The Barbarian Bible

by Ianto Watt

  But the problem for the western Greeks was that this open frontal aggression against Troy had been totally unsuccessful. There was no glory in that lack of success and so there would be no fame for the western Greeks. That wouldn’t do. No, there had to be a way. And there was. It was through deception, which is the theme of The Odyssey, which was to become the New Testament of the Pagan Greek world. And it would carry through until today, in the form of the Russian Orthodox Church, which coincidentally originated in the Greek Orthodox Church. Deceit became the new Operating System in the Pagan world, and it still is today.

  So how did this deception work? Easily enough. All you have to do is appear to disappear. And there is a disturbing parallel here in our day, by the way. Just read New Lies for Old by Anatoly Golitsyn, the highest ranking KGB defector ever, and his story of how the (Communist) Russians would undo the West, by deceit. But we’ll get to that later. For now, let’s look at The Odyssey.

  The Odyssey is the New Testament of the Pagan Greeks, and its theme is deception. The Odyssey is the story of the 10 year trek of Odysseus on his way home from Troy after its fall. And throughout this time, through all of his trials and tribulations (like being captured by Polyphemus, the Cyclopes) he escapes each and every situation through his cunning deceptions of his enemies and friends alike. And for this, he is known to history as ‘The Man of Many Devices’. In other words, he’s a really accomplished liar. In fact, in The Odyssey, he makes the claim to be the grandson (of Autolycus) of the world’s greatest thief. And the book itself is really the celebration of his well-earned claim to the throne of the world’s greatest liar, alongside the throne his grandfather held.

  So what does all this mean? Quite simply that deception trumps open aggression, and that glory and fame are best achieved through lies. Deception has replaced Wrath as the premier Operating System of the day in the ancient Pagan world. And the biggest triumph of this theme was the deception of The Trojan Horse. And now we get to the meat of this story. And a good part of the remainder of this book is the constant reminder that the victors usually get to write the (deceptive) histories of their victories.

  And so, we’re now at a point of confusion. If the story of the Fall of Troy wasn’t told in The Illiad or The Odyssey, and yet it survives everywhere to this day, where did it come from? Who related it to us, and how was it preserved? And what are the relevant passages that have led me to my conclusion that this story of The Trojan Horse is the kernel of understanding all of history (outside of Israel) from this point onward? And what is the meaning of The Iliad and The Odyssey? One thing at a time, grandson. First let’s look at the actual story of the Fall of Troy, and who related this story to us in its fullness.

  Well, grandson, the story of the actual events that occurred at the Fall of Troy are told to us by a man known as Quintus of Smyrna, in his ancient work known as the Post-Homerica, or more popularly known as The War at Troy, or alternatively, What Homer Didn’t Tell.

  Now here, I will engage in a bit of speculation, not about the story, but of Quintus, the author of this work, and of Homer, the reputed author of The Illiad and The Odyssey. And in doing so, I will enrage the Weiner-Dog literary scholars of the day, for I will engage in literary heresy against the prevailing wisdom of this age. But that will be fun for me, because you generally can’t go wrong when you doubt the ‘wise men’ of our age, and their arrogant ‘enlightened’ presumptions.

  They will tell you that their work of knowing the truth about these ancient authors is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But hell, these guys generally couldn’t find the Titanic in a haystack. Why is that? Because they’re paid not to find it. They’re not really stupid, as they do know which side their bread is buttered on. Their real talent lies in spending an entire career examining some trite detail that, even if it was finally proven to be true (which they never claim it is) wouldn’t change their historic outlook, because their outlook is ‘we can’t really know anything before the Beatles came’. Meanwhile the true train of history has left the station 3100 years ago. Oh well, let’s get on with it.

  Quintus, the Winer-Dogs tell us, wrote his story of the fall of Troy after Homer wrote his stories of the lead-up to the war (The Iliad) and the aftermath of that same war (The Odyssey). Think about that for a moment. Now reflect on the fact that there is no agreement amongst these Weiner Dogs on the actual time of Homer’s lifetime, and even less of Quintus’ life. In other words, they don’t know anything for certain, and they admit it. They are just speculating, based on linguistic or stylistic evidence that may or may not have any significance. Except for the fact that their arguments keep them occupied, and earn them tenure at institutions that are designed to self-perpetuate this kind of actual avoidance of real learning (as it is played out in most modern universities).

