Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1151-1200 (posted on 26 November, 2013, 23 Kislev, 5774)
Contents:
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A. Entries of Potential Research Significance Summarized
1. Cypriots and Phoenicians in Tartessus, Spain.
2. Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy
3. Israelite Origins of the Khazars
4. Ashkenaz and Israel in Armenia
5. The Picts identified with the Ten Tribes
6. Was Chasgar-Asgard (legendary home of the Scandinavian heroes) in Khazaria?
7. The Scythians in Central Asia and the East
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B. Other Entries of Importance Listed
(8) 1. Jews of Worms in Germany from Tribe of Benjamin!
(9) 3. George Bush (1844) Ancestor of two presidents and Early American Restorationist-Zionist
(10) 2. New Article: Rabbi Nathan and the Twelve Tribes Â
(11)Â 5. Blessing of the Twelve Tribes - Interesting Source: Ginzberg
(12) 4. Climate Change in Ancient Scythia?
(13) 3. Scythian Arrowheads of Israelite Origin?
(14) 1. Susan Herrman: Interesting Articles on Scythian Art and its Phoenician-Assyrian Sources
(15) 5. List of 110 Biblical Proofs with Links to Explanations
(16) 2. David Miller "Ends of the Earth" in Egyptian Terminology
(17) 2. Did Some of the Scythians Worship Joseph?
(18) 2. Lion and Eagle Symbols in Tabernacle
(19) 3. Napoleon, France, and Biblical Precedent
(20) 4. Rabbinical Commentators:Â Both Christianity and Islam from Rome
(21) 1. History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
(22) 3. Book of Daniel: Christianity and Islam from Rome
(23) 4. Opinion that the Lost Ten Tribes are the Ashkenazic Jews?
(24) 1. British Empire compared to other Empires
(25) 2. The Eagle and the Lion in Tabernacle National Israelite Symbolism
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1. Cypriots and Phoenicians in Tartessus, Spain.
Brit-Am Now no. 1163
2. Tartessus-Tarshish and the Philistines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessos
Cypriot and Phoenician metalworkers produced an estimated 15 million tons of pyrometallurgical residues at the vast dumps of Riotinto. Mining and smelting preceded the arrival, from the eighth century onwards, of Phoenicians[8] and then Greeks, who provided a stimulating wider market and who influence sparked an Orientalizing phase in Tartessian material culture (ca.750-550 BC) before Tartessian culture was superseded by the Classic Iberian culture.
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2. Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy
Brit-Am Now no. 1168
5. Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy
By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn
ROME - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head, much like the fabled, mythical unicorn, has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.
"This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, told The Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal."
The 1-year-old Roe Deer, nicknamed "Unicorn", was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Tozzi said.
He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns.
Calling it the first time he has seen such a case, Tozzi said such anomalies among deer may have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
The unicorn, a horse-like creature with magical healing powers, has appeared in legends and stories throughout history, from ancient and medieval texts to the adventures of Harry Potter.
"This shows that even in past times, there could have been animals with this anomaly," he said by telephone. "It's not like they dreamed it up."
Single-horned deer are rare but not unheard of, but even more unusual is the central positioning of the horn, experts said.
"Generally, the horn is on one side (of the head) rather than being at the center. This looks like a complex case," said Fulvio Fraticelli, scientific director of Rome's zoo. He said the position of the horn could also be the result of a trauma early in the animal's life.
Other mammals are believed to contribute to the myth of the unicorn, including the narwhal, a whale with a long, spiraling tusk.
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 3. Israelite Origins of the Khazars
