Aaron Miller
So if you have been following our various podcasts concerning the Biblical history of humanity, you will find that the Aryans (Indo-European/Indo-Iranian people groups — likely not corrupted the Nazi of them) play a huge role in the history. Thanks to phonetic similarities between their languages, it is relatively easy to interpret what their ancestors originally believed.
In Tacitus’ Germania, we find that the Germanic peoples believed that they had descended from one “Tuisto” (or, as Manuscript E renders, “Tuisco”). Tuisto had been born from the “Earth”, who, as Tacitus later describes, was one “Nerthus”. Tuisto’s son is Mannus, who begat Ingaevones, Herminones and Istaevones. The later “Frankish Table of Nations” uses these names to derive the Germanic ancestry. In order to connect these genealogies to Noah’s sons, phonetic similarities must be found.
This “Mannus” would be correctly derived from the Indian “Manu”, who was viewed to have inspired the Vedas. According to some, the term “Manu” was a title of authority figures. “Minos” as king of Crete, “Menes” as king of Egypt. If this is true, then it is the Aryan translation of the Sumarian “En” and the Semitic “Baal/Bel”. This title, “En”, was a title held by the Representatives of the seven States of the Noachian Republic (mentioned in the Sumerian King List — see our podcast “Unveiling the Golden Age”).
In the Prologue of the Prose Edda, one “Munon” is named as the father of Thor. This likely is the connection to Tacitus’ “Mannus”. This character is mentioned nowhere else, though, so we are back to where we started. But the only possible connection I can find is the Norse moon-deity, Máni. His father is recorded as “Mundilfari”. The phonetic similarities lead me to believe that this Mundilfari is the same as Madai, son of Japheth (Gen 10:2). But… Tiras (“Troy”), who is named among his “brothers”, must be a Germanic ancestor — and so is Gomer, whom Gothic and Celtic genealogies demand was the father of their line. Thus, I can only conclude that Madai was the father of Mannus, Mannus was the father of Tiras, Meshech, and Gomer (and/or Tubal??).
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