Historic Trojan war- Salmoneus was

Uhha-Ziti, Menelaus was Targasnalli,

Agamemnon was Mashuiluwa by Eulalio
Diocson Eguia Jr.

This is the transcript to my Youtube video published on

April 6, 2024.

The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek

mythology between the Achaean Greeks against the city
of Troy. The war is one of the most important events in
Greek mythology, and it has been narrated through many
works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad. The
core of the Iliad (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of
four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-
long siege of Troy.

The key to unlocking the historic Trojan war in my opinion,

is to first identify who exactly the Trojans, the Amazons,
and the Achaeans were in history because these were the
major players in the Iliad. In my previous video titled
“Historical Troy was in Eupatoria near the Amazon city of
Themyscira on the Black Sea southern coast”, I talked
about the alliance between the Trojans and the Amazons
during the war, and how close was Themyscira, the capital
of the Amazons, to the city of Troy (which I identified as
Eupatoria), just 65 kilometers away from each other.

In that video I concluded based on Homer’s descriptions

that the city of Troy must be located near the conjunction
of two rivers, namely, Scamander (which I identified as the
Iris or Yesilirmak river) and the Simoeis river (which I
identified as the Lycus or Kelkit river). And Eupatoria, just
like Troy, was located just south of where the Lycus flows
into the Iris river. Both Eupatoria and Themyscira were
near the southern coast of the Black Sea in Turkey in a
region also known as the Pontic region of Asia Minor in
northern Anatolia, Turkey.
Also, in my other video titled “Troy was Hayasa, Amazon
was Azzi, Anniya was Achilles & Mursili's eclipse on
Trojan war's 10th year”, I identified the Trojan-Amazon
alliance as the Hayasa-Azzi confederation located in the
Pontic region of Asia Minor where also Eupatoria and
Themyscira were located. I specifically identified Hayasa
as Troy, and Azzi as Amazon.

I ended that video by saying that Mursili II’s historical solar

eclipse was visible at the mouth of the Yesilirmak river
(where according to Homer the Trojan war battles were
fought) on August 2, 979 BC at 2:31:30 UTC just 17
minutes after sunrise. That day also marked the death of
Patroclus, a close friend of Achilles, during the 10th year
of the Trojan war. I dated Mursili’s eclipse using Stellarium
in my video titled “Redating Mursili II's solar eclipse to
August 2, 979 BC means Hittite chronology is 334 years
too early”. This eclipse occurred in the latter part of
Mursili’s 10th year. Thus, Mursili’s 1st year when he
ascended the Hittite throne, coincided with the first year of
the Trojan war.

In my video titled “Historic Trojan war- Priam was Hakkani,

Dymas was Tudhaliya, Otreus was Suppiluliuma, Asius
was Zida”, I identified several historical personages and
their associated character names in the Iliad which
documented the Trojan war. Hakkani was a king of
Hayasa who I believe to be the Trojan king Priam, while
Tudhaliya and Suppiluliuma were Hittite Kings who I
believe were the Phrygian kings Dymas and Otreus
respectively. Zida was a Hittite prince who I believe was
the Phrygian prince Asius. The Hittites called their
kingdom Hattusa which in my research was also the
Phrygia of Homer’s Iliad.

Menelaus, Achilles, Agamemnon, and Odysseus were

some of the main heroes of the Achaeans mentioned in
Homer’s Iliad. And in my opinion, the key to identify their
historical names is to first know exactly who the Achaeans
were. The Ionians were one of the four major tribes that
the Greeks considered themselves to be divided into
during the ancient period; the other three being the
Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans. Furthermore, the Ionian
dialect was one of the three major linguistic divisions of
the Hellenic world, together with the Dorian and Aeolian
dialects. Note that there is no such thing as an Achaean
dialect.

According to historians, the Achaeans inhabited the region

of Achaea in the northern Peloponnese, and played an
active role in the colonization of Italy, founding the city of
Kroton. Unlike the other major tribes, the Achaeans did not
have a separate dialect in the Classical period, but were
instead using a form of Doric or Dorian. In my opinion, if
the Achaeans in the northern Peloponnese spoke Doric
Greek, then they should be considered as Dorians, not
Achaeans. So who do I believe the Achaeans really were?

