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The Lost Ten Tribes were, at one stage, in Scythia, and especially
in the areas east of the Caspian Sea. There were traditions that the
Anglo-Saxons and the Dutch Frisians had come from the same areas where the Lost
Ten Tribes were supposed to be. That in effect, the Anglo-Saxons and the Dutch
Frisians were descended from Israel. In the light of this we should consider the
following notes taken from Andrew Colin Gow, 'The Red Jews: anti-Semitism in an
Apocalyptic Age' 1200-1600 (NY 1995. published by E.J.. Brill:
Josephus (Jewish Wars vii;7;4) says that Alexander the Great used iron gates to
close up mountain passes so that the Scythians would not break into the
civilized world. Elsewhere (Antiquities 1;b;i) Josephus identifies the Scyths
with Magog. From the 1100s CE Gog and Magog were identified as the Lost Ten
Tribes. This was based on old traditions: Already in the 300s CE the Latin
Tiburtine Sibyl spoke of the anti-Christ being from the Tribe of Dan and of
Alexander, the Indian King who shut up Gog and Magog in the far north. Peter
Comestor (ca. 1165) identified the Lost Ten Tribes with Gog and Magog whom
Alexander had locked up behind iron gates in the mountains. The whole area of
Scythia even Georgia in the Caucasus in Medieval writings could be referred to
as India. The area of the Ten Tribes was referred to as Caspia. The Ten Tribes
were called Red Jews and were described as all having Red Hair. Red Hair in the
Middle Ages especially in Germany was considered a negative characteristic and
associated with the Jews and with Judas. The Anti-Christ and Judas were depicted
as both having red hair and as both coming from the Tribe of Dan. The Jews also
believed that Lost Ten Tribes to be in Scythia, in the region by the Caspian
Sea. This belief was widespread and lasted up to ca 1600 CE. Gow quotes David
Kaufman (1892): The legend of the Ten Tribes as future deliverers of Israel was
a faith that was slumbering in the popular Jewish consciousness all through the
Middle Ages (JQR, iv, 503-508).
Passau Anonymous (1330): the Jews and many Judaising Christians imagine that
this people [i.e. The Ten Tribes] is holy; they would be glad if they were to
come, and would join their ranks immediately. In Germany the Jews were believed
to be in league with the devil and to be plotting with the Red Jews meaning the
Ten Tribes to overthrow Christendom. Luther identified Gog and Magog with the
Turks and said they were descended from Tartars or Red Jews. Der Juden Thalmudby
Christian Gerson of Reckinghausen (a Jewish convert to Christianity, 1607): many
Jews believe that the Ten Tribes whom the king Salmanessar led away are still
together and live behind the dark mountains called the Caspian Mountains... many
Christians also talk about the Red Jews, whom they have never seen, whence comes
the wrongheaded notion, that the Messiah might still be born from the tribe of
Judah, from the Red Jews. It should be noted that the Lost Ten Tribes and Gog
and Magog were also identified with the Goths most of whom settled in Sweden.
Other peoples mentioned in the Scythian area were the Khazars and the
Naphtalites and Danites who migrated to Scandinavia and the Hugo ancestors of
the western Franks. Red hair is found throughout all European peoples but is
said to be more prominent amongst the Scottish and Irish than amongst other
peoples.
##Medieval Christianity was not favorably disposed to any Jews... Where does the colour 'red' fit in? Ruth Mellinkoff has shown that a deep-seated prejudice against red hair ran 'like a thread of the same colour through ancient and medieval culture.' People with red hair were thought to be "false, dangerous, tricky, shameless, over-sexed, deceitful, hot-tempered, unfaithful, foolish, war-like, crude, vulgar, low-class and unlucky for those who meet them" . Not surprisingly Judas was often portrayed in medieval religious art as having red hair. The Grimm brothers report that in medieval Germany, red hair and a red beard were signs of a false and duplicitous nature; a 'red man' (ein roter) was a man with red hair and a red beard. Verse 2842 of the poem Wigalois reports that 'it is said of men with red hair and beard that their heart is wicked.'
...The history of German usage leads us to the conclusion that the 'Red Jews' were in physical terms Jews who bore the mark of red hair and red beards because they were morally degenerate. As it happens, the sources support this conclusion.
