by Ricardo Lopez ( 2001) [very mild editing by YD] Posted on 15 January, 2015, 24 Tevet, 5775.
Contents:
1. Note by Editor (YD).
2. The Migration of Assyrians
3. National Characteristics of Assyrians
4. National Characteristics of Germans
5. Defeat and Population Transfer of Assyrians
6. The Assyrians in Germany
7. They brought their Dogs with them!
8. Bavaria, Thuringia, and Deutsche all derive from Terms Meaning Assyrian!
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1. Note by Editor (YD):
We found the article below in our archives.
We do not necessarily agree with all of it. Nevertheless it is of interest and has information and insights of value.
Our own understanding is that the non-Israelite German population is basically derived from Gomer and the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, Togarmah, and Riphah.
See:
Gomer the Gentile. The Non-Israelite Section of the Gomerites
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/gentile.html
In addition the German population includes elements from Magog, from the Canaaanites and Philistines, from Edom, and from Assyria.
At one stage there were also many from the Ten Tribes and from Judah but they mostly moved out in the 1700s and 1800s of our era.
See:
Hebrews in Germany.
This present article by Ricardo Lopez traces the Assyrians to Germany. Incidentally it also traces a pathway of migration via which other groups, including Israelites, moved from the east to the west.
Ricardo Lopez is a pseudonym, one of several used by the author at the time who for a while was quite active. We do not know what his real name was.
There is a good chance that the archives of Craig White contain additional articles by the same writer.
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2. The Migration of Assyrians
To begin, one must logically suppose that the main portion of Assyria's populace, native and foreign Semite deportees, migrated together from the Fertile Crescent, Eurasian steppes, and into the northern and occidental regions of the European land mass. Other Assyrians were left behind and settled around Edessa [Black Sea shore in southern Ukraine] (Osrhoene, Urhai). They became the duskier Nestorian Aisor i.e. the brunette Caucasoids like the Rhinelanders and Bavarians.
Descendants of Assyrians today conduct themselves similarly tot heir ancestors, displaying the same jingoistic tendencies and proclivity for expansionism (Lebensraum) and efficiency.
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3. National Characteristics of Assyrians
"Aid to Bible Understanding", copyright 1971, pages 151, 152 gives a description of the Assyrian nation as
"essentially a military power...the historical picture left of its exploits is...of great cruelty and rapaciousness."
One of their warrior monarchs, Ashurnasirpal, describes his punishment of a rebellious city in this way:
"I built a pillar over against his city gate and I flayed all the chiefs who had revolted, and I covered the pillar with their skin. Some I walled up within the pillar, some Iimpaled upon the pillar on stakes... And I cut the limbs of...the royal officers...Many captives from among them I burned with fire...I cut off their noses, their ears and their fingers, of many I put out the eyes. I made one pillar of the living and another of heads, and I bound their heads to tree trunks round about the city. Their young men and maidens I burned in the fire. Twenty men I captured alive and I immured them in the wall of his palace...The rest of their warriors I consumed with thirst in the desert of the Euphrates..."
Reliefs often show their captives being led by cords attached to hooks that pierced the nose or the lips, or having their eyes put out at the point of a spear. Thus, sadistic torture was a frequent feature of Assyrian warfare, which they shamelessly boasted about and which they carefully recorded. The knowledge of their cruelty doubtlessly served them to an advantage militarily, striking terror into the hearts of those in their line of attack and often causing resistance to crumble.
Assyria was aptly described by the prophet Nahum as a "lair of lions" and the capital Nineveh, as "the city of bloodshed" - Nahum 2: 11, 12; 3: 1."
W.B. Wright, "Ancient Cities", page 25, stated:
"Fighting was the business of the nation, and the priests were incessant fomenters of war. They were supported largely from the spoils of conquest, of which a fixed percentage was invariably assigned them before others shared..."
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4. National Characteristics of Germans
Terence Prittie, "Life World Library: Germany", copyright 1961, 1968, pp. 10, 11:
"During the Nazi era most impartial observers would probably have picked out three traits which then seemed peculiar to the Germans: arrogance, violence and aggressiveness.
