Mount Hermon served as a symbolic landmark for the Amorites, a Semitic people that occupied parts of the Levant.
In ancient Semitic mythology, Mount Hermon was considered a cosmic mountain, a type of world axis or axis mundi.
They came from Asia, then, as now, to a large extent the home of semi-barbarians, except where the sway of Suernis had extended a civilizing influence by sending out the tribes which, in a later day, were to occupy so large a niche in history under the name of the Semitic races.
The migrants are characterized as coming from Asia, with some described as "semi-barbarians." However, a civilizing influence from a place called "Suernis" had affected parts of Asia, leading to the emergence of groups later recognized as the Semitic races.
"The Semitic languages also are all varieties of one form of speech.
Though we do not know that primitive language from which the Semitic dialects diverged, yet we know that at one time such language must have existed.
But it seems that these ancient divinities are grouped together as "the Aditya;" and in this name "Ad-itya" we find a strong likeness to the Semitic "Adites," and another reminiscence of Atlantis, or Adlantis.
"According to the views which, since Champollion's great discovery, have been gradually adopted regarding the earlier condition of the development of alphabetical writing, the Phœnician as well as the Semitic characters are to be regarded as a phonetic alphabet that has originated from pictorial writing; as one in which the ideal signification of the symbols is wholly disregarded, and the characters are regarded as mere signs for sounds." ("Cosmos," vol.
160): "The language of the ancient Egyptians, though it cannot be classed in the Semitic family with Hebrew, has important points of correspondence, whether due to the long intercourse between the two races in Egypt or to some deeper ancestral connection; and such analogies also appear in the Berber languages of North Africa."
201.) The same author believes that tribes belonging to the Semitic type are also found in America.
How are we to explain the existence of the Semitic race in Europe without Atlantis?
The Deluge of Genesis is a Phœnician, Semitic, or Hebraic legend, and yet, strange to say, the name of Noah, which occurs in it, bears no appropriate meaning in those tongues, but is derived from Aryan sources; its fundamental root is Na, to which in all the Aryan language is attached the meaning of water--νάειν, to flow; νᾶμα, water; Nympha, Neptunus, water deities.
"It appears to me difficult," says Lenormant, "not to recognize an echo of fables popular in all Semitic countries about this chasm of Hierapolis, and the part it played in the Deluge, in the enigmatic expressions of the Koran respecting the oven (tannur) which began to bubble and disgorge water all around at the commencement of the Deluge.
ancestors of three races--Aryan, or Indo-European, Semitic, or Syro-Arabian, Chamitic, or Cushite--that is to say, on the three great civilized races of the ancient world, those which constitute the higher humanity--before the ancestors of those races had as yet separated, and in the part of Asia they together inhabited."
The name "Babylon" is derived from the Akkadian name "Babilim", which means "Gate of the Gods." The city was originally named Babilim by the Akkadians, a Semitic people who inhabited Mesopotamia.
Dealing first with the natural emigrations we find that in the second map period while still leaving powerful nations on the mother-continent, the Semites had spread both west and east—west to the lands now forming the United States, and thus accounting for the Semitic type to be found in some of the[40] Indian races, and east to the northern shores of the neighbouring continent, which combined all there then was of Europe, Africa and Asia.
When the Transaction dealing with the origin of a Root Race comes to be written, it will be seen that many of the peoples we are accustomed to call Semitic are really Aryan in blood.
The Arabians did not bring their ciphers from the East, because the Semitic nations used the whole alphabet in writing numbers.
This ancient Semitic people who dwelt on the Levantine shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the second and first millennium BC have only recently become better known to historians and the wider public.
The Phoenicians were Canaanites—the name given to a collection of Semitic-speaking civilizations clustered on the Mediterranean shores of the southern Levant during the second millennium BC.
They came from Asia, then, as now, to a large extent the home of semi-barbarians, except where the sway of Suernis had extended a civilizing influence by sending out the tribes which, in a later day, were to occupy so large a niche in history under the name of the Semitic races.
One early explanation connects it to the Semitic root knʿ, meaning "to be low, humble, or subjugated," possibly referring to either geographical "lowlands" in contrast to Aram ("highlands") or a province of Egypt's empire in the Levant.
