Let's not get carried away here big fella. No one believes the germanics were jews. Israelites tried to genocide the punics as recorded in Joshua after all.
Besides genetic evidence seems to point to germanics being subjugated for a time by the punics rather than direct ancestors, since germanic male linage is almost all R1 or I. Neither of these are common to ppl of the Levant or North Africa.
Besides genetic evidence seems to point to germanics being subjugated for a time by the punics rather than direct ancestors, since germanic male linage is almost all R1 or I. Neither of these are common to ppl of the Levant or North Africa.
Damn you and your well-informed replies!
Yeah mostly I've just been trying to figure out why my anscestors worshipped an obvious levantine transplant in Baldor for a long time as well as why their chief God was different in title from the rest of the aryans.
Think I figured it out and wanted to share it.
There is also a case to be made that common psychological archetypes lead to parallel invention of religious figures.
Lot of talk and storytelling happened, and cultural cross pollination. Doesn't take much for a guy coming back from the middle east, or a guy coming back from spain, ho talked to someone from the middle east, to then relay a story he heard. That story gets retold in the north, generationally, because thats one of the activities that was center to many northern european cultures, and the later generations morph it into a story about a god.
If it fits a lesson to be learned, or fits existing cultural mythos, then it doesn't necessarily have to be a 'transplanted' idea or god, it can merely be the initiator of the potential that already existed. Case in point, death, birth, and renewal. Super common theme in northern european culture.
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