Epsilon Team
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The Epsilon Team is, according to a conspiracy theory
, a secret society
of Greek
engineers, academics, pilots, powerful businessmen and politicians. First coined by Ioannis Fourakis, this term was later used by Anestis Keramidas, Gerasimos Kalogerakis, Dimosthenis Liakopoulos, Kyriakos Velopoulos
and a few other writers in a series of eschatological
, messianic
, pseudohistorical
, pseudoscientific
and national mysticist
books, which now form a complex mythos
.
s connected back to back and supposedly appearing on ancient Greek
and Inca
monuments and even on some sighted UFOs. It is also claimed by an anonymous Youtube video that debris salvaged from the Roswell UFO Incident
has the Greek
word "Ελευθερία" ("freedom") on it, however it is misspelled as ΕΛΕΦΘΕΡΙΑ in the video..
. Greek supporters like to present the Epsilon Team as a proof of the alleged superiority of the Greek race and culture above all other cultures, by claiming that Ancient Greeks were of extraterrestrial, Hyperborean origins and had extremely advanced technology, now secretly discovered and studied by the Epsilon Team, which is, if not of Greek origin, at least using "forbidden" and "top secret" Greek technology, either the result of rediscovering "ancient" technology or the work of scientists, members of the society.
The Epsilon Team is also supposed to fight against the so called Jewish Darkness, an eternal fight between light and darkness. A fight between two cultures actually, the Hellenic (Hellas - root(H)el = light) and the Judaic.
, Aristotle
, Pericles
and Socrates
.
Others, like conspiracy theorist
author Pantelis Yiannoulakis, claim that the contemporary form of the Epsilon Team as a secret society dates to the post-World War II
period, founded by Greek scientists working in the United States
and economically backed by people like Aristotelis Onassis and others (mostly people already deceased at the moment of "acknowledgment").
Journalist G. Palmos dismisses any attempts at providing a definite timeline or description by simply stating that the Epsilon Team is more of an "eternal common Greek spiritual brotherhood" than a secret society or organized company and thus has no timeline or traceable structure.
.
A brief list of related publications:
Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
, a secret society
Secret society
A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their...
of Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
engineers, academics, pilots, powerful businessmen and politicians. First coined by Ioannis Fourakis, this term was later used by Anestis Keramidas, Gerasimos Kalogerakis, Dimosthenis Liakopoulos, Kyriakos Velopoulos
Kyriakos Velopoulos
Kyriakos Velopoulos is a Greek nationalist politician and parliament member, and television personality. Born in Germany, his parents were refugee peasants...
and a few other writers in a series of eschatological
Eschatology
Eschatology is a part of theology, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world or the World to Come...
, messianic
Messianism
Messianism is the belief in a messiah, a savior or redeemer. Many religions have a messiah concept, including the Jewish Messiah, the Christian Christ, the Muslim Mahdi and Isa , the Buddhist Maitreya, the Hindu Kalki and the Zoroastrian Saoshyant...
, pseudohistorical
Pseudohistory
Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to a type of historical revisionism, often involving sensational claims whose acceptance would require rewriting a significant amount of commonly accepted history, and based on methods that depart from standard historiographical conventions.Cryptohistory...
, pseudoscientific
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status...
and national mysticist
National mysticism
National mysticism is a form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity. Its best known instance is Germanic mysticism, which gave rise to occultism under the "Third Reich". The idea of the nation as a divine entity was presented by Johann Gottlieb Fichte...
books, which now form a complex mythos
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
.
Symbols
Epsilon Team's supposed symbol is a Delphic Epsilon, two EpsilonEpsilon
Epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 5. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He...
s connected back to back and supposedly appearing on ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
and Inca
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire , was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century...
monuments and even on some sighted UFOs. It is also claimed by an anonymous Youtube video that debris salvaged from the Roswell UFO Incident
Roswell UFO incident
The Roswell UFO Incident was the recovery of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947, allegedly an extra-terrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of...
has the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
word "Ελευθερία" ("freedom") on it, however it is misspelled as ΕΛΕΦΘΕΡΙΑ in the video..
