriology, Egyptology,
Hittitology and Northwest Semitic Studies (Ugaritic, Canaanite, Phoenician, etc.).
The spiritual, mystical and religious differences among the different pharaohs only
reflected the deep socio-religious divisions that existed in 2nd millennium BCE
Kemet/Egypt, subsequently projecting them onto the peripheral lands that
depended on the Valley of the Nile.
The rise and fall of the monotheistic religion proclaimed by Akhenaten (Atonism or
Atenism) divided Egypt in an irreparable manner. The strong counter-revolutionary
reaction of the Amun clergy and their military pawns, as well as the white terror
47. released by Ay, Horemheb and their successors of the 19th and the 20th dynasties
turned Egypt into a horrendous dictatorship and a deeply and irrevocably split up
society. This situation is the reason for which the Hebrews and, along with them,
many Egyptian monotheists left the country under Moses and crossed the Red Sea to
reach the Sinai in what is today the northwestern confines of Saudi Arabia (Sinai is
not what we now call the Sinai Peninsula!). About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_фараонов
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_фараонов#XIX_династия
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_правителей_Древнего_Египта
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs#New_Kingdom
https://www.academia.edu/34439637/In_Ancient_Egypt_at_any_given_moment_t
here_was_never_one_Egyptian_Religion
Long before Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad, the great monotheist Pharaoh Akhenaten
(left) and Queen Nefertiti (right) rejoice uttering the Hymn to Aten, while receiving the
blessings of Only God Aten. The resolute abolition of the blasphemous polytheistic cult of
Amun of Waset (Thebes of Egypt) was worldwide the most important historical event that
took place during the 2nd millennium BCE – far more important than the Exodus or the Sea
Peoples' Invasions. Eclipsing by far Abraham's departure from Ur and the locally imposed
polytheistic regime, Akhenaten proved to be the World History's most determinant ruler from
the days of Sargon of Akkad (24th c. BCE) to the time of Sargon of Assyria (8th-7th c. BCE).
That is why he is so much reviled by Jesuits and Zionists alike.
Akhenaten as sphinx
48. Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children adore Aten, who emits rays ending in Life offering
palms (left); Akhenaten's successor Tutankhaten (later Tutankhamun) and Ankhes-enpa-
Aten (later Ankhesenamun) live under the auspices of Aten, before the Satanic restoration of
Amun polytheism carried out following the conspiracy of Ay and Horemheb.
Still, after the Amun polytheistic restoration, there were few monotheistic pharaohs
(like Ramses II and Ramses III), who managed to encrypt their spiritual and mystical
choices in their five Pharaonic names, which constituted a superior and hitherto
unmatched level of personal ideology, moral theory, and imperial spirituality; this is
so because each name was an entire sentence that served as a most sophisticated field
of semantics and semiotics, and after his ascension every Pharaoh was expected to
live and deliver according to the values, virtues and principles solemnly declared in
his five names. About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Титул_фараона
https://www.bibalex.org/learnhieroglyphs/Home/Page_En.aspx?name=RoyalNa
mesTitles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_royal_titulary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рамсес_II
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рамсес_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_III
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рамсес_III#Имя
The Holy Trinity: Amun, Mut & Khonsu
49. The Theban Trinity as depicted on the walls of the Medinet Habu mortuary temple of Ramses
III: every esotericism and mysticism originates from a situation in which a destitute, impotent
and persecuted priesthood is forced to act clandestinely in order to survive and preserve its
existence by initiating members into an otherwise prohibited faith. After the Amun Theban
polytheistic restoration, all monotheists were forced to conceal their faith and to appear as
publicly adoring Amun; it would be impossible for Ramses III to rule without showing in
public his faith to the abomination of the Theban Trinity.
The vast sacerdotal complex of Karnak, center of the Theban Trinity cult, was larger and more
populous than several tiny Achaean kingdoms or Peleset-Pelasgian states.
51. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687296?journalCode=jnes
https://www.jstor.org/stable/225378
Scientific inventions like the Karnak clepsydra demonstrate the enormous gap that separated
the Ancient Orient, which was the then center of the world with the most advanced
civilizations (Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittite Anatolia, Canaanite Ugarit, and Elam), and
the evidently backward, underdeveloped, and rudimentary life in the periphery (the Lukka of
Western Anatolia, the Achaeans, the Peleset-Pelasgians-Philistines, and the Caphtor of South
Balkans, the Anatolian Sea, and Crete, and their likes).
All these divisions were reflected outside Egypt, wherever Egyptians arrived, settled,
traded with local populations, and diffused their cults and crafts among the natives.
If Atenism was a rationalization of the Iwnw Heliopolitan dogma (also known as the
Ennead), the polytheistic Trinity of Amun of Thebes (first established in the early
16th c. BCE) was an imperial religious dogma traced on the ancient, Memphitic
polytheistic religion of Ptah. About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Атонизм
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Эннеада
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гелиополь_(Древний_Египет)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliopolis_(ancient_Egypt)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Амон
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мут
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хонсу
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фиванская_триада
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Верховный_жрец_Амона
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khonsu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban_Triad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Priest_of_Amun
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Птах
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мемфис_(Египет)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt
Representation of the Iwnw-Heliopolitan Pesedjet (Ennead)
52. The Iwnw-Heliopolitan Ennead was the main spiritual-religious-theological system in
Ancient Egypt; it was headquartered at Iwnw (: 'the Pillars, meaning the obelisks), i.e. in
today's Ayn Shams, a northern district of Cairo, where the main temple of Atum was located.
