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Europa and
Jeroboam of Israel
by John R. Salverda
Do Kidnapped Europa and Her Brothers Represent Lost
Israelites?
Background:
Greek Mythology relates that the
chief god Zeus disguised himself as a white bull and abducted the
Phoenician princess Europa daughter of Agenor from her home in Tyre,
Lebanon. They went to Crete where Europa gave birth to Minos, Rhadamanthys, and
Sarpedon.
Minos became king of the Minoans in Crete.
Sarpadon went to
Lycia in Anatolia (in present-day Turkey).
Rhadamanthus
went to Boetia in Greece. His sons were Gortys and Erythrus whose name is Greek
for Edom.
Virgil (69
- 18 BC) makes Rhadamanthus one of the judges and punishers of the damned in
the Underworld (Tartarus) section of The Aeneid.
Pindar says that
Rhadamanthus is the right-hand man of Cronus (now ruling Elysium) in the Isles
of the Blessed (a term that could be applied to the British Isles) and was the
sole judge of the dead.
Elysium, a paradise which Homer placed in the far west, on the banks of
the encircling river Oceanos.
Cadmos and his brothers sons of Agenor of Tyre in Phoenicia were sent to
search for Europa. Cadmos founded Thebes in Greece and introduced the
Phoenician [Proto-Hebraic] Alphabet to the Greeks. He was reponsible for the
creation of the Spartans who sprang from the earth.
In the article below, John R. Salverda, analyses the legends surrounding
these figures and finds in them traditions concerning the Ten Tribes of Israel
in their journeys westward from the Land of Israel after being exiled by
Assyria.
Europa Lost
Europe is named after a descendant of Io's who was called, 'Europa.' The myth
of Europa can be found in any book of Greek Mythology, and has been well known
for almost 3000 years. Can anything new be learned from it' No, but oddly
enough, we can still learn something old, from it. Let us begin by examining
the name itself. The name Europa, is a feminized form of the same Hebrew name
that comes to us through Biblical sources, in its masculine Latin form,
'Jeroboam.' I learned this, when I compared two maps of the same city in Syria,
one had the city labeled, 'Jerablus,' while the other had it as, 'Europos.' It
occurred to me that this was a perfectly reasonable transliteration, and that
both names were one and the same.
King Jeroboam, the first king of the northern ten tribes of Israel, is
mentioned often in the Bible, unfortunately his name usually follows after the
phrase, 'the sins of...' This is because Jeroboam was infamous for
reintroducing the worship of god in the form of a bull, and calves were set up
as images of god's savior, these constituted the 'sins of Jeroboam.' This
tendency toward tauropomorphism, began at the Exodus, when Israel's agent of
deliverance, (legends say it was Michael the Archangel) was overwhelmingly
agreed, by the very witnesses of the event, to have been a calf, of whom they
built a golden image. This was an idol, not of God, but of the son of god, and
they sang these words as they danced around it, 'This is your god oh Israel,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.' Israel was regularly personified
as a maiden, (the Virgin Israel) who was beloved by God and betroth to Him. But
the Israel of Jeroboam, went, whoring after foreign gods. It becomes obvious
that, to some, she was known by a feminized version of King Jeroboam's name.
The evidence for this identification is overwhelming. Europa got carried away
adoring god in the form of a bull as well, and both the Virgin Israel and the
maiden Europa, were from Phoenicia. The resulting, 'loss among the nations,'
occurred in both cases, from the same place, and for the same reason. Does it
surprise us to think that this story, (which included a promise by God to his
People who were dispersed amongst the nations,) may have, in ancient times,
received a wider distribution, than to be stored away on some Temple scroll and
only be known, eventually, through the Bible' In fact the story was far famed,
as we might have known.
The Greek myths tell us that Europa had a son who ruled over the Island of
Crete, his name was Minos. If Europa be from Jeroboam, and the Cretans spoke
Western Semitic, (the same language as the land of Canaan) which they did, then
I'll bet 'Minos,' is the same name as 'Manasseh.' In fact one wonders indeed,
if there wasn't a bit of confusion between the stories of the Cretan, King
Minos, and the later Judean, King Manasseh. How many other kings, from this
same area, with the same name, were famous for sacrificing youths to a bull
headed god' (Minotaur, Manasseh's Torah' is Manasseh an alternate version of
the name Moses' as in Judges, chapter 18, Verse 30, if so, perhaps the Minotaur
was blasphemously named for the Law of Moses.) Thus it seems likely that the
'Minoan' civilization was named for the son of Joseph, Manasseh.
