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OVERVIEW - 6000 YEAR HISTORY & GENEALOGY
of Mayme Alice Mitchell Peck

Copyright (c) 1998-2003 by J. P. Peck,  Last update 13 Sep 2003 & 03 Oct 2006
The information herein is included for Mayme's family's private  background information

 
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Senator, ca. 50 B.C.

If God has a providential grand plan for mankind and the universe at the creation of adam, Mayme's genetic line must be a live historic unfolding of part of this ongoing grand drama.

NOTE ON SCIENCE OF CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION

Darwin's Evolution - Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, in his book conclusions of The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man" concluded that through survival of the fittest ("who survived in greater numbers than the less well-fitted") and sexual selection, the random variations in species can lead to permanent physical changes in the successive generations. He says the same process occurs in man as other species. He then postulates that "man is descended from some less highly organized form,"  "man has been rasied to his present state." "... man is descended from a hariry, tailed quadraped, probably adoreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World," [species are created from other species], and "... there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians," and "... cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation," In short, there is no creator god who made man; it was all random animalistic events.  [There are today multiple contradictions to his speculations, and no "missing link" species has ever been found to prove one species produced a different species.]

His stated corrolary was that people who are in any marked degree inferior in body and mind should not marry, and those in abject poverty shouldn not have children, and laws and customs should encourage the best men to produce the greatest number of offspring.

These evolution opinions led in the 1900's to selective sterilization of idiots, mental cases, disformed people and certain American races (Negroes), and led eventually to Hitler's "Master White Race" views, world wars, and the attempted extermination ("genetic cleansing") of Jews, Priests, Idiots, Gypsies, Elderly, etc. in his Holocaust ovens.  It also formed a pillar of Communism, replacing previous religious worship with allegiance to the State, and the "cold war." And it formed a pillar of "Secular Humanism" which is the religion now officially taught in all secular schools, wherein the universe began with a big bang billions of years ago and all living things occurred by an accidental combination of matter elements, that evolved to man and other species over millions or billions of years. It also resulted in "God", and codes of morality, being virtually eliminated from all U.S. government funded social structures.

JP Genesis Creation: God and Physical Laws -

(A) Law of Energy Conservation - Energy cannot be created or destroyed; the total energy in the universe is constant. And from Einstein's equation E=M/c*c, mass and energy are equivalent, so the total; mass in the universe is constant. See the Bible's Gn 2:1-4 After creating heaven and earth and seeing that is was good, God rested after all the work he had been doing.

(B) Law of Energy Irreversibility - The entropy (measure of state of disorder or decayed useful energy) of the universe is always increasing. See the Bible's Gn 3:19 After the fall into original sin, God allowed death [decay] to enter the universe.

(C) Fibonacci Sequence - Another non-random practical law is the number sequence popularized by the mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, 1,2,3,5,8,13,... where each number is the sum of the previous two numbers and called the Fibonacci Sequence, where the ratio at large numbers is the constant "phi" (0.618) which is embodied in "Golden Section" of the Great Pyramid and found throughout nature in pine cones, pineapple rings, sea shells, galaxy spirals, and even the stock market pullbacks. Some called this "God's fingerprint."

JPP Insert: A physicist once remarked that his office is always messed up due to the 2nd law of nature in (B) above. Another extrapolation would be that the "big bang" theory of universe expansion cannot be reversed to give a collapsing universe back to a grapefruit sized ball of matter, therefor the universe will be expanding forever [which science has only recently concluded.]

JPP Insert: Along with the 2nd law - (death and decay) above, which biblically was the work of the devil and the enticement into sin of Eve and Adam, 4000 years later Jesus Christ, son of God was incarnated into the earth as a human being to pay for man's original sin and to overcome death in a resurrection from the dead. See 1 John 3:8, "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."

JP Genesis: Man species versus Apes side note - God had created "every kind of wild beast" in Gn 1:22 during the 6th day (which would include apes and monkeys.) Whether these beasts or Humanoid beasts walked on four legs or two legs is not stated. Afterwards God created a being called "man"  in the image of Himself. God declared this "man" was to be master of all the wild beasts, etc. In Gn 2:7, "Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living thing." Since God did not breath into the animal's nostrils, man was apparently different than an animal. This man was a mature being not a baby or child. Man has a soul which continues living after the man's body dies. But in Gn 2:20, "man" didn't want any of the wild beasts for a helpmate so God took one of Adam's ribs and made a "woman." Clearly she was the same species as the 'Man' and was a different species than the wild beasts. In Gn 5:2 it says that "Male and female he created them. He blessed them and gave them the name 'Man' on the [6th] day they were created." The wild beasts were given their names by Adam, not by God, because man was given dominion over them. And it was Adam who named the person made from his rib, 'Woman,' which was not a name he gave to a "wild beasts" (Gn 1:30) who are a different species. The "man" was told by God not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for on the day you eat of it you shall surely die. Later Adam did eat of it and he lived for 930 years (from 4000 BC to 3070 BC), which suggests that the "day" God referred must have been 1,000 solar years. For this reason, some Bible scholars believe the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ will be at the 6th day from Adam, or about year 2000 AD.
JP Insert: Since Adam and Eve were created mature, there's no particular reason that the animals, trees, earth and the universe couldn't have been created mature also. The universe could have been created instantly in an expanding universe mode with light tilted with a red shift representing long light years travel.
Carbon Age Dating - Carbon-12 comes from the atmosphere and gets into living matter through food and air. An assumption is that Carbon-12 uniformly decays to Carbon-14 with a half life of 5750 years, so age is estimated by the remaining ratio of C-14 to C-12. Uranium decays to lead with a half life of 4.5 billion years. There's the Amino Acid Racemization, the Potassium-Argon dating, the Rubidiumm-Strontium, etc. Dr. Andrew Snelling of Australia says there are 3 assumptions of these dating methods: (1) we know the original amount; (2)  conditions remained the same over the period; and (3) the decay rates is constant over time.

The conventional K-Ar (Potassium-Argon) dating method was applied to the 1986 dacite flow from the new lava dome at Mount St. Helens, Washington. Porphyritic dacite which solidified on the surface of the lava dome in 1986 gives a whole rock K-Ar 'age ' of 0.35 ± 0.05 million years (Ma). Mineral concentrates from the dacite which formed in 1986 give K-Ar 'ages 'from 0.34 ± 0.06 Ma (feldspar-glass concentrate) to 2.8 ± 0.6 Ma (pyroxene concentrate).  Actually the St. Helen eruption was reported in newspapers that many people read, not 2 millions years ago.

Recently dead snails show an age of 24,000 years; a fossilized tree stump in a coal seam of age 45 million years gave an age of 33,000 years. A recent New Zealand volcano flow gave an age of 3.5 million years. Hawaiian volcano flows of under 200 years give ages of billions of years. A frozen "waterfall" flow of lava in the Grand Canyon under 1000 years gave an a carbon dated age of 1.3 billion years. These 'ages 'are, of course, preposterous. It had already been been scientifically shown that Radiocarbon dating years are not the same as calendar years. Thus dating fossils by geological dates is illogical circular reasoning.

Also, the "millions of years" of Grand Canyon layers are now thought by many geologists to have been instead the product of a sudden massive Noah flood backed-up lake overflow, rather than the Colorado River gouging over millennium.  This is also the folklore tale of the Canyon Indians. Also the Canyon's geology layers do not show any vegetation growing between the layers, that is, before the next different earth layers were laid down.

Additionally, the 1986 St. Helen's blowout (equal to 1 atom bomb energy per second over 9 hours) knocked over trees which are already being "petrified" before 20 years passed. See for example scientific refutation articles at http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-189.htm,  http://www.icr.org/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi?Realm=Entire+ICR+Website&Terms=st.+helen,
http://www.icr.org/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi.
also Dr. Andrew Snelling, "Radiocarbon testing," Ch 40 TV, 10 Aug 2003.

Anthropology DNA Genetics - A hot topic in science today is the tracing of the ancestor's lines of living and dead people's DNA. One theory among many is there was originally one man they label "Adam" (not the same as the Genesis Adam) and one woman they call "Eve" (not the Genesis Eve) in sub-Sahara Africa about 140,000 years ago. They didn't live together in the same time period. Six gene-mutated Eve descendants migrated to Asia; seven gene-mutated Adam descendants went to Oceania, Europe and America. Further mutations occurred over time. All Europeans are allegedly traceable back to one of 9 (or 7 or 8) "descendants of Eve." One researcher alleges there are only 36 different clan branches, another 28 clans.

The "Eve" dates are estimated by assuming 1 DNA mutation per 10,000 years. Some scientists dispute the assumptions and conclusions of the others, and this whole area of study is just emerging. The notion of Carbon Dating, with so many contradictions, is not fully accepted by all scientists. Offhand, there seems no obvious way to reconcile the Bible's Genesis account of Adam/Eve or the Noah family (and flood stories of over 200 cultures) with the DNA account of location, time periods, or genetic clans. For one of the DNA theory versions see Dr. Spencer Wells "Journey of Man" (National Geographic Society) or a website at http://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/jom/jom.shtml. For questions on the raging Creation vs Evolution Controversy one might check out a website at http://www.talkorigins.org/.

DNA Ancestor Dating - The "Out of Africa," "African Eve," or "Mitochondrial Eve" theory, of 200,000 years ago proposed in 1987, has captured the popular imagination, but the results of that study were presumedly statistically flawed. The study used as a guide was the DNA of the chimpanzee (and probably the fossil ages from Carbon dating.) In other words, the studies that seek to prove that human DNA evolved from chimp DNA start with the assumption that chimp DNA represents the original condition (or close to it) from which human DNA diverged.

The 200,000 age for African Eve was an evolutionary timescale obtained from an evolutionary interpretation of fossils superimposed upon the DNA molecules. But this is circularity logic with a vengeance. See for example the scientific refution studies at http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-229.htm, http://www.icr.org/newsletters/afoct02.html.

Another serious problem of evolution's species crossover jumps is there are no missing links. The actual historic fossil evidence is that no one species ever evolved into a different or new species - each species only produces strictly after their own kind. Dogs produce dogs, monkeys produce monkeys.

Torah Codes - Another hot topic is the discovery of the Hebrew letter "codes" in the Torah of the Old Testament. The first 5 books of the Bible, written by Moses, are a long string of Hebrew letters with no punctuation, or just one long "word" of God written from right to left. By skipping a fixed number of Hebrew letters, as in an encryption code, other words are formed which yield recognizable present day names and places. The statistical odds of this happening are in the order of 1 in 62,500 or 1 in 1,000,000. It only works with the Holy Bible not Moby Dick or other books.

This is indirect proof that the 5 Bible books were written by a single author, not two or more as in academia's belief. To put it another way, God exists and Himself placed in the Bible Torah a secret coding of events far in the future that no human could have done. Grant Jeffrey calls this Bible code the "Signature of God" at http://www.grantjeffrey.com/intfra.htm. The quoted mathematical statistics have been refuted by others; however, the refuters have since been convincingly refuted as well. Additional Bible Code details are at http://www.aish.com/seminars/discovery/Codes/responding_to_the_critics.htm.
Commercial computer programs are available for under $200 to find these codes.

From the Vendyl Jones website at http://www.vendyljones.org.il/ :
"The Prophets and Jewish Sages, centuries ago, knew and wrote of these obscure Torah Codes. They, laboriously, unlocked some of the Torah Codes long before the advent of computers. I Chronicles 12:32 (33) reads: "...the children of Issachar, which were men of knowledge and understanding of (the value) the letters to tell the times to know what Israel ought to do."

In the writings of Flavius Josephus, it describes the TORAH CODES--..the "Essenes" (at Qumran around 0 BC) as having the gift of Prophecy. They had knowledge to give numerical values to letters (gematria). Then they exchanged certain letters with other opposite letters (temurah). Then, by a secret process of mathematical aphorisms of the Prophets, they could not only predict the details of the fulfillment of a Sacred Writing, but could determine the exact time of the prophecy's fulfillment with astute accuracy. Rarely, if ever, did their predictions prove wrong." (Incidentally, the recently-found Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran agree precisely with today's published Bibles: no copy errors were transmitted over the 2000 years.)

Biblical Flood Science - Benny J Peiser, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Human Sciences, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3, 3AF, UK  e-mail: B.J.Peiser@livjm.ac.uk in COMPARATIVE STRATIGRAPHY OF LATE HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS &
DESTRUCTION LAYERS AROUND THE WORLD: GEOLOGICAL, CLIMATOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, states this,

"During the last two decades, researchers have found evidence for abrupt climate change and civilization collapse as well as sudden sea level changes, catastrophic inundations, widespread seismic activity and abrupt changes in glacial features at around 2200±200 BC."
JP Flood Date Note: My rough estimate of the Noah Flood date is Est 2349 BC (2200+149 BC), which was the latest death dates of Patriarchs Methuselah and Lamech, and is about Noah's age of 600, and well within the time frame of Professor Peiser's global change records above. My estimate of the Great Pyramid construction is Est 2585 BC to 2566 BC, or 217 years before the Noah flood. The pyramid design blueprint plan would have been done much earlier than this and during the time of Seth's patriarchal children. The flood would be approximately between the 4th Egyptian dynasty and the 5th dynasty during the Egyptian Old Kingdom period.
New Scientific Findings - With our newly discovered scientific understandings of the El Nino worldwide weather system, overhead jet streams, overhead satellites, ground penetrating radar, Hubble telescope views, blood DNA, Carbon dating, tree ring studies, ice core samples, explorer submarines, Nuclear Physics, Negative Matter, Chaos theory, Van Allen belts, Ozone hole, volcano eruption predictions, Dead Sea Scrolls, Torah Codes, etc., it seems with each new scientific finding, the ancient history books need to be rewritten daily or even hourly. The more we uncover, the more we realize we don't know. At the same time there are raging controversies on the datings and interpretations of the evidence.

