Early Greece Before the Rise of Athens

Early Greece Before the Rise of Athens

(March 7, 2026) After the Great Drought of 1350 BCE which remixed European people, Greek culture emerged as a mix of Druid Akkadian (Neolithic farmer) and Indo-European with the north and east having an additional genetic component from Anatolia. The northern branch roughly corresponds to the allies of Athens while the southern branch corresponds with the allies of Sparta. Where the Myceneans centered on their city-state of Mycenae fit into this is unknown because they are located on the border between the 2 groups.

The section image (title background) is a view from Mycenae overlooking the valley they ruled prior to the Great Drought.

References

Map from: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14624/map-of-the-greek-city-states-c-500-bce/

Divination In The Corycian (Κωρύκιον) Cave On Mount Paranassus Above the Oracle of Delphi

(March 7, 2026) What makes this cave special is that it is a cave high up in a limestone mountain (Mount Parnassus, Παρνασσός in Greek) instead of being a cave in the normal place lower towards the ground. The oracle of Delphi would be established beneath it in association with another cave. Mount Parnassus had many such caves but this seems to have been the highest.

The Corycian Cave was excavated in 1969 by Pierre Amandry and his team from the French School of Athens. During the excavation they found a variety of rings, bronze figurines, ceramics, metal objects, as well as several wind instruments such as the auloi. But the majority of objects found were made out of livestock bone. This included 22,000 astragals, which were primarily from sheep and goats, that were made out of talus, a large bone that protrudes from the ankle. The astragals were believed to be primarily used in games of chance, similar to the modern day dice. Of the 22,000 found, 2,500 were found to have been purposefully smoothed down and pierced so that a leather thread could go through them to form a necklace (36 were set in lead and 2 in gold).

Corycian Cave was used as a sanctuary since at least 4000 B.C.E. The Corycian Cave also showed up in several other ancient Greek sources: Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), in his Geography, writes:

"The whole of Parnassos is esteemed as sacred, since it has caves and other places that are held in honor and deemed holy. Of these the best known and most beautiful is Korykion, a cave of the Nymphai bearing the same name as that in Kilikia (in Asia Minor)." (9.3.1)

Word Meanings

Corycian (Κωρύκιον): This word is the Druid Akkadian phrase K'.R.IK meaning place of "Prodding the griffon's divine-irrigation-network." The "divine irrigation network" directs life powers to earth and its connections are edited by the griffons under the control of emotion magic or the crescent moon goddess Ayu.
Nymphai (νύμφη) : This word is the Druid Akkadian phrase N.IM.P meaning the "Revelations which emotionally-trigger the the life-channel-openings." Moderns have interpreted them as being nature spirits.
Parnassus (Παρνασσός): This word is the Druid Akkadian phrase P.AR.N.AṢ meaning place of "Opening the Controller's revelations for life-form-expulsions. The Controller for the life powers is the crescent moon goddess Ayu who directs the griffons to each the divine irrigation network which directs life powers to earth. Opening up these powers first requires divining and revealing what they are doing and that corresponds with the archaeology of the ancient dice found in Corycian Cave and with the purpose of the Oracle of Delphi.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corycian_Cave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus

Photo from: Claire Kittridge via Wikimedia Commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_the_Corycian_Cave.jpg