Leo Nygren's Masterplan

I’m using the ”BZ” (before zero year) in this book instead of ”BC” (before Christ) as it’s more scientific-like and because Christ’s actual birth-year is not known at all.
Still more proper and better way to count dates and years of the antiquity would be the now known, by Bock Saga, exact year when the ice-age ended, 10.016 years ago, (counted from the year 2000) as the zero year. I understand that scientists and historians have longed something like that, since just about all that we know of history has happened during the last 10.000 years or so.
By this I hope nobody gets offended, as I only do this to clarify the texts.

The Author

FOREWORD

Dear Reader, be prepared to peep into the Paradise, Atlantis and Hell!!
Where were they, and when?
Closer than you may think.
What the life was like there and at those times?
And what those names meant?
Read how the women selected a man from the line of naked athletes, a new one every year, in paradise.
What the honeymoon was like originally, you wouldn’t believe.
What the shape of man’s sex organ tells you, today?
Why the sperm was kept so precious that it shouln’t be wasted.
How the women enjoyed the hilarious pagan fertility festivals.
These and many other intimate facts from the kind of life that could make us jealous of the pagan times.

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But also how the languages originated?
How the continents got their names and who inhabited them.
When the aim was to develope healthy and good people.
In these stories we travel from the beginning of the world to this day.

First from the island of Corcyra or presentday Corfu to the Cronian Sea with the Phaesians, under the King Hyllus.
He was the son of Herakles.
Herakles was the son of Zeus himself.
They came to buy amber, which was to be found at the Cronian Sea, according to Apollonius Rhodius.
Cronian Sea was the Gulf of Finland, as told by english historian Robert Graves.
Amber is still to be found at the southern shore of the Gulf Of Finland and at the Baltic Sea.

Then to the holy island of DELOS in the Greek archipelago.
With two virgins that were sent there by hyperborean people to bring bronze plates in which were written the joys of paradise and rigors of hades, as is told by Plato.
He tells what a man named Gobryes had told Sokrates.
The grandfather of this Gobryes had been sent to Delos to save the valuables from the marauding persians.
He had seen and read those plates.
This happened 480 Xerxes BZ, when Dareios, the Persian King, was already crossing the Hellespontos, on the way to invade Greece.
These virgins, named Arge and Opis, had come to Delos at the same time with the two gods, Artemis and Apollo.
As was told to Herodotos by delians.

Later on two more ladies, named Laodice and Hyperokhe, were also sent to Delos to bring offerings to the goddess and protector of childbirth, Eileithyia.
They spent the rest of their lives in Delos, as priestesses, and there they also died.
All that at about 3300 years ago, during the Mycenaean time.
But what is astonishing is the fact that we know so much of their lives and that their graves are still to be seen in Delos, well kept too.

* * *

Then we travel to the time before the ice-age, the paradise-time.
We get to know the site of the paradise, and the full meaning of that word.
And who were the first people there?
How the human race was developed to a near perfection, and settled all the continents, respecting the rays of sun, fire and sperm as the givers of life.

* * *

Next we see what the name Atlantis means.
Was it a period of time, or a place, or both?
Atlantis was around the Gulf of Finland, during the ice-age.
When the Gulf Stream that flows now along the coast of Norway, was flowing into the Baltic Sea and to the Gulf of Finland, keeping those areas free from ice and populated.

Newly discovered and published mythology of Väinämöinen from Finland, the Bock Saga, is a new source of information.
There are facts and stories about such early parts of history that we have not known yet.
For example, how to divide people or nations to eastern and western blocks.
That is; how we count those two numbers after ten.
Or how the shape of the head of man’s sexual organ differs, from plump to sharp, from east to west, and from north to south, even today.

We get to know the fertility rites that were used in Hel, in Finland, for thousands of years.
When sperm was ”delivered” from Hel to all other countries, and how it was ”sacrificed” back, in order to develope good and healthy ”stock” of people. They were mysteries of which it was forbidden to talk about.
Now we know them.

