Famous for crossing the Alps with elephants & winning many battles against the Romans, this general never managed to conquer the eternal city & fled to Asia in the end, according to mainstream history. Some interesting questions arise:
- His campaign started on the Iberian Peninsula, but Elephas never lived in Europe. However, Iberia is a name used for two different regions: Could he have started from Caucasia?
- Carthage is located on the northern shores of Africa, but the name can also be found on another location: the district of Kadiköy in Istanbul bears the same etymology, could Dido have migrated to Anatolia instead?
The name Hannibal associates with the Phoenician deity Baal, sometimes honored by child sacrifice: It happened the worshippers ate the bodies, does "cannibalism" perhaps originate from "khan-i-baal", or "white khan"?
Hannibal Lecter is a famous cannibal in different movies, a character once performed by Anthony Hopkins, who also performed Titus Andronicus. If Tamora, also similar to Tomyris, refers to Tamar, Shakespeare might also hint to more similarities:
- Her name means figtree, whence the name Bethany comes: This is Bithynia, where Kadiköy is situated & Hannibal found shelter after his campaign ...
- Queen Tamar was shortly married to Yury Bogolyubsky, son of the Scythian Caesar, the character Tamora was shortly married to Saturninus, son of the dead emperor ...
- Bassianus is also an important high priest of the cult of Elagabalus, the solar variant of Baal, to whom the eldest son of Tamora might have been offered ...
The cannibal is the son of a Lithuanian duke & an Italian woman: Does this refer to the Veneti, who migrated from the Vistula to Veneto, where those Phoenicians found Venice? Might Latin actually have been derived from Lithuanian, or Latvian?
