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Then warrior people came from Asia, people, that we today
know as Aryans, Celts or Tetons, and with them the metals like bronze and iron. The
culture of these great seapeople and builders disapeared.
But in Danish mythology and in the name
"Danmark" they survived through the period of the Celts, the Romans and
Teutons/Germans up to the time of the Vikings. Two thousand years is a long time for a
tradition, but as I'll show now, it happened.
"Danmark" is the Danish name of Denmark. Directly translated it means "the
field of Dan". According to our tradition, Dan was a little baby boy, who came over
the sea alone in a boat, grew up here and became the first king of Denmark. As he died,
the people put him back in this little boat and gave him to the sea, where he came from.
How old this story is, I don't know, but it the name "Dan" as the name for the
geographical area, later known as Denmark is mentioned by Pytheas of Marseille in the year
325 before Christ. He called it "Tanais". ("Dan" and "Tan"
is the same word).
On a couple of maps showing the outer regions of the known world, the first by Poseidonus
70 before Christ and the second by Pomponius 44 after Crhist, our area is called
"Sinus Codanus", or "the Sea of the Danes". From then its not just a
geographic place, but the name of a people, that we are talking about, 800 years before
the Vikings!
But the name of Dan is much older. In England, the name of the Celtic gods is: "The
Children of Don". And as the Celts came from the East, there could be a connection to
the fact, that nearly all rivers around the Black Sea has names, wich sounds like the name
"Don": Donau, Don, Donetz, Dnepr and Dnestr. This could easily be the home of
Celts and Teutons.
The name Don comes from a aryan/central asian Godess by the name "Danus", a sort
of mermaid with two fishtails instead of legs. Just like the statue of the Little Mermaid
in Copenhagen, and quite opposite Disneys one-tail Little Mermaid, though the last couple
are from the same story by H.C.Andersen. I don't know, how H.C.Andersen saw his mermaid,
but the one-tail mermaid is from sailors of this era.
This means, that our name, Danes, could have been given to us by the Celts or Teutons 1200
before Christ as they came here.
In our mythology, which have been written down 900 to 1200 after Christ, there is also two
kinds of Gods: "Aser" and "Vaner". Aser sounds a bit like Asia or
Aryan, and they are in fact |
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