The Prophet Jeremiah in Ireland and Other Ridiculous Myths?

I just find it interesting that mainstream archaeologists and historians insist Native American Indians migrated from Asia to the Americas by way of an ancient land bridge which is now the Bearing Straights. However, if you ask the natives, they will tell you, almost every one, that they came by sea. But because there is no written record nor archaeological evidence one way or the other, the ‘experts’ choose to believe their own theories because primitive peoples couldn’t be smart enough to figure out ocean crossings. Yet the Polynesians, a primitive people by some standards, had been traversing thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean in canoes with no compasses for centuries upon centuries, long before we smart Europeans showed up. They managed to get where they wanted to go.

So when I hear the Academics disregard the oral traditions of our own Western Culture, I sit up and take notice.

I am talking of the oral traditions of the British Isles. I came across these traditions as I was doing my research into ancient Great Britain and while talking to people who lived there or served there as Missionaries. One of the legends goes like this…

Jeremiah, a prophet in the Old Testament at the time the Babylonians came conquering Judah, testified of the people’s wickedness. He told them not to trust the Egyptians, but to return and keep God’s commandments. The people were so incensed with him, they stoned him. But he did not die. Instead, he left the Middle East and took with him one of the daughters of king Zedekiah. He ended up in Ireland. There, the princess married a local king and set up a kingdom together.

There are lots of other traditions and stories about the British Isles which the Academics smile down upon with amusement. Such as, did the twelve tribes come here? Are the Tuatha de Dannan, a peoples who arrive in Ireland in the 15th Century BC, members of the Tribe of Dan? Did Jesus spend his youth in Cornwall with his Uncle, Joseph of Aramethea? Were Joseph of Aramethea and Mary, the Mother of Christ exiled from Jerusalem, only to spend the rest of their days in the area around Glastonbury?

See, there are all kinds of interesting oral traditions with no written or archaeological evidence to back them up. But I do find it interesting that Ireland is also referred to as “the land of Erin.” Hmm. Erin and Aaron – spelled differently, but sounding the same.

And capping off all this fertile oral tradition is the grand-daddy of them all – the legend of king Arthur and his noble knights. Today, novelists and movie makers make the story of Arthur and Merlin all magical and superstitious, but I believe this legend is grounded most firmly in Christianity – and – as I hope to show – not Roman Catholic Christianity, but something else. The problem is, conquerors write the histories, and Celtic Middle Eastern Style Christian Britain was conquered soundly by Roman Catholic Christianity – just as Gildas the sage, a Breton ‘monk,’ said they would be.

So, for the next few weeks, or however long it takes, I will try to peel away the Roman and get down to the ancient Britain and see what we will see.