KINYRAS, THE POMEGRANATE/NURA, ROOT K-NR

The autumnal equinox, marks the time of year when day equals night, twelve hours of day and twelve hours of night, and when the Sun rises due east and sets due west. A time to look back at summer’s joys and anticipate autumn and the blessed times in the near future. (Awaiting arrival of first grandchild!)

According to Greek mythology, Persephone and a few pomegranate seeds caused the change of the seasons. The Autumn Equinox marks the day when Persephone enters the underworld, and her mother Demeter, in mourning, refuses to allow anything to grow on the earth (well, at least in the northern hemisphere) until her daughter returns in six months time.
As the myth goes, Hades, god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone and takes her into his world. Her mother, Demeter, with the help of other deities, finally finds her daughter in the underworld. Hades unhappily agrees to allow Persephone to return to her mother, but only if she has not eaten anything while in the underworld. Unfortunately, Persephone has eaten six pomegranate seeds. Hades and Demeter reach an agreement, and Persephone must spend 6 months with Hades and six months with her mother every year. On the Autumn Equinox, Persephone enters the underworld and does not return until Spring Equinox.Here we see a picture of Astarte holding a pomegranate, a fruit full of seeds (reminding us that Astarte was also the goddess of fertility. The Chaldean name for the pomegranate was Rimmon. With the Rimmon or 'pomegranate' in her hand, Astarte is frequently represented on ancient medals, and in the house of Rimmon. Incidentally, the place where the King of Damascus, the Master of Naaman, the Syrian, worshipped, was in all likelihood a temple of Astarte, where this goddess with the Rimmon was publicly adored.
2Ki 5:18 "In this thing may Yahweh pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, My Yahweh pardon thy servant in this thing."
Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were: Aphrodite from Cyprus, Astarte, from Phoenicia, Demeter from Mycenae, Hathor from Egypt, Ishtar from Assyria, Kali from India, Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility.
So, we can see that long before the Christian Era, Spring Festivals were observed by pagan peoples, and even the name 'Easter' was given to such festivals, as the name 'eastre' also meant Spring.
Astarte was the Consort of a 'god' named Bel. He was, along with Astarte worshipped in Britain by the Druids. Some of the customs of these 'gods' are woven into our Christian practises. Even as late as the 1940-1950's children were encouraged to dance round a maypole on the first of May, and decorate bicycles prams and toys to celebrate 'Spring'. If the reader is interested in the Druidical worship of Bel or Baal and his counterpart Astarte.



ARINNA in a Hattian mythic fragment records the construction of her house in Liḫzina (de).



A myth fragment refers to her apple tree: An 'apple' Pome tree stands at a well and is covered all over with a blood-red colour. The Sun goddess of Arinna saw (it) and she decorated (it) with her shining wand.
Sun goddess of Arinna, my lady, queen of all lands! In the Land of Ḫatti, you ordained your name to be the "Sun goddess of Arinna", but also in the land which you have made the land of the cedar, you ordained your name to be Ḫepat.

The Hittite sun goddess Arinniti was later assimilated with Hebat. A prayer of Queen Puduhepa makes this explicit: "To the Sun-goddess of Arinna, my lady, the mistress of the Hatti lands, the queen of Heaven and Earth. Sun-goddess of Arinna, thou art Queen of all countries! In the Hatti country thou bearest the name of the Sun-goddess of Arinna; but in the land which thou madest the cedar land thou bearest the name Hebat."

From the Hittite Old Kingdom, she was the chief goddess of the Hittite state. The "Gods' city" of Arinna was the site of the coronation of the first Hittite kings and one of the empire's three holy cities.

The Hattian name of the goddess was transcribed by the Hittites as Ištanu and Urunzimu. They also invoked her as Arinitti ("The Arinnian"). The epithet "of Arinna" only appears during the Hittite Middle Kingdom, to distinguish the Sun goddess from the male Sun god of Heaven, who had been adopted by the Hittites from interaction with the Hurrians.
From the Hittite Old Kingdom, the Sun goddess of Arinna legitimised the authority of the king, in conjunction with the weather god Tarḫunna.
The land belonged to the two deities and the established the king, who would refer to the Sun goddess as "Mother".[5] King Ḫattušili I would hold the Sun goddess in his lap.[6] Several queens dedicated cultic solar discs to the Sun goddess in the city of Taḫurpa. During the Hittite New Kingdom, the Sun goddess was said to watch over the king and his kingdom, with the king as her priest and the queen as her priestess.
IS-DANU: The name Ištanu is the Hittite form of the Hattian name Eštan and refers to the Sun goddess of Arinna.[8] Earlier scholarship understood Ištanu as the name of the male Sun god of the Heavens,[9] but more recent scholarship has held that the name is only used to refer to the Sun goddess of Arinna. Volkert Haas, however, still distinguishes between a male Ištanu representing the day-star and a female Wurunšemu who is the Sun goddess of Arinna and spends her nights in the underworld.

