Exploring Ireland’s Paranormal Middle Eastern Roots #Folklore #Atlantis #Baal

How does Irish mythical celtic folklore connect to the various histories and lores of ancient Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Mauritania? Could there be any archeological and genetic DNA evidence connecting Ireland's stories of ancient giants, Atlantis and demonic gods to North Africa and the Middle East?

#Formorians #AncientEgypt #TheSeaPeople #TheRichatStructure

Part 2 of this episode is here
Atlantis and The Tartessos Discovery: The Mediterranean’s Hidden History of Giants

This episode is a collaboration with the H3XA channel

Thanks to Amjad who co-narrated this episodes. This is his channel.

For more information about Ireland's historical links with North Africa and the Middle East with a far more grounded take, see their interview with Bob Quinn

Voiceover by Amjad Abdelhamid & H3XA Channel
Edited by Abdullah Yahya
Executive Producers Abdullah Yahya and Ahmed AlMatrooshi

Chapters:
0:00 Preview: Gaelic & Phoenician Connections
0:34 Introducing Irish Mythology
1:37 The Irish Ancient Egyptians
5:25 Atlantis & The Fomorian Giants
7:53 The Genetic Atlantian Descendants

Sources:

Neolithic And Bronze Age Migration To Ireland And Establishment Of The Insular Atlantic Genome.
Lara M. Cassidy et al (Trinity College, Dublin)

History dot com
Who Were The Sea Peoples

Jason Colavito
Atlantis And The Sea Peoples

Music by

Scott Buckley

Vadim Krakhmal

CinematicWaves

The Thumbnail is Koledo by Kriegerman on Deviant Art

[aine]

Lots of books were destroyed by the British when they invaded. A professor from Trinity college dublin visiting england in the 1890s was asked by a Lord he was visiting to examine a book that the Lord thought might be egyptian. He said it was in his family for generations but he didn't know where it came from. The professor looked at the book and i quote from his diary." I turned pale and then feared the Lord saw this, for if he knew he had a book of ancient Irish laws(brehon laws) he would have surely throw it in the fire" so he told him he didnt know but could he take it back to ireland to study. The lord agreed and needless to say he never got it back. Still can be seen in trinity college. Can you imagine what was destroyed when they invaded. We never will know the full extent. But interesting he taught it looked egyptian.

[sharonholdren]

This is why materials as this are frequently classified as "Ephemera." As a child I inherited my grandmother's 700 volume library. I had a pile beside my bed to throw at my younger brother when he bothered me. When I went off to college my sister boxed them up and announced to my mother she saw no reason why I would ever want old books anyway. My father died shortly after my parents 50th Anniversary, I helped my mother clear the house in preparation to sell it. It was then, decades later, I discovered he had preserved and protected them for me. Many turned out be early commercial publications of the likes of Greyfriar's Bobby and my Grandmother's correspondence with the author. One was a water damaged copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence that had intrigued me in my early teen years. It had eventually lead me to spend almost 6 months travelling Iraq, Syria Jordan and Palestine with a map I'd copied from it. At one time I was an Archives and Special Collections Librarian and I never got over my veneration of old books. So very much is lost, because no one appreciates its potential.

[BranDestruction]

I've said it before and ill say it again, this is better than most TV shows. Seriously, top notch work, top notch narrator.

[pronouncedzara]

There are specific scary stories Iraqi grandmas tell about the 'sluagh' which I know is part of Gaelic folklore. Some of these stories are passed down through generations and predate the internet. My grandmother heard it from her grandmother and both women lived most of their lives in a village near the marshes. I have also noticed other ties to Irish folklore specifically. I have always felt connected to Celtic traditions too (since I was a kid) and have never really understood why or where it came from.

[vicariousgamer]

I think the fact that we're always so mystified about our ancestors achievements displays our inability to understand that they were far more sophisticated than we've been led to believe.

[irishiz]

I am 2ed gen Irish born in the states on both sides of my family. My husband was German and Dutch. Our son did a DNA test that traced back to the middle east. We were utterly confused and assumed the test was flawed. This video makes SO MUCH sense to me now !!

