About the goddess ARTEMIS
By Polat Kaya
1. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-1
The goddess Artemis is a personification of a number of concepts all convoluted into the name ARTEMIS. The name Artemis is a complex riddle and its many aspects can only be explained in Turkish! And that is what I will show in this paper. But first let us get some mythological background information that guides us within the dark labyrinths of mythology. We have the following information from the Wikipedia link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis :
“Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars[1] believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek.[2] Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals".[3] The Arcadians believed she was the daughter of Demeter.[4]
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister ofApollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.[5]”
Ancient Greek writers linked Artemis (Doric Artamis) by way of folk etymology to artemes (ἀρτεμής) ‘safe’[6] or artamos (ἄρταμος) ‘butcher’.[7][8] However, the name Artemis (variants Arktemis, Arktemisa) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘bear’ (from PIE *h₂ŕ̥tḱos), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica (Brauronia) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis (Arcadian epithet kallisto).[9]
This cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further a field in other Indo-European cultures (e.g., Gaulish Artio). It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis. While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested,[10][11] the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.[12] Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus.[13]
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Artemis was also known by the name TAURIAN
ARTEMIS. The name TAURI was
the name of
In the case of TAURIAN ARTEMIS, the name TAURIAN, rearranged as “TURANIA”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish word “TURAN ÖYI” meaning “House of Turan”. Thus, Taurian Artemis was actually from Turkish saying of “Turanian Artemiz” meaning “Artemis of Turan”. This shows that Artemis was not Greek and was an ancient Turanian goddess!
Mythologically, when Agamemnon sacrificed her
daughter Iphigenia to goddess Artemis, she saved Iphigenia by replacing her with
a deer and is said to have taken her to Tauri,
that is, to
The name TAURI, rearranged as
“ARI-UT” is also from Turkish “ARI ÖYDÜ” (ARI
EVİDİ) meaning “it
is home of bee; it is
beehive”. The
Crimean TATAR Turks are well known for their “bee keeping” culture!
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Polat Kaya: Goddess Artemis personifies a number of concepts all of which are described in Turkish.
First of all, the name ARTEMIS is
a Turkish word originally belonging to the Turkish speaking Turanian Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples
of
Secondly, when we rearrange the name ARTEMIS as "AR-TE-ISM", it is an altered form of the Turkish expression "AR'DI İSMİ" meaning "its name is chastity" which again verifies the true meaning of the goddess ARTEMIS in Turkish.
Additionally, when ARTEMIS is rearranged as "ARITE-SM" and read as Turkish, it becomes the Turkish expression "ARI'DI İSMİ" - with two meanings: 1) "its name is purity", "its name is chastity"; and 2) "its name is BEE".
Thus the goddess ARTEMIS not
only personifies "chastity" or "pureness" concepts,
but also personifies the "virgin queen-bee" who kills all other
sister queen-bees and becomes the queen bee in a beehive”
The Turkish word ARI means “bee” and ARI also means “pure, clean, untouched, chaste”.
Furthermore, when the name Artemis is deciphered by rearranging the name ARTEMIS as “AITER-SM”, it is then the altered form of the Turkish saying “AY’DIR iSMi” meaning “her name is the Moon”. This decipherment in Turkish verifies the fact that she is also said to be the Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon. This moon goddess attribute of Artemis is also verified by the fact that she is depicted with a crescent moon crown on her head and in other occasions with a crescent moon around her neck! Artemis personifying the moon also verifies her being virgin as the moon was a virgin deity at the time that this “Greek” mythology was fabricated. The moon is not virgin anymore since men have put their feet on her in 1969 by the so-called Apollo space mission! Curiously, in mythology, Apollo was ARTEMIS’s twin brother. Since in this description Artemis personifies the moon, then, her twin brother was the Sun which the name Apollo personified in one of his meanings. Artemis the Moon had also the crescent moon as her bow and therefore she was a hunter and as she wandered around the earth continuously, she was all over the mountains and wild areas as it turned around the earth!
Artemis is depicted as a huntress with a double-bent Turanian bow and an arrow, and also with a crescent moon as her crown. The double-bent Turanian bow indicates that she was originally a Turanian deity as the Moon-goddess or Moon God was!
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Mythologically, her father being ZEUS and her mother being LETO reveal the fact that her father was Turkish SÖZ meaning “word; mouth, saying”, and her mother was Turkish “DİL O” meaning “the language; the tongue”. Thus, both of these supposedly Greek words are not “real persons” but rather personifications of concepts taken from Turkish! Just like her parents, SÖZ and DİL, the name ARTEMIS is also “a word, a name” that personifies a complex concept in Turkish. However, the name ARTEMİZ has been the name for many women throughout the history.
The Wikipedia reference at link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis gives us a very interesting coin (as shown below) representing the Goddess Artemis and some of her attributes.
