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Seas. These reports gave the names used by the Assyrians for the different groups of Israelites
that were planted as a buffer between them and their enemies (Medes). The “Royal Letters” date
back to 707 BC, which is about 14 years after the defeat of Samaria. Letters #1079 (describes the
defeat of the Urartians), and its follow-up #197 (which says it occurred in the land of Gamir)
were written by Sennacherib to his father, King Sargon. Letter #112 talks about a people (Iskuza
or Isaac) that “went forth” from the midst of the Mannai, into the “land of Urartu,” while another
letter distinctly separates the Urartians, the Mannai, and the Gamera (or Gimira), which means
the people in Letter #112 are Gamerraan, or in English, the ‘Cimmerians.’
The Behistun Rock was found in the 1700-foot high Zargos mountains in northwestern Iran,
300 foot above the ground on a sheer face, The relief had been commissioned by Darius the
Great in 515 BC, and lists the peoples and nations he defeated and ruled over as part of the
Medo-Persian Empire. It is interesting to point out, that while he was putting down the Israelite
insurrection, he was helping the Jews to rebuild the Temple.
The Rock (confirmed by Darius’ tomb, as well as a golden tablet that talks about the ‘Sakka’)
is inscribed in three languages, is 100 feet high, and 150 feet wide. By 1840, it had been
deciphered by Sir Henry C. Rawlinson. The name ‘Kana’ (Canaan) appears 28 times. ‘Saka’ or
‘Sakka’ in Mede, Persian, Elamite, and ‘Sacae’ in Greek, is ‘Gimri’ in Babylonian. The Assyrian
and Babylonian renditions are nearly the same. ‘Sakka’ refers to a nomad or one who lives in a
tent or ‘booth.’ The word ‘booth’ in Hebrew is ‘succoth.’ ‘Sakka’ comes from ‘Isaac,’
(pronounced ‘e-sahk’ with emphasis on the last syllable) and became ‘Saxon.’ ‘Gimri’ comes
from the Assyrian ‘Khumri’ (after Biblical House of ‘Omri,’ 6th King of Israel) and became
Ghumri, Gimira, Gimmira, the Greek ‘Kimmeroii,’ or English ‘Cimmerian.’
According to the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras 13:40-44, they migrated to Europe. While the
main body of prisoners remained in the area about a hundred years, the Israelites slowly began
moving to the east and the north. When the power of the Assyrians was broken, there were
several migrations, with the two main groups moving west under the Black Sea, north through
the Dariel Pass of the Caucasas Mountains into the steppes of southern Russia. A large group
also migrated east.
Between 650-500 BC, the Cimmerians in Europe moved up the Danube and became known
as Celts, eventually migrating to France than England. Between 250-100 BC, when southern
Russia was invaded by the Sarmatians from the east, the Scythians (Isaac is believed to be the
foundation for this name) were driven northwest through Poland into Germany. After 450 AD,
the Romans called the Scythians ‘Germans,’ meaning ‘genuine,’ to distinguish them from the
Sarmatians in Scythia.
So, Gomer’s desecendants (known to the Assyrians as ‘Gimirrai’ or ‘Cimmerians’) settled in
central Asia Minor, north of the Black Sea, in southern Russia, then moved west along the
Danube River, to the area now known as Germany. He was the father of Eastern Europe. Old
world maps identify this area as Gomer, Gomerlunt, Gomeria. Their descendants include the
Galatians, Phrygians, Gauls, Celts (Greek “Keltoi”), Germans, French, Welsh, Irish, Britons, and
other Anglo-Saxon (means ‘Isaac’s son’) peoples. In addition, Togarmah (known to the
Assyrians as ‘Tilgarimmu’), a son of Gomer, is singled out. His descendants occupied Turkey
and Asia Minor, and another branch settled in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which were later
taken over by the Soviet Union. They were granted independence in September, 1991.
Togarmah’s ‘bands’ could also refer to Armenia and Syia, whose ancestors claimed that
Haik, the father of their race, was the son of Togarmah. The descendants of another son of
Gomer, Ashkenaz, settled in Germany and Austria.