Greek Artifacts: Items from the Greek island of Samos, including a bronze piece speculated to depict an ancient submarine.
This structure, dedicated to Zeus, the Greek god of the sky, is an unusual find in a region typically associated with ancient Egyptian deities like Isis, Horus, and Ra.
This Greek ruling family maintained its heritage while respecting Egyptian customs, leading to a cultural blend evident in art, architecture, and religion.
The mountain was significant to various cultures, including the Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Greeks.
For the Greeks, Zeus Kasios represented a fusion of their god Zeus with a local storm deity.
Long before the Greeks, the mountain was sacred to the Canaanites, who worshipped Baal, a storm god whose characteristics influenced deities in both the Egyptian and Greek pantheons.
The Temple of Zeus Kasios at Pelusium represents a historical intersection of Egyptian, Greek, Canaanite, and Roman influences.
The term "Bible" originates from the Greek word Biblos, meaning "books," emphasizing that the Bible is a collection of texts.
The film is set in 1918 and follows Milo, a scholar who leads an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis, described in Greek mythology as a civilization that sank beneath the ocean.
Themes of Mythology: The film blends Greek mythology and esoteric symbols, tying the Atlantean story to various mythological and historical interpretations.
Earlier fragments in Greek exist but are more incomplete.
This practice became standard by the time the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek, around 200 BCE.
In Greek, the Divine name was replaced with Kyrios (Κύριος), meaning "Lord."
Atlantis is the legendary continent mentioned by the Greek philosopher Plato, who in one of his "conversations" told how the priests of the Egyptian Temple of Sais related to Solon, the great lawmaker the story of its destruction about 9000 years B.
The racial memory of Atlantis is found in the legends of the Garden of Eden of the Bible, the Garden of the Hesperides of the Greeks, the Asgard of the Scandinavians, the Tir n'Og of the Celts and in all the legends of a wonderful, mysterious land in which dwelt gods or godlike mortals.
The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, Hindoos and Scandinavians were simply the Kings, Queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.
Heinrich Schliemann whose work was to give a new impetus to the study of Greek origins and to be the beginning of the revelation of an unknown world of ancient days, was born at Neu-Bucknow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, on January 6, 1822.
Circumcision stamped out the disease in Atlantis; we read of one Atlantean king, the Greek god Ouranos, who, in a time of plague, compelled his whole army and the armies of his allies to undergo the rite.
The people represented at least two different races: a dark brown reddish race, akin to the Central Americans, the Berbers and the Egyptians; and a white race, like the Greeks, Goths, Celts, and Scandinavians.
This was not the work of a few years, but of many centuries; and the relations between these colonies may have been something like the relation between the different colonies that in a later age were established by the Phœnicians, the Greeks, and the Romans; there was an intermingling with the more ancient races, the autochthones of the different lands where they settled; and the same crossing of stocks, which we know to have been continued all through the Historical Period, must have been going on for thousands of years, whereby new races and new dialects were formed; and the result of all this has been that the smaller races of antiquity have grown larger, while all the complexions shade into each other, so that we can pass from the whitest to the darkest by insensible degrees.
"The conflicts between the Kelts (an Aryan race) and the Iberians were far anterior in date to the settlements of the Phœnicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Noachites on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea." ("American Cyclopædia," art.
Pezron, in his "Antiquity of the Celtæ," make out that the Celtæ were the same as the Titans, the giant race who rebelled in Atlantis, and "that their princes were the same with the giants of Scripture." He adds that the word Titan "is perfect Celtic, and comes from tit, the earth, and ten or den, man, and hence the Greeks very properly also called them terriginæ, or earth-born." And it will be remembered that Plato uses the same phrase when he speaks of the race into which Poseidon intermarried as "the earth-born primeval men of that country."
The Greeks, who are Aryans, traced their descent from the people who were destroyed by the Flood, as did other races clearly Aryan.
"The nations who are comprehended under the common appellation of Indo-European," says Max Müller--"the Hindoos, the Persians, the Celts, Germans, Romans, Greeks, and Slavs--do not only share the same words and the same grammar, slightly modified in each country, but they seem to have likewise preserved a mass of popular traditions which had grown up before they left their common home."
