TAU, TA-NA-YA, DANAOI, KYTHERA, K,YLIX, SA-NA-DA-NA
- TAU is a symbol of Man crucified. A Mystic symbol of Prometheus, for he is crucified on the Cross of Love, love of Humanity, on the rock of human passions, the first human sacrifice for his devotion to the cause of the spiritual element in Humanity. Cube unfolded into FOUR UP THREE ACROSS, is a TAU.
- In Plato's Timaeus, for example, the story of Phaë-thon PHI-TA-NA is described as a myth that helps to explain the cyclical motions of the celestial bodies.
- Lotan (ltn) is an adjectival formation meaning "coiled", used as a proper name; the same creature has a number of possible epitheta, including "the slithering serpent" (bṯn ʿqltn) and "the mighty one with seven heads" (šlyṭ d.šbʿt rašm).
- In Rabbinical Thought we have concepts such as Rachamim (Mercy) versus Din (Judgement). Dan represents severe judgment. DN=TN.
D/T TANA-YA OR YA-TANA OR A-TANA 1437 BC
Denyen and Tanaju probably relates to Classical Greek Danaoi. The earliest textual reference to the Mycenaean world is in the Annals of Thutmosis III (ca. 1479–1425 BC), which refers to messengers from the king of the Tanaju, circa 1437 BC, offering greeting gifts to the Egyptian king, in order to initiate diplomatic relations, when the latter campaigned in Syria. Tanaju is also listed in an inscription at the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III. The latter ruled Egypt in circa 1382–1344 BC. Moreover, a list of the cities and regions of the Tanaju is also mentioned in this inscription; among the cities listed are Mycenae, Nauplion, Kythera, Messenia and the Thebaid (region of Thebes).
KYTHERA IS RELEVENT FOR ACCORDING TO HESIOD IT IS THE PLACE WHERE URANIAN APHRODITE KYBROGENIS WAS CONCEIVED.
DN/TN/Dan, were raiders associated with the Eastern Mediterranean Dark Ages who attacked Egypt in 1207 BC in alliance with the Libyans and other Sea Peoples, as well as during the reign of Rameses III.[2] The 20th Egyptian Dynasty allowed them to settle in Canaan, which was largely controlled by the Sea Peoples into the 11th century BC.
These areas or this NE Med.iterranean area also shows evidence of close ties with the Aegean as a result of the Late Helladic IIIC 1b pottery found in these areas. Scholars argue for a connection with the Greek Danaoi (Δαναοί)—alternate names for the Achaeans made familiar from Homer. Greek myth refers to Danaos who with his daughters was exiled or came from Egypt and settled in Argos. It is through Danaë's son, Perseus, the Danaans are said to have helped built Mycenae.
A nephew of Hantili II had a wife Yaya. Zi-danta made peace through the means of a parity treaty with a ruler named Pilliya, his counterpart in Kizzuwatna. This was the last parity treaty ever signed by a Hittite king to a king of Kizzuwatna.
Sandon (sometimes spelled Sandes, Sandan or Sanda) was a god in ancient Tarsus, visually represented as a mitre-wearing human form carrying a sword, a flower or (commonly) an axe who stands on the back of a horned and winged lion.[1][2] Associated primarily with war and weather,[3]
Sandon was the chief god in the Cilician pantheon from at least the beginning of the second millennium BC.
The god standing on the lion is in the Hellenistic period Zas/Sandan seen on many coins, always naked - standing behind an incense-burner, with Baal from Tarsus as the high god of vegetation on the reverse (a), - standing on a horned and winged lion with the mystical flower and the axe in his left hand and on his head a polos showing that he is the world-pillar keeping heaven and earth apart (b). He is also pictured inside a pyramid structure called his pyra, his funeral fire, but obviously constructed in a very artificial way so that it becomes a symbol of the world-mountain with the eagle of ecstasy and apotheosis at the top and flanked by the two personified world-pillars which represent the split world-mountain (c). Sandan is the founder of Tarsus and often identified with Perseus, also honoured as the city-founder. Perseus is shown with a big sickle sword and an idol of Wolf-Apollo (handling not two lions, but two wolves, see below), and the symbol of the lion killing the bull, the lord of vegetation being killed by the lord of heat, by fire (d).
