FROM GODDESS TO KING
A History of Ancient Europe from the
OERA LINDA BOOK
By Anthony Radford
CHAPTER 6
MINNA AND THE NORTHERN CAMPAIGN
 | A modern statue of the god Odin who was once the general Wodin. |
The catastrophe that beset Europe and possibly the world at the beginning of the twenty-second century BC was immediately accompanied by nomadic invasions in the north and also in the south following the thinning of the Great Forest. What civilization had established could not survive the following generations without resorting to organized military campaigns. The modern countries of Finland and Hungary were then sparsely populated and soon became settled by the yellow race. The Black Forest still divided them in the middle but they shared a language and a political system with the Magy as their priest-king. This system is here described and according to the tone of the writer who is unknown, it was not liked at all; it was feared; freedom had to be protected by strict adherence to Frya’s laws or else the consequences were annihilation.
Lack of vigilance had cost them their northern territories, and the Earth Mother Minna called a national levy to gain back their Schoonland, the present day Scandinavia not including Denmark. The long campaign that was the outcome of this was destined to let down its vigilance and another saga began the saga of Wodin and eventually the historical story of Neptune and the origins of the Phoenicians. We do not know when the following inscription was first made at Aldgamude, but that port apparently was a trading center dating from the beginning of the age or even earlier.
This is Inscribed on the Waraburgt by the Aldgamude:
The Waraburgt is not a maiden’s city, but the place where all the foreign articles brought by sailors were stored. It lies three hours south from Medesblik.
This is the Preface:
Hill, bow your heads; weep, ye streams and clouds. Yes, Scandinavia blushes, an enslaved people tramples on your garment, O Frya.
This is the History:
One hundred and one years after the submersion of Aldland, a people came out of the East. That people was driven by another. Behind us, in Germany, they fell into disputes, divided into two parties, and each went its own way. Of the one no account has come to us, but the other came in the back of our Scandinavia, which was thinly inhabited, particularly the upper part. Therefore they were able to take possession of it without contest, and as they did no other harm, we would not make war about it. Now that we have learned to know them, we will describe their customs, and after that how matters went between us. They were not wild people, like most of Finda’s race; but, like the Egyptians, they have priests and also statues in their churches.
The priests are the only rulers; they call themselves Magyars, and their headman the Magy. He is high priest and king in one. The rest of the people are of no account, and in subjection to them. This people have not even a name; but we call them Finns, because although all the festivals are melancholy and bloody, they are so formal that we are inferior to them in that respect. But still they are not to be envied, because they are slaves to their priests, and still more to their creeds. They believe that evil spirits abound everywhere, and enter into men and beasts, but of Wr-Alda’s spirit they know nothing. They have weapons of stone, the Magyars, of copper. The Magyars affirm that they can exorcise and recall the evil spirits, and this frightens the people, so that you never see a cheerful face.
When they were well established, the Magyars sought our friendship, they praised our language and customs, our cattle and iron weapons, which they would willingly have exchanged for their gold and silver ornaments, and they always kept their people within their own boundaries, and that outwitted our watchfulness.
Eighty years afterwards, (101+80-2193 = 2012 BC) just at the time of the Julefest, they overran our country like a snowstorm driven by the wind. All who could not flee away were killed. Frya was appealed to, but the Scandinavians had neglected her advice. Then all the forces were assembled, and three hours from Godasburgt they were withstood, but war continued. Kat or Katerine was the name of the priestess who was Burgtmaid of Godasburgt. Kat was proud and haughty, and would neither seek counsel not aid from the Mother; but when the Burgers knew this, they themselves sent messengers to Texland to the Earth Mother. Minna - this was the name of the Mother - summoned all the sailors and the young men from Ostflyland and Denmark. From this expedition the history of Wodin sprang, which is inscribed on the citadels and is here copied.
The great Norse god Wotan or Odin was the God of War and because his day was identified with Wednesday or Mercredi which is from the Roman Mercury, he was believed to be connected to the classical pantheon. Here we have a more personal story of a great warrior who freed the North from the power of the Magi but he was not wise enough to keep hold of the peace. Norse tradition says that Odin swapped one of his eyes for wisdom; perhaps he needed to do that.