We used the Biblical Creation account of dates here - The secular-humanism theory that the species of man evolved from apes over time or coming out of southern Africa in very ancient times doesn't fit the Genesis scripture, but possibly there could have been two-legged apes living at an early time who were similar to man but didn't have the breath of life from God, nor were blessed by Him, nor had a soul. Most of ancient archaeology scientific results (back to c2000 BC) tend to support the Bible's descriptions, and the Bible has been challenged for over 2,000 years and has a record of remaining intact as solid Truth under hostile scrutiny.

Therefore, I have stuck with the Biblical account for names and dates in our family genealogy. It is beyond our scope to resolve all the controversies over ancient history. However, most of the impact of different origins theory would only effect our family's period before Abraham's time.

BIBLE SCRIPTURE GENEALOGY:

1 Chronicles 2:5- Sons of Judah... Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law, bore Perez and Zerah.
1 Chronicles 2:6- Sons of Perez: Hezron and Humel.
1 Chronicles 2:6- Sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara:

Here is a bird's eye view of the complex family history from 4000 BC to 2000 AD

Mayme Mitchell Peck's Old World Royalty - The central link to major Royalty lines is Mayme Alice Mitchell Peck's ancestor Sir Captain Thomas Warren (Virginia) to Ada of Huntington (England) and to Charlemagne (France) and King Clodomir IV of the Franks, which yields the following historical and genealogical ancestral lines from the Middle East, Egypt in Africa, Russia, Western Europe and the British Isles.


Overview world map c1820: Shows paths of Noah to Abraham to Pharez & Zerah in Goshen, Egypt, then migration path of the Pharez and the Zerah lines as well as Joseph of Arimathea. Then it shows Powell, Allen, Peck, Acadian migration to America.
 
We start with Adam (4000 BC) and proceed to Noah (2944 BC)

Mural - Burial of Adam

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1 Chronicles 1:4  Noah [sons], Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Adam - Genesis 1:27 So God created man [Adam] in his own image. This Adam had 33 sons and 23 daughters according to Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian.

Enoch - Enoch was allegedly carried to heaven where he was given knowledge of the heavens, astronomy, mathematics, theology, cosmology, the Messiah, future prophecy, etc.  He wrote 360 books on what he learned. "Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and those who would come after." (per Joshua Williams Northwest Nazarene College, 1995). This knowledge would have been passed down to his descendants Lamach and Noah. [This indicates that from earliest human time, there was writing.]


Flavius Josephus

In his "Antiquities of the Jews," Historian Flavius Josephus writes that Adam had forewarned his descendants that sinful humanity would be destroyed by a deluge. 'In order to preserve their science and philosophy, the children of Adam's son Seth therefore raised two pillars, one of brick and the other of stone, on which were inscribed the keys to their knowledge.' See Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews

The Bible refers to Giants in many places -
Genesis 6: "When men had begun to be plentiful on the earth, and daughters had been born to them, the sons of God, looking at the daughters of men, saw they were pleasing, so they married as many as they chose...My spirit must not for ever be disgraced in man... his life shall last no more than a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were on the earth at the time... I will rid the earth's face of man..."

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Deuteronomy 3:3-6 KJV 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.  4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

Deuteronomy 3:13 KJV 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

The Jewish historian Josephus states, "Many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of their own strength. These men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians called, giants." Again Josephus said, "There was still then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances (faces) so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising (or shocking) to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day. (Josephus, BOOK OF ANTIQUITES, vol.2, page 142 and vol. 8, page 85 and 275.)
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The verse in Genesis that describes Noah as being perfect in his generations probably was not only referring to Noah’s relationship to God, but to the fact that his family alone was free from the DNA contamination of the seed of the fallen angels and giants.

Rephaim: The aboriginal giants who inhabited Canaan, Edom, Moab, and Ammon. In Abraham’s time, 1950 B.C. Chedorlaomer defeated them. At the period of the conquest, 1440 B.C., Og, king of Bashan, is said to have alone remained of this [giant] race (Deuteronomy 3:11; Joshua 12:4, 13:12). His huge bedstead of iron is mentioned in particular. Anakim: ("sons of Anak") In Numbers 13:33 the Anakim are classified with the Nephilim on account of their gigantic size.

Enim: A race that inhabited the country of the Moabites (Genesis 14:5) and that is pictured as great, numerous and tall as the Anakim. (Deuternonmy 2:10) end quote. Other references - From a remnant of the Anakim in Philistine Gath came the famous Goliath. (1 Samuel 17:40) Two of the Philistine giants are mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:16-22. If one reads on you will find that all of Goliath’s family were eventually killed by King David and his men, numbering five in all.

.[JPP note: Somehow there must have been some fundamental DNA biotechnology knowledge available for non-sexual spirits to mate with material human beings. One should note that the discovery and tampering with the recently discovered DNA fundamentals of life in the days of Noah - which resulted in the destruction of mankind - are again going on in today's world with the cloning of sheep and humans and "test tube babies."]
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[JPP: The human giants are essentially tied up in the reason for God causing the Noah flood, so where is the evidence for these giants? It turns out there are reports of giant human skeletons all over the planet. The creationists have a theory there was a vapor canopy above earth about 40 foot thick which increased the air's Oxygen content and the atmospheric pressure which resulted in the longevity of both mankind (as in the Genesis long lives), dinosaurs and plant life; further, man and dinosaurs coexisted together. Part of the Noah flood waters, some believe, came from the vapor canopy collapse.]
Giants: Pieces of Evidence - Noah's Flood and Mars Flyby - There are a number of different theories on cosmic events that might have produced earth's mountains. One of these theories is Donald W. Patten and Samuel R. Windsor in their 'Catastrophic Theory of Mountain Uplifts (A Crustal Deformation Theory) ' in Catastrophism and Ancient History Volume Part 1 January 1991 in A Journal Of Interdisciplinary Study, Marvin Arnold Luckerman, Executive Editor. They  postulate that the planet Mars had a flyby orbit intersection which came very close to earth and caused violent mountain upheaval building and a racing global flood on Earth and on Mars. They state

"Thus, when Mars was that close, the closest surfaces of the two planets would have been 14,500 minus 6,000 miles, or some 8,500 to 9,000 milcs apart. It was a frightening sight —possibly recorded in the flood story of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Assyrian record on clay tablets discovered in the 19th century." See sketch below.


 

[JPP Note: Some scientists believe that in pre flood times, the earth' face was more flat with no large mountains and during the Cosmic conditions [like a flyby by a maverick planet] of the Noah's flood there was intense mountain building, which could explain why their are marine fossils on Mt. Everest. That is, mountains rose up under the Noah Ark after the flood rain. The depressions left on the earth's surface became the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean basins where the runoff flood waters now reside.]

Another version is by David Deal in the book, "The Day Behemoth and Leviathan Died" see http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/TDBLDsynopsis.htm.

Still another version is by Dr.  Walt Brown included in this library as a link where underground cavities of water under pressure exploded to vreate the mid-Atlantic ridge, the world flood, and building of mountain chains.

Universal Noah Flood - There are pre-history legends of a great ancient flood in over 230 different cultures across the world in which only a few humans survived.
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"A gigantic flood may be the most common of all legends—ever. Practically every ancient culture has legends telling of a traumatic flood in which only a few humans survived in a large boat.a,b This cannot be said for other types of catastrophes, such as earthquakes, fires, volcanic eruptions, disease, famines, or drought. More than 230 flood legends contain many common elements, suggesting they have a common historical source that left a vivid impression on survivors of that catastrophe." - from http://www.creationscience.com/ . For example myth stories from around the world see http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html, or http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/titania.htm.
http://www.onelight.com/hollow/giant/3gt.html
http://greatserpentmound.org/articles/giants3.html
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In the most ancient Chaldean Deluge story, the Chaldean priest Berosus recorded that it was under King Xisuthros that the Great Deluge took place, the history of which is told in the sacred documents as follows:
Cronos (Ea) appeared to him in his sleep, and announced that on the fifteenth of the month of Daisios (the Assyrian month Sivan--a little before the summer solstice) all men should perish by a flood. He therefore commanded him to take the beginning, the middle, and the end of whatever was consigned to writing [at the time], and to bury it in the City of the Sun, at Sippara (north of Babylon); then to build a vessel, and to enter it with his family and dearest friends; to place in this vessel provisions to eat and drink, and to cause animals, birds, and quadrupeds to enter it; lastly, to prepare everything, for navigation. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02514a.htm
http://www.write-on.co.uk/history/fact_fiction_babylon.htm
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian), an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, north of Babylon. It was divided into two quarters, “Sippar of the Sun-god” (see SHAMASH) and “Sippar of the goddess Anunit,” the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881 at Abu-Habba, 16 m. S.E. of Bagdad. Two other Sippars are~ mentioned in the inscriptions, one of them being “Sippar of Eden,” which must have been an additional quarter of the city. It is possible that one of them should be identified with Agade or Akkad, the capital of the first Semitic Babylonian Empire. The two Sippars of the Sun-god and Anunit are referred to in the Old Testament as Sepharvaim. A large number of cuneiform tablets and other monuments has been found in the ruins of the temple of the ‘Sun-god which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, Bit-Un by the Semites. The Chaldaean Noah is said by Berossus to have buried the records of the antediluvian world here—doubtless because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with sipru, “a writing “ —and according to Abydenus (Fr. 9) Nebuchadrezzar excavated a great reservoir in the neiglourhood. Here too was the Babylonian camp in the reign of Nabonidos, and Pliny (N.H. vi. 30) states that it was the seat of a university. from http://13.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SI/SIPPARA.htm

The two chief centres of sun-worship in Babylonia were Sippara (Sippar), represented by the mounds at Abu Habba, and Larsa, represented by the modern Senkerah. At both places the chief sanctuary bore the name E-barra (or E-babbara) " the shining house "—a direct allusion to the brilliancy of the sun-god. Of the two temples, that at Sippara was the more lamous, but temples to Shamash were
erected in all large centres—as Babylon, Ur, Nippur and Nineveh. from http://www.1911ency.org/S/SH/SHAMASH.htm


Ararat Mountains         Mt. Cudi Boat-Shaped object David Fasold's (c) design

Black Sea from Satellite     Black Sea gravity reading

    Science & Flood - The Biblical flood story made headlines in newspapers, magazines and TV in the year 2000 with the new book "Noah's Flood" by Professors William Ryan & Walter Pitman, who think the Mediterranean level raised, then overflowed and carved a channel through the Dardanelles into a fresh water inland lake to create today's large Black Sea,  the flow of which would have been in excess of a thousand times greater than that now observed during flood stage at Niagara Falls, or approximately twelve billion (12,000,000,000) cubic feet per minute... "

    Dr. Dave Ballard, the famous finder of the underwater Titanic wreck, quickly obtained funding from the National Geographic Society and by September 13 of 2000, Reuters News service was reporting Dr. Ballard found at the Black Sea edge underwater a "rectangular structure," possibly that of a building, about 310 feet (90 metres) below the sea's surface, indicating people lived there before a massive flood inundated the area. ". Dates were somehow obtained to suggest a massive "Noah" flood occurred suddenly here around 5500 BC. Scientists are exclaiming all history books will need to be rewritten.
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      [JP Note: There seems to be a theological consensus, using the Bible "begats" that the first man Adam was created around 4000 BC, so the above flood "scientific" estimate of 5500 BC (above from Carbon dating) where humans allegedly had houses at the Black Sea lake isn't congruent. But please be aware that Universities or science cannot get government project funding to "prove" the Bible is true, because of the "separation of church and state" notion. Otherwise they would be using Government funds to advance a particular religious system. However, there's nothing to stop Government funded projects from disproving the Bible or to advance a secular humanism/evolution philosophy/religion. In addition their dating by Carbon dating method could be seriously disputed.]
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    Note: Flavius Josephus wrote that Noah's Ark remains were still visible in the 1st Century AD. Antiquities of the Jews
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    Noah Hagopian Ark? - In the Bible, Noah was called by Yahweh God to build an Ark to save his family and animal species from a coming great worldwide flood. The flood came. Noah's Ark was carried over the waters to rest in the Ararat Mountains of Turkey.

