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The Illyrian Queen Teuta THE ILLYRIAN QUEEN TEUTA Author: Stjepan Spanicek – Independent Researcher Version 1.0 – June 4, 2019. Split, Croatia https://www.scribd.com/document/412341096/THE-ILLYRIAN-QUEEN-TEUTA-Version-1-0 https://deconstructingtheillusion.com/ This essay does not have any commercial use. Author of the essay does not have any claim on copyrights so the essay itself can be used freely, partially or entirely, for further researches and for education purpose. The author retains right on changes, modifications, improvements and making some appendices, because of material affluence and complexity, the entire research is just like … never- ending story. Therefore, always check if you have the latest version of that text. 1 * * * * * The essay that follows is not a simple one. It is very complex and due to that, very demanding. To write it, I personally have been preparing for quite some time. Just to mention, indeed, it is in the air for a long time, but I am trying to catch a breath in order to conceive it truly and comprehensively. This is the story where we shall see the full scale of the positive and negative forces in action. All the knowledge acquired so far about the dualistic nature of the play of Good and Evil we are involved in so deeply, will be needed now more than ever before. If there were some shadows and uncertainties before, well, they will be removed and dispelled, and all of sudden, we shall be able to see who is who in our ancient history. Apparently, as we know now, there is a link linking our ancient history with the contemporary real world, and no doubt, this text will be helpful to find out who is who just around us in present time. Indeed, in order to depict the story nicely, we have to use the present tense because the time has come we say goodbye to this dark and murky energy that was squeezing and terrorizing the world for about four thousand years. This is the minimum amount of time to be mentioned, because, the precise time interval would ask for even longer framing. The time has come that we separate weeds from the seeds. All until now, that parable was dwelling only in some religious texts and in some spiritual concepts as well. Indeed, it was connected only with some events that did happen long ago, many thousands of years before our time, and some would imply these events do not have anything to do with us and with the contemporary world. Nevertheless, this spiritual parable, right now, it is becoming our living reality. We have to say goodbye to all those who are not willing, wishing, or who are not ready to enter on the bright stage full of light, the enlightening light that is rising us toward Eden, toward Heaven on Earth. All that we can do now is to thank them for being good testers for us so that we could develop our full potentials. This is all that we can do for them, for all those who do not want to go with us further on. The time has come for pure and innocent seeds to yield a new crop. However, only the new seed can yield a new crop. We need new knowledge, which by the way, luckily, was seeded some few decades ago, and it is ready to be the full-scale reformer of the society right at this moment. We need a new paradigm to be activated without delaying even one single fraction of the second. The new paradigm based entirely on this new knowledge is about to take over, and old knowledge, along with all old structures that are representing it, well, they are all just about to take place in some museums of ancient stuff and relics. Old stuff belongs to museums exclusively. Right? The story in front of you is the story about one ancient queen predominantly, even though her husband, the mighty king, will be mentioned also. Their son will be included as well, however, want to highlight that point right away, this is not a happy end story. It is very sad actually. It is a sad and murky story, but how on earth it could possibly be different if we are considering the state of art accomplishments of Goddess Kali? This is basically the story of Goddess Kali, and about her masterpiece work. As we know now, Kali is just one aspect of Goddess Durga. She is also called Nirrity, then Alakhsmi, but throughout history, some other names have been associated with her as well. Some of them will be the subject of this discussion. Therefore, I am kindly informing all those who go for happy ending stories exclusively that this is not something they would supposedly enjoy very much. However, the situation is not likewise that we can run away, hide, and not consider such stories at all. No, hiding and running away will not help.1 At the contrary, it can make things worse. Perhaps, hiding and running away, that was an option before, but not anymore. This is the story about ancient Illyrian Queen Teuta, her husband King Agron, and no-name child that was born to them but did not live long. Queen Teuta, for whose name scientists are still not sure whether it is a real name, just some alias or simply the nickname, well, she was ruling shortly, just after the death of her husband King Agron. She was ruling from 231 B.C.E. until 227 B.C.E. when she was forcefully dethroned by Romans. In fact, she was just ruling as a regent instead of her stepson Pinnes, who was the only legitimate crown prince. The death of King Agron was somewhat very mysterious to me and very suspicious after all, therefore, this will be the subject of the research of this essay as well. 1) I was always wondering if there is even a grain of truth in the story about ostriches who, while facing predators, bury their heads in the sand and pretending not to be seen? Perhaps we need to ask Australians about. However, here I did find one interesting text saying that this is all just a myth. https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-ostriches-really-bury-their-heads-in-the-sand/ 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuta Just to remind, Illyria we are talking about in this essay, this is the remnants of the ancient Troy. I was writing about extensively, and it would be definitely good to follow that story.2 Just to summarize in few words, the legendary ancient Troy, was in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia predominantly. That was a big kingdom actually, or perhaps even the real empire, and it was thriving for a long time, but it did have its own dramatic downfall. The city-fortress, which was the very core of the kingdom, was in the River Neretva Valley. After the fall of Trojan Empire in 1152 B.C.E., many tribes have been resettled all over Europe, however, Illyrians regrouped soon, partially returned home, and formed many new small kingdoms, all on the tribal level, of course. We saw Macedonian tribe, just moving more to the south of the Europe, where they formed very strong and powerful kingdom what will lead toward the rise of Alexander the Great and consequently to his conquering of the entire world. It is true that they were rising up the Hellenistic culture, but it is important to notice the Illyrian background of ancient Macedonians. At the moment when Teuta took the kingdom, it was a little bit less than thousand years from the day of the fall of the Troy in 1152 B.C.E. If we want to be precise, it was exactly 921 years since the destruction of Troy until the starting of the rule of Queen Teuta. This is a long time indeed, and many things had happened in between. Something was already mentioned, however, as it seems, there was an idea to rise up a big Illyrian kingdom again. That is to say, many tribes were supposed to be united and unified, but this always asks for some strong personalities; a strong king warrior should be introduced because that includes many battles and many wars to be fought. No doubt, King Agron was exactly such one king. Indeed, King Argon was such one great personality. His natal chart will be discussed later on. Now it is important to note that he really did a great job, and he unified all Illyrian tribes south of the River Neretva, all until Epirus in ancient Greece. The photo was taken from … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illyria_and_Dardania_Kingdoms.png 2) To follow the essay about legendary Troy, please visit the link … https://deconstructingtheillusion.com/vedic-science-and-vedic- literature/legendary-troy-finally-deciphered/ 3 In the years after Alexander the Great, the power and the glory of Greece was fading out easily. Romans were stepping on the stage as the new superpower. Indeed, Romans did spread their influence all over the Apennines and tried to dominate the entire Mediterranean. They just finished Punic wars, and even though they had lost some big battles because they were almost entirely smashed and extinguished, however, somehow they survived, recovered, and finally, they won over their big rivals at that time, over … the Carthaginians. King Agron occurred in the … Ardiaei tribe …, with the seat around what is today town of Metkovic in Croatia. Just in the vicinity, there was a Roman settlement … Narona …, but even much earlier, there was original Illyrian settlement there as well, whose name we do not know.
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