Tiras

Tiras ("Name means::desire") was the seventh son of Japheth, according to.

Descendants
Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup I2.

The Ancient Minoan Civilization
Another branch of Tiras's descendants dwelt in the Aegean.

Archaeologists and historians attest to the fabulous Minoan civilization on Crete and on colonies in the nearby Aegean Islands. Due to cataclysmic disasters (c. 1450 BC) including earthquakes, poisonous ash from Thera or the Santorini volcano and tidal waves, the civilization declined dramatically and within 50 years or so after the disasters it disappeared forever.

The survivors were driven out by Mycenaean Greek invaders from Greece and many appeared soon thereafter in Egypt before disappearing from the face of the earth. They brought with them precious objects. Indeed, Minoan civilizations was extremely wealthy and replete with gold. For instance, no human bones and very few golden objects have been found at the palace of Zakros despite the wealth of palace. These Minoans were related to the early Canaanite Hittites who were broad-headed and allied with the Amazon tribes of that region (it may be no coincidence that the name "Amazonia" appears in South America). As a result of this vacuum in the region caused by these crises, the old Hittite Kingdom in Anatolia was invaded and the Phoenician enterprises beyond Gibraltar came to an end. This allowed the infamous sea peoples to invade the coastlands of the Near East. What did the Minoans look like? Judging from the surviving inscriptions, the Minoan men were bronzed, with dark hair and beardless faces. Also, the murals of the temple in Medinet Habu in Egypt, depicts them as people with features akin to the American Indians. Many Minoans also wore plumes: The tufts of feathers offer incontrovertible evidence, because no other people have worn them. Both quotes reveal quite clearly that the Minoans were similar to American Indians. Here settled one branch of Tiras, the other, as already mentioned, lived in Thrace. The Thracians were known as "red men" by Greek writers and inhabited the Mediterranean islands or the "four great islands in the midst of the sea, which approach of the portion of Ham (Africa)" (Book of Jubilees 9:13).

The Anchor Bible tells us that Tiras was probably the father of the Tyrsenoi on the Aegean Isles. Another author, Graves, speaks of the people of Tiras being called Tarsha in a 13th century BC Egyptian document. These he equates with the Tyrsenians, a pirate people, who held certain islands in the Aegean.

We find the name throughout the Mediterranean: Tiryns in southern Greece, Torre in southern Italy and Tarraco in Spain although Torre may, alternatively, derive from Tyre. One of the Aegean Isles is called Thirasia and the island of Santorini is still also known as Thíra. The Romans called the descendants of Tiras Thirasians (Thracians), the Greeks Tyrsnoi and to the Egyptians they were known as Tusha or Turusha as we have seen.

What were the names of the islands of the Tyrsenoi? The names of these islands bear amazing resemblance to the names of various Indian tribes. Please notice first, that people of one race do not always call the people of another race by the same pronunciation and spelling of that race. The White man, upon hearing the Indian names, arranged or re-arranged them according to the phonetic sounds of their own languages; for example, the Spaniards called the Sioux, "Xious" (Shooz). With that in mind, let us turn to the names of various islands in the Aegean, many of which were Minoan colonies and notice how similar they are to the names of certain Indian tribes:

Could all this be mere coincidence? Surely not. Many (though not all) American Indians are ultimately from the Aegean Islands of the Tyrsenoi. Amongst other evidence a few are listed below.


 * The ancient peoples of the Aegean built mounds and painted themselves in a very similar fashion to those that built the civilizations of the Mississippi and Mexico.
 * Mayan hieroglyphics show affinity with those of Egypt and also to Cretan scripts. Even certain Mayan names of days resemble the names of letters in the Phoenician alphabet. Stone scripts with markings and language similar to the Minoan has also been found at Fort Benning, Georgia.
 * The main streets of the Mayans were bordered by fountains from which sprung hot and cold water. Similar installations of like design have been found beneath the ruins of Minos's palace in Crete.

These are just a few of the many proofs tying Crete and the Aegean to the Americas. Let us now return to Thrace and the migrations of the sons of Tiras from there to the Americas.

Indians in Ancient Scotland?
Tiras, like all other peoples, once lived in the Middle East, where they gave their name to the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. When they migrated outwards, one branch settled in Crete and the Aegean, the other migrating towards the north, perhaps settled in Thrace. In those times the river running through Thrace was known as the Tyras River (modern Dniester), and the city at its mouth was called Tyra or Tyras.

