Just after I finished the
answers for STANA 21, I received an email from Stuart Harris, who is in France
and who is working on the relationship between the ancient FINNISH people and
the Shawnees in America.
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Stuart had noticed a similarity
between the symbols for the directions shown in the pictograph for stanza 21.
Where the ?-RA-MI sounds are
from FINNLAND and the sounds on top of each group of words are from the LENAPE
History.
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Two of the symbols refer to
the same direction on both sides of the Atlantic. The “hill” direction is called the “north” direction in the
LENAPE History.
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The fact that all three
syllables refer to directions and two of them refer to the same direction
implies “more than coincidence” relation ship between FINLAND and the LENAPE
history.
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What do you think that
relationship might be?
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Furthermore, Stuart believes all of the symbols of the pictograph for stanza 22 were an attempt to
write using the FINNISH symbols of their alphabet.
The sounds of the LENAPE
stanza words are NOT the same as the sounds of the FINNISH letters.
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The LENAPE sounds were:
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Wemipayat
gune'unga shinaking, Wunkenapi chanelendam payaking, Allowelendam kowiyey tulpaking.
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The three syllables
"shin" = "rivers"
"ak" = "many"
"ing," = "place"
define the "abundance of rivers."
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The three syllables
"shin" = "rivers"
"ak" = "many"
"ing," = "place"
define the "abundance of rivers."
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Many of the settlers of the New Sweden settlement on the Delaware were Finnish immigrants, living and speaking the traditional Finnish life in the remote forests of Sweden, until they transplanted this way of life to America. The Swedes and especially the Finns (whom would most certainly also spoken Swedish), had extremely close relations with the local Leni Lenape and many learned the Lenape language. The Sami shelters of northern Scandinavia and Native American tipis were almost identical. This may indicate there was an ongoing relationship between the Finns and some Native American tribes for a long time, because they were kin
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The Lenape spoke a dialect of Old Norse, so Swedish speakers would have found it easier to learn than the English and Dutch did.