Do you know the mythical video game series "Assassin's Creed"? , a complex world of action and adventure where a certain dose of violence is not exempt.It has an elegant, at the same time bloody air, where its protagonist teaches us a world halfway between realism and fantasy, and in which crimes, murders , seem to be the main strategic engine.
But Did these enigmatic characters really exist? Was our past history inhabited by the so-called "Assassins"?
When the Caliph of Ismailism died a war of succession between its children was raised.One of the groups praised the eldest of his children, Nizar, and although this just died he lit a fuse to originate in turn another parallel group.The so-called nizaries , whom their enemies knew by another name : the "Assassins". A minority sect of Ismailismo, dissident, heretic and of course, perseguida.
Its leader was Hasan-i Sabbah , a cultured and enigmatic man whom they called "The Old Man of the Montana". This man established his power precisely in a mountain in northern Iran, where he raised a fortress known as "Alamut ».It was an incredible and impregnable construction of 2,000 meters high where his“ eagle nest ”was, a name established by Marco Polo himself, after meeting them on one of his many trips.
They were very skilled in the use of the punal and mimicry. When he finished his initiation, the Assassins, infiltrated the population and high spheres as spies, waiting to receive orders to kill their objectives.They were sagacious and skilled executors.that they received to "eliminate a target" , was a hot bread or a dagger that appeared suddenly in their rooms, always on a bedside table.
It was said that within that immense strength, they had spectacular gardens.A way to "train" and start the Assassins was nothing more and nothing less than drugging them based on hashish and belladonna .Once immersed in this dream world of drugs, dressed in rich clothes, and then let them wake up somewhere in those fabul bears gardens.
When they returned to reality, they woke up next to an evocative stage, with incredible trees, birds, beautiful flowers...They were left a few hours there, and then drugged them back and dressed again with their usual white coat and red belt uniform.Once awake in their humble rooms, they were explained that they had been in Mohammed's company , in their paradisiacal garden.A mode of psychological manipulation where they were convinced of that dying was something beautiful and placid.Death meant being back in that corner of paradise.
The Assassins rose with an unusual power.Just by pronouncing their name, people were trembling, were clever executors with the ability of a shadow to enter anywhere, with the rapidity of the wind, the elegance of a pen and the coldness of a knife edge.
They killed soldiers and sultans, politicians and military...to anyone who assumed a strategic interest.They killed and killed over 200 years, until the time came when they had to measure themselves with other powerful enemies: the Mamluks and the Mongols .These two cultures managed to tear down all the fortresses they had built over time, annihilating their libraries and all the peculiar knowledge of Ismailism.
The Assassins were massacred .The few that remained dispersed until they disappeared, leaving only the wake of their memory, of their legend, floating in the vastness of the deserts and in the minds of those who once feared them, allowing their mastery of fear to remain suspended over the centuries until suddenly, they have been able to return to life.
But Did these enigmatic characters really exist? Was our past history inhabited by the so-called "Assassins"?
Did the "Assassins" really exist?
Indeed, the Assassins existed.But to understand it, we must first put ourselves in context.In a complex and interesting context: Ismailism. It is a stream of Shiite Islamism, and its followers, conceive Coran in a very particular way to the rest of Muslims, it is essentially of a text where there is a hidden message, which in turn is a metaphor for a more hidden one, a compendium of peculiar esotericism that acquired great relevance in the year 1094.When the Caliph of Ismailism died a war of succession between its children was raised.One of the groups praised the eldest of his children, Nizar, and although this just died he lit a fuse to originate in turn another parallel group.The so-called nizaries , whom their enemies knew by another name : the "Assassins". A minority sect of Ismailismo, dissident, heretic and of course, perseguida.
Its leader was Hasan-i Sabbah , a cultured and enigmatic man whom they called "The Old Man of the Montana". This man established his power precisely in a mountain in northern Iran, where he raised a fortress known as "Alamut ».It was an incredible and impregnable construction of 2,000 meters high where his“ eagle nest ”was, a name established by Marco Polo himself, after meeting them on one of his many trips.
The life of the Assassins
The Assassins trained and studied in this emblematic place, following a ferrous instruction based on religious initiations, acquisition of scientific knowledge astronomy icos , and ceremonial.All a legacy of exceptional knowledge within its branch of Islamic religion, where magic or esotericism was not excluded.They were very skilled in the use of the punal and mimicry. When he finished his initiation, the Assassins, infiltrated the population and high spheres as spies, waiting to receive orders to kill their objectives.They were sagacious and skilled executors.that they received to "eliminate a target" , was a hot bread or a dagger that appeared suddenly in their rooms, always on a bedside table.
It was said that within that immense strength, they had spectacular gardens.A way to "train" and start the Assassins was nothing more and nothing less than drugging them based on hashish and belladonna .Once immersed in this dream world of drugs, dressed in rich clothes, and then let them wake up somewhere in those fabul bears gardens.
When they returned to reality, they woke up next to an evocative stage, with incredible trees, birds, beautiful flowers...They were left a few hours there, and then drugged them back and dressed again with their usual white coat and red belt uniform.Once awake in their humble rooms, they were explained that they had been in Mohammed's company , in their paradisiacal garden.A mode of psychological manipulation where they were convinced of that dying was something beautiful and placid.Death meant being back in that corner of paradise.
The Assassins rose with an unusual power.Just by pronouncing their name, people were trembling, were clever executors with the ability of a shadow to enter anywhere, with the rapidity of the wind, the elegance of a pen and the coldness of a knife edge.
They killed soldiers and sultans, politicians and military...to anyone who assumed a strategic interest.They killed and killed over 200 years, until the time came when they had to measure themselves with other powerful enemies: the Mamluks and the Mongols .These two cultures managed to tear down all the fortresses they had built over time, annihilating their libraries and all the peculiar knowledge of Ismailism.
The Assassins were massacred .The few that remained dispersed until they disappeared, leaving only the wake of their memory, of their legend, floating in the vastness of the deserts and in the minds of those who once feared them, allowing their mastery of fear to remain suspended over the centuries until suddenly, they have been able to return to life.
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