Togarmah
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Togarmah (Hebrew: תּוגרמה, Tôgarmâh; Armenian: Թորգոմ, Thorgom; Georgian: თარგამოს, Thargamos) was a son of Gomer and brother of Ashkenaz and Riphath listed in Genesis 10:3 and 1 Chronicles 1:6.
The Book of Ezekiel 38:6 states, "Togarmah of the North Quarters". Wherever Togarmah is to be found today, it is to the north of the Middle East. Hundreds of years after the flood of Noah, the Assyrians called them the Til-garimmu (Tegarama in Hittite) who lived on the border of Tabal.[1] Other names for this people were Tegaram a Tilgarimma, Trocmi and Trogmades.
The Tegarma or Tegarama migrated from Cappadocia into Armenia,[2] and may have given their name to that district (the Armenians even claim descent from them and undoubtedly are in part). From there they moved into Turcoman territory (Turkistan) a possible derivation of Tegarama. In Turkistan, among the tablelands of Pamir, rose a great mount, Tagharama. The Septuagint form is Thorgama'. Milner discusses the trip to the deserts of Turkistan by Dr. Joseph Woolf, a missionary. Woolf recorded his experience in Travels and Adventures. He mentions how he came among a people claiming to be descendants of Japheth and calling themselves Togarmah. These were the Mongoloid peoples of the eastern division of the Turkic peoples of central Asia.[3]
A book containing old Hebrew traditions, the Book of Jasher, lists Bulgar, Tarki, and Ongal amongst the descendants of Togarmah.
Amongst the sign-posts indicating where Togarmah settled we find:
- Tagarchi in eastern Turkestan
- Tigranoama in eastern Turkey
- Tagarma mountains in eastern Turkestan
- the city of Tagarma in western China
- Taganrog, Tigeretsk Mountain, Togur, Turgai province and
- Turgins, a town in Siberia.
- many Uighur peoples may be a derivative of Togarmah.
Tradition speaks in terms of a certain son of Japheth known as Tork. He in turn had a son Taunak Chan. He was in turn succeeded by Jelza Khan, Dibbakui Khan, Kajuk Khan and Ilingeh (or Alanza) Khan. Ilingeh had two sons: Tartar Khan - progenitor of the Tartars; and Mongul Khan - progenitor of the Mongols or Moghuls.[4] This is of course tradition, and whether it represents knowledge of another son of Japheth not recorded in scripture or is another name for Togarmah, one cannot be certain. Yet it would be a good guess to accept the second idea as the most appropriate and obvious given that it fits neatly into the overall anthropological and historical schema.
One should realize that some of the Turks derive from Togarmah (those in the east) and some from Edom (those in the west). There has, however, been some mixing between the descendants of Esau and Togarmah in Central Asia.
Moses of Chorene, who wrote the history of the Armenians c.450 AD, claimed that their progenitor was none other than Thargamas and they called themselves "House of Thorgom". It may be that the name Armenia derives from Togarmah. So, some of the descendants of Togarmah dwell in Armenia to this very day.
The golden-skinned Mongols of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, mixed to a degree, with the descendants of Togarmah and Esau (some Turkics claim literal descent from Togarmah[5]). A few others appear to be in Siberia including the Dolgans and the Yakuts[6]. There we have the populous nations of central, east, and south-east Asia traced back to their origins.
References
- ↑ Rapson 1914;136-37,202
- ↑ Bullinger c1890:1144
- ↑ Milner 1941:46
- ↑ Kachur 1972:9-10
- ↑ Koestler 1976:160
- ↑ Jochelson 1928: map "Ethnographic map of Asiatic Russia" at the front of his book
External links
- In Search of ... the Origin of Nations by C.M. White. History Research Projects 2003.
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