I’ve just finished reading Praise of the Scribe’s Profession: Egyptian Letter referred to in this article.it’s fascinating and I encourage everyone to read it. Thank you for the link
Interesting that the storyline of a future hero/king being sent to deliver a message containing instructions to have the deliverer killed also occurs in Greek and Norse (Icelandic?) mythologies. Encrypted cosmic information, perhaps?
Iraq doesn't deserve to have these priceless artifacts returned to them. They couldn't keep them safe before they were looted, what makes people think any different now. All those Muslim infected countries artifacts are in peril right now. ISIS proved that they don't deserve to be in that part of the world. Muslim extremists destroying priceless architecture and museum pieces. They all deserved to die just for that, then add the human atrocities to it and we have every reason in the world to keep these artifacts safe in Western hands where they will at least survive for future generations to see them. Yes what I am saying is that these countries can't even safely preserve their own history. They deserve none of these artifacts back.
Thank you for an excellent article. I’ve always believed that Homer’s epic were based in truth and that the “abduction” of Helen was nothing more than a reason to invade Troy. I have never heard of the Hittite version and thank you for mentioning it. Could you provide references?
Interesting article. As an ethnic Norwegian, I’m a little embarrassed about Norway’s purported stance on border crossings. A recent trip to Russia renewed my interest in the region and its languages, leading me to this great website. Thank you!
Nice article! There are many places that are haunted and some paranormal activities are observed at the place. The evil spirits and the negative energies can affect the individuals to a great extent. We should look for some help from the psychic readers who can guide and help in the clensing process. There are many online psychic readers like the voyance direct (http://www.martine-voyance.com/qui-suis-je) who can help in healing from such condition by using the Clairvoyant medium of reading.
Hittites, for those of you that dp not know, are also known as Akkadians, Hibiru, Hyksos, Hebrew and others names. They represent the Persian Empire and their goddess Lucifer. They still rule the Western Hellenistic world to this day and are originally Turk Mongols.
Even the Amazon women fought in the Trojan Wars but were on the losing side of the Luciferians. The Amazon women were a tribe of female tetraploid humans who killed all men before them. They fought witht the Hittites because the Hittites are a matriarchal Devil worishipping system. The Amazon women were at the same biological level as their goddess originating from the Cult of Demeter. Demeter, from Atlantis, was also a tetraploid human thus making her very superior to normal diploid men. The Amazon women were also very superior and thus a force to be reckoned with. The Amazon women also invented the calvary.
It should be well noted that these same Hittites (Jews) fought against the Egyptian after Ahmose usurped the Hyksos (Jews).
It should also be noted that many modern day Scottish people can trace their history back to the Hittities. They just do not know it, yet. They may be told they are Italian. Hittites had bagpipes and wore kilts as did the Romans (Sephardic Jews) and Egyptians. I believe this is a representation of the skirt of their goddess, Lucifer.
The period described in the article is much too late to account for the captivity of the Hebrews. Since Pharaoh Ramses son Merenptah invaded Israel (as per his stele where he describes his victory over the House of David) there is obviously not enough time elapsed for a civilization to have developed for Akhenaten (sometimes described as a possible Moses or for Rameses to have been involved as the Exodus. P.S. The Rameses as Pharaoh of the Exodus was perpetrated by Cecil D. DeMille in his Ten Commandments
I’m very interested in Mesopotamian history and I appreciate your diligent research and copious references. However, I fail to see how Eridu is a “Garden of Eden.” your article only recounts its existence as one of five cities before the deluge
No offense, but the main claim that you make in this article is totally and completely wrong.