They had progressed so far as to perfect "a decimal system of enumeration, in itself," says Max Müller, "one of the most marvellous achievements of the human mind, based on an abstract conception of quantity, regulated by a philosophical classification, and yet conceived, nurtured, and finished before the soil of Europe was trodden by Greek, Roman, Slav, or Teuton."
Where, we ask, could this ancient nation, which existed before Greek was Greek, Celt was Celt, Hindoo was Hindoo, or Goth was Goth, have been located!
And it must not be forgotten that Greek mythology tells us that the god-like race who dwelt on Olympus, that great island "in the midst of the Atlantic," in the remote west, wrought in iron; and we find the remains of an iron sword and meteoric iron weapons in the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, while the name of the metal is found in the ancient languages of Peru and Chili, and the Incas worked in iron on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
We have seen that Greek mythology is really a history of the kings and queens of Atlantis.
The Hindoo god Varuna is conceded to be the Greek god Uranos, who was the founder of the royal family of Atlantis.
But, above all, it must be remembered that the Greeks, an Aryan race, in their mythological traditions, show the closest relationship to Atlantis.
We find in the "Eleusinian mysteries" an Atlantean institution; their influence during the whole period of Greek history down to the coming of Christianity was extraordinary; and even then this masonry of Pre-Christian days, in which kings and emperors begged to be initiated, was, it is claimed, continued to our own times in our own Freemasons, who trace their descent back to "a Dionysiac fraternity which originated in Attika." And just as we have seen the Saturnalian festivities of Italy descending from Atlantean harvest-feasts, so these Eleusinian mysteries can be traced back to Plato's island.
Poseidon was at the base of them; the first hierophant, Eumolpus, was "a son of Poseidon," and all the ceremonies were associated with seed-time and harvest, and with Demeter or Ceres, an Atlantean goddess, daughter of Chronos, who first taught the Greeks to use the plough and to plant barley.
We have seen that Zeus, the king of Atlantis, whose tomb was shown at Crete, was transformed into the Greek god Zeus; and in like manner we find him reappearing among the Hindoos as Dyaus.
He is called "Dyaus-pitar," or God the Father, as among the Greeks we have Zeus-pater," which became among the Romans "Jupiter."
We have seen in the chapter on Greek mythology that Dionysos was a son of Zeus and grandson of Poseidon, being thus identified with Atlantis.
"When he arrived at manhood," said the Greeks, "he set out on a journey through all known countries, even into the remotest parts of India, instructing the people, as be proceeded, how to tend the vine, and how to practise many other arts of peace, besides teaching them the value of just and honorable dealings.
"All the legends of Egypt, India, Asia Minor, and the older Greeks describe him as a king very great during his life, and deified after death.
As the Egyptians and the Greeks looked to a happy abode (an under-world) in the west, beyond the waters, so the Aryan's paradise was the other side of some body of water.
113, 7.) This is the paradise beyond the seas; the Elysion; the Elysian Fields of the Greek and the Egyptian, located upon an island in the Atlantic which was destroyed by water.
The Greek legends tell us of the rebellions inaugurated at different times in Olympus.
The Titans seem to have had a government of their own, and the names of twelve of their kings are given in the Greek mythology (see Murray, p.
Here we have, I think, a reference to the three races: 1, the red or sunburnt men, like the Egyptians, the Phœnicians, the Basques, and the Berber and Cushite stocks; 2, the sons of Shem, possibly the yellow or Turanian race; and 3, the whiter men, the Aryans, the Greeks, Kelts, Goths, Slavs, etc.
But if we can suppose the Bactrian population to have left Atlantis at an early date, and the Greeks, Latins, and Celts to have left it at a later period, then they would indeed be the "Young Ones" of the family, following on the heels of the earlier migrations, and herein we would find the explanation of the resemblance between the Latin and Celtic tongues.
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In the ancient language of the Hindoos, the Sanscrit--which has been a dead language for twenty-two hundred years--the magnet was called "the precious stone beloved of Iron." The Talmud speaks of it as "the stone of attraction;" and it is alluded to in the early Hebrew prayers as Kalamitah, the same name given it by the Greeks, from the reed upon which the compass floated.
