Post by branislavnusic on Jul 15, 2018 4:04:43 GMT -5
The origin of Serbian name
We have previously seen that Serbs descended from
Tiras, son of Japheth; that Serbs were called Thracians
after Tiras; and that Serbs were called Illyrians after Arile,
son of Gad and descendant of Shem. Now, the only thing
that remains to be revealed is the origin of the Serbian
Illyria
Illyrius (Arile)
Cadmus
Thebes
Gad's tribe (Gad)
Egypt, Israel
Movement of Gad's tribe from Egypt
and Israel to Greece and Illyria
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name itself. Let us see how Serbs got their name and after
whom.
In order to answer that question, first, it is needed to
explain the connection between Serbs and the ancient
India. Beside Serbian progenitor Tiras, and beside all the
nations which wandered through Balkan and mixed with
Serbs, a part of Serbian ancestors came from India. This
is proved by following data:
1) Serbian and classical Indian language - sanskrit -
are very identical and have many similar words. A lot of
studies were made about this subject; and besides, Indian
and Serbian language belong to the same language group -
Indo-European. Both Hindus and Serbs are of the same
Indo-European origin. They are the only two nations in the
world which can pronounce complex consonant groups, as
in case of the name Serbs (Serb. Srbi). Of all the so-called
Indo-European languages, similar to some extent, Serbian
and classical Indian are the most identical;10
2) There is a great number of toponyms in India which
resemble the toponyms in Serbia. Though it cannot be a
crucial proof, it further directs us to the path of truth.
Some of those toponyms are: region Semberia,11 Dunai
and Dunai region, Nisadesh, Sarbaria, Sarbara, Sarbana,
10 More information about it in: Бранислава Божиновић, Речник српско‐
санскртских речи, Пешић и синови, Београд, 2000. 11 In later chapter we'll see that in Indo-European languages, the letter m
usually tranforms into letter r, so we get Serberia instead of Semberia.
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Sarbat, Drvar, Drava, Raška, Lech, etc. More confirmation
comes from the Serbian oral tradition.
3) One of the old sagas tells us that Serbs came exactly
from India:
Lord of Hosts, how passing great the marvel!
The heavens roar and the earth trembles!
And the rocky shores are beaten by the sea.
But behold and see! 'This not the heavens' roar,
Nor the earth's trembling, nor beating of the sea,
But 'tis the great treasure shared by the saints:
Saint Peter and Saint Nicholas, Saint John
And Saint Elijah, and Saint Pantaleon,
And Blessed Virgin Mary with them;
12
Down her white face are the fast tears falling,
Asked by Elijah the Thunderer:
'Blessed Virgin Mary, good sister of ours!
Why are you so sad, why are your tears falling?'
And Blessed Virgin Mary makes answer:
'Oh Elijah the Thunderer, dear brother of mine!
How can I not be sad, after my travel from India,
From India, the cursed land?
In India, great blasphemy rules the land:
Youth lost respect for their elders,
Children lost respect for their parents,
Parents abandoned their brood,
12 The mention of Christian saints is a typical anachronism in this poem,
because it had been being transferred through generations.
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May they be condemned by The Only God!
Godfathers prosecute each other;
They bring false witnesses,
With no faith, nor pure heart,
taking each other's fortunes;
Brothers challenge each other to fight,
Brother-in-law dishonour sister-in-law,
And brother calls her sister not.'13
Hindus had always been famous for their polytheism in
Ancient, as well as Modern ages, so it is no wonder that it
is written in this poem that Serbs escaped from 'the cursed
India', where blasphemy rules.
There is an another poem which tells us a story about
Serbs and India:
Hey, you two brothers in Christ,
Have you yet come from the land of India?
Have you seen my dear old mother there?
Have my brothers and my little sisters
already got married there (...)?
Or the excerpt from this song, in which we can find the
mention of 'our land India':
Oh Gray Živa, Gray and Powerful One,
Oh gray and powerful dove!
From where have you come?
Gray and powerful dove makes answer:
13 Јован Деретић, Српска народна епика, Филип Вишњић, Београд,
2000, 303. стр.
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I have traveled through our land India.
I have passed through Hindustan,
And through that desolate Tartary,
The Dark Hindu and Tartary.
I have come to see my Lord,
Our great god Triglav.
The same is told by another old poem:
A fight was fought by Serberians,
Our host Koledo, oh our Svarog!
In that land of Serberia,
in the cursed land of India.
Fight was fought for very long,
a hundred thousands of long years...
