TussenmyDi-wal&myDi-schip: TatTvamAsi re:12-3-'04
the
first sea-going
peoples
~
OUR
earliest myDi-
boats and ships
must have come into use
some twenty-five or
thirty thousand years ago?
Our myDi-man
was probably paddling about
on the water
with a log of wood
or an inflated skin to assist him,
at latest in the beginnings
of the Neolithic
period!
A
basketwork boat
covered with skin
and caulked
was used in Egypt and Sumeria
from the beginnings of our knowledge
of these regions .............
SUCH boats are still used there!
They are also used to this very day {?}
in Ireland and Wales and in Alaska, and
sealskin boats could then & can still make the crossing of Behring Straits?
Dire straits: what maybe ever was dire necessity, now also became
a 'flourishing business'?
The hollow myDi-log followed as our tools improved!
The building of boats and then ships came in
a natural succession
.
~~~
...........
~
PERHAPS
the legend of Noah's ARK also
preserves the memory of some early exploit in shipbuilding,
just as the story of the FLOOD, so widely distributed among the peoples of the world,
may be a tradition of the flooding of the Mediterranean or Black Sea
basin?!
~
THERE WERE
ships upon the Red Sea
long before the pyramids were built,
and there were ships on the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf
by 7000 B.C.
MOSTLY
these were the ships of fishermen,
but some were already myDi-trading and myDi-pirate ships {?!} -
for knowing what we do of mankind
we may guess pretty safely
that the first myDi-sailors
plundered where they could
and traded where they had to
do so
..............
~~~
~
THE
myDi-seas on which
these first myDi-ships ventured
probably were inland seas on which the wind blew fitfully and which were ever so often at a dead calm for days together,
so that sailing did not develop beyond
an accessory use?
It is only in the last 500 years {?}
that the well-rigged, ocean-going myDi-sailing-ship has developed ...
The ships of the ancient world probably were essentially rowing-ships which
hugged the shore and went into harbour at the first sign of rough weather?!
As ships grew into big galleys they caused a demand
for war captives as
galleyslaves ...
~
WE
have already noted
the appearance of the Semitic people
as wanderers and nomads in the region of Syria and Arabia,
and how they conquered Sumeria and set up first the Akkadian and then the first Babylonian Empire.
IN THE WEST
these same Semitic peoples were taking to the sea.
THEY set up a string of harbour towns
along the Eastern coast of
the Mediterranean,
of which Tyre and Sidon were the chief;
and by the time of Hammurabi in Babylon,
they had spread as traders, wanderers and colonisers
over the whole Mediterranean basin.
THESE EARLY "SEA SEMITES"
were called the
Phoenicians ...
THEY also
settled largely in Spain,
pushing back the old Iberian Basque population and sending coasting expeditions thru the Straits of Gibraltar;
and they set up colonies upon the north coast of Africa.
Of Carthage, one of these Phoenician cities,
we might have much more to tell
later .............
~
BUT
the Phoenicians
were not the first people
to have galleys in the Mediterranean waters.
There was also a series of towns and cities among the islands and coasts
of that sea belonging to a race or races apparently connected
by blood and language with the Basques to the west
and the Berbers and Egyptians to the south,
the Aegean peoples ...
These peoples must not be confused
with the Greeks, who come much later into our myDi-story;
they were pre-Greek, but they had cities in Greece and Asia Minor,
Mycenae and Tory for example,
AND they had a great
and prosporous establishment
at Cnossos in Crete
& at Thera!
~
It is only
in the last century
that the industry of excavating archaeologists has brought the extent and civilisation of the Aegean peoples to our knowledge.
Cnossos has been most thoroughly explored,
happily it was NOT succeeded by any big
enough city to destroy its ruins,
and SO it is our chief source of information
about these once almost forgotten
civilisations.
~
The history
of Cnossos and Thera
goes back as far as the history of Egypt;
the two 'countries' were trading actively across the sea by 4000 B.C.
By 2500 B.C., that is between the time of Sargon I and Hammurabi, Cretan
civilisation was at its
zenith!
~
Cnossos
was not so much a town
as well as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
IT was not even fortified.
It was fortified only later
as the Phoenicians grew stronger,
and as a new and more terrible breed of myDi-pirates, the Greeks,
came upon the sea
from the
north.
~
THEIR
MONARCH was called MINOS,
as the Egyptian monarch was called Pharaoh;
and he kept his state in a palace fitted with running water,
with bathrooms and the like conveniences
such as we know of in no other
ancient remains
up till now?
THERE
he held great festivals and shows?
There was bullfighting, singularly like the bullfighting that still survives in Spain;
there was resemblance even in the costumes of the bullfighters;
AND there were gymnastic displays ...
The women's clothes
were remarkably 'modern' in spirit;
the wore 'corsets' and flounced dresses.
The pottery, the textile manufacturers, the sculpture, painting, jewellery,
ivory, metal, and inlay work of these Cretans was often
astonishingly
beautiful ...
~
AND
THEY EVEN HAD
A SYSTEM OF WRITING,
OF WHICH SEVERAL STYLES
still remain to be
deciphered!?!
Just like
maybe, one day,
our own myDi-writing
{sometimes
even now!},
will be deciphered
by ...
~
Grey skies
and a little rain ...
For the moment, my dear myDi-buccaneers, pirates & captives on the rocks
of time & space, I have the honour of greeting you with all my heart,
and remain your own faithful servant and clown,
Mordech@i haZakeen,
'king of a very small garden at Irminloo',
who is now going to take his aha-capsule in order to eat less
{& hopefully write more?}
maybe later in this
theatre ...
first sea-going
peoples
~
OUR
earliest myDi-
boats and ships
must have come into use
some twenty-five or
thirty thousand years ago?
