Fresh Batch #119: Is Beltane Named After The Italian Lord Tina?

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One of the most suspicious details in the chronological record is that the knowledge remaining of the so-called Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Etruscans, etc., whatever this maritime empire was called, and their history, as well as their mythology, religious rites, and other manner of traditions, is only through accounts of mostly so-called Roman and Greek writers. I suspect this is a glaring flaw in the chronological record that attempts to account for the Romans and Greeks co-existing with the so-called Etrusco-Phoenicians to make the Roman and Greek empires appear older than they were. If this isn’t the case, and the Roman and Greek history is roughly as old as claimed, then I suspect the Etrusco-Phoenician empire is far more ancient than them, and more ancient than scholars and archaeologists dated them to be. It is inconceivable that a superior empire, such as the Etrusco-Phoenicians, could have so few artifacts and inscriptions remaining, be it from them or the civilizations they did commerce with, to account for its history while its alleged contemporaries, who inherited their systems, abound with artifacts and literature. Choose any nation that has gone to war. While to the victor goes the spoils, the defeated culture doesn’t cease to exist from the historical record. But this is precisely what is claimed to have happened to the Etruscans after a war with Rome, and the excuses and explanations for why there aren’t enough examples of literature from the Etruscan empire to even understand their language (and the other languages of ancient Italy) are not satisfactory, especially because Rome was quasi-Etruscan. This is also the case with the Phoenicians.

Vallancey wrote (Irish Lang. p. 45.), “It is therefore impossible to come to an exact knowledge of the Carthaginian Gods, from what is delivered of them by the Greek and Roman authors.

“The chief Deity of the Carthaginians was Baal, Beal, or Bel, the Sun, to whom they offered human sacrifices. (Where is the evidence? Is this another fantasy dreamt up by so-called Roman & Greek authors to demonize the empire before them?) The chief Deity of the Heathen Irish was Beal, the Sun, to whom also they offered human sacrifices. (I could ask the exact same questions about the Irish and Druids. I broached this subject in The Holy Sailors, and though there are accounts of these practices, I have yet to see evidence of this practice dating from the era which it allegedly occurred.) The Irish swore by the Sun, Moon, Stars, and the Wind.

“The sacrifice of beasts was at length substituted among the Carthaginians, the same custom we learn from the ancient Irish historians, prevailed in this country. The month of May is to this day named Mi Beal teinne, i.e., the month of Beal’s fire; and the first day of May is called la Beal teinne, i.e., the day of Beal’s fire (Beltane). These fires were lighted on the summits of hills, in honour of the Sun; many hills, in Ireland still retain the name of Cnoc-greine, i.e., the hill of the Sun; and on all these are to be seen the ruins of druidical altars. (Recall the Areopagus is the Hill of Ares. A derivative of griene is in Apollo Grannus, signifying that the he is an archetype of the sun, even though William Betham, whose work I admire, erroneously interprets Apollo as the pole star; the citations he used were not to be found in the works or page numbers he cited, which ultimately relied on interpreting a drawing of a statue or engraving, not an inscription.)

“On that day the druids drove all the cattle through the fires, to preserve them from disorders the ensuing year; this pagan custom is still observed in Munster and Connaught, where the meanest cottager worth a cow and a whisp of straw practises the same on the first day of May, and with the same superstitious ideas. The third day of May is also at this day named treas la samh-ra, or the third day of the Sun’s quarter. On this day each bride married within the year makes up a large ball covered with gold or silver tissue, (in resemblance of the Deity) and presents it to the young unmarried men of the neighbourhood, who having previously made a circular garland of hoops, &c. (to represent the zodiac) come to the bride’s house to fetch this representation of that planet. To such a pitch is this superstitious ceremony carried, I have known in the county of Waterford a ball to have cost a poor peasant two guineas. The old Irish name of the year, is Bealaine, now corrupted into Bliadhain, i.e. the circle of Belus, or of the Sun.”

Irish people pronounce Beltane like bal-tin-uh, which I suspect comes from the Etrusco-Phoenician Tina, also Tin or Tinia, one of their archetypes equivalent to the Roman Jupiter, thus Lord Tina (Bal-Tina) would be the etymology of Beltane if not anecdotal. Recall that Britain was peopled by Phoenicians (as far as we can tell; the Doggerland claims of a land-bridge are not satisfactory and there is no lore about Britain ever being connected to the continent like we have with Sicily and Italy).

If you’d like to learn more about the Ancient Briton-Italian history that the status quo and gatekeepers have obfuscated, depriving Europeans of their heritage and ascribing it to others, read The Holy Sailors.

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