PART
6 –
Ch.XXXV.5
The
Great Pelasgian empire
(The
reign of Uranos - Oyranos, Munteanul)
XXXV.
5. The dethronement of Uranos.
According to what
Greek and Phoenician traditions tell us, Uranos had been dethroned and chased
off the empire by his youngest son, called Chronos
by the Greeks and Saturnus by the
Romans.
The causes of his
ousting had been, as results from the theogony of Hesiodus, on the one hand the misunderstandings which existed
between him and his wife Gaea or Terra, and on the other hand the hate which
Uranos had for the Titans, his sons
born of Gaea, whom he had thrown in subterranean prisons, so that the earth
moaned because of their number. At Gaea’s instigations, writes Hesiodus, Saturn,
the youngest of the Titans, suddenly attacks his father Uranos one night and
severs his genitals with a curved sword of steel, wound because of which Uranos
dies (Theog. v. 154 seqq).
We find the same
tradition with the sacred writings of the Phoenician priests, attributed to Sanchoniaton. The priest Sanchoniaton
had lived according to some, before the Trojan times, and had composed, based
on Phoenician, Egyptian and other ancient sources, a history of the
Phoenicians, written with great diligence and love for truth, which later, in
the 2nd century ad was translated in Greek by Herennius Philo of Byblos
(fragm. 2 in Phoenicum Historia in Fragm. Hist. gr. III. 567).
Sanchoniaton wrote
the following about the dethronement of Uranos:
Uranos had a sister
called Gaea, who he married, but he also had a large number of children with
other women. Because of this, Gaea, in her jealousy, separated from Uranos
after many misunderstandings, although he continued to receive her often in his
house. When Uranos tried to kill the Titans though, or the sons born of Gaea,
she asked for the help of the armed troupes which she had at her disposal, and
placated all his attempts. But later, after Saturn had reached maturity, he
decided to take revenge on his father for the injuries he had done his mother,
and in this way, helped by his secretary Hermes Trismegistos (thrice great),
started a war against Uranos. He chased him off the empire and occupied the
seat of power. After some time Uranos, exiled from his empire, sent his
daughters Astarte, Rhea and Dio to Saturn, in order to kill him by trickery and
concealed means. Saturn conquered their hearts though through love and
kindness, and married them.
Uranos had also
invented a sort of stones which had spirit (lithoi emphichoi), called
Baetulia, which he had fabricated
with particular wisdom [1]; he started another war against Saturn, but in the
32nd year of his reign, Saturn caught his father Uranos in some
Mediterranean place, where he had prepared some traps for him, and severed his
genitals. With the blood running in springs and rivers, his spirit separated
from the body. This place, Sanchoniaton tells us, had been later consecrated to
Uranos.
[1. Pliny (XXXVII. 51) also mentions a type of stones of the class of
the ceraunias or fulgurites, which were used for the
breaking of fortresses and fleets (quae nigrae sint et rotundae, sacras esse,
urbesque per illas expugnari et classes, easque betulos vocari). It seems though that the name baitulia of these stones
“with spirit” (explosives) destined especially for wars, derived from an
ancient Pelasgian word which had the same form as the Romanian “batalia” (TN – battle).
This term was very much used in the
Middle Ages, in the Romanic countries. We find “batualia, quae vulgo battalia dicuntur” with Adamantius Martyrius (Diez,
E. W. I. ed. 1853, p. 49)].