The first Olympic Games recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, where they were celebrated until 393 AD. The games were held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies. Initially a single sprinting event, the Olympics gradually expanded to include several footraces, run in the nude or in armor, boxing, wrestling, pankration, chariot racing, long jump, javelin throw, and discus throw. During the celebration of the games, an Olympic Truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their countries to the games in safety.
Persia, an Aryan tribe, begins to develop and is at its greatest in 529 BC.
Iranian Swastika 1-3,000 BCE Crete Coin 1000 BCE
753 BC In legend, the Aryan Romans begin.
The Aryan Celts develop and around 400 BC begin migrating from the Black Forest of Germany across to Italy. The Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. Proto-Celtic, was the central European culture (c. 800-450 BC). By (c450 BC up to the Roman conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded over a wide range of regions: to the British Isles (Insular Celts), the Iberian Peninsula (Celtiberians, Celtici and Gallaeci), much of Central Europe, (Gauls) and following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC as far east as central Anatolia (Galatians (& Galilee)). By mid 1st millennium AD, following the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations (Migration Period) of Germanic peoples, Celtic culture and Insular Celtic had become restricted to Ireland and to the western and northern parts of Great Britain (Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man) and northern France (Brittany). Between the fifth and eighth centuries AD the Celtic-speaking communities of the Atlantic regions had emerged as a reasonably cohesive cultural entity. In language, religion, and art they shared a common heritage that distinguished them from the culture of surrounding polities. The Continental Celtic languages ceased to be widely used by the 6th century.
Greece 8th BC
Etruscan pendant with swastika symbols, Bolsena, Italy, 700-650 BC.
Assyrian Exile: By the time of the death of Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III in 727, most of the northern kingdom of Israel was part of his Assyrian Empire. The hill country around Israel's capital city, Samaria, was all that was left to the people of Israel, but not for long. The Assyrian king after fter Tiglath-pileser, Sargon II, destroyed Samaria, made Assyrians of the Israelites, and exiled them. The Israelite exiles to Assyria are referred to as the 10 lost tribes. This was the end of the period of the "Two Kingdoms" or "Divided Monarchy" of Israel/Judah. Judah still existed, but the Assyrians considered it distant and inconsequential; besides, Judah paid Assyria tribute, so it was left alone.
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Psalm 23: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.”(NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3: ”There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” (NIV)
Even though the Scriptures have been edited (selected and summarized) by Jewish Scribes to promote Jewish Supremacy, many prophets with reputations of their own, are clear to read in their denunciations of Jewish (and still by extension Gentiles) selfish society.:
840 BC Obadiah “For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.”
835 BC Joel
760 BC Jonah
755 BC Amos “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, lies which their fathers followed. But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”; “They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks uprightly. Therefore, because you tread down the poor and take grain taxes from him, ….For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.”; “Falsifying the scales by deceit, that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals— even sell the bad wheat?”
740-680 BC Isaiah “Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people.”; “The brood of evildoers shall never be named.”(fear of the Jews); “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me”; Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered; And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! When you cease plundering, You will be plundered; When you make an end of dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.”
710 BC Hosea “For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, and they have played the harlot against their God.”; “Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples (racial mixing); Ephraim is a cake unturned. Aliens have devoured his strength, (free trade) but he does not know it.” "Canaan has deceptive scales in its hand; it likes to cheat" (12:7).
700 BC Micah “You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity, Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity: Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money.”; “The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man utters his evil desire; So they scheme together.”
663 BC Nahum
625 BC Zephaniah: “Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city! She has not obeyed His voice, She has not received correction; She has not trusted in the LORD, She has not drawn near to her God. Her princes in her midst are roaring lions; Her judges are evening wolves That leave not a bone till morning. Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people; Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have done violence to the law.”
627-585 BC Jeremiah: “Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD!’ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.’ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?”; “but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”; “And the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers. Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.”; “Because they have forsaken me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents.”
Josiah (c. 649–609 BC) was a king of Judah (641–609 BC) who instituted major reforms. Josiah is credited by most historians with having established or compiled important Jewish scriptures during the Deuteronomic reform that occurred during his rule. Historical-critical biblical scholarship generally accept that this scroll - an early predecessor of the Torah was written by the priests driven by ideological interest to centralize power under Josiah in Jerusalem Temple, and that the core narrative from Joshua to 2 Kings up to Josiah's reign comprise a "Deuteronomistic History" (DtrH) written during Josiah's reign. On the other hand, recent European theologians posit that most of the Torah and Deuteronomistic History was composed and its form finalized during Persian period later during the Achaemenid Empire (559–330 BC).
607 BC Habakkuk 5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine (wealth), He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, and he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples. “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, because of men’s blood and the violence of the land and the city, and of all who dwell in it. ...Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity!”
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