In Serbian oral tradition many wars with the Hindus,
Chinese ('Manchurians') and Mongolians (Tatars) are well
preserved. One poem tells a story about them:
Near the dreadful river Chuy,
with the weary horses,
14
bloody battles do they fight,
longlasting battles with the Tatars,
the angry Tatars, and Manchurians,
our greatest fiends (...)15
14 River Chuy is situated in Central Asia, close to North India. 15 Аљоша Бранков Арсеновић, Обредне пјесме древних Срба из Индије,
Мирослав, Београд, 2008.
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Therefore, that part of ancestors of Serbs escaped India
and came to East Europe from Asia around 1400 BC, and
from there to Balkan, having joined their compatriots.16
(More about them in chapter 'Who were the Wends?').
4) Beside almost complete matching between many
Serbian and Sanskrit words, beside Serbian toponyms in
India and Serbian oral tradition, the connection between
Serbs and ancient Indians/Hindu is further proven by the
great similarity between their religions, which are not
similar only as in case of all other polytheistic religions,
but much more. Even the names of 'gods' and 'goddesses'
both in Serbian and vedic Hindu pantheon are identical.
We will see the importance of this connection between
this part of Serbian ancestors and Indians in later passages.
As all ancient nations did it, so did the ancient Indians
remember their progenitors and ancestors, including Noah
and his three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Hindu story
about the Great Flood is widely known. It tells us that the
only man who survived the Flood was called Manu (MaNu,
ma stands for water). Manu also had three sons, who
were called: S'harm, K'harm and Japati. Japati or Prajapati
is the same as Japheth; obviously, K'harm is biblical Ham,
16 Мавро Орбини, Краљевство Словена, Српска књижевна задруга,
Београд, 1968, 6. стр (Serbs from India were definitely of partly different
ethnic origin than those Serbs who lived in Balkan, but they were both of
mainly Indo-European origins.)
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and S'harm is Shem. We should remember that Shem was
called S'harm or Sarm by Indians/Hindus.17
Thereupon, according to an ancient Persian legend, the
only one who survived the Great Flood was a man called
king Fereydun, whose nickname was Apam Napat, which
means Son of waters. This Fereydun, as the Persian Noah,
also had three sons: Salm, Tur and Iraj, though sometimes
Djapatischta (Japheth) is mentioned. In the Book of Kings
it is written that Salm was progenitor of peoples of Near
East and all the lands west of Persia. It means that Salm is
the Persian version of biblical Shem - the same as S'harm
is an Indian version (even the names are identical). This is
why all the lands west of Persia were called Sarm(at)ia by
Persians.
(We have said that all ancient nations, including Hindu
and Persian people, preserved memory of the Great Flood
in form of various legends, because in the most ancient
times, all nations lived on one land, i.e. continent.)18
In much later times, all the lands north and north-west
of Persia were called Sarmatia by old Greeks and Romans.
Their Sarmatia referred to such a large area that they had
to divide it into two parts: European and Asian Sarmatia.
All the tribes living in that area they called by the same
name - Sarmatians, which replaced former Scythians. That
17 A. C. Custance, Noah's Three Sons: Human History in Three Dimensions,
Zondervan Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1975
18 Genesis 10:25
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is where the confusion about the identity of Sarmatians
and Scythians among modern historians comes from.
However, there was also one specific nation in the area
which wore the original name of Sarmatians, and which
was closely linked to Scythians, as Herodotus informed
us. An interesting fact here is that almost all of those rare
researchers of the Serbs' origin, together with the famous
slavists, agree that Serbs and Sarmatians are one and the
same.19 The Sarmatians are related to Scythians, as said by
Herodotus. A great number of Iranic tribes, which lived
near the Black Sea, were called Scythians by Old Greeks.
Iranic is the same as Persian, and Persians descended from
Elam, son of Shem, and Madai, son of Japheth.20
19 П. Ј. Шафарик, О пореклу Словена, Словенски институт, Нови Сад,
1998. (it is said that Sarmatians is a corrupted form of Serbs or vice-versa)
20 The origin of Persians from Elam (Elamites) and Madai (Madians/Medes)
can easily be proven by biblical and non-biblical historical reports.
NOAH
SHEM
ELAM
Elamites
NOAH
JAPHETH
MADAI
Medes
Persians (Iranians)
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Knowing Sarmatians are the same as Serbs, and that
Sarmatians descended from Elamite Scythians, it'not hard
to conclude that Sarmatians were a mix of Serbs (who are
descendants of Tiras, son of Japheth) and Scythians (who
were descendants of Elam, son Shem, as well as Madai).
The connection between Madai and Serbs is confirmed by
Arab sources,21 while the following information gives us
more detail about Elam and Serbs.