    This century, an alleged Kurdish eyewitness, George Hagopian, claimed he saw a box-shaped ark, intact, and perfectly preserved at the summit of Mt. Ararat which is 17,000 feet above sea level.  His original description of the ark was 1000 feet by 600 feet. But David P. O'Neil, (B.S. Naval Architecture, U.S. Naval Academy) says this particular wooden design scaled back to Biblical dimensions would be considered non-viable today, failing to maintain proper hull integrity in an open ocean.
     

      However, on a local Channel 40 TV "Origins" documentary of James Hill, Professor Emiterus, hosted by Russ Bixler on 06 Jul 2003, #OR-98-16, Hill says the ship of Genesis was 450 ft L x 45 ft H x 75ft W; was as high as a 4 story building and could hold 522 modern RR cars, or 125,000 sheep sized animals. Moses wrote the Geneses Bible section in c1450 BC. Dr. Henry Morris ran a scale model in a hydraulic tank and found the 6 to 1 and 10 to 1 shape ratios made the craft very stable: it always ended up with the small end facing the waves.

      Dr. Walt Brown believes the pre flood earth was flattish with low hills and shallow lakes. Per the Journal of Science Vol 261 of 16 Jul 1993, Germans scientists found salty hot water at 2.5 miles in the earth's interior; then Russians scientists also found water at 15 miles down. This could account for the bible's "fountains of the deep" bursting forth. Some creationist believe this water in the earth interior was the main flood source but some also came from the collapse of the vapor canopy in the heavens. There was supposedly mountain upheavals (Gn 19)  - so marine fossils on the Himalayan and other mountain tops - and the flood waters drained off to form today's vast oceans. Hill claims there's been many sightings of this [Hagopian] ark on Mt. Ararat - hanging over a ledge under the ice sheet - and it is shown on classified CIA satellite photos with a skylight on top. Prof. Hill heads up an Ark Research Ministry group at 107 Buckingham Dr., Lynchburgh, VA 24502 1-804-239-7070 which goes there in the Aug-Sept one month ice melt period in a BlackHawk helicopter. Both Dr.s Bixler and Hill think Ron Wyatt is wrong on his belief the Ark remains (below) are on Mt. Cudi.

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    Noah Fasoldian Ark? - There's a 2nd Ark contender. While routinely examining aerial surveillance photos of his country in 1959, a Turkish army Air Force Pilot Captain,Sevkit Kurtis, There, on a mountain 20 miles south of Mt. Ararat, the biblical landfall of Noah's Ark, was a boat-shaped form about 500 feet long. The captain passed on the word. Soon an expedition including American scientists set out for the site. In September. 1960, Ron Wyatt read the Ark article in "Life" Magazine about this strange boat-shaped formation.  He went there in 1977.

    Later he and David Fasold went together there. On Mount Cudi 20 miles south of Mt. Ararat at a 6350 elevation above sea level, after it was allegedly raised by a strange Turkey earthquake on April 15, 1948 (the exact date when Israel became a nation). The ship wasn't accurately measured until March 1985 then re-measured in June of 1990. David Fasold published his "The Ark of Noah" hardcover book in 1988.

    David Deal's website has excellent photos and narrative on the Fasoldian Ark, the great stone anchors, and the "Mesha / Naxuan" city of Noah.  In July 1997, the city was discovered by researcher and author, David Allen Deal from military maps. The center of Mesha / Naxuan lies at these geographic coordinates: 44 degrees, 18 minutes east longitude, by 39 degrees 23 minutes north latitude, approximately 2 kilometers from the ark's final resting place. It apparently had slid down from Mt. Ararat in a mud slide. See
    http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/discmap.htm.
    http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/index.htm
    http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/6.htm

    Fasoldian Noah's Ark was Seaworthy - The described length of the Biblical Noah and the Babylonian Gilgamesh ship have since been found to be exactly the same when measured in English inches per Mr. Samuel R. Windsor, a ship designer. The measured length is 515 feet, or 6180 inches, which is exactly 294.28 great Babylonian cubits and 300 Egyptian cubits.

    David Fasold opinioned that when the Noah descendants settled, then later spread across the world, the same survival ark ship story became represented in the different languages and different measurements systems in the different cultures of the time. Also the ship was still known to exist and could have been remeasured in olden times by different cultures in different cubits such as the Babylonian cubit and Egyptian cubit.

    This Fasoldian Noah ship would have been "seaworthy" in the Noah Flood conditions by today's post WW II Civil Engineering Standards developed by the National Aeronautical and Civil Administration. Oddly, the ship site as analyzed by John Baumgardner of the U.S. Government Los Alamos Laboratories, contained Aluminum, Magnesium and Titanium slag.

      (The Charles Hall electrolytic Process for Aluminum smelting wasn't discovered until the late 1800's; the Kroll Process for Titanium wasn't discovered until the early 1900's and the 85% pure manganese nodules found there can only be obtained today by electrolysis.)
    However, Fasold believes the ship's skin was ferrocement containing the above chemicals. There's also an argument that the ship site is just a natural rock formation. Nevertheless, Turkey has declared the ship site a national park named "Noah's Ark."
    [JP: If there was no ancient flood where only a small handful of humans survived, one can account for the 230+ worldwide folklore of so many different cultures, and why there is no living tree or other natural entity older that the flood date, nor why a relic of a huge ship would be existing at 6350 elevation above mean sea level, high on the side of a inland mountain far from the sea.]
    Pre-Flood Knowledge Transmission - If you were personally told all earth would be destroyed but you and your small family would alone survive in a vessel to re-colonize a different but barren world, what would you take with you on board?

    I think you would take seeds, cuttings, and useful animals, but you would also take on board books of the accumulated knowledge of humanity. If nothing else a book of your favorite cooking recipes. The Noah biblical account strangely doesn't mention Noah taking any books or knowledge on the Ark.

    Professor Peter Tompkins in his "Secrets of the Great Pyramid" 1971, Harper & Row Publishers, NY SBN# 06-014327-4 in pp 214-on has,

    "Arab authors recount that the pyramids were built before the deluge by a king who had a vision the world would be turned upside down..." "the king placed in the pyramids accounts of all he had learnt from the wisest men of the times...", "Arab legends maintain that the Great Pyramid not only contained representation of the stars and their cycles, but also a history and chronicle of the times past and future..."

    Hermes Trismegistos (the Hebrew Enoch) having ascertained from the appearance of the stars that the deluge would take place, built the pyramids to contain books of science and knowledge and other matters worth preserving from oblivion and ruin...."

    "... the seeds of Egypt's greatness were sown by a few colonists who entered the country peaceably and organized the carrying out of great construction works."

    Design of Great Pyramid - The evolutionists and historians might portray early man as walking on his knuckles, and the condensed Bible pre-flood accounts sometimes seem to be of sleep-walking colorless individuals. But the Fasoldian-Noah's Ark, the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Ark of the Covenant have similar advanced design dimensions.  The supposed date of the Great pyramid construction (3 centuries before the flood?) falls into Noah's lifetime period,

    All the objects contain the sacred "golden section" mathematical ratio (0.618 or 1.618) and other advanced mathematics throughout their design suggesting a highly advanced culture existed before the Noah flood occurred. My tentative date estimate of pyramid construction is c2574 BC about 230 years before the Noah flood of c2344. (Some estimates vary back to 10,000 BC. ) This pyramid may even contain mathematical concepts unknown to our scientific culture today.

    In August 2003, I accidently found there had been Carbon dating from 15 samples in May/Jun 1986
    yielding an Egyptian Great Pyramid construction date of 2606 BC to 2583 BC (within 32 years of my 2574 bc estimate.) See http://edgarcayce.org/am/pyramidage1.html.

    Concidently there has been recently found Chinese Pyramids 1000 ft high estimated built around 2852 bc - 2206 bc, which could have been constructed in this same Noah timeframe. See http://edgarcayce.org/am/chinapyramids1.html. The Chinese Pyramids (off limits to westerners) open a question of whether non-MidEast cultures also knew of a coming flood and mankind destruction, and then also preserved some knowledge inside their Chinese pyramid capsules.
     

      Insert:  In a website by Bernard Pietsch's Research at http://www.gizapyramid.com/pietsch.htm, he looks at the measurements of the floor slabs in the Giza Great Pyramid King's chamber and believes they represent our solar planets. See his website for details. His image is below:

      He works through numerous lengths, widths, diagonals and cubic inches and comparison of one planet slab to another to come up with pages of mathematical relationships of the planet's periods, arcs, circumferences, etc. All of which suggest the ancients had a profound knowledge of astrophysics which weren't known (re-discovered) until the 18th to 20th century. But he also finds "natural logarithm", "speed of light", "ratio between the system of common and natural logarithms", "the value for chaos", "gravitational number", "magnetic orbit", "pounds per cubic foot of water", "length of a one second pendulum", etc. He concludes "The persistence of these various relationships suggests an ancient recognition of the elemental connection between systems of linear measure, volume, weight, and the abstraction called gravity."

      [JP: Bernard Pietsch's conclusions have not yet been verified by others, and the accuracy to 8 decimal places of an inch doesn't seem realistic in actual manual measurements, but could have been the ideal design blueprint for the stone cutters. A more staggering problem to me is that all these planetary relationships and mathematics weren't supposed to be known until well after 1600 AD, and the Chaos theory and number of post WW II is so recent that few people have heard about it. The Christopher Columbus voyage of 1492 gave a proof the earth was round (as the Egyptians knew), not flat as was popularly supposed in Europe. The dimpled Pyramid side could only be discovered from high in the air by an airplane under certain sunlight conditions, which required that aircraft be invented.]



    Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) had been holding up publication on his general theory of gravitation on an accurate  knowledge of the circumference of the earth (which he thought was embodied in the design of the Great Pyramid.) Afterwards, Newton was able to publish his general theory of gravitation - that all bodies in the universe attract each other in proportion to the product of their mass and inversely as the square of their distance apart - and so launch a new era of physics. - Tompkins p 31,32.

       

    Moses Ark of Covenant          Coffer photo showing corner chipped away by tourists
    Photo from http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/pyramid.htm, also see Tompkins p 104.

    Worth Smith points out that the cubic capacity of the coffer is exactly the same as the biblical Ark of the Covenant. (in Tompkins p 278.)

    Alvarez Lopez in Tompkins p 266 claims the dimensions of the coffer are a perfect astronomical atlas designed to include the distance from the earth to the sun, the weight of the earth and the moon, the weight of the sun relative to the earth and moon, the weight of the earth relative to the moon, the value of the absolute cubic meter, and the polar raduis of the earth in terms of the absolute meter... the discovery of these figures was perhaps the hardest job yet mastered by man... Were the coffer not so badly chipped and worn, it might give us more exact astronomical figures than we now possess.
     

      [JP: So, where did this culture of people 4000 to 2000 years ago obtain such sophisticated precise knowledge like the circumference and weight of the round earth? It appears to me that someone in prehistoric antiquity either had an IQ equal to or greater than a Newton or Einstein, or that Divine knowledge was given these people on the pyramid design. The standard textbook portrayal of ignorant antiquity must be completely off, otherwise this pyramid in Egypt can not be existing at all. The Flavius Josephus statement above on Seth's descendant's astrophysics knowledge, seems to fit the existing facts better than other conjectures.]



    Piri Reis 1513 Map                                                                              Only part of Piri Reis World Map

    Reis's 1513 First Map of the World - In 1929, a group of historians found an amazing map drawn on a gazelle skin. Research showed that it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century. His passion was cartography. His high rank within the Turkish navy allowed him to have a privileged access to the Imperial Library of Constantinople. Turkish Admiral (Reis means Admiral) Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed of the Ottoman Empire set out to produce a map of the world. In his preface to the "Bahriye" he refers to his 1513 map and says that he has made use of all the known source maps, including those on the Chinese seas and the Indian Ocean, which were unknown in the western world at that time - some of which dated back to the fourth century BC or earlier. had themselves been based on even older sources, which in turn had been based on sources more ancient still, originating in the farthest antiquity. He also records that he presented it to Sultan Selim II.

    From a note in the margin hand-written by the author himself, we conclude that the map was drawn by Piri at Gelibolu between March and April of 1513 (Arabic 919). Although Piri had drawn a map of the whole world, the portion we now have of it is only of the western coasts of Europe and Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, Central and North Americas. The maps are today kept in the Agalar Camisi Masque at the Palace of Topkapi in Constatinople. In one of these notes Piri cites his references and some twenty maps he had made use of. The "map of Columbus" (the "Portuguese infidel") in Piri's possession. was drawn in 1498.

    The Controversy - The Piri Reis map shows North America, South America, Greenland and Antarctica which had not yet been discovered in 1513. Drawn in 1513, the map demonstrates an uncanny knowledge of South America -- and not only of its eastern coast but of the Andes Mountains on the western side of the continent, which were of course unknown at the time. The map correctly shows the Amazon River rising in these unexplored mountains and thence flowing eastward. Although they remained undiscovered until 1592, the Falkland Islands appear on the 1513
    map at their correct latitude. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region, which remained undiscovered until 1818 CE, more than 300 years after he drew the map, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap. The official science has been saying all along that the ice-cap which covers the Antarctic is million years old. A seismic profile wasn't made across the top of the ice-cap until the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.  The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC. Further and more accurate studies have proven that the last period of ice-free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago. There are still doubts about the beginning of this ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC.
     

