"Brit-Am Now"-736
Contents:
1. Maziyar Talaforush: Scythians [Extracts]
2. New Findings Concerning the Exodus?
3. "Secret Jews" amongst Mexicans in Texas?
4. Question and Sources about the Shield of David
5. "Origin" in French
1. Scythians
Interesting Article about Scythians and their contacts with the west:
The empire had no boundaries
by Maziyar Talaforush
http://www.iranian.com/History/2006/July/Persia/index.html
[Extracts]
History
[]The empire had no boundaries
Introducing Persia, Part I
Maziyar Talaforush
July 6, 2006
iranian.com
Recent linguistic, anthropological, and archeological evidence, due to the hard work of such scholars as Nigel Tallis and John Curtis of the British Museum, Sir Richard Nelson Frye, Mary Boyce, Kaveh Farrokh and many other scholars has led to many new discoveries.
One conjecture is that the ancient cult of the dead practiced by the Scythians mixed with the festivities in which costumes were worn, occupations were exchanged (the King and the pauper exchanged places for a day), food and cookies were given-out, and fun-chaos ruled the day, burrowed by the Scythians through cross-cultural exchanges with their linguistic and genetic counter-parts, the Persians (IrAnies), had eventually led to the enduring traditions that we know today to be Halloween.
But, who were the Scythians you may ask? The answer to that is not the diluted, masked version set forth previously by Western academia, in fact, as recent excavation at Pazyryk, and Flippovak in Russia have confirmed, the answer to that question is exceedingly clear.
To be exact, we now know, these were Northeastern Iranian mobile herdsmen, who spoke an Iranian language, a subsection of Indo-European languages, and lived in the present day Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Maazandaraan, along the Caspian Sea, as well as the nearby Eurasian steppes stretching from the Western borders of China on one side, to the Ural mountains in Southern Russia, up to the lower Danube and Vistula Rivers in present day Romania and Hungary on the other side.
The Scythians did at some point allow others to join-in as allies. The religious and festive traditions aforementioned were passed on by the Scythians/Sarmatians to the Celts with whom they intermarried with and had profound influences on. According to the distinguished linguist Dr. Kaveh Farrokh (part Ossetian, part Azeri himself), who spent seventeen years researching the Sassanid and Parthian military tactics, and culture for his book Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224-642, There are POWERFUL connections between Celts and Iranians [...]. The Saka [Scythians] and Persians were in regular contact so the passage of this tradition to the Celts (who had good relations with Iranians) is very possible.
.....the Sarmatians who were hired by Roman Emperors and stationed in Britain [Bremetenacum; modern Lancashire, England, Londinium, and Verulamium; London, and St. Albans respectively], for the first time introduced to the West the feudal customs of ancient Persia....
Nevertheless, the battle of Carrhea finally led to a rude-awaking by the Romans and allowed the burrowing of such tactics/armour by incorporating the captured Persian prisoners and alike [the Sarmatians] into their army. After Rome collapsed in 476 AD, these Sarmatian warriors stayed behind and got integrated into the British Empire and a certain barbarian confederacy known as the Franklyn Goths who were the ones that finished-off the Western Roman Empire and established what would later become Deutschland/The German Empire.
... the emblem of the Persian Empire [two Lions holding a circular spear] evolved into the insignia of the British Empire.
In a literary sense too, the connection was established. The Scythians/Sarmatians who were legendry for their deep oral traditions of story telling, greatly influenced Angelo-Saxon, and Irish folklore, to the extent in which some of their legends were adapted by the British, the most famous of them being 'King Arthur ', 'The Knights of the Round Table', and ' The Camelot'; the jewels of the British literature.
Other noteworthy influences include the Sarmatians' introduction of the Windmill to the Dutch, which stands as the national symbol of today' s Holland/holt land/Neitherlands. And, Fenius Farsa [Farshid] (also Phoeniusa, Phenius, Fnius; Farsaid, Farsaidh, many variant spellings): a legendary Scythian King who is a frequent part in many legends of Irish folklore. According to some traditions, he was the creator of the Ogham alphabet and the Gaelic language.
2. New Findings Concerning the Exodus?
From: Bill Rasmussen
Shalom Yair: I found this piece on the Jerusalem Post to be quite interesting. There is a mention of some of the Hebrews [Danites?] going north to an island near Greece while the rest of the Israelites continued with their exodus out of Egypt. This article gives proof to an actual exodus much to the chagrin of the naysayers who deny that the Bible is true. Shalom, Bill
'Decoding' the Bible
A screening at tonight's Jerusalem Film Fest purports to offer long-missing evidence of the biblical Exodus.
Click here to view the entire article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1150885976924
3. "Secret Jews" amongst Mexicans in Texas?
Texas Mexican Secret Spanish Jews Today, by Anne deSola Cardoza
http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/011/texas.html)
4. Question and Sources about the Shield of David
Question:
Dear Yair,
I read on your website that Professor James R. Harris, mentions in his book
THE NAME OF GOD p. 205 a Star of David with YAH written in Hebrew in it from
the time of the Judges that was found at Gibeon.
I also read on http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/Names.html that
"The Shield of David represents Yah as the protector of the Twelve Tribes
(represented by the twelve points of the star). In addition to the "Shield
of David" inscription shown above, we have an enlarged photo of a geoglyph
Shield of David on top of one of the Har Karkom platforms".
I understand that these Magen Davids are the oldest Jewish Magen Davids
known today. I checked the internet and almost nobody mentions these finding
and their importance. why?
Do you have any more info about this?
Thanks
Zeevveez
http://star-of-david.blogspot.com/
Answer:
Shalom,
Your blog site
http://star-of-david.blogspot.com/
contains some interesting information concerning the
Magen David.
You quoted from our article concerning the Magen David
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesSymbols.html#Magen
http://britam.org/now/now432.html
#6. More on the Magen David
James Trimm is quoted in this article as referring to:
"THE NAME OF GOD by James R. Harris p. 205. It dates to the time of the Judges
and was found at Gibeon. It is a Mogen David with YAH written in
Hebrew in it."
We have not seen this work.
Our support for the Magen David as a symbol is based more on other factors, i.e.
It could be seen as a valid short-hand Ancient Hebrew ("Canaanite-Phoenician") letter
of writing the name David. It has become associated with the Jews almost against their will.
There also exists a principle that even something whose origins were pagan is
acceptable if the pagans no longer attribute it pagan significance, e.g. if a tree which was once part of
a pagan grove and the pagans who worshipped it no longer exist
or have changed their religion the tree is no longer considered
as attached to idol worship and does not have to be cut down.
You quote from a site
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/Names.html
describing the Names of God as found in ancient inscriptions.
I could not find the author of this site nor discern what (if any) group may be behind it.
ALL the information looks reliable though the Karkom Shield of David (near the bottom
of the page) looks too explicit and a little too good to be true.
Nevertheless chances are that it too is genuine.
As for not being able to find it on the web
this does not say much.
We sometimes find information that seems to be common knowledge
and that we consider to be of great importance assumedly for all concerned
to be very difficult to track down not only on the web but even in
University libraries.
I like academics and even fancy myself sometimes as "almost" one of them
but sometimes their presentation to the public of very vital sources
can be most disappointing.
5. "Origin" in French
The first five chapters of "Origin" in French
may be seen at:
http://britam.org/french/OriginFrancais.html
Prepared by
Claude Boisseau <claude.boisseau@free.fr>
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