Brit-Am Research Sources (24 March, 2014, 22 Adar-2, 5774)
Contents:
1. Interesting Notes on the Phoenicians; European Links
2. Gomer and Magog
3. Minoan and Mycenean Settlements in Southeast Spain
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1. Interesting Notes on the Phoenicians; European Links
Extracts from:
THE LEBANESE-PHOENICIANS are from Lebanon-Phoenicia and from nowhere else, Â by the late May MURR, translated by Alfred MURR
http://phoenicia.org/phoeleb.html
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Many scholars have collected tens of sources on the subject in important studies. Most exhaustive is that of Father Pierre-Marie Martin in his giant work entitled: "L'Histoire du Liban"1 in which he mentions several locations considered by certain ancient, and in their wake some modern authors, as the cradle of our ancestors, including: the shores of the Red Sea beyond Eritrea2 . Others make their origin Persian or Assyrian: Strabo (XVI, 3 and 4) spoke of the "isles of Tyros and Arados in the Persian Gulf" and of their temples that "resemble Phoenician temples." Pliny (VI, 43) called the isle of Tylos, Tyros. Martin adds (HL, p. 413-415): "The inhabitants of these islands claim that the Phoenician Arados and Tyre on the East Mediterranean Coast are colonies of their emigrants. But it must be stressed that when the Persians found Phoenicians established in the isles of the Persian Gulf, they understood that immigrants had established these colonies to facilitate their trade with India."
Another original homeland for the Phoenicians was mentioned on the shores of the Black Sea (Strabo, XVI, 1, 2)3 . Others, referring themselves to the description of their Spanish and Greek colonies, by various authors, including Homer (Il, II, 499), gave them a Spanish or a Greek origin (Martin, HL, p. 109). They were also given a French or English origin, more precisely, from Brittany, or Great Britain4 , which bear the name of Beirut5 . Many names in England and Brittany are certainly Phoenician, e.g. l'ile D'Arz, off French Bretagne, Cornwall (From Cronos-El)... To others, our ancestors came from Venice, Italy, - the name Venice is derived from Phoenicia (Mazel, AP, pp. 154-155) - or from Etruscan stock6 . It was also said that the Phoenicians descend from the Vikings whose name is a deformation of Phoenician, giving as evidence, that their Saga (their folk songs) are echoes of the songs of the Phoenician gods: Ea (El), Thor (Hermes), Odin (Adon = lord in Phoenician) and others7.
But the most famous historian who imposed the extraterritoriality of the Phoenicians was Herodotus - falsely considered "Father of History"8 - who said once that they came from the shores of the Indian Ocean9 and another time from the shores of the Sea of Eritrea, i.e. the Red Sea (I, 1; IV, 37; VII, 89). He claimed that the Phoenicians themselves told him that they first lived on the shores of the Sea of Eritrea, but migrated and settled on the shores of the Sea of Syria (Sour = Tyre) adjoining the border of Egypt, and that the stretch of land adjoining the border of Egypt is called Palestine.
1 Martin, History of Lebanon (=HL), Arabic translation by Rachid Chartouni, pp. 96-116; 226-342; 397-422. The original version in French is still manuscript.
2 Martin, ?HL, pp. 410, 419. He writes that the Greeks imagined that it was so mentioned by Homer, in the Odyssey, 4, 83 and 84.
3 Martin, HL, p. 103.
4 Jean Mazel, 'Avec les Phoeniciens (=AP). -- la Poursuite du Soleil sur les Routes de l'Or et de l??tain, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2nd ed., 1968, pp. 165-174.
5 Joseph Sheeban, One White Race, or Following the Gods (= OWR), New York, Philosophical Library, 1963, pp. 113-121.
6 The opposite is true says George N. Schoueiri, in La Cl? du Myst?re des ?trusques se trouve au Liban, Beyrouth, ed. FMA, 1995.
