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CHAPTER FOURTEEN - SECTION TWO: THE FEARSOME ASSYRIANS AND THEIR
MIGRATIONS INTO CENTRAL EUROPE
Who has not heard of the ancient Assyrian World Empire? Of its
brilliance, grandeur, exploits, mercilessness and extremes in
cruelty? What were these terrible Assyrians like? Most
importantly, what is the link between Sargon and modern nations?
We shall see as we progress through the incredible true history
contained within this book, they have everything to do with
today's world events!
Brief outline of Assyrian history
It is appropriate that we take a succinct look at the history of
the mighty descendants of Asshur. The Assyrians descend from
Asshur, or Assur, second son of Shem (Genesis 10:22) and possibly
twin brother to Arphaxad. Traditionally, offspring are listed
according to age: the firstborn is often listed first. In Genesis
10:22, we find listed five sons of Shem.
Elam is clearly the firstborn but for some reason was not
granted` the birthright - we have here another example of a
birthright shift or displacement. If Asshur was a twin brother of
Elam, this would surely have been mentioned as are other twins in
Scripture. But the antagonisms between Asshur and Arphaxad
demonstrate that in all likelihood that they were twins with
Asshur's birth probably preceding Arphaxad's (compare Genesis
25:21-23). Arphaxad and Asshur may have been twins for Scripture
states that Arphaxad was begotten "two years after the Flood"
(Genesis 11:10). In other words, Elam was begotten in the first
year after the Flood and his two brothers begotten a year later.
It is impossible for three separate births to have occurred
within two years unless Elam was conceived on the ark. It is
unlikely that he was conceived on the ark because of the health
and safety issues surrounding Noah's family at that time. Indeed,
the entire family would have had their hands full caring for the
animals and having a baby at that time would have been unwise.
Regardless, a birthright shift occurred and antagonism seems to
have resulted between Assur and Arphaxad due to the latter
inheriting the incredible birthright blessings and not Assur.
Asshur's name means 'strong' or 'powerful'. Or, as Josephus put
it:
"Assur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects
Assyrians, who became the most fortunate nation, beyond others."
1748
In other words they were a greatly blessed people, second only to
the descendants of Arphaxad. As we shall see later in this book,
God, by covenanting with Arphaxad and electing that line to do
His work of servant leadership, seemingly has led to Assur's
jealousy of Arphaxad and an antagonism which has been been
ongoing for centuries and will culminate in a great show-down
between their descendants in the years just ahead.
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1748 Josephus Antiquities, I.vii.4
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The supreme god of the Assyrians was Asshur 1749 who later became
known in Europe as Tyr or Tir, derived from Atir or Athur, which
is the Indo-Germanic form of the Hebrew Asshur. According to
Ragozin, 1750 Assur's original name may be spelled Asshur, and
the central, original district of Assyria was known as Aturia.
1751 Asshur may also be spelled Assyr. 1752 The Medes named the
land Assura 1753 and the Persians Athursa. 1754 After Assyria
fell, the region of Assyria became known as Arziri 1755 and as
Athura when it was a satrapy in the Persian Empire. It is
possible that this may be the origin of the name Arthur and the
Germanic god Thor, who with his hammer, the swastika, crushed the
enemies of his worshippers. It should also be noted that in front
of the temple to Assur in the city of Assur we find displayed a
swastika on a limestone slab.
The Assyrians were peoples of vast accomplishments. They had a
love for the establishment and building of new cities 1756 (see
Garner's Royal Cities ofAssyria), and were great road-builders
1757 as well a pontoon bridges, boats and such like. 1758 Their
greatest city was, of course, Nineveh, also known as Ninus or
later as Hierapolis. 1759 We know too that Sargon of Akkad (who
may have been Assur himself, as we have seen) defeated
Lugalzaggessi (probably Nimrod), and loved to build new cities
1760. He
"set up a pattern of royal behaviour which was to be taken up
later by the Middle Assyrian Kings ... It therefore may not be an
accident that Sargon's name was adopted by more than one Assyrian
King." 1761
Oppenheim claims that the Assyrian kings loved hunting down
animals, especially lions. 1762 Indeed, the lion became an
important symbol of the Assyrian Empire. One of the most
prominent symbols of Assyria was the eagle: is this where many of
the eagle symbols of Central Europe originate? 1763 Comparisons
have been made between the Nazi eagle with spread out wings and
that utilised by the Assyrians. (compare Deut 28:49) The prophet
Micah himself equates Assyria with "the land of Nimrod" (Micah
5:6). Nimrod founded Babel (Genesis 10:10; 11:1-9), from which
Babylonia arose. Under the Assyrians, Babylon often had special
privileges and freedoms and was considered holy ground. 1764
Assyrian dictator Ashurbanipal himself said:
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1749 Ragozin 1887:5 1750 ibid:2
1751 ibid:3
1752 Perry 1923:217
1753 Hannay 1916:52
1754 ibid
1755 Lempriere 1866:94
1756 Oppenheim 1964:124; Ward-Perkins, p 11
1757 Pfeiffer 1959:33
1758 von Soden 1994:119
1759 Marcellinus x IV.8.6-7
1760 Of further interest the Book of dasher says that "And Ashur
son of Shem and his children and household went forth ... and
they built themselves four cities ... Ninevah, Resen, Calach and
Rehobother ..." (10:32-33). And Genesis 10:11-12 may be rendered
in theoriginal as "Out of the land went forth Assur and built
Nineveh" etc, rather than "Out of that land he [Nimrod] went
forth to Assyria". This shows that Assur founded Assyria, not
Nimrod, who ruled to the south.
