Was Chile colonised by the ancient Greeks?

April 29th, 2024

Awake Goy

Was Chile colonised by the ancient Greeks?

In 1974, professor César Navarrete, published a book entitled:

“The Greek origin of the Araucanians

(original title ” el origen griego de los araucanos)

As the official historian of the Araucanian race, Lonko Kilapán reveals that an expedition started from Sparta between 800 and 600 BC travelling towards the east. The expedition crossed over to Asia Minor and followed the route towards the Far East; passed through the north-east of India and descended to the region of Laos (deriving from the greek word ΛΑΟΣ; pronounced laos which means “people”). From there they descended further down to the peninsula of Malaysia and sailed in the Pacific Ocean. Moving through the islands (Indonesia, Micronesia, Melanisia and Polynesia they were able to reach the island of Galapagos and from there they entered south America (Peru).

(Galapagos, a compound word from the Greek words gala (γάλα) = milk, and pagos (πάγος) = rock, which means white rocks) All the above island complexes have compound Greek names: “Indo-nesia”, “Micro-nesia”, “Mela-nesia”, “Poly-nesia”…The second word all of them consist of is nesia, meaning in Greek “island complex”, while the first one denotes a main property of these islands or their inhabitants. These names were not given by the navigators of the West but they had already been given.)

According to Lonko Kilapán, they decided to settle on a similar latitude to that of Greece; between the 42nd and 35th south parallel (Macedonia is situated on the 42nd northern parallel and Crete on the 35th). They named the area Phyli (Greek word ΦΥΛΗ meaning “race”). From this term the word “Chile” is derived. The Greek settlers learned the local language and appplied some grammatical rules from their own.

Lonko Kilapán is not the only one that has written about the Greek origin of some of the indigenous people of America. Writer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532-1592), in his book “Historia Indica” states that it can be deduced that the ancient Greeks reached America as in the land of Yucatan and Campeche the indigenous dressed like Greeks and used many Greek letters and words including the word “Teos” (ΘΕΟΣ, pronounced theos meaning “God”). Lonko Kilapán also states that although the Araucanian language was not written it is estimated that it used many Greek words since one can still find today traces of Greek in about 20% of the words used.

As additional proof I present some Araucanian names and their Greek origin :

Alkaman ( in Greek Alkamenis; ΑΛΚΑΜΕΝΗΣ)

Antimanki (in Greek Antimachos; ΑΝΤΙΜΑΧΟΣ)

Elikura (in Greek Elikoros; ΕΛΙΚΩΡΟΣ)

Krinno (in Greek Krinon; ΚΡΙΝΩΝ)

Kedoman (in Greek Kedomenis; ΚΕΔΟΜΕΝΗΣ)

Nekuleo (in Greek Nikolaos; ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ)