"Brit-Am Now"-660
Contents:
1. DNA: Celts or Amerindians?
2. Flag Folding Significance: The Equivalent of an Urban legend?
3. Isaiah Summary chs.31 to 35
4. New Find: Bronze Age Crete-North Frisia [Northwest Germany] Connections
5. Our Web Site: Advertising
6. The Will to Believe
7. Amazon Books
8. Brit-Am Need for Funds (Important)
9. Ancient Swedish Links to Greece and Phoenicia?
1. DNA: Celts or Amerindians?
R1b or Q??
R1b is the major DNA haplogroup for West Europeans. It is especially
prominent amongst Insular (British) "Celtic" people. It is close to R1a which is
dominant in East Germany, Poland, strong in Russia, Central Asia, and amongst the "upper"
classes of Pakistan and India.
R1b is also similar to Q.
The higher percentages of "Q" are found in
Central Asia, North Central Siberia (Native)
The Americas (Native)
The Arctic coast line Siberia to Greenland (Inuit Native)
Small percentages of "Q" are found in the Middle East and north west into Croatia, Hungary.
Q is the main haplogroup for Amerindians.
It is now said that R1b and Q are often confused with each other.
Does this indicate an ancestral connection??
The following quotation indicates that ethnic allocation of DNA is not
an "exact" science:
"makes me wonder how many people out there are wandering around thinking they are P or R1* or R1b when they are Q, or Q when they are R1b, or I when they are G2 and so on (F,G,H, I and J are also problematic at times). "
2. Flag Folding Significance: The Equivalent of an Urban legend
or Something More?
http://www.usflag.org/foldflag.html
"The eleventh fold, in the eyes of a Hebrew citizen, represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon, and glorifies, in their eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."???
3. Isaiah Summary chs.31 to 35
Those Israelites who go to Mitsrayim (Egypt?) for help and trust only in armed might and equipment are condemned. WE must seek God THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. We must get back to our Israelite consciousness. God will fight for Zion and Jerusalem (31:4-5). God is a Zionist (31:1)! The day will come when everyone will renounce their idols (31:7). "Ashur" (Assyria) will fall by the sword (31:8). There will come an era when things will change for the better and human nature improve (32:1-7). A generous person benefits himself as much as he gives to others (32:8). The women are called upon to repent and lament (32:9-12). Disaster will come down but after that the spirit of the Almighty will enter into us (32:13-15). Judgement, justice, peace will come to Israel (32:16-18) and material blessings (32:19-20). They who are treacherous are condemned (33:1). The chapter (33) flits back and forth between promises of future deliverance and condemnations of the present. They who seek "peace" shall work in vain (33:7). The enemy will break the agreement and cause disaster (33:8). Sharon, Bashan, and Carmel will be desolate. These are areas of Ancient Israel but they could also represent modern Israelite entities. Bashan for instance could represent either Scandinavia or North America (33:9). In the end only the righteous of Zion will be saved (33:15-16). In some cases (according to Midrash Tanchuma see "Joseph. The Israelite Destiny of America") "Zion" can represent Joseph. God will save us (33:22). The people of Israel are likened unto a ship in a storm (33:23). God wants to forgive us and to bless us (33:24). All the peoples of the earth are called upon to listen and pay heed (34:1). God is angry with all the peoples but upon some more than others (34:2). There will be changes in the heavens as Isaiah has previously announced. Cosmic disturbances will parallel and influence the earthly ones. The heavens have astrological-astronomical and physical influence on the earth but the Laws of Natural Causes they represent will be confounded and reversed. The heavens also represent the angelical hosts. There will be changes of spiritual nature above that will reflect themselves in the self-awareness of people below (34:4). Edom and Bozra (a major city of Edom) will be destroyed (34:5-6). God will take revenge for the persecutions of Zion meaning of the Jewish people (34:8). Everything is written. Everything will come to pass. A lot of things we will not understand until after they occur and even then only partially so (34:16). God will take vengeance on those who oppressed us. He will save His people (35:4). There will be a new spirit of understanding and instruction so that those who wish to return to God may do so without straying in errors or tiring out through weakness or discouragement: A spirit of vigor and love that overcomes inborn and acquired imperfections. This is a promise that those who set out on this spiritual journey will find their way clearly marked before them (35:8). The Exiled of Israel will return (35:10).
