Hi Crow, your information about the Sarmatians is extremely interesting. Can you tell me what evidence you have that the name 'Sarmatian' = 'Serb'? If I go around telling people that the Szczerbiec at Wawel castle is part of the proof that the Poles are descended from the Sarmatians, I need to be able to clearly explain how. I've read your posts, but we need to differentiate between a claim and a fact. Could you please give it a go making some quick talking points on this specific question?
Secondly, you are the first or second person I've read who says the Sarmatians were the main tribe, while the Scythians were a part of them, instead of vice versa. Herodotus says the Sarmatians came into being when some Scythians mixed with the Amazons. And most maps out there show Scythia as being much larger than Sarmatia, while you say the Scythians were in eastern Central Asia. But I think you may be confusing the Scythians of the west with the Scythians of the east, known as the Saka. I think most sources say the Scythians emigrated into Europe before the Sarmatians, and that the Saxons and other Nordic peoples are Scythian, whereas the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, and Serbs are Sarmatian. What say you?
Thirdly, I was shocked to see that you made absolutely no mention of the origin of the Scythians and Sarmatians being the ancient Judahites, following the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. Once freed after the Babylonian captivity by Cyrus the Great, most Judahites remained in the Caucasus next to Persia, before later migrating to Central Asia and the Pontic Steppe. This is where the theory of the Iranian origin of the Scythians comes from. What I suspect is that they changed their language from Hebrew to a dialect of Persian while in the Caucasus, and that they somehow started speaking a Slavic language in the Pontic Steppe. There are many books and articles about the Scythians and Sarmatians being the Sons of Isaac of the Bible, and that the Saxons are the descendants of the Scythians. To not even mention the migrations of the 12 Tribes of Israel when discussing the Sarmatians (or Scythians) is in my view questionable in the extreme.
And then we see you delve into the Ice Age Refugium, mixing with Neanderthals, and what not. Are you suggesting that the Sarmatians are descended from apes? That Humans are descended from apes? That their ancestors come from Africa? That Charles Darwin was a brilliant man, more brilliant than Nikola Tesla? Do you like the idea of our Sarmatian ancestors being descended (in part) from the Neanderthals rather than the Judahites?
One of my ancestral surnames is Pędrak, a Polish name, spelled as Pendrak in English. My maternal grandmother, who was born in the U.S., was a Pendrak, and her father, who was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland), was a Pędrak. I believe Pędrak is the Polish-Sarmatian form of the English name, Pendragon, the epithet of Uther, father of King Arthur.
Pendragon, or Pen Draig (Middle Welsh: pen[n] dreic, pen[n] dragon; composed of Welsh pen, 'head, chief, top' and draig / dragon, 'dragon; warrior'; literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon'.
We also find the following...
The prefix Pen- is very common in both Wales and Cornwall and is a Celtic/Brythonic word (Celtic-P language) meaning 'head' or 'chief.'
In my view, the existence of the surname Pędrak in Poland is evidence that the Poles are Sarmatians. I think the pronunciation of Pędrak, (PEN-drak in English), is the same as the Welsh name from the quoted material shown above; i.e., Pen Draig or pen[n] dreic. The spelling differs because we are talking about the Polish version vs. the Welsh version of the name. And of course, Pendragon is the English version.
Because my Pędrak ancestors were peasants, not members of the nobility, I suspect that this surname is also small evidence that most Poles are descended from the Sarmatians. Sarmatian identity is not limited to just the nobility (szlachty), as was said by Polish Sarmatists in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, (after they first said it was the origin of all Poles), but to most Poles, nobility and peasant alike.
(For you Polish-speaking cats out there, I know that the word pędrak is also the name of grubs from four species of scarab beetle, and while there is tantalizing evidence that some of my ancestors may have raised grubs in cattle manure to feed the geese, I have disproven this theory about the origin of the Pędrak surname, and for sake of brevity will not go into it here. I believe the Pędrak surname came first, and the name of the grubs came after. One of the grubs has the identical coloring (red and black) of the Chinese dragon. THE DRAGON... put that in your pipe and smoke it. "Hey Bolesław, this grub looks like a Chinese dragon! Let's call grubs pędraki from now on." By the way, I have also disproven the Scottish immigrant theory for the origin of the Pędrak surname.)
