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| The O'Cuilleain (O’Collins) and the Eblaites | ||
| Historians like to think of Egypt, of Mesopotamia and the agricultural regions as being the fathers of wisdom and civilization. Similarly, historians like to think of the former hunter gatherer populations are brutes and savages only tamed by years of invasions and breeding. So to claim that wisdom could actually be exported from a former hunter gatherer society to across the known world defies all known wisdom. |
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| Then again, necessity and opportunity have been partners throughout history and are the very same bedfellows that enabled agricultural societies to thrive in the first place. In the cae of the Irish, the gold rush was only the first that forever changed the world. Yet, the bronze age rush was even greater. | ||
| Bronze-The most valuable metal in the world | ||
| Today, we like to think of gold and silver being more valuable than copper and tin, but in the ancient world, bronze was one of the most valuable resources. Its molding into swords, spear tips and other weapons changed the whole nature of war. |
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| In the ancient world, the previously largest and most significant deposits of copper and arsenic smelted bronze came from the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey. While the method produced great quantities of Bronze during the early periods, it was both a deadly trade for craftsmen (poisoned by the arsenic) and sometimes produced brittle weapons that tended to shatter. |
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| In contrast, tin bronze is not too difficult to work, and melts at 950 degrees C rather than the 1084 degrees C of copper, making it easier to cast. |
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| The major miners and traders of these massive and new found ores were the citizens of Ebla (the site now known today as Tell Mardikh) an ancient city located in northern Syria, about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. The name "Ebla" means "White Rock", and refers to the limestone outcrop on which the city was built. |
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| The city of Ebla was already famous for its massive community of craftsmen and beautiful handiwork and actively traded with other ancient city states and kingdoms. The site itself is known to have been a site of continuous occupation beginning at least 3000 BCE. |
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| The fame of the wizards of Ireland | ||
| Ebla shared another distinction with Ireland as being a society that had developed a deep religious philosophy against the prevailing practices of human sacrifice and blood that was practiced throughout the ancient world to appease the gods of nature. | ||
| Ebla were also master craftsmen specialising in artefacts of fine quality bronze and wood. Given these common features, it is almost certain that the relationship between the master navigators of the Irish and the craftsmen and traders of Ebla was founded early in the existence of the city. In turn, the friendship was to become hugely profitable to both sides. | ||
| By 2300 BCE within two hundred years of commencing direct trade with the Druid Priest Kings of Ireland, Ebla had swelled in size from a city of 20,000 to 30,000 to the greatest and largest city of the ancient world, with a population of over 300,000. It wasn’t until over two thousand years later that another city called Rome came close to this peak. |
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| Similarly, the population of Ireland exploded to over 100,000 bringing miners, craftsmen, labourers, priests and traders to its East coast. |
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| See: Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 the Lebor Clann Glas (Book of the Green Race) for an Epic poem about the formation of the ancient city of Ebla. | ||
| The spiritual and knowledge importance of Ebla |
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| The importance of Ebla in terms of the spiritual and knowledge of the human race cannot be overstated. |
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| The ancient Patriarchs who founded Ebla were worshipped as gods themselves. They also happen to be the exact same names from which we get the first and key characters from Genesis in the Holy Bible such as A-da-mu (Adam), Ab-ra-mu (Abraham), E-sa-um (Esau), Ish-ma-ilu (Ishmael), Is-ra-ilu (Israel), Da-'u'dum (David) and Sa-'u-lum (Saul). |
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| Contrary to the Biblical account and even scholarly views that Abraham somehow was born in the city of Ur, Abraham along with King David and King Saul were the ancient Kings of Ebla. |
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| Apart from being a center for trade, Ebla was the location of the world’s first and oldest (now extinct) Semitic language. In fact there is much evidence in the structure of Eblaite to confirm it as the source from which all other Semitic languages were formed including Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. |
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| It is also the first centre of worship for the god El from which we get the notion of GOD, ALLAH and one of the first and most important names for God of the Old Testament. It is also the first centre for recognizing YH (Yah), from which YHWH was later derived. |
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| In other words, there can be no doubt that Ebla is ground zero, the starting point for the ancient history and stories referred to in the very first book of the Old Testament, even if it does not fit our modern idea of Biblical History. |
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| Sargon the Great and the exodus from Ebla |
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| As mentioned earlier, the first bronzes from locations like Turkey and even Egypt were arsenic based and prone to being brittle and shattering upon or after use. In terms of warfare, this meant having to constantly re-equip with fresh new weapons, a costly and sometimes difficult enterprise. |
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| For a large standing army, having access to bronze, particularly tin-bronze was a major strategic target. The opportunity for the Akkadians against Ebla came during the uprisings and internal conflicts caused by the King Ibrium forming an absolute monarchy and dissolving the 7 year democratic cycle of electing the leader. |
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| Sargon the Great struck once King Ibbi, son of Ibrium had assumed the throne around 2300 BCE to 2290 BCE. It is almost certain his prime and only target was to capture the massive storehouses of bronze ingots transported from Ireland. |
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| King Ibbi, the last Great King of Ebla, of the King line of David, of Saul, of Abraham and Adam, fled along with his court and key officials to the one place they knew they' d be safe-Ireland. |
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| Family or conquerers | ||
| In the most ancient of chronicles, it is said that the Milesians did invade Ireland and conquered it against the Tuatha Dé Danann. Certainly the exile of King Ibbi and his court would directly qualify for a real person and event corresponding to the Milesians around 2290 BCE. | ||
| The only problem with the conquer theory rather than marriage and integration theory is the existence of visual cultural clocks aka Stonehenge to answer this question. If the Eblaites conquered Ireland and killed the Druid Priest Kings, then the subsequent religion of the druids, including the major work on Stonehenge should have ended for all time. | ||
| Secondly, the Druid Priest Kings were not exactly short on people to call upon to amass an army to defend themselves against an invasion. At best, King Iggi would have had a few dozen ship and a party of no more than a few hundred. In contrast, the Cualaan commanded tens of thousands of absolute loyal followers willing to die for them. | ||
| Instead, there appears to be an accomodation whereby a lineage of Priests and a lineage of Kings co-exist and eventually inter-marriage. That the two cultures merge. | ||
| King Ibbi and the Éblaites are the original source of the great legend of the Milesians, the “Syrians”, did not conquer, but integrated themselves into the bloodlines of the priests and as the first "Kings" of Ireland. The name of Ireland from this point was known as Ibbi-Éri “Land of Ibbi” later called Ibiru, Habiru, Iberni, Hiberni and Ériu. Ireland’s first city was renamed Eblana “new Ebla”, a site on or near Dublin. |
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| The royal family of the Éblaites settled in with the Holy Ones and around the Wicklow Hills (in Gaelic “Cill Mhantáin”) and came to be known as the Feara Cualann (“Holy Men”) from which the O'Cualann and O'Cuilleain are directly descended. |
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| The O'Cuilleain (O’Collins) are therefore direct and proper descendents of the first druids, the first Priests of humanity and the line of ancient Kings of Ebla and the true dynasty of David, of Saul, of Israel, of Abraham, of Adam. |
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