Sea Peoples to Phoenician Navy

Sea People, any of the groups of aggressive seafarers who invaded eastern Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age, especially in the 13th century BCE. They are held responsible for the destruction of old powers such as the Hittite empire. Because of the abrupt break in ancient Middle Eastern records as a result of the invasions, the precise extent and origin of the upheavals remain uncertain.

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sea-People

 

The nationality of the Sea Peoples remains a mystery as the existing records of their activities are mainly Egyptian sources who only describe them in terms of battle such as the record from the Stele at Tanis which reads, in part, “They came from the sea in their war ships and none could stand against them." This description is typical of Egyptian references to these mysterious invaders.

 

https://www.worldhistory.org/Sea_Peoples/

 

A map illustrating the sudden, chaotic downfall of numerous interconnected civilizations in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia toward the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE). The great kingdoms and empires of the day—including The Mycenaean Greeks, The Hittite Empire, Kassite Babylonia (invaded by its neighbors Elam and Assyria) as well as the New Kingdom of Egypt (on a smaller scale) have suddenly collapsed and disintegrated due to multiple factors, including climate change, population movements, and invasions from hostile seafaring tribes known as the Sea Peoples.

 

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15310/the-late-bronze-age-collapse-c-...

 

Some even speculate, with little evidence to go on, that the Sea Peoples were actually the “Philistines” of Biblical fame who supposedly did battle with the ancient Israelites but whose identity remains mysterious.

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sea-peoples

 

The Sea Peoples are a hypothesized seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions in the East Mediterranean before and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200 BC – 900 BC). Following the creation of the concept in the 19th century, the Sea Peoples' incursions became one of the most famous chapters of Egyptian history, given its connection with, in the words of Wilhelm Max Müller, "the most important questions of ethnography and the primitive history of classic nations".

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

 

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Various explanations for the collapse have been proposed, including climatic changes (such as drought or effects of volcanic eruptions), invasions by groups such as the Sea Peoples, effects of the spread of iron metallurgy, developments in military weapons and tactics, and a variety of failures of political, social and economic systems, but none has achieved consensus. It is likely that a combination of several of these factors is responsible.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

 

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The name "Canaanites" is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians, and after the emigration of Phoenicians and Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (as "Chanani") of North Africa during Late Antiquity.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan

 

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The Philistines were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia.

The Philistines originated as a Greek immigrant group from the Aegean that settled in Canaan circa 1175 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse. Over time, they gradually assimilated elements of the indigenous Levantine Semitic societies while preserving their own unique culture.

In 604 BC, the Philistine polity, after having already been subjugated for centuries by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), was finally destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Subsequently, the Philistines were compelled into exile in Babylonia, where over time, they lost their unique ethnic identity. By the late fifth century BC, they vanished from both historical and archaeological records as a distinct group.

The Philistines are known for their biblical conflict with the Canaanite peoples of the region, in particular, the Israelites. Though the primary source of information about the Philistines is the Hebrew Bible, they are first attested to in reliefs at the Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, in which they are called the Peleset, accepted as cognate with Hebrew Peleshet;[8] the parallel Assyrian term is Palastu, Pilišti, or Pilistu. They also left behind a distinctive material culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines

 

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Phoenicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern Syria to Mount Carmel in modern Israel covering the entire coast of modern Lebanon. Beyond their homeland, the Phoenicians extended through trade and colonization throughout the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.

The Phoenicians directly succeeded the Bronze Age Canaanites, continuing their cultural traditions following the decline of most major cultures in the Late Bronze Age collapse and into the Iron Age without interruption. It is believed that they self-identified as Canaanites and referred to their land as Canaan, indicating a continuous cultural and geographical association. The name Phoenicia is an ancient Greek exonym that did not correspond precisely to a cohesive culture or society as it would have been understood natively.Therefore, the division between Canaanites and Phoenicians around 1200 BC is regarded as a modern and artificial division.

The Phoenicians, known for their prowess in trade, seafaring and navigation, dominated commerce across classical antiquity and developed an expansive maritime trade network lasting over a millennium. This network facilitated cultural exchanges among major cradles of civilization, such as Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The Phoenicians established colonies and trading posts across the Mediterranean; Carthage, a settlement in northwest Africa, became a major civilization in its own right in the seventh century BC.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia

 

The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Phoenician_discovery_of_the_Amer...

