Graikos, Hellene, Hellas

Edward Pococke, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Confusing Words Series · 30 pages

The second-longest file in this batch, and the most historical. Its argument is Edward Pococke's: that the names by which the Greeks knew themselves are of Indian origin, and can be traced through language, mythology and geography. The epigraph states his general thesis — that it is our ignorance which has made a myth of history, and that much of that ignorance is a Hellenic inheritance and the result of Hellenic vanity. A prologue by the series editor sets it in the frame used throughout this series: that Budhism is the archaic Wisdom-Religion, much older than Buddhism and unrelated to the Buddhist religion.

The derivations then follow one another closely. The land of Hellas is traced to a range of heights in Baluchistan and the Hellenes to an ancient sun-worshipping tribe of Rajput; Hel-en, the Sun King, whose land was Hella-dos in Greek and Hela-des in Sanskrit, left his kingdom to Aiolus, his eldest son, sending Dorus and Zuthus to make conquests abroad. The kings of Oxus or Ookshainos are made to establish the kingdom of Oox-ina in Hellas, later altered to Axeinos or Euxine; the children of the Sun, the Asii, are held to have given their name to the continent of Asia; and the Scanda-Nabhi chiefs and the Indian Kshatriya warrior caste to have become the European Scandinavians. The central section argues that Hellas was pure Indian at the time of the Trojan war, with the Logurh-Ooksh-Wale and the Baihooyas settling in Ozolian Locris among the examples given.

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