"Brit-Am Now"-546

Contents:
1. Brent Michael Keith: More on Asher and Scotsmen
2. Jack Flaws: Other Maps
3. Ian McRae: Israelite Mentality and Brit-Am Reply
4. Hosia: Highlights
5. Brit-Am, Pesach, and Other Things


1. Brent Michael Keith: More on Asher and Scotsmen
From: "Keith, Brent"
Yair,

I was intrigued by a recent e-mail. It is regarding oil exploration in those territories designated by the Almighty to the Tribe of Asher. What is interesting, apart from the very truth I believe is in scripture, is that wherever the Tribe of Asher is found, so is oil! As you ascribe Asher to be settled in Scotland, the most obvious oil reserves lie in the east Scotland basins and North Sea Brent. What is interesting is regarding oil production here in the United States. The first big strike was Pennsylvania which was the original home of the Scotch-Irish (Asher) before they moved southward into Kentucky and southern Appalachia. The strike in Titusville was at the foot so to speak in NW Pennsylvania. You then see finds in eastern Kentucky at the Ross Creek Pool, again, eastern Kentucky be an area predominantly populated by Scotch-Irish descendants.
The most interesting, I believe, is the Texas-Oil-Scottish (Asher) connection, see the following facts:

Over 40% of the original "300" Steven F. Austin colonists were of Scottish ancestry.
There were 30 Scots among those who fought in the Battle of the Alamo. Piper John MacGregor stood on the adobe walls in the midst of the battle to pipe the men on in true Scottish tradition.
Aberdeen Angus cattle were first exported from Scotland into Texas in 1883. The ranching term "spread" comes from Gaelic "spreid" which is a flock of sheep and "spredith" which means cattle or livestock of any kind.
Ten men from Scotland financed the building of the state capitol in Austin.
In exchange, the state government gave them 150,000 acres which became the famous XIT Ranch. The XIT stands for "Ten in Texas".
Most of the leaders who battled for Texas' independence were of Scottish ancestry, i.e., Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, James Bowie, David Crockett, Peter J. Bailey, Henry P. Brewster, J.A. Brooks, David Burnet, Mathew Caldwell, Capt. Ewen Cameron, S.P. Carson, Robert Cochran.
Over half of the counties of Texas are named for persons of Scottish ancestry.
*The Texas facts were taken from Texas Scottish Historical Web site at
http://www.txscot.com/texas_history.htm


This is a separate note, I am a coin collector and I came across a US Type One 3 cent silver piece. They were designed by James Barton Longacre and were minted from 1851-1853. They contain an "American" shield encompassed by the Star of David. Just a note but it is interesting, I believe, how history/secular things speak to us regarding our identity.

May the Almighty bless all that you put your hand to.

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2. Jack Flaws: Other Maps
From: Jack Flaws
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-545
item 4. First Map to label the New World as "America" to be Auctioned

Gee, Yair, I think these guys must've have been hiding in some closet when thy put together this 1507 map. The Piri Reis Map from Constantinople and the Oronteus Finaeus Map in the Library of Congress, Washingtom, DC were both drawn in 1513. \the Finaeus map is of the whole globe and like the Piri Reis map, shows Antarctica. the interesting part is that Finaeus shows the coasts of Antarctica free of ice. The astounding part is that the Piri Reis shows Antarctica with NO ice. The size and configuration of the Reis Antarctica has been confirmed by Navy Dept, soundings of the continent. The Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 map, doesn't even show Antactica. And we are taught in school that the continent wasn't discovered until 1818. Additionally, the earliest date that has been offered for a time when Antarctica was completely free of ice is 400 BCE.

Brit-Am Comment: The note about Waldseemuller's 1507 map was important to us because it led to America receiving its name and we have shown that the origin of this name derives from a Latinised translaion of the Hebrew name "Hamachiri" and Machir was the first-born son of Manasseh.

