Forgotten History of the Western People

Published by: Anno Mundi Books

ISBN 13: 978-0-9543922-0-8
ISBN 10: 0-9543922-0-5

Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5", 256pp.

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No. 3 Best Selling Book at the Creation Science Movement, April 2006.

"It is not often that a really good book comes our way, but Gascoigne’s Forgotten History is certainly one of them." full text...
Bill Cooper, author of After the Flood. Published in Creation, the Journal of the Creation Science Movement, Vol. 13, No. 8, May 2003.

"This book provides a survey of many ancient traditions from the ancient near east, the classical world and the British Isles." full text...
Michael Tunnicliffe, Manchester Ancient Egypt Society.

"...a picture of our past that is very different than the one taught in most schools." full text...
Pat Franklin, Sub-Editor of the Surrey-Hants Star. See also the PDF version (requires Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe Systems).

"When I was given this book, I had a difficult time putting it down... this book is a wonderful accompaniment to other texts and offers a critical look at obscure texts not often discussed in more mainstream history books... a roadmap through people and stories of our roots." full text...
Robin McDonald, Eclectic Homeschool Association.

"This book is an attempt, like some others before it, to survey ancient mythological texts and compare them to Biblical accounts... it makes Jonah a lot more understandable..." full text...
TheologyWeb Campus, Recommended Reading List. See also the archive copy, in case the main forum topic disappears.

"...Mike shows that there is only one true history and that is the history presented in Bible." full text...
Martin Emerson, Light in the Darkness.

Summary

This book is an attempt to revive the study of history, as it used to be, before it became corrupted by the assumption that early humans were descended from ape-like creatures over a long period of time. Before the time of Darwin and Huxley, most history books started off with a brief statement about creation and the flood, and how the three sons of Noah went to different parts of the world, Shem to Asia, Ham to Africa and Japheth to Europe. Then they would continue the history from that point onwards. A considerable amount of information was available, from non-Biblical sources, and much of it is still available today, although it sometimes requires the retrieval of obscure material from second-hand bookshops and library archives.

My source material has included the Babylonian history, from the fragments that remain of the works of Berosus, and the Greek mythology which is a highly embellished version of early history. After that, I have focused on the history of Britain and Ireland, because this is the part of the world where I live, and it is always easier to research one's own locality.

There has recently been a revival of creationism, as new evidence is continually emerging that contradicts the theory of evolution. I will not go into all this here, but many resources are available, and some of them are referenced from my Creation Science page. I have always believed in creation, not just from a religious perspective, but as the best scientific explanation of the origin of life. However, while reading through some of the latest creationist materials, I came across a book called After the Flood, by Bill Cooper, that was different from all the others. Instead of using science to prove our origins, it looked at the records that were left behind by our ancestors. While this might seem the obvious thing to do, there are very few books available on the subject, compared with the much larger number of books that take the scientific approach.

Having identified an area of neglected research that might be called Creation History instead of Creation Science, I began to look at some of Cooper's source materials, and other sources of ancient history. The result was an accumulation of material that had to be written up.