Although the Portuguese that arrived to Benin the late 15th century were able to buy a significant number of slaves for a one or two decades, it is actually the case that they eventually had a hard time getting the Benin kingdom to sell them enough slaves, because Benin kept restricting the sale of slaves more and more to the point where, by the early 1500s - by about the second decade or so of the 16th century - they were selling so few slaves that the Portuguese king at the time felt compelled to write a letter to the king of Benin asking him to open his markets (that is, to stop restricting the sale of slaves) to the Portuguese traders. However, there was no change, and in fact, Benin started to restrict the sale of slaves even further, to the point that eventually they close off the sale of slaves altogether and the Portuguese became disinterested in Benin and moved their operations further west, where they found the emerging kingdom of Allada and some other smaller kingdoms that were willing to sell them slaves in significant quantities.
Keep in mind that the entire time that the early trade (late 15th century to early 16th century) between Benin and the Portuguese occurred, the Portuguese were actually buying other commodities from Benin like ivory and especially pepper at the exact same time. So actually, even during this early period of trade between Benin and the Portuguese, a large part of the brass or copper manillas and other brass objects that the Portuguese sold to Benin was actually sold in exchange for pepper and ivory from Benin. Furthermore, as already mentioned, Benin eventually restricted the sale of slaves. After the early 16th century, the vast majority of Benin's trade was in non-slave products like ivory and cloth (yes Benin sold cloth as well), and much later (19th century), palm-oil.
Also keep in mind that even before the arrival of the Europeans, there was a copper trade from the western Sudan region of west Africa (especially around the area of today's Mali) down towards southern Nigeria. It was from such copper traded down further south from another part of west Africa that Benin obtained the copper utilized for the brass and bronze that it used in making its earliest sculptural art, before the Portuguese provided another source of brass after their arrival in the late 15th century.
If you want to find out more about what the Benin kingdom's economy was actually based on (no, it was not based on slave-trading), and also about what the actual extent or role of slave-trading to Europeans really was (the slave trade was of extremely limited importance to Benin, this is why they had no problems restricting it and then banning it, even despite the Portuguese desire to obtain slaves from the kingdom), then two sources you should read are the following:
James D. Graham - The Slave Trade, Depopulation and Human Sacrifice in Benin History. The General Approach (1965)
Alan Ryder - Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897
These works explain quite clearly that the vast majority of Benin's trade with Europeans was not centered around the slave-trade at all, and they also explain what I described above earlier - how the kingdom of Benin deliberately reduced the slave trade between Benin and European traders to virtually nothing.
However it was really the British that made their fortune and their glory off of the slave trade, although many modern British people wrongly deny this today. That topic (how the British empire derived a fortune from the slave trade and used it to fuel its development and expansion) has been covered in many works, but three books I can recommend which discuss this topic are:
Eric Williams - Capitalism and Slavery
Joseph Inikori - Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
Peter Fryer - Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
In particular, note what is stated in chapter 2 of Peter Fryer's book, on pages 14 through 18. He provides multiple direct quotes from British sources from centuries past that make it quite clear that British people (including officials, merchants, etc.) of the 17th-18th centuries understood very clearly how vital the slave trade and slavery was to their country's economic development and its increasing prosperity.
I mean no offense, but the main argument of your article is fundamentally untrue in every way. It was not Benin that needed the slave trade to finance its glory. Benin had already had access to copper (to use to make bronze/brass art) through trade routes from other parts of west Africa even before the arrival of Europeans on the west African coast, and it was Benin that killed off the slave trade with Europeans within a matter of a few decades by deliberately restricting the sale of slaves to such an extremely low volume that the slave trading Europeans (at this time, the Portuguese) lost interest and went elsewhere in search of slaves. In addition, during that period, Benin was trading in other products to a great deal as well - particularly pepper and ivory - and after those few decades of early trade with the Portuguese, all its trade with Europeans afterwards was heavily dominated by other products and never by the trade in slaves which was always either non-existent or on a very small scale.
In reality, it was Britain that financed its rise to glory through the slave trade, and there is abundant evidence to show this, which can be found in the three books I cited above.
