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`LT 07 Cimmerians & Scythians - Names and Migrations
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Last week, we did a short history of the kingdom of Israel from the beginning of the split between the two kingdoms, the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom of Judah. And went all the way up to the kingdom of Israel, the northern kingdom’s deportation by their Assyrian conquerors. Assyria came down in successive waves anywhere from 750 B.C. to 720 B.C. and took away, and conquered and took away, deported the entire northern kingdom, over 5 million people. They also came down and laid siege to Jerusalem. They couldn’t, however, conquer Jerusalem. They besieged it for awhile, and then gave up, but in the meantime, everybody in the southern kingdom of Judah wasn’t protected by the walls of Jerusalem and the Assyrians, namely Sargon the second, because there were three or four kings involved in this deportation and conquering of the northern kingdom. Sargon the second deported a whole lot of Jews along with the whole northern kingdom of Israel. Well, so thousands of Jews went along with the ten-tribe northern kingdom.
And we also took in the story and the prophecies of Hosea who has a book in the Bible and is what we call the Minor Prophets, one of the shorter books. He prophesied before the downfall of the northern kingdom of Israel. Also, we saw how his life was made to play out what was to happen to that northern kingdom of Israel. And he was told by the God of the Bible to go and marry a whore and have children by her. Well, he did that and the three children -- their names were to indicate things that were to happen to that northern kingdom of Israel.
The three names of the children were –– the names of the three children were: Jezreel, which means “scattered.” And the northern kingdom was taken away, deported and scattered from their own land. The name of the second child was Loami, which means “without mercy.” And during this deportation period and resettling in other places, they weren’t known as having God’s mercy.
The third child was called Loruhamah. And Loruhamah means “not God’s people.” Not known as God’s people.” These people after they were taken away from the their homeland in the Palestine area were not known as the children of the God of the Bible as the Jews were and continued to be and still are known as today. Anybody who knows anything about the Jews knows that they are God’s “chosen people,” chosen people in quotes. They have always been connected to with the God of the Bible. The northern kingdom, the kingdom of Israel, has never been known since their deportation as the -- the people of the God of the Bible, the way the Jews have been. [Note: I miss-spoke here and switched Loami and Loruhamah. Loami in “not God’s people and Loruhamah is “not having mercy”.]
So Hosea also says, we found last week, that in this place where they’d be started scattered, and this by way of prophecy, where they’d be scattered, they would always be known as the sons of the living God. When you come down to a very large population group that totals over 5 million people, you’ve only got three, maybe three other population groups of the earth that would make a multitude of people like that. And the other three other population groups, namely the blacks the Slavs and the Mongoloid races, they have never been known as the “sons of the living God,” in quote, the people that are connected to the God of the Bible.
However, the Celtic nations of northwest Europe, England, Ireland, Denmark –- I almost said Zebulun. That was one of the tribes, Zebulun that became the Netherlands. Zebulun is the Netherlands. The United States, Scotland, Wales – all those peoples have become the Christian nations of the earth. Now, don’t throw the Korean church at me. That’s a recent development. Okay.
These people have always been known as the Christian nations: the Celtic nations. They’re the only ones that fit that prophecy of Hosea. So then again, we showed that through Hosea that the Jews were not involved in those prophecies except the few that came along, the few thousand that came along with the deportations, the whole kingdom of Israel. They weren’t to be involved in those prophecies. The Jews in the Book of Hosea are clearly separate from the Israelites in that book of Hosea. And when we trace the Israelites north of their geographical area down near the Dead Sea and the Jordan River through three different sources:
The Assyrian records in 1948, a man named Layard – Layard, actually, is the way you pronounce it – dug up the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. It’s up on the Euphrates River. There were 23 thousand clay tablets in the royal library there. It’s one of the most spectacular finds of history. And it was outlined in there how through the writings of various Assyrian kings that the account of the deportation and the conquering of the northern kingdom of Israel took place.
We also used as a reference the first century historian Josephus, one of the most respected historians ever and the biggest name in history at that time. He also tells about the deportation.
And then, of course, we use the Bible.
