FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
Caspian Seas. These reports gave the names used by the Assyrians
for the different groups of Israelites that were planted as a buffer
between them and their enemies (Medes). The “Royal Letters” date
back to 707 BC, which is about 14 years after the defeat of Samaria.
Letters #1079 (describes the defeat of the Urartians), and its follow-up
#197 (which says it occurred in the land of Gamir) were written by
Sennacherib to his father, King Sargon. Letter #112 talks about a
people (Iskuza or Isaac) that “went forth” from the midst of the Mannai,
into the “land of Urartu,” while another letter distinctly separates the
Urartians, the Mannai, and the Gamera (or Gimira), which means the
people in Letter #112 are Gamerraan, or in English, the ‘Cimmerians.’The Behistun Rock was found in the 1700-foot high Zargos mountains
in northwestern Iran, 300 foot above the ground on a sheer face, The
relief had been commissioned by Darius the Great in 515 BC, and lists
the peoples and nations he defeated and ruled over as part of the
Medo-Persian Empire. It is interesting to point out, that while he was
putting down the Israelite insurrection, he was helping the Jews to
rebuild the Temple.The Rock (confirmed by Darius’ tomb, as well as a golden tablet that
talks about the ‘Sakka’) is inscribed in three languages, is 100 feet
high, and 150 feet wide. By 1840, it had been deciphered by Sir Henry
C. Rawlinson. The name ‘Kana’ (Canaan) appears 28 times. ‘Saka’ or
‘Sakka’ in Mede, Persian, Elamite, and ‘Sacae’ in Greek, is ‘Gimri’ in
Babylonian. The Assyrian and Babylonian renditions are nearly the
same. ‘Sakka’ refers to a nomad or one who lives in a tent or ‘booth.’
The word ‘booth’ in Hebrew is ‘succoth.’ ‘Sakka’ comes from
‘Isaac,’ (pronounced ‘e-sahk’ with emphasis on the last syllable) and
became ‘Saxon.’ ‘Gimri’ comes from the Assyrian ‘Khumri’ (after
Biblical House of ‘Omri,’ 6th King of Israel) and became Ghumri,
Gimira, Gimmira, the Greek ‘Kimmeroii,’ or English ‘Cimmerian.’According to the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras 13:40-44, they migrated
to Europe. While the main body of prisoners remained in the area
about a hundred years, the Israelites slowly began moving to the east
and the north. When the power of the Assyrians was broken, there
were several migrations, with the two main groups moving west under
the Black Sea, north through the Dariel Pass of the Caucasas
Mountains into the steppes of southern Russia. A large group also