I mean no offense, but there is simply a lot of misinformation on the internet, and it does no good for your article to add to it. Please consult actual academic/scholarly sources (not internet encyclopedias or amateurish websites with agenda-driven articles by non-scholars) and you will see that what I am saying is true. The sources that you cite in your "references" section, are deeply, utterly, wrong and false in their claims about either Benin's rise to economic prosperity or about its artwork being closely tied to the slave trade. It is not surprising that some of the sources that you cite for your "references" are British. Unfortunately, many of them are themselves committed to hiding from the public just how huge a portion of their own country's rise to economic and technological dominance was based on slave-trade and slavery funds and they instead try to shift this reality onto certain other cultures. It is essentially propaganda and distortion and a direct inversion of the truth. It was Britain that had a bloody history of numerous atrocities (including genocide in Tasmania, atrocities in colonial Kenya, atrocities in India, and even in Canada against the First Nations), whereas the claims against Benin in this regard are wild distortions of truth and history - the supposed sacrifices were almost all executions of criminals, as the first two publications that I referenced above discuss. And it was Britain that owed so much of its glory to the slave trade, not Benin. Please seek out and find the truth in scholarly works by committed researchers and academics, and do not just trust any pieces of propaganda on the internet.
Hi, I have just published my first book; a Historical Novel that is based on my own Past-Life recollection during the time of the Roman Invasion of Britain. It is titled ‘A ROMAN AND A CELT – A MEMOIRS OF A PAST-LIFE’. This all came to me through a series of Dreams, but especially the first dream that set me wondering and seeking out the facts within. The book is of interest to those seeking Reincarnation material and those interested in Roman British history. Available though Austin Macauley Punlishers Ltd; Amazon and all good book publishers on-line or through book stores.
In the Lamentations of UR it describes the aftermath of Nuclear weapons being used and it having been so long out of memory since they were employed before that the Annunaki were horrified by the poisonous winds that caused more deaths than the explosions.
The other thing that stands out to me is the description of colors. He seems to be describing ideal colors (e.g. gold) which he says do not exist on our patch of Earth. This ties in much better with the Platonic idea of perfect forms than it does with an actual view of the world from outer space.
Once you accept the fact that TETRAPLOID HUMANS rule planet Earth you will be able to understand history. They are extremely advanced, have been to every planet in our solar system and have gifted us with much knowledge including the Old Testament.
My understanding is "in the beginning" to mean when time started. God is the beginning and he has always been. So the statement "in the beginning" in Genesis would be something specific and is clearly the starting point of time as we understand it. No life was created till the third day.
In the ongoing debate among scientists and theologians as to just what, or how long, a “day” was at the time of creation. And the primary basis for argument goes something like this: “how can God have created everything in 6 days and how can it be that Hebrews say by counting generations we find the earth to be nearing 6000 years of age when all of our science says that the universe is BILLIONS of years old….around 15 of those billions, in fact.” Well if we take a close look at what is said in the opening words of Genesis some of the matter seems to resolve itself, and we don’t have to engage in scientific and theological debates at all.
If you read carefully you will see that the creation of the heaven and the earth are not said to have occurred on the first day; rather it occurred at “the beginning”. The first day was not necessarily the beginning; the 1st day could have been sometime later. If we take those opening words of Genesis literally then the thing that occurred on the first day was the creation of light, and its separation from darkness. The wording leaves open the distinct possibility that the heavens and earth were created sometime BEFORE the first day of what we have dubbed “Creation”. How long the heavens and the earth sat there lifeless, dark, chaotic, we aren’t told. But at some point God decided to take the universe He had created and spark it with life and give it a new order. And He began that new process by creating light, and that’s when we encounter the first “day”.
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I’ve just finished reading Praise of the Scribe’s Profession: Egyptian Letter referred to in this article.it’s fascinating and I encourage everyone to read it. Thank you for the link
Interesting that the storyline of a future hero/king being sent to deliver a message containing instructions to have the deliverer killed also occurs in Greek and Norse (Icelandic?) mythologies. Encrypted cosmic information, perhaps?
