Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphictyon
The degradation and dismemberment of Hellenism is systematic, but Cadmus is the most controversial Greek of antiquity. According to the Ogygia, Agenor came to Phoenicia and married Telephassan and they gave birth to Europa, Cadmus, Phoenicas and Cilicus. There are of course other versions because every people and every writer makes up or modifies the original myth to suit their own needs
Zeus wants to steal this Europa and for this purpose he became a bull and went to Agenor’s herd. When Europa saw him so good and tame, she played with him and at some point climbed onto his back. Then he jumped into the sea and went to Crete. Then Agenor sent his children with the order to find Europe or else not to return. They each sailed with their own fleet, Cadmus with Telephassa and Thasos of Poseidon with Cilicia with his own fleet. But they did not find her and stayed in different places. Phoenix in Phoenicia which took his name, he according to others had Telephassa as his wife and gave birth to Pyrrhus, Astypalaia, Europa and Phoenicia, Cilicia stayed in Cilicia which took his name, while Thasos came to Olympia where he dedicated a statue of ten cubits of Tyrian Heracles, the work of Onatas and from there he came to the island of Thassos and gave it his name. He built a city of the same name and introduced the cult of Heracles of Tyre, which was worshipped until modern times.
Cadmus first came to Rhodes and built a sanctuary of Poseidon, as a vow that saved him from a storm. He left there some Phoenician curators and some offerings to Athena of Lindia. Then he went to the island of Calliste and left a colony with Membliarus as its ruler. He visited many other places and, without reaching Europe, ended up in Thrace, where his mother died. There he discovered the gold mines of Pangaeus. Then he came to the oracle of Delphi, where he received an oracle to stop dealing with Europe, but to follow a cow and wherever it fell, to build a city. He heads towards Phocis, following a cow that had broken away from the herd of Pelagos and it eventually fell into Boeotia. There Cadmus built Cadmeia. The Ectene inhabitants of the area perished in the Ogygus Flood and then came the Aones and Hyantes. The Aones quarreled with Cadmus and left, while the Hyantes stayed and assimilated with the Phoenicians. Then, in order to make a sacrifice to Athena, he sent Deleon and Serifos to find water and they were eaten by the dragon. He killed the dragon and sowed its teeth on the advice of Athena and armed men called Spartans sprang up. Following Athena’s advice, he threw stones at them and they, thinking they were fighting each other, were all killed except Echion, Udaeus, Chthonius, Hyperenorus and Pelorus. According to others, Ares and Athena gave the hated teeth to Athamas and the other half to Aeetes. Another version says that half of the teeth remained with Cadmus and he sowed them and the Sparti people emerged. Enraged by Ares for the murder of the dragon, he kept Cadmus as a slave for a year, which was then equivalent to eight years. Then Athena gave him the kingdom and Zeus gave him Armonia as a wife.
Commentary:
1/ Phoenicia, Greek name <phoinos,-or- which means the purple color of blood. The toponym Phoenicia existed in Greece long before the colonization of the Syrian coasts. It was the capital in N. Epirus, in present-day Phoenicia (near Chimaras). The toponyms Phoenicia and Posidi abound in Greece. an indication of the Greekness of the Phoenicia colony.
2/ According to legend, the name was taken from the Phoenician whom the son of Kali buried on his back and founded the city of Phoenicia with the name of his father. According to another version, the Phoenicia of Epirus was built by a princess who came from the East. She wore 9 roped florins around her neck!
3/ A great flood occurred between 20,000 and 18,000 BC and this is the Ogygus Flood. Two more floods followed: that of Dardanus and that of Deucalion
4/ Chaonia: It occupied part of SW Epirus, where today is Himara. It is mentioned as the ancient capital of Chaonia. It has triple fortification. The boulders reach the dimensions of 3.20 length, 2.20 height and 1.60 width and weigh around 30 tons. . Inside the enclosure stretched the Acropolis, 650 m long. . It was founded in the 5th century BC.
5/ Cadmus, son of Agenor, was a Greek. His father came to Phoenicia from Egypt, a country with a dense Greek population. It had many Greek cities and under the influence of Hermes Trismegistus and the first pharaoh Menes or Minas, son of Minos, king of Crete, he entered civilization. If he had not been a Greek, the native peoples would not have accepted him in Boeotia and the oracle of Delphi would not have given him positive advice to stay in the area. Everything they say about Phoenician ethnicity, language, writing, etc. are lies created to harm the unified culture of the Greek (Pelasgian) world of the region (7/12/25)
*Amphiktyon Major General Konstantinos Konstantinidis
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