Fresh Batch #177: Was Asterion a Giant Man, a Giant Star, or Something Else?

Amonian Radicals Anac, Zar, Sar, Tsur, Tyre

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The following relies on Pausanias, and on the Bible, a little too much for me to get behind it, however, included in it is something of great value in terms of the radical nec, or neg, which could look like nach or nech, as well as nex, nox, noch, nog, etc.

Anac.

The Greek word Anax (Αναξ) means chief, lord, or military leader, often translated as king. The feminine form of this would be Anassa (Ανασσα), signifying queen. In the Iliad, Agamemnon is referred to as anax andron, or leader of men. It is also a ceremonial epithet of Zeus. The word is already archaic by the time of Homer. Jacob Bryant suspected this is because anax is from an Amonian radical. Bryant wrote (Anal. Anc. Myth. p. 72.), “Anac was a title of high antiquity, and seems to have been originally appropriated to persons of great strength, and stature. Such people in the plural were styled Anakim; and one family of them were to be found at Kirjath-Arba.” (Judges. c. 1. v. 10. Joshua. c. 15. v. 13. Deuteronomy. c. 2. v. 21. Joshua. c. 11. v. 22. The priests at the Elusinian mysteries were called Ανακτοτελεσται (Anaktotelestai). Clement. Alex. Cohort. P. 16.)

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Anak is a poor transliteration of הענק, which, if sticking to the Etrusco-Phoenician system that Hebrew is claimed to get its letters from and not the Middle Ages invention that modern Hebrew is, should be EONQ. If interchanging the E with H, it would be HONQ, not Anak.

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However, the NQ radical will still be of value given that nec or neg is significant to the name of an Egyptian King Necos that allegedly hired Phoenicians to sail around Africa for the first time. To revisit the accounts of Herodotus, about King Necos hiring Phoenicians or other Mediterranean navigators to sail around Africa, revisit this article:

Anakim is also a bizarre transliteration for what is written in Deuteronomy. It is written כענקים, which is KONQIM. The -im can be disregarded because it is a termination that indicates plurality. Instead of HONQ or EONQ, it is written KONQ, or KONK, not ANAK.

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In the following passage of Joshua, Anakim is written ענקים, which is ONQIM. That letter ayin is an O in Phoenician, from whence comes the Greek Omicron. This is a big deal in Mediterranean languages, regarding pronunciation.

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Bryant continued (Ib. p. 72.), “Some of them were likewise among the Caphtorim, who settled in Palestina. Pausanias represents Asterion, whose tomb is said to have been discovered in Lydia, as a son of Anac, and of an enormous size. (The root of Asterion is aster, which means star. The enormous father of a star would be the sun if looking at this from an astrotheological perspective.) Ειναι δε Αστεριον μεν Ανακτος. Ανακτα δε Γης παιδα–οστα εφανη το σχημα περιεχοντα ες πιστιν, ώς εστιν ανθρωπου επει δια μεγεθος ουκ εστιν όπως αν εδοξεν. (Literal translation: He is Asterion, but Anaktos. Reclaim, children of earth-bones, the figure containing faith is visible, as it is human-sized, not as if it were glorified. Pausanias. L. 1. p. 87. It was in the island Lade before Miletus. The author adds, when the bones were discovered. See Cicero de Nat. Deor. L. 3. of Anaces, Ανακτες. Τους Διος κουρους Ανακας όι Αθηναιοι προσηγορευσαν. The Athenians depicted Anakas as a kouros (naked male statue). Plutarch. Numa.)

I found accounts of Asterion in Pausanias’ Description of Greece, referred to as a plant, a river, and the son of Minos, or grandson of Zeus, in addition to what seems like another version, the son of Anaktos. As a brief side note, I wonder if there was consideration of this radical in the Phoenician name for Britain, which was Bratanac (country of Tin).

The challenge to find the passage in English is that it is transliterated as Asterius and Anax, though they are written Asterion and Anaktos respectively in Greek. Anaktos is claimed to be the son of the Earth, if translated properly, which, if copying from older stories in a time prior to adjectives, would be to say he is like the Earth, or has qualities of the Earth, perhaps a farmer, or reaper. It does say that the corpse was no less than 10 cubits, which is about 15 feet. But how do we know this isn’t a misunderstanding of a description of a river cutting through the earth, no less than 10 cubits wide, given that Asterion is a river-god?

Bryant continued (Ib. pp. 72, 73.), “We may from hence perceive that the history of the Anakim was not totally obliterated among the Grecians. Some of their Deities were styled ανακτες (anaktes), others ανακτορες (anaktores), and their temples ανακτορια (anaktoria). Michael Psellus speaking of heresies (p. 10), mentions, that some people were so debased, as to worship Satanaki: Αυτον δε μονον επιγειον Σατανακι ευστερνιζονται. Satanaki seems to be Satan Anac, διαβολος βασιλευς (king accuser; king devil; this termination naki may be affixed to Anu-naki, which could signify king of the year).

“Necho, Nacho, Necus, Negus, which in the Egyptian and Ethiopic languages signified a king, probably was an abbreviation of Anaco, and Anachus. It was sometimes expressed Nachi, and Nacchi. The buildings represented at Persepolis are said to be the work of Nacki Rustan; which signifies the lord, or prince Rustan.”

Egyptian and Ethiopic languages are Greek-based, or, at least, the mapping out of those languages through the alphabet is a Greek-based system. However, this root nec, or neg, or even nox, pertains to things like black (negro), death (necro), and even night (nox). Something to think about should my suspicions of the ancient Italian languages giving way to Latin make Latin an older language than previously supposed. To learn about the priestcraft embedded in mythology and scripture, as well as the significance of alphabets in terms of cultural diffusion, dive into the Spirit Whirled series, and then The Real Universal Empire.

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