"Brit-Am Now"-555
Contents:
1. Orjan Svensson: Scandinavian Mythology
THE GOD TYR
ERMANARIK THE MIGHTY
ASHER AND GAD: SWEDEN AND SCOTLAND
2..Harold Hemenway: Were SCYTHIANS Israelites?
3. Ephraimite imigration development
4. Gary David Atkinson: Question on Recent Events



Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:05:04 +0200 From: Yair Davidiy Subject: "Brit-Am Now"-554(555)

followed (below) by "Brit-Am Now" 555 1. Orjan Svensson: Scandinavian Mythology
THE GOD TYR
The god Tyr in Scandinavian mythology is identical to the Germanic Tuisto (also known as Tiwaz) who according to Tacitus was the most most ancient of the Germanic gods. According to "Fornnordiskt lexikon" by ke Ohlmarks the name Tuisto means "The twofold." Further he says that Tuisto got his name because of Tyr's two hands which usually are raised in pictures of Tyr, Since Tuisto and Tyr most probably are identical, then the name Tyr probably means "Twofold" analogously to the name Tuisto. This possibility is considerably strengthened by the fact that according to one of my dictionaries the word TYaRa' (T-Y-R-A) meant "pair" in post-biblical Jewish Aramaic! We can therefore conclude that the name of the ancient Scandinavian god Tyr originally was an Aramaic name which meant "two" or "twofold", identical in meaning to the Germanic Tuisto!!

ERMANARIK THE MIGHTY
The word IRMIN meant "mighty" in Old Scandinavian. It is synonymous to the word HEID. Thus the mightiest king of the kingdom of the Goths was known both as Heidrek and as Ermanarik, both words connoting "mighty". I hereby suggest that the Old Scandinavian words IRMIN and HEID could have come from the Hebrew ARMON and HOD respectively, because ARMON means "palace" and is so called from being lofty (from the root ROM or RAM) according to my dictionary and HOD means "majesty" and since the Hebrew vowels are fluid, could have lent itself to a pronunciation similar to "Heid".

ASHER AND GAD: SWEDEN AND SCOTLAND
In "The Tribes" by Yair Davidy it is demonstrated how Sweden was dominated by descendants of the Tribe of Gad while Scotland and Northern England received many from Asher and indeed Scotland appears to be the land allocated to Asher: Asher and Gad were full-brother sons of Jacob by his concubine Zilpa and these were the only two sons Zilpa had. The following extract shows the presence of Scottish settlers in Sweden performing a positive and naturally fraternal role and "both Asher and Gad were sons of Silpa".

Y Editor's Note: Tuisto was the father of Mannus identified by us as Menasseh. The raising of two hands in Hebrew tradition symbolizes blessing .Jacob blessed the two sons of Joseph Ephraim and Menasseh. We believe there is a connection.

6.Harold Hemenway: Were SCYTHIANS Israelites?
From: Harold Hemenway
[Extracts Only:]

When Jacob built shelters for his cattle in Jordan, he called the place "SUCCOTH" (Heb. "Cottages" or "Huts") (Gen. 33:17). When Israel dwelt in Egypt, she named a town "SUCCOTH" (Ex. 12:37). In Palestine, the city of "SUCCOTH" was given to the tribe of Gad (Josh. 13:27). Later, Israel was deported to Media (2 Ki. 18:11) which is the same place that Diodorus Siculus says the "SCYTHIANS" had their origin "on the Araxes" River (2:3). Herodotus then says the SCYTHIANS moved "across the Araxes into Cimmeria" (the Crimea) (4:11). In 2 Esdras 13:40-46 we read that Israelites traveled this same route. Later, Germany was known as "SCYTHIA" (Nennius' History of the Britons 31,37 & 50). Then Scandinavia was anciently called "SCATHAnavia." Ireland was known as "SCOTIA Major" and Scotland was called "SCOTIA Minor" (Venerable Bede & Nennius). Strabo says, "All the nations toward the northern parts, the ancient Greek writers call SCYTHIANS" (11:507). Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Without A King The following facts connect both Saxons and Scythians with Israel. Israel was to be "many days WITHOUT A KING" (Hos. 3:4) "The most ancient account of the Saxon government on the continent exists in this short but expressive passage of Bede: 'The ancient SAXON'S HAVE NO KING, but many chiefs set over their people, who, when war presses, draw lots equally, and whomsoever the chance points out, they all follow as leader, and obey during the war. The war concluded, all the chiefs become again of equal power." In the Lindenb. Gloss. 1347, the following occurs: 'TWELVE Ethelings governed over the land of the Saxons; and whenever war arose in that land, the Saxons chose one of the TWELVE to be king while the war lasted; when the war was finished, the TWELVE became alike.'" (Sharon Turner's Anglo-Saxons 1:207) Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Had Divining Rods

