The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel

Part 3: America

by Åsmund Kaspersen

America

Interesting archaeological findings indicate that the Israelites, in their quest for adventure, had also reached the American mainland, where they apparently established trading colonies and engaged in mining, especially copper mining on the northern shores of Lake Superior. The Israelites sailed with the Phoenicians, who were significant seafarers (1 Kings 9:26–28. Hiram of Tyre was a Phoenician from the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre), and we know that the tribe of Dan also had ships (Judg 5:17). The first colonies in America were founded at the mouths of rivers in what is now New England.

The Israelite/Phoenician influence is confirmed by hundreds of stone inscriptions and other archaeological findings in America. The inscriptions are in several languages, including Phoenician and Iberian/Punic. The late American professor Barry Fell has written several richly illustrated books documenting these discoveries, including Saga America, America B.C. and Bronze Age America.

The discovery of such inscriptions and a number of other archaeological finds, including Carthaginian coins from the fourth and third centuries BC, Phoenician and Iberian bronzes, Roman coins from the first century AD, etc. etc., has changed our view that America was unknown to the Western world before the time of Leif Eiriksson and Columbus. The Las Lunas inscription in New Mexico is an example of such early Hebrew script, reminiscent of Phoenician under Greek influence. The inscription consists of nine lines, and is a summary of the Ten Commandments, exactly as they are summarized in Exodus 20. A comparison of the archaic tetragrammaton (the four letters of God's name in Hebrew) in column 10 of the Habbakuk commentary (100 BC) from Qumran Cave 1 (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found) with the Las Lunas inscription, attests to the authenticity and great age of the latter.

In fact, many discoveries of various objects have been made in North America that have their origin in a people who were artistically far more skilled than the native American population, the Indians, who also did not have their own written language. These objects are of a completely different nature and quality than the crude stone tools of the Indians. The Las Lunas stone is mentioned, another example is the Dighton stone at Dighton, Massachusetts, a skeleton in armor found at Fall River, as well as an over 2000-year-old armored breastplate of cast bronze. There are enigmatic burial mounds around Mississippi and Ohio. Several of these burial mounds contain skeletons that are over 2000 years old. The mounds are constructed in precise circles and squares, which shows that those who built them had great mathematical knowledge. In Ohio alone there are 10,000 such mounds. In the state of New Hampshire there is a structure that resembles Stonehenge in England.

Central/South America

In Central and South America, there is even more evidence that the Israelites/Phoenicians had crossed the Atlantic in their quest for adventure. The Mayan, Aztec and Inca cultures show that they were influenced by the "white man". In the Mayan city of Chitzen Itza in Yucatan, there are murals of African Negroes, as well as faces with typical European (Caucasian) features. There are many things that indicate that the Mayan culture was actually created by an alien culture.

When the Spanish conquerors first arrived in Central America, the population there believed that the strangers were "white gods" who had visited their country before. Columbus tells, among other things, of a strange legend that had been passed down among the native population on the east coast of this new continent. Once upon a time, the legend said, a group of white gods had come across the sea from the east.

When the Spanish conqueror Cortez came to Mexico, he was called the “god of light” by the Aztecs. They referred to this god as “bright and blue-eyed, with a beard,” (“el hombre blanco” — the white man), and called him Quetzalcoatl. He is said to have brought with him an advanced mathematical calendar formula that the Maya later used in their doomsday calculations, taught the native population the use of fire, gave them a system of law, taught them the art of building, writing, mathematics, metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, productive agriculture, a calendar system, etc. — in short, “Quetzalcoatl” brought with him all the skills necessary to create a civilization. “in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed” (Gen 26:4), was God’s promise to Jacob. The Inca culture of South America also shows influence from Europeans. The Inca god Viracocha shows striking similarities to Quetzalcoatl. Viracocha is also described as white, with a beard, and is said to have brought with him knowledge and skills that formed the basis of Andean civilization.

Both "Quetzalcoaltl" and "Viracocha", who were real people, were later deified (made into deities) by the local population. This led to a degeneration of the religion, which eventually degenerated into human sacrifice. Phoenician inscriptions on stone are found in both Peru and the Amazon basin. This shows that the explorers from the west sailed up the Amazon, which is navigable for ocean-going ships across South America all the way to Iquitos, not far from the foot of the Andes. This is a good distance into Peru.

