by John Salverda, Excerpts. 6 September 2026, 24 Elul 5785.
New Article.
White Athena No.3.
by John Salverda Excerpts and Commentary.
Olympus: The Council of the gods by John R. Salverda.
The Youth of Perseus by John R. Salverda.
The Youth of Perseus
by John R. Salverda
Perseus
The Graeae and the Mountain
by John R. Salverda
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Olympus: The Council of the gods
https://www.britam.org/salverda/olympus.html
Extracts:
the Greeks have twelve members of their heavenly kingdom, Olympus (like the Hebrew tribes, the list of Olympians sometimes changes, but the number always stays at twelve). The nation of Israel is also known as the Kingdom of Heaven, thus there is also the requisite twelve part division, the tribes.... The point is, that the Olympian gods were like the tribes of Israel, not only in that there happen to be twelve of each, but also because they share the same reason for being so divided, they each stood for the dozenized Kingdom of Heaven. Both groups of twelve were the children and grandchildren a single patriarch, Israel for the tribes, and Kronos for the Olympians. Kronos and Israel have been identified elsewhere. Both kingdoms were divided amongst the siblings by lot. Also, it is not insignificant to note, that in each case, the twelve are set up so that one of them is king over the other eleven. The gods of Olympus, like the Elohim of Israel, spoke with one voice, it can therefore be said, that for the Greeks, "Olympianism," was an obvious step toward monotheism.
The Idea that there was a great dragon/serpent opponent to the Most High is not foreign to the Hebrew Scriptures, the Biblical dragon, was named "Rahab," and this was apparently the same monster that was also called, "Leviathan." The Hebrew name Rahab, means "storm," and it is perhaps worth mentioning that storm is also what the name of the Greek dragon "Typhon" means. The name Typhon probably derives directly from the Hebrew name of a mountain called "Baal-Tsephon," that was located at the Red Sea crossing, where the Pharaoh met his death (Ex.14:9). There is also extrabiblical evidence for equating Tsephon with Typhon for the name can be recognized amongst the Ras-Shamra texts that were found at the site of ancient Ugarit. There we find that Mount Tsephon is the place from where Baal rushes out to defeat his serpentine foe, whose name we also recognize even in it's Canaanite form "Lotan."
The Scriptures have, the Nephilim, the Rephaim, the Zamzammim, the Emim, and the Anakim; the first were destroyed in Noah's flood but apparently not entirely. The Rephaim, the Zamzammim, and the Emim were wiped out by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer in the days of Abraham at the battles of Ashtoroth-Karnaim, Shaveh-Kiriathaim, and Ham (Gen.14:5), except for Og (and apparently his brother Sihon) who was called the last of the Rephaim when he was killed by Moses seven generations later. The Anakim were destroyed by Caleb after the death of Moses, and yet there were still a few giants left in the day's of David for him to him to earn the Messianic attribute of giant killer. Enumerating the Greek confusion in this regard is equally as complicated; the Titans, like the Nephilim, were confined to Tartarus but were released and then re-confined. The Earthborn Giants revolted against Olympus on behalf of the Titans, their brothers, but were summarily defeated. Then Typhon was born in order to avenge the giants on the Olympians but he was killed as well. The Aloeids were a pair of gigantic brothers, like Og and Sihon, but the Olympians thwarted their rebellion also. Suffice it to say that, in both cases, the war against the giants lasted many years and involved several battles before Olympianism, or in the case of the Israel, Elohimism, could be firmly established.
Furthermore, the Greek kingdom of heaven was represented by a mountain, in much the same way that Israel is represented by Mount Zion.
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The Youth of Perseus
by John R. Salverda
https://www.britam.org/salverda/perseusyouth.html
Extracts:
The Anakim (the Greek Inachids) were flushed out of Hebron by Caleb in the days of Joshua and fled to Argolis in Greece. These worshipped the "Queen of Heaven," Hera (Ashtoreth) and his champion (Argos) against the monstrous Echidna. Not long after that, in the days of Deborah and Barak, the Danites, having had a falling out with the sons of Jacob, quit their homeland and joined the Anakim in Greece. (These were the Danaans fleeing from the sons of Aegyptus.) They brought the story of Moses and the Exodus with them to Greece as the story of Io, with Moses therein referred to as Hermes Argiophontes.
Herodotus has something interesting to tell us in this regard, he says that while the Greeks considered the Danaan royalty to be Egyptians, the Persians, who also claim to be descendants of Perseus, argue that Perseus was not an Egyptian at all but was an Assyrian. Ovid, on the other hand, says that the Danaans were of the Cadmean (Phoenician) race and he even refers to Perseus at least once as "Agenorides," a descendant of Agenor, the father of Cadmus,
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Perseus
The Graeae and the Mountain
by John R. Salverda
https://www.britam.org/salverda/perseusgraeae.html
Because there is only one Sun, we are perhaps justified in seeing Sun worship as a step toward monotheism, especially as it was used among the Mithraic Persians, who claim themselves to be descendants of Perseus. Ahura Masda being the "one" god of the Zoroastrians, Mithra (sometimes identified with Perseus) himself could not have been originally thought of as a god but only as a type of Persian Moses, a mediator of the contract between God and men, a lord of the covenant (the Midian Baal-Berith). The eye is often a symbol of god, especially among the Egyptians, but also within the Chaldean sphere of influence such as the Assyrians, Hittites and Syrians where the winged eye was a widely used symbol of the deity.
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