Minister Markus Soeder, and the Falsehood taught as History in Europe

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2008-01-14 ]

In three successive articles (Markus Soder, Germany, Turkey, Europe, and the Apostate Free Masonic, Anglo-French Elite /
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/markus-soder-germany-turkey-europe-and-the-apostate-free-masonic-anglo-french-elite.html; Turkey as Birthplace of the European Identity, and Mr. Markus Soeder's Historical Ignorance /
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/turkey-as-birthplace-of-the-european-identity-and-mr-markus-soeder-historical-ignorance.html; Markus Soeder, Europe, Orient, and the Obsolete Colonial History Model /
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/markus-soeder-europe-orient-and-the-obsolete-colonial-history-model.html), we expanded on the false History diffused in Europe by the colonial Anglo-French academia in order to promote misconceptions and aberrations necessary for the ruling Apostate Freemasonic Lodge.

These misconceptions are at the origin of the pathetic contents of Mr. Markus Soeder’s interview in which the historically ignorant Bavarian minister asserted that for cultural reasons Turkey will never become EU member state, and that the ongoing negotiations and all related deliberations should therefore end soon (http://www.welt.de/politik/article1531451/Die_Tuerkei_wird_nicht_Mitglied_der_EU.html).

These misconceptions make the Europeans ignore following basic historical truths:

1. Islam, Turkey and the Ottoman Civilization are inherent part of the European Culture and History.

2. The European Identity was mainly formed on today’s Turkish territory.

3. Europe was civilized thanks to the expansion of the Ancient Oriental cultures.

4. European preconceived theories and approaches (Greco-Romano-centrism) were composed in times of limited knowledge and sources, and were politically motivated (as form of anti-clericalism)

5. These erroneous approaches were not rejected (as they should) after the discoveries of the Orientalists, which were also based on erratic, preconceived, colonial approaches and attitudes.

In the present article, we will complete our brief refutation of the European Greco-Romano-centrism, demonstrating the falsehood of the European perception of the so-called Classical World.

Mycenaean Greeks at the service of their powerful relatives, the Hittites of Anatolia

When the Indo-European Achaeans arrived and settled in various places of modern Greece, they constituted a tiny minority among the indigenous Pelsagians, whom they subdued. The relationship was never easygoing and the Achaeans had to build strongholds, their famous acropolises like those at Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Lerna, and Pylos, to be protected from the reactions of the multitude of the Pelasgians.

Before the Mycenean Achaeans prevailed in Southern Balkans, their cousins, the Nesa (today Kayseri – Caesarea of Cappadocia) inhabitants took control of Hattusas, and dominated the Hattis, the Luwians, and other non – Indo-European and non – Semitic, indigenous peoples of Anatolia. Although named after the city they first invaded (Nasili), they kept the original name of the Hatti kingdom, and modern scholarship uses the term 'Hittites' to differentiate from the earlier Hatti, who survived and preserved their writing for more than 700 years after the Indo-European Nasili – Hittites' rise to predominance.

When Ancient Egyptian scribes of the 20th century BCE refer to the Great 'Kheta', they insinuate at the Hatti, whereas later Egyptian historiographers dating back to the 14th century BCE use the same name to describe the Indo-European Hittites, who had meanwhile risen to power under the same name.

Contrarily to the poor documentation we have in the already deciphered Linear B (the Mycenaean form of earliest Greek), the Cuneiform Hittite texts help us reconstruct Hittite History much better. We have no myths, epics, and/or laws written in saved Linear B texts, whereas we have discovered numerous Cuneiform Hittite texts that belong to all these categories. In addition, we have Annals of the Hittite kings, administrative and military reports, plus diplomatic documentation, i.e. royal correspondence, in Hittite.

From the material record we understand that the 'Polychrysos' Mycenae of the Homeric narrations may have been much wealthier than the poor Greek cities – states of Homer's times; however, the Achaean capital could not be compared in wealth, art, science, wisdom and sophistication of the administration with any of the great Oriental capitals of the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, Assyria, Washegani (the Hurrian capital), Babylon, Susa (the Elamite capital), Hattusas, Ugarit (the greatest Canaanite city), and Thebes of Egypt.

