From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9199
Date: 2001-09-08
> In a message dated 9/7/01 6:04:57 AM Central Daylight Time,it's Polish
> > Speaking of Polish nobility: I have always
> > had difficulty etymologizing the name of Radziwil. -dzi- says
> >of warriors
>
> Dear Torsten,
>
> A prince of Egypt by the name of Ra-hotep escaped with a band
> after the second conquest of Egypt by the Persians in 341 BC. Thislittle
> band managed to cross the Meditteranean Sea first to Malta thenMagna Grecia,
> landing at the Greek city of Metapontum. After a brief stay theymigrated
> northwards, serving as mercenaries in the service of various Italictribes
> who knew of Egypt only in gossip.north where
>
> The warriors married locally and prospered, gradually moving
> they settled for a while in the northern fringes of the Po Valleywith the
> Alps at their back for protection. The name Ra-Hotep was in factheld by
> each new generation of their kings. The Rhaetians occupied aneighboring
> valley.since their
>
> They warred constantly with their Celtic Boii neighbors and
> numbers were so few, they decided to leave the Po basin and maketheir way
> through one of the passes of the Alps into what is now Austria.the Boii
> Unfortunately, they ran into more Celtic tribes that were allied to
> in the Czech basin and were forced to flee further north.Egyptians
>
> Their years living in the Alpine foothills had given these
> mountaineering experience that served them well not only incrossing the Alps
> but also in crossing the much easier Slovakian Mountains, easier topass
> through but containing warlike Slavs, some descended from a band ofwarriors
> who had moved north at about the same time from the sea of Azov andhad
> successfully allied themselves with the Slovaks against the moresavage
> tribes to the north called the Podolians.as new
>
> As the Slovaks were hard pressed, they welcomed the Egyptians
> allies and together their forces defeated the Podolians,unfortunately with
> the loss of the Slovak King Kraak.bulwark against
>
> Kraak's son decided that his new allies would be a useful
> the Podolians so he established them in a comfortable and fertilevalue as
> his vassals, naming the new area Kraakups in honor of his lostfather.
>peace, she
> Ra-Hotep was given a Podolian princess as a bride to seal the
> was the daughter of a dead son of King Dzima who had died in thebattle. A
> small barony was thus created and a new name for the king was Ra-Dzi. The
> area became prosperous and when the Slovak Kingdom fell to the Hunsin 434
> the little barony allied itself to the Podolians as virtuallyeveryone now
> spoke Podolian and only the fertility goddess Isis and her sonHorus remained
> in the local Pantheon. Egyptian language disappeared except for afew loan
> words.the
>
> The Slovaks' allies under Prince Odina, used to the lowlands of
> Crimea, took their spoils and moved westward to reunite with theircountrymen
> who had followed a more southerly route to what is today Thuringiawhere they
> wrested some territory from the local Celtic tribe and tarried fora few
> generations before the arrival of the Romans encouraged theirmovement
> further north.Is that now official dogma of the Piscopalian Church? ;-)
>
> Best regards, John Piscopo
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