There are just too many facts that fit together in this Väinämöinen’s mythology, with orthers, and history, for it to be the work of just someone’s imagination.
Just one man, whose ancestors had told the story from father to son, for thousands of years, knows it.
His name is Ior Bock.
It has been a secret because of the deal made with the church.
When the Christian faith came to Finland, at 1050, they degreed the ”pagan” faith, the philosophy of Väinämöinen, to be heretic and Bock family had to escape up to Lapland.
Bock’s is the oldest family in the world.
Bock, or Pan, (SAMPO) was the original ”breeder”
That’s why Pan is pictured with huge phallus.

Finn’s still have the story of ”joulupukki”, (X:mas bock in finnish what originally was a buck made of straws), or Santa, who resides at Korvatunturi in Lapland.
He gets thousands of letters every year from the children from all over the globe.
Now this story has been confirmed.

Ior Bock is the last descendant of the family and he has the right to publish the whole mythology, which has been only on spoken form this far.

But where was Hyperborea, the land beyond the ”north wind”?
Old maps drawn at the beginning of seventeenth century show it to be between North Sea and the Sea of Viena, in Carelia.
That is the present-day Scandinavia and Finland.
But who inhabited these areas around Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland 3000–4000 years ago when phaesians came to the Cronian Sea and those ladies were sent to Delos.
They were finns.

Johannes Messenius, a jesuit, and the keeper of the Swedish archives, says so in the book which he wrote at the end of sixteenth and the beginning of seventeenth centuries.
It is the first historybook of Finland.
Finns had lived in a large area that extended from Don river in Russia to Rhine in central Europe and up to Teno river at the most northern part of Scandinavia, under finnish kings.
(There are still many ”Fennougrian” tribes and peoples residing in Russia and eastern Europe.)

The present-day capital of Finland, Helsinki, is in the place of the holy capital of the whole world at the paradise-time, before the ice-age.
HEL was it’s name then.
The axis of the earth was in a different location then, North Pole was where Helsinki is now, but the angle was towards sun. There was tropical sunshine all the time, 24 hours a day.
No wonder HELsinki was the one and only original HEL(L), the capital of the Paradise.
But the meaning of the word Hell differs utterly from what we have been told this far, by bishops.

Later on the axis of the earth shifted suddenly to a new location.
Mammoths in Siberia died suddenly, for frost.
Paradise and Hel were destroyed.
Ice-age began.

In the vocabulary and phonetics of finnish and swedish, the first world languages derived from the original ”Rot” language, are to be found the keys to the early history of mankind.
When words are split into parts shown in this newly-found Väinämöinen’s mythology, of Bock Saga.
It can be found from other european languages too, with english for example, but not so well, only finnish and swedish (spoken in Finland) are best preserved in the ancient spoken form.

This helps us to understand the links between this Bock Saga or Väinämöinen’s mythology and all other mythologies of the world, including those of Greek, China, Egypt, and India.
All mythologies were information systems.
Hovinarrit, (NARRators), court jesters, brought the information from Väinämöinen to all people in all countries.
They were the internets of that time, cabinet ministers.

* * *

All continents got their names and inhabitants from ”Uden’s land”, which was around Hel.
The land of sun and smile.
From where the worship of sun, the giver of life, originated.
Before the ice-age.
When all other continents were grouped around the North Pole.
The area around Helsinki is still named ”Uudenmaa”, officially.

* * *

Then we follow the holy rites by which the gods Artemis and Apollo were honored in many ways, in the island of Delos.
Offerings were paid also to those hyperborean maidens, Arge, Opis, Laodice and Hyperokhe.
Songs were written and sung for them, and brides and grooms cut a lock of hair to be placed on the graves of those damsels, at their weddings.
They were remembered and highly respected for more than thousand years.

* * *

Then we return back to the Cronian Sea and to the beginning of the world.
We will see why such a name was given to the Gulf of Finland.
Cronia comes from the word CRONOS, which means TIME.
Time was the child of Uranos, the sky, and Gaia, the earth.
In Greek mythology.

All this could not have had any meaning or sense previously, but now it has.
Is it just a co-incidence that all those holy places, HEL, DELOS, KNOSSOS and SIWA in Egypt are situated on the same north-south line or meridian, the original zero meridian?
Or that the names of all continens begin with a letter ”A”?

