"Even before it became the capital of David and Solomon it [Jerusalem] was the allocated birthright of the Tribe of Benjamin."
     - Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

"Zelah, Eleph and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families."
     - Joshua 18:28

"But it came to pass that most of the Benjamites left Palestine, and this was because of a civil war among the Israelites. The Tribe of Benjamin came into conflict with the other eleven Tribes because the Benjamites were apparently allied with the 'Sons of Belial' and would not attempt to impose Israelite laws and customs upon them. This war is covered in Judges 21 in the Bible. The result was that most of the Benjamites left Palestine, or were expelled by the victorious eleven Tribes. The 'Sons of Belial' with whom the Benjamites were allied, or against whom they refused to go to war...were none other than the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon..."
     - Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic

"There is the legend of King Belus's son, one Danaus, who arrives in Greece, with his daughters, by ship. His daughters are said to have introduced the cult of the Mother Goddess, which became the established cult of the Arcadians. According to Robert Graves, the Danaus myth records the arrival in the Peloponnesus of 'colonists from Palestine'. Graves states that King Belus is in fact Baal, or Bel - or perhaps Belial [a form of the Mother Goddess often associated with images of a bull or calf] from the Old Testament. It is also worthy of note that one of the clans of the Tribe of Benjamin was the clan of Bela."
     - Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

"It has been found in writing concerning the Spartans and the Jews that they are brethren and are of the family of Abraham."
     - Maccabees 1

"...The Benjamites arrived in Greece, in a region called Arcadia. It was their refuge for some generations. Then, they joined the general westward migrations of people in Europe. They followed the major rivers westward, like the Danube, and finally ended up along the Rhine at the close of the Roman Empire." The Merovingians "were the Sicambrian Franks, a somewhat mixed Celtic\Teutonic tribe that during most of the Roman Empire had lived east of the Rhine in present-day Germany."

In addition to being 'Jewish', or partly so, the Merovingians claimed an ancient descent from God...."In Deuteronomy 33 Moses says of the Tribe of Benjamin: 'The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.' In token of this descent, the Merovingians were believed to bear some physical mark, through different writers disagree on what this was. But most believe it was some sort of red cross-like birthmark, either on the chest or on the back....A red cross 'partee' became the Templar insignia."
     - Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic

Hyperlinks

·The Mysteries of Sirius
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