In
Greek tradition, a “sea people” who entered the Peloponnesus and the
islands of the Eastern Mediterranean about four thousand years ago. They
were the forefathers of the Achaean or Bronze Age inhabitants of
Greece, named after their leader, Pelasgus, remembered as the First Man.
A third-century B.C. vase painting portrays him emerging from the jaws
of a serpent, while the goddess Athena stands ready to welcome him. In
Aztec sacred art, Mesoamerica’s whiteskinned culture-bearer,
Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent,” identically appears out of a
snake’s mouth. In both instances, the serpent signified their hero’s
arrival by sea. Pelasgus was believed to have been born between the
fangs of Ophion, a primeval, metaphorical snake personifying the
undulating ocean. Athena’s presence in the vase painting signifies the
destiny of Pelasgus as the first civilizer of Greece.
Notable
mariners, the Pelasgians came from the Far West, where they conquered
Western and Northern Europe, just as Plato’s Atlanteans were said to
have done, previous to their arrival in the Eastern Mediterranean. The
pre-Greek “Linear A” written language of ancient Crete and the enigmatic
Phaistos Disk are attributed to the Pelasgians. The disk is a baked
clay plate found at the Cretan city of Phaistos, inscribed in a spiral
pattern on both sides with unknown hieroglyphs. According to the
first-century B.C. Greek geographer Diodorus Siculus, writing was
introduced by the Pelasgians, and the mathematical genius Pythagoras was
supposed to have been directly descended from them.
Waves
of immigrants from Atlantis who entered the eastern Mediterranean
during the geologic upheavals of the late third millennium B.C. were
referred to by the Greeks as “Pelasgians.”
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