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The Mycenaean's and Minoans were as Greek as Socrates and Plato. The entire Greek religion is founded on the deification of Cretan kings. The height of power of the gods was during the Hyksos period before the Thera Eruption between 1700 and 1628 BC. We have the names of gods including Saturn, Zeus, Sarapis extant in Egyptian and Linear A inscriptions as kings from that period, Satur, Sheshi as well as the names of other Greek kings who ruled over Egypt including Epaphus and Agenor.
The Mycenaean's were the same people as the Minoans. The Minoans were proto-Aeolic-Ionic Greeks. The Mycenaean's were Achaean Greeks.
The Pelasgians did not exist before 1600 BC at the earliest so anything before that time cannot possible in any way be called Pelasgian. Nor can it be called pre-Greek since the Greeks were already in the Greek peninsular by 2200 BC and had reached Mycenae by 1600 BC and that is exactly when the Pelasgians first appear in the historical record being Argive Greeks who migrated to Arcadia and then moved to Thessaly in 1450 BC as well as founding colonies in Italy at the same time.
The genealogy and pattern of migration is well known to all historians.
1606 Pelasgus (son of Niobe daughter of Phoroneus the founder of Argos)
1685 Aezeius
1560 Lycaon
1507 Pelasgus + Deianira (daughter of Lycaon)
1488 Lycaon II
1455 Calisto
1420 Arcas (founder of Arcadia)
1507 Pelasgus
1472 Haemon (king of Thessaly)
1430 Thessalus
1405 Graecus (after whom the Greeks were so called)
Dionysus of Halicarnassus clearly states that the Aboriginals "from whom the Romans are originally descended" were Arcadian Pelasgians.
"the Aborigines can be a colony of no other people but of those who are now called Arcadians; 2 for these were the first of all the Greeks to cross the Ionian Gulf, under the leadership of Oenotrus, the son of Lycaon, and to settle in Italy. This Oenotrus was the fifth from Aezeius and Phoroneus, who were the first kings in the Peloponnesus. For Niobe was the daughter of Phoroneus, and Pelasgus was the son of Niobe and Zeus"
The Greeks WERE the so-called Minoans (who aren't even named correctly since Minos I did not reign until 1406 BC which is during the Mycenaean period). They easily conquered the existing population of solitary farmers and small villages and were the most likely cause of the First Intermediate Period in Egyptian history which 2181-2055 BC. Later in 1900 BC a second wave arrived in northern Greece pushing the first wave further south and east and the stone palaces at Troy and in Crete start to appear and Linear A is developed.
This coincided with the time that the kings who would later become the Orphic gods, so named after Orpheus (1260 BC) who was the first to worship them, Hydros, Khronos, Aither, Phanes, Nyx and her son Uranus/
It was Minos who built the Sea Empire of Crete and he was descended from Agenor who was descended from Inachus who was the grandfather of Pelasgus which suggests the Pelasgians came to Crete in 1420 BC.
The Minoan civilisation only picks up and writing is invented when the Greeks arrive in the north. The majority of the body of Linear A was decoded using computer statistical analysis as being a dialect of Aeolic Greek and another sample was decoded as being proto-Ionic Greek.
http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/v014.htm
Tsikritsis has published his work and no one has been able to refute it. It is the most extensive and scientifically based study ever carried out on Linear A and its shows it to be a dialect of Aeolic Greek.
The point is that before the Greeks arrived there was no writing and when they did there was. That means that Linear A was invented as a consequence of the Greeks arriving and therefore it was most likely invented to record Greek. This is also supported by the used of Cypriot Linear Script in Cyprus to write Greek which was still extant until 400 BC.
So the term Minoans is a misnomer and an invention of fiction. The people who built the stone palaces in Crete and Troy were the people whowere newly arrived in Greece at the time these palaces first appear and these are the Greeks.
The Eteocretans were only regarded as not being Hellenes. That does not mean that they were not regarded as Greeks. The word Hellenes was not coined as a collective term until the first Olympiad in 776 BC. No Ancient writer ever said the Eteocretans were not Greek. In fact according to Homer their language overlapped with the languages of the Achaeans, Dorians and Pelasgains. The only way this could be possible is if the Eteocretans were indo-Europeans and their language was descended from proto-Greek and most likely to be have been a dialect of proto-Aeolic or proto-Mycenaean.
"There is a fair and fruitful island in mid-ocean called Crete; it is thickly peopled and there are nine cities in it: the people speak many different languages which overlap one another, for there are Achaeans, brave Eteocretans, Dorians of three-fold race, and noble Pelasgi."
Homer's Odyssey states in perfectly clear language that the Eteocretans the Pelasgians the Dorians and the Achaeans all spoke related Greek dialects.
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