Ancient Mysteries - Minoans

Three and a half thousand years ago the first European civilisation collapsed. But why did the Minoan Empire end? The facts and theories surrounding some of the world's ancient mysteries.

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[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven MYTHS?....MYTHS MEAN IN GREEK REAL STORIES....PARA-MYTH IS A FALSE STORY!......DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago, I will briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous action; the exact particulars of the whole we will hereafter go through at our leisure in the sacred registers themselves. If you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time. OLDEN TIMES!...GREEKS WERE IN OLDEN TIMES!...DO YOU UNDERSTAND?...... CHALLENGE ME IF YOU CAN!

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven GODDESS ATHENA SOLON SAID THE PRIEST founded your city a thousand years before ours, receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be eight thousand years old.

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven DO NOT BE AFRAID TO WRITE THE TRUTH!...BEHAVE!

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven . And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land ,THE FAIREST AND NOBLEST RACE OF MEN WHICH EVER LIVED.. and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived....

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient time

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient.

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth......

[nixter888]

@LuckyDukeSeven DO NOT LIE!.... O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why.