Homer's Odyssey

Does Odyssey Cast Light on Phoenician Ships and Owners?

Rae West - 21 April 2022

I've just uploaded my piece on Plato's Sophist, putting the view that Plato's work at the dawn of the Jewish-induced Christian era was probably mutilated and pruned into a Jew-approved form. Look at my review of Christopher Bjerknes' Beware the World to Come for his slightly speculative take on the long-term parts of Jewish beliefs, which have been almost completely suppressed.
With Homer, we change focus, to more distant times. Homer's alleged works must be counted as prehistoric, though by comparison ancient Egypt goes back to 8000 BC, the Naqada I period from 4000 BC. (Just two dates from a UC London site). His two principal works (the rest are dubious) are the Iliad and the Odyssey.
I recommend interested people look at the 1910-1911 Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britanica (Vol XIII, HAR-HUR, of XXXIII) which at present online at archive.org. I won't give a URL because there are uncertainties about the quality—some bits are missing, blanked out. This edition has about twice as much on Homer as the 1976 edition—which has about seven times as much on an American artist, Winslow Homer! The eleventh edition is the last before Jewish money by way of the USA began to dominate.

I just relocated the following passage from Miles Mathis's phoenper.pdf. (He likes short, enigmatic file-names).

Most of the places Odysseus visited were Phoenician locales, think Pylos, Aeolus (Lipari), Phaeacia, Ithaca, Troy, and Djerba (land of the Lotus-Eaters). Djerba was a Phoenician port for millennia, and later became an admitted Jewish stronghold after 600BC. It is probable that the Odyssey could be read as a Phoen-odyssey, with Homer the Phoenician giving us a covert tour of sacred spots. Even Ogygia, Calypso's island, is probably a real place, though I doubt it is Gozo. It should be a small remote island. Strabo put it in the Atlantic, so it may have been Porto Santo or one of the other Madeiras. Also interesting is that Calypso was probably a cousin of Odysseus, despite being a goddess. Her mother is given as Pleione, who also happened to be the grandmother of Iasion and Dardanus. Dardanus was an ancestor of the Trojans. Like WWI and WW2, the Trojan War was a cousin war, with near relatives squabbling over resources.
I have told you above that the real denizens of Troy were Hittites, not Phoenicians, but it looks to me like Homer peopled his fictional Troy with cousins instead, to make the story more cosy for his audience. These fictional people were related to real people, and may have been based on real people.

I had intended to look at the treatment of the Iliad (which most critics, certainly of the old schools, seem to have preferred to the Odyssey, possibly because armchair generals seem to think battles are easy to understand. There are strange passages, such as the ‘Catalogue of Ships’, which purports to give logistical information on shiploads on men destined for Troy.
The Odyssey is more puzzling, including entire passages not connected to picaresque voyaging, on Penelope and her suitors, the latter meeting a stick end as a result of Odysseus' prowess. One can imagine Jewish editors inserting a bloody ending designed to appeal to the simpler types, and removing the adventure stories if the gave secret information away. (I'm not saying this happened; but it might have).

HTML etc Rae West. Thanks to the Encyclopædia Britannica and Miles Mathis. First upload 21 April 2022