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type....At least one man had black wavy hair and one have passed on some of their terrible habits to our
woman a luxuriant soft pile of dark chestnut tresses. A modern people -- their descendants.
silver and gilt amphora [vase] discovered in 1862 in a
grave at a site called Chertomlyk, also on the Dnieper, -- Raymond F. McNair
bears in relief on its gleaming surface a group of
Scythians who could easily be American wran- Israelite Migrations to New Lands
glers: one is roping a shaggy-maned steed, another is
removing hobbles from a saddled horse....The Budini
[another Scythian tribe, were] a powerful people with Some Israelites left the Holy Land very early. Soon af-
bright red hair and deep blue eyes....Sometimes the ter the Exodus, a group of Danites migrated to Greece
Scythians prepared a sort of haggis [a Scottish dish] by and later left for Ireland. King Solomon had a fleet of
boiling the flesh of a cow in its own skin. "Ships of Tarshish" which sailed with the navy of the
Phoenician king, Hiram of Tyre. It is well-accepted
fact Phoenicians established far-flung outposts in
"They were in all respects a passionate people --
bearded men with dark, deep-set eyes, weather-cured North Africa, Spain and Ireland. Therefore, during and
faces and long wind-snarled hair. They drank from the after Solomon's reign, it is probable that a number of
skulls of slain enemies and flaunted the scalps of their Israelite colonists did the same -- colonizing the Brit-
foes as trophies. In a time when nations had not yet de- ish Isles and the coasts of Northwest Europe.
veloped skilled cavalrymen and relied almost entirely
on foot soldiers and chariots, the Scythians came rid- In about 734-732 and 721 B.C., the Assyrians deported
ing at the gallop, shooting fusillades of singing arrows the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel into
from their bows. northern Mesopotamia and the region south of the Cas-
pian Sea. When the Assyrian Empire was later crushed
by a Babylonian-Persian-Scythian alliance in 612 B.C.,
"Herodotus also reported that the Scythians liked to get
high from marijuana! 'In order to cleanse their bodies, some of the Israelites began to break free from their
the men make a booth by fixing in the ground three captor's lands, migrating northwest into Europe. This
sticks inclined toward one another, and stretching was a centuries-long process.
around them woolen felts; inside the booth a dish is
placed on the ground, into which they put a number of The first wave of Israelites into Europe migrated from
red-hot stones, and then add some hemp seed. Immedi- northern Mesopotamia. Some traveled west along the
ately it gives out such a vapor as no Greek vapor bath southern Black Sea coast, crossing the Dardanelles.
can exceed'" (Frank Trippet, The First Horsemen, Others went north through the Caucasus Mountains and
Time-Life Books, New York, 1974, pp. 9, 18, moved west along the northern Black Sea coast. These
105-106, 112, 122). peoples became known to historians as the Cimmeri-
ans or Celts.

The second wave of Israelites migrated north around
the eastern side of the Caspian Sea before being
pressed westward, centuries later, by the Sarmatians
(Slavs). Known in history as the Scythians and Sacae,
they moved across southern Russia and then northern
Poland and Germany. Because of close proximity, the
Scythians have at times been confused with the modern
Germans, but they are completely different peoples.
The Scythians spread out over most of Northwest
Europe, becoming the Scandinavians, Franks, Normans,
Lombards, Anglo-Saxons, etc.
Tattoo from Wrist of Scythian Woman
No one disputes the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic background
So the ancient Scythians not only looked like most of of the British, by whom Colonial America was primar-
our American and British peoples (and others of north- ily settled. These peoples also migrated to Canada,
western European descent) today, they even appear to
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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