Didrachm from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis#Etymology
“Polat Kaya: The coin face on the left depicts goddess Artemis. The writing on the coin face at right is a revelation about the goddess and the language it is written. The writing is in Turkish but written with Greek lettering. It reads in Turkish as:
“O –E-FE-SİZ CEYLAN” (O ER’SİZ CEYLAN) meaning “she is manless Gazelle” (i.e., she is virgin, she is single, she is pure, she is chaste gazelle). Turkish CEYLAN means “gazelle” (deer) which was her symbol and was sacred to her. Most likely CEYLAN was an epitaph for her. In Turkish, young teenage girls are referred to as CEYLAN (young deer) which is also a name for women. The “front part of gazelle” shown on the coin is also part of the picture writing on the coin.
On the coin, there is also a depiction of a BEE symbol which also pictorially implies her “purity, chastity, and virginity”. Turkish word for ARI means “bee”. And additionally, ARI (TEMİZ) also means “PURE” (untouched, clean, virgin, chaste). That is why the writing on the coin has the term “E-PHE-SİZ” (EFESİZ) in Turkish meaning “without man” (unmarried, untouched). Additionally, that is why she has the Turkish word TEMIZ meaning “clean, untouched, pure” in her name ARTEMIS! Furtheremore, the Turkish word AR means “woman’s chastity, woman’s womanly dignity, woman’s high morals”! For these reasons in Turkish “AR + TEMIS” = “ARTEMIZ” is a pure Turkish word used as the name of this Turanian goddess at least some 3000 years ago. The name ARTEMIS has been stolen from Turkish and claimed as “Greek” even though they know very well that it was not Greek but instead Turanian culture! Even the Wikipedia reference at the top of this writing states “Some scholars believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek.” – meaning that she was Turanian without admitting it.
Most likely the supposedly Greek place name in Anatolia called EPHESUS (i.e., EFESÜZ in Turkish) took its name from the Turkish name “EFESİZ” (EFESÜZ) which was the description of the goddess. Turkish word “EFE” means “though macho man”. Of course, there is the Temple of ARTEMIS in western Turkiye in an area called EFES (EFESUS)!
This also proves once and for all that the ancient universal language was Turkish - and Anatolia, as well as the rest of the world, was a Turkish speaking Turanian civilization - contrary to the disinformation spread by the Greeks, Jews, Romans and the rest of them!
SO, IT IS CLEAR THAT ARTEMIZ WAS NOT GREEK AT ALL, BUT RATHER ORIGINALLY SHE WAS FROM THE TURANIAN CULTURE OF THE TUR/TURK/OGUZ PEOPLES!
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2. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-2
In Part-1 above, I talked about the name ARTEMIS and revealed its true identity in Turkish - as it was originally from the Turanian civilization rather than the Greek. In Part-1, I highlighted that the goddess Artemis was a personification of a number of concepts all convoluted into the name ARTEMIS, and this name was a complex riddle and its many aspects can only be explained in Turkish! I showed that mythologically her father was Turkish SÖZ (meaning “WORD”), so-called “ZEUS”, and her mother was Turkish DİL (meaning “TONGUE”), so-called “LETO”, and the name Artemis was just a name generated by the human mouth and the human voice for a “religious” concept! And that is what was shown partially in Part-1. In this Part-2, I will dwell on some other names that the goddess Artemis had.
First let us revisit the following information given in the Wikipedia link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis :
“Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars[1] believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek.[2] Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals".[3] The Arcadians believed she was the daughter of Demeter.[4]
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister ofApollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.[5]”
Ancient Greek writers linked Artemis (Doric Artamis) by way of folk etymology to artemes (ἀρτεμής) ‘safe’[6] or artamos (ἄρταμος) ‘butcher’.[7][8] However, the name Artemis (variants Arktemis, Arktemisa) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘bear’ (from PIE *h₂ŕ̥tḱos), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica (Brauronia) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis (Arcadian epithet kallisto).[9]
This cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further a field in other Indo-European cultures (e.g., Gaulish Artio). It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis. While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested,[10][11] the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.[12] Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus.[13] ”
Polat Kaya: The above reference tells us that: “Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wild land, Mistress of Animals". The Arcadians believedshe was the daughter of Demeter.”
Regarding the name ARTEMIS AGROTERA:
I find that this name Agrotera also describes the attributes of goddess Artemis. We can decipher this name into different Turkish expressions that are relevant to goddess Artemis.
a) When the name AGROTERA is
deciphered as “AR-GARETO”, we find that the term AGROTERA is
the altered, restructured and Hellenized form
of the Turkish expression “AR GARIDI” meaning “she
is chaste woman, she is virgin woman”. Thus,
the name ARTEMIS AGROTERA is
a personification of a “chaste
woman” - which is one of her
attributions.
Turkish word "AR" means "chastity, dignity, moral purity", GARI (KARI) means “woman”, “wife” and suffix DI/TI means “he/she/it is”.
