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Io - A Black Sea/Egypt Link?

Io is known from the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.  She is a girl who is partly a cow and she is portrayed as a total victim.   Prometheus tells her fortune which involves great wanderings from the Black Sea down to Egypt where she gives birth to a boy who will grow up to be the first king of Egypt.  I find it fascinating he’s not the first pharoah but the first king which suggests his time was before the First Kingdom.  The Greek myths hopelessly muddy the story but that seems to be the essential fact.  Then I was reading up on the founding of Byzantium (the city that became Constantinople and is now Istanbul.)  It was a Greek colony  founded around 800 BCE.  But then I read some other myths about its founding. That Io stopped there and gave birth to a daughter and then resumed her wanderings down to Egypt.  Daughter grew up withe horns of a cow so no one liked her until she met Poseidon.  Their son was Byzas who then founded the city Byzantium.  So myth is making a very clear connection between the ancient Black Sea and ancient Egypt.  This to me is very suggestive of either very ancient trade routes or a mass migration or ????

There is also the story of

There is also the story of Europa, and how Zeus turned into a white bull and swam away with her to Crete.  Was she Io’s grand daughter maybe?

I think it might all be linked to an ancient cattle cult in the region that spread out and influenced cultures and religions over a wide area.

You might be interested to read up on Proto Indo European mythology.  It is reconstructed, so nobody really knows, but it is interesting.  And the sacred cow does seem to show up everywhere, once you start looking.

Egypt is the original source

Egypt is the original source for the Atlantis story, according to Plato. Some Bulgarian scholars believe this story is based on the Varna culture that lived on the Black Sea and had complex metalworking. The Black Sea (and maybe the Caspian Sea) must have been a looming concept to the Egyptians, who had to deal with the Near East between.

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Black Sea Connection

the ancient greek influence on the Black Sea region is rather unhighlighted in european history education. Books and teachers either presume you know it and therefore do not touch upon it or are unaware themselves.

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Hunting Atlantis

I was watching this TV show about a guy hunting for Atlantis.  He has recalcualted the time frame for Atlantis to 5000 years ago.  He speculates that Atlantis could be the Balkan peninsula north of Greece and extending into the eastern coast of Turkey to include the Bosphoros and Troy.  Atlantis’ main symbology was that of the bull/cow with strong connections with Poseidon being the founder god.