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“Persia: The Kingdom of Heaven & Hell”

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“What one makes of varying narrations on the ancient Persians is best left to the reader, however, this author has endeavoured to present a fresh, new perspective”.

It may be shocking to some outside of the ivory towers of academia, or as the American poet, Emily Dickinson said, and thusly, this is the “Truth’s superb surprise”, yet in many ways: Persia was the West. And its diffusive legacy is partially carried today in an impressive manner by the West (“albeit in silence” as one scholar put it), to the point that maybe - the West is more Persian than Greek (see the recent discussion at “London University by Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Tom Holland, U of Oxford; for further studies see also, Dr. Richard Frye at Harvard; Professor Patrick Hunt at Stanford, and Prof.⁠​⁠ Maria Brosius, author of “The Persians” and lecturer at Queens College at Oxford University; and finally preeminent research by Dr. Gernot Windfur at the university of Michigan; lastly Dr. Barry Strauss, Hellenistic studies, Cornel University).

At the very least, “its [Persia’s] global influence”, “matches that of Athens, certainly surpasses Sparta’s” (Holland, T., author of “Robicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic”).

The Persians’ Eastern European (or europipoids, to use a more precise genetic terminology) - origins can be traced the to the Srubnya, Potovka, Andronovo and the cold-called Sintasha cultures that originated in modern day Ukraine, and Obelasr, Russia. It was around this time when they had broken away somewhat at least, from their larger Indo-European family; through these cultures. it was that we see the emergence of Iranian languages; a derivative of the IE linguist super group, and heavily affiliated with today’s languages of Western Europe, and the latest iteration of Indo-European languages, English.


From the outset, it is also important to clear a simple, yet long-lasting and in its own right, consequential misunderstanding that has caused much confusion for centuries: Is it Persia or Iran? The various Indo-Arian tribes who settled alongside the indigenous Elamites would call their newfound home, Eyre-Aan (Iran: The Land of Aryans), cognate with Eire-land (Ireland). The Old Celtic Eire-n, is a dialectic variation on the old ethnic designation, Airya (Aryan). The modern name Erin derives from that. Please note that the word “Aria” has no relations to the modern concept of the repugnant Nordic ideology. The name Persia was in essence a Greek identifier. Through out this article we’ll use the terms interchangeably.

The Persians as Dr. Mary Boyce states. lay the foundation for Christianity via Zoroastrianism, and culturally invented the notion of chivalry (and consequently jousting, the heavy armoured knights, and the concept of the duel passed on to Medieval Europe), the raising of one’s right hand as an oath and during an swearing-in ceremony, the concept of majesty and the halo (hvarna) around an important figure’s head, the very basic, primitive and an ancient version of what we’d call today the rights of men, which includes religious and cultural freedom and in general a sort of refusal to enslave the subject populations (see “The Edict of Cyrus”; also the Jewish liberation during the Babylonian captivity in the Old Testament; also Josephus, History of The Jews).

Persia - one of history’s first Caucasian nations to settle in Asia, along with their distant Indo-European cousins the Ionian Greeks (who settled in Asia Minor), or according to Dr. Frye, “the Europeans of the East”, was also the first superpower to use force of arms to provide security for a group of other nations.

Cyrus the Great used his might to liberate the Jews held captive in Babylon. Decades earlier as the Torah testifies, longing for their homeland and being “teased for it by their captors” ,”The Jews cried by the river of Babylon”. It is said that when in 537 BC news came of their emancipation, the Jewish tribes broke into spontaneous songs of celebration and joy. A scene that would not be repeated till millennia later when President Abraham Lincoln freed the Southern slaves.

As the late Prof. David Stronach succinctly wrote, “For the first time in human history, Cyrus used his great powers to lift, not degrade the human condition”.

One can safely assume that despite their many imperfections, Persia and the United States were not, and are not your typical superpowers.

