THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine) ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!! Strabo – “Geography” “There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.” (Strab. 7.fragments.9) ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!!
Strabo – “Geography”
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.”
(Strab. 7.fragments.9)
ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
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INHUMATION, CREMATION, AND <strong>THE</strong> SOUL. 543<br />
as the reason for not inhuming a corpse.<br />
As the Magian<br />
practice of giving the dead to the beasts was simply that of all<br />
the tribes of a large part of Asia, all of these may have similarly<br />
abstained from inhumation for fear of outraging the Earth<br />
goddess herself.<br />
Yet in spite of this awful denunciation, the Achaemenid<br />
kings were all intonibed, as we know both from classical writers<br />
and modern discovery both at Meshed-i-Murghab (Pasargadae ?)<br />
and at Persepolis\<br />
The burning of a corpse or of any matter from a corpse<br />
was also an unpardonable sin, a sin for which there was no<br />
atonement".<br />
The cooking of a corpse for eating (the practice<br />
of the<br />
Issedones and Massagetae) was held likewise to be a sin,<br />
which could be only atoned for <strong>by</strong> death "'.<br />
Water was held as saci'ed as the fire, and to bring dead<br />
matter to it was as bad as to put<br />
it on the fire.<br />
But it must not be thought that thu diead of polluting<br />
earth had in any wise contributed to the institution of cremation.<br />
For the Hindus, as we have just seen, do not burn,<br />
but bury in the ground, the bodies of those who are specially<br />
impuiv. Again, the crematioiiists of Europe seem to have<br />
Tlie royal tombs at Mtshed-iMiUf^'hab are older than those at Persepolis,<br />
and they are assii,'ned to Cyrus and Cam<strong>by</strong>ses, whilst those at Persej)olis are<br />
probably those of Daiiiis Hystaspes and his succ(-ssors. Cyrus was buried at<br />
Pasar^'adae (Strabo 72!)). Alexaiuier \isited the tcnnb, which was a small tower<br />
standiiit,' in a ])ark amid a j^Tove of trees, solid bidow, above there was one storey<br />
and a shrine with a \iiy narrow opeiiinf,'. Aristobulns says that <strong>by</strong> Alexander's<br />
coninjand he entered <strong>by</strong> tills ajirrture and decorated the tonili. Me saw tiiere a<br />
f,'olden couch, a table with cups, a golden coflin (TrctXos), many Ki^'''>'- month a IkiIm^ (lur sai-ritici' to Cyrus, .\rrian, Aiinh. vi. 2'.)). 'i'iieo|ihrasl us<br />
(/,((;;. I'l) sa\s that ])ariu--\\as bud in an alabaster saritopha^Mis : ^ai o tlG (Xti/jacri<br />
o',uoi(is ;^f/)i'tr?;s Ka\oru.> I'os (v 7/ TrvtXo} ifiaffi Kai Aa/i"o>' ktiijUai. I'or the rii\al<br />
touibs see i'erri)t and (dnpie/, .1/7 /;/ I'fis'm, pp. I'.k; .sv/^.<br />
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i-'art.'. I. l:
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