An early writer, Julius Firmicus Maternus, wrote: "In Ethiopia all are born black; in Germany, white; and in Thrace, red." It is evident that the Thracians were a reddish-colored people. What became of them? Historians of old mention a warrior people in Western Europe being employed in the armies of "barbarians," as being fierce, swarthy, half-naked, tattooed and painted. These dark, red-skinned, wild tribes were driven into the island of Britain. It is these who gave rise to the account of the primitive, barbaric British. In Britain, they became known as the Attacotti (the "very old ones"), a culturally unique subgroup within the Pictish confederacy who had inhabited ancient Scotland. Picti was a sort of umbrella term for a multiplicity of different tribes. Ammianus Marcellinus recognizes two subdivisions, and there may well have been many more. The Pictish origin legend refers to seven regions, and Ptolemy's Geography lists many tribes north of the Forth and Clyde. The Picts remained in Scotland for hundreds of years essentially as a warrior aristocracy over the Attacotti. The Attacotti were seen as aichechthúatha ("client people"). The Picts in Scotland adopted the matrilineal system of the "very old ones," along with their reverence for the mother-goddess. Where did the Attacotti or "Picts" originate?

Wainwright in his The Problems of the Picts says they originated in Illyria and Thrace, though other traditions place them in Spain. The Picts tattooed themselves and even used the totem-pole in Scotland.

Proof mounts upon proof. Voltaire wrote of these early tribes in Britain:

"When Caesar crosses into England he finds [some in] this island still more savage than Germany. The inhabitants scarcely covered their nudity with a few skins of beast. The women of a district belonged equally to all men of the same district. Their houses were huts made of reeds, and their ornaments were shapes that the men and women imprinted on the skin by pricking it and pouring on to it the juice of herbs, as the savages of America still do." [emphasis added]

One researcher relates how according to Danish tradition, the first Odin or Votan (Dan I) in c. 1040 BC, brought certain tribes from southeastern Europe into Denmark. They, along with other similar peoples, were called the Agathyrsi and were settled in Scotland under, according to the Pictish Chronicle, their leader Cruithne mac Cinge, after whom they were called Cruithnians or Cruithne. They ruled over their fellow Pictish tribes and thereby also became known as Picts. The Picts and Thracians had a matriarchy (as do the Ohwachia Iroquois) and tattooed and painted themselves. In Scotland where geographical place-names such as the bay, town, and river of Thurso, Tharsuinn Mountain, and Tarras River.

The Attacotti Disappear
Most of the Attacotti suddenly disappeared in 503 AD with the arrival of the Scots (Gaels) under the leadership of Fergus Mór mac Eirc. They left behind mounds of flint knives, stone-hewn tombs, and carvings.

They were driven out of Britain and settled in Greenland for a time. Some may have migrated directly to Central America. Toltec tradition say that they arrived in c. 503 AD to the already settled areas where Mexico City stands today. It should be mentioned that there was not one, large monolithic movement of tribes to the Americas. Some would have settled shortly after the flood, with others continually arriving over the centuries.

The Toltecs were basically a people of White appearance, features and characteristics, while the nobility of the Aztecs were European-looking, not Amerindian and likely were descendants of Arpachshad. Undoubtedly many of the Caucasians who served under Dan I associated with the Picts and migrated with them. Histories record that some remained behind after 503 AD. There are several sources to prove that. They refer to the original inhabitants of Scotland as very dark, wild people with prominent cheek bones, living in the islands off Scotland. They have either now died out or had left centuries ago.

Let us quote one source which states:

"Some were as black [i.e. dark] and wild in their appearance as any American savages whatever ... like wild Indians, that a very little imagination was necessary to give one an impression of being upon an American river"

Anthropologists and historians speak in terms of a Turanid people which once populated Scotland. Who are the Turanid or Turanian peoples today? These are the Turkic peoples which occupy Central Asia and the territory north of the Caspian to the Black Sea, bordering on Thrace. This is mentioned because certain Turkic or Turanid tribes of Central Asia claim descent from Tiras. If so, the small Tirasian element would be totally absorbed by now into the Turkic masses or migrated eastwards as we have seen above and made it via the Bering Strait into North America. Another scholar writes:

"Close to the Black Sea are the Kabards and Abkasians, who speak a curious agglutinative speech. Its nearest allies are in far-off North America, though Basque is slightly akin in structure ... These Caucasus people might be related to the North Amerinds ... It may be noted that Roland Dixon finds the same type of skull in those two regions."