Brit-Am Now no. 1170
3. URL about the Khazars Shows their Israelite Origins According to the Sources.
THE KHAZARS
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CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES
http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/khazars.htm
Extract:
KHAZARS are referred to as "JEWS" (without distinguishing them as proselytes) by:
IBN FADLAN (Arab writer, quoting king of Bulgars),
IBN HAWKAL (ca. 977: "they give the Khacanship only to JEWS"),
HASDAI (who wrote the "KHAZAR CORRESPONDENCE") thought the Khazars to be the 10 lost tribes,
ELDAD HA-DANI, Jewish traveller, says Khazaria is 3 of the lost tribes,
the RUSSIAN CHRONICLE refers to Khazaria as "the country of the Jews,"
WESTERN JEWS in the Middle Ages called Khazars "red Jews,"
the Biblically minded SLAVONIC EPICS speak of "Jews" rather than Khazars
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4. Ashkenaz and Israel in Armenia
Brit-Am Now no. 1172
2. Jewish History of Armenia: Lost Tribes and Khazars (Armenia as Ashkenaz)
http://www.asa3.org/archive/asa/200006/0127.html
http://www.britam.org/now/1171Now.html#Jewish
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5. The Picts identified with the Ten Tribes
Brit-Am Now no. 1175
3. Scotland:
"The Picts - that they were one of the lost tribes of Israel"
Folklore of the Picts by Stuart McHardy
http://www.wittins.demon.co.uk/articles/wittins03.pdf
Quotation:
## An account of the origins of the Picts which comes from the Irish Book of Invasions or Conquests states that the Picts were descended from a Scythian named Gelon son of Hercules and that they were called Agathyrsi. They supposedly landed in Leinster in Ireland, helped the king of Leinster win a battle against the Tuatha Fidhbhe (Fife?) then were forced to sail north into Scotland taking Irish wives with them on the condition that in any disputed succession the female line would be dominant...
##In 1879 a book was published called the History of Ancient Caledonia written by John Maclarren from Dunning, near the ancient Pictish capital of Forteviot. In this Maclarren takes one of the wilder explanations for the mysterious origins of the Picts - that they were one of the lost tribes of Israel. According to him Daniel and Lazarus arrived at Montrose in the distant past, bearing with them the Stone of Destiny and founded a new nation. The fact that he has them accompanied by a man called McIntyre gives the game away -clan names of this sort are less than a thousand years old. ##
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6. Was Chasgar-Asgard (legendary home of the Scandinavian heroes) in Khazaria?
Brit-Am Now no. 1180
2. Was Asgard (legendary home of the Scandinavian heroes) in Khazaria?
http://www.britam.org/now/1180Now.html#Was
Scandinaviian Tradition said that their ancestors (or at least a portion of them) came from Scythia.
These traditions were related by Snorro Sturlassen from Iceland who traced the ancestral heroes to the Don River-Caucasus region.
Subsequent researchers ... identified Asgard with "Chasgar in the Caucasian ridge" ... This region was the central core of the Khazar Kingdom and the area in which they first appeared in historical records north of the Caucasus. Odin therefore had possessions south of the Ural Mountains, along the banks of the Don River, and by Chasgar. The name "Chasgar" has been tentatively linked by etymologists to "Chazasgar"Â and to "Kazak". It could more credibly be considered a corrupted form of "Chazar" i.e. Khazaria. There are other cases where Khazar settlements have been referred to by a simple ethnonym [ethnic name], e.g. "Khazarin" for Itil.
Noted researcher Omjellan Pritsak has pointed out that the itinerary of Odin described by Snorri is that from Khazaria to Scandinavia.
It is worth noting that Eldad HaDani located the Tribe of Dan by the Sambation River which he identified with either the Don River or the nearby Dneiper (Danaper). Constantine Porphyrogenitus (905-959 CE) said that the city of Kiev (founded by kinfolk of the Khazars) was also known as Sambatas. The Sambation River was associated with the Ten Lost Tribes. Around the time of Odin a group that comprised ancestors of many of the present-day Danes (descendants of Dan) migrated from Scythia to southern Sweden and from there to what is now known as Denmark.
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7. The Scythians in Central Asia and the East
Brit-Am Now no. 1199
2. Interesting Article related to Scythians and Goths etc.
The Getes by Sundeep S. Jhutti
http://www.sino-platonic.org/abstracts/spp127_getes.html
Extracts:
Introduction
Now the Massagetae are said to be a great and warlike nation.... By many they are regarded as a Scythian race.... In their dress and mode of living the Massagetae resemble the Scythians [Rawlinson 1928, 75, 79].
Although they had very similar customs and shared a common language, this does not necessarily advocate that they were one entity.
The Massagetae of Herodotus were designated by the comprehensive name "Sakas" by the Persians, and it is believed by some scholars that the Saka Tigrakhauda or Peaked-capped Sakas were the Massagetae of Herodotus. In an article in Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age, Leonid T. Yablonsky writes, "Some scholars are inclined to identify the Saka-Tigrakhauda of the ancient Persian inscriptions with the Massagetae of Herodotus and to place them east of the Caspian Sea" (Yablonsky 1995, 250).
In addition, geographer Strabo applies the comprehensive name Scythian to the Sakas, Dahae, and Massagetae. He states:
Now the greater part of the Scythians, beginning at the Caspian Sea, are called Daae, but those who are situated more to the east are called Massagetae and Sacae, whereas all the rest are given the general name of Scythians, though each people is given a separate name. They are all for the most part nomads [Jones 1928, 5: 261].
