XL

PREHISTORIC DACIA

PART 6 – Ch.XL

(The Great Pelasgian empire)

The duration of the Pelasgian empire.

We end here the series of the most illustrious kings of the divine dynasty of the Pelasgian empire.

In prehistoric times, the Pelasgian nation had a vast geographical extension. It had formed at the same time a great political unity, a huge empire.

The principal residence of these kings was at north of the lower Danube, on the land of ancient Dacia. This is confirmed by the geographical traditions found with Homer and Hesiodus, and it also results from the sacred history of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Assyrians and Persians.

The memory of these glorious kings lives even today in the folk traditions of the Romanian countries from the lower Danube. In the epic and religious songs of the Romanian people it is told about their great power and virtue, about their wars and glorious deeds, as well as about the legendary happiness of the human genus in those times.

They are honored with the title of emperors (see Ch.XXXVIII.3), gods-emperors (ibid), sons of emperors (Familia, An. 1886. p. 236; see Ch.XXXIX.4; Hasdeu, Etym. magn. III. 2261), “crai” (Tocilescu, Mater. Folk. 1067), Domni, brave men, and captains (Alecsandri, Poesii pop. p. 15; Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 552). They fight for imperial honors (Tocilescu, Mater. Folkl. 149) and wear imperial ensigns [1].

[1. Guilty lies Corbea, he had coveted and he had worn,

The reigning staff, the imperial sword,

The fur cap of the emperor, and the mantle of the Domn.

(Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 532)].

Their courts are high imperial (Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 30). They wander the world and fight all the armies of the earth (see Ch. XXXIX.3). They are called Domni of the earth, Domni of all, and of the Romanians (Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 12, 19), and are buried in the imperial garden from the lower Danube, or from Moldova [2].The songs which celebrate their memory are imperial songs [3]. Their wives and daughters are empresses, imperial princesses (TN – “domnita imparatita”) and daughters of emperors (Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 84, 82, 422) [4].

[2. And to the Danube took them, and in the Danube washed them,

Coffins made them, and finely buried them, in the imperial garden.

(Teodorescu, Poesii pop. p. 443).

And Mos Stan from Baragan, he lived, and he lived….

Until by old age he died, in Moldova was he burried,

In the imperial garden, to be heard of in the world.

(Ibid, p. 692).

3. When the empress heard….from her mouth she spoke:

Be quiet…..stop singing, it is not for your kind,

The song is not for the folk, but it’s an imperial song.

(Ibid, p. 83)

4. My dear, my mistress, high empress, proud and fine queen.

(Ibid, p. 84)

Be quiet imperial princess, I don’t take you to be my slave,

I take you to be my Queen.

(Ibid, p. 82)

We are not white swans, but three daughters of emperor,

And father has sent us, to measure the earth,

The earth with our walking, the sky with our thinking.

(Ibid, p. 422)]

As we see, the personalities of these king-emperors are historical, not simple imagination. Uranos or Montu, Saturn, Jove, Typhon, Mars, etc, have been men; they had a mortal existence. Their deeds, as described by historical traditions – but not the Greek fables – have a real, human character.

So, the philosopher Evhemerus of Mesena was right when, based on the inscriptions and documents gathered in the regions of the barbarians, sustained that the ancient gods of the world, Uranos, Saturn, Jove, etc, have been superior deified men, to whom have been attributed after death a cult and divine honors for their great deeds.

The priests of Egypt talked to Solon in the same way (Plato, Timaeus, Ed. Didot, vol. II. p. 199 seqq; Isidorus, Orig. VIII. 11. 1).

We are presented now with an important, but difficult matter, regarding the duration of the Pelasgian empire.

We are here on the terrain of prehistoric chronology, with various systems of years. We lack positive data. All that we have are historical traditions. We shall try therefore, based on these traditions, to establish here, at least with approximation, the duration of the great Pelasgian empire. In this regard we have two chronological sources, one Egyptian and the other Roman, the latter being probably of Scythian origin.