As it was the center of the Egyptian monotheistic cult, which symbolized God with the Sun, it
was called Heliopolis (city of the Sun) by the Ancient Greeks. As religion, it epitomized the
Divine Unity, fully encompassing Cosmogony, Cosmology, and Eschatology-Soteriology (all
expressed in vast field of sign semiotics and symbols), while also combining Spiritual
Ontology with World Order, Discipline and Moral. The stolen obelisks of Heliopolis served as
means of Divine Epiphany and initially all the faithful took active part in the divine acts that
encapsulated and praised the Creation. Extra:
https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/7396-heliopolis-egypt-obelisks
Aspects of the Divine Order: Ennead
53. The Khemenu-Hermupolitan Ogdoad was an equally old, sophisticated and important
spiritual-religious-theological system in Ancient Egypt; headquartered in Khemenu (modern
Ashmunein, near Mallawi, El Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt, ca. 320 km south Cairo),
it was elaborated by the priesthood of Djhawty (ḏḥwtj/Thoth), aspect of Wisdom of God
(symbolized by the bird ibis), whose main temple was located there. As religion, it projected
the male-female division, which is attested in the material universe, onto the spiritual
universe and onto the divine order of the Creation in an effort to reconstruct and fathom the
modalities of the emanation of forms and the Being-Becoming process. The magnificent temple
of Thoth was partly preserved until 1826, when the hall of columns was demolished for the
stones to be re-used in the construction of a sugar factory. Extra:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ḏḥwtj
https://www.ribapix.com/View-of-the-Temple-of-Thoth-at-Hermopolis-near-modern-day-El-
Ashmunein_RIBA21335#
Ptah, the main god of Memphis, was the focal person of a counterfeit religious system at the
antipodes of the Heliopolitan (Ennead) and Hermupolitan (Ogdoad) religions. Depicted in a
statue now in the Turin Museum (left) and on a wall-painting from the tomb of Nefertari,
main royal wife of Ramses II (right); as a polytheistic system, it also involved the concept of
lameness, triggered religious fanaticism and darkness, while fully pre-modeling the Greek
Hephaestus and the Roman Vulcanus. To cancel the cataclysmic impact that the Heliopolitan
and Hermupolitan religions had on Egypt, the priests of Ptah, who represented a rather
marginal religion until then, initiated -in the beginning of the 16th c. BCE, after the
liberation of Egypt from the Hyksos- an imperial religious system entirely fashioned after
54. their polytheistic prerequisites: this was the Theban Amun polytheism that most of the
pharaohs of the 18th dynasty fought hard to utterly destroy and totally demolish. More:
https://www.academia.edu/34439637/In_Ancient_Egypt_at_any_given_moment_there_was_
never_one_Egyptian_Religion
Consequently, it is absolutely pointless, if not foolish, to perceive the Egyptian
ascendancy, influence and impact on the various peripheral lands and regions as
unitary or unidimensional; every Egyptian priesthood promoted at home and abroad
their own spirituality, worldview, dogma, theology and cult. This situation clearly
transported internal Egyptian spiritual divisions abroad; it was therefore only
normal that numerous local conflicts, wars and destructions took place in those
peripheral circumferences.
Thus, we can understand that, if in case of turmoil, a destitute Achaean king, like the
later mythologized Menelaus, ran away to save himself in Egypt under the auspices
of the Heliopolitan priesthood (which remained always powerful down to the time
of Christianization of Egypt), he would certainly be offered support and protection;
then, this development would be enough to turn against Egypt that king's enemies
and opponents, who would organize a maritime campaign to attack the country,
which -they would think- treacherously supported or protected their archenemy.
VI. Why Dio Chrysostom's historical sources are trustworthy and
Homer's pretenses are proven red herring
Third Point: the authors' innovative approach to, and interpretation of, the
mythological event existed since the Late Antiquity
This has certainly to be considered as one of the strengths of the research made and
the book published by the authors; in fact, what they conclude, namely that the
Achaeans did not truly win but they actually lost the Trojan War (which lets us
conclude that Homer was a deliberate liar), was already said by ancient authors.
Then, this means that, in support of merely a different narrative and alternative
interpretation, which existed already since the Roman times, the two authors
(Belyakov and Matveyshev) managed to elaborate an entire book. This is certainly a
remarkable achievement that goes against the colonial tradition of Western European
historiography, as per which the texts of Dio Chrysostom and of anyone else who
'would challenge Homer's authenticity' have to be considered as untrustworthy.
In the first four chapters {ch. 1, Mega-mall to megaron: Pilgrimage to the land of
Homer: p. 7; ch. 2, The Adventurer who tripped over Troy: p. 27; ch. 3, The War for
Troy, 20th century: p. 57; ch. 4, And they came back in disgrace: p. 87}, Anatoly V.
Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev comprehensively educate their readers. Then, in
the fifth chapter of their book (ch. 5, The Poet who composed Greece: p. 121), they
expand on the topic, referring to Dio Chrysostom and many other ancient authors.
The postface ('In lieu of an afterword': p. 169) offers both authors the chance to
contextualize their approach and to widen the discussion about the topic, while also
questioning the veracity, the honesty, and the usefulness of the modern colonial
historiography and deploring the conventional schemes that Western universities (or
simply 'Schools of Falsehood') have propagated worldwide.
