[Renfield]

GGG ping.

[muawiyah]

Possible ~ on the other hand the reference is clearly to the Boii tribe who'd earlier conquered Galicia (in Spain), then Ireland (to the West) before moving on to the East and conquering what is now England as well (circa 400 BC or thereabouts).

The same Boii had occupied classical Troy at the time of it's latest destruction and had moved on, in part to various places around the Mediterranean, as well as on the Adriatic.

They managed to smack the Romans pretty good a few times from their redoubt in Bologna. By the time Julius came along they were living in Bohemia and Switzerland. He rousted them out of there and sent them to Gaul.

My focus, however, is on the group that ended up in Ireland and then what is now England.

Obviously they needed a ceremonial center ~ and the Apollo reference (by Greeks) does make sense.

About a century and a half later they were allied with McWallace in Spain and Gaul against the Romans in the Punic Wars.

I would imagine the earlier Greek records might be all that's left of specific historical references to them by anyone who cared.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

All -- another, similar take on the idea, and The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe.

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[SunkenCiv]

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Pytheas of Massilia: On the Ocean tr by Christina H. Roseman

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[wildbill]

On a slightly different subject about Apollo ( I don’t know where else to put this)

Apollo’s day job was to haul the Sun across the sky with his chariot drawn by two white horses. One day, his son, Phaeton, like many an unruly teenager, took the old man’s car without permission. He couldn’t handle the reins and so the chariot veered all over the place, creating global cooling and global warming.

IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT GEORGE BUSH IS A DIRECT DESCENTDANT OF PHAETON AND THEREFORE RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.

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