Submitted by William Finck on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 23:11
The Race of Genesis 10
By William R. Finck Jr. © 2006
[Essay revised for podcast presentation, October 15th, 2011; the PDF file is now current.]
Don't let the antichrists fool you, Genesis Chapter 10 begins the historically verifiable Biblical narrative.
This is a lengthy
paper which describes the nature and historicity of the Genesis 10
Nations of the Bible. It presents a Biblical weltanschauung of
White origins and history. We are only going to travel the history of
this planet once. There are no second chances. One history, one
Bible, one trek from the garden of Eden to the gathering of the
Wheat. If we find not the foundations of our race in Genesis chapter
10, then our history – our Bible – is absolutely unreliable and
we are mired in futility, with no purpose for living and no record of
our origins, and no hope of a future. I often begin oral
explanations of Genesis chapter 10 by quoting Epictetus, borrowed
from the opening pages of Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon of the
New Testament άρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν
ỏνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις, or “the beginning of
learning is the investigation of names”, and how I must agree with
Epictetus!
The chronology of
the Greek Septuagint translation of the Bible may be much more
reliable than the Masoretic Text, and according to many (i.e. Adam
Rutherford) from that source the date of the flood of Noah may be
fixed around 3245 B.C. I would purport that Genesis chapter 10 is a
snapshot, a profile of those tribes of which our race – the family
of Noah – first blossomed into in the first few centuries after the
Deluge. I would think that, five thousand years ago, one would find
no “Aryan” or “Caucasian” civilization outside of these
Genesis chapter 10 people, and that all of these people are indeed
“Aryan” or “Caucasian”. Of course it cannot be discounted,
that during the nearly 1800 years before the deluge, some Adamite
groups or individuals may have wandered off, departing from the land
of the flood and in that manner escaping destruction, yet any of
these have no definite history which is known to us today.
It
is certainly no mistake that, as it may be made evident here, so many
of the tribes listed in Genesis 10 are found with names so similar to
those gleaned from the earliest secular records of our race.
Although it is frustrating that some of the Genesis chapter 10 people
seem to have vanished at an early time, too early to be identified in
secular records uncovered thus far – that I have been able to
access – surely enough of these peoples may be identified that one
may see the truth of these words concerning Genesis chapter 10 fully
demonstrated.
Acts
17:26: “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” (KJV).
Deuteronomy
32:8-9: “When the Most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of
the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For
Yahweh’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His
inheritance.”
Scripture
must always be understood within the context of other scripture, and
so Acts 17:26 must be viewed through the filter provided at
Deuteronomy 32:8. Even most Bible cross-references relate these two
verses. Here it should become evident that whenever the Bible
discusses “the nations” it intends only those nations
descended from Noah, listed in Genesis chapter 10, and originally all
of those nations were of the same race. An example of “the times
before appointed” in relation to the Genesis chapter 10 nations is
found at Jeremiah 46:17, where the implication is that Egypt was
finished as a nation, and although in Roman times the Greeks in Egypt
maintained a high level of civilization for several centuries,
history surely proves Jeremiah correct concerning the Egyptians
themselves. Another example lies in Daniel chapter 2, and the vision
of a succession of world empires given there, along with the parallel
vision described in Daniel chapter 7.
Since
these nations, as we shall see, were dispersed into a wide
geographical area, reading Deuteronomy 32:8 along with II Sam. 7:10
indicates that a good deal of land was reserved uninhabited by Yahweh
to be eventually used by the children of Israel. It is also clear
that this land is outside of Palaestine. Ancient history and
archaeology reveal that the Israelites eventually settled much of
Europe. Before one can understand the importance of the promise of
preservation (often translated “salvation”) for Israel, uttered
in many places in the Old Testament, one must understand the history
and fate of the rest of these nations of Adam which are listed in
Genesis chapter 10.
The
Japhethites: Genesis 10:2-5
Gomer
(Genesis 10:2). Difficult to document, the historian Josephus made
the mistake of associating Gomer with the Kelts, an error probably
derived from an early Greek name for them, Κιμμέριοι, and
many of his copyists have followed this mistake, which is based
solely upon this phonetic similarity. That the Kelts actually sprung
from a portion of the children of Israel deported by the Assyrians
(see Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets by E.
Raymond Capt) is evident from many factors, including their late (7th
century B.C.) appearance in history, their location today, and their
role in history in fulfillment of many of the prophecies concerning
Israel: a topic beyond the scope of this discussion. Simply note
that the “Galatians” of Paul’s epistle are Kelts, and Paul
certainly was writing to Israelites [which the contents of that
epistle proves]. By contrast, in Ezekiel chapter 38, Gomer is allied
with those who are in opposition to the children of Israel, which
makes it easy to accept A. Koestler’s statements concerning
Togarmah, outlined below. Some commentators feel that Hosea’s
taking of a wife named Gomer (Hos. 1:3) is an indication that Gomer
was one of the tribes that the Israelites were dispersed among after
their deportation by the Assyrians. This hypothesis is quite
credible, though I have not been able to positively identify any
tribe of the secular records with Gomer. [Gomer is not found in
Assyrian inscriptions. It can be established that Khumri, the
Assyrian name for the children of Israel whom they deported into
northern Mesopotamia, is the source for the Greek name Κιμμέριοι,
or Kimmerians.]
The
sons of Gomer (Genesis 10:3). Arthur Koestler, a jew who writes from
a jewish perspective, claims that Togarmah is the common ancestor of
the Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars (see Cush
below), Zagora, Bulgars and Sabir, on p. 72 of his book The
Thirteenth Tribe. In Biblical prophecy, it is seen that along
with Gomer, Togarmah is allied against the children of Israel in the
last days, at Ezekiel 38:6, where he is placed in the far north, and
surely among the Asiatic hordes of the former Soviet Union. Riphath,
or Diphath, is unmentioned elsewhere in the Bible, except for a copy
of Genesis chapter 10 found at I Chronicles chapter 1. Ashkenaz,
however, is more easily identified. Mentioned at Jeremiah 51:27
along with Ararat and Minni (both part of modern Armenia), Ashkenaz
is there shown to be not far from the ancient land of the Khazars,
once a great empire, and of which modern Kazakhstan is a remnant. In
the first millennium [AD] many of the Edomites and other Canaanites
who had adopted Judaism migrated to Khazaria, and the Khazars,
beginning with their king, had converted to Judaism. The jews being
absorbed into the general population, these people adopted the name
Ashkenaz, or “Ashkenazi jews”, for Ashkenaz was recognized [by
these jews] as an ancestor of the original Caucasian population of
the area.
[Now
if we separate the claims of the medieval jews whom Koestler quoted
from the Biblical account and the archaeological records, there is
much less that can be used to identify these people with certainty.
It is not clear from any original records that Koestler, Heinrich
Graetz, who wrote these things over a hundred years before him, or
any of the other older jews that they quote are fully correct. The
Aryan people of the Steppe whom the Edomite jews mingled with in
Khazaria certainly had a Mesopotamian origin, but originally could
have been from one or more of the Japhethite or Shemite tribes.]