Do we find in this curious designation of iron and loadstone as "bones of the descendants of the earth," an explanation of that otherwise inexplicable Greek legend about Deucalion "throwing the bones of the earth behind him, when instantly men rose from the ground, and the world was repeopled?" Does it mean that by means of the magnet he sailed, after the Flood, to the European colonies of Atlantis.
Hercules was, as we know, a god of Atlantis, and Oceanos, who lent the magnetic cup to Hercules, was the Dame by which the Greeks designated the Atlantic Ocean.
When Hercules left the coast of Europe to sail to the island of Erythea in the Atlantic, in the remote west, we are told, in Greek mythology (Murray, p.
"Greek-fire" is supposed to have been gunpowder mixed with resin or petroleum, and thrown in the form of fuses and explosive shells.
Having traced the knowledge of gunpowder back to the most remote times, and to the different races which were descended from Atlantis, we are not surprised to find in the legends of Greek mythology events described which are only explicable by supposing that the Atlanteans possessed the secret of this powerful explosive.
Iron.--have seen that the Greek mythological legends asserted that before the submergence of the great race over whom their gods reigned there had been not only an Age of Bronze but an Age of Iron.
The Iron Age in Northern Europe far antedated intercourse with the Greeks or Romans.
Agriculture.--The Greek traditions of "the golden apples of the Hesperides" and "the golden fleece" point to Atlantis.
Humboldt says, "The Chaldeans knew the mean motions of the moon with an exactness which induced the Greek astronomers to use their calculations for the foundation of a lunar theory." The Chaldeans knew the true nature of comets, and could foretell their reappearance.
The Greeks associated the origin of astronomy with Atlas and Hercules, Atlantean kings or heroes.
He says--"Dialogues, Timæus"--"The earth circling around the pole (which is extended through the universe) be made to be the artificer of night and day." All this Greek learning was probably drawn from the Egyptians.
That period transcends the recollection of every one of the Semitic races, in the same way as neither Hindoos, Greeks, nor Romans have any recollection of the time when they spoke a common language, and worshipped their Father in heaven by a name that was as yet neither Sanscrit, nor Greek, nor Latin.
Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic point to a common source as much as Sanscrit, Greek, and Latin; and unless we can bring ourselves to doubt that the Hindoos, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Teutons derived the worship of their principal deity from their common Aryan sanctuary, we shall not be able to deny that there was likewise a primitive religion of the whole Semitic race, and that El, the Strong One in heaven, was invoked by the ancestors of all the Semitic races before there were Babylonians in Babylon, Phœnicians in Sidon and Tyrus--before there were Jews in Mesopotamia or Jerusalem.
Another evidence of the connection between the Greeks, Phœnicians, Hebrews, and Atlanteans is shown in the name of Adonis.
The Greeks tell us that Adonis was the lover of Aphrodite, or Venus, who was the offspring of Uranus--"she came out of the sea;" Uranus was the father of Chronos, and the grandfather of Poseidon, king of Atlantis.
Compare this last figure, from Peru, with the representation on page 430 of a Greek siren, one of those cruel monsters who, according to Grecian mythology, sat in the midst of bones and blood, tempting men to ruin by their sweet music.
This surprising discovery brings the Chinese civilization still nearer to the Mediterranean head-quarters of the races, and increases the probability that the arts of China were of Atlantean origin; and that the name of Nai Hoang-ti, or Nai Korti, the founder of Chinese civilization, may be a reminiscence of Nakhunta, the chief of the gods, as recorded in the Susian texts, and this, in turn, a recollection of the Deva-Nahusha of the Hindoos, the Dionysos of the Greeks, the king of Atlantis, whose great empire reached to the "farther parts of India," and embraced, according to Plato, "parts of the continent of America."
In the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic zug means to join, to couple; from this the Greeks obtained zugos, the Romans jugum, and we the word yoke; while the Germans obtained jok or jog, the Dutch juk, the Swedes ok.
The Chaldee rag, ragag, means to desire, to long for; it is the same as the Greek oregw, the Latin porrigere, the Saxon rœccan, the Icelandic rakna, the German reichen, and our to reach, to rage.
