Dan In America - Part
2 Chapter 2
By Walter Baucum
What further evidence might there be that Dan came to America? Gloria
Stewart theorized that the Dene tribes (the name used for themselves by the
Apache and other Athabaskans, i.e., Navajo) are derived from the Han tribe in
China, thereby fitting in with traditional scholarship explaining the origin of
many of the cultures in the western portion of America. 1
Research
has shown a Celtic element in Dene, presumably via the Italio-Celtic of the
Tokharian B dialect of the northern Tarim Oases and the Sino-Tibetan border of
Kan-su, or else via more recent incursions of Celtic culture across the
Atlantic. 2
Apache (Dene
(Dine)--from "Dan"--meaning "people")(also includes Navajo)
comes from "apachu" (Ponchteca--Mayan name for "trading
people"), which is a Zuni word for "enemy." Apaches also called
themselves T'inde or Inde (a.k.a. Dene). They were late comers to America from
Asia, from the time of Ghengis Khan's Mongol escapades (1233-1300) up to the
1400's and even later. They were excellent horsemen. The same area of China
where the red-headed and white people are buried is a high plateau and
mountainous area containing a people (today) who are the best horsemen in Asia
and who spend much of their lives on horses. Is there a possibility these
Apache and Navajo (Dene) peoples were influenced so much by Danites (who
drifted eastward from their captivity in Assyria before turning and heading
west) that they called themselves after that name? Israel, remember, from the
time of Solomon, were horsemen and cavalry fighters. (See also next-to-last
paragraph under "Dan in England and Europe.")
Note
the Alibamu Indians' similarity to the Hebrew word, "Oholibamah,"
meaning "tent-dweller." "Mandan" is a
Siouan word. Mandans called themselves "Numakik," meaning
"people." There is some evidence that the Sioux people themselves
were Danites from Ireland and Scandinavia. Many similarities exist, including
their tall statures and their same sweat lodges. The Kensington Rune Stone is
not a fake, contrary to what some archaeologists believe. 3
The Arikara were Tanish
("original people"). Dan ("people") and ish (the Semitic
morpheme for "human being"). Rok ("crow,"
"sparrowhawk," or "bird people"); "Absaroke"
is the Crow Indian name for themselves. "Rok" is a morpheme and is
also the snake totem (same as Tribe of Dan). Note also "Tanith":
Patron saint of Carthaginian sailors. (Note Dan (Tan) and Esau/Phoenicia)
Hopi(u) --
"Hopitu" ("peaceful ones"); note similarity to "Habiru"
-- "Hebrew," i.e., "moqui." Ojibwa ("Anishinabe")
(means "first people"). Note "ish" --Semitic for human
being. Note that the Chippewa (Ojibwas) and Chippenham are probably variations
of the same morpheme seen in "Kjobnhann" (Copenhagen), which is
pronounced almost identically to "Chippenham" by the Danes.
Early reports from
North America include reference to Samoset, the Wampanoag chief who walked out
of the woods to greet the Pilgrims in almost perfect English. There are many
references to Gaelic (Welsh) and Hebrew speakers who claimed to be able to
communicate with the North American natives in their mother tongue.
The Salishan
(Flathead) tribes of the Northwest called themselves "Se-lic," a name
reminiscent of the Salic Franks of the time before Charlemagne, a time known as
the "Migration of the Peoples."
4
What is even more
interesting is that a sub-tribe of these Flatheads called themselves
"Tuadhu" (pronounced "Twathu"). This is the exact same name
as the general proper name for Franks and other Teutonic tribes, all meaning,
"The People." Note also "Tuatha de Danaan."
