Pelasgian Inspirations, Life Before Greece.

This video is a tribute to the Pelasgian people, their oral history and traditions that form a major uncelebrated pillar upon which Ancient Athens stood. I also touch on the Albanian question, which may be linked.

The question of the role of the Albanians is still an open one, but in such a reactionary climate like that of modern Greece, any discussion of an Albanian role or even of the great Pelasgian aboriginal mythology appears to be restricted, possibly directed from the state level, who knows.

In some peculiar way, a truly peaceful future for Europe may lie in the opening up of the Greek question in order to begin the path towards an honest re-integration of European history with that of the other great cultures of Africa, India, China, etc.

The notion of a fixed starting point for European culture that begins in Greece is scientifically unsound and fundamentally racist at the core, though many adherents to this notion are surely not aware of this dimension. After all, transcendence of racism and total planetary integration are not exactly the primary contents of textbooks around the world.

Hopefully science and social progress will bring us all down to earth eventually, and humility will finally find its way back into the cultures of the Balkans and into Europe as a whole.

We have a lot of work ahead of us to reunite humanity and unleash our full creative potential.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• greek
• mythology
• pelasgian
• illyrian
• thracian
• dacian
• romania
• bulgaria
• macedonia
• albania
• alvanos
• arvanita
• serbia
• croatia

[BillyJimmyLee]

the 'skull-cap' you are refering to is simply a cap someone wears before wearing the helmet. It is obvious that you haven't served a single day in the army. Even today's helmets consist of several layers of leather and cloth.

I admire the last phrases of the presentation. It is ironic however because you represent exactly the opposite. i myself would love to see ancient yllirian artifacts it would be interesting but I don't see it happening.

[balkancoolhead]

@BillyJimmyLee ... it is already happening, and some day we will also open the archives of greece where other hidden treasures are kept (we hope they have not been destroyed)...

[5hitter]

albania officially has no history and nothing noteworthy and this is reflected in many history books. Because of this they have resorted to stealing someone elses History namely Greece's so as to acquire some sense of looking civilized and to be proud of. It has only confirmed their reputation as the thiefs of the balkans and therefore pathetic

[balkancoolhead]

@5hitter ... interesting observations from a morally and fiscally bankrupt parasite of germany.

[Miffoman91]

Didn't you know that the albanians are the forefathers to everything? They built pyramids, spaceships and vast civilizations everywhere. Every albanian knows this but we other europeans don't because we're not as intelligent as they are. Please teach us great albanian teachers. U have the TRUTH!

[vharry]

is in albanian any word similar to malaka cause that word should be very similar to the name of the aauthor of thsi video :)

achileas was an albanian ? just lol

[nitroflesh]

Although I'm not very fun of Albanians I mus admit they are right on this one. Greeks think that they have exclusivity on antiquity. On the Balkans and Asia Minor were living other peoples then greeks. But they present all of them as Greek. All this in the name of Helenism. Wich is a made up frase by the early British archiologists.

[XxXJuLiAnOxXx19]

5hitter u ignorant son of a bitch u dont deserve living

[MultiKain777]

@chicagogeorge In the analysis of the text of Iliad and Odyssey which was written in Greek language, the author also says: "The object of the Homeric epopee, had already begun to compile and sung in Pelasgian language, since the Ancient Greek was not yet fully formed in Greece and this type of Greek still didn’t existed in Asia Minor, because the Eonian and Ionian colonies already landed several centuries later

[chicagogeorge]

and finally Herodotus

""The Hellenic race has never, since its first origin, changed its speech. This at least seems evident to me. IT WAS A BRANCH OF PELASGIC, which separated from the main body, and at first was scanty in numbers and of little power; but it gradually spread and increased to a multitude of nations, chiefly by the voluntary entrance into its ranks of numerous tribes of barbarians......

So in a nut shell, every single ancient author connects the Pelasgians with Greece

[chicagogeorge]

Hellanicus identifies this Argive or Arcadian Pelasgus with the Thessalian Pelasgus of Hecataeus.

Aeschylus regards Pelasgus as earthborn (Supplices I, sqq.), as in Asius, and ruler of a kingdom stretching from Argos to Dodona and the Strymon; but in Prometheus 879, the "Pelasgian" land simply means Argos

[chicagogeorge]

Strabo quotes Hesiod as expanding on the Homeric phrase, calling Dodona "seat of Pelasgians" (fragment 225); he speaks also of an eponymous Pelasgus, the father of the culture-hero of Arcadia, Lycaon.

Hecataeus, makes Pelasgus king of Thessaly (expounding Iliad, 2.681-684); Acusilaus applies this Homeric passage to the Peloponnesian Argos, the Argolid, and engrafts the Hesiodic Pelasgus, father of Lycaon, into a Peloponnesian genealogy.

[chicagogeorge]

Homer in the Illiad places the Pelasgians in a town or district "Larissa" (which is in Thessaly)

In the Oddessy 17.175-177, he places the Pelasgians in Crete

Two other passages (Iliad, 2.681-684; 16.233-235) apply the epithet "Pelasgic" to a district called Argos about Mount Othrys in southern Thessaly, and to the temple of Zeus at Dodona, in Epirus.

[chicagogeorge]

@IllyrianMacedonian

Really? Explain how you know that genius? #1. Albanian is a Satem language. #2 50% of modern Albanian uses loanwords from other languages (Latin being dominant and thus it is widely accepted that original Albanian has its roots north of the Jireček line. #3 Absolutely no ancient historian has ever placed the Pelasgian anywhere near Northern Albania, Kosovo. The farthest north was Dodona in Epirus and most ancient place their homeland in Thessaly, Argo, and Arcadia

[chicagogeorge]

anyone with a third grade education knows that Albanians have nothing to do with the ancient Pelasgians.

"for the Pelasgians, too, were a Greek nation originally from the Peloponnesus"

The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Pelasgians have been placed all over Greece, find me once they are mentioned in what is now Albania or Kosovo!

Albanians were not in the southern Balkans until the 12AD. Albanians are related to a mixture of Illyrian/Dacians in the Kosovo region

[PoseidonGRE]

The most idiotic PROPAGANDISTIC video ever.

Albanians suffer from their inferiority....So go on steal history,civilization and language from others!

tha's your common job!

[SmackMyBertha]

The greek have hated Albania for centuries. This argument provides good evidence as to why. Hopefully Greece will stop their narrow mindedness and open up to the fact that Albanians were more culturally advanced and deserve credit.

To put in words the socially retarded greeks will understand: FUCK YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY.

[Darilix]

Thanks for the video!!!

[kadezed]

arvanitarious na ksereis oti oi arvanites einai alvanikh fylh dhladh arberia .otan yphrxe h alvania ,h tourkia den yfistatai.gke gke?

[Arvanitarius]

Θα 'πρεπε να ντρέπεσαι γι αυτό το βίντεο, μούλε. Την Τουρκία σου μέσα, Προδότη σκιπετάρε.

[GioDun]

@balkandickhead again ur making history based upon crap from ur arse right?? This expression morally and fiscally bankrupt is ur favorite? Pathetic attempt but unfortunatelly history is based upon facts, and not from nonsenses from an nationalistic albanian parasite of greece like u.