Their arrogance seemed to have been born out of a sense of their own strength-and a readiness to use that strength without regard for the feelings of others.
Violence has been manifested in the Germans for a long time. In the 16th Century, for instance, one finds this statement on how to deal with the rebellious serf-peasants:
"Therefore, let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab [them], secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."
These gory instructions-admittedly given in a gory era-came from none other than Martin Luther, the reformer of the German Church.
In times of stress, the threat of violence has more than once to rise to the surface in Germany. In the early days of the Weimar Republic following World War I, rabid German nationalists revived the 'Femegerichte', secret courts which condemned citizens to the death 'in absentia' and murdered them. These terroristic 'Femegerichte' had been started by Germans in the Middle Ages as a weapon against the lawlessness of the time. In both periods of history they were unique in northern Europe. German arrogance and violence reached a peak under the Nazis, who exploited these characteristics deliberately. The same is true of German aggressiveness, which found its extreme expression in the invasion of 15 neighboring countries by Hitler's armies between 1938 and 1944 ...Germans, from ancient times up to the modern era, have always possessed tremendous capacities for good as well as evil.
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5. Defeat and Population Transfer of Assyrians
Empires that succeeded the hated Assyrians learned a great deal, both in the arts and organization of states, from them. An alliance between Media's Cyaxares and the Chaldean Nabopolassar, each intent on partitioning Assyria, defeated Ashur-uballit II (611-609 BC), who had crowned himself king in the city of Harran before capitulating. Throngs of Assyrian citizens (Leuco, or White, Syrians whom Strabo mentioned) occupied Girmua SW of Mount Tas [1], western Mesopotamia, and SE Anatolia whence moved through the Dariel Pass [into southern Russia and then westward].
Diodorus Siculus (Book II, s. 43) put on record that:
"many conquered peoples were removed to other homes, and two of these became very great colonies; the one was composed of Assyrians and was removed to the land between Paphlagonia and Pontus, and the other was drawn from Media and planted along the Tanais (Don River, Scythian territory within the Ukraine)."
cf. II Kings 17: 23 where we are told that the Ten Tribes were re-settled in the cities of the Medes, i.e. in Media.
Jerome, early church historian, wrote of the Germanic migrants coming westward in his Letter 123 quoting Psalm 83: 8 ("Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers", sec. 16): " 'For Asshur also is joined with them.' "
Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder called the people inhabiting the Crimean peninsula "Assyrianoi" [2].
The Black Sea coastal area was an Assyrian camp according to Periplus [3].
Ptolemy's "Geography", maps of Asiatic Sarmatia, versions 1 and 2, list the Siraceni, Surani, and Arbali (named after Arbela, 'Arba' ilu', the Assyrian town situated on the east bank of the Tigris), tribes located above the Caucasus and Colchidis.
Assyrian merchants had anciently settled Cappadocian-Hittite Hattusas [4], establishing Germanicopolis [5] and Ninus Vetus ("Old Nineveh") [6].
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6. The Assyrians in Germany
Arab authors during the Dark Ages stated Assyrians and Germans are from the same source.
Barhebraeus and Muslim tradition also linked Persian Germanikah of Mosul (Nineveh) to them [7].
These can later become identified as the Hessian Chatti.
Medieval legend in Germany claimed Assyrian prince Trebeta, son of Ninus (Nimrod) and Queen Semiramis, founded Trier two thousand years before Julius Caesar's arrival (Josef K.L. Bihl, "In Deutschen Landen", pg. 69; Hans-Albert Becker, director of Trier's Tourist Information Office).
There is a Latin text on the Hauptmarkt's 17th century Rotes Haus (Red House), which the head of the bakers' guild and cathedral clerk Johann Polch built beside the Steipe, that reads: "Trier existed 1,300 years before Rome. May it enjoy eternal peace."
Kush, Ninus' father Belus, and Chaos of Greek mythology were interchangeable (Rev. Alexander Hislop, "Two Babylons", pp. 26, 27).
