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[QUOTE]Originally posted by IronLion: [QB] African Roots of the Olympics: Kenya: Racing All Began in Africa, the Home of the Olympics The East African (Nairobi) OPINION 24 August 2008 Posted to the web 25 August 2008 Philip Ochieng Nairobi JANETH JEPKOSGEI, PAMELA Jelimo and Mercy Cherono are three Kenyan girls who took part in the Beijing Olympics. They are also pedigree Nilo-Hamitic. If they had lived a few thousand years ago, they would have qualified for apprenticeship as top priestesses of Asiis, the creator Goddess of the Nilo-Hamitic Kalenjin. For, among these peoples and — through them — their neighbours, especially around the Mediterranean, stamina and fleet of foot were the major criteria for temple service — which was the origin of the Olympic Games. In the beginning, then, the Olympics were neither “Games” nor “Greek” in any strict sense of those words. First, the races had nothing to do with the “sportsmanship” or “spirit of fairness” which the institution has claimed ever since Europeans reinvented it just over a century ago. On the contrary, the Olympics began as foot races to qualify as priestesses of the Triple Goddess. Indeed, later the races turned into deadly combats for the privilege of becoming the consort of the matriarch, the Goddess’ Alter Ego on earth. Another completely false — if universally popular — assumption is that the “Olympics” were so called because they originated around Olympus, the mountain astride Thessaly and Magnesia in northeastern Greece. Greece was far from the scene of the original action. Thus Robert Graves may mislead you when he writes — in his book The Greek Myths — that Mount Olympus was the home of Eurynome and Ophion. The reader may naturally conclude that the great Irish poet and historian is referring to that same Thessalonian Olympus. Yet Graves’ statement is of supreme importance. For these two deities were the respective creator Goddess herself and her serpentine demiurge of the matriarchal Libyo-Ethiopians, otherwise known as Pelasgians, Danaans and Cadmeains, the autochthons of that southeastern European country. And they were the ones who gave it the name Greece, the adjective Greek being but the English rendition of the Nilotic term Graikoi (from Koi, “people of” or “worshippers of,” and Graiai, “the Grey One.”) The Graikoi were called so because they were devotees of the goddess in her phase as crone (when she was “hoary with age.”) The history and mythology reveal that Olympianism refers not just to the activities that developed into the modern games but to the whole way of life — the people’s means of coming by a livelihood, their political institutions, the religious crucible in which all of it was played. IT WAS A HARD-NOSED WAY OF appeasing the matriarchs and their followers on the Grecian plains below Olympus. For, although they had been defeated, they remained the majority and, therefore, a potential threat to the security of the new system. One strategy of the patriarchal mythographers was to cause all the goddesses and their male exponents (like Dionysus and Apollo) to be mythically “reborn” from Zeus’ own body to enable the Hellenic patriarchs to claim that these were all children and, therefore, also subordinates of Zeus. Attempts were made to mildew their brains by some other method so that they now always supported patriarchal causes, attitudes and teachings. “I am all for the father,” the Goddess Athene herself — hitherto the unchallenged judge — grovels during some debate soon after her “rebirth” from the brow of Zeus. To make assurance double sure, there was a permanent male casting of vote in the Olympian council so that male victory was now automatic after every debate. Western tutelage is familiar with Hera, Io, Athene and Artemis (all of them names of one and the same Goddess) and with Apollo, Dionysus and such other originally Nilotic deities, but only in their “reborn” or subdued Hellenic status. Europe knows them only after they have been transformed into entities completely subservient to the machistic assumptions, schemes and deeds of Zeus of the Hellenes and his male satellites. In the Internet today, every Western blogger describes Athene as a “daughter of Zeus.” Graves’ statement also raises an inevitable question. Where exactly was the Olympus of Eurynome (“the Universal Ruler”) and Ophion (“The Serpent”)? Nobody that I am aware of has ever posed that question. Everybody, including even Robert Temple (in The Sirius Mystery), assumes that it stood exactly where Hellenic Olympus stands, beyond Thessaly. Yet the autochthonous Greeks called Omphalos — their socio-religious umbilical cord — did not lie anywhere north of the intrusive Gulf of Corinth. It did not lie even in sacred Boeotia and Attica. It lay, rather, in Arcadia, the heart of the Peloponnesian peninsula, decidedly south of the gulf. As Temple tells it, Arcadia was derived from the same Nilotic word Arqh (meaning “silver”) which has spawned such terms as arc, ark, argo, argonaut, arcane, architecture, archaeology and argentina. ARCADIA’S SUPREME EMOtional significance lies in that it was the place where the native Greeks were holed up when the Hellenes poured into their country. All this strongly suggests that, in pre-Hellenic times, Olympus was the Pelasgic name for a Peloponnesian eminence and that this same name was what was given by the related Cadmeians to the mountain beyond Thessaly, but that, with the triumph of the Hellenes, the name became confined by decree to this northern eminence. It suggests that the Arcadian significance of Olympus declined and was forgotten. Indeed, on certain maps of ancient Greece, including one printed by Graves, we find a place called Olympia and, significantly, it is situated on the southern shores of the gulf, in the Peloponnesian kingdom of Elis, a district of Arcadia of extraordinary holiness to the Greeks of African pedigree, the Pelasgians. Indeed, Graves tells us specifically that the Olympic Games were named after this Arcadian Olympia, and not after the Thessalo-Magnesian Olympus. He writes: “[Some] say that… males… the Curetes… protected Zeus’s cradle in Crete, and that they afterwards came to Elis and raised a temple to propitiate Cronus. “Their names were Heracles, Paeonius, Epimedes, Iasius [and] Acesidas. Heracles, having brought wild-olive from the Hyperboreans [the coeval Britons] to Olympia, set his younger brothers to run a race there, and thus the olympic games originated [my underscoring].” More @ http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/africa-home-of-the-olympics-the-black-greeks/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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