The Mistery of Belicena Villca for the Lydians , Beleno was " Bel ", and Belisana , " Belilith "; also , because they came from a region where the Cultural Pact had greater influence , they presented some differences in the language and in the sacred alphabet ; the ancient Pelasgian language , which was still spoken quite purely by my people , had suffered from the influx of semitic and asian languages : however , that navigational jargon was more suitable for the overseas trade that they practiced . The other difference was in the alphabet : thousands of years ago my people had forgotten the Language of the Birds ; however , the last Initiates , and later the Priests of the Flame , preserved the sacred alphabet of thirteen plus three Vrunas , which they represented with sixteen signs formed with straight lines and to which they had associated a sound of the common language : thus , thirteen consonants and three vowels were available ; vowels only the Lords of Tharsis knew because they expressed the secret Pelasgian Name , of the Moon Goddess , something like Ioa ; well then : the novelty brought by the Lydians was a sacred alphabet composed of thirteen plus five letters , that is , by eighteen signs that represented individual sounds of the common language ; it also had thirteen consonants , but the vowels were five : and , the two added , the Lydians could no longer suppress them without losing more than half their words . Of all this , the most important thing that should be agreed from the start , was the Name of the Goddess and the number of the sacred alphabet . Regarding the first , it was agreed to refer to the Goddess , from now on , by a more ancient name , which had been common to the two peoples : Pyrene ; since then , Belisana and Belilith , would be for the Tartessians the Goddess of Fire Pyrene . Regarding the latter , the Lords of Tharsis , who were on that occasion urged by enemy pressure , had no choice but to accept the imposition of the sacred alphabet of eighteen letters : the only consolation , they ironized , consisted in the fact that “ number eighteen was much more pleasing to the Goddess than sixteen ”.
Otherwise , the Lydians had suffered a similar fate to that of my people . At some point in their history they were won by War Fatigue and they ended yielding to the peoples of the Cultural Pact ; their last Initiates managed to embody the “ family missions ” into an even greater number of Lineages than those existing among mine ; that explained the great amount of families of artisans , specialized in the most varied trades , that integrated the people of the Lydians .
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