Interesting Facts About The Illyrians

The Illyrian Language

 It is the purpose of this writing to inspire thought; to enlighten the

people of the Illyrian (Albanian) heritage; to help the Jews understand the

ancient roots of their religion and hopefully enlighten the peoples of

Christianity and Islam as well by placing in proper perspective these monotheistic

(one God) religions within the context of the evolution of man.  Prehistoric man

created the ideas, names of

the gods and religious stories through his perceptions and understandings of

the natural surroundings.  It is the Illyrian (Albanian) language that appears

to translate this phenomenon.

      This attempt may help to reconcile Darwin's Theory of Evolution of 1859

with the creationist idea of a beginning that took place some 5764 years ago.

As Darwin's theory might be referred to as the 'language of nature', the

Illyrian (Albanian) language could be referred to as the 'language of god'.

       This may all have become possible because the 'greek code' had been

deciphered when parts of Hesiod's 'Theogony' (Genesis of the Gods)c. 700 B.C.,

was analyzed and placed within an Illyrian (Albanian) context in 1980, using

the Albanian language as the tool in gaining a new insight into his work. 

Hesiod was a Greek farmer/shepard turned poet.

        Albanian is the oldest language in Europe and by some accounts has

been compared to Etruscan (Z. Mayani, 'Etruscans Begin to Speak').  The Albanian

alphabet was not developed until 1878 and the majority of the population was

illiterate as recent as 1945.  The Albanians are considered the descendents of

the Illyrians.  There is little record of the Illyrian civilization as they

supposedly left no writings, a fact that I find increasingly hard to believe.

          The Greeks were the scribes for the translations of the books of

the Bible from Hebrew to Greek.  They may have been the unknowing scribes for

some of the Illyrian history though it appears they did not understand the

stories past on to them by the Illyrian people.  'From  what parents the gods are

derived or whether they were in existence from all time, and what they are like

in shape, the Greeks do not know till this day when I write these lines' 

says Herodotus, Greek historian (c. 485-425 B.C.) (Book II, 53).  It should be

noted that the translation of the Bible, wherein the  monotheistic concept  was

introduced to the western world, had been completed during the beginning of

the first millenium.  While this translation process was taking place the

Alexandria (Egypt) Library was destroyed.  It was said that this library contained

the story of mankind.

      It should have been the wonder of the ages how the Greeks could have

been the scribes of both the early Illyrian vocal histories and have understood

none of it, as has been proven with the analysis of Hesiod's work, and some

centuries later became the translators for one of the most important religious

documents, the Bible, yet understood little of the roots of the evolution of

religion in their world.  Maybe now that we might begin to recognize that there

is a 'language of god', a language that gave translation to the evolution of

religion that we know in our world, we can begin to view this evolution with a

clearer perspective.  

 

  

An Illyrian World

       It is my contention that long before the 'beginning of the world' as

expressed in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, there was an Illyrian world

in the prehistoric era.  It was one that had great religious influence over

the Mediterranean world and the areas of the regions known as the Middle East

and northern Africa. Though some of this Illyrian influence may have been lost

to the Jews in their early culture it is probable that the teachers of Abraham,

the Patriarch of the Jews, were aware of it.   

       The concepts of 'west' and 'ancestors' were important parts of the

prehistoric cultures in the ancient world.  In Albanian the word 'perendim'

translates to 'west'.  The word 'Perendia' translates to 'God' or 'god-like'.  In

Albanian the words 'ze fare' translates to 'the voice (or message) of the

ancestors'.  The Greek name for 'west wind' was 'zephyr' which probably derives

from the Albanian word 'ancestors'.

        Some European scholars have tried to find the key to the Illyrians

because they sensed that it might have been a missing link to understanding the

religious evolution in the western world.  They were unsuccessful in finding

this Illyrian world, and it appears that they could not imagine a wider

implication.  A reasoning process may enlighten us - help us to understand the

religious and spiritual phenomenon in nature that enlightened prehistoric man.  It

seems to have been lost almost from the beginning of the historic era and

became more political in its evolution.