For the Brit-Am Detailed Commentary on Isaiah go to:
http://britam.org/isaiah/isaiah.html
4. New Find: Bronze Age Crete-North Frisia [Northwest Germany] Connections
Note from "Dirk" in [Germanic-L] Digest Number 1786
<<The most shocking find was Minoic [Minoan] ceramic dated to the 13th and 14th
centuries BC, including characteriistic three-feet pots. This suggests,
according to the article that trade links existed between Crete and
the North Frisian Coast as early as 1400 BC. The finds come from a
Bronze age layer and cannot have been dropped into the site in modern
times. The objects were likely not transported to Rungholt by
intermediate traders over land, but were likely shipped directly from
Crete.>>
<<"Rungholt was the main town of the Edomsharde" [Edom's District?]
Area spoken of: Northern Schleswig (North Friesland just south of Denmark) in Germany in region of Pellworm Island (54.5 N, M38) considered to have once been part of a peninsula connected to the south to the German mainland.
Map:
<http://www.uni-/>http://www.uni-
kiel.de/Geographie/lehrv_online/Pellworm/pellwormcd/enken/enken.html
German-language reference entry:
http://www.geo.de/GEO/wissenschaft_natur/2005_11_GEOskop_rungholt/
5. Our Web Site: Advertising
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We are not expensive at all but this is something new for us.
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6. The Will to Believe
We have a message. The message is based on Biblical Studies
and Secular Research.
In addition there is needed an openness of the heart.
Combine Brit-Am studies with Bible Study and Prayer to the Almighty.
In many (probably most) cases the recognition through study is combined with an instinctive
awareness of belonging to Israel or being on the side of Israel or wanting to be so.
7. Amazon Books
Our books are now available at Amazon or should be within a day or two.
It will still be preferable to buy the books directly from Brit-Am either by
personal check or via PayPal.
8. Brit-Am Need for Funds (Important)
Our recent appeal for funds went almost unanswered.
Possibly people are tired of our frequent messages in this regard?
Anyway the need remains and has become quite serious.
Please give if you can.
9. Ancient Swedish Links to Greece and Phoenicia?
http://arno.daastol.com/history/NordicBronzeAge.html
In 2005, the Nordic state television companies have co-produced and broadcasted a documentary (three episodes, each one hour), called "Stenristerna" - or 'Helleristerne' - the stone carvers.
Reinterpretation indicates not only that the bronze age technology in Scandinavia was second in Europe only to Mycenae in Greece, but also that contact was particularly strong between Scandinavia and the eastern Mediterranean areas and with Greece, in particular, in addition to India, Africa, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Italy. (the later Vikings also had contact with all these culture including India). When seen as an ideographic language (like Chinese and Egyptian hieroglyphs) the carvings tell stories of humans and Gods, of technology and travels.
'Recently' researchers started to compare the carvings and housing technology, ship and sail technology, chariots, burial techniques, armament, art and jewellery etc, - with other cultures and found amazing and very close similarities:
E.g. between Bohusl n (north of Gothenburg) and Ulster (Ireland); between Fyn (Danish island) and the Villa Nova culture in the Italian Alps; between Bergen (western Norway) and Spain; between Trondheim (middle Norway) and Egypt. There are close similarities to images (wall paintings, pottery etc) in Egypt and Northern Africa, but above all the similarities are between Scandinavia and Mycenae (90 km NW of Athens). The mythology and Gods seem similar. The Phoenician god Baal could well be the Nordic god Balder.
The Swedish archaeologist Sven Nilsson suggested 100 years ago that Scandinavia was a Phoenician trading outpost. He was never taken seriously. This may be supported by the "fact" that this culture appeared suddenly, similarly disappeared suddenly, and accordingly the following civilisation was less advanced. (I wonder how the archaeologists can be so sure of this 'fact' of sudden appearance and disappearance, some 3-4000 years ago - and what is "suddenly".)
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