Ida
Jane Gallagher, in some interesting research, found that whites in Connecticut
wanted Indian land for themselves and on April 24, 1729, negotiated with Chief
Squantz of the Schaghticoke, a tribe of Algonquin lineage, for it. The deed was
recorded on May 9, 1729, and is deposited in the archives of the State Capitol
in Hartford, Connecticut, today. The signatures ("marcks") of the
thirteen chiefs appeared to be a syllabary or alphabet. Dr. Barry Fell has
linked them to Basque and Ogam, the Indian deed signatures being the first or
first and second syllables of the chiefs' names. Fell earlier had deciphered
the Cypro-Minoan signatures of Abenaki chiefs on a 1729 treaty with the British
in Nova Scotia, Algonkian signatures on the Nipomuck Indian deed to Sutton,
Massachusetts, (1681), and others. Dr. Fell says that the Cree/Objibwa
syllabary used today has many matches with ancient Basque inscriptions.
Epigraphers and linguists are learning that Amerindians had writing systems
long before Colonial times.< 5 All
these (above) have been possibilities of Dan and/or other Israelite tribes
mixed in with (or having direct influence on) Amerindians. Briefly, can we find
possible Esau-ites (Phoenicians) in America in Indian tribal names?
Barry Fell said the alphabets in ancient America include Arabic,
Berber, Carthaginian, Celtic, Cree, Cypriot, Greek, Hebrew, Hiragana, Iberian, Kufi,
Latin, Libyan, Minoan, Nashki, Norse, Punic, Tifinag. Tifinag, remember, is
an alphabet, not a language. Any language can be made using Tifinag.
"Pima" is Arabic or Semitic derived from Iberian Punic.
"Zuni" is North African (Libyan). 6
Fell
thinks of the Pima Indians as descendants of some Celtiberian tribe that had
been converted to the use of the Punic language by Phoenician colonists in
Spain, and whose more adventurous members migrated to the Lands Beyond the
Sunset under Phoenician leadership. 7
His first attention
was to a white leather sun-disk in the Pueblo materials in the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology at Harvard University, which had been obtained from New Mexico
after a religious ceremony of the Shiwi (Zuni) in 1891. On it was painted the
Libyan letters T-M, a formula adopted in Egypt as the phonetic rendering of
"Atum," the primeval sun god of North Africa. The Libyan language, as
Fell has shown elsewhere, is basically Egyptian combined with Anatolian
(Turkish) roots introduced by the Sea Peoples who invaded Libya, while the
written form of the language is like that of the Phoenicians, alphabetic but
using only consonants. The Zuni tongue is largely derived from North African
dialects, the linkage being very marked with Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and
Nubian of the Nile Valley. While there is evidence of much loan vocabulary,
too, from adjacent tribes (from the Algonquian dialects to the north and the
Mexican tongues to the south), the main vocabulary is North African.
Dr.
Fell's conclusion is that the Zuni language should be reclassified as an
American branch of the North African group, which otherwise comprised the
belt of so-called Afro-Asian tongues of mixed Semitic-Hamitic origin,
stretching from the Moroccan Berber area near Gibraltar across the southern
coast lands of the Mediterranean to Somalia in the east, and including in
former times the ancient Libyan, ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Ethiopian
(Amharic) languages. He further thinks it probable that the ancestors of the
Shivi people of Auni are the same visitors from Libya who cut the ancient
inscriptions. 8
Barry Fell saw that
the Pima traditional religious chants were treated not as esoteric secret
religious jargon of the Makai priest-magicians, but as corrupt creolinized
Arabic derived apparently from North African Berber sources, somehow being
superiposed upon the native tongue in much the same way as religious vocabulary
of Latin or French origin was superimposed upon Anglo-Saxon after the Norman
Conquest of England. His friend ShupShe, a learned Indian scholar of high rank
in the Mide Grand Medicine Lodge of the Miami-Potawatomi of Indiana, suggested
that both the story-content and the actual vocabulary of these North African
tales may have reached the Pima from visiting Arab-Berber traders in pre-Columbian
times or even later. Koranic influence is apparent in the story of the Flood of
Noah. Greek influence appears in the myth of Persephone and the Fables of
Aesop. Many of the petroglyphs in the deserts of Nevada, California, and Idaho
(Wees Bar) are similar to those of North Africa, including the name Mohamed and
Koranic religious expressions. Professor Albert Casey and colleagues observed
North African features in the cranial osteology of the Indians of the
Southwest.