Famous Roman writer Pliny ennumerated the names of
Scytho-Sarmatian tribes: Antes, Roxolani, Iazyges, Alans,
Aorsi and Siraces. Byzantine chronicles equated the Antes
with Serbs (Slavs). Jordanes wrote that Antes, Wends and
Slavs are the same people. Then, Euro-Asian tribe Aorsi
was called Yentsai and Antsai by Chinese, which is very
similar to Antes (Serbs). And if Aorsi are Antes (Serbs),
then it is no wonder there is a river in Dalmatia22 called
Aorsa, which would be renamed to Raša in later times.23
Also, an Elamite tribe was called Anzan, as well as their
capital city. There is a large number of toponyms in Elam,
Persia and Mesopotamia which resemble the name Serbs
(Serb. Srbi).24 Even one Alanic tribe was called Spales or
21 Ђорђе Јанковић, Српске громиле, Свесловенски савез, Београд, 1998,
6. стр.
22 Dalmatia was named after an Illyrian tribes called Dalmatae. 23 Rasciani or Rasenni is another name for Serbs. 24 Pliny the Elder, Natural History, ed. W. P. Thayer, Univesity of Chicago,
Chicago, 2009 (other ancient historians wrote about Serbs and names
which resemble of their name, too, like Ptolomy, Tacitus, Procopius,
Jordanes, etc.)
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Spares, while we know of Spores as a synonym for Serbs.
It cannot be a coincidence that Elamites were called by the
name Elymaei by Greeks, which was at the same time the
name of one Illyrian tribe. Likewise, another Illyrian tribe
was called Parti, while we know of Parti as an old name
for Persians - descendants of Elam.25 And in order to add
more impressiveness, we will now say that Elamites were
known as Halams, too, while it is widely known that the
most ancient name for Balkan was Helm or Haemus!26 A
Greek myth tells us that Hae(l)mus is the eponym of the
Haemus (Balkan) mountains, and the mythical Thracian
king.27 Finally, we could say that one non-established
state of Serbs from 19th century was called Holmia or
Helmia, deriving its name from a Serbian word helm,
which means hill, mountain.
28 Before we move on, it is
interesting to note that the unacomplished ruler of Holmia
- Nikola Vasojević - wrote a book called History of
Holmia, which should have been used in propaganda for
justification of his new independent state, emphasizing
that his Holmia would be 'legal heir of the pre-Nemanjić
state of Serbia, which lasted from 495 to 1160 AD'.29
25 J. Lempriere, Classical Dictionary, Routhledge & Kegan Paul, London,
1788, p. 449
26 Ibid, p. 222 27 Robert Graves, Boreas, The Greek Myths, Penguin Books, London, 2011
28 Др Љубо Дурковић‐Јакшић, Србијанско‐црногорска сарадња 1830‐
1851, САНУ, Београд, 1957, 54. стр.
29 Слободан Јарчевић, Историјске скривалице, ЗИПС, Београд, 1999,
90. стр.
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Besides all of this, there are many foreign historians who
consider Serbs and all other peoples of former Yugoslavia
to be descendants of Elam, and that they are closely
related to Iranians - a fact which is confirmed even by
mainstream historians.
Another proof for equating Sarmatians and ancestors
of Serbs comes from lingustics. Namely, Greeks could not
pronounce name Srbi; that is why they placed a vowel in
the first syllable, as almost all the nations did it, so we got
Serbs, or similar words. But then, it was even harder to
pronounce -rb-, so that b later became m; letters b, v and m
are interchangeable in all Indo-European languages, as in
Greek, so we got Sarmatians (-ati- is a Greek suffix for
national designation):
Srbi --> Sarbi --> Sarmi --> Sarmati(ans)
It is no strange at all to get Sarmatians out of Serbs or
vice-versa, because we have similar situation in number of
other languages:
Magyar: Szerbek (or Ratzi)
Mongolian: Serbud
Dutch: Serviers
Norwegian: Serbere
Azerbaijani: Serbler
Turkish: Sirplar
Romanian: Sarbi
Polish: Serbowie
Japanese: Serubia
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Name for Serbs in other languages is mostly similar to
the word Serbi. Everyone except Serbs and Hindus place a
vowel in Serbian name, in order to pronounce it easily.
Here is another argument. Name Sarmatians traces its
origin to the Ancient ages, and it had been used until 11th
century. It is written that they lived near Caucasus, Black
Sea, Don and Dnieper river, later extending all the way to
Vistula and Donau river - and these are exactly the places
which are called 'Slavic homeland' by modern historians.
In the already mentioned work it is said that Serbs and
Sarmatians are the very same nation. A Roman Catholic
bishop from 10th century wrote the following:
Sarmatians (...) were then called Sirbs.