Hyria (Ionic: Ὑρίη Huriē, Koine: Ὑρία Huria;[1]) is a toponym mentioned in Homer's catalogue of the ships, where the leading position in the list is given to the contingents from Boeotia, where Hyria and stony Aulis, where the fleet assembled, lead the list.
Hyria (Ionic: Ὑρίη Huriē, Koine: Ὑρία Huria;[1]) is a toponym mentioned in Homer's catalogue of the ships, where the leading position in the list is given to the contingents from Boeotia, where Hyria and stony Aulis, where the fleet assembled, lead the list.

Ki-PTAH, Ḫepat, also transcribed, Khepat, was the mother goddess of the Hurrians, known as "the mother of all living". She is also a Queen of the deities.
In the Hurrian language Ḫepa is the most likely pronunciation of the name of the goddess.

In modern literature the sound /h/ in cuneiform is transliterated as khe.

One of the first mentions of a pomegranate tree was in a Greek myth about Side, the wife of Orion. The myth said that the very first pomegranate fruit tree grew from Side’s blood being spilled onto the ground beneath the cliff she jumped from…ending her life. She thought at the time she jumped that she was responsible for killing her own children (which was actually a lie). Since this time, the pomegranate has symbolized death and the miracle of rebirth.


The Sidetic language of SIDE, PAMPHYLIA, is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family known from legends of coins dating to the period of approx. the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE found in Side at the Pamphylian coast, and two Greek–Sidetic bilingual inscriptions from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE respectively. The Greek historian Arrian in his Anabasis Alexandri (mid-2nd century CE) mentions the existence of a peculiar indigenous language in the city of Side. Sidetic was probably closely related to Lydian, Carian and Lycian.


The Sidetic script is an alphabet of the Anatolian group. It has 25 letters, only a few of which are clearly derived from Greek. It is analysed from coin legends in what is possibly Sidetic. To its east of Side lay the kingdom of Que, in the region of Smooth Cilicia (Cilicia Pedias/ Campestris). Hilakku and Que are attested in both Assyrian and Babylonian sources as well as in a small number of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions. In Babylonian sources, Hilakku is referred to as Pirindu, and Que as Hume. The island of Cyprus lies 69 km off Anatolia's southeastern coast, directly south of Cilicia.

The Sidhe (Shee)
When the first Gaels, the sons of Mil, arrived in Ireland, they found that the Tuatha De Danaan, the people of the goddess Dana, already had control of the land. The sons of Mil fought them in battle and defeated them, driving them 'underground' where it is said they remain to this day in the hollow hills orsidhe mounds.
The aos sí ([eːs ˈʃiː], older form aes sídhe [eːs ˈʃiːðʲə]) is the Irish term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology (where it is usually spelled Sìth, but pronounced the same), comparable to the fairies or elves. They are said to live underground in fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans. This world is described in the Lebor Gabála Érenn as a parallel universe in which the aos sí walk amongst the living. In the Irish language, aos sí means "people of the mounds" (the mounds are known in Irish as "the sídhe"). In Irish literature the people of the mounds are also called daoine sídhe [ˈdiːnʲə ˈʃiːə]; in Scottish mythology they are daoine sìth. They are variously said to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or goddesses and gods.[1]n many Gaelic tales, the aos sí are later, literary versions of the Tuatha Dé Danann ("People of the Goddess Danu")—the deities and deified ancestors of Irish mythology. Some sources describe them as the survivors of the Tuatha Dé Danann who retreated into the Otherworld after they were defeated by the Milesians