7 Wagner, Les poemes mythologiques de l'Edda, French translation, Paris, Druz, 1936, passim.
8 We say falsely, because the true "Father of History" is Thor of Byblos about whom we wrote several articles  who lived at the beginning of the third millennium BC. With him began History which he named Tarikh after Erekh, his cousin, son of Canaan, grandson of Noah and builder of the Lebanese city Arqa and the Erek of Mesopotamia (Gn 10:10; Josephus, Ant. Jud., I, VI, 2, 139). It was Eusebius of Caesarea who, in his Evangelical Preparation, Book I, ch. 9 and 10, reproducing passages of Sanchoni Aton (XIIIth century BC), abbreviated his work and introduced him to us.
Speaking of Samuel Bochart (XXVIIth century), the author of Geographia Sacra, Victor Berard57 wrote: In his second book, Canaan, Bochart considers the Phoenician colonization and the Phoenician and Punic languages... "Following the example of the legends and the names of localities, and because of an admirable knowledge of all the authors of classical Antiquity..., he was able to reconstitute a Phoenician Mediterranean: in Egypt, in Cilicia, in Cyprus, in Pisidia, in Caria, in Rhodes, in Samos (by the sole enumeration of the thirty six first chapters, we could continue all the periplus of the Interior Sea), everywhere, he found evidence of Sidonian or Tyrian colonization. No littoral escaped his seizure on behalf of the Phoenicians. He even hesitated to deny that America was beyond their practice. He knew that the Gallic language had more than one resemblance with their language." It is said that all the great cities of Europe were founded by the Phoenicians. Thus Paris58 is none other than Faris, the Knight; London also was Phoenician; Denmark was Dan Malek, the King Dan59 .
10 Concerning St Jerome and G. Rawlinson, (History of Phoenicia, ondon, 1889) cf. Maan Arab, Tyre, a Phoenecian Metropolis (= TPM), (in Arabic), Beirut, Dar Al-Machrek, 1970, p. , notes 12 and 13. As for Victor Berard, Les Phoeniciens et l'Odyssey, in 2 volumes: vol. I: Les iles de la Tres Verte; vol. II Mer Rouge et Mediterranee, Paris, ed. Colin, 1927, he clarifies in vol. I, p. 252, how and why the appellation Syria came from Tyre. He quotes Kippert to say that the name of the island of Syros is a Greek deformation of the Phoenician word Tyre. He explains this by saying that the Greeks translated the first letter of the Phoenician word either by 'S' or by 'T', whence the words Syria and Tyria. He adds: It is the name of a Phoenician city, now forgotten in the form of a modest city, under a veil and 'an Arab mask', but has played the role we know'. He meant the preponderant civilizing role of which he spoke elsewhere.
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2. Gomer and Magog
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/10.htm
Gomer. A people inhabiting "the sides of the north" (Ezekiel 38:6);
also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops--the many nations with you.
the Galatae of the Greeks (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 1:06); the Chomarii, a nation in Bactriana on the Oxus (Shulthess, Kalisch); but more generally the Cimmerians of Homer ('Odyss.,' 11:13-19), whose abodes were the shores of the Caspian and Euxine, whence they seem to have spread themselves over Europe as far west as the Atlantic, leaving traces of their presence in the Cimhri of North Germany and the Cymri in Wales (Keil, Lange, Murphy, Wordsworth, 'Speaker's Commentary ). And Magog. A fierce and warlike people presided over by Gog (an appellative name, like the titles Pharaoh and Caesar, and corresponding with the Turkish Chak, the Tartarian Kak, and the Mongolian Gog: Kalisch), whose complete destruction was predicted by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 38, 39.); generally understood to be the Scythians, whose territory lay upon the borders of the sea of Asoph, and in the Caucasus.
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3. Minoan and Mycenean Settlements in Southeast Spain
http://minoanatlantis.com/Minoan_Spain.php
Extract:
Several decades after the eruption the Mycenaeans from mainland Greece conquered the surviving Minoans in Crete and assumed control of the western maritime trade networks of metals from the west. The Iberian El Argar were incorporated and continued to function as an Aegean colony under the Mycenaeans. The Motillas (forts) of the Bronze of Levante culture like the Motilla del Azuer in La Mancha were probably Mycenaean era defenses for a 'Tin Road' connecting the inland tin mines of Cardenas and Madrid with their ports in the southeast. The Mycenaean El Argar era lasted for about two hundred and fifty years until its catastrophic collapse in about 1350 B.C.Â