The Traces

The descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have left traces of themselves wherever they have travelled. All over the world, these people have wandered in their insatiable desire to explore and conquer new lands. Everywhere they have left a legacy of their genius and innovative abilities—exactly as God's promises had for this special people.

As A. de Gobineau says: “Everywhere the white race has taken the initiative, everywhere they have brought civilization to others” (A. de Gobineau: Moral & Intellectual Diversity of Races, pp. 456, 458). Few fully understand the breadth and fullness of the blessing that God bestowed upon the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! In them all the peoples of the earth were to be blessed. And when God blesses, He blesses abundantly! They were to bring light, knowledge, and civilization to all other peoples. This has no “racist” overtones, but is an inescapable fact that one must be able to bear to be confronted with in the search for truth. It has nothing to do with human dignity; or degradation of such—it is an indisputable fact. That the desire for conquest and the thirst for gold of Jacob’s descendants sometimes became too great, leading to the oppression of the local population, is beside the point in this context.

However, the traditions show that neither “Quetzalcoatl” nor “Viracocha” were of this category. In the 15th century, when the Mexican conqueror Fernando Cortez and his men set foot in the land of the Aztecs, the natives and their ruler Montezuma initially believed that the conqueror from the east was Quetzalcoatl himself, who had promised to return one day. But the truth was quite different. Driven by a thirst for gold, a madness for conquest, and religious fanaticism, Cortez and his men brought an end to the old empire, which was plundered for its treasures.

China

In the Tarim Basin of western China (Chinese Turkestan), especially in the areas around Ürümchi, mummies of people with unmistakable Caucasian features have been found. “Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Oriental, but Caucasian—tall, with large noses, blond hair, and round eyes that were probably blue” (from the cover of the book The Mummies of Ürümchi by Elizabeth W. Barber). Professor Dr. Victor Mair first saw these mummies in 1987, and what struck him was that the facial shape was neither Chinese nor Oriental, but typically Caucasian.

One of these mummies is a man who was probably about fifty years old when he died, the “Cherchen Man.” He has unmistakable Caucasian features and stood two meters tall.

In the same areas, researchers have also discovered a number of manuscripts from around AD 100, written in an extinct language — Tocharian. Surprisingly, it turned out that Tocharian is closely related to the Indo-European languages spoken in most of Europe, including English (which in turn is related to Hebrew. More on this later).

It is reasonable to believe that these people were Israelites who, during their wanderings in Asia, had come as far east as the Tarim Basin.

Dannan and Phoenicians

Greek, Irish, Scandinavian and English writings are full of hints about a people called Danai, Dannan or Dannoni. They were also called Phoenicians, or were mentioned in close connection with the Phoenicians. The Lacedaemonians (Spartans), who were descendants of the Danaans, claimed, during the reign of the high priest Onias (300 B.C.), to be descended from the Hebrews (1 Maccabees 12:7, 21). Legend has it that Greece was founded by Egyptians. The Israelites were sometimes called Egyptians (Exod 2:19). The Greek historian Herodotus relates that the most prominent of the foreigners expelled from Egypt followed Danaus (Dan), and later Cadmus, to Greece, but that the vast majority were led by Moses into the land of Canaan. Cadmus was descended from Chalcol (1 Kings 4:31; 1 Chronicles 3:6), who in turn was descended from Judah. (In other words, Chalcol and his brother Darda were grandsons of Judah.) Cadmus and his group came to Greece after Israel had entered Canaan. The ancient region of Colchia in Greece is named after Calcol, and the Dardanelles Strait is named after Darda. Historical records tell of Calcol's descendants migrating west along the Mediterranean coast, where they founded "Iberian" (Hebrew) trading colonies. One such colony was called Zarah-gassa (now Saragossa), or "the fortress of Zarah." Zarah, as we know, was the son of Judah.