So right now, with the deportation of the northern tribes of Israel by Assyria were at a very crucial point in history, a very pivotal point. Just as we talked about the crossroads of the Bible where the birthright and the ruling and the law making and the blessings and so forth was split apart when Joseph handed -– when Jacob, rather, handed down the blessings before he died to his sons. That’s the cross road to the Bible. This is a crossroads of history in here because it’s at this point that the sons of Isaac, which is another name for the house of Israel, the sons of Isaac become lost. You can find a place in the Bible where it says that the, that the northern tribes of Israel would also call themselves the sons of Isaac or the house of Isaac. That’s why we use the sons the Isaac.
And if you remember, we’ve got about six or seven different names for this whole kingdom: Samaria, Ephraim, the house of Israel, the kingdom of Israel, Beth Omri, or actually the way its pronounced is Khumri. Its got an aspirant sound – the O in front of the name O-M-R-I which is the name of the sixth king of Israel is pronounced like KOMINI you know the Ayatollah over there.
So, here we have the northern kingdom taken away by Assyria and placed out of its geographical area, deported en masse in three, four different waves of conquering. And they become lost and for no other reason, than a change of names. That’s the only reason that they become lost to history.
I mean, come on. How do you lose 5 million people? You know you can’t lose 5 million people. But nowhere in history do you find this war or this big heavy confrontation that happened in the geographical where Israel gets lost, and the Celts begin. The Celts are this big huge population group, this hoard of people that all of a sudden appear at exactly the same time that the lost tribes of Israel disappear. They disappear from the Bible, but they don’t disappear from history. Okay
Now, I want to establish in our minds this geographical location. So, you might want to look at your map now. if you got one out there. And the area we’re talking about is a little bit north, a 100, 200, 200 miles north of the northeast tip of the Mediterranean Sea. Right up there in the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea is the isle of Cyprus, island of Cyprus and if you go north and east from, right from Cyprus through the tip of the Mediterranean Sea, you go almost in a straight line, depending on your map, of course, and you hit a couple of little lakes there. One lake is called Lake Van that’s the most western, the western most lake. Actually there’s three. There’s three. There’s one, one little one up high. But the western most lake is called Lake Van and the eastern most lake is called Lake Urmia. I hope your map is big enough to show those two lakes. They aren’t really big. They’re less than the size of the island of Cyprus. Those two lakes lie about 200 miles south of the east tip of the Black Sea and lay even with the bottom of the Caspian Sea.
Now, the general area that we’re talking about here is between Black Sea and the Caspian Sea below those places right along Lake Van and Lake Urmia and then over into the territory underneath the Caspian Sea. So, basically, the first place where these five million people plus were taken captive in successive waves over the course of 30 or 40 years now is this area below the Caspian and Black Sea right along Lake Van and Lake Urmia and then over underneath the Caspian Sea also. Okay.
There’s a – there are couple of accounts in the Bible. I Kings and I Chronicles and, if you remember, we mentioned last week that the Kings is the history of the whole nation of Israel, the twelve tribes as recorded by the southern kingdom of Judah. The Chronicles is the same history as viewed by the northern kingdom of Israel.
Now, in Chronicles, I Chronicles 5:25 and 26 is where the account happens there. It talks about the first wave of conquering that happened in the northern kingdom of Israel. And the “And the God --” I’m not go to read the whole thing “and the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser”, Pul and Tiglath-Pileser are the same guys, king of Assyria. “And he carried them away even the Reubenites, the Gadites.” Those are two of the tribes, not cities. Those are two tribes. Reuben was one tribe and Gad one another tribe. “And the half tribe of Manasseh.” Now, the reason it’s a half tribe of Manasseh – Manasseh had two different land areas allotted to them. And one area was way up north on the northern border of the kingdom. The other one was down a little bit farther south. “And he brought them to Halah,” H-A-L-A-H, “and Habor,” H-A-B-O-R, “and Hara,” H-A-R-A, “and to the river Gozan unto this day.”
Now, if your map is large enough and complete enough, you’ll see that all three of those areas -- all four of those areas -- Halah – and I know some of the names are changed, you know, through the years, but at that time these were the names. Halah, Habor and Hara and the river Gozan is that area that we just described, an area that’s about, oh, it’s about 5 hundred miles long starting from underneath the Black Sea all the way to underneath the Caspian Sea and it’s about 100, 150 miles wide. It’s a band that goes east to west, right underneath and it takes in Lake Van and Lake Urmia. Okay.
