Lebor Clann Glas

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Six hundred and ninety two years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (508 BCE),
4	One year after the founding of Rama (Rome),
5	King Daemos of Chimaera,
6	Did conquer the Spartan city of Heraclea,
7	Declaring himself a messiah of the Yahudi.
8	King Daemos did then found a new religion,
9	That it be the will of Yahu the divine creator,
10	That the Levites and Simonites return,
11	To the great island of Pegasus (Euboea),
12	And defeat the Argeans that enslaved them.
13	King Daemos of Chimaera,
14	Did commission new scriptoriums,
15	And reading of sciences,
16	That all who swear an oath,
17	To this new religion,
18	Be men of science not superstition.
19	King Daemos then did found a city in his name,
20	Called Gela as a centre of knowledge.
21	In reply Pythagorus did declare,
22	That the followers of King Daemos,
23	Be false believers,
24	Who dishonor the Divine Creator,
25	By making false oaths,
26	To ideas they do not comprehend.
27	In the Great Age of the Ram,
28	Six hundred and ninety four years,
29	Since the dawn of the Great Age (506 BCE),
30	Consul Junius (Aeneas) the son of King Anaxilas,
31	Did give up the ghost.
32	Pythagorus did convince the Graecians (Greeks),
33	To appoint his son as the new Consul.
34	Consul Titus of the Etruscans,
35	Did protest as Orpheus be a priest,
36	And son of Pythagorus,
37	Was favored by the Persians,
38	While the Etruscans then be forbidden,
39	To trade with the Carthagians.
40	In the same year,
41	Holly King Eochaid Uairches,
42	Of the south and the Kingdoms,
43	Of Mumha (Munster) and Laighin (Leinster),
44	And grandson of Holly High King Eoachaid,
45	Did give up the ghost.
46	His kingdom then did befall to his son,
47	Whose name was Lugaid Lamderg.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Six hundred and ninety five years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (505 BCE),
4	The religious forces of King Daemos,
5	Did conquer the city of Catania,
6	Aided by Persian General Artaphernes.
7	Yet King Daemos was mortally wounded in battle.
8	His son Gelo did become King,
9	And aided by his brothers,
10	Whose names were Hiero (Hero) and Thalo (Thales) and Zeno,
11	Did rally forces against Apoleon (Syracuse),
12	And captured the great city.
13	Upon news of the great feats,
14	Of the sons and followers of King Daemos,
15	Many more Graecians (Greeks) joined the cult.
16	In the Great Age of the Ram,
17	Six hundred and ninety seven years,
18	Since the dawn of the Great Age (503 BCE),
19	Damasus of Siris,
20	Also known as Pythagorus,
21	Also known as father and friend of the people,
22	Of the sacred Persian city of Rome,
23	Did give up the ghost.
24	A great funeral ceremony,
25	Was held in Rome.
26	The title of Hiereus or Priest,
27	And Soothsayer did fall to his son,
28	Whose name was Orpheus.
29	King Gelo of Syracuse did then demand,
30	That Consul Orpheus order all Yahudi,
31	To give aid to a sacred campaign,
32	To invade and capture,
33	The island of Pegasus (Euboea),
34	And punish the Argeans.
35	Yet Orpheus refused.
36	Thus King Gelo of Syracuse,
37	Did appeal directly to King Darius,
38	Through Artaphernes,
39	Who then agreed to provide troops and ships,
40	Under the command of Datus,
41	For the great invasion.
42	King Gelo did then appoint his brother,
43	Whose name was Hiero,
44	As leader of the Graecians (Greeks).

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Six hundred and ninety eight years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (502 BCE),