55. The two authors convey very accurately to their readers Dio Chrysostom's narrative
(p. 147: "Dio was told about this by a priest from Egyptian Anufis, who in his turn,
had learned this from an inscription on the stele based on a story told by Menelaus,
who had visited this place"). The ancient Anatolian orator, thinker, historian and
erudite scholar (originating from Prusa/Bursa) Dio Chrysostom (literally 'Dio the
golden-mouthed'; Δίων Χρυσόστομος; Дион Хрисостом или «Златоуст»; 40-115 CE)
was an influential public figure in the Roman Empire, known for his strong
convictions, meticulous researches, and enthusiastic supporters or enemies.
Indefatigable traveler, Dio crisscrossed the Mediterranean basin and spoke with
authoritative priests and mystics, being brazen in his criticism of Domitian; he was a
close personal friend of both, Nerva and Trajan.
It is surely worthwhile to refer to his texts and concepts, interpretations and
suggestions, contemplations and postulations, but today, one scholar must also take
into account and, in addition, highlight and elucidate the very significant position
that Dio Chrysostom held in Roman Anatolia. This makes an enormous contrast with
the epic poets, Hesiod, Homer, and others, who were merely popular bards in small
cities known to be ruled by a petty local authority and therefore deprived of any
significant literary, valuable archives, academic/educational and scientific resources
or an outstanding historical documentation. I intentionally underscore this point
because Dio Chrysostom must be considered as a far more trustworthy source of
information about Homer than Homer about the Trojan War. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dio_Chrysostom
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дион_Хрисостом
All the discourses (Λόγοι) of Dio Chrysostom can be found here:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/home.h
tml
Russian translations are available here:
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/dion-ind.htm
In his 53rd discourse, Dio Chrysostom expands briefly on Homer (ΠΕΡΙ ΟΜΗΡΟΥ).
The Ancient Greek text and an English translation, one can find here:
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Hodoi/concordances/dion_Chrys_homere_53/lecture
/default.htm
An English translation can be found here:
56. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discou
rses/53*.html
A Russian translation can be found here:
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/Dion-LIII.htm
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/Dion-prim.htm#LIII
In his 55th discourse, Dio Chrysostom expands briefly on Homer and Socrates (ΠΕΡΙ
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ)
The Ancient Greek text can be found here:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/H/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discou
rses/55*.html
An English translation is available here:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discou
rses/55*.html
A Russian translation can be found here:
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/Dion-LV.htm
In his 11th discourse (or 'Trojan Discourse'), Dio Chrysostom discusses extensively
about the Trojan War; the title of the discourse reads: "Maintaining that Troy was not
captured" (ΤΡΩΙΚΟΣ ΥΠΕΡ ΤΟΥ ΙΛΙΟΝ ΜΗ ΑΛΩΝΑΙ.) A modern English
translation totals around 17500 words.
The Ancient Greek text and an English translation can be found here:
http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/ (BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA SELECTA (BCS): cover page)
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Hodoi/concordances/intro.htm (list of links to various
authors' works / scroll down: Dion Chrysostome)
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/HODOI/concordances/dion_Chrys_Troye_11/default.
htm (cover page with links to text & translation, list of the vocabulary and additional
lexicographical research)
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/HODOI/concordances/dion_Chrys_Troye_11/lecture
/default.htm (links to pages with only five paragraphs each)
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/HODOI/concordances/dion_Chrys_Troye_11/lecture
/1.htm (the very beginning of the text)
A Russian translation can be found here:
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/Dion-XVIII.htm
http://myriobiblion.byzantion.ru/dion/Dion-prim.htm#XVIII
57. In paragraph 37 (out of 154) of his 11th discourse, Dio Chrysostom, interrupts his
narrative to state the origin of his knowledge. His discourse follows the pattern 'in
medias res', because he starts his narrative straight away, well before giving details
about the source of his information and the way he acquired full consciousness of
Homer's forgery and historical distortion.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
More specifically, Dio Chrysostom states: " I, therefore, shall give the account as I
learned it from a certain very aged priest in Onuphis, who often made merry over the
Greeks as a people, claiming that they really knew nothing about most things, and
using as his chief illustration of this, the fact that they believed that Troy was taken
by Agamemnon and that Helen fell in love with Paris while she was living with
Menelaus; and they were so thoroughly convinced of this, he said, being completely
deceived by one man, that everybody actually swore to its truth. My informant told
me that all the history of earlier times was recorded in Egypt, in part in the temples,
in part upon certain columns, and that some things were remembered by a few only
as the columns had been destroyed, while much that had been inscribed on the
columns was disbelieved on account of the ignorance and indifference of later
generations. He added that these stories about Troy were included in their more
recent records, since Menelaus had come to visit them and described everything just
as it had occurred. When I asked him to give this account, he hesitated at first,
remarking that the Greeks are vainglorious, and that in spite of their dense
ignorance they think they know everything. He maintained that no affliction more
serious could befall either individual or community than when an ignoramus held
himself to be most wise, since such men could never be freed from their ignorance".
