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Irish Ancestry in Mythology.
Extracts from:
Herman Hoeh, COMPENDIUM OF WORLD HISTORY
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The History of Ireland
According to Irish history the first claim to Irish soil was made by Nin mac
Piel -- that is Irish for the Assyrian king Ninus, son of Bel or Belus. But no
permanent settlement was established.
Ireland remained generally uninhabited for about three hundred years after the
flood -- -- records Keating (p. 114). In 2068 Parthalon and a band of Hebrew
warriors arrived from the Greek world and established a settlement at Inis
Saimer, a small island in the river Erne, at Ballyshannon. Thirty years later --
2038 -Parthalon died and the land was divided between his four sons; Er, Orba,
Ferann, and Fergna (p. 120) (p, 118). Twenty years later (2018) a plague befell
the settlers. The settlers were exterminated, save for those who fled. After 30
years of desolation -- 2018-1988 -- the remnant that fled returned to Ireland
and continued to inhabit it for another 250 years until 1738.
A second and related wave of migrants came into Ireland from Scythia. Irish
annalists often have been laughed at because they picture these migrants sailing
from the Black Sea to the North Sea through what is now European Russia. Such
"poor geography" was in fact the same geography of early classical writers, who
mentioned the early ease of sailing the same route. This geography is not
unusual when it is recognized that the Pripet Marshes in Russia were once -- in
the centuries after the Flood -- a vast lake connected by rivers to the Black
and North seas!
The migrants from Scythia at this period were called Nemedians, after Nemedh,
the leader of the expedition. They dwelt in Ireland for 216 years -- 1708-1492.
During much of this time they were reduced to slavery under the Formorians. A
part of the Nemedians fled to Grecian Thrace to escape the oppression (p. 126).
They returned to Ireland 216 years after the Nemedians first reached the shores
of Ireland. Upon their return they bore the epithet Fir-Bolgs, a name derived
from the circumstances of their oppression while in Grecian Thrace. The Fir-Bolgs
set up a kingship upon their conquest of the Formorians. From Keating a list of
Fir-Bolg rulers may be obtained (pp. 131-132).
Thirty-six years after the Fir-Bolgs returned to Ireland -- 1456 -- the first
small migration of the Tuatha-De-Danaan occurred. This was during the time of
the Wandering in the wilderness under Moses. The total length of Danite dominion
in Ireland before the coming of the royal house of the Milesians was 440 years
-- 1456-1016 (p. 168).
By other reckonings the Danite dominion was much shorter -- only 197 years -- ..
Keating records that while the tribe of Dan dwelt in Greece, "It happened that a
large fleet came from Syria to make war upon the people of the Athenian
territory, in consequence of which they were engaged in daily battles .... As to
the Tuatha-De-Dananns, when they saw the natives of the land thus vanquished by
the Syrians, they all fled out of the country, through fear of those invaders.
And they stopped not until they reached the regions of Lochlinn (Scandinavia),
where they were welcomed by the inhabitants, on account of their many sciences
and arts .... When they had remained a long time in these cities, they passed
over to the north of Alba (Scotland), where they continued seven years in Dobar
and Iardobar" (pp. 136-137). Keating continues (p. 139): "When the
Tuatha-De-Danann had remained seven years in the north of Scotland (or Alba),
they passed over to Ireland and landed in the north of this country."
The Coming of the Milesians
... The Milesians were named after Miledh, or Milesius, of Spain, whose sons
conquered Ireland and ruled over the Danites. All the migrants from Parthalon to
the Milesians were distantly related to each other. The most famous ancestor of
the Milesians was Eibher Scot -- Eber of Scotia, of Scythia -- identifying the
Milesians as sons of Eber, or Hebrews... A late fictitious genealogy going back
to Magog arose in monkish times from the known fact that Hebrews once dwelt in
Scythia, which was also inhabited by Magog.
The wanderings of the family of Heber to Milesius are summarized by Keating on
p. 173. The final migration, under Milesius, was from Egypt, via Thrace to
Spain. This was shortly before the expulsion of the Hyksos in 1076. ...
"Miledh at length remembered ... Ireland was the land in which it was destined
that his posterity should obtain a lasting sovereignty. Upon this he fitted out
three ships, supplied them with crews, and took his leave of Pharaoh. He then
set sail from the mouth of the Nile, into the Mediterranean, and landed on an
Island near Thrace." (Reating, p. 177.) After further migrations the prince
landed in Spain to join members of the family he had left behind years before.
In Spain he died. There followed a scarcity of food in Spain for about 26 years
according to Irish records (p. 179).
According to the Domestic Annals a consequent invasion of the Irish coast was
planned to relieve the pressure from the drought. .. The invasion was
successful. The Tuatha-De-Danaan were forced to accept the new line of Royalty.
The realm of Ireland was now divided between the two surviving sons of Milesius
-- Ebher and Ghedhe the Ereamhon (or Heremon). .. Heremon or Ereamhon is a
title, which, in the case of Ghedhe, came to be used as a personal name.
Of this Ghedhe the Heremon, brother of Eber, the "Annals of the Four Masters"
reads: "Tea, the daughter of Lughaidh, son of Itha, whom Eremhon married in
Spain." This Tea is an altogether different person from the Tea who came more
than four centuries later to the Irish Isles. ...
The brothers Eber and Gede the Heremon founded a town after gaining possession
of Ireland. To be the new capital of Ireland, they named it Tea-mur, the town of
Tea. At different times in history it has borne other names, the most common
being Tara (cp. the Hebrew word "Torah", meaning "Law").
Did David Visit Ireland?
Even to this day another of the names of the old site of Tara has been
preserved: Dowd's Town -- which means literally David's Town. The name is found
attached to an area three miles north of Tara Hill (see B.M. Ordnance Survey
maps, Ireland, 91, 101).
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