Solving the Ainu Mystery

Just Genesis ^ | December 29, 2014 | Alice C. Linsley

[Jandy on Genesis]

For some time I've been exploring possible connections between the ancient Annu of the Upper Nile, the Ainu of Hokkaido and Okinawa, and the Ainu of Canada's eastern seaboard. DNA studies have revealed that the Ainu of Hokkaido and the Ryukyuans of Okinawa have a closer genetic affinity than either group has to the Japanese. The ancient Nilotic Ainu were priests associated with the shrine at Heliopolis, one of the most prestigious of the ancient world.

Still lacking is a study of the Miqmac Ainu of Canada. The information here comes from a Canadian Ainu informant whose grandfather was pure Ainu. There are also Ainu living in western China, but I have little information about them.

The connections suggest a dispersion of Proto-Ainu much earlier than I would have guessed. The Ainu today appear to be the descendants of the prehistoric Wa. This indicates a connection back to Africa and the Khoisan.

The Khoisan-Japanese connection seems more probable when we consider the Arabic name for the San: Wakwak. The Sandawe (Tanzania) call the Bushmen Wanege. Wa was the earlier name for Japan and the word appears in the name Okina-wa. The African variant is Jokinawah, which appears to be linguistically related to the Biblical names Joachin and Joktan.

While the Khoisan do not have a word for priest, they do recognize the role of the holy man who makes pure after blood is shed. W'b in ancient Egyptian refers to the priest caste, the pure ones, and the healer priest was called wab sxmt (wab sekhmet). Priests at ancient Nilotic water shrines were called W'pr.

A comparison of the Kata Japanese and Hebrew scripts reveals a connection that is likely explained by the fact that the earliest scripts were those used by priests attached to rulers over many regions worldwide.

[yarddog]

I don’t really understand much of this but have often been struck by how certain groups seem to be really different from close neighbors or even majorities in their own land.

For instance, the Bushmen of Southern Africa, the Finns, of course the Ainu, and some American Indian tribes don’t look anything like others.

I used to work at a Summer retreat which had a large number of Japanese students come through every Summer. The Japanese seem to be two separate groups. The fairly tall, sort of wide faced ones and the small, delicate, and often very pretty or handsome ones.

The ancient Greeks were composed of two groups. The Dorics typified by the Spartans who were tall and often fair looking and the Ionians who were smaller, and appeared more like what we call Mediterranean complexion today. Despite the differences, they spoke the same language and had the same ancient history and religion.

[Textide]

Ping!

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Miqmaqs? I knew a father and son in Maine many years ago who were part Miqmaq. He was an alcoholic, but a mechanical genius. He built a pulp loader of scrap hydraulic, metal plate, and an old beat up truck. His son, on the other hand, was defective. Ainu? So far away? Who could have imagined?

[exDemMom]

A map would really help with this.

[Jandy on Genesis]

The traditional Miqmac (Micmac) elders’ dress, beards and head gear are identical to those of the Ainu elders in Hokaiddo. Also, the Ainu script and the Hebrew script are virtually identical.

Go here to see photos http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2012/01/kindling-of-ancient-memory.html

[Jandy on Genesis]

The Miqmac are in Eastern Canada, near the Hudson Bay. Their kinsmen Ainu live in Northern Japan on the island of Hokkaido and south of Japan on the island of Okinawa.

Using genetics, linguistics, and anthropology, both groups have been traced back to the pre-historic Ainu of the Upper Nile Valley. The Nilotic Ainu are referenced in ancient texts as Annu and they were builders of great shrine cities like Heliopolis (Biblical On).

[Pearls Before Swine]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[BeauBo]

People keep migrating, to this very day.

Some groups travel very far as a group, or in in a wave of groups. The Finns, whom you mentioned, have a very distinct language from other Scandanavians - a whole different language group. Finnish langauge is of the Uralic group, mostly distributed in modern-day Russian (but also Hungarians and Estonians).

Central Asian people repeatedly covered long distances in large groups in relative modern times. After the fall of the Hunnic period in what is now Mongolia, Huns traveled to gates of Rome, where the Pope came out to negotiate with Attila, and married a Roman princess to him. They founded Hungaria. The Bulgars from northern Central Asia migrated to found Bulgaria. It was possible even in ancient times to travel great distances by land in a single generation

Three big waves of migratory peoples came from Asia to America over about 15,ooo years to populate the Americas, before the major European migration after Columbus.

It is entirely possible that a large group developed ocean-going technology during the Stone Age (like the Polynesians did later, but with Stone Age technology), aand lost the technology in a few generations after migrating a great distance.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Fascinating website! Thanks very much for the link.

[dangus]

The tie between the hieroglyphics of the Miqmaqs and the Egyptians is surprising, but easy to figure: Christians. The Miqmaqs are the first-nations tribe among whom the Vikings settled, interbred and assimilated. The Vikings who settled North America were NOT pagan barbarians as most people presume; Lief Ericson was a Catholic bishop.

As for the Ainu, I can’t address their cultural similarities, but you should know that they *are* Caucasians... or at least had very caucasian features, prior to massive intermarriage.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Jandy on Genesis]

The Hungarians call themselves Magyar and say that their ancestors descended from Noah through his son Japheth. Their language is in the same family as Estonia, Finnish, and Samoyed. There are Magyar today living along the Nile. It has yet to be determined whether the Nile is the point of origin of the Hungarians’ ancestors, or whether the Nilotic Magyar-ab represent back flow. Still lots we don’t know.

[Hieronymus]

A Catholic I can see—but a Bishop seems a leap too far, and doesn’t seem supported by Google. DO you have any idea about where that claim originated?

[humblegunner]

Go here to see photos

Why not post them right here?

Seems like your main goal is driving traffic to your blog.

[dangus]

Oh dear. A slightly embarrassing misreading. Lief Ericson was converted to Catholicism at the court of King Trygvasson of Norway, and founded Gardar, Greenland. When he founded Gardar, he immediately sent for two priests. Gardar became a diocese in 1112, a full century after its founding. Gardar was founded by Ericson; the diocese of Gardar was founded by Eric. I misread, “The Catholic church had, in fact, established a diocese of Gandar, in North America. Gandar had been founded by Lief Ericson” to mean that the diocese of Gandar had been founded by Lief Ericson. That may seem like quiute a silly leap out of context, but keep in mind that in context, Lief had been a First Convert, brought priests under his authority, etc, etc, etc...

[Rebelbase]

Jeans ping.

[blam]

The Samurai And The Ainu

Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.

Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:

"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."

The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.

(Some say the ancient practice of 'white-face' was an imitation of the Ainu)

[blam]

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[blam]

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