By Gerry in July 2018
Hello dear readers, I welcome you all to the next to final installment of my series on the Ancient Spooks, the precursors and ancestors of our modern spook aristocrats, the top-level scammers who enact a false reality for us and then fake their own deaths.
For some strange reason, most of them appear to be “Jewish”.
Many of you will have read Miles’ research on the global elites and asked themselves:
How did this come to be?
How could a tiny religious fringe group usurp power over the entire globe, apparently without any opposition?
In Part III of this series, we found a possible answer:
It all becomes straightforward, almost inevitable, if we make one tiny substitution of “Jews” for “Phoenicians”, referring to the same aristocrats. “Phoenician” elites had a global empire in archaic times already, stretching from Spanish Galicia to inner Syria, with trade relations confirmed to extend further, from British Cornwall unto Iraqi Khorsabad. That’s why they never found any opposition.
All:
- fake wars
- fake feuds
- fake murders
- fake deaths among the aristocracy
and the true unity behind it, are explained if we assume that the first global empire was also the last and everlasting one:
Nobody from among the corrupt elites would attempt to oppose such a structure, if there was the alternative to join it! The word “Phoenicia” was Greek, not used by the Phoenicians themselves. For all I know they could’ve called themselves “Jews” or something similar long before Ancient Israel was founded. Most fleeting “nations” did not have fixed names then, only cities did.
Because of this, I will include the regions today known as:
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Israel
- Palestine
into what I’d call “Greater Phoenicia”.
I will still use the term “Phoenicians” here, since that’s what they’re called in mainstream literature, or use the Biblical term “merchant princes”. In the previous 3 installments, I burdened you with analysis of the Bible and other ancient texts in the original languages. Not this time. This will be a shallow “Wikipedia Analysis”, meant to be an easy & enjoyable read. We will just take a cursory stab at classical antiquity here, merely scratching the surface, but Tyrian Purple will shine through everywhere!
The Unofficial Empire
There is no single list that does justice to the vast unofficial commercial empire of the Phoenician merchant princes.
The most important cities were:
- Tyre
- Sidon
- Beirut
- Byblos
- Arwad
in the Levant, and later Carthage in Africa, but there are many more. Try the list of important cities at the Phoenicia Wiki page. A different list exists as an entire category.
Try other Wiki languages:
they will give you new places again.
Catégorie:Cité phénicienne — Wikipédia
Kategorie:Phönizische Stadt – Wikipedia
Don’t forget to open the colonies subcategory, there are even more cities & ports. Phoenicians didn’t always permanently settle or officially rule all these places but traded there and influenced them. Often, the original Phoenician name of their ports is lost to us. A map of Phoenician trade routes covers the entire Mediterranean, except Italy & Greece.
The line extends off the map along the coast of Africa, which the Phoenicians explored and circumnavigated. While the mainstream denies that Phoenicians settled in Britain, it admits that Britain was already inside their sphere of influence by 800 BC.
Faraway lands like the Canaries and India are said to have been visited by them.
I don’t think the Phoenician discovery of America is true as theorized, but there’s probably a reason that the guy who was allowed to break the secret that the earth isn’t flat was named twice (!) after the region Galilee in the Phoenician hinterland.
Flat Earth PSYOP: Everything Old is New Again – Library of Rickandria
Trading in antiquity officially meant colonization:
This Mediterranean map appears dotted with Phoenician and Greek colonies & trading posts, even though it shows a late period, and many entries are omitted. It seems neatly divided between Greek (red) & Phoenician (yellow), but this distinction doesn’t account for aristocratic ties. Greek rulers were likely on good terms with, if not descendants of Phoenician merchant princes. We will find many Phoenician “themes” in Ancient Greece.
As “mainstream” proof, there’s this Belarusian Wiki map that shows earlier Phoenician colonization reaching deep into Greece. Many Wiki pages silently link to this file, rather than to the Phoenician Greek split. You see it whenever you click to “show” the section “Phoenician cities and colonies”.
The cities on the Belarusian map in modern-day Turkey, Greece, Albania are (counterclockwise):
and Phoenice (!).
They’re not included on the first map, even though they all have a Phoenician history attested on some Wiki page – except for Albanian Phoenice, which is spelled exactly like Ancient Phoenicia.
We’ll encounter many more places named “Phoenicia” later, and also make maps of our own, which will look a bit different. I’ll give you a preview here, we’ll analyze it later.
As for the Eastern parts of the world:
Phoenician coastal cities of the Levant were also the gateway to inland Mesopotamian trade routes, via Syrian cities likely controlled by similar merchant prince clans.
If you look at trade routes along the Euphrates into Mesopotamia and take into account that Sargon II already relied for his construction projects on timber from Phoenicia, traded via cities like Syrian Charchemish, and that the Lion Weights from Assyrian Nimrud had Phoenician inscriptions, then I hope you can see that the merchant empire centered on Phoenicia spanned the entire antique world.