Magog,
Tubal and Meshech (Genesis 10:2). Over 1500 years before the
Germanic Rus conquered the land which bears their name today, Ezekiel
wrote of Rhos (LXX) or Rosh (MT) being the leader (“prince”) of
Gog, Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel chapter 38). This is by no means a
coincidence, but rather a clear manifestation of the Divine
inspiration of the prophet.
In
light of the relationship which the Rus were to have with Magog,
Meshech and Tubal, which Ezekiel chapter 38 illustrates, Herodotus
mentions two tribes among those under Persian dominion, the Moschi
and the Tibareni (3.94, 7.78), in a convenient geographic location
that without stretching the imagination we may associate these
ancient Japhethites with the dwellers around the Russian cities of
Moscow and Tobolsk. Strabo discussed the Moschi and the Tibareni in his eleventh book, and relates that
land formerly held by the Moschi, whom he placed just south of
Colchis in the Caucasus mountains, was encroached upon by the
Colchians, Armenians and Iberians (11.2.18). Of course the Iberians
are Hebrews, a part of the Scythians who stayed put, rather than
moving northward through the Caucasus [or westward through Anatolia]
with their fellows, and Armenia can be shown to be a Hebrew word
meaning “mountain parts”.
Whoever Magog may have been in prehistoric times, we can be certain that his
descendants are found among those gigantic (“Gog”) mixed masses
of Caucasian – Mongol – Chinese – whatever blood who are found
inhabiting much of Asiatic Russia today [which the ancient Khazars
also were a part of]. Mongolia and Tibet, homes of anciently mixed
races with a clear Adamic cultural influence may be guessed.
Professor L. A. Waddell, who wrote in the first quarter of the 20th
century, produced several books which illustrated the Aryan origin of
cultures in India and in Tibet.
[The
contemporary Russian archaeologist S.A.
Grigoryev in papers such as The
Sintashta Culture and Some Questions of Indo-Europeans
Origins and other works has
demonstrated that the archaeological remains of the steppe did not
come from the people generally known as the Scythians, but from
forerunners to the Scythians. He states ”Scythian migration through
Iran, Near East and the Caucasus took place at the beginning of the
Iron Age.”. He also shows that the earlier
Sintashta people also originally came from the regions of Syria and
Anatolia. Therefore the archaeological record shows that people had
been migrating from out of the Biblical world and into the steppe,
and this is fairly consistent with the Biblical narrative and what we
may be able to glean from early historical records.]
Madai
(Genesis 10:2) is identifiable with the Medes, which is evident
simply by checking both terms in Strong’s Concordance. The Greeks
wrote “Mede” as Μῆδος,
the ‘η’ in English being [rendered by] either an ‘a’, or an
‘ê’ or ‘e’. Herodotus wrote that “These Medes were
anciently called by all people Arians” (7.62), although it is more
likely that the term “Aryan” was rather used by Israelites who
once sojourned in Media (with which Dr. George Moore agrees in his
The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and the Saxons of the
West…), since the term Ar-ya appears to mean “Mountain of
Yahweh” in Hebrew (something which the Israelites were often
called, i.e. Daniel 2:45), and that the Greeks had Israelite tribes
in Media confused with actual Medes. [There is an assumption that the
word Aryan comes from a Sanskrit word for noble,
however I would assert that the Sanskrit followed much later.]
Regardless, the Medes fulfilling a destiny in history which the
prophets had already assigned to Madai (i.e. Isaiah chapter 21;
Jeremiah 25:25 and 51:11 and 28; Daniel chapter 8), there should be
no doubt of this identification.
There
are good indications that the Medes are found in the Slavs of today.
The Slavs may be traced to a people that the Romans and Greeks called
Sauromatae (Sarmatians). Diodorus Siculus, discussing certain Sakae
(Scythian) Kings, states that “It was by these kings that many of
the conquered [by the Scythians] peoples were removed to other homes,
and two of these became very great colonies: the one was composed of
Assyrians and was removed to the land between Paphlagonia and Pontus
[modern day Turkey along the southern shore of the Black Sea], and
the other was drawn from Media and planted along the Tanaïs [a river
north of the Caucasus mountains which empties into the Black Sea from
the northeast], its people receiving the name Sauromatae. Many years
later this people became powerful and ravaged a large part of Scythia...” (Diodorus Siculus 2.43.5-7). And with this, there
being so many Slavs among the Germanic peoples today, we have the
realization of the fulfillment of Genesis 9:27, which will be
discussed below.
Javan
(Genesis 10:2) is also identified by Strong in his Concordance
with the Ionian Greeks, as the Septuagint translators also
seemed to do, rendering the Hebrew word (3120) as Ἰωύαν
(Iōuan). This is not out of fancy, for on the Behistun Rock (and
other Eastern inscriptions) these Greeks are called “Yavana”, and
Sir Henry Rawlinson wrote “Ionians” there in his famous
translation of that inscription. Other Persian inscriptions assure
this same connection (see G. Moore’s The Lost Tribes… and
E. R. Capt’s Missing Links…). These Ionians once
inhabited the coasts of Anatolia [modern Turkey] and many of its
islands, that land called Ionia generally, and also were the founders
and principal inhabitants of Athens.
The
sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4). Of the sons of Javan, all are
identified with the sea trade with Tyre in Ezekiel chapter 27:
Elishah at 27:7, Tarshish at 27:12, Kittim (or Chittim) at 27:6 in
the Septuagint. Dodanim here in Genesis is a mistake by the
Hebrew copyists for Rodanim (as Strong’s attests), and at Ezekiel
27:15 (where the A.V. has “Dedan”), we read “Rhodians”
(Ῥόδιοι) in the LXX. Elishah and Kittim are
both identified with Cyprus, with several varying spellings of these
names found in ancient inscriptions. Kittim is the word for Cyprus
throughout the Hebrew prophets. Rodanim are the Greeks of Rhodes, as
identified in the LXX. Tarshish is a region of southern Spain known
as Tartessus. The Ionians (or Javan) are connected with Tyrian sea
trade also at Ezekiel 27:13 and 19, mentioned with Dan: for a portion
of that tribe also settled Greece at an early time, and were known as
Danaans. [We see in the King James Version of Ezekiel 27:19 “Dan
also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron,
cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.” This is a clear reference
to Danaan Greeks and Ionian Greeks. Newer Bible translations write
Vedan - a word which exists nowhere else - for the Hebrew
construction which actually means “and Dan”. They do this in
order to further obfuscate history and protect their errant
identification of ancient Israelites with jews.]
The “ships of
Tarshish” are mentioned in Kings, Chronicles, Psalms, and several
of the prophets. Although a separate and quite lengthy topic, it can
be convincingly demonstrated that the Phoenicians of Tyre and
elsewhere were the Israelites – called Phoenicians by the Greeks –
right from the pages of the Bible, with much evidence also added by
secular historians. Carthage was a Phoenician colony of Tyre, and
the Carthaginians eventually controlled the land we call Spain today,
then called Iberia, “Hebrew” or “Eber” land, just as the land
south of the Caucasus mountains, where the deported Israelites first
settled and became known as Scythians, was also called Iberia, even
in Roman times.
Diodorus Siculus
(25.10.1 ff.) discusses wars between the Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca
and the “Iberians and Tartessians” in the third century B.C.