1761 Oppenheim 1964:125
1762 ibid:46
1763 Mackenzie 1930:343-345
1764 Ahmed 1968:136
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"Since Babylon is the 'bard' of [all] lands, the privilege of
kidinnw-status [legal protection] is assured for anybody who
enters it, and an allotment to citizen-status is certain for any
Babylonian citizen; not even a dog which enters it is killed."
1765
The Assyrians gradually spread out and during the Old Assyrian
period (Ca. 1900 B.C. to 1365 B.C.) they found themselves often
as dependants of the Babylonians and later of the Mitanni. During
this period they excelled as merchants and established a plethora
of colonies in Anatolia, particularly at Cappadocia. 1766 Assyria
emerged in the 14th century B.C. as an independent state
comprising the Middle Assyrian period (6365-1013 B.C.), fully
militarized and immensely powerful. Its power declined after the
death of Tukulti-Ninurta (Ca. 1208 B.C.) but was briefly restored
upon the ascension of Tiglath-pileser 1. With the arrival of the
9th century B.C., a new period of expansion began, known as the
Neo-Assyrian period (Ca. 1013 B.C. to 612 B.C.) with the arisal
of a series of very strong kings, in particular the terrible
Tiglath-pileser 111, Sargon 11, Sennacherib and Esharhaddon. 1767
They succeeded in uniting most of the Near East from Egypt to the
Persian Gulf into one gigantic imperial power bloc. It is
interesting to note that historians refer to Pax Assyriaca, a
period of approximately 70 Years of peace, from 700 to 630 BC
enforced by the Assyrian Empire 1768
The Assyrian Character and Ethnicity
Historians sometimes label the Assyrians as the "Prussians of the
Ancient World" 1769 whose function it was "to safeguard the
civilized world against [Barbarian] threats" 1770 much like the
function of Germany during the Middle Ages. We know too that the
Assyrians were a very nationalistic people. Writes Oppenheim:
"In Assyria there was a strong sense of participating in a common
and native way of life which repeatedly proved persistent enough
to survive military defeats and foreign domination. Who the
carriers were who kept the political and cultural tradition and
the Assyrian language alive through the eclipses of political
power is extremely difficult to say. The right answer would
reveal to us the very fountain head of Assyrian strength and
staying power." 1771
We shall see shortly who the carriers of Assyrian culture and
civilization were. Unlike other nations, the Assyrians were very
submissive to their centralized authority for no trace may be
found anywhere of popular reaction to the royalty and its
administration. 1772 Their military discipline and political
organization was quite unique in the Semitic world. 1773 Indeed
it was unique, for the 'true blue' Assyrian was not an Arabic
Semite at all. If this be so, then within which ethnic group may
they be classified? In the ancient Middle East, historians,
archaeologists and linguists "cannot define and describe the
racial or ethnic groups. The relation between these three
categories, linguistic, racial and ethnic, is exceedingly complex
in Mesopotamia and still far from being sufficiently investigated
... racial, ethnic, and linguistic categories only rarely
correspond in such complex civilizations." 1774
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1765 quoted in ibid
1766 Cotterell 1980:102
1767 Encyclopaedia Britannic - Micropaedia, "Assyria"
1768 Gitin 1990:39
1769 McCulloch 1982:224
1770 Wiseman 1973:171
1771 Oppenheim 1964:66
1772 ibid:104
1773 Los 1967:149
1774 ibid:48
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Thus, for anyone who dogmatically states that the Assyrians were
Semites, is dwelling in a pure fantasy world. 1775 Another
historian, Worrell, in his work A Study of Races in the Ancient
Near East states that "we have little evidence of the state of
affairs in ancient times." 1776 Many different peoples dwelt
within the Assyrian Empire for they conquered a variety of ethnic
groups: Kassites, Qutians, Lullumeans, Subarians, Kadmukh, Uqumen
and Papkhu (Hurrian mountain folk). 1777 Note also the following
quote from the authoritative Pictorial Biblical Encyclopedia:
"The ethnic origins of the Assyrians are still disputed among
scholars [but] appear to lie in a mixture of Old Akkadian ...
With Hurrian " 1778. The Hurrians were an Aryan or Indo-European
people.