In the same way, we can decipher other hidden Turkish expressions that describe other attributions of the goddess Artemis Agrotera as follows. When the name AGROTERA is deciphered as:
b) “AR-OGRATE”, then, it is the Turkish expression “AR ÖĞRETİ” meaning “she teaches chastity, she teaches high morals”. Thus, the name ARTEMIS AGROTERA is also a personification of a “person who teaches high morals”. This is what would be expected from someone who believes in chastity!
c) “GA-ARETOR”, then, it is
the Turkish expression “AGA ARIDUR” meaning “she
is lord bee, she is virgin queen bee”. Thus,
in this context, the goddess ARTEMIS
AGROTERA is a personification of
the “virgin queen bee”. A
bee-hive initially has a number of virgin queen bees. One
strong one fights the others and eventually becomes the queen bee that produces
the eggs for the new generation bees of the hive. This
is one of her untold mythological attributions. Turkish
word "ARI"
means "bee” and “AGA” means
“lord”.
d) “GARE-ARTO”, then, it is the Turkish expression “GARI ARIDI” meaning “lady is chaste, lady is virgin; she is female bee, she is virgin queen bee”. Thus, the goddessARTEMIS AGROTERA personifies “the female bee” - which is the queen bee.
In this picture, the ancient Turanian Goddess ARTEMİZ is shown as “Bee Goddess” with ancient Turanian “wing” and “sun” symbols. Ancient Turanian Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples were masters of bee keeping!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plaque_bee-goddess_BM_GR1860.4-123.4.jpg
“Bee-goddess, perhaps associated with Artemis above female heads. Gold plaques, 7th century BC.”
(The plaque shown above is presently, in
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Regarding the name POTNIA THERON
From the Wikipedia reference above, we know that Homer also referred to Artemis Agrotera as Potnia Theron meaning "Artemis of the wild land, Mistress of Animals" where the Greek word Potnia had the meaning of “Mistress” or “Lady”.
At this point, let me first identify the supposedly Greek term “POTNIA” meaning “Mistress” or “Lady”. We have the following information from linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potnia_Theron
“Potnia Theron (Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν, "Mistress of the Animals") is a term first used (once) by Homer(Iliad 21. 470) and often used to describe female divinities associated with animals.[1] The word Potnia, meaning mistress or lady, was a Mycenaean word inherited by Classical Greek, with the same meaning, which has an exact parallel in Sanskrit patnī.”
When the term POTNIA is
rearranged as “PAINTO”, I find that this so-called Greek word used at the
time Homer was in
Turkish word “BAYAN” is still being used in Turkish presently for “Lady” or “Mistress”, such as in the appellation of “Bayan Günay Aygün” where Günay is a name for woman and Aygün is a last name!
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After having identified the so-called Greek word “POTNIA”, let us now turn to the term POTNIA THERON being an alternative name for Artemis Agrotera. In this context, we can have the following decipherments. When the name POTNIA THERON is deciphered as:
a) “PAION-TENRH’TO”, then, it is the Turkish expression “BAYAN TANRI’DU” meaning “she is Lady-God, she is Goddess”. Artemis is a “goddess”.
b) “O-TENRH-PAINTO”, then, it is the Turkish expression “O TANRI BAYANDU” meaning “that God is woman”. This again states that God is woman.
c) “O-TENRH PAINTO”, then, it is the Turkish expression “O TANRI BEYIN’DU” meaning “that God is brain”. Of course, the “brain” is the Master and also the Mistress of all animals which includes man/woman! The Turkish word BEYIN means “brain”.
d) “O-TENRH PAINTO”, then, it is the Turkish expression “O TANRI BEY’IN’DU” meaning “That God is your lord” which refers to God or Goddess. In ancient Turanianreligion, the God concept is both male and female at the same time. Thus, goddess Artemis is also a personification of God. The Turkish word BEY means “Lord” or “Master”.
Thus, all of these decipherments into Turkish of the appellation POTNIA THERON provide these additional attributions to the goddess Artemis which were not known before. They are in summary, “Artemis is Lady-God, Artemis is Goddess; God is woman; God is brain” and “God is your lord”!
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3. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-3
Related to Goddess Artemis, the Wikipedia reference states that: Artemis was worshipped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting under the name Britomartis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomartis.
“Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις), was the Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting. She is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the Mycenaeans' culture into classical Greek mythology, with transformations that are unclear in both transferrals.[1] For the Greeks Britomartis (Cretan dialect[2] for "sweet maiden", "sweet virgin"[3]) or Diktynna (derived by Hellenistic writers as from diktya, "hunting nets")[4] was a mountain nymph (an oread) whom Greeks recognized also in Artemis and in Aphaea, the "invisible" patroness of Aegina.[5]
Britomartis ("sweet
maid") is an epithet that
does not reveal the goddess's name,[6] nor
her character, for it has the ring of an apotropaic euphemism.[7] The
goddess addressed as "Britomartis" was worshipped in
The above reference is wrong in stating that the name Britomartis is an epithet that does not reveal the goddess's name or her character. On the contrary, the name BRITOMARTISis another Hellenized form of the name Artemis which not only contains the name ARTEMIS in it but it also gives very important additional information about her identity. The Minoans were ancient Turanian Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples contrary to Greek and Western false claims that they were Greeks or Aryans or Indo-Europeans! This I have pointed out with explanations in many of my writings. The Hellenized form of the Minoan goddess name BRITOMARTIS is very much related to the Turkish name ARTEMİZ (ARTEMİS). This we can see as follows:
a) When the Hellenized name BRITOMARTIS is deciphered by rearranging its letters as “ARTIMIS-BRTO”, I find that the name BRITOMARTIS is an altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMİZ BİRDİ” meaning “Artemis is One, Artemis is single, Artemis is Goddess”. Thus, the name BRITOMARTIS is just another form of the ancient Turanian name ARTEMİS (ARTEMİZ) but it was formulated in Turkish before the name was Hellenized!
In the Ancient Turanian Sky-God concept, God is a duality being, that is to say, God is both “Man” and “Woman” at the same time, he/she is one and single; and thus, he/she is virgin, pure, unmarried. While there are many manly names personifying the “fatherly (manly) side of God, in this case, the Goddess Artemis is the personification of the motherly (womanly) side of the God! Thus, Artemis is the SKY-GODDESS herself versus the concept of SKY-FATHER-GOD! But, in the eyes of ancient Turanians, both of these concepts were ONE and the SAME GOD identity - indicating that the GOD concept had a DUALITY and equality between its two attributes!
In addition, the name BRITOMARTIS has some other religiously relevant meanings embedded in it as well. When the Hellenized name BRITOMARTIS is deciphered as:
b) “ARTIMIS-BR-OT”, then, I find that the name BRITOMARTIS is an altered form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMİZ BİR OD” meaning “Artemis is One Fire, Artemis is Sun-Goddess” and as the Sun-Goddess “she is single, she is virgin, she is pure” and metaphorically as woman, “she is fire, she shines, she burns”!
c) “RTMIS-ARI-BTO”, then, it
is an altered form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMIS ARI
BeyTU” meaning “Artemis
is Lord Bee”, “Artemis is Queen Bee”.
d) “RTMI-ABSITOR”, then, the name BRITOMARTIS is an altered form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMIZ AVCITUR” meaning “Artemiz is hunter”. Note that in this case the name ARTEMIS has been reduced to its three consonants and the vowel I, that is, RTMI. The Etruscans had the name in this form.
Turkish word AVCI means “hunter”. The goddess ARTEMIS was a hunter!
In this context, the goddess ARTEMIS, being the personification of a Virgin Queen Bee, had a poisonous arrow (the bee stinger) that was deadly! Interestingly, in her portrayal, she is mostly shown with a double bent Turanian bow.
e) “RTIMI-BASTOR”, then,
the name BRITOMARTIS is
an altered, restructured form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMİZ BAŞTUR”
meaning “Artemis is the head”. Thus,
the “head”, that is, “the thinking god, that is, the human
brain” is also a single,
virgin, pure, untouched and chaste” being which the ancient Turanians called
“GOD”!
With these decipherments into Turkish, now we have a clear view of the hidden identity of Minoan Goddess BRITOMARTIS! They are all in Turkish inherently built into the so-called Greek words. Minoans were ancient Turanian Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples. [See my paper at link http://www.polatkaya.net/Labyrinth.html].
Thus, we see that the name Artemis was altered, confused and disguised as
“Greek”. Yet the ancient Greeks
altered and adopted these ancient Turanian names
and expressions as their own. By way of such a linguistic trick and mythology,
the ancient Turanian civilization
was not only transferred to their own name but also the Turanian civilization
in
For example, in above reference, regarding the goddess Britomartis, it is said that:
“She is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the Mycenaeans' culture into classical Greek mythology, with transformations that are unclear in both transferals.”
This gives the impression that the Minoan culture ”passed” through the Mycenaeans to the Greeks – as if it was a perfectly innocent, natural and unadulterated transferal and as if the Minoan language was so similar to that of the Greeks that the “transferal” was legitimate. Yet, I have just demonstrated that the origin of BRITOMARTIS was Turkish and it was only “transferred” into Greek by usurping, altering and Hellenizing the original Turkish language. In other words, the Turkish words and phrases went through a linguistic metamorphosis to become a “Greek” words. Of course, none of these are mentioned - but that is the fact. They also mention that the transformations are unclear. Surely, this is additional cleansing of the illegal “linguistic metamorphosis” that took place.
