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[edit] Scythia / Svithiod
Scythia ia an ancient region of Eurasia extending from the mouth of the Danube River on the Black Sea to the territory east of the Aral Sea. The nomadic people of the region flourished from the eighth to the fourth century B.C. but were conquered by the Sarmatians in the second century and were soon subsumed into other cultures.
- The so-called Royal Scyths established a kingdom in the East Crimea before the 9th cent. B.C.
- They spoke an Indo-Iranian language but had no system of writing
- They traded (7th cent. B.C.) grain, wine and luxury items with greece and their service as mercenaries was highly anknowledged.
- The Spartans assembled at full strength and led a pan-Greek army that defeated the Persians decisively at the Battle of Plataea on 27 August 479 BC, ending the Greco-Persian War and with it the expansion of the Persian Empire into Northern Europe (Scandinavia)
- According to Herodotus, the Sauromatians fought with the Scythians against Darius in the 5th century B.C
- Alexander the Great, Celts and Sarmatians fragmented the Persians
- Parts of their empire became Sarmatia
- The Sarmatians, a confederacy of mostly Iranian tribes north of the Black Sea, was displaced by the Goths in the 2nd century AD.
Jordanes, the best known Gothic historian, always speaks of the Getae and Goths as one people. He also calls them Scythae. We find more evidence in other historical accounts. For example, "The Pictish Chronicle declares that the Scythians and Goths had a common origin" (page 216, The Races of Ireland and Scotland by W. C. Mackenzie).
Herodotus: The ancient Greeks considered the Goths to be Scythians. The name Scythian is used in Herodotus (440 B.C.) to describe barbarians who lived on their horses north of the Black Sea and were probably not Goths. When the Goths came to live in the same area, they were considered to be Scythians because of their barbarian way of living. It is hard to know when the people we call Goths began to intrude on the Roman Empire. According to Michael Kulikowsky, in Rome's Gothic Wars, the first "securely attested" Gothic raid took place in A.D. 238, when Goths sacked Histria. In 249 they attacked Marcianople. A year later, under their king Cniva, they sacked several Balkan cities. In 251, Cniva routed Emperor Decius at Abrittus. The raids continued and moved from the Black Sea to the Aegean where the historian Dexippus successfully defended a besieged Athens against them. He later wrote about the Gothic Wars in his Scythica. Although most of Dexippus is lost, the historian Zosimus had access to his historical writing. By the end of the 260s the Roman Empire was winning against the Goths.
Jordanes in his The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, chapter 4: - " IV (25) Now from this island of Scandza, as from a hive of races or a womb of nations, the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king, Berig by name. As soon as they disembarked from their ships and set foot on the land, they straightway gave their name to the place. And even to-day it is said to be called Gothiscandza. (26) Soon they moved from here to the abodes of the Ulmerugi, who then dwelt on the shores of Ocean, where they pitched camp, joined battle with them and drove them from their homes. Then they subdued their neighbors, the Vandals, and thus added to their victories. But when the number of the people increased greatly and Filimer, son of Gadaric, reigned as king--about the fifth since Berig--he decided that the army of the Goths with their families should move from that region. (27) In search of suitable homes and pleasant places they came to the land of Scythia, called Oium in that tongue. Here they were delighted with the great richness of the country, and it is said that when half the army had been brought over, the bridge whereby they had crossed the river fell in utter ruin, nor could anyone thereafter pass to or fro. For the place is said to be surrounded by quaking bogs and an encircling abyss, so that by this double obstacle nature has made it inaccessible. And even to-day one may hear in that neighborhood the lowing of cattle and may find traces of men, if we are to believe the stories of travellers, although we must grant that they hear these things from afar."
http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/scandinavianroots.html
[edit] Sarmantia
In the early first century, Sarmatians are mentioned as allies of king Mithridates VI of Pontus, the ruler of several countries near the Black Sea and one of the most dangerous enemies of the Roman empire. In 66, he was defeated by Pompey the Great and expelled from Asia Minor. Mithridates continued his war from the Crimea, still supported by the Sarmatians, but was ultimately forced to commit suicide. The Sarmatians continued the anti-Roman alliance with his son Pharnaces, who was defeated in 47 by Julius Caesar at Zela ('I came, I saw, I conquered').
- Baltic Sea once was named Oceanus Sarmaticus!
- Sarmatia Europea, is an ancient region comprising Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Ukraine and White Russia.
[edit] Karelian Europe
Sarmatism (Polish: sarmatyzm) was the name of the lifestyle and culture of the szlachta (Polish nobility) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/scandinavianroots.html http://www.ra.se/kra/0401.html
 Gulf of Finland year 1616 |
 Gulf of Finland year 1662 |
 Gulf of Finland year 1696 |
 Sarmatia Europea in Scythia map 1697 AD |
 "Sarmatia Europea" separated from "Sarmatia Asiatica" by the Tanais (the River Don), based on Greek literary sources, in a map printed in London, ca 1770 |
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[edit] Science and Faith
[edit] Egypt stuff
In Egyptian myth's Attis, the shepard of Cybele (Magna Mater)
Attis is eventually either then immortalized and crowned with stars, and becomes leader of the galli priests devoted to Cybele
http://www.liminalityland.com/adonis.htm
To take another myth, they say that the Mother of the Gods seeing Attis lying by the river Gallus fell in love with him, took him, crowned him with her cap of stars
CYBELE An Asian goddess adopted by the Greeks and Romans. A healer, mistress of fertility and untamed nature, a protector in war. Cybele is always accompanied by two lions. Cybele granted immortality to those who worshipped her. Cybele's priests danced wildly and mutilated themselves. Her festivals, held at the beginning of spring, were occasions for wild orgies.
