| Ephesus had a shrine to the Anatolian | | | | around 345 BC. He was surprised to find they still had |
| mother-goddess and the Cretan Lady of Wild Things | | | | an Assembly of the People which was actually strong |
| that was later incorporated into the Greek worship | | | | and democracy was thriving there. (35) This political |
| of Artemis. (33) This magnificent statue has many | | | | tug of war is still endemic in our society today. |
| 'cosmic eggs' on it that are extremely relevant to the | | | | Around that time Pseudo-Aristotle writes that |
| Berber painting of ostrich eggs that are found in the | | | | Carthage passed a law forbidding anyone |
| Saharan finds mentioned in Carthage as well as | | | | (presumably without their approval) from going to |
| connected to the Druid's eggs. A Cambridge scholar I | | | | America. When the Gracchi failed and the Republic of |
| saw on a TV show recently was still calling these | | | | Rome failed (the Bruttii who killed Caesar and other |
| eggs 'breasts'. It is ludicrous and almost funny if you | | | | good men of the Phoenician or Pythagorean and |
| look at a picture of the statue with over a hundred | | | | aristocratic genre became adapted to a new |
| 'breasts'. What level of academic ineptitude is this? | | | | structure) a very big nail was driven deep into the |
| We have seen many who know the worldwide | | | | ethic or even semblance of equality. The |
| importance of the cosmic egg including Gimbutas, but | | | | establishment of Caesar (later Kaiser and Czar are |
| then perhaps this scholar knows were his bread is | | | | words from the same root) ended even the |
| buttered. Smyrna is mentioned by Grant going back | | | | superficial appearance of a majority of citizens having |
| long before our present focus and shows Amazons | | | | equal say.They {Phocaeans} took part in the |
| (Kelts as we have shown) were once a part of the | | | | activities of Naucratis in Egypt, where Phocaea was |
| picture, but this is probably before the fall of Ariadne | | | | one of the twelve Greek cities which shared the |
| on Crete and goes back to times such as Malta | | | | temple of Apollo {Frazer's 'Golden Bough' |
| shows had 2800 years before the Great Pyramid - | | | | documented Plutarch and others knew Apollo and |
| with no weapons. Smyrna is the site of a great | | | | others were representations of Osiris and the rituals |
| Merovingian family with a name you'll quickly | | | | at his representational graves included burning people |
| recognize. Onassis, who married into another | | | | with 'Red Hair') known as the Hellenium, dating from |
| Merovingian family through Jackie Kennedy. Thus we | | | | the time of the Pharaoh Amasis (c.569- 525) {Right |
| ask you to remember what the old saws do say | | | | at the key point of the Battle of Alalia}. By this time, |
| about history repeating itself.Smyrna was situated at | | | | too the Phocaeans, in their own native city, had built |
| the head of the gulf named after it, into which the | | | | a temple of Athena, made of fine white porous |
| River Hermus debouched. The original town, Old | | | | stone. They also initiated what was to be an |
| Smyrna, stood on a rocky peninsula (Haci Mutso) | | | | abundant and widely circulating electrum coinage |
| beside the north-eastern shore of the gulf. This | | | | (accompanied by issues of silver that were initially |
| settlement existed since Neolithic times, but its | | | | smaller), depicting the city emblem of a seal, and |
| founders according to contradictory Greek legends, | | | | launching a long and varied series of miniature artistic |
| included non Greek Leleges {Phoenician pirates}, | | | | designs. They were also famous for their dyeing |
| Amazons, and King Tantalus of Phrygia. | | | | industry.{The Phocaean coin had the BEE emblem |
| (34)'Non-Greeks' is no surprise in neolithic times | | | | that has been found on Cretan digs going back to |
| because there were no Greeks. There was probably | | | | the Royal House of Mallia or Mile and Milesians to the |
| occasional settlements and conflicts over the area | | | | third millennium BCE. We showed' 'purple' dye in |
| we now think of as Greece but remember Homer's | | | | Mexico and Peru where they had an industry of |
| 'DNN' and what many Greeks know to this day as | | | | making this all important spiritual or royal colour. There |
| they call themselves Danaus. We have shown lots of | | | | was a time that modern academics like Nuttall |
| different proof and authority to connect them | | | | thought this was the best evidence of transatlantic |
| through Thrace to the Danube in periods before | | | | cultural exchanges with the Phoenicians. Could the |
| what we call Greece or Mycenaean culture.The | | | | Phocaeans have been there?}But their most |
| Phocaeans present us with acts that mirror the | | | | extraordinary accomplishment lay in the distant west. |
| Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon as well, in terms of | | | | {N. B.} The first of the Greeks, according to |
| establishing emporiae or colonial trading posts. They | | | | Herodotus, 'to make long voyages', it was the |
| also show us how mobile it was necessary to be | | | | Phocaeans who pioneered the remotest and most |
| after the Goddess (egalitarian 'Brotherhood') was | | | | perilous routes. It was they, for example, who |
| brought to her knees. Just as important in our | | | | followed up the first Samian contacts with the |
| eventual connection with Britain is 'the ships of | | | | kingdom of Tartessus around the mouth of the River |
| Tarshis' and Tartessus on the Iberian Peninsula where | | | | Baetis (Guadalquivir) on south-western Spain (c.640), |
| Spain and Portugal claim national privileges today | | | | sailing not in merchant ships but in fifty-oared |
| despite all the horror they have wrought. It is | | | | warships(so that cargo-carrying was sacrificed to |
| recorded in many places that Milesians came from | | | | speed and fighting capacity). The friendly relations |
| Iberia between 1500 BC and 500 BC just as the | | | | that they thus established with the long-lived king of |
| Spanish Armada later dumped a lot of Celtiberians | | | | Tartessus, Arganthonius, secured the Phocaean |
| into the genetic mix of Scotland and Ireland in more | | | | adventurers a large share of the bronze, tin and silver |
| recent times.Through all of this period from the end | | | | in which the Spanish hinterland abounded.Pliny the |
| of the Hyksos invasions of Egypt there is growing | | | | elder also adds a record of a certain Midacritus who is |
| aristocratic and macho oriented structure apparent | | | | likely to have been a Phocaean. 'Midacritus', he |
| within the Phoenicians of the Mediterranean despite | | | | observed, 'was the first to import 'white lead' (that is |
| the fact Egypt still allowed women to rule as we | | | | to say tin) from the 'Tin Island' (Cassiteris),' {He |
| know from the numerous Cleopatras. The kings and | | | | notes 'Midacritus' means approved of Midas which |
| supranational corporate entities were adding more | | | | indicates a Phrygian connection. I suggest that Midas |
| power in every century and they were putting in | | | | was the King of Lydia and part of the Phoenician |
| place the control of armies as well as the priesthoods | | | | from Pont to Tyre and Hittite connection going back |
| they always found willing to favour their desires. Yet | | | | to the Danube Kelts of Finias. Any Ionian states that |
| the people and the merchant class were wary and | | | | were his neighbors could earn his approval. |
| we see Carthage through the eyes of Aristotle | | | | |