  One of the few honest remarks about this kind of academic scuffling comes from the introduction to the translation of Quintus, by Frederick Combellack: “In sum, the evidence at our disposal is inadequate to support any certain conclusions about Quintus’ date.”23 Truer words were never spoken. Thank you, Frederick! After all, Quintus was, at the very least, a lot closer to the time of Troy than the university types of today are.

  Now let’s ask ourselves a silly question: why would someone (Homer) compose the ‘prequel’ and the ‘sequel’ to the greatest story of the ancient world (the Fall of Troy), if the story of the fall itself had never been told? And if it hadn’t been told by Quintus before Homer composed The Iliad and The Odyssey, why wouldn’t Homer have included this integral and most important part of the overall saga himself? You see where I’m going here? Why would there be such widespread ancient knowledge of the central element of the overall story (the Fall of Troy) without the existence of the original work of The Fall. Why, especially if the prequel and sequel were so important that they had to be created? In other words, why would we think Quintus composed his work after Homer composed his?

  Let’s put it this way. Why did George Lucas write the sequence of ‘Star Wars’ like he did? Didn’t he actually write the central and most compelling part of the whole space saga first, the part that provides the linkage to all the prequels and sequels spawned by the original story of Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader? And only then, when the central story (composed of a familiar storyline of deceit, treachery, resistance and escape) captured the imagination of the public, did he bother to write the lead-in and follow-up stories that simply served to expand on the original themes in the first and most important part of the overall story? And to make more money too, of course. I can certainly understand that motive.

  Do you hear what I’m saying? Yes, I’m saying that the people of the Greek-speaking world were captivated by the central point of the original story, which was a story of the treachery that subverted and destroyed the Kingdom of Troy. The story of the Trojan Horse. The story of who dreamed it up (Odysseus), and how it was carried out, and most importantly, who resisted it, and how he (Aeneas) escaped, and went on to found a new and greater kingdom (Rome) that would eventually eclipse the entire Greek world, east and west. In fact, isn’t this really what ‘Star Wars’ was really about in so many ways, in a modern version?

  So, what was this story Quintus left us? It was the story of the method and means of deceit. This act of deceit was carried out by the man who claimed to be the world’s greatest liar; Odysseus. The Trojan Horse was the quintessential act that brought him this undeniable fame as ‘The Man of Many Devices’. All the other stories of his other feats as told in The Odyssey pale in comparison to the brilliance of this one act. Why? Because this one act, unlike his other, lesser feats, was cloaked in the disguise of sorrow and repentance and apology. This act was one that seemingly repudiated the Operating System of the pagan Old Testament (The Iliad) which was steeped in open aggression, in wrath. And it was a repudiation of that wrath of Achilles, but not because Odysseus was sorry for what this wrath hath wrought. In fact, Odysseus was very angry that the war had not be
en successful. But being a smarter guy than Achilles (who died fruitlessly in battle), Odysseus determined that he would find another, better way to bring Troy to its knees. And he found it in the Lie of Insincerity. Let me recount the tale.

  Odysseus, upon seeing that Achilles had died, and that the western Greeks had lost heart, proposed that they deceive the Trojans by appearing to have left the plains of Troy and sailed for home. In other words, to appear to disappear. But that was only the beginning, because this act in and of itself would gain them nothing. The key would be to find a way to smuggle a contingent of warriors into the city of Troy who could then open the city gates in the dead of night, when the rest of the western Greeks unexpectedly returned. And Odysseus knew that if he dressed this whole play up in the clothes of apparent defeat (for the western Greeks), the Trojans would become delirious with relief, and let down their guard. And get drunk (literally) with the belief they were now safe. Remember this phrase; ‘peace and security’. It will come again. Just as it was prophesied in 1st Thessalonians (more Greeks!) 5:3; ‘For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them’.