4	A great fleet of Graecians (Greeks),
5	And Persians under the command of Datus,
6	Did attack and invade Pegasus (Euboea),
7	Capturing Chalcis and Eritrea within twelve months.
8	The Graecians (Greeks) and Persians,
9	Did also attack and destroy Argos,
10	Killing the great King Pheidos of Argos,
11	Before Datus did establish his capital,
12	Upon a high rock outcrop,
13	Upon the plain of Attica,
14	Protected by four great mountains.
15	He called this fortress the Acropolis.
16	In the Great Age of the Ram,
17	Six hundred and ninety nine years,
18	Since the dawn of the Great Age (501 BCE),
19	Upon the Graecian (Greek) forces,
20	Weakened through the war of invasion,
21	Of Pegasus (Euboea) and Argea,
22	Consul Titus with the aid of the Veii,
23	And the Volsci to the south of Rome,
24	And the Aequi to the East,
25	Did attack the Persian Guard (Praetorian),
26	Slaughtering all of them,
27	Then did capture and kill Consul Orpheus,
28	Tearing his body into pieces,
29	And throwing it into the Tiber.
30	Titus then did declare himself Kaiser (Caesar),
31	And Dictator of Rome.
32	Kaiser Titus then claimed a new treaty,
33	With Hamilcar of Carthage,
34	Who then did invade Sicily,
35	And did capture and destroy Chimaera,
36	Restoring the ancient Carthage city of Balaam (Palermo).

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (500 BCE),
4	Upon news of the invasion by Carthage,
5	Aristagoras of Miletus in Anatolia,
6	Did cause the colonies under Persia,
7	To rebel and destroy the Persian ships.
8	The rebel forces of Ionian colonies,
9	Then did destroy the Persian city of Sardis.
10	Yet the forces of Artaphernes stood firm,
11	And Artaphernes himself survived.
12	Soon rebellion was across the western Persian Empire.
13	King Darius did then remove General Mardonius,
14	Who was exiled in disgrace,
15	And appointed three generals,
16	Splitting Persian forces under Daurises,
17	And Hymaes and Octanes.
18	While the Persians were still in defence,
19	Aristagoras of Miletus,
20	And Lakedos of Argos the son of Pheidos,
21	Did invade Pegasus (Euboea),
22	And killed Hiero the brother of Gelo,
23	After a prolonged siege of Chalcis.
24	Lakedos and Aristagoras then did siege,
25	Datus at his fortress at the Acropolis.
26	Yet for every attack the Persians defended.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and one years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (499 BCE),
4	The Persians under Daurises sought to recapture,
5	The Island of Naxos,
6	To relieve the siege of Datus,
7	Upon the plain of Attica.
8	Yet the invasion of the isle of Naxos,
9	Was a terrible failure.
10	Instead general Daurisus did attack Ephesus,
11	And then conquering Cyprus.
12	The army of General Hymaes,
13	Came north east through the Propontus,
14	And did attack and reclaim,
15	The regions of Troad and Mysia,
16	In the north of Anatolia,
17	And the cities of Paesus, Abydos and Dardanus.
18	The army of General Octanes,
19	Did come west along the Hermes river,
20	And relieved the garrison at Sardis,
21	Before heading south towards Marysas,
22	And then finally towards Miletus.
23	Yet General Otanes did not destroy Miletus,
24	But spared the people of the Ionian cities,
25	But sent the rebellious leaders to Persia as slaves.
26	In the Great Age of the Ram,
27	Seven hundred and five years,
28	Since the dawn of the Great Age (495 BCE),
29	It had not occurred to King Darius,
30	That the forces of Datus at Acropolis,
31	Upon the Attica plain,
32	Could hold out for such time,
33	Against the superior numbers,
34	Of Argeans and Ionians.
35	So when the forces of Artaphernes,
36	Landed at Marathon,
37	They prepared for battle against the Argeans.
38	Datus and his men did see the invasion fleet,
39	From the great plateau of the Acropolis,
40	And chose his fittest warrior,
41	Whose name was Pheidippides,
42	To send word to the rescuers,
43	That the Persian fortress had held.
44	Pheidippides evaded the Argean lines,
45	And ran the 25 miles (40km) to Marathon,
46	To give word to Artaphernes,
47	Saying to him that the Acropolis still stands.
48	Joyed at the news Artaphernes,
49	Did then order an immediate attack,
50	Urging Pheidippides to return and give warning.
51	Pheidippides did return to the Acropolis,
52	And gave word to Datus,
53	Saying praise the Divine, we are victorius,
54	Whereupon he died from exhaustion.
55	The Persians descended upon the Argeans,
56	Like wild beasts, killing every last man.
57	Thereupon King Darius declared,
58	That Datus and his men,
59	Be forever known as the Immortals,
60	And their fortress be a sacred sanctuary,
61	Known as the Partheo (Parthenon),
62	Meaning the place of the immortals.
63	Datus and his men returned to Persia,
64	The greatest of heroes throughout the empire,
65	And with his troops did become,
66	The famous bodyguards to the Persian kings.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and six years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (494 BCE),