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4. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-4
In Part-3 above I showed that the Hellenized name BRITOMARTIS was a form of the Turkish expression “ARTEMİZ BİRDİ” meaning “Artemis is One, Artemis is single, Artemis is Goddess”. But the Wikipedia reference also told us that the Minoan goddess Britomartis in Cretan dialect also meant "sweet maiden" and/or "sweet virgin" for the Greeks. This means that the ancient Greeks had actually made up another replacement expression from Turkish for describing the goddess Artemis. Calling the goddess Britomartis as"sweet maiden" or "sweet virgin" associates her with “honey” and thus, with the “bee”. Above, one of the decipherments of the name BRITOMARTIS was a Queen Bee. Thus, goddess BRITOMARTIS being called “sweet maiden” is expected. This we will explain below.
In Greek, we have the words PARTHENOS” or “PARTHENIKOS” meaning “maiden”, [Divry’s English-Greek and Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 185) and also the Greek word ÜPERETRIA that means “maid servant, servant girl, female servant”, [Divry’s English-Greek and Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 719]. These Greek words will help us to understand what they really mean.
With these definitions, the Minoan goddess Britomartis meaning "sweet maiden" can also be expressed as “Britomartis the sweet parthenicos", and similarly, the goddess “Britomartis meaning “sweet virgin" can become “Britomartis the sweet uperetria" which are also appellations for goddess Artemis!
Regarding the name PARTHENIKOS:
The Greek name PARTHENIKOS is actually a composite word that contains a variety of Turkish expressions inherently hidden in it. The meanings of these Turkish expressions describe relevant attributions of the goddess Artemis. When the Greek word PARTHENIKOS (meaning “maiden”, that is, single, chaste, virgin) is deciphered as:
a) “PIR-KONESHTA”, then, PARTHENIKOS is the altered form of the Turkish expression “BİR GÜNEŞTİ” meaning “She is One Sun”. But this definition in Turkish makes the “sun a maiden, pure and chaste”. And PARTHENIKOS as a servant girl personifies the sun in a secretive way, and as the sun, she has been serving the earth eternally and will serve for a very long time to come. Ancient Turanians regarded the sun as “female”.
Turkish word BİR means “one”, GÜNEŞ means “Sun”, GÜNEŞTİ means “it is Sun”.
b) “PH-TANRE-KOSI”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “BEY TANRI KÖZI” meaning “She is the glowing fire of Lord God”, “She is Sun”, “She is chaste and pure”. Again, this expression in Turkish identifies PARTHENIKOS as the Sun.
Turkish word BEY means “Lord, Master”, TANRI means “God”, KÖZ means “glowing fire”.
c) “PH-TANRE-KOSI”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “BEY TANRI GÖZİ” meaning “She is the Eye of the Lord God”, “She is the Sun”. Sun was regarded as the glowing fire eye of the Sky-God, while the moon was regarded as the blind eye of the Sky-God by the ancient Turanians. Turkish word GÖZ means “eye”.
d) “O-PH-KIS-TANRE”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “O BEY KIZ TANRI” meaning “that lord is Female God, that lord is virgin God”. This definition describes God as Goddess, that is, as Female God!
Turkish word BEY means “Lord, Master”, TANRI means “God”, KIZ means “girl; virgin”.
e) “O-PAK-HRTENIS” or “O PHK-ARTENIS”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “O PAK ARTEMIZ” meaning “She is pure Artemis”, “She is virgin Artemis”, “She is chaste Artemis”.
Turkish word PAK means “clean, pure, pure white”. It is no wonder that girls are dressed in a pure-white bridal dress on their day of marriage.
f) “PHN-ARE-KISTO”, then it is
the altered form of the Turkish expression “BEN
ARI KIZDI” meaning “I
am pure girl”, “I am virgin girl”, “I am chaste girl”, “I am maiden”, “I am
Artemis”.
Turkish word BEN means “I,
I am”, ARI means “pure,
clean, chaste, virgin; bee”, KIZ means “girl,
unmarried”, KIZDI means “she
is girl, she is virgin”,
g) “PHN-KIS-ARETO”,
then it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “BEN
KIZ ARIDI” meaning “I
am girl bee”, “I am virgin queen bee”.
Turkish word BEN means “I,
I am”, KIZ means “girl,
virgin, unmarried”, ARIDI means “is
bee”.
h) “PETK-HN-ARISO”, then it
is the altered form of the Turkish expression “PETEK HaN ARISU” meaning “the
lord bee of honeycomb”, “the queen bee of honeycomb”.
Turkish word HAN means “lord,
master”, PETEK means “honeycomb”, ARISU means “the
bee”.
i) “O-KIS-PAENTHR”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish expression “O KIZ BEYINDIR” meaning “that girl is brain”, “that girl is your Master”. Thus, she also personifies the human “brain” which is a master itself!
Thus, the expression “Britomartis the sweet parthenicos" has the following attributions in summary:
a) Britomartis is One Sun.
b) Britomartis is a glowing fire of Lord God.
c) Britomartis is the Eye of the Lord God.
d) Britomartis is Female God.
e) Britomartis is
virgin Artemis.
f) Britomartis is pure girl, “Britomartis is maiden”, “Britomartis is Artemis”.
g) Britomartis is
girl bee, “is
virgin queen bee”.
h) Britomartis is the lord bee of honeycomb, “Britomartis is the queen bee”.
i) Britomartis is the brain!
