The word Macedonian is of Proto-Indo-European origin (IE) and belongs to the Paleoglossology of the Balkans (PGB). Etymologically there are two variants. According to prata, as a compound word, meaning rich, blessed, happy, well-off and the suffix ar, truly, exactly. The other part kednos, caring, honest, i.e. noble.
An analogous word in Hyperborea is in today's Macva in the plain between the Sava and Drina rivers. The word macva etymologically belongs to the Paleobalkan glossology, where mak is rich, wealthy, and fa in fa-go is give, food. This part was Slavicized so that k was converted to ch, while σ to c, so Macva means a rich land with food, and so the city of Bogatić in the center of Macva.
According to the second variant, by the etymologist Mpampinioti (1998, 1043), Macedonian comes from the epithet makednos, where the word maki, macros means thin, tall, while -kedon, kedones, comes from the word earth, soil, so the meaning of this word refers to the original toponym. Accordingly, Macedonia was far, high in the north of the lands, and the Macedonians were Boreans, and further from them Hyperboreans. Contrary to this, Sentz (1910, 503) states that kednos means dear, caring, honorable, gift, dowry.
In a loose translation, the word Macedonian would mean master, host, boss, rich man, stew, while Macedonia was a land of masters and rich men, i.e. mak-bogata, a land
In Paleobalkan mythology, Boreas was one of the Titans. He was the God of the North (voreas – north), the strongest of all winds. Boreas was the son of Aeolia, goddess of the morning blush and dawn. He lived in the north in Thrace and in the valley of the Strymon (Struma) river. His son was Hem, the personification of the Thracian mountain Hema (Balkans).
In the oldest Pelasgian myth of the creation of the world, Boreas is one of the names for the general demiurge (creator of the world), Ophion (ophis, opheos – snake), the first lord of the world who played with Eurynome, the goddess of creation, impregnated her and from her came Euronymous's children, the first people of this world. (Since then, Severus begins to impregnate; because of this, mares often turn with their hindquarters towards the wind and foal without a stallion). (Grevs, 1990, 1, a).
The cult of the Northman's fertilization was present not only in Thrace and Macedonia, but also in other parts of the Balkans, but also in Asia Minor, where, for example, "... he described to the son of Dardanus...", "the mare a thousand and three..." (Homer, XX, 223). On the other side of the North Wind lived the Hyperboreans (Northmen).
They were the northernmost Paleo-Balkan population, written about by: Homer (484th century BC), Hesiod (425th century BC), Herodotus (XNUMX-XNUMX BC) and many others.
Thus Herodotus (IV, 32,33), for example, says: "Neither the Scythians nor the other peoples of those regions can say anything about the Hyperboreans, except to some extent the Issedonians, and the inhabitants of Delos know most about them." The Issedonians were a Scythian tribe, and today a Finnish tribe is called the "Iset Donci", who probably lived along the Don River in Herodotus's time. According to Herodotus (IV, 1-33),
The Scythians were a numerous, warlike, and widespread people who lived in southeastern Europe. They were spread between the Danube, the Black, and the Caspian Seas, and mostly lived a nomadic life.
The Scythians were present on the Danube in 512 BC when the Persians fought against them during their campaign in the Balkans. The lyric poet from Thebes Pindar (522-442 BC) in the Pythia (X, 27) emphasized that Hyperborea is a country with a mild climate. Its inhabitants do not sow or reap, do not build houses and do not suffer the hardships of old age, disease and war, but they are blessed, righteous, wise and pious.
They love song and dance. Their land is inaccessible by sea or land, and is accessible only to the gods and their pets. They especially respect Apollo, to whom they offer sacrifices – wild donkeys.
According to mythology (Srejović, Cermanović-Kuzmanović, 1992, 484), it is said that the goddess of happy childbirth, Eileia, daughter of Hera and Zeus, came from the land of the Hyperboreans to the island of Del in the Aegean to help Leto with the birth of Apollo (Pausanias I, 4, 4).
The Titan Leto (lith, Litho-forget, to hide, sinner) was born in the land of the Hyperboreans (Diodorus Siculus 90-20 BC in Bibliotheca II, 47; 2-3). She was the wife of Keios (Koios), who was a Titan or Giant and the son of Uranus and Gaia. When Leto conceived the divine twins with the god Zeus, his jealous wife Hera tried to prevent the birth of her rival.
The pregnant Leto wandered the world for a long time because no country wanted to receive her. Finally, in the seventh month of her pregnancy, she came to Del, which was a wandering and deserted island in the Aegean. After nine days and nine nights of labor, the goddess Eileithyia arrived and at that very moment Leto gave birth to the divine twins Apollo and Artemis, protected by the sacred laurel, palm and olive branches (Hesiod, Theogony, 404).
The God Apollo
It is also said that Zeus transformed Leto into a she-wolf, and that in that form she came from the land of the Hyperboreans to Del, where she gave birth. The Hyperborean goddess Eileithyia is said to have gone into labor only after being bribed with a golden necklace by Iris, the golden-winged messenger of the gods.
After giving birth, Leto went to Asia Minor where wolves showed her the way to the Xantha River to drink water and bathe her children. Leto dedicated the river to Apollo, and after the wolves who showed Leto the way, the whole country was named Lycia (likos – wolf). Then Leto moved to Olympus, next to Zeus, and as a tender mother she took care of Apollo and Artemis, who as adults were attached to their mother.
To facilitate Leto's childbirth, two Hyperborean virgins, Arga and Opidas, arrived on Del to offer sacrifices to Aeilaitya for an easier childbirth (Herodotus, IV, 35). The Hyperborean women died on Del and were buried behind the temple of Artemis. Their grave was sprinkled with the ashes of the sacrificed animals, which glorified the Hyperborean virgins in a song sung by the oldest poet of praise poems, Oleanus.
When the gods were born, Del blossomed and smelled, and swans sang and flew around the island. The goddess Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the second wife of Zeus and mother of Prometheus, fed the newborns with nectar and ambrosia, and they immediately threw off their diapers. Father Zeus gave Apollo a golden mitre, a lyre and a chariot with a swan harness. His attributes were: arrow, bow, lyre, tripod, umbilical cord and lion, and his function was to defend and protect people, cities, fields, harvest, shepherds from evil, and especially all of them from diseases.
In the Trojan War, Apollo helped the Trojans fight against the Achaeans and caused the death of Achilles. According to Homer (XXI, 435–465), for conspiring against Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon were punished by spending a year with the Trojan king Leomedon and building Cyclopean fortresses.
Leomedon (coinage, leo, leos – people and med, medod – to care for, to rule, ruler) was one of the most famous descendants of Dardanus, and during his reign Trojan power extended to the Thracian Peneus and the Strymon. His son was Priam, ruler of Troy.
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