> snorre sturlasson the same one who said thor was the son of the ethiopian king memnon from the trojan war? topkek. the curious thing is that the romans associated thor with hercules, who was a descendant of andromeda, the ethiopian princess wife of perseus, and hercules came from melqart and ninurta, who gave rise to the biblical narrative of nimrod (grandson of ham/africa and son of cush/nubia) alongside king enmerkar of uruk, whose zoroastrian version was even responsible for the creation of the negroes. so this snorri's claim may have a grain of truth. > hercules, the greeks favorite hero is described as dark (melanan), hook-nosed (grupon) by dicaearchus (clement of alexandria, protreptic to the greeks 2.30.7). hercules was also proverbially melampugos (having a black behind) as indicative of his bravery, as opposed to pugargos (having a white behind), a coward   /uploads/2021/12/the-greater-bundah ishn-creation-of-zoroastrianism.pdf > chapter 20, b > this, too,] one says, jamshed, when [his] light had departed from him, took a she-dev to wife, and gave his sister jami to a dev to wife, owing to the fear [of] the devs; the ape, the bear, [the resident of the forest,] the tailed being, and other noxious races arose from them; [his lineage did not progress therefrom. > as regards the black one one says, azi zohak [nimrod], during his reign, let loose a dev on a young woman, and let loose a young man on a parik [pixie]. they performed coition with [the sight] of the apparition; the black one came into being through that [novel] kind of coition. when freton came, they went away from eranshahr, and formed a settlement on the seacoast. now, [on] the coming of the arabs, they have again mingled in eranshahr
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