Alexander Cunningham, the former Director-General of the Archeological Survey of India, believed that the Dahae of the Greeks and the Dahyu of the Persians were the same word as the colloquial term daku used in India (Indo-English "dacoit"), which literally means "a robber or enemy" (Cunningham 1888, 32). The Scythians could have been perceived as dacoits by these sedentary societies, and these terms could have been those of reproach (Cunningham 1888, 32). The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica also holds this view,
Known to the western world under the comprehensive name of Scythians, to the Indians as Sakas, and to the Chinese as Sai or Sai-wang, these invaders came principally from the three great tribes of Massagetae, Sacaraucae, and Dahae, whose home at the beginning of the second century b.c. was in the country between the Caspian Sea and Jaxartes river [Marshall 1960, 24].
This was the case with the Hsuing-Nu (Huns), a nomadic Mongol people, who uprooted the nomadic Yuezhi near the Great Wall of China before the Christian era. The Chinese Emperor Zheng (Shi Huangdi, 246-210 b.c.) linked together the existing frontier walls into a continuous defense system, thereby creating the Great Wall of China (Haywood 2000, 26). As a result the restless Hsuing Nu tribe attacked their neighbors the Caucasian Wusun and Yuezhi, which led to a wholesale movement of these nomads (Dhillon 1994, 41). Not only were the fleeing Yuezhi uprooted, but so also were a perhaps kindred people, the Sakas, near the Aral Sea (Dhillon 1994, 41). Eventually this chain of events led to these nations appearing on the Indo-Iranian borderlands and settling in these regions (Dhillon 1994, 41). This same movement of tribes was the driving force that finally led the Alans to enter Roman territory (Dhillon 1994, Preface). Haywood provides a good summary of this large-scale movement:
The rise of the Xiongnu [Huns] had a destabilizing effect on the Iranian nomads to the west. In 170 the Xiongnu inflicted a crushing defeat on the Yue Qi [Yuezhi], who fled westward, unsettling the Sakas, before overrunning the Bactrian kingdom around 135. The Sakas headed south, first to invade the Parthian empire and, around 141, northern India, and were able to occupy much of the northwest without facing much serious opposition. On the western steppes, the Sarmatians defeated and absorbed the Scythians in the 2nd century and by 150 three distinct groups appeared: the Iazygians, the Roxolani, and the Alans [Haywood 2000, 28].
It does not seem mere coincidence that the timeline for the "barbarian" invasions of Rome corresponds very closely to that of the similar invasions of northwest India and northeastern Iran, or that Huns were associated with these assaults. For example, the Alans reached Gaul in a.d. 408 (Dhillon 1994, 91), and the Ephthalites conquered Transoxiana and Bactria around 440 and reached India around 455-460 (Grousset 1970, 67-68).
McGovern provides a bird's-eye view of the movement of these tribes:
Regarding the Sarmatians, Jeannine Davis-Kimball wrote a rather interesting paragraph in her popular book Warrior Women:
Around 400 b.c., the Sauromatians began to be displaced by people known to the ancients as Simatians or Sarmatians. No one is certain of the origins of these people; although they were also Caucasoids and spoke an Indo-Iranian language, their skeletons revealed a variety of ethnic types, with some being tall and large boned ... while others were shorter and delicate in stature. My theory, based on a number of notable comparisons between funeral offerings, is that some of these people might have been younger generations of Saka who were forced from their territories near the Tien Shan Mountains or the southern Aral Sea by the need for additional summer pasturelands. Around the third century a.d., they began migrating westward and eventually these expert horsemen equipped with sophisticated weapons and armor constituted a real threat to the Roman legions guarding the Danube frontier. The enterprising legionnaires, however, defused the situation by recruiting some of the Sarmatians to join their army. In a.d. 175, more than five thousand of the steppe tribesmen (most likely along with their families) were dispatched to the northern English border to guard Hadrian's Wall, which helped repel incursions into Roman Britain by the Picts and the Celtic Scots. Twenty years later, the Sarmatian regiment was redeployed to Gaul (the ancient designation for France and Belgium) to quell a rebellion. Later they were returned to Britain, and as they grew old, the battle-weary Sarmatians retired to a veteran's home in Lancashire. (It seems as if they had taken to the British climate, proving that almost anything is better than the weather of the steppes.) The Sarmatian presence in Gaul and Roman Britain never ceases to fascinate me -- I always wonder how many unsuspecting modern-day Frenchmen and Britons, as well as Americans of those extractions, possess the genes of the ancient steppe warriors [Davis-Kimball 2002, 32].