A description of military command is given wherein the elected king was the leader of the campaign, the "witkoning" or sea-king led the marines and the admiral commanded the ships or navy. The navy whether military or merchant, often employed foreign rowers. The Viking fleets three thousand years later were smaller and rowed by the fighting force when sails were not employable, but here it is presumed that the military men would also lend a hand as necessary. This custom was not part of either Greek or Roman tradition but was mentioned by Homer. Both types of ships were built of wood but no evidence as to the style of a vessel that ancient has been found, only some outlines of artifacts or cargo located near Rhodes a few years ago, a simple vessel carrying amphorae. Ancient Egyptians pictured their own boats with oars while northern ships were shown without them but with high, decorated prows and sterns. This style is also reproduced in very old rock carvings found in Sweden. Unfortunately, timber does not last that long in the ocean but if it does survive the worms then it disintegrates immediately on contact with the air. Julius Caesar describes the Celtic ships of Gaul with much admiration for their size and strength and recently such a ship has been found in the English Channel that validates Caesar’s writing which as usual were subject to disbelief. It was heavily built of oak and strictly a freighter carrying pitch that had caught on fire. The time of Caesar is at the end of the Age of Aries. A ship that is two thousand years older is yet to be found.
Wood was getting less common in the Eastern Mediterranean and very scarce in the Fertile Crescent. True there were giant cedars and reed craft of considerable size but to maintain a maritime tradition like that of the sea-kings required European timber and a riverside building legacy. This fact does not favor a Phoenician navy yet they were a maritime nation and sold much cedar timber including finished ships to ancient Egypt.
The three nephews of the old sea-king Sterik were Wodin, the eldest, and the brothers Teunis and Inka. The campaign of approximately 2010 BC lasted long enough for many Finns to appreciate what freedom from the Magy was like and also for Wodin and some supporters to be corrupted by privilege. The clever Magy regained his power using his daughter in marriage, flattery and "magic herbs" to stupefy the old king. After his death, the Magy deified Wodin and proclaimed his young grandson by Wodin the new king with himself as regent. This disgusted the remaining seamen who took to the ships with many Finnish rowers who had tasted the free life-style of the campaigners. Led by Teunis and Inka, they intended to return to Flyland.
At Aldgamude there lived an old sea-king whose name was Sterik, and whose deeds were famous. This old fellow had three nephews. Wodin, the eldest, lived at Lumkamakia, near the Eremude, in Ostflyland, with his parents. He had once commanded troops. Teunis and Inka were naval warriors, and were just then staying with their father at Aldgamude. When the young warriors had assembled together, they chose Wodin to be their leader or king, and the naval force chose Teunis for their sea-king and Inka for their admiral. The navy then sailed to Denmark, where they took on board Wodin and his valiant host.
The wind was fair, so they arrived immediately in Scandinavia. When the northern brothers met together, Wodin divided his powerful army into three bodies. Frya was their way-cry, and they drove back the Finns and Magyars like children. When the Magy heard how his forces had been utterly defeated, he sent messengers with truncheon and crown, who said to Wodin:
"Oh almighty king, we are guilty but all that we have done was from necessity. You think that we attacked your brothers out of ill will, but we were driven out by our enemies, who are still at our heels. We have often asked your burgtmaid for help, but she took no notice of us. The Magy says that if we kill half our numbers in fighting with each other, then the wild shepherds will come and kill all the rest. The Magy possesses great riches, but he has seen that Frya is much more powerful than all our spirits together. He will lay down his head in her lap. You are the most warlike king on the earth, and your people are of iron. Become our king, and we will all be your slaves. What glory it would be for you if you could drive back the savages! Our trumpets would resound with your praises, and the fame of your deeds would precede you everywhere."
