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The Moschians and the iron-working Tibarenians of Tubal were
tribes of the southeast Black Sea and the Commagene. 200 Ezekiel
mentions King Gog of Meshech and Tubal, who is most likely Mithridates
VI of Pontus. 201
Traditional histories hold that the Moschians became the Picts
and the Cimmerians became the Cymry and moved to the Artic cold
where they enjoy the midnight sun in June but is dark at midday in
winter. 202 The Indo-Hittite invasions dispersed both those peoples and
they eventually invaded Britain as we shall see in Chapter 12. 203
Turning now to Tubal, we find that Assyrian texts confirm
Tabalu or Tubalin in central Anatolia was famous for its metalworking. 204
Tubal-ki of the Hittite texts, somewhere in the Caucasus region, is the
Tabal of the Assyrian sources located in East Lycaonia, near Kayseri.
This is where Tûbal Qayîn or Tubal-Cain comes from. He is the
archetypal artificer in metals described in the Book of Genesis and known
as the master of all coppersmiths and blacksmiths.
The last surviving remnants of these ancient northern Iranian
peoples are the Ossetians in the Caucasus Mountains, who are
descendants of the Sarmatian-Alans. 205 Their lands are now divided
between the Russian Republic and the new state of Georgia. The
Ossetians are the famous blacksmith tribe previously called Kalybs. Its
name, Kalybs, became Latin for steel. Though threatened politically,
militarily, and culturally from many directions over a thousand years, the
Ossetians still speak their ancestral Iranian language with an archaic
dialect, called Iron, meaning “noble”. They maintain an oral narrative
referred to as the Nart sagas. These Nart sagas contain parallels with
Arthurian legend so numerous and so uncannily close that it is impossible
they are unrelated.
There is an Ossetain basis for most of the prominent elements of
the Arthurian cycle, including:
• all the characters Arthur, Lancelot, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, Kay,
Tristan, Bedivere, Bors, Caradoc, King Ban de Benoich, the Maimed
King, St. George, Elaine (Helaine), the Lady in the Lake, Merlin and
others;
• sacred swords, the ‘sword in the stone’ episode, King Arthur’s sword
(Cali-burn) that bears a similar name to the tribe Kalybs, and
throwing of the sword into a lake, which causes it to seethe, and the
sword-rising-out-of-the-roiling-water;
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