The Enigma of Pelasgians and Etruscans

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The Enigma of Pelasgians and Etruscans

Pelasgians, ancient people, the ancestors of all the Indo-European people, these people were known to

illuminate and give the culture to Europe, about them it is known little, or better to say nearly nothing.

The' alphabet of these mysterious people is called Pelasgic from the civiliation that created it, !I"!"#

%I&$$% informs to us that the Pre-(omeric poets e)pressed themselves *ust with that alphabet, and fr

the same source, we learn that, at least + centuries a&. That same writing was used. oreover !iodor

reports that they were the first to bring their alphabet in Italy, as well as to the rest of Europe, practicing

opportune adaptations and improvements.

lso Pliny the Elder confirms the information of !iodorus.

/irgil 0eneid, /III, /. 12-134, writes5

"It is said that the first dwellers of our Italy were the Pelasgians" .

6rom the ancient authors we have learned that before the arrival of the 7reeks, those territories wereknown as Pelasgia, the several sources inform to us moreover, than the 7reeks learned from the

Pelasgians not only the art of the working of the metals, of the construction of walls, but they learned,

improving it, their way of writing and made their divinity their own.

%everal populations, species the pelasgic one, have given to the country their name

Pausanias 0rcadia, /III, +,8,14 reports5

The rcadians tell that Pelasgus was the first born in rcadia. %ince Pelasgus became king, the country

was called Pelasgia in his honour

Pindar 0&arminia, 6ragmenta %electa, I, 284 tells5

9ringing a beautifull gift, the earth made the first human being, the :!ivine pelasgus:, be born in arcadia

long before making the moon

Pindar's narration could appear as poetically, or even mythically, inspired, thought long later scientists h

proved that the moon is formed by fragments separated from our globe.

(omer mentions the Pelasgians between allied with the Troyans, 0Iliad, II, ;8-;834 and narrates that

chille prayed the :PE%7I< =E$% "6 !"!"/I, 2234. (omer also mentions them

like PE"PE of &rete, 0"dyssey, >I>, +??4.

Ephorus the historian reports of a book of Esiod that attests the tradition of people of the Pelasgians in

rcadia and develops the theory that was people of warriors from a native land that anne)ed and hadcolonied all the regions of 7reece in which the ancient authors talk about, from !odona to &lay to the f

Triade in Italy, where their very recogniable takeovers are anchor in the time of the Elleni and are in

tightened relation with the Tyrrhenians

The characteristic structure of the masonry of the citadel of tene is made of constructions in s@uared

blocks and without the use of mortar wouldn't have had the name of pelasgian masonry, e)actly as


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sometimes they are said giant walls0cyclopic in italian language4, that is constructed from the Pelasgian

those who taught to the 7reeks the methods of the constructions, the way to write and their culture.

0a fantastic wiew of !odona, perhaps the centre of the Pelasgians4

Ae could continue infinitely with citations of the Pelasgians, in order to always conclude in almost every

case and that the civiliations in general terms begin with the Pelasgians, but the main @uestion that rise

this point is5 Aho were theyB


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of intelligent people4, E%%PI 0E%Dcenter, (PIDopen, country of open people4, !$

The :Pelasgian: name can be referred to the lbanian word PE7 0deep sea4, like in Italian pelago.

This is an illiyric registration, dated between the III-II century a.&, it is currently situated in the

archaeological museum of !urres, in lbania5

Underego your pain and weep, if that helps you anguish, but entrust him to the warm earth, to the Heav

Grace and to the Supreme Good

It is important to notice that the language of this registration is so similar to the modern lbanian, than w

difficulty can be thought that it goes back more than two thousand years ago.


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beyond, in the attempt to not only discover their content, but also in order to verify the monogenesis of t

languages that comes supported from eminent students, in the rchaeological useum of tene it has b

met a stele that is @uite ancient and that contains a written up bustrofhedic registration with the Pelasgia

alphabet and e)pressing a heartbreak mourning. This stele has been discovered in the island of emno

and, in general terms, it comes considered much difficult and little every convincing attempt to comprise

content of that writing. nd it is for that reason very little attempts have been made to seriously engage

melt that enigma. Ae begin showing this %tele of emno, attributed to 1th century 9&E 0but from some

characteried studious is older45

9ut, observing with attention the registration, since the first words, we can see that it is recorded in the

pelasgo-illyrian language, like in the rest of the euro-editerranean territories, and it is therefore obviou

that we can decipher it only through the lbanian language, this is the translation


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This entire bustrophedic registration, where the letters T( and ( can be read continuously, in order to

represent sighs and sobs, as we would today make ( and "( contains tormenting complains of a fune

obviously for the dead person that had been also a great hero. Ae now rewrite our the %tele in a modifie

shape adapting it to the modern era5

!U#I#G, we are in full mourning,

anguish, ill luc$ all over,

women covered with blac$ veils%

Grief you have given to the $inship, oh $insman&

He belongs to our stoc$, 'h& , !h&

He was torn away from us, what misfortune%

(ut in order which guilt, this disaster)

Gelid is his golden throne, 'h&

!f his fame we were proud, !h&

Grief, grief in the whole world,

tearing him away, we are beheaded&

This grief struc$ us suddently, ah&

'las, who $nows for what fault) !h&

!ur $insman he was,

*hy ever did he struc$ us with such grief)In Grief and despair, ah&

tears cho$e us, !h&

He, who $ept up our stoc$,

for what fault, now does he e+tinguish it)


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'h& !h&

!h& precious he was,

$nife wounds, oh misfortune,he suffered so much&

In Silence, never uttering an insult&

'h& !h&

ou, $insman, you have beheaded us, !h&

ou, great affliction you have given us, 'h& !h&

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The word :=I: 0or :%I:4 appears also in this inscription, very short but remarkable for tenor, also found at6eltre 0


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published 3 large volumes, in order to support that the Etruscan language it can be understand only thro

the lbanian language. In order to verify the truth of its discovery, he studied the lbanian, before to Par

then in lbania, in order to improve it. The three volumes published by ayani are entitled5 es Etrus@u

&ommencent a Parler es Etrus@ues Parlent a fin du ystre Etrous@ue.

In any case, he who for first has launched and diffused the idea of the monogenesis of the languages w

%ir Ailliam Jones 0+?81-+?H84, famous orientalist that at the end of his intense life knew 2; languages.

(owever, in our days, the valid supporter of this thesis is prof. the &olin #enfrew of the university of

&ambridge, who in his work rcheaology and inguistics published in +H;H, writes5

The main reason of the publication of this *ob is in order to put in evidence that the archeologists of thes

last years, in order to recompose the past have not taken in the due consideration the witness of linguis

in our globe, there is always a horion, beyond which it is not possible to see. Therefore, as far as the

anti@uity, our !ivine horion are the Pelasgians. 9eing they the first inventors of the phonetic writing, we

cannot deny that the true culture begins with the Pelasgi, as also we have learned from several authors

the anti@uity.

6or the time being, let us put aside the linguistic correspondences and let us read some inscription foun

from the egean to the tlantic with the samewords with a common meaning, such as *, rno, #ee et

Ae may begin with words found in lbania, all of pelasgo-Illyrian origin. "n this little temple of the III cen

9.& found and kept in the city-state of pollonia 0west-lbania4 we can read5


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"The -hild entrusted to this temple, now is deified% .et it be for the Good&"

fter reading this illyric inscription, that, without a doubt, corresponds to the odern lbanian, concentra

to the essence of the *ust meant, we read another, e@ually beautiful, of !urres. s the previous one narr

of !eification 0J


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