All historians know that the Assyrian army was not of sufficient
size to supply forces to guard all other numerous strategic
points in their vast but complex empire. As the population was
relatively small, they could not provide an army large enough to
protect their expanding empire. This led to a loss of manpower
and consequent need to fill the ranks. "This was done by
recruiting auxiliary forces of foreign origin mainly from
conquered countries or vassal states." 1779 As a result, the
Assyrian army was composed of various nationalities; yet, they
were loyal to the King of Assyria. 1780
Saggs explains:
"it is mentioned frequently in royal inscriptions - that peoples
from outside Assyria were constantly being added to [Assyria].
... the massive influx of Semitic-speaking peoples from the
south-west, to be continually reinforced until Assyria as an
empire existed no more. They incorporated the troops of conquered
or vassal states into the Assyrian army, and Ashumasir-pal even
populated his new capital Calah with people from conquered
territories. ... Assyrian cities thus became cosmopolitan and
polyglot; with the possibility that within them people of actual
ancient Assyrian descent were a minority." 1781
We know that not all peoples called "Assyrian" were ethnically
descendants of Assur, for Assyria became an empire of many tribes
and peoples. Historian Larsen states that "the continual
channeling of conquered populations into the palace and the
private sectors of the four great cities of Assyria was clearly a
deliberate move to meet a labor shortage at the centre of the
empire ....1782
It is my contention that they were not dolicocephalic
(long-headed) Arabic Semites. However, it is known that many
dolicocephalic Babylonians brought as deportees for Assurbanipol,
1783 became
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1775 For instance, one author states: "The ethic origins of the
Assyrians are still disputed among the scholars ... Thus the
origins of the Assyrians appear to lie in a mixture of Old
Akkadian ... with Hurrian ... The Assyrian kings regarded
themselves as the true bearers of the Sumero-Akkadian culture and
by the early 2nd millenium BCE they began to adopt the names of
the great kings of Akkad" (Cornfield 1964: 137-38). Also, "the
Assyrian portraiture was heavily stylized, and does not trace
physiological distinctions with the same accuracy [as the
Egyptians]". (McGregor 1993: 458-59).
1776 Worrell 1927:33, quoted in Moscati 1957. See MacKenzie 1930:
355: "The early Assyrian kings had non-Semitic and non-Sumerian
names", giving further credence to the difference in race between
the true Assyrians and the later Semitic inhabitants of their
territory.
1777 Saggs 1984:46,53
1778 Cornfield 1964:137
1779 Oded 1979:50
1780 ibid:53,51
1781 Saggs 1984:127-8
1782 Larsen 1979:210
1783 Sayce 1928:203
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Assyrian subjects and liable for both civil and military duty.
1784 Conversely, there were many Assyrians which indicated clear
brachycephalicy 1785 (round-headed. See also figure 18 in
Albenda). 1786 The Alpine element also dominated the peoples of
Asia Minor and Sumeria. 1787 The portrait of a noble lady of
Ashur in Olmstead's work 1788 is clearly meso - or brachycephalic
- typical also of Central Europeans. A similar type is found in
the gypsum statue of a noble of Asshur. 1789
Historians certainly do recognize that alongside the Semites in
the Middle East also dwelt a brachycephalic type. 1790 These
'Alpine' types dwelt in Syria and Mesopotamia. 1791 It was also
through Northern Assyria that the dividing line more-or-less ran
between Alpines and the Semites. 1792 Of course, many Alpine
Assyrians also dwelt in the south, but it seems that the bulk of
them dwelt in the north next to their racial brethren, the
Aramaeans. Of these Aramaeans, Cotterel 1793 writes that in
the 9th Century B.C. Assyria was undergoing a major ethnic change
during this period in that the Aramaic element in the population
was increasing dramatically. This was brought about, not only by
the peaceful infiltration of Aramaeans into the state, but also
by the Assyrian practice of transporting gigantic numbers of
conquered foreigners, most of whom were Aramaeans at that time,
to Assyria to work on the enormous building projects of the day.