The cult of Sandan, or Sandas, is a remnant of the 17th century BC Hittite occupation of Cilicia. In his Luwian form he was Teshub, the god of mountain storms. Within the Hittite sanctuary at Yazilikaya he is depicted as a bearded god with conical headdress, holding a club and plant, probably related to the Mesopotamian Tree of Life. Like the rest of the Hittite High Gods, Teshub's feet never touch earth; he either rides the back of mythological beasts, is borne on the shoulders of lesser gods, or strides above the mountain tops. The mountain tops recall the lofty Hittite homeland, as does the high-peaked cap, and the pyramidal shape of Sandan's altar. While Sandan's cult in Tarsos became assimilated with that of Herakles, in his origins as a nature god he is more similar to the Greek king of the gods, Zeus.
WHERE SMOKE THERE FIRE: The oleander fumes (the "spirit of Apollo") could have originated in a brazier located in an underground chamber (the antron) and have escaped through an opening (the "chasm") in the temple’s floor. This hypothesis perfectly fits the findings of the archaeological excavations that revealed an underground space under the temple. This explanation sheds light on the alleged spirit and chasm of Delphi, that have been the subject of intense debate and interdisciplinary research for the last hundred years.[54]
KYTHERA IS RELEVENT FOR ACCORDING TO HESIOD IT IS THE PLACE WHERE URANIAN APHRODITE KYBROGENIS WAS CONCEIVED.
Denyen are mentioned in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BC as a place near Ugarit, where Danuna are being related to the "Land of the Danuna" near Ugarit. ADANA/ CILLICIA/KY-LY-XY.
The Denyen have been identified with the people of Adana, in Cilicia who existed in late Hittite Empire times. They are also believed to have settled in Cyprus. DN/TN/Dan, were raiders associated with the Eastern Mediterranean Dark Ages who attacked Egypt in 1207 BC in alliance with the Libyans and other Sea Peoples, as well as during the reign of Rameses III.[2] The 20th Egyptian Dynasty allowed them to settle in Canaan, which was largely controlled by the Sea Peoples into the 11th century BC.
These areas or this NE Med.iterranean area also shows evidence of close ties with the Aegean as a result of the Late Helladic IIIC 1b pottery found in these areas. Scholars argue for a connection with the Greek Danaoi (Δαναοί)—alternate names for the Achaeans made familiar from Homer. Greek myth refers to Danaos who with his daughters was exiled or came from Egypt and settled in Argos. It is through Danaë's son, Perseus, the Danaans are said to have helped built Mycenae.
The Egyptians described the Denyen as Sea Peoples, long before the label was used for the collection of invaders after 1200 B.C. that marked the collapse of the Late Bronze Age. The Kinyriads of Paphos were the first to be uprooted by Agamemnon after he destroyed TROY approximately 1177 B.C.
There are suggestions that the Denyen may have joined with the Hebrews to form the original 12 tribes of Israel.
A minority view first suggested by Yigael Yadin attempted to connect the Denyen with the Tribe of Dan, described as the ones remaining on their ships in the early Song of Deborah, contrary to the mainstream view of Israelite history.
The most famous Danite was Samson, whom some suggest is character derived from Denyen tribal legends.
The Hittite Mursilis I, in 1531 BC sacked the city of Babylon. Mursili's motivation for attacking Babylon remain unclear, though William Broad has proposed that the reason were obtaining grain because the clouds from the Thera eruption decreased the Hittites' harvests.[6]
The raid on Babylon could not have been intended to exercise sovereignty over the region; it was simply too far from Anatolia and the Hittites' center of power. It is thought, however, that the raid on Babylon brought an end to the Amorite dynasty of Hammurabi. A major moment in Bronze Age History.
