A deep dive into the connection between the Phoenicians and Greek mythology as described in Homer’s Odyssey.
Nausithous was the son of the sea god (Neptune in Butler's English, Poseidon in the Greek) and of Periboea, and his son Alcinous rules the island when Ulysses (Odysseus) arrives.
Their alphabet of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century BCE and was later taken up by the Greeks.
The Phaeacians and Phoenicians may each reflect a memory of an earlier sea people, real or imagined, that shaped how the Greeks saw their distant past.
The priest also says the Greeks forgot their deeper history because of these disasters, and Homeric myths may in the same way hold fragments of earlier contact around the Mediterranean.
Like the Phoenicians, they traded widely, and their art and architecture shaped the Mycenaeans, much as the Phoenician alphabet shaped Greek writing.
A comparison was drawn between the Bible and Greek texts, particularly the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The foundational concept underlying the analysis is Antinoo, referring to the intimacy between the Greeks and the Gods in The Odyssey.
A staunch similarity is drawn between this aspect of Greek texts and the Biblical scripture where Eve was shaped from Adam with something that was cut off of him.
Many ideas typically conceived as myths, such as ships guided by thought, align simultaneously with scientifically explainable phenomena, suggesting historical accuracy within both ancient Greek and biblical texts.
The myth of the Pleiades as seven sisters transformed into stars to escape Orion originates from Greek mythology and provides a fascinating explanation for the cluster's presence in the night sky.
Her story is one place where Greek myth and astronomy meet.
Greek tellings talk about Seven Sisters and seasonal calendars.
That is the naming beat I want under the phrase Pleiades in the Talmud: Kimah as a crowded cluster, not only a Greek myth label.
Most search results for Pleiades lean on Greek Seven Sisters lore and seasonal folklore.
Certainly not Hebrew or Greek, for as far as we know, they didn’t exist at that time.
The Mayan tongue lived on in scattered remnants: Polynesian tongues, Greek, Yakut, Egyptian, Eskimo tongues, Nomadic, Oriental, German, American Indian—just about all languages.
A translation-interpretation of Genesis I, II, and III, from a reconstruction of what the Naga must have been to give us the chapters as we have had them in English; then retranslating directly from Naga to English, bypassing Greek and Hebrew.
The earliest written version of the Prometheus myth comes from the Greek poet Hesiod, in his Theogony of the late eighth century BC.
Some readers of Genesis and of the Greek myths treat the Great Flood as the line between an Age of Heroes and an Age of Humans.
In Greek myth Zeus, angered by King Lycaon of Arcadia, sends a deluge to end what Hesiod's scheme calls the Bronze Age, and Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha survive in a chest; see Deucalion and Pyrrha and Ovid's four ages.
The mention of "Aegyptus" ties it to a mythical tradition where a king named Aegyptus gave Egypt its Greek name.
Hellenistic Astrology: The emphasis on specific stars and constellations resonated with Greek and Roman interpretations of the heavens.
Greek and Roman writers, including Eusebius and Josephus, later referenced Manetho’s chronology.
This predates the Greek understanding of history and aligns with Plato’s emphasis on the antiquity of Egyptian records.
Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek (3rd century BCE), described a lineage of kings and a sequence of events spanning 432,000 years before the flood.
British philologist William Jones discovered similarities between Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, leading to theories about a shared origin for these languages.
The New Testament boasts thousands of Greek manuscripts, alongside translations in Coptic, Latin, and other languages.
The video begins by discussing Greek Fire, a military weapon developed by the Byzantine Empire during the 7th century CE.
Greek Fire, also referred to as Sea Fire, Roman Fire, or Liquid Fire, was known for its inextinguishable nature, even intensifying when exposed to water.
Historical records about Greek Fire come from Byzantine military manuals, secondary sources, and chronicles of the time.
Greek Fire was delivered through a siphon placed on ships or siege engines.
Jars filled with Greek Fire, known as "firefield jars," and cranes called "urania" were used to pour it onto enemy vessels.
The Byzantines attributed the invention of Greek Fire to divine intervention, claiming it was revealed by an angel to Emperor Constantine.
The exact composition of Greek Fire remains unknown.
Greek Fire was a highly destructive weapon, particularly effective in naval battles.
The hypothesis presented in the video connects Greek Fire to the apparent heat damage observed on ancient statues in the city of Tannis, located in the Nile Delta of Egypt.
It is speculated that Tannis may have been the location of a battle between the Byzantines and the Persians, potentially involving the use of Greek Fire.
This suggests that the heat damage observed on the statues of Tannis could be consistent with the effects of Greek Fire.
During this time, Crusaders were forming alliances with the Byzantines, and it is speculated that the secret of Greek Fire may have been shared.
Based on the historical context, the video suggests that Greek Fire, or a similar fire-based weapon, could be a plausible explanation for the damage.
The video concludes by stating that the hypothesis linking Greek Fire to the heat damage on the Tannis statues is a plausible explanation based on historical records and the observed effects.
They lacked a tradition of maritime exploration comparable to that of the Phoenicians or Greeks.
