Kassite(Gandas the Bull)Babylon diplomacy analysis
Kassites began as allies of The Sea Peoples with the reign of Ilum-ma-ili (1732BC) coinciding with that of Gandas (1730BC)
Allies of the Canaanite who ruled Egypt from 1720BC.
This alliance provides evidence Minoa was the brainchild of Gandas and the effort of all three. With the diplomatic resource Gandas drew from India it seems evident he saw the advantage in maintaining an outpost only known of by his strongest supporters. He will have been seeking advantage to remove the power of the nobilities of Egypt so as to advance Semitic law there and retrieve those of his peoples in slavery there.
Minoa as the private Temple of Solomon does have apparent credibility within the tale of the minotaur. Gandas was obviously a diplomat with canny insight and foresight and more than likely to have fostered this manner of institutional cohesion between his newly victorious allies.
It is not clear whether the public of The Sea Peoples will have been informed of Minoa’s nature. It is not likely the peoples of Babylon will have had significant awareness of it as it will have retained an Amorite population that represented on ongoing internal threat. Egypt’s nobility are more than likely to have been considered the greatest threat and therefore the least likely to be privy to details.
The period following Gandas’s rule and before 1600BC’s approximate destruction of Minoa represents a significant period of cultural and philosophical development of a fundamentally political inner circle elite class attached to the Semitic allies efforts in Minoa which will most likely have focussed on how to tip the balance of power in Egypt so that rule there could be irrevocable after Gandas’s direct influence passed.
Shortly following the catastrophe the Canaanites lose power in Egypt. This will have been a significant moment for the collective Egyptian psyche and would appear to have not been forgotten 200 years later in Arkhenaten’s time.
Arkhenaten will have decreed all slaves of Egypt to be under his control in order to gather the manpower required to move a city and rebuild it. The manner in which Arkhenaten was remembered by his own people after his passing strong evidence that he had put their lifestyles in jeopardy to domination by the still ruling Kassites, even having gone as far as forming the monotheistic Egyptian theology, which will only have been countenanced by his courtly nobility and priests in the prospect that Egypt would somehow come to dominate the neighbours that had threatened them for so long.
Where Gandas appears to have sown the seed for the Greek and Roman cultures to rise with SMUMT, Arkhenaten provided the Babylonians with a reason to believe in their “foretold” ruling of Egypt and the rest of the world which it is fairly obvious they saw as their final aim, when he released the Kassite slaves and gave them the propaganda of the Moses tale.
The conspiracy turns full circle when the product of Gandas’s foresight evolves to be the Roman Empire and returns to first raze Carthage and then shortly later to rule Egypt and the Hebrews. The Greek and Romans represent the remnants of The Sea Peoples after they were defeated by the Kassites after the destruction of Minoa.
Their defeat at the time will have represented some degree of addressing the problem of gods anger as recorded by the breaking of the covenant with Minoa’s destruction. As they had become a problem to both the Egyptians and the Babylonians the Kassites conquering of them will have allowed a degree of tension to be eased between Egypt and Babylon.
By the time the Romans took Babylon’s territories the Hebrews had come to be ruled by “decadent Persians”. With the references to JC being a shepherd there is a good likelihood a word of mouth and possibly cryptic text tradition had existed with descendants of the Kassite herders and ruling nobilities. This is the greatest reason his claim to the Hebrew throne will have been resented as a threat to those who had managed to retain favour with the current Roman rulers. There will have been a fairly strong rebel memory of Kassite rule and power and the texts of the First Testament evidence a preference for the Kassite lineages as true rulers of Babylon.
So ultimately, Gandas laid the foundation for his people to be rescued from Persian rule in the influence that led to Roman might. As the priests of Judea circa 10BC were agents of the Persian nobility they will have been familiar with and prepared for dealing with claims to the throne.
Comparison of the word of mouth tradition of later Mongol goat herders indicates the scenario that JC was genuinely descended from Gandas and had access to his record is more than likely. The speculation that JC travelled to India in his early years is lent greatest credence in this light considering it is fairly obvious India was crucial to Gandas’s military campaigns.