Ireland

From Spain the Iberians/Israelites migrated to Ireland, which they called Iberia after themselves. This name was later Latinized to Hibernia. Judas' grandson Calcol became the founder of the ancient Irish dynasty of kings. Both he and his brother Darda had emigrated from Egypt before the Exodus to Canaan.

One of the early chronicles of Ireland links the Dannan people or Tuatha de Dannan (People of God) who invaded Ulster, to the Greek Danaans and Spartans. According to the Irish Annals of the Four Masters, the Tuatha de Dannan colony defeated the Quadbolgs, and thereby became masters of Ireland. There is much evidence to suggest that the Dannan people were a highly civilized people, far more skilled in the arts and sciences than other colonies that had settled on the island. The arrival of the Dannan people in Ireland is dated to c. 1200 BC, 85 years after Deborah and Barak's victory, when we are told that Dan had ships (Judg. 5:17).

Troy

We remember the story of Jacob’s son Judah, who had twin sons with his daughter-in-law Tamar (Genesis 38). Why is this incident recorded in the Bible? Because it gives us a key to tracing Judah’s descendants. One of these sons was named Zarah. Zarah had five sons; one of these was named Darda (Dara, Dardanus, 1 Chronicles 2:6). Darda’s descendants made up a large percentage of the tribe of Judah who never entered the land of Canaan because they had already emigrated during the Egyptian period.

According to the genealogical tables in Windsor Castle in England, Darda’s descendants were Erictonius, Troas, Ilus, Laomedan, Priam, Hector, Astynax, and Polydorus. The historian Josephus calls Darda Dardanus, while Trojan genealogical tables call him Darius. It was Darda(nus) who founded the city/kingdom of Troy 34 years before the Exodus from Egypt. See for example Petavius' History of the World. As mentioned, the Dardanelles (Hellespont) strait at Troy still bears the name of Dardas.

After the Trojan War and the fall of Troy, which according to Eratosthenes of Alexandria and Apollodorus occurred in 1183 BC, Hector's cousin Aeneas and his great-grandson Brutus fled to Italy. It should be noted that Julius Caesar's family, through Julia, claimed descent from Aeneas. While Brutus was in Italy, according to legend, he had a dream in which he was urged to go to England:

"Brutus! There lies beyond the Gallic borders, an island surrounded by the Western Sea...."

Brutus, who was a descendant of Judah/Tamar, and therefore an Israelite, went with a larger group of Trojans, who were also Israelites, to England, where he arrived in 1103 BC. In Totnes on the River Dart, there is a historical memorial stone, the "Brutus Stone", commemorating Brutus' arrival in England. This is the first authentic account of a group of people coming to England. Tradition says that on his way to England, Brutus came across four other Trojan colonies on the Spanish coast, and he persuaded them to follow him over to the "White Isles", as England was then called. Brutus now set out to found a city, Caer-Troia (New Troy). After reaching the River Thames, he found the surroundings ideal, and founded New Troy, which was later called Tri-Novantum. The Romans called the city Londinum, which was later called London. Perhaps not many people are aware that the River Thames was named after the Trojan/Israelite Thyamis.

Gauls

From the 4th century BC, Celtic tribes invaded northern Italy, where they were called Cimbri. The Roman historian Sallust (86–34 BC) called them "Gauls". Other Roman historians referred to them as Celts. Modern historians have apparently not accepted the clear evidence that the Cimbri in Jutland and the Gauls in France have a common origin: the Cimmerians, who were known to the Greeks on both sides of the Black Sea. Both the Frisians and the Cimbri have a common origin in the Cimmerians/Israelites.

Scandinavia

After the Anglo-Saxons migrated to England around 450–600 AD, two important groups of Scythian/Israelite origin remained on the west coast of Norway: the Danes and the Norwegians. History books call them somewhat incorrectly "Vikings". The Norwegian and Danish populations are almost entirely descended from these Norwegians and Danes. They were a branch of the Scythians who came from the east, and descended from Israelites of either the Scythian or Cimmerian branch of the ancient Gimirri, the Assyrian name for Israelites.