Because I identified Troy, Amazon, and Phrygia as

regions in Turkey, namely, Hayasa, Azzi, and Hattusa
respectively, I believe the Achaeans were ancient Greeks
who migrated to western Turkey and its nearby islands of
Imbros, Tenedos, and Lesbos. (Lesbos is one Greek
island in the Aegean sea which is being claimed by
Turkey). Greeks have been living in what is now Turkey
continuously since the middle 2nd millennium BC.
Following upheavals in mainland Greece during the
Bronze Age Collapse, the Aegean coast of Asia Minor was
heavily settled by Ionian and Aeolian Greeks and became
known as Ionia and Aeolia.
Now you might ask, if the Achaeans were living in
mainland western Turkey, why do they have to board
ships to go to northeastern Turkey where I believe
Hayasa-Troy was located? Between western Turkey and
northeastern Turkey, there were several kingdoms that the
Achaeans of western Turkey had to cross first before
reaching Troy. Foremost of these kingdoms was Phrygia
or the Hittites who were allies of Troy, including the
territories that the Hittites controlled way back then which
was expansive. Thus the only safe course for the
Achaeans to travel was through the Black Sea.
In my video titled "Trojan war - Clytemnestra was Muwatti,
Pollux was Telipinu, Castor was Piyassili, Leda was
Malnigal” I identified several more historical personages
and their associated character names in the Iliad.
Malnigal, who I identified with Leda, was the Babylonian
wife of the Hittite king Suppiluliuma, who I identified with
Tyndareus. Muwatti and Piyassili (who I identified with
Clytemnestra and Castor respectively) were
Suppiluliuma’s children with Malnigal. While Telipinu (who
I identified with Pollux) was Suppiluliuma’s step-son with
Malnigal. In this video I will now identify Salmoneus,
Agamemnon, Menelaus, Chryses son of Chryseis, and
Aegisthus.
Suppiluliuma I married his daughter Muwatti to
Mašḫuiluwa of the Arzawan state Mira. I believe Muwatti
was Clytemnestra, while Mašḫuiluwa was Agamemnon,
and in this video, I will explain why. Arzawa was a region
and political entity in Western Anatolia during the latter
part of the Bronze Age (which in Eurasia was circa 2700-
700 BC). It should be noted that I dated the 10th year of
the Trojan war circa 979 BC during the latter part of the
Bronze Age. Because Arzawa was located very near the
Aegean islands of Greece, important historical events in
Arzawa became assimilated in Greek mythology making it
appear that these events happened in Greece or the
Aegean islands instead.

One example was the story of Uhha-Ziti, the last

independent king of Arzawa, a Bronze Age kingdom of
western Anatolia. In 1322 BC of the middle chronology as
dated by historians, which corresponds to Mursili’s 9th
year, the Hittite king in his second military campaign
season, attacked Arzawa's border and then invaded
Arzawa. Uhha-Ziti at this time had made his base at
Apasa, Arzawa’s capital. During Mursili's march, a
meteorite struck Apasa and wounded Uhha-Ziti, as
recorded in the Annals of Mursili:

"The mighty Storm God, My Lord, showed his divinely

righteous power and hurled a thunderbolt. All of my troops
saw the thunderbolt. All the land of Arzawa saw the
thunderbolt. The thunderbolt passed (us) and struck the
land of Arzawa. It struck Uḫḫa-Ziti’s (capital) city Apaša. It
settled in Uḫḫa-Ziti’s knees, and he became ill."

In his wounded state, Uhha-Ziti could no longer lead the

charge; therefore, having allied with the King of Ahhiuwa
(which historians associate with the Achaeans of
Mycenaean Greece), Uhha-Ziti and his sons fled to the
nearby Ahhiuwa-controlled islands. Uhha-Ziti died during
Mursili’s invasion.