Jews often were portrayed by medieval illustrations in Christian texts with red hair and in red clothes. ... the illustrations of medieval Hebrew manuscripts ...represent Jews, female and male, with red hair or red hair and beard...There seems to have been a particular link between Jews and the colour red in hair. This is a connection so widely-accepted as to be included prominently in illustrations of Hebrew manuscripts, though in such cases, these depictions presumably lacked or did not evoke the negative associations generally marked by red hair.12
[n.12 In similar fashion, Jewish folklore would later adopt the German term 'Red Jews' as a name for the Ten Tribes of Jewish legend, without adopting the hostile associations that produced and sustained the legend in Christian Germany.]
The Jews by whom these manuscripts were made and for whom they were intended seem to have attached no negative significance to the colour red. Yet as we have seen, Christian iconography `saw red' in connection with Judas. The Metzgers' manuscript illuminations suggest that to Jews as to Christians, Jews were typically red-headed and wore red clothes; it was taken for granted." ...
Only the Jews, who are here [in a 15th century manuscript German Historiated Bible] the Ten Tribes, have red hair and beards...Until the late fifteenth century, the `Ten Tribes enclosed by Alexander' typically appear under the name Red Jews in German-language apocalyptic. However, over the course of the first half of the sixteenth century, the term Red Jews is increasingly applied to the Biblical Ten Tribes, though Alexander's role never entirely disappears. These exotic eastern Jews later come to be represented as allies of the Christians against the Turks, not as apocalyptic destroyers.##
pp.66 ff.
DUTCH-FRISIAN LEGENDARY SOURCES CONFIRM
THE ISRAELITE ORIGINS OF THE FRISIANS, ANGLES, AND SAXONS
The Frisians: Frisians are a people now located in Northern Holland but
once spread all along the coast from Scandinavia through Holland, Belgium, and
into France. The Angles and Saxons before they, together with other northern
peoples, invaded Britain in the 450s CE had sojourned (at least in part) for
about 200 years in Holland especially in Frisia. Some of the Jutes had also been
in Frisia. The Byzantine historian, Procopius (Gothic War vii; 20) said that
the Frisians together with the Angles and Saxons were the invaders of Britain.
The name of the Frisiansis traceable to Peres son of Gilead of Menasseh. Frisia
and Holland today are identifiable more with Zebulon. According to Ptolemy's
Geography (ca.100 CE but based on material from several centuries beforehand)
the area of southern Scandinavia and northern Frisia was occupied by the
Sabalingoi. From this area peoples moved southward into Holland. The name
Sabalingoi means people- (goi)-of-Zebulon (Sabulin). In Biblical times, Tribes
such as Zebulon, Issachar, and Asher were closely associated with Manasseh and
it would seem that this linkage was repeated after their exile in areas of
their re-settlement. At all events the identity of the Frisians must be closely
linked with that of peoples who invaded and settled the British Isles. According
to a work on Frisian legends and a history of Holland published in 1601 (Jean
Francoise LE PETIT, Le Grande Chronicle Ancienne et Moderne de Holland, Zeelande,
Utrecht, Frise, Oversyseel; et de Groenungham. Dordrecht) it is apparent that
the method of research used by us and the results obtained are consistent with
ancient traditions of the peoples examined.