      [JPP side note: The Dr. Mack Brown hyrdoplate analysis, suggests the ice age occured right after the world flood (), so there could have been preflood ancient voyagers mapping Antartica before Noah.]


    The U.S. Navy Hydrographic Bureau found the Piri map so accurate that they were able to correct some errors in the present days maps!! To draw the 1513 map it was necessary to use the spheroid trigonometry, a process supposedly not know until the middle of 18th century. Further study by Dr. Richard Strachan, at MIT concluded that in order to draw such maps, the authors had to know about the spheroid trigonometry, the curvature of the earth, methods of projection; knowledge that is of a very high level.  The first instrument to calculate the longitude in a approximately correct way has been invented in 1761 by the english  John Harrison, two centuries after the 1513 Piri map.

    Another amazing chart is the one drawn by the Turkish Hadji Ahmed, in year 1559, in which he shows a land stripe, about 1600 Km. wide, that joins Alaska and Siberia. Such a natural bridge has since been covered by the ocean due to the end of the glacial period, which rose up the sea level.  Oronteus Fineus was another one who drew a map of incredible precision. He too represented the Antarctic with no ice-cap, in the year 1532. There are maps showing Greenland as two separated islands, as it was confirmed by a  polar French expedition which found out that there is an ice cap quite thick joining what it is actually two islands.

    Dr. Hapgood also found a cartographic document copied by an older source carved on a rock column, China, in the year 1137. It showed the same high level of technology of the other western charts, the same grid method, the same use of spheroid trigonometry. It has so many common points with the western ones that it makes think more than reasonably, that there had to be a common source. Could it be a lost civilization, maybe the same one which has been chased by a thousands years so far? A question is: Who mapped the Queen Maud Land of Antarctic 6000 years ago? Which unknown civilization had the technology or the need to do that?  Was there a lost civilization in remote times? There is no known civilization known to history that had the capacity or need to survey that coastline in the relevant period, i.e. between 13,000 BCE and 4000 BCE?

    Evidence exists the early maps were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria in Egypt and the compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there. Piri Reis had probably come into possession of charts once located in the Library of Alexandria, the well-known most important library of the ancient times. According to Dr. Hapgood's reconstruction, copies of these documents and some of the original source charts were transferred to other centers of learning, and among them to Constantinople. Then in 1204, year of the fourth crusade, when the Venetians entered Constantinople, those maps begun to circulate among the European sailors. Dr. Hapgood supported by Dr. Albert Einstein in 1953 proposed that the skin of the earth slides at times and Antarctica was once outside the Antarctic ice circle when it was mapped. This hypothesis hasn't been accepted.

    The Piri Reis Map seems to contain surprising collateral evidence in support of the thesis of a geologically recent glaciation of parts of Antarctica following a sudden southwards displacement of the earth's crust. Moreover since such a map could only have been drawn prior to 4000 BCE, its implications for the history of human civilization are staggering. Prior to 4000 BCE there are supposed to have been no civilizations at all. In short, the factual evidence of the Piri Reis map appears to contradict the existing thinking on civilizations, physics, dating, etc. It also places a vast cultural knowledge base back to Egypt in remote times.  - Portions of this Piri Reis insert were taken from http://www.prep.mcneese.edu/engr/engr321/preis/afet/afet6.htmThe Second Map of America and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932813429/morganasobservatA/ .

    Related Geometric Discoveries? - Jim Alison claims that the major ancient cities and sacred sites (including the Great Pyramid) around the world are all on a single belt line around the earth. See http://home.hiwaay.net/~jalison/ and http://home.hiwaay.net/~jalison/wall.html. A recent satellite mapping of the earth's ocean bottoms matched by computer with ship radar soundings is showing apparent underground man-made monuments and deep lines (like canals) linking many of them, especially off the Bahamas and off Cuba. see http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html, http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discov_3b.html, http://db2.cyberweb1.com/21stcenturyradio/tree/frame.asp?page=audioarchives.html.

    Pyramid Prophecy in Stone - Various folk have reputedly discovered supernatural prophecies using one pyramid inch equals one solar year down the descending shaft and up to the King's chamber, and relate the stone changes or design marks to the periods of the Exodus, the birth of Christ, and wars of our 20th Century, suggest this may be a 'Bible prophecy' in the stone construction, of which humanity appears to be near the climax end point, just as our knowledge of the pyramid meaning increases. The entrance to the King's chamber is supposedly the date about 1914 AD. Some end-time prophecy references:
     

  1. Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association at http://www.gizapyramid.com/pyr.htm
  2. George A. Riffert at http://www.rdrop.com/~jsexton/pyramid/ [1953+]
  3. Elijah Penn at http://greatpyramid.org/aip/gr-pyr2.htm [1844+ date]
  4. Ben Abraham at http://www.benabraham.com/index.html [1844+ date]
  5. Bahaullah at http://www.bahaullah.net/pyramid/Return_of_Jesus/return_of_jesus.htm [April 21st, 1963]
  6. New Dawn Magazine at http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Prophecy%20and%20the%20Great%20Pyramid.html [2001 AD]
  7. Jack Van Impe from TV program, based on Israel rebirth+ 1 generation [2018]. Update from MSNBC Aug 13 "Is the Bush administration turning to a televangelist doomsayer for political predictions? Apocalyptic preacher Jack Van Impe is claiming that he was contacted by Condoleezza Rice’s office and the White House Office of Public Liaison for an “outline” of his take on world

    8. events... He has predicted that the end of the world will strike somewhere between 2003 and 2012..." Says Van Impe '‘[President Bush] will know exactly what is going to happen in the Middle East and what part he will have under the leading of the Holy Spirit of God...He will know exactly what is going to happen in the Middle East and what part he will have under the leading of the
    Holy Spirit of God. So, it’s a tremendous time to be alive.’
  8. Larry at http://bibleprophecy.net/6000.htm [2030 AD]
  9. Daily prophecies at InJesus Website [Very Soon, 2003+] at http://www.InJesus.com/Messages.cfm?CFID=1946438&CFTOKEN=60327172&UCD=dbz
  10. Art Bell at http://www.europa.com/edge/giza.html [1914+] Art Bell's website shows [Graph#1 below] the intersection of the Queen's Chamber floor with the Ascending Passage as it opens to the Grand Gallery creates a triangle depicting the life of Christ in terms of sacred Jewish inches. When the Christ Angle is superimposed over a map of the Great Pyramid and the Holy Land, the birthplace of Jesus can be identified. [Graph#2] show the pyramid prophecy to 1914 at the entrance to the King's Chamber.
  11. Isaac Newton - 2nd Coming about 2050. [Memo: About 90% of Newton's writings concerned Biblical prophecy, rather than physics.]

     
      [JP: In my speculation, the empty coffer in the King's Chamber - where no coffin lid nor burial mummy was ever found - is likely a symbolic message in stone of the "empty tomb" which, as the Jerusalem "Empty Tomb" symbolized Jesus 1st Coming resurrection,  could represent and predict a resurrection rapture of Christians at the 2nd Coming End Times. A date of about 2000 - 2040 AD might fit. [One can't guess the day nor hour, but might guess at the year.]

      Once one accepts that prediction prophecies 2000+ years ahead of the 1st coming could only be accurate if they come from Divine Providence, then one must give credit to most or all of the Great Pyramid design as being from God through some human being. Then one might also expect this human being pyramid draftsman to be some member of the genetic line from Adam to Noah, which is the Seth to Shem line, both ancestors of Mayme Alice Mitchell Peck.]

      Note that Noah's son Shem (d 1842 BC) who was chosen to survive on the Noah Ark was still alive when his later descendant Jacob was young, and he was alive when the Great Pyramid was built and could have even designed it. Shem was Jacob's great great great great great great great great great great grandfather (his 9th Great grandson), still alive when Jacob was born.

      [JP: If the Noah flood happened as over 230 cultures believe, (some say 270 cultures) then there are at least two physical artifacts possibly existing from the pre-flood civilization: the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Fasoldian (or other) Noah's Ark, both of which required 20th century science and post WW II aircraft to both find, measure, and partially understand. Both of these contain advanced mathematical designs, and both seem to be designed to be brought to light in our current era after aircraft were invented. The Great Pyramid exists today, and when one looks at the pre-Noah historic evidence from the pyramid artifact alone, it is clear that there was an existing ancient culture of non apes with advanced mathematics and prophecy in prehistory days.]
       
       

    Prophecy in Literature that might relate to the Great Pyramid -

    Josephus writes in The Antiquities of the Jews 1.2.3:
    "They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day."
    .
    Jer. 32:20: "God has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day."
    .
    Isaiah 19:19 "In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of Egypt, and a monument at the border there to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign, and a witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt."
     

      JPP Note: Please note that there were 3 Noah sons (Shem, Japheth and Ham) with wives who survived the flood. The Biblical Genesis story apparently came through the Shem line. At the Babylon Tower dispersion time, the three lines might have each carried their own remembered version of the flood story to different areas, which could account for the 230+ different flood myths amongst various cultures.

      One belief by Bill Cooper, author of "After the Flood" Published in Creation, the Journal of the Creation Science Movement, Vol. 13, No. 8, May 2003 is that the gods and heroes of various myths of Egypt, Greeks, Romans, etc. were just variations on the original preflood Biblical Patriarchs. Mike Gascolgne in his "Forgotten History"  labels a view as "Creation History" vs "Creation Science." In a loose sense, the story line on this webpage might be viewed as "Creation Genealogy", since the sequential generations are directly linked that way to Mayme Mitchell Peck.
       

    Now we enter the more historic period


    Abraham & Isaac                      Isaac sacrifice            Burial Cave of Machpelah

    Jacob's wrestle with God                  Jacob's well                                                             Land of Goshen in Egypt


    Map of Modern Iraq

    1 Chronicles 1:27  Abram; the same is Abraham.
    1 Chronicles 1:28  The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
    1 Chronicles 1:34  And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

    Patriarch Abraham's Covenant - Abram (c2004 BC, of the Noah-Shem family line) was personally chosen by Yahweh God and told to leave his country of Ur in Chaldea for a new land. He left Ur with his half sister wife Sarai. Sarai gave birth to Ishmael, ancestor of the Arabs. Before his son Isaac was born, God changed Abram's name to "Abraham" and Sarai's name to "Sarah." Abraham was also tested in offering this son Isaac as sacrifice on Mount Mariah (which was a prefiguring of God's only son Jesus sacrifice.) In the Bible, God made unconditional promises to Abraham which passed by genetic inheritance to his son Isaac then to Jacob (renamed Israel by God). By my estimation the unconditional promises were these:

    A) Land & Wealth         (See Gn 12:1-2, 15:18, 25:11, 27:26-29,  28:13-14, 28:15)
    B) Spiritual blessing to others      (See Gn 12:1-2, 22:16-18, 49:10)
    C) Many seed offspring  (See Gn 12:1-2, 18:15, 22:16-18, 25:23,  26:3-5,  25:11)
    D) Kings and Rulers       (See Gn  12:1-2, 27:26-29, 27:29, 35:11)
    E) Personal Blessing       (See Gn  12:1-2, 20:3-5, 26:3-5, 27:26-29)
    The promises were unconditional by Gn 17:7.

     [JP Memo: Noah was still alive when Abraham was 50 and Sarah was age 19.]

    There were also unconditional promises made to Ishmael, Abram's son by Haggar the Egyptian maid:
     
      A) Many seed offspring                          (See Gn 16:10)
      B) A great nation, 12 Kings and Rulers     (Gn 21:18, 17:20)


    Patriarch Jacob - In a dream, Abraham's grandson Jacob wrestled with God and was given a new name, "Israel". When Jacob and his large family of 70 descendants (Gn 46:27 & Ex 1:4) migrated to Goshen Egypt and was near death, he split up the inheritance promises and passed them on to mostly to Judah and Joseph & sons. My prelininary estimate is this:

    To Joseph and his two sons Epraim and Manassah:
    (A) Land & Wealth (Gn 48:21, 48:22-on)
    (C) Many offspring to Epraim (Gn 48:18-20: Will be a Company of Nations)
    (C) Many offspring to Manassah (Gen 48:18-20: Will be a great Nation)

    To Judah:
    (B) Blessing to others (Gn 49:10 Jesus, the Messiah Son of God in his line)
    (D) Israelian Kings and Rulers (Gn 49:8-10 Authority over the brother Israel tribes)
    (D) Kings and Rulers (Gn 49:8-10 Jesus - Mace-staff between his feet won't depart)
    (D) World Kings and Rulers (Gn 49:8-10 Until Shiloh come [Jesus comes])

    JPP Memo Insert - Herbert W. Armstrong in his booklet, "The United States and Britain in Prophecy,' 1942-1980 postulates that the descendants of Jacob broke the Moses covenant and came under a 2520 year curse from 720 BC to about 1800 AD. He believes the Epraim line is the U.S. and the Manassah line is Great Britain, and the curse was lifted about the time of the Louisiana Purchase when the U.S. began the long road to superpower status. However, his book is believed by history and theology experts to contain many serious theological and genealogical errors.