"Balboa
and other early explorers referred to scattered groups of white Indians, black
Indians, and traditions of pygmies...."
9
In the world
cultures class that I teach, I discuss at length something of much interest to
me: the three "white, North African" tribes in the American Southwest
that the Hopi, Zuni, Papago, Pueblo, etc. called "the ancient ones,"
and whom we call Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon. The big question, besides who
were they originally, is where did they disappear to between 1250-1300? Also,
were Zuni part of them or just inherit by diffusion and trade their same
culture and language? Or should we add Zuni as a fourth tribe of "the
ancient ones" who came from North Africa with them, and who now are the
only ones who remained behind when the others left?
Of
equal interest to me are the gene frequency distributions of the
"Amerindians." Early explorers commented on the apparent racial
diversity of indigenous Americans and speculated on their origins. Padre
Francisco Garces, in 1775, reported that in the Zuni Pueblo, there were two
races of men speaking two different languages. One group, said to be the
ancient inhabitants of the land, was black, while the other group was red.
Today, it seems reasonable to assume that the ancient black inhabitants seen by
Garces were Indonesians of partial south Indian ancestry, and that the
lighter-skinned people were the Zuni, of partial North African descent
(Phoenicians). 10
Barry
Fell's work on the Libyan aspect of the Zuni language is supportive of this, as
is Casey's craniometric data relating the Old Zuni to Mediterranean sea-farers
and their Ticuso Cromagnon antecedents.
11
The conventional
belief, that almost all indigenous Americans came from Siberia, falls a notch
or two when we find strikingly different gene distributions in North, Central,
and South America and the disparity in gene profiles between Asians and
Americans in the region of the Bering Straight. Guthrie says the first Americans probably lacked the
A and B genes. In North America, the high levels of A could have come from
Europe or North Africa. The Diego gene, said to be the main Mongoloid marker,
is at much higher levels in South America than anywhere else in the world, and
it could very well be called the South American gene. The old idea that a
small homogeneous population of Siberian-Americans, evolving variously in
response to environmental pressures, gave rise to the diverse modern Amerindian
peoples, seems shaky at best..
"The peculiar
Auni Cde/cDE ratio of 3.2 is suggestive of a connection with the
Mediterranean." (Guthrie quotes this from Mourant, in reference 19, p. 72,
with regard to a Cde/cDE ratio of 5 among the Basques.) 12 The
low level of A gene would seem to argue against a close connection with North Africa,
but the Berbers of the Atlas Mountains have only 6% A. It will be recalled
that Fell believes the ancient Libyan language incorporated in the Zuni
language has been preserved to a large degree by Berber isolates. 13
Barry Fell gives
much more information on these people, including the Mimbres pottery and
"magic" symbols used in their priesthood being written Libyan words
for those objects. The matching pairs of words from New Mexico and from North
Africa, though, are a final clincher. They are so numerous, and the phonetic
relationships so evident, that it is possible to set out the rules of
phonetic mutation that govern the derivation of the Zuni language from its
Libyan parent language.
The Anasazi
"kivas" (underground chambers) were the same as those of the Mountain
Berbers in North Africa. Herodotus called these Berbers Troglodytes (people who
live in holes in the ground). The pueblos of the Southwest perfectly match those
of the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains. The Zuni word "adobe" comes
from the Arabic "ah-topi," having the same meaning.
Dr. Fell goes on to
say that the Polynesian people, like the Libyans themselves, are descended from
the Anatolian Sea Peoples who invaded the Mediterranean around 1400 B.C.E. and,
after their defeat, settled Libya. Later the Libyan seamen were employed by the
Pharaohs in the Egyptian fleet, and still later the Libyan chiefs seized
control of Egypt to establish the Libyan dynasties, mentioned earlier in
"Dan in North Africa."