All of these definitions make the goddess Britomartis,
that is, the goddess Artemis a personification of a female Sun-Goddess and also
the virgin queen bee and, hence the “sweet maiden” –
(i.e., “BALLI KIZ” in Turkish
meaning “honeyed girl”).
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Similarly, in the case of “Britomartis the sweet uperetria, the decipherments of the name uperetria give us attributions similar to those defied above. When the name UPERETRIAmeaning “servant girl” is deciphered as:
a) “U-PER-ARITE”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish saying “O BİR ARI’DI” meaning “She is One Bee”. Thus, “Britomartis the sweet uperetria is one honey bee. We have already determined that goddess BRITOMARTIS (ARTEMIS) was a personification of the “Virgin Queen Bee”. And Queen Bee, which is the “ANA ARI” or “BEY ARI” or “BAYAN ARI” in Turkish, is the lord of a beehive community that makes honey! In this definition in Turkish we also see a similarity between an ancient human family and the colony of a bee hive. In an ancient Turanian family, mother and her girls worked as hard as the bees of a hive. They were the maids of the home!
Turkish word ANA ARI means “mother
bee”, BEY ARI means “lord
bee”, BAYAN ARI means “lady
bee”.
b) “U-ARI-PERTE”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish saying “O ARI BİRDİ” meaning “that bee is one, that bee is single”. Thus, “Britomartis the sweet uperetria is one honey queen bee. We have already determined that BRITOMARTIS (ARTEMIS) was personification of One Virgin Queen Bee. And Queen Bee was “one and single”!
c) “PER-U-ARITE”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish saying “BİR-O ARI’DI” meaning “Only She/He/It, that is, God/Goddess is pure”. Thus, “Britomartis the sweetuperetria is one goddess bee. In this case, the Turkish expression “BİR-O” (PER U) is an appellaation that refers to “the Sky-God or the Sky-Goddess”. We have already determined that BRITOMARTIS (ARTEMIS) was a “goddess” personality!
d) “U-PERI-ARETE”, then, it is the altered form of the Turkish saying “O PERİ-ARI’DI” meaning “that fairy is bee”, “that nymph is bee”, “that fairy is pure”, “that fairy maid is hard working as a bee”, “she is as pure as fairy”. Thus, this Turkish saying also has meanings that refer to the attributions of goddess Artemis!
Turkish word PERİ means “fairy” and PERİ is a name for girls in Turkish.
Thus the name UPERETRIA the “maid girl” was an ancient Greek term that was made from Turkish and had embedded in the name the attributions of goddess Artemis.
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With all of these decipherments of a few names, we have also shown how powerful
and versatile language was the ancient world language of Turkish! We
have shown that even by changing the position of a word in a phrase in Turkish
can change the meaning of the phrase completely!
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5. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-5
The PARTHENON relation:
In Part-4, I showed that the
goddess “Britomartis the sweet parthenicos" and
“Artemis the sweet parthenicos" were
and the same and personified the “womanly” attributions of the GOD concept.
Hence, the names ARTEMIS and BRITOMARTIS being
sweet maidens, that is, being sweet PARTHENIKOS,
associate them with the
“The Parthenon (Greek: Παρθενών) is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the maiden goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.”
“The origin of the Parthenon's name is from the Greek word "παρθενών" (parthenon), which referred to the "unmarried women's apartments" in a house and in the Parthenon's case seems to have been used at first only for a particular room of the temple;[7] it is debated which room this is and how the room acquired its name. The Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon states that this room was the western cella of the Parthenon. Jamauri D. Green holds that the parthenon was the room in which the peplos presented to Athena at the Panathenaic Festival was woven by the arrephoroi, a group of four young girls chosen to serve Athena each year.[8] Christopher Pelling asserts that AthenaParthenos may have constituted a discrete cult of Athena, intimately connected with, but not identical to, that of Athena Polias.[9] According to this theory, the name of Parthenon means the "temple of the virgin goddess" and refers to the cult of Athena Parthenos that was associated with the temple.[10] The epithet parthénos (Greek: παρθένος), whose origin is also unclear,[11] meant "maiden, girl", but also "virgin, unmarried woman"[12] and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.[13] It has also been suggested that the name of the temple alludes to the maidens (parthenoi), whose supreme sacrifice guaranteed the safety of the city [14].”