Over the generations this new element or at least a proportion of
it, slowly worked its way up the social and economic scale, so
that by the eighth century B.C. there were Aramaeans at a very
high level in the civil service and army, and the Aramaic
language had virtually replaced Assyrian as the everyday
language. The effects of such language change in identifying
ethnic groups does not assist with ethnic identification by us
removed thousands of years from such events. 1794
Of the change in language from Semitic to the Germanic
(Indo-European), the Oxford Companion to the Bible says that
"Ashurnasirpal 11 (884-859 B.C.E.) ... brought large numbers of
Aramaeans into the heartland of Assyria, swelling the ranks of
the court ... and, by the early seventh century, replacing the
Assyrian language with Aramaic as the vernacular". 1795
Woolley writes of the Martu (Amuru or Amaraeans):
"To the north and east of them [the Assyrians], in the Zagros
hills and across the plain to the Tigris, there lived a very
different stock, fair-haired and speaking a `Caucasian' tongue, a
hill-people akin to the Guti ... they failed to gain a footing in
the new delta and remained in what was afterwards, Assyria, the
neighbour land of Akkad." 1796
A portrait of Ashurnazirpal, based on the sculptures in the
British Museum show him with typical European features. 1797 The
same is true of other Assyrians. 1798 Such European-type
Assyrians may
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1784 Oded 1979:85-86
1785 Oppenheim 1964, plates 3,8.10 between pp 214-5
1786 Albenda 1974:23
1787 Haddon 1912:21, caption
1788 Olmstead 1951: opposite page 13, figure 14
1789 ibid: opposite page 16, figure 16
1790 Worrell 1927:32
1791 Field 1939:521
1792 Taylor 1947:135, figure 33
1793 Cotterell 1980:104-517
1794 see von Soden 1994:14
1795 Oxford Companion to the Bible, page 63. See also Saggs 1984:
65 and Seters 1975:32
1796 Woolley 1929:5
1797 Williams 1908 (vol 1):381
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be regarded as the ruling class, inner elite or core of the
empire. They were neither a Semite (Arabic) eople nor Aryan,
1799 but their culture was related to that of the Indo-Europeans
or Aryans. 1800
The Indo-European (Aryan or Nordid) Mitanni ruled Assyria for
some time and consequently influenced Assyria both culturally and
ethnically. 1801 Contenau wrote that nations collectively called
Khar-men (Gar-men) meaning "men of war" had "dominated for a long
time the land of Assyria ... [and populated] Mesopotamia, and all
the territory of Assyria to the Zagros Mountains." 1802 We find,
then, several ethnic elements comprising Assyria. However, the
description of the original type appears to be fair Alpine which
is of a mesocephalic (mid-range between long and round headed
types) or brachycephalic skull type..............
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Archer, C. (1986) "The Assyrian Empire." Shakespeare Head Press,
Sydney.
Garner, G.G. (1981) "Royal Cities of Assyria." The Australian
Institute of Archaeology, Melbourne.
Jochelson, W. (1928) "Peoples of Asiatic Russia." American
Museum of Natural History.
Lloyd, S. (1984) "The Archaeology of Mesopotamia." Thames &
Hudson, London.
Rice, T.T. (1958) "The Scythians." Thames & Hudson, London.
Rostovtzeff, M. (1922) "Iranians And Greeks in South Russia."
Russell & Russell, New York.
Roux, G. (1964) "Ancient Iraq." Penguin, Harmondsworth.
Saggs, H.W.F. (1984) "The Mighty that was Assyria." Sidgwick
and Jackson, London.
Hallo, W.W. "The Ancient Near East. A History." Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Simpson, W.K. (1971) Publishers, San Diego
Sulimirski, T. (1920) "The Sarmatians." Thames & Hudson, London.
Todd, M. (1972) "The Barbarians." B.T. Batsford Ltd., London.
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IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGIN OF NATIONS
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In Search of... The Origin of Nations
by Craig White
Origins of the AMERICAN INDIANS
Let us now turn our attention to the American Indian tribes.
From which descendant of Noah do they spring?
There are scores of Indian tribes (somewhere in the vicinity
of 178 major tribal groupings 1062). They cannot, must not, be
lumped together under one single description. They are very
individualistic and do not all share common languages or customs
1063.
The Indian tribes have never been homogenous. In California
alone, there are distinctive types in head form, facial features,
and the nose. Here we find the shortest and tallest of all
American Indians 1064. Unfortunately, many books lump them
together with the Mongoloids ... but many of them are so very
different: They differ in features, skin colouring, blood groups
and in other areas 1065.
In this section we shall discover the part Canaanite origins
of the Sioux, Akiri and Chivite Indians. Others in Alaska and in
South America look much like the Mongoloids of Asia 1066 and no
doubt either a branch of Tiras migrated via that route or peoples
descended from Magog and the Turkic (Edomite) tribes migrated via
that route. The fascinating migration of the Dene and Na-Dene
from Asia is detailed in The Dene and Na-Dene Indian Migration -
1233 AD by Ethel Stewart.
Should the reader ever be in a position to afford the time
to study Ethel Stewart's book it would be well worth it. She
delves into the origin of various American Indian tribes who were
ousted by Ghengis Khan but who fled to the Americas in the 13 `h
century. In this large book of over 500 pages, proofs utilised
include linguistics, folklore, religion and knowledge of Central
Asia whence they sprang. One of these tribes, the Navajo, may be
a derivation of Nebajoth, whose sister, Edom married (Genesis
36:3). Nebajoth was a son of Ishmael and as such the family name
may have carried also via Edom.
In fact, write Broek and Weber, many Indians look like
south-east Asians 1067. They may have been referring to such
tribes as the Navajo. In a personal letter from a Filipino
pen-friend of mine, dated 5 March 1979, he stated:
"You know, the Spaniards have always called the Filipinos
'Indios', (meaning Indians) as they called the natives of Central
and South America. Filipinos have always resented this! My elder
sister 3-4 years ago went to the U.S. to do some research on
public health among the Navajo Indians. And you know the Navajos
would not believe that my sister wasn't a Navajo herself! My wife
also told me of how the second daughtcr of [name witheld]
remarked from the pure logic of a 7 or 8 year old, upon seeing
Filipinos for the first time on their arrival here: `Look at all
those Indians!'." 1068.