A hair-raising story in which all this is tied together at the end of it.
Comparing also the stories of Bible to this Saga of Bock, the division of people and languages in the story of Babel, or that of the great flood that forced Noah to build his Ark.
Or the shifting of the poles of the globe, which destroyed the Paradise.
Using Herodotus, Plato and Sokrates as guides.
Also Johannes Messenius from Finland.
And Ior Bock.
And Kalevala, the ”official” finnish mythology.
Moving the borders between history and mythology way back to the past.
And if the excavations that are presently being done here in Finland, prove the Väinämöinen’s mythology to be true, even partly, then we have here a story that may change the early history of the mankind.
The revealing of the original ”Rot” alphabets with which we can explain the myths and the white patches of the history of the mankind, is the most valuable treasure of the Bock Saga.
This is the story of the Master Plan, the sperm link, that was to upkeep the paradise system, but which failed because of the ice-age that severed the ties between Hel and the other world.

* * *

Heinrich Schlieman was a brave man when he dug the city of Troy out of past.
Nobody believed the story that was told in ”Iliad”, before that.
He shifted the borderlines between mythologies and history way back, alone.
That same could happen with these stories too.
When we get used to the idea of turning the cards upside down.
We may see things from another angle.
It’s refreshing sometimes.

Be prepared to meet the greatest adventure we, the modern people, can ever dream of.
Fasten your seat belts, here we go.

PHAESIANS, THE AMBER TRADERS

Zeus, the king of gods, was a very passionate man.
His lust and love for mortal women knew no bounds.
According to the greek mythology.

At one day he had set his eyes on Alcmene, a very virtuous and beautiful woman.
When Alcmene’s husband was once away in a warring mission, Zeus had his chance.
He transformed himself to look like the unlucky husband, and entered the house.
But one night was not enough for him, so he extended one night to be as long as three nights, by sending the envoy of gods, Hermes, to extinguish the fires of Helios, the sungod.
Helios was supposed to ride every day across the skies to bring light and warmth to the people on earth.
All people were drowsier than usual because Zeus had ordered moon to add some extra element to it’s shine.
He told Alcmene what her husband was doing just then, as a King of Gods he was able to know it in real time.

The husband came home boasting his adventures but Alcmene asked not to tell those stories for the second time.
He made some inquiries and understood who had been the visitor and let his wife to be alone, fearing the gods.

The time came for Alcmene’s delivery, but Hera, the wife of Zeus, had got hint of what was happening behind her back.
She was very jealous and sat down in front of the door of Alcmene, locked her fingers and kept her knees tight together, thus preventing the birth.
But the maid of the house came out and told that the birth had already happened, supraising Hera, causing her to relax her fingers and knees, and then the birth took place.
Hera punished the maid right away but it was too late, Heracles was born.
It’s been told that he grabbed two snakes in his hands, just newborn, and crushed them easily.
Everyone understood his divine origin.

Heracles was the superman of his time, his adventures were famous, they were known by all greek people, far and wide.

In time he got married with Deianeira and got his own children but in a spout of madness, which Hera had conjured, he killed them all.
One of those children had been named Hyllus.
Later on he got more children with Melite, the doughter of river-god Aeleus.
Again one son was named Hyllus.
This Hyllus became the king of the phaesians, in the island of Corcyra, present-day Corfu.
Later on he emigrated with some of his people to the Cronian sea, as is told by Apollonius Rhodius.

This Cronian sea is non other than the Gulf of Finland, according to the British historian Robert Graves.

The reason for the immigration was to trade with amber.
Amber was used in ornaments and it must have been more expensive than gold, since even the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, had a necklace made of it.

The phaesians knew the route to the Gulf of Finland from earlier expeditions they had made.
It started from the head of Adriatic sea.
Amber is still being found at the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland and at the Baltic Sea shores.
It is said to be the tears of the daughters of the sungod, Uden, or the gold of Boreas, north.
The amber has been tested to be from 40 to 120 million years of age, it being most probably resin from pine-trees.
It is being found and mained mostly at 12 meters deep, where there is a layer of it, in Poland.
But why just 12 meters deep?
At that time there must have existed forests of such trees.
Here is a direct link to the Bock Saga, from 40 to 120 million years ago tropical weather and the paradise had existed here.
Sometimes the sea washes some clumps of amber to the shore, after a storm.