 

  

 The Concepts:  Ou,  Ra, and Tos

                              

       In Greek, Ouranos was considered the first god, the god of heaven.  If

one were to separate the name 'Ouranos',  to 'Ou'  'ra', it would translate

into Albanian 'I'  'fell'.  'Ou' survives in Albanian as the personal pronoun

'I'.  It was my contention that 'Ou' was the name of the first god in the line

of succession of gods.  Imagine yourself as a cave-dweller living many

thousands of years ago.  When you stand on the earth and view the earth and sky, does

not the sky appear to fall to the earth in every direction you view?  You do

not have the understanding that the world is round.  It appears that a dome

forms over the earth.

      Hesiod states: "And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself,

to cover (extend over) her on every side,..."  (c.700 B.C.)

       It is my contention that this concept, the sky appearing to fall to

earth, may have been the most significant to the people of the prehistoric era

when their religious ideas were evolving.  As a result, the 'ra' expressing

this understanding, found its way throughout the cultures of the Middle East and

North Africa over hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, in the prehistoric

era.  We see the word in the name Mediterranean.  In Albanian that would

translate as 'with the falling day'.  Of course this analysis has never been made 

because the scholars could only see 'Latin'.  This has been true with many

analysis of the ancient world, the scholars see 'Latin' or 'Greek', or 'Hebrew'

then fit a reasoning process to it.  Of course, to some extent, I do the same

with Illyrian (Albanian) but there is one difference - the Illyrian language is

coincident with ideas that are better explained by the 'view' in prehistoric

man's world, the evolutionary timetable within which he lived than any

subsequent document left behind by man.

       One point should be made clear with regard to the first god.  This

should not be confused with the idea of a supreme god within the Illyrian scheme.

The supreme god to most people of the prehistoric world was the

Mother-Earth.  In some cultures she survived the prehistoric world and it is a familiar

concept in recorded history.

       The concept 'Tos' ...  When Hesiod was describing the beginning of the

world he mentions that in the beginning there was 'Chaos' an emptiness or a

state of disorder.  And next was formed 'Ge', the earth...

        In Albanian there are four principal divisions of people that have

emerged from an unrecorded past.  The four divisions include the tribes Geg,

located north of the Shkumbini River in central Albania (the ancient name of the

river was Genusus; 'north' in Albanian 'veri' translates to 'the place of the

egg'; 'Shkumbe' in Albanian translates to 'foam', and the oldest story of

Aphrodite is of a foam birth, though the Greek version of that birth is not

coincident with any Illyrian understanding). To the south of the river were the

Tosk, Lab and Cham.  With regard to Hesiod's first two names 'chaos' and 'ge', my

thought was that they represented two of the four Albanian divisions.  I did

not allow the dialect of 'Kaos' to dissuade my observation from the Albanian

'Cha'.  (The discussion and subsequent persuasion in this writer's book 'Oh

Albania, My Poor Albania' satisfied many doubts as to the possible validity since

it resulted in  the breaking of the 'greek code' and made many new analysis of

the prehistoric world possible. In fact it was a factor in solving the

'mystery' of the Illyrian world.)

      My conclusion had been that if the 'Ge' was the mother, in the north,

the place of the egg, then the 'Tos' might be the father in this scheme -

something that had eluded the Greeks.  In Albanian the word 'tos' refers to

'pluhur' which translated to mean 'dust'.  The Albanian word 'plehu' translates as

'fertilize'.  My thought was that the moisture or perhaps the drizzle of rain in

the air on a moonlit night might have been likened to the dust-like

appearance one might see in the air during daylight.  The prehistoric peoples may have

equated this 'dust' as a 'fertilizing' of Mother Earth - not in the factual

scientific terms we know today, but in some reasoning that they could comprehend

in their time.  It is my belief that the 'tos' was synonymous with the

concept of 'fertilization'.   

