Milesians

Milesians were named for the land they once occupied, the Anatolian island of Miletus. Miletus is a famous font of philosophy. I've heard it called the birthplace of 'Western' science. Miletus was colonized by settlers from Crete around 1600 BC. Create was a seat of high culture from very early times. By about 600 BC Miletus had become a maritime empire.

When did Milesians arrive in Ireland? Was Ireland ever called the isle beyond the Pillars of Hercules? Were the Pillars of Hercules once part of the gate of Atlas?

It is said that the first Milesians to appear in Ireland were defeated in a conflict with the last of the powerful Tuatha De Danann nobility. However, the Milesians soon had a firm foothold on the island. I suspect that the very name, Ireland, arose from diplomacy between the people of God and the Milesians.

Tuatha De Danann in Time

My best guesses of the moment:
7500 BC: Island well populated
6000 BC: High Mesolithic culture in Ireland
4000 BC: Neolithic in Ireland
2500 BC: Bronze Age in Ireland
2000 BC: Fir Bolg
1900 BC: Tuatha De Danann
Order of reigns with guesses of approximate dates.
1. Nuada  1897 or 1477
2. Bres 1897 or 1470
3. Lugh 1870 or 1407
4. Eoch Ollathair 1830 or 1337
5. Delbaeth 1750 or 1327                         
6. Fiacha 1740 or 1317
7. Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, Mac Greine 1730 or 1287
1700 BC Milesians 
600  BC Celts in Ireland
100  BC Gauls in Ireland

Ahura

     I drove a little Mazda pick-up for over a decade. I loved that little truck.
Does that make me a Mazdayasna?


An important part of Iranian history is the impact of Zarathsushtra on what it is to be Iranian. I am writing of the personage whose name came to us through the Greek as Zoroaster.
I loved Zoro in the Movies. Could that make me a follower of Zoroasterism?
Did the Magi deliver their gifts in a Mazda?


I'd guess that Zoroaster wrote his Gotha's about 600 BC. Those writings at that date are significant in that they comprise an early manifestation of morality in a monotheistic religion.


It is likely that he came from eastern Iran or perhaps Afghanistan.


There remains  about 3/4 of this little story I planned yet to be told, but I tire. I expect to finish it, or at least continue it, soon. Remind me.


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