The account in Kings is pretty much the same. Let me just quickly read a little bit of that. “In the day of Pekah, king of Israel,” – the northern tribe of Israel, the kingdom of Israel, right. --“Pekah, the king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria and took--” a bunch of cities I’m not gonna name – “and the land of Naphthali and carried them captive into Assyria.” Now, Sargon was the very last of the Assyrian kings to take away people, and he conquered the capital city of Samaria, besieged Jerusalem, took a bunch of Jews with him, but couldn’t put down Jerusalem itself. So now we got – now we got the Assyrians have come down, deported the northern kingdom and they placed them all around in that wide geographical area we just described.
And we find that there are, in the Assyrian records, there are three prominent names used toward these particular peoples. Okay. The name at first – the very first is Beth-Khumri. Okay. Like we said before, Omri, the sixth king has this aspirant sound so it’s Khumri and the way it’s spelled usually is K-H-U-M-R-I. Khumri. And Beth means “house.” Sometimes it’s called beet, B-I-T, which means “sons of” Omri or Khumri.
The second name that appears in Assyrian records in regard to these people that they placed in this geographical area around those two lakes is Gimira, G-I-M-I-R-A and when you run back it’s changed back to Gimmira with 2 “r”s. And there’s another reference that spells it G-A-M-I-R-A or Gamer, rather, G-E, G-A-M-E-R. But it’s all this one basic root word G-A-M-I-R-A.
Now, there’s another name that’s prominent in Assyrian records besides Omri, Gimira and that’s Iskuza, I-S-K-U-Z-A or-S-A depending. So we got Beth-Khumri, we got Gimira and we got Iskuza as the three basic names, the three most prominent names with a given to the people that were conquered, the house of Israel, the house of Joseph, the house of Ephraim, Samaria, Beth Khumri, all those things. Okay.
The Persians, the Persians wound up having two main names. There’s the Persians and the Medes called these same people that were located mainly under the Caspian Sea because that’s the north border of Medea. So the Medes and the Persians who lived below the Medes called these people mainly Sakka S-A-C-- I’m sorry--S-A-K-K-A. Sometimes, depending on where you’re reading, the name is spelled-S-A-C-A-E. Sacae. Right up around Lake Urmia and Lake Van, there’s a place called Sacasene. The area, the whole area became known Sacasene as the area of the Sakka, okay, in this little area, up there between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. So, that’s one of the names Saka and its derivations.
The other name that we find in Persian accounts is a name that says Massagetae. Massagetae. And Massagetae really just means “the greater number” or “the hoard of Sakka.” It’s the same people only it’s a big group of people and they actually, the reason why the name got changed a little bit from Sakka, there were kind of two waves of these people who came into that land of the Medes and that was the Sakka first and then they kind of moved around a little bit to some of the outlying areas and this large very large, much larger group came later on. And that’s how they got to be known as two different names, but they’re all the same people. Okay.
Now, I have a couple of booklets here that do a, I mean, that do a really good job of summarizing some of this material. They’re both put out by a fellow named W. E. Filmer, F-I-L-M-E-R. And I got an address here that I’m not gonna read you. I think I pretty sure got these from an organization called the covenant people. And they’ve got a couple of locations up in Canada and in Washington just near the border. And this first pamphlet is called, “The lost tribes found in Assyrian archives.” The Assyrian archives.
And I want to read you some excerpts from that and it’ll give you kind of an idea what’s happening. “In addition to places in Assyria to which the first captives were taken, others were taken to Medea” like we said; now that’s below the Caspian Sea just directly below. “Now, Israel had long been known to the Assyrians as Beth Khumri,” meaning the people of Omri.
“Tiglath-Pileser in his annals” – now, this is a quote from the Assyrian tablets now, see. Not from the Bible, from the Assyrian tablets that they dug up in Nineveh. The first king of Assyria to come down and do any conquering and capturing was Tiglath-Pileser. In his annals he describes, he says “The towns of Gilead and Able Beth Maacah on the frontier of Beth Khumri.” See, he doesn’t call it Israel. He calls it
“the frontier of the kingdom of Beth Khumri.” See the Assyrians always knew them as Beth Khumri. Well, not always, but more than a hundred years. “And the widespread district of Hazael. To its whole extent, I turned into the territory of Assyria.” Now, Hazael is the name for Syria just like Beth Khumri became the name for the northern tribes, that kingdom. The king of Syria, not Assyria, but Syria – his name was – one of the main kings was Hazael and so they called that country Hazael. Okay. So that was really just Syria that he was talking about. So he came down, he conquered Syria and Damascus, and some of the northern tribes of the kingdom of Israel.