We have seen (to
the point of being tiresome) the connection of Dan with Greece, Anatolia and
the Sea People, and Phoenicia. Wherever these Greeks (especially North African
Greeks) and Phoenicians went, there did Dan go also. Fell and others make
connections of these seafaring peoples with Polynesia, Peru, Central America,
Southwest, Northeast, and Central United States, and Canada. Zuni loan words
are derived from Spanish and English in modern times, but a much older loan
vocabulary includes words like "zi" (hair) and "ahha"
(take) from the Otomi language of Mexico; words like "pu'a" (break)
and "tachchu" (father) from the Aztec language; words like
"pilha" (bow) and "ma" (well) from Huasteca of Mexico;
"pizulliya" (circle) and "lashokti" (ear) from Mayan.
Their
basic language, though, is North African, comprising a large Libyo-Egyptian
element similar to Coptic, to which have been added Ptolemaic roots brought to
the Egyptian and Libyan lands by Greek settlers in the wake of the Spartan
(Danite) colonization of Libya in the eighth century B.C.E., and the conquest
of Egypt by Alexander the Great and his successors, the Ptolemies, during the
last four centuries B.C.E. There are also roots of Nilotic origin, probably introduced
to the Egyptian and Libyan speech by Nubian slaves. 14
To digress briefly,
on page 100 of Saga America are pictographs of Spartan Greeks from Libya
found in Tennessee and Utah, near Vernal. The Spartans of Libya retained the
warlike habits of their ancestors in Greece, and thus maintained their
independence for nearly a thousand years. The same helmets and spears and round
shields appear on American inscriptions and in Cyrenian tombs, the latter
dating from about 550 B.C.E. Also, a bronze circular shield engraved with
fighting gladiators has been dredged from Boston Harbor.
Dr. James L. Guthrie wrote in his "Comparison of Gene Frequency
Distributions" about the Melungeons, one of about 200 "isolate"
populations of the Eastern U.S. who seem to be a union of Europeans,
Amerindians, and Blacks. The Melungians of Tennessee, Virginia, and North
Carolina, including the Lumbee Indians, are unique. His studies conclude that
the Black portion turns out to be Portuguese; also, none of them are Indians.
Rollin Gillespie (a member of the Epigraphic Society) postulates that these
Melungeons descended from Milesians, the founders of Milan, who fled their
Anatolian homeland in 494 B.C.E. Most went to Ireland and Iceland by way of
Cadiz. Gillespie relates Caesar's difficulty in driving the Melungeons from
their island stronghold in 52 B.C.E., and suggests that some escaped to America.
A portion of the story tells that they were the friendly White Indians who
absorbed the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in 1587, an idea supported
by the appearance among the Melungeons of family names that were present in the
Roanoke colony. 15
Henriette
Mertz, in Atlantis, Dwelling Place of the Gods, presents the case for
immigration by Christian Portuguese to Florida in 734 to escape the Moors.
Anthropologists studied a sample, 177 people from Hancock County, Tennessee,
and Lee County, Virginia, and the results showed the Melungeons to be
Caucasian: more like Portuguese than English, with negligible input from Blacks
or Indians. Briefly, all the data shows no distinguishing differences between
Melungeons and certain people of Libya, the Canary Islands, Malta, Italy,
Portugal, and Spain. This distribution generates a map, almost, of the
Phoenician, or Sea-People settlements. Nearly as close were certain
populations of Ireland, Sweden, France, Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Again, where we find Phoenicians being traced anywhere, Dan was among them. 16
To conclude this,
to this day the Portuguese laugh at the traditional story of Columbus. They
themselves had mapped Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by 1424 and their
knowledge seems to have been based on centuries of transatlantic navigation.
Note, too, that some of the Mediterranean people (Phoenicians and Danites) were
called Phoinikes, meaning "redskins."
To
return briefly to Dan and Phoenicia in America, there was the legend of St.
Brendan, who, with a party of 17 monks, made a voyage to America in a leather
ship 400 years before the Vikings and 1,000 years before Columbus (all
documented in Latin texts dating back at least to 800 C.E.). The round-trip
voyage took seven years. He reported things like pillars of crystal floating in
the sea (icebergs). The boat was made of 49 ox hides stitched over a wooden
frame like a patchwork quilt. Tim Severin tells about finding in Ari, the
Learned's Book of the Icelanders, dated 1133, a report that Vikings
found "books, bells, and croziers" left by Irish priests on Iceland.
