The QUEST for ISRAELITE IDENTITY
Part 5
~ The KELTS
A Dual-Seedline CHRISTIAN
IDENTITY Series of Commentaries
Chapter 5 ~ Kelts and Kimmerians
The KIMMERIANS (CIMMERIANS), the KELTS (CELTS), the GALATIANS (GALATAE), the
GAULS (GALLIA) and the CIMBRI (KIMBRI).
Written by Pastor Joe Johnson
AMERICAN REFORMATION MINISTRIES
~ KELTIC KLAN KIRK ~
5 And so were the churches
established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the
region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in
Asia. ~ ACTS 16:5-6 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
CIMMERIANS
The Cimmerians or Kimmerians
were an ancient Israelitish people, first written about by Homer in the
‘ODYSSEY’, XI, 13-19. According to Homer the Cimmerians lived in a country of
fog and darkness on the outskirts of the inhabited world. The ancient historian
Herodotus writes in his book, HISTORY, IV, 11-13, that the Cimmerians were the
early inhabitants of southern Russia, then known as Scythia. Herodotus adds that
the “Bosporus
Cimmerius” (Kerch Strait) and numerous other geographical
location are named after the Cimmerians, and this is corroborated by other
ancient writers. Eventually they were driven from the Caucasus by the Scythians,
their estranged Israelitish kinsmen. Assyrian sources referred to them as the
Gimirrai. Greek records refer to these Gimira as "Kimmeroii" which is translated
into English as "Cimmerian."
In the records of the Assyrians and the Greeks the
Cimmerians are sometimes confused with their blood brothers the Scythians. None
the less from these ancient official written records we learn of some notable
Cimmerian exploits. It appears that the Kimmerians were a very warfare minded
culture that thrived on raids and plundering of any other peoples within their reach and power to attack. Somewhere around
714 BC the Cimmerians assaulted Urartu, now known as Armenia. Incursion and
raids were made on their former captors and overlords, the Assyrians. Then in
705 BC, they were beaten in battle by the Assyrians, in spite of the fact that
King Sargon II of Assyria was slain in the contest. The Cimmerians turned their
attention to Asia Minor and seized Sinope on the Black sea. Next they defeated
Midas and conquered Phrygia in 696 – 695 BC. In the year 679 BC King Esarhaddon
of Assyria and his armies drove them back out of and across the Assyrian border.
The Cimmerians invaded Lydia, capturing the capital city of Lydia in 652 BC. They were eventually driven from Lydia by Alyattes in a
series of battles sometime in between 637 to 626 BC. At this point many secular
scholars claim that the Cimmerians simply disappeared from the stage of history;
this of course is not true. Once again we find the true history of our Israelite
ancestors by taking note of migrations to new frontiers and subsequent changes in the names they were known by. The
Cimmerians moved into what is now known as Europe, and became known as Celts,
Gauls and Cimbri, among other names of local clan or tribal groups.
The ancient Kimmerians inhabited the southern regions
west of the Black Sea prior to the arrival in that area of their ancient
kinsmen, the Scythians. It was these Scythian kinsmen, pushed by the Sarmations
that uprooted and pushed the Cimmerians westward. The Cimmerians became commonly
known as “Kelts” or “Celts” and “Gauls”. The Romans called them Gauls. Some
small bands or clans of Cimmerians merged with some clans of Scythians and are
labeled “Celto-Scythiae” by modern historians. However for the most part at this
time in history the Cimmerian-Celts and their Scythian estranged kinsman were
engaged in a war for territory and plunder. They did not consider each other as
kinsmen, their common heritage and Israelite Identity having been temporarily
lost and obscured
from the memory and knowledge of the common man, or else
rendered almost meaningless by the passions and anger of war.
KELTOI KLANS
It was around 500 B.C. that the
Cimmerians in Europe moved up the Danube and became known as Celts; the English
derivative of the Greek Keltoi.