Now, speaking of Samaria, in 722 B.C. Sargon the second says on a 9-sided prism that we can see on the British museum, he calls this land of Samaria, the land of the house of Omri and in parenthesis, it says Khumri, K-H-U-M-R-I. And the northern Medea, a people had first called Gamer and later Gamera or Gimira received their first mention in the Assyrian archives. Northern Medea. So they called the people over there and that was about 707 B.C. Well, we’ll get to that in a minute, they called him Gimira at that time. So we’ve got Beth Khumri and we got Gimira all of the Assyrian archives. Historians agree however that Gimira is the Assyrian equivalent of the Greek, Kimmerioi, Kimmerioi, K-I-M-M-E-R-I-O-I and in English that word is Cimmerian.
We all heard about the Cimmerians. We, you know, Conan the Great, you know, the barbarian. Conan, the barbarian. There’s another barbarian. That’s something we’re going to get into next week, this barbarian thing. It’s ridiculous you know but that’s next week.
The Cimmerian s were really the Gimira. The Assyrian word Gimira is really just Cimmerian. Okay. The first Assyrian documents to mention the Gimira indicate however that some of them were actually living in northern Iran near Lake Urmia as early as 707 B.C. Now, that’s kind of important to remember. 707 B.C. before the beginning of the seventh century B.C. way down at the very last end of the 8th century B.C., we already have these people called by the Assyrians Gimira in the area of Lake Urmia, which is almost directly between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea just a little bit south.
Okay. What’s next here? The Assyrian spies – this is how we know all this stuff because the Assyrian spies were keeping watch on the northern frontier. Okay. This is intelligence gathering, okay, border reports from the guards, guards from the, the border guards and from spies along the northern frontier. They would they were sent out there, and their mission was to keep tabs on what was going on so that some big insurrection couldn’t get out of hand and Assyria would lose part of their conquered territories. Well, they send a group of people up above Lake Urmia called the Urartians, U-R-A-R-T-I-A-N. And here’s one of the reports. “Assyrian spies keeping watch from the northern frontiers said that the Urartians were defeated by the Gimira, south of the of Lake Urmia.”
Cambridge history, Ancient history volume 3 page 53 says, “Argistis” and he’s the king of Urartu, the Urartians, “was in collecting a considerable army. The people called Gimira by the Assyrians” – Kimmerioi, by the Greeks, “were beginning to move into Asia Minor and to meet their attack, Argistis marched northward. Argistis suffered a great defeat in battle, apparently delivered in the territory acknowledged to belong the Cimmerians.” Okay. The archaeological evidence clearly shows that no Scythians,” not Cimmerians now, – we’re kind of jumping the head a little bit “no Scythians appeared in south Russia above the Caucasus mountains above this area that we’re talking about where the Lake Van, Lake Urmia are, all of the above the Black Sea, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, but above it instead of below and above the Caucasus mountains.
“They didn’t appear in south Russia until after 600 B.C.” The Cimmerians, remember, they were recorded as being in the area below the Caucasus Mountains as early as 707 B.C, a hundred years. They would have a hundred years before – any archaeological evidence shows that the Scythians were uncovered in south Russia, north of the Caucasus Mountains. Whereas, the Cimmerians are known from various historical sources to have been in Asia Minor all through the seventh century. Okay. “Russian archeologists have produced no evidence” and this is a very important point here “that suggests that the land north of the Black Sea had been invaded from the east by any fresh people.” Now, the area north of the Black Sea just a little bit north of the Black Sea had become known as or has become known in history as Scythia because that’s where the Scythians lived for a long time. They became known as Scythia. Now, we’ll get to that a little bit litter too later too. But that’s an important to remember too.
But there’s no archaeological evidence that shows people moving from east of there into that area. There’s no graves. There’s no pottery. They don’t dig up things that are the same style and the same culture in that area.