In Greenland, the first Norse reported finding stone huts and fragments of skin
boats. These were not Eskimo boats, different completely from their kayaks. 17
Another
voyage by an Irishman (Danite) across the Atlantic was that of Cuchulainn. The
two best known figures of South America are Quetzalcoatl and Kukulcan, both
reputed to be white men who arrived from and departed to the east. According to
Mayan records, Kukulcan arrived in 987 A.D. The Mayan hieroglyphic dates have
been verified by radiocarbon dating. I will skip the original and lengthy
story, but the conclusion is that an Irish oral history has an Irishman named
Cuchulainn traveling westward to a new land and returning...and also accounts
written in South America told that a "white man" named Kukulcan
arrived from the east, stayed awhile, then returned to his home. My interest in
this is, of course, that we have just another record (of many) of Dan sailing
all over the world and especially of his coming to the Americas. 18
"...and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed."
Jean Hunt tells how she read Lewis Spence's Atlantis in America and
of her finding in it an explanation of who the Cabiri were. Spence apparently
quoted Sanconiathon as saying that the cult of the Cabiri was of Carthaginian
origin and of its being associated with Osiris. The cult of the Cabiri appears
to have been brought from North Africa to Egypt and Greece. What is interesting
about these Cabiri is that they are said to have been the inventors of boats,
of the arts of hunting and fishing, and of building and husbandry. They also
invented the art of writing and the use of salt and of medicines. 19
My belief is that
the blessings given Esau and Jacob (i.e., Phoenicia and Israel-Dan) were such
that wherever they went in the world, they took with them such knowledge as to
bring all whom they influenced up a notch or two above what they themselves had
achieved. Be reminded, too, of the particular blessing of old Israel onto the
two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh.
Although
not germane to our topic, I would like to add the following from Jean Hunt as
she quoted Ignatius Donnelly in his Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.
Among the ancient nations, there was a general belief that the art of writing
was known to the antediluvians. The Druids, for example, believed in books more
ancient than the Flood. They styled them "the books of Pheryllt," and
"the writings of Pridian or Hu." Berosus, speaking of the time before
the Deluge, says: "Oannes (Noah) wrote concerning the generations of
mankind and their civil polity." The Hebrew commentators on Genesis say,
"Our rabbins assert that Adam, our father of blessed memory, composed a
book of precepts, which were delivered to him by God (ETERNAL) in
Paradise." 20
{Books/writings
mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures include Gen. 5:1 (the Book of the
generations of Adam), Ex. 17:14 (Amalek), Ex. 24:7; 2 Kgs. 23:2 (Covenant),
Deut. 31:24 (Law of Eternal), Mal. 3:16 (Book of Remembrance), Psa. 69:28 (Book
of Life), Josh. 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:28 (Book of Jasher), 2 Chron. 24:27, and
others. See also Job 19:23, the Book of Job probably being the oldest book in
the Hebrew Scriptures.}
Continuing
with Jean Hunt, the Hebrews preserved a tradition that the Ad-ami, the people
of Ad, or Adlantis, possessed, while yet dwelling in Paradise, the art of
writing. (Note that Jean Hunt (now deceased) was attempting to prove that the
"little people" found in most of the coastal regions of the world were
survivors of the flood of Atlantis. My personal belief is, after reading her
book, and since most if not all these people were (1) found mostly on coastal
areas of earth, and (2) most if not all were "red" people, that these
peoples were Esau-ites, which would fit quite well with the blessings given
Esau by his blind father Isaac.) Further, it has been suggested that without
the use of letters, it would have been impossible to preserve the many details
as to dates, ages, and measurements (as of the ark) handed down to us in
Genesis. Strabo says, "The inhabitants of Spain possessed records written
before the Deluge." 21
This would make
sense, considering that unless Eternal told him directly, Moses must have had
some written records to refer to when writing the first five books. Further
conjecture would make creditable our belief that Eternal Himself taught Adam
and Eve in the Garden how to do many things, writing perhaps being one of them.