    The alleged geographical site where Abraham went to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Mariah is reputed to now be the Muslim "Dome of the Rock" temple in Jerusalem, a spot of ongoing Muslim-Jewish fierce contention. This Jerusalem city and the Valley of Armageddon figure prominently in the New Testament accounts of the 2nd Coming of Jesus. Abraham bought a grave site called the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron in which the 3 Patriarchs and 3 Matriarchs were all later buried.
    Note: A strange supernatural light drew Ron Wyatt there in 1979, and on April of 1993 he believes he re-discovered this burial Cave in Hebron. He speculates the ancient site directly above the cave, which had an ancient altar, was where God spoke with Abraham about the upcoming destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gn 18:16) for the sin given that name, and the three double-occupancy crypts are empty because he believes they were resurrected after Jesus was crucified (per Mt 27: 50-53) when, "graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." One folklore report has the Patriarchs among the resurrected. Near this site were a great many reported ancient graves which might have been the burials of Jacob's (Israel's) sons and their family members.
    1 Chronicles 2:1  These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
    1 Chronicles 2:3  The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess.
    1 Chronicles 2:4  And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
    1 Chronicles 2:5  The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

    In the land of Goshen in Egypt, Judah and Tamar brought the twin sons Pharez and Zarah (Gn 46;11) and Pharez sons Hezron and Hamul. who inherited the Abraham-Judah promises from God. From here the genetic lines branch out to Pharez's and son Hezron, and to Zarah's three sons Ethan, Calcol and Darda (1 Chron 2:3 on). As best I can tell the (B) "Blessings to others" was Jesus who came in about ( 0 ) BC. The "Shiloh" of (D) must be Jesus at the second coming world Kingship which hasn't occurred on earth yet. The Pharez line later became the God-Anointed Royal King Dynasty of Israel and Judea as shown below.
     

      JP genealogy insight note - During the course of this genealogy study I found an unexpected scripture was running through my head from Hosea 11:1  "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." At the time of the exodus from Egypt, Jacob (Israel) had been long dead, so the Lord seems to view all Jacob genetic descendants as a single person when He referred to them as "my son."

      This suggested two things to me: the first is that the Lord is quite aware of the genetic blood line of each living person versus His chosen patriarchs, and would insure that the covenant promises and blessings would befall them throughout all historic time. The second was that each genetic line pouring forth from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob could be viewed as "a single person" walking through time in world history. I took on the second viewpoint and tracked the (later) American emigrants of Barnett, New, Allen, etc. as if their lineage generations were a single person. I then asked myself, "Why did this 'single person' pull up stakes and migrate onwards." This led me to a study of weather patterns like the El Nino effect, and how weather could account for sudden migrations at "the year of no summer," and "the year of no rain", etc. It put family genealogy history in a new light.



     

      JPP Note - The Israelites exodus from Egypt led by Moses apparently occured in the lifetime or ancestor Aram, who was born in Egypt but died in Judah. See also Worldnet Daily News of 16 Aug 2003, "Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea?" where recent chariot wheels have been located. at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=1309.



    Stonehedge, England built Est 1680 BC per Sir. Norman Lockyer
    corroborated on computer by astronomer Gerld S. Hawkis,
    approximate time when Israel's descendants were in Egypt.


    Ark of Covenant__________Birth of Jesus____________________Tribes Map

    Kings David & Solomon - Mayme's ancestor King David wrote the Biblical Psalms and his son King Solomon built a earthly house for God known as the splendid 'Solomon's Temple' on Mount Mariah (the same mount where Abraham's earlier sacrifice trial was) to contain the Moses Ark of the Covenant. 2 Ch 3:1,

    "The Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moraih, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David prepared in the threshing floor of Oman the Jebusite."
    There's also some archaeology artifacts and scripture history that King's Solomon and Hirim sailed to North, Central and South America in the 960 BC period and returned every 3 years with gold and maybe silver. But this King Solomon displeased God by worshiping his (many) wive's pagan gods, and he displeased the Israel citizens with his high taxation. When Solomon died and his son Rehoboam took the throne, the citizens asked for tax relief. King Rehoboam refused and threatened to raise taxes even more. Ten tribes then revolted (the House of Joseph) and set up their own nation north of Jerusalem which was then labeled "Israel". This territory would later be called "Samaria." after a captivity. King Rehoboam was left with only the tribe of Juduh and Benjamin plus some loose Levy tribe members (the House of Judah.) His nation was called "Judah."

    Israel's Captivity - The House of Joseph (now called Israel) displeased God by worshiping false pagan gods. In the time of King Ahaz in Israel around 721 BC the 10 tribes of Israel were overcome in war and hauled away as captives to Persia. They lost their identity and their Yahweh religion, then later apparently migrated out or Persia to become the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel." Foreigners were imported to their former land which then became known as 'Samaria', having a non-Yahweh faith. It was known as Samaria during the time of Jesus.

    Judah's Babylon Captivity - Then the remaing House of Judah, now called the "Jews" displeased God by also worshiping false pagan gods. During King Zedekiah's reign they were taken captive and removed to Babylon. During this Babylon captivation period, the Prophet Jeremiah took the Ark of the Covenant along with other Temple objects and hid it in a secret cave later known as the 'Cave of Jeremiah.' (see 2 Mac 2:4) Jeremiah said in 2 Mac 7,

    "This place [cave] is to remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy. Then the Lord will bring these things once more to light, and the glory of the Lord will be seen, and so will the cloud, as it was revealed in the time of Moses and when Solomon prayed that the holy Place might be gloriously hallowed."
    The reference to the glory of the Lord and the cloud may be referring to the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, as was prophecized to the apostles as Jesus ascended into heaven. The time of the finding of this Ark is also in Jeremiah (Jr 3:18) and Ezekiel (Ez 11:17),
    "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."
    The house of Israel would return home according to God in Ez 37:21,
    "The Lord Yahweh says this: I am going to take the sons of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in my own land..."
    When the Jews (house of Judah) returned from Babylon captivity they never found the Ark, nor was the house of Israel (the ten lost tribes) returned from Persia with them. This final Exodus is widely believed to begun on 15 May 1948 when Israel became a nation.
     
      [JP Note: When the Jews returned from Babylon, the house of Israel did not come with them. It is possible that the time of the return of both houses (Judah and Israel) could be started at the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel and the Exodus of Jews there. What is missing is the finding of the Ark of the Covenant and the visible glory of God. However even today there are Levite Priests being trained for Temple duty and the Temple implements have already been made, for a supposed time when there will be a rebuilt temple.]



    Prophet Jeremiah by Donatello 1423-26 in Florence
    from http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/d/donatell/1_early/duomo/7jerem_1.html

    Prophet Jeremiah and the Ark of Covenant - Also in Mayme's direct line is the Prophet Jeremiah who was the one who secreted the Ark of the Covenant and Temple Objects in a cave during King Zechariah's captivity time, and has lain hidden for 2600 years,

    [which **allegedly** has been found on January 6, 1982 inside Mount Moriah in Palestine territory by Ron Wyatt, guarded by four visible angels.

    The cave measured 22 feet long by 12 feet on 2 sides, while the other 2 sides followed the line of the cliff-face, forming a chamber that narrowed down in one corner. He felt confident in identifying: the Ark of the Covenant in the Stone case; the Table of Shewbread; the Golden Altar of Incense that was in front of the veil; the Golden Censer; the seven-branched Candlestick holder, (which didn't have candles but had tiny, bowl-like golden oil lamps which are built into the tips of the candlestick); a very large sword; an Ephod; a Miter with an ivory pomegranate on the tip; a brass shekel weight; numerous oil lamps; and a brass ring which appeared to be for hanging a curtain or something similar. On the back of the Ark is a small open cubicle which still            contains the "Book of the Law" and is presumably the one Moses, himself, wrote.  Ron claims he found the Scrolls, written on animal skins, to be in perfect condition.

    Supposedly sixteen people of the Israel Antique Ministry have since died of heart attacks in this Jeremiah Cave trying to remove this Covenant Ark and Temple objects to safe Israel territory according to Mr. Wyatt's reports.

    See also Worldnet Daily News interview of Ron Wyatt before his cancer death, "New claim over discovery of the lost Ark of the Covenant," original article 9 Aug 1999 at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=13093.

    The crucifixion site [above the Ark cave] was found on the side of the Golgotha hill, or Place of the Skull just outside the old north wall of Jerusalem, not far from the Garden Tomb. The site appears to have evidence that it was once enclosed in a first century building, apparently a church. The site includes a large round stone which perfectly fits the Garden Tomb -- accepted by many as the place from which the body of Christ rose from the dead.  Wyatt claimed that he was authorized to make his excavations by the Antiquities Department, but that bureaucrats within that agency insisted that his findings must be kept secret. He was told that Jewish extremists might view the discovery as a sign that it was time to rebuild the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The Muslim Dome of the Rock now sits on the site that Jewish fundamentalists believe must one day be destroyed and a new Jewish temple built. Wyatt has made public a significant amount of his research and findings, but he withheld certain documents and photographs to comply with the supposed agreement he made with Israeli officials. His refusal to provide everything, resulted in criticism from some.

    "WorldNetDaily has examined extensive evidence regarding the various claims and discoveries made by Wyatt for several weeks. Several critics have been found who have voiced their opinion that the work of Wyatt Archaeological Research is fraudulent, but evidence to support those charges cannot be found. The evidence is sufficient to conclude that Wyatt's team conducted the claimed archeological digs and investigations. WorldNetDaily is not qualified to determine the value of the evidence. Wyatt was given a deathbed opportunity to either reaffirm or recant his claims. He chose to reaffirm all that he has claimed without hesitation."]

    WorldNetDaily later made contact with sources within the U.S. intelligence community that have been reliable in past investigations. Experts on both Israeli and Muslim politics and beliefs were contacted to determine their assessment on the impact of Wyatt's discoveries.

    Both sources expressed disbelief that the Israeli government wanted to hide the discovery for the reason they gave Wyatt. Instead both agreed that it was likely the Israelis are concerned that when Jews learn of the connection of the crucifixion site with the Ark of the Covenant there could be large conversions [to Christianity] which would threaten Jewish control of the government, assuming that the discoveries are true.

    Blood on Mercy Seat - Mr. Wyatt says there's clear indications that this Jeremiah Cave was 20 feet directly below the true Jesus Crucifixion site and the Jesus blood and body serum had flowed down through an earthquake crack onto the Ark's Mercy seat where spotless lambs used to be offered in atonement for sins in the Jewish Temple 600 years before the crucifixion.
    [JP note: During the Jesus crucifixion, there was a solar eclipse and a strange earthquake. People had to carry lamps to see on the streets. The earthquake ripped the curtain of the Holy of Holies in the Jewish Temple. Jewish law required all deaths to be buried the same day they occurred - the Jewish day ended at nightfall. The solar eclipse and darkness could have thrown the Jesus relatives and Romans into a panic to be sure the three crucified men were dead and to get them off their crosses and buried right away while there was still daylight and while it was still the day before the Saturday Sabbath. The Romans broke the men's legs to kill them, and with Jesus they stuck a spear into his side and heart to be sure he was already dead. A number of Jewish laws and customs dictated that mostly relatives would take care of the body burial - which can help to define who were Jesus relatives at the crucifixion scene.].
    Scientific laboratory analysis of the dried blood from the earthquake crack and the Mercy Seat - according to Mr. Wyatt - shows it is still 'alive' today after 2000 years and doesn't have the normal 46 chromosomes, but has 23 chromosomes from the mother but only one chromosome from the father instead of the usual 23 male ones. This unique hard evidence blood suggests the birth mother of the crucified man was a virgin and/or the crucified man didn't have a natural human father.

    [JP: The Catholic Church maintains that Mary the mother of Jesus was a virgin before his birth, during his birth and after his birth. She is titled the Virgin Mary, Mother of God.]

    Future - The Muslims don't believe Jesus is God, the Jews don't believe Jesus is the Messiah, many people don't believe Jesus is the Son of God. If and when the Ark of the Covenant and the Blood information finally becomes public on, say, a CBS six O'clock TV news, there may be an worldwide upheaval in thought of biblical proportions.

    [JP Side note: This family genealogy study began in July of 1998. During 1999 it appeared our ancestral line traced back to European Royalty. As I researched into this possibility, I became aware that the family study seemed to be taking on the characteristics of a Divinely called mission rather than the original secular family project. At one point I prayed about what I should do with the study. I was forthwith directed to a scripture verse in Jeremiah (Jr 32:14),

    "Take these deed, the sealed deed of purchase and its open copy, and put them in an earthenware pot, so that they may be preserved for a long time. For Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this, 'People will buy fields and vineyards in this land again'". - (Jr 32:14)

    Jeremiah had been told to buy a field (land) at Anathoth, from Hanamel, son of Shallum. This was apparently to show confidence that after the Babylon captivity the Jews would return to their land as the Lord Prophecized. I've had this same scripture many times before and it has always meant to me that I am to make a record of something and archive it on my hard drive or a CD for the future.