SALZKAMMERGUT KLANS – THE
KELTIC KLANS
The majority of the Cimmerians
migrated up the Danube River, through Hungary and Austria, into southern Germany
and France. They became known to the Greeks as “Celts,” and the Romans called
them “Gauls.” According to Diodorus, warrior clans of Celtic tribes settled in
Bohemia and Bavaria, between the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. Archaeologist often
refer to these people as the “Hallstatt Culture,” named after an area in the
Salzkammergut area of upper Austria, in which artifacts of the Kimmerians were
found. These “Hallstatt” tombs of ancient Kimmerian warriors and kings have
yielded up Iron swords, some bronze swords also, with a preponderance of iron
weapons – swords, spears, and daggers, quantities of fine bronze vessels, bronze
harness trappings for horses, and decorated Greek and Etruscan pottery.
ORIGIN OF THE KELTS “Warrior
Chieftains”
CELT (KELT), a name derived
from the plural form Keltoi used by Greek geographers, from at least the late
6th Century B.C., to denote a great barbarian people widespread in transalpine
Europe and in the Iberian Peninsula. …….”
“For the origin of the Celts, archaeology shows that the
Late Hallstatt culture, in the 6th and early 5th centuries B.C., included the
territory known from Greek reports to have been in Celtic occupation, and it is
in this cultural setting that Greek luxury objects, mainly bronze and pottery
vessels for wine drinking, are found in barbarian chieftains’ graves in
southwest Germany, and adjacent parts of Burgundy and Switzerland.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1965, Volume 5, page 146 CELT
(KELT)
Celtic Warrior Chieftains
“HALLSTATT CULTURE”
“The earliest signs of a
distinctive Celtic culture appear in the 6th century BC, towards the end of the
Halstatt period of the European Iron Age. So-called after the site in Austria
where excavations revealed a large number of rich burials, this period is
characterized by the hill-fort settlements or ‘princedoms’ scattered across an
area near the headwaters of several major rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine
and the Saone.”
FIGHTING ELITE * CELTIC WARRIOR * 300 BC – AD 100
Text by Stephen Allen and Color plates by Wayne Reynolds.
(Quote above from page 5).
Reproduction Hallstatt Culture Log Cabin and Bakery Hut
ISRAELITISH ORIGIN OF HALLSTATT
CULTURE
Modern archaeology correctly
identifies these people as “Celtic”, and also understands that the earlier
phases of Hallstatt Culture existed some centuries before the main body of
Cimmerians migrated out of Asia Minor. This causes confusion among some circles
and schools of thought in archaeology and ancient history. Secular scholars and
Judeo-Christian Churchmen sometimes attempt to use this fact as an argument
against the
Israelitish origin of the ancient Celts. Most Christian
Identity students of ancient history recognize the Kimmerians as the ancient
Kelts (Celts). Since the Salzkammergut region of Austria, the village of
Hallstatt and Lake Hallstattersee are considered by many to be the ‘Heartland of
the ancient Kelts’ we must have an understanding of how these earlier
“Proto-Kelts” arrived in the Alpine mountains far in advance of the Kimmerians,
and are yet one and the same ethnic group and culture, or at the very least –
both were Israelites, far removed from ancient Israel (Palestine).
Interior of a Hallstatt Culture Bakery Hut with Ovens
Raymond Capt in his book, “MISSING LINKS DISCOVERED IN
THE ASSYRIAN TABLETS”, explains it thusly. [“This has caused somewhat of an
archeological problem. However, the problem is solved when one understands that
these earlier settlers in Western Europe and the British Isles were, in fact,
the vanguard of the Cimmerian Celts. It would be more appropriate to refer to
them as “Proto-Celts.”” (Page 143)]
In other words these were the Israelite Kimmerians that
escaped the Assyrian captivity only 26 years after their forced relocation from
ancient Israel to Media; these were the trail blazer, the pioneers, the
frontiersmen of ancient Israel. The massive migration would come later, after
the fall of the Assyrian empire.
Interior of a Hallstatt Culture Log Cabin
ISRAELITE COLONIES IN EUROPE
(AT THE TIME OF KING DAVID)
Elaborating more on how the
earlier Keltic-Hallstatt culture came into existence before the influx of
Kimmerians in mass migrations from the Baltic area, it must be understood that
the Israelite peoples have had over the vast expanse of history many migrations;
and that during the zenith of power of ancient Israel they in fact had
“colonies” over much of the known inhabited world. The Kingdom of Israel under
King David and later under King Solomon, were much more powerful and influential
than modern secular scholars will lead you to believe. The Phoenician empire, at
this time actually became a vassal state of the more powerful Israelite empire.