According to the sacred history of Manetho (Fragmenta, in Fragm. Hist. Gr. II. p. 526), the divine dynasty which reigned over Egypt was composed of three successive series of kings:

The first was the dynasty of the gods (theon), also called “the great gods”.

The second was the dynasty of the demigods (amitheon), issued from the first dynasty

The third was the dynasty of the Manii, or the Forefathers (nechyon / TN – Mosi), issued from the second dynasty.

The dynasty of the gods, understand of the earthly gods, had reigned over Egypt, as Manetho writes, 13,900 years, which according to Eusebius, must be considered as lunar years of 30 days each. Then another generation followed, the second dynasty or of the demigods, who reigned 5,212 years, which we, like Eusebius, shall also consider as lunar years of 30 days each. So, we shall have:

13,900 + 5,212 = 19,112 original Egyptian years, which correspond to:

19,112 x 30 : 365 = 1,567 normal solar years and 31 days.

It results therefore that the divine dynasty of the gods and the demigods, who reigned over the southern and northern parts of the ancient world, had a duration of 1,567 normal solar years and 31 days.

This number for the duration of the Pelasgian empire is also confirmed by the historic tradition which we find in the text of the history of Trogus Pompeius.

The Scythians of Europe, as Herodotus writes, had once reigned over the entire Asia (lib I. 104). These were the Shepherd Scythians from the lower Danube (Aramaei, Arimi), the most civilized, most rich and most warlike, the memory of whom we find also in the historical traditions of the Persians, Indians and Chinese (Gibbon, Hist. del la dec. de l’empire rom. I, 1835, p. 616-618). This reign of the Scythians of Europe over the continent of Asia had lasted, according to Trogus Pompeius, for 1,500 years (Justinus, Hist. Philip. Ex Trogo Pompeio, lib. II. 3). It is almost the same number of years which we find in the Egyptian chronology.

We find with the Romanian people another historical tradition which deserves to be taken into consideration. This tradition tells us that in the countries from the Carpathians and the lower Danube had previously dwelt a brave people and very belligerent, a race of tall people, who had come “from the sunrise” and who had ruled the entire world. These men, tall in stature, had made the mounds, introduced the plowing, and believed they were themselves real Gods. To the race of these people belonged Old Novac. But they had not stayed here for long, but had gone forward, towards the sundown of the earth, or they had lived for only 300 years and God had drowned them with the flood. In Romanian legends and traditions this vigorous race of people is called giants and it is told at the same time that this country had been called in ancient times the country of the giants (Villages Stroesci, Bucovina; Bogdanesci, Suceva; Hudescii mari, Bivolul mare, Dorohoi; Timisesci, Neamt; Hoisesci, Iasi; Banesa, Covurlui; Haimanale, Prahova; Michaiesci, Muscel; Popesci, Valcea; Samburesci, Olt).

These are the titans and the giants of Greek theogony. In the first book of Moses they are “the powerful of ancient times, men of renown” (hominum potentissimi, gigantes, homines ab omni memoria celebres), while in Romanian epic poems they are called: “The powerful of the time, like the pillars of the earth” (Negoescu, Balade, p. 26).

This race of people who had ruled the entire world according to Romanian tradition, had not stayed more than 300 years in the countries of Dacia. What is meant here is the first divine dynasty which, as Herodotus writes (lib. II. 145) had been composed of 8 gods, called “the great gods”, among who figured Montu (Uranos), Saturn (Cronos, Seb) and Typhon (Seth).

Herodotus had established as a chronological law the following: 3 reigns or 3 generations for every 100 years. If we applied now this law to the reign of the 8 great gods, we would have a total of 266 years and 8 months.

It results therefore that the length of the great Pelasgian empire during the first and second divine dynasty, of the gods and the demigods, had been 1,500 -1,567 years, and that the 8 great gods from the family of the titans especially, had reigned for only 266 – 300 years.

END OF PART 6 – (to follow up go PART 6 – CONTENTS – PART 7)