Herodotus (4.152) is writing about a period much earlier than his
own, even pre-dating the Trojan War, and speaking of Tartessus in
southern Spain says, “This trading town was in those days a virgin
port, unfrequented by the merchants”. The Trojan War was 200 years
before King Solomon’s ships, so Herodotus surely seems to have been
accurate, and his calling Tartessus a “trading town” illuminates
the Scriptural record. In their Greek-English lexicon, Liddell &
Scott readily identify Τάρτησσος as “the Tarshish of
Scripture”.
Tiras (Genesis
10:2) is in Strong’s Hebrew spelling “Thiyrac”. Mentioned
nowhere else in the Bible (except in the copy of Genesis chapter 10
found at I Chronicles chapter 1), many writers have made perfect
etymological and ethnographical sense in connecting these people to
the Thracians north of Greece. In later history the land of Thrace
is instead occupied by Greeks, as Makedonians and Thessalians, and
Strabo is confused as to whether one tribe in the area, the Treres,
are Kimmerian (Kelts) or Thracian (13.1.8, 14.1.40). The Thracians
were not considered Greeks but rather barbarians (Strabo 7.7.1), and
had colonies in Asia (Strabo 12.3-4), and also with the Eneti settled
the area around Venice (Strabo 12.3.25). The Phrygians of Anatolia
are said to be Thracians (Strabo 7.3.2, 7.25, and 10.3.16). [It may
be that the Phrygians, or Thracians, were the first mound or tumuli
builders of early Europe.]
Modern
anthropologists, archaeologists and historians often discuss the “sea
peoples”, whom they usually claim were Caucasians who came from the
Aegean area and invaded the Mediterranean. The true origin of the
“sea peoples” are as the Japhethites of Genesis chapter 10, who
were spread along the waterways from the Caspian and Black Seas to as
far west as Spain, and at a very early time. Contrast Genesis 10:5
with 10:20 and 10:31, where the Japhethites were specifically
assigned the “isles” or “coast-lands”, but not the Hamites or
Shemites, though the Hamitic Philistines also plied the waves, and
only after a considerable time were these peoples rivaled at sea by
the Israelite Phoenicians.
There
is a certain prophecy, at Genesis 9:27, which reads, “God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant”. Without discussing the part concerning
Canaan, this will be discussed briefly here. It is evident that
Yahweh surely did enlarge Japheth, for these tribes were spread out
over a great area along the southern coasts and eastern borderlands
of Europe. Although a separate and lengthy topic, once it is
realized that not only the Phoenicians of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos (et
al.), northern Africa, the Greek and Italian islands, Spain and
Britain, but also the Keltic and Germanic peoples, and the Trojans
and Illyrians and Parthians, among others, were all descendants of
the Shemitic Israelites, and most of whom had moved into Europe,
along with other Shemites such as the Lydians (see Lud below), only
then may the oracle at Genesis 9:27 (and most other prophecies in the
Bible) be manifest and appreciated.
Aside
from the peoples of Meshech and Tubal having been conquered by, and
living among the Germanic Rus (and we see here that the Slavic tongue
prevailed in Russia), and the colony of Medes moved by the Israelite
Scythians to the Tanaïs, which later became known as Sarmatians, and
later than that also known as Slavs, these things already discussed
above, the other Japhethite tribes moved all along the Mediterranean
coasts and into Europe, but were not known as Slavs.
The
Getae and the Daci are described by Strabo as being akin to the
Thracians (Tiras) and having the same tongue (7.3.10, 13), these
inhabiting a great part of both sides of the lower Danube. Although
Strabo considered everything north of the Danube as Germany (2.5.30,
7.1.1 et al.) this particular area is historically Slavic. The Greek
Ionians also made many settlements. The Ionians of Phocaea in Asia
Minor were called by Herodotus “the first of the Greeks who
performed long voyages” (1.163), and these alone founded Massalia
(Marseilles) on the coast of France, Maenaca in Iberia, Elea in Italy
(Strabo 4.1.4, 3.4.2, and 6.1.1) and many other colonies. The
Etrurians, or Etruscans, of Italy descended from the Shemitic tribe
of Lud found first in Anatolia – the ancient Lydians, which shall
be discussed below. Italy was also settled by the Trojans, and
especially Rome (Strabo 6.1.12 and 14), the Ionians of Asia Minor
(Strabo 6.1.14, 6.2.2), the Athenians who were also Ionians, and the
Achaeans who were Danaans (Strabo 6.1.10, 11, 13, and 15).
With
so many Slavs, along with the races of Southern France and Italy,
among us today, Japheth certainly is dwelling in the tents of Shem
unto this day. Yet we must understand this: that the earliest Adamic
tribes had most likely entered Europe by 3000 BC, yet the earliest
substantial writing we have from our European forebears is not until
circa 600 BC.
The Hamites: Genesis 10:6-20
Cush (Genesis
10:6). Before beginning a discussion of Cush (or Kush), it is quite
important to acquire an understanding of the word “Ethiopian”, as
the Greeks called the Cushites, as the word Kush is often translated
in our Bibles, and as we call the people found inhabiting the land of
Kush in Africa today. Our “Ethiopian” comes from the Greek word
Αἰθίοψ which properly means “shining face”, “glowing
face” or “sunburnt face”, and was certainly not used by the
earliest Greek writers to describe the naturally dark races. There
are several words used to descrispan style=be “black”, “swart”, “dark”
etc. in Greek which are often applied to people, among them being
μέλας, κελαινός, πελός and φαιός. Other
words meaning “dark” but apparently not applied to people are
σκότος, κνέφας, γνόφος, δνόφος, ζόφος
and ζόφερος.
A word akin to
Αἰθίοψ is αἰθός, which the large 9th
edition of Liddell & Scott defines as “burnt...II.
shining...red-brown...”. The 1996 Revised Supplement
to this edition inserts after burnt “perhaps black-
or dark-complexioned”,
and emends shining
to bronze-coloured.
The black I must reject. Red-brown describes a
sun-tanned Caucasian, and not a dark-skinned negro who only gets
blacker in the sun. It seems that the definition of these words have
indeed, over time, been politically corrected.
Other words related
to Αἰθίοψ are: αἴθων “fiery, burning…of metal,
flashing, glittering...”; αἴθω “to light up, kindle...”;
αἴθρη “clear sky, fair weather”; αἶθοψ, the closest,
“fiery-looking, of metal, flashing; of wine, sparkling” but
according to Liddell & Scott (the source for these definitions),
someone in the Greek Anthologies, a late and wide collection of Greek
inscriptions and miscellaneous writings mostly from well into the
first millennium A.D., either translated or used αἶθοψ as
“swart, dark” however this is clearly contrary to the true spirit
of the word’s meaning. Applied to Kush, a White man, or his White
descendants, it could only mean “sun-burnt” as in bright red or
brassy-colored, which is something which happens only to Caucasians
in the outdoors, and is exactly what one may expect Kushites in
Ethiopia to look like!