Wodin was strong, fierce, and warlike, but he was not clear-sighted, therefore he was taken in their toils, and crowned by the Magy. Very many of the sailors and soldiers to whom this proceeding was displeasing went away secretly, taking Kat with them. But Kat, who did not wish to appear before either the Mother or the general assembly, jumped overboard. Then a storm arose and drove the ships upon the banks of Denmark, with the total destruction of their crews. This strait was afterwards called the Kattegat.
When Wodin was crowned, he attacked the savages, who were all horsemen. They fell upon Wodin’s troops like a hailstorm; but like a whirlwind they were turned back and did not dare to appear again. When Wodin returned Magy gave him his daughter to wife, whereupon he was incensed with herbs; but they were magic herbs, and by degrees he became so audacious that he dared to disavow and ridicule the spirits of Frya and Wr-Alda, while he bent his free head before the false and deceitful images. His reign lasted seven years, and then he disappeared. The Magy said that he was taken up by their gods and still reigned over us, but our people laughed at what they said.
When Wodin had disappeared some time, disputes arose. We wished to choose another king, but the Magy would not permit it. He asserted that it was his right given him by his idols. But besides this dispute there was one between the Magyars and Finns, who would honor neither Frya nor Wodin; but the Magy did just as he pleased, because his daughter had a son by Wodin, and he would have it that this son was of high descent. While all were disputing and quarreling, he crowned the boy as king, and set up himself as guardian and counselor. Those who cared more for themselves than for justice let him work his own way, but the good men took their departure. Many Magyars fled back with their troops, and the sea-people took ship, accompanied by a body of stalwart Finns as rowers.
The saga continued with the fleet trying to return home to Flyland in Texland, approximately twelve years after the northern campaign began. This is a very interesting story of the real life hero Neef Teunis who became deified as Neptune like his older cousin Wodin. The northern campaign had stayed away too long and had been contaminated according to the Earth Mother. They could not come home and bring the ways of the Magi with them, nor could they bring their Finn wives or rowers into Frya’s land. They had won the war but lost the peace and apparently the Mother was willing to sacrifice Scandinavia.
Whether Minna was still the Mother at this time is not made clear but sacrifice for principles was a commanding force. The Burgtmaid Kat had killed herself rather than accept defeat or matronage from an ally and the Earth Mother was willing to sacrifice their northern territories to prevent a "contaminated" fleet from returning. They still had Denmark and were strong enough to turn back this formidable fleet of their own kind of fighting men and their families.
Fasta had advised a policy of waiting and education of the foreigners that apparently had worked very well but perhaps not in the way they would have liked. The fleet, being denied the opportunity to return to the Rhine, continued south towards the Mediterranean landing near present day Cadiz in Spain. There, Inka and Teunis divided the fleet with, surprisingly, more foreign rowers than Friends (one of the names for the Children of Frya) being willing to follow Neef Inka into the unknown Atlantic rather than face the prospects of serving another Finda king. The disreputable fleet that was led by Teunis had best find a new and free home and not subject to an Eastern king.
Teunis, who had no desire to loose his command by returning to Texland, went on to found Tyre near older Sidon, a city of Phonisia, or palm land, a place with which they had previously traded. Tyre was named after a god of the Finnish rowers that we now know of as Thor (as in Thursday) and of course Phonisia became Phoenicia. Modern Lebanon in 2000 BC became his new home but not for long as his further exploits became legend. The book tells more than once how descendants of Frisian traders, Finns and black men from Libya became the Phoenician traders of antiquity and that they became influenced by the Golan or priests of Sidon into Finda’s idolatrous ways.
They had the language and writing; they were familiar with the countries of the west and they knew seafaring more than any Mediterranean nation. In addition Teunis had been to the East before the northern campaign. Such a sea-king would not have been satisfied to stay home and that Tunisia is named for him is testimony to that. Tunisia became simply "Africa" in many references, a place where the Thyriers would one day (814 BC) found Carthage which meant "new town" in Phoenician.
