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Subject: Khazars-3
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 23:49:03 +0200
From: yair davidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Physical Appearance of the Khazars.
Three different types of Khazar are described by Arab writers who
apparently through trade and diplomacy had had direct contact with them.
The Arab Geographer Istakhri (Koestler p.20) said: "The Khazars do not
resemble the Turks. They are black-haired and of two kinds, one called
the
Kara [i.e. "Black"] - Khazars who are swarthy verging on deep black as
if
they were a kind of Hindu, and a white kind [Ak-Khazars], who are
strikingly handsome".
Note the above description says that both kinds of Khazars had black
hair
though regarding countenance, etc. one was white and the other very
dark.
There were other Khazars who were blond or red-heared:
Al Maghribi said: "As to the Khazars, they are to the north of the
inhabited earth towards the 7th clime, having over their heads the
constellation of the plough. Their land is cold and wet, their eyes
blue,
their hair flowing and predominantly reddish, their bodies large and
their
natures cold. Their general aspect is wild". Al-Maghribi is here
apparently speaking of another section of the Khazars who lived more to
the
north. These had "predominantly reddish" hair and blue eyes. It was
remarked above that the Khazar White Ugrians were described by the
Chinese
as red-haired, pale-skinned, and green-eyed. The Alans who were closely
associated with the Khazars were described by the Roman historian
Ammianus
Marcelinus as being blonde-haired like all the Scythians according to
him.
Ammianus includes the Agathysoi (Khazars) amongst the Alans. From the
above
it follows that different Khazar and Khazar-linked groups were of
different
types.
The Khazars and Israel.
One version of the letter of King Joseph quoted above said that the
Khazars had a tradition that they were descended from the Tribe of
Simeon.
Eldad HaDani (ca.850 c.e.) wrote that they came from Simeon and
Menasseh.
The Cochin Scroll also says that the Khazars were descended from Simeon
and
Menasseh. The Khazars are identical with The Red Jews. The Lost Ten
Tribes
were called "Red Jews" and were described as all having Red Hair. Red
Hair
in the Middle Ages especially in Germany was considered a negative
characteristic and associated with the Jews and with Judas. The
Anti-Christ
and Judas were depicted as both having red hair and as both coming from
the
Tribe of Dan. In the whole literature of the Jews in the Medieval
Period
and in that of the Gentiles the Red Jews were identified as descended
from
the Lost Tribes of Israel. There are also Jewish legal rabbinical
Responsa
in which the Khazars are identified as originally of Israelite descent.
At
the peak of their history the Khazars controlled the area of the Don and
Danaper Rivers and these rivers were referred to in Khazar times as
"Sambation" and as "River of Sabt (i.e. "Shabat") and in Jewish legend
both
terms are connected with the Lost Ten Tribes. The Khazars had emerged
from
areas to which the Lost Ten Tribes were exiled or had moved to after
their
exile. The Khazars were related to other groups for whom independent
proofs
show an Israelite origin and so what is pertinent to them is pertinent
also
to the Khazars and vice-versa. The Khazars were linked especially with
the
Tribes of Simeon and Menasseh. They were identical with the
Agathyrsi-proper who derived from the Clan of "Jeezer" son of Gilead son
of
Menasseh (Numbers 26;30). The name transliterated as "Jeezer" ((àéòæø in
Hebrew was probably pronounceable as "Ay-(g)a-zar" and the Agathyrsi
were
also known as "Acatzari", Khazari, and Gazari. Those of the Agathyrsi
(Acatzari) who remained in Scythia eventually formed the nucleus of the
Khazar nation and a tradition exists (related by Eldad HaDani in ca.800
c.e. and by the Cochin Scroll) that the Khazars came from the Tribes of
Simeon and Menasseh. The Picts of Scotland also came from the Agathyrsi.
Amongst the pre-christian Picts and Scottish existed a taboo on pig meat
and on other unclean animals prohibited by the Mosaic code (MacKenzie).
Later in christian times the idea existed that "Jews" or a "Type of Jew"
had settled in Scotland. Similarly the Khazars before their conversion
had
had some kind of notion that they were of Israelite descent and had had
some exposure to Mosaic lore65. The "Jeezer" (i.e. "Ay-g-azar" of
Gilead)
origin of the Picts is consistent with the neighbouring Caledonians
(with
whom the Picts united) being also descended from Gilead and the very
name
Caledonian is derived from Gilead. Elements (such as those of Gilead)
connected with Menasseh dominated Scotland and the west of Britain and
from
these areas later came an overwhelming proportion of the early British
settlers of North America in its formative period.
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