You make a very good point. The Iranians are, of course, descended from Aryans so may have retained a lot of Kantekkian/Atlantean knowledge post the Deluge. There is no question that there has been significant social, cultural and philosophical interactions between the ancient western world (Greece, Rome etc.) and the East (including Iran/Persia) over the centuries.
We must remember though that there have been two ancient Greek civilisations, one that centred on the advanced Mycenaean civilisation, which never really recovered from the eruption of Thera/Santorini and the subsequent plague that swept the Eastern Mediterranean, and the archaic Greece that emerged eventually as the classical Greece we think of today with great philosophers such as Pythagoras, Aristotle, Socrates and Plato etc. My understanding is that the early archaic period Greeks, who were not a very developed people, owed a lot to the Hittites of Asia Minor and the Phoenicians of Lebanon for the development of their culture (including their pantheon of gods) and the adoption of what would become the Greek alphabet.
Moreover, the C's have also suggested that the Greeks were assisted by the Hyperboreans or Northern peoples of Europe in the development of their knowledge base and culture, including Celts from the British Isles:
I understand that there is a legend that Pythagoras (whose works no doubt Plato plagiarised
*) had a Druid as his teacher who may have come from ancient Gaul.
This Druid or Scythian teacher of Pythagoras is perhaps known to Greek mythology as
Abaris the Hyperborean, a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo, who was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, which he fled during a plague. It is curious that
Robert Graves, the English mythologist, classical scholar and poet, claimed in his book
The White Goddess that Apollo had originally been a British deity (linked with Stonehenge) who was subsequently sandwiched into the Greek pantheon of gods and came over to time to be identified with the Greek solar deity Helios or rather Helios came to be identified with Apollo. If Graves is correct, this gradual adoption of Apollo (who in myth was born on the island of Delos - the same island to which the Hyperboreans sent those sacred offerings) as a Greek solar deity might explain the influence of the Hyerporeans/British Celts over the ancient Greeks as proposed by the C's in the session extract above. Indeed, Apollo was the son of Zeus, the chief god of the Greek pantheon, who seems to have had his own links to the Hyperboreans/British Celts, as suggested by the C's in the following extract from the transcripts:
So, I don't doubt that what Alexander Dugin is saying has a lot of truth to it but the answer as to who the classical Greeks owed their learning to may be more complex than he proposes.
The other issue to ponder is who really were the Macedonians? Were they even Greeks?
Initially, the Macedonians were a peripheral group, evolving from the fringes of the ancient Greek world. The region of Macedonia, originally inhabited by early Thracian and Phrygian tribes, was distinct from Mycenaean Greece. During the onset of the Archaic Period, the Macedonians emerged as a distinct tribe. The term 'Macedonian', derived from the ancient Greek adjective 'makednos' (meaning tall), perhaps referred to the Highlanders or tall ones. Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian, traces the roots of the Macedonian Kingdom back to the 7th century with the reign of King Perdiccas, a descendant of the Heracleidae dynasty of Argos. Later on, philosophical and political tensions marked the relationships between Macedonians and Athenians. Prominent figures like Thrasymachus and
Demosthenes expressed strong opposition to Macedonian rulers, often questioning their cultural identity.
The fact that they were viewed as being tall may suggest a northern European ancestry and linking King Perdiccas to the dynasty of Argos may provide a further clue as to their origins.
Iman Wilkins in his book
Where Troy Once Stood proposed that the Trojan War was fought between Northern European Celtic tribes in what is today eastern England. The C's have also told us that the story of the Trojan War inherited and written about by Homer was a combination of cataclysmic events, as well as the destruction of the City of Troy, which the C's said occurred in 1100 B:
If I recall correctly, the Argos of the Trojan Wars period was based by Wilkins in northern France and not ancient Greece. So, it could be the case that the Macedonians were northern European refugees from cataclysms that had beset Northern Europe circa 1600 BC, which could then explain the later link between the Celts of Northern Europe and the Greek peoples as regards the transmission of the secret knowledge referred to by the C's, which they said was a multi-trans-generational habit. Perhaps the Archaic Greeks, or at least the Macedonians, were the Hyperboreans distant Celtic cousins? I find it somewhat amusing that the C's should say that the sacred offerings wrapped in leaves sent by the Hyperboreans to Delos were in fact bearing cryptic codes, since how often have they given us cryptic messages to decipher.
I appreciate that this subject is far removed from the current war in the Middle East but then the C's have extolled us to keep on networking. So, apologies to everyone for getting a bit side tracked.
BTW: I am coming round more and more to the conclusion that Roman roots may well be linked with the Trojans of England as Roman writers claimed and it was not just a fanciful legend employed to embellish their origins. I hope to do a post on this notion in due course.