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1062 South American Culture in Perspective 1973:12 1063 Reynolds
1974:506
1064 ibid: 511
1065 ibid: 512
1066 Heyerdahl 1978:358
1067 Broek & Weber 1968:83
1068 Personal letter; name withheld.
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Undoubtedly there was a relationship between the American
Indians and other peoples. The peoples of Milyaes were in
south-east Asia; another branch may be in America today (the
Dyakids of Borneo, for instance, have blow-guns and bird dances
in similitude to certain South American tribes). Physical
anthropologists recognise the diverse origins of the Indians, and
have thus attempted to classify them into three broad groups:
Zentralid (Mexico, U.S.A) Andid (Peru), Brasilid (Brazil) 1069.
From where did they originate? And why is there but one brief
reference to Tiras in the Bible and that is in the Table of
Nations? He then disappears from Scripture, unlike the other
nations, which persist in the Near East for some time. Is it
because he disappeared so far from the Near East that he had no
consequence on the course of events in the Old World? If this be
the case, then we should look for a people far removed from the
Old World.
The Red-Skins of Thrace
Baikie, in a book published in 1926, wrote of the ancient
peoples of Thrace that they were of reddish-brown complexion with
their long black hair done up in a crest. 1070 How like the
American Indian! But who was their forefather? Josephus tells us:
"Tiras also called those whom he ruled over Thirasians; but the
Greeks changed the name into Thiasians" 1071.
A city called Tiraspol exists today in Russian Moldavia,
near the Rumanian border in the region of ancient Thrace!
Although it was built just over two hundred years ago, in 1792,
the name nevertheless seemingly recalls the early name of that
region; and the River Tearus (Tiras) ran through the region of
Thrace according to Herodotus. 1072 This is where one branch of
Tiras dwelt before migrating into central Asia.
Most theologians cannot trace the descendants of Tiras.
statement fairly indicative of most theologians and historians:
Professor Archibald Sayce makes a "Tiras is the only son of
Japhet whose name continues to be obscure. Future research can
alone be expected to settle the question" 1073.
Well let us settle that question once and for all. Let us
discover where the descendants of Tiras migrated to.
From whence spring the Indians of the Americas? Who is their
forefather in Genesis chapter 10? Is it at all possible to trace
these amazing tribes and peoples to an ancient source in the
Middle East?.................
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SUGGESTED READING
* Man's Conquest of the Pacific. The Prehistory of Southeast Asia
and Oceania. Oxford University Press, New York.
* The American Race. NDC Hodges, New York. Reprinted by Johnson
Reprint Co, 1970.
* The Pelican History of Greece. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex.
* The Maori. Yesterday and Today. Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland.
* Beyond Star Wars. Chapter 6 Triumph Publishing Co, Altadena,
California.
* Indians of North America. University of Chicago Press.
* America B.C. Ancient Settlers in the New World. Pocket Books,
New York.
* Before Columbus. Crown Publishers, New York.
* The Pacific Islanders. AH & AW Reed, Wellington.
* Ancient Native Americans. WH Freeman and Co, San Francisco.
* The Prehistory of Polynesia. Australian National University
Press, Canberra.
* The Rediscovery of Lost America. The Story of the Pre-Columbian
Iron Age in America. A Dutton Paperback, New York.
* The Story of the Algonquian Indians. Triumph Ministries,
California.
* The Great Migration of the Aztecs. Triumph Ministries,
California. "The Mongoloids surrounding the Pacific Basin",
Pacific Friend. July, vol 21, no 3: 2-9.
* The Dene and Na-Dene Indian Migration - 1233AD. ISAC Press,
Columbus, Georgia.
* The People of America. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
* The Island Civilizations of Polynesia. New American Library,
New York.
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"Got your manuscript and have been reading through it. You've
done a fantastic job ... Your synthesis is the best I have found.
Even better than Custance's work. You make Noah's Three Sons look
like an introduction ... your book is a goldmine of information
... you have been very thorough in your compilation ... your book
is a book to be read over and over again" - Ross S Marshall,
origin of nations researcher
"I thought [the book] was well done" and `I would like to copy
the sections dealing with Germany for my research' - Dr Doug
Winnail, PhD
"This is a tremendous work of painstaking enquiry, obviously the
product of time. The material is very absorbing and fills a
particular gap of our knowledge by relating many separate strands
of secular scholarship to biblical history. In this way this work
is 'unique' ... The theme of this book is original and very
valuable to the Bible student, in that it throws new light on the
origins of the peoples and nations of the world. It is unique in
tackling this task from the standpoint of the Biblical "'able of
Nations' which is set out in Genesis 10. I have enjoyed reading
it, and I am very impressed with the depth of research involved
and the insight given to the origins of races of the world and
their roles in history.