Moses
fled Egypt, as recorded in Exodus chapter 2, and met with a tribe of
the Midianites, descendants of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2)
from whom he took a wife. These Midianites lived in the land of
Kush, as can be discerned from Numbers chapter 12. Abraham had
originally sent his sons by Keturah “eastward, unto the east
country” (Genesis 25:6) and surely this “east country” is that
land which is called Kush (Ethiopia in the A.V.) at Genesis 2:13.
[Wherever we see Ethiopia in the Bible, the Hebrew word is Kush.]
Nimrod, the Kushite, founded the first Adamic empire (Genesis
10:8-12) which evidently spread far and wide, beyond Mesopotamia to
where we have the Hindu-Kush mountains of today. The river of Genesis
2:13 “that compasseth the whole land of Cush” in Moses' time may
even be the Indus, if not some other lost river, for it is evident
that the events which caused the Deluge of Noah may have changed the
geography of the area. Moses certainly did not go to Ethiopia in
Africa for his wife, and there are no Midianites ever spoken of as
being there.
In Hesiod’s
Theogony, probably written in the 7th century B.C.
[I had dated it to the 8th century BC in the original
version of this paper], Memnon, legendary King of the Ethiopians, was
the son of Eos, or “Light”. In the Aethiopis by Arctinus
of Miletus, written as a sequel to Homer’s Iliad, Memnon the
Ethiopian aided the Trojans in their war against the Greeks, only to
be slain by Achilles. Herodotus mentions the “Ethiopians of Asia”
(3.94), and although he also describes black and wooly-haired
so-called “Ethiopians” (3.101, 7.70), I will refer to Diodorus
Siculus for a more complete picture below. Herodotus calls Susa, the
famed capital city (along with Persepolis and also the Median city
Ecbatana) of the Persian Empire the “city of Memnon” (5.53-54),
since the Greeks believed that Memnon had founded that city (Strabo
15.3.2). There being abundant proof that the Persians of the Greek
histories were White, it cannot be imagined that they thought Memnon
to be black. Herodotus was writing at an already late time in
Ethiopian history, when the ancient nation below Egypt, and Egypt
itself, had already been overrun with Nubians.
Diodorus
Siculus, relating the tradition concerning Memnon, has Ethiopia in
Asia sending aid to the Trojans, including Assyrians and “men of
Susiana” (2.22.1-5, 4.75.4), although Diodorus also records the
claims of the Ethiopians of Africa, that that place was the home of
Memnon. Among others, Apollodorus records the myth that Perseus,
legendary founder of the Persians, married Andromeda, daughter of the
Ethiopian King Cepheus and his wife Cassiepea, after rescuing her
from a sea monster, an event said to have taken place at Joppa in
Palaestine, which Josephus the Judaean historian also discusses
(Apollodorus 2.4.3, Josephus, Wars, 3.9.3 (3:420)). So the
Greeks have many witnesses of an “Ethiopia” in Asia, in lands and
cities known to be inhabited by Whites, and with people taking part
in some of the first events recorded by the White poets of Europe,
and the Hebrews have a Kush in a land which may surely be supposed to
be the same as the Greek, yet the Hebrew record is not much earlier
than the events the later Greeks were recording (i.e. Exodus and
death of Moses, c. 1450 B.C.; Trojan War, c. 1185 B.C.), and as a
third witness, we have a Kush (the Hindu-Kush mountains) on our
modern maps not much further east than where the Greek and Hebrew
records tell us that the ancient district was situated.
In
his book The Lost Tribes…, Dr. Moore presents the viable
theory that names similar to Kush and found in southern Russia are
derivative peoples of this Biblical patriarch: Kosa, Khoza, Khazars
and Cossacks.
Now
to turn to the Kush, or Ethiopia, of Africa. In the first eleven
chapters of his third book, Diodorus Siculus draws from much earlier
historians (as he always did for whomever he wrote about) to describe
the various peoples of African Ethiopia, and it is evident that those
tribes contrast with one another quite starkly. The first Ethiopians
he discusses are endowed with what we may consider a well-developed
form of “western civilization”, for he states “they say that
they were the first to be taught to honor the gods and to hold
sacrifices and processions and festivals”, they quote Homer in
reference to themselves (Iliad 1:423-424), they recount the
unsuccessful invasions into their country by Cambyses and Semiramis,
and they claim that the Egyptians were originally Ethiopian
colonists, led by Osiris. The two types of their writing (like
Egypt), popular or demotic and sacred or hieroglyphic, are described,
and it is said that the sacred is common among these Ethiopians.
Their priests were much like the Egyptian. They believed that their
kings gained sovereignty by Divine Providence, their laws and
punishments were from custom, and they practiced the same flight of
refuge which the Greeks did, which was similar to the Hebrew
Levitical cities of refuge. An Ethiopian king under Ptolemy was
educated in Greece and studied Philosophy, and aside from a few odd
customs, there is no reason to believe that these Ethiopians, whose
physical characteristics were not mentioned, were anything but
civilized, and not much different than the rest of “western”
society.
In
stark contrast to those cultured Ethiopians which Diodorus first
discussed, beginning at 3.8.1 he says: “But there are also a great
many other tribes of the Ethiopians [and here it is apparent that,
like “Phoenicia” and other labels, “Ethiopia” has become
merely a geographical designation, rather than an ethnographical
one], some of them dwelling in the land lying on both banks of the
Nile and on the islands in the river, others inhabiting the
neighboring country of Arabia [between the Nile and the Red Sea], and
others residing in the interior of Libya [the rest of Africa - Sudan
here]. The majority of them, and especially those who dwell along
the river, “are black in color and have flat noses and wooly
hair.” Here it is evident that Diodorus is describing the
Nubians and other wandering black tribes of the region. He
continues: “As for their spirit they are entirely savage and
display the nature of a wild beast...and are as far removed as
possible from human kindness to one another...and cultivating none of
the practices of civilized life...they present a striking contrast
when considered in the light of our own customs.”
So
surely it is apparent here, that if we do not have a White culture in
Ethiopia in an era not long before Diodorus’ own, we certainly have
at least the remnants of one. Ezekiel chapter 30 lists Ethiopia
among “all the mingled people”, and all of this fits very well
with the picture of a once Caucasian but now adulterated Kush in that
region.
Of the sons of
Cush (Genesis 10:7), Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtechah, and
the sons of Raamah, Sheba and Dedan, not much will be said here.
Some of these names appear again among the sons of Joktan listed at
Genesis 10:26-30, in both the MT and the LXX, and this has caused
confusion and speculation in attempts to identify these tribes, and
even later in the Bible confusion seems to exist (compare I Chr. 1:9
and 32). Strabo wrote of Berenicê, “a Sabaean city”, together
with Sabae “a good sized city”, which were on the African side of
the Red Sea (16.4.10). It can only be imagined, that these peoples
eventually mixing with aliens, have given us the many negroid and
arab tribes of the region that we see in later history.
Never
has more confusion existed concerning race than that concerning the
ancient Egyptians. This is due mostly to jewish encouragement of
negro so-called scholars which began in the first half of the 20th
century, with the promotion of negroes such as Marcus Garvey in the
jewish press. In the 1970's the belief that the cultures of northern
Africa belonged to negroes began to be promoted in academic circles.
Yet over 200 years of European archaeology and anthropology insisted
that ancient Egypt was White, and the only question was: How White?