In his work The Viking Age, Du Chaillu says:

“With the aid of the ancient Greek and Roman writers, a careful perusal of the sagas will help to hammer out a fairly continuous history, and without any serious break in the chain of events. This throws considerable light on the ancestors of the English-speaking people and their migrations northward from their ancient home on the shores of the Black Sea, their religion, and their settlement in Scandinavia and England” (The National Message, 13 Nov. 1926, p. 715).

Norse mythology

Snorre's Ynglinge Saga (the first of the sagas in the Heimskringla) tells of Odin, who led the Asa people from the shores of the Black Sea through Russia to southern Scandinavia, where they came to constitute the aristocracy, the ruling family. The Asa people called themselves a divine race. It is through the Eddas that we hear about the Norse deities Odin, Thor, Freya, Balder, Frigg, etc. Prof. L.A. Waddell has shown that the name Thor is derived from Dar in "Indara", the Aryan name for Jehovah. Thor was later mythologized and made into a thunder god.

Most Gothic sagas revolve around Odin, who, although he was later mythologized, was still a real, historical person. The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl has published a book, The Hunt for Odin, in which he confirms the theory that both Odin, the Vanir and the Aesir were historical persons. This was the last book Heyerdahl wrote before his death, but it is almost impossible to get hold of.

Odin was the leader of the Asa people or Aesir (the Asia people) with their headquarters in Asgard in Asia, where he also had his castle Valhalla. Odin came from Asaheim (Central Scythia). According to Anderson's Royal Family Tables, Odin lived in the latter half of the 3rd century AD. The Odin people (Asa, Aesir) were, in short, Israelites who had adopted the faith of Zoroaster, the religion of Asha, from whom Asia takes its name. The Asa people defeated the royal Scythians and captured their capital Gerrhus (present-day Kiev) on the Dnieper River. Gerrhus was also called Asgard. The Asa invasion drove the royal Scythians (Sakai) into what is now Germany, where they became known as Saxons. Odin gathered a large army in Asgard, and they marched up the Dnieper Valley and west to the Baltic Sea, which was formerly called Pelagus Scythium, the Sea of the Scythians. Eventually they reached Scandinavia. It was from Odin's army of Svear that Sweden got its name.

One of Odin's sons, Balder, became viceroy of the Angles, and from him the Anglo-Saxons trace their origin. The two Saxon chieftains Hengist and Horsa, who fought with the English in the 5th century AD, traced their origin to Odin or "Wodin". A manuscript in Herald's College tells of Odin, who in 250 AD married Freya, daughter of the English Silurian king Cadwalladr (there were many petty kings in England at that time. Siluria was an English province with its own king). Cadwalladr descended from Brutus, who in turn descended from Judah. From the sons of Odin descended Rurik, who founded the Russian Empire in AD 840, as well as the Scandinavian royal houses. Europe has had the most royal houses, again a fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: "Kings shall come out of you."

Rev. Milner shows in his genealogies that the historical Odin descended from King Priam of Troy, who, like Gallam, the conqueror of Ireland, and Brutus, the founder of London, descended from Judah/Zarah. Odin first settled in Denmark and later in southern Sweden, where he died and was later mythologized. The city of Odense on Funen in Denmark is named after Odin's arrival in Denmark, "Dan's mark".

The Scandinavians originated in the areas south of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The so-called "Nordic race" did not originate in the north, but descended from Israelites who came from Asia after their exodus after the Assyrian captivity and earlier.

Jutland and Denmark

Before the Angles entered northern Germany, another related tribe, the Jutes, migrated to the peninsula north of Angli, and called it Jutland (Jylland). The Jutes descended from the Juti of Ariana (Persia), who in turn descended from those of the tribe of Judah whom the Assyrian king Sennacherib brought to Assyria in the time of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:13). Sennacherib himself says on the Taylor prism that he took 200,150 prisoners of the tribe of Judah.

The Jewish writer Eldad (9th century AD) wrote to Spanish Jews that in the time of King Jeroboam (975 BC) the tribe of Dan was unwilling to shed the blood of their brothers, and instead of shedding the blood of Judah, they left the land of Israel and migrated to Greece and Denmark. (Denmark = Dan's mark). They called the country Danmares, the land of Dan.