I am still looking for SanDan the father of Kinyra who established the industrialization of Cyprus from Paphos..
MOXUS/MOPSUS IN POMPHYLIA : Mopsus /ˈmɒpsəs/ (Greek: Μόψος, Mopsos) was the name of one of two famous seers in Greek mythology; his rival being Calchas. A historical or legendary Mopsosor Mukšuš may have been the founder of a house in power at widespread sites in the coastal plains of Pamphylia and Cilicia.
Since the discovery of a bilingual Hieroglyphic Luwian-Phoenicianinscription in Karatepe (in Cilicia) in 1946-7, it has been conjectured that Mopsos was a historical person.[16] The inscription is dated to c. 700 BC, and the person speaking in it, ’-z-t-w-d (Phoenician) / Azatiwataš (Luwian), professes to be king of the d-n-n-y-m / Hiyawa, and describes his dynasty as "the house of M-p-š / Muxos/Mukšuš". He claims he is a descendant of Mopsus. The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite A-hhiyā(wa), which is, according to most interpretations, the "Achaean", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor. Ancient Greek authors ascribe a central role to Mopsus in the colonization.
Luwian as Mux-os of Pamphylia. The cause the NW WIND, ZEPHIROS.
CILLICIA, the area also reports a Mopsu-krene (Mopsus' fountain in Greek) and a Mopsu-hestia (Mopsus' hearth in Greek), also in Cilicia.
Tiresias like the oracles, would receive visions; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings, and so interpret them. Pliny the Elder credits Tiresias with the invention of augury.[3]
On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese,[4] as Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes, he hit the pair with his stick. Hera was displeased, and she punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including Manto, who also possessed the gift of prophecy. After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes; depending on the myth, either she made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus, trampled on them.[5] As a result, Tiresias was released from his sentence and permitted to regain his masculinity. This ancient story is recorded in lost lines of Hesiod.[6]
In Greek mythology, Tiresias (/taɪˈriːsiəs/; Greek: Τειρεσίας, Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance, he was the father of Mopsus, a renowned seer . He was transformed into a woman by Hera 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. A 13th-century date for the historical Mopsus may be confirmed by a Hittite tablet from Boğazkale which mentions a person called Mukšuš in connection with Madduwattaš of Arzawa and Attarsiya of Ahhiyā. This text is dated to the reign of Arnuwandaš III. Therefore, some scholars associate Mopsus' activities along the coast of Asia Minor and the Levant with the Sea Peoples' attacking Egypt in the beginning of the 12th century BC, one of those peoples being the Denyen—comparable to the d-n-n-y-m of the Karatepe inscription.Since the discovery of a bilingual Hieroglyphic Luwian-Phoenicianinscription in Karatepe (in Cilicia) in 1946-7, it has been conjectured that Mopsos was a historical person.[16] The inscription is dated to c. 700 BC, and the person speaking in it, ’-z-t-w-d (Phoenician) / Azatiwataš (Luwian), professes to be king of the d-n-n-y-m / Hiyawa, and describes his dynasty as "the house of M-p-š / Muxos/Mukšuš". He claims he is a descendant of Mopsus. The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite A-hhiyā(wa), which is, according to most interpretations, the "Achaean", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor. Ancient Greek authors ascribe a central role to Mopsus in the colonization.
Luwian as Mux-os of Pamphylia. The cause the NW WIND, ZEPHIROS.
A Hittite report[3] speaks of a Muksus, who also appears in an eighth-century bilingual inscription from Karatepe stele in Cilicia. The kings of Adana are traced from the "house of Mopsos," given in hieroglyphic Luwian as Moxos and in Phoenician as Mopsos, in the form mps. They were called the Dananiyim.[4]
CILLICIA, the area also reports a Mopsu-krene (Mopsus' fountain in Greek) and a Mopsu-hestia (Mopsus' hearth in Greek), also in Cilicia.
