Update 8/28/2015.
Ages ago there were many tribes. Some spoke in more than one tongue. It is likely that from the end of the last Ice Age c. 5000 BC to c. A.D. 100 the tribes that lived near glaciers and in colder climes in Europe and Eurasia included Finnics and Finno-Ugrics: They were Estonians, Ingerians, Finns, and Karelians; Livonians, Mari and Muroma; Veps and a few other tribes. Now, Karelians, and Veps live north, and Mari east of Moscow; moska is a Finnish dialect word for a mixed land of ground and bog.
The tribes of Ingria were the indigenous tribes in a large area between Estonia and Karelia. The tribes lived north of the Muroma-Finnics, and east of Estonia; the Narva River (Finn name) and Lake Peipus, and west of Lake Ladoga (Finn name) on both sides of the Neva River (Finn name). Sadly, beginning in 1703 Peter the Great--aka Peter the Bum--moved Russians north to land grab Hare Island (Janissaari in Finn) and area nearby to build the city St. Petersburg.
Now, by land grabbing Karelia from native Finns, Putin can be known as Putin the Bum. He likely plans to attack Sweden via Finland. His army waits 30 mi. from Finland. He was bullied when young, and is likely bisexual. He wants to be known as Putin the Great. Beware a sick narcissist with nukes; those closest to him are racists; their vision is Russia the Great. As once there was a Great Brittain, are Putin and his bum racists striving for creation of a Great Russia? To land grab, to build a Great Russia--mostly with drones?--do the Putin gangsters have anti-drone weapons? On Aug. 26, 2015, the BBC stated that the Russians claim to be able to destroy drones with sound waves.
The Muroma in c A.D. 900 were the indigenous tribe in and around Moscow. As Russians entered Moscow and lands nearby, some Muroma intermarried with Russians, and some migrated north; the Muroma tongue and culture vanished.
The same extinguishment was done to the Livonian-Finnics of the once ancient Livonian Kingdom in its once large home area--now Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Prussia--by northward migrating Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians.
Chemistry Professor Al Finholt (St. Olaf College), who patented placing hydrogen as a hydrid into the H-Bomb, told this author in 1954 about tribal displacement in Scandinavia. His granddad said that although the Norwegians and Swedes do not like it to be known their ancesters came north from Croatia to displace Finns and Samis in Norway and Sweden--and thus Finns in their own tongue call Swedes Ruotsi (Croats).
Below I give some facts that support that Finnic tribes lived long ago in the south in formerly cooler southern and eastern regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea--including Near East, North Africa, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia.
In the Near East from the time when area had been cooler, there likely were people who spoke Finnic tongues--among many other tongues---including in ancient Sumeria. Into Sumeria in c. 2000 BC invasions of Hittites and Kassites who were Indo-European peoples from Asia occurred; to open next link, highlight and click, http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm.
For it may be that the root of name Sumeria is Finnish suo meaning land of bogs and marshes--in the past Sumeria had marshes. And Finns call themselves, Suomalaiset, meaning people who live in sou areas, i.e., areas of bogs and fens. And name Finland may be a variant pronunciation of fenland. Hence, Finns in their own tongue call their country, Suomi, from root suo, land of marshes.
There were many tongues spoken around the Mediterranean Sea. Supporting this is link; How many tongues did Apostle Paul speak?
Knowing the above cursory information, one may entertain that a Finnic tongue amongst many was spoken at the time of Jesus in Palestine and the Near East.
Hence it is reasonable that God chose to speak through Jesus to the native tribes in a tongue--Finnic--that was understood by the major tribe in area of Jesus' birth. So this is most likely the reason why there were so few words of what Jesus said--much less how He pronounced them--recorded in the first Bible manuscripts written. For the later scribes (writers) of the word sounds of Jesus--that had been passed down to them over many years or generations--were unfamiliar with the tongue of Jesus. Hence they could not reproduce faithfully in writing in their Greek (Koine dialect) the words--or even basic sound units of the words of Jesus: The words of Jesus, passed down from generation to generation, and their great meaning, were enigmatic to the ears and minds of the scribes. Sadly, the words of Jesus and their true meaning had become corrupted.
Yet the scribes did their best, and wrote some of the few words of Jesus in the Bible. Jesus said to Simon Peter, "You are named Kepha for upon this rock God will build His church", John 1:42, Mathew 16:18; in Finnish kivi is rock.
And the final words of Jesus on the cross were written as, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachtani" (Mark 15:34). However the words most likely were in a Finnic tongue, "Elävä, Elävä, loimme, saavutetaan". This was an astounding, most crucial call: "LIVING, LIVING, We created, layed down, achieved, and now save it-- on the cross; the Great Message for humanity". And He gave up His Spirit.