And from the same author - plain and concrete:
Sarmatian people are Sirbs (Serbs).30
After seeing the connection between Sarmatians and
Serbs, we can go back to the connection between Indians
or Hindus and Serbs. Namely, we have seen that the name
Sarmatians derives from the name of Persian/Indian Sarm
(biblical Shem). We have seen that a part of Serbs came
from India. And finally, we've seen that Sarmatians are the
same as Serbs. Therefore, if Sarmatians comes from the
name Shem, does not this mean that Serbs got their name
after Shem, and that their name is just a corrupted version
of it, so to say?
30 П. Ј. Шафарик, О пореклу Словена, Словенски институт, Нови Сад,
1998, 58. стр.
29
Again, additonal proof comes from linguistics. It isn't a
coincidence that Shem means name, but some famous and
notable name. It can also mean character, man, fame, etc.
On the other hand, the name Serbs has a couple of similar
meanings: man, kinsman, hero, mostly referring to some
notable and moral. It is almost the same meaning! Slavists
wrote about this kind of etymology of the Serbian name,
as well as many modern Serbian historians.31
In the end, we could mention that Ossetians, who live
in Ossetia, Russia, today, are Alans by origin. As we have
seen, Alans are one of Sarmatian tribes. A people called
Pashtuns are related to them, and they are of East-Iranic
origin. The largest Pashtun tribe is called Sarbans. They
believe they got their name after their ancestor Sarban
(Sarman, Srban), who was one of THREE sons of certain
Rashid - 'father of all Pashtuns'. This is a similar story to
the one about biblical Noah, Indian Manu or Persian king
Fereydun!32
Even Byzantine historians mentioned Sarbans near the
mountain Caucasus, from where their ancestors came to
live in Central Asia. They have lived there till this day in
31 Доброслав Јевђевић, Од Индије до Србије, Фамилет, Београд, 2000,
10. стр.
32 The Pashtun legend is just another version of biblical report about Noah
and his three sons, though some other legends mixed with this Pashtun
tradition, so that Pashtuns now say that Rashid's three sons are
progenitors of their own three tribes, not the three main groups of world
nations.
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number of 36 million souls.33 It is widely known that the
ancient author Ptolemy wrote about one Caucasian people
called Serbs.
Therefore, Serbs were named after Shem, son of Noah,
because those Serbs who came from India descended from
Elam, son of Shem, son of Noah. It means that Serbs are
descendants of Tiras, son of Japheth, and of Elam, son of
Shem - ancestor and progenitor of the so called Semitic
nations, Hebrews above all. That is where the expression
antisemitism comes from.
And while Serbs were called slaves by all the medieval
Western writers, lead by Vatican, and while their Serbian
name was thought to mean slaves; while Slavs were called
slave race by Austri-Hungaria; while both Jews and Serbs
in the dawn of World war were thought to be inferior race
that should be ruled by the Germans, shouting at the same
time that Serbia must die (Germ. Serbien muss sterbien!);
while Serbs were called Scythian bastard slaves by the
leaders of Ustasha organization, who derived the Serbian
name out of word for itch/scabies (Serb. svrab); and while
modern historians themselves, even the Serbian ones, still
affirm that Serbs means slaves and muddy slave shoes, it
is only our already explained interpretation which proves
that Serbs were named after glorious Shem - progenitor of
Serbs, Jews and all the Semitic nations!
Serbs, as descendants of Elam, son of Shem, and Tiras,
son of Japheth, were called Sarmatians, while they called
themselves by the name Serbs. But then, why weren't they
called after Tiras - their ancestor, and why did they take
the name of Semites (Sarmatians, Serbians) if they weren't
in majority?
We can find the answer in case of Bulgarians. They are
a mix of seven native Slavic (Serbian) tribes and TurkoMongolian
tribe of Bulgarians. Though Serbs assimilated
the Bulgarians, as they were in majority, and though they
spoke Japhethic ('Indo-European'), Serbian language, the
seven Serbian tribes, however, received the foreign name
for their area of settlement - Bulgaria(ns). Bulgarians were
thus a minor ruling class among Slavs in the beginning.
This is why it is logical to assume that in ancient times
Semites were those who 'ruled' in lands where Japheth's or
Tiras' descendants were in majority. A quite interesting
biblical prophecy tells us exactly that Japhethites should
be under the protection of Semites:
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem.
