ancient celtic

seafarers
there are henges in australia, and
the ruins of egyptian temples, and
phoenician and celtic artefacts and
ruins. in north-western coastal
towns, finds of gold coins bearing
bce inscriptions are fairly common.

what’s mysterious about this is the

way the authorities are trying to
cover it up. so irrationally ferocious
are they that archaeologists,
amateur and professional, stand
staring at their discoveries knowing
it’s not worth their careers to utter a
word of truth about them, while the
authorities advertise them as fools or
worse for even reporting their finds,
and deny their existence to the
public if they can and if they can’t
they deny their significance instead.
the worst part is, more than one
magnificent megalithic site has been
unnecessarily bulldozed for housing,
and without recognition, all other
ancient sites, asian, european,
whatever, remain equally vulnerable
to ignominious destruction.

so at the risk of ridicule and

anathema, as a linguist i’d just like to
point out further possible evidence of
bce european contact to anyone who
cares. the evidence is etymological
and comes in mutually supporting
segments.
• the northwest area where so

many celto-phoenician coins have

been found is home to a people
called wandjinna.
• in other parts of australia,

‘wandjinna’ meant something

like ‘the gods’, people of the
dreamtime who came at the
beginning of traditional history to
establish things.
• a once ‘secret’ name for the emu,
a large flightless australian bird,
is dinnewan or theenaween.
• in modern south australian,

bandi means to shine, as the

sun. its second syllable, -di, is
equivalent to an english word do,
or an irish word déan, or an
ancient goidelic word from which
both déan and do sprang, or the
english do and the irish déan and
the australian –di, all three! if
we’re on the right track, bandi
means ‘white-do’ or ‘do white’,
and what does the sun do when it
shines if it doesn’t ‘do white’?
• (in verbs of the south australian
language, -di is more commonly
proceeded by –an or –en to give
-andi or –endi. an is the definite
article in goidelic, so padendi (to
go) means pad-the-do, or in
smooth english ‘do-the-pad’ and
if the south oz aborigine ‘pad’
isn’t cognate with ‘path’ i’ll go he.
• in modern irish, one of only three

surviving descendents of the very

widespread goidelic language, a
syllable pronounced just like
‘wan’ is spelt ‘bhán’, and is a
‘lenited’ form of ‘bán’ which
means - guess what? – ‘white’.
lenition, or softening, of the initial
consonants happens to some
words in goidelic in certain
grammatical situations, without
changing the meaning of the
word. wan is modern english for
‘very pale’. the two syllables
theena- are spelt ‘duine’ in
modern irish and could be
pronounced either din-uh or du-
in-uh, or thin-uh, depending on
your local accent. the two
syllables djinna are the same two
syllables as theena, with a minor
variation which occurs frequently
in goidelic languages – the initial
consonant is slenderised, in this
case from du+vowel to dj+vowel.
whatever you do with them, these
two syllables mean ‘person’ in
goidelic languages. so wandjinna
means ‘white person’ in irish. in
 aboriginal language it refers
either to legendary ancient
bringers of law and wisdom,
founders of culture and
establishers of sacred landscape
or to an extant aboriginal tribe of
north western australia, who have
some interesting tales to tell of
their own origins as seafarers who
reached australia during storms
via shipwreck.
• there always have been quite a
few white-haired, yellow-haired
and red-haired, fair-skinned, full-
blood aborigines in the western
parts of australia, even before the
1788 european invasion.
• in north western australia, where
the wandjinna people live, people
are always finding ancient celto-
phoenician coins and other
artifacts which the professional
scholars are refusing to
acknowledge, even to the extent
of ridiculing independent
investigators.
• if you examine australia’s botany,
especially in the west and south,
you find further evidence in the
form of species of herbs closely
related to food and medicinal
herbs of europe and quite
unrelated to any of the very
distinctive australian species they
now grow among. new holland
daisy, native hollyhock, several
species of violets and their near
relatives, small chamomiles and
several near relatives of spinach
are among them.
• stories from aboriginal history
and legend also describe white
people coming among the black
people, or else shipwrecks, and
the setting up of camps by
survivors, a golden-haired man
too proud to marry a black girl,
and the aborigines’ tradition of
painting their faces white with
pipeclay or ashes for certain
ceremonial dances and rites.
there is a lot of other evidence as
well that our ancient ancestors were
seafarers and colonists, and had not
only visited but colonised even
australia. their descendents are still
trying to tell us about it. we should
listen!