Frisian-legends related that a certain King Adel was a descendant of Shem. King
Adel in India had three sons: Friso, Bruno, and Saxo. Le Petit says that Friso,
Bruno, and Saxo lived in India. The term India, however, did not always mean the
place known today as India but rather was more synonymous with Cush which term
was applied to areas east of the Caspian Sea in present-day Central Asia (as
well as to other places) and is probably the Cush (i.e. Ethiopia) mentioned in
Genesis 2;13. Similarly, Le Petit located the Indiahe spoke of in the region of
the Emodian Mountains which according to Ptolemy was in the area adjoining the
Caspian and Aral Seas, in east Scythia to the north of Afghanistan and India
proper. In this land east of the Caspian archaeologists have found the ruins of
an extensive civilization whose inhabitants spoke Aramaic. Some of the Israelite
Tribes had apparently spoken Aramaic even before their exile and the language
was used as an official tongue in the Assyrian Empire and is believed to have
been the most commonly used one. Phillip Lozinski (1953) showed how from this
region east of the Caspian came the Barbarian peoples whom he believed to have
been at least partly Semitic and who invaded Europe beginning from around the
200s CE. In The Tribes and our other works additional proof is given showing
that the invaders must have come from that region. These invasions and migratory
movements were often connected with activities of the Huns who themselves were a
mixture of various peoples. The Huns from this vicinity caused other nations to
flee westward. N.C. Lukman (Copenhagen, 1943) showed how in Nordic Mythology the
name Adel (meaning Noble) was often used as a euphemism for Attila the Hun and
for the Huns in general. In the Frisian legends, King Adel was the father of
Friso, Bruno, and Saxo. The Anglo-Saxon and related invasions of western Europe
were coeval with and directly resulting from the Hun invasions. Scientific
Linguists have concluded that the Northern Barbarians who entered Europe had the
later Germanic aspects of their languages imposed upon them by an external
force. They had originally spoken a non-Indo-European language. Professor Terry
Blodgett has proven that the tongue of these invaders was dominated by Hebrew
characteristics and that Hebrew vocabulary was still traceable in at least one
third of the language spoken by them. The legends speak of the three brothers (Friso,
Bruno, and Saxo) being descended from Shem and having been in Jerusalem at the
time of its destruction by the Babylonians.
In the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnessar (586 B.C.), 3
brothers - Friso, Bruno, and Saxo with [their] wives, children, and relatives
fled out of the country, encouraged to do so by announcements of the Prophets
concerning the fall of the town. According to this legend the Frisians, Saxons,
and Brunswickian Angles Angles were therefore originally Israelites or Jews F.
Koeslag points out that In legends...events of several eras may be concentrated
around famous historical figures - as you see with Charlemagne. The legend
therefore reflects a tradition that the three brothers were related to the Jews
which is consistent with their belonging to the Lost Ten Tribes who had been
exiled from their own lands in Israel at least 140 years before the actual fall
of Jerusalem. The legend contains the recognition that the three brothers had
left the Land of Israel (identified as Jerusalem or the Land of the Jews) before
Nebuchadnessar took it as the northern Israelites had indeed done. The Lost Ten
Tribes had been re-settled in Assyria and in lands ruled by Assyria.
The three brothers went to India. The legends relate how while still in India.
Friso married Hilla daughter of Agathocles, king of Thrace. They were driven out
of India and sailed to Greece where Friso became a student of Plato (427-374
BCE) and then joined the army of King Phillip of Macedon Macedon and afterwards
of his son Alexander the Great. [Alexander from Macedonia and Greece advanced
into Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and from there continued into Persia, Bactria,
the area east of the Caspian Sea and northwest India. In the east Alexander
reformed his army and took into his special forces mainly peoples belonging to
the Sacae-Scythian Tribes. From the Sacae descend the Anglo-Saxons and company.]
Le Petit also says that the three brothers served under Alexander. A strong
early tradition existed in Europe that the Saxons had been soldiers in
Alexander's armies. This tradition was mentioned in the time of Charlemagne,
King of the Franks (768-814 CE. Other traditions and evidence connect the
Anglo-Saxons with the ancient Sacae-Scythians some of whom really had been in
Alexander's forces. Numerous proofs show the Scythian-Sacae to have been
Israelites from the Lost Ten Tribes who had in part been re-settled in the
Caspian Sea region. Jewelry and artifacts from this area are the same in
stylization as those later produced by the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavian
Vikings, as noted by Lozinski and others. The Northern Barbarians had traditions
that they came from these areas and similar Tribal names to their own are
recorded by Ptolemy and others as having been found there.
Northwest Europe had previously been almost unpopulated before the Suebi,
Franks, Angles, Saxons, Goths, Vandals, and related peoples suddenly entered it
in large numbers. The lands they had left were east of the Caspian Sea and had
once been heavily populated but now lay almost deserted due to extreme climatic
changes and warfare. In other words: In Area-1 a numerous and widely spread
population disappeared and shortly afterwards in Area-2 waves of new peoples
arrived as if from no-where bearing the same or similar names as those of the
peoples that had been in Area-1, using the same jewelry and appurtenances as
those that had been used in Area-1, with the same customs as Area-1, having the
same physical appearance, and with claims that they had come from Area-1, and
additional evidence also confirms the truth of these claims.
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