Kingdom Come

In the mid-fifth century BCE, the Father of History Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus visited Tyre, spoke to a priest, and learned that the town and the temple of Melqart were, at that time, believed to be 2,300 years old. In other words, the city was founded in the twenty-eighth century BC, prior to the biblical date of the Flood ~2350 BC.

Herodotus does not mention a world-wide flood, but he would have known of it as he systematically gathered history from multiple cultures. It is likely he saw no reason to report what was already preserved and well known. The histories and wisdom of “the world that then was” was preserved through the Flood in vaults or on the ark, then gathered in libraries available to Herodotus and other sages.

In support of this consideration, Herodotus likewise does not give an account of Assyria’s origin or of the history of the Semites in Mesopotamia. It’s as if he consigns these records to the same category as known history in the collected works of the sages. Instead, Herodotus’ account most evidently picks up Japhethite / European history where the holy scriptures drops it to focus on the Hebrew nation, immediately after the dispersal of nations from Babel.

Herodotus reports that the Phoenicians / Canaanites had “recently come from that which is called the Erythraian Sea / Persian Gulf to this of ours / Mediterranean Sea, and having settled in the coastland  where they continue even now to dwell, set themselves forthwith to make long voyages by sea.”

This account provides a reliable “absolute” vs “relative” date for this event as occurring during early emigration from the Mesopotamian / Land between Two Rivers and development into distinct people groups.

“And conveying merchandise of Egypt and of Assyria…”

This confirms the above date being after Asshur separated from Nimrod at Babylon and started his Assyrian Empire.

“they arrived at other places…”

Herodotus starts his history with the war fought between the one of the earliest nations of Japhethites / Europeans and the Hamite / Canaanite Phoenicians, getting much of his historical information from Homer the Greek poet.

Homer whose dates are unknown but possibly as early as the 12th century BC, This would place him in the same era as Moses, with the same role of compiling a concise account of pertinent history from volumes of existing sources, and in Moses’ case, “nice and accurate prophecies” to alert the readers how to avert doom.

Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey detail the war at Troy, called Ilium in the old days, and its tragic aftermath. They are considered to be the earliest work in the whole Western literary tradition, remaining among the best known and loved stories of all time and having enormous influence on Western culture as a whole.

Establishing the geographic and historical world-wide importance of this territory allows us to place Homer’s and Herodotus’ history in its proper perspective.

It is more common than not for sequential battles to be fought at the same strategic site in pursuit of the same resources. This pattern at Troy is confirmed by archeology.

Troy, is the first area where the prehistoric period excavations is done and turned into a science...The ancient city of Troy…has been continuously inhabited between the years 3.000 BC [500 years before the Flood] and 500 AC…10 different city layers and more than 50 building phases were identified. These cities in short:

• Troia I – III (Littoral Troia Culture): 3000 BC and ends in 2500 BC [date of the Flood].
• Troia IV – V begins in 2100 BC [after sufficient population and dispersal from Babel] and continues until the 1700’s BC.

We can assign Herodotus’ account to Troia IV in the Neolithic Stone Age reconstruction of civilization.

This territory north of the Promised Land was seized as quickly by the sons of Canaan as was grand central station by Canaan himself, for the same reason. – they held the pre-Flood cities ruled by the ancient gods and their giant children determined to seize control over the world.  Just as San Francisco and New Orleans were rebuilt as soon as possible after their disasters to restore their former glory, so were the abodes of these gods of war after Noah’s Flood.

Pergamum in Asia Minor strategically located on a naturally defensible mountain top and still surrounded by defensive high walls.

The Troad or Troas is the Biga Peninsula in modern Turkey. As at Tyre and Sidon. The bulk of Anatolia / Asia Minor to the east is blocked from access to the seas by mountain ranges, forcing these interior dominions to be dependent for commerce and military protection on whoever controlled the coastline with its key access to the Black Sea on the north, the Aegean Sea on the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the South.

Most important of all the maritime controls are the Dardanelles, known in antiquity as the Hellespont / ‘Sea of Helle‘. Famous from WWI as the Strait of Gallipoli, the Bosporus strait at Istanbul forms the continental boundary between Asia and Europe. These narrow waterways connecting the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the Black Sea and points east and north via the Bosporus strait at Istanbul are easily defendable gateways between the Great Powers aligned into East and West. Whoever controls them has the advantage in winning war and reaping peacetime commercial profits.

Accordingly, the straits have been of paramount importance to world domination since the beginning of time, with the ancient city of Troy located near the western entrance of the strait to control the marine traffic entering this vital waterway.

The Greeks report that, prior to the Flood, during the incessant warfare between the gods, Poseidon had sent a sea monster against Troy, and during a later expedition the demi-god Heracles / Hercules and his followers sacked Troy.

Dardanus was an antediluvian demigod son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra. According to tradition, after a flood, he became the founder of the royal house of Troy. As detailed in the previous post, this would have been accomplished through hybridization of hyperdimensional genes carried through the flood. Whether or not they were in fact Dardanus’ own genes is questionable, but then we know that “father” is a spiritual attribute as much, if not more, than a genetic lineage. He is the claimed ancestor of the Trojan Dardanians and, through Aeneas, of the Romans

After the Flood King Priam was reputedly “given” the throne of Troy by Heracles, which can be taken to mean he lived up to Heracles’ legacy when he reclaimed it in Heracles’ name.  

It is noteworthy that Herodotus includes Homer’s presentation of the pre-flood peoples, their gods and hybrid demigods as a matter of natural history. If this part of his story can’t be taken at face value, can any of the rest of that era’s history?