Linguistic Unity: While there are linguistic connections among Indo-European languages, the claim that all Hamitic, Semitic, and Japhetic languages stem from a single original language is a broad generalization that lacks support from modern linguistics.
Arameans (Syrians): Semitic people living in modern Syria, significant during the period of the Judges and Kings of Israel.
This vow was not unique to Israel but was also found in other Semitic cultures.
Dagon’s popular fish image keeps West Semitic reception on the map.
They came from Asia, then, as now, to a large extent the home of semi-barbarians, except where the sway of Suernis had extended a civilizing influence by sending out the tribes which, in a later day, were to occupy so large a niche in history under the name of the Semitic races.
Both accounts link the Mound Builders to Semitic or Hebrew origins within post-Atlantis migrations across the Americas.
Oliver places this link inside Asian population movements that included both civilized Semitic tribes and barbarian groups, with the latter occupying former Poseid lands and leaving the mounds.
Oliver separates the Semitic civilizing influence from the barbarian invaders who actually became the Mound Builders.
In both narratives, however, a Semitic or Hebrew thread forms part of the explanation for the origins of these North American mound-building peoples.
The term "Beni Elohim" can be traced back to ancient Semitic languages and texts, where "Elohim" often referred to powerful beings or gods rather than a single deity.
For example, a "b" becomes a "v," a "v" becomes a "w," a "p" becomes an "f," and a "t" becomes a "th." In Proto-Northwest Semitic, the ancestor of Hebrew, the two "h" sounds in Yahweh were pronounced in a manner consistent with the sounds associated with dragon stories globally.
Elder son of Adam and Eve, the first murderer and the first fratricide, from Hebrew Qayin, literally "created one" also "smith," from Semitic stem q-y-n "to form, to fashion." Figurative use for "murderer, fratricide" is from late 14c.
Baal is a term used to refer to various gods in ancient Semitic religions, primarily in the Near East.
Baal is derived from the Semitic root: b'l (Akkadian: bēlu[m]; Hebrew: בעל, baʿal; Arabic: بعل, ba'l) and meant "lord" or "owner."
Baal's epithets, such as "rider of the clouds," align with Zeus's descriptors like "gatherer of the clouds." These reflect common Indo-European and Semitic mythological themes of divine authority over the heavens.
In regions like Pelusium, Zeus-Kasios (a form of Zeus) is linked to Baal-Zephon, a marine aspect of Baal, indicating blended worship by Semitic and Greek communities.
The name derives from a Semitic root hdd or similar, linked to "thunder," "loud noise," "roar," or "to make a sharp/crash sound." It reflects the god's role as a thunderer.
The Hyksos, whose name is often translated as "rulers of foreign lands," were Semitic people who originated from the Levant.
Hyksos Expulsion: Some theories propose that the Exodus narrative is a cultural memory of the expulsion of the Hyksos, a Semitic people who ruled parts of Egypt before being driven out in the 16th century BCE.
Max Müller, in his "Lectures on the Science of Religion," identifies three major linguistic and religious centers in ancient history: Turanian, Aryan, and Semitic.
Müller posits that these linguistic groups, particularly the Aryan and Semitic, can be traced back to religious and political influences that centralized and preserved their languages and beliefs.
Müller asserts that there was a period when the ancestors of the Aryan and Semitic peoples shared a common language and religion.
The evidence suggests that the Phœnician-Hebrew family, central to Semitic tradition, originated from Atlantis.
The great god of the Semites, El, is linked to numerous names and traditions across Semitic and Aryan languages, hinting at a shared origin.
"And the title of Ἀλῆται, given to Agros and Agrotes in the Greek of the Phœnician history, fits in wonderfully with the physiognomy of the race of the Cainites in the Bible narrative, whether we take Ἀλῆται simply as a Hellenized transcription of the Semitic Elim, 'the strong, the mighty,' or whether we take it in its Greek acceptation, 'the wanderers;' for such is the destiny of Cain and his race according to the very terms of the condemnation which was inflicted upon him after his crime (Gen.
Max Müller states, "The Semitic languages also are all varieties of one form of speech.
Though we do not know that primitive language from which the Semitic dialects diverged, yet we know that at one time such language must have existed." This highlights the linguistic connections among the ancient civilizations.