[paulgreen]

A very long time ago I recall reading about a nomadic tribe in Morocco who's language is so similar to Welsh that the 2 ethnic groups could easily have a full blown conversation with no problems understanding each other.

[guccimane]

Watching from Australia here, just letting you know this channel is so good guys! The production quality of these videos are too good, keep up the great work boys!

[chiconva]

On this special day I salute all ancestors all souls! I salute where my ancestors came from and where they’re taking us!

[paulduffy]

Back in the day, the sea wasn't a barrier. It was land-travel that was very difficult. The sea was the path of least resistance for people, goods, and ideas. The Romans hated the water. They were a land-centric empire. And this has had a distorting effect on how we look at antiquity.

[octipuscrime]

Always amazing content.
When i visited Ireland, i learnt the Irish also historically had a strong oral tradition much like the Middle East and was something that struck as being very similar to the Jewish and Arab cultures. The Irish are naturally very expressive in their words and maintain knowledge of their folklore through poems and songs. This being a tradition continued on from the Gaelic people.

[profbri.]

8:44 "this is only a theory ..."
As a scientist, I feel compelled to point out a couple of things here...
First of all, a "theory" has greater certitude and is a higher level of organization of information than is a "fact." many facts are required to develop a theory. So the phrase "only a theory" is both nonsensical and grossly misleading.
Secondly, what then follows this misleading phrase is not a theory, it is a hypothesis. Fortunately, the phrase, "this is only a hypothesis..." makes perfect sense.
It is important to contribute to scientific literacy, and we do so when by getting our concepts correct.
Peace 🙏

[GGora]

I’m from Iran. Born and raised. I look like a typical Persian, white skin, almond brown eyes, dark brown hair. When I took a DNA test for my tribal ancestry, my highest genetics match was to Northern Ireland, followed by Southern Ireland and then to Caucasians of Afghanistan ( by a large margin). I was shocked. I had plenty of Northern Europe in the mix.

Years later, I had a child with an English man and my son was born w red hair. A very Irish thing. To have a red hair baby, one must be a recessive. I know of no one w red hair in my family.

Anyhow, the whole thing is very mysterious.

[tewfik]

As a north african berber I have noticed a striking resemblance in the paterns used to decorate traditional carpets, they either came to us or we went to them for sure.

[Jack-yzws]

