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From: yair davidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999
Subj: Picts-1
Adapted mainly from chapter 13 of "Lost Israelite Identity."
THE AGATHYRSI AND THE PICTS
The AGATHYRSI came to Scotland from Scythia at an unknown (but
possibly late) date. The Agathyrsi in Roman times were considered
to have crossed the sea to become forefathers of THE PICTS20
though what proportion they actually composed of the people known
to history as PICTS is uncertain. The Agathyrsi at various stages
had been reported of in different places:
-- As being in the Pontus (i.e. in northeast Turkey) on the Black
Sea shore just west of the Caucasus Mountains;
-- In the north on the Baltic Sea shore according to Ptolemy;
-- and, under the name of Akatziri, in the north, to the south of
Estonia near the Baltic Seashore.
-- Herodotus reported the Agathyrsi in Thrace and later
Irish-Scottish tradition (referring to the Picts as
"Cruithnigh") said that, "the Cruithnigh came from Thrace.
They were the children of Gleoin Mac Ercol, that is, of Gelonus,
son of Hercules, and were called Agathyrsi"21. They were said,
in several accounts, to have sailed first to Ireland, then to
Scotland.
The Gothic historian Jordanus said that the Akatziri (i.e.
Agathyrsi) were a most brave nation.
The Agathyrsi (Akatziri) were to form the nucleus of the Khazar
people. The Khazars converted to Judaism and at one stage became a
world power. Their centre was in southern Russia, i.e. in Scythia.
Ethnically the Khazars were related to the Anglo-Saxons and
Scandinavians. Saksin the Khazar capital was known as "The Saxon
City"22. The Agathyrsi have been linked to the Goths23. Caucasian
"Subarian traditions maintain that the Agathyrsians originated in
Assur"24 i.e. there exists a tradition that the Agathyrsians came
from Assyria and this is consistent with their having been
Israelites who were exiled to Assyria and re-settled by the
Assyrians on the fringes of their Empire. Herodotus relates the
notion that the Agathyrsians, Scythians, and Gelonians were
brothers, sons of Hercules and a serpent woman.
The Khazars of whom the Agathyrsians formed a nucleus are described
by Arab authors as consisting of three types: 1. A dark haired,
dark-complexioned one "like Hindus"; 2. A dark haired, and light
pale-skinned one, and 3. A red haired, blue-eyed, large limbed,
wild countenanced, heavy moving one26. All three of these
complexions (with some modification due to climate and
intermarriages) are to be found in Scotland. Classical German
sources linked the Agathyrsi with the Guths (Goths) and with early
Germanic Tribes28. The Khazars were also linked with the Goths.
The Caledonians of Scotland confederated with the Picts and they
too were regarded as a North European group. The Caledonians were
related to the Galadon of Northern Wales (Votadini) who had come
from Scotland. Both groups descend from Gilead son of Machir of
Menasseh. The Picts who came from Scythia and were descended from
the Agathyrsi are often confused (in Encyclopediac articles, etc.)
with indigenous peoples in Scotland with whom they may have
amalgamated and to whom the name "Pict" may have been also applied
at some stage or other. The Picts are archaeologically
distinguished by their way of drawing animals and by certain
symbols they employed: The Picts artistic style confirms their
eastern origins and concerning this style it has been remarked that:
"The animals which include fish, birds, bulls, boars, and deer
are executed with vigour and economy in a style common to the
northern barbarians from Scotland to the borders of China"29.
In other words, the Picts used the Scythian art style. This style
continued to be employed by the "Barbarians" (such as Angles,
Saxons, and Franks) who emerged from Scythia as well as by the
Picts who had migrated from the same regions. The fundamental
elements of this style and its means of execution may be traced
back to the area of ancient Israel.
According to D.A. MacKenzie the Picts were never very numerous and
formed a military elite that ultimately came to dominate all of
Scotland30. The name "PICTI" is first found in Eumenius ca.296 c.e.
but Sidonius Apollinaris assigned them an earlier time around that
of Julius Caesar31. The Picts (says Whatmore) included the
Caledones of northern Scotland and their capital was Camelon*32.
They also had settlements in northern Hibernia (Ireland). Some
early Scottish and Irish accounts say that the Picts came from
Scythia, went to Ireland, married women of the Milesian Hiberi, and
from Ireland came to Scotland. In Ireland, "we find that the term
Cruithne was also used by the Irish to describe a group of
aboriginal people found in Ireland prior to the arrival of the Sons
of Mile. In other words before the coming of the Gael. These
Cruithne occupied a large part of Ulster, so much so that they were
at one time the predominant power there. They also held territory
in Munster, Meath and Leinster. It is also in Munster that the
ogham inscription stones, similar to the Pictish ogham inscriptions
of Scotland are to be found". For what it is worth Barry Fell
traced Ogham script to the Phoenicians. The term "Phoenecian"
encompassed both maritime Canaanites and some of the Israelite
Tribes.