3. Ian McRae: Israelite Mentality and Brit-Am Reply

Hello Yair,
JHH makes a good point when he says that it is a mistake to look for synagogues and Jewish artifacts when looking for the other 10 tribes, as they were not applying themselves to the proper worship of Hashem. The links are likely to be more tenuous, and I think you may have hit a good lnk when you mention in "The Tribes" that the Nordic peoples, High God, Odin, is a corruption of Adonai. There is also a evemerist link in that Odin and Thor were, in Norse mythology, members of the tribe of Aesir. Could this be a corruption of Asher ? Asher are, in Britam terminology, represented by the Scots and the ancient Scots were also, through their close links with their Scandinavian neighbours from across the North Sea, also of the same religious roots and adherents of the Aesir gods Odin, Thor etc. These gods were given allegiance, as the Aesir, all over northern Europe and Odin was also known as Wotan in the Germanic areas and Woden in England. Odin, Wotan or Woden, they all sound like corruptions of Adonai. I think linguistic links like this are more likely to point in the right direction than looking for distinctly Jewish artifacts. Hashem scattered the 10 tribes because of their lack of religious attention. It is unlikely that they would have had an instant conversion right after the event. However.....as time went on and their oral traditions were being established, names and facts would be recalled and become entwined in their growing mythology. The fact that practically the whole of Northern Europe attended to the same gods, albeit in slightly dissimilar names, merely accentuates the fact that names can be corrupted by people speaking slightly different languages. Adonai to Odin ? It sounds logical to me. Question: What of the other Biblical names of God ? Do any of them sound like old European deities ? Ian McRae

"Never tell a man anything until he asks. He is not ready until then." ......... Gudrun Kristen Magnusdottir

Brit-Am Reply: First of all many of the Old Celtic and Irish heroes and gods had Biblical sounding names.
Regarding your specific question:
Odin is like Adon meaning Lord.
The Goths had a name for their Supreme God identified by researchers as a form of the Roman Jove (Greek Zeus) but actually spelt almost identically to the four letter name of the God of Israel.
The Celtic Welsh had a god named HU who also became an ancestral figure. HU is a probable derivation from the Hebrew name for God.
Tyr was another name for Odin and Tyr is a western form of the Hebrew Tzur (cf. the city "Tsur" in Phoenicia called "Tyre" in the English Bible) meaning Rock and being a name applied in the Bible to the Deity.
Shadai is found in Irish as Sidai or something similar.
Baal became the northern god "Baldar".
Baal was also known as Bel and Bel was worshipped by the Druids in Britain.

[Hosea 2:8] FOR SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT I GAVE HER CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND MULTIPLIED HER SILVER AND GOLD, WHICH THEY PREPARED FOR BAAL.

[Hosea 2:13] AND I WILL VISIT UPON HER THE DAYS OF BAALIM, WHEREIN SHE BURNED INCENSE TO THEM, AND SHE DECKED HERSELF WITH HER EARRINGS AND HER JEWELS, AND SHE WENT AFTER HER LOVERS, AND FORGAT ME, SAITH THE LORD.

[Hosea 2:16] AND IT SHALL BE AT THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THOU SHALT CALL ME ISHI; AND SHALT CALL ME NO MORE BAALI.

Ashtoreth was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons under the form of Aistoreth.
A few more examples at:
/genealogy/namesakes.html


Adapted from"Lost Israelite Identity" chapter fourteen:
The Celtic name Belenus (Apollo) derives from the Phoenician Bel (Baal). Other parallels are Celtic "Onuana" and Phoenician Onga; Gallic Minerva Belisama and Phoenician "Belsamen"; The Celtic cult of Camule paralleled the Oriental Cadmil; the Celtic-Gallic Gwyon equalled the Phoenician Gigon.

In Irish a priest was called a "cois" and in the Phoenician colony on Samothrace (off the coast of Greece) a priest was termed a "coies" equivalent to the Hebrew "cohen". In Ireland the supreme god was known as Beal (meaning baal) or as Beal Samhan which name is paralleled by that of the Syrian god "Baal Samim" whose name in Hebrew (Baal Shamayim) means "lord of heaven". The Celtic goddess Aistorith (also worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons according to Bede) was a version of Canaanite Ashtoreth.
In Britain and Ireland numerous Celtic place-names retain the term "baal" or derivations of it: Baal-y-bai, Beal-Tene, Balhomais, Ballinluig, Balmuick, Balnaguard, etc. it is claimed that in Britain place-names associated with baal are usually near stone circles or other megalithic remains. In Ireland "baal" place-names are especially numerous. The "sidhe" in Irish appears to have connoted the fairy people or gods; this name, "sidhe" is of Hebrew or Phoenician origin. In Hebrew "shed" means demon while "Shadi" is one of the names for God. Very soon after the conversion of Ireland to Christianity the whole country was covered by monasteries, whose complete organization seems to indicate that they were really Druidic colleges transformed en masse. Early "Old Testament" aspects of the British (and Irish) Celtic Churches are seen to be actually adaptations of Druidic practices.