Preface	1
Ancient and Medieval Sources	4
Chapter 1 - Creation and the Flood	7
Armorica, the Ancient Name of Brittany	11
Ten Kings Before the Flood	12
King Noah	16
Longevity	17
Oannes, the Fish-Man	18
Jonah, the Reluctant Fish-Man	22
The Bishop's Mitre	23
Location of the Ark	23
Mount Ararat	24
Durupinar	25
Urartu and Kurdistan	25
North-West Iran - Sahand or Sabalan	28
Eastern Cudi Dagh	29
Central Cudi Dagh	30
Cudi Dagh Culture Trail	31
Historical Sightings of the Ark	32
What Happened to Noah?	32
Descent from the Ark	33
Was it Plagiarism?	36
Bible from Babylon?	36
Babylon from the Bible?	36
The Greek Story of Creation and the Fall	37
Lamech and his Three Sons	39
Who is Zeus?	40
Chapter 2 - The Early Post-Flood World	41
Gilgamesh	42
The Battle Against Humbaba	42
The Bull of Heaven	43
The Death of Enkidu and the Search for Immortality	44
The Descendants of Noah	45
Additional Children of Noah	49
The Egyptian Osiris and Greek Zeus	54
The Greek Dionysus and Roman Bacchus	57
Castration of Ouranos	58
The Kings After the Flood	59
The Greek Flood Stories	60
The Flood of Atlantis	60
The Flood of Ogygus	61
The Flood of Deucalion	62
From Noah to Dardanus	64
Longevity Within the Greek Mythology	66
Migration of Pre-Flood History to Greek Mythology	66
How to Make a God	67
From Adam to the Welsh and English Monarchies	67
Chapter 3 - Dubious Histories	69
Annius of Viterbo	69
Is Fake History Worth Anything?	71
Lost Works of Berosus	71
History of the World According to Annius and Friends	72
Travels of Noah into Europe	72
Holinshed's Chronicles	81
Fables and Endless Genealogies	88
Chapter 4 - From Dardanus to the Welsh Kings	91
Dardanus to Aeneas	91
The British History from Brutus to Cadwallader	93
Aeneas to Brutus	94
From the Death of Brutus to the Arrival of the Romans	97
From the Roman to the Saxon Invasion	99
From the Saxon Invasion to the Death of Cadwallader	105
Sources of British History	112
Gildas	113
Tysilio	113
Nennius	115
Geoffrey of Monmouth	116
The Good Book of Oxford	118
Polydore Vergil	119
Chapter 5 - Anglo-Saxon Genealogies	123
Anglo-Saxon Descent from Noah	123
Anglo-Saxon Descent from Priam, King of Troy	126
Which One Is Right?	127
Early Saxon History	127
Asgard - The Saxon Troy	128
Babylon II	130
Descendants of Woden	132
Chapter 6 - History of Ireland and Scotland	133
Early History of Ireland	134
The Sons of Miletus	136
British and Irish Histories	143
What is Truth?	145
Common Ground	146
Chapter 7 - Early Christianity in the British Isles	147
To the End of the Earth	147
The Trade Routes	148
The Jews in Britain	154
Glastonbury	155
Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea in Britain	156
Jesus at Glastonbury	158
Joseph in Britain after the Resurrection	161
Date of Joseph's Arrival	164
The Holy Thorn	167
The Holy Grail	167
Antiquity of the British Church	168
Simon Zelotes in Britain	169
The Silurian Royal Family in Rome	170
Aristobulus in Britain	174
The Apostle Paul in Britain	177
Lucius, The First Christian King In All The World	179
Emperor Diocletian and the Persecution of Christians	181
Constantine, the First Christian Emperor	181
The Pelagian Heresy	183
Christianity in Ireland and Scotland	184
Paladius	184
St. Patrick	185
Papal Authority	185
St. Columba	186
St. Augustine	187
St. Aidan	191
The Council of Whitby	191
The Reformation	192
Chapter 8 - The End Of The World	193
The Babylonian Apocalypse	193
Planet-Gazing at Babylon	197
Is There A Message In The Stars?	198
Ragnarok	200
The European Union	203
Twelve Stars of the Madonna	203
A Woman Rides the Beast	206
The Tower of Babel	210
Escaping the Apocalypse	212
Bibliography	214
Index	223

Published by: Anno Mundi Books

ISBN 13: 978-0-9543922-0-8
ISBN 10: 0-9543922-0-5

Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5", 256pp.

UK Price: £12.00

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No. 3 Best Selling Book at the Creation Science Movement, April 2006.

Summary

Table of Contents

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Published by: Anno Mundi Books

ISBN 13: 978-0-9543922-0-8 ISBN 10: 0-9543922-0-5

Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5", 256pp.

UK Price: £12.00

Order Your Copy

No. 3 Best Selling Book at the Creation Science Movement, April 2006.

Summary

Table of Contents

See also:

ISBN 13: 978-0-9543922-0-8
ISBN 10: 0-9543922-0-5