Ancient Places

[kyonides]

Chapter 1:  Searching for Tarsis

Lately I have been looking for references to Tarsis aka Tarshish in the Bible and other sources in order to find out if Tarsis could be an ancient name for the United Kingdom or at least England itself. It seems some English speakers do connect it to the UK. Some Jewish source mentioned its name's origins might be traced back to the akkadian term rasasu or rašāšu that means to be smelted, meaning that Tarsis would be a "smelting plant" or foundry or refinery.

It is described as a place where you could purchase silver, iron, tin and lead in ancient times. Actually it could have lead some sort of merchant league or confederation of port cities in the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, including Phoenician cities like Tyre and Sidon, and a few places in North Africa. I have also learned about lead deposits and how they can be mixed with silver as well. Regarding tin deposits it seems they have been exploited since antiquity in places like Cornwall, Devon and Wales, where many (active) mines can be found according to some sources. Tyre could have been some sort of capital city of the Phoenician Empire, and ships of Tarshish had visited it very often.

Tarsis could have been the ancient place known as the Cassiterides (Κασσίτεριδες from κασσίτερος kassíteros or tin in Greek) which means the tin islands. Since Tarsis is described as a coastland or island and as ruler of other islands and as a lion with its own cubs, it is interesting to find posters like those issued during both World Wars that make a clear reference to both the lion and its young lions... O_O

We should be glad there is no actual need to recruit people nowadays. Unless Russia under Putin tries to take control of the Middle East and start World War III in the future... But do not take me seriously since this is just a mere speculation of mine.

Let us see if I might come up next with some information concerning the true identity of the island city of Atlantis. Do not let Stargate Atlantis alias the Stargate TV series epic fail fool you! The original city could not be launched like a space rocket!