The aos sí are generally described as stunningly beautiful, though they can also be terrible and hideous.
Aos sí are sometimes seen as fierce guardians of their abodes—whether a fairy hill, a fairy ring, a special tree (often a hawthorn) or a particular loch or wood. The Gaelic Otherworld is seen as closer at the times of dusk and dawn, therefore this is a special time to the aos sí, as are some festivals such as Samhain, Beltane and Midsummer.As part of the terms of their surrender to the Milesians, the Tuatha Dé Danann agreed to retreat and dwell underground. In some later poetry, each tribe of the Tuatha Dé Danann was given its own mound.
The fact that many of these sídhe have been found to be ancient burial mounds has contributed to the theory that the aos sí were the pre-Celtic occupants of Ireland. "The Book of Invasions", "The Annals of the Four Masters", and oral history support this view.
Others present these stories as mythology deriving from Greek cultural influence, deriving arguments mainly from Hesiod's Works and Days, which portrays the basic moral foundation and plantation techniques of the citizens of Greece and describes the races of men, created by the Greek deities. However, these views have been deemed unlikely, and the so-called influence can be reasonably explained by the similar moral foundations stemming from the two cultures' Indo-European background.The banshee or bean sídhe (from Old Irish: ban síde), which means "woman of the sídhe",[5] has come to indicate any supernatural woman of Ireland who announces a coming death by wailing and keening. Her counterpart in Scottish mythology is the bean sìth (sometimes spelled bean-sìdh). Other varieties of aos sí and daoine sìthinclude the Scottish bean nighe: the washerwoman who is seen washing the bloody clothing or armour of the person who is doomed to die; the leanan sídhe: the "fairy lover"; the cat sìth: a fairy cat; and the Cù Sìth: fairy dog.

The sluagh sídhe—"the fairy host"—is sometimes depicted in Irish and Scottish lore as a crowd of airborne spirits, perhaps the cursed, evil or restless dead. The siabhra (anglicised as "sheevra"), may be a type of these lesser spirits, prone to evil and mischief.[6][7] However, an Ulster folk song also uses "sheevra" simply to mean "spirit" or "fairy" From Mediterranean ports the Tyrians made short journeys to the ports on the coast of Cilicia, the land of Que. The Assyrians were interested in Cilicia, too. Beginning in the mid-ninth century before occuping Cyprus, they advanced to the Mediterranean cost. Local rulers, such as Azatiwada and his mentor Urikki, ruler of Cilicia (Que, as the Assyrians called it).
Amurru was an Amorite kingdom established c. 2000 BC, in a region spanning present-day western and north-western Syria and northern Lebanon. Map suggests that Pomphylia/Side were Indipendent.

The holiday resort Side – situated beteween Alanya and Antalya – also has a connection with the pomegranate. It is said that in ancient Anatolian language, the name Side means pomegranate. Till the 5th century the currency of the city were embalmed with a pomegranate.



Belus (Greek: Βῆλος, Bē̂los) was in Greek mythology a king of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Danaus and (usually) brother to Agenor. The wife of Belus has been named as Achiroe, or Side( it is not a given that Side is an eponym of the Phoenician city of Sidon). Modern writers suppose a connection between Belus and another god who bore the common northwest Semitic title of Ba‘al. According to some sources Belus was also the son of Poseidon by Libya. Belus is also associated with Babylon and Assyria, and his name is an echo of the Canaanite god Baal, which are linguistically synonymous with Enlil and Marduk, and also in ancient Levantine/Canaanite mythology, a fertility god, whose attributes are lightning, rainstorms and the forces of nature. THEBE TRIAD?














SIDE ETENA ANATOLIAN AMPHITHEATER EAST MED.
The name Side is not on the map above, it is the port capital of Pamphylia and referred to as Anatolian in origin, but what is clear is that the name SIDE means pomegranate in Greek. Thus one may assume that the etymology of Pamphylia/POME-PHYLIA also alludes to the pomegranate. REMEMBER THE ISLE OF RHODOS also means POMEGRANATE.
POME the APPLE of the garden of Eden. Pome could be a word of Anatolian origin.
Etenna (Ancient Greek: Ἔτεννα) ETN, was the name the city went by in the late Roman province of Pamphylia Prima. Centuries earlier, it was reckoned as belonging to Pisidia, as by Polybius, who wrote that in 218 BC the people of Etenna "who live in the highlands of Pisidia above Side" provided 8000 hoplites to assist the Seleucid usurper Achaeus.
LETO/LEDA; In the Iliad, Homer mentions Apollo as "Phoibos", which means 'illuminated', and 'the famous Lycian archer, Apollo.'
Apollo along with his Anatolian sister, Artemis, aided the Trojans. Artemis is considered to be a continuation of mother-goddess religion, under a new name. The name 'Lycia' may have meant 'illuminated nation' in ancient times, as its god Apollo was perceived to have light in his lineage.



KINYRAS, THE POMEGRANATE/NURA, ROOT KNR AS THE SEED IS SIDE, THE SHE BLOOD LINE OF ADONIS RIMMON




THE POMEGRANATE (Anar) is loaded with intuitive color and number symbolism.
Five petals on flowers of cultivated plants.


The calyx/crown has six points. As did KOTHARS and HERAS.


The leaves are sub-opposite.


The fruit and the crown are rounded yet hexagonal in shape.


The aril, ranges in colour from translucent, white to deep red to purple.