When phaesians could have made this expedition? Good guess is presumably 13th century BZ. or earlier.
But history does not mention anything more about the phaesians, or of their king Hyllus, so the track is lost here.

The areas around Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland were called Hyperborea.
Hyper meaning extreme and borea north.
That could be actually anywhere in the far north but in all probability it was around the Gulf of Finland.

But also areas as far east as Altai-mountains, and England to the west, have been thought to be the Hyperborea, but that sounds unlikely.
They are too far east and west.
Finland is due north, looking from Greece and greek people are the ones who used that expression.
Here is how the Greek Mythology explains the Amber tears; Eridanus is a long line of stars beginning close to Orion and reaching down to horizon.
Eridanus river, into who’s waters Faethon dived after Zeus had struck him with a lightning, was the son of Tethys and Okeanus.
Zeus had wanted him to stop riding at the carriage of his father, Helios, but Faethon managed to draw a fiery line, the milky way, to the sky, and to make darker skins to those people who resided close to the equator.
Faethon’s sisters cried for him at the river Eridanos, turning into Poplars, sheding the amber tears.

But the story continues....

HYPERBOREAN VIRGINS
AND THE MESSAGE

A strange thing is to be seen, even today, in the holy island of Delos, which is in the middle of Cyclades and of greek archipelago, in the Aegean Sea.

There are two graves of hyperborean virgins in that island.

Even their names are known, Opis and Arge, in one grave.
Two others are Laodice and Hyperokhe, in another grave.
And their’s are the only graves left in that island, after it was purified by removing all other bodies out of by 400 BZ.

But let’s begin anew.
According to Herodotus, two virgins were sent from Hyperborea to bring gifts to the goddess and protector of childbirth, Eileithyia.
Their names were Laodice and Hyperokhe.
Five men, called ”perferies”, were sent with them as guardians for a long and arduous trip.
They came via the land of Scyths, which was northwest of Black Sea, where Ukraine is today.
From there to the head of Adriatic sea and thence to the mainland of Greece, through the island of Euboia and finally to Delos.
Those four hyperborean maidens remained in Delos the rest of their lives, as priestesses, in the temple of Artemis, and there they also died.
They were highly respected for many centuries.
When delian youngsters got married, both girls and boys cut a lock of hair and placed it on the grave of Laodice and Hyperokhe.
To ask for easy deliveries and healthy babies.
An olive tree grew on the grave when Herodotus saw it, at 450 BZ.

But delians told him that two maidens, named Arge and Opis, had come there first, from Hyperborea, at the same time with the two gods, Artemis and Apollo.
Arge and Opis had come to help and assist Leto with the delivery of the two gods.
They were respected by a choir that sung a song a Lycian man, named Olen, also said to be hyperborean, had composed for them, during the festivals that were held every fourth or later every fifth year.
Their names were repeatedly mentioned in that song.
When an animal was sacrificed, it was eaten mostly but the hind leg was burnt on the altar and the ashes were spread to the grave of Arge and Opis.

But this is important, Arge and Opis brought with them a message, bronze plates in which were written the joys and grievings of Paradise and Hades.
This story is to be found in the writings of Plato.
In his book number seven, he writes what Sokrates had told to his friend Aksiokhos.
Sokrates mentions the story he had heard from a man named Gobryes.
The grandfather of this Gobryes had been sent to the island of Delos to save the valuables from the marauding persians, in the year when they were invading Greece, 480 BZ.
This here is the text of the bronze plates;
”Soul goes to the land of shady light after parting from the body, deep underground, where Pluto rules as a King, areas which are as large as the halls of Zeus.
When the Earth is in the center of universe, and universe is like a ball, gods of the Sky rule one half and the gods of Hades rule the other half.
Other gods are brothers, and others are the children of brothers.
On the road to the outer court of Pluto there are iron gates which are closed with iron keys.
When gates are opened, first Acheron and then Cocytos rivers must be crossed to get to the fields of truth where Rhadamanthys and Minos wait for you.
There the judges ask what kind of life you have lived when the soul was still within you.
(Rhadamanthys judged the asian people, Minos the european.)
There you cannot lie.
Those who have obeyed the voice of good consience, go to the fields of blessed.
There fruits grow in a mild climate, clean rivers flow and fields are full of springtime flowers.
Philsophers talk, plays are being acted, choirs dance and music is being played.
There are no pains, life is full of enjoyments, the weather being not too cold, nor extreme hot, but the sunshine warms pleasantly.
Festivals are being held any time, no reason is needed for them.
Front seats are reserved for those who are engaged to the Mysteries, there they perform the holy rites.
The story tells that right here Herakles and Dionysos were initiated in to the holy Mysteries before they stepped down to the land of Hades, and that it was the Queen of the Eleusian Fields who encouraged them to do so.