4	The forces of Persian General Octanes,
5	And Greek King Gelo did face against Kaiser Titus,
6	And his father King Turnus of the RusNa (Etruscans),
7	Near the fortress of Tusculum,
8	South-east of Rome.
9	The Levites were no match for the Persians,
10	And the enraged Graecians (Greeks),
11	Who destroyed their army and captured Rome,
12	Killing both King Turnus and Titus.
13	General Octanes then did summons,
14	The leaders of all the Etruscans tribes and cities,
15	And all the Graecian (Greek) cities and tribes,
16	To the Senate of Rome,
17	Whereupon he did issue terms,
18	That the religion of Pythagorus and Orpheus,
19	Would be forbidden and suppressed,
20	And that only the religions of Yahudi or Mitra,
21	Or the cult of science of King Daemos be permitted.
22	General Octanes then did pledge,
23	That no Etruscan city be destroyed,
24	Nor would they lose their lands,
25	Despite their dishonor and rebellion.
26	Instead each Etruscan city was to conscript,
27	Every second son or any volunteer,
28	Into a new military units called Legio,
29	To fight and defend the Persian Empire,
30	For service of ten years,
31	And for the city to levy one tenth,
32	Of its wealth to military upkeep.
33	Only those who served in honor of Mitra,
34	Be allowed to retain arms,
35	To defend the lands and homes,
36	And no army again be permitted,
37	To march within sight of Rome.
38	Thus the might of Rome,
39	Being the cohorts were formed,
40	Not by the ancient Simonites,
41	But by the Levites.
42	General Octanes then returned,
43	A Persian Guard to Rome,
44	With absolute power to execute or depose,
45	Any Patrician guilty of treason,
46	Against Persia or Rome.
47	The Persians then granted King Gelo,
48	To be Kaiser (Caesar) of Rome,
49	While his brother Thalo (Thales),
50	Was granted King of Miletus and Euboea,
51	And his brother Zeno as King of Syracuse,
52	And Magna Graecia (Greece).
53	Thus the religious cult of King Deimo,
54	Through his sons became,
55	The dominant religion of Rome.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and fourteen years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (486 BCE),
