City belonging to Eber found in Iraq

By:  Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent

ABU TBEIRA, Iraq (WorthyNews) -- "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.  The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.  And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber." Genesis 10:21, 21, 24  This may sound like the start of a sermon, but it is believed to be the key to understanding archaeological finds and understanding what life was like for the biblical patriarchs.

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, archaeologists Stuart Campbell and Jane Moon from the University of Manchester, along with Moon's husband, Robert Killick, were back in Iraq, digging up the past at the Tell Khaiber site near the city of Ur.

Tell Khaiber about 20 km (13 mi) away from the ancient city of Ur, birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.  It is named after Abraham's 4X great-grandfather, Eber, who ruled Mesopotamia approximately 4,000 years ago.

Among the finds at the Tell Khaiber site are a clay figure of a man who appears to be a priest of some sort.  It is believed by Dr. Killick and others to be a possible image of Eber himself, who is the great grandson of Shem the son of Noah, from where we get the words Semitic and Semite.  Below is a picture of the figure that was found in 2013:

What is also interesting is the fact that one of their excavation sites near Tell Khaiber, Abu Tbeira, appears to have been founded either by, or in honor of Salah, the father of Eber.

Tracing out the meaning of the name, Abu Tbeira is an Arabic name meaning "father of Eber."  Even though Abu Tbeira isn't as famous as Tell Khaiber, it nonetheless holds significance as it shows an overlapping rule of both father and son in the same general area.  This is similar to the practice of the Egyptians in that, even though one pharaoh was chief ruler, after a certain time, the previous pharaoh, known by the title Abimelech in the Bible, would move to another location and rule from there, leaving the bulk of the authority resting on the shoulders of his son.

One of the best known records of this practice is found in the book of Genesis chapter 20.  It relates how Abraham, during a time of famine came into Egypt to live there to escape the famine.  It tells of how Abraham told the men of Egypt (they were in Gerar) that his wife, Sarah, was his sister, how Abimelech took her and would have lain with her had God not prevented him from doing so.  This is backed up in what people call Egyptian mythology concerning the descent of Horus into the underworld, his crossing the reed sea (the Red Sea is named after this), and his ascent to the "mount of God" where he would eventually become Osiris.

The tale of Osiris, Isis, and Horus is actually a historical recording of some of the characters of the Bible.  Osiris, whom the Bible calls Mizraim, was about to go to war against his brother Phut, known in Egyptian mythology as Set.  On the night before the battle, Mizraim has sex with his wife, whom we call Isis.  Unbeknownst to both of them, "Isis" gets pregnant.  Mizraim/Osiris dies in battle the next day, his body is dismembered and set adrift, eventually landing in Canaan near the area that would eventually be called Gerar.

Horus's real name is Caphtor, the son of Mizraim.  Eventually, he acquires the name Apollo and, with the consent of his mother, is raised for a time by Zarah ben Judah and one of his wives.  Greek mythology records them as Zeus and Leto.

Source articles:  http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKBREA1H09N20140218, http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-11.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth,

Orichalcum Find Off the Coast of Sicily Linked To The Biblical Descendants of Japheth
By: Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent

SICILIAN REGION, Italy -- (WorthyNews)  A discovery off the coast of Sicily may soon have people thinking twice about whether or not so-called mythological accounts of history are real and their connection to the Bible.

Members of the Corps of Harbour Masters and Coast Guard, or Guardia Costiera in Italian, recently made a discovery off the southern coast of the island of Sicily made an amazing discovery of a rare metal called orichalcum.  Orichalcum is described as being reddish in color, with variations ranging from copper to bronze, and in the ancient world was second in value only to gold.

"Nothing similar has ever been found," Tusa said. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects," said Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office in an interview with Discovery News.  He noted that the 39 ingots found on the sandy sea floor represent a unique finding.