Yet the reading of most college and university text books will lead you to
believe the fantasy that the Phoenicians at the time of Kings David and Solomon
were the more powerful of the two nations, and that the Israelites were merely
an unimportant backward nation, still floundering in the immaturity of
tribalism. The fact is that at this time in history the Israelites were the
undisputed and unquestionable overlords of the Phoenicians.
The skewed and confused perspective of all non Christian
scholars must be kept in mind when studying any subject, be it history,
archaeology, or any branch of true science. The prejudice, pre-conceived notions
and misconceptions must be sifted through to get at the kernel of truth. The
simple fact is that although the very earliest of Hallstatt Culture may have been other than Israelite and other than “Keltic” in
origin; by the time the Cimmerians arrived these preceding people had long since
vanished and been supplanted by Israelite colonist and pioneers from several
periods of time and various locations. The Cimmerians migrated and linked up
with an existing “Israelite Colony”! Proto-Kelts were reinforced with Cimmerian-Kelts and the “Hallstatt Heartland” became the
“Salzkammergut Kauldron” in which the two cultures merged, forged in the
cauldron of Iron Age blood and honour, the struggle for Israelite survival and
dominance issued forth from the Alpine mountains of Europe, and became known to
both ancient and modern historians by the name of “Keltic” or “Celtic”. This is
not to say that it was only in this one area that such a forging into Keltic
culture took place, the cauldron of Keltic fire burned hot in many a land, yet
many archaeologist see Salzkammergut and Lake Hallstattersee as the Keltic
Heartland, and it’s importance should be noted. To cover a complete history of
the Celtic people is far beyond the scope of this Commentary.
Allow me to direct your attention to an excellent book
that I highly recommend reading, entitled, “THE LOST TEN TRIBES OF
ISRAEL…FOUND!” written by Steven M. Collins. In reference to earlier Israelite
migrations into ancient Europe we find on page 124 a very important bit of
information, as follows -
“ [“The Celtic migrations occurred as early as 1000 B.C.
and as late as 600 B.C.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA, Vol. 6, “Celtiberia,” page 143.]
Keltic Hallstatt Culture Weaving Loom
This period of Celtic migration begins precisely with the
Israelite golden age of Kings David and Solomon (when Israel began many
colonies), includes the time of the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the
fall of Samaria, and ends just prior to the fall of Jerusalem. The striking
parallels between the timing of Celtic migrations and the rise and fall of the
Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah argues that these parallels are not
coincidental. Many of these Celtic waves of immigration involved Israelites
seeking new homelands (initially as colonists of the united kingdom of Israel
and later as masses of refugees from Assyrian invasions.
Gerhard Herm’s book, THE CELTS, observes: “…the first
Celtic-speaking tribes came to Ireland as far back as the Hallstatt period.
After the beginning of the La Tene era these were followed, via Britain, by
other wandering hordes, who spoke a Brythonic, that is a P-Celtic, dialect.”
(Herm, THE CELTS, pages 251-252).
The ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA defines the Hallstatt period
of Central Europe as being “about 1000 to 500 B.C. … [and adds] … The people of
the area were early Celts…”{ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA, Vol. 13, “Hallstatt
Culture,” p. 726}
Hallstatt Culture Log Cabin
Again, the timing of the Celtic migrations begins with
the golden age of Israel under kings David and Solomon and ends after the fall
of Jerusalem. If the waves of Celtic migrations into Europe migrations of Celts
were entirely (or predominately) Israelite, it follows that the Israelites
fleeing the Assyrian captivity in 720 B.C. would be well aware of the location
of Israelite colonies in Europe or Briton to which they could flee.” ”
End of Quote from: THE “LOST” TEN TRIBES OF
ISRAEL…FOUND! By Steven M. Collins
The Ancient
Celts and their descendants are Israelites!
THE JUDGMENT OF YAHVAH
It is important to note that
there is abundant evidence that many Israelites migrated and established
colonies during the “Golden years of the Israelite Empire”, and that these
colonist maintained trade and communication with Israel and their kinsmen.
