Tribal Report: Sweden as the Tribe of Asher? Australia the Meat Consumer
Contents:
1. Orjan Svensson: "Sweden"Â means "land of the SEVEN".
2. Stephen Phillips: The Blue flag of Asher?
3. Australia is the meat-eating capital of the world by Inga Ting
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1. Orjan Svensson: "Sweden"Â means "land of the SEVEN".
Shalom,
Stephen Phillips now writes that "Sweden (from Svealand) is actually a corruption of Ishvi-land, where Ishvi is identifiable as the third son of Asher (Gen.46:17)."
There could perhaps be something to it since I think that there probably exist some small enclaves of Asher in Sweden.
However, in my opinion Sweden rather means "Land of the SEVEN". In Swedish Sweden is known as Sverige or Svea rike, meaning "Kingdom of Svea". But does Svea mean?
Maybe it is from Hebrew SHeVa', meaning seven. In Scandinavian languages seven is "sju" or syv".
My research shows that ancestors of Swedes were preoccupied with the number seven in many runic inscriptions. Many ancient stone circles in Sweden also consist of seven stones, and ancient monuments are to a large extent arranged according to geometries conforming to seven-pointed stars.
Maybe the ancient Gadites called themeselves "The Seven" since they consisted of seven clans from Gad's seven sons.
The name Gad (Gimel-Daleth) also adds up to 3 + 4 = 7 in the Hebrew gematria.
So I believe that it would be fitting for Gadites to be preoccupied with the number seven and call themselves "the seven" and their land "the land of the seven".
In Hebrew there are also the words SHeBHiY and SHiBiYaH, meaning captivity, exile and captives. In my opinion Svealand could therefore also mean "land of exiles", but the primary meaning of Sweden is probably "land of Seven", meaning in effect "land of Gad" in my opinion.
Regards,
Orjan
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2. Stephen Phillips: The Blue flag of Asher?
Shalom Yair
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You asked whether I have anything more like this. Plenty, but one step at a time. Concerning Svealand [in Sweden], there is information on Wikipedia under the article Svealand which shows the ancient boundaries. You will notice that Gad settled mainly in Gotaland in the south of the country. Presumably you have noticed that Sweden's flag is blue? This is the colour of Asher's stone.
Keep going.
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Regards,
Steve
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3. Australia is the meat-eating capital of the world
http://www.theage.com.au/national/health/australia-is-the-meateating-capital-of-the-world-20151027-gkjhp4.html?eid=email:nnn-13omn653-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-news_pm-dom-news-nnn-age-u&campaign_code=13INO007&et_bid=25163203&promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=Mjk1MzQwMg
by Inga Ting
Extracts:
Australians have finally surpassed the US to claim the title of world's most voracious meat eaters, a distinction we last held more than 30 years ago, in 1982.
Australians devoured 90.21 kilograms of meat per person in 2014, 170 grams more per person than the Americans, according to the latest figures from the Organisation of Economic Development and Co-operation and Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
Australia's meat consumption has been creeping upwards over the past two decades, mostly driven by an increased appetite for chicken and pork.
While red meat has traditionally taken pride of place at the centre of the Aussie dinner table, we're now eating half as much lamb as in the 1980s and two-thirds the amount of beef, but nearly 2.5 times as much chicken and twice as much pork. (Our shifting preferences can be traced to a number of economic, cultural and environmental factors.)
Different patterns of meat consumption around the world tell a story of rich and poor. Meat consumption tends to rise as income rises, until it reaches a saturation point , where average incomes keep rising but people decide they just can't eat any more meat.
Cultural preferences produce some notable exceptions to the "mo money mo meat" pattern, such as India, where religious preferences mean up to 30-40 per cent of the population are vegetarians; and Malaysia and China, where meat consumption is far higher than would be expected from each country's income.
Worldwide, chicken is now the world's favourite meat by a slim margin, having surpassed pork in 2007, a trend mostly driven by meat preferences among the wealthy OECD nations. Chicken has been the preferred meat among OECD countries since 2000. Worldwide consumption of chicken was 13.2kg per person in 2014; pork was 12.6kg.
China and Vietnam, two of the world's fastest-rising meat-eating nations, ate the most pork of any nation in 2014, with the Chinese surpassing the Europeans to claim the No. 1 ranking only recently, in 2013.
Pork is by far the most widely-consumed meat among the EU28 countries, with Europeans eating about 31kg of pork per person in 2014, compared with 22kg of chicken.
Pork is also the preferred meat among the major emerging BRICS economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, where 16kg of pork is eaten for every 10kg of chicken.
Australia ranked eighth out of 43 countries for pork consumption in 2014, at 20kg of pork per person.