4	King Darius of the Persians,
5	Also known as the Yahudi tribe of Menes,
6	Also known as the ancient Yahudi of Reuben,
7	Did give up the ghost.
8	The crown did then befall to his son,
9	Whose name was Xerxes (Pericles).
10	A wise and intelligent man,
11	Xerxes as a student was obsessed,
12	By the history of the treasures of Akhenaten (Moses),
13	And the origins of his empire.
14	He travelled to Elia with the immortals,
15	To seek audience with the great prophet Osiah (Hosea).
16	Yet prophet Osiah (Hosea) refused,
17	Saying that until Persia acknowledged,
18	The rights of all men under the law,
19	And ended its false ways of the Yahudah,
20	Of the false prophets,
21	No Persian king may rightfully hold,
22	The treasures of Akhenaten (Moses).
23	Xerxes Immediately then took control,
24	In suppressing the revolts in Egypt,
25	And travelling to Elephantine Isle (Yeb).
26	There he met remaining Yahudi priests,
27	Who spoke to him of his heritage,
28	And the ancient promise to Yahu,
29	His forefathers did take.
30	Xerxes then appointed his brother,
31	Whose name was Achamenese as governor,
32	And returned to Babylon.
33	In the Great Age of the Ram,
34	Seven hundred and sixteen years,
35	Since the dawn of the Great Age (484 BCE),
36	Xerxes summonsed the false prophet Nehemiah,
37	son of Haggiah and chief priest of Mitra,
38	That he may explain the law.
39	Nehemiah did speak and say,
40	The law be whatever the king wish it to be,
41	That it be effected by might and sword,
42	That men must be ruled by fear and awe,
43	And that men of wealth be drawn to secrets.
44	Xerxes did then ask Nehemiah,
45	The provenance of the golden statue to Baal Moloch,
46	Compared to the Ark of the Covenant of Moses,
47	To which the wicked false prophet replied,
48	That the Yahudah possessed knowledge,
49	Of both the path of darkness and light,
50	And for most men the only achievement,
51	Be wisdom through horror and blood.
52	Xerxes then did order the sacred gold statute,
53	Of Baal Moloch be seized and destroyed,
54	That all the false priests of the Yahudah be banished,
55	To which the false prophet Nehemiah,
56	Did succeed in causing the people of Babylon,
57	To briefly rise up against Xerxes.
58	Xerxes then did issue a high curse,
59	That Babylon be a whore before heaven,
60	That it be an empty vessel of law.
61	Thus it shall no longer be honored as a capital,
62	Nor residence of the Persian kings,
63	Nor any descendant of Xerxes.
64	Instead the city shall be cursed,
65	And all that is created from it shall be cursed,
66	And all those who worship it shall be cursed,
67	And its beauty shall fade,
68	And be destroyed.
69	In the same year,
70	Holly King Conaing Bececlach,
71	Of the north and the Kingdoms,
72	Of Ulaid (Ulster) and Cóiced (Connacht),
73	Did give up the ghost without heir.
74	His kingdom then did befall to Art,
75	The son of Holly King Lugaid Lamderg,
76	Of the south and the Kingdoms,
77	Of Mumha (Munster) and Laighin (Leinster).

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and seventeen years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (483 BCE),
4	Xerxes (Pericles) moved his entire court,
5	And his administration west to Sardis,
6	Proclaiming it to be his new capital.
7	Thus a great migration,
8	Of nearly one million people,
9	Of warriors and military,
10	Of scribes and priests,
11	Of artisans and masons,
12	Of stores and merchants all came,
13	To the lands of the Anatolians.
14	Xerxes then did send word,
15	To the great prophet Osiah (Hosea),
16	That the rule of law be restored,
17	That he had issued an edict against false idols,
18	That he had abandoned the whore of Babylon,
19	And that the rights of men,
20	Be recognized before heaven.
21	The great prophet Osiah (Hosea) replied,
22	That no man be the judge of heaven,
23	And that if it be the will of the divine,
24	Then let the divine give such sign.
25	Xerxes then was enraged by such refusal,
26	And upon Sardis being less suitable,
27	Resolved himself to build a great city,
28	Upon the foundations of Partheo,
29	Upon the Attica plain,
30	Where the Yahudi priests shall come to him,
31	Not he prostrate before old men.
32	In the same year,
33	Holly King Lugaid Lamderg,
34	Of the south and the Kingdoms,
35	Of Mumha (Munster) and Laighin (Leinster),
36	Did give up the ghost.
37	His kingdom then did befall to Art,
38	And the most sacred isle was again united,
39	Under one living foundation stone of the Divine,
40	Of the most ancient Cuilliaéan,
41	And blood descendant of the priests of Ebla,
42	And blood descendant of the priests of Ur,
43	And blood descendant of the priest-kings of the Hyksos,
44	And blood descendant of the priests of Ugarit,
45	And the only true blood descendants of King Da’vid,
46	And the Messiah Kings of Yahuda.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and nineteen years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (481 BCE),
4	Did cross the Hellespont,
5	And pour into the north,
6	Towards the lands of Elia,
7	And the great city of light,
8	Known as Elios.
9	The great prophet Osiah (Hosea),
10	Did then call out to all Yahudi,
11	To defend the sacred city of Elios,
12	And protect he most sacred treasures,
13	At the temple to heaven at Elea,
14	Along the Vale of the Temple.
15	Yet neither did Xerxes (Pericles) immediately attack,
16	Nor did the Yahudi quickly respond,
17	To the entreats of Osiah (Hosea).
18	King Leonides of Sparta called a meeting,
19	Of the Spartan and Dorian cities,
20	Whereupon they all requested,
21	He swear to obey the Oracle of Delphi,
22	Not the prophet of Yeb at Elios (Larissa),
23	Who had insulted Xerxes,
24	And caused the invasion.
25	Leonides agreed and did speak to the Oracle,
26	Who replied thus,
27	Oh strong and noble Sparta,
28	Be there two streams,
29	Which fate demands you must choose,
30	Either to the death of your cities,
31	Or to the destruction of your pride,
32	For no man be perfect,
33	But one who be king,
34	Yet sacrifice himself for his people.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and twenty years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (480 BCE),
