6. Rome Was a Colony of Phoenicia
The Roman empire was secretly founded by Phoenicians, in disguise. This means much of the Western-European culture, which dominates the world today, did not actually originate in Europe. Its ultimate origins lie with the most ancient civilizations of the Fertile Crescent, whose all-powerful aristocrats spread their deceptive way of ruling over the entire globe.
Sources of Phoenician power
Among the ancient nations with their fraudulent aristocracies, one empire was the most powerful & deceptive. It has shaped world history like no other, and rules to this day: Phoenicia.
In addition to the trickery used by all aristocratic scum, the Phoenician elites also controlled 2 very important natural resources: bronze & cedar-wood, which gave them undefeatable armies and a navy with global reach. The combination of these 3 made them all-powerful.
Bronze
The Roman historian Livy confirms that the Phoenician city Tyre was invincible through bronze, and used this invincibility to plunder foreign coasts with their ships at whim:
Because of their immense possessions of bronze, the Tyrians surpassed all others, as nothing could overcome their armies and their ships. And so they could plunder freely from all lands.
Copper smelting had already pushed humanity towards oligarchic power, by granting better weapons to the few against the many. The discovery of bronze went one step further: It was superior to copper, but even more rare. It therefore enabled a near-global monopoly to one central superpower: Phoenicia.
The reason is that bronze is usually an alloy of mostly copper, plus tin. Copper already isn’t too abundant, but tin is extremely rare, enabling easy monopolies on the resulting bronze. Through naval trade, Phoenicia had acquired just such a monopoly. They traded some tin & bronze, but the bulk went into their own armory, making them undefeatable.
Here’s the official quantities in the earth crust according to Wikipedia:
| Metal | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| iron | 50,000 ppm |
| copper | 70 ppm |
| tin | 2 ppm |
| silver | 0.1 ppm |
| gold | 0.005 ppm |
Officially, Phoenicia was a center for bronze-making by the Late Bronze Age. It’s unclear where this bronze came from. The locations of metal deposits in antiquity are a mystery, maybe due to censoring. No tin deposits are officially known on the Phoenician coast, but Phoenicians mined copper on nearby Cyprus. And finds of tin objects are clustered in the Eastern Mediterranean, so some large tin source might have been there, giving the Phoenician nobles a head-start. As the next step, their navy would have enabled them to grab all copper & tin resources along the Mediterranean. And ultimately, the Phoenician navy could then reach all lands from Britain to India, maybe even farther, so they would’ve monopolized tin trade of the entire Western hemisphere. With that, they had a monopoly on bronze.
Cedar-wood
The earliest civilizations had very little wood.
In the beginning, the most powerful ancient civilizations in the Western hemisphere were Egypt & Mesopotamia, because of their rivers: Nile, Euphrates & Tigris. The courses were fertile, but water during seasonal flooding had to be harnessed by irrigation channels. Those needed pooled labor, so water became a monopolized resource. This monopoly enabled the ultra-powerful & corrupt aristocratic systems which are still in place today.
However, apart from the river courses, Egypt & Mesopotamia were arid & infertile. Most importantly, there were no woods. The only large plants were date-palms & reed-grass. Some wood was imported, but there was no capacity for building large native fleets.
But in Phoenicia, the Lebanese mountains right next to the coast provided abundant cedar-wood, hard & durable, and very well-suited for shipbuilding.
Their navy enabled the Phoenician lords to gobble up all nearby bronze resources, and then gave their undefeatable bronze-clad armies a global reach. The centers of power migrated from Egypt & Mesopotamia to the Phoenician coast, and the world was taken over from there. And with the aristocratic power of deception, the world was taken over secretly. The descendants of Phoenician elites and native aristocratic traitors rule to this day, without any of their subjects even knowing.
Stages of colonization
Both Livy & Virgil describe the steps taken by the Phoenician overlords for secret invasions.
Phoenicians feign to be other peoples
The Phoenician elites were also at the forefront of deception.
Aristocrats from all high cultures used deception against their own subjects to some degree. But the Phoenicians nobles went one step further: They not only disguised themselves as commoners to cheat their own subjects. No, as seafaring merchant lords they also disguised themselves as being other peoples entirely. To cheat foreign indigenous populations, to make pacts with corrupt foreign elites, and to run hidden takeovers of their lands. This was a long con. To pretend that the conquered lands were still independent nations, those Phoenician nobles who’d rule as governors would even adopt local language & culture of the invaded peoples, forever.
In the beginning, when they were still recognized as foreigners, they used a fabled-up mystic nation as a false identity: Troy. Because that name is similar to the most powerful Phoenician city, Tyre.
