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Sea people

Tuesday, 11. August 2009, 17:28:21

What happened? Why did the old world disappear? Scholars who have worked on this problem have been convinced that a major cause was the invasions of mysterious and violent groups named the Sea Peoples, mi¬grants who came by land and sea from the west and devastated everything that stood in their way.
The Ugaritic and Egyptian records of the early twelfth century bce mention these marauders.
A text found in the ruins of the port city of Ugarit provides dramatic testimony for the situation around 1185 bce.
Sent by Ammurapi, the last king of Ugarit, to the king of Alashiya (Cyprus), it frantically describes how "enemy boats have arrived, the enemy has set fire to the cities and wrought havoc. My troops are in Hittite country, my boats in Lycia, and the country has been left to its own devices.
" Likewise, a letter of the same period from the great king of Hatti to the prefect of Ugarit expresses his anxiety about the presence of a group of Sea People called Shiqalaya, “who live on boats”.

In Merenptah's texts, the Shardana, Shekelesh and Eqwosh are described as "foreign lands of the sea" (Breasted 1906) 2001,3:249,255).
The Teresh and Lukki are listed alongside the others, and all five are described collectively as northerners who came from every land (Breasted 1906) 2001,3: 241); since the relevant texts are very fragmentary, the Teresh and Lukki too may have been identified as "of the sea".

The texts of Ramesses III specifically identify all five peoples named as foreign countries (who) made a conspiracy in their isles (Edgerton and Wilson 1936:53) and elsewhere refer to them generally as the northern countries who were in their isles (Edgerton and Wilson 1936:41) and as the countries who came from their land in the isles in the midst of the sea (Edgerlon and Wilson 1936:42).
The translation of the relevant word (iw) as isle or island is accepted by most Egyptologists (Faulkner 1999,12; Gardiner 1947:281; Lesko and Ijcsko 1982:21). P. Harris also refers to the Danuna "in their isles", and the Shardana (= Shekelesh?) and Washosh "of the sea" (Breasted (1906-2001,4:201).

The Peleset are singled out in other ways. In an elaborate depiction of arms being issued, for both the 5th year (Libyan) and 8th year (Sea Peoples) campaigns, Tjemchu (an archaic term for Libya) stands for the former, and the Peleset for the latter, as if somehow representative of the entire confederation of Sea Peoples (Edgerton and Wilson 1936:35). Moreover, in the especially important and large-scale representation of the king presenting Sea Peoples prisoners to Amun-Ra (west wall, first court) the text epitomizes his defeat of the Sea Peoples by referring only to the Peleset, Danuna and Shekelesh, while the three registers of prisoners are labelled, from top to bottom, as leaders of every country (i.e. implicitly, all the Sea Peoples?), the Danuna and the Peleset (Edgerton and Wilson 1936:47-48). Finally, the Peleset are once described as "hidden in their towns" (Egyptian dmiw; Edgerton and Wilson 1936:35).1 Towns are not otherwise associated with Sea Peoples in Egyptian sources.

The Peleset
The Peleset (Egyptian Prst/Plst) are almost universally identified with the Philistines of the Bible (Drews 1998: 50-61; Machinist 2000; Sandars 1985:164-166). The Peleset first appear in Egyptian texts under Ramesses III. There is no indication as to their origin, although they were 'islanders' (see above). Suggestions have ranged from. Crete to Arzawa in Anatolia to Canaan, but there is as yet no clear evidence to resolve the question (Drews 1993:54-72,1998:53-57; Niemeier 1998:47).
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I'm not exactly sure that the Arabs and Semitic people speak a Indo-European language.
Let see:

Greek and Albanian words for the boat are the same as in the so-called Slavic languages.
Albanian words for the water are the same as in the so-called Slavic languages.
Greek and Albanian words for the home are the same as in the so-called Slavic languages.

Obviously, the Greeks and Albanians do not have their own words for the boat,water,sea….
They have many loanwords (stolen words) of Macedonians (from Macedonian) rooted words.
The question is, how they are ancient, they do not have a maritime etymology?

The Peleset
from PIE roots:

But, now we know that some of the Sea People spoke Macedonian language.
Now we know that some of the Sea People are Macedonians (Pelasgians).

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