    [JPP note: Since then, after receiving some later strange instructions I'm not entirely sure of the full meaning of this verse. In Jr 26, the Lord commands the people to return to temple worship or else he will bring disaster. In Jr 27, Jeremiah claimed the Lord says he handed over all countries to King Nebuchadnezzar.  In Jr 29, the Lord said they would be captives for 70 years. In Jr 30 the Lord says he will bring the captives back and they will have a king to be raised up - one of their own. The remnant of Israel will come back from the eland of the North, and from the ends of the earth, a great company returning, He also speaks of Rachel [grandmother of Ephraim and Manasseh] weeping for her children. A New Covenant is coming. In Jr 32, the army of Babylon from Chaldaeans was besieging Jerusalem because the people of Judah had burned incense to Baal and Malaach. Jeremiah, who was imprisoned by King Zedekiah, was ordered to buy land and put the deed in a buried pot because the people will return to the land. Jeremiah instructed his servant Baruch to bury it. In Jr 33, the Lord says he will cleanse the people of their sins. He will reveal great mysteries to Jeremiah. The Lord sayss he will make a virtuous branch [Jesus line] grow for David. Favid shall never lack a male descendant to sit on the throne of the House of Israel [not Judah]... and will rule over the descendants and heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In Jr 43, Jeremiah and Baruch fled to Egypt with the royal princesses and others.

    [JPP note: In 70 years, Jeremiah would have died so the land was not for him. There's no record of his land deed ever being found or claimed by a descendant. Please note too that it is this same Jeremiah who "preserves for a long time" the Ark of the Covenant in an "earthen" cave for the children of Israel to recover in some yet to come (end time?) date. How all this fits together and how it relates to our family genealogy, if it does, is beyond me.]

    [JPP sidenote: Prophet Jeremiah is Mayme's 84th Great Grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar II the Great is Mayme's 97th Great Grandfather, King Zedekiah is Mayme's 79 Great Grandfather, abd Cyrus the Great is Mayme's 93 Great Grandfather. Apparently the key players in this Divine drama are our direct family line.]

    When Cyrus came to power in the time of Daniel the Prophet, he ordered the captives to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their destroyed temple:

    2 Chronicles 36:22, "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,"
    2 Chronicles 36:23, "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up."
    Ezra 1:7, "Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;"
    Ezra 5:13, "But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God."
    Ezra 6:3-5, "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:"
    Isaiah 44:28, "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."
    Daniel 10:1, "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision."

    16 Aug 2003 Update - The World net Daily News in "Real-life raiders hunt Ark of the Covenant" on 16 Aug 2003 at htttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_d=34103, An international group has just completed what it calls its first stage of exploration, spending two weeks beneath Mount Moriah outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem. Some 30 explorers from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Estonia have been in a cave system north of the city's Damascus Gate to try to determine if the Ark is indeed located there.

    The group is trying to verify the claim made by relic hunter Ron Wyatt who said he actually saw the Ark there two decades ago after tunneling through a small passageway. While members of his group are not archaeologists by trade – they're doctors, nurses, structural and construction engineers, and businessmen – they are teaming with professional archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, which has sanctioned the dig.

    This summer's research team used ground-penetrating radar to peer below the surface, trying to pinpoint the alleged tunnel of Jeremiah. They found a void where Ron Wyatt said there would be a passageway at the end of that passageway where Wyatt believed the sacred container rests.

    Excavation Team

    But once the diggers started excavating beneath the wall, they encountered a ceiling problem forcing a halt to the hunt. The people in the Israel antiquities department insisted they stop and do more architectural engineering to determine what it would take to continue safely.

    2006 JPP note: Since this page was written, much of Ron Wyatt's writings have been attacked as fraud and hoaxes.

    Christmas Bethlehem Manger Scene - Today's Christmas scene of the Holy family, birth of Jesus, and manger is the outcome of the parents, descendants of King David, having to travel to the City of Mayme's ancestor David for a Roman Census around 0 BC. The present traditional Christmas manger scene of animals, straw and feed trough was started by St. Francis of Assissi in the 1200s. This Jesus birth was so important that all human time is measured as occurring before Jesus birth or after Jesus death.

    Matthan - Mayme Mitchell's ancestor Pharez line is the exact same as the Jesus Christ lineage listed in Mathew 1:1 of the New Testament down to Matthan, Mayme's 72nd Great Grandfather, the grandfather of Jesus Christ. Matthan had sons Jacob (the father of St. Joseph, Virgin Mary's husband) and St. Joseph of Arithamaea (an Uncle of Jesus.) A large number of Matthan's descendants were the 1st century Saints and Apostles who founded the Christian Religion and Church.
    Most of the Saints and Martyrs are in our indirect line and the lineage cannot be totally confirmed so they are not all included in our formal genealogy data.


    Frescos of Eleazar and Matthan in Sistine Chapel, Vatican by Michaelangelo
    from http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/michelan/3sistina/6lunette/01/


    The Nanteos Cup of Last Supper  Jesus on Cross       Turin Shroud       Turin Shroud            Empty Tomb in Jerusalem


    Sudarium of Oviedo (face Napkin)                    Face Napkin                  Arms of St. Joseph of Arimathea
    Sudarium binary from http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/digest/shroudsudarium.html

    Shroud of Turin - In June-July 2002, a major restoration of the Shroud of Turin was undertaken by its owners. All thirty of the patches sewn into the cloth in 1534 by the Poor Clare nuns to repair the damage caused by the 1532 fire were removed. This allows the first unrestricted view of the actual holes burned into the cloth by the fire. It appears that some of the most seriously charred areas surrounding the burn holes were also removed during the restoration. The backing cloth (known as the Holland Cloth) that was added at the same time, was also removed and replaced with a new, lighter colored cloth, which can now be seen through the burn holes. As you can see, virtually all of the creases and wrinkles that had been previously evident on the Shroud are gone. By scrolling this page up and down, you can compare the cloth as it appeared for over 400 years with its new appearance today. See http://www.shroud.com/examine.htm.

    St. Joseph of Arithamaea - Joseph of Arithamaea was

    Obviously Mayme's ancestor was heavily involved with Jesus body, and the burial place and clothing was from our direct line family. Joseph is named a Saint by the Catholic Church and designated as the patron saint of tin workers and funeral directors. His feast day is March 15. He is also a reputed ancestor of the present Queen Elizabeth of England.

    Holy Grail Cup - This cup was a symbol of the New Covenant at the Last Supper and it would seem that someone would have kept it. It is a highlight of the Catholic Church Mass from the Last Supper till today and will be so until the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. The disciples returned to the Last Supper Upper Room after the crucifixion and probably there they received the Holy Spirit infusion so they could still have had access to the cup.

    There's a legend that Joseph of Arimathea, Mayme's ancestor, obtained the cup of Jesus Last Supper ["Holy Grail'], but another legend says this Cup came into possession of the Welsh Powell family, another of Mayme's ancestor. A connection between the two was found on the Internet as follows:

    "St. Joseph of Arimathea: Ancestor of Kings? The Tradition - During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a group of monks left Glastonbury for Strata Florida Abbey, in South Wales, where they hoped to escape from the ravages of Henry VIII's commissioners. However, the Royal officials soon reached Strata Florida too and the monks were forced to flee over the hills to nearby Nanteos House. Here, the old Prior of Glastonbury became chaplain to the local lord, Mr. Powell, and the other monks became servants around the estate... The "Nanteos Cup", as the supposed Grail became known, remained at the Manor, attracting many pilgrims and performing many apparent miracles until 1952. All this is well documented. At this date, the last of the Powells died. The house (and the cup) were then sold to a Major Merrilees, who later moved to Herefordshire, taking the Nanteos Cup with him. It is understood that it currently resides in a bank vault somewhere. It is a small wooden vessel (5" diameter, 3" deep) in a very poor state today, due to pilgrims' biting large chunks out of it, over the years, in order to aid recovery from their ills."

    The Powell name is derived from the Howell ancestor, Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good. The Welch term "ap" means "Son of", so "ap Howell" means son of Howell, which if said quickly sounds like "Powell", which is what the Howell name changed to over time. The surname Howell is derived from the Welch King Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good), the grandson of King Rhodri Mawr the Great. The Howells (Powells) held kingships from 878-980. This Capain William Powell, The King Howell relation is accepted in surname heraldry research.

    In other words, two of Mayme's direct ancestors apparently had physical possession of the cup of the Last Supper of Jesus the Christ! Also interesting is the "Shroud of Turin" and the "Oviedo Napkin" and the "Empty Tomb" were probably originally from St. Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man predicted in the Old Testament.

    There's also an ***unproven legend*** that the Knights Templar received the cup and took it to Scotland, then voyaged to North America in the 1300's before Columbus, and the Oak Island Mystery location near Nova Scotia, Canada might be associated with them. See http://www.tartans.com/articles/holygrail.html


    St. Joe of A________Glastonbury Abbey________________Glastonbury Hill (Tor)____________King Arthur

    Glastonbury Legends - The Abbey - built by St. Joseph of Arimithea - is traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world. A Christian sanctuary so ancient that only legend can record its origin. The Abbey Ruins was once the most magnificent religious edifice in Britain. It stood on 12 hides of land (the symbolic measure of the New Jerusalem as described by St John in Revelation 21), and originally given to Joseph of Arimathea and the 12 Saints. The Abbey was built according to a prehistoric arcance tradition of sacred geometry known to the masons of the Middle Ages. The proportions of the Abbey relate to the principle numbers of the magic square of the sun. These numbers symbolize various aspects of solar energy and were also used in the construction of Stonehenge, of which the Abbey was spiritual successor. In ancient times, Glastonbury lay in a triangle with the enormous stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury - between them they
    formed a world energy-point. Great circle lines go from Glastonbury to many sacred centres worldwide.

    Glastonbury has long been a pilgrimage place, attracting travellers from far and wide. It was a pilgrimage place in Druidic times (2,000-2,500 years ago) and further back in Megalithic times, 4,000 years ago.  The Tor has many legends connected to it. One says that it was the location of King Arthur's stronghold. King Arthur is linked to the legends of Merlin the Magician. And it is in Avalon that Arthur awaits the day when Britain requires his services as the "once and future king". It is widely believed that finding The Holy Grail that Joseph is said to have hidden was years later the purpose behind the quests of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Supposedly, Arthur was buried in the graveyard of Glastonbury Abbey south of the Lady Chapel. St. Patrick is also buried there.

    Situated on a major acupuncture point of the Earth body, Glastonbury is one of the most powerful energy centers on the planet. Descending the Tor, the Michael and Mary [Ley] lines [Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst] pass precisely through other key sites in Glastonbury's sacred geography, originally discovered by John Miller. Primary among these are the Chalice Well, Glastonbury Abbey and Wearyall Hill. A study of the myths and legends of these places will reveal more associations with that mystical vessel, the Holy Grail. Strange balls of colored lights are frequently seen spiraling around the Tor. The Glastonbury Giants or Zodiac is a great landscape configuration, a circle 10 miles across. The 12 zodiac signs appear in their right order, formed by hills, outlined by roads and rivers. Katherine Maltwood who rediscovered this great circle in the 1930's claimed it as the original Round Table in Avalon with Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin and the Chief Knights still seated about it as the signs of the Zodiac and the seasons of the year. - from http://www.crystalinks.com/glastonburytor.html

    Ley Lines, Crop Circles & Drinking Water -A recent survey of crop circle occurances in England plotted by location suggests they tend to follow the ancient sacred Ley lines between sacred sites, which in turn seem to follow enegy lines in the earth which tend to follow chalk lines in England at whose boundaries water courses are often found, from which almost all the British Islands get their drinking water. Many crop circles embody sacred geometry symbols. The implications of crop circle influence on public drinking water, or vice versa, are not known. See http://www.acacialand.com/lee.html, http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sacredcircle/underground.html,  http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sacredcircle/underground2.html.

    Sudarium of Oviedo [Face Napkin] - In the Cathedral of Oviedo (capital of the Principate of Asturias in Spain), a piece of linen cloth has been venerated since the Middle Ages. According to tradition, this piece of linen was placed over the face of Jesus from when he was taken down from the cross until he was buried. The Sudarium of Oviedo was originally white, although now it is dirty, stained and creased. Its texture is taffeta. It is rectangular, somewhat irregular, and measures roughly 83x53 cm (32.37" x 20.67"). It has numerous stains of different shades, fundamentally of light brown color. It is traditionally called the "Holy Sudarium" or "Holy Face", in spite of there being no face visible on it. from http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/digest/shroudsudarium.html
    and http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22403

    If genuine, the Sudarium was used to cover the face of Christ before the body was taken from the cross. According to Dr. Alan Whanger, professor emeritus of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, by using a process he perfected called the Polarized Image Overlay Technique, he found 70 congruent bloodstains between the front of the Shroud [of Turin] and the Sudarium, and 50 congruent bloodstains on the back. "I think the only explanation for these strikingly similar bloodstains is that both cloths were in touch with the same body," he says. "On the back of the head the lineup of the stains is incredible." The correlation between the two cloths is further strengthened by the discovery that in both cases the blood group is AB, and pollen from several of the same Middle Eastern plants has been found on both pieces of material. - from Shafer Parker "Seeing is believing" at http://report.ca/archive/report/20010101/p42i010101f.html

    [JP: The Cathedral of Oviedo in Spain possessing the Oviedo Napkin was the end point of the long religious pilgrimage trail of Chauncer's Tales.]


    Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
    Ref: catholiceducation.org

    Titulus Crucifixion Sign Board - "The year 2000 also saw publication of The Quest for the True Cross, by Carsten Peter Thiede, professor of New Testament history in Basel, Switzerland, and by Matthew d'Ancona, deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph in London. In Quest, Messrs. Thiede and d'Ancona argue from linguistic and historical evidence that a fragment of walnut wood kept in a reliquary in the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome is possibly the genuine headboard, or Titulus, that proclaimed,

    "Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews"
    above the crucified Christ. If the writers are correct, the Titulus fragment adds to the pile of evidence which indicates the gospels contain real history... What survives is an inch-thick board approximately 10 inches long by five-and-a-half inches wide that was originally painted white. Carved into the wood are two lines of letters in Greek and Latin, and, at the top, a fragment of Hebrew or Aramaic (not enough has survived to offer certainty as to which language it may be). The two lines that can be seen contain a single word that identifies Jesus as the Nazarene." -  from Shafer Parker "Seeing is believing" at http://report.ca/archive/report/20010101/p42i010101f.html
    Other Passion Relics and Notes - St. Irene in c798 AD sent several thorns from the crown of thorns, as well as the seamless tunic of Jesus to Emperor Charlemagne, Mayme's 41st Great Grandfather - per the Catholic Encyclopedia.  Constantinius I Chlorus, Emperor of Rome was St. Joseph of Arimathea 13th Great Grandson. His wife was St. Helena who journeyed to Jerusalem and found the true cross, the crucifixion nails, the titilus, and founded churches to mark the key Jesus sites (per Catholic.Org Encyclopedia). She supposed gave the Tunika Christi (Holy Skirt) to Trier in Germany (per Cities & Regions: Trier,GM). Their son Constantine the Great Christian Emperor of Rome was given in 312 AD a vision of the cross and the message, "In this sign conquer". He had his army put the cross on their breasts and won the battle of the Milvian Bridge. He established Christianity [Catholic] as the official religion of the Roman Empire and founded Constantine and the church there. Possibly St. Helena's work inspired Rome churchs to begin an official history and records of the Roman martyrs ("Romar Martyrology") as well. The Titulus Praxedis (St. Praxedes Church) has particular relevance. Potentiana, a Roman virgin and daughter of St. Pudens (indirect family relation). According to legend, she was the daughter of the Roman senator named in St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy. The first church here was probably built in the time of Pope St Siricius (384-399) and was one of the tituli, the first parish churches of Rome, known as Titulus Praxedis. The first definite mention of the church is from 489. The relics of Sts Prassede and Pudentiana are kept here in an ancient sarcophagus - it was not originally intended for the two saints. They were translated here in 822 by Pope St Paschal I. In their sarcophagus, there is also a sponge said to have been used by the sisters to collect the blood of martyrs. In 2Tm 4:22/ 2Tm1:6 St. Titus (an indirect family member) was appointed 1st Bishop of Rome by St. Paul, the appointed by St. Peter as his first pope successor in Rome, and was originally buried in the Pudentinian family tomb, but later reburied like St. Peter in the Vatican.

    Widow Virgin Mary - Matthan's son Jacob, St. Joseph's father, had apparently died before Jesus died. Also Matthan had apparently died. St. Joseph had died, leaving the Virgin Mary a widow. Then Mary's son Jesus died on the cross. However, the Bible shows that Jesus entrusted his mother, the Virgin Mary, to his disciple St. John (per John 19:26-27):

    "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."

    A legend has it that when St. John was imprisoned by Rome, Mary's overseership fell to St. Joseph's Uncle[?], Joseph of Arithamaea, who allegedly took care of her. However, this is likely a misreading of 2 John 1:, "The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;"

    The Catholic Church has a tradition that the Virgin Mary was transported bodily in a resurrection into heaven years after her son's death.
    [JP: Mary is believed to have vicariously suffered "dry martyrdom" at the Jesus Passion and Crucifixion; that is she experienced all the pain of her son. Recall she had been told at the Temple "A sword shall pierce your heart." For anyone interested in today's Mary apparitions, the Pittsburgh Center of Peace put out a newspaper “Queen of Peace” in 1991 and 1993 on the many apparitions of the Virgin Mary occurring all over the world.  In there,  Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger states, “One of the signs of our times is that the announcements of Marian apparitions are multiplying all over the world.”

    One quoted theologian study showed between 1923 and 1975 there were 232 separate apparitions in 32 countries. About 300 have been reported in this century.  A Jesus apparition stated: “Mary’s messages must be seen in their entirety.”

    Her messages speak of the need for repentance and prayer. In one, she spoke of a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead...”

    Her messages suggest this is the final hour of earth. Before Jesus 1st Coming there was a forerunner, St. John the Baptist, in the prophetic spirit of Elijah. One might suspect a similar process at the 2nd Coming of Christ.]

    Whatever the case, there are many legends around on Joseph of Arithamaea and the Holy Family and on Glastonbury England.

    Anna - This (St.) Joseph of Arithamaea had a daughter Anna (Cousin to Virgin Mary) who married into the line that produced the Roman Caesar Emperors and whose line went onwards to King Clodomir IV and to Emperor Charlemagne (all in Mayme's direct line).

    Anna & King Beli of all Britain - St. Joseph of Arithamea's daughter, Anna, traveled to Britain (probably with her father) and married Manogan, the King of the Druids and Britons there. The "Kings" promise of God to the Judah-Pharez line evidently is working, for their son King Beli was known as "Great" and became king of all of Britain. Their daughter was Pendardim. As an aside, there were at least a hundred other kings in Mayme's ancestral line (Druids and Celtics) that others accept, but I didn't show in this overview for lack of proofs or interest at this time.

    Pendardim, Blessed Bran, St. Cyllin -Pendardim's marriage (she of the Pharez line) to Llyr Lediaith, Celtic-King-Lear-Britain. produced King Bran Fendagaid, (also a Mayme ancestor) who was personally baptized into Christianity by St. Paul,  as was his son King Caradoc and the latter's two sons, Cyllinus and Cynon. Henceforth he was known as Bran "the Blessed Sovereign."  "He was the first to bring the faith of Christ to the Cymry."  Bran's grandson Cyllin, King of Siluria, was sainted by the early Church of Britain.

This St. Cyllin, King of Siluria (Mayme's ancestor) also had a tie-in with the Apostle St. Paul. St. Cyllin's brother was Linus the Martyr, and his sister was Claudia. Claudia's husband was St. Rufus Pudens who aided the Apostle Paul in the Christian Church in Rome, (as recorded in II Timothy 4:21 and Romans 16:13.) Rufus Pudens and St. Paul are shown to be half-brothers, with the same mother but different fathers, per "His mother and mine." She thus appears to have been the mother of an elder son, St. Paul, by a Hebrew husband, and a younger son, Rufus Pudens, by a second marriage with a Roman Christian.

St. Cyllin's grandson was Lucius Mawr, "Blessed" King of Britain What's showing up clearly now in the Mayme line is a number of Saintly Kings in the continuing Pharez line.
Anna, Bishop Linus & Clodomir IV - The Pharez-Anna line continues to Bishop Linus and to Clodomir IV, King of the Franks, and to Blessed Lucius Mawr. The Pharez line and Abraham promises by about 150 AD has now entered into Britain and France Kings.

 

Julius Caesar                             Julius Caesar          Augustus Caesar                              Marc Anthony


Claudius I Caesar                                         Nero Caesar

Anna and Roman Emperors - Anna's line continues to King Arviragus of Britain who marries Julia Venissa, daughter of Claudius I, Roman Emperor in the Caesar line. Mayme Mitchell thus has Julius Caesar's father, Gaisus, as a direct ancestor as well as Julius Caesar's sister Julia. She also has Octavius and Nero, the Roman Emperors as direct ancestors. Marc Anthony also appears to be an ancestor. Rome as you know back then was the single superpower on earth - one of the world stages in Daniel's world prophecy in the Old Testament. This Rome Empire will later become the Holy Roman Empire. [Caesar means the same as "Czar."]
Literary note - The "Claudius' literary works are lost. But he is the chief figure in two novels by Robert Graves, I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1935). PBS TV had a well-acclaimed series on "I Claudius" based on Graves.  Shakespeare wrote plays involving Mayme's ancestors such as Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest.



So far, we have traced the Jacob-Pharez line through the eventful royal and spiritual history at Jerusalem. Now we look at Mayme's line from Pharez's twin brother Zerah's line.

Judah-Darda (Secular King) Dynasty to Dardanus & Troy


Map Troy and Dardanelles Straight                                                  Map of Troy area

Darda and Dardanelles - Darda is one of Mayme's direct ancestors. Troy and the straights of Dardanelles are strategically situated at the junction of Asia and Europe and the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Goods coming from Asia could be loaded on ships at Troy for a short 38 mile voyage west to the continent of Europe. Whoever controls this area could also control all ship traffic to and from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
In 1915 Prime Minister Churchill arranged a military battle at these straights, but the carnage was so bad he was thrown out of office. The Dardanelles Straights would be the spot where the "Black Sea Noah's Flood" (500 times Niagara Falls water) allegedly rushed through. The name Dardanelles comes from the Dardania Province in western Turkey, and is named for Darda, Mayme's direct ancestor. It was also once called Hellespontus.

History note on Titanic's sister - When the unsinkable Titanic sank with massive loss of life, her sister ship Britannic's construction was underway at the Belfast shipyards. This Britannic was redesigned and rebuilt to solve the Titanic problems. Before the Britannic had a paying passenger, war broke out and this huge Britannic was commissioned as a red cross hospital ship to transport 3,000 wounded at a time from the bloody Dardanelles battlefield. On an empty return trip there, Britannic was either torpedoed or hit a sea mine on 21 Nov 1916 and sank in 400 foot water within 55 minutes. The nurses and crew got off in lifeboats, but as the captain tried to turn the ship to beach her near the Kay Islands, several full lifeboats were pulled into the massive propellers. The Britannic underwater wreck was found by Jacques Cousteua, then later by Dr. Ballard. Efforts are underway to make the site a protected underwater museum. - From the NOVA TV documentary "Titanic's Lost Sister" on PBS TV on 16 Dec 2002.

Darda and Homer's Trojan War -  Darda's lineal descendant is King Priam, about 18 generations down the line. Priam's son was Paris, and his daughter was Cassandra. It was this Paris who seduced Helen of Greece and caused the battle of Troy in about 1250 BC. This was also about the time Judah's son Pharez's line was leaving Goshen with the Moses Exodus.  Homer's Helen of Troy - the face that launched a thousand ships, the Trojan horse, Achilles' heel, etc.  are in Homer's "Illiad" and "Odyssey" books concerning the famous battle of the Greeks and the Trojans, one of the first books in the "Great Books of the Western World" classics.


Archaeological worksite at Troy today

Troy Mythology - "Mythology and legend start the history of Troy, Ilium, city of Priam, or whatever else a person would call the site of this ill fated city, as being built by the gods Apollo and Poseidon, at a period during which they were under punishment, and this punishment was being forced to labor with mortal men. Their labor created the city of Troy for Laomedon.

The Troy that appears in the Homeric poems was long regarded as a purely legendary city, but in 1870 the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began excavations that unearthed the actual stone walls and battlements of an ancient city. Work is still going on and it is now felt there are nine levels of Troys. Darda arrived there at Troy level VI about 1700-1600 BC. Some literature has him the founder of Troy. Troy is named after King Tros the alleged grandson of ancestor Darda, son of Zarah, son of Judah." Judah was was one of Jacob's sons.


The Greek armies would have attacked from the west

Science/Nature: Friday, 7 February, 2003, 11:42 GMT  Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield - "Homer's description of the Trojan battlefield in his classic poem the Iliad is accurate, say scientists. The subject of the story - the Greeks' 10-year siege of Troy and the wooden horse they used to bring it to an end - may have been a myth, but its geography was not.  The researchers drilled sediments in northwest Turkey to map how the coastline would have looked around the city more than 2,000 years ago when Homer constructed his epic account of the war.  When they compared their findings with his descriptions of the Trojan plain, they found a match. "
 

Helenus to Antharus line - The Darda line above had now branched to the north of what is now France. The Franks were a mix of Germans and French at the time.