But according to Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard, one of the biggest “contributions the Persians made to the modern world, is the idea of a secular government, free of religious influence”. This is despite the discoveries made at the palace of Pasargsde that shows two fire alters adjoining its para-disia (the walled, or open, garden behind a reflective pool; eg., as seen at the Palace of Versailles, and The White House). The alters have religious significance and are indications of the Zoroastrian symbol of light and purity (fire), as well as for ceremonial purposes. One such ceremony would be when the newly sworn king would uphold a written “Contract” while standing at a pedestal directly across from the marble alter containing the “eternal flame”, and swore to uphold the contract by law (usually containing specifics on how to allow for religious tolerance, and protect the peoples of the empire, including pacifying the Eastern and Western fronts and securing farm-lands from marauders).

The notion of the Contract, a sacred Iranian and proto-Iranian cultural tradition, was associated with the Sun-God Mithra (also God of Justice ) whom was incorporated (although demoted) onto a diety when prophet Zoroaster on a Spring day next to a river (in the first documented case of baptism), created the world’s first monotheistic religion via a “revelation by a Light” that spoke to him, declaring that there are no multiple deities or Gods (eg., Zeus, Nike, Aphrodite, and Marduk), rather there is only one Supreme Being, and “We are all created in his image”. The religion decreed that, the World is divided between Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, and The Truth vs. Deceit - and thusly it is, “only up to us to choose between them”. The cosmic battle was said to be headed by Spenta Mainu (the Splendid Mind) on one side, and Angra Mainu (the Angry One) at the opposing end.

Zoroaster also reveled that in end we will be judged by our actions, and that there will come a time when there will be an Armageddon, ushering the coming of a Saoshiant (Saviour). In the story of humanity, such language was unheard of previously.

What did the ancient Persians look like? I understand that it might be confusing at first look due to their lack of representation, but it will actually become pretty clear upon a second glance. For now as you read this just keep in mind that most contemporary art, even the ones depicted by modern Iranians themselves are based on ancient Persian Royal art, which itself was directly copied from the Assyrians and Babylonians who came before them - a highly symbolic, flat type of art where all faces regardless of which nation was represented, looked almost identical (for more see the last two paragraphs). Some of the modern art also conflates the current Middle-Eastern phenotype with that of the ancient peoples of Iran.


The Persians and Spartans were both Indo-Europeans (Caucasians). But according to Greek historian Herodotus (Father of History), the Medes were blonds and sandy-haired Northern Iranians. Xerxes’s father, Darius, was a Mede, his mother a Persian. That collaborates centuries later with Roman poet and historian Ovid’s analysis when he said Northern Iranians (the Parthians, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians, etc), were no different in appearance to the Celts and the Germanic tribes. The Roman author Ammianus Marcellinus, centuries earlier had stated the same.

The few realistic art work we have of the Persians themselves done by Greek and Roman artists, depicts them as white, but dissimilar to the Greeks, and far more resembling the French, the Spaniards, and reveals them as Eastern European-like. Herodotus also noted that Xerxes was supposedly one of the most youthful in appearance and handsome men in Asia during his time, whatever that means.

The most life-like depiction of ancient Persians are the “Bishapur art”, the wall and mosaic drawings done by Roman prisoners of war where they put their well-known talents to use and aided with decorating some newly constructed Persian palaces. In those, Persian women specifically and other female courtesans are depicted as almost pale with somewhat thick, flat eyebrows, with brown and black hair, very rarely some, including men, with red hair (as also depicted by Greek artists on the so-called Alexander’s sarcophagus and Sassanian floor fresco). The “Sassanian silver plates art”, also repeat the some of the same type of depictions, but since it was done by Persian artists, again many faces look similar, and have a symbolic quality to them to a certain extent, yet still a very good starting point. Other notable art include, “The Parthian solider” bust, (Greek-based), “The Dying Persian”, and “The Parthian statue”, a remarkable ancient Roman work of art with black marble used as the body, contrasting it with beige and black marble as his clothing and cape. Lastly, of importance are the many Parthian coins still in survival. Clean shaven (or not), and inspired by realistic portrayals unique to Hellenic art, Parthian kings and Princes with their Iranian weapons of choice, the bow and the arrow, look like Scandinavian war-lords, or at the very least are very Robinhood-like (see Arsaces I).

