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These Iskuza or Scythians may be the survivors of the ten lost
tribes of Israel. As their influence increased, they conquered the Medes.
Herodotus relates that:
A battle was fought in which the Medes were defeated, and lost
their power in Asia, which was taken over in its entirety by the
Scythians.
However, they never returned to Israel. In the late first century
AD, Josephus noted that the ten tribes had not returned to Palestine: 650
… there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the
Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and
are an immense multitude and not to be estimated by numbers.
In 609BCE, the Medes defeated both the Assyrians and
Scythians. The Medes drove the Scythians into Southern Russia and
toward the West. According to Herodotus, these people of South Russia
and the area of the Caucasus during the seventh century BCE were the
Cimmerians. As we saw in Chapter 5, traditional histories hold that the
Cimmerians became the Cymry.
The Scythians prospered in Southern Russia for three hundred
years. In 250BCE, the Sarmatians drove them from just west of the Black
Sea into Western Europe. They followed the rivers to Saxony,
Scandinavia, England and Ireland.
As the Scythians moved westwards across Asia Minor and
Europe, so the territory of Scythia moved west with them. In Roman
times, Scythia was located in Scandinavia.
A late Irish antiquary says the Irish named a part Ireland
Gaethluighe, which is Gothland, from the Goths or Scythians who took
possession of it. 651 People in the north of Britain, called these Scythian
people Caledonians after the people of Calydon in Peloponnesian Arcadia
whose emblem was a boar. 652
Herodotus notes that the Persians called the Scythians by the
name of Sacae or Saka from the ancient Persian name for Israel. 653 The
ancient Saxons took their name from the sons of Sukai, the Sakai Suna or
Saksun. Of course, the name Saxon may also derive from Sons of the
Sword or the archaic Latin word for a large boulder or stone, saxum. 654
Herodotus also mentions that the Scythians had a reputation for
being drunk. He mentions that other nations would use the proverb to
pour out like a Scythian, which seems to have been the equivalent of the
later saying as drunk as a Templar.
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