Brit-Am Research Sources (3 June, 2013, Sivan 25, 5773)
Contents:
1. Cauci: Irish-Continental Connection. The Cauci (Traditional Enemies of U'Neil?)
2. Was the Celtic Ancestor Don really Dan? SUPERNATURAL ANCESTORS OF THE GAEIL
3. Arabs from East Africa in Australia ca. 900s-1300s CE
4. Interesting Letter Forwarded: Khazars Not Turkish, Jews not Khazars, Burmese Mizos not Israelites, etc.
5. Senstius on Germanic -Israelite (?) Tribes, Extracts from on-line Translation
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1. Cauci: Irish-Continental Connection
The Cauci (Traditional Enemies of U'Neil?)
Extracts:
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/28571-Old-Europe-(Vinca)-language-and-culture-in-early-layers-of-Serbian-and-Irish-language?p=408417
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_roads_in_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corlea_Trackway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_trackway
The best examples of these track ways in Europe are in the south Baltic and in east Ireland. The way they were constructed is so different and superior to the rest of the roads found, that archaeologists have long 'suspected' that they could have only been built by the same people. But because history says that there has been no migration from south Baltic to Ireland at the time these roads were built, the possibility that they might have been built by the same people was discarded.
Now if we disregard the official history (again), we can plainly see that these roads were built in Ireland by the immigrants from south Baltic. Not just by the fact that they used the same technique to build them, but by the fact that both were built in the area populated by the people with the same name: Cauci (Chauci). Who are these Cauci (Chauci)?
This is total accord with what we know of Cauci and the rest of the Laigin.They were warriors and mercenaries who conquered large territory in Ireland in Leinster and Connacht. Their name association with Laighi, the ancient name for Leinster, suggests that this was where they first settled. Eventually, they extended their power to Connacht, and in the process forced the Firbolg tribes into the remoter parts of the province. The remains of many great stone forts built by the Firbolgs in their defense against the Laigain tribes can still be seen in remote areas of western Ireland. Within a few generations the Laigain tribes had established themselves in Connacht, where in County Sligo their descendants include the O'Haras, O'Garas, and others.
It is very very interesting that the Laigin tribes from Connacht are O'Haras and O'Garas, which literally means the people of the spear. It is very interesting that they are being connected to Cruithin (Pruteni) as it is now emerging that Cruithin (Pruteni) are linked to I2a haplogroup and therefore to the central Europe.
In the 4th and 5th centuries, after Magnus Maximus left Britain with his legions, leaving a power vacuum, colonists from Laigin settled in North Wales, specifically in Anglesey, Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire. In Wales some of the Leinster-Irish colonists left their name on the Lln Peninsula, which derives its name from Laigin. In the 5th century the emerging U' Neill dynasties from Connacht conquered areas of Westmeath, Meath and Offaly from the U' Enechglaiss and U' Failge of the Laigin. U' Neill Ard Righ attempted to exact the Boroimhe Laighean, or cattle-tribute from the Laigin from that time, in the process becoming their traditional enemies.
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2. Was the Celtic Ancestor Don really Dan?
SUPERNATURAL ANCESTORS OF THE GAEIL
Coming now to the Celts, Caesar reported:
"The Gauls claim to be all descended from Father Dis and say that this is a tradition which has been handed down to them by the Druids. (7)
Perhaps 'Donn' or its like was the true name for this Celtic god whom Caesar called by the Roman name 'Dis Pater'. At any rate, Professor Proinsias Mac Cana, one of the greatest experts on Celtic mythology, believes that 'Dis Pater' of ancient Gaul was very similar to the god Donn of ancient Ireland. (8)
Iverni. These are the Erainn. (14) Their name was written in old manuscripts as Iarna and Erna, i.e., the Collective Descendants of the god Iar or Er. A number of tribes and families of Munster descend from them.(15)
Del Riata or Del Riada , It was said this this people (in Ulster and in Scotland) descended from Eochu Riada, i.e., Eochu the Rider. The meaning of Eochu is Steed-God or Like a Steed). (20) The horse was very sacred amongst the Celts, perhaps their most sacred animal as we see by the number of gods who had a special relationship with the horse: Epona, Rhiannon, Labhraidh Loingseach, Macha Mongfind, etc.
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3. Arabs from East Africa in Australia ca. 900s-1300s CE
Ancient discovery set to rewrite Australian history
http://www.smh.com.au/national/ancient-discovery-set-to-rewrite-australian-history-20130519-2juck.html#ixzz2Tk6vjQT4
May 19, 2013 - 1:53PM
Extracts:
Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an 'X' might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.
Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, currently Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the US, plans an expedition in July that has stirred up the archaeological community.
The scientist wants to revisit the location where five coins were found in the Northern Territory in 1944 that have proven to be 1000 years old, opening up the possibility that seafarers from distant countries might have landed in Australia much earlier than what is currently believed.
Back in 1944 during World War II, after Japanese bombers had attacked Darwin two years earlier, the Wessel Islands - an uninhabited group of islands off Australia's north coast - had become a strategic position to help protect the mainland.
Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the islands to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches.
While sitting in the sand with his fishing-rod, he discovered a handful of coins in the sand.
He didn'[t have a clue where they could come from but pocketed them anyway and later placed them in a tin.
In 1979 he rediscovered his 'treasure' and decided to send the coins to a museum to get them identified.
The discovery was apparently forgotten again until anthropologist McIntosh got the ball rolling a few months ago.
The coins raise many important questions: How did 1000-year-old coins end up on a remote beach on an island off the northern coast of Australia?
Did explorers from distant lands arrive on Australian shores way before the James Cook declared it 'terra nullius' and claimed it for the British throne in 1770?