Language

English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages are all branches of a central stem: Old Gothic, which was first represented by runes and futharks, but which in turn is derived from Aryan/Phoenician. Both Greek and Latin have contributed to the English language, but it will surprise most people to learn that over 75% of English words are derived from Hebrew words or their roots. Long tables of comparisons show this clearly. No one has demonstrated this better than Isaac E. Mozeson in his great work The Word — The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English. Many linguists (etymologists) have noted the unusually close similarity between Hebrew and Welsh. In his Welsh Grammar, Dr. Davies notes that almost every page of the Welsh translation of the Bible is full of Hebraisms. Dr. Duncan M'Dougall says that you can take any Hebrew sentence and translate it into Gaelic word for word, without changing the structure in the least, and you will in every case get a correct Gaelic structure. This cannot be done with any other European language, he says. The Rev. Eliezer Williams noted that there was hardly a Hebrew root that did not have its corresponding derivation in English.

These are clear indications that the first English people were Hebrews, Israelites. The Tyrians and Phoenicians, who spoke an early form of Hebrew, were the first to come to the "Tin Isles" (England) to look for tin, which they used to make bronze, as well as lead, silver and iron. This extraction of tin took place in Cornwall in the south of England, where the remains of old tin mines can still be seen.

The Milesians and the Dannans spoke Hebrew. The evidence is overwhelming that Hebrew formed the very foundation of the English language, simply because the Hebrews were the first Englishmen.

Examples of Hebraisms in the English Language

Here are a number of examples of Hebraisms in the English language. (E=English, H=Hebrew, after Mozeson's work):

(E) Zebra; (H) Zebi

(E) Giraffe; (H) Garaph

(E) Kitten; (H) Quiton

(E) Shrub; (H) Zhrub

(E) Berry; (H) Peri

(E) Ash; (H) Azh

(E) Booth; (H) Beeth

(E) Element; (H) Elem

(E) Noon; (H) Noom

(E) Sea; (H) Zee

(E) Skull; (H) Skoll

(E) Lung; (H) Lung

(E) Navel; (H) Navel

Isaac Mozeson claims that almost all English words are derived in some way from Hebrew root words.

Memorials

The Danites, who were closely related to the Phoenicians, have left their mark on the European continent. However, Dan was also a seafaring nation, and also emigrated by sea. Wherever the Phoenicians went, we hear of the Danaan people. We find, among other things, many place names, for example rivers, where the name is connected with Dan: Danube (Donau), Danastris (Dniester), Danapris (Dniepr), Don, Rhodan (Rhone), Eridan (Po). Other names are also connected with Dan: Danzig, Codan (Baltic Sea), Denmark, Doncaster, Dannonia (Devonshire), Dundalk, Donegal. It is not so surprising that conquerors named places after themselves. If we look at a map of Alexander the Great’s Hellenistic empire, we find that almost every city bears the name Alexandria or Alexandropolis. One of Dan’s characteristics was that he would leave a trail behind him, “like a serpent in the path” (Genesis 49:17).

On the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea, many dolmens and burial mounds have been found with interesting inscriptions telling of the wanderings of the Hebrews. Prof. Bruce Hannay mentions, for example, a manuscript found in one of these burial mounds, which reads:

“I am Jehudi, the son of Moses, the son of Jehudi the mighty, a man of the tribe of Naphtali, whom Prince Shalmaneser, in the days of Hoshea, king of Israel, carried away from Samaria with the other tribes of Israel. They were carried away to Halah, to Habor — which is Kabul — to Gozan and to Chersonesus — which is Crimea.”

In the Crimea, numerous ancient burial chambers have also been found with Hebrew/Phoenician inscriptions on the tombstones. Professor Chwolsen of Petrograd deciphered seven hundred of these inscriptions. One of these reads:

“This is the tombstone of Buki, the son of the priest Yitzhak. May his rest be in Eden at the time of the salvation of Israel. In the year 707 of our exile.” If we date this from the fall of Samaria in 717 BC, the tombstone dates from about 15–12 BC.

It is striking that there are so many Hebrew monuments in Crimea, and that for some reason they are ignored by modern scholars. But this is because this topic is moving on biblical grounds, and it does not fit with the view of the majority of modern historians, who believe in the theory of evolution. These scholars are allergic to anything that tastes of biblical history.