If we concede that the Jews were also a branch of the Hamitic stock, then we have, firstly, a Semitic stock, the Turanian, embracing the Etruscans, the Finns, the Tartars, the Mongols, the Chinese, and Japanese; secondly, a Hamitic family, "the sunburnt" race--a red race--including the Cushites, Phœnicians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Berbers, etc.; and, thirdly, a Japhetic or whiter stock, embracing the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Goths, and the men who wrote Sanscrit-in other words, the entire Aryan family.
The Greeks called Ireland the "Sacred Isle" and "Ogygia."
"Nor can any one," says Camden, "conceive why they should call it Ogygia, unless, perhaps, from its antiquity; for the Greeks called nothing Ogygia unless what was extremely ancient." We have seen that Ogyges was connected by the Greek legends with a first deluge, and that Ogyges was "a quite mythical personage, lost in the night of ages."
The metempsychosis or transmigration of souls was one of the articles of their belief long before the time of Pythagoras; it had probably been drawn from the storehouse of Atlantis, whence it passed to the Druids, the Greeks, and the Hindoos.
The Irish wakes are identical with the funeral feasts of the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans.
The practice of the creditor fasting at the door-step of his debtor until be is paid, is known to both countries; the kindly "God save you!" is the same as the Eastern "God be gracious to you, my son!" The reverence for the wren in Ireland and Scotland reminds us of the Oriental and Greek respect for that bird.
This is the Greek story of Elysion; these are the Elysian Fields of the Egyptians; these are the Gardens of the Hesperides; this is the region in the West to which the peasant of Brittany looks from the shores of Cape Raz; this is Atlantis.
This is the universal empire over which, the Hindoo books tell us, Deva Nahusha was ruler; this was "the great and aggressive empire" to which Plato alludes; this was the mighty kingdom, embracing the whole of the then known world, from which the Greeks obtained their conception of the universal father of all men in King Zeus.
Thus, a word like πλέω in Greek would be unpleasant to the Peruvian's ear, and he says pillui, 'I sail.' The plu, again, in pluma, a feather, is said to be found in pillu, 'to fly.' Quichua has no v, any more than Greek has, and just as the Greeks had to spell Roman words beginning with V with Ou, like Valerius--Οὐαλέριος--so, where Sanscrit has v, Quichua has sometimes hu.
The same root gives kara, the hand, the Greek χεέρ, and kkalli, brave, which a person of fancy may connect with καλόσ.
It is impossible to do more than refer to the supposed Aryan roots contained in the glossary, but it may be noticed that the future of the Quichuan verb is formed in s-I love, Munani; I shall love, Munasa--and that the affixes denoting cases in the noun are curiously like the Greek prepositions."
19.) The Elysian Fields were the "Elysion" of the Greeks, the abode of the blessed, which we have seen was an island in the remote west." The Egyptian belief referred to a real country; they described its cities, mountains, and rivers; one of the latter was called Uranes, a name which reminds us of the Atlantean god Uranos.
Those Greeks whom we regard as the fathers of mathematics were simply pupils of Egypt.
To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan."
"One-third of this tongue (the Maya) is pure Greek.
Greek is the offspring of the Sanscrit.
Now, the Babylonians believed in the existence of a patriarch named Sisit, the Xisuthrus of the Greeks, who was supposed to have been translated and to have attained to immortality without death.
After long wanderings, Izdubar falls into company with a seaman named Urbamsi, a name similar to the Orchamus of the Greeks.
This is the least satisfactory part of the subject, for, while the Greek forms show variant readings and have evidently been corrupted, the Cuneiform names on the other hand, being written mostly in monograms, are difficult to render phonetically.
The father of the hero of the Flood bears in the inscriptions the name Ubara-tutu which ought to correspond to one of the Greek forms, Otiártes or Ardátes; the resemblance however cannot be called a close one.
The hero of the Flood I have provisionally called Sisit; he corresponds, of course, to the Greek Xisuthrus, but no comparison of the two names can be made until we know the phonetic reading of the Cuneiform name.
Neither the Cuneiform nor the Greek names appear to have any connection with the Biblical Lamech and Noah.
The Cuneiform account agrees with the Biblical narrative in making the Deluge a divine punishment for the wickedness of the world; this point is omitted in the Greek accounts of Berosus.
