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Chapter 3 - The Milesians
May 7, 2008

The sixteenth-century scholar, O'Flaherty, fixes the Milesian invasion of Ireland at about 1000 B.C.--the time of Solomon.  Some modern writers, including MacNeill, say that they even came at a much later date.  There are, however, philologists and other scientific inquirers, who to some extent corroborate O'Flaherty's estimate.
    It is proven that the Celts whencesoever they came, had, before the dawn of history, subjugated the German people and established themselves in Central Europe.  At about the date we have mentioned, a great Celtic wave, breaking westward over the Rhine, penetrated into England, Scotland, and Ireland.  Subsequently a wave swept over the Pyrenees into the Spanish Peninsula.  Other waves came westward still later.
     The studies of European scholars have shown that these Celts were an eminently warlike people, rich in the arts of civilized life, who subdued and dominated the ruder races, wherever they went on the Continent.  They were possessed of "a high degree of political unity, had a single king, and a wise and consistent external policy."  Mostly, however, they seem to have been a federation of patrician republics.  At various times they had allied themselves with the Greeks to fight common enemies.  They gave valuable service to, and were highly esteemed by Philip, and by his son, the great Alexander.  In an alliance which they made with Alexander, before he left on his Asiatic expedition, it was by the elements they swore their fealty to the pact--just as we know they continued to swear in Ireland, down to the coming of Christianity in the fifth century.
     They piqued Alexander's pride by frankly telling him that they did not fear him--only feared Heaven.  They held sway in Central Europe through long centuries.  A Celtic cementery discovered at Hallstatt in upper Austria proves them to have been skilled in art and industries as far back as 900 B.C.--shows them as miners and agriculturists, and blessed witht he use of iron instuments.  they invaded Italy twice, in the seventh and in the fourth centuries before Christ.  In the latter time they were at the climax of their power.  They stormed Rome itself, 300 B.C.
     The rising up of the oppressed Germans against them, nearly three centuries before Christ, was the beginning of the end of the Continental power of the Celt.  After that they were beaten and buffeted by Greek and by Roman, and even by despised races--broken, and blown like the surf in all directions, Noth and South, and East and West.  A fugitive colony of these people,that had settled in Asia Minor, in the territory which from them, (the Gaels) was called Galatia, and among whom Paul worked,was found to be still speaking a Celtic language in the days of St. Jerome, five or six hundred years later. Eoin MacNeill and other scientific enquirers hold that it was only in the fifth century before Christ that they reached Spain--and that it was not via Spain but via north-western France and Britain that they, crushed out from Germany, eventually reached Ireland.  In Caesar's day the Celts (Gauls) who dominated France used Greek writing in almost all their business, public or private. 
     The legendary account of the origin of the Gaels and their coming to Ireland is as follows:
     They came first out of that vast undefined tract, called Scythia--a region which probably included all of Southwest Europe and adjoining portions of Asia.  tlhey came to Ireland through Egypt, Crete, and Spain.  They were called Gaedhal (Gael) beacause their remote ancestor, in the days of Moses, was Gaodhal Glas.  Wlhen a child, Moses is said to hav cured him of the bite of a serpent--and to have promised, then, that no serpent or other poisonous thing should infest the happy western island that his far posterity would one day inhabit.  Niul, a grand-son of Gaodhal, who had been invited as an instructor into Egypt by one of the Pharaohs, married Pharaoh's daughter Scota--after whom Ireland was, in later ages, called Scotia.  In Egypt Niul and his people grew discendants of Niul and Scota.  In Egypt Niul and his peole grew rich and powerful, resented the injustice of a later Pharaoh, were driven from the land, and after long and varied wanderings, during succeeding ages, reached Spain.  When, after they had long sojourned in Spain, they heard of Ireland (perhaps from Phoenician traders) and took it to be the Isle of Destiny, foretold for them by Moses, their leader was Miled or Milesius, whose wife also was a Pharaoh's daughter, and named Scota. Miled's uncle, Ith, was first sent into Ireland, to bring them report upon it.  But the Tuatha De Danann, suspecting the purpose of his mission, killed Ith.
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Past Member (0) 		Thursday May 8, 2008, 5:34 pm
This is a marvelous story and it has opened my eyes to much of my own life and thoughts. I have always thought myself to be part of something greater than my mere individual existence and I sought answers to my quest in many books and in traveling about in the world. Early on I felt a close bond and relationship with the Jews I met and I often wondered if I might be Jewish because my sentiments were so strong. I also felt a strong attachment to the lands of southern Russia though I had no real reason to explain it even to myself. I also felt a strong affinity for Spain and the Spanish Gypsies. I even took up the Flamenco guitar and it seemed to be part of me.
I went to a psychic lady and she told me that I was remembering my past incarnations and all the lives that I had lived previously. She also told me that I was a remnant of a once rich and powerful clan of dreamers, seers and teachers and it seemed to fit many of my thoughts of myself. I have always been a dreamer and my dreams inspired me to become a master of words both written and spoken. Amongst my own folk the art of speaking is esteemed the highest of all the arts. " He who is master of the spoken word is the master of worlds"
My surname "MacNemi" means son of Nemed and although that was not my birth name it is the name I chose after an old custom of comming of age. I chose it to honor those who were my ancestors who bequeathed me the natural gifts that I do possess.

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