Hindu
god Vishnu. [From Larousse]
3102 KRSNA & ARJUNA: This is the date of the Bharata battle that
decided the dynastic struggle between two clans of India’s ruling families, the
Pandavas and the Kurus. An account of this long dynastic struggle is recorded
in the epic ‘Mahabharata’ and marks the beginning of the ‘Age of Misfortune,
the Kali Yuga’. (199) This is a ‘dark age’, which lacks a doctrine; it began on
18th February 3102 BCE and will last 432,000 years. Krishna, and
Kali are both ‘black’ gods. Indra’s son Arjuna is ‘white’ but taught by black Krishna,
an incarnation or avatar of Vishnu. These great gods of Hinduism will survive
well into future times. (195)
The
Aryans are mentioned in the ‘Mahabharata’ but traditional orthodox history puts
Aryan settlement of India at c1500 BCE.
The
following year is recorded a great gathering of all planets in the
constellation of Aries, said to mark the time of the Biblical Flood. (60)
3046 Estimated total eclipse over the
capital Thinis, Ancient Egypt. (240. 241) Eclipses usually mark a time of
considerable adjustment to change.
3005 According to Petrie this is the
start of Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Coffin texts are thought to date from
this period.
YNTEF I
the Great, first pharaoh of the Middle kingdom recorded, ‘I enlarged my
northern boundary as far as the nome of Aphroditopolis, I drove in the mooring
peg in the sacred valley, I captured the whole of the Thinite nome, I opened
all its fortresses, I made it the Door to the North’ (80)
MENTUHOTEP
I is credited with establishing the 11th Dynasty of Egyptian
kings and the foundation of the Middle Kingdom. He came from a family of Theban
princes who traced their ancestry to a noble named Inyotef the Great [Yntef?].
(287)
MENTU-HOTEP
III is the last
pharaoh of the 11th Dynasty. He builds a mortuary temple and a
pyramid at Deir el Bahri, which will be further built onto by the future
Senusert III of the 12th Dynasty. Mentu-hotep’s mortuary temple will
act as a model for the future temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Whilst stone was
being quarried for Mentu-hotep’s sarcophagus, it is recorded that a pregnant
gazelle. ‘...went with her face towards the people before her, while her eyes
looked backward....’ She sacrificed herself in birth on the stone. The incident was interpreted as Divine
direction. (80)
c3000 BCE DARDANUS
builds the city of Troy in Asia, and is its first king. Dardanus is a son of
Zeus and Electra, the lost star of the Pleiade group located in the shoulder of
Taurus the Bull. They are inhabitants of
Samothrace, a Greek Island in the northern Aegean Sea.
After the death of his brother in a flood (the
third flood according to Nonnos) Dardanus went to Asia where King Teucer
reigned. Teucer gave Dardanus land and the hand of his daughter Batieia. On the
death of King Teucer, Dardanus inherited the whole country and called it
Dardania, after which he built the citadel of Troy. Dardanus then initiated the
Trojans of Troad into the mysteries of the Cabiri and introduced the cult of
the mother goddess Cybele into Phrygia. The Cabiri were the divine servants of
goddess Rhea. According to the Italians, Dardanus came originally from the
Etruscan city of Cortona and then went to Phrygia/Troad and thus created a bond
between the two lands. (148)
Dardanus received a magical shield from Zeus,
which is handed on to Minerva [Athena] and then to Numa, founder of Rome c703
BCE. [247. 503]
Mother
Goddess of the Mountain
Goddess
Cybele/Rhea from Ursa Major
The
star Electra, mother of the Dardanus will be saddened when she witnesses the
future fall of Ilion, and so will leave her station among the Pleiades to
become the ‘Fox Star’ or Alcor of Ursa Major. According to Babylonian legend
this star, known to them as Era, was powerful among the gods and took its place
at the beam of the wagon of Ursa Major; it is associated with the planetary god
Nergal or Mars. The Sumerian story of ‘Utnapishtim’, records that
Nergal/Mars/Alcor is responsible for the first great world flood. Thus, the
legends read that when Electra/Era frees herself from the yoke of Ursa Major or
from the Pleiades group, in the time of the fall of Ilion/Troy in 1185 BCE,
there will come the end of a world-age, presumably the Pleiadic age. (71)
The first settlers of Troy built the city as a
Bronze Age fortress. It will become the
city of Hissarlik in the future modern country of Turkey, near the entrance to
the Dardanelles. Troy is the city of the later King Priam (1184 BCE) and
destined to be destroyed by the Greeks in the Trojan War of that time. Troy was
once known as Ilios or Ilion, as related in the future Homer’s epic poem the ‘Iliad’,
which will record the story of the fall of Troy. (102)
A succeeding Troy II (2500-2200 BCE) will grow
in power and wealth to reach the high point of Troy’s history known in
archaeology as Troy VI around 1800-1300 BC.
The ‘Bronze Age’ is named so due to the
development of an alloy of copper and tin that allows the making of better
tools, implements of which are common in the Near East. (102). During this
‘Bronze Age’, the culture of Lower Mesopotamia (marsh delta) is known by the
name ‘Jemdt Nasr’. (173)
The
heliacal rising (with the sun) of Sirius coincided with the flooding of the
Nile around this time. Egyptian Temples are aligned to this star. (47) Sirius
is a binary (but possibly triple system
according to the Dogon) and the eccentricity of the orbit of the second
star reflects the Golden Mean ratio of 1.61. Pre-Ptolemy (150 CE) Sirius is
known as a red star but after his time it will be known as a blue-white star.
Sirius is seen as a ‘normal star’, whilst its companion, Sirius B is known as a
white dwarf. (47) The Pole star at this time is alpha Draconis. (71)
c3000 BCE MINOS OF KNOSSOS is the legendary King
of Crete and after whom the Minoan civilization is named in the future by the
famous archaeologist Arthur Evans. Worship by these peoples was of the Great
Mother Goddess and the Moon Goddess. Thucyides refers to Minos I.4 . I.8. who
married Pasiphae, daughter of Helios and Perseis. Unfortunately, Pasiphae is to
fall in love with the bull that Minos failed to sacrifice to the gods. Their offspring
is the Minotaur, which Minos was obliged to keep in an underground labyrinth.
[148]
DAEDALUS, architect to King Minos,
created this labyrinth under the palace of Knossos in which to keep the
Minotaur monster, half bull and half man. The word ‘labyrinthos’ comes from,
‘the place of the double axe’, the Labrys. (44) the double axe is a symbol of
the Great Mother Goddess.
The
Cretan culture would eventually spread to Thrace and early Hellandic Greece,
(29) and with it the fertility religion of the Great Mother Goddess, Rhea, not
to be replaced until 2nd Millennium BCE when the Indo-European
invaders will bring their masculine sun god to that country. When the Cretan
Mother Goddess came to Greece she became departmentalised into different
aspects of fertility. The change of dominance from matriarchy to patriarchy is
recorded in the mythology of the Indo-European gods mating with, and then
dominating these goddesses. (44)
Cretan Snake Goddess
c3000 BCE By this time period, the city-states of Sumeria contain several
thousand inhabitants. (96) There are Neolithic Barrows (burial mounds) in
England.
In
the Near East civilizations of Egypt and Sumeria, women have the same legal
rights as men, inheriting and trading property, holding prominent positions
etc. Gradually there is to be a slow
decline in their status from this date forward. (9)
Agricultural
revolution occurs in Spain as the settled life of farming and herding brought a
population boom. In the south of Spain many dolmens and megalithic tombs attest
to the vitality of this culture called the ‘Almeria’. (102)