Mycenaean Greece was small, marginal, and unimportant. It was however of some use for the 'world politics' of the Hittite empire that was facing the Hurrians in the South-East, Egypt in the South, and the permanently rebellious Lukka in the western – southwestern confines of Anatolia.

Through various Hittite sources, we come to know that the rulers of Mycenae were affiliated to, and relative of, the Emperor of Hattusas. The crown prince of the Achaeans (Ahhijawa in Hittite) was mentioned as trained in charioting along with the Hittite crown prince.

It seems that Hittite was widely spoken in Mycenaean Greece, and this is not a surprise because of the affinities of the two Indo-European languages. The coordination in terms of international politics seems to have been the cornerstone on which the two ruling dynasties based their strategies.

The friendship between the Hittite Empire and the Mycenaean kingdom had actually transformed the latter into a permanent guardian and peacekeeper in the western and southwestern confines of Anatolia, which helped Hattusas deploy the quasi-totality of its military machine in the East and the South from where the wealth would come (agriculture and trade undertaken in the Mesopotamian plains / trade assumed with the skillful Canaanite navigators).

The parallel collapse of the Hittite Empire and the Mycenaean Kingdom

Today, we can reconstitute the entire Trojan epics' story thanks to a multitude of Hittite texts reporting to the Emperor at Hattusas the difficulties encountered by the Mycenaean agents and mercenaries to impose a certain peace and calm in the westernmost confines of Anatolia, in cities like Apasa (Ephesus) and Millawanda (Miletus) that are referred to within the Hitttite literature corpus.

It seems that the situation of the Pelasgian – Trojan – Lukka masses had become so upset that a major effort was undertaken (later mythologized among the Greeks as 'the Trojan war' since it was their most important exploit against their worst enemies). As we know the effort ended with the destruction of Troy (Taruiya / Taruisha according to the Hittite texts), the most prominent commercial center of the anti-Mycenaean and anti-Hittite Pelasgian masses that were living in Southwestern Anatolia, in the Aegean Sea islands and in mainland Greece (where the Mycenaean Greeks were just a minority among them).

The event led to the explosion that dispersed Pelasgian barbarism throughout Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 12th centuries BCE, namely the event that is known as 'Invasions of the Sea Peoples'. Reacting in an unprecedented way, the oppressed Pelasgian peoples, a coalition called 'Lukka' in the Hittite sources and 'Sea Peoples' in the Egyptian sources, managed to attack and destroy Hattusas serendipitously, ignite rebellions throughout mainland Greece against the Achaeans, and finally burn the Mycenaean acropolises, and then undertake disastrous military expeditions against Alasia (Cyprus), Ugarit and the other Canaanite coastal and inland (Amurru) cities, before being defeated by the Egyptians in three successive land and sea battles at the Nile estuaries and in the Western desert (since they made a temporary alliance with the Libyan tribes).

Only Ramses III was able to disperse them finally, and through his Annals we get the largest documentation about them (allied forces of Peleset – Pelasgians, Lukka – Lycians, Taruish – Trojans, Sherden – inhabitants of Sardes who later settled in Sardinia, Shekelesh – who settled in Sicily after their dispersion and gave the Trinakria island its present name, and Washesh / Ashuwa – 'Asians', i.e. inhabitants of the Northwestern part of Anatolia that was named 'Asia' before the name was later used by the Greeks for the entire continent).

The formation of the Ancient Greek Culture from the Mycenaean to the Archaic Era bears witness to determinant Oriental impact.

Speaking about the non Greek Crete, we already mentioned the existence of Horus' Egyptian priests and local followers. Among the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE non-Greek Pelasgians of Boetia, Argolid, Attica and Arcadia, Prof. Martin Bernal finds evidence of comprehensive Egyptian and African presence.

Irrigational works at Boetia – so important for the fertilization of the plain – allude to apparent use of Egyptian know how. Names of mythical heroes and toponymics relating to those areas, like Atalante, Alkmene, Thebes, Orhomenos, etc are all of either Egyptian Khammitic or Canaanite Semitic origin and/or meaning.

An Egyptian temple seems to have existed in the middle of Mycenae, and the long Egyptian list of enumerated toponymics from the South Balkans (today's inland Greece and Crete) that dates back to the reign of Amenhotep III testifies to excellent Egyptian knowledge of the entire area from where the Pharaohs collected tribute for long. Exchanges of gifts and diplomatic presents left also various traces.