But those who have led a criminal life go to the dark caves of Tartaros where the spirits of revenge take hold of them.
There the daughters of Danae endlessly scoop water and Tantalos suffers from unending thirst, Tityos, who’s mutilated organs just keep growing forever and Sisyfos, who pushes big boulder uphill to start it anew time after time.
There the tongues of beasts lick them and the flames of the torches burn them.

Just figure it yourself, Aksiokhos, what Gobryes told me.
My own thinking is in doubt, but I do know that when souls part from us they are out of reach of pains.”

This is the text of the bronzeplates that Arge and Opis had brought with them from the land of Hyperborea, as told to Sokrates by Gobryes.
These plates are no more to be seen because barbarians stole all metals later on, but we are lucky to see the texts from the writings of Plato.

Were these maidens, Arge, Opis, Laodice and Hyperokhe finns or the descendants of the hyllean people who had emigrated from the island of Corfu to the Cronian Sea, we will never get to know, perhaps.
But the writing of those bronze-plates describing the conditions of Paradise and Hades were most probably from Hel.
Herodotus wonders that even in his time, 450 BZ, those graves were to be seen in Delos.
But they are still there today, well kept and marked, in the maps too.

But when were those virgins buried there?
Three vases have been found in their graves beside the bones during the excavations.
They have been dated to be made at the Mycenaean time, 1600–1200 BZ.
Herodotus says that Herakles lived 900 years before him.
That would be about 1350 BZ.
It could be assumed that hyllean people emigrated to the Cronian Sea at about 13th century BZ, or earlier, and that hyperboreans sent those virgins to Delos soon after.

The question is; how did they know anything at all about Delos?
They must have known the importance of that island and the way to get there much before.
Messengers had been sent from Hel to Hellas by the meridian, which is the direct route, in time immemorial, as is told in the Bock Saga.
Herodotus tells also that a hyperborean man named Abaris had traveled widely without eating anything at all carrying an arrow with him??
What story is hidden here, we don’t know, and Herodotus is too shy to tell.
But here we can use the ”Rot” language, trying to find out.
A-BAR would mean a naked, under his tunic, Aser man, (IS probably added later) carrying the arrow, which would mean that he was the ”breeder”.
But when hyperboreans realised that the virgins they sent never came back they ceased sending any people to bring offerings, instead they gave the gifts to a neighbouring nation which sent them to a next one until they reached Delos at the end.
The gifts were always wrapped in wheat straws.
Herodotos tell’s that still in his time women from neighbouring islands brought gifts that were wrapped in wheat straws, to the temple of Artemis.
Hyperborea is by Greek mythology an area north of northwind, where there is eternal springtime and constant sunshine, that is; the land of Uden, in Finland.

Another question is, why Delos?
Was it because Knossos in Crete and the Minoan culture had been devastated by the huge tsunami or wave at about 1500 BZ which was caused perhaps by the explosion of the volcano at Santorini, or Thera?
This seems possible.

LETO, APOLLO AND ARTEMIS,
THE BIRTH OF GODS

Zeus, the king of gods, had copulated with Leto, the daughter of the titans Coeus and Phoebe.
She became pregnant and Hera, the wife of Zeus, was as jealous as ever.
She forbade all lands to receive Leto and her children.
Leto flew on the wings of southwind praying for a plot of land to allow her to come, with no succes.

Asteria, the maid of the skies, had flown down and was swimming around Aegean Sea without stopping anywhere.
She felt sorry for Leto and promised to let her land there after Leto had given assurances that the gods she is going to give birth would never leave that island and that she will shower lustre and fame to it.
Then the island, that had been called A-Delos, invisible, by the mariners, stopped and was immediatly anchored fast by Zeus and ever after it was called Delos, visible.