[edit] Pre/Early Christian Faith
Up to the beginning of the 4th century Logos was the primary description of Gods essens, the holy spirit. And as the trinity was introduced this Arian way of reason was suppressed and replaced with the Son, whom also initially was related to Logos. From the Anomoean point of view Jesus was an ideal person of true knowledge and understanding whom had suffered no influences on the events preceeding his terrestial birth.
Urphilas (Ulfilas), Visigoth Nobleman was sent by the King of the Goths to meet with the Arian faithful Constantine II. Thereafter he settled in Thracian tribe areas of Moesia (familygrounds of the Constantines) and founded, along with Fritigern, the so called Moeso-Goths. There he translated the bible to Gothic (Codex Argenteus) in year 370. His close relation to the Constantine family may have been a important ingridience to the overwhelming victory in the Battle of Adrianople in year 378. This battle is often considered the start of the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
and today known as the first Gothic apostle and bishop of early Arian Christianity,
[edit] Gimel (G)
There are similairities with the original Phoenician letter G, the Gimel, meaning Camel and which in Hebrew is the sign of Reward and Punishment that imply that: man is free to choose between good and evil[1] and which may be related with the Freemason logo's mixture of both G and chevrons as well as the often used symbolism of black and white. The word gimel is derived from the word gemul, which in Hebrew means both the giving of reward as well as the giving of punishment. In Torah, both reward and punishment have the same ultimate aim the rectification of the soul to merit to receive God's light to the fullest extent. Reward and punishment imply that man is free to choose between good and evil.
[edit] Ouroboros
- What's with the Ouroboros symbol? I have found it to be the best ever explanation to the Original sin methapore! The hostile and evil snake or dragon eat itself to adapt with the environment. But it's representation is allegoric. It's clearly about ordinary life and each time we drop parts of our own individuality. Each time we do not struggle against the obvious wrong and instead choose the short track, we're taking a bite of our tail.
[edit] Interests SandBox
[edit] Various stuff
- European flag
- James Bonaventure Hepburn
- Arthur Droge, the professor
- Christina of Sweden
- 1655 Conclave
- Is the chevron (Swedish: Sparre) in for example Arvid Gustavsson Sparre coat of arms related to the shield adornments of the spartans ?
[edit] Speculations SandBox
[edit] Origin of the Crown of Immortality
- The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph Ankh is belived to symbolize eternal Life. The Shen Ring hieroglyph is belived to combine the circle, that lacks both beginning and end, with human life thru the Ankh - which combined symbolizes mankind. The Ankh symbol is also often compared with the venus symbol, were a paralell is often made to the woman womb, which symbolicly is the doorway/pathway to human eternal life - the ability to reproduce life.
- During the Coptic Period in Egyptian history, the Ankh was adopted by the early Christian Church as the latin translation: Crux Ansata also known as the Coptic Cross. Byzantine fresks and paintings often contain halo's with Coptic cross charateristics, were the halo or circle now symbolizes the holy spirit. The Trinitarian cross now has the circle in the middle. Still thru history, it's the circle which has been important. The circle which by its perfection and its lacking of both beginning and end is equal to the only single and eternal truth - The Essence of God.
- The ring of stars, Crown of Immortality, today has become the modern version of the ancient symbol, not necessarily in our modern days related to Christianity, which from a gnostic view may be a symbol of God's Essence (The Monad), transparent to different religious lores and teachings.
http://www.islamiska.org/s/k17.htm
[edit] Symbolic meaning
- The symbolic meaning of the Crown is unclear. The ultimate salvation in Christian lore, becoming immortal, may seem to be the crown's obvious meaning and by beeing crowned with it would garantee a seat in the Kingdom of Heaven. It may also symbolize the spirit itself, as the Crown is found mainly related to Mary, mother of Jesus, before God has become the father or when Jesus is a baby pictured without halo or non full halo. The religious meaning then could be more of a transparent and gnostic kind, which would make the possible origin mentioned below interesing.
[edit] New testament
- The New Testament (Revelation 12:1) speak of a twelve star crown.
[edit] Interesting stuff
- In year 1511 did Albrecht Durer finish his Madonna on the Crecent, which also picture the crown. On his work: Madonna Appears to St John the halo crown of stars is pictures as a normal crown, still with stars as adornment.
[edit] Related
- David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl proposed, in 1694, that: Art present riddles that could not be solved by everyone.[2].
- Arthur Droge, professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of California, San Diego, spoke on "The Crown of Immortality: Toward a Re-description of Christian Martyrdom." [3]
[edit] References
- ^ About the Hebrew Gimmel (HTML).
- ^ About Iconography which contain David's proposal (HTML).
- ^ Religious martyrdom, International Education Week, Nov. 14–19 2004, University of Oregon. (HTML).