This recorded historical myth had its counterpart in Greek

mythology: Salmoneus founded a city in Eleia (Elis) on the
banks of the river Alpheius and called it Salmonia after his
own name. Salmoneus, being an overbearing man and
impious, came to be hated by his subjects for he ordered
them to worship him under the name of Zeus. For this sin
of hubris, Zeus eventually struck him down with his
thunderbolt and destroyed the town.
Salmoneus was formerly a Thessalian prince as son of
King Aeolus of Aeolia. This Aeolus was sometimes
confused (or identified) with the Aeolus who is the keeper
of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's
Odyssey. I actually believe Salmoneus’ father Aeolus was
one and the same as the Aeolus in Odyssey, and
therefore a contemporary of Odysseus. This is because I
identified most of the historical people associated with
Mursili with some of the most important characters of the
Iliad, which included Odysseus.
Salmoneus was also connected with the myth of Jason the
Argonaut, the son of Aeson. Pelias (Aeson's half-brother),
was the progeny of a union between their shared mother,
Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god
Poseidon. The time which the Greek traditions assign to
the Argonauts is about one generation before the Trojan
war. This led me to believe Uhha-Ziti was a very old man
when he was struck by a thunderbolt, and that his
daughter Tyro must have married and gave birth at a very
young age. His advanced age coupled by the relatively
young age when Mursili became king, was the reason why
he called Musili a “child”.
Hapalla, also written as Haballa, was a kingdom in central-
western Anatolia around the middle of the 14th century BC
as dated by historians. Hapalla was one of the Arzawa
states, of which it was the easternmost. The first sovereign
known from Hapalla was Targasnalli who, after the failure
of the uprising of Uhha-Ziti against Hittite monarch Muršili
II (which ended sometime 1319 BC during Mursili’s 12th
year but started in his 9th year), agreed to submit again to
the authority of Hattuša and therefore was "...re-installed
on the throne of Hapalla by the Hittite ruler".
From the subsequent treaty of Kupanta-Kurunta, we learn
that Targasnalli was still on the throne of Hapalla around
1310 BC during Murisili’s 21st year (or 11 years after the
Trojan war). Note that all these dates are based on current
Hittite chronology which I believe was 334 years too early.
See my video titled “Redating Mursili II's solar eclipse to
August 2, 979 BC means Hittite chronology is 334 years
early!”.
Also, historians have 2 conflicting chronologies dating
Mursili II’s reign, 1330–1295 BC (using middle chronology)
or 1321–1295 BC (using short chronology), which only
highlights the historians’ confusion with their dating of
events. Now keep in mind that the start of Mursili’s reign
coincided with the start of the 10 year Trojan war
according to my research. So dating events based on
Mursili’s regnal years tied to the Trojan war years will be
independent of the errors which the current Hittite
chronology have.
Since the Achaeans fought the Trojans who were
supported by the Phrygians during the war, the Achaeans
became a de facto enemy of the Phrygians who I believe
to be the Hittites led by Mursili that time. After the
Achaeans won the Trojan war, there was no reason for
them to continue fighting the Phrygians. And this is why in
the 12th year of Mursili, or 2 years after the Trojan war,
Hapalla agreed to submit again to the Hittite authority.
On the other hand, the Hittites, under Mursili, recognizing
the utter defeat of the Trojans, also desired peace with the
Achaeans. This made the remnants among the Trojans
which included Aeneas, bitter against both the Achaeans
and the Hittites, and in my previous video titled “Dido was
Hiram Abiff's widowed mother, Rapha (father of Goliath)
was Hercules & the Sea Peoples descended from
Aeneas” I showed how the Sea Peoples, who were
descendants of Aeneas, succeeded in destroying Hattusa
and Arzawa, respectively, the kingdoms of the Hittites and
the Achaeans.
I believe Targasnalli, the sovereign of Hapalla, was
Menelaus who returned to Sparta with Helen 8 years after
he had left Troy. This is consistent with Targasnalli still
being on the throne of Hapalla around 1310 BC during
Murisili’s 21st year (or 11 years after the Trojan war). And
according to Homer’s Odyssey, Menelaus and Helen were
still ruling Sparta shortly before Odysseus returned to
Ithaca from Troy, 10 years after the Trojan war. Because
Menelaus and Helen had no male heir, while they were
away, Sparta was being governed by Chryses, Menelaus’
nephew by his brother Agamemnon and Chryseis,
Agamemnon’s former slave, who agreed to submit again
to the Hittite authority 2 years after the Trojan war. Let me
explain why.
Mira was one of the semi-autonomous vassal state
kingdoms that emerged in western Anatolia (Asia Minor)
following the defeat and partition of the larger kingdom of
Arzawa by the victorious Suppiluliuma, father of Mursili, of
the Hittite Empire. Kupanta-Kurunta was believed to be
born at Mira in western Anatolia, in one of the princely