 

Lots of historical mysteries surrounding these various Sea People and where and when did they get around the world.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoa

 

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system. The Mycenaeans were mainland Greek peoples who were likely stimulated by their contact with insular Minoan Crete and other Mediterranean cultures to develop a more sophisticated sociopolitical culture of their own. The most prominent site was Mycenae, after which the culture of this era is named. Other centers of power that emerged included Pylos, Tiryns, and Midea in the Peloponnese, Orchomenos, Thebes, and Athens in Central Greece, and Iolcos in Thessaly. Mycenaean settlements also appeared in Epirus, Macedonia, on islands in the Aegean Sea, on the south-west coast of Asia Minor,  and on Cyprus, while Mycenaean-influenced settlements appeared in the Levant and Italy.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece

 

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Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland (present-day Newfoundland in Canada, North America).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings

 

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'Celtic from the West' theory

 

A map of Europe in the Bronze Age, showing the Atlantic network in red

In the late 20th century, the Urnfield-Hallstatt theory began to fall out of favour with some scholars, which was influenced by new archaeological finds. 'Celtic' began to refer primarily to 'speakers of Celtic languages' rather than to a single culture or ethnic group. A new theory suggested that Celtic languages arose earlier, along the Atlantic coast (including Britain, Ireland, Armorica and Iberia), long before evidence of 'Celtic' culture is found in archaeology. Myles Dillon and Nora Kershaw Chadwick argued that "Celtic settlement of the British Isles" might date to the Bell Beaker culture of the Copper and Bronze Age (from c. 2750 BC). Martín Almagro Gorbea (2001) also proposed that Celtic arose in the 3rd millennium BC, suggesting that the spread of the Bell Beaker culture explained the wide dispersion of the Celts throughout western Europe, as well as the variability of the Celtic peoples. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Alberto J. Lorrio and Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero reviewed and built on Almagro Gorbea's work to present a model for the origin of Celtic archaeological groups in Iberia and proposing a rethinking of the meaning of "Celtic".

John T. Koch and Barry Cunliffe have developed this 'Celtic from the West' theory. It proposes that the proto-Celtic language arose along the Atlantic coast and was the lingua franca of the Atlantic Bronze Age cultural network, later spreading inland and eastward. More recently, Cunliffe proposes that proto-Celtic had arisen in the Atlantic zone even earlier, by 3000 BC, and spread eastwards with the Bell Beaker culture over the following millennium. His theory is partly based on glottochronology, the spread of ancient Celtic-looking placenames, and thesis that the Tartessian language was Celtic. However, the proposal that Tartessian was Celtic is widely rejected by linguists, many of whom regard it as unclassified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts#Origins

 

The Atlantic Bronze Age is characterized by economic and cultural exchange between far-flung communities, resulting in a high degree of cultural similarity seen in coastal communities ranging from central Portugal in the south of coastal Europe, through Galicia (Spain), the Atlantic coast of France, including Armorica (Brittany) to Cornwall in southwest England and as far north as Scotland. This is evidenced by the frequent use of stone as chevaux-de-frise, the construction of cliff castles, and a similarity of domestic architecture and living spaces, sometimes characterized by roundhouses. Trade contacts extended northwards and eastwards to Sweden and Denmark and eastwards as far as the Mediterranean.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bronze_Age

 

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King Arthur

While Arthurian literature grew to become a broadly European phenomenon, the Welsh can claim the earliest appearances of Arthur. Before Arthur became an international figure, writings and oral tales concerning him were more or less restricted to the Brythonic nations of Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. These tales in turn are divided roughly into Pre-Galfridian Traditions and those of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Wales also contributed to the Arthur of the Romance Tradition after the titular heir became an international sensation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_mythology#King_Arthur

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_of_Britain

 

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Tarshish occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (modern Lebanon) and the Land of Israel. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. The same place name occurs in the Akkadian inscriptions of Assyrian king Esarhaddon (died 669 BC) and also on the Phoenician inscription of the Nora Stone (around 800 BC) in Sardinia; its precise location was never commonly known, and was eventually lost in antiquity. Legends grew up around it over time so that its identity has been the subject of scholarly research and commentary for more than two thousand years.

Its importance stems in part from the fact that Hebrew biblical passages tend to understand Tarshish as a source of King Solomon's great wealth in metals – especially silver, but also gold, tin, and iron (Ezekiel 27). The metals were reportedly obtained in partnership with King Hiram of Tyre in Phoenicia (Isaiah 23), and fleets of ships from Tarshish.