In terms of archeology and genetics arguably one of the earliest records of human activity in Ireland was the remnants of a butchered deer bone found in a cave in either Kerry or cork I believe that dates from 30, 000 years ago. And is one of the oldest artefacts for human activity in the British isles. And in Irish mythology the coming of people to Ireland is seen in waves and this is reflected through history too. Where we had prehistoric hunter-gatherers, neolithic farmers, and then the bronze age Smith's and craftsmen. And these peoples likely came here through boat or through land bridges just at the end of the last ice age. And in our mythology you have the fomorians, the tuatha de danann, and the Gaels (with the fir bolg shoehorned in as well). We learn a lot of this from the pseudohistorical book of invasions in which the Irish are the descendants of Noah after the flood and eventually they split into three groups the tuatha de dannan, the fir bolg, and Gaels. The fir bolgs go to Greece where they are enslaved and made to carry bags of soil for agriculture (hence fir bolg means men of bags), the tuatha went to the north to 3 cities where they learned magic and sorcery. The Gaels went to Iberia where they learned warfare, crafting, smithing, and how to work the land and one of their soldiers was the Míl Espaine or (the soldier of Spain). First the fir bolg came who where then conquered by the tuatha and their magic, then the Gaels came who conquered the tuatha due to their better mastery of the land. While pseudohistorical the idea of our ancestors coming from Iberia is found not only in Irish texts but also in a few other medieval Christian texts and it is described as the "motherland of all races". But let's go back to the historical people's. You have prehistoric hunter gatherers who were then conquered by neolithic farmers who there then conquered by bronze age Smith's and craftsmen. Now post-glacial we find the emergence of the ancient Version of the Basque language spread throughout Europe going north, followed by Indo-European language spread in the early neolithic times spreading west, followed by the Semitic languages coming up the western coast of Europe. And in fact, the "Celtic language" emerged quite later in Europe. The term Celtic in fact is really only a linguistic term for la guage groups and at best a cultural one too, but it is not a genetic or ethnic term. An interesting features in all of this is the bell-beaker culture which was a style of pottery and arguably people that we think came from Portugal and spread out all over Europe at the time and some of the earliest recorded evidence we have of this comes from Iberia and Portugal. This pottery made its way to Ireland and is believed to have lasted in Ireland for a period of time after the decline of this culture in mainland Europe. And it is widely believed that the Celts came from central Europe. However, this translation is based on a mistake. When the historian Herodotus beloved that the Danube started in the Pyrenees and that the homeland of the Celts was at the sources of the Danube. So later on, scholars in the 19th-20th centuries had better maps and knew that the Danube started in central Europe and so this account of Herodotus was changed to it meaning central Europe, even though everything thing else Herodotus states says the Celts originated in Iberia. So we have archeological evidence stating that there is a great link between Ireland and Iberia, and also written accounts from Ireland and Rome stating yea the Celts came from here. But what about genetics? Well it has been found that in terms of blood groupings and DNA evidence that the Basque peoples, modern day Iberians, and modern day Irish and Scottish people and linked closer to each other than any other peoples in Europe. So we can pretty much say that the ancient Irish came from somewhere in the Iberian peninsula. Moreover due to the Iberian peninsulas close proximity to North Africa and it being on the Mediterranean and that Iberia has one of the highest levels of North African DNA in Europe and can be found all the way back to Carthaginian times if not perhaps before this also. So there is a strong link between Ireland and North Africa. Plus if we go into Christian times in the early centuries in Ireland a lot of the artwork teachings brought to Ireland from missionaries who came from the Mediterranean and Roman Britain settled here and directly had an effect on early Irish-christian culture. However, in terms of bel and ba'al. It's likely that bel wasn't an Irish god and merely a creation of early Irish Christian scholars because they did in fact make up characters and stories. For example, the children of lir is an entirely Christian story. Moreover, his association with the festival of Beltane is an entirely a modern belief as with all Irish festival they used to mark certain dates in the agricultural year. It doesn't mean fire of bel it most likely means bright fire and was used to mark summer and the return of good weather. Moreover, we can tell which gods in Irish mythology were real and which ones were fictional through entomology, archeology, and depiction. For example Lugh is most likely an Irish version of the Indo-European god Lugus as their name is the same and they have similar associations. And moreover lughs depiction Irish mythology is never consistent he is either a great hero, a magical human, a druid, a spirit, and that in the story of the tailteann games is seen to be be victorious over the spirits of the otherworld seemingly implying he's not one. Bel has none of this and just vaguely appears. It's likely that early Christian scholars were aware of this demon in Christian belief and while writing about Ireland's ancient past put him as to highlight Ireland's pagan past with a demon they were familiar with.

[QuantumTraderSolutions]

Your choice of music is just spine tingling, and your voice is perfect, keep up the excellent work fantastic tales.

[vgernyc]

Spain was Celtic long before Muslim or Roman conquest and has many artifacts from far away places. There is even evidence that there was once a city called Tartessos that mysteriously disappeared from historical sources. Likely Spanish Celts traded with their northern counterparts.

[TinSandwichUK]

On my first visit to Morocco 40 years ago, I was watching four street musicians, two violin players and two percussionists. The rhythms and scales were a bit alien to my ears to start with but the musicianship was superb so I tipped them and hung around a while. I noticed that I coud count in both threes and fours and then one of those cold shivers went down my back as the thought came out of nowhere that if the Irish band The Chieftains were here they would be jamming effortlessly within a couple of minutes with these street performers. The name of one of the percussive instrument was called bendir which was very similar to the Irish bodhran.

[banjomechanic]

Seems like we’re rooting up more evidence every day that illustrates that we really don’t know what has been going on in the past. Information like this tends to make today’s issues seem not so unusual.

[KT-lytr]

These are some of the most well produced fringe documentaries i've seen. Can't stop watching.