The Hebraic Antecedents of the Welsh People.
See Also:
Welsh Hebrews
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/childrenwales.html
Hebrews in Wales
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/asher1/hebrewswales.html
Asher Was There!
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/asher1/asherh1.html
Contents:
1. Introduction. The Exile.
2. Overseas Colonists.
3. Foretold in Prophecy. The Great Orme Mine.
4. Angelsey and Druids.
5. The Welsh and Irish Languages.
6. Dolmens in Wales.
7. Tribes in Wales.
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1. Introduction. The Exile.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were the forerunners of the Israelite People.
There were 12 Tribes. 10 of the Tribes separated from the others and established their own Kingdom.
More than a 100 years later they were conquered by the Assyrians and exiled (2-Kings 17).
These Israelites had been exiled because they had worshipped foreign gods and stopped circumcising themselves. They had from a religious point of view almost seized to be Hebrews BUT
in Biblical Prophecy they still had a task to fulfill. According to certain Biblical and Rabbinical Commentators they had to become part of the Gentiles in order to uplift the Gentiles from inside.
At the end of Days they will return and re-unite with Judah.
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2. Overseas Colonists.
Most of the Exiles were taken overland and re-settled in areas of the Assyrian Empire. A portion of them were expelled in ships manned by Phoenician and Philistine sailors with Edomite overseers but operating on behalf of Assyria (Amos ch.1) speaks of this.
The Israelite captives were taken to the west, to Spain, Britain, and the coasts of northern Europe.
The Assyrians were attempting to re-establish an empire in Europe. They had agricultural estates in Spain; tin production in Cornwall, England; Copper in Wales; probably gold in Ireland; and iron in Sweden.
This is consistent with archaeological findings. Pictures on rocks in Sweden from that period show the presence of a Mediterranean people in ships alongside an agricultural population.
Tin and copper were needed for the production of bronze (it was the Bronze Age). The main (and maybe the only) source of tin was from Cornwall while most copper came from the Great Orme mine in Wales.
As a result of these enterprises the price of these metals (especially tin) was reduced to less than a one-third of what it had preciously been.
Everything we are going to tell here is consistent with archaeological findings.
Meanwhile, more of the Israelite Tribes had not been taken away by ships but rather exiled to areas within the Assyrian Empire as conventionally understood. From these areas all these Tribes eventually migrated in stages to western Europe.
They conquered and united with Israelites who were already in those areas.
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3. Foretold in Prophecy. The Great Orme Mine.
The Irish "Chronicles of Eri" (1822) by Roger O'Connor speaks of exiled Hebrews having been forced by the Phoenicians to work on behalf of Assyria in the silver mines of Spain, declaring their independence, and moving to Ireland.
This work is considered a forgery but there may be genuine sources for parts of it.
The earlier exile of the Israelites had been foreseen by the Prophets. One of these was Amos:
Amos (TCT) 4:
1 HEARKEN TO THIS WORD, O COWS OF BASHAN WHICH ARE ON MOUNT SAMARIA, WHO OPPRESS THE POOR, WHO CRUSH THE NEEDY, WHO SAY TO THEIR LORDS, "BRING THAT WE MAY DRINK."
2 THE LORD GOD HAS SWORN BY HIS HOLY [abode] THAT, BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING UPON YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE BORNE ON SHIELDS, (may also mean a kind of large ship) AND YOUR POSTERITY IN FISHING BOATS.
3 AND [through the] BREACHES THEY SHALL EMERGE, EACH WOMAN STRAIGHT BEFORE HER, AND YOU SHALL CAST OFF THE HAUGHTINESS . [Harmonah], SAYS THE LORD
HAUGHTINESS and/or "Into the palace" as some translation claim) has been translated from the Hebrew "Harmona" which is also translatable as saying "To the Mountain of Mannae" and so it is understood in the Talmudically-approved Aramaic Translation ascribed to Yehonathan.
YOUR POSTERITY IN FISHING BOATS. is from the Hebrew "acharitcen" and can mean "your offspring." Some of the Israelites may have been first taken to Hamath-Antioch on the north Syrian coast and from there transported by ship.