  Odysseus knew that the only way to penetrate the walls of Troy was to promise peace and security, by the apparent disappearance of the western Greeks. But Odysseus knew there had to be something more, something that would provide a vehicle with which to smuggle in the contingent of subversives who would be able to unlock the gates from the inside. And that vehicle, literally, was the Trojan Horse.

  Odysseus knew that the Greek way of battle and war was to take spoils while vaunting over a vanquished foe who, preferably, was suffering from a mortal wound and who was begging for mercy. Of course, no mercy was ever granted. And about 30% of The Illiad is taken up with the various recounting of these kinds of encounters. And each of these encounters would invariably end with a description of the booty stripped from the fallen warrior by the victorious warrior, and it always started with the fallen one’s armour. Really, some of these guys like Achilles must have had 500 sets of armour. What was the point? Proof of the victor’s fame and glory, at someone else’s expense, naturally!

  Anyway, Odysseus knew that this desire for a physical totem of victory would drive the Trojans to take whatever was left on the battlefield, in order to memorialize their great defensive victory against the overwhelming force they had withstood for 10 years. And why not? After all, it was a pretty heroic stand, if you ignore the idiotic reason they were fighting (for Helen). Personally, if I was King Priam of Troy, I’da tossed the bitch. And Paris too. ‘Here, take them both, now go back home, you idiots!’ That’s what I would have said. And in fact, some of Paris’ brothers had counseled their father Priam exactly that way early on in the war. But hey, Paris was Daddy Priam’s favorite son and after all, he took Helen fair and square, by Greek rules, right? And hadn’t the goddess Aphrodite promised Helen to Paris as a bribe for picking Aphrodite as the fairest of the goddesses in the Olympic dispute amongst the gods over the Golden Apple? That’s what you get for listening to women! That shows you how stupid most men are. Remember that, grandson. Never listen to women, especially when they are crying. When they’re crying, they’re lying. Except your mother, of course.

  And Odysseus, being the keen judge of human nature that he was, knew that he had to leave some object on the empty battlefield. Why? So that when the sun rose on it, the Trojans would be transfixed on it. It would become the symbol of their ‘victory’. But it had to be big enough to hold a pretty good sized troop of men who could, if necessary, battle their way to the gates to open them, once the Horse was inside the walls. But Odysseus was even smarter than that. He decided to make this object so big that the Trojans would have to actually take part of their gates down to get it inside! And to make it easy for the stupid Trojans, whatever the object was, he would have to put it on wheels, so as to lead the Trojans to the idiotic conclusion that it should be brought inside the city as a symbol of victory, because after all, it had wheels!

  So, what should this object be? It couldn’t just be a bunch of abandoned armour, as that would afford no opportunity to hide men in amongst them. Same problem with most siege engines. And it couldn’t be a memorial barrow, as that would be immoveable. It couldn’t be a statue of one of the gods, because whichever god or goddess they picked, that would offend all the other gods who weren’t picked. I’m not kidding, these Olympians were super jealous of each other and were always looking out for their own Fame and Glory, and no opportunity was to be ignored. No, it had to be something that was desirable to men, especially warlike men.

  A statue of a woman wouldn’t do either, because everyone was sick of the whole war fought for the sake of an unfaithful woman. This didn’t leave a whole lot of choices, as there weren’t a lot of ‘things’ in that world. Pretty soon, the choice was narrowed down to an animal, a noble animal, something every man aspired to own. No aardvarks for this mission! And given the number of episodes in The Iliad describing the battles and resultant booty that included noble horses, the choice was simple. A horse. A giant horse.

  A rider-less black horse left on the battlefield by a retreating enemy was just the symbol of victory the Trojans would fall for! And so they did. And the wheels would simply symbolize the essence of the horse, which is mobile by nature. What self-respecting Greek wouldn’t go for it? It would be the first pony car, the first Mustang. Never mind the fact that it was a black horse, which symbolizes ‘Mystery, death, night, secret, messenger of esoteric knowledge’24 according to various pagan websites. Besides, the symbol of Troy was a black horse! What better object could you find to appeal to everyone inside Troy?