The SAXON custom of DIVINING by RODS or "AUGURY by WANDS" (Tacitus' Germania 9:10) can be traced to the Israelite practice mentioned in Hosea 4:12 which says, "My people ask counsel of their STOCKS, and their STAFF declareth unto them." "They cut a small branch of a fruit-tree into TWIGS, marked them, and scattered them at random on a white vest. The priest, if it were a public COUNCIL, or the father, at a private CONSULTATION, prayed, gazed at heaven, drew each three times, and interpreted according to the mark previously impressed. Alfred also says they cast lots with TWIGS (Sharon Turner's Anglo Saxons 1:223). Herodotus says, "SCYTHIA has an abundance of soothsayers who foretell the future by means of a number of WILLOW WANDS. A large bundle of these WANDS is brought and laid on the ground. The soothsayer unties the bundle, and places each wand by itself, at the same time uttering his prophecy" (Herod. 4:67). Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Had Similar Religions The religion of Odin included the belief in a beneficent ALL-FATHER in HEAVEN, who made the heaven, and earth, and air out of nothing; in the future purifying the world by FIRE, a catastrophe connected with the embodiment of evil., who is frequently described as a SERPENT or a DRAGON; in a NEW WORLD that is TO COME, and in the advent of "the POWERFUL ONE" for JUDGMENT.
Israelites and Scythians Had Groves But No Images
A German (Scythian) custom mentioned in Tacitus' Germania 9:10 that seems to be Israelite is as follows:"The deities of the Germans are NOT confined WITHIN WALLS, nor FASHIONED INTO any mortal SHAPES; they hallow GROVES and WOODS, and call by the name of gods that hidden presence which is felt by reverence alone." Many passages in the Bible mention "GROVES" as places of Israelite worship (1 Kings 14:15) and the biblical command to "not make unto thee any GRAVEN IMAGE or any LIKENESS of ANYTHING" is also well known. Immediately before the captivity, "Ephraim was joined to IDOLS," but neither in Scythia nor in Germany did they have IMAGES so they must have repented somewhat. Neither did they have kings for "the children of Israel shall abide many days WITHOUT A KING, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and WITHOUT AN IMAGE, and without an ephod, and without teraphim" (Hos. 3:4). Scythians made no idols (Herodotus 4:59). Israelites-Scythians-Saxons Were Civilized, Wise and Unconquerable
"Round the Black Sea ... are to be found, if we EXCEPT SCYTHIA, the most uncivilized nations in the world. No one could claim that the rest have any of the arts of civilized life, or have produced any man of distinction" (Her. 4:46). Aeschylus says "The SACAE (or SCUTHS) were noted for their GOOD LAWS, and were preeminently a RIGHTEOUS people." Colossians 3:11 contrasts Barbarians with SCYTHIANS. Thucydides says, "In respect of MILITARY STRENGTH and NUMBER of SOLDIERS, NO single NATION, either in Europe or Asia, could MATCH the SCUTHS" (Thuc. 2:97 spoken about 420 B.C.). As Psalm 105:20 says, "He INCREASED his people Israel greatly, and made them STRONGER than their enemies." Herodotus adds, "They have, in one respect ... shown themselves WISER than any other nation upon the face of the earth.... Possessing no houses but waggons, and carrying these about wherever they go, accustomed, one and all, to fight on horseback with bows and arrows, and dependent for their food not upon agriculture but upon their cattle: how can they fail of being UNCONQUERABLE, and even UNASSAILABLE?" (4:46). "NO WEAPON that is formed AGAINST THEE shall PROSPER" (Isa. 54:17).
Their oaths were accompanied by CEREMONIES IDENTICAL WITH those of the MEDES; they used skulls as drinking cups, like the Northmen of later years; their weapons were the spear, the battle-axe and the bow; they made BOOTHES like the Israelites; they had fables of GRIFFINS, the representations of which on the Scythian tombs are almost exactly like the WINGED LIONS of the Assyrians.
Israelites and Scythians Boiled Meat By Burning Bones
Describing their sacrifices, Herodotus says, "After flaying the beasts, they take out all the bones, and put the flesh into BOILERS or cauldrons of a large size, then placing the BONES of the animals beneath the cauldron, they set them ALIGHT, and so BOIL the meat." (Her. 4:61) In Ezekiel 24:5 we read, "take the choice of the flock, and BURN also the BONES under it, and make it BOIL well." Professor Rawlinson thinks both these passages refer to the same custom.
Israelites and Scythians Didn't Eat Pigs
Finally Herodotus says regarding sacrifices,"they NEVER USE SWINE; nor, indeed, is it their wont to breed them in any part of their country" (Her. 4:63). Yes "the SWINE ... IS UNCLEAN to you" (Lev. 11:7). Strabo says of the Dacians "that the care of WORSHIPPING the Supreme Being is GREAT among this nation, is not to be doubted, after what Posidonius has related, 'and they even ABSTAIN FROM ANIMAL FOOD from religious motives,' as likewise on account of the testimony of other historians" (Strabo 7:3:4).
Tacitus says the Kimbri were Germans and "the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a Race, Pure, Unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character. Hence a family likeness pervades the whole though their numbers are so great" (Tacitus de Morib. Ger. c.v.). Thus was Israel sifted through a sieve, but not one grain was allowed to fall to the ground (Amos 9:9). "SCYTHIANS are dead-set AGAINST FOREIGN WAYS" (Her. 4:75). Their destiny was to "DWELL ALONE." (Num. 23:9)
Israelites and Scythians Were Known As Arians
Reuben, Gad and half-Manasseh were placed by Tiglath-Pileser in the mountain district of Great MEDIA, a region expressly called HARA (1 Chr. 5:26; Ar being a mountain). In fact all ten tribes of Israel were placed in the "cities of the MEDES" (2 Ki. 17:6). Herodotus 7:62 says, "The Medes were once universally known as ARIANS." HARA was named ARIA, ARIANA and ARACHOSIA by the Greeks (see Ptolemy). It contains the city of HARAT. According to the black obelisk discovered in the ruins of the palace of Nimrod which is now in the British Museum, the people or leader of the ARIANS was called ESAKSKA (Isaac) and their principal cities were "Beth-Telabon, Beth-Everak and Beth-Tsida" in 670 B.C.