Alexander’s northern Iranian wife who was after his death murdered by his mom or his men, was named Rukhshanaa (Roxana, Roxanne). In ancient Iranian and still today’s Persian, it means, shiny-faced, light-face. Back then, and even today in Iran, the more secluded a tribal group was/is, the “lighter-skinned” in appearance they are, something that again, is Specially true for some reason or the other with Iranian women, signaling lack of intermarriage. The indigenous peoples of the Iranian plateau, the Elamites, had beautiful olive-skin with long braided hairs, whom Persian royals went on to copy, as a form of fashion of the times, as well as borrowing their long robes with wide bejeweled sleeves. Their sophisticated culture was long established before the arrival of the Persians and other Iranian tribes.

THE BOTTOM LINE? Northern Iranians aside, focusing strictly on the Persian tribes (Southern Iranians), THEY, resembled modern Albanians, Romanians, and modern Northern Italians, as well as very strongly, the Medieval Europeans (excluding Northern Europe). When you see an image of a Medieval European, from Hungary, Spain, and above all, France and Portugal, you are most likely coming very close to seeing the face of an ancient Persian. Accordingly, see the rock carving of the Khosrow II, an artistic work and an archeological piece 1000 years before the emergence of the Medieval Europe and the concept of the heavy armored worrier (the Chevalier, or the knight). It is also noteworthy to indicate the remnants of the Northern Iranians (the Alans and the Sarmatians) are still living today on the region of Ossetia-Alania in the Northern Caucasuses. Ancient Iranian tribes hailed from Ukraine by the way, at least that’s as far as we can tell.

As the late Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard noted, while the Iranians are not geographically Eastern Europeans, they are however, “The Europeans of the East”. Or according to encyclopedia Brittanica,
“The name Persia derives from Parsa, the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran…in about 1000 BCE”.

It’s important to note that Persian imperial art itself in Persepolis and other places does NOT depict the Persians, or any other groups, realistically, as they all show a flat profile, with most faces looking very similar or almost identical. This was partially borrowed from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires who came before them, to portray a continuity and homogeneity of races. It was also an attempt to legitimize Persian rule, the world’s first Indo-European super power, who replaced thousands of years of semitic kingship (the Egyptians and the aforementioned civilizations). Let me repeat that one more time, ancient Persian art itself is NOT realistic, but more symbolic.

Where the “Indo” suffix of the designation, Indo-European comes from is due to the fact that while some Iranians tribes where settling in their new homeland, in modern Iran, simultaneously other Iranic tribes invaded Northern India. That is why many Indic and ancient Iranian Gods and religious beliefs display similarities. The British scholar who coined the term thought that the related-European groups passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. Although at some point the old Ariana (Iranian tribes) who invaded India were fortunately, eventually absorbed by the indigenous Brahmin population. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the nation of India, as we know it today. Something that for anyone who is a lover of cultures, arts, mathematics and good food would be unimaginable.

To avoid centuries of confusion, the reader should know that the ancient Persians called their new homeland, Eyre-Aan (Iran: The Land of Aryans), cognate with Eire-land (Ireland). The designation, Persia, was a Greek identifier. The Old Celtic Eire-n, is a dialectic variation on the old ethnic designation, Airya (Aryan). The modern name Erin derives from that. Please note that the word “Aria” has no relations to the modern concept of the repugnant Nordic ideology.

That’s ethnicity; linguistically Iranian languages are classified as the aforementioned Indo-European, which can in turn be termed as ancient English.
Words like, mother, father, son, daughter (dokhtar). ponder (pendaar), nice (nik,neekoo, nikki; Greek: Nike), Jasmine (yaasamin), scarlet (saghalaat, see Merriam-Webster), Melchior, art (Old Pers.: arta), mind (manaa), grab (Avestan/Eastern Persian, grab), far (related to fara, ex: faravahar; fra, par-vaaz), being (boodan), is (hast), you, tiger (tighra; Merriam-Webster), it (een), Allan (Alan, Alania; from the Northern Iranian tribes who settled in modern day Scotland), Ariana (Arya, Aria, Eire-aan, ultimately, “Iran”). Amazon (hama-zan; see “Sarmatians” in Brittanica; also Online Etymology Dictionary; also Adrienne Mayor, The National Geographic; also “The Early Amazons, JH Block, 1995), Caucasian (search engine: etymology of Caucasus), etc, are mostly still found in Farsi.

I hope this was helpful.

AMI AR ASI E NI.