Now firstly, it is always sufficiently agreed, that whenever they had themselves deceptively perceived as “Trojans” for others, it really was the Tyrians.
They had also constructed a new product out of their families, namely the “Trojans”, which would embellish the Tyrians, and which they used to transform it into a protection.
Hence, these people of concealed rulership had put a veil over them, and could fashion themselves as being from elsewhere. In this way, they could envelop all their excuses.
When Phoenicians from Tyre secretly invaded Italy, and colluded with the traitorous native Etruscan elites there, the subjects would not have accepted a foreign Tyrian ruler. So everyone had to refer to the Tyrian bronze-traders as Latins.
A veil was then made, so that the natives and the Tyrians would be similar. It would hardly have been permitted that a Tyrian ruler would be announced, appointed to elevation before the invasion of the bronze traders, and that he would show and display himself as a foreigner. So at once, a veil was introduced for the bronze traders to be hidden.
From there, the Tyrians who were known were concealed in this matter, and mingled among the already tamed prosperous and powerful Etruscan rulers, who could then rule the towns with their expenses and wealth. From the beginning, they had already fortified their prosperity through the start of the new city, and as it grew even more, that was enough to see what it really was for their neighbors. So for these things, they came to consider the Tyrians as partners in arms for concealment, and they joined them willingly.
The bronze traders were fearful of greater opposition forces, so in order to have the spirit of the natives unified, they not only ruled them all under the same conspiracy, but also had all their peoples be addressed as “Latins”. That the natives were not as devoted and faithful towards the ruling bronze traders as their own Tyrian subjects, this situation then ceased.
Still later, the Phoenician aristocrats had become the Romans, as we’ll see in the next section.
And for those Phoenician nobles in Europe who looked too oriental, or wanted to retain their language & script, a new disguise was invented, still popular today: the Jews (as we’ll see in a soon-to-follow article). Hebrew is virtually identical to Phoenician. And the stereotype of powerful secretive Jews scheming behind the scenes, that’s due to many Phoenician aristocrats hiding behind the Jewish communities they’ve created everywhere.
Hints of this pattern can also be found outside Europe: The Persian empire, which preceded the Roman one, used Imperial Aramaic as their official language. Aramaic is also virtually identical to Phoenician, so Phoenician elites were likely involved in this empire too.
Ultimately, the Phoenician overlords even abandoned their old Phoenician homeland & culture completely. They vilified it and all but erased it from history. It had become just one obsolete identity among many. They turned the gods of their former subjects into the devils & demons of Christianity, when they rolled it out in their new European headquarters.
Secret Phoenician takeovers
The Phoenician lords didn’t just plunder from others, they entirely conquered & possessed foreign lands as colonies in complete secrecy, with most locals not even knowing it. Only traitorous local aristocrats knew:
Usually, the Tyrians came in intimacy and secrecy to the local noble authorities. After these nobles then swiftly forced an approval among all the other local men, it could all begin, and the Tyrians could go on to possess the lands.
The place where they first came out was called “Tyre”, and the name of the region is “Tyrian coast”. The people as a whole are called “Phoenicians”.
They first came as givers of merchandise. From there, by persuasion and gifts, they obtained the role of being allies. And from being allied armed forces, they obtained a position where they could hold the whole land in bondage.
Planning Rome as a Phoenician stronghold
But hey, luckily the all the Phoenician cities were ultimately defeated. The last independent one, Carthage, was defeated by Rome. So all’s well, right?
Sadly, that’s just a fairy tale.
Aristocratic deception had already evolved to wearing entire nations as a disguise. Remember how the aristocrats tell their subjects it’s two nations when it’s really one? Also remember how the Phoenicians conquer their colonies in secrecy? Well, Rome was just such a Phoenician colony. The entire Roman era was really a continuation of the Phoenician era!
The official history of Rome evolving out of small local tribes is an obvious joke: When Rome was founded, southern Italy already had so many many Greek colonies that it was called Magna Graecia. So the advanced powers were already there, no independent rival nation could form. There’s even many official traces of Phoenician settlement & trade in and around Italy, such as in Sicily, Ustica, Filicudi, Ischia, Capri, Elba, Tuscany, Populonia. So the hints to what really happened are there.
But as usual, you’ll get the full story only with pun-decryption:
The Phoenician lords wanted to loot Italy’s mineral resources. But apparently, even with all their legions of bronze-clad goons they could not conquer the region. Presumably, they could raid the coasts at whim, but would run into logistical problems on land when trying to secure long-term ore mining. Apparently, the Italian natives put up a very strong resistance. They were likely armed with bronze themselves, and their power hierarchies were probably still at a stage where not all rulers had turned into traitorous scum. So the Phoenicians needed a fortified stronghold. Rome was this Phoenician stronghold.
