PREHISTORIC
PART
6 –
Ch.XXXV
The
Great Pelasgian empire
The
reign of Uranos - Oyranos, Munteanul
XXXV.
1. Uranos, the first king of the inhabitants near Atlas mountain in Dacia,
cca 6000bc [1]
[1. There are various chronologies,
given by various authors, about the epoch in which the first kings of the
divine Pelasgian dynasty had ruled. A special interest in this regard is
presented by the Egyptian chronologies
found with Manetho, Diodorus Siculus,
Herodotus (II. 142) and Plato (ed. Didot, II. 201. 251. 285),
because Uranos and Saturn, the first kings of the Pelasgian divine dynasty, had
also ruled over Egypt.
The Egyptian priest Manetho (3rd century bc) had
calculated a total length of 24,925 years for the three divine dynasties, of
the gods, the demigods and the Manii, or the forefathers, who had ruled in the beginning
over the plains of the Nile (Fragm. Hist. gr. II. 526 seqq); and if we added to
this figure another 5,264 for the following dynasties (according to Eusebius),
beginning with Menes and ending to Artaxerxes Ochus, and finally, another 340
years until the times of Augustus, when Christ was born, then we shall have a
total of 30, 529 years to the beginning of our era.
Diodorus Siculus also writes (I. 26) that the Egyptian priests calculated cca 23,000
years from the rule of the Sun (‘Hlios = Uranos) to the entering of
Alexander the Great into Asia (334 bc). But the true value of these
chronological data cannot be established, because we cannot know with any
probability, the length of the theological year during the various epochs of
ancient Egyptian history. So, according to some chronologists, the ancient
Egyptian year at the time of the deified kings’ rule could have been of one day
(Malalas), or one month (Eusebius and Diodorus); and at the time of the demigods and the Manii, of 3 and
4 months (Pandorus, Diodorus, Syncellus).
Therefore, in order to solve this complex and difficult matter, we shall have
to find another way to find out, at least approximately, about the epoch in
which the first deified kings Uranos and Saturn had ruled over the plains of
the Nile.
In the first times of Egyptian
history, Manetho tells us, had ruled over Egypt three successive divine
dynasties, of the gods, the demigods and the Manii, or the “immortal” kings,
followed by the human dynasties, or the “mortal” kings, which begin with the
king called Menes, Mena or Manis. From Menes to Alexander the Great, the
Egyptian priests counted 5,000 years. This figure results from the data found
with Diodorus (I. 26. 44-45), that
the Egyptian priests calculated 23,000 years from the beginning of the divine
dynasty to Alexander the Great, out of which 18,000 belonged exclusively to the
divine dynasties before Menes. This Menes or Manis, figures though in Egyptian
history as a great legislator, as one who had regulated the cult of the gods,
and had embarked upon expeditions in faraway countries, so that, by name, by
his way of governing, and by the historical deeds attributed to him, Manis
appears as the same personality as Cronos or Saturn, called Manes by the
Tursenii Pelasgians of Lydia, Minos in Crete, deus Manes by the Romans and
Mannus by the Arimii of Germany. In this way we shall have a total of 5,000 +
332 = 5,332 years from Menes (whom we consider identical with Saturn) to the
beginning of the Christian era. We find the same analogy also in the
chronological data of Manetho. The monarchy of human dynasties, beginning with
Menes until the end of the rule of Nectanebo II (341bc), was, according to the
Egyptian priest and historian, of an approximate length of 6,000 years, and of
5,264 years according to Eusebius, meaning 5,605 years until the beginning of
the Christian era.
We find almost the same figure with
modern Egyptologists. According to Champollion
(L’Univers, p. 269), the first human dynasty of
This date is also confirmed by another
source, entirely independently of Egyptian chronology. The Turditanii of
Hispania, a people who had migrated there in remote times from the eastern
parts of
We shall consider therefore the year
6000bc as the most veridical date for the beginning of the Pelasgian divine
monarchy (Maspero, Egypte et
Chaldee, p. 45; Henry Martin,
Opinion de Manethon sur la duree totale de ses trente dynasties egyptiennes)].
The first king who
had ruled over the regions near Atlas mountain at north of the Istru, had been
according to ancient historical traditions, Uranos (Munteanul – TN – from the mountain).
The Atlantes (or inhabitants near Atlas
mountain, near Oceanos potamos), writes Diodorus
Siculus (lib. III. 56; VI. 2. 7), excel among all the neighboring peoples,
for their particular piety and hospitality. They boast that the gods (the
ancient deified kings) had been born there, and tell that Uranos had been the first to have ruled there; that he had gathered
the people who lived scattered and had made them dwell in villages and cities;
had forbidden them to further live without laws, by the way of the wild beasts;
had taught them to cultivate the soil and keep the fruit good for eating, and
many other useful things for their day-to-day life. His rule had extended over
most of the world, especially in the western and northern regions. By observing
and studying with special attention the course of the stars and the planets,
Uranos had prophesied many phenomena which had to happen in the sky. He had
taught the people to know the system of the year by the course of the sun, and
had established the months of each year by the course of the moon and of
certain hours of the year. Because of this, the simple people, who did not know
the regular movements of the stars, admiring the exactness with which the
things predicted by him took place, had formed the belief that really, this
prophet had in him a part of a divine nature; and after he had died, he had
been attributed divine honors, for his merits, as well as for his astronomical
knowledge, and the name Ouranos (Munteanul) had been later
applied to the sky, on the one hand
because he had known very well the rising and setting of the stars, as well as
other celestial phenomena, and on the other hand in order to elevate his merits
and to be named king for eternity.
It is said about Uranos
that he had 45 children with a number of wives, 22 of whom with his wife Titaea (Titana), the mother of the
Titans, who, for her merits and wisdom, had been placed after death among the
gods, receiving the name Gaea (Diodorus Siculus, lib. III. 57).
At the time of
Uranos, the Pelasgian state had, as it results from ancient legends and
traditions, a powerful political and military organization.
The first class of
nobility was formed by the so-called Titans,
with the epithet chthonioi, of the earth (Hesiodus,
Theog. v. 697); agauoi, glorious (Ibid. v. 632); and theoi, divine (Ibid. v.
630), because by traditions, they belonged to the powerful and illustrious
family of the royal dynasty.
Another class of
the Pelasgian society of those times was formed by the artisans, who were engaged in all sorts of industrial works (mechanai
asan ep’ ergois), and who figure with Hesiodus under the name of Cyclops
(ibid. v. 139 - In the Odyssey though, the Cyclops are shepherds).
The military force
of the state was represented by the Centimanii,
‘Echatoncheires
(Hesiodus, Theog. v. 150). According
to Hesiodus, there were only three Centimanii, each having 50 heads, understand
captaincies. It results therefore that in the early times of Uranos’ rule, his kingdom
was composed of only three military circumscriptions, as Dacia was also divided
in three administrative provinces during the times of Roman domination.
The constitution of
the state was theocratic. All the public affairs were conducted in the name of
the divinity. Uranos is an absolute monarch. He unites in his hands the entire
political, administrative, judiciary, military and sacerdotal power.
Ouranos, as personal name,
is a simple geographical appellative, which derives from oros with the Ionic suffix
anos,
and has the meaning “man from the mountain” (Munteanul), as his wife Gaea also
had the epithet orestera, meaning “Munteana”. Diodorus Siculus tells us the same, that the ancient gods had been human, and that some of them had
received their names from the regions over which they had ruled (lib. VI. 2.
12).