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Date: February 01, 2020 at 15:45:34
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 800 ANCIENT STONES WITH HEBREW WRITING IN PUERTO RICO AUTHENTICATED! |
URL: https://www.firekeepersinternational.org/post/800-ancient-stones-with-hebrew-writing-in-puerto-rico-authenticated |
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800 ANCIENT STONES WITH HEBREW WRITING IN PUERTO RICO AUTHENTICATED!
Updated: Dec 17, 2019
A remnant of ancient stones - twenty of eight hundred - made its way halfway across the world, solving a 3500-year-old mystery. What did these stones whisper about the Pre-Columbian indigenous people of the island of Puerto Rico? After rigorous academic testing, anthropologist, historians, academics and millions of Puerto Ricans finally have scientific evidence that reveals the language of the stones.
Growing up in the mountains of Boriken (Puerto Rico), my grandfather told me about some very unique stones, which were part of our ancient Taino Indian history. These rare stones were in the care of one of our greatest Principal Chiefs, Cacike Agueybana, who, when Columbus stumbled across our Taino people in 1492, was the Principal Chief of my home island of Boriken (Puerto Rico).
Knowledge of these stones first came to light when a very sick Taino woman, who had tried everything from indigenous herbal remedies to ceremonies, lay on her deathbed. Compelled to tell a secret her family had carried for generations, she sent runners to find someone in the church who would listen. Why she chose the church, we’ll never know. But a monk named José María Nazario y Cancel came to her bedside. What this elder revealed to this monk changed the historical narrative of our precious island.
There, in her tiny bohio (thatched roof home) the monk interceded for the old woman’s healing. Then she told him her family secret, a secret that went back to the time of Cacike Agueybana, the Principal Chief of Boriken (the Taino Indian name for Puerto Rico, which means "The House of The Great and Valiant Lord). Her secret revealed where to find a hidden stash of stone figurines inscribed with strange symbols and carvings of an ancient people that some called the Hibaro, who had lived in the mountains of the island and still have descendants who call themselves by this name to this day.
Mountains of Guayanilla, Boriken (Puerto Rico)
Nazario had been educated at the University of Salamanca. His studies had included Ancient Languages, and he was amazed at what he saw. After comparing the writing on these stones to others from around the world, he came to his conclusion. This writing was a form of ancient Hebrew. Because of his religious background this fueled the possibility that a remnant of the lost tribes of Israel had settled on this island.
In 1893, Nazario wrote a short article titled “Escritura Aborigen de Carib” ("Aboriginal writing of the Carib"), in which he explained his interpretations of these carvings. After a thorough analysis of the stones and their inscriptions, he dismissed an Arawak Taino language origin, and by 1897 he concluded that the writings were more reminiscent of ancient Hebrew.
Comparing this discovery with the spoken Taino language of his day, Nazario discerned words in the Taino Arawak language that were Semitic in origin and pronunciation. One example is the Taino name for the Supreme Spirit of Spirits, "Yah Yah". By comparison, the God of the monotheistic Hebrew culture is known by the abbreviated form of His Sacred Name "Yah."
Modern-day Taino people say that Cacique Agueybana kept this collection of inscribed stones safeguarded on the island and then buried them, fearing that the Spanish Conquistadors might find them. They remained hidden in the earth for over 400 years, until the dying Taino elder, Juana Morales, told Nazario about the stones and where to find them.
It was well known on the island that Juana Morales was the last descendant of Principal Chief Agueybana. Her story is still told among the mountain people in the interior of the island who still identify as Hibaro, a word that in Taino means "People of the Mountains" but which bears a strange resemblance to the word "Hebrew". During the 19th and 20th century, Agueybana's Library had been exhibited to the public several times, and examined by expert scholars of high reputation who speculated that the writing was a form of Hebrew.
Many scholars agreed these could not be a forgery. Some even theorized that the writings predated the Mayan and Inca writing system. In 2012, interest gained traction and by 2019 it had piqued global curiosity in the Middle East. New tests were done using spectrometry and x-ray diffraction in Israel. This fascinating story came to the attention of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa. Dr. Iris Groman-Yaroslavsky did molecular analysis on twenty of these stones. The doctor’s results, based on the patina, revealed that these rocks were not forgeries. The results verified what many scholars had theorized. This added to mounting evidence about the origin of the writings.
NTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR RAMOS ABOUT THE AGUEYBANA'S STONES
(video)
Prof. Rodríguez Ramos, University of Puerto Rico Utuado
“We are in the presence of an annotation system that has never been documented.”
The stones are inscribed in a language script previously unknown to linguists with expertise in Phoenician and Proto-Hebrew. Expert linguists deciphered the writing to be a mixture of Hebrew, with a little bit of Phoenician and an unknown script. Using carbon14 tests on the red paint found on the stones they have been dated to approximately 900 B.C., that is time when King David's son, Solomon, sent out ships from Tarsus throughout the world to collect resources like bronze and gold. Did some of those Hebrew sailors discover this island during their travels?
Will history be rewritten to include this fascinating new evidence? Were the people who inscribed these ancient stones part of the scattered tribes of Israel as recorded in the Bible? Did Hebrews share their language, traditions, and customs with the native island people? Is that why several Native American tribes from the Southeast and Caribbean islands share much of Israel’s spirituality found in the Torah? Only time, and more testing, will tell as this enigmatic hidden history of Boriken (Puerto Rico) unfolds.
The State of Israel has acknowledged a Hebrew presence in our ancient mountains in times long past, and we, the Good and Noble People (the Taino), send our warmest regards and blessings to our long lost cousins.
Or are we the long lost ones?
"That's What the Old Ones Say
"Pre-Colonial Revelations of God to Native America. A revealing book of intriguing stories told by elders from different First Nations Tribes about The Creator, His Son, Native End-Times Prophecies, Revelations & more. Many of these traditional stories have been told for generations at Ceremonial Grounds, Stomp Arbors, Powwow Grounds, and private family gatherings tucked away deep on tribal lands. I was honored and humbled to be able to sit and learn these old stories from elders hailing from many First Nations tribes.
Comanche, Dineh, Apache, Anishinaabe, Aztec, Cherokee, Creek, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Mohawk are a few of the tribes whose elders shared their beautiful stories with me. I listened eagerly to these accounts that were passed down from generation to generation while understanding filled my spirit and I was asked to pass these stories along to the next generation. These are stories that were told before missionary contact and I realized with each story that I listened to I had heard them before…not from my tribe but from another ancient tribe who has left an impacting legacy on the earth called The Bible.
The Creator planted the seed in my heart to write this book as a way to help build the bridge of reconciliation between the nations. You might laugh, cry, sing for joy or wail from the deepest parts of your soul. Betrayal, love, reconciliation, unity, sacrifice, joy, peace, history, archaeology, science, the perseverance of the human spirit and the longing for Creator to heal our land and broken hearts. A longing for our spirit to be uplifted from the only One who can give us Hope in the face of utter defeat and despair. I was humbled being entrusted with hearing these stories and was given permission to retell them so they can be shared with the world. Seneco Kakona (Many Blessings). - Chief Joseph RiverWind
Sources:
Shuster, R. (2019, July 17) .Ancient Trove May Attest to Lost Civilization in Puerto Rico. Haaretz Israel News. Retrieved from: www.haaretz.com
Leon, G. (2019, July 10). Autentican las piedras del padre Nazario. El Nuveo Dia. Retrieved from: www.ElNuevoDia.com
El Mundo (1919, September 27) Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
Sánchez, H. (2013, June5). Guayanilla: pieza clave de nuestra historia
Powell, J. (1907). .Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Chief Joseph "Amahura" RiverWind is a Arawak Taino Indian born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He was raised by his grandparents in the central mountains of Boriken (Puerto Rico). His family are Hibaros from Jajuya which is known as the Indigenous Capital of Puerto Rico. He also traces his lineage to the B'nei Anusim who fled Spain and Portugal in 1492. He is the author of the thought provoking book "Thats What The Old Ones Say: Pre-Colonial Revelations of God to Native America.
He and his wife Dr. Laralyn RiverWind are speakers and national award-winning musicians based out of the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Their heart for walking with the Creator is evident; their passion for digging after the deep treasures of the Ancient Path is enlightening; and their zeal for The Creator is contagious.