This movie is not a great movie in general, but the battle scenes can only be rivaled by Lord of the Rings.

NOT ENOUGH.and last not near near enough.

The best scene in a bad movie doesn't make it a good scene.

The Greeks Ain't Bolnde.
The Hollywood Owners, their fellas all Germanic BREED always trying to show that Blonde Race or Germanic white supermecy was a part of Civilization, While they were not.

Bad movie with a bad actor

It was mentioned in Bible the victory of Alexander and all Greeks against Persians.

Kocabaş Koç baş. iki koç iki çetin ceviz iki koz ilk tahakküm ilk söz neden granikoz .. pegai peninsulasi çene içi küçük dildir büyük söz söyler. Dilucu uç bey... Allah bigayi .... Belki bigaliyi son söz için mi yarattı ...

Never said ya werent great but ya want better foot baths and food healers dont stab me as a fucking baby jesus christ grapes? - willy 0

Camera just shaking and cutting from scene to scene way too much.

The one who charges first and lets the other side defend without even moving losses anyway.

I saw it twice when it was released.

Qu'est-ce qu'il a légué à l'histoire, ce type, à part des destructions et des incendies ? Absolument rien. C'est Alexandre le Néant, pas le Grand.

03-09-23
sometimes I ask if this people die by their nation or their king

A great tactician and general 👍

To me this film says nothing, no tactics, no discussion, just disgusting slaughter.

great film

I don't believe chariots were ever used like that.Pure fantasy.

Contiene las escenas eliminadas 🤩

Commanding an army of that size from ground level and being aware of what is going on across the battlefield and reacting to it must have required tremendous skill and an inbuilt talent for such things, a real sixth sense. Some of these ancient leaders and the generals who served them really were a breed apart.

I have the extended directors cut of this movie, well worth the price I paid.

He was not so Frkn “ great “!

I didn't know Alexander the Great of Macedonia was Irish. I guess you learn new things on Yotube

So that's the best scene? I'm guessing the rest of the movie is a giant incoherent mess.

How the Hell do you coordinate a fight scene like this in a movie? You expect at least a hundred or more dead extras.

Alexandre real name was
Al zoulkarneyni he went to Saudi Arabia Mecca to visit the prophet Ibrahima Aleyhi Salam and accept his religion
Abraham was not a Jewish neither a Christian he build the Kaaba
Alexandre the great was a Muslim
Movie’s !

The best scene in this dog of a film is the one in which we get to see Rosario Dawsons breasts.

This battle scene makes no sense. The Persians had archers, and pretty good ones at that. Why on earth would they unleash two volleys that fell half the Macedonean phalanx and then make a blind charge simply to impale themselves on those ridiculously long pikes? Esp when the Macedoneans have made no move of their own apart from presenting inviting targets for the Persian archers? And stupid though history may have painted Darius to be, how moronic can you be to charge a wall of pikemen on a chariot?

You know if you have a long solid line of pointy sticks the horses ( or elephants ) will not run into you, I don't get why you open up gaps to let them get into your ranks.

The casting of Alexander was a terrible move. Whoever played Alexander brought Zero charisma to the role of Alexander the Great.

People hate this movie. First time i saw it i turned emotional. I seen all the 10 hour cuts and will forever watch it every year at least once.

That's Alexander the Gay movie. 🥴

And why is the fight so idiotically edited and not left from start to finish? Are you a better editor than Oliver Stone?

Not Alexander..one and only porus tha great and chola the king's

What did he say in the end of the video 🤔? Thanks in advance 🙏♥️

This movie had so much potential and they completely fumbled

Greeks have dark skin tones, brownish dark hair and brown eyes. They are not Europeans.

What is so Great about Alexander? I do not find anything extraordinary or unique or special about him that can be called Great.

I'm from El Salvador (Central America), can someone tell me here if Spartans/Alexander were Greek or Macedonian? What the hell is Macedonian? Is that a city or a region of Greece or is it another country? If it's another country then Alexander is Macedonian so why call him Greek?

The best scene was where he bedded Roxanne (as played by the young & hot Rosario Dawson). Oo la la

O que eu posso comentar 🤔

Best scene? Mayhem? Bloodshed? Seriously?

Hollywood, glorifying the madness of war!

Who told he is great?

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