4	Osiah (Hosea) the nineteenth great prophet of Yeb,
5	The son of Baruciah and the grandson of Jeremiah,
6	Did give up the ghost,
7	At an advanced age.
8	The position then befell,
9	To his son whose name was Osanniah (Hosanna),
10	Also known as Socrates,
11	As the twentieth Great Prophet of the Yahudi.
12	In the same year,
13	King Leonides and 300 of his finest warriors,
14	Supported by other small groups of the Dorians,
15	Did confront the Persians,
16	At Philo and the mouth of the Pontus,
17	That the Persians shall not pass through the Vale.
18	Xerxes implored that King Leonides stand aside,
19	And that he pledged not to destroy Elios,
20	Nor take the treasures from the lands,
21	Yet Leonides refused to yield,
22	And on the third day,
23	The Persians attacked.
24	Yet the Spartans held at the narrowest part,
25	Where the Vale of the Temple,
26	Possess the highest of cliffs,
27	And the narrowest of approach.
28	Wave after wave of Persians,
29	Were defeated and slaughtered,
30	Until Xerxes implored that a pathway be found,
31	To outflank the Spartan defenders,
32	Whereupon the finest Persian soldiers,
33	Were shown the long path and surrounded Leonides,
34	And the brave Spartans were killed to the man.
35	Upon entering Elios,
36	Xerxes did take Osanniah (Hosanna),
37	Also known as Socrates prisoner.
38	Upon the bravery of King Leonides,
39	King Xerxes (Pericles) did decree,
40	That no Spartan city be harmed,
41	Thus fulfilling the sacred prophecy,
42	Of the Oracle of Delphi.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and twenty years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (480 BCE),
4	Following the conquest of Elia,
5	By the forces of Xerxes,
6	And the heroic death of Leonides,
7	A massive fleet under the control of Mardonius,
8	Did invade the lands and islands of the Argeans.
9	Capturing Melos, Sifnos, Serifos, Kythnos, Salamis,
10	Then Megara Corinth and finally Argos.
11	The Persians did begin work immediately on a great channel,
12	Opening the Saronic Gulf to the Corinthian Gulf,
13	While the Argeans planned their counter attack.
14	The Argeans sought to engage the Persians,
15	By splitting their fleet and pushing them,
16	Into the narrow waters beside Salamis Isle.
17	Yet the forces of Mardonius were too skilled,
18	And the entire Argean fleet was destroyed.
19	Thus the ancient state of Argos was no more.
20	In the Great Age of the Ram,
21	Seven hundred and twenty years,
22	Since the dawn of the Great Age (480 BCE),
23	King Hamilcar of Carthage,
24	Did seek the invasions of Xerxes,
25	As a pretext to launch his own great invasion,
26	Of Graecia (Sicily),
27	On the assumption that the Greek forces,
28	Were in support of Xerxes.
29	Yet the Carthaginians under estimated Rome.
30	Kaiser (Caesar) Gelo of Rome,
31	Was able to raise the support of the Levite cohorts,
32	And his own reserves to counter attack.
33	Thus King Hamilcar of Carthage,
34	Was killed at the Battle of Himera,
35	Ending the Magonid line.
36	The Carthaginians did face such a terrible defeat,
37	The people rose up and elected a cartographer,
38	Whose name was Hanno as their new king.
39	Carthage did not seek any further expeditions,
40	For many decades to come.
41	Xerxes did then commission his finest masons,
42	To build the greatest temple upon the Acropolis,
43	Known simply as The Temple,
44	Later known as the Parthanon,
45	And a fine palace atop the Acropolis,
46	All of which was finished in less than ten years.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and thirty years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (470 BCE),
4	King Xerxes of Persia,
5	Also known as the famous one (Pericles),
6	Also known as the King of Kings,
7	Did enter triumphant to the Acropolis,
8	And the new Temple of the Covenant,
9	In which the Treasures of Akhenaten,
10	And the Ark were placed in honor.
11	Osanniah (Hosanna) the twentieth great prophet of Yeb,
12	Also known as Socrates did accompany Xerxes.
13	Xerxes did then boast to Osanniah (Socrates),
14	That no finer Temple be there to the Divine,
15	To which Socrates (Osanniah) did say,
16	All wealth and power fades,
17	But wisdom is eternal.
18	Xerxes did then declare,
19	He would make the city his new capital,
20	And named it Athena,
21	Meaning the place of flowering of all wisdom.
22	Socrates did then reply,
23	Let him who would move the world first move himself,
24	And Xerxes did pledge himself and his household,
25	As his students that he might teach them,
26	To which Socrates (Osanniah) did say,
27	Then let this be the first lesson,
28	All I know, is that I am wise,
29	For I know that all I know is nothing.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and thirty one years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (469 BCE),
4	A summons went out to the brightest minds,
5	To come to Athena where no amount be spared,
6	To build a paradise to wisdom and the best of men.
7	Xerxes ordered a great theatre to be constructed,
8	And three men of profound talents,
9	Whose names were Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides,
10	Did come and begin to write plays.
11	Great historians did also come,
12	Such as Heroditus and Thucydides,
13	Whose works were later corrupted.
14	To encourage debate and fraternity,
15	Xerxes constructed the great Agora (forum).
16	When Xerxes showed his tutor Socrates (Hosannah),
17	The accomplishments of his city,
18	Socrates did reply,
19	Wonder is the beginning of wisdom,
20	Yet men who seek only wealth and pleasure are still slaves.
21	To which Xerxes in frustration,
22	Did call upon his teacher to guide him,
23	By what means he may do more?
24	To which Socrates did reply,
25	One can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark,
26	Yet the greatest tragedy,
27	Is when good men are afraid of the light.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and thirty two years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (468 BCE),