In ancient Armenian, NuR is the pomegranate.


This post posits that the LBA HighPriest of Cyprus, Kinyras K-N-R represented the cult and or the sacred bloodline of the pomegranate also represented the sacrad Kinnura (Ancient Hebrew word for Lyre/Harp).
The word ANAR translates from Arabic, as the HOLY FIRE of the HOLY LIGHT of the eternal god.
Wild pomegranate seeds were/are used as a spice known as anar-dana (from Persian: anar+dana, pomegranate+seed). So we have DANA as SEED. The word DANA, refers to the seed of the ANAR. DANA is from the Sumerian to Akkadian to Persian, Armenian etc. TURKISH today Dana means SEED, used metaphorically to indicate individuation.
DANA is a single seed of the Pomegranate , which appears to have captured the HOLY light and holy fire of god, the juice the sap, as blood and the seed for masculin fertility. THE Astringent juice from the pulp, is acid, made from it is a mordant, a color fastener, especially for the color red, crimson. A mordant, a color fastener even on the skin when dying with HENNA. It is classified as a bitter-astringent (pitta or fire) the root of the word bitter. In Farsi, the word for pomegranate is aNaR. The pomegranate is indigenous to Iran, so one naturally assumes that the Farsi word anar is Persian in origin, not neceseraly. In Arabic the word aNaR translates to the light and heat of fire. Anar is classified in the Iranian culinary folklore as a garmmi (red/warm) fruit. The seeds were separated from the flesh, dried for 10–15 days, and used as an acidic agent.

The records shows that the Pomegranate came to symbolize the continuation OF THE BLOOD LINE OF DIONYSOS. The pomegranate was Soul's sacred tree and resting place, and it was sacred to Rimmon, a name also given to Adonis, from whose blood the pomegranate is also said to have sprung. Pomegranate was the only fruit allowed to be brought inside the Holy of Holies- miniature pomegranates were sewn on the high Priest's robes when he made his yearly entry. The Pomeagranate is present in the holy of holies, representing the consummation and confirmation of ritualized holy union, (Hieros-Gamos).

The Hebrew for pomegranate is Rimmon, RMN, which reminds us of Moses in Cordovero's "Pardes Rimmonim" (Garden of Pomegranates or Rimmon/Adonis).

In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from mid September to mid March. The genus name Punica which came later, refers to the Phoenicians, who were active in broadening west its cultivation, mainly for cultural and religious reasons. It has been cultivated in the Caucasus since ancient times. In Turkish it is the nar and Armenian nur. In Arabic the word anNar means fire and the generic meaning of Nu-Ra is Heavenly light warmth and fire.

It is asserted by some scholars that it was the pomegranate that Eve offered to Adam in the Garden of Eden representing the fruit of knowledge, of light and fire. This idea is on record and can be verified. The antiquity of the Pomegranate as the symbol of union between the opposites is still prominent world wide. The 'nourishing' pomegranate was primarily a symbol of fertility, the symbol of the “Hieros Gamos”, the bond, creative union.

Aphrodite, or Cinyras/Adonis/Rimmon, it is recorded brought the pomegranate to Cyprus and that pomegranate trees were planted in Aphrodites gardens/groves and Her temples.

Hera wears, not a wreath nor a tiara nor a diadem, but clearly the 6 pointed calyx of the pomegranate that has become her serrated crown.

Pomegranates were one of the fruits that the scouts brought to Moses to show that the "promised land" was fertile. The Book of Exodus describes the me'il ("robe of the ephod") worn by the Hebrew High Priest as having pomegranates embroidered on the hem.

According to the Books of Kings the capitals of the two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) that stood in front of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem were engraved with pomegranates.


Solomon designed his coronet based on the pomegranate's "crown" (calyx). It is traditional to eat pomegranates on Rosh Hashana because the pomegranate, with its numerous seeds, symbolizes fruitfulness. Also, it is said to have 613 seeds, which corresponds with the 613 mitzvot or commandments of the Torah.
The saying “Anar mieveh beheshtist” literally means “The pomegranate is a paradisiacal fruit”. Gol a reference to the flower of the pomegranate which blossems on mid-summer and the fruit mid winter on the cycle. The Qur'an also mentions pomegranates twice as examples of good things God created to reflect his light.

The pomegranate appears on ancient coins of Judea. When not in use, the scroll handles of Torah scrolls are sometimes covered with decorative silver globes, in shape to "pomegranates" (rimmonim) Some Jewish scholars believe that it was the pomegranate that was the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.

Pomegranates are one of the Seven Species (Hebrew:שבעת המינים, Shiv'at Ha-Minim) of fruits and grains enumerated in the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy 8:8) as being most special products of the Land of Israel.