The activity of these traders of Teunis became too dominating or actually too influential for the Mother who limited the number of ships that they would allow to visit Texland each year to trade. Their ways were no longer those of Frya since they now included many Finnish customs such as Magyar idolatry and the ways of the Golen. With two generations of foreign wives and new families it would have been impossible for them to maintain the original customs of the men in other than vocational ways, the skills of the sea and trade. For the first time the sea-kings of Texland had competition worthy of them.
Apparently nearly two hundred years after the loss of Atland, the Mediterranean area was still suffering hardships. Crete had been part of the European Mother system but had been lost because of this disaster. We are getting a picture of a pre-submergence united Europe under a protective matriarchal political and social regime that survived in a resemblance of its former self as a western federation which was still perhaps the most formidable nation of the time. The sea-kings with their iron weapons and oak ships dominated the foreign commerce and were not necessarily united Frisians but rather independent city states such as Thera, the east Mediterranean island nation, Tyre in modern Lebanon, Malta and Pharos at the mouth of the Nile. There are many more sites that are candidates for these independent trading city states in the Mediterranean. At this time Egypt had recovered and was considered wealthy but not free.
All This is Inscribed Not Only on the Waraburgt, But Also on the Burgt Stavia, Which Lies Behind the Port of Starve:
When Teunis wished to return home, he went first towards Denmark; but he might not land there, for so the Mother had ordered, nor was he to land at Flyland, nor anywhere about there. In this way he would have lost all his people by want and hardship, so he landed at night to steal and sailed on by day. Thus coasting along, he at length arrived at the colony of Kadik, (present day Cadiz in Spain) so called because it was built with a stone quay. Here they bought all kinds of stores, but Tuntia, the burgtmaid, would not allow them to settle there. When they were ready they began to disagree.
Teunis wished to sail through the straits to the Mediterranean Sea, and enter the service of the rich Egyptian king, as he had done before, but Inka said he had had enough of all those Finda’s people. Inka thought that perchance some high-lying part of Atland might remain as an island, where he and his people might live in peace. As the two cousins could not agree, Teunis planted a red flag on the shore, and Inka a blue flag. Every man should choose which he pleased, and to their astonishment, the greater part of the Finns and Magyars followed Inka, who had objected to serve the kings of Finda’s people. When they had counted the people and divided the ships accordingly, the fleet separated. We shall hear of Teunis afterwards, but nothing more of Inka.
Neef Teunis coasted through the straits to the Mediterranean Sea. When Atland was submerged there was much suffering also on the shores of the Mediterranean, on which account many of Finda’s people, Cretans, and people from Lyda’s land, came to us. On the other hand, many of our people went to Lyda’s land. The result of all this was that the Cretans far and wide were lost to the superintendence of the Mother. Teunis had reckoned on this, and had therefore wished to find there a good haven from which he might go and serve under the rich princes; but as his fleet and his people had such a shattered appearance, the inhabitants on the coasts thought that they were pirates, and drove them away. At last they arrived at the Phoenician coast, one hundred and ninety-three years after Atland was submerged (2000 BC). Near the coast they found an island with two deep bays, so that there appeared to be three islands. In the middle one they established themselves, and afterwards built a city wall round the place. Then they wanted to give it a name, but disagreed about it. Some wanted to call it Fryasburgt, others Neeftunia; but the Magyars and Finns begged that it might be called Thyrhisburgt.
Thyr was the name of one of their idols, and it was upon his feast-day that they had landed there; and in return they offered to recognize Teunis as their perpetual king. Teunis let himself be persuaded and the others would not make much quarrel about it. When they were well established, they sent some old seamen and Magyars on an expedition as far as the town of Sidon; but at first the inhabitants of the coast would have nothing to do with them, saying, "You are only foreign adventurers whom we do not respect." But when we sold them some of our iron weapons, everything went well. They also wished to buy our amber, and their inquiries about it were incessant. But Teunis, who was farseeing, pretended that he had no more iron weapons or amber. Then merchants came and begged him to let them have twenty vessels, which they would freight with the finest goods, and they would provide as many people to row as he would require. Twelve ships were then laden with wine, honey, tanned leather, and saddles and bridles mounted in gold, such as had never been seen before.