According to ancient Greeks, it was invented by a man named Cadmus, who was the son of Agenor, a son of Poseidon, now known as Iapetus and the biblical Japheth, the son of Noah.  The ingots (an ingot is a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining) that were found had a makeup of 75-80 percent copper, 15-20 percent zinc and small percentages of nickel, lead and iron, said Dario Panetta of TQ - Technologies for Quality, who analyzed the metal using X-ray flourescence, which is "the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays."

Many Christians will object to the assertion that Cadmus and Agenor were actual people, citing the fact that for centuries these people have been featured in what is called mythology, a term often used to describe a fanciful, or false, way of explaining events that happened in the past.  Yet the Greek definition of mythology is quite different.

The ancient Greeks considered mythology, or a mythos, to be a historical telling of events that happened in the past, such as the Battle of Troy and the founding of Athens.  Usually these were told orally, with listeners from time to time checking back to see if the things told them were accurate.  This is much different from the 'telephone game' in which a person whispers something to another and that person is supposed to pass along what they were about to say was correct without being allowed to ask if what they heard.

Indeed, many archaeological discoveries have been made over the centuries and millenia that confirm much of what the modern world calls fantasy.  What happens is that over time countries start warring and the victorious people change the former stories and/or adapt them to what they already have, many times assigning different names for the same people.  To verify this, look up the name of a Greek or Roman god online, and there will in most cases be a comparison to their counterpart.

The following websites contributed to this report:

(1) www.guardiacostiera.it/en/
(2) http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenor
(5) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-10.html
(6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(mythology)
(7) http://conspiracyprophecyguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-historical-life-of-perseus.html
(8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence
(9) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythos

Lost City of Noh Kah Named After Biblical Noah

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2014/lost-mayan-city-of-noh-kah-has-been-mapped

Regarding the Reality Of Odin

Odin is perhaps the most famous person in Norse mythology.  Only there is a problem.  Odin was a flesh and blood person, not a myth or a god.

According to Thor Heyerdahl, Odin was an actual person living in the 1st century AD. (93)  At first, when tracing out the Ramsey family genealogy and I ran into Odin (a variation of adon, as in Adonai, a reference to the God of the Bible; alt. Othin, a form of Othniel), I didn't believe that he was real.  I thought, as most people would, that my genealogy was made up, being descended from a mythological god.  However, at the LORD's urging, I kept proceeding in tracing my genealogy back and found that Odin's genealogy as given in Prose Edda goes back to a certain King Memnon of Ethiopia, who in turn carried his lineage back to a certain Zeus, chief of the Greek gods.

Zeus had a son with a woman, a nymph (in mythological aspect) named Electra; Zeus and Electra had a son named Dardanus.  This Dardanus, I realized, was the same person as Dara, also called Darda, mentioned in the Bible as a son of Zarah(3), who was the son of Judah, the son of Israel.  Now since Israel(95) was a flesh and blood person, and Judah, Zarah, and Dara/Dardanus were flesh and blood persons, this of necessity must mean that Odin himself was a flesh and blood person.

At this point, something needs to be said.  It is very difficult sorting out the genealogy of mythology, as is understood the term mythology.  Sometimes, you get a person being the ancestor or descendant of one person, yet if you check the parentage of any siblings, you find that the person you were originally investigating was not in the family.  Sometimes, also, you get real life persons who have the mythological identities of multiple people.

Such is the case concerning Zeus.  In this instance, the name Zeus is applied both to Zarah, the father of Dara/Dardanus and his father Judah, as noted in reference point 93.  It can be difficult to such an extent that one has to take each mention of deity and child (although mostly with the deities) as a separate person and event.

Of course there are convergence points.  For instance, in almost all 'mythologies,' the creation of the universe and the human race begins after a flood.  Although details vary, they almost always center around the world being destroyed for wickedness, a man and a woman are warned of said flood, and warned by a deity regarding how to escape being killed by the flood, just as the King James Version Bible relates it.(96)

All scriptures listed are taken from the King James Version 1611 edition of the Holy Bible

(3) Genesis 38
(93) http://hope-of-israel.org/familyofodin.html
(95) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Lu-3.html
(96) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-6.html