The pomegranate is mentioned in the Bible many times, including this quote from the Songs of Solomon, "Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks." (Song of Solomon 4:3).

Pomegranates also symbolized the mystical experience in the Jewish mystical tradition, or kabbalah, with the typical reference being to entering the "garden of pomegranates" or pardes rimonim (garden of pomegranates). This is also the title of a book by the 16th-century mystic Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. It is a reference to Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants Cant. iv.13 that says "The paradise of pomegranates are near the flowing streams of Lebanon"

Robert Graves tells us that the pomegranate which supplied a red dye is the tree of the seveth day, the day of repose, Saturns day, the Shabat. The seventh day was the most sacred also to Jehovah, the god of the noon-day Sun, and the mid -summer, mid-Winter Sun, having reached its most southerly point, where it halts for a day. The Pomegranate, Punica granatum and Punica granatum nana a dwarf variety was named Punica, refering to the Cananites, who were active in broadening its cultivation in the Mediteranean, Fertile Crescent, the Levant mainly for symbolic religious reasons.
A carbonized exocarp of the fruit has been identified in an Early Bronze Age level of Jericho in Israel, as well as in the Late Bronze Age levels of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus. A large, dry pomegranate was also found in the tomb of Djehuty, the butler of Queen Hatshepsut of the middle kingdom in Egypt.
A traditional ending for Armenian fairy tales tells it like it IS.


“Three pomegranates fell down from heaven: One for the story teller, one for the listener, and one for the whole world.”
First person, second person and third persons plural all covered.

SEIRA, hive of Venus. CUPSELIS, the Ark, the chest. MELITTA, the hive. RHOIA, Pomegranates. SIDE, Pomegranate.
GREEK RHODOS; Word Origin and History for Rhodes. Greek island, one of the Dodecanese, from Greek Rhodos, perhaps from rhodon "rose," or rhoia "pomegranate," but "more likely" [Room] from a pre-Greek name, from Phoenician erod "snake," for the serpents which were said to have anciently infested the island.
There is an obscure piece of mythology about ORPHEUS wife, and a serpent ; also of the Rhoia or Pomegranate: which seems to have been taken from some symbolical representation at a time, when the purport was no longer understood. The Orpheans dealt particularly in symbols.
The Ark was looked upon as the mother of mankind, and stiled Da Mater : and it was upon this account figured under the semblance of a pomegranate. This fruit was named Rhoia, 'Poia : and as it abounds with seed, it was thought of as a proper emblem of the Ark, for it contained the rudiments of the suture world. From hence the Deity of the Ark was named Rhoia, which in Greek signifies a pomegranate, and also the Rhea of the Greeks. The ancient Persians used to have a pomegranate carved upon the top of their walking sticks and “ scepters, undoubtedly on account of its being a sacred emblem. What is alluded to under the character of the Goddess Rhoia, or Rhea.he Pomegranate was not only called Rhoia, and Rhea, but also Rimmon. l7 Rimmonlingua sancta malum puni- cum significat, et Venerem denotari putat N. Serrarius. It was reverenced under this name in Syria : and was held fa- Coronea they were represented upon the same statue with Juno. Pausanias fays, that the Goddess held them in her hand.
Da Naus, the Ark, the same as Da Mater. There is a history mentioned by Arnobius of a king's daughter in Phrygia, named Nana; who lived near the mountain, where Deucalion was supposed after the Deluge to have landed. She is said to have found a pomegranate, which she put into her bosom, and by its influence became with child.
Another name for the Pomegranate was 3' Side : of whichname there was a city in Pamphylia. This place was undoubtedly so denominated from the rites of the Ark, and the worship of the Dove, Dione, whose mysteries were accompanied with the rites of fire.

The Bœotians retained this ancient name, and called a pomegranate Side, as we learn from Agatharchides. The city was situated upon a branch of that vast ridge called Taurus : and its history is taken notice of by the Poet Festus Avienus.They had also an H aquatic, which from its resemblance they called by the same name. There was likewise a city in Bœotia named Side ; probably founded, and denominated by the ancient Cadmians, from their worship. It was said to have been built by Side, the daughter of Danaus.


There is no other fruit crop that has high medicinal value compared to that in pomegranate. It has some cultural significance in Iran (it signifies immortality, fertility, or reproductive energy), where is found in the central courtyard of every home on the Iranian plateau. The pomegranate flower is included in Zoroastrian religious rites. During the navjote and marriage ceremonies, a few ‘danas’ grains of the pomegranate fruit are included in the ‘ses’. The child whose navjote is going to be performed is asked to chew a pomegranate leaf, after the purification bath. It is said that a dying Zoroastrian in ancient Iran was given a few sips of the ‘haoma’ juice, but if no ‘haoma’ was available, he was given some pomegranate juice or if already dead a few grains of the pomegranate fruit were placed in the person’s mouth.

