PART
6 –
Ch.XXXV.2
The
Great Pelasgian empire
(The
reign of Uranos - Oyranos, Munteanul)
XXXV.
2. Uranos under the name “Pelasgos”.
In historical traditions,
Uranos, the first king of the Pelasgian race, also appears under the name Pelasgos (Pelasgos).
This Pelasg,
according to a tradition communicated by Pausanias
(Graeciae Descr. lib. vIII. 1), distinguished himself by the size of his body, his
strength and beauty, and surpassed all the other mortals with the gifts of his
soul.
With Eschyl (Suppl. v. 842. 901), Pelasg is
the son of Gaea or Terra; the poet Asius
(7th century bc) had written about him the following verses: the
black country (Gaia melaina) had given birth to Pelasg, he like the gods, on the high crested mountains, to be
the beginner of the human genus (Pausanias,
lib. VIII. 1).
Pelasg, as
Pausanias tells us, was the first to teach humans to build huts (chalybas)
to protect themselves against the cold, the rains and the heat; he taught them
to make clothes sewn from sheep skins, forbade them to continue eating green
leaves, weeds and roots, some of which were inedible, and others dangerous to
health; finally, regarding the various species of acorn, Pelasg allowed them to
use only the acorn of the oak for eating.
In this tradition,
Pelasg has, as we see, the same genealogy, the same country, and the same
civilizing characteristics of Uranos.
Pelasg is “like the
gods”; he is the son of Gaea or Terra, born on the high ridged mountains; the
beginner of the human genus and the first monarch of the ancient world. He has
everywhere the same merits and qualifications of Uranos.
According to the
grammarian Apollodorus, Pelasg is
the forefather of the Titans (Bibl. lib. III.8.1), while with Hesiodus, Uranos
is the father of the Titans. More ancient authors (Schol. Pind. Ol. III. 28 in Fragm Hist. gr. II. 387) tell us that
Pelasg is the first ancestor of the Hyperboreans, near Atlas mountain (Apollodorus, bibl. lib. II. 5. 11),
while according to Diodorus (III.
56), Uranos is the first king of the inhabitants near the same mountain Atlas.