http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/HODOI/concordances/dion_Chrys_Troye_11/lecture
/8.htm
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discou
rses/11*.html
The Ancient Greek text reads: "ἐγὼ οὖν ὡς ἐπυθόμην παρὰ τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἱερέων
ἑνὸς εὖ μάλα γέροντος ἐν τῇ Ὀνούφι, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων καταγελῶντος ὡς
οὐθὲν εἰδότων ἀληθὲς περὶ τῶν πλείστων, καὶ μάλιστα δὴ τεκμηρίῳ τούτῳ χρωμένου
ὅτι Τροίαν τέ εἰσι πεπεισμένοι ὡς ἁλοῦσαν ὑπὸ Ἀγαμέμνονος καὶ ὅτι Ἑλένη
58. συνοικοῦσα Μενελάῳ ἠράσθη Ἀλεξάνδρου· καὶ ταῦτα οὕτως ἄγαν πεπεισμένοι εἰσὶν
ὑφ´ ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐξαπατηθέντες ὥστε καὶ ὀμόσαι ἕκαστος. ἔφη δὲ πᾶσαν τὴν
πρότερον ἱστορίαν γεγράφθαι παρ´ αὐτοῖς, τὴν μὲν ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς, τὴν δ´ ἐν στήλαις
τισί, τὰ δὲ μνημονεύεσθαι μόνον ὑπ´ ὀλίγων, τῶν στηλῶν διαφθαρεισῶν, πολλὰ δὲ
καὶ ἀγνοεῖσθαι τῶν ἐν ταῖς στήλαις γεγραμμένων διὰ τὴν ἀμαθίαν τε καὶ ἀμέλειαν
τῶν ἐπιγιγνομένων· εἶναι δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς νεωτάτοις τὰ περὶ τὴν Τροίαν· τὸν
γὰρ Μενέλαον ἀφικέσθαι παρ´ αὐτοὺς καὶ διηγήσασθαι ἅπαντα ὡς ἐγένετο.
δεομένου δέ μου διηγήσασθαι, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον οὐκ ἐβούλετο, λέγων ὅτι ἀλαζόνες
εἰσὶν οἱ Ἕλληνες καὶ ἀμαθέστατοι ὄντες πολυμαθεστάτους ἑαυτοὺς νομίζουσι·
τούτου δὲ μηθὲν εἶναι νόσημα χαλεπώτερον μήτε ἑνὶ μήτε πολλοῖς ἢ ὅταν τις ἀμαθὴς
ὢν σοφώτατον ἑαυτὸν νομίζῃ. τοὺς γὰρ τοιούτους τῶν ἀνθρώπων μηδέποτε
δύνασθαι τῆς ἀγνοίας ἀπολυθῆναι".
Onouphis (Ὄνουφις; Onuphis; Онуфис) is merely the Ancient Greek rendering of
'Aa Nefer' (: the very good), a usual designation of the bull who manifested as Osiris
Incarnate. As a locality, Onouphis belonged to the fourth ('twenty first') 'nome' (:
district) of Egypt, being currently located ca. 10 km from Tanta in the Western part of
Delta (Mehallet Menouf). About:
https://www.trismegistos.org/geo/detail.php?tm=3093
https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/28498.html
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727179
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onouphis
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Ancient_Egypt_map-
hiero.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menouf
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Минуф
Sylvain Dhennin, (Per-) Inbou, Per-Noubet et Onouphis. Une question de toponymie
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01769471
Also:
Dio Chrysostom (a brief, though interesting and up-to-the-point comment)
https://luwianstudies.org/dio-chrysostom/
Austin, Norman. "5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt". Helen of Troy and Her
Shameless Phantom, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, pp. 118-136.
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720703-009
VII. The absolute denigration of the Late Antiquity Greeks by
the Ancient Egyptian high priest as the destination of Human
History
It is not my intention at this point to analyze the devastating denigration of the
Ancient Greeks, as it was made by the Ancient Egyptian sacerdotal interlocutor of
Dio Chrysostom, but I have to state that it consists in one of the many solid proofs
about the absolute inferiority of the so-called Ancient Greek civilization as regards
Egypt, Cush (Ancient Sudan), Canaan, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Iran. This topic is
at the epicenter of today's worldwide polarizations with respect to Spirituality, Cult,
Mysticism, Genius, Wisdom, Intellect, Knowledge, Moral, Art, Science, Governance,
and Culture. Every effort and concertation in view of a multipolar world hinges on
this very issue.
59. Either the numerous different countries, traditions and cultures will
eliminate and utterly delete the fallacy and forgery of Ancient Greece, as
stipulated by the racist, colonial intellectuals of Western European
Renaissance (1400-1600) and repeated by all the posterior, colonial,
academics down to our days, …
… or the entire Mankind will disappear in the forthcoming nuclear
annihilation that the corrupt values, the absurd mentality, the pathetic
ignorance, the villainous attitude, the lowly behavior, the profane character,
and the sacrilegious mindset of the modern Western nations (as impacted by
the fallacious Greco-centric and Euro-centric education, academic life, and
intellectual endeavors of their blind, paranoid and dictatorial elites) will
inevitably cause.
Christianity irreversibly deleted the pernicious, evil, barbarian, nonsensical and
uncouth 'culture' of the so-called Ancient Greeks; it took some time for several
Christian Roman Emperors to physically exterminate those among the Ancient Greek
speaking populations who did not accept Christianity, but around the time of
Justinian I (527-565), the disreputable and blasphemous profanity named 'Greece'
was already extinct – thank God!