Egyptian ships were primarily designed for river navigation, and the establishment of Egypt's first significant Mediterranean port, Alexandria, occurred only in 300 BCE under Greek rule.
Conflict with Giants: The Æsir’s battles with the Jötnar mirror the struggles between the Daityas (Hindu giants) and Devas, or the Olympians overthrowing the Titans in Greek mythology.
They are frequently linked to singing or calling out to sailors with enchanting voices, reminiscent of sirens in Greek mythology.
Andromeda is a central figure in Greek mythology.
Perseus, a Greek hero and son of Zeus, was on his way back from killing Medusa when he came upon Andromeda.
According to Greek mythology, one of them was Perses, the ancestor of the Persian people.
In Greek mythology, Perseus and Andromeda had several children.
According to Greek mythology, he stayed in the kingdom of Cepheus and founded the Persian royal line.
Symbolism: The story of Perses shows the Greek effort to link their myths to the histories and origins of other cultures, including the Persian Empire.
Significance: Alcaeus may have been linked to early Greek dynasties or to the heroic line that led to Heracles (Hercules).
Significance: Through Sthenelus, Perseus’s family stays present in later Greek myth and hero stories.
He has a key place in the family tree of Greek heroes.
Significance: Through Electryon, Perseus’s line leads to Heracles, one of the greatest Greek heroes.
They join Greek myth to the family trees of other cultures and heroes.
Dynastic importance: The descendants of Perseus and Andromeda, Heracles among them, became central figures in Greek hero tales.
The children of Perseus and Andromeda link the mythical past to what the Greeks saw as their history.
The ancient Greeks named the Andromeda constellation after the figure from their mythology.
The name is traditionally credited to ancient Greek astronomers such as Eudoxus of Cnidus (about 4th century BCE) or Hipparchus (2nd century BCE).
The story of Andromeda becoming a constellation appears in Greek mythology.
No single ancient Greek writer is credited with the whole story of her transformation.
Aratus (Phaenomena): Aratus was a Greek poet.
Nereids: In Greek mythology, Nereids are sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus, the sea god.
Apollodorus' Library and Ovid’s Metamorphoses also reference Nereids, detailing their association with Poseidon and their roles in Greek myths.
The Library is a comprehensive compilation of Greek myths, attributed to Apollodorus.
In Greek myth the Sirens sang so sweetly that sailors who heard them never came home.
By the 7th century BC, Greek art regularly showed them as birds with human heads.
Triton is a popular figure in ancient Greek art, appearing in mosaics, sculptures, and pottery.
Sirens: Although often depicted as part-bird in early Greek myths, later interpretations combine Sirens with mermaid-like features.
In Greek myth, Aea (Αἶα) is the land of King Aeëtes, a son of the sun god Helios.
Aea was known to the predecessors of the Greeks, or the early Hellenic people, and it is tied up with both mythology and geographical guesswork.
In Greek mythology, Aea is often identified as a city or land in Colchis.
The predecessors of the Greeks, such as the Minoans or the Mycenaeans, had sea connections that reached into the Atlantic.
The ancient Phoenicians and the pre-Hellenic Greeks were skilled navigators who explored the Mediterranean and possibly the Atlantic coasts.
Sumerian cuneiform writing may reveal more to us about Sumerian culture than we know about theancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
Sumerian knowledge of themovements of the sun and moon resulted in the world’s first calendar, used for centuries afterward by theSemites, Egyptians, and Greeks.
The term mythology stems from the Greek word mythos, simply meaning words or stories reflecting thebasic values and attitudes of a people.
Later,the life of Jesus Christ was added into the mix after the stories had been translated into Greek; the resultwas then “authorized” by a succession of rulers, including Britain’s King James I.
Translated into Greek, malakbecomes angelos, from which we get the word ‘angel/ ”
Studying the floor plans of the Greek temples of Zeus, Athena, Hera, and Apollo and even the Pantheon in Rome, Meyl presents a compelling argument that the dimensions of such sites show an uncanny geometric resemblance based on the golden ratio, an irrational (nonfractional) number, a mathematical constant used by many early artists and architects, who referred to such designs as sacred geometry.
Its name comes from the Greek word graikoi, referring to the original inhabitants of Dodona, which held the oldest known shrine to the god of thunder, Zeus.
By the sixth century BC, Greek power had become concentrated in the two city states of Athens andSparta.
After the Greeks twice defeated Persian invasions, Athens became the center of power and during the next few centuries led the nation’s advancement in science, the arts, and philosophy.
Alexander was a student of the Greek philosopher Aristode, who had been taught by Plato, who had learned from Socrates.
It is important to understand that early on the Sumerians never considered, nor referred to, the beings who brought them knowledge as “gods.” This was a later interpretation by the Romans and Greeks, who fashioned their own gods after the earlier traditions of the Egyptians and earlier civilizations.
The Greek Herodotus, the “father of history,” has been proven truthful in his accounts.
The Scythian city Gelonus was a privileged trading partner to the Greeks until conquered by Alexander.
Herodotus made it quite clear that the Greek gods, and the rites attributed to them, all came from Egypt, conquered by Alexander in 332 BC.
