Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis of Amphiktyon
Kekrops was an indigenous person, as the inhabitants of Athens said. However, as always, the Phoenician scholars come forward and tell their well-known version, that is, that he came from Egypt after passing through Cyprus and building Salamis.
In Athens, he married Agraulon of Aktaeus and became heir to the kingdom. He took a census to find out the number of inhabitants. For this purpose, he appointed each person to throw a stone and 2,000 inhabitants were counted. From then on, it was called “people” from “laas = stone”. Because they were scattered and the Aones of Boeotia and the robbers of Caria were plundering their country, they gathered in twelve cities: Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epakoia, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna, Thoriko, Brauron, Kythera, Sphyto, Kifisia and Phaleron. Each city was also a municipality, and it divided Attica into four tribes, namely: Aktaia, Paralia, Cecropida and Autochthona. Then the tribes and the names multiplied. Cecrops built a temple of Athena on the Acropolis as well as a temple of Zeus and made sacrifices of inanimate objects. He tamed life and changed the wild and beastly diet of people, he prescribed marriage. So children would know their father and their mother. He had the wisdom of a man and the strength of a dragon. They say that he received the kingdom in 1570 BC and reigned for 50 years, and he is said to have been a contemporary of King Lycaon, who is considered the first king of Athens. However, the kings between him and Ogygus are unknown. According to the historian Strabo, he also ruled Boeotia. Pausanias also saw his tomb. He was succeeded by Cranaus. From Agraulis, Ares begot Alcippi, whom Poseidon’s Alirrothius raped and whom Ares killed. Agraulis gave her name to the ‘Agrauli tribe’ of Athens. From Ersis, Hermes begot Kephalus, whom Io abducted and took to Syria. (There is another Kephalus and we should not confuse them) There she begot Tithon, who in turn begot Phaethon, whom Aphrodite accepted as a priestess in her temple. Finally, a descendant of Phaethon named Sandakos with a wife named Farmakis gave birth to Ciniras who became king of Assyria. (And the famous empress of Assyria Semiramis was a Greek from Pontus.) Then Ciniras established a colony in Cyprus and built Paphos. He took as his wife the stepdaughter of Pygmalion, king of the Cypriots, and gave birth to two sons, Oxyporo and Adonis. Commentary: 1/ Since prehistoric times, the Greeks considered the Near East their own and came and went with great ease. This was true until recently because we forgot our fellow countrymen in this region. The Asia Minor disaster emotionally severed our roots in the East and since then we have not been able to come together and see this place that was once friendly and was considered Greece that still remembers us.2/ Cecrops gave the children of Attica the privilege of knowing their father and mother. Today, the “civilized” people of the West, with homosexuality and artificial insemination, have brought back into force the same primitive situation, where children do not know their parents. The characterization of Cecrops as a “dragon” testifies to his local origin. 3/ Syria in prehistoric times was ruled by Greek kings and Hellenism was the carrier of Civilization in the East, including Asia Minor, Egypt, around the Mediterranean, etc. 4/ Before Lycaon and Cecrops there were many kings, the most ancient of which was Ogygus, who is mentioned in the first cataclysm (around 20,000-23,000 years BC). Therefore, Athens is the oldest city in the world. But Hellenism has been present since 45-50,000 years BC. The one that remembers three Floods (Dardanus, Deucalion and Ogygus). So did it need to receive civilization from the Phoenicians who flourished around 800-1000 BC? These are fake palm trees. And those who traffic them should be ashamed.5/ From 2,000 inhabitants then, today the metropolitan area of Athens has 3.7–4.6 million inhabitants. But the Greeks are dwindling in number (18/12/25)
*Amphiktyon, Lieutenant General, Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writershttp://www.amphiktyon.blogspot.com (My main blogAMPHIKTYON ARTICLES & BOOKS-POEMS (old)AMPHIKTYON.BLOGSPOT.COM (In English)ANCIENTOLYMPICS-ATHLETICS (The Olympic Games)amphiktyon-poetry.blogspot.com (My poetry collection)AMPHIKTYONBOOKS (Books, Studies and Timeless Texts)https://amphiktyon.org (My personal website)Anyone who wishes to delete it can do so. request “deletion”