During the decline of Israel and the subsequent wars with and invasions by the
Assyrian empire, there
were additional immigrants and refugees to these distant
colonies and outpost of Israel. These Israelites were simply not ignorant of the
wider world, there existed lands and settlements where previous kinsmen had
gone, and it was possible to travel there yet. Many chose to do so as the
Israelite civilization went into decline, and the prophets pronounced the
impending judgment of YAHVAH upon the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
TIN & COPPER MINES OF THE
BRITISH ISLES
Tin, lead, copper and other
metals which form alloys with tin had been mined in the British Isles for ages;
copper and tin being the metals needed to forge bronze swords, daggers, spears,
helmets and a multitude of other items. The peoples of the middle East had been
trading with colonies in the British Isles since the Bronze Age and on into the
Iron Age. Even in the Iron Age bronze was still an important metal, useful for
the manufacture of many durable goods. Sizeable contingents of the tribes of Dan
and Simeon fled Israel by ocean going ships, sailed to and settled in the
British Isles.
HOMELANDS IN THE NORTH
There is historical and
archaeological evidence that a much larger group or more likely groups of
Israelites fled overland to avoid the prophesied doom and judgment of the
Kingdom of Israel, and establish new homelands in the North. These Israelite
refugees could not travel to the east because of the Assyrians. The Egyptians
controlled the lands to the south. There were not enough ships to take all who
wished to flee across the seas to
new homes in the Isles. This left the only viable option
open to them, a long and arduous overland route to the North. This journey our
ancestors undertook, some with zeal, some no doubt with trepidation and
foreboding, saddened at the lost glory and comfort of ancient Israel. We find
them settled in Arsareth, north of the Black Sea, and in the Salzkammergut region of the Alpine Mountains of Europe. Other
Israelites were taken captive by the Assyrians and relocated in Media; some
number of these made their escape from Assyrian overlordship and fled to the
remote Northern Wilderness of ancient Europe. It is to the descendants of these
Israelite pioneers and adventurers that we find the Cimmerians linking up with
and forging the three groups into one, known as the “Kelts” years later. The Circle yet again remains unbroken, the Circle of kinship
is a strong bond, forged in the fires of ancient struggles, and Israelite blood
binds us in this Circle of kinsmen and Klan. Divine Providence is at work,
YAHVAH decreed that His chosen people should not be destroyed; and Satan’s
schemes to break the Circle and his devices have always failed and will continue
to fail. Almighty God is the author and finisher of History, events do not
happen by coincidence, luck, or happenstance; the hand of YAHVAH guides and
directs our people collectively and individually. Allow me to encourage you to
seek His guidance for your life individually, and guidance for our lives and
blessings upon us all collectively as the Klan. We serve a Mighty God, His name is YAHVAH. Earnestly seek
to serve and live for YAHVAH.
LA TENE CULTURE
La Tene Culture Reproduction Log Cabin
LA TENE CULTURE
“At the beginning of the 5th
century BC the Halstatt princedoms were largely replaced by wealthy warrior
societies further north, which extended from north-eastern France to Bohemia.
Their material culture and artistic style, called La Tene after the site in
Switzerland where it was first identified, has become synonymous with the
Celts.”
FIGHTING ELITE * CELTIC WARRIOR * 300 BC – AD 100
by Stephen Allen and Wayne Reynolds. (Quote from pages 5
& 6).
Interior of La Tene
Culture Reproduction Log Cabin
CIMBRI CLANS
There were yet other Cimmerians
who migrated during the years 525 through 300 BC; these others were driven out
of south Russia by the Scythians. This branch of the Kimmerians moved north-west
between the rivers Oder and Vistula to the Baltic, where they later became known
as Cimbri.
This other branch of the Cimmerians (Kimmerians) migrated
from the region of the Black Sea moving in a north-western direction, eventually
reaching the “Low Countries”. Many of them subsequently settled in the areas
around the Baltic Sea (the “German Ocean”) and Jutland. The “Low Countries” of
the Cimbri clans of Cimmerians are now known as Belgium, Holland and North-West Germany. Jutland was then known as
the “Cimbric Chersonesus”. The Romans called these Israelites “Cimri”, this was
of course simply an abbreviation of the longer title of Cimmerians; this is
clearly attested to by several ancient historians. (Poseidonius and Plutarch to
name two of the ancient writers.)