Pomegranate is also used during the ‘navar’ ceremony whereby a young man is inducted in to Zoroastrian priesthood. A number of ‘mobeds’ meet at the house of the candidate one day before the initiation. They prepare a crown and a ‘vars’. The crown is a turban wound to fit the candidate's head. It is decorated with gold and silver chains with hanging coins and has other ornaments that make it look like a crown. Each twig is wrapped with colored wool to make the vars multicolored. The twigs are made to make a circular pyramid in a plate. It is covered with a thin net. Four mirrors, dry fruit, candies, and a pomegranate fruit are also kept in the plate during the ceremony.
BLOOD OF THE DRAGON Throughout history the pomegranate fruit, with innumerable seeds, is identified with both male and female fertility -- a universal symbol of regeneration, self renewal, and victory over death. Its flowers are a symbol of love and the fruit - of noble character or birth...the vegetative form of the bloodline, whose animal icon is the dragon.
The Dragon, emblematic of wisdom, was the epitome of the Holy Spirit, which, according to the Book of Genesis, moved upon the waters of time, while the Grail was the perpetual Blood Royal - the Sangréal. Originally, in old Mesopotamia, it was called the Gra-al - the Sacred Blood of the Dragon Queens - and it was said to be the "nectar of supreme excellence". The ancient Greeks called it ambrosia."

In Britain, the Tuatha Dé Danann (or Dragon Lords of Anu) were masters of the transcendent Sidhé, classified as "fates" or "fairies". Before settling in Ireland (from about 800 BC), they were the world's most noble race, alongside the early Kings of Egypt, being the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (now Ukraine).

Like the original Dynastic Pharaohs, they traced their descent from the great Pendragons of Mesopotamia; and from them sprang the kingly lines of the Irish Bruithnigh and the Picts of Scotland's Caledonia. In Wales they founded the Royal House of Gwynedd, while in Cornwall in the southwest of England, they were the sacred gentry known as the Pict-Sidhé - from which derives the term "pixie".

A single caste of the original Blood Royal - whether known as the Dragon Court, the Sangréal, the Albi-gens or the Ring Lords - contains many of the descriptive terms at the very heart of popular folklore.
In this singular noble race, we have the "elves", "fairies" and "pixies" -- not beguiling little folk, but distinguished Kings and Queens of the Dragon succession.

The Dragon was a Divine emblem of the Sumerian kings, Egyptian Pharaohs, a symbol of the Egyptian Therapeutate, of the Essenes at Qumran, and was the Bistea Neptunis (the sea serpent) of the descendant Merovingian Kings in Europe.



Pomegranates, upon the tree of life hung fruit, “palmettes, pinecones, or pomegranates.”, represent the seeds of life.
They are ritually consumed on Rosh Hashana because the pomegranate, with its numerous seeds, symbolizes fruitfulness.
Pomegranates also symbolize the mystical experience of entering the "garden of pomegranates", celebrating the royal wedding of Tiphareth and Malkuth.
The shape of the pomegranate influenced that of the royal scepter and [along with the date palm crown] the crown of European kings.


Carl Jung saw a garden of pomegranates when he was near to death:
“I myself was, so it seemed, in the Pardes Rimmonim, the garden of pomegranates, and the wedding of Tifereth with Malchuth was taking place. Or else I was Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, whose wedding in the afterlife was being celebrated. It was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Cabbalistic tradition. I cannot tell you how wonderful it was. I could only think continually, “Now this is the garden of pomegranates! Now this is the marriage of Malchuth with Tifereth!” I do not know exactly what part I played in it. At bottom it was I myself: I was the marriage. And my beatitude was that of a blissful wedding.” (Jung, 1961, p. 294)





NR IS ALSO for Nereus the god of the sea and the father of the 50 Nerides all female. NEREUS WAS the representative of the LIFESTYLE OF THE rivers and tributaries that run to the sea from the TOP OF mountains watering the gardens. THE name has the same root NR. We have to look into the etymology of Nurse, Nursary and Nourish Nurture, THEY all SAY NR and all are agents of complimenting gods and kinyras good works. SO WHO WAS KINYRAS THAT HE MANAGED TO SET UP SHOP IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THE HITTITES AND THEBE EGYPTIANS IN 1500 Bc.


WHEELMADE POTTERY, MARKS KINYRAS ARRIVAL IN CYPRUS.