We do know already that Captain Cook wasn't the first white seafarer to step on Australia's shores.
In 1606 a Dutch explorer named Willem Janszoon reached the Cape York peninsula in Queensland, closely followed a few years late by another Dutch seafarer Dirk Hartog.
And the Spaniard Luiz Vaez de Torres discovered the strait between Papua New Guinea and Australia, which was later named Torres Strait in his honour.
However, none of these explorers recognised that they had discovered the famed southern continent, the 'terra australis incognita', which was depicted as a counterweight to the known land masses of the northern hemisphere on many world maps of the day.
McIntosh and his team of Australian and American historians, archaeologists, geomorphologists and Aboriginal rangers say that the five coins date back to the 900s to 1300s.
They are African coins from the former Kilwa sultanate, now a World Heritage ruin on an island off Tanzania.
Kilwa once was a flourishing trade port with links to India in the 13th to 16th century.
The trade with gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian stone ware, Persian ceramics and Chinese porcelain made the city one of the most influential towns in East Africa at the time.
The copper coins were the first coins ever produced in sub-Saharan Africa and according to McIntosh have only twice been found outside Africa: once in Oman and Isenberg�s find in 1944.
The old coins might not be of monetary value, but for archaeologists they are priceless, says McIntosh.
Archaeologists have long suspected that there may have been early maritime trading routes that linked East Africa, Arabia, India and the Spice Islands even 1,000 years ago.
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4. Interesting Letter Forwarded: Khazars Not Turkish, Jews not Khazars, Burmese Mizos not Israelites, etc.
From: Stephen Schwartz
To: Ilan Leibowitz
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: bible-era-find
Selam/shalom
I have to say frankly I am very skeptical of all such claims, as I was beginning with the Koestler hoax claiming that the German and Slav-speaking Ashkenazim were descendants of the Khazars, some 35 years ago. Koestler's THIRTEENTH TRIBE appeared while I was studying comparative linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
There is simply no convincing, scientifically legitimate evidence for any of these crazy theories. The case of the Beit Ha-Israel from Ethiopia is sui generis, and inasmuch as the Jewish authorities in Israel accepted their claim I would not contest it.
But all the other such arguments lack the crucial element of any theory of a relationship between the ancient Jewish tribes and modern communities in such places as Peshawar, or the so-called Bnei Menashe in the Mizo district on the border of India and Myanma. That element is the presence of even the slightest confirmable common linguistic legacy. In the Koestler case, the author was so inept as an amateur scholar he conflated the origin of the Magyars (Hungarians) with that of the Turks, which no serious linguist would believe. The Turks, Hungarians, Mongols, and other Uralic-Altaic peoples share a common grammatical system, but a common vocabulary is nearly completely absent even among them. There are handfuls of words that may reflect a common antecedent, but in the case of Hungarian and Turkish may rather reflect the Turkish conquest of Hungary in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There are, to my knowledge, no Turkish words in Yiddish, while Judeo-Spanish includes numerous such items -- a topic on which I wrote a senior thesis in linguistics. It is ridiculous to imagine that Khazars, who spoke Turkish, became Ashkenazim without retaining some element of Turkish vocabulary, in contrast with the Ottoman Sephardim, who lived among the Turks and borrowed numerous words from them.
As for alleged Jews in Peshawar on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, the idea that the name of the city of Peshawar has any Hebrew element in it is an absurd fantasy. The history of Peshawar is well-documented and originates in South Asian classical culture. By contrast, that of the Khazars is not, and is largely factitious.
The claim about Mizo Jews is even more absurd. My ex-wife is of Burmese origin and the suggestion that Mizo people living in the border areas of north India is simply nonsense.
I think most of these claims reflect a hidden self-hatred as in the case of Koestler and unscientific nonsense otherwise.
The internet caffe is closing now but I will continue with this tomorrow if I have time.
Selam
S
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5. Senstius on Germanic -Israelite (?) Tribes, Extracts from on-line Translation
Translated from Die Stamme der Israeliten und Germanen (Leipzig, Germany: Eduard Pfeiffer Verlag, 1931)
Extracts:
... Reuben. He appears again on the Rhine from the year 451 with his capital in Cologne then under the name rib-uarier. The second component of the name is urverwandt vir with Latin and means men. Therefore the actual name is rib = Reuben. That is the place-name in Low German for the name itself also shows up in High German, for example: Reiferscheid, Rieferath, Refrath, Rufferscheid. Most of such names are formed with the prefix -rib.
First, Asher . His name as Aser appears in the Sciri, which is probably another name for the Bastarni, the predecessors of today's Goths in southern Russia. To explain the other name Bastarni, we need to match it with the names of all the European children of Asher and perhaps in respect of all East Germanic tribes that was later narrowed down to a single offshoot , - the Vandals. Another tribe of the Vandals were the Naharnavalen which can be split into naharna-vali. This name will be partitioned: naharna-vali. The second part of this name corresponds 'el God, his first is nah'rain , which is the Syrian form, mutatis mutandis. Egyptian form - Naharina; in the Old Testament it is called ` ram'nah'raim - Syria of the two rivers, namely the Euphrates and the Tigris, which meant northern Syria known as the country of Haratt. The Naharnavalen were admirers of a North-Syrian deity where there was a temple in Hierapolis, a city situated to the west of the Euphrates not far from Haran. The deity was a female - (nath) which equates to Greek-Semitic inscription of the Attiene (Anath later called the Vandilier) and turns up in several Palestine place-names which is a special name for Astarte....
.... the blessing of Jacob (Genesis 49.19) . Gad, a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at last. It is noteworthy that these words form a pun of the tribal name which remarkably forms j'gudennu and jagud which leads to the pronunciation Gud = Gutones = Goths.