Epsilon Team

This symbol is usually presented as the Epsilon Team's logo.

The Epsilon Team (Greek: Ομάδα Έψιλον, Omadha Epsilon) 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.

Symbols

Epsilon Team's supposed symbol is a Delphic Epsilon, two Epsilons 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.^[1][2].

Existence?

The existence of the Epsilon team is promoted by (exclusively Greek) historians and some ufologists. 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 Plato, 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.

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 both. A brief list of related publications:

• The Greek "Ελληνόραμα" (Hellenorama) magazine, a monthly magazine featuring articles on the existence of Greek language elements in Hawaiian or Australian Aboriginal languages (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 pseudoscientific articles with no bibliographic references.
• The Greek "Τρίτο Μάτι" (Third Eye) monthly magazine, mostly focusing on mysticism, National Mysticism and conspiracy theories.
• 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 (Thessaloniki) 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.

See also

• Hyperborea
• Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes

References

1. ^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=P59s43n0XRE
2. ^ http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread277803/pg1

• Konstantinos Kouros "The Epsilon Enigma", Esoptron editions

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 Greek)
• 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