  So once again, Odysseus had divined the weaknesses of men to find just the right message to sell his lie to the weary (but proud) Trojans. And why wouldn’t the Trojans fall for it? Who would believe that the western Greeks would engage in such an outrageous scheme? After all, these were macho men who believed in open aggression. Surely this Horse then was left as a sacrificial gift to the gods by the western Greeks asking for a safe return home, since the horse, in Greek mythology, was originally the creation of Poseidon, god of the seas, over which the western Greeks would have to travel on their way home, right? Too bad everyone inside Troy forgot that horses are also associated with Pluto, the god of the Underworld, and Ares (Mars), the god of war. Everyone forgot except Laocoon, the Trojan seer who warned the Trojans not to bring the damned thing inside. And Cassandra, Paris’ sister who had the gift of prophecy (and the curse of having no one believe her). Well, that’s what happens in the euphoria of (apparent) victory.

  And so, Odysseus set to work building the horse, a horse big enough to hold 52 men, by some accounts (Quintus says it was more than 30). And he recruits a man willing to stay behind, seemingly abandoned by the retreating western Greeks in their haste to leave. This man, Sinon, was prepped with a cute little story that the horse was an offering to the goddess Athena, who was one of the 3 goddesses that were fighting over the golden apple of discord that eventually led to Paris’ abduction/ seduction of Helen. It was Athena’s temple in Troy that had been desecrated before the war by Odysseus, naturally, who stole the likeness of Athena (the Palladium) from her temple. Why? Well, he had been told by a seer that the western Greeks would never win while this statue remained in the Trojan temple.

  Supposedly the horse was built in three days, by Epius, the master builder. And Sinon was prepped by Odysseus to lie to the Trojans, telling them that Odysseus was intending to sacrifice him to the gods to allay their anger at the western Greeks. Furthermore, Sinon was to say that when he found out he was to be sacrificed, he ran to the horse and threw himself upon its feet, seeking refuge from the goddess Athena, to whom the horse was supposedly dedicated by the western Greeks. After all, if you were making a gift (the Horse) to Athena, then it wouldn’t be proper to drag away a man who was seeking protection in her name, right? It all fit together so well, just like all of Odysseus’ lies. Really good liars ar
e so hard to find.

  This guy Odysseus, he was good, he knew how to cover his tracks. And like the best of liars, he used Liar’s Logic to discern that the men of Troy, who had so recently been in the grip of Fear, would immediately flip to become men of Pride upon their discovery that the western Greeks had (apparently) left, defeated. Now think about this. For 10 years, you’ve battled courageously every day, yet you were gripped by fear. Then the new day dawns, and through no effort or courage of your own, the enemy vanishes. And you suddenly become proud. Proud of what? That you lasted 10 years? That you still have Helen, who cost you almost everything? That you have this crazy horse sitting outside your walls? Well, logic is no match for euphoria, and it lost big-time that day too.

  All of this was in spite of Laocoon’s warnings and Cassandra’s prophetic speeches. Nobody wanted to hear that the war was still on. And so, it’s party time!!! Drag that thing in, it’s Miller Time! Check out these wheels! Wow, aren’t we Trojans great??!!

  Well, the rest of the horse tale is known by all. In the dead of night, the warriors emerge and open the gates to greet their compatriots who have sailed back in the night, and then the real victory party begins. Troy is sacked. Priam and all his sons are killed, and his virgin daughter, Polyxena, is sacrificed to Achilles’ still-wrathful spirit. That act alone tells you everything about Pagan Greek religion. But that isn’t the point of this story, because the story line is about to change. The story lines of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Wrath and Deceit, (the Old and New Testaments of the Pagan world) are about to experience a repudiation. That repudiation is where this story, my version of true history, is going.

  And the partying of the Trojans, while nearing its disastrous end, is about to be matched by the end of the party the western Greeks are planning. It will be the end of them both, for the next 3,100 years. Till today, when everyone has forgotten (or never knew) what the real ending of the War at Troy was all about. It was about Rome, and the massive paradigm shift that was about to occur. And it was all because one man escaped. One man, of royal blood, one man who would repudiate both Wrath and Deceit. One man who would escape and go on to found the city that would rule the world till the end of time.