Esarhaddon, Esarhaddon – it’s the guy’s name. He’s another king of Assyria, and he ruled from 681 B.C. to 669. Okay, twelve years or so. “Esarhaddon, who recorded a battle with the Cimmerians in the second year of his reign,” this is what he says. This is again out of the Assyrian tablets okay. “Hubushna, the Gimira,” he says, “a barbarian whose home was afar off, I cut down with the sword in the land of Hubushna together with all his troops.”
And then he ends the account by saying, “And the rest of them who were not guilty of rebellion” because the Gimira must have been “and insubordination I imposed the heavy yolk of my sovereignty.” So the Gimira were guilty of rebellion. You have to remember that.
That, you see when these people were deported, they weren’t put into slavery. The Assyrian policy, in this deportation, was to give most of the people that they conquered a lot of freedom. They had a lot of political freedom. They had a lot of agricultural freedom. And the Assyrians had such a great big and heavy-duty army that they thought they could keep control on the whole works even at a big distance. So they gave him a lot, a lot of rein so to speak and what happens was insurrection because all these people had the pay tribute. Guys would come along from the kingdom, they’d say, “Pay up.” Well, they didn’t want to pay. And a lot of times, groups would get together and they’d revolt and they wouldn’t pay. They’d kill the guards and whatever else.
So, let’s see a large prism of Ashurbanipal which is another Assyrian king which succeeded Esarhaddon recalls that subsequently about the middle of the seventh century, 650 B.C., the Cimmerians had made raids on the kingdom of Libya in western nation Asia minor. So we’ve got the Gimira or Kimmerioi or Cimmerians revolting against the Assyrian rule and becoming raiders, you know, robbers and raiders, and you know, guerilla warfare so to speak.
A couple more things. Let’s take a look at some of the things of the Scythians. Scythians. Now, in addition to the Gimira being reported among the Medes just south of the Caspian Sea and the Mannai. Now, the Mannai are located just below Lake Urmia okay. The Urartians are up above Lake Urmia and around Lake Van and the Mannai is another group of people that are located below lake Urmia, just below and at the northern borders of Medea. Okay.
Among the Medes, another group of people, another name, Iskuza also occurs in this connection in the Assyrian archives. Okay. For example, Esarhaddon, in his annals claimed victory over them. Now, here’s what he says, “I scattered the Mannaeian people–” Intractable barbarians. And “he conquered the armies of Ishpaki,” the Iskuza, “an alliance with the Mannai did not save him.”
Now, there’s a prayer text of Esarhaddon. He sends this prayer to the priest, and he says, “Will the Iskuza warriors who live in the district of Mannai and have moved to the frontier of Mannai succeed in their plan. Will their reach” – will they march -- “will they march out from the pass of Habushnia and reach the towns of Harrania and Anisuskia and take booty and great heavy spoil from the borders of Assyria.” Now, it’s evident from these texts that during Esarhaddon’s reign, Esarhaddon’s reign, hostile bands not only of Gimira but also of Iskuza were operating among the Mannai and among the Medes, just south of the Caspian sea. So we got these raiding parties you know these insurrectionists, raiding parties happening.
One last part here of the Scythians. Okay. Iskuza was the name for the people who the Greeks called Scythians. Okay. So now we got the Assyrians with the name Gimira for the Cimmerians and Iskuza for the Scythians. Okay.
And Herodotus, volume 7, 64 informs us that the Persians called these Scythians tribes Sacae, S-A-C-A-E. The initial I in the name Isaac, though retained by the Assyrians in Iskuza, was dropped by the Persians, probably because in Hebrew, the accent fell on the last syllable. So when, if you were going to say the “sons of Isaac,” you would not say the sons of Isaac, you’d say the sons of Isaac. Isaac. See. So the I just naturally kind of gets dropped, and they become the Sak or Sakka or Sacae. Okay. Or Sacasuni actually. There’s another one.
Okay. Now, I want to take a look at some of the Persian. That was mostly from the Assyrian point of view and the – the Persians. Let’s see what they have to say about this. There’s three different places where we see these names cross-referenced in Persian records. Okay. We’re done with the Assyrian records. Now, we go to the Persian records. There’s three different places.
