mythopoetic:

of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.

 

Egyptians of Thinite times:

(aka Archaic or Early Dynastic Period) Egyptian history following the unification of Upper & Lower Egypt (3100 BC); includes the 1st & 2nd Dynasties, from the end of the Naqada III archaeological period until 2686 BC (start of the Old Kingdom).  With the 1st Dynasty, the capital moved from Thinis to Memphis, with a unified Egypt ruled by an Egyptian god-king.  During this period the hallmarks of ancient Egyptian civilization (its art, architecture & religion) took shape.  Spengler dates the Thinite period as between 3400-3000 BC, which he characterises as a pre-Cultural period of chaos, primitive expression forms, mystical symbolism & naive imitation.  See below - Egyptian mythology

 

Jews and Persians before Cyrus:

the Northern Kingdom was one of the successor states to the older United Kingdom of Israel, which formed in the 930s BC.  In 732 BC, Tiglath-Pileser III, an Assyrian, sacked Damascus & Israel, annexing large parts of the Israeli state.  Israel continued as an independent kingdom subject to Assyria.  In 722 BC it was again invaded & conquered by Assyria.  During this “Assyrian captivity” several thousand Israelites of ancient Samaria were resettled as captives, one of many instances of forcible relocations by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.  In the 6th century the Jews who had survived the 8th century onslaught (in the Kingdom of Judah) were conquered & exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.  This happened over 3 separate occasions (597, 586 and 581 BC).  In 537 Cyrus the Great conquered Babylonia & gave the Jews permission to return to their native land

 

the heroes of the Mycenaean burghs:

in this context “burghs” is interpreted as villages.  Mycenaean civilization originated & evolved from the local socio-cultural landscape of the Early & Middle Bronze Age in mainland Greece, with influences from Minoan Crete.  Late in the Middle Bronze Age (circa 1600 BC) population & number of settlements increased; power centres emerged in S. Greece, dominated by warrior elites.  Typical dwellings of that era were an early megaron building, forerunners of the later palaces.  In many sites, defensive walls were erected.  Homer, in the Iliad (8th-century BC epic), refers to the Mycenaeans as the “Greeks”.  His Trojan War purportedly occurred late 13th or early 12th century BC when a coalition of small Greek states under the king of Mycenae besieged the walled city of Troy.

 

Germans of the Migrations:

(aka Barbarian Invasions, from Roman & Greek perspective) during & after the decline of the Western Roman Empire, in the course of which there were invasions into the Empire by the Germanic tribes, Huns, early Slavs & Pannonian Avars.  The period begins with the invasion by the Huns in 375 AD & ends with the Lombard conquest of Italy (568 AD).  These migrations pre-date Spengler’s pre-Cultural era, which he dates 500-900 AD, somewhat later then the treks.

 

Homeric age (1100-800 B.C.):

(aka the Greek Dark Ages) period in Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization (1100 BC) to the birth of the Archaic age (750 BC).  Bronze Age civilization in the E. Mediterranean collapsed early in this period: the great palaces & cities of the Mycenaeans were destroyed.  Both the Hittites & New Kingdom Egypt suffered serious disruption.  After the collapse famine & depopulation hit Greece, the use of written languages ended, pottery art deteriorated reverting to simpler, generally geometric styles (1000–700 BC).

 

knightly age of Teutonism (900-1200 A.D.):

Between 900 & 1200 AD, Ottonian, Salian & Hohenstaufen, all Holy Roman Emperors, worked to unite German tribes & assert control within Germany.  Otto I transformed the German Church strengthening royal authority & subjecting the clergy to royal control.  He put down a brief civil war among the rebellious duchies & in 955 at Lechfeld defeated the Magyars.  This secured his hold over the kingdom.    By 961, Otto had conquered the Kingdom of Italy & subsequent emperors worked to establish domination in Italy & over the Church in Rome.  Although they achieved some success in their southern ambitions ultimately failed.  German knights & soldiers were active in the Crusades, between 1095 and 1291.  Knightly religious orders were established, including the Knights Templar, the Knights of St John & famously the Teutonic Order (1192).  Teutonic vigour was reflected in the chivalry & the court which flowered in the mid-12th century, as expressed in the scholastic philosophy of Albertus Magnus & literature of Wolfram von Eschenbach.  A crowning cultural achievement of this age was Romanesque architecture.  Although not a phenomenon limited to Germany, the Teutons gave Europe some of its greatest creations, to include St. Michael's, Hildesheim, (1001–1031), Speyer Cathedral (begun by Emperor Conrad II, in 1030),  Worms Cathedral (1130-81) & Laach Abbey (11th-12th centuries).

 

India & the Vedic age:

The early Vedic period is dated between 1500 and 1000 BC.  The Rigveda contains accounts of conflicts between Aryans and the Dasas & Dasyus, early Indo-Aryan immigrants who arrived into the subcontinent before the Vedic Aryans.  They are described as people who do not perform sacrifices or obey the commandments of gods; their speech is uncouth.  Conflicts between the various tribes of Vedic Aryans are also described in the Rigveda, notably the Battle of Ten Kings, between the tribe Bharatas, led by Sudas, against a confederation of 10 tribes.  Sudas emerged victorious & the enemy chief is killed.  Spengler identifies the period 1500-1200 as Springtime for the Indian Culture & the period in which the great Vedic hero tales are written.

 

age of the Pyramid:

(aka Old Kingdom) period between 2686–2181 BC; includes the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the 4th Dynasty, such as King Sneferu (who perfected the art of pyramid-building), and the kings Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure (builders of the Giza pyramids).  It was the first of 3 high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley

 

Egyptian mythology (Third and Fourth Dynasties):

Spengler is claiming the foundations of Egypt’s religion & myths lay in the later Old Kingdom and not the pre-Cultural 1s & 2nd Dynasties.  He states: “…one day it will be discovered that Egyptian mythology did in fact ripen into depth during the Third and Fourth Dynasties.”  Current Egyptology does not support this.  Egyptologists argue that the essence of Egypt’s religions emerged during the erlier dynasties.  This included divine kingship which would persist for the next 3 millennia.  Divine kingship may have gained spiritual momentum as the cults of gods like Horus, Set & Neith associated with living representatives became widespread.  Especially crucial were funeral practices.  We see the first construction of mastabas in this period, these would become models for the later Old Kingdom constructions (eg the Step pyramid).

 

Imperial Age in Germany (three centuries):

The Holy Roman Empire was the product of German kings.  In their quest to consolidate & centralize the many petty principalities, cites & bishoprics, these German rulers gave rise to the Holy Roman Empire.  The Empire began with the election of the Saxon king Otto I in 936, first of 4 Ottonians to win elections.  In 1024 the first of the Salians (Conrad II) was elected.  The Salian dynasty (from the Rhineland-Palatinate) would rule until the death of Henry V (1125).  In 1135 Lothair  (a Saxon) was elected, followed by 2 Hohenstaufen (from Swabia) (1155-97).  Otto IV, another Saxon, ruled 1198 to 1215, followed by Frederick II (another Hohenstaufen), who ruled the Empire 1220 to1250.  However in 1245 Pope innocent III deposed Frederick, an act leading to the Great Interregnum (1245-1312), ending the German imperial run.