In ancient times, this city was a colony held by Tyre, as a protective cover in Italy, against the tribesmen’s longstanding hostility, whose lands were rich in resources, but who were also zealous and fierce in combat.
Of all obtainable lands, the bronze traders wanted that one more than all others, to subordinate it, and to obtain it for settlement.
Here was it that their armies would be, here their ships would be. Here their kingdom of wealth over the nations would be, if it could be set up by fooling the people. For this they aimed for and encouraged themselves.
Generally, it was dangerous for the bronze to be obtained, both because local laws prevented this for foreigners, and also because the rural clans had always pledged to take vengeance on the foreign bronze traders, when they had tried to avoid these laws with military force. There had been many attempts to obtain it, all of which had led to insurrections and opposition by the local people, and defeat.
And thus they were looking for a fortified settlement, plus a false appearance as a wrapping veil for a covered-up invasion.
Local rulers betray Italy
As with countless other nations, the Phoenicians found willing traitors among the local Italian elites. In the aristocracy, rulers of all nations were already closer to each other than to their own subjects. Many were willing to betray them for more power. Not all aristocrats were total scum, but most were. Italy fell like the rest of the world, toppled from the top.
Livy confirms that the Phoenician trade was profitable for the local rulers. They help with providing a cheap workforce for mining, and with shipping off the treasures in secret. A special port town is constructed, Lavinium, a harbor of the future Rome.
Secretly, the ruler of the natives, who then possessed this land, took his armed forces out of the city, and agreed for the foreigners to come into the land, to protect their assault.
He inquired then what materials they were seeking, where an opportunity for profit was to be mastered, or what they were seeking when they came into the land as enslavers.
He heard that the Tyrians had come in great numbers, that their leaders were bronze traders, acquiring and selling, that there was growth whereever they accomplished rulership, that this was profitable, and that they were looking for a place to settle down and to found a city.
And when he heard of their aristocracy, their strange clans of nobles, who were prepared to veil their plans in both war and peace, then he offered his right hand in the hope of establishing a future veiled project.
From there a treaty was struck between the leaders, and the way was free for joint administration.
The bronze traders were then held in secret hospitality. The local people were secretly harnessed for mining by the wealthy Phoenicians, and by deception were given to the bronze traders for governing.
This matter strengthened in the Tyrians the hope that they could finally appoint a stable and certain settlement for their bronze mining. They founded a town. The bronze traders named it after the name of their operation: “Cover-Up”.
No sight too rich and prosperous was allowed to come out in earnesty: Transport shipping was concealed, only the transporting natives and the hidden leaders from the Tyrians were admitted.
In Virgil’s version, the Phoenician invaders cannot defeat the native defenders who roam around their fortifications. Therefore, they offer a traitorous local ruler to marry into the Phoenician clans, if he helps them defeat his fellow countrymen.
Those indignant people raged around the fortresses, complaining and threatening mightily, but high above them sat another one as protection, holding official authority, to calm their souls and to control their anger.
If he did not do this, then they would indeed make the lesser nobles and servants run away from their territories quickly, and sweep the foreign rulers away through their hostilities.
But those all-powerful nobles had hidden themselves away in dens in the dark, as this they were fearing, and had placed above them armies and fortifications, and had instituted by fixed contract a ruler who would know when to repress, when to relax, and when to let loose the reins when commanded.
To him the bronze traders as his recruiters had used these words:
Foreigner, the rulers from among the richest and most refined patricians will give those agitated people to you, both to appease and to eliminate them with deceptions.
Those people are hostile to us Tyrians, and deny us this territory. They plan to to defeat us Phoenicians, and to expel us from Italy.
Strike violence into the defenders, overwhelm and overthrow that rabble, separate and scatter their communities in punishment!
We wealthy covered-up people have mistresses of excellent standing, of whom one of the noblest, from wealth and power, we will dedicate for marriage to you, to be your own in a lasting union.
We will enforce for you all that is due and proper for such designations, and will make you a noble, and the local proletarians will be your subjects.
In this story, it appears the traitor knew the secrets of the defenders, because as soon as he’s switched sides, they’re all captured.
The foreign local ruler answered this: O rulers, whatever you wish to try out will be my work. For me, to carry out your command is only fitting.
You give to me whatever is in this kingdom, and for your scepter and your assistants it shall be provided. You grant me the riches to take my place among the wealthy, and make me a potentate of the multitudes and crowds.
Having said this, he struck in secret this pledge of his betrayal and deception.
And his hunters, as if they had been made a marching flock, wherever they had been given to obey, they rushed out and through the lands in this obscured treachery. Falling upon the men all as one from their secret abodes, they charged upon the notorious provokers repeatedly with strikes to break them, and devastation rolled towards the quarreling agitators.