In other words, the
Polat Kaya: From this reference
source, we see that the
Interestingly, when the Greek name PARTHENON is
deciphered as “PHN-TANRE-O”,
then, the name PARTHENON is
found as being the altered, restructured and Hellenizedform
of the Turkish expression “BEN
TANRI Öyü” meaning “I
am the house of God”, “I am the
Saying that the temple is “archaeoastronomically” aligned to the Hyades implies that the ancient building before the Parthenon II must have been an ancient astronomical observatory and also a school for astronomy of the ancient Turanians. The term “archaeoastronomically” is defined as:
“Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how people in the past “have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky, and what role the sky played in their cultures.", [1].”
But when I decipher the word ASTRONOMICALLY by rearranging its letters as “YILTASNAR-OCOLM” or “YILTASLAR-OCONM”, I find that the English termASTRONOMICALLY is an altered, restructured and Anglicized form of the Turkish expression “YILDIZLARA OKULAM” meaning “I am school for the stars”. Thus, this so-called English word has also been manufactured from Turkish rather deceptively and cunningly!
Turkish word YILDIZ (YILDUZ, YILTUZ) means “star”, YILDIZLAR means “stars”, OKOL (OKUL) means “school” and OKULAM means “I am School”.
Here we must note that when the historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, as being archaeoastronomically aligned to the Hyades, they seem to tell us rather vaguely that the Older Parthenon building had something to do with astronomy. After all, the name “astronomically” tells us that it is a name made up from Turkish for the concept of “school for stars”. Of course, an astronomical building is a school for studying stars and most likely an observatory of sky as well. Thus, this is why I say that the Old Parthenon building must have been an ancient astronomical observatory and also a school for astronomy of the ancient Turanians. After all the name “astronomically” also says the same thing.
Additionally, the fact that the Parthenon was aligned to the HYADES is also very
significant due to the fact that HYADES is one
“open star-cluster that appears in the constellationTAURUS the
BULL. This is very eye-opening because the name TAURUS is also the name Taurus (Toros)
mountains in
1. The Greek word TRWIKOS means “Trojan”, but the letter W is actually UU, [Divry’s English-Greek and Greek-English Desk Dictionary, 1988, p. 712].
So when the Greek word TRWIKOS (TRUUIKOS) is deciphered as “TURK-OIUS”, we find that the Greek word TRWIKOS is actually the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish saying “TÜRK ÖYÜZ” meaning “we are Turk homes”, that is, “we are Turk people”. This makes the ancient so-called “TROJANS” none other than the Turks!
2. The Greek word TOURKOS means “Turk”. [Divry’s Dictionary, p. 707].
When the Greek word TOURKOS is deciphered as “TURK-OOS”, we find that the Greek word TOURKOS is actually the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish saying “TÜRK OĞUZ” meaning “Turk Oguz peoples” - which the Turks are!
3. The Greek word TAUROS means “Bull”. [Divry’s Dictionary, p. 701]. Two other Greek words have the prefix “tauro” in their make up. They are:
3.a) The Greek word TAUROMAKHIA means “bullfighting”. [Divry’s Dictionary, p. 701].
When the Greek word TAUROMAKHIA is deciphered
as “O-UT-AR-KIRMAH”, we find
that the Greek word TAUROMAKHIA is
actually the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish saying “
The old Turkish word UT means “cattle”, ER means “male”, UT ER means “male cattle, the bull”, O UT ER means “it is male cattle, it is bull”, KIRMAK means “to kill, to slaughter, to fight”, O means “it, it is”.
In this context, we also have the word in Sumerian GUT (aGa UT) meaning “bull, lord of cattle”, Sumerian word UTU and Turkish OT O (OD O) means “Sun God, he is fire”,UTU-R means “Sun-God the Bull”, thus, the word “O TUR” or (TUR O) means “he is the Sun-god man”, “he is the Tur/Turk/Oguz people”. Thus, the name TUR comes from the ancient Sun-god name “UTUER”.
In view of this information, the term TAURO is
just a cut off front end of the name TAUROMAKHIA (bull
killing, bull fighting) where TAURO gets
it meaning of “bull” from the old Turkish expression “UT U ER” or
“O TUR O” meaning “bull”.
3.b) Similarly,
there is the Greek word TAUROMAKHOS that
means “bullfighter”. [Divry’s Dictionary,
p. 701].
But the Greek word TAUROMAKHOS can be deciphered as “OHUS-KARMATO” or “OKUS HARMATO”, then, Greek word TAUROMAKHOS is actually the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish saying “OKUZ KIRMADU” meaning “it is bull killing, it is bull fighting”. Again, the source for the make up of the Greek word is from Turkish!
In this Greek word, the name TAUROS, or more correctly, TAURO, gives the impression that it is the “root” but in actuality, it is just a cut off front end of the nameTAUROMAKHOS and in that context, TAURO or TAUROS gets its meaning of “bull” from the Turkish word “ÖKÜZ” (OKUZ). And the rest of the word, that is, MAKHOS, is assigned the meaning “killing” or “fighting”.
The old Turkish word ÖKÜZ
(OKUZ) means
“male cattle, bull”, KIRMA means
“killing, slaughtering; fighting”, KIRMADU means
“it is killing,
it is slaughtering; it
isfighting”.
