"Brit-Am Now"-924
Contents:
1. Duncan Long : English Sphinx (a)
2. Ron Hoover: English Sphinx (b)
3. Early British King list, Hebrew Names, and Summary of Mythology
4. Recent DNA Research and Admixtures: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Scotland
5. The Megalithic Path of Migration, Portugal, and Calendar Change
1. Duncan Long
:English Sphinx (a)
re "Brit-Am Now"-923
#4. The English Sphinx?
It appears that English Freemasonry was greatly influenced during the
1700s through the early 1900s by archaeological discoveries in Egypt.
Hence the use of the sphinx (as well as pyramids and so forth) in its
symbols. Here are some links of possible interest:
Crest of Edward VII
Note the modified/winged sphinx on the front of the crest (as noted in
some of the links below, the British version of the sphinx is often
female and sometimes winged):
http://www.joyceimages.com/images/Edward%20AnEnglish.JPG
British heraldry
Search for "sphinx" on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heraldic_charges
Search for "sphinx" on this page:
http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Freemasonill.html
Search for "sphinx" on this page:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/UK/London/Highlights/index.html
http://www.redemptionblues.com/?cat=11
EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON BRITISH ARCHITECTURE
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/architec.htm
http://www.woldmanandwoldman.com/itemdetail.cfm?ItemID=181
2. Ron
Hoover: English Sphinx (b)
Re: "Brit-Am Now"-923 The English Sphinx?
I went to the Royal Collection website and typed in
"Sphinx",8 hits came back. The two that was apparent
was the Council chair and the Cigarette case but no
national crest with a Sphinx on the reverse side?.
I've seen the front side with the lion and unicorn why
not the reverse side with the supposed sphinx?.
If this isn't true why keep on stating this in works
on the BI identity?.
Ron Hoover
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/searchResults.asp?piclib=y&searchText=sphinx+&radioAll=1&makerName
Brit-Am Reply: It does happen that works "on the BI identity" assume that
their predecessors were reliable reporters and repeat their errors.
The question remains that if there is no sphinx on the reverse side of the
British National Crest why somebody cannot depict or at least inform us what
there is?
Is there a reverse side?
If there is, There must be something.
What is the National Crest anyway?
On the one hand we do have assertions that it is a sphinx.
On the other hand there are no claims that it is anything other than a sphinx.
We may assume it is a sphinx while acknowledging that for all we really know it
could still prove to be something else.
3. Early British
King list, Hebrew Names, and Summary of Mythology
http://www.sleepinbuff.com/4kinglist.pdf
Interesting material.
Trace early British to Japheth but note the preponderance of Hebrew names
amongst the early rulers, e.g.
Izrau or Esru, Ezra (Sru or Zru), Iara, Rea, Abir, Mair, Simeon, Alanus,
Isichion, etc.
4. Recent DNA
Research and Admixtures: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Scotland
Note: below are reports from ongoing studies that are not
necessarily reliable,
and not yet professionally recognized, nor do we necessarily agree with them,
but they are of interest:
Denmark: Suggested admixture of 11 to 25 per cent "Uralic" with the rest being
"Germanic" Danes.
Finland: Suggested 25% Saami (Lapplander) admixture with Finns of Finland.
Ireland: Northwest Irish be identified with Milesians according to most
opinions but questions as to their origins.
This would indicate that the previous Neolithic and Beaker folk had been
displaced altogether.
A contrary opinion (McEwan) has the Milesians(?) linked with bearers of La Tene
culture from Gaul and Spain
and that these were a minority who left no genetic traces? This however
contradicts almost unanimous family traditions
linking the Northwest Irish with the Milesians.
Implied "Fomorian" Phoenician presence in Southwest?
Scotland: No regional concentration of family kin but rather scattering and
intermixture
as distinct from Ireland where regional association corresponds with ancestry.
5. The Megalithic
Path of Migration, Portugal, and Calendar Change
We have interpreted Jeremiah 31 as predicting the Megalithic Path
would be referred to by the Lost Tribes of Ephraim-Israel in the future as proof
of their origin from the Land of Israel.
