This is an outstanding research work which puts the epic poetry of Homer in a new setting. The author, the late Iman Wilkens, was fascinated by Homer since his childhood, and later made an indepth study that is the subject of this book. He discovered Homer's poems were oral Celtic tales told 400 years before they were written by the Greeks. The Trojan war was not set in the Mediterranean as has been largely claimed by academics, but is set in East Anglia, between the tribes of Western Europe and the tribes of Britain. Place names and river names, wind directions, time frames, constellations (which are still in use today), coats of arms, etc., were used to identify the true origin of the story. All information is meaningful; including numbers, colours, names, deities, and all are necessary yet are hidden under the guise of an entertaining story. The Odyssey shows sea charts, and the Iliad details the history of the Trojan War. The reason for the war is not the abduction of a beautiful woman, but the highly desired deposits of an extremely rare metal.
At that time, all known sources of tin, which were required to make bronze for superior armour and tools, had been exhausted, with the exception of the tin mines of Cornwall. The sea routes to the only source of this tin were kept highly secret, and the map was used only by trusted initiates who were taught to decipher the secret code.
The Odyssey gives the routes and the stages of an initiation. The Iliad is the historical story. Zierikee in the Netherlands is where Circe, the initiatory Goddess, had her mystery school. Egypt was not called Egypt in ancient times but Misr. Egypt was, in reality, Northern France; Crete was Scandinavia; Ithaca was Southern Spain; Lesbos was the Isle of Wight; Libya was South West France; Scylla and Charabdis were in the Solent; the Isle of Phaeacians was Lanzarote; Syria was Ireland! Perhaps the most exciting of Wilkens' theory is that the Trojan war was fought in East Anglia, amongst those who wished to take over the tin mines.
The Gog Magog hills in Cambridgeshire are the site of that great battle. Was a 'nil' a place of Druidic rites? Is there a Celtic initiation site at Vlissungen? Is Homer's story the oldest search for the Grail? Was Delft the original Delphi? Did Circe turn the sailors into pigs with the use of hallucinogenic drugs? Was the journey to Hades an initiation into the mysteries? Was Zeeland a sacred Land? Was Odysseus from Southern Spain and Achilles from the Netherlands? Was Homer originally an initiate of the Zeeland mystery school, who travelled through southern Spain, to Normandy and then returned home to die? Does his name mean 'loved one'? Was Homer a Celtic bard and mariner? Was the Greek pantheon inherited from the Celts? Did the experience of the voyage of hardship, confusion, distress, exhaustion and seasickness mirror an inner world Near Death Experience? Does the name Odysseus mean 'path to god'?
In ancient times, women were teachers of many arts and sciences, and of enlightenment and wisdom. The loom, the labyrinth, the mandala, and the spiders web are all related to the Goddess Circe, whose house was known as Syon or Sion. Get the answers to these queries, and more! A remarkable study with incredible connections. If this topic inspires you, please consider “Gogmagog - The Buried Gods” by the great story teller, T. C Lethbridge, published in 1959 which sets out the foundation of this work and Lethbridge's excavation of the Wandlebury goddess. Highly Recommended!
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