There Leto landed but she had no-one to help her.
For nine days she was in pains because Hera had threatened anybody not to aid her in the delivery.

(Here is a clear resemblance to the Kalevala, the finnish mythology.
In it, the Aerian Maid had flown down to swim in the sea, and while resting, kept her knees above water.
The bird ”Sotka” flew around looking for a place to nest, without finding any, until she saw the knee jutting above water.
She laid eggs, six golden and one iron, in the nest she had built on the knee of the Aerian Virgin.
Later she moved her legs and the eggs fell to the water, breaking up.
One of them broke in two halves, of which one half became land and the other sky.
But the Aerian Virgin spent nine years in the water before she started making lands; islands and peninsulas, for the vegetation to grow and people to live on)

Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis, the immortals, after Arge and Opis were sent there to help her with the delivery, which took place along the shores of the sacred lake, under a palm tree.
(The lake has been dried out but a palmtree still grows there.)

Apollo, the sungod with a golden hair, was born and he became protector, and god of music and other arts, as well as prophecy. He is also said to be the son of Hephaestus, the smith-god, and that he brought the laws to Arcadia.
He was also connected to the development of intellectuality, philosophy, astronomy and medicine.
There he practised with his bow and arrows and played with his seven-string lyre.
The music he played was said to have therapeutic effects.
(Check the Kalevala, poem 41, same story)

Artemis, Apollo’s sister, became a virgin goddess, a protector of hunters as well as wild animals.
She was also the patroness of motherhood and deliveries.
(Again a connection to Bock Saga)

Later on temples were erected for both of them and lavish celebrations were held every fourth, or later every fifth year.
Delos became famous just as the birth-place of Apollo and Artemis.
The fame lasted there nearly 1500 years.

These symbolic stories were the way to tell to the people about the beginning of the world and life.

Notice the syllable ”RA” in the names of Herakles and Hera.

THE (HI)STORY OF DELOS

Delos is a small island, just about five kilometers long and one and half wide.
It is relatively flat, only 112 meters high Mount Kynthos rises in the middle of it.
It was the center of religious, political and commercial activities for nearly 1500 years.
It’s size was not proportional to it’s importance at all.
It is situated right in the middle of Cyclades and also of Aegean Sea, between mainland Greece and Asia Minor.
And from Crete to Lemnos.

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The excavations made by the French Archaeological School of Athen’s have revealed the ruins of the first settler’s houses on the slopes of Mount Kynthos to be from the early cycladic, the carian period, at the 3rd millenium BZ.
Next populations there were the mycenaeans, 1600–1200 BZ, on the more level ground on the north-west corner of the island.
It was during the mycenaean time when the Hyperborean virgins came there to bring the bronze-plates in which were written the details of Paradise and Hades.

Ionians had invaded the eastern side of the Aegean Sea and the archipelago at about 1200 BZ.
They were the ones which started the holy quadrennial festivals, the Delia, to honor Apollo, Artemis and Leto, their mother, no later than on the 7th century BZ, at least.
Some scolars believe that ionians may have perpetuated even more ancient tradition that they acquired from the carians who inhabited these islands before the great ionian migration.

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According to greek mythology, Apollo had a son, Anios, who became the king of Delos, and the first high-priest of the sanctuary of his divine father.
Anios had three doughters, Elais (Olive girl), Spermo (Seed Girl) and Oeno (Wine Girl), who received from Dionysos, one of their divine ancestors, the gift of producing olive oil, grain and wine at will.
When Agamemnon was on the way to punish troyans for the abduct of Helena, the then most beautiful woman in the world, by Paris, he had wanted to take these girls, with him to supply his forces with food but Dionysos transformed them into doves, in order to save them, which is why doves were held sacrosanct ever after in Delos.
It was forbidden to hunt them.

Aside from being the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, Delos was also the centre of the very ancient cult of the fertility goddess known as Great Mother Earth, marble idoles of whom are found in virtually every Bronze-Age grave in Cyclades.
Artemis was the successor of this goddess, as well as the protector of wild animals.
She was also considered to be the protectress of childbirth and motherhood, which role she had inherited from Eileithyia, a goddess of mycenaean era.