Shem could have brought books across the Flood with him and given them to
Abraham, who passed them on down his own line. Shem, I have believed for years,
was the Melchizedek of Genesis (See also article by Charles Voss, United Hebrew
Congregations).
Where,
then, are these books today? Probably not in existence now, although some might
have crossed over the Flood only to disappear later, but not before parts of
them had been copied or memorized then written later. Several Christian writers
allude to the existence of a Druidic literature in ancient Ireland. We are told
that St. Patrick, in his Roman Catholic religious zeal, burnt 180 books
belonging to the Irish Druids. Also, did not the fanatical Islamic people
destroy the great Library of Alexandria? Didn't the fanatical Spanish Roman
Catholic clergy incinerate all the native manuscripts of Mexico? 22 Also,
weren't thousands of books in the Middle Ages destroyed with their constant
book burnings?
Classical
historians wrote that the Druids knew and used Ogam. Lay persons illegally
learning and using Ogam were given the "geasa," the Druid death
curse. With both Caesar's, and later the Christians' persecutions, Druidism
disappeared from public view. A 14th century Irish monk prevented its total
loss when he copied some 70 versions of it from older manuscripts into the
"Ogam Tract" of the Book of Ballymote, now in the Irish Museum
in Dublin, Ireland. Robert Graves and Barry Fell both discovered and reported
it (both independently) in modern books, The White Goddess by Graves and
America B.C. by Fell. 23
It is these
(alphabets and written languages) that Fell and others have found engraved in
rocks all over the North and South American continents, Europe, North Africa,
and other places. That Europeans, Asians, and Africans had no contact with this
land before Columbus is a fantasy, still held, unfortunately, by some diehard
professionals who stick to their own pet theories and refuse to look at, or
seriously consider, the facts.
I
do not want to be responsible for claiming something that isn't true, or
misleading others in any way. I have read the books by Yair Davidy, Barry Fell,
Raymond Capt, Jean Hunt, and others, but they, not I, did the original research
on the information contained in them. Most of the conclusions drawn, however,
are my own, although many are shared with them. My conclusions are based only
on my understanding of these well-researched books and my own education,
reading, and experiences. Although I was a member of The Epigraphic Society for
a number of years and even corresponded with Barry Fell before his death, I did
not personally contribute anything to its "Occasional Publications."
Also, I make no claims as to the accuracy of these books to anyone other than
myself. I believe most of what they say and accept their research as valid. The
reader will have to accept or reject the information contained herein.
Regarding Barry
Fell's non-controversial tendencies, what he often called Arabs (to avoid
religious arguments by calling them Israelites), I believe to be (and am
calling them) Israelites and, specifically, Dan. Ninety-five per
cent of the world's research is in English; the language of computers is
English. Orwell thought that man would be enslaved by cynical semantic
manipulation and narrowing of the language, but language really seems to be the
great liberator.
Josephus, Antiquities
of the Jews, Book I, VII:2, claimed of Abraham that "He communicated
to them (Egyptians) arithmetic, and delivered to them the science of
astronomy...for that science came from the Chaldeans into Egypt...." It
seems that ETERNAL has ever worked with one particular group of people,
Abraham's line of people and, through him and his offspring, has caused the
entire world to be blessed. We need to understand that we people of America,
Britain, Europe, and Scandinavia are these same people.
The "Lost
Tribes" are definitely not lost. I have used the Tribe of Dan as a
microcosm to represent all of Israel because Dan was the "pioneer" of
Israel. Where Dan went, Israel always followed. The peculiar symbiosis of Dan
with his Uncle Esau has intriqued me for years. When some of Dan left Egypt
before their brothers were enslaved, I can see these lonesome, lost, and
fearful people seeking their own kin in and around Mt. Seir, which is where
Esau still remained at that time in history. From that moment on, a
relationship began that never ended.
