Gesta trojanorum (Deeds of the Trojans)

What we are today, our Western Civilization —the ever-multiplying myriad facets of diverse political and economic boundaries, of ethnicities and languages, and even of religious credos— has, to be sure, an historical root in the dispersal to the winds of the Trojan Empire some three thousand years ago. Since the Fall of Troy, many crowns have come and gone, the former decadent ways always replaced by a better new state of affairs, though not always successfully nor for long;. Still, inexorably, Western Civilization has derived the stuff of its social fabric —its spiritual heritage— from a unique Trojan Tradition that eventually met and welded with a wholly independent Judeo-Christian Tradition.

An indispensable aspect of our Western Civilization, indeed, that which has allowed it to evolve continuously into a more gentle and kinder humankind —albeit not without occasional tragic disasters, but, generally, with countless superb triumphs— is synonymous with a permanent struggle between two opposing entities, the allmighty State and the legitimacy of Law. It has been the general experience of the ordinary humankind with property (the ownership of things) afforded by Law (here the key word is proprium, the inalienable sense of "me" in all humans) which has enriched our Western Civilization, materially and spiritually.

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TROJANS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN


The Fall of Troy brought about the dispersals of Trojans—that is, of inhabitants of Troy as distinguished from members of this or that particular Trojan tribe—and some time later, the movemnt of Illyrian tribes into regions well beyond former Trojan territories (ill-defined, as they were). Oddly, the name of Troy did not survive locally, but seemed, rather, to fare much better in terms of a memory in the histories and legends of peoples in places far away. However, as regards certain legends and local stories, as well as certain geographical onomastica, they are present in the former region occupied by Troy even to this day.


AENEAS AND THE FOUNDATION OF ROME

Tros (who gave his name to the Troes) had three sons, namely Assarakos, Ilus, and Ganymedes. Not muchs is known of the last two, other than Ilus gave his name to Ilion, and that Ganymedes was called away to be cup-bearer to the gods on account of his beauty; both seem simply to have wafted away and disappeared into the thin air, but Assarakos remained in Troy and was father of Anchises, who in turn was father of Aeneas, whose son, Ascanius, was progenitor of the Romans; thus, the tradition about the line of Assarakos and hence the descent of Rome from Troy, is profoundly cthonic.ILLYRIAN EXPANIONS


TROJANS IN WESTERN EUROPE

BRUT THE TROJAN

THE TROJAN ANCESTRY OF CHARLEMAGNE

THE TROJAN ANCESTRY OF BURGUNDIAN DUKES

REPORTS OF THE TROJAN EPIC

TROJANS IN THE SLAVIC UNIVERSE


A Trojan presence in territories of that vast and complex Salvaic Universe east of the River Oder is adduced, basically, from an enormous coincidence of place names in two distantly separated regions of the world: the names of Cracow and Croatia appear to have a common root, and the connection between the name of Moscow and Ilion is nothing less than quite amazing.
FOUNDATIONS OF WARSAW

The Vardjaei were an autochthonous Illyrian folk who occupied the Neretva delta—the environs of Ilios—even as far back as Trojan times (albeit their existence is not recorded in Homer). However, their name seems to come up in Hittite tablets as the Ardjawa, along with the names of Taruisa and Wilusiya, evidently references to Troy and Ilios, from which the inference that the Vardjaei were the Paiones who occupied the delta of the Axios (Tiber) river, and after the Fall of Troy became known as occupants of the banks of the Vardar river (eroneously identified as the Homeric Axios) which cuts the territory of Macedonia transversally

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FOUNDATIONS OF MOSCOW

The totemic identity of Ilus, the "marsh man", was that of a firefly. That he should have settled, as it was said, where a Dalmatian hound (and not a dappled cow) came to rest on a hillock that would later take his name, is tied up with other stories about an image of Athene falling from heaven at this place, or more likely a meteor, or perhaps even a bolt of lightening, thus confering the status of a puteus, "a pit" or "well" to the site, and hence an association with Athene who presided over all a humid places and sources of water, and with a beast of carrion because of the site's "putrid" associations.

In time, Perun acquired the fiery associations of Ilos. However, he was eventually deposed by Christianity and supplanted by Ilija (Elijah) who rose to Heaven in his fiery chariot (and who may be heard to this day rumbling through the clouds during lightening storms); it was in the city of Kiev that Perun's pagan "fires" were extinguished forever when his statue was taken down and cast into the Dnieper River.

Ilios never really died: he lingered in the swamps to the east of Moscow, where the fabled Ilya Muromyets was born with powers that resembled those of the fiery Pyerun; another identity of Ilos, the "firefly", was Moscos, the "fly" (or "mosquito").

 


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