Delos was also held sacred because of Theseus, who had stopped there on his return from Crete where he had slain the monster Minotauros.
A crane dance was performed during the great Delian festivals in memory of his escape from the labyrinth with the aid of bundle of string which Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, had given him because she had fell in love with Theseus.
She advised Theseus to tie the end of the string to the entrance of the labyrinth and roll the bundle open as he went in, and at coming out, just to follow it.
(Logical for a woman in love to find such a simple solution.)

Geranos was the name delians had given to that dance, which twisted to and fro and sideways as is the form of labyrinth.
Dancers had a white peace of cloth in their hands to mark the string which enabled Theseus to find his way out.
It is still being danced in Greece.
Another theory for the dance is that the dancers copied the zigzag flying of Leto when she tried to find a place to land for the childbirth.
Hera had employed the snake Python to chase her, so she had to twist here and there in order to avoid being catched.

But what happened to the daughter of King Minos later.
Theseus had given an oath to wed her if she helps him to find a way out of the labyrinth.
So he sneaked with Ariadne to his boat and hoisted the sails.
On the way they stopped on the island of Naxos to have a rest.
Ariadne also stepped on shore, laid down and fell asleep, but what did Theseus? He stole away with his crew.
Beautiful Ariadne woke up and seeing herself being left behind angered greatly.
But Dionysos saw her plight and rescued her, marrying her too.
Later on he raised her bridal crown to the skies as Aurora Borealis.

Great festivities were held in Delos every fourth year, to honor Apollo and Artemis.
Later on, during the athenian domination, every fifth year.
They were sumptuous.
During the theoria, as it was called, delegations from all greek nations partisipated by sending envoys, called theoroi, to march in front of cavalcade of pilgrims and choirs that sung a song called prosodion, to honor the immortals, Apollo and Artemis, and their mother Leto.
Treasurers followed, bringing gifts to the sanctuary and a golden crown to Apollo.
During the festivals choirs competed, actors played and poets recited.
Athletes run on the stadium and even horseraces were being held for the first time.
Because it was forbidden to execute enybody during the festivals, Sokrates had to wait one month for his turn in an athenian jail, at 399 BZ.
(That jail is still to be seen in Athens, by the way.)
Seremonial oxens had been slaughtered at the beginning of the festivities, at the end they were eaten in a huge banquet.
The Geranos-dance was the highlight of the festival, it was danced in front of the Apollonian altar.
Athenians had come with the same black-sailed ship that Theseus had used on his Cretan trip.

Athenian tyrant Peisistratus ruled from 546 to 528 BZ and he ordered Delos to be ”cleansed” by removing all bodies out of their graves within the sight of the temple.
In 426 BZ the athenians under Nikias carried out a more thorough purification on Delos by ordering the rest of all graves to be dug open and the remains to be transferred to a neighbouring, Rheneian island, into a so-called purification pit.
It was forbidden even to give birth or die in the holy island of Delos.

But the graves of the hyperborean virgins were left intact.

After this last purification the games and festivities were ruled to be held every five years and they were more lavish than ever.

During the classical and hellenistic periods Delos was involved in some of the most important political events in history of ancient Greece.
During the invasion of Greece by Darius in 490 BZ the persian fleet, commanded by Datis, first reduced Naxos and then attacked other islands but he spared Delos, leaving the island and it’s inhabitants unharmed.
Datis went ashore just to worship at the shrine of Apollo and Artemis, piling 300 talents worth of frankincense upon their altars and burning it as offering.
Ten years later Xerxes, the heir and son of Darius, attacked Greece again, crossing the Hellespontos with a huge army and navy, causing heavy losses to the greeks.

(This is just the case and time Plato is referring to in his text where he tells how the grandfather of Gobryes, also by the same name, being sent to Delos to save the valuables and then reading the texts on the bronze-plates Arge and Opis had brought from Hyperborea, beyond ”north wind”)

A very strange episode happened in 421 BZ when athenians expelled all delians from the island.
As Thukydides writes; ”Next summer the year’s truce, lasting up to the Pythian games, came to an end.
During the armistice the athenians expelled all delians from the island, because some crime committed during the purification of the island”.
Later on they were allowed to return after all.
In 404 BZ. Delos was liberated from athenians for a short period, but 392 BZ. they took control of the island again.
In 343 delians petitioned for a independence of athenian control, to no avail.
The greek armies were defeated by macedonians at the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BZ. but they let the athenians to govern Delos as long as they remained macedonian’s allies.