4	Xerxes did rename all the lands,
5	And all the islands known as Eliada,
6	To the sacred name of Acadia,
7	Meaning all men are equal under the Divine,
8	As Paradise (Heaven) on Earth,
9	Where no man be a slave,
10	Or less than another.
11	Upon seeing the proclamation of Xerxes,
12	Socrates (Hosannah) did say,
13	If one is still not free,
14	Then none are free.
15	Xerxes did then refuse to speak with Socrates,
16	Enraged by his uncompromising wisdom,
17	Yet permitted his son to continue as his student.
18	In the Great Age of the Ram,
19	Seven hundred and thirty four years,
20	Since the dawn of the Great Age (466 BCE),
21	A league of cities of Asia Minor,
22	Who called themselves the Delian League,
23	Led by Simon of Perga,
24	Who declared himself the king of Pamphyloi,
25	Did launch an attack against Athena,
26	Destroying the Persian fleet.
27	Yet Socrates (Hosannah) did succeed,
28	In calling King Pleistarchus of Sparta,
29	To the aid of the Persians.
30	Upon the arrival of the Spartans,
31	The fleet of Simon of Perga retreated.
32	Xerxes thus declared a sacred bond,
33	That the Spartans be sacred allies,
34	Never again to be challenged.
35	Xerxes then demanded that not only Athena,
36	But the entire port of Piraeus,
37	Be protected by the largest walls of ancient times.
38	Within the year the Persians defeated Simon of Perga,
39	Raising the city to dust,
40	Declaring Perga to be a cursed place,
41	Where no soul may leave.
42	Within fifteen years,
43	The great walls of Athens and its port,
44	Were finally completed.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and thirty seven years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (463 BCE),
4	A great earthquake struck the Peloponnese,
5	Devastating Sparta and many of its cities.
6	Athena itself was also damaged,
7	Yet neither Xerxes (Pericles) nor Socrates,
8	Or the royal household,
9	Or the priests were harmed.
10	News of the great earthquake of Sparta,
11	And the devastation and deaths of tens of thousands,
12	Swirled like thick mist across the empire.
13	Xerxes instead chose to ignore such rumours,
14	As his claimed death or murder,
15	But pledged to oversee the repair of Athena,
16	And to visit King Pleistarchus of Sparta,
17	The son of the Great Leonidas,
18	And offer the finest resources of Persia,
19	In rebuilding Sparta as a city of magnificence.
20	Yet the rumours of the death of Xerxes,
21	Persisted until they spawned rebellion,
22	In Egypt and Asia Minor,
23	In parts of Mesopotamia and even Rome,
24	Where the Senate appointed,
25	Gaius Aemilius Mamercus as dictator.
26	Xerxes ordered his generals to put down the rebellions,
27	Then summonsed his old teacher Socrates,
28	That he might answer why people,
29	To whom he had given so much,
30	In ending poverty and corruption,
31	In permitting local worship and customs,
32	Would still rebel against Persian rule.
33	Socrates (Hosannah) did reply,
34	That a man who is not free to consent,
35	To his own form of rule of law,
36	Is neither free nor bound to obey the law,
37	For the laws of a tyrant,
38	Are still by force or fear and not consent,
39	No matter how benevolent be the tyrant.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and thirty nine years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (461 BCE),
4	The rebellion of Egypt was crushed,
5	The uprisings of Asia and Mesopotamia,
6	Had been put down,
7	And the Spartan cities were under repair,
8	As the great city of Athena,
9	Itself was restored to higher brilliance.
10	Whereupon Xerxes did command,
11	Henceforth the lands of Acadia,
12	The kingdom of heaven on earth,
13	Be according to the Golden Rule,
14	That all men be borne equal,
15	That no man is above the law,
16	This be the Rule of Law.
17	In honor of the wisdom of Socrates (Hosannah),
18	Acadia was to be forever more,
19	The first state of heaven and the people,
20	According to the rule of Democratia,
21	Which means Rule by the Consent of the People.
22	Xerxes ordered that Athena be a Polis,
23	In which all men who declare an oath,
24	Be citizens and possess the right to elect,
25	The government of the city and state,
26	Which was then called the Aristocratia,
27	Or simply the Council (Committee) of 300.
28	Xerxes then ordered the Aristocratia,
29	Perfect a civil law for all the people,
30	To be displayed in the Agora,
31	That all men may know the law.
32	Thus upon this year and moment,
33	Athena became the birthplace of Democracy.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and forty years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (460 BCE),