34
Summing up, we can say that in some places the name
Sarmatians was in use, while in other it was Serbs, as they
called themselves. Eventually the name Sarmatians would
disappear during the Middle Ages, and would be replaced
by Serbs and other tribal names, as well as Slavs.
weird document I found online here: www.cps.org.rs/Knjige/the_hebrew_origin_of_serbs.pdf
We have previously seen that Serbs descended from
Tiras, son of Japheth; that Serbs were called Thracians
after Tiras; and that Serbs were called Illyrians after Arile,
son of Gad and descendant of Shem. Now, the only thing
that remains to be revealed is the origin of the Serbian
Illyria
Illyrius (Arile)
Cadmus
Thebes
Gad's tribe (Gad)
Egypt, Israel
Movement of Gad's tribe from Egypt
and Israel to Greece and Illyria
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name itself. Let us see how Serbs got their name and after
whom.
In order to answer that question, first, it is needed to
explain the connection between Serbs and the ancient
India. Beside Serbian progenitor Tiras, and beside all the
nations which wandered through Balkan and mixed with
Serbs, a part of Serbian ancestors came from India. This
is proved by following data:
1) Serbian and classical Indian language - sanskrit -
are very identical and have many similar words. A lot of
studies were made about this subject; and besides, Indian
and Serbian language belong to the same language group -
Indo-European. Both Hindus and Serbs are of the same
Indo-European origin. They are the only two nations in the
world which can pronounce complex consonant groups, as
in case of the name Serbs (Serb. Srbi). Of all the so-called
Indo-European languages, similar to some extent, Serbian
and classical Indian are the most identical;10
2) There is a great number of toponyms in India which
resemble the toponyms in Serbia. Though it cannot be a
crucial proof, it further directs us to the path of truth.
Some of those toponyms are: region Semberia,11 Dunai
and Dunai region, Nisadesh, Sarbaria, Sarbara, Sarbana,
10 More information about it in: Бранислава Божиновић, Речник српско‐
санскртских речи, Пешић и синови, Београд, 2000. 11 In later chapter we'll see that in Indo-European languages, the letter m
usually tranforms into letter r, so we get Serberia instead of Semberia.
19
Sarbat, Drvar, Drava, Raška, Lech, etc. More confirmation
comes from the Serbian oral tradition.
3) One of the old sagas tells us that Serbs came exactly
from India:
Lord of Hosts, how passing great the marvel!
The heavens roar and the earth trembles!
And the rocky shores are beaten by the sea.
But behold and see! 'This not the heavens' roar,
Nor the earth's trembling, nor beating of the sea,
But 'tis the great treasure shared by the saints:
Saint Peter and Saint Nicholas, Saint John
And Saint Elijah, and Saint Pantaleon,
And Blessed Virgin Mary with them;
12
Down her white face are the fast tears falling,
Asked by Elijah the Thunderer:
'Blessed Virgin Mary, good sister of ours!
Why are you so sad, why are your tears falling?'
And Blessed Virgin Mary makes answer:
'Oh Elijah the Thunderer, dear brother of mine!
How can I not be sad, after my travel from India,
From India, the cursed land?
In India, great blasphemy rules the land:
Youth lost respect for their elders,
Children lost respect for their parents,
Parents abandoned their brood,
12 The mention of Christian saints is a typical anachronism in this poem,
because it had been being transferred through generations.
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May they be condemned by The Only God!
Godfathers prosecute each other;
They bring false witnesses,
With no faith, nor pure heart,
taking each other's fortunes;
Brothers challenge each other to fight,
Brother-in-law dishonour sister-in-law,
And brother calls her sister not.'13
Hindus had always been famous for their polytheism in
Ancient, as well as Modern ages, so it is no wonder that it
is written in this poem that Serbs escaped from 'the cursed
India', where blasphemy rules.
There is an another poem which tells us a story about
Serbs and India:
Hey, you two brothers in Christ,
Have you yet come from the land of India?
Have you seen my dear old mother there?
Have my brothers and my little sisters
already got married there (...)?
Or the excerpt from this song, in which we can find the
mention of 'our land India':
Oh Gray Živa, Gray and Powerful One,
Oh gray and powerful dove!
From where have you come?
Gray and powerful dove makes answer:
13 Јован Деретић, Српска народна епика, Филип Вишњић, Београд,
2000, 303. стр.
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I have traveled through our land India.
I have passed through Hindustan,
And through that desolate Tartary,
The Dark Hindu and Tartary.
I have come to see my Lord,
Our great god Triglav.
The same is told by another old poem:
A fight was fought by Serberians,
Our host Koledo, oh our Svarog!
In that land of Serberia,
in the cursed land of India.
Fight was fought for very long,
a hundred thousands of long years...