Surely Mitsrayim, or Mizraim (Genesis 10:6) is the Old Testament
Hebrew for Egypt everywhere. Egypt, or Aegyptus, is the term used
throughout Greek literature, and the land known as Egypt at that time
was only the area around the Nile delta, and the Nile valley along
both banks of the river as far south as Elephantine. The early
Greeks seem to have written little about Egypt outside of Thebes and
Heliopolis, until the time of Herodotus. There is much to be said
about early Egypt that is beyond the scope of this discussion, but
warrants at least a mention. First, early Egypt actually consisted
of several disparate cultures, some of them alien in nature, which
were adverse to one another and were eventually amalgamated by force,
and that was certainly not a good idea. The earliest higher culture
of Egypt was linked by archaeologists and anthropologists to the
Levant, but it may not be said that it was Adamic. The pharaonic
civilization in Egypt appeared later and rather suddenly, not long
after 3000 B.C., which is consistent with Septuagint chronology.
This is where the Egypt of Mizraim begins. The archaeology of those
early dynasties clearly reveals a people of high civilization and
Aryan characteristics. Statues of the pharaohs often reveal men who
would not be out of place in Dublin or Hamburg. However once Upper
and Lower Egypt were unified, and all of the disparate tribes brought
under one government, Egyptian hymns include ideas of universalism,
ecumenism, and even express the idea of separatism of races by color
(see Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament,
pp. 365-367). There is nothing new under the sun.
There
seems to have actually been two groups in early Egypt, centuries
apart, remembered as “Hyksos”. The first group little is known
about, perhaps a noble Adamic race, probably Shemites and maybe even
Hebrews, who most likely built the Great Pyramid. The second were
Kenites who invaded and occupied the Delta shortly before Joseph was
sold into Egypt. During the time of Joseph, the Pharaohs at Thebes
were of the House of Shem, as was the priesthood of On (Heliopolis or
Beth-Shemesh). It was these Egyptians at Thebes whom Joseph was sold
to as a slave. “Beth-Shemesh” is a double-entendre: it can mean
either “House of the Sun” or “House of the people of Shem” in
palaeo-Hebrew. Later, Joseph, as vice-regent of Egypt and with the
help of the seven-years famine, drove the Kenites out of the delta
for good.
What
follows are two views of race in ancient Egypt, from Ancient Near
Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, James B. Pritchard,
editor, Princeton University Press, 1969:
From
ANET, p. 441, from The Admonitions of Ipu-Wer, the original
dated to approximately 2300-2050 BC:
“A
man regards his son as his enemy.…A man of character goes in
mourning because of what has happened in the land....Foreigners have
become people everywhere....”
A
footnote says: “The term “men, humans, people,” was used by
Egyptians to designate themselves, in contrast to their foreign
neighbors, who were not conceded to be real people.”
From
ANET, p. 366, from A Hymn to Amon-Re, the original dated to
the Egyptian empire of approximately 1775-1575 BC:
“Atum,
who made the people, Distinguished their nature, made their life, And
separated colors, one from another...”
An
introductory note on p. 365 says: “Egypt's world position under her
Empire produced strong tendencies toward centralization and
unification of Egyptian religion, with universalism and with
syncretism of the gods...”
In
less than 500 years, ancient Egyptians went from not even recognizing
aliens as people, to being one big universalist ecumenical happy
family. Rome, and now America and Europe, have followed the same path
to hell.
Of
the Sons of Mizraim (Genesis 10:13): Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim,
Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim, Philistim, and Caphtorim, these are
tribal and not individuals’ names. The Anamim are likely the
“Anami” mentioned in an 8th century B.C. cuneiform
inscription. Naphtuhim is apparently an Egyptian word which means
“people of the delta”, and Pathrusim means “people of the
southern land”.
The
Philistim, or Philistines, had dwelt in the land of Caphtor before
their own migration to Palestine, and Caphtor was very probably in
Egypt. See Amos 9:7; Deuteronomy 2:23; and Jeremiah 47:4. Certainly
the Philistines were Adamic (Zechariah 9:6) and some had surely
migrated west with the children of Israel (Isaiah 11:14). Goliath
was not actually a Philistine, but rather he was a mercenary in their
army, one of the sons of Repha the Canaanite giant, for which see I
Chronicles 20:4-6 where the phrase “the giant” is in Hebrew
ha-raphah, the source of the Rephaim (i.e. Genesis 14:5 and 15:20; II
Samuel 5:18 and 22 and 23:13 et al.). There also should be noted an
obscure entry in Herodotus, at 2.128: “Hence they [the Egyptians]
commonly call the pyramids after Philition, a shepherd who at that
time fed his flocks about the place.” Some suppose that this may
be a memory of the ancient Philistines in Egypt, and the first
“shepherd kings”, connected to the building of the Great Pyramid.
The Ludim are
confused by the translators for the Lydians, the Shemitic Lud of
Anatolia, and “Lydian(s)” at Jeremiah 46:9 and Ezekiel 30:5
should be “Ludim” instead, since these are descendants of Ham,
and not Shem. The Ludim of Ham are also mentioned at Ezekiel 27:10
in connection with the trade of ancient Tyre.
Phut (Genesis
10:6) was associated with Libya, though it is difficult to discern
exactly why (see Nahum 3:9), and in the A.V. and the Septuagint
it was translated as such at Ezekiel 30:5 and 38:5, and Jeremiah 46:9
(26:9 in the LXX). The Lubim (and so the name “Libya”) and
Sukkiim (II Chronicles 12:3) may have been pre-Adamic (aboriginal)
people, since they are not mentioned in Genesis 10, or they may have
been Adamites who simply came to be called by a different name,
especially since Sukkiim may simply mean “tent-dweller”. Phut is
listed among “all the mingled people” at Ezekiel 30:5.
Diodorus
Siculus (20.55) writes of Libyans (not necessarily Lubim, since the
word became a geographical term to the Greeks) dwelling on Africa’s
northern coast, in cities, and friendly to Carthage, but then also of
the nomadic “Libyans” of the interior, hostile to Carthage. He
does not, however, describe Libyan or Carthaginian physically. For
perspective, Virgil, a Latin poet contemporary with Diodorus, called
Dido the legendary queen of Carthage, who is mentioned by Josephus
and who was a historical figure, both blonde and beautiful in his
famous poem, The Aeneid. Now of course Virgil never
met Dido, who lived 800 years before the poet’s time, but this does
indicate Virgil’s idea of what the ideal Phoenician woman may look
like.
Hesiod,
probably a contemporary of Isaiah, writing in his Catalogues of
Women (fragment 40A) mentions both the “boundless black-skins
and the Libyans” but says that from Epaphus, a son of Chronos,
“sprang the dark Libyans and high-souled Ethiopians”, but also
the “under-ground folk and feeble pygmies”. It is also apparent
that by this time Libya also was little more than a geographical
label and signified all of Africa except Egypt and Ethiopia. Surely
the more reliable early source may be the poet Aeschylus, a
contemporary of Nehemiah, who in his Suppliant Maidens at
lines 277-290, lists a group of races and compares the likeness of
their women to those of the Greek Danaans. Among those mentioned are
Libyans, Egyptians and Amazons, very likely indicating a large degree
of homogeneity among these peoples. Aeschylus was relating a parody
of events which transpired a thousand years before his own time, the
migration of Dan from Egypt to Greece.
