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 "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


 


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