Anthrius to Clodomir IV - It is at Clodomir IV that the Judah-Pharez kingship line and the Judah-Zarah-Darda kingship line merge together into the Frank and Britain lines.

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King Clodomir IV to St. Arnulf

The Clodomir IV line leads to Emperor Charlemagne, of which Mayme Alice Mitchell is a proved linear descendant of.


St. Arnulf to Emperor Charlemagne

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Charlemagne Society Certificate               Map of Charlemagne's empire

Mayme Mitchell Peck's lineage to Emperor Charlemagne was proven by her qualifying for the International Society of the Descendants of Charlemagne in 14 May 1999 AD. A graphic binary of the Society Certificate is shown above.

Charles Martel - In the above lineage chart, Christianity has now reaching Europe. Already Mayme's line has the Saints Arnulf and Begga. Ancestor Charles Martel is one of the unsung towers of world history. It was he and his army who turned back the Muslim army in France and thus preserved Europe from Islam. Had he not done so, America would have been discovered not by Christians but Muslims, and Americans would be speaking Arabic today and American women wearing Burkas. Charlemagne is also a well known historic figure. His name means "Charles the Great." Charlemagne was anointed and crowned personally by the pope.


Ada of Huntington is a juncture point of major genetic lines coming together, such as a line to Pharaoh Rameses II the Great, the line to Emperor Charlemagne, and the line to both the Scottish and Irish king founders and dynasties.

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Now to the Judah-Zarah-Calcol line

Who was first born? - Genesis 38 goes into great detail on the birth of the Judah-Tamar twins Pharez and Zerah. In those times, the "first born" son would inherit the father's estate and, in this case, the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob-Judah promises. But "first born" was defined by these peoples as the child who "broke the womb." Here's the birth scene from Gn 38;27.

"When the time for her [Tamar's] confinement came she was found to have twins in her womb. During the delivery one of them put out a hand, and the midwife caught it and tied a scarlet thread to it saying, 'This is the first to arrive'. But he drew his hand back, and it was his brother who came out first. Then she said, 'What a breach you have opened for yourself!' So he was named Perez (meaning breach.) Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah (meaning scarlet thread.)"
It will be shown that the history of the Zerah line produces Kings and Rulers all across Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, British Isles and Western Europe. Because of the strange twin birth, the promise of "Kings and Rulers" possibly may not have been given to just one twin (Perez) but a portion to them both. However, this is just a speculation. It is apparent though that more Kings and Rulers descended from the Zerah twin line than from the Perez line.



Goshen in Egypt

Partheon at Athens, Greece                                                                                    Portugal and Spain

Jacob's Pillow Stone                                                                                    Ireland

Calcol & Ethan - Zerah's sons Calcol and Ethan (1 Chron 2:6) left Goshen in Egypt together (before the Moses Exodus) and went first to found "Athens" about 1500 BC.  Athens would become a world power a thousand years later around 600 BC. It was Athens, Greece that gave us Homer's c600 BC "Illiad" and "Odyssey." Because of a later marriage between the brother's lines (Calcol & Ethan) they are handled as one line here back to Zarah.

Milesuis - Calcol had a famous son Gathelus, called by the Egyptians "Milesius", famous throughout Greece for his wisdom and learning, who traveled to Egypt and won fame with the Pharaoh Nectonibus as a military commander in a war with Ethiopia. Pharaoh awarded him with his daughter Princess "Scota" in marriage.

Jacob's Pillow - Milesius also obtained the Jacob Pillow Stone (Gn 28:12) handed down in his family line. Princess Scota thought highly of it. Wherever they colonized with this stone was therefore known as the "land of the Scots." They sailed for a western land then within Spain, and landed in what is now called "Portugal" named after him; (Port-of-Gael [Port of Gathelus]). Later they fought a war in northern Spain, and Milesius became king there. King Calcol died there in Spain, leaving Queen Scota a widow with sons. They had 8 children.



St. Margaret                Jacob stone in Scotland         Westminster Abbey                   Jacob's Pillow under Coronation Chair

Herman First King of Ireland - After her King of Spain, husband Calcol's death, and during a severe drought in Spain, Queen Scota sailed to Ireland with her family and was killed with five of her sons in a sea storm fighting the Tuatha De Danaan in the present day parish of Arnagh in County Kerry Ireland around the year 1699 BC. Yet two of the family survived.

Milesius's sons Heremon and Heber split all Ireland between them. Later in dispute Heremon killed his brother Heber and became the first king of all Ireland. King Heremon's sons Irial (Ir) and Lughaid received land portions of Ireland too.

Stone & Scots -  When Scota's descendants ruled Ireland, the Jacob stone was placed upon the Sacred Hill of Tara, and called Lia-Fail, the "Fatal Stone", or 'Stone of Destiny."

(Recall in the epic movie "Gone with the Wind", the Irishman's large plantation was called "Tara".) The people of Ireland became known as "Scots" after Queen Scota.

King Niall - The Zarah-Calcol-Melesuis line continued on to "Niall of the Nine Hostages," a famous king of Ireland and the head of a long dynasty line of O'Neill kings in Ireland. He was Mayme's 58th Great Grandfather. The Irish surname O'Neill derives from Niall. This Niall of the Nine Hostages was a contemporary of St. Patrick.  Niall  played a great part in breaking down Roman power in Britain and France. His line led to the Royal house of O'Neill whose descendants ruled Ireland for about six centuries from 450 to 1083. The O'Neill line continued on in Ireland for centuries of kings, and branches then off to today's Queen Elizabeth of England, but they are not Mayme's ancestors so aren't listed here.

Alpine First King of Scotland - The Mayme Mitchell direct line branches off at King Damangirt Fergus of Ireland who carried the Jacob Pillow Stone to Scotland and began a Scottish king dynasty there. His descendants Alpin (Mayme's 40th Great Grandfather) and Kenneth I unified Scotland. After that, the land of the Scots or Picts became known as "Scotland." Scota's name was given to Scotland ("Land of the Scots") when her descendants settled in Alba in the 5th century AD.

King St. David - The line of Alpine, King of Scotland in 834 AD, ruled in continuous Royal succession through St. David, King of Scotland (Mayme's 29th Great Grandfather) .

(Shakespeare's "Macbeth" play includes members of this Royal Scottish line.) A female branch of this Royal line leads to the present Queen Elizabeth, who was crowned on the Jacob's pillow stone which had been located in Westminster Abbey since 1296.

Ada of Huntington - This St. David line also leads to Ada of Huntington (1200 AD), Mayme's 27th Great Grandmother as shown above, a documented descendant of Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and proven ancestor of Mayme Alice Mitchell Peck from the "International Descendants of Charlemagne" Certificate  approval.

Ada - Matilda De Mechines line

Other historic Royal ancestors of Mayme Mitchell are

Mayme is a direct descendant of at least these 10 Saints:
  • St. Joseph of Aramathae (b c37),
  • St. Cyllin, King of Siluria (b 582),
  • St. Arnulf Bishop of Metz b c582,
  • St. Itta of France b c606,
  • St. Begga of Landen b c625,
  • St. Olga of Russia b c866,
  • St. Vladimir, Czar of Russia b c951,
  • St. Stephen of Hungary b 975,
  • St. Margaret of Scotland b 1045,
  • St. David King of Scotland b1084.
    • She is possibly indirectly related to 28 or more figures:
  • St., Ann,
  • St. Joseph,
  • St. Elizabeth,
  • St. Eli,
  • Blessed Virgin Mary,
  • Jesus the Christ,
  • St. James the Lessor Apostle,
  • St. Jude the Apostle,
  • St. James the Greater Apostle,
  • St. John the Beloved Apostle,
  • St. John the Baptist,
  • St. Peter's wife,
  • St. Paul,
  • St. Waltheof b c100,
  • St. Louis IX of France b1214,
  • St. Gertrude of Nivelly,
  • St. Romanus of Russia,
  • St. David of Russia,
  • St. Juste Weber,
  • St. Oda De Savoy,
  • St. Dagobert II,
  • St. Dodo Begga,
  • St. Arnulf,
  • St. Itta,
  • St. Margaret,
  • St. Woltheof,
  • St. Gertrude,
  • St. Romanus,
    • Through Mayme's documented ancestor Lt. Governor Captain William Powell of the 1605-1622 Virginia line, she is a descendant of the from whom the surname Powell originated ("ap Howell" = "son of Howell" evolved to the surname Powell), and who ruled from 878-980. There are dozens of other lesser known Kings and Notable Church figures not listed in this summary.

    Mayme Mitchell Peck's First Wave New World Settlers - Mayme's Powell ancestral line **may** have been in the first English settlement Powell attempt of 1587, the "Lost Roanoke Colony" (North Carolina, site of the Wright Brother's first flight), but the first provable ancestor settler was Captain William Powell in 1607-1622 Jamestown, Virginia on the ill fated "Sea Venture" ship that smashed on the Bermuda reefs during a hurricane before arriving at Jamestown.

    (The resulting shipwreck reports back in England led to William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest", and also led to the immediate English colonizing of Bermuda. The Sea Venture ship is depicted on the official Bermuda flag.)
    Lt. Governor and Burgess, Captain William Powell, was in charge of the Jamestown fort during the famous 1622 Indian uprising that led the King of England to restructure Jamestown as a Crown Colony under his protection from the previous private Virginia Company Charter.

    Lt. Governor Captain Powell was the largest Virginia plantation owner when he and his brother Governor Nathaniel Powell were killed in the 1619 Indian uprising. William's nearly 400 year old "Chippokes" plantation on the James River is now a Virginia State Park and the official oldest working farms in the United States. This Captain William Powell is listed in "America's First Families" with Mayme's proven lineage to him.

    Other proven Virginia ancestors and listed members of "America's First Families" are:

  • Captain Sir Thomas Warren,
  • Captain Edward Bland,
  • Captain Francis Barrett,
  • John Bloodworth,
  • Edward Boykin,
  • Michel Des Loges,
  • Rowland Griffith,
  • Thomas Gwaltney, and
  • Richard New.
    • Some other notable ancestors of Mayme Peck are
  • Rev. Nathan N. G. Allen (Texas First Families) and (Sons of the Republic or Texas), and
  • Rhoda Allen (First Families of Tennessee)(Am Rv War).
  • Captain Willis Chamberlin (First Families of Bexar County) and (Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars) and (Sons of Indian Wars), and (TSGS Pioneer.)
  • Cpl. William Robert New (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)(C,S,A,)
  • Thomas Graves Jackson (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)
  • Joseph Barnett (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)
  • G. (Henrich) Henry (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)
  • John Hosea Mitchell (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)
  • Rev. Eliba Nathan Allen (TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)(1st Family Itawamba, MS)
  • Aaron Carson Jackson(TSGS "Gone to Texas" registered Pioneer)
    • Wilfred Pecks First Wave New World Settlers and other notable ancestors -An overview of Wilfred's notable ancestors are: Although this list may not be complete, Wilfred's ancestors include the first wave 1636 settlers to 1605 Acadian Port Royal in Nova Scotia Canada. Wilfred may have had early Port Royal emigrants in the misty 1605 to 1636 period with surnames Arnaud, Boudrot, Lejeune or Sale, but most of the 55 French Acadian families arrived together in 1636.  Pierre founded Thibodeaux Village (now Round Rock), and Hopewell, New Brunswick, and was active at Bangor, Maine, U.S.A. when Maine was still part of early French Canada. He was also alleged to have been a Governor of Acadia. A monument in his honor is erected at Round Rock, Nova Scotia. The French farmer-Acadians were forcibly evicted in the mid 1700's by the British Army and many were dumped penniless on American shores. Many later migrated to Spanish territory in what is now the State of Louisiana.

    One of Wilfred Peck's ancestors in Louisiana, Marguerite Martin Robichaud, was said to be the first to tell the story of Evangeline that became the subject of Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" - a girl separated from her fiancé in this Acadian deportation. There are several statues of her and several alleged oak trees where she pined for her lost love.

    The small French Acadian group with huge families intermarried together at Port Royal in Canada, and later in Louisiana, so many French Acadians today are blood-related to all other Acadians.

    Most Louisiana Acadians fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 and the Civil War of the 1860's and qualify for the respective Military Lineage Societies. Wilfred's Acadian ancestors are memorialized on the "Wall of Names" and Mural portraits at St., Martinville, Louisiana.

    In 1790, Charles I Peck, migrated south to the Spanish Attakapas region of (now) Louisiana vy log raft down the Mississippi and married into the Acadian Jean Savoie family there. Over the next three generations the Charles I Peck descendants also married into Louisiana Acadian families, especially around Lafayette, and fought in the Civil War. These Pecks were documented early settlers and land owners around Vermillionville which later was renamed Lafayette. Various Pecks had businesses in Lafayette and several developed residential subdivisions around Lafayette. Rufus Peck's photo is supposedly on permanent display in the Lafayette Court House. A smaller number of Peck descendants migrated to East or South Texas and had business there. The Pecks qualify for the American Revolution Societies, the War of 1812 Societies and the Confederate Veteran Societies.