After the flood the Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat ,not on Mt Ararat itself it does not say.This here from Genesis 8:4 says this הָרֵ֥י אֲרָרָֽט and this reads literally “mountains (plural) of Ararat” the word in question is harei which is plural not har which is singular.The Ararat mountain range are in the three countries of Turkey,Armenia and Iran.We will talk today about the descendents of Yefet or Japheth ,for this article I will call who English Bibles call Japheth ,Yefet ,from here on out.

We know from scripture that from the Ark landing in central Asia people went west to Shinar (that is ancient Sumer) where the rivers provided good crops and the the catastrophe of Babel happened and people were then dispursed.It is known that Yefet’s son Javan populated the Greek Islands and Rome around the Mediterranean Sea and even maybe Phoenicia and so the descendents of Javan or Yavan went west and north after Babel.We will not deal with these people.

Next is Madai another son of Yefet and here is from the book of Jubilees.

“According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem’s descendants, rather than dwell in his allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea (seemingly corresponding to the British Isles),^[3] so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam, Asshur and Arphaxad, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.”

It appears that Madai mixed with Arabs and became Medes and the Kurds and other proto Iranians.Kurdish folkore has Madai as a patriarch.

Togarmah I believe is the ancestors of Armenia which is perfectly situated just south of Russia and Europe and north of Iran and east of Anatolia and the Hittites(who may came from Shem’s son Lud or from descendents of Togarmah or a mix of both.It appears the Hittites spoke an Indo European language but wrote with Cuneiform which was a script from modern day Iraq or ancient Sumer.Tiras seems to have settled in and around parts of Greece and the Balkans with association with Thrace and also the Estruscans.

Here is my idea ,the descendents of Gomer went east into central Asia.Ashkenaz went north and settled with the Slavs who were of Magog and Russians.Ashkenaz and the Slavs were pushed west by Huns and Mongols and other Turkic peoples.The Slavs settled eastern Europe and Ashkenaz’s descendents settled Germany,Netherland and Scandanavia.And Riphath settled the Celtic lands from the Czech Republic and even as far east as parts of Poland and of course Gaul.And of course the British Isles also but what about Togarmah though. Was Gomer the patriach of the Yamnaya?Did the sons of Gomer settle on the central Asian steppe and Ashkenaz’s sons headed west later on crossing the Danube and becoming the Goths and then Germamic and Scandanavian people.Did Riphath go north from the steppe into the Ural mountains and become Celtics settling western Europe.

Here is a citation on Riphath

“August Wilhelm Knobel proposed that Riphath begat the Celtic peoples, who according to Plutarch had crossed from the Riphaean Mountains while en route to Northern Europe. ^[7] Smith’s Bible Dictionary also forwards Knobel’s notion that the Carpathian Mountains “in the northeast of Dacia” is the site of the Riphath or Riphean Mountains.”

Could this explain the distribution of Uralic languages in Europe like Finnish,Estonian and Saami.There was a clear migration from the Ural area to central and western Europe but how did Uralalic languages become Celtic then?The oldest known Celtic language, Lepontic was spoken in an area in modern Switzerland called Rhaetia ,could this relate to Riphath ,maybe ?

Here is a citation from Bede

“In his work The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the 8th century Anglo-Saxon monk and writer St. Bede the Venerable described the Picts as people who originated in Scythia and settled in northern Britain: 

• OriginBede claimed that the Picts sailed from Scythia, the steppes of Eurasia east of the Black Sea, and landed in Ireland. There, local Scoti leaders redirected them to northern Britain, where they settled and married Scoti women”

Modern historians consider the Scythian-Pict connection as debunked but it makes you wonder that even if Scythians did not ancestor the Scottish but could there still have been a central Asian-Celtic connection that runs deeper.Did Uralic people come first to parts around Finland and Estonia and making settlements in northern Scandanavia we call the Saami but some of them went into western Europe for better farming?

Riphath has often been connected with the Riphean Mountains of classical Greek geography, in whose foothills the Arimaspi (also called Arimphaei^[3] or Riphaeans^[4]) were said to live.^[5] These generally regarded as the western branch of the Ural Mountains.

So the Bible seems to connect the Ural mountains with Celtic migration but is there a linguistic link that can be proven.

