Mount Hermon of the Golan was called Mount Sion (Baal ),and this was the territory of the son of Joseph, Manasseh. Nearby was the land of Joseph's brother, Benjamin. It is very likely that many Benjamites settled in Mero (Ethiopia) at the time of Joseph's reign in Egypt .There is also a tradition that the Ark of the Covenant was sent to Ethiopia with Menelek, (legendary son of Solomon /Queen of Sheba), prior to the Temple's destruction .This would also have lead to a Benjamite exodus to Ethiopia, since the Ark had been in their city, Jerusalem. Thus, we have a connection of Cu****es to Benjamites, the former, sons of the cursed Ham; the latter, banished by God and by their brothers. The race who drove the Meroites from Egypt were the Assyrians, and the conquerors of the former empire of Accad were again , Assyrians. Assyria is considered the most warlike and intrinsically evil nation in the entire history of mankind . It was first named Asshur, after the son of Shem, Asshur (1 Chron: 1:17) Its god was also named Asshur. Shem was blessed by Noah. But his other son, Japheth, the father of Magog (Russia) received this prophesy,"May God expand Japheth so that he dwells among the tents of Shem and let Canaan (Ham's son) be his slave." (Gen: 9:27) And this prophesy was fulfilled to the letter, for Japheth was living among the tents of Shem (Assyria of Asshur, Shem's son); he had enslaved the entire empire of Ham's son, Cush (Accad) as well as the land of Ham's son, Canaan.(now Israel) Now something very curious happens when we turn Asshur backwards to RUHSSA--insert the " i " from Assyria; delete the "h", and we have " Russia."
The Assyrians were seemingly the early Steppe people of Russia, the Scythians, the most barbaric of people and known for their cruelty. By the time the Meroites reached Arcadia in Greece, they had seemingly allied with the Steppe Russians, who were also the race of early Hittites of Asia Minor, signatories of the Silver Brotherhood Treaty with Egypt. Hence, the present day Franco-Russian accord of the Prieure de Sion, which promotes restoration of Merovingian kings, logically derives from this history.
We can trace the Meroite trek around the circle of the Mediterranean by observing the legends, paying attention to the geneology of great kings, and by following the Meroitic iron smelting areas. And we first get lucky in Commagene,Turkey, where we find the same type iron smelting furnaces beneath a mountain in the Taurus Mountain range which is named "Nimrud -Dagh ".
Carved into this mountain are 5 colossal statues, 12 meters high. The faces of the statues are in Greek tradition, the plaited hair is Persian tradition, the conic hats are Phyrgian / Mithraic tradition. At the top of the mountain is a giant mound of crushed stone , serving as the "capstone" of the mountain. Only one of the gods of the mountain are named in the inscription found below , Antiochus I . ( this info from Vanished Civilizations , Reader's Digest , Sydney , 1983 , pp 194-197 )
Antiochus I was descended on his father 's side from Darius I ,who called himself the "King of Kings ",on his mother's side, from Emperor Alexander the Great. His father was Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Dynasty, and founder of the city of Antioch, after which Antiochus was named .He was called Sotar (preserver). What he preserved was the conspiracy, for in 275 BC, Antiochus I conquered Gaul and closed the Mediterranean circle--the last frontier. It was this conquest which enabled Merovingians to take hold in Gaul ( France ) a few centuries later. The advent of the Roman Empire delayed this move for a time.
Meroites of Ethiopia moved on from Commagene to the Anatolia planes of Asia Minor, and on to became the Trojans of the "9th" city of Troy. For there is another history attached to the Merovingians. According to the "Liber Historiae Francorum", after the fall of Troy, Priam, first King of the Franks, along with Antenor, led 12,000 men to the River Tanis, then, to the Maeotic Swamps, where at an offer of tribute from Emperor Valentinian, the Trojans drove out the Alani, earning the title "franci" for "fierce".
Thence they moved to Pannonia where they built a city they named Sicambria. When the 10 years tribute were over, the Franci fought the Roman tax collectors. Priam was killed, so they moved on to the Rhine where on the advice of Priam's son, Marchomir, they elected Farmund, Rex Crinitus, long haired king. (Merovingian Kingdoms,450-751 AD, Ian Wood ,p 33)
Pannonia included the present day Yugoslavia.
These Franci , or Long Haired Kings, were now the Merovingian Franks, the first kings of France.