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Date: February 05, 2020 at 05:34:14
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 800 ANCIENT STONES WITH HEBREW WRITING IN PUERTO RICO... |
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Some old men of Yucatan say that they have heard from their ancestors that this country was peopled by a certain race who came from the East, whom God delivered by opening for them twelve roads through the sea. If this is true, all the inhabitants of the Indies must be of Jewish descent because, the straits of Magellan having been passed, they must have spread over more than 2000 leagues of territory now governed by Spain.
-- Diego de Landa Calderón (1524-1579)
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Date: February 05, 2020 at 15:19:04
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: KTA means "kill" in Greek and KTE means "kill" in Lakota |
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is that just "coincidence?
oh, sure, the vowel endings are not the same, but vowel shifts are common within languages
but the consonants are exactly the same and have the same meaning
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Date: February 05, 2020 at 10:33:48
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: a link for the quote given |
URL: https://dmdhist.sitehost.iu.edu/diegodelanda.htm |
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he burned most of their writings
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Date: February 05, 2020 at 11:22:09
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: a link for the quote given |
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazario_Collection |
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Written 16th century
So no genetic evidence past or present of a Herbrew population.
All a bit vague and wishful thinking based on some eroded stones.
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Date: February 05, 2020 at 09:06:41
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native |
URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/natives-of-the-caribbean-wiped-out-during-colonization-left-dna-behind/ |
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"The inhabitants of the Indies must be of Jewish descent"
Evidence for that claim Horst?
A new DNA study explores where the Taino came from and where they
went.
The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by
humans, although scientists don’t agree on when the first settlers arrived
or where they came from. Some argue that people probably arrived from
the Amazon Basin, where today’s Arawakan languages developed, while
others suggest that the first people to settle the islands came from even
farther west, in the Colombian Andes.
“The differences in opinion illustrate the difficulty of tracing population
movements based on a patchy archaeological record,” wrote
archaeologist Hannes Schroeder of the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, and his colleagues. Schroeder’s research team has a new
study on the genetics of the long-lost Taino people, which gives some
clear indications of their origin and where they went after European
colonization.
Complex social networks linked the islands
The Bahamas weren’t settled until 1,500 years ago. The people who
settled there are known as the Lucayan Taino, and they and the other
Taino communities of the Caribbean were the natives who met the first
Spanish colonists in 1492. At the time, the Taino were thriving; Spanish
priest Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that about 600,000 people each
lived on Jamaica and Puerto Rico, with as many as a million on
Hispaniola. That didn’t last long; by the mid-16th century, smallpox and
slavery had driven the Taino to the brink of extinction.
Their presence still lingers throughout the islands, in the form of words
that run through the heart of Caribbean life, like hurricane and canoe.
There are also archaeological remains such as rock art that tell us
something of the Taino's spiritual life beyond what comes down to us
from the reports of Spanish priests. But the bustling communities and
widely flung trade networks that pre-dated European colonization are no
more.
It has long been suspected, however, that the Taino didn't die out
altogether. Spanish colonists reportedly married Taino wives, and other
records say that Taino and escaped African slaves also intermarried and
formed communities. Some people in the Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico, and even the mainland US still proudly claim Taino heritage and
practice traditions handed down from pre-Colombian times, from
cooking to crafting. There has been a larger effort to revive Taino culture
and identity in the last century and a half or so, but it has never been
clear how directly genetically related modern Caribbean residents are to
their vanished ancestors.
But the story, it turns out, is more complicated than simple extinction,
and new DNA evidence helps fill in some of the gaps. Archaeologists
found three relatively complete skeletons in Preacher’s Cave, a site on
the northern end of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Alongside the
skeletons, they also found a single tooth, which didn’t clearly belong with
any of the three skeletons. Schroeder and his colleagues got permission
to sequence DNA from the tooth, which radiocarbon dating showed was
more than 1,000 years old. That’s at least 500 years before European
contact, meaning the tooth must have belonged to a Lucayan Taino
woman who lived on the island between 776 and 992 CE.
The woman was closely related to Arawakan-speaking tribes from the
Amazon and Orinoco Basins of South America, such as today’s Palikur
people, who live in Brazil and French Guiana. That supports the idea that
the Taino’s ancestors came to the islands from a starting point in the
Amazon Basin.