Tarshish is also the name of a modern village in the Mount Lebanon District of Lebanon, and Tharsis is a modern village in southern Spain.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Da'at [he], the biblical phrase "ships of Tarshish" refers not to ships from a particular location, but to a class of ships: large vessels for long-distance trade.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarshish

 

Britain

Some 19th-century commentators believed that Tarshish was Britain, including Alfred John Dunkin who said "Tarshish demonstrated to be Britain" (1844), George Smith (1850), James Wallis and David King's The British Millennial Harbinger (1861), John Algernon Clarke (1862), and Jonathan Perkins Weethee of Ohio (1887). This idea stems from the fact that Tarshish is recorded to have been a trader in tin, silver, gold, and lead, all of which were mined in Cornwall. This is still reputed to be the "Merchants of Tarshish" today by some[clarification needed] Christian sects.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarshish#Britain

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall#History

 

Emergence of Celtic Ireland

How and when the island became Celtic has been debated for close to a century, with the migrations of the Celts being one of the more enduring themes of archaeological and linguistic studies. The most recent genetic research strongly associates the spread of Indo-European languages (including Celtic) through Western Europe with a people bringing a composite Beaker culture, with its arrival in Britain and Ireland dated to around the middle of the third millennium BC. According to John T. Koch and others, Ireland in the Late Bronze Age was part of a maritime trading-network culture called the Atlantic Bronze Age that also included Britain, western France and Iberia, and that this is where Celtic languages developed. This contrasts with the traditional view that their origin lies in mainland Europe with the Hallstatt culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland#History

 

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Similarities between Celtic and Semitic Languages

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAmwtdP1bE&ab_channel=Langfocus

 

Was English related to Hebrew? The idiomatic likenesses between English and Hebrew were noticed by Tyndale when he translated the scriptures. He said, “The properties of the Hebrew tongue aggreeth a thousand times more with the English than with the Latin. The manner of speaking is in both one, so that, in a thousand places, there needest not but to translate the Hebrew word for word.”Canon Samuel Lyson found 5000 Hebrew roots in the English language (“Our British Ancestors”); other authorities put the figure still higher. The Welsh is so much like the Hebrew that the same syntax may be used for both. “ Our (Welsh) translation of the Holy Scriptures seems to have one peculiar advantage of most modern versions, in that the Hebrew idioms, phraseology or forms of speaking, are retained, and that with great propriety too, in the Welsh language” (Thomas Richards’ Welsh &English Dictionary (1839).

 

https://www.thebookblog.co.uk/2012/06/were-the-ancient-british-tongues-r...

 

In 1675 Charles Edwards (“Hanes y Fydd”) published  "A number of Welsh Cambro-Brittanic Hebraisms" in which he shows that whole phrases in Welsh can be closely paralleled by whole phrases in Hebrew. 

 

https://hebrewnations.com/articles/linguistics/welsh.html

 

Insular British Celtic tongues, especially colloquial Welsh, says W.H.Worrell3, show certain peculiarities which are reminiscent of Hamitic and Semitic tongues and are unparalleled in Aryan languages. Similarly, according to H.Wagner:

"Irish..has as many features in common with non-Indo-European languages, especially with Hamito-Semitic languages, as with other Indo-European languages"

https://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/0105/0105nn.html

 

http://www.punic.co.uk/publications/comparing_welsh_hebrew.pdf

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_(Semitic)_languages

 

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What are all the connections between these Sea Peoples?

 

http://mileswmathis.com/phoenper.pdf

 

Ancient Spooks

Phoenician Navy and such

 

http://mileswmathis.com/phoen.pdf

http://mileswmathis.com/phoen2.pdf

http://mileswmathis.com/phoen3.pdf

http://mileswmathis.com/phoen4.pdf

Hidden Hand of Spookery

http://mileswmathis.com/phoen5.pdf

 

Merchants & Banksters

 

As for the Jew-Phoenician dichotomy: I think, like many others, it doesn’t apply to the top elite. When searching for the spook’s identity, we’re not after names of places & peoples, but the right paradigms & explanations. Nations & religions have always been tools & toys for them. “Jews” is the name they use for themselves most often, for reasons shown above, but “Phoenicians” describes them better, if we go by the official definitions. And in that regard, many ancient languages did not even differentiate between “banker” & “merchant”. See tamkaru as “merchant, banker, broker” in the Codex Hammurabi. Likely, banksterism developed out of both landlordism & trade. I haven’t found a clear etymology for “Phoenicians” yet, but if it’s really a translation of temurah as “exchange”, it may well have a financial bankster meaning too. So they’re both, and more. Most importantly, Miles has shown time & again that behind the scenes, there’s no separation between any branches of power. Bankers & merchants are also governors, priests, generals, industrialists, landlords. My main takeaway is that this was again confirmed today, with the hand pun: Smalltime spooklings delude themselves to be “leaders”, but they’re really just farmhands, for the spookish milking industry. The ruling top spook aristocrats rather view themselves as the possessors of the world, holding everything at once in the squeezy grip of their grubby, sweaty little hands.

 

https://theresearchofmilesmathis.substack.com/p/the-phoenicians