Past, Present and Future of the Cradle of Civilization (2)
After a brief look on the past of Mesopotamia in the last blog, the question was if there is any similarity between the past and present days in the region?
I also concluded that today we see further attempts to divide the region again into demographic lands. to reshuffle history at present, and prepare it for a certain future.
How is this going on?
Before answering the question, it may help to dig again in the past and stop at certain stations, which I believe helped in creating the present we are having now, along with all its complications.
I will start from the Station One - Adam and Eve our first parents.
They mated, had two sons, one of them killed the other, And murder was the first crime.
Station Two is Akhnokh (Idris), who was a prophet but also a teacher (Hermes). He had all knowledge and science which he taught to humans.
Koran tells that God raised Idris to a higher place. I believe this means a higher rank with regards to the enormous knowledge he acquired.
Interestingly he was born in Babylon but left to Egypt to start his teachings.
The Pharaohs were excellent students. They captured all sciences, then spread them worldwide.
Their first inventions were arms and weapons.
Station Three would be Noah.
He lived in ancient Mesopotamia, and was known as the person who built the ark to save humans and animals from a devastating flood. All religious and history books confirm that he at least had three sons Sam, Ham and Japheth.
In the book of Genesis Noah cursed Ham (because he saw him naked) through his son Canaan to be always a servant to his brothers.
Noah blessed Sam (Shem) and wished for Japheth to multiply in numbers, and be under the "protective umbrella" of Shem. Canaan always be their servants!
Talmud elaborated more and concluded that either Ham saw his father mating his wife or Ham himself had an intercourse with his father's wife.
In any case now there are already Lords and Slaves
Station Four
After the flood Japheth moved through Turkey and inhabited the lands of north Iran, Armenia and Russia, then continued to explore all the North of East and West Europe, then down to France, Spain, Italy and the Greek Islands.
The Bible ascribed seven sons of Japheth from whom the following nations raised:
Gomer: Armenians, Ceimmerians, Scythians, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Huns, Franks and Turks.
Magog: Slavs, Mongols, Hungarians, Irish, Finns, Pamiris. Pashtuns.
Madai: Medes, Indo-Iranians, Mitanni, Mannai, Persian, Tajiks, Balochis and Tati.
Javan: Greeks (Ionians)
Tubal: Tabal, Tibareni, Georgians, Italics, Iberians, Basques.
Tiras: Thracians, Goths, Jutes, Teutons.
Meshech: Phrygians, Illyrians, Caucasian Iberia, Russians.
Station Five
Ham moved to Africa and parts of the Near East (India)
Egypt was considered in the Bible as the Land of Ham.
Ham became the forefather of the southern peoples (Hamitic Race)
He had four sons from whom the following nations derived:
Cush: Egypt, Yemen, Eritrea, Arabian Peninsula, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Babel, Akkad.
Mizraim: Egypt, Libya, Philistim, Crete and Cyprus.
Phut: Land of Punt
Canaan: Phoenicia, Anatolia, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
The Book of Jubilees hinted that Canaan further refused to join his brothers to settle in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile (Africa) and proceeded to inhabit the eastern shores of Mediterranean "squatting" within the inheritance of Shem in the region that later is promised to Abraham.
Lords and Servants.
Offspring of Canaan were:
The Hittites: People of Hatti a powerful entity of Anatolia
The Jebusites: A tribe lived around Jerusalem
The Amorites: Lived between Jordan, Syria and part of Saudi Arabia.
The Girgasites: Egypt Delta
The Arkites: Lived in Akkar North of Lebanon
The Sinites: Lived in the desert of Sinai Egypt
The Arvadites: Lived in Island of Arwad Syria
The Zemarites: Lived in city of Dummar Syria
The Hamathites: Lived in the city of Hamah Syria
Station Six
Sam or Shem is known as the forefather of the Middle peoples (Semitic Race)
Jews consider him their father through Arpachshad.
His children were Elam, Asshur, Aram, Lud and Arpachshad from whom Abraham was descended.
Sam and his sons were the ancestors of the following nations:
Elam: Khuzistan, Iran
Assur: Iraq
Arpachshad: Iraq, Turkey, Syria (Sham), Lebanon and possibly south Jordan and north Saudi Arabia.
Lud: Anatolia
Aram: Iraq, Syria
Some historians believe that Sam descended the whole of European people.
The Islamic scholar Al Tabari believes that the Greeks are descendants of Sam.
Station Seven
Now Arpachshad who is considered the father of Jews, had 3 sons:
Cainan: whom for some reasons the Jews cancelled his name from the genealogical list
Shelah or Salah: Who may be also son of Cainan and not Arpachshad, had a son called Eber who is the eponymous ancestor of Hebrews. He was living in Babel, however it is said by the Jewish traditions that he refused to participate in building the Tower of Babel. He had two sons, Peleg and Joktan.
Peleg: Whom in his days and according to the Book of Genesis "The Earth was divided" and this expression was translated as political divisions between the sons of Noah.
Start of the feuds.
From Peleg there were Reu, Serug, Nabor, Terah and Abraham.
Station Eight
Joktan: In Arabic he is called Qahtanenthrographers identified Joktan's sons with people around the Indus river?
Later the sons of Joktan raised Ismail son of Abraham.
I will stop at this station and try to see how we can inter-relate so far, these genetic lines with Geo-politics.
Since Canaan rebelled and refused to join his father, he might also have rebelled to fight that curse of Noah and the idea of being a servant to Shem.
His offspings formed major powers, and repeatedly tried to control the regions of Egypt, Syria and Phoenicia.
The Hittites having their strong base in Anatolia and Northern Syria were in continuous wars with Egypt and tried several times to invade the lands.Later all those hostilities ended with the famous battle of Kaddish, which was resulted with both; Hittites and Egyptians declaring amazing victory.(ring a bell?).
However both were extremely exhausted and many important political changes happened in the aftermath of the battle.
The Jebusites were also offspring of Canaan, settled in Philistine and built the city of Jerusalem which they named it Jebus till it was later conquered by King David.
The Amorites who were described in the Bible as the Giants, probably are the same people of Eram in the Koran. They were the inhabitants of Parts of Arabia, Jordan and North Syria. The Bibles tell that they were conquered by Joshua, as the Israelites were ordered to destroy all the inhabitants of Canaan, however the Gibenonites (offshoots of Amorite) tricked them to a treaty that kept their lives but only as slaves.
The Elamites were descendants of Elam son of Shem and inhabited the lands southwest of Iran and Iraq. It was later conquered by the Sumerian king Enmebargesi, and the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who put the Hammurabi Code, a law that was written before the Mosaic Code, a matter which was subject to disputes between civilizations for many centuries to come, probably till our days.
Station Nine would be Abraham who was the father of Isac from the Hebrew Lady Sarah and Ismail from the Egyptian Lady Hajar.
Station Ten would be Jacob (called Israel) who was the son of Isac, and the father of Israeli people.
Station Eleven would be Ismail who was the Ancestor of Mohamed.
Station Twelve would be Moses and his wars against the Pharaohs of Egypt.
Station Thirteen would be Virgin Mary, the birth and death of Jesus
Station Fourteen would be Mohamed and the rise of Islam
Station Fifteen would be the Islamic Invasions
Station Sixteen would be the Abbasid Era
Station Seventeen would be the Omayyad Era
Station Eighteen would be the Ottoman Empire
Station Nineteen would be the WWI
Station Twenty would be the Soviet Era
Station Twenty One would be WWII
Station Twenty One would be WWIII
To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui
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