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From: yair davidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999
Subj: Picts-2
The Picts-2
The Picts claimed descent in common with the Scots from the Albani
or Gentes Scitiae (People of Scythia), and this is consistent with
descent from the Agathyrsi. Their founder was said to have been
Cruidne (Cruithne) son of Cinge or Kinne33. Bede also said that the
Picts came from Scythia. An early Latin version of Virgil placed
"Pictes Gelones" in northern Scythia and the Gelones together with
the Royal Scythians had been considered (says Herodotus) brother
nations to the Agathyrsi. The Gelones were part of the Alans and
the Alans were the only nation to be consistently faithful allies
to the Khazars. At least part of the Alan Royal House converted
to Judaism as the Khazars did in the period ca 650-750 CE. A
linguistic-literary link was noticed by Altheim between a Hebrew
element in Hamath of northern Syria, the Alans of the Caucasus,
and Scandinavia.
Those Alans who were to be linked with the Khazars were those who
had remained behind after a good protion of the nation had gone
westward some centuries earlier.
In the 400s CE the Alans had participated in the Barbarian invasion
of the west. They were linked with the Allemani and are sometimes
confused with them. Groups of Alans settled in Switzerland, Alsace
(east France), and in Brittany (west France). In Brittany they
merged with the Celtic Bretons and with their Norman neighbors.
The Normans learnt their cavalry tactics from the Alans and these
were what enabled them to conquer the Anglo-Saxons of England. The
Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings through
a feigned retreat by the cavalry. Man for man the Anglo-Saxons
appear to have probably been superior warriors but they broke ranks
at the wrong time and lost the battle.
The name Alan is also found throughout Scotland and is considered
Scottish. It is both a personal name and a place name and is
recorded in Ptolemy's map from the first century CE.
One source says that Alan was the name of a local sun-god or
ancestral figure amongstn the Celts of northern Britaion. The name,
"Alan," is a form of the Hebrew Elon and means "oak." It is the
name of a clan in the Tribe of Zebulon. On the whole we have traced
the Picts to the Tribe of Menasseh but incursions from Zebulon and
other tribes are also noticeable.
The Agathyrsi (from whom the Picts descend) in the steppe area were
also known as Khazars. According to their own traditions the
Khazars were descended mainly from the Israelite Tribes of Simeon
and Menasseh. The Agathyrsi derived from the Clan of "Jeezer" son
of Gilead son of Menasseh (Numbers 26;30). The name transliterated
as "Jeezer" ((����� in Hebrew was pronounceable as "Ay-(g)a-zar"
and the Agathyrsi were also known as "Acatzari", Khazari, and
Gazari.
The Picts also included elements from other tribes who had merged
with them. Eventually they became an amalgamtion of Israelite
elements who from several directions and at different stages merged
on the same areas. The Picts, as we will see serve as a kind of
microcosm, of the Israelite movements from east to west.
The Picts used a type of horse harness known from the Don River
region in southern Scythia35. In the Pict area of Scotland there
was a river named the Don and another called the Gadie. These names
(i.e. "Don" and "Gadie") are traceable to Scythia and to the Goths
and to the Israelite Tribes of Dan and Gad. The Pict symbols
included a mirror and comb and the sun appearing overhead of a
sailing ship36. Similar symbols have been reported from Scandinavia
and are known from studies of ancient Egypt. The Picts also used an
elephant symbol37 and a serpent-like figure38. Examples of Pictish
art are found on more than a hundred monuments scattered all over
the north of Scotland though especially concentrated in the
Classical Pict area of the northeast. It is an accepted
authoritative opinion that Pictish art reveals similarities to
that of ancient Assyria and Persia!39.
Both most of what is now known as Assyrian art as well as much of
the Persian was actually directly produced by Israelite and
Phoenician craftsmen and is a development of the "Syrian" area.
It appeared after the Israelites had been exiled and was promoted
by Israelite and "Syrian" craftsmen. This was been proven by
signatures in Hebrew on articles of art found in Assyrian
excavations. This was the same style later to be found on Pict
monuments and was independently paralleled in Ireland.
"Although most of the `Oriental themes' are found also in
Ireland, the art of Pictavia is never Irish art"40
This signifies that the Celtic Irish independently developed their
own style from the same original sources and therefore the
implications (derived from Art concerning the Pict origins) are
also applicable to them.
Concerning the Picts, Moubrey remarks,
"This blending of native and foreign styles on the same monument
shows that we are not dealing here with pure imitation of
foreign models"41.
According to Chadwick,
"...The affinities with Sassanian [i.e. Persian] and Assyrian
art are evident in the Assyrian type of lion and lion hunt, the
monkeys and gryphon, and the generous use of vegetation..."42.
Concerning the Pict Artistic use of vegetation, it is further said
that there may be found, "examples of it on Assyrian and Persian
bas reliefs"43.
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