Iraq doesn't deserve to have these priceless artifacts returned to them. They couldn't keep them safe before they were looted, what makes people think any different now. All those Muslim infected countries artifacts are in peril right now. ISIS proved that they don't deserve to be in that part of the world. Muslim extremists destroying priceless architecture and museum pieces. They all deserved to die just for that, then add the human atrocities to it and we have every reason in the world to keep these artifacts safe in Western hands where they will at least survive for future generations to see them. Yes what I am saying is that these countries can't even safely preserve their own history. They deserve none of these artifacts back.
Thank you for an excellent article. I’ve always believed that Homer’s epic were based in truth and that the “abduction” of Helen was nothing more than a reason to invade Troy. I have never heard of the Hittite version and thank you for mentioning it. Could you provide references?
A very touching story!
Interesting article. As an ethnic Norwegian, I’m a little embarrassed about Norway’s purported stance on border crossings. A recent trip to Russia renewed my interest in the region and its languages, leading me to this great website. Thank you!
Nice article!
There are many places that are haunted and some paranormal activities are observed at the place. The evil spirits and the negative energies can affect the individuals to a great extent. We should look for some help from the psychic readers who can guide and help in the clensing process. There are many online psychic readers like the voyance direct (http://www.martine-voyance.com/qui-suis-je) who can help in healing from such condition by using the Clairvoyant medium of reading.
Hittites and the New World Order:
Hittites, for those of you that dp not know, are also known as Akkadians, Hibiru, Hyksos, Hebrew and others names. They represent the Persian Empire and their goddess Lucifer. They still rule the Western Hellenistic world to this day and are originally Turk Mongols.
Even the Amazon women fought in the Trojan Wars but were on the losing side of the Luciferians. The Amazon women were a tribe of female tetraploid humans who killed all men before them. They fought witht the Hittites because the Hittites are a matriarchal Devil worishipping system. The Amazon women were at the same biological level as their goddess originating from the Cult of Demeter. Demeter, from Atlantis, was also a tetraploid human thus making her very superior to normal diploid men. The Amazon women were also very superior and thus a force to be reckoned with. The Amazon women also invented the calvary.
It should be well noted that these same Hittites (Jews) fought against the Egyptian after Ahmose usurped the Hyksos (Jews).
It should also be noted that many modern day Scottish people can trace their history back to the Hittities. They just do not know it, yet. They may be told they are Italian. Hittites had bagpipes and wore kilts as did the Romans (Sephardic Jews) and Egyptians. I believe this is a representation of the skirt of their goddess, Lucifer.
The period described in the article is much too late to account for the captivity of the Hebrews. Since Pharaoh Ramses son Merenptah invaded Israel (as per his stele where he describes his victory over the House of David) there is obviously not enough time elapsed for a civilization to have developed for Akhenaten (sometimes described as a possible Moses or for Rameses to have been involved as the Exodus. P.S. The Rameses as Pharaoh of the Exodus was perpetrated by Cecil D. DeMille in his Ten Commandments
I’m very interested in Mesopotamian history and I appreciate your diligent research and copious references. However, I fail to see how Eridu is a “Garden of Eden.” your article only recounts its existence as one of five cities before the deluge
Hello Wu Mingren,
No offense, but the main claim that you make in this article is totally and completely wrong.
Although the Portuguese that arrived to Benin the late 15th century were able to buy a significant number of slaves for a one or two decades, it is actually the case that they eventually had a hard time getting the Benin kingdom to sell them enough slaves, because Benin kept restricting the sale of slaves more and more to the point where, by the early 1500s - by about the second decade or so of the 16th century - they were selling so few slaves that the Portuguese king at the time felt compelled to write a letter to the king of Benin asking him to open his markets (that is, to stop restricting the sale of slaves) to the Portuguese traders. However, there was no change, and in fact, Benin started to restrict the sale of slaves even further, to the point that eventually they close off the sale of slaves altogether and the Portuguese became disinterested in Benin and moved their operations further west, where they found the emerging kingdom of Allada and some other smaller kingdoms that were willing to sell them slaves in significant quantities.