In
this age we have long had a mixed race, the Berbers, as evidence of a
former White civilization in this region, although the settlements of
the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, the later Germanic invasion of
Carthage, and then the rise of Mohammedanism and the subsequent arab
conquest of northern Africa, all did much to further confound an
already mingled African world.
Canaan
(Genesis10:6), Ham’s youngest son, was cursed by Noah (Genesis
9:25-27). The reason why Canaan, and not Ham himself or his other
sons, was cursed should be apparent by reading Leviticus 20:11; for
Canaan was the result of Ham’s illicit behavior, warranting his
special mention at Genesis 9:18. And so Canaan’s descendants are
later found mixed in with the race of Cain (Genesis 4:16-26 and
15:19-21; Deuteronomy 7:1-2) who was also cursed (Genesis 4:10-15)
and several races with no Biblical genealogy, indicating that they
are of non-Adamic origin. Some of the “-ites” here in Genesis
10:16-18 also may well be of non-Adamic stock, races that the
Canaanites mixed with rather than races which sprung from Canaan.
The
“Hivites” seem to be rather the “Horites”, the word “Hivite”
being a scribal error in all of its occurrences, evident by comparing
Genesis 36:2, 20, and 30, and also the Septuagint at Genesis
34:2 and Josh. 9:7. The Horites, Hurrians to modern anthropologists
and archaeologists, are often considered to be an oriental race which
invaded Mesopotamia at a very early time. Some Horites dwelt at
Mount Hor, to which the Edomites, the descendants of Esau who was
also cursed (Malachi 1:2-3), had joined themselves. Mount Hor was
later called Mount Seir, and is today known as Petra, in southern
Jordan. See Genesis chapter 36.
Heth was a
progenitor of the people later known as the Hittites, which was
possibly a pre-Adamic tribe whom Heth had settled with, and therefore
named for him by the rest of the Adamic race. The name Sidon is
found in the city in Canaan of the same name, and its environs.
Seven hundred years before the Greeks first wrote of “Phoenicians”,
the Canaanites of Tyre and Sidon and the rest of the coast were
driven out by the children of Israel, who then inhabited those
cities. The “Phoenicians” were indeed Israel.
These
descendants of Canaan may be traced through both the Bible and
through history to the people that are called “jews” today,
although many are also among the “arabs”, and the olive-skinned
peoples of the Mediterranean and the Near East. See: Matthew 23:35;
Luke 11:51; John 8:33-47; Rom. 9:1-13; Revelation 2:9; and 3:9;
Josephus’ Antiquities 13.9.1 (13:254-258); 13.15.8
(13:395-397); 15.7.9-10 (15:253-266); and Wars 2.8.2
(2:119-121); 2.20.4 (2:566-568); and 4.4.4 (4:270-273) for a
beginning of the study required to understand this circumstance.
In
closing this discussion of the descendants of Ham, it may be said
that with Nimrod we certainly have mention of both the first Adamic
tyrant, a man who would rule over his kin outside of the laws of
Yahweh, and also the first multicultural “empire”, since the
cities mentioned at Genesis 10:10 had long existed and may have been
already populated with peoples of other races. There is much
evidence that the beginnings of “western” civilization appeared
rather suddenly here in Mesopotamia, by which the Genesis chapter 11
account has much creditability, once it is realized that this
represents the beginnings of the White race, and certainly not all
races.
The
Shemites (Genesis 10:21-31)
That the Persians
sprung from Elam (Genesis 10:22) should be evident by the prophets
alone, for everywhere that we find Elam in the Bible, we find the
Persians fulfilling their role in history, for example in Isaiah
chapters 13 and 21, and we also find consistent mention of Elam along
with Madai, or the Medes, at Jeremiah 25:25; Daniel 5:28 and 6:8-15,
and even at Acts 2:9. In his 16th book Strabo discusses
the geography of the Parthian Empire, of which Persia was at that
time a part. Susiana was the district along the Tigris, adjacent to
the Persian Gulf and opposite Babylon. Persis bordered Susiana to the
east, and also held most of the eastern shore of the Gulf. Elymais
(Ἐλυμαΐς) is north of Susiana, and Media north of Elymais.
It is not hard to see the name Elam in Elymais, which the Assyrians
in their records called Elamtu. Along with Madai (Genesis 10:4),
Elam formed the Medo-Persian empire of historic times, the two arms
of the image of the beast of Daniel chapter 2.
Asshur (Genesis
10:22), from whom sprung the nation of the Assyrians, often called
Asshur by the prophets, had a long and tumultuous history before
their own rise to empire and first invasions of Israel c. 745 B.C.
For many centuries they were overshadowed by (or under the yoke of)
the Hittites, the Horite (Hurrian) Mitanni Kingdom, or the Sumerians
or Babylonians. It is evident from many of their own inscriptions
that the Assyrians absorbed much Hittite blood: for the “jewish”
hooked nose is common in their portraits, yet there must have been
many true Assyrians living at the time of the prophet Jonah, who
urged them to repent, both “man (Strong’s #120, adam) and
beast” (Jon. 3:8).
That Lud (Genesis
10:22) is Lydia in western Anatolia (modern Turkey) is supported by
Isaiah 66:19, which is the only other mention of the Shemitic Lud in
the Bible. All other mentions of Lud, or by error of the translators
“Lydian(s)”, in the Old Testament are actually the Ludim, sons of
Mizraim in Egypt. Most of the translators and commentators confuse
these two different tribes named Lud. Isaiah 66:19 was surely
fulfilled concerning Lud when the Kimmerians (Kelts), descendants of
the Israelites whom the Assyrians deported, invaded Anatolia,
destroying much of Phrygia and invading Lydia and Ionia before
crossing over into Thrace in Europe at the end of the 7th
century B.C. (see, for instance, Archaeology, A.I.A.,
January-February 2002, p. 44). Three centuries later, at the
beginning of the 3rd century B.C., Keltic tribes returned
to Anatolia, invaded Greece, and settled in the province later known
as Galatia, visited by Paul of Tarsus. These are the Galatians to
whom he wrote the epistle of that name. Sharon Turner, in his
History of the Anglo-Saxons, p. 40, discusses this Keltic
activity in Lydia and the rest of Asia Minor at this early time.
The
Etruscans, also called Tyrrhenians and Etrurians, who for several
centuries held Itrurea in Italy and parts of the coasts and islands
in the western Mediterranean, are discussed at length by Diodorus
Siculus (primarily at 5.40 ff.) although he states nothing concerning
their origins. However Herodotus (1.94), Strabo (5.2.2) and Tacitus
(Annals of Rome, 4.52 ff.) all state that the Etruscans were
originally Lydians. Archaeologists doubt the Etruscan-Lydian
connection simply because no Etruscan inscriptions have been found in
Anatolia. Such inscriptions have, however, been found on islands off
the coast of Anatolia.