Now, in the account of Berosus, the god who announces the Deluge is stated to be Cronos; so this passage gives us the Cuneiform name of the deity identified by the Greeks with Cronos.
The Greek account states that the communication of the coming Deluge was made in a dream.
The Greek account of Berosus is silent as to the duration of the Deluge.
From whence comes the story of the flood, the ark, of the birds?" Various conflicting answers have been given to these important questions, while evidence on these subjects before the Greek period has been entirely wanting.
Similarities between Dutch and Greek place names, such as Tessel and Thessaloniki.
The term “Gnostic” originates from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge.
Origin: A variant spelling of John, which itself is derived from the Latin Iohannes, a form of the Greek Ioannes, rooted in the Hebrew Yochanan.
Greek: Transliterated to Ioannes during the Hellenistic period.
Titles: The Virgin Mary, Mother of God (Theotokos in Greek), Our Lady.
Medes is from that self-destroying language, Greek; the word in the Panicshould be, Me-de; and if applied to earth, Me-de-ya, and not Media.
Despoina is a relatively obscure but important figure in Greek mythology.
Despoina's role in Greek mythology and religion highlights ancient Greek worship's localized and esoteric aspects.
She reminds us of the diversity within Greek religious practices, where major gods like Demeter and Poseidon had local offshoots or manifestations.
Persephone is a significant figure in Greek mythology.
Persephone's only full sibling (sharing both Zeus and Demeter as parents) was Despoina, a lesser-known deity in Greek mythology associated with mysteries and fertility.
The priest claimed that Egyptian civilization had records of events far older than those known to the Greeks, including the story of a mighty island empire called Atlantis.
Atlantis has Greek origins, deriving from Atlas, the mythical Titan who held up the heavens in Greek mythology.
Greek Origin of Atlantis:
In Greek, "Atlantis" means "of Atlas" or "belonging to Atlas." The story suggests that the island was named after the Titan Atlas and is associated with the Atlantic Ocean.
Plato's account is firmly rooted in Greek mythology and linguistic traditions.
The root "Atl", meaning water, originates from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, not Greek or Arabic.
While there is no direct linguistic link between Nahuatl and Greek or Arabic, let's explore this in a broader context.
Greek Derivation:
Atlantis comes from Atlas, a Greek Titan.
While "Atl" as "water" is not Greek, the connection between Atlantis and the sea is central to the myth, making the linguistic coincidence intriguing.
Atlantis's name, derived from Greek, aligns with its mythic characterization as a maritime civilization.
Argiope, meaning "silver-faced," is a figure in Greek mythology associated with different stories and regions.
Thus, she was connected to the royal mythology of Boeotia, a significant center of Greek culture and politics during ancient times.
" It is derived from the Greek words "Argos" (ἀργός), meaning bright or shining, and "ops" (ὤψ), meaning face or eye.
In Greek mythology, naiads like Argiope were often linked with rivers, springs, and other bodies of freshwater.
The figure of Libya in Greek mythology is somewhat enigmatic but holds significant cultural importance.
Her parents’ lineage links her to the divine and mythological figures prominent in ancient Greek storytelling.
Epaphus was a son of Zeus and Io, which made Libya part of a family that was key in linking Greek myths with Egyptian culture.
Libya's sons also played roles that linked Greek and non-Greek cultures, emphasizing the ancient Greeks' awareness of, and fascination with, other civilizations.
The ancient Greeks viewed Libya as a key part of the world, rich with resources and full of exotic peoples and animals.
Libya, as a character, therefore embodies these elements, representing both a divine connection and a link to the broader world beyond the more familiar territories of the Greek mainland and the Aegean Sea.
As a female figure in Greek mythology, Libya's relationships with major gods and her role as the mother of important sons situates her within the broader narrative of expanding Greek influence and mythology beyond the Greek heartlands.
Her link to Poseidon, the god associated with the sea and thus exploration, also reflects the importance of maritime travel and connections in Greek culture.
Greek world and the foreign, fascinating lands of North Africa, and establishing genealogies that extend Greek influence far beyond their familiar territories.
Europa would later become the queen of Crete, and her sons—Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon—would play vital roles in Greek mythological history.