Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon
In the pre-Classical era, Museums were the schools with libraries of knowledge where the initiates studied. Many of the oracles of antiquity bore the old title “Museum” because they possessed large libraries and accepted young people for studies. The largest oracle and Museum was the Dodonaean Oracle of Olympus, which, after the great floods and the upheavals of the Aegean land (following the Deluge of Ogygus, approximately 25,000 B.C.), saw its priests transfer the sacred books to Egypt and establish the Oracle of Ammon Zeus.
This was located in a coastal area that later became a desert (due to subsidence of Atlandis
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The Muses and the priests—the guardians of the Logos—translated the books and were responsible for the preservation, protection, and dissemination of the treasures of knowledge: the sacred traditions of the ancestors, letters, arts, and more.
In a later era, some of the priests of Ammon Zeus returned to Greece and founded the later Oracle of Dodona in Epirus. In these Museums many of the ancient sages studied human wisdom.
Commentary
1/ A correction to the previous article “CABEIRIAN MYSTERIES.” The correct wording should be: “Our most ancient Pelasgian ancestors were the Proto-Greeks” (the correct term), and not “Pre-Greeks,” as some historically uninformed people call them. We are indigenous and not newcomers.
2/ The ancient oracles played the role of today’s Think Tanks and Research Centers, which advise governments for a fee and make predictions concerning the outcome of serious issues.
2/ Kapodistrias was the successor of the ancient Greek sages.
3/ Education as the foundation of the State.
He believed that the rebirth of Greece had to begin with education.
- He founded schools in as many regions of the country as possible, so that even poor children would have access to knowledge.
- He founded the Model Teachers’ Training School of Aegina, where young teachers were trained to staff the schools of the State.
- Combination of humanistic and practical education.
He was not limited only to classical studies, but also promoted the teaching of agriculture, the arts, navigation, and other practical knowledge that would contribute to the country’s economic progress.
- Moral and spiritual cultivation.
For Kapodistrias, education was not limited to the transmission of knowledge. Its purpose was the formation of virtuous citizens, endowed with faith, morality, self-discipline, and a sense of social responsibility.
Conclusions
Kapodistrias was the continuator of the vision of the ancient Greek spirit as it had been established by the Orphics, the Pre-Socratic philosophers, and the classical sages. He believed that “education is the safest foundation of the freedom and prosperity of a nation.” If the later leaders of Greece had continued his ambitious work, today Greece would be the greatest university in the world, an admirable country respected by all nations. The leaders of the world should follow the footsteps of the first Governor of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, who was assassinated by Greeks with the cooperation of foreign secret services for their own interest.
(3 July 2026)
Amphiktyon
Major General (Ret.) Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author – Member of the Society of Greek Writers
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