Madai
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Madai (Hebrew: מדי, Mâday; Greek: Μηδος, Me'dos) was the third son of Japheth mentioned in the Book of Genesis. According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell in Japheth's allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea; so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam, Asshur and Arphaxad, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.
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Descendants of Madai
The peoples of Madai first dwelt in northwest Iran, alongside Medan, known as the Medes. Their capital was Hagmatana (Persian) or Agbatana in Greek. They were called Ma-da-ai, in Assyrian inscriptions and became associated and linked up with the Medanites who invaded their territory from the west. Thus the names Madai and Medes were used interchangeably, but the Medanites formed the ruling class.
After the defeat of the Scythians in 584 BC, a colony of the Medes was established along the Don River. They thus moved north of the Black Sea and into Scythia[1] which is attested to by Jewish tradition which located them to the West of Magog.[2]
The Greeks called them the Sauro-Matae and they spoke a Scythian tongue[3] which was much like that of the peoples of Persia.[4] They were also known as Surmatai or Syrmatai.[5] It would appear that many Elamites, who dwelt adjacent to the Madai in Iran, probably migrated with them into south-eastern Europe. (see Isaiah 21:2).
Many ancient writers refer to them. Strabo mentions that the Matiani or Matueni[6] as does Herodotus[7] and Pliny.[8] Ammianus Marcellinus speaks of the Sauro-matians dwellinng near the Hister (modern Danube)[9]. We also know that the Sea of Azov was anciently known as Maeotis Palus; on it's shores dwelt the Maioti or Maiotiki.[10]
The Sarmatian dagger and sword used by these people were exactly like that of the Medes.[11] Researcher, Sulimirski, maintains that
| “ | the Sarmatians were ... closely akin to the ancient Medes, Parthians, and Persians.[12] | ” |
While Rostovtzeff wrote that
| “ | the Scythian kingdom - a formation almost completely Iranian, a northern counter-part of the kingdom of Darius and Xerxes ... the Sarmatians, whose Iranian nationality is not disputed.[13] | ” |
Herodotus wrote that the Medes were beginning to settle in the Ukraine even in his time. He maintained that there was a people a people who "dress in Median fashion" and who "claim to be colonists from Media" that "live north of Thrace ... beyond the Danube."[14] Pliny noted that
| “ | Next come the two mouths of the river Don, where the inhabitants are the Sarmatae, said to be descended from the Medes.[15] | ” |
Professor Lundman wrote that the peoples of Russia, today, around the Black Sea and the Don are "perhaps ... vestiges of the descendants of the Irano-Scythian tribes who inhabited southern Russia in ancient times."[16]
Who, today, lives along the Don, in southern Russia? The Ukrainians. They are known as the Ruthenians and Little Russians. They comprise the second largest racial group in Russia after the Great Russians, consisting of some 50 million people.
The Ukrainians near southern Poland and the Slovaks are more brachycephalic than the others. Those in the north, the Volhynians, are shorter and are related to the White Russians or Byelorussians. The Ukrainians proper living to the south and east are taller, but their hair and eyes are darker. Their head forms are virtually identical to that of the Volhynians and blondes are not uncommon[17], while their eyes are generally light brown[18]. Finally, Herodotus associates them with Meshech and Tubal: "the Matienians, the Moschi, Tibereni ... "[19] This demonstrates that Madai dwelt adjacent to Meshech and Tubal.
We should perhaps also realize that before the advent of Gorbachev and then Yeltsin as Russian President, the previous ruthless Communist bosses Chernenko, Brezhnev, and Khrushchev were all Ukrainians and not Russian (Stalin was a Georgian and Lenin's father was probably a Tartar, although his mother was German).
Related References
- ↑ Latham c1850 : 216
- ↑ Kaplan 1981:21
- ↑ Yamauchi 1982 : 64
- ↑ Sulimirski 1970 : 22
- ↑ ibid : 22
- ↑ Strabo 11.8.8
- ↑ Herodotus Bk I, sec 203
- ↑ Pliny Bk vi . xiii .48
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus xxi. 2. 13
- ↑ Hannay 1916 : 194
- ↑ Sulimirski 1970 : 52
- ↑ ibid : 22
- ↑ Rostovtzeff 1922 : 9
- ↑ Herodotus Bk v, sec 9
- ↑ Pliny Bk vi.v.19
- ↑ Lundman 1977 : 49
- ↑ Coon 1948 : 570
- ↑ ibid : 571
- ↑ Herodotus bk 1 : sec 94
External Links
- In Search of ... the Origin of Nations by C.M. White. History Research Projects 2003.
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