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been reclaimed from their wild state by
agriculture and cities and the multitude
of men settled everywhere over the
land". Again quoting Diodorus, Richard
Poe reveals; "Likewise, both the club
and the lion's skin are appropriate to
their ancient [Egyptian] Hercules,
because in those days arms had not yet
been invented, and men defended
themselves against their enemies with
clubs of wood and used the hides of
animals for defensive armour".

Herodotus' research led him
to discover that the
most ancient Hercules
was Egyptian
(a native black African)
In Pausanias, 9.38.6-8 (Jones, trans.)
Herodotus reports that the Greek
Hercules was a black man also; "There
is plenty of evidence to prove the truth of
this, in particular, that both parents of
Hercules - Amphitryon and Alkmene were of Egyptian origin". The Greek
Hercules was a black man? How could
this be? Ancient literature by the Greek
scholars reveals that:
Hercules' parents were descendants of
the Egyptian King Danaos who was a
native black African of Egypt. The
Egyptians, of course were
predominantly black people.
Hercules' father, Amphitryon and his
mother, Alkmene were first cousins,
grandchildren of the mighty hero
Perseus, who is the great, great, great,
great grandson of King Danaos. In
addition there was miscegenation
between Egyptians and Greeks. One can

obviously understand that the Greek
Hercules would hardly resemble a
European or Caucasian male. In present
day American society he would be
considered a black man, mulatto or at
the very least having a 'biracial
background'. This information was
gathered by Herodotus who researched
the Greek Hercules' pedigree.
Apollodorus points to the fact that the
Greek Hercules' parents were also
descended from Perseus' wife,
Andromeda, whose parents were
Cepheus and Cassiopeia, the rulers of
Ethiopia. Thus we see in the Greek
Hercules the hero whose parents are of
Ethiopian and Egyptian descent, both
groups of people who are native Africans
(black people) with some Greek mixture
also.
Briefly I want to talk about Zeus, the
Supreme Father god who was said to be
the Greek Hercules' actual father. Zeus
is the name or title of th e supreme god
of ancient Ethiopians and the Egyptian.
He was known as Zeus, Zeus-Ammon,
Ausar, Khnum, Ammon- Zeus, and
Ethiops. The ancient Greeks' religion
was copied from the ancient Ethiopians
and Egyptians from whom they learned
spiritual and religious teachings. The
Greeks and Romans referred to Zeus
using the African titles previously
mentioned in addition calling him
Serapis, Jupiter, Jove, Zagreus,
Dionysus, and Osiris.
Joel A. Rogers, author of “Nature Knows
No Color Line”, reports; "Negroes were
first worshipped in Greece and Rome.
White masses bowed down to black
deities. The rites of Apollo were founded
by Delphos and his Negro mother,
Melainis; and the worship of black Isis
and Horus were popular in Rome and