This work is primarily commentary on Herman Hoeh’s Compendiums of World History. I start by quoting the text directly and then comment upon it. Herman Hoeh is not the only source for this information, but he is the best source, especially for synthesizing the information of the ancient texts.
“A late fictitious
genealogy going back to Magog arose in monkish times from the known
fact that Hebrews once dwelt in Scythia, which was also inhabited by
Magog,” Herman Hoeh.
Hoeh is probably incorrect that this Catholic genealogy was “late.” The nations of Japheth are to dwell in the tents of the Semites. Thus, this applies to Ireland, as it would anywhere else. Magog is one of Japheth’s nations. Perhaps, Protestant versus Catholic prejudices played a role in Hoeh’s thinking.
According to the historians, Ireland was settled in six waves, ordered 1 through 6 below.
1. Wave 1:
“According to Irish history the first claim to Irish soil was made
by Nin mac Piel — that is Irish for the Assyrian king Ninus, son of
Bel or Belus. But no permanent settlement was established.”
2. Wave 2:
“No Irish historian professes to know when the Formorians came to
Ireland.”
3. Wave 3:
“In 2068 Parthalon and a band of Hebrew warriors arrived from the Greek world and established a settlement at Inis Saimer, a small island in the
river Erne, at Ballyshannon. Thirty years later — 2038 -Parthalon died
and the land was divided between his four sons; Er, Orba, Ferann, and
Fergna (p. 120) (p, 118).”
Note: I generally question all of Hoeh’s dates, but I have yet to be able to posit much of a dating system that goes back more than 3,000yrs, back to the reign of David. For example, I believe that Hoeh’s history of ancient Egypt that is almost certainly incorrect. This is the first Scythian/Semitic wave, where Semite means one of the nations that descend from Shem.
4. Wave 4:
“A second and related wave of migrants came into Ireland from
Scythia... The migrants from Scythia at this period were called Nemedians,
after Nemedh, the leader of the expedition. They dwelt in Ireland for
216 years — 1708-1492. The Fir-Bolgs set up a kingship upon their conquest of the Formorians. From Keating a list of Fir-Bolg rulers may be obtained (pp. 131-132).”
5. Wave 5:
“The Tuatha-De-Danann of Keating's
"History" were none other than the tribe of Dan, and the invaders from
Syria were the armies of Jabin king of Canaan!... The
total length of Danite dominion in Ireland before the coming of the
royal house of the Milesians was 440 years — 1456-1016 (p. 168).”
"Forty years above four hundred,
There were, since came the tribes of Dana
Across the straits of the great sea,
Till Miledh's sons first heard dread Ocean
His music beat on Eri's shores."
“Keating
continues (p. 139): "When the Tuatha-De-Danann had remained seven
years in the north of Scotland (or Alba), they passed over to Ireland and
landed in the north of this country."
6. Wave 6:
“The most famous ancestor of the Milesians was Eibher Scot —
Eber of Scotia, of Scythia — identifying the Milesians as sons of
Eber, or Hebrews. The children of Eber early settled in the regions of
Scythia, and gave their name to Iberia, a region in the Caucasus in
Classical times. The generations between Eber and Milesius are not
completely preserved in any Irish annals — the records are complete
only after the coming of the Milesians to Ireland”
Note1: The ancestry below is in Compendium of World History Vol. 2 reference to the Bible and Stokvis' Manuel. This ancestry already appears in another one of my notes on Azariah. Mileadh had Milesian ancestry.
Jacob
Judah
Zarah
Ezra
Ethan
Azariah, who is Easru
Sru
Eibher Scot
Beogamon
Ogamon
Tait
Agnamhan
Lamhfinn
Heber Glunfionn
Agnonfinn
Eimhear Glas
Nenuaill
Nuadhat
Aldoid
Earchada
Deaghata
Bratha
Breogan
Bile
Mileadh
Note2: Sources other than Hoeh also report that of the semi-legendary waves of migrations to Ireland that the Milesians were the 6th. That the tribes of Dan and Judah might be found in Ireland should not be surprising, as the Torah reports that the tribes would be scattered to the ends of the earth and that Ireland is definitely an end of the earth. Also Yair Davidiy says verses in the Tanakh that suggest that the lost tribes will be found on islands increasing the probability that at least some of these reported semi-legendary waves of immigration actually occurred.
Note: I am unsure of the Ezra in the above ancestry and wonder if it is in fact an error.
“The realm of Ireland was now divided between
the two surviving sons of Milesius — Ebher and Ghedhe the Ereamhon
(or Heremon)… The Tea who married Ghedhe the Heremon was a daughter of Lughaidh, the son of Ith, uncle of Miledh (also spelled Mileadh). That is exactly what Irish history records. These events occurred in David's reign, not Zedekiah's. What did happen after Zedekiah's reign will be made plain shortly.”
“According to this Masonic tradition, a Prince Eochaid of Ireland
came to Jerusalem several years before 585. He was present during the
siege. This Eochaid (meaning Knight) was none other than Oilioll
Olchaoin, the son of Siorna Saoghlach mac Dian called the Heremon.
Eochaid was blood royal of the Milesian Zarah line. After the fall of
Jerusalem he married Zedekiah's daughter, named in the Masonic
tradition Tea Tephi, of the Pharez line. They fled in 585 with Jeremiah
and Baruch to Egypt.”
Note3: Thus, there is a matriarchal line (Tea Tephi) in Ireland as well, descended from the House of David.
The abbreviations after the names indicate from
which branch of the Milesians the king descended. "Er." is the line of
Ghedhe the Ereamhon; "Eb." is Ebher, brother of Ghedhe the Ereamhon;
"Ith" is the line of Ith or Itha, brother of Miledh or Mileadh; "Irw"
is the line of Ir, another (uncrowned) brother of Eber and Gede.
In 503 a migration to Scotland established the direct line of
Eremon in the new land.
