Posted on 10/10/2002 5:43:05 PM PDT by blam
Then you know very little about the Ainu. The Ainu were the original Samurai. Ancient, seldom seen, Japanese paintings show the Samurai as tall, light skinned and hairy people. They were the rulers in their peak. Some say the Japanese custom of 'white face' comes from this period and was an effort by the lower classes to emulate their rulers.
As for the Picts,nobody really seems to know much about them,right or wrong.
I was talking about the originan Finns,not the modern-day ones who are mostly Scandanavians. The ones who still live in the remote areas and follow the reindeer herds do look Asiatic/Eskimo.
Well, who did NOBODY think was there then?
Man, they were after a New World Order too!!
Looks like it panned out about as well as this current attempt will. ;-)
Can't say for sure myself, just something I read. Remember though that 9,300 year old Kennewick Man is believed to be 'mainly' of Ainu descent. (James C. Chatters, Ancient Encounters)
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No, I meant to say Ainu because that's what James C, Chatters, PhD (He did the Kennewick Man work) said in his book, Ancient Encounters.
Now, having said that, I do agree with you about a more ancient race and I would prefer the Jomon instead of the Ainu.
Well, that's a whole n'other question. But the Celts as we know them didn't even exist until 610 BC or so, with "proto-Celts" coming in small quantities sometime after 1500 BC or so. This little history puts that all into perspective:
3-MINUTE HISTORY OF THE CELTS Four Thousand years ago, Abraham (a great-great grandson of Shem, a son of Noah) and a small group of Hebrews (of which there were & are many varieties) migrated from southern Iraq to Canaan (~Palestine). Several generations later, around 1853 BC, his Grandson Jacob (who was renamed Israel) and his 12 Sons and families moved to Egypt. As offspring of Shem, they were called "Shemites" or "Semites", as were his many other offspring. ~1453 BC, now as the 12 Tribes of the 12 Sons of Israel, and over 3 Million strong, these Semites bailed out of Egypt in the well-documented overland EXODUS and fled back to ~Palestine. But the Tribes "couldn't all get along" there, so ~922 BC these 5 Million Israelites split into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. (In actual numbers, 5 Million people is about the same size as Ireland, Norway, Denmark or Israel today, and was 10% of the estimated 50 Million world population at that time. The world population is now ONE HUNDRED TIMES as large. Compared to todays 6 Billion people, the Israelites relative population would have been over twice as large as the United States of America!) The very large Northern Kingdom of Israel was made up of 10 of the Tribes. Inheriting the Kingly names which applied to all 12 Tribes before the split, the Northern Kingdom (alone) becomes known as the Kingdom of Israel or House of Israel, (also House of Joseph, House of Ephriam, House of Isaac, and House of Omri), and is led by the northern Tribe of Ephraim. Two hundred years later these Northern Israelites were taken into captivity by the Assyrians (~722 BC) and relocated to the northern Fertile Crescent area of Iraq/Iran. They were not diligent in updating their eMail addresses, thus were called, by some, the "Lost Tribes", or "Lost Sheep" or "Lost Children" of the Kingdom or House of Israel. (However at ~1/12 or more of the worlds population it seems unlikely they would actually disappear, or get "lost". The global population now ~75 Million.) A hundred years later, this "lost" Northern Kingdom of Israel with now over 6 Million Israelites helped the Medes and Persians overthrow the Assyrians, then escaped north through the Caucasus Mountains and around the Black and Caspian Seas, to explode into history ~610 BC as The Celts. These Celts mixed with (and fought against) each other, and with other scattered Israelites (proto-Celts) who had escaped from Egypt by sea nearly a thousand years earlier, before the overland Exodus. Also, with other Israelites who migrated from Palestine after the overland Exodus but before the Assyrian captivity and who had already established numerous outposts in Europe and elsewhere. These Millions of Celts grew to become Tens, then Hundreds of Millions as they migrated in waves westward and northwest to Galatia, Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonika, Phillipi, Collosse, to what is today Hallstatt, Austria and Neuchatel, Switzerland (where exist major Celtic digs and museums) and beyond, to totally dominate Northern and Western Europe. These Celts (also as Cimmerians, Scythians, Danaoi, Massagetae, Milesians, Masilia, Sarmatians, Germani, Goths, Franks, Gauls, Lombards, Belgae, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vandals, Danes, Normans, and other assorted "Barbarians") are the rootstock of today's Europeans and Americans who became the backbone of global Christianity. The much smaller Southern Kingdom was made up of the Tribe of Judah & a mix of Levites and Benjamites. It was also known as the Kingdom of Judah or House of Judah. These Southern Israelites (aka Judeans) were taken captive in ~587 BC and removed to Babylon. Only ~50,000 Judeans returned to Palestine ~70 years later. They and their offspring are called Jews. |
Yes, indeed it is. And that's why the Internet was invented by Aldork - to reveal the scary coincidences.
And, it just so happens I had a few thousand photos of Courteney Cox lying around the walls and ceiling of my trailer house, so it was easy. That's not weird is it? Nope. It isn't. NoNoNoNoNoNoNo.
where's my blue blankie?
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