Dear friend interested in History. If you have arrived here across the tunnel we have opened towards the past, it means that you have considered interesting what you have read up to now.

Perhaps nobody had before told you about this matter. There is no bibliography where to look for, only some classical authors; and the surviving works of the Spanish historian Mr. FEDERICO G. MACIÑEIRA Y PARDO DE LAMA⁽⁷⁾, reprisaled by the Franco’s Dictatorship.

We can not help you too much in your new walking. Even though we have opened the narrow tunnel which has permitted you to arrive here, the work is beginnig yet. The retrieval of the Iberian Peninsula pre-Roman past using the Scientific Thought will be a hard work that will take years. The History people will need the help of people working in other knowledge areas, for the interpretation of the available historical data.

Nevertheless, let us give you a little adaptation training for your new situation before to go on.

We hope that at the end you will feel comfortable in your new walking, and will be able for looking for the information that has been hidden to us up to now. We only ask you that if you find some data which could give light to our past, please, put the information in the public domain, as we are doing now. The people of this country deserves it.

You will be amazed when you check by yourself the big quantity of information that have “inexplicably” dodged in their readings of the classical authors, investigators so famous as Menéndez Pidal; García Bellido; Adolf Schulten; Bosch Gimpera... and a lots of others who have based their works in the conclusions of them.

 

3. THE ROMAN EMPIRE CENSORSHIP.

As it has happened in all the times and in all the countries, during the Roman Empire there were CENSORSHIP actions due to religious or political reasons, in accordance with the orders given by who controlled the Empire power in each historical time of it. This is something that can be checked through the classical texts that have arrived to us ⁽¹⁾.

3.1 What Actions Were Executed by the Roman Empire for the Strengthening of His Supremacy Over a Conquered Country?

One of the methods used by the Roman Empire for the strengthening of his supremacy over the conquered countries was TO ELIMINATE THEIR CULTURAL ROOTS.

After the occupation of a country, the Roman Empire's censorship proceeded to the confiscation and the destruction of a big part, or the whole, of the native authors' works. As an example of the results of such politic, we can remember the complete dissapearance of the works of the Ethruscan and Carthaginian autors. We would probably not know nothing about these civilizations whether the Romans would had not respected their graves; or because they enjoyed very much telling to the posterity how they defeated them.

In the case of some conquered countries where they had produced works of a great international prestige in the pre-Roman times, the works considered useful for the Empire were circulated once the Censorship declared them adequated for their publication. We must not have any doubt that the texts of these works were manipulated with absolute prepotency, when the Censorship considered it necessary, making in them interpolations, manipulations and mutilations.

3.2 How Did The Roman Censorship Work?

In the meantime the Roman Empire lasted, lots of classical authors, Romans and no-Romans, were censored being alive. Lots of them were sentenced with death, prison, exile, penalties, or silenced. Their works were confiscated or destroyed⁽¹⁾.

The Censorship criteria were variable in the different Empire stages. When changes in the Empire power control were produced, even it happened that works prohibited in the previous stage, could freely circulate in the new political situation, or vice versa⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾.

Having occurred the things so, we can affirm with absolute security that all the works published in the Roman Empire which have arrived to us, be Romans or no-Romans, have been filtered by the Roman Censorship —one time at least— before the issue of the authorization for their publication. These works could remain intact, or not, after the censoring process.

3.3 A Reasonable Hypothesis for The Approach to The Pre-Roman History of the West European Countries That Were Conquered by the Roman Empire.

According to our work hypothesis, the Emperor Caesar Augustus decided to erase from the History an important Athlantic Culture, as a revenge by the terrible setbacks that its armies inflicted to both Julius Caesar⁽³⁾, in his failed foolhardy attempts for overruning Britain, and the own Caesar Augustus⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾ during the "Kantabrian Wars".

Being them the Gods-Fahters founders of the Roman Empire, from a political viewpoint is more than reasonable the possibility that Caesar Augustus, furious due to his defeats in the Kantabrian Wars, has made such decision.

It is not difficult to imagine some of the Censorship actions due to the execution of this order:

 • The prohibition, under the heaviest punishments by treason, of the pronunciation or writing the true name of the Athlantic Culture. The elimination of its internationally known place-names which could perpetuate its memory also. The instruction would be that such Culture would had never existed, and all the information told and spoken about it up to then were only fables.