Tacitus and Pliney wrote that all the tribes swelling up
and down the North Sea Coast from Holland to Denmark were composed of a single
ethnic group known as the “Ingaevones”. From the writings of Tacitus and Pliney,
coupled with archaeological evidence is can be stated that the peoples
historically known as Frisians, Chauci, and Cimbri were all from one stock. They
were all Cimmerian and therefore originally of Israelitish origin. These
Kimmerians first began to arrive and settle on the shores of the North Sea
somewhere between 300 BC and 250 BC.
MISSING LINKS
DIRECT QUOTES FROM “MISSING
LINKS DISCOVERED IN ASSYRIAN TABLETS”
Study by E. Raymond Capt M.A., A.I.A., F.S.A. SCOT. (page
123)
“Although the belief (based upon Biblical and historical
records) that the Scythians and Cimmerians are descendants of the “Lost Tribes”
of Israel has been held by some Bible scholars for many years, archaeological
evidence has been lacking. That is no longer the case. The clay cuneiform
“letters” found in Ashurbanipal’s royal library at Kijunjik are the “missing
links” connecting the Israelites to the peoples of Western Europe and America
who trace their roots to the Scythians and Cimmerians.
It can now be truly said – archaeology has solved two great mysteries, both occurring as the same time in history:
1. What happened to the countless thousands of Israelites
that “disappeared” into
Assyrian Captivity?
2. Where did the countless thousands
of Scythians and Cimmerians come from? Both mysteries no longer exist. The
so-called “Lost Tribes” of Israel were really never “lost.” They only lost their
identity during their captivity in Assyria.”
The ancient writer Diodorus Siculus (32:4-7) stated that
the Cimmerians of ancient times, the Galatians, and the Cimbri were all linked
together and of common origin. Plutarch in “Life of Marius” gave the educated
opinion that the Cimmerians, Cimbri, and Scythians were all member of one
nation, he called them the “Celto-Scythians”. A poem thought to have been
written around 500 BC by Orpheus the Greek, and the writings of Homer both place
the Cimmerians in the British Isles, among other places.
The GAULS
Remember that the Romans called
the Cimmerian-Celts by a different name than did the Greeks; the Romans called
them “Gauls”. Imagine the Roman reaction and displeasure when about 400 BC very
large numbers of Celtic-Gauls loaded up huge wagon trains and headed south from
their homes in the Alps. They brought their horses, their cattle, their old
folks, and their young ones; they brought their wives and they came to take
over. This was most likely prompted by overpopulation, but whatever the reason
thousands of Gauls flooded into the rich farmlands of the Po River valley. They
accomplished their goal of taking the region away from the Romans so completely
that the area became known as “Gallia Cisalpina” which means “Gaul on this side
of the Alps”. From this stronghold the Keltic-Gauls began to launch raids and
incursions into other Roman and Etruscan
provinces and city-states. They actually broke the power
of the Etruscans, and then they turned on Rome with passion and fury.
The Gauls laid siege to Rome, pillaged, plundered and
burned the city, thereby inflicting upon Rome a serious defeat and devastating
humiliation which the Romans would never forget nor forgive. The Romans, feared,
hated, despised and loathed the Celtic-Gauls. They deemed this horrible
barbarian threat to civilization from the northern wild men to be a serious threat to their ambitions and sense of Roman
grandeur. The Romans in an ancient form of military and political “psy-ops”
dubbed the barbarian Gauls the “terror Gallicus”. Hence we have as part of our
Israelite heritage the unique and infamous distinction of being among the
descendants of the “civilized” worlds’ first “terrorist”; or at least our
ancestors were branded as such by the sophisticated Romans.
The GALATIANS
Some Celtic groups facing the
same pressures of overpopulation, moved along the Danube River to the
south-east. Thus they set out upon a long trek that would eventually take many
of them through the Balkans, on into Greece and pushing ever onward and back
full circle into Asia Minor.