But, starting with the Renaissance, all the Anti-Christian forces of Western Europe
started deploying a colossal effort to revive the dead culture of the world's most
infamous past. This is the reason for which the Western European conquistadors and
other colonial officers and armies perpetrated so many physical and spiritual
genocides throughout the world. In fact, the Western European effort to revive the
defunct pseudo-civilization of the Ancient Greeks is tantamount to and absurd and
intentional worldwide Zombification, which will end up with the revelation of their
eschatological agenda that provides for the presentation of the Antichrist as the true
Christ or Messiah or Mahdi or Savior.
Although they presented their topic in a pertinent and persuasive manner, Anatoly
V. Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev failed to realize that the Ancient Egyptian
priest's words (as preserved in Dio Chrysostom's text) "… are vainglorious, and that in
spite of their dense ignorance they think they know everything. He maintained that no
affliction more serious could befall either individual or community than when an ignoramus
held himself to be most wise, since such men could never be freed from their ignorance" are at
the very origin of every racism, barbarism, Nazism, odium and inhumanity. But, I
must admit that this was not the real focus of their research.
VIII. Dio Chrysostom's Egyptian sacerdotal interlocutor had
read Ramses III's Annals
Now, when it comes to the contents of the lesson that the Ancient Egyptian priest
gave to Dio Chrysostom, we can conclude about what it may approximately have
been. The Anatolian Roman orator mentions a specific point, which proves the
veracity of the encounter that he describes; the Ancient Egyptian priest states that
"the history of earlier times was recorded in Egypt, in part in the temples, in part
upon certain columns"; this is absolutely true. Major historical acts, Pharaonic
60. campaigns, significant battles, remarkable expeditions, what modern Egyptologists
call the 'Annals' of the Pharaohs, and the indispensable libations to gods that took
place at the end of each great event, all were narrated, inscribed and depicted on
spiritually selected parts of the walls and on some of the columns of the Ancient
Egyptian temples.
Every Ancient Egyptian temple was considered as a minimal representation of the
Universe; the architectural parts of the temples corresponded to the sections of the
macrocosm. In fact, every single temple was (and had to be) an interpretation of the
Creation or, if you prefer, an adaptation of the parts of cosmos into the theoretical
background that the sacerdotal architects of the temple envisioned, taught and
propagated. This consists in one more reason for which I constantly refer to the
unmatched superiority of the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hittite Anatolian,
Canaanite and Iranian civilizations and to the unfathomable inferiority of the so-
called Ancient Greek civilization {where the temples had only to be 'beautiful'
brothels for fallen, pathetic priests, prostitutes ('priestesses'), and ignorant, idiotic
laymen to perform orgies in veneration of their fake gods}.
So, and this is quite significant, the historical deeds of the pharaohs, however critical
they may have been, along with the final libation that consecrated their successes,
were written on the external walls and on some architectural members of the outer
courtyard and the columned hall of mortuary temples. In very few cases, such deeds
were narrated on the walls of cult temples. And in extremely rare cases, the annals of
a pharaoh were inscribed on the internal walls of the chamber housing the Holy of
Holies where supreme spiritual acts were performed. This depended exclusively on
the relationship that the pharaoh in question had with the specific temple's high
priest and hierophant (the two most influential sacerdotal figures during the mystical
performance of cult). An example of Pharaonic Annals written in internal parts of
cult temples is offered in the case of Thutmose III (in the temple of Amun at Karnak,
Luxor/Thebes of Egypt). About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тутмос_III#Памятники,_повествующие_о_войнах
_Тутмоса_в_Азии
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Thutmose_III
An example of Pharaonic Annals inscribed on walls and colonnades of mortuary
temples is given in the case of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el Bahri (Thebes West).
The Expedition to Punt (near Ras Hafun in today's Somalia) was narrated on the
walls and the columns of the second colonnade (southern or left side). About:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пунт#Экспедиции_Хатшепсут_и_Тутмоса_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_Temple_of_Hatshepsut#Terraces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut#Trade_routes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt
What Dio Chrysostom's sacerdotal interlocutor may have had in mind when
speaking about texts inscribed on walls and columns that related to historical facts
associated to what his suppliant called 'Trojan War' we can easily assess by studying
and comprehending the Ancient Egyptian narratives of the three battles that Ramses
III fought in order to save Egypt and the world civilization from the barbarian and
unholy Sea Peoples. The texts and the bas-reliefs of his mortuary temple at Medinet
Habu (Thebes West) offer the proper contextualization of the conversation that took
61. place in Onouphis (more than 1300 years after the battles were fought), according to
what we read in paragraph 37 of Dio Chrysostom's 11th discourse.
The Ancient Egyptian texts and bas-reliefs were first written on papyri and then
engraved on walls and columns; the final text corresponded to spiritual, sacerdotal
and Pharaonic norms, but it was elaborated on the basis of various reports, earlier
records, and several drafts that offered abundant if not nauseating details that were
not necessary (or even permissible) in the final narrative. Apparently what was later
mythologized by Homer and others as the 'Trojan War' was an unimportant event, a
skirmish or a foolish attempt, which caused the thunderous reaction of the majority
of the populations of Western Anatolia, Anatolian Sea, Crete, and South Balkans,
thus terminating not only the weak authority of the tiny Achaean kingdoms but also
the formidable preponderance of the Hittite Empire.
Homeric 'Greece': a multi-divided world
In fact, the expedition (poetically overmagnified and viciously exaggerated to fully
unacceptable levels) may have involved the capture of a fortress, but the Achaeans
paid dearly for their loyalty to the Hittites, and this was the reason for which what
modern archaeologists call 'Mycenaean world' vanished from the surface of the
Earth. Even Egypt was exposed for the protection offered to escapees like Menelaus,
and after the destruction of Hattusha and Ugarit, the Sea Peoples attacked with
vehement odium the weakened empire of Ramses III, which was only a shadow of
Thutmose III's Kemet.