One as we talked about before is Behistun rock. Behistun rock is located above Babylon, about halfway between Babylon and the Caspian Sea. Okay. And it’s on the road from Babylon to the capital of the Medes, Ecbatana think, is the name of it. And it’s 1700 feet high and there’s this huge inscription and relief drawn or carved into this rock. It’s 150 feet wide high and a 100 feet high, 300 feet off the ground. So Sir Henry Rawlinson is the guy who in 1840 was, was the translator of the Assyrian cuneiform writing. The text is in three languages, Persian, Susian, which is Elamite, and Babylonian. And Babylonian and Assyrian are the same. Those three languages includes a list of the peoples over whom Darius, the Mede who was in charge of the Medo-Persian empire – the Medes and the Persians welded together. He ruled over certain peoples and in their accounts, the Persian and the Susian accounts, they were called the Sakka, S-A-K-K-A, or the Sacae, S-A-C-A-E in central Asia. In both the Persian and the Susian version, these are called Saka, S-A-K-A, but in the Babylonian version the same people are called Gimiri, G-I-M-I-R-I, Which obviously is the translation to Cimmerians okay. So we got a tie in there.
The second trilingual inscription is on a thin sheet of gold. And this is in the British museum right now. And in Persian and Elamite versions, the original for Scythian is-S-A-K-A again. But in the Babylonian, again, it’s Gimira. Now, this time they got an “a” on the other end of it. And finally, an inscription in the tomb of Darius right inside of the tomb in three different languages lists all the nations again that he ruled over. Okay. But here, the three different groups of Scythians are mentioned. Three different groups of Scythians and in each time they’re called Saka, in the Persian and Elamite text, but all three times, they’re called Gimira in the Babylonian translation. Well, that’s some of that now.
Let’s follow a little more closely the movements of the Scythians. Okay. First of all, we’ll take a look at the Cimmerians in just a minute. Movements of the Scythians. Again, I’ve got another little booklet by W. E. Filmer called, “Our Scythian Ancestors,” which dovetails with the first book that I read some things out of. “To the early tombs of Russia.” We’re back to Russia, the north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus mountains in south Russia, “The earliest tombs in Russia such as in Kelermes on the North slope of the Caucasus and the Litov barrow contain weapons and other articles decorated with gold that show a close connection not only with the earliest Scythian designs found at the another village where they had, where they dug up a treasure, Ziwiye, but also with Assyrian, Median and Urartian art.
The director of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad says that all –now wait a minute, what’s he say, “compositions with the tree of life in the gold settings of the swords of the – both, both Kelermes and the Melgunov treasure are not only reproduced in ancient Mesopotamian subject, but in no way differ stylistically from similar Assyrian and Urartian designs.” These are Scythian tombs that they dug up. okay. Now, all this goes just goes to show that the Scythians of south Russia must have come from south of the Caucasus and not across the Volga. The Volga River from Central Asia, as used to think.
Herodotus, father of history, the father of history, Herodotus says Scythians never use pigs for sacrifice. A little bit of cultural and current belief tie-in between the Scythians and the northern tribes of Israel. Pork right. Don’t eat pork. Don’t do anything with pork. Unclean food and all that. “The Scythians never use pigs for sacrifice and will not even breed them anywhere in the country.” That’s just kind of side light there.
Now, the Scythians became divided, okay, by another group that came in. At first, the Scythians dominated the whole of the step country between the Carpathians and the sea of Azov. Okay. Now, the Sea of Azov is right on top of the Black Sea. It’s part of the Black Sea, but there’s a little strait that kind of makes a bottleneck and it becomes a sea all by itself on top of the Black Sea. Okay. From the Carpathian mountains, some five, six, you know, maybe a 1000, 1200 miles to the sea of Azov right above the Black Sea.” And their territory, according to Herodotus, extended a similar distance inland.
Well, then they – after that, they moved north and here’s some stuff that happened to them then. One of the people we got to quote here is a Russian historian named M. I. Rosstovtsev and he wrote, “We cannot but recognize that in the fourth and third centuries, the Scythians endeavored to install themselves is a ruling class in the northern regions of their empire. To transform their suzerainty into a real domination and to extend that domination as far as possible to the south. It will not be denied that this Scythian expansion hitherto unnoticed is a historical fact of the first importance. The Sarmatians advanced from the Dnieper to the Carpathians during the last two centuries of the Christian era. And the Scythians became divided into a northern and southern group.” So, they were ensconced up and the near the top of the Black Sea. The Sarmatians moved in from the east, and separated the two of them. And some of them pushed the some of them south and other of them went north. Okay.