The Greeks of the 4th century BC did not consider the
Celts a threat to them, but that all changed as a result of the chaos and
upheaval following the death of ‘Alexander the Great’. The Celts invaded Macedonia and Thrace in 298 BC. The
plundering Keltic hordes attacked Macedonia again in 281 BC, killing the eldest
son of Ptolemy, the founder of Egypt’s Greek dynasty. The next year swarms of
Kelts moved southward, plundering Macedonia. Then in the middle of winter
Brennus with thirty thousand warriors attacked Greece.
The ancient Greek writer Pausanias recorded in regards to
the Celtic King Brennus: “It was then that Brennus strongly urged a campaign
against Greece, enlarging on the weakness of Greece at the time, on the wealth
of Greek states and on the even greater wealth in the sanctuaries.” Brennus led
his kinsmen forward to plunder Delphi on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, after this and other initial triumphs, the
victories and plundering came to an abrupt end. This occurred when their armies
were foiled by intense thunder, hail storms and landslides. Terrified by this
turn of events, the Celts interpreted the occurrences as divine punishment and
abruptly ended the campaign. Brennus committed suicide and the retreating Celts suffered severely at the hands of
vengeful Greeks. None the less the furious violence of the Celts made a lasting
impression upon the Greeks.
Some of the survivors of the great invasion of Greece
settled around Belgrade, and became known as the Scordisci. Other survivors
settled at Thylia on the east coast of what is now Bulgaria. Many others
mustered in as mercenaries serving under various rulers of the successor
kingdoms of Alexander’s split up old empire. There were for example mercenary
Kelts in the armies of Egypt in the year 274 BC serving under Ptolemy II.
Still other Keltic survivors of the Greek expeditionary
force did a very remarkable and noteworthy thing, they established the kingdom
of Galatia, and are indeed the ancestors of the very Galatians that the book by
that name in our Holy Bible was written to. These remnants of the Greek invasion
were specifically three tribes of Celts, known as the “Tectosages”, the “Trocmi”, and the “Tolistobogii”. These
3 Keltic tribes had large numbers of women and children with them and where
clearly invading in search of land, when the Greek expedition failed they pushed
on intent upon a new homeland, they crossed the Hellepont into Asia Minor. In
278 BC they became mercenaries in the service of king Nicodemus of Bithynia,
just across the Bosphorus in Anatolia. This arrangement subsequently led to the establishment of a
Cimmerian-Celtic state in Asia, they had come almost full circle.
King Nicodemus of Bithynia sought the services of the
Celts in order to enrich his own storehouse with their plundering under his
direction. The Galatians had plans of their own and carried them out
successfully; they established their own Keltic state in northern Phrygia,
around what would later become known as the Turkish capital of Ankara. The
Galatian Kelts became an aristocratic ruling class of semi-nomadic pastoral
herdsmen, making the native Phrygians their vassal servants. They
proceeded to make war upon and terrorized the wealthy cities of the Anatolian
coast. Pergamum eventually became powerful enough to denie their demands for
tribute, and the defiant Pergamum army inflicted a serious defeat upon the
Galatians in 233 BC. The following years were marked by growing strength and
demands from the Galatians, perhaps they were reinforced by subsequent Celtic
migrations from the North; whatever the reasons they resumed the raiding and
demands for tribute, with some success at least for a time. Then in the early
2nd century BC Pergamum entered into a league with the Romans. A joint Roman and
Pergame army vanquished the Galatians in 190 BC, whereupon they sold 40,000
Galatians into slavery. None the less the Galatians and Galatia survived well
into New Testament times; such is the tenacity of the ancient Kelts, and the
chastisements of Almighty God. The Celtic-Galatians indeed knew the cost of
freedom!
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STAND FAST therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
~ GALATIANS 5:1 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
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QUOTES from “FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD”
3000 BC – AD 500
Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics
By Anglim, Jestice, Rice, Rusch and Serrati
AQUAE SEXTAE: 102 BC
“In 105 BC, the Roman provinces of Cisalpine and
Transalpine Gaul underwent a massive invasion by tribal peoples from the north.