62. IX. The fake term 'Ancient Greece' prevents us from assessing
Homer's devastating failure
Fourth Point: the authors' overall evaluation of the impact the Homeric
epics had on Ancient Greece is correct, but inaccurate.
When it comes to Homer and all the Ionian poets of epics and rhapsodies, their
intentional distortion of historical facts had one main target: the erase the memory of
the Sea Peoples' invasions and of the subsequent collapse of the Achaean kingdoms.
At this point, we have also to take into consideration what would have happened if
the Sea Peoples were not dispersed by Ramses III, but won the battles fought against
Egypt and returned home. A totally different culture, diametrically opposed to that
of the militarily strong Hittites and Achaeans, would have prevailed. The notion of
empire would have been replaced by the petty confederations of the Lukka, the
Peleset, and their likes. And there would have never been any Homer and any poet
willing to commemorate the brazen Achaean attempt that finally failed. The Sea
Peoples' invasions, as a major historical event that plunged the wider region of
Western Anatolia, Anatolian Sea, Crete and South Balkans to darkness, ended up in
total failure after the dispersed components of the attackers settled in different
locations throughout the Mediterranean (Sardinia, Sicily, Palestine, Phoenicia) and
lived there in -comparatively with earlier strata- primitive conditions.
It would be perhaps correct to say that Homer created 'Ancient Greece', but
unfortunately, neither Homer nor Ancient Greece ever existed; Homer, as one
specific poet, was the creation of the imagination (and the result of lack of necessary
documentation) of several South Balkan historians, whereas Ancient Greece, as a
hypothetical past entity, was fabricated intentionally by Renaissance intellectuals.
In several points throughout their book, the two authors examine the topic and
ponder whether Homer lived as an independent historical individual or he is merely
the product of a legend concerning the author or the authors of the epics, which were
finally attributed to one person. Anatoly Belyakov and Oleg Matveyshev however
claim that the epics were used in different cities-states as the foundation of their local
culture, education and national identity. This is true, but still it does not fully reveal
the real intentions of the early Ionian epic poets. In addition, the role played by the
epics in the formation of what the two authors call 'Ancient Greece' is questionable to
significant extent.
What Homer and the other epic poets tried apparently to revive was the feeling of
the Achaean unity, commonwealth, and values; but we must not forget even for a
moment that their audiences were mainly the Ionians and the Aeolians of Western
Anatolia, the Anatolian Sea and the South Balkans. Not all the predominantly
Pelasgian and Dorian populations of the wider region! In their outright majority,
they would vehemently reject these epics. And this is quite well known!
Homer did not use the filthy and unholy name of Selloi (i.e. the Pelasgian/Peleset
class of polytheistic priests of the non-Achaean shrine at Dodona: Iliad, 16: 233–235)
as an ethnonym for the forces that attacked Troy. It is only several centuries later,
and due to continuous strives, clashes, conflicts and wars, that the term Selloi or
Hellenes ('Greeks') was imposed by the Dorians onto all the other tribes and settled
63. populations as a recapitulative name to describe the diverse South Balkan clans of
significantly different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. Contrarily to
Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle and others, Homer called the participants of
the anti-Trojan expedition either Achaeans or Danaans. This certainly makes an
enormous difference. The extremely scarce use of the term 'Hellenes' in the epics is a
notable problem per se; no one can really understand in depth the essence of the
narrative, before fully comprehending the fact that for Homer this name was an
abomination.
How can we assess the Trojan War epics' impact on the different tribes of the wider
region? An early approach will certainly flood us with fabulous references, splendid
mentions, and hyperbolic praises of the mythical author(s); it is certain that many
intellectuals and authors in Ionia, Argos, Thebes, Sparta, Attica, and Magna Graecia
(Southern Italy and Sicily) expressed an unequaled respect and an unprecedented
admiration for the author(s) of the epics. This situation continued among certain
Greek-speaking and Roman authors of the Late Antiquity. However, flattering
words consist only in a fraudulent representation of the historical reality. And we
have good reason to believe that Homer did not truly trust these 'words': 'hepea
pteroenta' (winged words). About:
Françoise Letoublon. Epea Pteroenta ( " Winged Words " ). Oral Tradition, 1999: Oral
Tradition, 14 (2), pp. 321 – 335; https://hal.science/hal-01469426
The only straightforward and substantial question that we have to make in order to
evaluate the approximate impact that Homer and the epics attributed to him had on
the various tribes, which inhabited parts of Western Anatolia, the Anatolian Sea,
South Balkans and Crete during the period 700-300 BCE, is the following:
- Did Homer or did he not achieve to pass onto the Ionians and the Aeolians (and
eventually onto other tribes and populations) of the 7th c. BCE the fundamental
spiritual, moral, royal, military, religious, socio-behavioral, cultural, literary, and
artistic values and principles of the 2nd millennium BCE Achaeans?
The only possible response to such a question is a flat 'no'.
The Achaean world, as attested on excavated palaces, temples, fortresses and tombs
and as documented on deciphered texts (Linear B), could not be resurrected from the
dead, and actually it never did.