families. His father joined a coup against king Mašḫuiluwa
of Mira. The Hittite king Suppiluliuma I married
Mašḫuiluwa to his daughter Muwatti and reinstalled him.
Kupanta-Kurunta's father apparently died or was exiled
soon after. Mašḫuiluwa then asked Suppiluliuma's
successor Mursili II if he could adopt Kupanta-Kurunta as
a son.
Mira remained a Hittite ally against Uhha-Ziti of Arzawa;
but two years after Mursili's eclipse (which would mean
1310 BC using the short chronology and two years after
the Trojan war), Mira rebelled under influence from "Great
House Father" (probably an adventurer and usurper from
Masa). Mursili quashed this rebellion, transferred
Mašḫuiluwa to a priesthood in Hittite territory, and installed
Kupanta-Kurunta as king. These were the events in Mira
as recreated by historians.
Now there is an obvious inconsistency in the historical
account here, or a wrong arrangement of the series of
events. After all, why would Mašḫuiluwa ask Mursili if he
can adopt Kupanta-Kurunta after Kupanta-Kurunta and his
father just staged a coup against him? In my research,
Mašḫuiluwa was Agamemnon and Kupanta-Kurunta was
Chryses, his son with Chryseis, a Trojan woman, the
daughter of another Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo.
After Chryses’ mother Chryseis was released shortly as a
prisoner and allowed to return to her hometown, she gave
birth to Chryses, her son with Agamemnon.
Many years later, Orestes arrived with Iphigenia (both
children of Agamemnon with Clytemnestra) to Zminthe
and were seized by Chryses, who decided to return them
to King Thoas and the Taurians. But through his
grandfather Chryses, he learned that they were also
children of Agamemnon. So Chryses, joining his forces to
those of his half-brother Orestes, attacked the Taurians
and killed their king Thoas. After this, Chryses goes with
Orestes and Iphigenia to Mycenae to visit the grave of
their father Agamemnon.
As you can see, the events in Mira as recreated by
historians were different from the Greek mythology as
narrated by Homer. First of all, Mašḫuiluwa, who I believe
was Agamemnon, was not killed after returning from the
Trojan war, but was only transferred by Mursili to become
a priest in the Hittite territory. Because the rebellion of
Mira against Mursili and Mashuiluwa that involved a
usurper called "Great House Father" happened 2 years
after the Trojan war, this means Agamemnon must have
returned no later than 2 years after the war. When
Chryses and Orestes, together with Chryses’ army
marched to Mycenae, Agamemnon was still alive and they
were not visiting the grave of their father.
Orestes probably asked Chryses’ help to liberate
Agamemnon from Clytemnestra (Agamemnon’s wife who I
believe was Muwatti, the daughter of Suppiluliuma). She
had a love affair with Aegisthus, her husband's cousin
while her husband was fighting in the Trojan war. When
Kupanta-Kurunta (or Chryses) marched to Mira with his
“father”, it was not to stage a coup against Mašḫuiluwa (or
Agamemnon) but to liberate him from “Great House
Father". The “father” who marched with Kupanta-Kurunta
was probably his stepfather who married his mother
Chryseis after giving birth to him.
"Great-House-Father" was Aegisthus, son of Thyestes
who had a rivalry with the house of Atreus (father of
Agamemnon) for the throne of Mycenae. Aegisthus
rebelled against Mursili when he took the throne of Mira
illegally with the help of his lover Clytemnestra, the
adulterous wife of Agamemnon. When Kupanta-Kurunta
(or Chryses) liberated Mašḫuiluwa (or Agamemnon),
Mašḫuiluwa later asked Mursili if he can adopt Kupanta-
Kurunta as his legitimate son and probable heir, and not
just his illegitimate son with Chryseis, who was his captive
slave.
Mursili, who was the Phrygian king during the Trojan war
and was an ally of the Trojans which included Chryses -
grandson of a Trojan priest with the same name, naturally
agreed and even went so far as to make Kupanta-Kurunta
the new king of Mira. This happened 2 years after the
Trojan war, when the rebellion by "Great House Father", or
Aegisthus, was quashed by Mursili with the help of
Kupanta-Kurunta.
At this time, Menelaus, or Targasnalli, king of Hapalla, was
still traveling in his 8 year journey to Sparta coming from
Troy. I believe Mursili also made Kupanta-Kurunta (or
Chryses) temporary king of Hapalla (or Homer’s Sparta)
while Menelaus was gone. And during this time Hapalla
became subject again to the authority of the Hittites after
having a peace treaty with Kupanta-Kurunta 2 years after
the Trojan war. This is how I recreated the events in Mira,
based on my research.
According to Greek mythology, Orestes, son of
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, murdered his mother, and
went mad afterwards after going to exile for several years.
This leaves Chryses as the only remaining son of
Agamemnon to become his heir. Regarding as to why in
Homer’s account of the Trojan war, Agamemnon was
“killed” rather than transferred by Mursili to become a
priest in the Hittite territory, in my opinion, it was in order
to hide the dishonor of Agamemnon, a great Greek warrior
and king, who submitted to become a priest of a foreign
god in a foreign land.