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Seems like out esteemed member Poise N Pen was correct in his blonde Jesus theory, or at least halfway there. From his blog:
http://simplicitymultiplied.blogspot.com
And PLAUSIBLE it is!There's a lot of odd things about the tribe of Dan. In Genesis they are shown to be the most numerous tribe after Judah, yet they are given the tiniest area of land of all the tribes - implying they were viewed as some sort of outsiders. They have a wolf as their banner. They are renowned warriors. Samson is said to be buried in a tell - which is in essence the same thing as a kurgan.
Baptism also seems like an odd practice to me, so I got to wondering if these things were somehow all related. Of course there's no proof that Dan has an Indo-European origin but the many oddities of Galilee and Dan certainly make it plausible - or at the very least some sort of odd untold story exists that is yet to be uncovered. So naturally I got curious to see if this odd practice may be some kind of outside Indo-European practice that might tie things together.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.756385
And it's from Haaretz so you know it is true.The discoveries have rekindled a longstanding academic brawl over the origin of the Danites. Were they really just a tribe of Israel that was left in the cold, found a conveniently isolated city and conquered it? Do they have anything to do with a mysterious kingdom called Danuna mentioned in ancient writing found in Turkey? Or maybe with the Denyen – a faction of invading Sea Peoples, according to ancient Egyptian sources? Or with the Danaoi, one of the Greek tribes? Or are these all one and the same? The findings at Tell el-Qadi (now Tel Dan) suggest they could well be.
Ilan postulates that these Aegean-style artifacts in Dan suggest the presence of worshippers hailing from the Aegean—perhaps the Denyen, Danuna (or Danaoi in Greek), in short, one of the ancient Greek tribes.
Given the indications of very strong cultural ties between Dan and the Aegean world, Ilan believes that Michael Astour and Yigal Yadin were correct: the people of Dan originated, at least in part, with the Denyen/Danuna/Danaoi of the Aegean coastal region, probably in the coastal region where Turkey and Syria meet today.
Next up, Dan-ube, Dan-Mark, lets go ahead and prove how the tribe of Dan settled in Denmark and Ireland.
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