In Serbian oral tradition many wars with the Hindus,
Chinese ('Manchurians') and Mongolians (Tatars) are well
preserved. One poem tells a story about them:
Near the dreadful river Chuy,
with the weary horses,
14
bloody battles do they fight,
longlasting battles with the Tatars,
the angry Tatars, and Manchurians,
our greatest fiends (...)15
14 River Chuy is situated in Central Asia, close to North India. 15 Аљоша Бранков Арсеновић, Обредне пјесме древних Срба из Индије,
Мирослав, Београд, 2008.
22
Therefore, that part of ancestors of Serbs escaped India
and came to East Europe from Asia around 1400 BC, and
from there to Balkan, having joined their compatriots.16
(More about them in chapter 'Who were the Wends?').
4) Beside almost complete matching between many
Serbian and Sanskrit words, beside Serbian toponyms in
India and Serbian oral tradition, the connection between
Serbs and ancient Indians/Hindu is further proven by the
great similarity between their religions, which are not
similar only as in case of all other polytheistic religions,
but much more. Even the names of 'gods' and 'goddesses'
both in Serbian and vedic Hindu pantheon are identical.
We will see the importance of this connection between
this part of Serbian ancestors and Indians in later passages.
As all ancient nations did it, so did the ancient Indians
remember their progenitors and ancestors, including Noah
and his three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Hindu story
about the Great Flood is widely known. It tells us that the
only man who survived the Flood was called Manu (MaNu,
ma stands for water). Manu also had three sons, who
were called: S'harm, K'harm and Japati. Japati or Prajapati
is the same as Japheth; obviously, K'harm is biblical Ham,
16 Мавро Орбини, Краљевство Словена, Српска књижевна задруга,
Београд, 1968, 6. стр (Serbs from India were definitely of partly different
ethnic origin than those Serbs who lived in Balkan, but they were both of
mainly Indo-European origins.)
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and S'harm is Shem. We should remember that Shem was
called S'harm or Sarm by Indians/Hindus.17
Thereupon, according to an ancient Persian legend, the
only one who survived the Great Flood was a man called
king Fereydun, whose nickname was Apam Napat, which
means Son of waters. This Fereydun, as the Persian Noah,
also had three sons: Salm, Tur and Iraj, though sometimes
Djapatischta (Japheth) is mentioned. In the Book of Kings
it is written that Salm was progenitor of peoples of Near
East and all the lands west of Persia. It means that Salm is
the Persian version of biblical Shem - the same as S'harm
is an Indian version (even the names are identical). This is
why all the lands west of Persia were called Sarm(at)ia by
Persians.
(We have said that all ancient nations, including Hindu
and Persian people, preserved memory of the Great Flood
in form of various legends, because in the most ancient
times, all nations lived on one land, i.e. continent.)18
In much later times, all the lands north and north-west
of Persia were called Sarmatia by old Greeks and Romans.
Their Sarmatia referred to such a large area that they had
to divide it into two parts: European and Asian Sarmatia.
All the tribes living in that area they called by the same
name - Sarmatians, which replaced former Scythians. That
17 A. C. Custance, Noah's Three Sons: Human History in Three Dimensions,
Zondervan Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1975
18 Genesis 10:25
24
is where the confusion about the identity of Sarmatians
and Scythians among modern historians comes from.
However, there was also one specific nation in the area
which wore the original name of Sarmatians, and which
was closely linked to Scythians, as Herodotus informed
us. An interesting fact here is that almost all of those rare
researchers of the Serbs' origin, together with the famous
slavists, agree that Serbs and Sarmatians are one and the
same.19 The Sarmatians are related to Scythians, as said by
Herodotus. A great number of Iranic tribes, which lived
near the Black Sea, were called Scythians by Old Greeks.
Iranic is the same as Persian, and Persians descended from
Elam, son of Shem, and Madai, son of Japheth.20
19 П. Ј. Шафарик, О пореклу Словена, Словенски институт, Нови Сад,
1998. (it is said that Sarmatians is a corrupted form of Serbs or vice-versa)
20 The origin of Persians from Elam (Elamites) and Madai (Madians/Medes)
can easily be proven by biblical and non-biblical historical reports.
NOAH
SHEM
ELAM
Elamites
NOAH
JAPHETH
MADAI
Medes
Persians (Iranians)
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Knowing Sarmatians are the same as Serbs, and that
Sarmatians descended from Elamite Scythians, it'not hard
to conclude that Sarmatians were a mix of Serbs (who are
descendants of Tiras, son of Japheth) and Scythians (who
were descendants of Elam, son Shem, as well as Madai).
The connection between Madai and Serbs is confirmed by
Arab sources,21 while the following information gives us
more detail about Elam and Serbs.