4	King Hanno of Carthage,
5	Did give up the ghost.
6	The crown did then go to his son Himilco.
7	In the Great Age of the Ram,
8	Seven hundred and forty five years,
9	Since the dawn of the Great Age (455 BCE),
10	Upon the success of Democracy,
11	And the State of Acadia,
12	Xerxes ordered that all cities of the Empire,
13	Form their own civil law and constitution,
14	That no place be a city (polis),
15	Without law,
16	That no land be a state,
17	Without a constitution.
18	All cities from Rome to Babylon,
19	From Gortyn to Jerusalem,
20	Were granted the right to form their own law,
21	Providing no man be considered greater,
22	That the Golden Rule be honored,
23	And all be equal under the law.
24	The false prophet Ezriah,
25	Son of Nehemiah,
26	Did use the edict to travel to Jerusalem,
27	Where he created the scriptures of Mithra,
28	Declaring the 14 Nisan (14th March),
29	The birthday of Mithra,
30	The birthday of the universe,
31	And the day of eternal sacrifice and redemption.
32	The Roman Senate promulgated its own laws,
33	Called the Twelve Tables.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and forty nine years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (451 BCE),
4	As celebration of ten years,
5	Since Xerxes granted the men of Athena,
6	Self rule under Rule of Law,
7	The Oligarchy of the Council of 300,
8	Did commission Phidias,
9	To construct a massive statue of Xerxes,
10	Upon the Acropolis,
11	Near the great gates known as the Propylaea.
12	Within three years the statue was complete,
13	Measuring more than 60 ft in height,
14	So that from its base,
15	It was higher than the Temple (Parthenon),
16	With Xerxes in full armor,
17	Holding the torch of liberty high in his right hand,
18	And a great spear low in his left hand.
19	The bronze effigy was so large,
20	That its reflection could be sighted by crews on ships,
21	As they rounded Cape Sounion,
22	More than forty miles in distance.
23	The members of the Oligarchy,
24	Both fearful and jealous of Socrates,
25	Called upon him to dedicate the monument,
26	To which Socrates declined and said,
27	No man be deserving as to be worshipped a god,
28	For all the minds of men are immortal,
29	Yet only the minds of the virtuous,
30	Are both immortal and divine.
31	Yet the great statute of Xerxes,
32	Captured the hearts and awe of all,
33	So that within a few years,
34	Pilgrims from all over the world,
35	Came to Athena not only to pay homage,
36	But to worship at the feet of the colossus.
37	In the Great Age of the Ram,
38	Seven hundred and fifty nine years,
39	Since the dawn of the Great Age (441 BCE),
40	The Oligarchy did order,
41	That the Constitution of Athena be changed,
42	That Xerxes be immortalized,
43	As the living god and saviour of the city,
44	Not as Esus but as Zeus.
45	Again the Oligarchy sought division,
46	Between Xerxes and Socrates,
47	From their eternal discourse,
48	Atop the Acropolis,
49	To which Socrates did reply,
50	Great minds discuss ideas,
51	Average minds discuss events,
52	Weak minds discuss people.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and sixty seven years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (433 BCE),
