Buner reliefs Scythian bacchanalian cropped
Author: Dan Diffendale. Source: Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 2.0
The origin of the Scythians is unknown. They appear in history around 700 BC through documents from ancient Assyria. But it is at least known that they are Indo-Europeans and that they are probably descended from Kurgan or Turanians. And we also know that they had settlements in Egypt and Korea, even if their preferred land was the plains north of the Caucasus and the shores of the Caspian Sea. What is certain is that distances did not frighten them. We even know that one of their branches, the Sogdians, traded with China.
The Scottish elite relied on the oldest story in Europe: the Lebor Gabála Érenn.
‘Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally “The Book of the Taking of Ireland”), known in English as The Book of Invasions, is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a number of versions’
Source: Wikipedia.
We have chosen two translators.
‘Macalister was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Alexander Macalister, then professor of Zoology, University of Dublin. His father was appointed professor of anatomy at Cambridge in 1883, and he was educated at The Perse School, and then studied at Cambridge University. Although his earliest interest was in the archaeology of Ireland’ Source: Wikipedia.
Henry Lizeray continues to be an unknown but he founded the Druidic and National Church in Paris (1885). His direct translation (1884) was the first in the French language.
The difficulty in reading this book is to distinguish the Irish tradition (the original text) and the biblical tradition (the text added by medieval copyists). Because of this addition, it is surprising that historians consider the Lebor Gabála Érenn to be a legend when it describes with great accuracy characters and events from the distant past. Some of these characters have been used in Irish mythology, but the ‘Book’ (we will use this diminutive term) shows that all the deities involved were, without exception, mere mortals. And when the biblical tradition is subtracted from the text, we are dealing with a book of history.
In the format of the 1884 French translation, the Book is 180 pages long and we will concentrate on pages 8 to 95. These pages describe the 6 major invasions of Ireland. Medieval copyists changed the original dates to coincide with the biblical calendar. It is therefore lost. But by cross-referencing events of the Book with historical events, we can deduce that the second invasion took place around 1200 BC. And the most surprising thing is that the populations involved in invasions 2 to 6 have the same common ancestors, namely two Indo-Europeans from the shores of the Caspian Sea: Aitech and his brother Baath. They are therefore the patriarchs of Ireland.
We have tried to restore the original calendar and so far this is what we can offer (at that time, rulers could live long and beget late):
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Event reported in the Book Current dating of Egyptology Idem Canonical year in the Book Generation deduced from the Book Average nb of years per generation Our proposal |
As the Book will show, the descendants of these patriarchs will influence events in Greece and Spain. And on their way, they will meet Egyptians, Athenians, Philistines, Cruitneacs in the north of Europe, Bracas (?) in Spain, Fomoraig on the island of Britain (now Great Britain), etc. We will ignore the first invasion, whose population was decimated in less than a year due to a disease (or even an epidemic). But before tackling the second invasion, we will describe the background of the ancestors of these ‘invaders’.
