This provides additional cultural confirmation of the locales of the Giants which we already understood. What is fascinating is that the central axis was Georgia to Lewis in Scotland for the entire Bronze Age. Thus migrating Europeans could take ship at safe ports all along the European coast and expect to grab a ship sailing west out of Gibraltar to Georgia in particular. This went on from 2500 BC at least and peaked during the twelfth century but also continued on through to contact and likely well past.
The later influx of the Irish Scots would have found common cause with the so called natives who were largely of the same stock from what was then a distant past. They would even have found occasionally common words to share.
all this inspired legends and their like which has informed us with a number of truths that continued to stand.
The strange connection between Scotland and the Hillabee Creeks.
Homophones . . . Alba, Alapa, Alapaha River, Ilape . . . Hillabee Creeks
I have become a big fan of
the TV series, “Outlander.” It is currently being broadcast by
Netflix, so I can watch it on my computer monitor, while eating dinner.
“Outlander”
is the saga of a British nurse, who visits a stone circle in the
Scottish Highlands . . . very similar to those we have here in the
Georgia Mountains . . . then is thrown back in time two centuries to the
time of the Jacobite Wars. The Jacobite Wars were composed of two
violent rebellions by the Scottish Highlanders against the English,
interspersed with guerilla warfare. The producer, director and actors
of these series are going to extreme measures to insure absolute
historical accuracy in all aspects of the series . . . including the
dialogues. For that reason, the TV series can be considered a
Post-Graduate level class in Scottish History.
Very early on in the series, one of the
characters remarked that the southwest corner of the Scottish
Highlands, called Corra, was once occupied by a clan composed of Gaelic
giants. These giants were master seamen and boat builders. Their
sailing ships traversed the know world and even the Atlantic Ocean.
They brought back giants stones to build sacred stone circles. The
stone circle near Inverness was constructed with boulders from Africa.
Of course, Corra was also the name of a province in the mountains of
North Carolina, which were the homeland for several branches of the
Creek Confederacy, who are known for their unusual height.
In a later program of the series, an
actor stated that the original name of Scotland, when it was occupied by
the Picts, was Alba. The Scots are from Ireland and conquered Scotland
in the Early Medieval Period. The Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon scholar,
Venerable Bede, stated that both the Picts and the Angles were
originally from southern Sweden. The Picts left Scandinavia during the
Late Bronze Age and settled in the mountainous parts of what is now
Scotland. The Angles migrated first to southern Denmark and then in the
fifth and sixth centuries, eastern England . . . giving their name to a
nation and a language.
Out of curiosity, I Googled “Alba.”
It is a Anglicized version of Albion, which was the Roman name for
Scotland. The original Pict word is ancient, though, probably at least
dating back to the Bronze Age. Its ultimate root is the Indo-European
word for white.
The pronunciation of the English word Alba in Scottish Gaelic pricked my ear. [ˈal̪ˠapə] (
listen) Its
actual Gaelic pronunciation is quite different that the English, Alba,
and identical to the pronunciation of the name of a culturally advanced
people on the Wataree River in eastern South Carolina . . . Alapa or
Ilape. During the late 1600s, they migrated to Georgia and joined the
Creek Confederacy. The Alapaha River means “Alapa – River.” Haw is
the Itza Maya and Itsate Creek word for river. By the time their
descendants were living in northwestern Georgia and the eastern edge of
Alabama, their name had come to be Hillabee among white settlers.
listen) Its
actual Gaelic pronunciation is quite different that the English, Alba,
and identical to the pronunciation of the name of a culturally advanced
people on the Wataree River in eastern South Carolina . . . Alapa or
Ilape. During the late 1600s, they migrated to Georgia and joined the
Creek Confederacy. The Alapaha River means “Alapa – River.” Haw is
the Itza Maya and Itsate Creek word for river. By the time their
descendants were living in northwestern Georgia and the eastern edge of
Alabama, their name had come to be Hillabee among white settlers.
An alternate name for the Alapaha Creeks among Itsate speakers was Vehite, which means “Bow-and-arrow (archer) People. In the transition into Muskogee Creek, that word became Vehedi.
It now means “People with weapons” or “armed” in Muskogee.
English-speaking settlers on the Southern Frontier changed Vehedi into
Pee Dee.
The Creek Sacred Fire or Bronze Age Solar Wheel
The idea that people from the Old World
started the civilizations in the Americas was “hip” when I was in my
20s. Since then I have extremely hostile to any author that suggested
that interpretation of history. I still don’t think that is true. The
mounds and earthen pyramids of Georgia and Peru predate those of Egypt
by a thousand years and those of the Mayas by 2,000 years. Creek
monotheism developed independently of the woman-hating religions of the
Middle East. However, I can still remember that June morning on my
third day in Sweden, just after graduating from Georgia Tech, when I
stared at “Creek sacred symbols” on a boulder at the edge of the Oresund
Channel. A little that summer, it was the location where we went
skinny dipping on weekends. In my mind, I can still remember standing in
the water and watching the Oresund’s low waves lapping against an
ancient boulder, displaying the “Sacred Fire” symbol. There were close
encounters of a third kind across the North Atlantic during the Bronze
Age.
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