Willie Martin
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:06 am Post subject: Japheth and Ham - 14 |
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Wherever Christianity has gone, the Laws of God have been adapted into the
legal system of the community. The Christian Celts of Iberia, Ireland,
Scotland as well as the Christian Celts of America had a legal system that
reflected the teachings of the Christian Bible. The system was called the
Tanistry which means the administration of law by deputies of the king. The
system as it is preserved from ancient times is rather lengthy so here are
just a few examples to show the influence of the Christian Bible:
1). "In the obscurity of the mists of olden time a desire would arise to
replace armed combat by arbitration. (1 Kings 3:16-28; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8)
2). And it would seem a desirable thing that land boundaries should be fixed
without recourse to moats. (Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Job 24:2; Proverbs
22:28; 23:10; Joshua 5:10)
3). Henceforth cases involving wrongdoing are to be made over to the wisest
men. (Exodus 18:21-22; 22:9; Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 1:13-15)
4). Any case is to be brought to judgment without delay.
5). Henceforth in any case involving false utterances let amends be paid in
compensation for the harm. (Deuteronomy 19:16-20; Proverbs 6:16-19; and
Leviticus 19:16)
6). Henceforth if a complainant be merciful, let the judges also be
merciful. (2 Samuel 22:26; Psalm 18:25)
7). If a malicious man utter lying words that another declares to be
slanderous, to the measure of his tongue-loose recklessness shall he
transport heavy burdens for the other man. (Leviticus 6:2-6)
8). The common people may eat corn, together with game bird but they may not
hunt bears. They may kill stags, goats and red deer." (Leviticus 1-30)
There is much more to the Tanistry but this gives you information that the
early Celts became Christian and this was imparted to those Celts living in
the United States long before Columbus "discovered" America.
: The Columbus mystique has been so impressed on the American people that we
are blinded to facts. Such again is the case of the colonists from Norway.
When Thormod Torfason wrote his authenticated works titled Historia
Vinlandae Antiquae in 1705, very few historians and other scholars knew
anything of the many trips to America by the Norse mariners and colonists.
For over two more centuries, nearly everyone continued to disbelieve
Torfason's studies. The American's minds were made up, don't confuse us with
facts! We will understand why we have been misled by the conclusion of the
next lesson in history.
On May 24, 1934, a mining prospector named James Edward Dodd was blasting in
the Great Lakes region of Canada and his dynamite uncovered a sword and a
shield. These artifacts were taken to the royal Ontario Museum and they were
accurately dated to the first quarter of the eleventh century, about 1025
A.D.
It was at this time that Leif Eriksson began his first ventures to the land
that he called Vinland. The name itself was given to the St. Lawrence River
area because of the abundance of wild grapes that the Norsemen found to make
a very good grade of wine.
Because of the find of the sword and shield, along with much other evidence,
we Americans began to believe that the Norsemen did, indeed, predate
Columbus' discovery.
In the 1930's, we began to learn about the tremendous amount of European
travel and commerce predating Eriksson by many centuries.
Then in 1940, we were reconvinced that Eriksson didn't exist and that there
was absolutely nobody who proceeded Columbus. Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison
was an author who appeared to be "puffed" by the establishment.
His style of writing was light and airy and he was very capable of mixing
legends in with archaeological and historical facts in such a way that it
became easy to question the technical analysis.
In 1940, from his Harvard position, he was adamant in his position that
Columbus was the first and in 1942 he wrote Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life
of Christopher Columbus to prove his point.
By 1961 the Royal Ontario Museum was obliged to re-evaluate their analysis
of the sword and shield by stating that it "was not possible to authenticate
the story of the alleged discovery."
In Admiral Morison's book The European Discovery of America, he refutes the
Vinland story by stating that nearly all of the seacoast towns from
Newfoundland to the Virginia Capes boast in their histories that Lief
Eriksson was there.
But he says that there have been no artifacts to prove his presence. He
states that the Newport stone tower which is cherished as the first
Christian Church in America is a fake and that it was built around 1675 by a
colonial governor of Rhode Island.
Yet, in 1946 an authenticated inscription was found on one of the rocks of
the tower. The inscription is in Nordic Runes and simply declares the tower
to be the "cathedral church" and the "Bishop's Seat."
The Newport Tower is a part of the church that the Norsemen built in the
early 1300's. To further authenticate this, the Italian explorer Giovanni de
Verrazano in 1524 sailed up the East coast of the United States from Florida
to Labrador.
He rediscovered Long Island Sound and the Hudson River. He drew a map, which
is officially shown in the Archives, of the Narragansett coast and in his
writings he described the stone' built "Norman Villa."
He went ashore and found friendly Indians who knew nothing of the building
of the villa. Verrazano recognized it to be Norse because of the style of
architecture and other evidence.
An English document (of the period of the Pilgrims) proposed a settlement in
Rhode Island. The document gave the location of the Norman Tower as the
place where the settlement should be made.
In Rhode Island today, the local name for the tower is often given as
"Governor Arnold's Mill," because the first governor made use of the tower
as a flour mill. Here is an example of how a historian can take partial
facts, along with legend, and make it fit the "politically correct thing to
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