Even more determinant were religious and mythical beliefs, cults and practices. Vast parts of the Greek mythology (Demeter and the Eleusinian mysteries, Persephone and Pluto, Hera, Leto, Apollo, Hermes, Athena, the entire Herakles (Hercules) mythological circle, the Cadmus and Danaos mythological circle, the Theseus mythological circle, the concept of Helios' (Sun's) trajectory and overnight travel through the Nether World back to the eastern point of its rise, the concept of the world as a sphere with the earth as circular horizontal cross-section, the Ancient Greek Cosmology and Astrology in its entirety, the Creation of the World (as in Hesiod's Theogony) and the concept of the successive generations (Okeanos and Tethys, Uranus and Gaia, Cronos and Rhea), the basic frame of Iliad's narrative plot), plus names (involving Erebos, Tartara, Tethys, Cadmus, Hermes, etc), are all borrowings from the Egyptian, the Canaanite, the Hittite and the Assyrian – Babylonian religious and mythological systems.

In the eve of the ‘classical times’, the Orientalizing period (a term employed by the colonial classicists themselves!) testifies to another wave of Oriental influences - in Art, Philosophy, Mythology and Culture - spread throughout the Achaeans, the Aeolians, the Ionians, and the Dorians.

At the times of Homer, the presence of Phoenicians throughout the Aegean Sea was overwhelming; Homer mentioned it, transposing the event at the times of Troy. Greco-Romano-centrist historians and archeologists refuse to accept the reality for either period; this testifies only to their partial and unscientific status.

Greco-Romano-centrism: false History and false models, patterns, paradigms

’Divided Greece’ or ‘Unified Empire’; this is the question we should ask ourselves, when studying in an unbiased method all the ancient civilizations from a neutral and impartial standpoint. Studying and learning True History has also pedagogical dimensions; it helps us choose the correct prototypes for persons, states, principles, theories, and concepts.

As we already specified, the fake Greco-centrism is focused on Democratic Athens, producing therefore educational and cultural patterns for modern Europeans that relate to 5th century BCE Athens. It may look convincing to present a democratic state as example to modern citizens, but how much democratic 5th century BCE Athens truly was? If we push aside the curtains of partial and preconceived approach and interpretation, we soon realize that Athens was not a really democratic state.

Women were not considered as Athenian citizens, and were not given political rights and responsibilities. The misconception and misperception of the Athenian Democratic model by the partial European intellectuals have cost more than a hundred years of delay in according vote rights to women. The most interesting occurrence in this regard is the fact that women in Modern Turkey were accorded the right to elect and be elected a few years before similar legislation was introduced in France! The supposedly best model of Modern Human Rights and Democracy has been bested by a Muslim country that underwent a resolute and unbiased cultural revolution in the 1920s and 30s.

Ancient Athens: a Racist Model of Darkness and Hypocrisy

Even worse, slaves were not considered as proper human beings in Ancient Athens. According to scholarly estimations, they were mostly of Illyrian, Cimmerian, Scythian and Thracian origin, and they were at least twice as large as the indigenous Athenians. As a matter of fact, they had no right to participate in the common affairs, the 'res publica', of the 'democratic' Athenians! A free citizen should prove six generations ancestry of permanent residence in Athens in order to be considered as a 'real' Athenian.

Does this situation remind you of something similar? The parallelism between the slaves in Athens and the deprived from political rights Gastarbeiter, the Turkish, Balkan, African, Indian and other Asiatic foreign workers, in today's Europe is striking.

When today's politicians, like Mr. Markus Soeder, complain about the slow integration of foreign workers, mostly Muslims, in the European culture and lifestyle, they seem unable to understand the degree of alienation faced, the deprivations suffered, and the ensuing results. Unfortunately, few Europeans realize that the mistake should not mainly be attributed to either the Gastarbeiter or the unsuccessful and mean political class of Europe. The mistake is to be sought mainly at the level of principle, concept and model.

Truly speaking, Ancient Athenian politics and the elitism of the discriminatory class can barely serve as the paradigm for our modern democratic societies; if this is not understood plainly, Europe will never become an emancipated and unified power, putting an end to a long era of cultural puerility. We will complete our study of models and their use in today’s Europe in a forthcoming article.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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