 

  

  The Names:   'Torah', 'Ur'

      The Torah is one of the most important documents in Jewish culture.  It

may be said that the Torah is the whole body of Jewish religious literature

including the Scriptures (the Bible).  More specifically the Torah is

considered the first five books of the Old Testament of the Bible:  Genesis, Exodus,

Levitus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.  In the Jewish tradition, it is the

introduction of the 'One God' to the Jewish people, and subsequently to a large part of

the human race represented by the people of Christianity and the people of

Islam.

      Abraham was the founder of Judaism, the first great patriarch who

introduced the concept of monotheism - the doctrine in the belief that there is

only one God.  He was born in Ur, a place in present day Iraq.

       Quite simply it is my contention that the 'To' in 'Torah' represents

the 'fertilization', and the 'rah', that which 'fell to earth', or the

'fatherhood which fell to earth'.  This is what I believe to be the etymology - the

origin and prehistorical developement of this name.   And it is quite fitting,

and no wonder, that the patriarch and founder of this 'One God' concept should

be born in a place called 'Ur', a name that I believe developed from the

Illyrian concept 'Ou' 'Ra'...

       Albania, including KosovA, should be viewed not only as a nation that

had been established in 1912, (KosovA was stolen from Albania by the Great

Powers of early 20th century Europe and pillaged by neighbors) but also a

culture, a living, breathing heritage for many thousands of years despite the lack of

an alphabet until 1878 and an illiterate population as recent as 1945. There

are prehistoric concepts within this heritage that can be the only source of

explanation for the origin of religious ideas and tradition that exist in many

cultures with regard to the 'west' and 'ancestoral reverence'.  And it becomes

apparent that the ideas pre-date any recorded civilization's claim to

antiquity by the very nature of its preservation - they can be found, even though

lost for thousands of years, not through documents, not by investigating pottery

or other artifacts, but through a reasoning process that applies the Albanian

language to the same natural surroundings that were readily available to

prehistoric man as it is to ourselves today.

       It is important to understand that the Illyrian (Albanian) and Jewish

peoples at one time lived in a prehistoric world, one culture subsequently

left writings, one supposedly did not; one culture lost some of the

understandings of that world, the other culture remained a mystery for thousands of years

until 1980.

       In Albanian 'Genusus' would translate to 'Mother Earth as a bride'. 

'Nuse' translates to 'bride'...  It is most probable the origin of the Greek

word 'Genesis', 'the beginning', derives from this concept.

       In Albanian the word 'dhenderr' translates to 'groom'.  'Dhe'

translates to 'earth', and 'nderr' translates 'to extend' or 'spread over'.

      

       From Homeric Hymn, c.800 B.C.:  'Hail Mother of the gods, wife of

starry Heaven'.

       From Hesiod, c.700 B.C.:  'And earth first bare starry Heaven, equal

to herself, to cover (extend over) her on every side..."

 

