Before the Flood by Ian Wilson

Author:Ian Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Published: 2015-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

Fig 24 Fiddle-figure style ornaments in the shape of twins – the Cabeiroi? – as found in a 3rd millennium BC tomb at Alaca Hüyük

A further people referred to in the Jason legend and elsewhere were Mossynoichians, described as living in well-elevated dwellings made of wood, a logical choice in view of the abundance of local timber. According to the Argonautika, these greatly offended later Greek sensibilities by their publicly indulging in sexual intercourse ‘without blame, on the public highway, not even blushing to couple there’,22 this practice arguably relating to the Great Mother Goddess’s Sacred Marriage rites. The Mossynoichians may possibly have been the same people elsewhere referred to as Moschians or ‘calf-men’, arguably from their adherence to the bull-cult that we have seen to be so prevalent. Assyrian annals of the late 2nd millennium BC called them Mushki, though later, when some of them had moved to western Anatolia, they also became referred to as Brigians or Phrygians.

These Moschians or Phrygians, who would later move into western Turkey, certainly regarded themselves as a pre-Flood people. According to their folklore their king Nannakos, who lived before the time of the Flood, saw that this was about to happen and gathered his people in sanctuaries to weep and pray. The age of Nannakos subsequently became a proverbial expression for great antiquity and lamentations.23 The fact that, even among the Greeks and Egyptians, they had a reputation for being a very ancient people indeed – and specifically older than the Egyptians – is evident from the Turkish-born historian Herodotus.24 He told a story of how one Egyptian king conducted a special test to determine whether the Egyptian or Phrygian language was the older, only to find that it was the Phrygian.25 As Moschians they even found inclusion in the biblical book of Genesis, chapter 10 in which, immediately following the story of Noah’s Flood, are listed the nations springing from Noah’s son Japheth:

‘Gomer, Magog, the Medes, Javan, Tubal, Meschech, [italics mine] Tiras’.26

Since an earlier Genesis chapter mentioned Tubal as ‘ancestor of all who work copper and iron’,27 scholars acknowledge here a reference to north-western Turkey’s earlier mentioned iron- and copper-working Tibarenians.28 In which case the Meschech appearing alongside them must be the Moschians, later to be known as the Phrygians.29

The so-called Hurrians have long been thought to have been later insurgents into eastern Turkey.30 However, the latest archaeological findings, as at Tell Mozan in what is today north Syria, just south of Turkey’s south-eastern border, show them to have established there an impressively large city, anciently known as Urkesh, as early as the 3rd millennium BC, and therefore at least as early as the earliest ancient Egyptian dynasties.31 Though the Hurrians remain sufficiently mysterious that their language, embodied in pictographic inscriptions on numerous seals, is barely understood, their word for coppersmith was tab-iri (one who has cast copper), thereby yet again indicating that this word, clearly related to the tibira import word into Sumerian and the ‘Tibarenians’ of the Argo myth hold an important clue to the post-Flood distribution (and languages) of pre-Flood peoples.

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