Re: Celtic and Afro-Asiatic? (some folklore)
| From: | Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 17, 2005, 22:51 |
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What about the people of the Canary Islands, I think they had originally
an Afro-Asiatic language as well, probably Hamitic, related to Berber.
Somehow those Fomorians sailing North over the ocean seems more logical to
me than coming over land from North Africa proper...
Ingmar
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:18:23 -0400, makeenan <makeenan@...>
wrote:
>The folowing information is folkloric rather than linguistic:
>
>Every time I read about the supposed conection between insular Celtic and
>Semitic, I remember the Fomorians.
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>Ireland has a large, preliterate history which is almost *never* taken
>seriously as history. Today it is thought of as mythology.
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>Curiously, in this history, three previous peoples are mentioned as having
>lived in Ireland before the Milesians (Celtic speakers) arrived. The
Tuatha de
>Danaan, the Firbolg and the Fomorians. The Fomorians are also called
the "Sea
>People" and are said to have come from North Africa. ;)
>
>More grist for the mill!!!!