Famous Roman writer Pliny ennumerated the names of
Scytho-Sarmatian tribes: Antes, Roxolani, Iazyges, Alans,
Aorsi and Siraces. Byzantine chronicles equated the Antes
with Serbs (Slavs). Jordanes wrote that Antes, Wends and
Slavs are the same people. Then, Euro-Asian tribe Aorsi
was called Yentsai and Antsai by Chinese, which is very
similar to Antes (Serbs). And if Aorsi are Antes (Serbs),
then it is no wonder there is a river in Dalmatia22 called
Aorsa, which would be renamed to Raša in later times.23
Also, an Elamite tribe was called Anzan, as well as their
capital city. There is a large number of toponyms in Elam,
Persia and Mesopotamia which resemble the name Serbs
(Serb. Srbi).24 Even one Alanic tribe was called Spales or
21 Ђорђе Јанковић, Српске громиле, Свесловенски савез, Београд, 1998,
6. стр.
22 Dalmatia was named after an Illyrian tribes called Dalmatae. 23 Rasciani or Rasenni is another name for Serbs. 24 Pliny the Elder, Natural History, ed. W. P. Thayer, Univesity of Chicago,
Chicago, 2009 (other ancient historians wrote about Serbs and names
which resemble of their name, too, like Ptolomy, Tacitus, Procopius,
Jordanes, etc.)
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Spares, while we know of Spores as a synonym for Serbs.
It cannot be a coincidence that Elamites were called by the
name Elymaei by Greeks, which was at the same time the
name of one Illyrian tribe. Likewise, another Illyrian tribe
was called Parti, while we know of Parti as an old name
for Persians - descendants of Elam.25 And in order to add
more impressiveness, we will now say that Elamites were
known as Halams, too, while it is widely known that the
most ancient name for Balkan was Helm or Haemus!26 A
Greek myth tells us that Hae(l)mus is the eponym of the
Haemus (Balkan) mountains, and the mythical Thracian
king.27 Finally, we could say that one non-established
state of Serbs from 19th century was called Holmia or
Helmia, deriving its name from a Serbian word helm,
which means hill, mountain.
28 Before we move on, it is
interesting to note that the unacomplished ruler of Holmia
- Nikola Vasojević - wrote a book called History of
Holmia, which should have been used in propaganda for
justification of his new independent state, emphasizing
that his Holmia would be 'legal heir of the pre-Nemanjić
state of Serbia, which lasted from 495 to 1160 AD'.29
25 J. Lempriere, Classical Dictionary, Routhledge & Kegan Paul, London,
1788, p. 449
26 Ibid, p. 222 27 Robert Graves, Boreas, The Greek Myths, Penguin Books, London, 2011
28 Др Љубо Дурковић‐Јакшић, Србијанско‐црногорска сарадња 1830‐
1851, САНУ, Београд, 1957, 54. стр.
29 Слободан Јарчевић, Историјске скривалице, ЗИПС, Београд, 1999,
90. стр.
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Besides all of this, there are many foreign historians who
consider Serbs and all other peoples of former Yugoslavia
to be descendants of Elam, and that they are closely
related to Iranians - a fact which is confirmed even by
mainstream historians.
Another proof for equating Sarmatians and ancestors
of Serbs comes from lingustics. Namely, Greeks could not
pronounce name Srbi; that is why they placed a vowel in
the first syllable, as almost all the nations did it, so we got
Serbs, or similar words. But then, it was even harder to
pronounce -rb-, so that b later became m; letters b, v and m
are interchangeable in all Indo-European languages, as in
Greek, so we got Sarmatians (-ati- is a Greek suffix for
national designation):
Srbi --> Sarbi --> Sarmi --> Sarmati(ans)
It is no strange at all to get Sarmatians out of Serbs or
vice-versa, because we have similar situation in number of
other languages:
Magyar: Szerbek (or Ratzi)
Mongolian: Serbud
Dutch: Serviers
Norwegian: Serbere
Azerbaijani: Serbler
Turkish: Sirplar
Romanian: Sarbi
Polish: Serbowie
Japanese: Serubia
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Name for Serbs in other languages is mostly similar to
the word Serbi. Everyone except Serbs and Hindus place a
vowel in Serbian name, in order to pronounce it easily.
Here is another argument. Name Sarmatians traces its
origin to the Ancient ages, and it had been used until 11th
century. It is written that they lived near Caucasus, Black
Sea, Don and Dnieper river, later extending all the way to
Vistula and Donau river - and these are exactly the places
which are called 'Slavic homeland' by modern historians.
In the already mentioned work it is said that Serbs and
Sarmatians are the very same nation. A Roman Catholic
bishop from 10th century wrote the following:
Sarmatians (...) were then called Sirbs.
