The Red-Haired Race And Their Conflict With 'The Gods'
By: Leonard Farra
The Guanches were the people living in the Canary Islands
before the Spanish conquest in the 15th century.
Although it’s believed that they were related to the North
African Berbers, we should bear in mind that they were of mixed race.
Some, who were a brownish shade, were of the Mediterranean
Race and as others were tall, white, fair or red-haired, nobody has questioned
why red-haired mummies have been discovered in caves.
It’s not known when the Guanches arrived in the Canary
Islands but, in common with people throughout the Early World, they claimed to
be the survivors of a great flood which destroyed their former homeland. It’s
generally believed that the deluge legends relate to the end of the Ice Age
around 10,000 years ago.
However, as we shall later see, there appears to have been a
worldwide catastrophe several thousand years later and it appears to be the
origin of the hundreds of flood stories that were told by the Ancients.
Most native peoples in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the
Pacific Isles, have black hair and as red hair occurs more frequently in people
of north-western Europe ancestry, this suggests that, at an early time there
was a red-haired white race living somewhere in the region.
A few thousand years ago, the Celts migrated across Western
Europe and they arrived in Ireland around 2,500 b.c.e. Like the Guanches, the
Irish are of mixed race and red hair is common among them. When the Celts came
to the Emerald Isle, they found that they were not the first people living
there.
According to Irish legend, one of the peoples who preceded
them on the island were the Tuatha de Danaan – an advanced race who had fair to
reddish hair.
The Irish associated them with many of their country’s great
mounds and they said that they arrived in Ireland from four lost cities
somewhere in the North.
Could it be that the Tuatha intermarried with the Celts and
that this is why so many Irish people have red hair?
The highest proportion of red-haired people in Europe is in
Scotland which also suggests a mixing of early races in that country.
Over the years, Classical, and other scholars, have
commented on the red hair of some of the European tribes such as the Belgae
–Gallo-Germanic tribes in Northern Gaul, from whom the name Belgium was
derived, and Boudica, the queen of the Celtic Iceni, was described as a tall
women with flowing red hair.
The story becomes more intriguing when we find that, prior
to the arrival of the Europeans, there may have been red-haired people in parts
of North and Central America. The native Paiute in Nevada, for example, have
legends about a war in which their ancestors fought, and destroyed, a tall
red-haired race who they called the Si-te-cah.
Sceptics place little significance on their legends but in
Mayan temple art, in Chichen Itza, in the Yucatan, there are paintings of tall,
white, men with flowing golden hair in scenes of conflict and as we shall see,
there are also traces of tall, white, red heads in various parts of South
America.
Matto Grosso, the third largest state in area in Brazil ,
lies in the west of the country and half of its north region is covered by the
Amazon rain forest.
Col. P. H. Fawcett, the famous British explorer who disappeared
there in 1925, was fascinated with legends of white tribes, and mysterious lost
cities, and so he went there on several expeditions, between 1906 and 1925, and
one of the things that amazed him were the reports of sightings of blue-eyed,
red-haired, Indians
Harold. T. Wilkins, an authority on the mysteries of South
America, relates that an old Spanish historian reported that there was a tall
red-haired, bearded, Amazon people, the Mayorumas, ‘whose skin was so white
that they resembled the English or Flemish peoples’ and William F. Dankenbring
adds that builders of Brazil’s Trans-Amazon Highway also discovered the
existence of a white skinned, red-bearded tribe
Harold T. Wilkins relates that, in 1929, the American
traveller Lawrence Griswold was captured by Shuara Indians and he was taken up
the Rio Juara one of the many tributaries of the Amazon.
One day he, and his savage captors, came across the ruins of
an ancient city where he saw pyramids, and a horseshoe shaped amphitheatre, and
the small tribal elder tried to convince Griswold that the city was built by
his tribes’ ancestors.
However, this was obviously untrue as he claimed that its
tall, ‘red-haired’, builders were changed into his people ‘due to their wicked
behaviour before the Flood’. Griswold was very lucky that he was a tall
red-head as the Indians thought that he was of the lost race and this is why
they saved his life after capturing him. Griswold was later escorted to the
nearest post on the Amazon and, from there, he made his way back to New York
As in the Canary Islands, red-haired mummies have also been
found in Peru and there is evidence to suggest that tall, red-headed, whites
were involved in the early history of this region.
When he was investigating the origin of the Redin, the
earlier red-haired, white, population in the Maldives, Thor Heyerdahl extended
his research to the Indian sub-continent. Although he found cultural
similarities between some parts of the two areas, his unique study was not
conclusive. What he should have noted is that red hair and blue eyes can be
found among some of the people in the Western and Northern parts of South Asia.
The indications are that there was a migration of red-heads into this region
thousands of years ago but where did these people come from?
What we do know is that Indian legends tell of giant,
demon-like, beings ,the Rakshashas, who had red hair and beards. The Rakshasas
are said to have been the enemies of man and it is said that they fought the
gods. These Indian legends may have given rise to a dislike of red-haired
people in the country and to have prompted Donald A. Mackenzie to report, a 100
years ago, that ‘a native girl with auburn locks is not cared for as a bride’
We can now take this story a step further. In Ancient Egypt,
a popular, allegorical, story, which I have decoded, tells of the conflict
between the gods and an evil red-haired race. This legend influenced Egyptian
Afterlife traditions, and customs, and it was the reason why, at one time in
the country’s long history, red haired people were sacrificed In the New
Kingdom, though, attitudes had changed. Egypt now had a tall red-haired king.
His name was Ramasses 11 and he resembled the tall, white, Guanches in the
Canary Islands
But that’s another fascinating story.
Conclusions
In various parts of the Early World, there were legends of
an advanced, fair to reddish haired, pre-deluge, race who, according to some
traditions, were in conflict with ‘The Gods’. But who were the gods in this era
and what did happen? One of the stories told about this appears in the
mystical, allegorical, writings about Enoch in which non earthly beings, who
were like white men, escort Enoch to a high place to watch the evil behaviour
of men who are symbolised by animals.
The animals begin to fight each other and the white beings
send down destruction on them Enoch’s non earthly companions were based on the
Annunaki, of Sumerian tradition, who reputedly caused the Flood, and whose
leaders also appeared in the traditions of other various people, such as the
Babylonians, Egyptians and Assyrians, in the intervening years.
As the red-haired whites were tall, they might also have
been the pre-deluge race of giants mentioned in the folklore of many early
cultures and their conflict with the visiting ‘sky-people’ might have been the
origin of the Greek story of the war between gods and giants. Because they were
thought to be descended from the evil race, red-haired people have been badly
treated over the years such as being sacrificed to the gods in Ancient Egypt
and later being accused of witchcraft and of having bad tempers.
Evidence suggests that people of this description were
living in various parts of the world such as in North Western Europe and in the
Americas and there are also traces of them on some of the Pacific Islands
including Easter Island
And finally, there is evidence to suggest that the
destruction of the previous age happened 5,000 years ago around which time
there was major flooding, and climate change, in various parts of the world, followed
by the rebirth, (not the birth as is generally believed by scholars), of
civilization.
Written by Leonard Farra
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