The Egyptian gods simply assumed new names when translated into the Greek language.
One clear example is the Greek term for their pantheon of gods, the Titans, who ruled the earth prior to an insurrection.
The last of these was Horns, the son of Osiris, called by the Greeks Apollo.” As indicated in the comparison chart, Osiris was the Egyptian name for the Anunnaki god Enki, meaning that his son, Horus, would have been Marduk to the Sumerians and Ares to the Greeks, who was the god of war.
It appears that the Greek pyramids, like the Great Pyramid, were aligned with heavenly bodies.
Athletes and musicians gathered every few years in the Greek city of Delphi to compete in the Pythian Games, which may have begun even earlier than the Olympics, which according to tradition began in 776 BC.
Delphi was also home to the Oracle of Delphi, a famed figure in classical Greek mythology.
In Odyssey of the Gods, an account of extraterrestrial contact in ancient Greece, Erich von Danikenwrites of an experience with Theophanias Manias, a Greek Air Force officer who had studied topography at the National Technical University of Athens.
He described thirteen mystical sites within a 450- mile radius of the long-venerated Greek island of Delos connected by straight lines to produce a perfect Maltese Cross, later the emblem of the Knights Templar.
Hesiod, a Greek poet who lived about 700 BC, wrote extensively of the gods in his Theogony, asynthesis of stories concerning the Greek gods.
The classical Greeks also wrote of leaders and rulers who, much like the Anunnaki, were the offspring of humans and gods.
Beyond the overlaps between Sumerian and Greek mythology and the influence the Greeks have had on our culture, it’s possible that the Greeks and their gods are affecting us in ways we might never have imagined.
“All is infinite,” they explained, adding that we would not understand their “ethos,” a Greek word for the character or nature of a people.
As ethos is derived from the Greek and Oltissis sounds Greek, Connors wrote, “My feeling is these[telepathic beings] are the ancient Greeks.
They are the Greek gods.”
Connors’s tale might be written off as a delusion or fabrication, except for a further development.Because he connected his experience to the Greek gods, Connors visited a local library for a book on ancient Greece and stumbled across one entided Ancient Greek Gods and Lore Revisited.
Apparentiy one reference mentioned Oltissis as a historic Greek pleasure palace.
Connors was flabbergasted and never thought to ask the men how they knew he had checked out this book from the library or why a book on ancient Greek gods would have any application to national security.
Since he had mentioned the book’s title in an e-mail to a friend, Connors suspected the agents learned of it through e-mail interception, and he suspected that the Greek god connection, whatever it may be, is a serious matter to certain federal authorities.
John Coleman, a veteran best-selling conspiracy author and a self-proclaimed former MI6 agent,provided connective tissue bringing the tales of Greek gods right up to date.
After the Greeks came the Romans.
It was said Aeneas was the son of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and with his death, at his mother’s request, he was deified as the god Jupiter Indiges.
In 212 BC, a different man, Gaius Sulla, an ardent worshipper of Apollo, organized the first of theannual Ludi Apollinares, or Games of Apollo, honoring the Greek god whose counterparts were Osirisand Enki.
For example, when writing about the Romans, they used the term Kittim, but this word was often misinterpreted to refer to the ancient Chaldeans of Mesopotamia or some of the Greek islands.
Once Christianity became the accepted religion of the empire, pagan holidays were expropriated.Saturnalia, for example, was the winter festival in honor of the god Saturn, the equivalent of the Sumerian god of the heavens, Anu, and the Egyptian god Amen-Ra (known to the Greeks as Cronos).
Saturnalia was merely a latter-day extension of the Greek festival of Kronia, a remembrance of the “Golden Days” when Cronos ruled the world.
Although history lavishes praise on the Greek and Roman empires for the advances they brought inmilitary strategies, construction, and sanitation, scant attention has been paid to the destruction of ancient sacred sites and indigenous cultures as these empires spread across the world.
Only a few of Homer’s poems survived the destruction of his works by the Greek tyrant Pisistratus in Athens.
Donnelly considered that the “gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology, a confused recollection of real historical events.” He also said Egypt was the oldest colony of Atlantis and its civilization, which along with that of the Mayans of Central America represented a primitive reproduction of the Atlantean culture.
“The ancient Greeks didn’t knowthat there was all of this—the North American continent and what we now call the Pacific, which was, inancient days, simply one vast ocean called the Atlantic Ocean,” explained McCanney.
“Greek paintings show the sun in different positions.
“Furthermore, the predecessors of the Greek, the Hellenic people, knew of a place in the Atlantic called Aea.
Sumerian cuneiform writing may reveal more to us about Sumerian culture than we know about theancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
Sumerian knowledge of themovements of the sun and moon resulted in the world’s first calendar, used for centuries afterward by theSemites, Egyptians, and Greeks.
Greek Parallels: The Anunnaki share similarities with the Titans in Greek mythology, particularly in generational conflicts among deities.
Stone Age Seafarers: Stone tools on the Greek island of Crete dating back at least 130,000 years
They also discuss the historical translation of "sin" from an ancient Greek archery term meaning "missing the mark," highlighting how shifts in language can alter theological perceptions.