Everywhere
in the Old Testament that the words Syria or Syrian appear, Aram
(Genesis 10:22) is the Hebrew word from which they are derived. It
is apparent that the Greek words Συρία (Syria) and Τύρος
(Tyre) have, at various times, both been derived from the same Hebrew
word, Tsor (Strong’s #s 6864 and 6865), the ancient name for Tyre.
There does seem to be confusion concerning the name “Syria” in
ancient times, or possibly the Greeks purposely used the term to
describe a wider area than just the land of Aram. Herodotus counts
Palestine as part of Syria (7.89 i), and calls the Judahites who
fought against Necho at Megiddo “Syrians” (2.159, II Chronicles
35:20). He also calls “Syrians” certain Cappadocians “who
dwell about the rivers Thermôdon and Parthenius” (2.104). Strabo
explains that the Cappadocians “have to the present time been
called ‘White Syrians’, as though some Syrians were black”
(16.1.2), and so we may deduce that all the Syrians known to Strabo
were White so far as he was concerned. Many writers, including
Strabo, mistook the Assyrians for Syrians (16.1.3), certainly due to
the similarity of the names in Greek. Originally Aram was centered
in Damascus. The Greeks spoke of a Syrian named Cinyras (Iliad,
11.20) who conquered Cyprus and had Paphos for a capital, yet most
commentators (i.e. Rawlinson’s notes in his Herodotus at 2.182 and
7.195) have Paphos as an early Phoenician colony. Josephus, in his
Antiquities at 9.14.2 (9:283-287) has Cyprus (the “Citteans”)
as subjects of Tyre just prior to the Assyrian invasions of Israel.
Ezekiel 27:6 has the Israelite tribe of Asher in Cyprus, and Tyre was
in Asher’s territory. The language of Aram, Aramaic, became the
dominant language of trade in the Near East until it was supplanted
by Greek after the time of Alexander. For the Persian empire,
Aramaic, and not Farsi, was the lingua franca. Jacob took
wives of “Laban the Syrian”, although Laban was a Hebrew by race,
a descendant of one of Abraham’s brothers.
Arphaxad
(Genesis 10:22), the ancestor of the Hebrews, has no land surviving
into the historic period which I have been able to identify, not
wanting to rule out surviving inscriptions which I have not yet seen.
Abraham, though sojourning in Chaldaea when he appears in the
Genesis record, obviously had Haran in far northern Syria for a
homeland, a town which shared its name with both a brother and a
grandfather of Abraham. This land was also once called Paddan-Aram,
but may have been the original land of Arphaxad. Not long after
Abraham left Haran, the area was overrun by the Amorites, and then by
Hurrians and Hittites, and was a later part of the Hurrian Mitanni
Kingdom.
The name Eber
(Genesis 10:24) comes from a word meaning “across” or “the
opposite side” (Strong’s #s 5676 and 5677). The usage is similar
to the Greek words πέραν and πέρατος. The phrase τὰ
πέρατα τ͡ης οἰκουμένης, or “the opposite
ends of the inhabited world” was used by Paul at Rom. 10:18.
Similarly, Tacitus used the phrase “ends of the earth” in the
Agricola, chapters 12, 24, and 33 to describe the location of
Ireland and Britain. Homer used a similar phrase in the Odyssey
to describe the other end of the Mediterranean, that part about
Spain. It is at the “other side” of the “inhabited world”
that we find so many ancient names like that of Eber, the first
Hebrew: Iberia (Spain), the Ebro River (in Spain), Hibernia
(Ireland), and the Hebrides (islands off the coast of Scotland).
Much later, some of the lands occupied by the deported Israelites,
the Scythians, held similar names, such as Iberia south of the
Caucasus Mountains, and the Hebrus River in Illyria (Diodorus
Siculus, 19.67.6). None of this is coincidental.
The sons of Eber
were Peleg and Joktan (Genesis 10:25). Some writers, such as Perry
Edward Powell (Father Abraham’s Children) associate the
Pelasgian Greeks with Peleg. At first I denied the association,
since “Pelasgian” seems to be a compound of the Greek words πέλας
(“near”) and γ͡ης or γ͡η (“land”) and so, as they were
to the Ionians, “neighbors”, just as the Spartans simply called
the Greeks about Sparta περίοικοι or “neighbors”. Yet
Strabo says “...the Pelasgi were by the Attic people called
‘Pelargi’ [which means “Storks”], the compilers add, because
they were wanderers and, like birds, resorted to those places wither
chance led them” (5.2.4). Elsewhere Strabo cites Greek writers who
claimed that the Pelasgians came from Thessaly (9.5.22), and there a
people whom Strabo calls Pelagonians are found (9.5.11), so there may
be some merit to Powell’s assertion. The Pelasgians are said to
have “spread throughout the whole of Greece” in ancient times
(Strabo 5.2.4), and when the Danaans came from Egypt, they were also
called by that name (Strabo 8.6.9). The apparently peaceful
reception of the Danaans in Greece may well be explained, if those
inhabitants of Greece before the arrival of Dan were also Hebrews.
Joktan (Genesis
10:25) means, “he will be made little” (Strong’s #3355), and so
his name is a prophecy by itself, and his race was surely absorbed by
indigenous populations called “arabs” by us (and by themselves)
today. While several of Joktan’s descendants’ names may be
identified, some tentatively, with places in Arabia, two stand out
and merit discussion here.
Sheba
(Genesis 10:28) was a mountainous area of what is now Yemen. See
(“Excavating the Land of Sheba”, Archaeology Odyssey,
November-December 2001, p. 44). The Queen of Sheba (I Kings chapter
10) who visited Solomon was called the Queen of the South by Yahshua
(Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31) and she was, for all of the circumstances
of her mention, surely of the Adamic Race. Strabo mentions
“Sabaeans” in company with Nabataean arabs (16.4.19-21).
Ophir (Genesis
10:29) was surely somewhere on the eastern coast of Africa, South of
Ethiopia. This is evident from the account of goods obtained from
Ophir, given in I Kings chapters 9 and 10, and from the fact that the
place was reached from a port on the Red Sea (Ezion-geber in the
A.V.), and yet also from the name Ophir itself. For Ophir is
certainly the same name as the Latin Afer, which preceded Africa as
the Roman name for the continent. Although the Greeks knew not the
names Ophir or Afer, at least in their writings, for they had the
continent divided into but three districts, Egypt, Ethiopia and
Libya, they did have a word, ἀφρός (aphros) which meant
“foam”. Other similar Greek words are ἄφρων (aphrôn),
“without sense...crazed, frantic...silly, foolish” and ἀφροσύνη
(aphrosunê), “folly, thoughtlessness, senselessness”. While
many may see the similarity of these words as coincidences, I am not
so sure I believe in such coincidences, that they are coincidences at
all. Also, it is evident that the derivation of the word Africa from
Afer in Latin, actually follows the convention found in Greek for
declensions of the Genitive case (i.e. kurios, kuriakos; phoinos,
phoinikos). It should also not be thought of as merely
coincidental, that the Greek names for Europe and Libya, and the
Roman name for Africa, can all be shown to have come from the Hebrew
tongue.
While searching for
the root of our English word “black”, I came across the Hebrew
words balaq (Strong’s #1110), “to annihilate”, balag
(#1082) “to break off” or “to invade (with destruction)” and
the Greek word βλάξ (blax), genitive form βλακός (blakos)
which means “slack in mind and body, stupid, a dolt”. Are these
also coincidences?