Races

Contrary to conventional belief, Adam was a white man. In Hebrew, the meaning of the word Adam, aw-dam, is “to show blood in the face,” to be “fair, ruddy, capable of blushing” — a characteristic of the white race. (See Strong's Concordance, #119, 120 GT.) It is evident that Adam was called aw-dawm because he had these characteristics—a fair complexion with a reddish tinge due to the blood pigment, hemoglobin, which was visible through the pigmentless skin. This is the meaning of the word Adam (which can also mean “earth”), and these physical characteristics of aw-dawm are found only in the white race. That Adam's wife Eve was also of the same race is self-evident.

Among the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 1 is a scroll called the Genesis Apocryphon, also called the Scroll of the Patriarchs. It states that Abraham’s wife Sarah had “white and soft skin” and that she had long, beautiful hair. Abraham descended in a direct line from Shem, Noah’s son. Noah himself descended in a direct line from Adam (Genesis 11:11–26; 5:1–32). There is no reason to believe anything other than that Noah, Shem, and Abraham were also white. This may contradict popular belief, but there is no reason to believe anything else.

Laban, Rebekah’s brother, was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. Abraham demanded that his son Isaac have a wife from his own family (Genesis 24:4). The name Laban in Hebrew simply means “white,” “the white one.” There is no reason to believe anything other than that the rest of Abraham’s family were also white. Isaac, Abraham’s son by Sarah, was of course also a white man.

All indications indicate that the Israelites of the Bible, the descendants of Abraham, belonged to the Caucasian race, where the prominent features are fair skin, classic features, fair hair and blue eyes. Although there are variations, this is the dominant type. “Racism”! some say. No way — it’s a fact.

Egyptian reliefs show, among other things, captives from Canaan, which show the appearance of the Israelites/Judahites. They depict them as tall people with all European features. Naturally, there were also variations among them, as is still found today.

In his work The Passing of the Great Race (1916), historian Madison Grant points out that the Sacai (Scythians, Israelites) were blond, fair-skinned people who were anthropologically long-headed. He also mentions that the historian Strabo calls these people Scythians and Sacaceans.

Roman writers described the Germans as “tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed” (Aschehoug/Gyldendal’s one-volume lexicon, article ‘Germanic’).

Both Essene literature and other sources tell us that the Israelites, and Jesus himself, were tall, fair-haired, fair-haired, blue-eyed people. In a report that Pilate sent to Emperor Tiberius, he describes Jesus as follows:

“One day as I was passing by Siloam, I saw many people gathered. In the middle of this group, I noticed a young man leaning against a tree and quietly and calmly speaking to the assembly. I was told that this was Jesus. I could really imagine it, so great was the difference between him and those who listened to him. His golden hair and beard gave him an almost heavenly appearance. He appeared to be about thirty years old. Never before had I seen such a gentle face with such sublime calm. What a contrast between him and his listeners, with their black beards and dark looks.” (Emphasis added.) This manuscript is in the Archko collection in Constantinople as chap. VIII, Valleus' Notes — Acta Pilati, or Pilate's Report to the Emperor on the Arrest, Trial, and Crucifixion of Jesus.

The Archko collection also contains an interview with Gamaliel, who describes Jesus thus:

“Joseph is a carpenter. He is very tall.... His [Joseph's] hair seems to have been chestnut brown in his younger days. His [Joseph's] eyes are gray.... Jesus.... He is the image of his mother, but does not have her soft, round face. His hair is somewhat more blond than hers, which may also be due to the sun. He is tall.... His eyes are large and blue.” (Emphasis added.) This description coincides with the description given by Pilate.

Another description of Jesus is found in a letter from Publius Lentrelius to the emperor of Rome. Publius Lentrelius lived in Judea during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. This letter first appeared in the writings of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th century:

“At this time there lived in Judea a man of very special morals. His name is Jesus Christ. His followers love and worship him as the Son of the immortal God.... He is a tall, well-proportioned man, with a kindly and venerable appearance. His hair is of a color that can hardly be imitated, and falls in elegant curls.... his cheeks are spotless, with a fresh red tint.... his beard is of a color that matches his hair.... his eyes are sparkling blue, clear and calm.” (Emphasis added.)

