Brit-Am Research Sources (9 March, 2014, 7 Adar-2, 5774)
Contents:
1. Samarian River in Ulster and Lough Erne
2. Charles Vallancey: Irish Partly of Phoenician Origin
3. Clifford Riley: Maybe there was a Tea Tephi After All?
4. The Myth of Tartessos by Michael Royston
Tartessos: Minoan, Assyrian, and Phoenician Connections
5. Coraniaid People in Wales from Arabia?
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1. Samarian River in Ulster and Lough Erne
Note: Samaria is the Phoenician and possibly North Israelite) form of the Biblcal Hebrew Name Shomron. Shromron was the capital of the Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel and in the Bible is a term applied to the whole kingdom as it was also on occasion by the Assyrians.]
RODERIC O'FLAHERTY (1628-1718)
Source:
O G Y G I A, OR, A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT O F IRISH EVENTS:
Collected from very ANCIENT DOCUMENTS, faithfully compared
with each other, and fupported by the GENEALOGICAL and CHRONOLOGICAL Aid of the
SACRED AND PROPHANE WRITINGS OF THE FIRST NATIONS OF THE GLOBE.
WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN LATIN BY RODERIC O'FLAHERTY,
TRANSLATED BY
THE REV. JAMES HELY, A. B.
http://archive.org/stream/ogygiaorchronolo02oflaiala/ogygiaorchronolo02oflaiala_djvu.txt
Elgnatha *, his wife, who is alfo called Elga, by the [rim ; his fons, Rudric, Slangy, and Lagn,
with as many nurfes, and a thoufand men, accompanied Partholan. He dwelt on an ifland, called
from his little dog, Inis-Samer, on the river Erne, in Ulster ; as it is alfo called the Samarian river.
Erne, which is also called Samarian, runs runs from Lough-erne, into the sea, in the county
Donnegal. Part IIL O* Flaherty's Ogygia. 7
River Erne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The River Erne in the northwest of Ireland flowing through several Ulster counties, rises in Beaghy Lough, two miles south of Stradone in County Cavan and flows 64 miles through Lough Gowna, Lough Oughter and Upper and Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, to the sea at Ballyshannon, County Donegal.
Lough Erne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lough Erne (Loch Eirne) appears to be named after an ancient population group called the Erainn, or after a goddess from which the Erainn took their name. The Erainn were widespread in early Ireland, from northern Ulster to southern Munster.[4]
During the Second World War, RAF Castle Archdale was based on Lough Erne, providing an essential airbase for the Battle of the Atlantic and the battle against U boats. A secret agreement with the Irish Government permitted flying boats based there to fly straight to the Atlantic, avoiding the two-hour detour that would have been necessary for aeroplanes based in Northern Ireland.
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2. Charles Vallancey: Irish Partly of Phoenician Origin
A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland
by Charles Vallancey, Dublin 1786
http://books.google.co.il/books?id=hE0NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=Ireland+Ancient+Lydia&source=bl&ots=qnbLUDd6XK&sig=pUmITskIxxZGEPiTlDU3GIQZyLY&hl=iw&sa=X&ei=LKgUU_TmJu7BygPu6YCYDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Ireland%20Ancient%20Lydia&f=false
Quotes Richardson Dissertation on Eastern Lang. p.291
[cf. Richardon's Arab Dictionary]
Britons brought to Britain from their first plantation under the Tyrian Hercules brought by Phoenicians from the Red Sea and Arabia. [Introduction p.iii]
Irish from Magog were Scythians.
Cymmerig or Welsh came from Gaul.
Irish Scythians from Magog who mixed with Dedanites and Canaanites.
The Scythians we speak of were Persians and Parthians and their language was Phoenician, Syrian, or Chaldaic. [p.xxi]
Ireland properly called Iarnach or Eirineach/ Gaedhl in Hebew were Gadul (Great).
Miles the Hero of the Ship ( i.e. Hercules) p.xxvi
Osous of Philo
Siim Breac (or Hercules) p.xxxii
mixed with the sons of Gomer in their migrations.
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3. Clifford Riley: Maybe there was a Tea Tephi After All?
Re BARS-56. Brit-Am Research Sources
# 2. Tea-Tephi Never Existed?
http://hebrewnations.com/features/bars/bars56.html#a2
Dear Yair,
Whilst reading one of your recent blogs asking if Tea-Tephi ever existed I was reminded of something very important.
