Kittim
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Kittim (Hebrew: כּתּיּי, Kittı̂yı̂y), Chittim or Akita was a son of Javan and brother of Elishah, Tarshish, and Dodanim listed in Genesis 10:4.
The Descendants of Kittim
Josephus says that Cyprus was called Kition by the Greeks. It's inhabitants were called Kitieis and Kittoaeans.[1] The Egyptians called them Kheto and the Greeks Ketei. The Phoenicians named them Kt or Kty. One branch still lives in Cyprus. Many of them lived in Asia Minor and were associated with the sons of Heth and the Indo-European Hittites. At least three or four peoples were known as Hittites in the Middle East in pre-Christian times.[2] Thus the confusion between the Hittites (also called Catti) and the Khittites (also called Chittim).[3]
Professor Sayce reveals that certain people known as Hittites had yellow skins.[4] The Egyptian monuments show at least two types of Hittites. One with a yellow skin, high cheek-bones, oblique eyes and pigtail hair.[5] The other looked somewhat like the earliest Greeks who were Indo-European.[6] The famous Arthur Koestler mentions that the early Hittites were dark-skinned (that is, in comparison to their Indo-European invaders) and probably of the Mongoloid branch of mankind.[7] John Beddoe writes similarly in his book The Anthropological History of Europe.[8] One possible reason for Kittim being called Khitti or Hittites is because they descend from Jap-heth.
These particular Hittites wore upturned shoes, high boots, peaked caps and hair worn in pig-tails,[9] like the Mongoloid peoples of eastern Asia.[10] So where would you guess where Kittim is today?
While China was called Shinas anciently (the Romans called it Seres Sinenses) derived from Tsins or Tsina by those approaching from the south,[11] it was called Cathay or Khitay by those approaching from the north[12] after the people living there. The Russians called the land and people Khitai and the Latins named it Cathay, applying it to the whole country. The Arabs even called the Chinese arrows Alkhatai.[13]
The peoples of Manchuria and north-eastern China, then, are descendants of Kittim. The Chinese of north-east are tall and fairly dolicocephalic; while the average Chinese descended from Magog are shorter, darker, and brachycephalic. Those in the deep south are very dark and related to the South-East Asians.[14] These Khitan in Manchuria, ruled northern China and Mongolia from Manchuria. They established the famous Liao dynasty (907-1125 AD). Of further interest is that a tribe called the Khata dwelt in western China[15] and a nomad tribe of Mongols was known as the Kara-Kitai.[16]
Related References
- ↑ Josephus Antiquities 1:6:1; Douglas 1972:701
- ↑ Wiseman 1973:197
- ↑ Custance for example confuses the two on page 210 of his work.
- ↑ Sayce 1888:42
- ↑ Myths of Babylonia, by Donald Mackenzie (page 265).
- ↑ Barton 1933:90-91
- ↑ Koestler 1976:164
- ↑ Beddoe 1912:82
- ↑ Childe 1926:78, 114; Custance 1975:104
- ↑ Childe 1926:28
- ↑ Boulger 1878:17
- ↑ ibid: 10
- ↑ Custance 1975:211
- ↑ Huxley 1974:159. Some in the south mixed with Australoids anciently.
- ↑ Jones, The Works, vol 1: 100
- ↑ Wendt 1958: 178; Coates 1951:28
- In Search of ... the Origin of Nations by C.M. White. History Research Projects 2003.
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