Teunis sailed to the Flymeer (the mouth of the Fly river in Texland) with all this treasure, which so enchanted the Grevetman of Westflyland that he induced Teunis to build a warehouse at the Flymeer. Afterwards this place was called Almanland, and the market where they traded at Wyringen was called Toelaatmarkt. The mother advised that they should sell everything except iron weapons, but no attention was paid to what she said. As the Thyriers had thus free play, they came from far and near to take away our goods, to the loss of our seafaring people. Therefore it was resolved in a general assembly to allow only seven Thyrian ships and no more in a year.
Tunisia in northern Africa and named after Neef Teunis, became an important intermediate country to the Phoenicians on their trades with the Rhine areas and with the tin producing region of Cornwall in Westland, the old name for Britain. These enterprising traders soon needed additional bases. They had ports in Tunisia and in Spain but needed to open up France, sparsely settled at the time, to their growing influence.
Sidon and Tyre had become a united Phoenicia with the priests of Sidon assuming a dominant role. Little of Frya’s teachings or her bloodline had survived. Remember that only men went on the campaign of the Mother and they returned to the Mediterranean with many Finish wives and rowers. Trading through Tunisia in Africa must have added the blood of Lyda’s children to this nation. In other words, they became typical of the eventual racial blend that became the present day European with darker and lighter areas of skin colors mostly dependent on geography.
In this section we see the origins of Gaul, or modern France, beginning as a trading island in the south at Marseilles and spreading northwards. We also see how the priests from the Golen Heights in Phoenicia, the Golen or Druids gave their name to the country. The old Welsh word derwydd or oak-seer is credited with giving us the word druid but these people tell a different story or perhaps the Welsh got their word from the older ancient Frisian. In another part of the book the origin of the German name Frank is explained, a name that was to replace Gaul after the time of Caesar. The Druids were brought to Britain by the same ships, a place ripe for foreign influence because these exiles wanted more women and freedom to run their own affairs. The Mother’s influence was naturally being lost in the sparsely populated Westland.
Recent research on Crete and some Greek islands such as Thera show an early commercial city civilization. Tyre, Sidon and Carthage were not monarchies but merchant and priestly oligarchies with their wealth based on maritime trade, not agriculture. These communities apparently descended from the early sea-kings adopting and developing the distant voyaging skills and record-keeping requirements of that profession. Fasta’s early principles of fair trade and sharing did not survive man’s natural competitive and selfish nature. Mercenary he became but many of the stories of their adventures have given us a rich mythology from that time.
What The Consequence of This Was:
In the northernmost part of the Mediterranean there lies an island close to the coast. They (the Golen led Phoenicians) now came and asked to buy that, on which a general council was held.
The mother’s advice was asked, and she wished to see them at some distance, so she saw no harm in it; but as we afterwards saw what a mistake we had made, we called the island Missellia (Marseilles, miss-sell). Hereafter will be seen what reason we had. The Golen, as the missionary priests of Sidon were called, had observed that the land there was thinly peopled, and was far from the mother. In order to make a favorable impression, they had themselves called in our language followers of the truth; but they had better have been called abstainers from the truth, or, in short, "Triuwenden," (Druids) as our seafaring people afterwards called them. When they were well established, their merchants exchanged their beautiful copper weapons and all sorts of jewels for our iron weapons and hides of wild beasts, which were abundant in our southern countries; but the Golen celebrated all sorts of vile and monstrous festivals, which the inhabitants of the coast promoted with their wanton women and sweet poisonous wine. If any of our people had so conducted himself that his life was in danger, the Golen afforded him a refuge, and sent him to Phoenicia, that is, Palmland. When he was settled there, they made him write to his family, friends and connections that the country was so good and the people so happy that no one could form any idea of it. In Britain there were plenty of men, but few women. When the Golen knew this, they carried off girls everywhere and gave them to the Britons for nothing. So all these girls served their purpose to steal children from Wr-Alda in order to give them false gods.