Comparison Of Languages

Pelasgian = Illyrian = Arb�resh = Albanian Language
Pelasgian=Albanian	English	in Pelasgian=Albanian	in English
Af�rdita	Aphrodita	Af�r dita	Near daylight.
Agora (Shesh prej guri)	Agoras	Asht gur	It is made of stone.
Akea	Achaea	A ke	Have you?
Arbana	Arbana	Ar� bana	(I) made plough (ar-able land).
Arb�ri	Arberi	Ar� b�ri	(He) made plough (arable land).
Arkeleu / Ar�el	Archelaus	Ar� ke le / Ar �el	Arable land (you) were born / (he) make.
Artemis	Artemis	Ar� themi -s	Arable land (we) say.
Atamene	Athamanes	A tham ne	Did we say ?
Athina (Per�ndi e dituris�)	Athena	A thina / thena / E th�na	The saying.
Bukefali	Bucephalus	Buk fal�s	Bread gratis-giver.
Bylis	Byllis	Pylli	The forest.
Dea	Dea	Dhea (Dheja, Dheu)	The soil.
Demet�r	Demeter	Dhe mit�r	Fertile soil.
Desareti	Dessareti	Desh� are -ti	Rams (fed on) arable land.
Drumodi	Drymodes	Dru madh	Large wood.
Edesha (qytet)	Edessa	E desha / Desh�-a	(I) wanted (it). / The rams.
Efesi	Ephesus	�sht veshi	It is the ear / dressing.
Efesian	Ephesian	�sht vesh-jan	It is listener / tailor.
Egnatia	Egnatia	E njatia (zgjatia)	The stretched.
Eleutheri	Eleutherius	E leu dheri	The soil gave born to (him/her)
Epiri	Epirus	E pira	The drinking.
Eskili	Aeschylus	E shkeli	(He) stepped on.
Eskulapi (Per�ndi e mjeksis�)	Aesculapius	E shkula pi	Root out and drink.
Ftia	Phthia	Dhia	Goat.
Gigae	Gygaea	Gji gja	Wide harbour.
Gulam	Gulam	Ku lam�	Where did (we) leave?
Hera	Hera	Era	The wind.
Himeti	Hymettus	Hi mbeti	(It) remained ash.
Hipia	Hippias	I pi (pir�)	Drunken.
Isa	Issa	Isha	(I) was.
Itaka	Ithaca	I thaka	It makes dry /them feel cold.
Kalsidika	Chalcidice	Kal� si dhi ka	Black horse like goat (he) has.
Karano	Karano	Ka ran� / r�r�	There is sand.
Kasandra	Cassandra	Kasha /kesha /kisha andrra	(I) had dreams.
Kavalla (Port detar n Greqi)	Cavallo	Ka val�	There are waves (seaport in Greece).
Kos (ishull)	Cos	Kos	Yogurt
Lisus	Lissus	Lesh / Lis	Wool / Oak.
Mallakastra	Mallakastra	Mal kasht�r	Straw stack
Mendo�ino	Mendocino	Mendo �in / k�	Think of whom.
Menelau	Menelaus	Me ne leu	With us (he) was born.
Mikena	Mycenae	Mik kena	Friends we have.
Molosi	Molossia	Mbolle shi	(You) sowed rain.
Pegas	Pegasus	Pe gja (gj�)	Did (you) see anything?
Pela	Pella	Pela	Mare.
Pellazg	Pelasgian	Pela -azg	Whoever has mares.
Penelopa	Penelope	Pen (Pend) e lop�	Plough and cow.
Perdika	Perdiccas	P�r dik�	For somebody.
Persefoni	Persephone	P�rse von�	Why late?
Perseu	Perseus	P�rse	Why?
Pirro	Pyrrhus	Pi rro	Drink (and) live.
Pitian	Pythian	Pi ti, jan�.	You drink, (they) are.
Poseidon	Poseidon	Po, se i don	Yes, because (he) wants (them).
Potidea	Potidaea	Pote dhea	Earthen pot.
Priam (Mbreti i Troj�s)	Priam	Prij jam / I par jam	Leader I am / The first I am.
Salamina	Salamis	Sa lam�	How many did (we) leave?
Simois	Simois	Si mua ish	Like me was.
Skae	Scaea	Skae / Skaj	Edge.
Skamand�r	Scamander	S�kam and�rr	(I) have no dream.
Strimon	Strymon	Shtrim	Laying down.
Detis (Per�ndi e detit)	Thetis	Deti	Sea
Thesalia	Thessaly	Thesa li-ni	Linen sacks.
Tiran�t	Tyrants	T r�nd�t	The heavys.
Tire	Tyre	Tir�	Wine vat.
Trak�	Thrace	Trok�	(To be) penniless / broken.
Zeus	Zeus	Z�	Voice.