A rich and bustling community of 2,000 people, at its peak, had built 66 temples during the period of 1,000 years. Now, a new exciting archaeological excavation at Tas-Silġ in Marsaxlokk, sheds further light about Neolithic Temple Builders of Malta. In British times Neolithic were confused with Phoenicians origins, so most of the artefacts did stay in Maltese hands, now exhibited in Archaeological Museum in Valletta and within the Temple Complexes. With the development of meta-physics, meta-psychology, or micro-biology, our scientists and researchers stay amazed with the Culture that used healing with sounds within their rituals, had extra-ordinary artists that sculpted with precision, had architects, clothes makers, and farmers that fertilised their cultivated land. The Island’s first Temples have been unearthed during the British excavation in 1830 - 1840, at the same time with Crete excavation, and since the Islands were during the Second World War a British colony, viewed as a military zone, they have experienced lots of bombarding and damage to all the buildings. Hypogeum, the most amazing 11 meters deep, carved in stone underground temple, was for example used as a Bomb Shelter. It was only in 1970s that Malta gained its independence, and its scientists & archaeologists have started claiming the natural heritage from the investors, roads builders, and various other intruders. Nearly 6,000 years, numbering several thousand people, is far denser than the people of mainland Europe. The islands were visited by neighbouring islands, was a trading port and ritual site at the heart of the Mediterranean. The decisive blow to the Culture occurred around 2350 BC, when the whole region, geologists tell us, suffered a catastrophic climate event.

Etruscans Language Culture Origin https://artof4elements.com/entry/etruscans-language-culture-origin

Learnings from Cyrillic Alphabet

 

 

History is a fascinating subject. Researching god or consciousness even more so! We read amazing accounts about ancient wisdom traditions such as Platonism, Orphism, Orthodox Christianity, and in China Taoism, and neo-Confucianism.

 

Etruscans origins

by Nataša Pantović

 

 

The Big Dipper Ancient Symbol Sky 6 Cycles

The insights from these traditions intersect with recent findings in metaphysics or biology. What brings the two into resonance is their mutual commitment to speak of the matter as alive. The four elements expressed through trinity that are defined by entangled triangle of relationships reflected in our language development.

Another visit to Serbia, this summer, and I was back researching the same scientific question, same puzzle that has certainly no answers yet it is an interesting exploration.

Were Slavs in Balkan as early as 431 BC? 

The genetic origins of Etruscans are mixed between aboriginal people of the region (Slavs?) and people from Europe predominantly Spain. The aboriginal population may have settled in Balkan millennia prior to the invasion.

 

 

Vincha symbols Ancient Serbia 6,000 BC

 

 

Etruscan history 

The Etruscans occupied the region to the north of Rome, The Romans were their conquerors. 

The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that the Etruscans came from Lydia. Sure enough historians argue who are the Lydians. Herodotus tells us of their ships and multitude, claiming that the half of the population left under the leadership of Tyrrhenus. Another Greek historian, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his Early History of Rome also claims that the Etruscan were the aboriginal inhabitants of their area. Slavs?

 

The literature on the question of Etruscan origins divides into

1. Northern Origins

2. Oriental (Near-eastern) Origins

The aboriginal peoples of North Italy could have been Slavs. The Adriatic Sea, the sea to the east of Italy, bordering Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, all Slavic states, was named after the Etruscan port of Adria. The funerary practices of the people of North Italy has the parallel to the Vinča Culture. The Etruscans cremated their dead, a practice also known in the Danube Culture, no grave yards have been found near the settlements for thousands of years.

This very vibrant culture hosted different nationalities. In the Etruscan ruins there are objects from Greece, North Africa, and southern France. The Etruscan traders brought those craft objects to Etruria. The major exports of Etruria was copper and iron from the local mines, the same found with their Northern neighbors.

The affinities of the art and symbols found in the area resonate with spirals...

 

 

Ancient Slavic Symbol Circle

Etruscan and Linguistic Research

The question became more intriguing when, in the nineteenth century, it was discovered that most of the languages of Europe belonged to one big language family called Indo-European but Etruscan was not one of them. Is this rightly so?

The linguist claim that Etruscan was not a member of the Indo-European language family was challenged by some Slavic archelogy and linguistic researchers. These Balkan Slavs, find the inspiring relationship between words, just introducing the now, in scientific circles, lost Š, Đ, Č, Ć, Ž, DŽ.

A book that I have recently explored was The development of Etruscans Language from Svetislav Bilbija, his self-created dictionary of words with the alternative history of Slavs, claiming that Etruscans and Slavs were of the same ethnicity, 1984 New York print. He calls them “Rašani“.

 

 

Old European Language Svetislav Bilbija, 1984, New York Press

The analysis of the alphabet after reading this interesting book -

 

 

The analysis of the alphabet following the logic of Svetislav Bilbija and my own research

Asked by @Sepherd to create The Best #booksreviews On The Ancient #Mediterranean #Classics Beyond The Usual! The Books I Picked & Why...