Keep in mind that the entire time that the early trade (late 15th century to early 16th century) between Benin and the Portuguese occurred, the Portuguese were actually buying other commodities from Benin like ivory and especially pepper at the exact same time. So actually, even during this early period of trade between Benin and the Portuguese, a large part of the brass or copper manillas and other brass objects that the Portuguese sold to Benin was actually sold in exchange for pepper and ivory from Benin. Furthermore, as already mentioned, Benin eventually restricted the sale of slaves. After the early 16th century, the vast majority of Benin's trade was in non-slave products like ivory and cloth (yes Benin sold cloth as well), and much later (19th century), palm-oil.
Also keep in mind that even before the arrival of the Europeans, there was a copper trade from the western Sudan region of west Africa (especially around the area of today's Mali) down towards southern Nigeria. It was from such copper traded down further south from another part of west Africa that Benin obtained the copper utilized for the brass and bronze that it used in making its earliest sculptural art, before the Portuguese provided another source of brass after their arrival in the late 15th century.
If you want to find out more about what the Benin kingdom's economy was actually based on (no, it was not based on slave-trading), and also about what the actual extent or role of slave-trading to Europeans really was (the slave trade was of extremely limited importance to Benin, this is why they had no problems restricting it and then banning it, even despite the Portuguese desire to obtain slaves from the kingdom), then two sources you should read are the following:
James D. Graham - The Slave Trade, Depopulation and Human Sacrifice in Benin History. The General Approach (1965)
Alan Ryder - Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897
These works explain quite clearly that the vast majority of Benin's trade with Europeans was not centered around the slave-trade at all, and they also explain what I described above earlier - how the kingdom of Benin deliberately reduced the slave trade between Benin and European traders to virtually nothing.
However it was really the British that made their fortune and their glory off of the slave trade, although many modern British people wrongly deny this today. That topic (how the British empire derived a fortune from the slave trade and used it to fuel its development and expansion) has been covered in many works, but three books I can recommend which discuss this topic are:
Eric Williams - Capitalism and Slavery
Joseph Inikori - Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
Peter Fryer - Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
In particular, note what is stated in chapter 2 of Peter Fryer's book, on pages 14 through 18. He provides multiple direct quotes from British sources from centuries past that make it quite clear that British people (including officials, merchants, etc.) of the 17th-18th centuries understood very clearly how vital the slave trade and slavery was to their country's economic development and its increasing prosperity.
I mean no offense, but the main argument of your article is fundamentally untrue in every way. It was not Benin that needed the slave trade to finance its glory. Benin had already had access to copper (to use to make bronze/brass art) through trade routes from other parts of west Africa even before the arrival of Europeans on the west African coast, and it was Benin that killed off the slave trade with Europeans within a matter of a few decades by deliberately restricting the sale of slaves to such an extremely low volume that the slave trading Europeans (at this time, the Portuguese) lost interest and went elsewhere in search of slaves. In addition, during that period, Benin was trading in other products to a great deal as well - particularly pepper and ivory - and after those few decades of early trade with the Portuguese, all its trade with Europeans afterwards was heavily dominated by other products and never by the trade in slaves which was always either non-existent or on a very small scale.
In reality, it was Britain that financed its rise to glory through the slave trade, and there is abundant evidence to show this, which can be found in the three books I cited above.