Existence?
The existence of the Epsilon team is promoted by (exclusively Greek) historians and some ufologistsUfology
Ufology is a neologism coined to describe the collective efforts of those who study reports and associated evidence of unidentified flying objects . UFOs have been subject to various investigations over the years by governments, independent groups, and scientists...
. Greek supporters like to present the Epsilon Team as a proof of the alleged superiority of the Greek race and culture above all other cultures, by claiming that Ancient Greeks were of extraterrestrial, Hyperborean origins and had extremely advanced technology, now secretly discovered and studied by the Epsilon Team, which is, if not of Greek origin, at least using "forbidden" and "top secret" Greek technology, either the result of rediscovering "ancient" technology or the work of scientists, members of the society.
The Epsilon Team is also supposed to fight against the so called Jewish Darkness, an eternal fight between light and darkness. A fight between two cultures actually, the Hellenic (Hellas - root(H)el = light) and the Judaic.
History
No clear timeline of the Epsilon team has been developed, mainly because people who claim to be members or representatives give very different and incoherent versions of the story. Some of the epsilonist authors claim that the Epsilon Team has existed in some form since the first forms of Greek civilization, and that its members included ancient philosophers, historians, scientists, and politicians like PlatoPlato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
, Pericles
Pericles
Pericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars...
and Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
.
Others, like conspiracy theorist
Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
author Pantelis Yiannoulakis, claim that the contemporary form of the Epsilon Team as a secret society dates to the post-World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
period, founded by Greek scientists working in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and economically backed by people like Aristotelis Onassis and others (mostly people already deceased at the moment of "acknowledgment").
Journalist G. Palmos dismisses any attempts at providing a definite timeline or description by simply stating that the Epsilon Team is more of an "eternal common Greek spiritual brotherhood" than a secret society or organized company and thus has no timeline or traceable structure.
People and publications
Most publications and people openly supporting the existence of the Epsilon team are currently found in Greece, and usually their interests are either mystical, nationalistic or bothNational mysticism
National mysticism is a form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity. Its best known instance is Germanic mysticism, which gave rise to occultism under the "Third Reich". The idea of the nation as a divine entity was presented by Johann Gottlieb Fichte...
.
A brief list of related publications:
- The Greek "Ελληνόραμα" (Hellenorama) magazine, a monthly magazine featuring articles on the existence of Greek language elements in HawaiianHawaiian languageThe Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...
or Australian Aboriginal languagesAustralian Aboriginal languagesThe Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...
(a claim made by a German linguistics professor named Nors S. Josephson in his book Greek Linguistic Elements in the Polynesian Languages - Hellenicum Pacificum) and various pseudoscientificPseudosciencePseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status...
articles with no bibliographic references. - The Greek "Τρίτο Μάτι" (Third Eye) monthly magazine, mostly focusing on mysticismMysticismMysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
, National Mysticism and conspiracy theoriesConspiracy theoryA conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
. - Several books, usually marketed only inside Greece and only by some particular bookstores. One of them is a book issued in 1998 by the publisher Dion (ThessalonikiThessalonikiThessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
) called Omada Epsilon (The Epsilon Team), by Anestis Keramidas. Other books related to national mysticism are published by the Greek publisher Georgiades Books. Other Epsilonist writers are Gerasimos Kalogerakis and Yannis Fragoulis. - Giorgios Paras is the current spokesperson for the Epsilon Team chapter in Australia.
External links
- The website of writer Ioannis Fourakis, first to use the term Epsilon Team
- Greek publisher specializing in books of historical and philosophical content (in GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
) - The English version of the website of The Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes, a Greek neopagan movement
- Critical article from the official publication of the Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes
- Website with general information in Greek
- Greek-language blog satirizing the actions of Dimosthenis Liakopoulos
- Wikinews announcement of Liakopoulos' lawsuit against the owner of link aggregation service blogme.gr for linking to a blog that lampoons him
- Article regarding the imprisonment of blogme.gr's administrator for linking to the satirical blog