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The Turanian Epoch of the Romans, as also of the Greeks, Germans, and Anglo-Saxons, in relation to the Early History of the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Hyde Clarke Esq.
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Extract

The paper which is here offered to the Royal Historical Society, following that of the Khita-Peruvian in 1877, and the early English in 1878, brings the results of new investigations to bear on the history of early or Turanian (Turano-African) culture in the world, and its contact with the Assyrians and consequent decline.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1880

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References

page 181 note * See my “Siva and Serpent Worship”.

page 190 note * “Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and Comparative Philology and Mythology” (Trübner); and “Khita and Khita-Peruvian” (Trübner).

page 193 note * The same is to be observed of the Eten of Peru, of which the alleged similarity to Chinese was pointed out by the Hon. J. Randolph Clay, late U. S. Minister to Peru.

page 195 note * Some “monosyllabic“ languages, as Chinese, are only artificially so, as I have ascertained that words are really dissyllables with the final vowel cut off.

page 203 note * See the table of equivalents in my “Prehistoric Comparative Philology”

page 213 note * In truth, Gbati is an equivalent of the Phrygian Bagaios, that is of the Baga of Persia, the Boga of the Slavonians, and Obagorowo of Akarakura of Africa.

page 214 note * Mr. Henry B. Wheatley's Dictionary of Reduplicated Words, that is iterative words, is thoroughly Turkish and Turanian in its form and spirit.

page 215 note * The principles of descent of English prosody from the ancient head rhyme or staff rhyme, which I demonstrated so far back as 1851, are now being cited by the German writers in their discussions on this subject.

page 219 note * This is particularly seen in recent observations of Professor Rhys as to the god Nodam of Roman inscriptions, whom he treats as a Turanian god of the Welsh and Irish, which I have confirmed by the collateral evidence cited here. This fact also supports my statement of the Turanian occupation of Britain and Ireland.

page 222 note * Professor Sayce has lately confirmed my assignment of this region to Khita.