Black Zeus, Black Lacedaemonias

Sparta**: The most common Spartan Standard, the Greek letter (Lamda) for Lacedaemon. Lacedaemon-Sparta's ancient name-was the capital of a south eastern region of the Peloponnese, called Laconia. Lacedaemon was the son of Zeus and Taygete, daughter of Atlas and Pleione. It was Lacedaemon who founded the city of Sparta, which was named after his wife. Sparta was often called Lacedaemon, as well, and the two names were often used interchangeablyhttp://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?120692-Ancient-Greek-City-States-Standards

Acts 14:6They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:7And there they preached the gospel.8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:9The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,10Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.11And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.12And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.13Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.14Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:Acts 14:12And 5037 they called 2564 Barnabas 921, 3303 Jupiter 2203; and 1161 Paul 3972, Mercurius 2060, because 1894 he 846 was 2258 the chief 2233 speaker 3056.

Jupiter - G2203 ZeusJupiter or Zeus = "a father of helps"1) the national god of the Greeks and corresponds to the Roman JupiterThey thought Barnabas was Jupiter/Zeus

Acts 13:1 Now 1161 there were 2258 in 2596 the church 1577 that was 5607 at 1722 Antioch 490 certain 5100 prophets 4396 and 2532 teachers 1320; as 5037 Barnabas 921, and 2532 Simeon 4826 that was called 2564 Niger 3526, and 2532 Lucius 3066 of Cyrene 2956, and 5037 Manaen 3127, which had been brought up 4939 with Herod 2264 the tetrarch 5076, and 2532 Saul 4569.

Niger - G3526 NigerNiger = "black"1) surname of the prophet Simeonhttp://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3526&t=KJV

Barnabas was considered to be Jupiter/Zeus by the Jews and Gentiles of Greece and he also was called black-niger. Thus, if barnabas is black and also Zeus, Zeus must also be a Black-Niger. Zeus was also the father of many gods, thus, making the children of Zeus, which were the majority if not all of the greek gods, Black-Nigers.Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd they called Barnabas Jupiter,.... The supreme God; it may be because that Barnabas was the oldest man, of the tallest stature, and largest bulk, and made the best figure; whereas Paul was younger, of a low stature, and mean appearance: and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker; Mercury was the god of eloquence, and the messenger of the gods, and the interpreter of their will (r); Paul being chiefly concerned in preaching and speaking to the people, they called him by the name of this God: the Jews had a doctor in their schools, whom they called , "the chief of the speakers" (s). (r) Vid Macrob. Saturnal. l. 1. c. 17, 19. (s) Juchasin, fol. 45. 2. & 46. 1.http://biblehub.com/acts/14-12.htm

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The greater part of the cyclopean wall in Mycenae, including the Lion Gate itself, was built during the second extension of the citadel which occurred in the Late Helladic period IIIA (13th century BC).[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helladic_period

The earliest attested term referring to Lacedaemon is the Mycenaean Greek ra-ke-da-mi-ni-jo, "Lacedaimonian", written in Linear B syllabic script and transliterated as (Lakedaimonios) in the Greek alphabet.

However, the earliest certain evidence of human settlement in the region of Sparta consists of pottery dating from the Middle Neolithic period, found in the vicinity of Kouphovouno some two kilometres south-southwest of Sparta.[16] These are the earliest traces of the original Mycenaean Spartan civilisation, as represented in Homer's Iliad.Notable ancient Spartans Agis I king Agis II king Agesilaus II king Cleomenes I king Leonidas I (c. 520-480 BC) king, famous for his actions at the Battle of Thermopylae Cleomenes III king and reformer Lysander (5th4th century BC) general Lycurgus (10th century BC) lawgiver Chionis (7th century BC) athlete Cynisca (4th century BC) princess and athlete Chilon philosopher Gorgo queen and politician Helen of the Trojan War, Queen of SpartaMenelaus King of Sparta during the Trojan War

Ezekiel 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.Dan and Javan were also merchants. Dan is an Israelite tribe and Javan is:

Javan (Hebrew , Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Ywn) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Table of Nations" (Genesis chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Flavius Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greek people.

Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general, Yavan or Ywn has long been considered cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians (Greek Ines, Homeric Greek Iones; earlier * Iawones).[1] The Greek race has been known by cognate names throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East and beyondeven in Sanskrit (yavana). In Greek mythology, the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly called Ion, a son of Apollo. The opinion that Javan is synonymous with Greek Ion and thus fathered the Ionians is common to numerous writers of the early modern period including Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Bochart, John Mill and Jonathan Edwards, and is still frequently encountered today.Javan is also found in apocalyptic literature in the Book of Daniel, 8:21-22 and 11:2, in reference to the King of Greece ()most commonly interpreted as a reference to Alexander the Great.[2]While Javan is generally associated with the ancient Greeks and Greece (cf. Gen. 10:2, Dan. 8:21, Zech. 9:13, etc.), his sons (as listed in Genesis 10) are usually associated with locations in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea and Anatolia: Elishah (modern Cyprus), Tarshish (modern southern Turkey), Kittim (modern Cyprus), and Dodanim (alt. 1 Chron. 1:7 'Rodanim,' the island of Rhodes, west of modern Turkey between Cyprus and the mainland of Greece).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javan

http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/27-19.htm Javannot the Greeks of Europe or Asia Minor, but of a Greek settlement in Arabia.going to and frorather, as Hebrew admits, "from Uzal." This is added to "Javan," to mark which Javan is meant (Ge 10:27). The metropolis of Arabia Felix, or Yemen; called also Sanaa [Bochart]. English Version gives a good sense, thus: All peoples, whether near as the Israelite "Dan," or far as the Greeks or "Javan," who were wont to "go to and fro" from their love of traffic, frequented thy marts, bringing bright iron, &c., these products not being necessarily represented as those of Dan or Javan.bright ironYemen is still famed for its sword blades.calamusaromatic cane.

Therefore Dan was a merchant with Javan/Greece but how?

Another possible reason for the L on the Shields of the Lacedaeomnians/Spartans/Possible Danites was that they were aware of, or claimed Phoenician origins.

Dan was first identified by Edward Robinson in 1838, and has been securely identified with the archaeological site of Tel Dan, which the Book of Judges (Judges 18:27-29) states was known as Laish (/le./[1]) prior to its conquest by the Tribe of Dan,[2] whereas in Joshua 19:47 it is called Leshem.According to the Book of Judges, prior to the Tribe of Dan occupying the land, the town was known as Laish, and allied with the Sidonians; This might indicate they were Phoenicians (Sidonians were Phoenicians from the city of Sidon), who may or may not have been Canaanite.Most Biblical scholars now believe that the Tribe of Dan originated as one of the Sea Peoples, hence remaining on their ships in the early Song of Deborahhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples The Sea Peoples, or Peoples of the Sea, are thought to have been a confederacy of seafaring raiders, possibly from Southern Europe, especially the Aegean Sea,[1] who sailed around the eastern Mediterranean and invaded Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age.[2]

The Onomasticon of Amenope, or Amenemipit (amen-em-apt), gives a slight credence to the idea that the Ramesside kings settled the Sea Peoples in Canaan. Dated to about 1100BC, at the end of the 21st dynasty (which had numerous short-reigned pharaohs), this document simply lists names. After six place names, four of which were in Philistia, the scribe lists the Sherden (Line 268), the Tjeker (Line 269) and the Peleset (Line 270), who might be presumed to occupy those cities.[36] The Story of Wenamun on a papyrus of the same cache also places the Tjeker in Dor at that time. The fact that the Biblical maritime Tribe of Dan was initially located between the Philistines and the Tjekker, has prompted some to suggest that they may originally have been Denyen.

The identifications of Denyen with the Greek Danaans and Ekwesh with the Greek Achaeans are long-standing issues in Bronze Age scholarship, whether Greek, Hittite or Biblical, especially as they lived "in the isles". If the Greeks do appear as Sea Peoples, what were they doing? Michael Wood gives a good summary of the question and the hypothetical role of the Greeks (who have already been proposed as the identity of the Philistines above):[46]...were the sea peoples ... in part actually composed of Mycenaean Greeks - rootless migrants, warrior bands and condottieri on the move ...? Certainly there seem to be suggestive parallels between the war gear and helmets of the Greeks ... and those of the Sea Peoples ...Wood would also include the Sherden and Shekelesh, pointing out that "there were migrations of Greek-speaking peoples to the same place [Sardinia and Sicily] at this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DenyenThe Denyen are one of the groups constituting the Sea Peoples, who were of Indo-European origin.

They are mentioned in Armana letters from the 14th century BC as possibly being related to the "Land of the Danuna" near Ugarit.[2]

The Denyen have been identified with the people of Adana, in Cilicia who existed in late Hittite Empire times. They are also believed to have settled in Cyprus. A Hittite report[3] speaks of a Muksus, who also appears in an eighth-century bilingual inscription from Karatepe in Cilicia. The kings of Adana are traced from the "house of Mopsos," given in hieroglyphic Luwian as Moxos and in Phoenician as Mopsos, in the form mps. They were called the Dananiyim.[4] The area also reports a Mopsukrene (Mopsus' fountain) and a Mopsuhestia (Mopsus' hearth), also in Cilicia.