The destruction by Alexander the Great of the Achaemenid (Persian) monarchy and his subsequent conquest of Bactria and Sogdiana in 330-328 BC also influenced the history and development of all the peoples of Central Asia. Neither the Chorasmians nor the Massagetae were subjugated by Alexander, but as a result of having to fight against the highly trained and organized Macedonian army, they developed new military tactics using armoured cavalry, the 'cataphracti'. Some authors think that the Massagetae owed their conquests solely to the use of this armoured cavalry against weaker adversaries [Sulimirski 1970, 81].
Da (Greater) Yuezhi or in the earlier pronunciation d'ad-ngiwat-tieg, has been seen to equate with the Massagetae who occupied the oases and steppelands of West Central Asia in the time of Herodotus; here Massa renders an Iranian word for "Great," hence "Great Getae." ... Others have seen in this word an attempt to capture in Chinese the name of a tribe that is rendered in Greek as the Iatioi who are recorded in Ptolemy's geography. The original pronunciation has been reconstructed as gwat-ti or got-ti or gut-si, which opens up distant lexical similarities with the Goths (the German tribes of northern and eastern Europe), the Getae (the Dacian, i.e., Balkan, tribes northwest of the Black Sea), the Guti (a people on the borderlands of Mesopotamia), the Kusha (our Kushans), the Gushi (a people mentioned in Han texts and regarded as brigands along with the peoples of Kroran), or a combination of some but not all of the above (Mallory and Mair 2000, 98-99).
In his Tableaux Historiques De L'Asia, Julius Von Klaproth (1783-1835) wrote:
A rough translation:
The name of Yueti or Yut recalls that of Yuts or Goths, which came to Europe: it would be very possible that the Yutes who arrived in Scandinavia with Odin, are the same people who three centuries before our era, still inhabited the area ... northwest of the Chinese Kansu province. This would suppose the emigration of the Goths of Central Asia after that of the other Germanic peoples.
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B. Other Entries of Importance Listed
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"Brit-Am Now"-1055
http://www.britam.org/now/1055Now.html
(8) 1. Jews of Worms in Germany from Tribe of Benjamin!
(9) 3. George Bush (1844) Ancestor of two presidents and Early American Restorationist-Zionist
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"Brit-Am Now"-1062
(10) 2. New Article: Rabbi Nathan and the Twelve Tribes Â
http://www.britam.org/now/1062Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1066
(11)Â 5. Blessing of the Twelve Tribes - Interesting Source: Ginzberg
http://www.britam.org/now/1066Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1069
(12) 4. Climate Change in Ancient Scythia?
http://www.britam.org/now/1069Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1071
(13) 3. Scythian Arrowheads of Israelite Origin?
http://www.britam.org/now/1071Now.html#71Scythian
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"Brit-Am Now"-1072
(14) 1. Susan Herrman: Interesting Articles on Scythian Art and its Phoenician-Assyrian Sources
http://www.britam.org/now/1072Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1076
(15) 5. List of 110 Biblical Proofs with Links to Explanations
http://www.britam.org/now/1076Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1078
(16) 2. David Miller "Ends of the Earth" in Egyptian Terminology
http://www.britam.org/now/1078Now.html#78David
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"Brit-Am Now"-1081
(17) 2. Did Some of the Scythians Worship Joseph?
http://www.britam.org/now/1081Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1084
(18) 2. Lion and Eagle Symbols in Tabernacle
(19) 3. Napoleon, France, and Biblical Precedent
http://www.britam.org/now/1084Now.html
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Brit-Am Now no. 1087
(20) 4. Rabbinical Commentators:Â Both Christianity and Islam from Rome
http://www.britam.org/now/1087Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1090
(21) 1. History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
http://www.britam.org/now/1090Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1092
(22) 3. Book of Daniel: Christianity and Islam from Rome
(23) 4. Opinion that the Lost Ten Tribes are the Ashkenazic Jews?
http://www.britam.org/now/1092Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1093
Contents:
(24) 1. British Empire compared to other Empires
http://www.britam.org/now/1093Now.html
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"Brit-Am Now"-1095
(25) 2. The Eagle and the Lion in Tabernacle National Israelite Symbolism
http://www.britam.org/now/1095Now.html