Various Traditions no.1

Adapted from "Lost Israelite Identity"
(1996) by Yair Davidiy, chapter sixteen:


THE IRISH STORY


Excerpt from "The Irish Rebellion", p.2 written by William Temple ca.1646:
"It may very well be conjectured (for infallible records I find none) that
as the Eastern parts of Ireland, bordering upon England were first planted
by the old Britains:  *Toole, Birne, & Cauvenagh the ancient Septs, and
still inhabitants of that part of the Country, being old British words. And
as the Northern parts of Ireland were first inhabited by the Scythians,
from whom it was called * * Scytenland, or Scotland: So the Southern and
more Western parts thereof were peopled from the Maritime parts of Spain,
being the next continent, not by the now Spanish nation, who are strangely
compounded of a different admixture of several people: But as I said,
peradventure by the Gaules, who anciently inhabited all the Sea coasts of
Spain, the Syrians, or some other of those more Eastern Nations, who
intermixing with the natural Inhabitants of that Country, made a
transmigration into Ireland, and so settled some colonies there.
         "The whole Kingdom of Ireland was divided into divers petty
principalities..."

   "* * Ireland is often called Scotia major among ancient writers"#.

         The following account of Celtic (mainly Irish) Mythology concerns
the origins of the Celtic nations of Ireland and Britain. This account is
culled largely from the original works (or translations of them) and from
several secondary sources that are available in most large public
libraries. The described traditions were mostly transcribed at a late date
having previously existed through oral transmission. Even so, extraneous
factors tend to affirm the assumption that the various accounts given here
have a factual basis. On major matters the sources correspond with each
other and also with archaeological and epigraphic findings. This mythology
is derived mainly from Ireland yet concerns not only the Irish but also the
Scottish whose ancestors came from Ireland as did Celtic settlers on the
west coast of England and many of the Welsh Tribes which in turn reflects
again on the English since one third of the English either came from Wales
or their immediate forefathers did.  In addition what applies to the
ancient Irish often also is relevant concerning the Celtic British whom it
is now claimed (possibly wrongly) really formed the overwhelming mass of
the "Anglo-Saxon" people. It is claimed that the Celtic masses of England
were conquered by the Anglo-Saxons and company and culturally Anglicized.
The Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavian Vikings both of whom conquered and
assimilated the British Celts also themselves contained "Celtic" elements,
had intermixed with "Celts", and had similar origins to them. Most of the
French and many of the Belgians, and Swiss are also of Celtic descent. Even
the Dutch contained may once have been predominately Celtic. Sources from
the British Isles (especially from Ireland) are almost the only Celtic ones
that remain since elsewhere the Celts adopted the language, customs, and
even identity of those who conquered them. An examination of records based
on Celtic tradition from the British Isles taken at face value suggests
that the Celts from somewhere in the Middle East came westward and arrived
in Ireland and the British Isles after sojourning in Spain. This impression
conforms with archaeological and other studies AS WELL AS WITH THE BIBLE.
The observant reader will notice a strong overlapping parallelism between
conclusions already reached in this work and the accounts given in Celtic
Mythology.
We now hold that the Celts in the West came in two major waves:
1. One from Israel by way of the Sea via (in part) Spain.
  2. Another came overland from the outskirts of the Assyrian Empire and
was also of Israelite origin.
The traditions confirm these statements.

DNA testing concerning the British Isles also support our findings on the
whole even though the results of different DNA
studies strongly contradict each other on major points and perhaps should
not be relied upon at present. More of this, at another time. For the
present we are discussing Traditions.

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