Many modern scholars, and in the case of the present book both authors, have
correctly concluded that Homer could not and actually did not have access to a
genuine representation of the Achaean world. It goes without saying that what you
fail to first represent to yourself in an authoritative and truthful manner, you cannot
possibly communicate to others in a trustworthy way. Homer could not read any
Linear B inscription, if he happened to ever find one, and the Achaean scribes, who
used to write these texts, were all killed mercilessly by the thunderous rebellion of
the Sea Peoples (Lukka, Peleset/Pelasgians, Tjekker/Teucroi, etc.) before their Hittite
counterparts and allies underwent the same fatal experience.
Only a vague reminiscence of the Achaean world was left among poets, priests and
elder mystics, when the author(s) of the epics were born. So, the conclusion is that we
cannot possibly evaluate Homer's impact onto the Ionians and the Aeolians, before
first identifying his true intentions. Most of the scholars, who address this issue,
64. commit a catastrophic error; they project their wrong viewpoint on 5th and 4th c.
BCE 'Greece' onto the situation that prevailed throughout Western Anatolia, the
Anatolian Sea, Crete, and South Balkans at the end of the 8th and the 7th c. BCE,
when the epic poets of the Ionians composed their rhapsodies.
The biased colonial scholars have already perceived 5th and 4th c. BCE 'Greece' as an
ethnic, linguistic, spiritual and cultural entity whereas it was not; even what they
consider as the boundaries of their fictional 'Ancient Greek world' never existed in
reality. I have to be specific now with respect to 5th and 4th c. BCE 'Greece'.
Caria was not 'Greece'.
Lycia was not 'Greece'.
Ionia was not 'Greece'.
Aeolia was not 'Greece'.
Lydia was not 'Greece'.
Phrygia was not 'Greece'.
Thrace was not 'Greece'.
Macedonia was not 'Greece'.
Illyria was not 'Greece'.
Crete was not 'Greece'.
The Anatolian Sea was not 'Greece'.
And, more importantly, the purely geographical entity 'Greece' did not constitute an
ethnic, linguistic, spiritual and cultural entity; when it comes to governance, the
numerous tiny kingdoms and petty republics were multi-divided, reviled one
another, and, even worse, they were ceaselessly waging wars one upon another,
committing execrable atrocities almost in every spot of the wretched land. You
cannot possibly call those shabby statelets 'Greece' for a very good reason: they did
not call themselves that way.
Most of the so-called Ancient Greek cities-states were against the sacrilegious rulers of Sparta
and Athens who idiotically and pathetically wanted to reject the imperial Iranian rule
65. The aforementioned reality was attested in the fallaciously taught, academically
distorted, and educationally mythologized 'Greek-Persian Wars' that the Carian
traitor and bogus-historian Herodotus wrote and titled 'Median Wars' due to his
malignancy, confusion, and ignorance. In those events, the majority of the Ancient
Greek states rejected to participate and did not side with the barbarian rascals of
Athens and Sparta, who opposed the annexation of the South Balkan extremities to
the Achaemenid Iranian Empire.
The historical truth: the undeniable superiority of the Iranian Civilization over the disorderly
and chaotic Ancient 'Greek' world – Above: Persepolis, a majestic capital that the barbarian
Greeks could never have.
And the Jesuit falsehood that generated Modern Nazism: Raphael's delusional falsehood of the
nonexistent Athens – Below: the Satanic painting that fabricated Modern Europe and Nazism
66. Even more meaningfully, during and after the end of those wars, one after the other,
most of all these trivial tyrants, leaders, pretenders and oligarchs moved to Parsa
(Persepolis), the great imperial capital of Iran, and in a most docile, shameless and
disreputable manner, implored the support and the favors of the Iranian Emperor
against their rivals, relatives, former friends, neighbors, competitors, associates and
assistants. So disgustingly treacherous and felonious they were that they turned the
wider region into a wasp nest. Soon afterwards, they started quarreling, ruining and
devastating one another in the so-called Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). Further
wars among them continued for more than 60 years also involving three 'holy wars'
(355-346 BCE), until a foreign king, Philip II of Macedonia, defeated the alliance of
Thebans and Athenians in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE). And as it is known,
Alexander the Great failed to annex to Macedonia all these petty statelets, because
Sparta and its allies opposed and rejected the Macedonian rule. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnesian_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban%E2%80%93Spartan_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Sacred_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
In the light of these facts, one can effectively identify the epic poets' and Homer's
intentions; as it is well known and as Anatoly Belyakov and Oleg Matveyshev state
repeatedly in their informative and resourceful book, after the Trojan War, all the
Achaean kingdoms were destroyed and the wider region of Western Anatolia, the
Anatolian Sea, Crete, and South Balkans was plunged into decay, barbarism, multi-
divisions, chaos and endless wars. Those centuries were called, not without reason,
by modern scholars 'the Dark Ages'. This was due to the destructions caused due to
the Sea Peoples' rebellions ('in their land of origin' as per the Ancient Egyptian texts),
their invasions, and the final annihilation of the invaders at the gates of Egypt (in
three land and sea battles). However, although extensively recorded in the Ancient
Egyptian Annals, this major event cannot be attested in any Ancient Greek source.
Linear B tablets from Pylos: the nature and the contents of the texts of the Achaean (or
Mycenaean) world testify to the inferiority of the local civilization opposite the Ancient
67. Oriental civilizations: the Ugarit Canaanites, the Anatolian Hittites, the Hurrians, the
Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Elamites. There were no codes of laws, no
epics, no cosmogonies, no myths, no oracles, and no imperial annals written in Linear B.