Strabo, another historian, describing the various parts of Asia and Europe shortly before the beginning of the Christian era, says, “Of the portions thus divided,” the north and the south, “the first is inhabited in the region toward the north and the ocean.” Now, that’s the North Sea or the Baltic Sea up at the top of the European area. The north and the ocean by the Scythian nomads and wagon dwellers and in the south by the Sarmatians.”
Pliny, another historian, states that “The name of the Scythians,” -- this is another point of confusion. “The name of the Scythians is everywhere changed to that of Sarmatae and Germans.” Okay. The Romans got in there, and because the Sarmatians moved into Scythia, the geographical location of Scythia, they became known as Scythians. Well, that became confusing. Who are the real Scythians, and who are the Sarmatians? So, they became two different names – – these two people that lived there: Sarmatae and Germans and this old designation is not continued, has not been continued for any except the outlying section of this nation whom they are almost unknown to the rest of mankind.” This Northern. “This Sarmatians – in order to distinguish” – this is what happened. “In order to distinguish between the Sarmatian inhabitants and the true Scythians, the Romans dropped the name Scythians and substituted Germani because Strabo says “It was for this reason that the that the Romans assigned to them Germany to the Scythians as though they wished to indicate thereby that they were the genuine Scythians
Germans, right okay.
Now I want to go to one of my other favorite books by E. Raymond Capt called, “The missing links discovered in Assyrian tablets.” And it’s one of the most comprehensive lost tribes studies you’ll find. It’s got everything in it, got a whole bunch of stuff that we got in it. It’s some, some 250 pages long. And this is a section that describes the Massagetae. Okay. Massagetae, remember, was the Persian name for the second wave of Saka that moved east under the Caspian Sea and then we move up north from there around the east side of the Caspian Sea, and move north.
Strabo, writing in about A.D. 20, but drawing his information from earlier sources, remarks on the variety of reports that he found on the Scythians, although he uses the name Massagetae. The name Massagetae means “The great-S-A-K-A hoard” or “the main body of S-A-K-A S.” I mentioned that already. The name Massagetae may have been the name that the Persians gave to the main body of Scythians in northern Medea before they were driven out. To distinguish them from the outlying colonies, such as the Sacasene which is between the Black Sea and the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea or Bactriana, which is on the other side of the Caspian Sea. It’s on the east side of the Caspian Sea.
Strabo wrote, “Some of them inhabit mountains, some plains, some others marshes, but the country is inundated most of all, they say, by the Araxes river.” Now, that’s between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in that central area which splits into numerous branches and empties by its other mouths into the sea.” So this would place them near the Araxes river most west of the Caspian Sea, but then a little bit further on, he writes, “The Massagetae are situated alongside the Bactriani, along the Oxus River, O-X-U-S. So apparently, the earliest S-A-K-A-S settlers in Bactria, east of the Caspian Sea were followed by a second wave of Scythians, called Massagetae.
So we’ve got would two groups, one on each side of – two groups of Scythians, one on each side of the Caspian Sea in that central area and just a little bit west of there directly underneath the Black Sea we have this other group of people who are called the Cimmerians and all of them were placed there originally in that 30, 40 year period by the Assyrians and came directly out of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Zaborowski is another historian; he says “I have proved it and I can say that the Sacae and the Scythians are identical. The first information of history concerning the peoples of Turkestan refers to the Massagetae, whose life was exactly the same as that of the Scythians.”
And here he quotes Herodotus. Okay. “They enjoyed --” This is important for next week. Now, these guys weren’t barbarians. Right. “They enjoyed a developed industrialized civilization while they remained nomads.” In a developed civilization. See. One of the big things about barbarianism is that these people are illiterate. They’re dumb. They’re stupid. They’re cruel, they’re savaged and all that stuff. They can’t write. They must be barbarians. They can’t write. Well, they didn’t need to write you know. Do what you need to do.