[Jeremiah 31:20] IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON? IS HE A PLEASANT CHILD? FOR SINCE I
SPAKE AGAINST HIM, I DO EARNESTLY REMEMBER HIM STILL: THEREFORE MY BOWELS ARE
TROUBLED FOR HIM; I WILL SURELY HAVE MERCY UPON HIM, SAITH THE LORD.
Jeremiah 31:21] SET THEE UP WAYMARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS: SET THINE HEART
TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST: TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF
ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.
http://britam.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah29to32.html
"Set yourself up stone monuments [menhirs, dolmens] and high heaps of stones
[cairns] [i.e. ?Megalithic? monuments!]. Set your heart towards the prepared
way: The way in which you went. Turn back o virgin of Israel, return unto these
cities of yours.
Megalithic Monuments describe Routes of migration from the Land of Israel to the
West.
The academic "authorities" employ a system of dating that would put the
megalithic long before the Israelite Exile.
Many megalithic structures however were built in accordance with an astronomical
alignment.
Suppose that Divine Providence caused a change in astronomical alignments to
take place just around the time of the Assyrian Exile?
If the astronomical alignments of the megalithic monuments were still valid
today that would mean they would have to have been set up after the time of
exile.
They therefore may serve as proof of the Migratory paths of the Israelite
Exiles.
For a Map and List of Israelite Migratory Routes see:
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesHistory.html#Migratory
In the light of the above compare the following sources:
(1) Megalthic Monuments in Portugal and Astronomical Orientation
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/cultures_portugal-4.html
Life and Death
<<The ancient Portuguese built many tombs and megalithic structures during the
Neolithic period (from approximately 7000 BC to 2500 BC). Some of these
monuments are still standing in Portugal today.
<<A megalithic structure is an ancient monument made of large stones. Megalith
comes from Greek; "mega" means big and "lithos" means stone. Many megaliths are
oriented toward the places on the horizon that the sun rises and sets during
summer and winter solstices. In fact, some megaliths were built in a position
that allows the rising sun to send its first rays into the depths of the chamber
on the day of the winter solstice. Some also take into account the extreme paths
of the moon.
<<Experts studying the Alentejo Tombs in southern Portugal have learned that all
these tombs were built with an axis of symmetry and a special "entrance" that
faces the sunrise in the east.
<<Researchers still do not know exactly why the Portuguese built the megaliths.
Many were used for burial grounds, and others may have been built to mark
certain routes or for religious purposes.
(2) Patten and Windsor in the path of Velikovsky and the Calendar Change
http://www.creationism.org/patten/PattenMarsEarthWars/PattenMEW12.htm
<<The tenth clue in this case is the ancient preference for 360-day
calendars. It was not for 365 or 365.256-day calendars. And also there was a
preference for 360-degree circles in the Middle East, the Near East and the
Orient. After 701 B.C.E., only the Chinese changed their circle to 366?, the
current count. They were, in a sense, more consistent than Western calendar
makers and astronomers. But then, consistency has not been a necessity for
mankind.
<<There are a minimum of fourteen ancient civilizations that used 360-day
calendars in catastrophic times. Often they featured 30-day months, and twelve
of them per year. For this to be accurate, the Earth's orbit would have to have
been some 92,250,000 miles from the Sun, not the modern 92,959,000 miles.
<<There are more than fourteen ancient 360-day calendars; other researchers are
welcome to expand this ancient day count per year. 360-day calendars have been
found to have been useful in such ancient societies as Arabia, Assyria, Chaldea
(Babylon), China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico (the
Mayans), Persia, Peru (the pre-Incas), and ancient Rome, for starters. [n2]
If it is correct that the length of the year changed after 700 BCE all
megalithic monuments aligned in accordance to the present calendar must date
from after 700 BCE, i.e. after the Israelites were exiled.
This is in accordance with much archaeological evidence some of which we have
quoted in the past.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesArchaeology.html#Stonehenge
For maps of the Megalithic Trail of Migration see:
http://www.britam.org/Proof/Attributes/roleDolmen.html