A total of 300,000 warriors – and larger numbers of old people, women and
children – arrived in a huge wagon train, probably driven west by pressures of
land and population. This horde was a multi-tribal coalition centered on two
Germanic tribes, the Teutones and the Ambrones, and also
including Scythians and a mysterious people called the Cimbri: ‘The most
prevalent conjecture was that they were some of the German peoples which
extended as far as the northern ocean, a conjecture based on their great
stature, their light-blue eyes, and the fact that the Germans call robbers
Cimbri’ (Plutarch, Marius, XI). Having said this, Plutarch speculated that the
Cimbri were Cimmerians, northern Gauls, and his (possibly anachronistic)
description of their weapons and fighting style strengthens this view. Rome had
unpleasant memories of the Gauls. One of the pivotal events in Roman history was
the Gallic invasion of 390 BC, when the High King , Bran (Brennus), annihilated
a Roman hoplite army and then sacked Rome herself. The Gauls beat the Romans
again in 285 BC and invaded Italy again in 225 BC; they were also enthusiastic
allies of Rome’s enemies, including Hannibal. Consequently, Roman campaigns
against the Gauls were often genocidal, even by their standards.” (Page 60)
KELTIC SHIELDS
CAPTION (reads as follows)
under the DRAWING of an ANCIENT KELTIC SHIELD –
with artwork of a stylized Buck Deer.
“A CELTIC SHIELD from the 1st century B.C. Such shields
were similar in size to the Roman scutum, but were made of wooden planks covered
with a stretched piece of hide, which was usually decorated.” (Page 60)
BATTLE OF VERCELLAE
“WHITE SHIELDS”
“………Boeorix, the King of the
Cimbri, challenged the Romans to fight on the plain of Vercellae, agreeable to
both sides as it suited the Cimbri’s vast numbers and maneuver by the Roman
cavalry. Marius’ force numbered around 35,000 ……… The Cimbri had 15,000
cavalry and enough infantry to cover a square 6 km (3.7
miles) on each side! Plutarch’s description of their armour and weapons conforms
with that carried by Gauls in other sources: they wore ‘helmets made to resemble
the maws of frightful wild beasts or the heads of strange animals ……[and] breastplates of iron,
and carried gleaming white shields. For hurling, each man had two lances; and at
close quarters they used large, heavy swords.’ The latter was a distinctly
Gallic weapon. The Cimbric cavalry deployed on their right, ……. The heat and the
dust favoured the Romans, who were used to such conditions, but the volleys of
pila that met the Cimbric charge, and the superior swordsmanship of the Romans,
must have told as well; ………… Eventually, the Cimbri broke, and were pursed
back to their camp by the
Romans, who were greeted with horrific scenes as the Cimbri women murdered their
men and children, before killing themselves, rather than be taken
prisoner.”
[End of quotes from the book, FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF THE
ANCIENT WORLD, quotes, pages 62 & 63, Chapter 1, The Role of Infantry.]
Celtic Bronze Wild boar
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FREEDOM!
Keep in mind this legacy of the
Kimmerian-Kelts, it is truly an important part of you Israelite heritage.
Remember it is this ancient and honourable Cimmerian-Celtic heritage that give
rise to our concepts of chivalry, honour, kinship, kith, Klan (Clan) and Kirk
(Church). This, my Brothers and Sisters of the Christian Identity Ku Klux Klans
and The Keltic Klan Kirk
/ Keltic Kirk Knights is
part of the heritage of the Klan and the Kirk.
NON SILBA – SED ANTHAR
Hold Fast the FAITH in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
For Christ's Crown and
Covenants!
WE
HAIL HIS VICTORY!
9 But you are
A CHOSEN RACE,
A royal PRIESTHOOD,
A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION,
that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who
has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light:
I PETER 2:9 HOLY BIBLE (New American Standard Version)
HOLD FAST the FAITH!
Written by Pastor Joe Johnson
AMERICAN REFORMATION MINISTRIES
Keltic Klan Kirk
Pastor Joe Johnson
P.O. Box 1166
Malvern, Arkansas 72104-4248
The Quest For Israelite Identity - Table of Contents
AMERICAN REFORMATION MINISTRIES
KELTIC KLAN KIRK
PASTOR JOE JOHNSON
P.O. BOX 1166 MALVERN, ARKANSAS 72104