Of the Scythian Sidonians in Spain.

PART VII.

HAVING attended the Og-eag-eis in the central, and the Goths in the northern course of the Scythian migrations, I come now to speak of those tribes of the same race, who colonized the great south-western Peninsula of Europe; of whom the first adventurers were from Sidon in Phoenicia, a fact though admitted by all, yet are the conjectures many and various, as to the date of their arrival on this land, that most generally received being, that the country was not known to them till about 1000 years before Christ; and what is not a little singular, this opinion is held by men who refer the age of Sesostris to 1480; on which I will observe, that placing the most perfect reliance on the fidelity of the chronicles of Gaelag, bye and bye to be perused by you, I will assert without apprehension of deceiving, that this country was discovered and colonized in various maritime parts, more than 1500 years before the christian era, by Phænicians, by whom it was called Eisfeine, Hispania of the Romans, of which the nations of Alg-er-be, Buasce and Gaelag, formed no part.

Doth the very ancient history of this quarter lie in obscurity, the fact is attributable to the policy of the Phoenicians, who guarded all their foreign acquisitions with secrecy the most profound. Being Phoenicians, they were Scythians, therefore I feel myself warranted to say, that Spain was under the controul of the Scythian race of Phoenicia, as marked on the chart, and shall proceed to point out the other tribes of that race, who colonized other portions of this Peninsula.

NOTE TO PART VII.

Though the records of antiquity which prove the celebrity of the Phoenicians in very remote times, in the science of navigation, are too nu

merous to be recounted, and too well authenticated to admit of doubt, yet I will here notice that when Solomon had ships builded to carry on a trade from Eloth on the Arabian gulph, and from Gezer on the Mediterranean, he had not only the ships built, but manned also by Phoenicians, more than a thousand years before the christian era.

We learn also from Josephus, that at a very early time, the Phoenicians became known by means of trading and navigation to the Greeks, and that it was through them the Egyptians became acquainted with the Greeks, as did all those people whence the Phoenicians in long voyages over the seas, carried wares to the Grecians.

Every one must be sensible that a people would for a long season be practised in moving on the seas, before they ventured to make long voyages, and consequently, if the Phoenicians were so expert in naval affairs, more than a thousand years before Christ, according to the chronicles of the Hebrews; doth not the fact corroborate the account of the chronicles of the Iberian Scythians in Spain, that assert the Phoenicians had settled colonies on the coasts of the Mediterranean, and had passed into the great ocean, 500 years before the age of Solomon? nor doth the total ignorance of the ancients on this head, invalidate this testimony in the least, seeing that it was the policy of the Phoenicians to guard the secret, and that they did succeed, is proved by that very ignorance, which is apparent in all the writings of the Greeks, and is confirmed by the following passage in Josephus against Apion, "Nay, those that were reckoned the most exact historians amongst the Greeks, (Ephorus for one,) were so ignorant of the Gauls and Spaniards, that he supposed the Spaniards, who inhabit so great a part of the western regions of the earth, to be no more than one city." But though the Greeks were unacquainted with the Scythian colonies in Spain, not so the Egyptians, who in the time of Sesoost-ris invaded Spain, which he found full of a pastoral people, which the Scythians were, and governed by shepherd kings, after the manner of their race, which the name of Caore-aon in the Phoenician, or Geryon, in the Grecian dialect of the Scythian tongue denotes.

Of the Ib-er-ian Scythians in Spain.

PART VIII.

HAVING demonstrated, with proof derived from various sources of antiquity,

That Parental Scythia was north and east of the Caspian sea, from whence the Scythians poured southward, and occupied all the lands from the Ind (the tribes on the western bank of which were called Indo-Scythæ,) to the Mediterranean ; their northern and southern limits being, as noted on the chart:

That the Scythians having held all the western parts of Asia, for many centuries, a stranger people from the east, called Assyrians, invaded Messipotamia, the seat of the Scythian government, what time Noe was their supreme chief, his tents standing on the plains of Shinar by Euphrates:

Having identified this invasion of the Assyrians, with the universal deluge of the Hebrews, and the flight of Noe and his followers, the Noe-maid-eis to Ardmenia, with the Hebrew dispersion of mankind in the days of Peleg :

Having traced Noe to Ardmenia, and noticed the reign of him, and his son Japheth, in that quarter of the Scythian empire:

Having stated that Japheth was succeeded by his youngest son Og, who was a mighty conqueror, and established his dominion over all the regions from Meshech to Caucasus, and between the Caspian and the Euxine seas, from him called Mag-Og, which, before the arrival of Noe, and till the time of Og, were rather nominally, than actually subject to the supreme Scythian chief:

Having attended the march of the colony of the Og-eag-eis, led by Javan from Ardmenia, to the isles of the Gentiles, from the western shores of the Euxine to the land of the

Japydes, and as far south as the north of Attica, near unto the entrance into Peloponnesus, to the district of Eleusis:

Having shewn that every tribe that entered Ellas, Pelasgia, and Achaia, save the few Egyptians led by Danaus, the brother of Sesostris, seated at Argos, were of Scythian origin:

And that the colonies conducted by Onotrius, and Evander, from Greece, by Saturn from Crete, Eneas from Phrygia to Italy, of Lydians to Etruria, and Phocians to Massilia, were of Scythian extraction:

Having accompanied another tribe of Scythians from Ardmenia in 1950, to the north of Caucasus, who assumed the specific denomination of Goth, of which family, a tribe of Getæ, called Daci, moved south to the Ister, west to the waters of Theyss, or Tobiscus :

And having in the preceding part, noticed the emigration of multitudes of Phoenician Scythians to Spain, and affirmed that they had discovered that country, and become influential therein, as far north as the Duor, and east as the Ib-er, 1500 years before Christ:

I now come to speak of tribes from Iberia, beneath Caucasus, who emigrated to Spain; and though you will hear the tale from Eolus, delivered in a style much more interesting than mine, I have thought fit to say so much here, as will connect the narrative, to the more perfect elucidation of their story.

It hath been said that Og was a conqueror, and brought the lands from Meshech south, to Caucasus north, and Colg, Ib-er, and Ailb-binn, the Colch-is, Ib-er-ia, Alb-ania of the Romans, under his immediate controul; in fact, established the seat of the Scythian government in Ardmenia, which, and the adjacent countries, he ruled more directly, which from him were called Mag-Og.

It now remains to tell, that Og died in 2145, from which time Eolus hath not delivered any account to our present purpose, till 1950, when Glas was placed by Dorca, his brother, (supreme chief of Mag-Og) over Tubal, on which occasion the name of Ib-er was given to that land, the era of the sepa

ration of the Gaal of Iber from the stock of Noe-maid-cis, of Ardmenia.

Glas retained the government of Ib-er and Ailb-binn, of which countries little mention is made till 1650, when a colony emigrated from Ib-er to Afric, from whom a detachment under the conduct of a chief called Gaoi-at-eolac, moved to the country since called Spain, in the south western quarter of which, between the ocean, the rivers Taoi and Anas, they established themselves, calling their land Alg-er-be, from whom a colony separated, and steering along the shore of the Mediterranean, entered into the land on the waters of Ib-er, and seated themselves between that river, the Pyrenees, the ocean, and the Mediterranean, calling their land Buas-ce.

We are also informed by Eolus, that in the year corresponding with 1491 before Christ, another colony, of which two brothers, to whom the names of Calma and Ro-n-ard are given, were the chiefs, emigrated from Ib-er, by the way of Sidon, and the Mediterranean, to the western quarter of the country now called Portugal, whereinto they entered by the water of Duor, between which river, the Iber, and the ocean, they established themselves, calling their land Gael-ag.

Here having abided for the circuit of 250 years, a multitude led by Eocaid, brother of Ceannard, chief of Gael-ag, took their departure from this land, and passed to the other side of the Pyrenees, between which mountains, the ocean, the Garonne, and the Rhone, they dwelled, calling their land Eocaid-tan.

From whence a Gaal moved eastward, amongst the mountains, who assumed the name of Gaal-dun-seis.

These five tribes of Alg-er-be, Buas-ce, Eocaid-tan, the Gaal-dun-seis, and the Gaal of Sciot in Gael-ag, I am authorized to say, were Scythian Iberians, of the same race as the Mag-sagiotig, the Persians, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Ardmenians, Grecians, Romans, and the tribes of Dunmianac, Silures, and Brigantes in Britain, a fact that shall be distinctly and most satisfactorily demonstrated, by similarity of manners, customs, institutions, laws, religion, and, above all, by identity of lan