I mean no offense, but there is simply a lot of misinformation on the internet, and it does no good for your article to add to it. Please consult actual academic/scholarly sources (not internet encyclopedias or amateurish websites with agenda-driven articles by non-scholars) and you will see that what I am saying is true. The sources that you cite in your "references" section, are deeply, utterly, wrong and false in their claims about either Benin's rise to economic prosperity or about its artwork being closely tied to the slave trade. It is not surprising that some of the sources that you cite for your "references" are British. Unfortunately, many of them are themselves committed to hiding from the public just how huge a portion of their own country's rise to economic and technological dominance was based on slave-trade and slavery funds and they instead try to shift this reality onto certain other cultures. It is essentially propaganda and distortion and a direct inversion of the truth. It was Britain that had a bloody history of numerous atrocities (including genocide in Tasmania, atrocities in colonial Kenya, atrocities in India, and even in Canada against the First Nations), whereas the claims against Benin in this regard are wild distortions of truth and history - the supposed sacrifices were almost all executions of criminals, as the first two publications that I referenced above discuss. And it was Britain that owed so much of its glory to the slave trade, not Benin. Please seek out and find the truth in scholarly works by committed researchers and academics, and do not just trust any pieces of propaganda on the internet.
Best regards,
S.K.S.
Hi, I have just published my first book; a Historical Novel that is based on my own Past-Life recollection during the time of the Roman Invasion of Britain. It is titled ‘A ROMAN AND A CELT – A MEMOIRS OF A PAST-LIFE’. This all came to me through a series of Dreams, but especially the first dream that set me wondering and seeking out the facts within. The book is of interest to those seeking Reincarnation material and those interested in Roman British history. Available though Austin Macauley Punlishers Ltd; Amazon and all good book publishers on-line or through book stores.
In the Lamentations of UR it describes the aftermath of Nuclear weapons being used and it having been so long out of memory since they were employed before that the Annunaki were horrified by the poisonous winds that caused more deaths than the explosions.
The other thing that stands out to me is the description of colors. He seems to be describing ideal colors (e.g. gold) which he says do not exist on our patch of Earth. This ties in much better with the Platonic idea of perfect forms than it does with an actual view of the world from outer space.
Once you accept the fact that TETRAPLOID HUMANS rule planet Earth you will be able to understand history. They are extremely advanced, have been to every planet in our solar system and have gifted us with much knowledge including the Old Testament.
References: Secrets of the Pink Kush
I always understood that Romani were called Gypsies because they were believed to have come from Egypt.
They most certainly do have wings, I’ve seen them in person
My understanding is "in the beginning" to mean when time started. God is the beginning and he has always been. So the statement "in the beginning" in Genesis would be something specific and is clearly the starting point of time as we understand it. No life was created till the third day.
In the ongoing debate among scientists and theologians as to just what, or how long, a “day” was at the time of creation. And the primary basis for argument goes something like this: “how can God have created everything in 6 days and how can it be that Hebrews say by counting generations we find the earth to be nearing 6000 years of age when all of our science says that the universe is BILLIONS of years old….around 15 of those billions, in fact.” Well if we take a close look at what is said in the opening words of Genesis some of the matter seems to resolve itself, and we don’t have to engage in scientific and theological debates at all.
If you read carefully you will see that the creation of the heaven and the earth are not said to have occurred on the first day; rather it occurred at “the beginning”. The first day was not necessarily the beginning; the 1st day could have been sometime later. If we take those opening words of Genesis literally then the thing that occurred on the first day was the creation of light, and its separation from darkness. The wording leaves open the distinct possibility that the heavens and earth were created sometime BEFORE the first day of what we have dubbed “Creation”. How long the heavens and the earth sat there lifeless, dark, chaotic, we aren’t told. But at some point God decided to take the universe He had created and spark it with life and give it a new order. And He began that new process by creating light, and that’s when we encounter the first “day”.
"Recent scholarship has shown the Romani culture has Indian roots."
Yeah, that really narrows it down for us.
Ronald Lee provides a more detailed history:
https://kopachi.com/articles/a-new-look-at-our-romani-origins-and-diaspo...
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