THE ORIGINS OF ASSYRIA & GERMANY – Library of Rickandria
You’ll say that Northern Europe was not part of it, but we’ll see that it likely was as well.
Wealth & Impunity
How did this empire come to be centered on the Levant?
We can understand a lot of it with the mainstream explanations already:
Phoenicia had 3 natural comparative advantages:
- a narrow coast
- prime timber
- poisonous snails
(This is official history, so skip it if you know it already.)
The Coast the Phoenician coast was only a narrow strip, cut off the hinterland by the Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges. This meant sustaining large populations on the limited farmland would be difficult if not for traded supplies. It was also very hard to attack these coastal cities without a large navy. On top of that, most Phoenician cities were at their core fortresses built on peninsulas or islands, some even with sweet-water wells bored into the ground, so even if the coastal part of such a stronghold was sacked, the island fortress could withstand almost any siege.
If an enemy didn’t come with a better navy than that of the Phoenicians – and we’ll see that such an enemy didn’t exist for a long time – the elites could even continue with their daily trade or bail out and sail away on their ships. What does this mean in our spook context? The island fortresses were likely not the main protection. Controlling all global branches of power was. The fortresses are still symbolic though. If aristocrats enjoy total impunity from armed conflict, the idea to start wars, and foist them even upon one’s own onshore population just for profit, might occur with greater frequency.
The Timber
Why did the Phoenicians have the best, even for some time the only navy?
Their secret was the wood:
The forests of Mount Lebanon provided prime cedar timber.
The cedar on the Lebanese flag may look a bit chubby, but that’s only because they didn’t put up a human for size comparison:
Cedars were, and are, impressive, majestic trees.
5000 years ago, they were already used to build palaces & temples.
But these:
- straight
- tall
- hard-wooded
trees were also perfect to build formidable seaworthy ships, both warships & merchant ships, the first & best in the Fertile Crescent, and perhaps worldwide.
The Phoenicians – Master Mariners – World History Encyclopedia
Egypt, for all its might, couldn’t build such ships with local timber, because they lacked proper wood. Egyptian barges were built with Phoenician cedars, as were their temples & palaces. Mesopotamia had some mountains providing wood, but in late antiquity came to increasingly rely on Phoenician cedar as well. An entire series of Assyrian friezes at the Louvre shows transportation of cedarwood for Sargon II.
The Frieze of the Transportation of Timber, Louvre |
Phoenicia-based merchant princes thus had a near-monopoly in the Fertile Crescent on a good that required no production at all. They traded their cedar timber to other regions, and their craftsmen built formidable cedar-planked ships to expand on these prime customer connections, to trade other wares, many of them luxury goods. That doesn’t mean that empires traded at arm’s length, as in some brainwashing textbooks. Especially Egypt had a very special relationship with the neighboring Levantine coast and may have built up the city-states there.
But it explains why the main colonization move came from Phoenicia geographically, and not from the more ancient empires. In our context, this means that kings would come to the merchant princes begging for timber. Mount Lebanon was a goldmine with regrowing, yet destructible gold. If aristocrats profit from building and re-building, they might also have an increased incentive for destructive wars. And having far-reaching seaworthy ships, in fact the only navy of its kind globally, means that this aristocracy could harvest & seed information at will.
The Snails
The main other highly expensive export good for which Phoenicia officially had a near-monopoly was Tyrian Purple, but it did require production. The purple used to dye the cloth was obtained from the glands of the murex snail, who uses the slime to paralyze its prey. Exposed to sunlight, it turns into various colors, eventually purple & black, and stinks. The factories were often removed a little from the cities. It was likely invented on Crete in 2000 BC but quickly adopted by the Phoenicians who were trading along the Mediterranean islands.
Mounds of crushed murex shells were found near:
and everywhere Phoenician.
An anecdote alleges the color would still be vivid after 180 years (though that phrase looks like paid product placement).
The price was accordingly high:
Diocletian’s financial reform in 301 CE set the upper limit for one pound of purple-dyed silk to 150,000 denarii, roughly 3 times its weight in gold. This factors in the silk, traded from China. Regular purple wool would “only” be 50,000 denarii.
What does this mean in our context? The importance of Tyrian purple might be exaggerated. The merchant princes’ power was that they had a chokehold on all international trade, most importantly metals & ores. Even in the luxury category, purple cloth was likely just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of different luxury goods were traded. All aristocrats from the known world depended on merchant families, not only for their economies, but for their personal lifestyle.
I think this was not a marginal aspect, but the top of an exploitation pyramid:
Local rulers would milk wealth from their subjects, and merchant overlords would then milk the wealth from local rulers, through silly luxury items. And remember, all top merchants were aristocrats themselves, able to offer family ties as well as wares. Luxury items might have been the admission ticket to foreign dynasties.
