Danaoi
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The Danuna are known from Egyptian, Hittite, and classical sources. In the historical sources, the Danuna are known by many different names such as Denyen, Danunites, Danaoi, Danaus, Danaids, Dene, Danai, Danaian.
There are several theories on where the Danuna came from:
1) Eastern Cilicia, 2) Mycenae, 3) Canaan.
1)According to Barnett (1975:10), the Danuna lives in Cilicia in the ninth century BCE, and caused alarm to their neighbors Amanus, Kalamu of Sam’al.
Not only the Danuna of el-Amarna, but the Dnn of the Egyptian sources as well were the inhabitants of the Cilician Adana, without any connection with Greece.
The “islands” where Ramesses III situated the Danuna were tiny islets and capes of the Cilician coast . The Danuna are also known from the Karatepe inscription , which mentions the legendary Greek hero named Mopsus.
Barnett, R. D.
1975 The Sea Peoples. Pp. 362-366 in The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. II, part 2, ed.
J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock. Cambridge University Press.
2)Many scholars associate the Danuna with the Greeks because all Greeks were referred to as Danaans by Homer.The fact that Homer lends the name Danaans to the Greeks is a credible suggestion because the Danaans came from Mycenae. Greek tradition suggests that the Danaoi settled in Argos and were named after the Danaos.
The Greek world equating the Danuna with the Danaoi from mainland Greece (Leahy 2001:257)
Leahy, A.
2001 Sea Peoples. Pp. 257-260 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, ed.
Donald Redford. London: Oxford University Press.
(Jones 1975: 60)
3)The Danuna and other Sea Peoples return to the Levant as a counter migration. While many of the Danuna, went to the Aegean and Mycenae and became known as the Danaans. Others went to Asia Minor and some of the Sea Peoples return to the Levant. The Danuna were accepted into the confederation of the tribes of Israel called Dan.
The Danuna were part of a confederation in the Levant with other groups of Sea People especially the Philistines. They were part of the sea battle against the Egyptians, which is depicted on the relief at Medinet Habu.
(Jones 1975: 23)
Barnett, R. D.
1975 The Sea Peoples. Pp. 362-366 in The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. II, part 2, ed.
J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock. Cambridge University Press.
conclusion
The Danuna are known from many different sources, they were a major part of the confederation that attacked Egypt with the other group of Sea People. The origins of the Danuna are many and very unclear.
The Biblical data shows that at a certain stage of its settlement the Tribe of Dan was very close to the People of the Sea. From the historical and mythological sources, it is possible to ascertain the following facts. The tribe of the Danai originated in the east, and the introduction of the alphabet to Greece is attributed to it.
Its members were outstanding seamen who had special connection with sun worship. The association with the Tribe of Dan is because their was two different tribes (the Danites and the Danai) with identical names and similar characteristics which operated in the same geographical region and period or there is a link between the tribe of Dan and the tribe of Danai, and possibly a certain measure of identity.
Yain, Y.
1968 "And Dan, Why Did He Remain in Ships?" Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology 1: 9-23.
DAN
from the (Semitic) Jewish Dan = reviewer, a judge
DANAË
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Δαναη (parched=sprzen) (Ancient Greek)
From Δαναοι (Danaoi), a word used by Homer to designate the "Greeks".
In Greek myth Danaë was a princess of Argos(..then called as a whole Argos after him, a name that was later restricted to the city of Argos and the surrounding region of Argolis (according to Arcadian legends, Zeus and Niobe had another son, Pelasgus, the eponym of the Pelasgians, the mythical people that lived in Greece before the Hellens, and supposedly the first man who lived in Arcadia) and the mother of Perseus by Zeus, who came to her in the form of a shower of gold.
so clear..Sub-saharan-turkish unnamed tribes,which today call their self Greeks,have not ethymology for their name
what Sub-saharan-turkish unnamed tribes,which today call their self Greeks, believe?
The root-Dan names found in numerous rivers, which flow into the Black Sea: Danouvis, Danastris (Danastus)..
Tanais,Dnieper River,Dniester
in greece:Eridanus,Apidanos,Iardanos(Stephanie West (M.L.West's wife) in her edition of the Odyssey (Oxford 1988 vol.1 p.178)says of the Iardanos. 'the name is sometimes said to be Semitic, representing Jordan; but the same formula is used at Iliad vii.135 of an unidentifiable river in Elis.)
In Palestine: Jordan (JORDAN "descend" or "flowing down" (Hebrew))
OK..because Sub-saharan-turkish unnamed tribes,which today call their self Greeks,are not related with Celts,Scitians and Hittites (The root-Dan names found in numerous rivers is not "Greek"),and from ancient sources we read:
"They say that those who set forth with Danaus, likewise from Egypt, settled what is practically the oldest city of Greece, Argos,(WRONG) and that the nations of the Colchi in Pontus and that of the Jews, which lies between Arabia and Syria, were founded as colonies by certain emigrants from their country...(Diodorus Siculus (1:28:1 5)
"...in what follows I give the tradition of the Greeks generally. The kings of the Dorians (they say)--counting up to Perseus, son of Danae,...If we follow the line of Danae, daughter of Acrisius, and trace her progenitors, we shall find that the chiefs of the Dorians are really genuine Egyptians...." (Herodotus 6:53)
and from modern sources we read:
HLA genes in Macedonians and the sub-Saharan origin of the Greeks..
so clear..Sub-saharan-turkish unnamed tribes,which today call their self Greeks,have not ethymology for their name
from Sanscrit..
Danu was the daughter of Cashyap and Daksha.. Their people were Dana-OI or Danavas.
Their clan was the Daitya clan.
Ap-I-Danus is the Greek river also known as the Danus River.
but...
unknown mod.Mac Eng
Danaoi=Doneseni=brought
Danaoi=Dana(i)jde=to find
who knows..maybe we`ll find...
Tel Dan -Archeology in Israel
Although the tribe of Dan settled the tel in the 11th century BCE, they did not leave any archeological remains. The city became prominent only after the death of King Solomon (928 BCE) when Israel was divided into two kingdoms.
http://www.jewishmag.com/59mag/dan/dan.htm
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