PART
6 –
Ch.XXXV.4
The
Great Pelasgian empire
(The
reign of Uranos - Oyranos, Munteanul)
XXXV.
4. The reign of Uranos over
Romii, the most ancient Pelasgian
inhabitants of the plains of the
According to the traditions
of antiquity, the reign of Uranos had extended also to the southern parts, and
beyond the
Even since very
remote times, the Pelasgian pastoral tribes had also occupied, in their
migrations from the Carpathians towards the south, the northern regions of
These groups of
shepherds, rich and warlike, had transported with them to Africa the first
elements of pre-historical civilization; they had founded there the first
villages and cities, had built the first temples and oracles, had dried the
swamps of the Nile, had fertilized a large part of the deserts, and had put in
this way the basis of the first political life in those parts.
These original
inhabitants of
[1. The form Romi also appears in the personal names Chromos and Chromios,
which we find with the Trojans and other Pelasgian populations from
Most of the Egyptian kings of the Romii family have in inscriptions and
with the ancient authors the name Rama-tu,
Ramen, Ramen-ter, Ramen-ma, Ramesses,
Armesses, Armais and Armaeus
(Fragm. Hist. gr. II. 573-589). In the list of kings of
Finally, we also note that according
to Steph. Byz.
The ancient kings
of
From Pi-Romi, or better said Pi-Rami, derives the name of the Pyramids, the ancient funerary
monuments of the Egyptian kings, which the Arabs call more correctly, Haram (Pauly, R-Encycl. VI. 1852. p. 297), meaning Arimic graves. (To derive the orthography of pyramis from the
etymology of the Greek word pyr is wrong. In the funerary rite
of the Egyptians, the fire had not played any role).
The character of
these funerary monuments is not specifically Egyptian. In reality the pyramids
present only a traditional, but more elegant, form of the Pelasgian funerary
mounds.
The most renowned
pyramids are those of Gizeh, near
The group of the pyramids of Gizeh (
In the frontal plane is the colossal sphinx Montu-Ra-Harmakhis, in semi-profile.
A memory of the
ancient population of
The most ancient
dynasty which had reigned over the plains of the
The Pelasgians had
been the only people of the ancient world, to who was attributed a divine
origin. In Homer’s Iliad, they
figure under the name dioi Pelasgoi (X. 429; Odyss. XIX.
177), and in truth, they had deserved this name in those primitive times for
their extraordinary intelligence, their moral and physical qualities, which
seemed to have something of the divine in them, and finally, for their truly
grandiose and astonishing deeds and works [2].
[2. At the beginning of the names of
the Ethiopian kings was added the
word Za (Drouin, p. 15). The same example is presented in
In memory of the
glorious domination of these pastoral tribes, the Pharaohs of Egypt wore as
traditional ensigns of their sovereignty, even in the times of Osiris, the
shepherd’s crook and the whip of the herdsmen (Pierret, Le Pantheon egyptien, p. 58),
and the same ensigns are worn even today by the owners of flocks and herds at
the Carpathians [3].
[3. What
I saw at Oprisan, I haven’t seen at the Sultan,
He has on the sunny
plain, thousands and hundreds of sheep…
Oprisan from Stoenesci, with kingly
wealth.
In the courtyard he had entered, on
the hook he had hung,
A crook like an emperor’s, with precious gems inlaid,
Which shines like the sun, on a day
of feast.
(Alecsandri,
Poesii pop.p. 201)].
The first king of
the divine dynasty who had ruled over
It is the same name
which in Greek theogonies appears under the form of Uranos, meaning Munteanul
(TN – from the mountain).
The cradle of this
historical tradition had been Theba
of upper Egypt, the ancient residence of Montu and the divine dynasty, the
richest and greatest city of the ancient world. Theba, as Homer tells us, had
had 100 gates. Through each gate could exit at the same time 200 men with
horses and war chariots, and 20,000 warriors overall. The Thebans, pastoral
people in the beginning, considered the sheep (rams) as sacred (Herodotus, II. 42) and said at the same
time that they were the most ancient people on the face of the earth, that they
had invented philosophy, and had ordered the year and the months (Diodorus Siculus, lib. I. 50). It is
the same tradition, also hold by the inhabitants from Atlas mountain, or from
the northern parts of Istru.