Also the name Egypt may have a Finnish base, aikapitääjä, meaning in Finnish, 'time keeper'. Now we may ask what was it in Egypt that made it a time keeper? The answer lay in its Great Pyramid built of many thousands of stone blocks--a few weighed 80 tons--and the large Sphynx carved out of stone. The answer clarifies if we accept that the term pyramid had most likely a Finnish origin base pyörämitta(ja) meaning in Finnish, 'wheel-measurer'.
So what wheel did the stone pyramid measure to keep time? How was it a stone clock time piece, a time keeper? The answer follows: Investigation has shown that there was built within it an inclined long rectangular shaft that was open at one end to a central deep chamber room. The other end was open to the outside. The shaft and its outside end pointed at a southern cyclically rising and falling star. The Pyramid by way of its shaft pointing at a certain star--along with the east facing Sphynx near it--measured the rate of rotation and wobble of a wheel. The time-keeping effort used two observable aspects of a wheel that the Sphynx and the Great Pyramid's shaft measured. The observable aspects were both the extremely creeping rate of rotation and also the extremely slow rate of wobble of outer rim of the wheel coursing, arching as a swath high in the night sky, from east to west horizon. And what was the outer rim or belt?
The wheel's outer rim edge was and is composed of 12 star-groups, or 12 zodiac celestial signs. The very slow rate of complete rotation of the rim or belt, composed of the 12 star group zodiac signs, takes 25,920 years--as does one complete cycle of the rise, fall and rise of the southern star, pointed at by the pyramid's shaft.
A full revolution is determined when only once each of the 12 signs has risen and occupied a position in the east--just at the break of dawn--and been fully replaced by the following next sign in the 12 set rotation. The very, very slow rate of rotation of the night sky wheel/rim is due to the most extremely slow rate of the slight wobble of the axis of rotation of the spinning earth. This creates precession of the equinoxes.
Now as present day Finnish is spoken far north of the Near East and Egypt, ie., in Finland, how did the Finnish tongue end up so far north? The answer may be that as the glaciers melted some Finnic tribes moved north: They moved into areas or lands that are now known as Estonia, Karelia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, northern Germany, old Ingeria (Ingermanland, name of former land in and around pre-St. Petersburg),--and the tribal lands of the Veps north of Moscow, and the former lands of the now extinct Muromo (now Moscow area) .
It is likely that Finnish tribes may have made up a majority of the aboriginal tribes of ancient northern Europe. They lived in a vast wide land belt that made up the ancient areas of what are now known as Ireland, England, northern France, northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, the Baltic nations, western and central Russia, before Germans, Romans, Slavs, and other Indo-Europeans moved north.
In support of some of the above, some old printed histories and maps note that Finnics lived in a large area east, south and west of the Baltic Sea. It ran from Denmark through far northern Germany to Estonia. The area was known as former Livonia and Greater Estonia--see for example Roman Historian Tacitus, A. D. c55-c120 who in his Germania wrote that the Estonian tongue was spoken near the Baltic Sea and in areas of England: And Ptolomey, A. D. 127-151, placed Phinni (Finns) in an area of what later became part of Poland. See also map on pp. 19-20 in The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, The University of Michigan Press, 1960. Except for Estonia most of this area is under the names of other tribes. After 1400 A.D., with Rome's aid, non-Finnish tribes exterminated or intermarried with the Finnics to create present day Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, far northern Germany, Denmark, and Kaliningrad (former Samland). Also, as alluded to above, in the earlier colder age other related Finno-Ugric tribes likely lived near or even rather distant from the edge(s) of one or more glaciers.
Incidentally, there is likely a Finnish base for ancient term Atlantis: In Finnish etelä-länteen means south-west: So Atlantis, using Finnish root, means 'land to the southwest'--of Europe.
Lastly, why would GOD choose to speak to human beings in tongue of the Finnic family? The answer may be, as stated above, that God chose to speak through Jesus to the aboriginal tribes in a tongue that was understood by the major tribe in the area where Jesus was born. Moreover GOD may love pleasant sounds. And among all tongues Finnish has the highest beauty of sound, highest vowel to consonant ratio, and no harsh consonants. Lastly, Erasmus Rask, the father of philology, said that the Finns must have been once a great civilization as their tongue sentences are the most precise of all tongues in conveying exactly what they wish to say.
Therefore, for above reasons, young and old lay people, Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, students and researchers of ancient languages may want to learn Finnish. Enjoy. Will S.
Ages ago there were many tribes. Some spoke in more than one tongue. It is likely that from the end of the last Ice Age c. 5000 BC to c. A.D. 100 the tribes that lived near glaciers and in colder climes in Europe and Eurasia included Finnics and Finno-Ugrics: They were Estonians, Ingerians, Finns, and Karelians; Livonians, Mari and Muroma; Veps and a few other tribes. Now, Karelians, and Veps live north, and Mari east of Moscow; moska is a Finnish dialect word for a mixed land of ground and bog.