Such a book is necessary, and will be even more so when people
begin to realise who and what we are. It is an exciting and very
valuable work, of very profound research and biblical knowledge.
All students of the Bible who believe that it is God's User Guide
for mankind should own this book and use it to enhance their
research and studies." - Ensign Trust reviewers
FOREWORD
Many years have been spent researching the origin of the world's
tribes, peoples and races - the family of nations - based on the
mysterious Table of Nations found in Genesis chapter ten. Piecing
together and tediously assembling the many parts of the puzzle,
the strands of information and the bits of data required for an
exercise such as this has not been easy for this
writer/researcher.
Using a data-gathering and deductive reasoning formula, I have
pored through hundreds of books, journals and articles to
assemble a work which is moderate in size but huge in scope.
Basing the book on the requirement for biology, genetics and
physical anthropology as the chief criteria to ascertain which
nations may be identified with the peoples mentioned throughout
the Bible, I found that modern racial taxonomy and classification
was very close to the Biblical model found in Genesis 10.
Genesis 10 has often been overlooked by modern scholars. Many
Bible scholars from previous centuries, have had a fascination
with it, but gradually with the advent of humanism and the
antiliteral interpretation of scripture, interest in this chapter
as the basis for the origin of nations has receded to become
almost a taboo subject.
In the 18th century Sir William Jones and J Bryant wrote on the
subject. But the interest in this chapter of God's Word peaking
late 19th century with academics such as Rawlinson famous for his
Origin ofNations (1878) and Sayce in such books as Races of the
Old Testament (1891; 1925). Both showed an intense interest in
this key topic. Famous Seventh-day Adventist scholar, Alonzo T
Jones also authored two works on the subject: The Peopling of the
Earth (1887) and The Empires of the Bible (vol 1) (1904). He was
obviously inspired by contemporary writers; in turn, others in
the twentieth century were inspired by his writings.
Authors such as Dr Herman L Hoeh, Arthur C Custance, Dr D J
Wiseman, Dr John Pilkey, Bill Cooper, J Simon and, of course,
Ross Marshall of Project Genesis Ten, have continued the research
and study of this fascinating science. Dr Hoeh in particular has
demonstrated that history, ancient tradition and authenticised
lists of kings assist in tracing various peoples around the
world.
Much of the corpus of Genesis 10 research in literature which has
been extant for a considerable period of time generally, in my
estimation, remained inadequate while large chunks of information
had never been written up or explored in much detail.
My focus is primarily historical and anthropological, attempting
to find all scraps of evidence, digest them, and then produce a
synthesis of all the major finds (while omitting many other minor
proofs so as not to overwhelm the reader or clutter up the book).
Since my spiritual awakening in late 1972, I have developed a
powerful curiosity about the national origins of all peoples. It
became apparent to me that, while some have included the identity
of Israel in their theology and literature, almost nothing was
said or published about the other peoples and races. It was a
pity that this area of identity was not included in overall
teachings about God's plan for humanity. In Search of... the
Origin of Nations aims to correct this imbalance.
INTRODUCTION
A Challenging Subject
This is a challenging work which has been produced, yet a
compelling subject which will be enjoyed by thousands of readers.
It is esoteric because it is a work in a subject area much
neglected or maligned. Neglected due to the declining
significance of this subject matter in theological circles and
the lack of interest given it by those who know of its importance
out of fear of the consequences.
Yet there are thousands, perhaps millions of people who are
eagerly interested in their roots and family trees. This book
endeavours to form a foundation or framework, for anyone to study
their family tree. What use are our family trees without
knowledge of our national roots? The former merely take us back
two or three centuries at best. But this work will take you back
to the most ancient of times; indeed, to the very cradle of
civilisation.
This book is highly focused and concentrated: my desire is to
present material which is not full of waffle and the proverbial
`hot air'. Nor is there a need to repeat the detailed histories
of the nations here, except, where necessary, to provide a broad
outline in line with the historical record. The focus is to focus
on their origins, original location, migrations and modern day
locations.
The writing style is one of succinctly drawing together all
available evidence and then producing a mosaic without resorting
to unnecessary and time-wasting excessive material. I stick to
the facts without attempting to create a huge work. After all,
who would want to plough through, say, two or three volumes of
waffle to find the evidence for such matters when it may easily
be found within a few hundred pages. Not so this writer!'
Padriac McGuinness, writing in The Australian early 1991, relates
how in the 1960s, Karl Popper, a famous lecturer and philosopher
of science at the London School of Economics, used to harangue
students. He stated that American books give the impression that
seriousness is related to weight and number of words.
"No author considers himself reputable unless he has weighed in
with a book of mind-numbing length. No journalist wants to write
1000 words if he can get away with writing 10,000. But quality
and content need not be related to sheer volume. As a result, the
American publishing industry is beginning to wake up to this.
Short books, books that are little more than polemical pamphlets,
are being discovered".
