"Brit-Am Now"-50
Contents:
1. Subbotniks
2. Support for Israel
3. Celts in New Zealand in Ancient Times?
Date: 07/02/2002 5:45:02 AM Central
Daylight Time
1. Subbotniks
Hi. I just read a book called Highlanders
by Yoav Karny, who traveled
through the Caucasus countries a few
years ago. He has one chapter on
the few remaining villages of the Subbotniks,
who were one almost
100,000 Russians who gave up Christianity
and adopted Jewish practices
even without conversion.G.
Comment by Brit-Am:
The Subbotniks were Russian Christians
who spontaneously adopted Jewish
practices. Many of them believed
they were descended from the Khazars.
Some of the Subbotniks remained
Christians and migrated mainly to North
America. Others of them became Jewish
and were amongst the early pioneer
settlers of Israel. Former Israeli
Chief-of-Staff Rafael Eitan also claimed
to be descended from Subbotniks
though some of his friends claim he was
fantasizing. Eitan was one of
Israel's greatest generals and is one of
those to be credited with the defeat
of the Syrians in 1973 and saving the
State of Israel. The Khazars (to whom
the Subbotniks claimed they were
related) were also part of the Lost
Ten Tribes especially from Menasseh and
Simeon and one source says also Ephraim.
We see from this that even amongst
"Judah" elements of Joseph exist and
that these were instrumental in helping
establish the State of Israel and
consolidate it.
2. Support for Israel
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-49
Shalom:
Not only "is it the right thing to
do", Eretz Yisrael is also our land as
members of The Ten Lost Tribes. We
need to support our Judean brothers and
defend our land equally as well as
they have.
My dream is to find a way to enter
the land for more than the three month
tourist visa, learn hebrew and provide
security in the Shomron for which I
am professionally trained, as the Jewish
Legion is currently doing. The
problem is that I am not a Judean nor
am I Orthodox. There must be another way.
James MacLean (Yahqob)
3. A supporter of Brit-Am in New Zealand
is sending us a book concerning
the claimed presence of Celts in New
Zealand in ancient times.
We usually keep away from such ideas
since we do not need them to prove our
case and we want to remain as close
to what is conventionally accepted as
possible.
Nevertheless now and again it is worth
taking note that such ideas exist
and there may be something in some
of them.
These notions (such as the one below
and those of Barry Fell and his
school) usually presume an overlap
between the Western Celts, the
Phoenicians, and the Vikings.
Since the Phoenicians were either Israelites
or Canaanites or a mixture of
the two then (if these ideas are correct)
the Brit-Am case is strengthened.
If they are not correct then they are
no loss to us since our major proofs
derive from the Bible and from evidence
that is largely accepted in the
academic world.
From: druidaugh <GaianInstituteofArcaneKnowledge@msn.com>
"Martin Doutré's thesis is that
New Zealand was inhabited by
European-type people for many centuries
`before' the islands were
occupied by the Maori, which invasion
is said to have taken place
around AD 1200-1300. At that time,
according to the received wisdom,
the islands were uninhabited.
The author has found a large amount
of convincing evidence that
this is totally untrue. For example,
early European visitors and
settlers wrote that many of the people
were fair-skinned with blonde
or red hair, and the Maori themselves
have legends of aboriginal
inhabitants known to them as `moriori',
`turehu' and other names,
including `tangeta whenua' (the first
people). Some of these were of
normal stature and others were of pygmy
dimensions. In an early
British census, Maori and Moriori were
classified separately.
Caves have been found full of human
remains, which bear signs of
having been massacred with a blow to
the skull. A figure of 60,000
skeletons is mentioned. Local Maoris
showed no respect for these
remains, saying that they were `not
our people'. In fact they were
selling the bones to a mill where they
were ground up for fertilizer.
In addition to these carelessly-discarded
remains, more formal
burial sites have been found in which
the skeleton is crouched or in
foetal position, similar to Celtic
burials of northern Europe {A
Beothuk similarity too.}. Furthermore,
the jawbones of these (and the
massacre victims) are typically Indo-European.
If you are not
Polynesian and you run your thumb along
the underside of your jaw
from the ears forwards, you will feel
a slight notch. If placed on a
flat surface, your jawbone would sit
firmly. But if you are
Polynesian, the bottom of your jaw
will be rounded, and if put on a
table it will rock. These jaw types
are easy to distinguish, even in
photographs…
Doutré also found evidence of
large-scale drainage schemes and
extensive areas of crop cultivation
in addition to the remains of a
large city now covered by forest to
which access is discouraged.
This, he says, could hardly have been
achieved by a few canoe-loads
of immigrants in the few centuries
between their arrival and that of
the British… and indicates a large
peaceful population. He suggests
that the Maori merely took over what
they found and either killed or
assimilated the existing inhabitants.
Some of the Moriori are said to
have fled to the remote Chatham Islands,
where the Maori finished
them off with the connivance of the
British…
Speaking of which, the author reproduces
an excellent picture of
a Stonehenge-type trilithon in the
island of Tonga-Tapu, of which I
was previously unaware, and also a
Silbury-type mound in Western
Samoa.
More research is needed; if that is
possible in the current
climate of white-washing early Maori
atrocities and of stultifying
political correctness… "