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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]alTakruri says:[qb] The Minoans (Thera, Crete, etc.) weren't Pelasgian (pre-Hellene Greeks).[/qb][/QUOTE]Correct. The Pelasgians were inhabitants of the Greek mainland. [QUOTE][qb]The alpha cluster of the E3b-M78, a European development of a gene originating in "black" Africa shows dispersion in the area delimitted by Winchell's "Pelasgian Empire" (pre-Indo European north Mediterranean, Balkans, and west Anatolia), substantiates a "black" African component in their overall makeup possibly explaining occasional occurences of inner African phenotypical elements displayed by some of them...[/qb][/QUOTE]One important thing to note is that while the Pelasgians were a specific people in central and northern Greece, the Hellenic (Indo-European) Greeks began associating the name Pelasgians with Helladic (pre-Indo-European) Greeks in general. Thus comes the confusion. [QUOTE][qb]..Ancient mythographers unaware of the science could have incorporated this presence in epics of migration using eponymous ancestors like Cadmus, Danaos, and others, -- even more so in the indigenous Inachus, Phoroneus, Io, Epaphos, and Pelasgus himself -- though the protohistorical evidence of contacts with the Levant and northern Africa cannot be ruled out.[/qb][/QUOTE]There were various waves of migrations around the Aegean and into the Greek mainland. Most of them seem to stem from Anatolia, but it is not impossible that some came from the Levant or ultimately even Africa. Even the ancient Greek myths themselves claim origins or ties with Anatolia and the Levant. Cadmus, the legendary founder of the Greek city-state of Thebes was said to come from Phoenicia. Danaos and his twin brother Aegyptus were said to come from Egypt with possible roots in Libya also. Inachus was a river god of Greece and his son was Phoroneus and daughter Io. Epaphos was a son of Io and Zeus who became king of Egypt, and Pelasgus was the ancestor of the Pelasgian people of the Greek mainland. So how accurate or not these mythic geneologies are, they can still be confusing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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