All of these decipherments tell us that the Greek term TAURO (TAUROS) gets both of its meaning “bull” and its linguistic format for Turkish.
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Since the name Parthenon
means the "temple of the virgin
goddess", then it is clear that the temple was built for the “female
side of the Sky-God”, that is, the Sky-Goddess – with names such as
Artemis, Britomartis, Athenea or
others. All of these ancient
so-called Greek cults were actually the ancient Turanian beliefs
- but secretly converted into Greek Cults. So the ancient Turanian civilization
was completely looted in all of its aspects by the ancient Aryan Greeks.
The Wikipedia reference regarding Parthenon,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon, states: “The epithet “parthénos”, whose origin is also unclear, meant "maiden, girl", but also "virgin, unmarried woman" and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.”
The definition of the goddess Athena in the this reference, that is, being “the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason” is just another way of saying that Athena was the personification of the “brain”. After all, it is none other than the human brain that does “strategy”, “tactics”, and “practical reasoning”. Additionally it is said that Athena was born from the head of ZEUS – and fully grown – and with all of her armaments. This is further verification that the “virgin goddess Athena”, in one context, represented the personification of the human brain. This again brings us to the perception that Athena and/or Artemis was also a hidden personification of the “human head”, and the “brain” - which is encapsulated in a special “room” in the head!
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6. Goddess ARTEMIS Part-6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis#Artemis_as_the_Lady_of_Ephesus
“At
As the Wikipedia reference
above states and the statue of the goddess Artemis at the
The Artemis of Ephesus, 1st century AD (Ephesus Archaeological Museum)
Alternatively, see link
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/images/ephesus/museum/resized/great-artemis-c-andrys.jpg
In this study, I have shown that goddess Artemis was also a personification of the “Virgin Queen Bee” of a beehive. In a beehive, there are “Queen Bee cells” that are much larger than the cells of the normal worker bees. The “virgin Queen Bee cells”, which are also called “queen cups”, are located above the “honeycomb”, (that is, “petek” in Turkish). For clarity, we have a picture of these in the figure below:
Three Queen cells are shown in this picture given at link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queencell_0017.JPG
Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee gives us the following information regarding the “queen cells”:
“Queens are raised in specially constructed queen cells. The fully constructed queen cells have a peanut-like shape and texture. Queen cells start out as queen cups. Queen cups are larger than the cells of normal brood comb and are oriented vertically instead of horizontally. Worker bees will only further build up the queen cup once the queen has laid an egg in a queen cup. In general, the old queen starts laying eggs into queen cups when conditions are right for swarming or supersedure. Swarm cells hang from the bottom of a frame whilesupersedure queens or emergency queens are generally raised in cells built out from the face of a frame.”
Another view of Virgin Queen bee cups
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNMwYE9k2LuCdEBWKuH1WboXQIISyIsZmU3DELUWpDU2ENCeuLJQ
So, in view of these findings, I identify that the multiple “growths” hanging
from the chest of the goddess Artemis statue at
In better views of the statue of Artemis of Ephesus, representations of four bees, two on each side of the statue, are visible. They are at the third and the fifth levels from top, of the representations shown on the front of the Artemis statue. This again shows that Artemis was a personification of Queen Bee in a bee hive! We also see four Nymph (i.e., Turkish “Peri”) representations of the goddess Artemis with ancient Turanian type of wings. Additionally, many representations of “deer” (i.e., Turkish “Ceylan”) are shown! Deer was one of her symbols. Of course, she was also the Sun-Goddess and therefore, a personification of light as well.
We now understand that conceptually, the origin of goddess Artemis was ancient Turanian and Anatolian before she became a divinity of Greeks and Romans. All these writings of mine on Artemis provide clear and unquestionable explanations regarding the identity of the ancient Turanian goddess Artemiz!
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In concluding, we can confidently say that originally, the Goddess Artemis (Artemiz) was neither a Greek goddess, nor was she a Roman goddess - as we are wrongly led to believe. Rather she was an ancient Turanian goddess which represented the “Womanly side of GOD” in a “duality “GOD” concept. Just like the Turkish language itself, this concept was also stolen from the ancient Turanians and repetitively portrayed as being Greek and Aryan.
This also shows how the ancient Turanians had a divinity concept of equality between man and woman - so much so that both man and woman were personified as GOD and GODDESS in one body!
Artemis was particularly personified as a “Virgin Queen Bee”. The most ancient language of Turkish, of the Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples, has been used to express many different attributes of the “Virgin Woman Goddess” side of the God concept. These attributions are embedded in hidden form in the supposedly “Greek” words (names) that were made from Turkish! Detailed decipherments of these attributions from the given Greek mythological information are revealed in this essay for the first time, although I had discussed Artemis in a concise manner in an earlier paper of mine given at link http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Polat_Kaya/message/298 .
With best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