Bronze Age White Painted Ware was manufactured from the Middle Cypriot to the Late Cypriot. White Painted vessels were hand-made in reddish or brownish coloured clay, covered in a pale slip, usually white to buff, but sometimes orange or brown. They were decorated with geometric or linear patterns painted in red, brown or black. The category includes the hand-made wares of the Middle Cypriot to Late Cypriot I period.

Wheel-made wares appeared from Late Cypriot I and tend to be referred to as White Painted Wheel-made Ware.

The beginning of the LBA in Cyprus witnessed several major changes in the settlement pattern and economy of the region, probably related to increasing trading activity and the expansion of the metal industry and wheel made pottery..
No evidence for occupation after the end of LC IA (around 1550 BC). Redmount working at Tell El-Maskhuta (Temple of Hatshepsut's 1450 b.c.) found pottery in Canaanite styles and imports from "Cyprus, Palestine...and possibly Syria" including Cypriote White Painted VI juglets.
The Egyptian New Kingdom did not colonize Panphylian Kingdom of Anatolia nor did the Hittites.
Kinyras called the Pharoes of new kingdom his Brother in communications re trade politics etc.

Kinyras had a son by name AMORUCOS
Amurru was an Amorite kingdom established c. 2000 BC,[1] in a region spanning present-day western and north-western Syria and northern Lebanon
The first documented leader of Amurru was Abdi-Ashirta, under whose leadership Amurru was part of the Egyptian empire. His son Aziru made contact with the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, and eventually defected to the Hittites.From the 15th century BC onward, the term Amurru is applied to the region extending north of Canaan as far as Kadesh on the Orontes River in northern Syria occupied by the Thebian/Egyptians.


After their expulsion from Mesopotamia, the Amorites of Syria also came under the domination of first the Hittites then the Egyptians and, from the 14th century BC, the Middle Assyrian Empire(1365–1050). The Arameans from c. 1200 BC on disappeared from the pages of history. From then on, the region that they had inhabited became known as Aram ("Aramea") and Eber-Nari.

The Amurru kingdom was destroyed by the Sea Peoples around 1200 B.C.

Hatshepsut Amenhotep II Thutmose III 1500-1450 SUBDUED, KEFTIU and KYTHERA and ASY/CYPRUS.
The Keftiu, residents of Crete, and a few islands around it who share Minoan culture, are represented in some Theban tombs whose owners lived during fifty years spanning the reigns of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, or Amenhotep II. After this period Crete is absorbed into the Mycenaean culture; the Keftiu no longer appear, and there is no trace of commercial activity between Crete and Egypt, yet does continue with the continental Aegean world. In the tomb of Rekhmire there is an indication that allows the dating of the transition which takes place in Crete during his lifetime, the Mycenaeans replacing by conquest the Minoans between 1436 and 1426 BC (Sylvie Hodel). At the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty, Egypt quickly resumed control of these areas after the interlude of the Hyksos. The new state of these vassal lands was government by Egypt and their contributions were taxes.

Retenu (Syria-Palestine)
All the men have very fair skin and wear the same long white robe with sleeves decorated with red and blue stripes. Their hairstyles are, in contrast, all different: close cropped hair or shaved head, hair falling over the shoulders, a tousled mop of hair encircled by a ribbon. The products they bring do not suggest wealth, nor a high degree of sophistication, two characteristics which must have evolved later.

"Coming in peace by the Great of Retenu of all the northern regions upon the borders of Asia, bending, bowing their heads, bringing their tribute in order that they be given the breath of life, desiring to be faithful to His Majesty, seeing his great strength, the fear he inspires taking possession of their hearts. Thus it is, the Prince, Governor, servant of god, great confidant of the Lord of the Two Land, Mayor of the City, Vizier Rekhmire, who receives the tribute of all foreign countries […]”.






This god Amurru/Martuis sometimes described as a 'shepherd', and as a son of the sky-god Anu. There seems to have been a cult of the moon-god Sin, Amurru and Marduk, their supreme gods.
The Amorites were descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah. The name means "highlander" or "hill men". They were called Amurra or Amuuri in old Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. The Amorites lived on both sides of the Jordan River. The area where they lived on the west side of the Jordan River was the mountainous area west of the Dead Sea. East of the Jordan River they occupied Gilead and Bashan.
The Amorite king, Og of Bashan, was the last of the remnant of the giants (Dt 3:11). AG-ENOR

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/taɪˈriːsiəs/; Greek: Τειρεσίας, Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo.[1] Tiresias participated fully in seven generations in Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.