 

No. 1 is Language of Amarna - Better known as Amarna Heresy, a philosophical discussion from Ancient Egypt's #Babylon about Monotheism and Trinity written 3,000 years ago.

My No. 2 is The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus by Osman, a British #Egyptologist born in Cairo who says that Moses was born in Egypt and that Tut-Ankh-Amun had a very similar “story” to Jesus.

 

My personal favourite of Ancient Mediterranean classics, printed more than 5,000 years ago is Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna Enheduanna (who wrote in Sumerian), dating to around 2400 BC. Enheduanna is the earliest known Female Poet. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna (Sin). She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in Syria.

 

#4 is The Derveni Papyrus: #Cosmology, #Theology found in Macedonia now in Thessaloniki Museum, Greece.

Published in 340 BC it is an Orphic book of mystical initiations. The scroll was carefully unrolled and the fragments joined together, thus forming 26 columns of text. which was used in the mystery cult of #Dionysus by the 'Orphic initiators'. It is a philosophical treatise written as a commentary on an Orphic poem, a Theogony concerning the birth of the gods, compiled in the circle of the #philosopher AnaXagoras.

 

The scroll contains a philosophical treatise on a lost poem describing the birth of the gods and other beliefs focusing on Orpheus, the mythical musician who visited the underworld to reclaim his dead love. The Orpheus cult tells us of a single creator god, of the trinity, of resurrection, of a virgin's child, back in the Macedonian region of Ancient Greece that was the Ancient Europe during 400 BC... Both Orpheus and Heraclitus compose allegories about the secrets of nature and of God. In the Orphic cosmogony, he was writing only for the "pure in hearing". 

208 pages may be a little too short to summarise all Classical philosophy and one reading is certainly too hasty to grasp it. Instead, this is better described (I think) as a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on major themes addressed by the ancients. This includes the expected topics - concerning ethics, morality, the meaning of life, how we know and what we can believe. For myself a number of features stood out, as follows.

The opening challenge of the history is to attack and undermine the myth of a distinct and uniquely Greek philosophy emerging as it were by virgin birth in an island of reason surrounded by a sea of barbarian ignorance and primitive mysticism. It is not enough even to list off the sources of Greek thought in Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt or India, as though there was an evolutionary progression from the early efforts of those predecessors and the pinnacles of Greek synthesis and creativity. Quite simply, Greek philosophy always was and it remained entirely a part of a widespread conversation between cultures that, while retaining their diverse characters, were never isolated from each other. This is why the book’s title is “Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy” rather than Greek.

It is also wrong to accept the propositions that Christian suppression terminated rational Greek philosophy, or that barbarian invasions terminated educated thought and debate with the fall of the Roman Empire. He points out that the Vandals, the Visigoths, and other barbarian peoples were in fact already fully converted to Christianity when they engaged with the declining empire. He observes that, had the emperor Julian [“the apostate”] or some other force rescued paganism from the Christians, it is absurd to imagine that this would have resulted in a world ruled by scientific and rational thought rather than religion.

In any case, Greek philosophy always was essentially religious. “The fate of Anaxagoras (imprisoned, threatened with death and finally dismissed from Athens) fits similar stories about the anger felt by established or conventional thinkers at the attempt to dethrone Zeus ... This seems to suggest, to moderns, that philosophers were secular scientists, at odds with a superstition. This theme reappears in discussing later centuries: it is supposed, for example, that a Christian mob murdered Hypatia, in 415 AD, because she was a rationalist (and a woman). The truth is otherwise: few moderns who now mourn Hypatia endorse her probable beliefs, which were mostly Pythagorean. The violence of Alexandrian – or more broadly Egyptian - mobs was a familiar theme and Hypatia, sadly, paid a price...” [p91]

“At any rate, anyone supposing that the Christian Churches have made life worse than it was in heathen times and places should read more history!”[p180]

“However important their disagreements, Philo of Alexandria (Jewish), John Evangelist and Clement (Christian), and Plotinus (pagan) shared a world. The grand deductive structure created by the pagan Platonist Proclus was mirrored in the work of the Christian ps-Dionysius a few years later, and in later Christian and Islamic texts.” [p181]

The book stands on its own merits but it can also be asked – why is it written in this way at this time? Without knowing the author at all, I have several guesses to offer. Bear in mind these are my reflections and not those of the author. One is simply that scholarship has altered our perception of the history of this (very lengthy) period, for example concerning the “Fall of the Roman Empire”, which is true but that seems too detached and “academic” a line of enquiry. One, I hope, is the need to confront and rebut the escalating appeals to “Western” superiority over alternative cultures – not distant ones, but particularly Islam, which of course is as integral to the “Western” tradition as any other strand of thought, certainly Christianity or Judaism, but also “Greek” philosophy. Another is to acknowledge that the simplistic expectation that Science and Reason would make religion irrelevant, or that the two fields of thought are incompatible and mutually destructive, has lost its appeal to those – religious or not - dissatisfied with the resulting dialogue of the deaf. Whatever the motivation for the book, I hold to the view that history is always the history of the present moment, and works best when it is most relevant. In that respect, for my money, this book is terrific.