Switzerland and Holland
Tabernacle versus Reality.
Contents:
1. Crunching up the Map. The Camp of Judah in the East. Issachar Comes together.
2. Zebulon and Issachar in France and Switzerland.
3. Were there Two Peoples Named Alani?
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1. Crunching up the Map. The Camp of Judah in the East. Issachar Comes together.
The Israelites when they settled the Land did so to some degree in a similar pattern for relative position as that of the Encampment around the Tabernacle.
Here and there however the positioning is quite different.
So too, according to our Brit-Am Tribal Identifications the same pattern emerges.
When we take the world scene as a whole, eliminating intervening non-Israelite places and crunching up the Map, the pattern becomes even more clear.
We identify both Finland and Switzerland with Issachar. Crunching up the map and removing intervening non-Israelite elements we find the two Issachar entities coming together.
Judah was in the east heading Issachar and Zebulon.
The State of Israel represents Judah and it is in the East and when we crunch up the Map it is right next to Issachar and Zebulon. See the Maps below.
We see from the above an example of where a seeming difficulty in our explanations occurs a deeper understanding shows it to actually strenthen our case! Two quite different countries, distant from each other, identified with the same Tribe though not contradictory may still seem warkward. We now see however that when we remove the intervening non-Israelite elements the two places from a Biblical perspective actually adjoin one another. Their locations correspond with Biblical Placement!
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2. Zebulon and Issachar in France and Switzerland.
Issachar and Zebulon are mentioned together in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 33:
18 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, And, Issachar, in your tents.
The Sages also stressed the symbiosis between the two. Crunching the Map would bring Zebulon (Netherlands) up next to the two halves of Issachar (Finland and Switzerland) that would be on top of each other and right to the east of the Netherlands. The same effect is obtained when we look at the Bible and history.
Genesis 46:
14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
2. Zebulon and Issachar in France and Switzerland.
Genesis 49:
13 Zebulun will reside at the seashore; And he shall be a harbor for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
A people named SEDUNI once dwelt in Celtic Switzerland which in the Middle Ages could be referred to as "Sidon." Were there also Zebulonites in Switzerland?
Numbers 26:
23 The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; 24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Genesis 46:
13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Iyob (pronounced "Yov") in Genesis 46:13 is called Yashub (pronounced Yashuvi") in Numbers 26:23.
Zebulon, though dominant in Holland, is also represented by "Halland" of the southwest coast of Sweden, and by Hallin in Norway which names come from that of Elon, son of Zebulon, as does the name for Holland itself. Scandinavia in some ways served as a demographic reservoir for the Netherlands while its was being progressively reclaimed from the Sea.
[The Netherlands also runs into and borders the Northwest Block of Belgium. This area according to linguistic evidence was once settled by people from the Middle East and Anatolian (Turkish) region who may have been related to the Sidonians of Phoenicia. ]
Zebulon through the Alans and Alamans of Elon, son of Zebulon, merged with the Suebi from Jashub (pronounceable as "Ya-suebi," Numbers 26:24) of Issachar in Alsace and in Switzerland.
This is explained below.
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3. Were there Two Peoples Named Alani?
The Suevi (Suebi) from Germany in the time of Caesar were threatening the borders of Gaul (France). The Suevi at that time were the most powerful Germanic nation. They were a federation of different tribes. The Suebi included elements from Esau from which the name "Suevi" may have come. They also included descendants of the "Yashubi" of Issachar and of Elon of Zebulon. A portion of the Suevi became known as the Allemani. These conquered Alsace in eastern France as well as settling in southern Germany and Swtizerland.
See the map of Allemanic languages.
According to the map the Swiss speak a similar dialect to the Swabians (Suevi) of southern Germany who neighbor them. The term "Suevi" was interchangeable with that of Allemani. The Allemani are also referred to as Alani. The German-language speakers of Switzerland, regardless of where they came from, however have little in common with their Swabian neighbors. They do not really like each other and there is little intermixing between the two. The Allemani of Alsace (eastern France) are morel like those of Switzerland. One historian opined that the Allemani of Alsace and those of southern Germany were different peoples from the beginning.
This brings us to the Alans.
Two fairly important peoples were known as the Alans and they both converged on the same regions.
(1) The Alans of the Caucasus were allied to the Khazars. Like the Khazars some of them converted to Judaism. A neighboring people known as the As were conquered by the Alans. The Alans were descended from Elon of Zebulon and from part of the Tribe of Asher known as the "As." The terms Alan and As had originally been interchangeable. A local people were conquered and the name "As" was transferred to them. It used to be thought that the As were a local Caucasian group whom the Alans subdued and influenced. Recent DNA tests however indicate that the Alans and As may have had the same origins. The As became the Ossetes in the Caucasus. Stalin was born in Georgia and is said to have had part Ossetian origins. The Ossetes had some Jewish customs which they may have picked up from the Alans-As and Khazars. The Alans are assumed to have spoken an Iranian tyongue and to have been of Sarmatian culture. At all events, a group of Alans joined the Huns in invading Europe. Another group attached themselves to the Goths and followed the same path. Some of them ended up in France and Spain. A colony was settled in the area known as Orleanois east of Normandy, France, while others went to southern France. The Alans also intermixed with the Normans and influenced their military tactics.
(2) Another supposedly different people were also known as Alans. These are assumed to have been German-speaking and part of the Alemans. They are mentioned in historical sources. Some historians assume that by Alans the Medieval Chroniclers intended Allemans but this is not necessarily so. We may assume that both groups of Alans were once one and the same people. They descended from Elon son of Zebulon. They settled in Orleans in Northern France and in Alsace and among Issachar in Switzerland. This created the needed linkage between Issachar and Zebulon in that area.