ARETE

Although a few villages existed in ancient Greece from the Sixth Millennium BCE on, true civilization would not arrive in Greece until the Fourth Millennium BCE. Ouranos (the Roman name assigned him was Uranus) apparently colonized Crete and a later king, Cronus, founded its first dynasty about 2300 BCE. Zeus was born on Crete and it is conjectured that his heir, Corythus I, founded its second dynasty. This was about the time of the First Palatial Age of Knossos and at the height of Cretian power. Earthquakes destroyed the first palace, but it was reconstructed late in the 18th Century BCE. The sons of Europa assumed the thrones of Crete in the 15th Century BCE, but by then mainland Greek warriors had begun raiding Crete and when the grandson of Agenor, the king of the city of Tyre and nephew of Phoenix, who gave his name to the Phoenicians, had founded Crete’s last dynasty, the Minoan, the Mycenaean Empire was approaching its establishment by Perseus and his wife Andromeda, a princess of Jaffa (Ancient Joppa). It is conjectured herein that she was a Jew and the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopea. A jewelry object recently noted in a documentary presented on television, made in order to prove the “Biblical Exodus”, was found in one of the tombs at Mycenae and is suggested to depict the “Ark of the Covenant”. This gold amulet may be the only known example of what that “Article of Divine Inspiration” appeared to resemble. It is thought by this writer to have belonged to her. Man still lacked the mental tools to solve the extremely difficult problems that he was facing in those early millennia of the post-glacial period of his past. Their solution would have to wait until later in the Seventh Millennium BCE when the third super-genius of Chu, kappa-man, from the eastern end of the Caral Sea of the Pre-Chinese Chu Culture, finally recognized that orderly thought was possible through a unique focus-of-mind we now refer to as philosophy; reasoning was born. The environment that allowed this type of activity seems to have been related to the trading relationship they had developed with the first sailors of antiquity, the Early Pre-Phoenicians, who sailed the Caral Sea. It is thought by this writer, and conjectured here, that they were a Semitic people that had originated in the area in prehistoric Armenia near Lake Van and had discovered the use of animal skin for sails and adapted its use to that body of water. This archaic sailing was the means by which the oldest professional link, connecting the field of astronomy with that of philosophy, was made.