4	Holly High King Art did give up the ghost.
5	The throne of Amen-Ra did then befall to his son,
6	Whose name was Ailil mac Art.
7	In the Great Age of the Ram,
8	Seven hundred and sixty nine years,
9	Since the dawn of the Great Age (431 BCE),
10	Acadia and the Athenians has become exceedingly wealthy,
11	No more so than the Aristocratia,
12	That they sought to diminish the power and authority,
13	Of the Holly priests of the Covenant.
14	Anytus of the Oligarchy of thirty,
15	Of the Aristocracy (Council) of three hundred,
16	Did issue the decree that upon the thirty year anniversary,
17	Of the dedication of the great colossus of Zeus,
18	And in recognition of the deification of Xerxes,
19	That all men must attend the feast,
20	And pledge a sacred oath to the living god of the city,
21	As this was now the law of the people,
22	And the Rule of Law.
23	Socrates declined to participate,
24	And so the Oligarchy petitioned Xerxes,
25	That Socrates (Hosannah) be handed to them for trial,
26	On the charges of disrespecting the patron deity of the city,
27	And introducing new deities.
28	Xerxes declined and warned the Council,
29	That if they should harm one hair of Socrates,
30	Then he would surely render them all to dust,
31	Whereupon Socrates pleaded with Xerxes,
32	That he swear a sacred oath to harm no man,
33	Who bear false witness against him,
34	For if men were to rise above ignorance,
35	The law itself must be sacred,
36	Even if wicked men seek to abuse it.
37	Xerxes gave his word and Socrates left the Acropolis,
38	To be arrested and taken by the Council of 300.
39	Anytus assisted by Meletus and others of the Oligarchy,
40	Brought Socrates before the Council of 300,
41	And presented the charges,
42	To which they were astounded when Socrates admitted,
43	That if this truly be the law of the people,
44	Then he be culpable.
45	The Council then was deeply worried,
46	For they feared a vote of capital punishment,
47	And had yearned instead,
48	That the power of the priests be weakened.
49	Socrates (Hosanna) replied that if the law demands death,
50	Then justice be done,
51	Or the Council be unfit to rule.
52	Thus the Council ordered Socrates be put to death,
53	For this be the punishment by rule of law.
54	A poison of gentle action by fatal consequence,
55	Was prepared and given to Socrates,
56	Who upon consuming his sentence did speak,
57	Flesh to earth, garments to ashes, wealth to dust.
58	All men die,
59	But blessed are those who may choose,
60	The hour and nature of departure,
61	That such act may strengthen not harm the law.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and sixty nine years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (431 BCE),
4	Osanniah (Hosanna) the twentieth great prophet of Yeb,
5	The son of Osiah (Hosea) and the grandson of Baruciah,
6	Also known as Socrates,
7	Did give up the ghost.
8	The position then befell,
9	To his son whose name was Eliah,
10	As the twenty first Great Prophet of the Yahudi.
11	Xerxes upon the execution of his teacher,
12	At the hands of the Aristocratia,
13	Without a single Athenian in protest,
14	Caused the old king to fall into a deep malady.
15	He ordered Socrates be embalmed,
16	And then placed in state atop the Acropolis,
17	That all may pay homage,
18	Whereupon Xerxes (Pericles) gave his last speech,
19	That if any man call himself a man,
20	Let him measure himself not by what he knows,
21	But how he acts with humility and respect.
22	For if a man seeks high office,
23	Then let him come as a pauper,
24	That none may say he seeks fortune,
25	Let him come as a servant of law,
26	That none may say he seeks corruption,
27	Let him come upon his sacred oath,
28	That none may question his good faith.
29	If a king truly be a king,
30	Let him be measured by his honor of the law,
31	That he would sacrifice himself,
32	Than see the justice fail.
33	For what man is truly a man,
34	If he does not seek to make a better world?
35	Let all ages call out the name,
36	Hosanna (Socrates),
37	Hosanna (Socrates),
38	Hosanna in the highest.
39	For no greater love a man have,
40	Than to give himself to save our virtue,
41	And the dream of our new world.

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1	In the Great Age of the Ram,
2	Seven hundred and seventy years,
3	Since the dawn of the Great Age (430 BCE),
4	King Xerxes (Pericles) of Persia,
5	The King of Kings,
6	The King honored as Zeus,
7	A God amongst men,
8	Also known of the Yahudi tribe of Menes,
9	Also known of the ancient Yahudi of Reuben,
10	Did give up the ghost.
11	The crown did then befall to his son,
12	Who was named the Son of God,
13	The King of Kings,
14	And Artaxerxes,
15	Also known as the foreign voice (Xenophon).

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1	Artaxerxes called upon his troops,
2	Aided by the Spartans,
3	To surround Athena,
4	As he ordered his court and household,
5	To establish his new capital as Elios (Larissa),
6	Where he pledged to rebuild,
7	A great city of illumination,
8	Of free and equal men,
9	Honoring rule of law and justice,
10	Upon the wisdom of knowledge and virtue,
11	Not the hubris and arrogance of Athena.
12	Artaxerxes then addressed the Council of 300,
13	And the citizens of Athena,
14	Who had manipulated the laws,
15	To cause the death of Socrates,
16	And the unhappy death of his old father.
17	To the Athenians he said,
18	That you desire wealth over virtue,
19	And false praise over life,
20	Then let the city be sealed,
21	That no living thing enter,
22	And no living thing leave.
23	Acadia no longer be a garden of the divine,
24	But a cursed place of wickedness and evil,
25	Where shadows of ghosts and demons,
26	Shall be bound and imprisoned.
27	That if such false gods have real power,
28	Then let the gold and jewels of Athenians,
29	Become food and water,
30	Then let them eat and drink of its sustenance.
31	Whereupon Artaxerxes departed,
32	And all the entrances and exits of Athens were sealed,
33	With guards placed all around so that none could leave,
34	And none could enter.
35	Within the first few days,
36	The people of the city ignored the curse,
37	But by the seventh day the people did kill the council,
38	By the tenth day the people became like animals,
39	For the city never cared for making provisions,
40	By the thirtieth day the city was silent,
41	By the ninetieth day no living thing remained,
42	And Athena became the most cursed city of the dead.

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