Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon
The positions that certain foreigners still maintain today regarding Greek prehistory are entirely contradictory. For while it has been proven that the Greek land has been inhabited by farmers at least since the 7th millennium BC, how is it possible that at the same time Greek traditions concerning the life of the Greeks in the 2nd millennium BC are called into question?
This constitutes blatant ignorance, lack of knowledge on the part of so-called “experts,” or an unjust mistreatment of Greek—as well as world—prehistory and truth, if not something more insidious and ill-intentioned. And it is not only these individuals, but an entire system that delivers the darkest blows against Hellenism. For what other state, even a third-world one, after bankruptcy had 35% of its wealth taken, as happened to our country in 2010–2018?
Let us note that before Homer and Hesiod there were other poets, rhapsodes, and intellectuals such as Olyn, Orpheus, Jason, and others, who dealt with the interpretation of natural phenomena and the study of societies and city-states of their time (Callimachus’ Olyn, “Hymn to Delos” and “On the Hyperboreans,” “Orphic Hymns”).
Dozens of well-known or lesser-known ancient authors refer to Orpheus and the Orphics and provide information about the ancient Greek tribes that lived and acted in the Greek area during this prehistoric period, as is evidenced by astronomical observations and interpretations.
Indicatively mentioned are: Ion Tragikos (“Triagmoí” and “Hierapostoliká”), Theognetos of Thessaly (“Neoteftiká”), Kerkon the Pythagorean (“Sacred Discourses”), and a whole series (as Orphics, p. 33).
A major reference to Orpheus is also given in “Ogygia” by Athanasios Stageritis—undeniable evidence that this person certainly existed and was not mythical; he was Greek by origin, a spiritual revolutionary and reformer for his time, possessing much knowledge which he wished to spread throughout the then known world through his cultural expeditions (the Argonaut campaign). Moreover, he was a moral individual. Known myth-makers arbitrarily set limits for that period, that is, after 900 BC. However, they were utterly disproven, since their dating became known through the astronomical phenomena they had recorded and goes back thousands of years earlier.
Furthermore, the Indians (Mahabharata, Puranas, etc.) contain elements that strikingly resemble certain Orphic texts. And since Indian traditions (D. Galanos, “Ta Indika”) are considered much older than the chronological estimates of foreigners regarding the origin of the Greek race and writing beyond 900 BC…
Such important texts for the history of civilization—and yet both the foreign and local establishment have devalued them by labeling them as mythology and have cast them into obscurity.
Thus, the Orphic texts are older than the Indian, Assyro-Babylonian, and Egyptian ones, and their spirit greatly influenced them. Therefore, the Greeks were the first teachers of the then known world. These events date back to very ancient times: with the melting of the ice in the north, geological changes occurred in the region, such as the rupture of the Bosporus and the Hellespont. This gradually flooded the Aegean and created the islands. The inhabitants of the Aegean, out of necessity, invented ships in order to communicate with each other and became the first seafarers.
However, the flooded Aegean and surrounding coasts created a migratory wave of pastoral populations who, with their herds, moved northward and eventually reached Northern Europe by land and the Black Sea by sea. They carried with them their religion, language, customs, and culture. This language, corrupted over millennia and mixed with linguistic elements of local peoples, was named by ignorant or even deceitful so-called experts “Indo-Germanic.” They needed to honor the Germanic race in some way, whose philosophers themselves said—as the great philosopher Nietzsche did, not out of malice but as a statement of reality: “Cursed Greek, wherever I go, you pursue me.”
Let us also note that in Japan there existed for many centuries a populous tribe of white Ainu (= Ionians), just as in the Philippines there were remnants of whites who gave the country its name, as well as in other islands. Yet nowhere are these mentioned by anthropologists. The presence of whites in the Pacific Ocean shows that the white Achaeans, called by foreigners Ionians (= Yunan), reached Asia as far as China and the Pacific Ocean. How did place names and Greek words come to exist in the languages of local peoples before modern explorers visited them?
I was astonished by a ritual performance in the theater of Pyongyang whose theme, aesthetics, and music resembled the ancient work “Daphnis and Chloe.” It is remarkable how Greek art reached that far.
Of course, there were Greek geographers and explorers who sailed along the coasts of China, such as Marcian of Heraclea (“Greek Geographers”) and Cosmas Indicopleustes, as well as references to Euhemerus and Nearchus (Encyclopedia “Helios,” 20/3/26).
Amphiktyon – Retired Lieutenant General Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writers
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