Now, Joseph's son, Manasseh, bore a son by the name of Machir. Is there a link between Manasseh's son Machir and Priam's son Marchomir ? If so, Joseph's sons accompanied the Benjamites in their exile to also settle in Troy. Additionally, there is a possibility of inter-marriage between the Benjamites and the giants, given they lived on the same border in Israel, and given their apostasy from God. This would certainly explain why
Meroites became Merovingians : Mer-Vin-Gians Men of the-Vine-of the Giants Titans
Merari, Meroites , Merovingians traced to Ethiopia which was known as Abyssinia, which translates Wormwood (bitter)
The most convincing evidence that the Meroites became Trojans in their exodus around the Mediterranean is in the elusive Rennes le Chateau story as revealed by the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail. The story is of a priest who died in 1917 (Fatima year clue ) The priest found secret parchments pertaining to Dagobert II, the "Lost Merovingian King", hidden in a column of his newly assigned church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene.
Thereafter, the penniless priest spent millions. Associated with his find, he was later visited by a Hapsburg. In the end , he met with what appears to have been a pre-planned death, since his coffin was ordered before he even became ill. And the date he became ill just happens to be the date that the Prieure de Sion holds its historic convents, January 17.
Merovingian history is the history of France and England, and it is every bit as important today as it was back then.
For centuries, Merovingians were central to the marriages of all French and English kings, and it remains so today with respect to English monarchy. The marriage of Charles to Diana was extremely important because Diana brought one aspect of the Merovingian bloodline back to the English crown : "Greatest among the princess's forbearers were the Stuart kings ,Charles II and James II. She returned this line to the Royal Family, and thus, her sons Prince William and Prince Harry are the first children to claim lineage from every English king who has left descendants. " ( Mail Star, Halifax N.S. " Princess Diana : 1961-1997 ", Sept 2, 1997 C2 )
The Scottish Stuart kings, who became English kings, married lineal descendants of the Merovingians of France. As one example Scotland's James V married Mary of Guise, and their daughter was Mary,Queen of Scots.The Guise house was a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine which later became the House of "Hapsburg-Lorraine" when Francis, Duke of Lorraine, married Maria Theresa of Austria, founder of the Hapsburg Empire, who was born on the Feast of Fatima in the year 1717.
Paul and Saul were both from House of Benjamin. Saul was supplanted by God's intervention for his failure to kill King Agag. Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles who was converted on the road to Damascus. (Paul was considered a traitor and hated by the Brotherhood, and it remains so to this day ) As if to give us a final clue, this part of the Sutton Hoo treasure was unearthed on July 22, the Feast of Mary Magdalene ! (The World of the Past, Hawkes/Knopf , p 450 ) The Sutton Hoo man could be Dagobert Found in the grave of the Sutton Hoo man were Merovingian silver coins and 2 silver spoons, one marked Paul and the other Saul. ( Barbaric Europe, Phillip Dixon, p 94)
If Dagobert II was indeed part Icini lineage, and he married an Icini in Ireland, it would explain the three Iseults (Iceni ) of Strasbourg's legend --for three Merovingian kings would have married an Icini -grandfather, father, and son. And I believe this produced the lesser bloodline of "Blanchfleur" rendered de Blanchefort ,of the white (British) forts, the bloodline from which Godfroi de Bouillon descended.
The bottom line is that Dagobert was the only male descendant of Sigibert III. His sister could not ascend to the throne because of Salic Law, created by Merovingian's themselves, which forbade female accession. This law would later cause the 100 years war when the English King, Edward III , was unable to claim the French throne through his mother's lineage. And the treaty governing the transfer of loyalty from one Merovingian king to another was named the " TREATY OF ANDELOT ". *4 Andelot in Camelot
The white/red shield of Joseph of Arimathea is said to be in a Cisterician monastery. The Quest for the Grail was a later addition to the Arthurian legends. Of this Collier's encyclopedia gives us this : " The Queste unlike the Prose Lancelot, is dominated by the mystical symbolism of the Cistercians."*8 Thence, French illustrations of Lancelot themes involve triangular geometry and double headed trees.*9 Since the Cistercians were of Sion /Templar /Crusade orientation (more on this at end ), it follows Camelot was also. As for Joseph's white/red shield, it was more likely that of Benjamites, who I believe called themselves the brothers of Joseph, after Benjamin's brother Joseph.
Joseph of Arimathea and St. Patrick were both assigned Akhenaten's red cross symbol ; both were assigned the same feast day; and both are shrouded in legend and conjecture with no documentary evidence from any of their British contemporaries of the day.