This, in and by itself, explains very well what the epic poets' intentions were. The
Achaeans had almost entirely disappeared. The Ionians and the Aeolians were a
minority among the indigenous Pelasgians. Then, the so-called 'descent of the
Dorians' added new rivals to the diverse inhabitants of the wider region. Certainly,
the Pelasgians had their own epics and narratives detailing their own achievements:
they had rebelled and burned the Achaean fortresses and palaces; they had attacked
the Hittite Empire and destroyed its sizeable and famous capital, Hattusa; they had
also proceeded further to Syria and Canaan, further spreading terror and fire. And at
the end, they had also attacked Egypt, brazenly pursuing there the last remnants of
the Achaean world who had managed to escape. This is the narrative that Homer's
folk tales managed to eclipse.
In fact, most of the endless wars that took place in the wider region of Western
Anatolia, the Anatolian Sea, Crete, and South Balkans were due to the continuation
of the two irreconcilable traditions and opposite alliances of the 2nd millennium
BCE: the Achaeans with the Hittites vs. the Peleset/Pelasgians with the Lukka and
the Taruisha/Trojans. Finally, a minor operation, namely the capture of a fortress, i.e.
a historical detail, obscured the historical reality, i.e. the fact that the conquerors of
Troy were destroyed in a most irreversible manner, after their useless victory. As the
Hittite Empire had collapsed and the Hittites had relocated from Cappadocia to NW
Mesopotamia and Northern Syria, there was apparently no reason for an Ionian epic
poet to praise the Hittite-Achaean alliance; that's why another specific reason about
the Achaean military campaign had to be invented. But the concealment of the Sea
Peoples' invasions was absolute among the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of
the 1st millennium BCE.
There is however a major reason due to which Homer's effort marked finally a
certain success. The Sea Peoples in their totality had not developed a sophisticated
civilization; it seems that few among them had scribes and priests able to write and
keep records. Some of the non-deciphered writings of the region may eventually
belong to them, but their disastrous defeat in Egypt and dispersion around the
Mediterranean put an end to those colleges of learned men. The fact that these
populations did not have an outstanding writing system to keep their records
written prevented them from saving their narratives and traditions and from
opposing Homer's clearly false narratives.
Quite contrarily, with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet among Ionians, the
conditions were made available for the supporters of Homer's rhapsodies to diffuse
their narrative. As their opponents failed to properly react, the Ionians managed to
form the basis of an Epic History, positioning themselves as the successors to the
Achaeans. That's why they were also able to erase the Pelasgian / Lukka / Trojan
narrative, which constituted the historical truth and was ultimately saved in Egypt.
But the Achaean legend was not reconstituted, and the Ionians, Aeolians and
Dorians were not united. Fallacious when it comes to the historical past, Homer's
epics proved to be purely futile for posterior generations. Being proud about a
tradition that they could not follow or reproduce, the Ionians were contented with
68. literary forms, being however totally deprived of imperial substance. That is why
they were lower than the Ancient Oriental empires and the great civilizations of
those centuries (Sargonid Assyria, Nabonid Babylonia, Achaemenid Iran), pretty
much like the Achaeans were lower than their Hittite allies; this is confirmed by the
undeniable fact that no imperial annals, no cosmogonies, no cosmological myths, no
eschatological revelations, and no spiritual wisdom texts have been found in Linear
B – in striking contrast with the Hittite cuneiform and hieroglyphic documentation.
X. Conclusion
At the end of this very lengthy book review and discussion of the topics presented in
the passionately elaborated book 'The Trojan Horse of Western History' by Anatoly
V. Belyakov and Oleg A. Matveyshev, I have to add few points, although they are
not directly related to the matter. If I do so, this is due to the fact that both authors
wanted also to highly contextualize their approach to and research about the Trojan
War, and the hidden realities behind it (notably in their postface: 'In lieu of an
afterword', p. 169).
The two authors are correct in their suggestion that, by saying lies about the Trojan
War, Homer created Ancient Greece and that by saying lies about Ancient Greece,
Modern Europeans created European History. This issue is definitely crucial because
the vicious and racist historical distortion, which was undertaken by the colonial
historiographers and intellectuals during the Western European Renaissance, hinges
on the Trojan War forgery, since it has been the first to fully epitomize the divisive
falsehood 'East vs. West' (Orient vs. Occident).
Shapur's victory over Valerian in Urfa (Urhoy/Edessa), 260 CE (left); Heraclius' victory
over Khosrow (Chosroes) II in Nineveh, 627 CE: the Iranian-Roman wars lasted almost 700
years, but they were viewed by either opponent as a "Clash between the East and the West".
This undeniable historical fact puts a tombstone on the racist and divisive discourses of
Herodotus, Aeschylus, and their modern Nazi admirers.
Without this entirely Manichaean invention, the criminal murderers and inhuman
conquistadors of Western Europe would have never caused the unprecedented
bloodshed for which they must be exemplarily punished. As a matter of fact, there
was never a division 'East vs. West' in the History of Mankind. The evil Western
European revisionists produced it in order to vilify the Orient and thus present the
shame of Western barbarism as a potential 'civilization'. The execrable forgery of
Herodotus also contributed to this malignantly intentional divide, but it all started
with the inclusion of the Trojan War in the mythical 'history' of the post-Renaissance
Western revisionists. In fact, Nazism starts with the lies about the Trojan War.