HITTITE setting in the 15th century
There is an alliance treaty with the king Paddatishu of Kizzuwatna/Cilicia with an unnamed Hittite king, who could be either Hantili II or his father Aluwamna.
There is an alliance treaty with the king Paddatishu of Kizzuwatna/Cilicia with an unnamed Hittite king, who could be either Hantili II or his father Aluwamna.
Tahurwaili made a parity treaty with Eheya of Kizzuwatna. Its terms were very similar to those between Paddatiššu and Hantili II. These kings are usually assumed, but neither of the treaties names a Hittite king.
A nephew of Hantili II had a wife Yaya. Zi-danta made peace through the means of a parity treaty with a ruler named Pilliya, his counterpart in Kizzuwatna. This was the last parity treaty ever signed by a Hittite king to a king of Kizzuwatna.
Telipinu was a king of the Hittites ca. 1460 BC (short chronology timeline). At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests.
He was able to recover a little ground from the Hurrians of Mitanni, by forming an alliance with the Hurrians of Kizzuwatna; however, with the end of his reign, the Hittite Empire enters a temporary "Dark Ages"
Sandas (more commonly spelt as "Sandan") was the Anatolian (Hittite) lion god during the Classical period. He used to be represented in association with a horned lion, and often resided inside a pyre surmounted by an eagle. Sandan was often associated to the Greek god Herakles, and sometimes to Marduk. In ceremonies, an image of the god was placed inside a pyre and was set on fire.
Sandan
The god standing on the lion is in the Hellenistic period Zas/Sandan seen on many coins, always naked - standing behind an incense-burner, with Baal from Tarsus as the high god of vegetation on the reverse (a), - standing on a horned and winged lion with the mystical flower and the axe in his left hand and on his head a polos showing that he is the world-pillar keeping heaven and earth apart (b). He is also pictured inside a pyramid structure called his pyra, his funeral fire, but obviously constructed in a very artificial way so that it becomes a symbol of the world-mountain with the eagle of ecstasy and apotheosis at the top and flanked by the two personified world-pillars which represent the split world-mountain (c). Sandan is the founder of Tarsus and often identified with Perseus, also honoured as the city-founder. Perseus is shown with a big sickle sword and an idol of Wolf-Apollo (handling not two lions, but two wolves, see below), and the symbol of the lion killing the bull, the lord of vegetation being killed by the lord of heat, by fire (d).
a:
b: c: c: d:
a: Cook, Zeus I, fig.455. The others from Hans Böhlig, Die Geisteskultur von Tarsus, 1913, fig. 2,3 & 6.
ABOVE ONE CAN SEE THE REPLICA OF APHRODITE'S ALTAR IN PAPHOS.
The cult of Sandan, or Sandas, is a remnant of the 17th century BC Hittite occupation of Cilicia. In his Luwian form he was Teshub, the god of mountain storms. Within the Hittite sanctuary at Yazilikaya he is depicted as a bearded god with conical headdress, holding a club and plant, probably related to the Mesopotamian Tree of Life. Like the rest of the Hittite High Gods, Teshub's feet never touch earth; he either rides the back of mythological beasts, is borne on the shoulders of lesser gods, or strides above the mountain tops. The mountain tops recall the lofty Hittite homeland, as does the high-peaked cap, and the pyramidal shape of Sandan's altar. While Sandan's cult in Tarsos became assimilated with that of Herakles, in his origins as a nature god he is more similar to the Greek king of the gods, Zeus.WHERE SMOKE THERE FIRE: The oleander fumes (the "spirit of Apollo") could have originated in a brazier located in an underground chamber (the antron) and have escaped through an opening (the "chasm") in the temple’s floor. This hypothesis perfectly fits the findings of the archaeological excavations that revealed an underground space under the temple. This explanation sheds light on the alleged spirit and chasm of Delphi, that have been the subject of intense debate and interdisciplinary research for the last hundred years.[54]
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