In the 1980s, Russian linguist N. D. Andreev [ru] (Nikolai Dmitrievich Andreev) proposed a “Borean languages” hypothesis linking the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic (including Korean in his later papers) language families. Andreev also proposed 203 lexical roots for his hypothesized Boreal macrofamily. After Andreev’s death in 1997, the Boreal hypothesis was further expanded by Sorin Paliga (2003, 2007).^[5][6]

The Borean theory does not connect Indo European languages with Uralic ones it simply puts them under a single umbrella.It does however put Sumerian on the map which modern historians have never connected with anything so far.So I do find the Borean language family very compelling.I guess for now we are going by a Riphath Ural-Celt connection which I personally think makes sense.Let me throw something out that is just my thinking ,could there be a connection between the Uralic language Mansi and the Celtic Manx,maybe ?

Now more on Togarmah

“Most scholars identify Togarmah with the capital city called Tegarama by the Hittites and Til-Garimmu by the Assyrians.^[2] O.R. Gurney placed Tegarama in Southeast Anatolia”

“Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 263 – c. 339 AD), and bishop Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457 AD), regarded him as a father of Armenians. Medieval Jewish traditions linked him with several peoples: Turkic, including the Khazars.”

I would say that right after Babel that descendents of Togarmah may settle the Hittite region as well as Armenia.

Hayk^[a] (Armenian: Հայկ, Armenian pronunciation: [hajk]), also known as Hayk Nahapet (Հայկ Նահապետ, Armenian pronunciation: [hajk naha’pɛt], lit. ’Hayk the Patriarch’^[1]), is the legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation. His story is told in the History of Armenia attributed to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi and in the Primary History traditionally attributed to Sebeos.^[2] Fragments of the legend of Hayk are also preserved in the works of other authors, as well as in Armenian folk tradition.^[3

The name of the patriarch, Hayk (Հայկ), is not exactly homophonous with the Armenian name for “Armenia,” Haykʻ (Հայք). In Classical Armenian, Haykʻ is the nominative plural of hay (հայ), the Armenian word for “Armenian.”^[2] While Robert W. Thomson considers the etymology of Haykʻ (Հայք) from Hayk (Հայկ) to be impossible,^[2] other scholars consider the connection between the two to be obvious and derive Hayk from hay/Haykʻ via the suffix -ik.^[4] Armen Petrosyan proposes a possible connection between the name Hayk and the Proto-Indo-European *poti- “master, lord, master of the house, husband.”^[5] Armenian historiography of the Soviet era connected Hayk and hay with Hayasa, a people mentioned in Hittite inscriptions.^[4][6] Some authors derive Hayk and hay from Khaldi/Ḫaldi, the chief god of the Urartian pantheon, and also identify Hayk with the Urartian deity.^[3][7]

The Armenian word haykakan (հայկական, ‘that which pertains to Armenians’) derives from the name Hayk. Additionally, the poetic names for the Armenian nation, Haykazun (հայկազուն) or Haykazn (հայկազն, consisting of Hayk and azn ‘generation, nation, tribe’), also derive from Hayk (Haykazn/Haykaz later became a masculine given name among Armenians).^[8]

Genealogy

In Armenian folklore Hayk was a son of Togramah.

The anonymous Jewish author of the medieval historical chronicle Josippon lists the ten sons of Togarmas in his Josippon^[9][10][11] as follows:

1. Kwzar (כוזר) (the Khazars)
2. Pyṣynq (פיצינק) (the Pechenegs)
3. ˀln (אלן) (the Alans)
4. Bwlgr (בולגר) (the Bulgars)
5. Knbynˀ (כנבינא) (Kanbina?)
6. Ṭwrq (טורק) (possibly the Göktürks)
7. Bwz (בוז) (Flusser corrected this to כוז **Kwz for Ghuzz “Oghuzes“, east of the Khazars)
8. Zkwk (זכוך) (Zakhukh? or זיכוס **Zykws = Zikhūs, meaning the Northwest Caucasian Zygii?^[11][12]) (or a Zabender people who fled to the Avars from the Turks)
9. ˀwngr (אוגר) (Ungar; either the Hungarians or the Oghurs/Onogurs)
10. Tolmaṣ (תולמץ) (cf. the Pecheneg tribe Βορο-ταλμάτ < *Boru-Tolmaç mentioned by Byzantine emperor Constantine VII).

Could the Oghurs be related to the  Uyghurs of China,I know it above says association with Hungarians but Hungarian is a Uralic language that could have Turkic connections.With the Turks having Siberian connection they must have had Uralic contact at some point(just my opinion).

I would speculate that the children of Togarmah after Babel began the Hittite culture and then went east to Armenia and then farther east to Mongolia and Siberia, and then the land bridge crossing to the America’s.There is also the the possibility that Shems son Lud is the Hittite patriach,maybe yes or maybe they mixed with Togarmah.The might explain why the Hittites spoke a proto Iranian language(or proto Indo-European) but used a semitic writing sysyem.

We will now move to part II