History with Dan Tracing Our IsraeliteAncestors — Part 2 of 2
Part 2: Historical Evidence Linking Scythians, Saka, and Saxons
Here are some interesting facts about Scythians, Saka, Saxon or Sons of Issac by historians or through printed articles.
From the Astana (Kazakhstan) Times Newspaper, in the first century B.C., the vast expanse of Eurasia from Ordos in China to the Danube was occupied by peoples who were mentioned in the ancient Eastern records as the legendary Scythians, Saka and Sarmatians. In other words, our European ancestors extended from Eastern Europe all the way to the Ordos desert of China at one time. The first time Scythians were mentioned in Chinese history books was in 941 B.C. when Scythians and Chinese battled near the big bend of the Yellow river near the Ordos desert. Scythians are also known as Sarmatians, interesting that there is a Province or Oblast of Russia called Samara and it is straight north of ancient Israel and within the Scythian boundaries.
The Encyclopedia Britannica states the terms Saka and Scythian were regarded as synonymous. Herodotus says of the Scythians: “no nation on earth could match the Scythians, they are unconquerable.” Hippocrates wrote: “the Scythians, their countenance was ruddy.” On ancient maps, the Arctic Ocean is known as the Oceanvs Scythicvs or Ocean Scythia.
The Sakas were known as the Sak or Sai in ancient Chinese records, and in the Book of Han, the area west of China was called the “land of the Sak“, i.e. the Saka. Ptolemy referred to the Scythians as Saxones. God Calls Israelites: His battle axe and weapons of War! Herodotus says that the favourite weapon of the Scythians was the battle axe.
In the modern era, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler (1863–1913) was the first to associate the Sakas with the Scythians. John Manuel Cook, in The Cambridge History of Iran, states: “The Persians gave the single name Sakā both to the nomads whom they encountered between the Russian steppe and the Caspian, and equally to those north of the Danube and Black Sea whom Persian King Darius later campaigned against; those who were known to them by the name Skuthai (Iškuzai), Sakā and Skuthai.”
Kyrgyz American Foundation wrote: “Meet my ancient Saxon ancestors from Eleke Saza, Kazakhstan. The results of a Family Tree DNA, showing 71 Y-DNA matches related to the lineage of my Saxon ancestors, in Kyrgyzstan near the Altai Region and Kazakhstan region, these results testify to the distinct succession of the Eastern Steppe genetic lineage between the early Saka populations and modern Kyrgyz groups of Kyrgyzstan. During this period, the Saka groups occupied a vast territory, stretching from the Altai and Tuva to Mongolia, East Kazakhstan and parts of Xinjiang forming the eastern branch of the larger Scythian cultural area.”
The 1895 Encyclopedia Britannica states the Greeks met a nomadic race on the north coast of the Black Sea around 650 B.C. which the Greeks called Scythians; this is the first mention in History of the Scythians in Europe. In 517 B.C. Persian King Darius led a massive Persian army of over 800,000 men into Scythia or today’s Ukraine to seek battle with Scythian tribes; these Scythians had been raiding northern Persian cities. The Persian army chased the Scythians for over a month, and they wore out the Persian army with hit and run tactics. The Scythians finally drove out the Persian army; this was the very first invasion of Europe, before the Greek/Persian wars.
Herodotus wrote the Scythians were Aryans (Indo-Europeans) that, according to the ancients, originally came from the land of the Medes. Saka or Sakas is the name used in Middle Persian (by the Medes) and Sanskrit sources for the Scythians. The Roman historian Tacitus says the Scythians became the Saxons. According to Herodotus, the Sarmatians were descendants of the Scythians according to the “depravity” of the Scythian language, in other words, the Scythians and Sarmatians were one people; they had a small spatial difference and had the various ruling dynasties. Tamara Talbot Rice in her 1957 Book The Scythians wrote the Scythian Tribes were causing such damage to the Chinese that the Emperor Suan had to take military action against them from 827 – 781 B.C.
The Cimmerians (Or today’s Celts and the Tribe of Simeon) had once inhabited the steppes on the northern shore of the Black Sea; the first surviving evidence of this view is found in the poem Arimaspaea by Aristeas of Proconnesus. Herodotus writes the Cimmerian (Celts) language is somewhat similar to the Scythian language, Cimmerian was the original name for the Celts, or the tribe of Simeon. The Nation of Wales: claim Celtic identity and call themselves Cymri or Khumri.
The Assyrians call Israel Khumri; there is a description of Khmri on an ancient Assyrian Obelisk called the Black Obelisk housed in the British Museum. The Israelite King Omri was a friend of the Assyrians years before the Captivity happened; the Assyrians called him King Omri or Khumri. Other Assyrian connections to Israel include Bit-Khumri, Beth-Omri, or House of Omri, Beth Saka, or House of Saka, and Beth-Issac, or House of Issac, by inscriptions found in ancient Nineveh, Assyria. Rev. I. M. Condit, M.A. writes: “Now this multitude, which had become so vast, referring to the ‘immense multitude’ of the descendants of the deported Israelites to the Assyrian Empire, Josephus wrote about, seems to be clearly identified with the ancient Scythians, and it seems to be quite as clear that the Scythians are the ancestors of the Saxon Race.”
The Irish originated in Scythia and were descendants of Fénius Farsaid, a Scythian Prince who created the Ogham alphabet, and who was one of the principal architects of the Gaelic Language.
The British historian Sharon Turner tells us “The Saxons were a Scythian tribe; and of the various Scythian nations the Sakai, or Sacae, are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of probability. Sakai-Suna or the sons of the Sakai, abbreviated into Saksun, which is the same sound as Saxon, seems a reasonable etymology of the word “Saxon”. “The Saxons were a Scythian nation and were called Saca, Sacki, Sachsen.” In 1875, according to Col. J.C. Gawler, Queen Victoria said our Scythian ancestors identified themselves as Israelites.
The Scots come from Scythia! The Scottish Declaration of Independence or the Declaration of Arbroath April 6th 1320 A.D. One of the Treasures of the National Archives of Scotland, the Declaration of Arbroath, was written to the Pope in 1320 A.D., on behalf of the Barons and Realm of Scotland. This letter was written in support of King Robert Bruce and an independent Scotland from England. Part of the Text From the Declaration of Arbroath: “We know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown, they journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today.” 1,200 years after the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt which was approximately 1446 B.C., that would make it around 246 B.C., that the Scots left Greater Scythia for Ireland, then to Scotland. The Scots were known as Milesians Scots. The Scots migrated south from Scythia and left the Greek Port of Miletus in Asia Minor or today’s western Turkey, where they continued their migration to Spain and then to Ireland and finally Scotland, this Greek port is where the Scots picked up the name Milesians Scots.
These are just some of the Biblical and historical facts regarding who our ancient Israelite ancestors became, the Scythians/Sakas/Saxons, before the great migration into Europe from Asia. These are the Lost Tribes! The Sons of Issac!