The tribes of Ingria were the indigenous tribes in a large area between Estonia and Karelia. The tribes lived north of the Muroma-Finnics, and east of Estonia; the Narva River (Finn name) and Lake Peipus, and west of Lake Ladoga (Finn name) on both sides of the Neva River (Finn name). Sadly, beginning in 1703 Peter the Great--aka Peter the Bum--moved Russians north to land grab Hare Island (Janissaari in Finn) and area nearby to build the city St. Petersburg.
Now, by land grabbing Karelia from native Finns, Putin can be known as Putin the Bum. He likely plans to attack Sweden via Finland. His army waits 30 mi. from Finland. He was bullied when young, and is likely bisexual. He wants to be known as Putin the Great. Beware a sick narcissist with nukes; those closest to him are racists; their vision is Russia the Great. As once there was a Great Brittain, are Putin and his bum racists striving for creation of a Great Russia? To land grab, to build a Great Russia--mostly with drones?--do the Putin gangsters have anti-drone weapons? On Aug. 26, 2015, the BBC stated that the Russians claim to be able to destroy drones with sound waves.
The Muroma in c A.D. 900 were the indigenous tribe in and around Moscow. As Russians entered Moscow and lands nearby, some Muroma intermarried with Russians, and some migrated north; the Muroma tongue and culture vanished.
The same extinguishment was done to the Livonian-Finnics of the once ancient Livonian Kingdom in its once large home area--now Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Prussia--by northward migrating Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians.
Chemistry Professor Al Finholt (St. Olaf College), who patented placing hydrogen as a hydrid into the H-Bomb, told this author in 1954 about tribal displacement in Scandinavia. His granddad said that although the Norwegians and Swedes do not like it to be known their ancesters came north from Croatia to displace Finns and Samis in Norway and Sweden--and thus Finns in their own tongue call Swedes Ruotsi (Croats).
Below I give some facts that support that Finnic tribes lived long ago in the south in formerly cooler southern and eastern regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea--including Near East, North Africa, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia.
In the Near East from the time when area had been cooler, there likely were people who spoke Finnic tongues--among many other tongues---including in ancient Sumeria. Into Sumeria in c. 2000 BC invasions of Hittites and Kassites who were Indo-European peoples from Asia occurred; to open next link, highlight and click, http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm.
For it may be that the root of name Sumeria is Finnish suo meaning land of bogs and marshes--in the past Sumeria had marshes. And Finns call themselves, Suomalaiset, meaning people who live in sou areas, i.e., areas of bogs and fens. And name Finland may be a variant pronunciation of fenland. Hence, Finns in their own tongue call their country, Suomi, from root suo, land of marshes.
There were many tongues spoken around the Mediterranean Sea. Supporting this is link; How many tongues did Apostle Paul speak?
Knowing the above cursory information, one may entertain that a Finnic tongue amongst many was spoken at the time of Jesus in Palestine and the Near East.
Hence it is reasonable that God chose to speak through Jesus to the native tribes in a tongue--Finnic--that was understood by the major tribe in area of Jesus' birth. So this is most likely the reason why there were so few words of what Jesus said--much less how He pronounced them--recorded in the first Bible manuscripts written. For the later scribes (writers) of the word sounds of Jesus--that had been passed down to them over many years or generations--were unfamiliar with the tongue of Jesus. Hence they could not reproduce faithfully in writing in their Greek (Koine dialect) the words--or even basic sound units of the words of Jesus: The words of Jesus, passed down from generation to generation, and their great meaning, were enigmatic to the ears and minds of the scribes. Sadly, the words of Jesus and their true meaning had become corrupted.
Yet the scribes did their best, and wrote some of the few words of Jesus in the Bible. Jesus said to Simon Peter, "You are named Kepha for upon this rock God will build His church", John 1:42, Mathew 16:18; in Finnish kivi is rock.
And the final words of Jesus on the cross were written as, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachtani" (Mark 15:34). However the words most likely were in a Finnic tongue, "Elävä, Elävä, loimme, saavutetaan". This was an astounding, most crucial call: "LIVING, LIVING, We created, layed down, achieved, and now save it-- on the cross; the Great Message for humanity". And He gave up His Spirit.
At the burning bush Moses asked who are you? GOD spoke to Moses in a tongue unfamiliar to Moses, "EHYEY ASHER EHYEY", Even today, to Hebrew scholars it defies translation; see TO LIFE, Rabbi Harold Kushner, p. 146. And JESUS spoke to Peter, "You shall be named Kiphas because you are the rock upon which the church will be built". I submit that these words are Finnish. Ehyey is Finnish ehja meaning whole, unbroken. And Asher is most likely a Finnish word askeroipi meaning always active--there was no beginning and will be no end to my being active. Thus God spoke, "I am whole, unbroken, everything, immortal, always active; I have always existed, and will always exist. For me there was no beginning and will be no end."
