Phocaeans from lonia

Here.............CATCH!

http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/phocaea.htm

Don't spend it all in one place! It's......a Gift, from Jon.

"Phocaeans from lonia, had landed from their warships at the mouth 
of the Rhone in southern Gaul and established a base, Massalia, 
modern Marseilles."

The Ionians founded Rhodes, a Rose name says Steve Mizrach. What was 
the image stamped on the coin that John the Baptist threw at the 
Herodican castle. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

>From where, and from whom, did the priests who came to name John, 
learn how to make SIGNS with their fingers?

How many times must I throw this in your face, before you catch on?

Jon

http://www.kernunnos.com/deities/ogmios/ogmios.html

"Lucian describes a picture of Ogmios which he saw in Gaul, when 
residing in Gallia Narbonensis, perhaps around Marseille: he was 
depicted with bow and the club normally associated with Hercules."

"Following the Lydians, the Phocaeans were among the first in the 
world to make and use coins as money. Its coins were made of 
electrum an alloy of silver and gold. The British Museum has a 
Phocaean coin containing the image of a seal ("phoca" means "seal" 
in Greek) [9]"

The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail was co-authored by Baigent, Lee, 
and Lincoln. It dealt with a legendary secret society committed to 
restoring the Merovingian dynasty in France. This society they 
ingeniously traced "to the son of Jesus through Mary Magdala. ' 
Mary, they say, married Jesus, and then brought their son (hence, 
the "Holy Blood") to Marseille, providing the basis for the later 
legend of the Holy Grail (Saint Greal = Sang Real, or Royal Blood).

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/Phocaea.html

According to Herodotus the Phocaeans were the first Greeks to make 
long sea-voyages, having discovered the coasts of the Adriatic, 
Tyrrhenia and Spain. Herodotus relates that they so impressed, 
Arganthonius, king of Tartessus in Spain, that he invited them to 
settle there, and, when they declined, gave them a great sum of 
money to build a wall around their city. (Herodotus, The Histories, 
1.136.1-4 [3] (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?
lookup=Hdt.+1.163.1)) 

Their sea travel was extensive. To the south they probably conducted 
trade with the Greek colony of Naucratis in Egypt, which was the 
colony of their fellow Ionian city Miletus. To the north, they 
probably helped settle Amisos (Samsun) on the Black Sea, and 
Lampsakos at the north end of the Hellespont (now Dardanelles). 
However Phocaea's major colonies were to the west. These included 
Alalia in Corsica, Massalia (Marseilles) in France, and Emporion 
(Ampurias) in Spain. 



Following the Lydians, the Phocaeans were among the first in the 
world to make and use coins as money. Its coins were made of 
electrum an alloy of silver and gold. The British Museum has a 
Phocaean coin containing the image of a seal ("phoca" means "seal" 
in Greek) [9]
 
(http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/world_wom.html) 

http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/history3.html

Ogmios We know of the god Ogmios from the writings of Lucian of 
Samosata, a Greek author who wrote during the 2nd c. AD. Ogmios was 
apparently equated with the Classical demo-god hero HERCULES. Lucian 
describes a picture of Ogmios which he saw in Gaul, when residing in 
Gallia Narbonensis, perhaps around Marseille: he was depicted with 
bow and the club normally associated with Hercules, but instead of 
the powerful god of Graeco-Roman mythology, Ogmios Hercules was 
portrayed as an old man, bald and burnt by the sun. Curiously, the 
god in Lucian's picture drew behind him a happy band of men who were 
attached to him by thin gold chains linking their ears to the tip of 
his tongue. Lucian was informed by a Gaulish acquaintance that the 
Celts associated eloquence with Hercules, because of his strength. 
Apart from Lucian's testimony, Ogmios is invoked on two lead 
defixiones or curse tablets from Bregenz on Lake Constance; on one 
of these, Ogmios is requested to intervene and lay a curse on a 
barren woman so that she would never marry.

The Phocaeans of Massilia founded the colony of Monoikos, named for 
its Ligurian inhabitants, in the 6th century B.C. in the area now 
known as Monaco. Monoikos was associated with Hercules, venerated in 
this location alone as Hercules Monoecus. According to the "travels 
of Hercules" theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, 
both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed 
through the area.

The modern port is still sometimes called the "Port of Hercules". 
The 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, "From ancient times until the 
nineteenth century the port of Monaco was among the most important 
of the French Mediterranean coast, but now it has lost all 
commercial significance."
 
Following the Lydians, the Phocaeans were among the first in the 
world to make and use coins as money. Its coins were made of 
electrum an alloy of silver and gold. The British Museum has a 
Phocaean coin containing the image of a seal ("phoca" means "seal" 
in Greek) [9] 

(http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/world_wom.html) 
dating from 600-550 BC. 


About 600 BC., news reached Carthage of an event that threatened to 
undermine Punic supremacy in the western Mediterranean and confine 
the great metropolis to the African coast. The news was that Greek 
colonists, Phocaeans from lonia, had landed from their warships at 
the mouth of the Rhone in southern Gaul and established a base, 
Massalia, modern Marseilles. To the Carthaginians, who had hitherto 
been the undisputed masters of the sea in the western Mediterranean, 
this meant the arrival of their Greek competitors right in the midst 
of their own trading area.
 
http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/history3.html

The Phocaeans of Massilia founded the colony of Monoikos, named for 
its Ligurian inhabitants, in the 6th century B.C. in the area now 
known as Monaco. Monoikos was associated with Hercules, venerated in 
this location alone as Hercules Monoecus. According to the "travels 
of Hercules" theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, 
both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed 
through the area.

The modern port is still sometimes called the "Port of Hercules". 
The 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, "From ancient times until the 
nineteenth century the port of Monaco was among the most important 
of the French Mediterranean coast, but now it has lost all 
commercial significance."


--- In templars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, X X <zenithn@xxxx> wrote:
> > Monaco derives its name from the nearby Greek
> > colony, Monoikos, 
> > founded in the 6th century BC by the Phoceans.
> 
> Jon, who are the Phoceans? I'm afraid i never heard
> about them. could you enlighten us?
> 
> 
> 
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