It should be mentioned that when the English painter William Holman Hunt was commissioned in the 1840s to paint Jesus, "The Light of the World", he made thorough preliminary research to find out, if possible, what Jesus had looked like. Was he dark or was he fair? Holman Hunt travelled to Jerusalem to get on the trail there, if possible. After all his preliminary research, he painted Jesus, the Light of the World - fair and blond, with blue eyes.

Several ancient writers, such as Polemon of Ilium, Galienus and Clement of Alexandria, report that the Sakai or Scythians were similar to the Celts and Germans in appearance, fair, with reddish skin. Ammianus (c. 350 AD) describes the Scythian tribe the Alans as "tall and beautiful, with almost yellow hair and a fearsome look." In his book The Ultimate World Order, Major R.H. Williams reveals that the original Italians were fair-skinned and had blond hair and blue eyes. The original Greeks (who were Israelites) were described (according to Polemo) as fair-skinned with reddish, blond hair — a tall, muscular type of man with blue eyes. (See for example Elizabeth C. Evans: Physiognomics in the Ancient World, the Jewish physician and sophist Adamantios (4th century AD), Hans F.K. Günther: The Racial Elements of European History, etc.) When we look at statues of the ancient Greeks, they do not resemble much the Greeks of today. They were of a distinctly Nordic type.

The oldest Egyptian reliefs also show the first Egyptians as typically Nordic in appearance.

In Talmudic literature, Jacob’s son Joseph is described as “white” and handsome, with a face that flared like a rose. There is not much Arabic in this description, which fits rather a Nordic type of person who “can show blood under the skin.”

“Racism”

It is the descendants of Jacob’s twelve sons who have been the great explorers, colonizers, and creators of civilization. Even today they have conquered the highest mountains, the driest deserts, the coldest poles, and the deepest oceans—yes, even outer space. Wherever they settled, they founded flourishing nations. This people is the only people that has become “many nations.” God had blessed them above all other peoples, not only with fertile land in the Western Hemisphere, but in many other ways. They became the world’s most successful cultivators. They produced the greatest figures in literature, music, and the visual arts. They were responsible for the great inventions and technological innovations that have made life easier for the inhabitants of the earth, but which are also misused in the service of evil, as one would expect from the sinful nature of unrepentant man. “In you all the earth will be blessed,” was God’s promise to Abraham, and we see that these promises have been fully fulfilled, despite the expected misuse, of which God was well aware.

Did God fail in the unconditional promises to the great heroes of faith? Never! No other people have received such great promises. It cannot be explained away. God absolutely did not intend for this people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to disappear and be diluted when they came into contact with other peoples. God’s promises to the heroes of faith in ancient times were unconditionally eternal. “You shall become a multitude of nations.” So where do we find them?

They are the ones who brought the Gospel of salvation to all the peoples of the earth. They are the ones who have printed 97% of all the world's Bibles.

It is striking that the apostles first went west with the Gospel, and not east. After all, it was east that the “Gentiles” were. The apostles first went in the wake of “the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” as Jesus admonished, and it was these who were also the first to accept the message. Later, “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” became the foremost preachers of the Truth.

All of this may sound like a hymn to the descendants of Jacob, which some would perceive as “racism.” However, it is not “racism,” but an inescapable and undeniable fact, which is founded on God’s own words and his own promises to Abraham’s descendants through Isaac/Jacob. Amidst all the clamor about “racism,” there is no problem in documenting all of the above claims—many of them are self-evident and undeniable.

The word “racism” has become a bland but well-used cliché in our time, as the New World Order attempts to lump all nations together into a conglomerate of “unisex,” “uniculture,” and “unirace.” This attempt will fail. It is a historical fact that successful and enduring societies have always had a high degree of homogeneity among their populations. When this homogeneity is diluted, as it is in the West today, the once-successful society begins to degenerate. When “all for the country” was the driving force of the nation’s native citizens, society flourished.