Whatever happened
to Ophir, we certainly have no record of, and especially since the
Romans never wandered into Africa beyond Ethiopia, although they
surely knew of the land there (Strabo 16.4.14).
So
we have the Shemites, and the Hebrews, and here it should be evident
that these terms have today been misappropriated by people to whom
they do not belong.
There
were, by the Septuagint chronology, nearly 1800 years between
the time of the Deluge and the writing of the Pentateuch, and about
800 more to the time of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and to the advent of
written records among the Greeks. Homer and Hesiod, it can be shown,
were contemporaries of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. All throughout
this time the various tribes of Adamites sought new and better land
throughout the known world and points beyond, naming new places and
adopting those names. With so few written records, how difficult it
is to determine their movements! Homer, the earliest Greek writer
known to us, and whom Strabo considered ἐξ άρχῆς (“from
the beginning”) for the validity of his records, and “the first
geographer” (1.1.11), being a contemporary of the Biblical
prophets, wrote rather late in the history of Israel!
What
the Greeks looked like
That
the Greeks (and the Italians) were in ancient times fully homogenous
with the Caucasians of northern Europe as most of them appear today,
and certainly not with the current olive-skinned inhabitants of those
regions (along with most of southern Europe) is fully evident
everywhere in their art and literature.
Among
Homer’s oft repeated epithets were “Hera with the snow-white
arms” and “grey-eyed Athena”. Achilles is described as having
“red-gold hair” (Iliad near 23:160). When Menelaos was
shot with an arrow, removal of his clothing for treatment revealed
the “ivory white” flesh of his thigh. In the Odyssey
Menelaos is called the “red-haired captain” (4:17-85).
Describing Odysseus Homer tells of him with crisping hair in curls
“but all red-golden” (6:159-232). Hesiod in his Catalog of
Women sings of “golden-haired Menelaos” (1.67). The Homeric
Hymn To Demeter tells of “golden-haired” Demeter (1.302).
Selené is “white armed” and “bright-tressed” (To Selené
lines 17-18). Polyneices is described as “golden-haired” in The
Thebaid (p. 2) of the Epic Cycle, and the Trojan Ganymedes is
“golden-haired” also, according to the Homeric Hymn To
Aphroditê. These descriptions, and many others like them,
survived throughout all Greek and Roman literature and were used of
Greeks and Romans well into the Christian era. They were also used of
the early Phoenicians, and the Phoenician women of Thebes in Greece
were said to be fair and blonde, as they are described in the tragic
poetry of both Euripides and Aeschylus and in the works of the later
Roman poet Virgil.
The archaeological
record fully supports these descriptions. Hundreds, maybe even
thousands, of murals and mosaics from Greco-Roman territories display
tall, fair, usually (but not always) sun-tanned men, and tall, fair,
lily-white women. Greek men, like Phoenicians, Romans, and Hebrews
(i.e. John 21:17; Josephus’ Antiquities 12.5.1 (12:241))
were typically naked while working outdoors, while women spent far
less time outside, always fully clothed. Josephus also attests that
Judaeans and Greeks were indistinguishable, except that Judaeans were
circumcised (Antiquities 12.5.1 (12:241)). Of course the
Biblical record also agrees with this, i.e. David (I Sam. 16:12 and
17:42), Solomon (Cant. 5:9-16), and also Lam. 4:7, and of Noah in I
Enoch 105:2-4 (Lawrence’s verse division).
Although
there are certainly “arab” or “olive-skinned” types found
among the archaeological records, in the Roman era and in lands
controlled by Rome: even in places in Italy itself, these are but a
small minority and not at all representative of the originators of
Mediterranean or near eastern civilization, nor of the general
populations, until long after the fall of Rome and the Islamic
conquests. The artwork of the Byzantine culture in the east reflects
a predominantly White society which survived until the conquest of
its territories, first by arabs and then later by the Turks.
“Salvation”
and Israel
The
word “salvation” appears often in the Old Testament in promises
to Israel, and it is actually intended to mean preservation or
safety (see Strong’s Hebrew #s 3444, 3468, and 8668).
Israel was promised to be preserved in this world, not only in the
spiritual afterworld. But preserved from what? The answer to that
lies first in the prophets, and the foretold destruction of the
nations surrounding Israel in Palestine, and in Psalm 2, which
foretold that Israel would conquer the other nations (Genesis chapter
10 nations), and then in prophecies such as those found at Daniel
chapter 8 and Revelation chapter 9, and the plagues described
there, which destroy much of the Adamic world unto this very day.
Egypt
and Ethiopia had been overrun by black Nubians in the 8th
century B.C. Assyria, already a nation bastardized with Horite and
Hittite blood, was destroyed by the Scythian Israelites at the end of
the 7th century, after which the Israelite Kimmerians
overran all of Anatolia. In the 6th century B.C. the
entire Near East was conquered by Persia, then in the 4th
century by the Greeks, and in the 3rd by the Parthians,
and in the 1st by Rome, which competed with Parthia for
territory. All during this time the Scythian and Keltic Israelites,
along with the Japhethite tribes who also escaped to the north, were
multiplying and spreading themselves throughout Europe and also many
parts of Asia. By the time of Christ, however, Israelites had
conquered and come to inhabit all of the known world, as the Romans
in the west, the Parthians in the east, and the Germanic Scythians in
the north. And also by this time, except perhaps for the Ionian
Greeks at Athens, who were under Roman rule, and the Sarmatians (or
Slavs) and related tribes of northern Europe, all Japhethites, none
of the other Genesis chapter 10 nations had even a legitimate claim
to any longer being a nation, if they were to be found at all. All
of them are now lost to history.
Since
the fall of Rome, most of the formerly White Roman world has been
lost. Africa and Mesopotamia, Spain and Sicily were all overrun by
arabs, destroying much of the Adamic blood of those regions. After
the arab conquests arose the Turks from the east, who overran
Parthia, Anatolia (Turkey today), Greece and the Balkans. While the
Turks were destroying the Adamic blood of Greece and the Byzantine
Empire, the Mongols invaded Russia, conquering much of southern
Russia, the Ukraine, and subjecting modern Romania. While the
Russians managed to defeat and drive out the Mongols in the 15th
century, the Turks held Greece into the 19th century, and
most Greeks today should be considered Turks, or arabs. Muslim
tribes still inhabit the Balkans. All of the western Mongol areas,
formerly all White, adopted the Islamic religion early in the second
millennium.
And so not only
have all of the regions of the former Genesis chapter 10 Adamic
nations been overrun and destroyed by the alien invasions, but also
many of the children of Israel were also lost in these invasions.
Today the White race in Europe is again being invaded by arabs and
Turks, and now “legally”!
Abbreviations
A.I.A. Archaeological
Institute of America.
A.V. The
Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
LXX The
Septuagint, the early (c. 280 B.C.) translation of the Hebrew
Scriptures into Greek.
MT The Masoretic
Text, the Hebrew Scriptures as they were compiled and edited by the
jews in the late first millennium A.D. The King James Old Testament,
and most others, are based on this text.