Let’s take a look a little bit at some of the Cimmerian migrations, okay, for a minute or two. “All historical accounts agree that the Cimmerians were in the southern areas west of the Black Sea before the Scythians. It was the Scythians pushed by the Sarmatians that caused the Cimmerians to move westward as the Celts and the Gauls. Now, another name – the Romans got in there again and they renamed some of the Cimmerians, Gauls. All of them, Gauls. The Greeks were the ones that called them Celts. The Romans called them Gauls. Okay. So we got two distinct groups of peoples, as far as traditional history is concerned that are exactly the same people. The Romans called them Gauls and Celts. The Celtic names were called by the Greeks. One branch of the Cimmerians migrated from the Black Sea region of northwestern in the northwestern direction known as the cambric Chersonesus.” That’s now called Jutland or Yutland. The Romans called these people Cimri after the Cimbri, okay, being the abbreviation for Cimmerians.
Plutarch, historian, says that they were called at first Cimmerians in and not inappropriately and then not inappropriately Cimbri Cimbri. Cimbri were known to the Greeks as Cimmerians.
Diodorus talks about the Greeks calling them Celts and the Romans calling them Gauls.
From the opening of the fourth century B.C. when the Celtic tribes invaded northern Italy, the series of defeats of the Romans at the hands of the Cimbri stated that they were Gauls. Other Roman historians repeatedly spoke of Cimbri before as Celtic tribes.
Other historians, ”both Tacitus and Pliny supported by modern archaeological state that all the tribes dwelling on the North Sea coast from Holland to Denmark were a single which they ethnic group, which they called Ingaevones. From this we may conclude that the history, the historical, Chauci and Cimbri mentioned in earlier historians were one stock. Not only of Cimmerian but originally Israelitish in origin. Archaeology indicates that these people first arrived on the shores of North Sea of about 300 to 250 B.C.
They increased in number, and they crossed the Alps and the Apennines to overrun southern and central Italy. It was they who, through the Cimbri, who overthrew Etruscans. Now, Roman continued to be harassed by the Gauls, another name, for almost 200 years, but the Gauls founded Milan, Dickson and Verona. Okay.
Vast hoards of Gauls from central,” this is really interesting here, “vast hoards of Gauls from Central Europe invaded the western portion of Asia minor back under the Black Sea. Okay. And they permanently maintained themselves in Phrygia. And their name became known as the Galatia or the name of that place. The name of that place became Galatia cause they were the Gauls, the Gauls came in and became Galatia. The book of Galatians in the Bible was written to a race of Celts. See, the Celtics were the Cimmerians. The Cimmerians moved out, pushed away by the Scythians, and they moved out of that area. Then they moved back in. And retook that area as Gauls.
Now, we’ve only just begun to scratch the names here. We’ve got Khumri, Gamer, Gamera, Gimira, Iskuza, Sacae, Sakka, Massagetae, Cimmerian, Celts, Kimmerioi, Gauls, Cimri, Cimbri, Omri, Isaac, Isaac, Germans, Scythians, – and Scythians by the way, in Greek comes out to sound like scoo-thay, which immediately goes into Scott. Okay. So threw that in for nothing. We’ve also got the Sarmatae, the Sarmatians and the Germans, a whole bunch of names. We’ve only begun to brush the surface of this whole material.
Now, I’d like to bore you with a lot of the reports about the guards and the spies, but I think we’ve got enough evidence going here now.
We’re doing this study currently at Straight Talk only a lot more detail, and it’s a little bit more easy going that on the radio, it’s kind of hard to follow. Why don’t you come along and study with us on Monday nights, 7 o’clock.
Now, with the establishment of the Israelites as Scythians and Celts, it’s just a small step to go to their final homes of these various peoples in northwest Europe. And when we study the histories of the northwest Europe countries and the U. S., we also see, we will see the fulfillment of the prophecies given to kingdom of Israel.
Now, next week we’re going to look into a bunch of these old wives’ tails about the barbaric Celts. Barbarians. What a joke and after today’s evidence, it’s hard it believe that most history books were really researched. I mean I’ve just been- reading the available historians show us the truth. I was amazed at the lack of coverage in four big history books that I’ve been looking through just recently. They don’t know anything about these people, you know. That’s crazy.
Next week, we’ll also try to match up some of those promises and prophesies of the Bible to the Celts. So you might want to tune in and stretch with Jack on Saturday morning on history and philosophy of the Bible.
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