Jacob's descendants have been guilty of many atrocities throughout history, as have other peoples, so this is off-topic. It has to do with the evil, sinful nature of man, and is not limited to any particular race.

No one need feel offended by this article. It is not intended as a racial slur or a degradation of other races and cultures, but an attempt to illuminate the effects of God's promises and blessings to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God's salvation is open to all people, regardless of race, and the Christian has no right to despise people of other races or skin colors.

But it was God who set boundaries between the nations (Acts 17:26) because he saw that it was best. He placed the three great main races on the earth: the "yellow" (Mongol), the black and the white mainly on their own continents, Asia, Africa and the West/Europe.

Today, in their pursuit of world domination, people want to tear down the boundary walls and fuse cultures into a "uniculture", and in their blindness believe that this will be the answer to many of the problems of the time. Fortunately, there are still some people with both feet on the ground in society, thinking people who see where it is all leading, and when these are hung out as "racists" by their own people when they raise their voices, it is a clear sign that the brainwashing of the media has had its effect. God set boundaries between the races and the nations, and he who sees the end from the beginning knows what is best. It is safest to leave these boundaries standing. God's intention was that the descendants of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob, i.e. Israel, should be a light to the Gentiles and a blessing to the nations from their own territory. God did not want Israel to remove the boundary walls and draw hordes of foreigners into their lands, as this would have very negative consequences in the long run. The omniscient God knows what he is doing. People think they know better, but the end of it is the way of death (Prov 16:25).

A comprehensive subject

This article has only attempted to give an overview of the wanderings of the Hebrews both before and after the deportation to Assyria. It is a large and extensive subject, requiring a comprehensive study of the available source material. There is not space here to go into all the details, and several subjects have been omitted for the sake of overview.

There is a tradition that the prophet Jeremiah came to Ireland in 586 BC with a Hebrew princess Tamar Tephi (daughter of the last king of Judah Zedekiah) who married the Irish prince Heremon, a Hebrew, and continued the Irish royal line. This and other subjects related to Israel's wanderings, I will address in subsequent articles.

There are certainly some who will argue that much of this material is built on myths, traditions and legends, and therefore cannot be taken seriously. However, a legend (tale, tradition, tradition) is built on a real event, and therefore provides important historical clues. Examples of this are Norse mythology, the Arthurian legends, Irish legends, the flood legends, as well as Greek and Roman legends. These legends are based on real historical events, which have later been dressed in many more feathers than the original feathers. The event has become a legend — a myth. However, these provide important keys, among other things, in our studies of migrations and the emergence of nations.

Why do modern historians, ethnologists and archaeologists not pay more attention to ancient Israel? Why do they apparently ignore the clear evidence that Israel is the origin of the white, Western world? The answer is simple. Modern researchers have no faith in the Bible and its account of the origin of man and peoples. Their disbelief leads them to ignore or suppress important material that confirms the Bible's credibility. They therefore try to illuminate history from completely different angles. Modern research claims that man and civilizations arose almost by themselves. The Scythians "originated" in Asia, and Europe was eventually populated by peoples who all "came from somewhere" in Asia - just not south of the Caucasus, where Israel was taken away! Ironically, researchers call the white race "the Caucasian race", and trace it back to the Caucasus regions. If researchers had illuminated the whole thing from a biblical point of view, and gone beyond the Caucasus, they would have solved the problem of the riddle. But then they were also forced to take a closer look at the Bible's account of the origin of man and nations/peoples. It's as simple as that.

As mentioned, this article only aims to provide an overview of the wandering of the Hebrews. There is a large amount of material that must be reviewed in order to write such an article, and the possibilities are therefore present for errors and inaccuracies to creep in. However, it is not the individual details that are important, but rather the overall picture: What happened to Abraham's descendants, who were to become immensely numerous? What happened to the Israelites of the Bible, who disappeared from their own land? This article has attempted to clarify these questions based on all available evidence.

This article is translated from the Norwegian language article Israels ti tapte stammer, del 3 by the late Åsmund Kaspersen, who passed away in 2016. It was published in the Norwegian language magazine innsyn (‘insight’), Vol. 2, 2002. This video has been narrated by Mikkel S. Kragh, Denmark.