John Beddoe, famous anthropologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote in the classic work The Anthropological History of Europe, that a Mongoloid race (i.e. Japetic, of which Tiras was a branch) once occupied Scotland as its earliest inhabitants. Further, he mentioned that traces of Turanian speech are still evident in the Scottish Gaelic language.

To Beddoe, it remains a mystery how these Picts suddenly disappeared. To Beddoe and others, yes. But if we look long and hard enough, basing our our search on Holy Scriptures, we see that they migrated to the Americas, forming part of the early North Americans as may be seen in the National Geographic magazine.

It is relatively unknown among the public that they built thriving cities, raised huge mounds that rivaled the size of the pyramids in Mexico, and even sophisticated trade network extending from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf Coast.

No, not all Indian tribes were savage. Take for example the Zapotecs who constructed Monte Albán in southern Mexico. To construct it they had to level a mountain (this happened c. 1000 BC). The same tribe plotted the stars and devised one of the first calendars in the Americas. Their artwork is so exquisite as to be comparable to the craftsmanship of the finest works if the Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese.

White Visitors to the Americas
The sacred volume and book of creation of the Popol Vuh of the Mayans kept by Quetzalcoatl, one of their priests who was later deified, mentions that they "They also multiplied there in the east ... All lived together, they existed in great numbers and walked there in the east ... There they were then, in great numbers, the black man and the white man, many of many classes, men of many tongues ... the speech of all was the same. They did not invoke wood nor stone, and they remembered the word of the Creator and the Maker ... They came from the East ... they left there, from that great distance ... they crossed the sea."

In the Popul Vuh the migrations and wanderings of their ancestors are recorded. Notes Herman L. Hoeh: "It traces their origin eastward across the Atlantic Ocean to the Old World. Other Indians had similar origins of having to cross a great body of water from the northeast to reach their present land." Briefly summarized, the Popul Vuh and other Mesoamerican traditions relate that humans were created in the east and lived there in darkness. The ancestors of the Maya left the East "crossing the sea in a fleet of seven vessals carrying 'many companies,' and sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coast to its farthest westward point, at Panuco, where the people debarked." They were evidently led to Tula by priests who carried their symbols of rank and their gods with them.

In 1615, Juan de Torquemada, who was fluent in the Nahuatl language, published in his De los veinte y un libros rituales y monarquía indiana:

"... certain nations of people, who arrived by way of Panuco, came from the north ... [after skirting the Gulf of Mexico] These people moved onward from Panuco with good diligence without either a warlike encounter or a battle ... by chance coming as far as Tulla (where they arrived and were received and given lodging by the natives of that province)... when these people arrived in Tullan [Tula], they brought with them a very important person as chief, who governed them, and whom they called Quetzalcohuatl (whom afterwards the Cholultecas worshipped as a god)."

Torquemada also notes that Quetzalcoatl, whom "they brought with them as their chief and head", was "a fair and ruddy complexioned main, with a long beard." This is why the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II initially believed the landing of Hernán Cortés in 1519 to be Quetzalcoatl's return. Other Spanish chroniclers from the 16th century claimed that when the conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro first encountered the Incas they were greeted as gods—"Viracochas"—because their lighter skin resembled their god Viracocha. This story was first reported by Pedro Cieza de León (1553) and later by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Similar accounts by Spanish chroniclers (e.g. Juan de Betanzos) describe Viracocha as a "White god," often with a beard. The Mayans further claim that a great king, Votan, brought them over and settled them in Mexico c. 1000 BC. This can be none other than Dan I, mentioned earlier in this article. Dan I (Odin, Wotan, or Votan) ruled Denmark c. 1040-999 BC. Herman L. Hoeh comments that

''"This Votan—who was also worshipped as a god—was famous for having himself journeyed to a land where a great temple was being built. Do we have a king in Europe, living at the time Solomon's Temple was being built (around 1000 BC), who had dominion over the seas, who was worshipped as a God, and whose name sounded like Votan? Indeed—Woden or Odin, King of Denmark from 1040-999 [BC]. He was worshipped later as a great god. Scandinavian literature is replete with accounts of his distant journeys which took him away from his homeland for many months, sometimes years."

The book Fingerprints of the Gods mentions that ''"there were other gods, among the Maya ... whose identities seemed to merge closely with those of Quetzalcoatl. One was Votan, a great civilizer, who was described as pale-skinned, bearded and wearing a long robe. Scholars could offer no translation for his name but his principal symbol, like that of Quetzalcoatl,