Within his excellent 1931 work Tara, R.A.S. MacAlister not only provides incredible detail on the history, traditions, myths and rituals relating to Tara. But within it he gives an eyewitness accounts of the dig at Tara by British Israelites seeking the Ark.
Within this account he clearly points as to how they found a skeleton in the exact spot where Tea was by tradition buried. Unfortunately the body was thrown away and no research possible.
Whether Tea and Tephi are the same person is one matter, but if Tea never existed then how do we explain the body in the exact place tradition said she was buried?
All the best Cliff
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4. The Myth of Tartessos by Michael Royston
Tartessos: Minoan, Assyrian, and Phoenician Connections
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tartessos.html
The Greeks were fascinated by the notion of a mythical and fabulously wealthy kingdom in the far west beyond the Pillars of Hercules. It was a rich emporium of valuable and precious metals and the luxurious lives led by its inhabitants linked it in their minds to the legends of Atlantis and Hesperides, the Isles of the Blessed, which were located in the same direction and were maybe even in the same place. They called it Tartessos.
Strabo, 58 BC-25 CE, who described it in his Geography was drawing very largely on Herodotos, 484 BCE - 420 BCE, who described in detail the immense wealth and generosity of the Tartessans and particularly of their King Arganthonios, "The Silver One". This included the story of a Greek sailor called Koliaos whose ship was blown off course and landed in Tartessos. After being royally entertained for some months, his ship was loaded up with silver and he was sent home. The story is also told of the Tartessans, in the 6th century BCE, giving the Phocaean Greeks 1 1/2 tons of silver to pay for a defensive wall around their city to keep out the Persians. And yet apart from a few fragments of trade goods in Andalusia in Southern Spain there is neither sign of a Tartessan civilization, nor any indication where the capital city might have been.
The Phoenicians, who were based on some offshore islands near Cadiz, used Tartessan silver to pay tribute to the Assyrians who had captured their hometown of Tyre in the 7th century BCE. One result of this, it is claimed, was the collapse of the bullion market in Babylon. And yet apart from the mines of Rio Tinto which have been producing copper and silver and gold for 5000 years - the oldest mines in the world still to be in production - there is no evidence of this wealth nor what it bought or built.
The Ancient Hebrews had their own myths of the fabulous and even sinful wealth of Tartessos or Tarshish as they called it. In Psalm 72 we can read of the kings of Tarshish bringing presents, in Jonah we can see how Jonah's plans to go to Tarshish so infuriated the Lord that he had Jonah swallowed by a whale as a punishment. In Chronicles, we read of King Jehosaphat building ships to go to Tarshish and the fury of the Lord causing them to be wrecked. In Kings we read of ships of Tartshish bringing the gold to decorate the Palace and the Temple of King Solomon, and in Kings and in Chronicles we can read of these same Ships of Tarshish bringing Peacocks and Apes and Ivory, which can only have been from India!
So not only was Tarshish/Tartessos a legendary place but also their ships were legendary and capable of crossing the Indian Ocean. Tarshish is in fact the only European place mentioned in the Old Testament, yet apart from the 5000-year-old mining town, suggestively named Tharsis, in Andalusia in Southern Spain, nobody knows where Tarshish/Tartessos was located.
Yet it is here in Andalusia that the Pillars of Hercules are located and here that Hercules/Heracles stole the Cattle of Geryon as one of his Ten Labours. And this is the home of the Spanish cult of the Bull as much as Knossos, buried under modern day Heraklion, was the home of the Minoan cult of the Bull. And it is almost certain that the Minoans traded in Tartessan Bronze for over 2000 years, supplying the Sumerians and the Ancient Egyptians and indeed the whole of the Mediterranean basin and beyond.
Today only the ancient mines of Rio Tinto and Tharsis stand as mute witnesses to the past glories of Tartessos. In historical times the Romans made them the main source for financing the construction and expansion of the Empire and that in turn made Merida the nearest town to the mines, the tenth largest city of the Roman Empire, and Julius Caesar tapped their wealth to make good his claim to become Emperor. But before the Romans came to Andalusia, what we know of Tartessos is largely speculation, myth, legend and fable.
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5. Coraniaid People in Wales from Arabia?
The Coraniaid were one of the peoples whop invaded Wales and Britain. They were identified with elves and said to come from Arabia.
Source:
The Druids and King Arthur: A New View of Early Britain
by Robin Melrose