Finding Jesus
by James Wm. Pandeli
(Prerequisite readings: 'Oh Albania, My Poor
Albania', 1980 {book}; 'Language of God', 2003
{essay}. )
Finding the burial place of Jesus is an important matter. I do not
mean the place where Jesus was initially buried and then, according to the New
Testament, rose days later. I am referring to the burial place where his
people took the body, after allowing prophecy requirements to be satisfied, to a
final resting place.
The religious and historical experts have been looking in all the wrong
places. It is my contention that Jesus was buried on an 'island in the west'.
It could be Britain, Gibralter, Malta, or on an island in a river in the
area of his crucifixtion, or some other island place that is significant to his
life as a Jew, a rabbi, and/or as the son of the Virgin Mary - herself a symbol
of the sacred Mother Earth of the prehistoric era.
As the result of my research into Albanian history, Greek Literature
and the subsequent theory that I have developed, I have concluded that the Greek
god, Kronus, who was the son of Ouranos, the first god, was synonomous with
the son of God in the New Testament, Jesus. I do not suggest that there are
other similarities with regard to either the Greek or Judaic cultures. It is
within the Albanian (Illyrian) context that this conclusion is based - and that
is that Kronus, in the evolution of religion, is synonomous with Jesus - the
Son of God.
The Albanian context: The translation of the name 'Kronus' in Albanian
is 'He - I', 'Kr - Oun'. Both the 'Kr' and 'Oun' survive as Albanian
pronouns, 'He' and 'I'. When this theory was developing I felt compelled to repeat
'He - I' a number of times, then I concluded that the completed meaning of this
combination of pronouns was probably 'He is I'. That is, either God comes to
Earth as a mortal or sends his Son. In Albanian, 'He is I' would tranlate as
'Kr esht Oun'. The second and third syllable represents what evolved in
Albanian as the word for Saturday, E Shtune, (the sixth or seventh day?; the
Sabbath or the day before?). According to the Bible, God made heaven and earth
and man, all within six days and then the seventh day would be the day of
rest, the Sabbath. (Now, just what is the story of this God coming to Earth as a
mortal, or sending his Son as a man - some calling him 'Messiah' - has not yet
been discovered or understood within the Albanian context. What is
interesting is that there was a 'Ker' in Greek Mythology - something to do with the
'Fates', the 'end of Man'...).
One version of the burial of Kronus, the Greek god (?), was that he was
sent to an 'island in the west', possibly Britain (Isle of Man?). Could it
be that some other prophecy from the prehistoric era was also fulfilled - hence
a final resting place? In Albanian the word for 'west' is 'perendim'. The
word for 'God' or 'godlike' is 'Perendia'.
Finally, two things should be mentioned and understood: First a quote
from Herodotus (Greek historian, c.485-425 B.C.), "From what parents the gods
are derived or whether they were in existence from all time, and what they are
like in shape, the Greeks do not know till this day when I write these
lines..." (Book II, 53). Second, Albanian (Illyrian) is the oldest language in
Europe, and has been compared to Etruscan ('The Etruscans Begin to Speak', Z.
Mayani). Albanian is also similar to Thracian - 'Thrace'...There is no
well-defined difference between aboriginal Thracian and Illyrians. Thus there was an
Illyrian tribe Brygi (riverbank); a Thracian tribe, Bryges; and in Strabo's
time, a tribe called Dardani (Kosova), then reckoned Illryian, living next to
the Thracian Bessi (Bessa: a prehistoric religious concept that is recognized
even today in the Albanian culture) in whose land was the oldest oracle of
Dionysus, were probably as much Thracian as Illyrian. (-Enc. Britannica, 1963,
'Thace', Vol.22, p.22. Also See 'Oh Albania, My Poor Albania', p.36). Recently,
it has been suggested that the Thracian Civilization was as old as
Mesopotamia (7000 B.C.). It was in Mesopotamia where the first parts of the Bible were
compiled by the Jews and there is evidence that there were common stories and
legal and religious commandments throughout the contemporary groups.
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