This series of coincidences about Europa is impressive enough without
mentioning this other weird point, which was the fact that Israel was prophesied
to be regathered by an heir to the throne, and returned to her homeland in the
last days. (Isa. 11;10-12) But, this famous promise, must be cited here as
evidence that Europa is Israel, because this hopeful prophecy is also
coincidental to the 'myth.' The Greek myth asserts that the true heir to the
throne was sent to find the lost Europa, and he was told not to return until he
could bring her back.
Cadmus and the Brothers of Europa
Although the story of Io must have been in existence in one form or another,
since the Exodus, (parts of her story belong to the days of Abraham, but most
of it, is the story of Hermes Argiophontes, her deliverer, who plays the role
of Moses at the Exodus) there is no doubt that the version of her story which
has come down to us, did not receive it's final form, until after her
descendant Cadmus came to Greece. We know this, because the story incorporates
the use of the Alphabet within its body, for Io was able to spell her name in
the sand with her cow hoof. (This part of the story relies upon the fact that
the Greek 'I' was just a 'Jot,' and the letter 'o,' resembles a hoof print.)
She was thereby identified when she returned home after her extensive
'wanderings.' This detail limits the Greek antiquity of Io's story, until about
850 BC. when the Greeks first began to use the Alphabet. But, this was a
Phoenician story that was brought to Greece at a later date, generations after
these events actually occurred, and the Phoenicians knew about the founding of
Argos already for years back home, because, they were Israelites and the city
of Argos was a colony of Hebron, also it was they who had an alphabet which Io
could spell, the Hebrew alphabet.
No one doubts that the Hebrew alphabet was used in Greece, but it seems to me, calling
it 'Phoenician,' is a bit misleading. If Moses, famous for his writings, wrote
anything, then it is logical to assume him to be the oldest known user of this
alphabet. The Greeks, in keeping with the identification of Moses with Hermes,
(the serpent stick carrying messenger of god who delivers god's earthly wife
from her bondage,) credit Hermes as the inventor of the alphabet. Cadmus is
accredited with bringing the alphabet of Hermes, from Phoenicia to Greece, but,
not until about 850 BC. It's easy to dismiss all myths in a group as fairy
tales, but Cadmus was not a god, he was a man who is famous for doing something
which really happened, others who lived within a few hundred years of him speak
of Cadmus as an actual historic personage. He came to Greece with a colony and
was considered to be the founder of Thebes, a quite well known city in Boeotian
Greece, which was even called 'Cadmea,' after him.
While there seems to have been a real Cadmus, it is, as if a very familiar
religious doctrine, has gotten attached to him. Because the role of Cadmus in
the story about the return of Europa, foreshadows a type of the Christian
Messiah, he is made to perform a series of tasks, which are obviously designed
to fulfill many key Messianic prophecies. These tasks were, perhaps, more
'expected,' of him than were actually 'performed' by him. He destroys the
serpent by transfixing it to a tree, thus, 'lifting it up,' and 'nailing it to
the tree.' Leaving the Sparti in Greece, Cadmus goes to the Northwest, into Europe
proper, where they make him King, in the land of the Enchelians, (Angels'
Angles, or English') where, in the end, he and Harmonia, never really die but
are instead Miraculously translated.
The Sparti remained in Greece, where they left many descendants, and worshipped
Cadmus as a hero, with shrines. One famous, such hero shrine of Cadmus, was
located in the Greek nation of Sparta, on the Laconian coast, and was
maintained by the Spartans, (sown ones) even down to the days of the Jewish
high priests Onias, and Jonathan. As reported by Josephus, and recorded in
Rabbinical writings, Onias and the Spartans, wrote to each other, and both
recognized the Spartans as having a common ancestor.
-John R. Salverda
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