With this in mind, this book could easily have become three large
volumes. Yet, it would not be conducive to conveying such
important data if I were to do so. Rather, to reach out to the
average person with a succinct work is what is required and what
has been produced.
Further, these works concentrate on the Biblical origins of races
and peoples. Whilst it is rewriting world history in relation to
the national origins of peoples, it is not rewriting all world
history per se.
I We may peer through the mists of time and piece together the
pieces of the puzzle, garnering the various historical,
anthropological and Biblical details to come to some incredible
conclusions as to national origins. Perhaps I should have titled
the original work The Inspired Origin ofthe Nations (similar to
the titles of some of Glengarry Rupert's books) or something
else. A hundred different titles would suffice. But the final one
which was chosen is simple and encapsulates all of what I am
looking for: In Search of... the Origin of Nations.
History, as covered in thousands of works, in an overall sense
must be left to the experts in the field whom we should trust to
do their best in interpretation and writing.
Thus it is outside the realm of this work to rewrite history. It
is being rewritten all the time as more facts come to light.
Historians took many years of research to construct history by
digging out the salient information and to find time to type up
the material in a logical and honest way.
National Right to Self-Determination and Right to Life
All nations and peoples have a right to life, to develop their
culture and language and to continue their history and ethnicity
without globalization - in the context of peaceful coexistence
within the family of nations. If current trends continue, the
diversity of mankind is likely to disappear within 150 or so
years. Bio-diversity of species, whether they be flora, fauna or
human, is paramount to creative expression. Those that interfere
with God's creation declare war on the Creator Himself.
How many more reports will there be of various American Indian
tribes, Maoris, Aboriginals and others decrying the weakening of
their blood-lines and ethnic identity? What of the tribes and
ethnic groups such as the Negritos of Asia (pygmies), the
Estonians and some of the various other peoples around the world
who are on the edge of extinction? Will they disappear from view?
God Almighty created all of the tribes, nations, peoples and
races and He will see to it that all survive into the Millennium.
The different nations collectively magnify God's creative
capacity and bring glory to Him. Who are we to destroy mankind's
wonderful diversity? God deplores any measures which leads to the
destruction of ethnic diversity.
One might only view the racism extant in the former Yugoslavia,
the terrifying feud between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and
the downtreading of South American Indians as just a few
examples. Nations wish to wipe out other nations. At the other
extreme, globalisation will lead to the end of ethnic diversity
as the `global village' leads to the ultimate melting-pot.
Racism begets racism. We have Whites hating Blacks; Blacks hating
Whites; Indians fighting Pakistanis; the battles between
Croatians and Serbians and so on. Unless the Messiah intervenes,
the bio-diversity of mankind will disappear.
So what of our roots?
Get To Know Your Roots
I recall how one lady once exclaimed "I wish I knew what my
ethnic roots really were! I am able to trace my family tree back
several generations and my parents are immigrants to this
country. I know which ethnic group I descend from. But who are we
really? Where did we actually originate?" Such was the substance
of comments made in my presence some years ago and which has
stuck with me ever since.
Knowledge of our roots is most inadequate without the knowledge
of where our ethnic groups ultimately originate. Thousands would
concur. For many, a study of one's family tree is a favourite
hobby. We know our parents and immediate family backgrounds. We
know our ethnic identities. But how many of us are able to trace
our roots back to the earliest genesis of the human family? For
instance, if we are, for example, Polish, what is the point of
knowing one's ethnic identity and family history back several
generations and perhaps some of the history of our nation which
may include the migrations of tribes into one's lands, if we do
not know where they ultimately originated?
Genesis Ten Science
This is where the incredible Table of Nations is essential.
Believe it or not, this systematic, well organised chart presents
to us, in these fast-moving times, the ethnic identities of all
nations! Yes! YOUR ethnic roots clear back to the genesis of the
great variety of mankind may be traced if we use Genesis chapter
ten as a basis. For it is the purpose of this work to reveal to
you who your forefather was Biblically-speaking, and how his
descendants migrated to their modern locations. The study of the
modern identities of the nations of Genesis Ten is a science. One
may also term it Biblical human biology and physical
anthropology. But it is much more than that. It actually uses
literally hundreds of references to back up the argument that the
nations of the modern world may all be traced back to the 70
names referred to in the mysterious Table of Nations chart.
Many years have been spent in painstaking research, reading,
writing, corresponding and weaving together this exciting story
of national origins. To forge a composite mosaic of this nature,
I needed, at the conclusion of my investigations, to pull
together the many complex threads and strands of Biblical,
historical and anthropological fact and detail.
So many peoples have stories and legends regarding their origins,
which cannot be simply dismissed. Their oft made claim to
originate from a progenitor who is known well in their
traditions. Is it not wonderful that the names of persons who
lived over 4,000 years ago and who are listed in Genesis Ten,
carried on in place or tribal names to recent date? Sometimes the
peoples deified their ancestors. Commenting on Newton's book The
Philosophical Origins of Gentile Theology (1678), Richard
Westfall wrote the following:
"Origins started with the argument that all peoples worshiped the
same twelve gods under different names. The gods were divinized
ancestors - in fact Noah, his sons, and his grandchildren -
though as this religion passed from people to people, each used
it to its own ends by identifying the gods with its kings and
heroes".
