Ptolemy
12-23-2005, 12:09 PM
[From the Greek edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopaedia, Athens 1980:
Article:Macedonians: Ancient Greek tribe]
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3. Religion, feasts, traditions, constitutions: Everything we know on these issues lead effortlessly to the conclusion that the Macedonians were a Greek tribe. Here are some illustrative details.
Relations of the Macedonians with other Greek tribes.
Many elements show us the relations of the Macedonians with other Greek tribes. Very close relations of blood are both testified and sustained, by various indications, between the Macedonians, the Dorians and the Magnites. Herodotos saves for us us a Dorian tradition, according to which the Dorians came from the "Makednoi" of the Pindos mountains. A combination of other traditions and proof confirms this tradition. The conclusion is that the Dorians came from a group of "Makednoi" (Macedonians} who migrated from Pindos in central Greece and mixed up with other Greek groups.
This also explains other common elements between the macedonian and the dorian space: the Timenides house and its head Timenos ( macedonian and dorian Argos), various ceremonial acts (Macedonia and Sparta), the
Godess Pasikrata (Macedonia and Selinous, dorian colony of Megara in Sicily).
Other cultural elements between Macedonians and Dorians are even wider spread, as they were also common to the Lokroi, The Phokeis, the Aetolians and generally the western Greek tribes. Here are some of them: the feast Apellaia and the names of three months: Apellaios, Artemisios, Panamos. Three other months, Dios, Daisios or Theodaisios and Loos or Omoloos, are also common, except for the Macedonians and the Dorians, to the Aeolians [north-eastern Aegean islands-Asia Minor- M]. The Macedonian god Thaul(l)os is related to the Dorian feast Thaulia but also with Zeus Thaulios of the Thessalians and Zeus Thaulonas of the Athenians. The relationship with the Magnites [people of Magnesia in eastern Thessaly, today the area of Volos- M] was also known, as in a genealogy of Hesiodos Makedonas and Magnitas were brothers. But modern scientific research also proves it, with proof as the common root of the tribes' names { mak= long, tall, big}, a common feast, the Hetaireidia, and a dance, the Karpiaia. This dance was also common to the Ainianes, who lived in the border of Macedonia and Thessaly before moving south to the valley of Spercheios river.
The Athamanes were also former neighbors of the Macedonians: that explains their common elements. One of the names of the Vachoi in Macedonia, Lafystiai, is related to the Lafystion mountain and Lafystios Zeus of the Athamanes. The word dramis and dramix in the athamanian and the macedonian dialect meant a special type of bread. The word zerethron(=varathron, pit) is common in macedonian and in arcadian {central Peloponnese-M}. It is not strange if we also consider other elements that suggest that the Arcadians came from south-western Macedonia.
Article:Macedonians: Ancient Greek tribe]
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3. Religion, feasts, traditions, constitutions: Everything we know on these issues lead effortlessly to the conclusion that the Macedonians were a Greek tribe. Here are some illustrative details.
Relations of the Macedonians with other Greek tribes.
Many elements show us the relations of the Macedonians with other Greek tribes. Very close relations of blood are both testified and sustained, by various indications, between the Macedonians, the Dorians and the Magnites. Herodotos saves for us us a Dorian tradition, according to which the Dorians came from the "Makednoi" of the Pindos mountains. A combination of other traditions and proof confirms this tradition. The conclusion is that the Dorians came from a group of "Makednoi" (Macedonians} who migrated from Pindos in central Greece and mixed up with other Greek groups.
This also explains other common elements between the macedonian and the dorian space: the Timenides house and its head Timenos ( macedonian and dorian Argos), various ceremonial acts (Macedonia and Sparta), the
Godess Pasikrata (Macedonia and Selinous, dorian colony of Megara in Sicily).
Other cultural elements between Macedonians and Dorians are even wider spread, as they were also common to the Lokroi, The Phokeis, the Aetolians and generally the western Greek tribes. Here are some of them: the feast Apellaia and the names of three months: Apellaios, Artemisios, Panamos. Three other months, Dios, Daisios or Theodaisios and Loos or Omoloos, are also common, except for the Macedonians and the Dorians, to the Aeolians [north-eastern Aegean islands-Asia Minor- M]. The Macedonian god Thaul(l)os is related to the Dorian feast Thaulia but also with Zeus Thaulios of the Thessalians and Zeus Thaulonas of the Athenians. The relationship with the Magnites [people of Magnesia in eastern Thessaly, today the area of Volos- M] was also known, as in a genealogy of Hesiodos Makedonas and Magnitas were brothers. But modern scientific research also proves it, with proof as the common root of the tribes' names { mak= long, tall, big}, a common feast, the Hetaireidia, and a dance, the Karpiaia. This dance was also common to the Ainianes, who lived in the border of Macedonia and Thessaly before moving south to the valley of Spercheios river.
The Athamanes were also former neighbors of the Macedonians: that explains their common elements. One of the names of the Vachoi in Macedonia, Lafystiai, is related to the Lafystion mountain and Lafystios Zeus of the Athamanes. The word dramis and dramix in the athamanian and the macedonian dialect meant a special type of bread. The word zerethron(=varathron, pit) is common in macedonian and in arcadian {central Peloponnese-M}. It is not strange if we also consider other elements that suggest that the Arcadians came from south-western Macedonia.