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PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA INHABITANTS OF IRELAND AND SCOTLANDE. F. Legner[Email contacts] Please CLICK on highlighted areas for further detail:
Contrary to popular belief, the Celts never spoke Celtic, the Celts
never reached Ireland or Scotland, and the Celtic language did not exist
until about 750 or 800 AD. Edo
Nyland, the great linguist and epigrapher of the 20th and 21st Centuries has
repeatedly emphasized these facts.
His discovery of the existence of a Universal Language in Neolithic
times is making possible more accurate translations of ancient texts and an
enlightened view of historical events (see Universal). When the Judeo-Christian Benedictine monks reached Ireland in 750
AD they found there a vibrant civilization, which in some ways was far
superior to that which they were familiar with on the European
Continent. They learned that this
civilization had many characteristics in common with Egypt and Libya, which
was anathema to them. The monks
believed that all wisdom had to derive from South Central Europe. Thus, they invented the myth that the
Celts had reached Ireland about 400 bce. and had brought the civilization
with them. This was a fabrication and
it is described in the Benedictines own operations manual the "Auraicept na
n'Ecese". Julius Caesar in his book "The
Conquest of Gaul" described many Celts, and every one of their names can
be translated with the Basque dictionary, the "Celtic Language" not
having yet existed. At the National
Museum in Dublin, Ireland, one is clearly informed that there is absolutely
no evidence anywhere that the Celts ever set foot in Ireland. When visiting the Dublin National Museum
in Ireland Edo Nyland (email) asked a scholar there if the Celts ever reached Ireland. The
man just laughed and said that the story was good for tourism and the book
printing industry but that there is not one scrap of evidence anywhere that
the Celts ever reached Ireland. This fable was introduced by the Benedictine
Monks who did not want to admit that the vibrant Irish civilization had
originated in Egypt and Libya, so they fabricated the story that the Celts
had brought it in 400 bce. from the "source of all wisdom,' South Central Europe.
The majority of the population that inhabited Ireland and Scotland in
Pre-Christian times surely can trace
its origins to Scandinavia, Northern Continental Europe and the
Mediterranean. Some of the original
colonizers may have also emigrated from America in prehistoric times (see American
Stone Structures).
The settlers that arrived in Ireland and Orkney, around 7,600 bce,
belonged to an ocean migration of people with Rh-negative
blood types, genetically identical to the Berbers of North Africa and
Basques of Europe (see Migrations).
Today these dark featured people are referred to jokingly as the
“Black Irish.” (See Cavalli-Sforza’s 1991, Scient. Amer. November). Edo Nyland’s theory is that this ocean
migration is associated with the trade in Reindeer
Hides, used for ship sails in the Mediterranean. The hides were obtained in Finnmark,
Arctic Norway, salted and shipped to Southern Sweden and Connamara for Oak Tanning. This began during a
time when the earth’s climate was relatively colder than afterward and the
North Sea was still dry land. It was
then possible to follow a western route (see Climate). The first settlers were likely support
crews for the reindeer hide trade with the Mediterranean, such as ship
repair, resting places, provision of food, etc., not the regular survival
clans. Their ships may have been of
the type currently being unearthed in North Africa (see Ships).
In Norway some 100 camps of the hunters have been explored by
archaeologist Anders Nummedal who noted that the petroglyphs left by these
people had close affinity to those in the Basque country of France and Spain.
In Ireland a whole town of house foundations can be viewed on the
south shore of Killary harbor, north of Galway. The oaks are still growing there. The name of the town is Foher, meaning “a good place to
rest.” No archaeological work has
been done there as of July 2004.
Up to the 21st Century the Rh-negative blood type frequency among these people is the highest in the
world. Berbers and Basques average
32%, Irish and Scots 29% and the Norwegian islanders 17%. There were never any Celts among these
people.
Later on Egypt could have had intense contact with North America. This is suspected by the discovery in 1950
of huge boats adjacent to Khufu’s great pyramid. They were buried between 2589 and 2566 bce.. One has been restored and it shows considerable
wear as if it had undergone long journeys.
Its length is 43.63 meters, width 5.66 meters (see Egyptian Boat). This ship was perfectly capable of
crossing the Atlantic. The other
boats were left intact waiting for additional funding to rebuild them as
well. An excellent article about these
boats may be found in the April/May 2004 issue of Ancient Egypt Magazine.
Some interesting events took place in the Mediterranean world at the
onset of the twelfth century BC.