Child labor was needed for mining.
The Great Orme Mine in ancient times was probably the greatest single source of copper then available. This was vital, together with tin, for the production of bronze. The Great Orme by the sea is across a bay from Castell Caer Seion (Conwy).
A few hundred meters separate the two. Castell Caer Seion means "The Castle of the City of Zion."
Welsh tradition says it had been a settlement of Jews which could also mean "Hebrews" in general.
"The Great Orme was worked with granite, stone, antler bone tools, "lit by animal fat candles and certainly involving children as miners ..."
# The site was worked for a period of up to a thousand years creating a vast array of tunnels, some so small they could have only been dug out by children around 5 or 6 years old. #
The Great Orme Mine in ancient times was probably the greatest single source of copper then available. This was vital, together with tin, for the production of bronze. The Great Orme by the sea is across a bay from Castell Caer Seion (Conwy). A few hundred meters separate the two.
Castell Caer Seion in Welsh tradition had been a settlement of Jews which could also mean "Hebrews" in general.
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4. Angelsey and Druids.
The island of Angelsey off the north Welsh coast is close (ca. 20 miles away) to Colwyn Bay and the Great Orme Mine. In Roman times copper was also mined on Anglesey. The Romans fought 2 campaigns (61 CE and 77 CE) to conquer Angelsey which was a center for the Druids.
Angelsey was
"an important centre for the Celtic Druids and their religious practices which made it a place of resistance to Roman rule."
There are numerous dolmens and megalithic monuments on Anglesey.
The Druid Religion was to a great extent a combination of Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Canaanite Practices. The Lost Ten Tribes before their Exile had been combining Hebrew traditions with Canaanite ones. That was why they were exiled as explained in detail in the Bible (2-Kings 17).
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5. The Welsh and Irish Languages.
Welsh and Irish are related languages. Irish Tribes settled in Wales. Both Irish and Welsh have a linguistic substructure compatible with Hebrew. Whole sentences in Old (and even Modern) Welsh are understandable in the Hebrew Language.
See:
Hebrew Linguistic Traits in Welsh
http://britam.org/language.html
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6. Dolmens in Wales.
Numerous Dolmens and Related Megalithic Monuments are found in Wales, and in the rest of Britain and Ireland.
The Prophet Jeremiah spoke of this: The KJB (King James Bible) gives the best translation from the Hebrew of the relevant passage.
Jeremiah (KJB) 31:
21 SET THEE UP WAYMARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS: SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST: TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.
The Rabbinical Commentator RADAK (Rabbi David Kimchi, 1157-1236, of Narbonne, France) says:
"SET YOURSELF UP WAYMARKS" (Jeremiah 31): This was directed to the Community of Israel, that in the generation when they would be exiled they should set up waymarks [i.e. "tsionim"] such as PILED-UP STONES OR STONE MONUMENTS. The purpose of these monuments was to mark the paths [of migration for the sake of future recognition]. The meaning was to say that even though you will be exiled, hope is not lost and you are still destined to return to these your cities. "MAKE YOURSELF HIGH HEAPS" [Hebrew: "tamrurim"]. The same message is repeated though the wording is changed since both "tamrurim" [i.e. "high heaps"] and "tsionim" (i.e. "waymarks") connote elevated-height [from the root "tamar"].
A similar remark was made by Abarbanel (1437-1508).
Dolmens and other Megalithic Monuments are aligned with two main migratory routes:
1. Overland: From Israel and the Middle East up to the Caucasus then Bulgaria and across into Western Europe, or directly to Scandinavia.
2. Through the Mediterranean into Spain and Western Europe and to the British Isles.
See Also:
Megaliths in Britain
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/megaliths/britainmega.html
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7. Tribes in Wales.
In one way or another, all the Israelite Tribes eventually merged in Western Europe.
In Wales we find elements from the Tribes of Simeon, Levi, Dan, Asher, and others.
In Ireland were found portions of the Israelite Tribes of Dan and Asher as well as in the north groups from Judah and Manasseh and others.
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