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the Roman colonies as far north as
Britain. When this later evolved into the
worship of the Black Madonna and the
Black Christ, Christian Whites also
bowed down to them. Negroes, as was
said, were deified in the early Greece.
They appear as gods in Greek
mythology. The chief title of Zeus,
greatest of the Greek gods, was
'ETHIOPS', that is 'BLACK'".
In addition to this information the same
Ethiops or Zeus is the historical king
named CUSH who ruled over the native
African peoples (the black race, the
Hamites).
Archaeologist have found numerous
vases, statues and other forms of art
from the Archaic Period of Ancient
Greece in which the native Greek people
portray themselves as Africans and as
people having a mixture of African and
European features. The constant
miscegenation between the people of
Ancient Crete (Western Ethiopians) and
the Europeans, during 2000-1200 B.C.
was a well-known fact to the Archaic
Greeks. Andromeda, Perseus' wife is
shown on a terracotta vase, from the 4th
century B.C. as the beautiful black
woman that she was.
Is there any proof that the ancient
Greeks of the Archaic Period
acknowledged and portrayed Hercules
as a black man? YES THERE IS!
In the Oesterreichisches Museum,
Vienna was kept the Ionian 'Caeratan'
hydria (very large water jar), made
during the middle of the 6th Century
B.C. The title of the art work on the
hydria is 'HERAKLES AND BUSIRIS
KING OF EGYPT'.

This art reveals the Greek Hercules as
an enormously muscled black African
giant who is crushing evildoers beneath
his feet, strangling and breaking the
necks of evildoers with his bare hands,
as well as by trapping their throats
between his elbow and bicep region, in
his left hand he is holding a man in the
air by his left ankle using the
superhuman might of his left arm, and
finally the rest of the evildoers are
fleeing from the Greek Hercules in
terror. The story has to do with Hercules
putting a stop to human sacrifices which
were instituted by an evil group of cultist
under the direction of King Busiris of
Egypt. Hercules allowed them to
attempt to use him as a sacrifice and
then at the right moment he broke his
bonds, slaying 1000 cultists including the
king. The story resembles that told of
Samson.
The point to be emphasized here is that
the Greek Hercules was originally
thought of as a BLACK MAN by the
ancient Greek peoples before his
features were altered by the later
Eurocentric influence centuries later.