The situation in Delos changed greatly after the death of Alexander the Great, when Delos and other Aegean islands revolted against athenian rule and won their freedom, under the protection of Ptolemy I Soter, the king of Egypt.
Delos became the capital of Ptolemaic League of the islands and that increased it’s importance as a financial centre.
Ptolemies were greatest graindealers of the time, annually they exported millions of bushels of grain.

But another era opened for Delos in the year 167 BZ when it was degreed a free port after romans had taken control of greek world.
People came from Italy and from all points of compass, bringing their own gods and manners.
The population reached up to 25 000.
All kinds of goods passed through the hands of delian merchants.
Most bizarre were perhaps the slaves that were sent from the port of Side.
As many as 10.000 slaves were passed and sold at the marketplaces, a day.
It was a wholesale market of slaves that were sold to the farms in Italy and other places.

But this spree didn’t last long.
At 88 BZ. The King of Pontos, Mithridates, attacked Delos and killed most of it’s inhabitants, taking the rest of them into slavery.
At 69 BZ. his ally, Athenodorus came to complete the destruction.
The importance of Delos was reduced to nil, it never again flourished.
Only some pirates kept it as their hideaway-place.
Athenians tried to sell it but there were no buyers.
At 5th century it was again called A-Delos, badly seen, because it was laid waste and was uninhabited.

At that state it remained until 1873 when the French Archaeological School in Athens began the excavations.
Scientific studies have continued up to this day and the history of Delos has been recorded quite well.
From 1950 on there has been organized travel from the nearby island of Mykonos, which is only about 10 km off.
In these days, from many other neighbouring islands too.

There is an Archaeological museum in Delos where the objects, that are found during the excavations, are on display.
Also those three vases, that were found from the grave of the hyperborean virgins.
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Dear reader, when you go to Delos, try to imagine the splendour and holiness of that island as it was during the classical period.
When all the imposing temples and other buildings, constructed of white marble, were intact.
The holy way full of people going to and fro.
The pilgrims, traders, housewives and slaves all busy with their chores.
The huge marketplaces full of sellers and shoppers.

When you walk through the narrow alleys and byways, try to set yourself in to that life that had thrived there for such a long time.
Near the theatre you hear the doves chirping, remember then the daughters of King Anios; Spermo, Oeno and Elais.
Try to imagine the choirs singing to the hyperborean virgins, Arge and Opis, beside their graves.
Or young couples cutting a lock of hair, the girls spinning it around a distaff, boys around some grass, and setting them on the grave of Laodice and Hyperokhe, in the hope of easy births and healthy babies.
And to the succes of marriages, which seem to be ever so difficult to handle, no matter what is the time or culture you live in.
Go and see the theatre that was built to seat 5500 people.
There the actors had played and choirs sang the ”hits” of that time.
Only it is in bad repair but as the island of Delos, is degreed to be a museum, it has been left as it is. Buy a book that tells the whole history of Delos right from the gate when you enter the island.
There is a map which shows the important places, where to be found.
Even the graves of those holy hyperborean virgins.

There are still some mysteries which we don’t know for sure.
Perhaps in the future science may be able to solve them yet.
For example, where did those hyperboran Virgins came from?
In which nation they belonged to?

But in the meantime, when we go to see their graves, let’s have a quiet moment to honor them and the eon they represented.
Now that their story will become better known.

The ”Rot” language, revealed by Bock Saga, will give some new and concrete translations of the names of the gods, or the energies, employed here, and of the whole story of Delos.
Dionysos, for example.
Dion being the stem, -ysos probably added later to help the pronounciation.
DI meaning to ”drink” the sperm, also from man to man, when sacrificing it, as is explained in the Bock Saga.
”O” meaning ”Uden”, and ”N” is the North Pole.
The Dionysian mysteries must have been the fertility rites mentioned in the Mythology of Väinämöinen, where sperm was sacrificed from lower ”castes” men, to an upper caste man, in order to energize him, so that the breeder had enough energy to beget children, as is explained in the next part.

End of Part I

Part II starts here