Next there was the shouting of men and the creaking of ropes. Both the military servants and the common people from the contenders were taken away stealthily from out of the multitudes, and out of sight. The guilty resistors were attacked and destroyed in punishment. The little people were threatened, and the ignoble ones constantly trembled in the dark.
As they were being scattered like this, other strikes were carried out in the stretched-out north on hostile entrenchments, and the surge was carried to those settlements. All the remaining ones were subdued. But once those subjects were averted, leniency was given to the crowds overall.
Then followed a wave of likewise rushing the more remote rebel fortifications. Here, the highest among the agitators were hung up. And the crowds were divided in fear, as the agitators among them were uncovered. The agitation was struck into the sands.
Phoenicians torture the Italian rebels
According to Virgil, after the Phoenician lords had rooted out all resistance with the help of traitorous local elites, they personally tortured the rebels to death in cruel circus games, and then publicly hung up their mutilated corpses. If you ever think that our rulers are just merry hoaxers who tell benevolent lies, think again. They will rule through brutality just as readily as through deception.
The notorious were arrested with terror, and tortured in secret beneath the brutality of the highest nobles on special rocks — the Italians called these rocks “sacrificial altars”, for the method to crush people on them.
The provokers were tortured by the nobles into humbleness, and squeezed into submissiveness, miserable to be seen, and were struck on torturing instruments and on the ground in the arena.
Whenever any of the commoners and the filthy ones was carried in, the distinguished ones took him before everyone’s eyes, and a distinguished one from the top struck him on the backside in vengeance.
The leaders were executed and hung up, turned on their heads. Yet before that, the agitators were tortured three times at that same place in a circus show, and then swiftly destroyed on the smooth top surface of those rocks.
There were then reported and found quite a few among the vast crowds who had the weapons of those men, and lists, and treasures stolen from Tyre.
So finally now, the activities of those strong foreigners, their mighty acts, and those which had been carried out by their ancestors, and those of their powerful supporters, had been overcome in this country.
The hidden structures of support were all opened and received hostile inspections, and cracked open they fell apart.
Phoenicians scale back the brutality
In Virgil’s version, the torturing & terrorizing creates so much fear in the local populations that a top-level ruler from the Phoenician homeland steps in, to govern Italy himself and steer it towards stability again.
This portrayal of top-level Phoenicians as the good guys, even relatively speaking, with lower officials & local traitors as bad guys, that looks like propaganda. So I don’t quite believe this part.
However, a few points from this story seem realistic:
- Under their clever disguises, our rulers are still capable of immense cruelty.
- However, they’ll often scale back open brutality in favor of deception, in a good-cop bad-cop game.
- Local aristocratic traitors were needed for secret invasions, but forced to take a back seat afterwards.
- Native rulers were probably often switched for top-level Phoenicians under various excuses & disguises.
Here’s how the text tells it:
Meanwhile, the great troubled uproar about this punishment and the military storm in Italy were perceived by none less than the highest ruler. And he saw how the lowly hard-pressed people were opposing the military apparatus, still heavily agitated.
And as he looked onto the now submissive people from his elevated noble status, he saw that a more gentle leader had to be displayed to the crowds.
All rebels had been destroyed by the bronze traders, he saw their armies already flattened, the agitators suppressed by the Tyrians, and their servants destroyed.
But this evil of his brothers the other bronze traders, and their wrath, could not lie hidden. He called the most violent suppressors to him, and he spoke to them thus:
Have you been possessed so greatly by your descent, and become overconfident? Now you have stirred up my territory and the dangerous subjects of mine, without my will, and have dared to excite the multitudes so greatly?
And now, who except myself could better calm the agitated, with such disturbance about? After this, they shall be appeased by myself, with a dissimilar secret disguise I will put on!
Haste your flight, and to this local king of yours say: The command over the ensnaring and the charming show is not his, but will be appointed to me. He only comprehends those immensely brutal, horrible methods, where you, violent ones, are at home. But now that foreign local ruler shall be placed into a mere theater, and be confined to an enclosed position of deception, and rule from there.
Thus he spoke. And as he then acted by this speech, he moved the excited common people to be quiet, and chased away the gatherings of the multitudes, and brought back silence. Kindness and intimidation were pressed simultaneously on the incited people, to push the zealous ones off their trouble-making.
Finally, the Phoenicians then distract the local Italian populations with hoaxed terror, as we saw in the article on hoaxed events.
From here, the history of Phoenicia becomes the history of Rome. There’s many more texts to decrypt, but I’m all alone, so it’ll take a while…