Ephraimite imigration development

In a recent Brit-am post a reader asked the question that many Ephraimites have been asking lately. What is Brit-am, and other supporters of Ephraim in Israel, doing to help open the door for Ephraims return back to the land?
This is a good question and one that was the topic of a recent meeting between Rabbi Feld, Yair and myself. The answer is that the door for Ephraims return can realistically be opened (in limited form) through legislation that we will introduce to the Knesset. The legislation will allow for Ephraimites to settle in Israel under a residency status.
Non-Jewish residents currently qualify for citizenship, under Israeli law, after having lived in the land for 5 years. This legislation will be pushed through the predominately Israeli Knesset (Parliamentary Assembly ). This process will be in addition to the religious court system, which requires the conversion of a non-Jew in order for him/her to settle in the land. Conversion, we all agreed, is not the avenue Ephraim should necessarily be required to take in every case. .

The introduction of the legislation will first be followed by a massive internal media campaign explaining who Ephraim is, where he is, and why it is in Israels best interest that he come here. This will be an ongoing campaign.
The legislation will be presented to and by MKs that have good relations with believers in the States and wield sufficient power in the Knesset.
A committee formed here in Jerusalem will oversee this process. Committee members consist of the following individuals:
Rabbi Avraham Feld - Maccabbi Institute/Brit-am Israel ben David - Sheevtay Israel

We believe that with the current connections of individuals involved in this process that this legislative endeavor will be successful.

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