In the late 14th century BC, King Mursili II was particularly devoted to the sun goddess of Arinna.
Arinna was the major cult center of the Hittite sun goddess, (thought to be Arinniti) known as dUTU URUArinna "sun goddess of Arinna". Arinna was located near Hattusa, the Hittite capital.[1]The name was also used as a substitute name for Arinniti.

The sun goddess of Arinna is the most important one of three important solar deities of the Hittite pantheon, besides UTU nepisas - "the sun of the sky" and UTU taknas - "the sun of the earth".
She was considered to be the chief deity in some source, in place of her husband. Her consort was the weather god, Teshub; they and their children were all derived from the former Hattic pantheon.
The goddess was also perceived to be a paramount chthonic or earth goddess. She becomes largely syncretised with the Hurrian goddess Hebat. Arinna, Ari-anna of Aerias or Hyria or Hurria, was Named only in Tacitus (hist. 2,3; ann. 3,62,4), as founder of FIRST Aphrodites sanctuary at Paphos, which was originally called Aeria after ARINNA? Cinyras also was founding Father of Amathus, the second largest GreekCypriot Tamed Aphrodite sanctuary built after Kinyras was ousted by Agamemnon.
There can be little doubt that the Pisidians and Pamphylians were the same people, but a distinction between the two seems to have been established at an early period. Herodotus, who does not mention the Pisidians, enumerates the Pamphylians among the nations of Asia Minor, while Ephorus mentions them both, correctly including the one among the nations on the interior, the other among those of the coast. Pamphylia early received colonies from Greece and other lands, and from this cause, combined with the greater fertility of their territory, became more civilized than its neighbor in the interior. Pisidia remained a wild, mountainous region, and one of the most difficult for outside powers to rule. Although Pisidia is close to the Mediterranean Sea, the warm climate of the south cannot pass the height of the Taurus Mountains. The climate is too dry for timberland, but crop plants grow in areas provided with water from the mountains, whose annual average rainfall is c. 1000 mm on the peaks and 500 mm on the slopes. This water feeds the plateau. The Pisidian cities, mostly founded on the slopes, benefited from this fertility. The irrigated soil is very suitable for growing fruit and for husbandry.


Pisidia (Πισιδία)
Ancient Region of Anatolia


Theatre of Termessos
Location Southern Anatolia
State existed -
Language Pisidian
Notable cities Termessos, Sagalassos
Roman province Asia, Galatia






Anatolia/Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period. The classical regions, including Pisidia, and their main settlements.
Pisidia (/pɪˈsɪdiə/; Greek: Πισιδία, Pisidía; Turkish: Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Lycia, bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, and corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey. Among Pisidia's settlements were Antioch(ia in Pisidia), Termessos, Cremna, Sagalassos, Etenna, Neapolis, Selge, Tyriacum, Laodiceia Katakekaumene and Philomelium. As far back as the Hittite period, Pisidia was host to independent communities not under the Hittite yoke. Known for its warlike factions, it remained largely independent of the Lydians, and even the Persians, who conquered Anatolia in the 6th century BC, and divided the area into satrapies for greater control, were unable to cope with constant uprisings and turmoil.he name Pamphylia it is assumed comes from the Greek Παμφυλία,[1] itself from πάμφυλος (pamphylos), literally "of mingled tribes or races",[2] a compound of πᾶν (pan), (NOT acceptable, it is M not N ) + φυλή (phylē), "race, tribe". Herodotus derived its etymology from a Dorian tribe, the Pamphyloi (Πάμφυλοι), who were said to have colonized the region.[5] The tribe, in turn, was said to be named after Pamphylos (Greek: Πάμφυλος), son of Aigimios.
AIGIMIO



















Gender
Male

Family
Pontus (father)
Gaea (mother)
Nereus (brother)

Eye
Any color

Hair
Any color

Height
Any height

Species
Titans

Affiliation
Titans

Status
Immortal

Appearances
The Titan's Curse (mentioned)

Actor
None

Aigaios is the Titan of sea storms and the eponymous ruler of the Aegean Sea.
History
Aigaios fought in the First Titan War on the side of Kronos while Oceanus remained neutral despite the efforts of both the former and latter.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The Titan's Curse
Tyson says Aigaios is one of the old sea gods that are helping Oceanus protect the Princess Andromeda from Poseidon. In the second war with the gods, Oceanus and Aigaios both agreed to fight in the war, specifically to fight Poseidon. After the gods won, Aigaios and Oceanus fled back into the depths of the sea.
Abilities
He presumably has the standard powers of a Titan.
Electrokinesis: Aigaios has the ability to control and manipulate electricity and lightning.
Atmokinesis: He has control of the weather






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