Also the name Egypt may have a Finnish base, aikapitääjä, meaning in Finnish, 'time keeper'. Now we may ask what was it in Egypt that made it a time keeper? The answer lay in its Great Pyramid built of many thousands of stone blocks--a few weighed 80 tons--and the large Sphynx carved out of stone. The answer clarifies if we accept that the term pyramid had most likely a Finnish origin base pyörämitta(ja) meaning in Finnish, 'wheel-measurer'.
So what wheel did the stone pyramid measure to keep time? How was it a stone clock time piece, a time keeper? The answer follows: Investigation has shown that there was built within it an inclined long rectangular shaft that was open at one end to a central deep chamber room. The other end was open to the outside. The shaft and its outside end pointed at a southern cyclically rising and falling star. The Pyramid by way of its shaft pointing at a certain star--along with the east facing Sphynx near it--measured the rate of rotation and wobble of a wheel. The time-keeping effort used two observable aspects of a wheel that the Sphynx and the Great Pyramid's shaft measured. The observable aspects were both the extremely creeping rate of rotation and also the extremely slow rate of wobble of outer rim of the wheel coursing, arching as a swath high in the night sky, from east to west horizon. And what was the outer rim or belt?
The wheel's outer rim edge was and is composed of 12 star-groups, or 12 zodiac celestial signs. The very slow rate of complete rotation of the rim or belt, composed of the 12 star group zodiac signs, takes 25,920 years--as does one complete cycle of the rise, fall and rise of the southern star, pointed at by the pyramid's shaft.
A full revolution is determined when only once each of the 12 signs has risen and occupied a position in the east--just at the break of dawn--and been fully replaced by the following next sign in the 12 set rotation. The very, very slow rate of rotation of the night sky wheel/rim is due to the most extremely slow rate of the slight wobble of the axis of rotation of the spinning earth. This creates precession of the equinoxes.
Now as present day Finnish is spoken far north of the Near East and Egypt, ie., in Finland, how did the Finnish tongue end up so far north? The answer may be that as the glaciers melted some Finnic tribes moved north: They moved into areas or lands that are now known as Estonia, Karelia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, northern Germany, old Ingeria (Ingermanland, name of former land in and around pre-St. Petersburg),--and the tribal lands of the Veps north of Moscow, and the former lands of the now extinct Muromo (now Moscow area) .
It is likely that Finnish tribes may have made up a majority of the aboriginal tribes of ancient northern Europe. They lived in a vast wide land belt that made up the ancient areas of what are now known as Ireland, England, northern France, northern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, the Baltic nations, western and central Russia, before Germans, Romans, Slavs, and other Indo-Europeans moved north.
In support of some of the above, some old printed histories and maps note that Finnics lived in a large area east, south and west of the Baltic Sea. It ran from Denmark through far northern Germany to Estonia. The area was known as former Livonia and Greater Estonia--see for example Roman Historian Tacitus, A. D. c55-c120 who in his Germania wrote that the Estonian tongue was spoken near the Baltic Sea and in areas of England: And Ptolomey, A. D. 127-151, placed Phinni (Finns) in an area of what later became part of Poland. See also map on pp. 19-20 in The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, The University of Michigan Press, 1960. Except for Estonia most of this area is under the names of other tribes. After 1400 A.D., with Rome's aid, non-Finnish tribes exterminated or intermarried with the Finnics to create present day Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, far northern Germany, Denmark, and Kaliningrad (former Samland). Also, as alluded to above, in the earlier colder age other related Finno-Ugric tribes likely lived near or even rather distant from the edge(s) of one or more glaciers.
Incidentally, there is likely a Finnish base for ancient term Atlantis: In Finnish etelä-länteen means south-west: So Atlantis, using Finnish root, means 'land to the southwest'--of Europe.
Lastly, why would GOD choose to speak to human beings in tongue of the Finnic family? The answer may be, as stated above, that God chose to speak through Jesus to the aboriginal tribes in a tongue that was understood by the major tribe in the area where Jesus was born. Moreover GOD may love pleasant sounds. And among all tongues Finnish has the highest beauty of sound, highest vowel to consonant ratio, and no harsh consonants. Lastly, Erasmus Rask, the father of philology, said that the Finns must have been once a great civilization as their tongue sentences are the most precise of all tongues in conveying exactly what they wish to say.
Therefore, for above reasons, young and old lay people, Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, students and researchers of ancient languages may want to learn Finnish. Enjoy. Will S.
