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**Babylon the Great – Greece** Saturn and Rhea were worshiped in the Olympian pantheon as Zeus and Hera. Zeus is therefore the anthropomorphic Kronos/Ouranos, and Hera is the anthropomorphic Ops/Rhea. These two gods were worshiped together by the Dorian Greeks as the king and queen of Olympus, or heaven. Artemis was worshiped at Lacedaemon (Sparta), the most influential city of the Peloponnesus. Other important Dorian cities included Argos, Rhodes, Halicarnassus, Syracuse and Corinth. The rest of the Greeks worshiped Athena and Apollo together, whether or not they also revered Zeus and other Olympians. The founding of Greece is directly related to the founding myths of Egypt and Troy. The names given to the heroes in the pre-Homeric Greek mythology correspond to tribes, just like those of the Table of Nations in Genesis do. The names of the gods represent natural elemental spirits, and also the Irinim adopted from the Sumerian pantheon. For example, Nilus is the Nile River, and Apis is the embodiment of Osiris, the sacred solar bull which corresponds to the Utu of Sumer and Marduk of Babylon. The history of Greece begins with the founding of Argos after the flood by Phoroneus, or Fire-Bringer, whose worship there is the origin of the eternal flame. Phoroneus is sometimes regarded as the father of Apis, and sometimes as the father of Pelasgus. Pelasgus is an eponymous name for the inhabitants of Greece prior to the arrival of the Hellenes. It is given to the founder of Argos in some versions, and to the king of Argos who welcomed Danaus to Greece in others. Argos is the mother-city of Greece. The kings of the major city-states were descended from the kings of Argos. It was still one of the most important cities in Greece long after the arrival of the Hellenes (Achaeans, Dorians, Ionians and Aeolians). Homer refers to the Greeks as Argives and also as Δαναοί (*Danaoi*, Danaans) and Ἀχαιοί (*Akhaioí*, Achaeans). “Danaans” is used as a tribal affiliation, designating the tribe of Dan in Greece. “Achaeans” is from Achaea, the name given to the land around Argos. Danaus was the eponymous leader of the Danaans who took his daughters, the Danaides, to Greece, where he re-founded the city of Argos. He was a son of Belus (Canaan) and brother of Aegyptus (Egypt), who fled from Egypt after refusing to marry off his 50 daughters to his brother’s 50 sons, who then proceeded to kill them when they chased them to Greece. This is a retelling of the events of Exodus. Only one of the Danaides didn’t kill her groom, and together they became the ancestors of the kings of Argos, and of the Mycenaean civilization. The Greek version of the founding myth of Egypt begins when Io, a priestess of Hera at Argos, is seduced by Zeus and turned into a cow to protect her from Hera. She became the mother of Apis who, as the embodiment of Osiris in Egyptian mythology, is none other than Nimrod. Apis married Memphis, after whom the new capital of Egypt under Nimrod was named by the Greeks. Their daughter Libya was the mother of Belus, and also of Agenor. Apis was worshiped as the sacred bull of Egypt. The name of Agenor in Phoenician (and Hebrew) is khna, or Canaan. Agenor was the king of Tyre (and therefore the Lucifer of the Bible) and the father of Cadmus, whose name in Phoenician (and Hebrew) means “the East.” Hermes was worshiped by the name of Cadmus on Samothrace. Cadmus and his brothers Cilix, Thasus and Phoenix were sent by their father to bring back their sister Europa after Zeus transformed into a bull and took her away. They were told not to come back without her but never managed to find her, so each settled in another location and became the eponymous founder of another civilization—Thasus on the island of Thasos, next to Samothrace; Cilix at Cilicia in Turkey; and, of course, Phoenix in Phoenicia. Cadmus journeyed to Samothrace where he stole Zeus’ daughter Harmonia, who was the sister of Dardanus, founder of Dardania, and of Iasion, founder of the Samothrace mysteries which he brought with him to Greece. Cadmus went on to consult the oracle at Delphi and founded the city of Thebes, teaching the Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks. Europa became the first queen of Crete and the mother of Zeus of Minos, eponymous founder of the Minoan civilization. Like Osiris, Minos was regarded as the judge of Hades, while Europa was worshiped in Phoenicia as Astarte. Her husband was named Asterion, and so was the Minotaur, which was the symbol and object of the Utu/Apis/Molekh rites on Crete. The fledgling Athenian state was forced to provide virgins as tribute to fulfill the need of the sacrifice to the Minotaur until it was slain by Theseus, who, upon his return, became the king and great founder-reformer of Athens. Athens is now the largest city and capital of Greece. Over 30 other cities worldwide are nicknamed #Athens. #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #RomanMythology #AncientHistory #Mythology #ClassicalStudies #AncientCivilizations #BiblicalConnections #TableOfNations #Zeus #Hera #Apollo #Athena #Argos #Troy #EgyptianMythology #Phoenicia #MinoanCivilization #Mycenaean #Theseus #Minotaur #Atlantis #EsotericHistory #Origins #AncientWorld #MythicTraditions #BabylontheGreat