In approximately 8,000 B.C the Neolithic Revolution led to the develoment of pottery, advanced agriculural methods, and mud brick villages. This led to an increase in the population and trade. Eventually, textile production, metallurgy, and the production of weapons became coveted skills. These early villigers settled along the fertile plains of the Tigris- Euphrates, the Nile, the Yellow River, and the Indus. Also, political and religious life developed in these communities as they grew. Use of pottery expanded to Greece, modern day Turkey, and western Iran.
By about 3,000 B.C Summerian civlization was developing on the Tigris and the Euphrates. Many of these cities had a population of 10,000 or more. They constructed greatly adorned temples that became academic communities with teachers, mathmaticians, priests, and astronomers. Also, these temples were utilized for food distribution. The Summerians made use of clay tablets for recording commerce and literature including the Epic of Gilgamesh. For the facts used to describe the Neolithic Revolution and the rise of Summer I will cite Dr. Ian Barnes's book "Mapping History: Classical World".
The Summerians often beleived that the world was threatened by demons and human sorcers. In Sumer they had incantations. Speaking directly to the demons, the magician, in an effort to protect himself from the demons, announced his associations with the good white magic gods Enki, Damkina, and Asarluhi was a typical refrain. ( Don’t try this at home.) The next was an incantation of protection for all the innocent bystanders. This was followed by… a very detailed description of each demon and the result of their evilness. The final incantation was directed at the objects used in the white magic ritual, thereby enchanting them with white magic. Onions, dates, branches, salt, cedar, wool, flour, incense, sea water, matting, wool, are all examples of objects that would have been imbued with sacred healing power. The information on this incantation can be credited to an article titled "Sumerian Magic & Sorcery".
The Persian Empire started in about the sixth century BC as a group of semi-nomadic tribes who raised sheep, goats and cattle on the plateau of modern day Iran. The Persians engaged in art in many different ways including metalwork, rock carvings, weaving and architecture. I'm going to quote from the artice "Persian Empire".
"Early Persian art included large, carved rock reliefs cut into cliffs, such as those found at Naqsh-e Rustam, an ancient cemetery filled with the tombs of Achaemenid kings. The elaborate rock murals depict equestrian scenes and battle victories."
Ancient Persia metalwork included small golden chariot, coins, and bracelets decorated in a griffon motif. (The griffon is a creature from mythology with the wings and head of an eagle and the body of a lion, and a symbolized the Persian capital of Persepolis). The ancient Persian nomadic tribes engaged in carpet weaving. Persian hand woven carpets were admired by the ancient Greeks well known for their complicated design and flashy colors. Persepolis was the capital city of the Persian empire and it is a famous archeological site. In Persepolis, the palaces were constructed on enormous terraces. The temples were adorned with decorative facades that involved a lengthy rock carving that the ancient Persians are famous for.
In 550 BC Cypres The Great rose to power over the Persian Empire. Under his reign the empire expanded greatly. At its height the Persian Empire spaned from Balkan Peninsulain in Eastern Europe in parts of modern day Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine to the Indus River Valley in northwest India and south to Egypt. They became the first civilization to connect Africa, Europe, and Asia by a stream of communication and commerce. They establish much infrastructure building many roads and establishing the first postal service. Persia became a worldwide center for culture, religion, science, art and technology. Cyprus The Great allowed the conquered people to practice their own religion and use their own language. He even freed the Jews and let them go back to Isreal. Alexander The Great took over the Persian empire apporoximately 200 years after Cyprus's reign causing the fall of the empire. The source for ancient Persian history is an article titled "Persian Empire".
In ancient North Asia the Aryan tribes began to seperate with some of them going to invade India. Others went to Sumer and Persia. It is thought that a doctrinal disagreement caused them to split. It was between Zoroastrian and Vedic religions they were of the same religion.
The Persians practiced Zoroastrianism in which the god Mazda became the only deity worshiped, the only representative of goodness, light, wisdom. The cult of Mithra, Anahita and most other deities were then condemned, and major reforms on the nature of religion and its symbols were made (fire that previously had a divine connotation in Persian became no more than the symbol of light, as emanating from Mazda). Zoroastrian purity means a participation in the maintenance of the cosmic order, in collaboration with intermediate powers, which are as many degrees of increasingly high intelligence, from the human to the divine level.
I suspect that part of the reason that the tribes split up is because they supported different factions of the surviving elite of the cosmic war. Also, they may have wanted to reunite factions of the cosmic war elites to prepare for when they want to breach the cosmic Versailles or it ends. They may have had a template for how the middle east should be set up, so they laid the groundwork for modern day Middle East.
The Cosmic War is a theory that mankind was in a great war at the very begining of civilization. This theory is based on texts in the bible and a number of other ancient texts such as The Vedas. These texts describe a conflict early in the history of mankind, and much of the fighting takes place in the sky. Some scholars think some of the fighting may have even taken place in space. It is thought the war had to do with one side being supported a devine being while the other side rebelled against this devine being. Dr Joseph p Farrell discusses this theory in his book "The Cosmic War". Also, he gave a lecture on this topic at a conference on July 11th, 2016. In this lecture he explained the possibility that mankind is living in a "Cosmic Versaille" as a result of the "Cosmic War". This "Cosmic Versailles" in theory would have meant that certain weapons had to destroyed and the weapons that could not be destroyed had to be hidden. Such a treaty would also put limits on the weapons that mankind is aloud to build and quite possilby limit where humans are aloud to travel in space. In his lecture Dr. Farrell used ancient texts such as the bible and Sumerian texts to back up his claims. I watched both parts of his lecture and it is very interesting. I put links to both of those lectures below.
References
Ian Barnes
"Mapping History: Classical World"
Subhash Kak
"Vedic Elements in the Ancient
Iranian Religion of Zarathushtra
Subhash Kak"
"Sumerian Magic & Sorcery"
http://lzmarieauthor.com/sumerian-magic-sorcery/
"Persian Empire"
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/persian-empire
Cosmic War Pt.1 by Joseph p Farrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se7i0gWDLp0
This is a link to Cosmic War Pt 2 by Joseph p Farrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvUuRUeRYs8
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