It was remembered that Semiramis/Atergatis and Ninus/Nimrod/Merodach who reigned at Assyria and Merathaim ("place of rebellion", Babel/Shinar-Gen. 10: 8-12; Jer, 50: 21, 23, 24) were blond and of white complexion (Hislop, pp. 43, 69, 74; "Lucian de Dea Syria", Vol. III, pp. 460, 461) although Kush was Negroid, an Ethiopian/Abyssinian (Plutarch, "De Isid. et Os.", Vol. II, pg. 359).
C.Leonard Woolley has written ("Sumerians", pg. 5): "In the Zagros hills and across the plain to the Tigris, there lived a fair haired...people...who remained in what was afterwards Assyria."
The offspring of Asshur and Nimrod therefore were Nordics.
The Sumerian King List contains the statement:
"After the Flood had swept... the earth and when kingship was lowered again from heaven, it was first in Kish" (Pritchard's "Ancient Near Eastern Texts", 1955 ed., pg. 265).
Professor Albright commented: "Unless (the city) Kish is the prototype of the Cush of Gen. 10: 8, as is quite possible, it is not mentioned in the Bible.
Nimrod was in any case probably considered as the first ruler of Kish ("Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible", 22nd edition, pg. 14).
Nimrodites, forebears of the Merolvingian early Frankish kings of France, relocated themselves into Nubian-Kushitic Meroe in the Sudan (Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", pp. 388, 475), Sennar (Cheikh Anta Diop, "African Origin of Civilization", pg. 2), and Anatolian Mira-Kuwaliya (Trevor Bryce, "Kingdom of the Hittites", pp. 55, 210, 213, 231-233, 244-246, 287, 291, 308, 337).
In 470 AD, Roman sergeant Publius Octavus residing outside Lugdunum (now Leiden, Holland) learned of an old Scandinavian race, the Kuwalden (Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet, "Gnomes", pp. 4, 5).
Israeli scholar, Yair Davidiy, equates Kas/Odin with Edomite Qaush ("Ephraim", Chapter 7) whilst I instead notice a resemblance to Kush. The subject will be gone over in further detail another time.
Archaeology proves that the iron industry independently came to the Koban-Transcaucasian and Central Europe's Halstatt cultures "from a common centre in Asia Minor (Khatti) or Assyria" [8].
Yair Davidiy provided extra clues for the origination of the European Iron Age ("Lost Israelite Identity", pp. 72-76):
"The initiators of Halstatt brought a superior knowledge of metallurgy, of iron production, and mining. The new methods at first penetrated the Alps and Central Europe. These innovative techniques..."can be most satisfactorily attributed...to the arrival of expert miners and prospectors in the several metalliferous regions...mining as illustrated in the Alps, is so sophisticated and so novel, that one feels that it must have been initiated at least by experts trained in more civilized regions" [9].
Anatolia (where the Assyrians...had mining facilities) has been suggested as the source of the new mining knowledge [10] but it could have been almost anywhere within the metal working areas of the Middle East including Israel.
"The Assyrians used iron ore on a lavish scale, and weapons, tools, and 150 tons of unworked iron were found in the palace of Sargon II. Sennacherib carried off smiths of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar those of Jerusalem" [11]. Jewish smiths are said to have dominated the metal craft in Assyria, Babylon, and Ethiopia [12]. In the case of Assyria it was actually exiled "Israelites" from the Ten Tribes (rather than "Jewish" metallurgists)... who were responsible for technological innovations and every place in western Europe where the Israelites migrated to they brought their metallurgical expertise with them...
The horse gear of the early Halstatt Celts, says Powell, "is an elaboration of that of their predecessors from the east"... In this period some signs of Assyrian domination or presence was evident in Britain, Spain, and Scandinavia. If the bearers of this influence were not Assyrians then at least they were peoples who had been strongly influenced by Assyrians in the recent past. European military helmets following the Halstatt era were of Assyrian...type. The earliest examples of these helmets were maybe those found in Denmark from ca. 700 BCE or earlier [13]. Handle attachments (for which Assyrian prototypes exist) for moveable rings characterize (Danish) cauldrons [14]...As explained... Halstatt civilization of central and western Europe was brought after conquest by a group using wagon burials, long Assyrian type swords, and a peculiar type of helmet. The said helmet appears to previously have been employed by horsemen in the land of Israel, it was found in use by (those) in Assyrian service...The horse gear of the newcomers to Halstatt was Oriental and is recognisable as that employed by Assyrian cavalrymen or (depending on which dates are relied on) was then being used contemporaneously by horsemen in Assyrian employ...The early centre of Celtic Halstatt civilisation was...in Austria. A Latin document known as the "Austrian Chronicle" and purporting to be based on ancient traditions... says that Central Europe had been (subjugated) by the Assyrians..."
