GIRIONIS KING OF SPAIN Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphiktyon

 

GIRIONIS KING OF SPAIN

 Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphiktyon

While leafing through an ancient book, I focused my attention on the word Geryonis, Geryon or Geryoneus. I had encountered him in the twelve labors of Hercules, one of which was "the theft of Geryon's oxen", but now I realize that he was a very important person of the prehistoric era. Geryonis was the son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe of Oceanus and king of Spain. Which means that in the prehistoric era, Spain was a Greek possession and therefore most Spaniards who do not descend from Arab invaders are Greek in origin. Will you tell me that some of them may also be Gauls? Yes, and the Gauls were Greeks through their father Hercules. He had reached Brittany, as France was then called. Because of his strength and bravery, the most beautiful Celtini, daughter of the British ruler of Celtica, fell in love with him and married him. From her marriage to Hercules, she gave birth to Galatis. Geryon was, in addition to being king of Spain and ruler of the Balearic Islands, also king of Erytheia (= Gadeira), where Cadiz is now (Hesiod. Theogon. 288, Aeschylus. Ain.), present-day Andalusia. Geryon was very rich and powerful because he had a body like that of three men, and he had in his possession many oxen and beautiful cows and a guard dog called Orthros the two-headed, and he had a herdsman named Eurytion. Diodorus writes that the three bodies indicate that they were three brother generals, having a common opinion. Apollodorus also has the same opinion. As for the two-headed dog, they say that it was trained on land and at sea. By all appearances, Geryon was a rich and powerful king, and he had many herds of animals (oxen, cows, sheep, etc.). This is because wealth at that time, when agriculture was not yet developed, was measured by the number of animals that someone had. From this it is concluded that the events described occurred in prehistoric, very ancient times. At that time, Georgia was in its infancy, as were the tools of agricultural production (plough, hoe, etc.). Heracles, having set out with a great force, passed through Erytheia (resent Gadeira) and camped on Mount Avanta. Then Geryon sent two generals against Heracles, Orthron and Eurytion, who were defeated and killed in battle. Then Heracles took the oxen and departed. The news of the theft of the oxen and the defeat of the two generals was announced to Geryon by Menoetius. After this, he also set out to catch up with Heracles and met him at the Anthemont River, where a great battle took place and Geryon was killed. He also had a daughter called Erytheia from whom the island took its name [Erytheia (or Erytheia, or Erytheis) according to Greek mythology was one of the Hesperides, the name of the homonymous island in southern Spain which was the colony of the Gadeiras. On the island of Erytheia lived Geryon with his oxen which Eurytion grazed and Orthos guarded,} Geryon's daughter Erytheia married Hermes and gave birth to Norakas. Since there were nine people with the name Heracles in different chronologies, the mentioned expedition to Spain was made by the 6th Heracles son of Zeus and Alcmene, who performed the twelve labors in a chronology that ranges around 8,000 B.C. To get the oxen, he reached the edge of the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Tartessus. There he erected the great altars "Pillars of Hercules" today's Gibraltar for the sake of the gods of Olympus and opened the Straits so that the Mediterranean could communicate with the Ocean. This certainly happened due to a natural phenomenon that was mythologized. However, the fact that it is mentioned shows that it happened at that time. He crossed the Atlantic with the golden cup-ship and reached the great continent with the great meadows in the country where the Sun reigned (rested). Through the Abderia country he descended to Lygia and through Tyrrhenia to Rhegium. The goddess Hera became angry and made the oxen wild. Hercules with his companions chased them to the Hellespont and brought them to Eurystheus. Do you think our Spanish partners know that they are ancient Greeks, just like the Italians and the French, at least in the southern regions? Hercules certainly went to central France and reached the area of ​​present-day Paris where he built a village called "Alesia", which evolved into present-day Paris. Do today's Spaniards, even the rulers, know that most of them have ancient Greek origins? Has anyone reminded them of this? Because apart from the Arab invaders, the rest of the Spaniards have Greek roots. You will tell me that a percentage may be Gauls. However, they also have Greek blood from Hercules' marriage to Kelpini and from his army with local Galatians. Nevertheless, modern Spaniards show little affinity to the Greeks and construct modern weapons systems to the Turkish Islamofascists and imperialists to expand their neo-Ottoman empire at the expense of Greece. We gave all the peoples Blood, Language and Sperm, Values, Culture and Spirit and they repaid us with Ingratitude, Genocides, Memoranda, etc. Is it a lie? (7/1/25)

 * Amphiktyon  the Major General emeritus Konstantinos Konstantinidis Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writers  

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