La Tour d'Auvergne ("Originnes Gauloises", Hamburg, 1801) says:
*Huesi was an old name for the Israelites given them by the Egyptians. Hoesus was a major god of the Gauls, identified by the Romans with Mars.
Hissione was considered the ancestor of the Romanised Gauls, the Alans, Franks, Alamans, and Britons all peoples who populated France. HUESI (i.e. Israelites), Hoesus ( the god), and Hissione (ancestor of the Gauls) all appear to be forms of the same appellation.
[Hosea 2:16] AND IT SHALL BE AT THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THOU SHALT CALL ME ISHI; AND SHALT CALL ME NO MORE BAALI.
"Ishi" = "Huesi" ???

Hu Gadarn legendary ancestor of the British Cymry is referred to in one Welsh version as "Hu Gadarn Hysicion" and "Hysicion" was understandable to the Welsh as meaning "Isaacson", i.e. son of Isaac, forefather of Israel. The Northern Ten Tribes are referred to in the Bible as "Isaac" or "House of Isaac" (cf. Amos 7;16). In Medieval England the epithet "Haik" was said to be derived from the name ISAAC!
*The name Jupiter (the chief Roman god) according to La Tour was rendered in primitive Celtic as Iou, Iaou, and other forms. The Hebrew ineffable name for GOD transliterated as Jehovah or Yahwah was sometimes also rendered by writers in Greek as Iou or Iaou and identified by them with Zeus which became the Roman Jupiter. In other words, to the extent that the primitive Celts believed in a Supreme Deity they identified this Deity with the One God of the Hebrews and called Him by the same name.

4. Hosia: Highlights
Hosea is told to take to wife a loose woman named Gomer (1:2-3).
He has three children by this woman who represent three parts of the northern Ten Lost Tribes.
The name Gomer was also the name given to the Cimmerians, "Gimeru" in Akkadian. The Cimmerians were a people who first appeared on the fringes of the Assyrian Empire shortly after the Israelites were exiled. From the Cimmerians emerged the Celts, Scythians and Goths.
Gomer was also the name of a son of Japhet:
"And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphah, and Togarmah" (Genesis 10:3).
Places associated by the Rabbis with Gomer of Japhet are also those to which the Lost Ten tribes were recorded as having been exiled.
This, together with the Book of Hosea, suggests some kind of combination between the exiles of Israel and the descendants of Gomer.
The three sons of Gomer (i.e. Cimmerians) in Hosea represent three sections of the exiled 10 tribes and do not represent Judah who is separately spoken of (1:7).
The first child born to Hosea and Gomer is named "Jezreel" whose name connotes both scattering on one hand and ingathering and sowing on the other.
The second child was called "Lo-Ruhamma" meaning "Not-Be-Shown-Mercy" (Hosea 1:6).
Judah was not to be exiled with the Ten Tribes [Hosea 1:7]. The third child is called "Lo-Ammi" meaning "Not-My-People".
At first the Ten Tribes will be rejected and exiled but later God will return and accept them.


[Hosea 1:10] YET THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, WHICH CANNOT BE MEASURED NOR NUMBERED; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE IT SHALL BE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE THE SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.
The names shall be changed.
The meaning of Jezreel becomes understandable as "ingathered", and as being sewed in the ground in order to give forth manifold (2:22-23). The Ten Tribes shall join with Judah and be ingathered (1:11).
"Lo-Ruhamma" becomes "Ruhamma" ("She-Who-Is-Shown-Mercy", 2:23) and "Lo-Ami" becomes "Ami" meaning "my people" (2:1, 23).

In their place of exile, as well as being extremely numerous, they shall enjoy great bounty:
"CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND MULTIPLIED HER SILVER AND GOLD" (2:8).

They shall worship the "Baal" (2:8, 2:13, 2:16) like the Celts in Britain and Gaul once did.
Redemption will come through righteousness, judgment, loving-kindness, and mercies (2:19).
In the Last Days they shall Return to God and seek the Kingdom of David (3:5).
In their place of exile Ephraim will have given birth to strange children (5:7).
Judah will beging the Process of redemption and prepare the Way for the rest of Israel(6:3 Kalischer).
Ephraim will mistakenly puts his trust in Assyria and other "lovers".
An attempted placation of the Muslims represented by the mad prophet Machmad (Mohamot) augurs not well for Ephraim (9:1).
In the end times, according to the great commentator, Abarbanel, the returnees who were "lost" will come with their non-Israelite women and their children will be recognized.

Ephraim is mostly to the west from the Land of Israel (11:10).

Ephraim is rich and Ephraim is a merchant people (12:7).


5. Brit-Am, Pesach, and Other Things

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