Brit-Am Research Sources (30 September, 2013, Tishrei 26, 5774)
Contents:
1. Irish Mythology: Dana or Donn?
2. The word Dunn in Irish and DON in Hebrew have the same meaning!
3. Mark Williams: Fortunate Isles. Where Does This Sound Like?
4. Irish Mythology: Another Danann Link with the Domnan.
5. Ashdod of the Philistines in the Service of Assyria in Re-Settling Israelites in the West.
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1. Irish Mythology: Dana or Donn?
forwarded by Mark Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn
According to Irish mythology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology>, *Donn*, or *the Dark
One*, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmuid_Ua_Duibhne>, whom he gave to
Aengus g <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aengus> to be nurtured. Donn is
regarded as the father of the Irish race
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people>; a position similar to that
of Dis Pater <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_Pater> and the Gauls
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul>, as noted by Julius Caesar
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar>.
Originally, Donn was the chief of the Sons of Mil, a mythological race
who invaded Ireland <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland>, ousting the
Tuatha De Danann <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann>.
Donn slighted Eriu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89riu>, one of the
eponymous <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponymous> goddesses of
Ireland, and he was drowned off the south-west coast of the island. A
place near this spot, on a small rocky island named 'Tech nDuinn' ('the
House of Donn'), became Donn's dwelling place as god of the dead. This
house was the assembly place for the dead before they began the journey
to the Otherworld <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld>. He is
similar in some regards to the Hindu
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu> deity Yama
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama>.
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Pertinence to Brit-Am Studies:
Irish (Milesian) Forefather named Donn; possibly a form of Dan.
See:
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/myth/irish/irate.html
#2. Yair Replies
(1) What Does Dan Mean in Irish?
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2. The word Dunn in Irish and DON in Hebrew have the same meaning!
#1. Letter from Clifford Riley
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/myth/irish/irate.html
# The fact is that in Irish and Scottish Gaelic "Dun" (more accurately "Dun") means "Fort","Fortress", "Fortified place", "Royal Residence", "Castle", etc. #
In Hebrew there is word DON meaning "dwell amongst".
cf. Genesis 6:
3 Then the Lord said, 'My spirit shall not abide [Hebrew "YaDUN" fromt he root DON] in mortals for ever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.'
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3. Mark Williams: Fortunate Isles. Where Does This Sound Like?
Shalom Yair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Isles
Two islands, separated by a narrow channel, a few days sail from Spain
with a mild, moist, climate.
Hmm. Well I'm stumped :-P
Cheers
cf.
Oceanus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus
At the end of the Okeanos Potamos, is the holy island of Alba (Leuke, Pytho Nisi, Isle of Snakes), sacred to the Pelasgian (and later, Greek) Apollo, greeting the sun rising in the east. Hecateus of Abdera refers to Apollo's island from the region of the Hyperboreans, in the Oceanus. It was on Leuke, in one version of his legend, that the hero Achilles, in a hilly tumulus, was buried (to this day, one of the mouths of the Danube is called Chilia). Leto, the Hyperborean goddess, after nine days and nine nights of labour on the island of Delos (Pelasgian for hill, related to tell) "gave birth to the great god of the antique light" (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, I. 4.1).
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4. Irish Mythology: Another Danann Link with the Domnan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann
It [Danann] is also written Donann and Domnann,[4] which may link them with the Fir Domnann ("men of the Domnainn"), a people associated with the Fir Bolg in myth,[5] who are historically attested in Connacht and may be related to the British Dumnonii.[6]
cf.
Truth of Legend?
#(5) Did the Tribe of Dana Die Out?
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/myth/irish/irate.html
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5. Ashdod of the Philistines in the Service of Assyria in Re-Settling Israelites in the West.
Ancient Artificial Harbor Found in Israel
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-artificial-harbor-found-israel-160048134.html
by Megan Gannon
Extracts:
Archaeologists say they have discovered massive fortifications on the coast of Israel that may have protected an Assyrian artificial harbor during the Iron Age more than 2,700 years ago.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) unearthed the crescent-shaped structure in the Israeli city of Ashdod, just south of Tel Aviv. The impressive fortifications date back to the eighth century B.C. At their core is a mud-brick wall that measures more than 12 feet (3.6 meters) wide and 15 feet (4.5 m) high. This wall is covered in layers of mud and sand extendin
"The fortifications appear to protect an artificial harbor," TAU archaeologist Alexander Fantalkin said in a statement. "If so, this would be a discovery of international significance, the first known harbor of this kind in our corner of the Levant."
The researchers are not exactly sure who built the defensive structure, but they think it may be associated with a rebellion.
From ancient Assyrian inscriptions, researchers have gleaned that a rebel king of Ashdod named Yamani led a revolt against Sargon II, the king of the empire, around the time the fortifications were built. Sargon II's forces quickly put down the rebellion. Whereas some researchers have conjectured that the rebels put up the fortifications in anticipation of a fight, Fantalkin said the construction is too huge to have been completed under hasty circumstances.
"An amazing amount of time and energy was invested in building the wall and glacis [embankments]," Fantalkin added.
The excavations are taking place at the site of Ashdod-Yam, and researchers say there are more layers of the site's archaeological history.
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Pertinence to Brit-Am Studies:
We hold that Philistine and Phoenician Maritime abilities and enterprise were utilized by Assyrians to re-settle part of the Israelites in the west.
This is indicated by the Bible, cf.
Amos 1:
6 Thus says the LORD:
For three transgressions of Gaza,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;*
because they carried into exile entire communities,
to hand them over to Edom.
7 So I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
fire that shall devour its strongholds.
8 I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,
and the one who holds the sceptre from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
says the LORD God.
9 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Tyre,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;*
because they delivered entire communities over to Edom,
and did not remember the covenant of kinship.
10 So I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
fire that shall devour its strongholds.
Amos 4:
1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan [Israelite Women]
who are on Mount Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, 'Bring something to drink!'
2 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
The time is surely coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks [tsinot i.e. great ships],
even the last of you with fish-hooks [sirot-dugah i.e. large boats shaped like fishes].
3 Through breaches in the wall you shall leave,
each one straight ahead;
and you shall be flung out into Harmon [Armenia],*
says the Lord.
Ashdod was one of the Philistine Ports.
The above find shows the construction in Ashdod by the Assyrians of an artificial port whose building shows that,
"An amazing amount of time and energy was invested in building the wall and glacis [embankments]."
Minoan (allegedly Cretan) and Mycenean (supposedly Greek) finds in the British Isles and Western Europe are in many cases actually to be ascribed tot he Phoenicians and Philistines and Israelites who had been resettled by them.