Her genome didn’t bear the traces of a recent genetic bottleneck event,
which happens when population sizes shrink dramatically and
widespread inbreeding leaves a last genetic record—something that
could easily happen during a series of migrations among islands. That
means the Lucayan Taino had a relatively large population before the
Europeans showed up. Schroeder and his colleagues estimate that about
1,600 people on the island were part of the “effective population,” or the
pool of people who are actually available to reproduce.
That’s a lot of people for a 320-square-mile island, especially when you
consider that a so-called effective population is usually only around a
third of the actual population, which includes children, elderly people,
and others who aren’t having children.
“It is difficult to imagine how this community was able to sustain such a
relatively large effective size without outside contact,” wrote Schroeder
and his colleagues. Most researchers think ancient Caribbean societies
were very mobile and interconnected, with regional networks of trade
and cultural interaction among the islands. The fact that this Taino
woman came from such a large population adds support to that picture
of the islands’ history.
“We don’t know how far the ‘mating network’ extended. But what we are
suggesting is that it’s unlikely to have been restricted to Eleuthera, given
the relatively large effective population size,” Schroeder told Ars
Technica. And the Europeans’ arrival, 500 years after the unnamed Taino
woman’s death, would have disrupted those island-hopping social
networks. It’s another possible contribution to the Taino population
crash.
Not vanished after all
The recent work also shows that the vanished people of the Caribbean
didn’t actually disappear without a trace. Modern inhabitants of the
Caribbean islands mostly have a mixture of African and European
ancestry, but some have a little indigenous DNA as well. That’s not
entirely surprising; Spanish colonists reportedly married Taino wives, and
other records say that Taino and escaped African slaves also
intermarried and formed communities. Some people have made an effort
to revive Taino culture and identity in the last century and a half or so,
but it has never been clear how genetically related modern Caribbean
residents are to the presumably vanished tribes.
The proportion of indigenous DNA in modern Caribbean genomes varies;
in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, Schroeder and his colleagues
couldn’t isolate enough Native American sequences in people’s genomes
to compare to their Taino sample. But in Puerto Rico, most people have
about 10 to 15 percent Native American DNA.
That’s not much, but it’s significant. To put that percentage in context, if
you’re of non-African descent, about two to four percent of your genome
is actually Neanderthal; about eight percent of the average person’s
genome actually came from viruses. So 10-15 percent is nothing to
sneeze at. Scientists were aware of its presence but haven’t been sure if
most of that DNA was Taino or if it came from Native American
populations who later migrated to the islands.
To find it, said Schroeder, “It’s simple. You compare the ancient genome
with a modern African and a modern European genome and then mask
the sections that match either of those.”
And it turned out that the unmasked Native American sections of modern
Puerto Rican genomes are pretty similar to both modern Arawakan
Peoples and the ancient Taino woman. The vanished Taino, it appears,
live on in today’s Caribbean populations despite the catastrophic effects
of European colonization.
“The 1,000-year-old individual from Preacher’s Cave was not a direct
ancestor of contemporary Puerto Ricans. In other words, she personally
does not have any living descendants in Puerto Rico. But this is perhaps
not surprising given that she lived a thousand years ago on a different
island,” said Schroeder.
Distant cousins might be a better comparison. “It will be fascinating to
see how much ‘Taino’ ancestry has survived in the Caribbean and how
this differs across the region,” Schroeder said.
More questions to answer, and more stories to tell
Ancient DNA could have a lot more to tell us about how people first
reached the Caribbean, how they interacted, and why their population
crashed so quickly when the Europeans arrived. The revelation that Taino
DNA closely resembles that of modern Arawakan Peoples also doesn’t
rule out the possibility that people reached the Caribbean in earlier
waves from places like the Yucatan, for instance. Schroeder says more
ancient genetic data could help fill in those gaps.
“It’s unlikely that this one genome tells us the full story of how the
Caribbean was first settled by humans,” he told Ars.
DNA studies can also help shed light on the connections and interactions
between Caribbean indigenous communities. Little knowledge of the
Taino culture is left, but genes can record a history of social interaction
that can at least help map out large-scale interactions. And it’s possible
that DNA can also help us better understand the eventual extinction of
the Taino.
“I feel that ancient DNA can help us better understand the impact of
European colonization and what exactly caused the dramatic population
declines in the region after 1492,” said Schroeder.
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