THE COVENANT LAND
The islanders (of Britain) were known racially as Kelts, derived from their historical racial name of Kimmerian – Kymry – Keltoi – Kelt. The letter “C” began to substitute the letter “K” in spelling the name, but the pronunciation is the same. Even in those remote times the name Kelt took on a different enunciation and spelling, arising out of native patois. Then as today, we find the descendants of this ancient people in England and Wales referred to as Celts, the inhabitants of Hibernia – Ireland – as Kelts, Gaels, in Scotland and the people of Gaul, now France, as Gauls – Gallic. Ethnically they are all the same people. The meaning of the word in each case is “stranger,” indicating that Celt, Kelt, Gael or a Gaul were strangers to the land in which they dwelt, not an aborigine as some would have us suppose. It is important to note, though they were strangers to the land, they were its first settlers, securing their new homeland in peace, and not with the sword, since there were no people to conquer.
They were truly colonizing strangers in a virgin land…..
After the Kimmerians had settled in the Isles of the West, they were known to the rest of the world by another name. The name held no affinity with their racial title by which ancient ethnologists identified them. In many respects the name was more of a sobriquet* which they appeared willingly to accept.
They became referred to as British.
Why were they so named?
What was so different about the Kimmerii, or their way of life, that actuated other nations to christen them with this strange surname that was ever to identify them before the world, both ancient and modern, even to the subjection of their racial name?
Ancient chroniclers leave no doubt that it was the religious beliefs and customs of the Kimmerians that set them markedly apart from all other faiths. It was diametrically opposed to all other religions of that time. They believed in One Invisible God, and the coming of the Messiah. They had no graven images, abhorring the sight of idols. They always worshipped in the open, facing the east. They had a passionate belief in the immortality of life, to such an extent that both friend and foe claimed this belief made them fearless warriors, disdainful of death.
The religious ritual that appeared to make the greatest impression on the foreign historians was their custom of carrying a replica of the Ark of the Covenant before them in all their religious observances, as did their forefathers in old Judea. For centuries as the Kymri passed through foreign lands in migratory waves on their march to the Isles of the West, the chroniclers noted that this custom was never omitted.
It was this ritual that gave birth to their British surname.
The name British is derived from the ancient Hebrew language, with which the old Cymric language was contemporaneous. Formed from two words “B’rith” meaning “covenant” and “ish” meaning a man or woman. Joined as one the meaning is apparent: “British” means a “covenant man or woman.”
The ancient word “ain” attached to the word “B’rith,” signifies “land” therefore the interpretation of the word “Britain,” as then and still employed, is “Covenant Land.”