And from the same author - plain and concrete:
Sarmatian people are Sirbs (Serbs).30
After seeing the connection between Sarmatians and
Serbs, we can go back to the connection between Indians
or Hindus and Serbs. Namely, we have seen that the name
Sarmatians derives from the name of Persian/Indian Sarm
(biblical Shem). We have seen that a part of Serbs came
from India. And finally, we've seen that Sarmatians are the
same as Serbs. Therefore, if Sarmatians comes from the
name Shem, does not this mean that Serbs got their name
after Shem, and that their name is just a corrupted version
of it, so to say?
30 П. Ј. Шафарик, О пореклу Словена, Словенски институт, Нови Сад,
1998, 58. стр.
29
Again, additonal proof comes from linguistics. It isn't a
coincidence that Shem means name, but some famous and
notable name. It can also mean character, man, fame, etc.
On the other hand, the name Serbs has a couple of similar
meanings: man, kinsman, hero, mostly referring to some
notable and moral. It is almost the same meaning! Slavists
wrote about this kind of etymology of the Serbian name,
as well as many modern Serbian historians.31
In the end, we could mention that Ossetians, who live
in Ossetia, Russia, today, are Alans by origin. As we have
seen, Alans are one of Sarmatian tribes. A people called
Pashtuns are related to them, and they are of East-Iranic
origin. The largest Pashtun tribe is called Sarbans. They
believe they got their name after their ancestor Sarban
(Sarman, Srban), who was one of THREE sons of certain
Rashid - 'father of all Pashtuns'. This is a similar story to
the one about biblical Noah, Indian Manu or Persian king
Fereydun!32
Even Byzantine historians mentioned Sarbans near the
mountain Caucasus, from where their ancestors came to
live in Central Asia. They have lived there till this day in
31 Доброслав Јевђевић, Од Индије до Србије, Фамилет, Београд, 2000,
10. стр.
32 The Pashtun legend is just another version of biblical report about Noah
and his three sons, though some other legends mixed with this Pashtun
tradition, so that Pashtuns now say that Rashid's three sons are
progenitors of their own three tribes, not the three main groups of world
nations.
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number of 36 million souls.33 It is widely known that the
ancient author Ptolemy wrote about one Caucasian people
called Serbs.
Therefore, Serbs were named after Shem, son of Noah,
because those Serbs who came from India descended from
Elam, son of Shem, son of Noah. It means that Serbs are
descendants of Tiras, son of Japheth, and of Elam, son of
Shem - ancestor and progenitor of the so called Semitic
nations, Hebrews above all. That is where the expression
antisemitism comes from.
And while Serbs were called slaves by all the medieval
Western writers, lead by Vatican, and while their Serbian
name was thought to mean slaves; while Slavs were called
slave race by Austri-Hungaria; while both Jews and Serbs
in the dawn of World war were thought to be inferior race
that should be ruled by the Germans, shouting at the same
time that Serbia must die (Germ. Serbien muss sterbien!);
while Serbs were called Scythian bastard slaves by the
leaders of Ustasha organization, who derived the Serbian
name out of word for itch/scabies (Serb. svrab); and while
modern historians themselves, even the Serbian ones, still
affirm that Serbs means slaves and muddy slave shoes, it
is only our already explained interpretation which proves
that Serbs were named after glorious Shem - progenitor of
Serbs, Jews and all the Semitic nations!
Serbs, as descendants of Elam, son of Shem, and Tiras,
son of Japheth, were called Sarmatians, while they called
themselves by the name Serbs. But then, why weren't they
called after Tiras - their ancestor, and why did they take
the name of Semites (Sarmatians, Serbians) if they weren't
in majority?
We can find the answer in case of Bulgarians. They are
a mix of seven native Slavic (Serbian) tribes and TurkoMongolian
tribe of Bulgarians. Though Serbs assimilated
the Bulgarians, as they were in majority, and though they
spoke Japhethic ('Indo-European'), Serbian language, the
seven Serbian tribes, however, received the foreign name
for their area of settlement - Bulgaria(ns). Bulgarians were
thus a minor ruling class among Slavs in the beginning.
This is why it is logical to assume that in ancient times
Semites were those who 'ruled' in lands where Japheth's or
Tiras' descendants were in majority. A quite interesting
biblical prophecy tells us exactly that Japhethites should
be under the protection of Semites:
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem.
34
Summing up, we can say that in some places the name
Sarmatians was in use, while in other it was Serbs, as they
called themselves. Eventually the name Sarmatians would
disappear during the Middle Ages, and would be replaced
by Serbs and other tribal names, as well as Slavs.
weird document I found online here: www.cps.org.rs/Knjige/the_hebrew_origin_of_serbs.pdf