Let us remember that the investigators are compulsed to make big and fruitless erudition efforts, when they try the justification of their proposals for the geographic situation of lots of historical place-names which were located in the geographical area named Hispania Ulterior by the Roman Empire.

As a little sample, we can mention the Kassiterides Islands; the Astur River; the Medulius Mountain; or the Vindius Mountain —key places for the knowledge of the history of this area—, whose exact situation is not possible to unequivocally fix having only as a guide the classical works arrived to us.

Even some authors, at present, surprisingly propose due to their impotence, that such place-names have never not existed, and that we must understand that they are mentioned in the classical works in a symbolic way only.

• The systemathic destruction of all the Cultural, Artístical and Technological Heritage which had flourished in the geographical zones where the Atlantic Culture was placed. Its cities would have been demolished up to the foundations, and these covered with earth; other new cities would have been built in other places. Its inhabitants, condemned to the most hard slavery, would be described as semi-savage people to the rest of the Empire.

• The destruction, confiscation, amputation, and distortion of the History and Geography works, Romans and non-Romans, that had circulated in the Empire up to then, due to they would contain information about the Athlantic Culture.

This would be the explanation of the dissapearance of the works of lots of pre-Roman historians and geographers coming from all the countries occupied by the Empire, whose existing is known by us by mean of indirect references. Their works would contain information about the Athlantic Culture Geography and History. As an example, we can talk about the historian and geographer Pytheas. This author personally sailed by the Athlantic Countries waters, and described the Athlantic Culture in his work named "About the Ocean" ⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾.

• The writing of new History and Geography books would be ordered. The Roman Empire would be presented according to the official political orders, without to mention the Athlantic Culture.

If this work hypothesis is proved, we would be in front of the MOST TERRIBLE CASE OF CENSORSHIP —and of revenge— in all the times.

3.4 OK, OK, This Seems Interesting, But Where to Look For Prooves for Supporting a Proposal as This?

In the case of an Athlantic Culture of similar cathegory than the Greek or the Roman cultures would had existed —being contemporary of these—, is evident that the Roman Empire has got to erase it from the History. The information taught in the History and Philology Faculties of the Spanish Universities confirms it.

However, if the hypothesis is valid, being so ENORMOUS the work commended to the Censors, in the classical works arrived up to us the following possibilities are NECESSARILY feasible:

• When the Censorship operated over the texts of the works arrived to us, which were published BEFORE the prohibition and spoke about the Geography and the History of the Athlantic Culture, COMPULSORILY MADE MISTAKES -nobody is perfect.

As per this possibility, if we make text interpretation and style analysis of these works, we will see signs of interpolations, omitions, contradictions, and amputations made by the Roman Empire Censorship.

• The contemporary and later than Caesar Augustus authors, forced to adhere to the order —mainly the historians and geographers—, have made contradictions; vaguenesses; absurds; and inexplicable silences, in their narrations about the historical events, when they try to hide the participation in them of the Athlantic Culture. Also, they could be careless trying to apply the Augustus' order when they wrote their works.

But, perhaps the Roman Censors underestimated, or were not able for avoiding the following possibility:

• Some non-Roman authors, COULD DECEIVE THE CENSORSHIP —with much courage and talent— in rebelliousness against the Empire order.

Different reasons could have produced such decision in the non-Roman authors: their scientific and ethic principles; to be activists of independentist political movements —THE RESISTANCE— because they felt theirselves inhabitants of a country dominated by a foreigner Empire, …

The talent of these authors avoiding the Censorship would get the transmission of information about the Athlantic Culture to the posterity, IN A VEILED WAY. In their works it would be easy to recover the transmitted veiled information, because the work hypothesis that we are handling makes us "good understanding persons".

  

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(1) Censorship in the Ancient World, Luis Gil, Revista de Occidente, 1.961.

(2) Life of the Twelve Caesares, Caius Suetonius.

(3) History Against the Pagans, Paulus Orosius.

(4) Roman History, Dio Cassius.

(5) Geography, Strabo

(6) Histories, Polibius.

(7) BARES. Puerto Hispánico de la Primitiva Navegación Occidental, CSIC-Instituto Padre Sarmiento de Estudios Gallegos. Santiago de Compostela, 1.947.

 

As we are going to see next, some of the classical authors arrived to us cooperated with THE RESISTANCE against the Roman Empire. The major part of them are authors from countries occupied by the Empire. But, also some Romans transmitted information to us; mainly by careless, but others perhaps by political interest reasons⁽²⁾⁽⁴⁾.

 

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