Brit-Am Research Sources (21 March 2016, 11 Adar-B, 5776)
Contents:
1. Quote from Churchill about the Germans
2. English Word "Take" from Hebrew "Tikach"
3. Carthaginians in Ireland?
4. Scandinavian Team Searches for Indo-European Homeland through Kazakhstan DNA BY MICHELLE WITTE
5. Scythians Used Germanic Runes as Writing Script!
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1. Quote from Churchill about the Germans
# The proud German Army has once again proved the truth of the saying, 'The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet'. #
Winston Churchill.
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2. English Word "Take" from Hebrew "Tikach"
take (v.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=take
late Old English tacan "to take, seize," from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse taka "take, grasp, lay hold," past tense tok, past participle tekinn; Swedish ta, past participle tagit), from Proto-Germanic *takan- (cognates: Middle Low German tacken, Middle Dutch taken, Gothic tekan "to touch"), from Germanic root *tak- "to take," of uncertain origin, perhaps originally meaning "to touch." As the principal verb for "to take," it gradually replaced Middle English nimen, from Old English niman, from the usual West Germanic *nem- root (source of German nehmen, Dutch nemen; see nimble).Â
The Hebrew word "Tikach" means "Take!" in the 2nd person imperative form.
It is usually pronounced as close to "Tikah" which is quite similar to the Old Norse "taka" given above in the etymology for "take".
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3. Carthaginians in Ireland?
The following two sources are often quoted as proof that the Carthaginians reached the Americas. The place in question is an island. The Americas are not. It is also only a few days into the Atlantic Ocean. This fits Ireland best. On the other hand, the proposed areas of the Americas such as Brazil required more than 90 days sailing.
Diodorus ( 5.19-20)
The Phoenicians therefore, upon the account before related, having found out the coasts beyond the pillars, and sailing along by the shore of Africa, were on a sudden driven by a furious storm afar off into the main ocean; and after they had lain under this violent tempest for many days, they at length arrived at this island; and so, coming to the knowledge of the nature and pleasantness of this isle, they caused it to be known to everyone; and therefore the Tyrrhenians, when they were masters at sea, designed to send a colony thither; but the Carthaginians opposed them, both fearing lest most of their own citizens should be allured through the goodness of the island to settle there, and likewise intending to keep it as a place of refuge for themselves, in case of any sudden and unexpected blasts of fortune, which might tend to the utter ruin of their government: for, being then potent at sea, they doubted not but they could easily transport themselves and their families into that island unknown to the conquerors. (trans. G. Booth).
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Pseudo-Aristotle (De mirabilis auscultationibus 84) writes that:
In the sea outside the Pillars of Hercules they say that an island was discovered by the Carthaginians, desolate, having wood of every kind, and navigable rivers, and admirable for its fruits besides, but distant several days voyage from them. But, when the Carthaginians often came to this island because of its fertility, and some even dwelt there, the magistrates of the Carthaginians gave notice that they would punish with death those who should sail to it, and destroyed all the inhabitants, lest they should spread a report about it, or a large number might gather together to the island in their time, get possession of the authority, and destroy the prosperity of the Carthaginians. (trans. Launcelot D. Dowdall).
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4. Scandinavian Team Searches for Indo-European Homeland through Kazakhstan DNA
BY MICHELLE WITTE in EURASIA & WORLD on 23 FEBRUARY 2015
http://astanatimes.com/2015/02/scandinavian-team-searches-indo-european-homeland-kazakhstan-dna/
Extract:
A Scandinavian team has come to Kazakhstan in search of the common homeland of all Indo-European peoples, collecting bone fragments for analysis in the Centre for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen.
The researchers are looking for a genetic connection to match the linguistic connections that have already been drawn, Norwegian historian Sturla Ellingvag of the Explico Historical Research Foundation told The Astana Times on Feb. 20. 'We're trying to find a connection in science, in our DNA, to prove that there is indeed a connection, between, for example, Norwegians and the people in Kazakhstan. And also we are looking for a homeland, which is somewhere on the Caspian steppe, or in Russia, or some say it's in Armenia or Ukraine. There are many different theories.'
The researchers collected about 120 Bronze and early Iron Age bone samples in total from Pavlodar, Kostanai and Karaganda during their week-long trip to Kazakhstan, from Feb. 14, 21.Kazakhstan is fascinating, the researcher says, because it contains human remains that are 'so far back on the DNA map.'
The project to search for the ancestral homeland of the Indo-European peoples falls under the umbrella of a large grant from the Danish government and is being supported by the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Gotenburg University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, which has one of the best historical DNA analysis labs in the world and which is where the analysis on the Kazakh remains will actually be done. Universities in Karaganda, Pavlodar and Kostanai are also involved.
The Kurgan hypothesis posits that the speakers of proto-Indo-European, the hypothesized common ancestor of the massive Indo-European language group, originally lived on the Pontiac-Caspian steppe, an area of land stretching from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and including parts of Russia, Ukraine and northwest Kazakhstan, beginning around the fifth millenium B.C. The hypothesis describes the spread of the language family from the steppe in every direction. 'Kurgan' is a term for a type of burial mound common in the Caucasus, across Kazakhstan and beyond.
'Two thousand years ago, we started having Kurgan graves in Scandinavia,' said Ellingvag. The commonalities between burial mounds in Norway and Scythian/Saka mounds in Kazakhstan are striking, he said. '[The Scythian people] had these ornaments, these animal ornaments, which are very, very important in Scandinavian art , and the ornaments are actually quite similar, which is striking, it's very special.'
The research team includes Ellingvag, Danish DNA-scientist Peter Damgaard and Bettina Heyerdahl, daughter of Norwegian archaeologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl. They are also working with Kazakh researcher Emma Usmanova.
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5. Scythians Used Germanic Runes as Writing Script!
1515. Question on Scythian Languages and Writing
Has there been any further finds regarding a Scythian written language , I believe there was some un identified writing in one of the Scythian mounds but I have not seen any photo's of it on line? L.
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Brit-Am Reply:
The "experts" say that the Scythians used an Iranian dialect because in regions bordering those of Iranians Scythian names have Iranian-type connotations.
Towards Thracian areas however Thracian-type names are recorded.
It may therefore be deduced that the "experts" knowledge of Scythian names relies on how these names were transmitted by third parties
who infused the names with characteristics of their own tongues.
East of the Caspian Sea in what was than a Scythian area "Aramaic" inscriptions have been found (A.L. Mongait, "Archaeology of the USSR", 1962, 1971, see also the writings of Philip Lozinski).
A runic inscription from Kazakstan from a Scythian grave and dating from around 400-300 BCE was found. It was
claimed (by Jeanine Davis-Kimball) to be in a Germanic (or proto-Germanic) tongue.
This was reproduced in Renate Rolle, "The World of the Scythians", 1981.
Jeanine Davis-Kimball later found what she considered to another such inscription:
For illustration of inscriptions see:
The Golden Prince(ss) by Unrevealed Authoress consulting with Jeanine Davis-Kimball
http://www.connellodonovan.com/princess.html
Extract:
Until the discovery of this bowl, scholars had believed that the Scythians did not have an alphabet. When I first saw a sketch of this inscription, I recognized all the characters immediately as having identical forms with Germanic runes... After a meeting I had with Dr. Kimball in Berkeley, she e-mailed her Russian colleagues who are on-site in Kazakhstan, and they thoughtfully e-mailed me photographs of the silver bowl and it's inscription.