Aegean Sea[edit]These areas also show evidence of close ties with the Aegean as a result of the Late Helladic IIIC 1b pottery found in these areas. Some scholars argue for a connection with the Greek Danaoi ()alternate names for the Achaeans familiar from Homer. Greek myth refers to Danaos who with his daughters came from Egypt and settled in Argos. Through Dana's son, Perseus, the Danaans are said to have built Mycenae.

Tribe of Dan[edit]Main article: Tribe of DanThere are suggestions that the Denyen joined with Hebrews to form one of the original 12 tribes of Israel.A minority view first suggested by Yigael Yadin attempted to connect the Denyen with the Tribe of Dan, described as remaining on their ships in the early Song of Deborah, contrary to the mainstream view of Israelite history. It was speculated that the Denyen had been taken to Egypt, and subsequently settled between the Caphtorite Philistines and the Tjekker, along the Mediterranean coast with the Tribe of Dan subsequently deriving from them.[6]The most famous Danite was Samson, whom some suggest is derived from Denyen tribal legends.[7They are mentioned in Armana letters from the 14th century BC as possibly being related to the "Land of the Danuna" near Ugarit.[2]The Egyptians described them as Sea Peoples.[1

The archaeological evidence from the southern coastal plain of ancient Palestine, termed Philistia in the Hebrew Bible, indicates a disruption[39] of the Canaanite culture that existed during the Late Bronze Age and its replacement (with some integration) by a culture with a possibly foreign (mainly Aegean) origin. This includes distinct pottery, which at first belongs to the Mycenaean IIIC tradition (albeit of local manufacture) and gradually transforms into a uniquely Philistine pottery. Mazar says:[40]...in Philistia, the producers of Mycenaean IIIC pottery must be identified as the Philistines. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that the Philistines were a group of Mycenaean Greeks who immigrated to the east ... Within several decades ... a new bichrome style, known as the "Philistine", appeared in Philistia ...Sandars, however, does not take this point of view, but says:[41]...it would be less misleading to call this 'Philistine pottery' 'Sea Peoples' pottery or 'foreign' pottery, without commitment to any particular group.Artifacts of the Philistine culture are found at numerous sites, in particular in the excavations of the five main cities of the Philistines: the Pentapolis of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza. Some scholars (e.g. S. Sherratt, Drews, etc.) have challenged the theory that the Philistine culture is an immigrant culture, claiming instead that they are an in situ development of the Canaanite culture, but others argue for the immigrant hypothesis; for example, T. Dothan and Barako.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TjekerThe Tjekker or Tjeker were one of the Sea Peoples. They are known mainly from the Story of Wenamun, and are thought to be the people who developed the port of Dor during the 12th century BCE from a small Bronze Age town to a large city. They are also documented earlier, at Medinet Habu, as raiders defeated by Pharaoh Ramesses III of Egypt in years 5, 8 and 12 of his reign.[1]

The Tjeker may have conquered the city Dor, on the coast of Canaan near modern Haifa, and turned it into a large, well-fortified city (classified as "Dor XII", fl. c. 1150-1050), the center of a Tjeker kingdom that is confirmed archaeologically in the northern Sharon plain. The city was violently destroyed in the mid-11th century BCE, with the conflagration firing the mud bricks red and depositing a huge layer of ash and debris. Ephraim Stern[9] connects the destruction with the contemporary expansion of the Phoenicians, which was checked by the Philistines further south and the Israelites.The Tjeker are one of the few Sea Peoples for whom a ruler's name is recorded in the 11th-century papyrus account of Wenamun, an Egyptian priest, the ruler of Dor is given as "Beder".According to Edward Lipinski,[10] the Sicals (Tjekker) of Dor were seamen or mercenaries, and b3-d-r was the title of the local governor, a deputy of the king of Tyre.

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Minoans linked to the Hyksos people. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the Hyksos and Minoans shared a common heritage, if not a common ancestry.http://books.google.com/books?id=AY25QuPMkmMC&pg=PA92&dq=minoan+israelites&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X4--UZOMFcHyyAG6uYCYAw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=minoan%20israelites&f=false

It is known that the Hyksos retained close links with the Minoans, as many artifacts from Egypt have been discovered in Crete and vice versa. Examples are the Egyptians sistrum discovered in Arkhanes Phouri in Crete, and the decoration of the tomb of Hepzefa in Egypt, which follows Minoan principles.