These were turbulent times in the southern lands, where violent attacks
by a mysterious group of raiders referred to as the Sea Peoples laid in ruins the Aegean
civilization and even threatened the very survival of the Egyptian monarchy (Fell 1982,
Odyssey). Egypt at
this time was ruled by one of the most powerful of the Pharaohs, Ramesses III, who reigned from 1188 to 1165 BC. Edo Nyland has presented an updated view
of these seafarers (see Sea People).
Only the smoke-stained ruins now remain to speak mutely of the
onslaught that suddenly struck down the peaceful trading empire of the Aegean
peoples who fell victims to the raiders from the sea. In Egypt a stout and effective resistance
was made against the pirates, adequate warning having no doubt reached the
Nile Delta when the disasters occurred
in the archipelago to the north of Egypt. As to what happened next, we are almost wholly dependent upon
Egyptian records carved at Medinet Habu to memorialize the defeat by Ramesses
III of the Libyans and Sea Peoples in 1194 and 1191 BC., and a final attack
in 1188 BC. by yet one more wave of Sea Peoples, this
time not from Libya but from the east.
In the bas-reliefs that depict the naval battles (Fig. 193), the defeated
Sea Peoples are represented as having a European cast of face. Some of them are shown wearing
hemispherical helmets that carry two recurved upward-directed horns. For other clothing they wear a kilt. Their weapons are swords and spears,
whereas the Egyptian marines are armed with bows and arrows, and are shown
able to attack the invaders with a fusillade before the Sea Peoples could
come near enough to board the Egyptian vessels. According to Ramesses III, the defeated remnants of these
invaders fled westward to Libya. Two centuries later the descendants of the invaders seized
power in Egypt, reigning as the XXII or Libyan dynasty for a span of 200
years. The
suggestion has already been made by other writers that the Sea peoples may
have included Norse sailors, largely because the monument at Medinet Habu
depicts some of them as men that look like Viking predecessors. Fell (1982) expressed the view that various
inscriptions have forced upon him:
that it was very probable that the Sea Peoples included substantial
naval detachments from the Baltic region, that their
language was a Nordic dialect of the Indo-European family, that the so-called
"Libyan" alphabet is in fact an alphabet
of Nordic, or at least northern European origin, Furthermore, he believed
that it was taken to Libya by the defeated Sea Peoples who survived the Battle of the Nile.
Fell believed that for some reason the alphabet they introduced has
continued in use throughout subsequent Libyan history, whereas in its
northern homeland it died out, to be replaced by runes. Fell hazarded the guess that the blond Tuaregs who clung most tenaciously
to the "Libyan" alphabet are probably descended from Nordic
immigrants around the time of the Sea Peoples' invasions. All these proposals may seem bold
inferences, but there would be little in the way of plausible alternatives in
the light of these new finds of supposed Libyan inscriptions in Europe. However, Nyland has reviewed evidence for
the origin of the Caucasian race in the area of Libya (see Blond mutation =
Caucasian race)
A mass immigration of people to mainland Europe and Ireland then is
believed to have occurred from North Africa around 650 A.D. Edo Nyland’s decipherment of the
Horsecreek Petroglyph (see Horsecreek) in a West Virginia canyon using
Basque showed it to be an eye witness account of a bison hunt, the animals
being driven over a cliff. Nyland
noted that the very large Ogam inscription in that canyon is written in a
type of Ogam different from Irish, one that has never been used in
Ireland. He suspected it to be Libyan
Ogam (personal communication). Many
of the Libyans and Northern Egyptians at that time were blond and blue
eyed. Edo Nyland suspects that the
Four Khalifs who conquered Egypt and Libya around 650 A.D. drove the blond
people from their homeland. They made
it clear that they would not tolerate any Nonbeliever religions. These blond people had excellent boats and
they sailed first to Ireland, from where the more adventurous ones went to
North America, where they eventually joined the native life style (see Great Ireland). The
17th Century English settlers in North America wrote home telling
about native tribes with blond hair (Robert L. Pyle, All That Remains, p. 66). They were
subsequently absorbed in the new population. Bibliography
========================================== For further detail,
please refer to: Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: AnIntroduction. Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada. ISBN 1-55212-668-4. 541 p. [ see abstract & summary] Nyland, Edo.
2002. Odysseus and the Sea Peoples: A Bronze Age History of
Scotland
Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada. 307 p. [see abstract & summary]. |
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