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7. They brought their Dogs with them!
Pets are taken along with their masters wherever new settlements get made. A favorite is the canine, and for Assyrians most especially the drop-eared, short-muzzled, heavy-boned Mastiff or Molossian used in battle as early as 2000 BC [15].
This basic stock produced the Boxer (Bullenbeiser, "bull-biter", German hunting dog) and Rottweiler. Molossers (Mastino) were depicted in Ninevite bas-reliefs dated about 640-580 BC [16] and sculptures from the palace of Nimrud [17].
Tschudy, a researcher in this field, proposed the theory that mixed breeding produced the Kuherhund of Alpine cowherders, Great Dane/Deutsche Dogge, Saint Bernard (Switzerland), English Mastiff, Dogue de Bordeaux, and Pyrenean Mountain Dog [18].
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8. Bavaria, Thuringia, and Deutsche all derive from Terms Meaning Assyrian!
Atourayeh/Athouriyeen (Aramaic and Arabic pronunciations) were what the Assyrians always referred to themselves as and their land, the satrapy Beth Athuriya (Ituria), appeared on historical manuscripts of Cyrus II [19].
Babirus (Old Persian) and the Baveru of Hindu Pali legend were altered names for Assyro-Babylonia [20].
With that data the toponymic roots of German Thuringia and Bavaria can be noted.
The Hermunduri/Armaner (Armamitres was an Assyrian sovereign; St. Augustine of Hippo, "City of God", Book XVIII, Chapter 3), or Thuringi, had a tribal offshoot known as Turoni [21].
Peter Salemi (British-Israel Church of God, article "Germany in Prophecy") informs us of the Teutonic war god Tiw/Tyr deriving his name from Asshur/Athur. In addition this was also the original name from which is derived the term "Deutsche" i.e. German in the German tongue.
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References:
[1] Michael Roaf, "Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East",
pg. 185
[2] "Natural History", Book IV, Chapter 12, pg. 183
[3] C. Chipiez, G. Perrot, "History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria and
Asia Minor", Vol. II, pg. 261
[4] Louis L. Orlin, "Assyrian Colonies in Cappadocia", Mouton de Gruyter,
July 1970
[5] Ammianus Marcellinus, 1: 27
[6] Chipiez and Perrot, pg. 272
[7] Martin Gemol, "Israelites und Hyksos", Leipzig, 1913, pp. 88-90; "Origin
of Nations" magazine, August-October 1995, ISSN 1322-6428, Vol. I, Issue 4
[8] V. Gordon Childe, "Aryans", pp. 117-124
[9] Childe, "Prehistory: The European Inheritance", 1954, pg. 146
[10] Norman J.G. Pounds, "An Historical Geography of Europe", Cambridge,
1973, pg. 47
[11] Louis Rapoport, "Lost Jews: Last of the Ethiopian Falashas", pg. 105
[12] ibid.
[13] Massimo Pallotino, "Etruscans", pp. 34, 36
[14] ibid., pg. 42
[15] Monsieur Lucian Guilbert, "Pet Crests"
[16] http://home.online.no/~molossus/origin/originofthemolossers.html
[17] Tamara Taylor, article in "Canis Max", Winter 1996-97; Robert Leighton,
"New Book of the Dog"
[18] http://nmbe0.unibe.ch/abtwt/sbh200.html
[19] Fred Aprim, "Assyrian Continuity",
http://www.atour.com/fred/docs/continuity.html
[20] International Bible Students Association, "Babylon the Great Has
Fallen! God's Kingdom Rules!", copyright 1963, pg. 31
[21] Ethnohistory Project,
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/msr/Ethno/gendate11.html
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