PREHISTORIC
PART
7 –
Ch.XLI
The
Great Pelasgian empire
The
Pelasgian language
XLI.
1. The Pelasgian language according to Biblical and Homeric traditions.
In the most ancient
times of the migration of the Pelasgian pastoral tribes, the national language
of this people was spread over the best part of western
After the
dethronement of Saturn though, the ancient national language of the Pelasgians
begins to differentiate in several dialects. On the one hand the huge extension
of the Pelasgian pastoral population, and on another their mixing with elements
of other races, with subjected and tributary peoples, had as a consequence the
forming of several Pelasgian idioms.
According to the
religious traditions of the Hebrews, only a single usual language had existed
for the entire earth, up to the founding of
“And there was a single language and speech on
the entire earth” Book I of Moses tells us. In those times, one part of
Noah’s descendants, departing towards the east, found a plain in the
From a historical
point of vies, Jehova of the Hebrew
religion, or Jova in the best
Biblical texts, represents Jupiter
or Jovis of the divine dynasty, Iova or Iov emperor of Romanian folk songs.
The mixing of the
languages coincides therefore, according to the Mosaic tradition, with the
dethronement of Saturn, with the scattering of the Titans and Giants, and with
the rising of the southern elements against the political domination of the
northern Pelasgians.
But we start to
have more positive historical data about the ancient language of the
Pelasgians, only from the times of Homer onwards.
“In the great city
of
Homer also mentions especially the language of
two Pelasgian peoples. The inhabitants of