The Trail into Europe
This is just the official setup according to mainstream history. Can we explain a silent takeover of the entire world with that, by Levantine merchants & financiers? We’ve come disturbingly close. I haven’t discovered a written-down recipe for these takeovers, but Miles has found countless times that there was seemingly no opposition. My theory is therefore that most local rulers traded their countries’ independence away, willingly. The question how this went becomes a lot easier, if the takeover party is ultra-rich & ultra-powerful.
I think Fertile Crescent merchant princes were rich enough to just buy Europe from local rulers. These European rulers weren’t cavemen or barbarians though, or stupid. In fact, I think they were very smart to accept the deal. Imagine a clan of local Bronze Age rulers, who successfully traded resources with imperial grand merchants, and are suddenly offered to marry into the global overlord family tree, as a minor branch. They could even keep their country, if only they’d rule it in a joint operation. Would they hesitate for a moment?
Sure, foreign merchant corporations would set up camp, and periodically the country would be marked up for some manufactured crisis by the overlord committee. Ultimately, it would be integrated into some empire ruled by 100% Levantine families. But by then the local clan would be on the right side of the Great Hoax and enjoy the carefree benefit from it all. They’d have gotten their spook education in the imperial capital, and identify as spooks themselves, rather than with their spooked subjects, whom they’d always loathed anyway. Egyptian rulers took offspring of subordinate kings into their capital to educate them.
In Part II we’ve also seen many foreign princelings, experts, and even soldiers in the Mesopotamian capitals.
Did the Phoenicians in the Levantine middle run the same strategy?
Likely, but we can’t tell:
Although the Phoenicians invented the alphabet, conveniently no written records remain from their merchant empire, and all Greek & Roman histories about them have been lost or banished.
Although I assume they exist somewhere:
the Vatican archives, maybe?
What’s officially left are a few short royal inscriptions and votive steles, which pretty much consist of only names. But as Miles has taught us, we can get very, very far just by comparing the names. We will start now exploring spooky trails from Phoenicia into European history. We will see that almost all European shores were colonized by the Phoenicians, or later empires that were built on theirs.
Similar trails would lead into:
- Mesopotamia
- Persia
- Russia
We’ll have to leave them unexplored for now.
(Two important trails into European institutions that we’ll skip here are those into Christianity and into the Knights Templar, both of which often used Phoenician cities as bases.)
Before we start, let me clarify what I think this colonization meant:
Some islands were settled first by Phoenicians, but that’s the exception. Most places were already inhabited by early Neolithic times. Most often, Phoenician merchants would set up small trade posts, which existed side-by-side with indigenous settlements. They would have brought craftsmen & settlers along to staff those trade posts, and for large colonization ventures. But I think they usually did not replace the local populations. Some locals would have welcomed the trade, others not, depending on whose jobs were first replaced by cheap imports. But I think indigenous populations continued to develop in a natural way, mingling slowly with the newcomers.
All regions maintained their own language & culture, even when Phoenician script was changed to suit it. One exception is the Late Bronze Age Collapse [Sea Peoples], where many settlers were herded around, existing settlements razed, culture & language replaced almost completely. We’ll have to research it another time. So, whenever someone writes that this or that people are descendants of “the Phoenicians”, it looks false to me. The descendants of Phoenicians are only the elites. Whether the merchant princes obliterated local elites, or rather let them hop onto the back seat, can be anyone’s guess. I’d say it’s more of the latter, since we’ll see that new puns were invented for local languages.
The Trail into Spain
I’ll start with the Phoenician trail into Spain, not because it’s the most ancient, but because it’s the most obvious. If this doesn’t convince you that the influence of ultra-rich aristocrats from the Levant on our all history is perhaps a little underestimated, then nothing will. Many ancient cities said to be founded by Phoenicians are not on any list. Since Europeans had no script in ancient times, and Phoenician records were “lost”, historians start with the Romans, as everything before was local prehistory. Archaeologists do find Phoenician pottery everywhere, but debate whether it was produced locally or merely imported. They only admit Phoenician settlements once they excavate a necropolis.
The tourist industry wants to cash in on the ancient heritage and started to spill the beans, so some Spanish cities got a Phoenician footnote in Wikipedia. You can’t always know whom to believe, but when I tried to collect all those Spanish cities that were attested to be founded, settled or conquered by Phoenicians at some point in time, I noticed a pattern. Try and look at the map. Do you see the pattern?
Of course, the pattern is that the entire Iberian coastline and all adjacent islands & territories were covered with Phoenician colonies. There’s hardly any city that was not founded or settled by Phoenicians at some point, and these are just the admitted ones, that I found, without North Africa. The term Carthaginian Iberia doesn’t even capture it, as it started long before the Carthaginians.
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Phoenicians: ANCIENT SPOOKS – Part V: The hidden hand of spookery – Library of Rickandria
Phoenicians: ANCIENT SPOOKS – Part IV: Spookdom’s trail into history