Some True History
Short study on the origin of the Germans
From the book: IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGIN OF NATIONS by Craig White THIS IS A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE GERMANS - CRAIG WHITE HAS A 305 PAGE BOOK CALLED "THE GREAT GERMAN NATION" - OBTAINABLE FROM AMAZON.COM - Keith Hunt 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. ...... 1748 Josephus Antiquities, I.vii.4 ...... 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: .......... 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 .......... "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 .......... 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 .......... 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 .......... 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 .......... 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 .......... 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 .......... 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.............. FOR ALL THE HISTORICAL FACTS ON WHO THE GERMANS ARE, WHERE THEY CAME FROM......BUY CRAIG WHITE'S BOOK, FROM AMAZON.COM SUGGESTED READING 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. 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