Again, Numbers 26
might nullify this argument completely, with "Phoenicia" being
Issachar, Dan, and parts of Asher and Zebulon. Some of Esau migrated to the
interior of Asia, Mongolia itself being one of its tribes. Could others of Esau
have gone immediately to ships and become the Phoenicia-Carthaginian nautical
power while some traveled to the East, returning later to become present-day
Turkey?
This work could
just as easily have been entitled "Tracing Israel." Where Dan went,
Israel also went. Dan went first, though, especially to America, and probably
also to Greece, North Africa, Scandinavia, and Ireland. In some cases they went
alone, while in other cases they went united. Today, Israel can be found in the
Democracies of West Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, and the United States.
One of
these Israelite tribes, the Tribe of Dan, is very much alive and well and is,
perhaps even more so than any other Israelite tribe, strewn about the entire
earth. We find them in Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, and mixed in Europe with
all the other Celtic people. The Irish, Welsh, British are a large part of
America. Yes, even a large part of the British might be Dan. In The Tribes,
we find that those we call "Saxons" were most likely Danites, or Dan
mixed with Judah. Those we call "Angles" were most likely Judah, or
Judah mixed with Dan. 24
Dan,
even from early times, rebelled a little but accomplished much. Dan had vision
that some of the other Tribes lacked. He had imagination. What can be imagined
can be achieved.
Remnants
of Dan are among some of the Amerindian tribes, Polynesia, and perhaps even in
some jungle recesses of Peru. Alphabetical writing, art, sculpture,
architectural innovations, ivory working, nautical power, even horsemanship,
all owe more than a little to Dan and his kinsman, Esau. Like all the rest of
us Israelites, Dan will have to be awakened from a long sleep and told who he
really is. But when he does come to his senses, I believe that ETERNAL will
find Dan to be a loyal, stalwart, optimistic, and dedicated child.
Tracing
Dan - Bibliography Tracing Dan -
Introduction Index Page
1. "The
Han Tribes of the Dene," ESOP, Vol. 17, p. 12. (This portion is
from ESOP, Vol. 19, 1990, article "North American Indian Tribal
Names," by E. Morgan Kelley, Ph.D., The College of William and Mary,
Virginia, pp. 83-91).
2. "Celts
and the Dene," ESOP, Vol. 17, p. 12.
3. Nielson,
Richard, "The Arabic Numbering System on the Kensington Rune Stone," ESOP,
1986, pp. 47-61 and "The Kensington Runestone: Part 2, Aberrant Letters
New Evidence from Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia," ESOP, 1987,
pp. 51-78.
4. Kinder/Hilgemann,
Atlas of World History, pp. 114-125.
5. Gallagher,
Ida Jane, "Schaghticoke Deed to New Fairfield, Connecticut," p. 101.
6. Fell,
Saga, p. 266. See also ABC, p. 169.
7. Fell,
ABC, p. 173.
8. Ibid.,
p. 175.
9. Totten,
Op.cit., p. 84.
10.
Guthrie, James L., "Gene Frequency Distributions in Epigraphic
Research: Possible Indic Influence on the Tewa of New Mexico," ESOP,
1986, pp. 69-76.
11.
Casey, Albert E. And Downey-Prince, Eleanor L., ESOP, 1979, pp.
138-156.
12.
Mourant, A.E.; Kopec, Ada C.; and Domaniewska-Sobczak, The Distribution
of the Human Blood Groups and Other Polymorphisms, London, 1976..
13.
Guthrie, Op.cit., p. 75.
14.
Fell, ABC, p. 178.
15.
Hunt, Tracking, pp. 94-95, from Dr. James L. Guthrie's
"Comparison of Gene Frequency," written at Jean Hunt's request in Louisiana
Mounds Society newsletter, (No. 36, Dec. 11, 1990).
16.
Ibid.
17.
Hunt, Op.cit., p. 98.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid., p. 245.
20.
Ibid., Jean Hunt quoting Donnelly, Ignatius, Atlantis: The Antedeluvian
World, New Jersey, 1949.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Ibid., Jean Hunt quoting Spencer, Lewis, The Magic Arts in Celtic
Britain, London, 1945.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Davidy, Yair, The Tribes, p. 215.