The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-19
Dla Creek. Come From Greeees

l the Creek Indians are descended from the ancient Greeks. MT. Eupann . a Tahlequah. has made this @ or,tcis subject of a very interesting MTuclo which recently appeared in the et quah Leader from which we quote aS length, as follows: .-rn. ,r.,,r Mr. Parsons. the author oi ssvs. 1 Light from the Great Pyram,a, sMrss'
 Recently in translattng the Ne" | lament into the language or the SreeH | Indians the constitution or the Crssh nlsngrsage nIsss was found remarNa0'' ~ | Count volney says: Tn the trees oreens of Homer I find the customs. aiscourses and manners of the Iroquols, DeiawIh Dia~aho | and Miamis. The trageoies e Ua sIr,ost literally, the sentiment of the req msn % respecting necessity, fatality ana the reign of blind destiny" ..h
 Passing over the religious a1 tha | CT customs peculiar and common t1 t the Cherokees and Greek. wish 10 cali sne | attention of the interested reaaer Io
 statement made by Plutarcn' the ure l clan philosopher who teIs tman .,as,a sns ss Greeks at one time made vSyaks | through the Mediterranean 10 tne At lantic and up to what Is now known as the British Isles, and thence vest 70 an island called by the Greeks osys.n an
 and finally landed on the American coast. This place of landing IS sup l posed to have been somewhere oetWeen Florida and New York. These voyases | were known as the Saturnian voyags es of the Greeks. because the voyages were made by the Greeks every tnlrty years. when the plant Saturn enteIea the constellation Bull, Amerlca ae IIaS ihas time, according to Plutarch. was caiieo the Land of Hercules. ., l.
 This statement made by Plutarch IS to say the least. remarkably strange but no more wonderfull than tne cus
 roborating statement maoe sne rae lating to the coming Of a race ot peo- pie to America at time unknown m years. These people were called py the Cherokees, oh-tsa.yi, aooSo sna So rnaas ms known that they were from the lslano of Ogygia- The Cherokee word on, tsa-yi also means copper. The Iuii
 name of these strange people Wno to the legends and language or tne Cherokees. was Oh-tsa-yi Di-gan-oa- yo-hi, which means Copper-the. shoot- CT. or shooter with dirt marbles or
 Now, simple as these Cherokee words are, they nevertheless give us clue to who these people were tnat through the North American continent especially around Lake Superior.
 This Supported Cherokee word TOT copper was also given to the foreign race who came to America ana mlneo the Ogygian Greek. These Ogysian or Copper Greeks were called the ground shooters because they were con
 stantly employed in sinking snaits ging in mining for minerals: Di-ga- da-yoh-hi also means a marble player or golf player, for, according to the Cherokee story. the game played oe- of Man was played with sticks Plu- tarch tolls us that the Greeks made great preparation for the sacrifices and games before coming to the land of
 Now. falling back upon what lin- guists call comparative phtlology or one tribe or nation of people with the language of another tribe or nation' however far apart they may be sepa- rated from one another geographically, and we find that their language is similar in connection, sound Of words and meaning. we come to the conclus- ion that they, were, at some time or another. intimately associated with one another. Applying this rule we find what follows not only remarkable but most interesting. It must be under stood that the Cherokees are an off- shoot or branch of the Iroquois family. Now. in the mountain dialect of the Cherokee language lroquois means snail. The snail was an emblem of the sun, which was called El-Uc-Or. In the valley dialect the name for the snail was El-la-quo. Ah-tsi-E Fila quo. being the real name of the Chero- k6eS, means the IILle Sudils UT SuH Now why is 1t that the Greeks of Del phi were anciently known as Lycor- ians-El- yet or (ians). That the letter ''l' in the word Lycorian, Is to be pro- nounced as separate syllable is very evident from the following: The sun was anciently called El-Uc. which Ue Greeks changed to Lucos. The sun was called El-Uc-or, which, the Greeks evident from the proof given that the Iroquois Is Greek or the Greek Iro- ouois or both are one and the same people. From the Greek word Lucos come the words lux, lucidus and Luke, all meaning sun or light Now the Cherokee. when he says 1t blazes or gives light, he says a-ta-we-lu-ki. The Cherokee de- e-ga-lu-ci-da-dt means 1t radiates light, and comes from the Greek Lucos just as the Roman word lucidus.
 The oracles of the Greek gods were uttered at Delphi. Now, why Is it that the Cherokee copjurer calls the shell beads which he Nses In conJuration and from which the oracles of his god are uttered, Ah-del-lah? The conjured is called ah -del-la-boh ski.
 perhaps more anciently the name of the Cherokee god enters very promin- ently into the Cherokee. The name for Cherokee men, ca-sah- -quoh-!o comes from Sah, eminent, and Apollo, hence the name given above means mo- ble Apollo. In one of our ancient Che rokee songs the singer sings 'Eu-tsi- jah-quol-lo. meaning "Ye are of Apol- To-" Cah- -ta-quol-lo, the Cherokee words for clay, like Adam Earth, means the earth of Apollo.
 The name by which the relatives of Cherokee are called are also very re- markable.> In giving such names to relatives. 1t seems. the Cherokees drew upon a vaster and more ancient field than the Greek language. He calls his grandfather on his fathers side Eh-nes. which is undoubtedly from the Chaldean god, Cannes. He calls his grandfather on his mothers side Eh- tu-tu, seemingly from the ChaIdean Ubretutu. or the Assyrian Elbretutu. The Cherokee calls his father Eh-do- du, which is without a doubt, from the Greek Adodus, the king of gods and men. He calls his grandmother El-si- si The Cherokee word for young man Is ah-we-nu. undoubtedly from the Sanskrit Vishnu. The word for young women is ah-tah, which undoubtedly comes from the Egyptian Athor, vir- gin.