Eternal Vigilance
We must be eternally vigilant - a second purpose of my work is to
keep alive the flickering flame of Genesis Ten truth. This
magnificent truth is on the verge of dying out. Such an enigma!
In an age of growing ethnic consciousness in grassroots defiance
of one world globalism, and with increasing studies into one's
family tree and of the awareness of book stores and publishers
for works on this type of subject, we find almost nothing in
print on the topic.
Where are the Sayces and Rawlinsons today? Who will continue
Genesis Ten science? Hopefully each and every one of us. We need
to by passionately and zealously keep alive the flame of this
wonderful truth by a collaborative effort of all interested
parties, regardless of affiliations.
But how does one gain the knowledge to keep such truths alive?
None of us has perfect knowledge and understanding (Hos 4:16; Is
5:13; 27:11). God, the Creator and Sustainer of all the nations
of this globe, thunders mightily that we had better go to Him in
all humility to seek knowledge, understanding and wisdom:
"If thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for
understanding; If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for
her as for hid treasures; Then thou shalt understand the fear
of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God" (Prov 2:3-5. See also
Dan 12:10; Ps 111:10; Prov 9:10).
Such should be our mainstay, and has been the mainstay for many
over the years. It is a mainstay which is essential for spiritual
growth and which helps one to hold fast to spiritual treasures
(IThess 5:21; IIThess 2:15; Heb 3:6; 10:23). A reason for this
book is my fervent hope that those reading it would be encouraged
to dig deeper into the matter and attempt their own studies into
their family trees or even into Genesis Ten itself. Surely it is
the innermost desire of most persons to know their origins. As
American Poet Carl Sandburg once wrote:
"When a nation goes down [or] a society perishes, one condition
may always be found. They forgot where they came from."
In addition, the unique Table of Nations of Genesis chapter Ten
is the very key to unlocking the prophecies dealing with the End
Time. How we you understand the prophecies dealing with Gog and
Magog, Assyria, the Chaldeans, Cush, Elam and many others unless
we know where they are located today? And if we do not know where
the original post-flood nations are today (which, after all,
became the modern nations of the this century), then we reject
Christ's admonition to study prophecy and watch world events
daily. Let us obey God and enjoy a richer, more meaningful life
in the knowledge of who we are, where we are going and what the
ultimate destiny of our ethnic groups will be (Deut 30:19).
Surely, nothing can be more interesting and fulfilling than
that?!
God's Word states
"The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the
foolish doeth not so" (Prov 15:7. See Matt 13:52).
If we want to gain knowledge, we must learn to give what we have,
to others first:
"The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge"
(Prov 15:14).
"The heart of the righteous studieth to answer" (Prov 15:28).
God help us to follow those perfect principles. In addition,
Scripture adds:
"That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good" (Prov 19:2)
"Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words
of knowledge" (Prov 23:12).
Will we apply ourselves to those precious principles? If we do,
we will be able to absorb the knowledge which God wants us to
absorb.
A New Approach
May God also help in our great endeavour and give us clear
understanding in all areas. For it is the first time ever, to my
knowledge, that an entire book has been published on the subject
in this way. To be sure, articles, chapters and sections of books
and Bible Dictionaries have appeared; or booklets dealing with
minor aspects of Genesis Ten or which have delved into certain of
the 70 figures, names or localities mentioned therein. But
nothing really extensive has appeared. In addition to the usual
method of name similarities or name changes, traditions or
linguistics, I refer to various physical comparisons and cultural
similarities. Thus ethnology, with its interest in the history of
peoples, is employed.
Yet even the above is not enough in detailing an all inclusive
'data-gathered' synthesis of each tribe of Genesis 10. This work
needed to bring out the issue of zootaxonomy, human biology and
physical anthropology sufficient to identify and trace the
descendants of Bible Nations. Physical anthropology is the study
of comparative anatomy, morphological, genetic and physiological
variability in recent human populations. The techniques of
science are therefore heavily depended upon in this particular
science.
Then we have zootaxonomy. Taxonomy is concerned with essential
and specific categories within the multitude of human forms.
Zootaxonomy employs the concept of race or microspecies.
Anthropometry is extensively used in determining race, and, in
particular, craniosystematics is employed.
Finally, the reader must appreciate the extreme difficulty in
tracing the origins of nations. But at least we are able to trace
the footsteps of the descendants of the grandsons and great
grandsons of Noah to the far reaches of the globe by detailed
study. More information is coming in all the time, and much more
could be written. The book is not the final word on the subject,
and hopefully others will publish like material.
May God bless and keep the tremendous physical identities of all
the races, ethnic groups and peoples of mankind.
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