Montu, the first
king of
[4. The opinion of Maspero that: Ra…signified the sun and
nothing else (Etudes d. myth. II. 7) is wrong. In the language of the Gypsies (also
called Egyptians in various countries), ray
or raya means lord (domn), Herr, seigneur (Wlislocki, Die Sprache d. transs.
Zigeuner, p. 114; Vaillant, Gramm.
De la langue romanne, p. 124). In the same way in which the Greeks had applied
the name Uranos to the sky, the Egyptians had identified Ra with the sun.
We also find the memory of Uranos,
under the name “Raiu emperor”, in
Romanian folk traditions: “It is said that Raiu
emperor had been the first emperor on the face of the earth” (Cest. Ist. c. Bogdanesci,
Tutova district)].
The country of
Montu is also personified on ancient Egyptian monuments, under the name Ka, Kai and Tera, words
identical with Gaea and Terra of Greco-Roman legends So, on an
altar column from the times of the 6th dynasty, preserved in the
museum of Turin, the divinity Kai
figures first in the order of the great gods who had ruled over Egypt, (Lepsius, Uber d. ersten agypt.
Gotterkreis, p. 29). In the same way, Gaea
or Terra is the Great Mother of the
gods, theon mater, and at the same time the wife of Uranos, in Greek
theogonies [5].
[5. We also find the form Caia instead of “Gaea” even today, in the region of the Carpathians. In
In the ancient
history of
[6. In a fragment preserved from Ioan the Antiochean, apparently an
extract from an older list of Manetho, after Helios is mentioned an Egyptian
king with the name Sos. Based on Egyptian monuments, Lepsius ascertains (Uber d. ersten agypt. Gotterkreis p. 14) that
in Greek texts, the exact form of this name must have been Mos. But this word seems
to have been only a particular title of Helios, not at all the name of a
particular king, as results also from the fact that in Vetus chronicon and Eusebius this word had been entirely
omitted, while Syncellus had
substituted it by the Greek Agathodaemon,
or “Bun” and “Bunic” in Romanian (mos, Lat. avus, manes)].
Montu-Ra or Tum
also had in the traditions of Egyptian priests the name Harmaku or in Greek form Harmachis,
Armakhis, Harmais and Armais (Pierret, Le Pantheon
The colossal sphinx of Gizeh, cut in
live rock, representing the figure of Montu
– Ra – Harmakhis (Uranos),
with a lion’s body and legs, dug up
for the sixth time in 1886, from underneath the huge masses of sand,
which continuously gather around the pyramids.
(From Maspero, Egypte et Chaldee, p.
249) [7]
[7. According to Pliny (36. 17), the circumference of the
head around the forehead was 102’ (30.17m), the length of the body 143’
(42.29m), and the height from belly to the top of the head 62’ (18.33m).
Today only the general shape of the
lion body of the statue is preserved.
Maspero
writes about this ancient historical monument (TN – translated from French):
“Fanatic Mameluks had mutilated its nose and beard with cannon balls; the red taint which enlivened its traits
had waned almost everywhere. Nevertheless, even in its distress, the ensemble
preserves a sovereign expression of force and dignity. The eyes look into the
distance with an intensity of deep thought, the mouth still smiles, the entire
face breathes calm and power”].
Finally, the
Egyptian priests had also considered Tum identical with Ammon, the man rich in herds, honored as supreme god of Theba, to
whom they had also attributed the epithet “Altaika”
(originally from Atlas mountain?) (Pierret,
Le livre d. morts, p. 569).
Montu, Tum,
Harmakhis, Ammon, appear in ancient Egyptian theology as being the same
personality, and present from a historical and dogmatic point of view the same
characteristics of Uranos in Greek theogonies.
Montu-Ra-Harmakhis-Ammon
is “emerged from the earth”, an
expression identical with gegenas of Greek authors and “Terra editus” of Tacitus. He is: the
lord of lords, king of the gods, forefather, power of the powers; the great
god, master of the sky, of the earth and hell, of the waters, of the mountains;
the beginner of forms, author of
mankind, creator of all animal species, of the pastures for animals and
nutritive plants for people; he reigns over two regions or worlds, the south and the north. One of the ensigns of his sovereignty and power is the “whip” (Pierret, Le livre d. morts, p. 247).