Our myDi-man
was probably paddling about
on the water
with a log of wood
or an inflated skin to assist him,
at latest in the beginnings
of the Neolithic
period!
A
basketwork boat
covered with skin
and caulked
was used in Egypt and Sumeria
from the beginnings of our knowledge
of these regions .............
SUCH boats are still used there!
They are also used to this very day {?}
in Ireland and Wales and in Alaska, and
sealskin boats could then & can still make the crossing of Behring Straits?
Dire straits: what maybe ever was dire necessity, now also became
a 'flourishing business'?
The hollow myDi-log followed as our tools improved!
The building of boats and then ships came in
a natural succession
.
~~~
...........
~
PERHAPS
the legend of Noah's ARK also
preserves the memory of some early exploit in shipbuilding,
just as the story of the FLOOD, so widely distributed among the peoples of the world,
may be a tradition of the flooding of the Mediterranean or Black Sea
basin?!
~
THERE WERE
ships upon the Red Sea
long before the pyramids were built,
and there were ships on the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf
by 7000 B.C.
MOSTLY
these were the ships of fishermen,
but some were already myDi-trading and myDi-pirate ships {?!} -
for knowing what we do of mankind
we may guess pretty safely
that the first myDi-sailors
plundered where they could
and traded where they had to
do so
..............
~~~
~
THE
myDi-seas on which
these first myDi-ships ventured
probably were inland seas on which the wind blew fitfully and which were ever so often at a dead calm for days together,
so that sailing did not develop beyond
an accessory use?
It is only in the last 500 years {?}
that the well-rigged, ocean-going myDi-sailing-ship has developed ...
The ships of the ancient world probably were essentially rowing-ships which
hugged the shore and went into harbour at the first sign of rough weather?!
As ships grew into big galleys they caused a demand
for war captives as
galleyslaves ...
~
WE
have already noted
the appearance of the Semitic people
as wanderers and nomads in the region of Syria and Arabia,
and how they conquered Sumeria and set up first the Akkadian and then the first Babylonian Empire.
IN THE WEST
these same Semitic peoples were taking to the sea.
THEY set up a string of harbour towns
along the Eastern coast of
the Mediterranean,
of which Tyre and Sidon were the chief;
and by the time of Hammurabi in Babylon,
they had spread as traders, wanderers and colonisers
over the whole Mediterranean basin.
THESE EARLY "SEA SEMITES"
were called the
Phoenicians ...
THEY also
settled largely in Spain,
pushing back the old Iberian Basque population and sending coasting expeditions thru the Straits of Gibraltar;
and they set up colonies upon the north coast of Africa.
Of Carthage, one of these Phoenician cities,
we might have much more to tell
later .............
~
BUT
the Phoenicians
were not the first people
to have galleys in the Mediterranean waters.
There was also a series of towns and cities among the islands and coasts
of that sea belonging to a race or races apparently connected
by blood and language with the Basques to the west
and the Berbers and Egyptians to the south,
the Aegean peoples ...
These peoples must not be confused
with the Greeks, who come much later into our myDi-story;
they were pre-Greek, but they had cities in Greece and Asia Minor,
Mycenae and Tory for example,
AND they had a great
and prosporous establishment
at Cnossos in Crete
& at Thera!
~
It is only
in the last century
that the industry of excavating archaeologists has brought the extent and civilisation of the Aegean peoples to our knowledge.
Cnossos has been most thoroughly explored,
happily it was NOT succeeded by any big
enough city to destroy its ruins,
and SO it is our chief source of information
about these once almost forgotten
civilisations.
~
The history
of Cnossos and Thera
goes back as far as the history of Egypt;
the two 'countries' were trading actively across the sea by 4000 B.C.
By 2500 B.C., that is between the time of Sargon I and Hammurabi, Cretan
civilisation was at its
zenith!
~
Cnossos
was not so much a town
as well as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
IT was not even fortified.
It was fortified only later
as the Phoenicians grew stronger,
and as a new and more terrible breed of myDi-pirates, the Greeks,
came upon the sea
from the
north.
~
THEIR
MONARCH was called MINOS,
as the Egyptian monarch was called Pharaoh;
and he kept his state in a palace fitted with running water,
with bathrooms and the like conveniences
such as we know of in no other
ancient remains
up till now?
THERE
he held great festivals and shows?
There was bullfighting, singularly like the bullfighting that still survives in Spain;
there was resemblance even in the costumes of the bullfighters;
AND there were gymnastic displays ...
The women's clothes
were remarkably 'modern' in spirit;
the wore 'corsets' and flounced dresses.
The pottery, the textile manufacturers, the sculpture, painting, jewellery,
ivory, metal, and inlay work of these Cretans was often
astonishingly
beautiful ...
~
AND
THEY EVEN HAD
A SYSTEM OF WRITING,
OF WHICH SEVERAL STYLES
still remain to be
deciphered!?!
Just like
maybe, one day,
our own myDi-writing
{sometimes
even now!},
will be deciphered
by ...
~
Grey skies
and a little rain ...
For the moment, my dear myDi-buccaneers, pirates & captives on the rocks
of time & space, I have the honour of greeting you with all my heart,
and remain your own faithful servant and clown,
Mordech@i haZakeen,
'king of a very small garden at Irminloo',
who is now going to take his aha-capsule in order to eat less
{& hopefully write more?}
maybe later in this
theatre ...
27 jun 2004 - bewerkt op 07 jan 2008
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