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June 6, 2013

Who Are the Kurds? Logical Answer is

By Hamma Mirwaisi

Huart evolved to Kurt and Kurt in time evolved to Kurd

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Huart evolved to Kurt and Kurt in time evolved to Kurd

by Hamma Mirwaisi and Alison Buckley

Today the world's populations are divided according to six different language categories: native American, native Australian, African (known traditionally in the Hebrew as Semitic), Aryan (Europeans use the term "Indo-European'), Sino-Tibetan, and Altaic (Turkish, Mongolian, Japanese, and Korean). Each of them is based in particular cultures and civilizations, most of which are reasonably well known and understood.

The Indo-European people of the Middle East, including the Sumerians, Elamites, Guteans, Kassites, Hurrians, Matine (Matiani), Hittites, Lydians, Medians, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids, built many empires before Islamic Arab armies destroyed much of the culture of the Airyanem civilization. Although it has provided the seeds of and the soil for the growth of much of European and consequently Western civilization, until recently significant knowledge of the origins, historical and cultural influence and ideologies of the ancient Aryans' civilization has been obscured.

But when the discovery of the estimated 12,000-year-old archeological site at Göbekli Tepe atop a mountain ridge northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa (formerly Urfa/Edessa) in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan indicated the existence of a complex, self-sufficient society, David Lewis-Williams (Professor of Archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg) declared that, "Göbekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world" (1). The civilization developed steadily until it was challenged sometime prior to 1400 BCE by Egyptian-led colonists from the African continent who were the first of sequential waves to conqueror the lands of the Airyanem peoples, which have since been retained by Semitic peoples.

The Hebrew Old Testament records the rise of the Madai (from which came the Matine or Matiani) from Japheth, the third son of Noah (2). By the time of the Hebrew prophet Daniel, the tribe had become the ancient Medes (the ancestors of today's Kurds) and were known symbolically as the Bears ('Huart' in Kurdish). The military forces of the Median Empire were also called 'Huart'. Why did the Medes need a formidable army? Political competition in those days was a microcosm of the present Middle East. Powerful ruling families led by enigmatic kings and some very notable queens managed growing populations requiring stable territorial assets and resources. So the by the late seventh century BCE the Medes had shrewdly aligned themselves with the rising Neo-Babylonian Empire through the marriage of Median King Cyaxares' daughter Princess Amytis to Prince Nebuchadnezzar. Together with the most effective available ally, they conquered their common enemy, Nineveh, in 612 BCE, which became the first year in the Kurdish calendar (3).

Years of internal corruption and weak leadership led to a dire conspiracy by Darius the Great and his lackeys, destroying the great Zoroastrian bastion of the Median Empire. The descendants of King Darius, who changed its name to the Archaemenid Empire, ruled for 192 years. The Persians' ascendancy gave way to the Greeks, who eventually modified the Medes' name, but the Persians had to admit that the name 'Kurd' was given to the bravest people of the region.

Alexander the Great conquered all the Aryan lands and destroyed the Achaemenid Empire. But the Aryan people resisted the occupiers under the Median leader Baryaxes (Barixas), who reorganized the Median 'Huart' army against the Greek forces in Media. The Governor (satrap) Atro-pates of Media betrayed Baryaxes and several of his partisans to Alexander the Great (4). However, Baryaxes' followers continued attacking the Greek occupiers in a protracted guerrilla war; during the Seleucid Empire the word 'Huart' evolved to 'Kurt'; in time it is evolved into 'Kurd', a name born proudly by the majority Median fighters comprising the rebel armies.

Other traitors amongst the Medes and the Parsu (Persians) vied for power by competing for the favour of the Greeks and Macedonians, creating animosity that continues to this day. The division of the Airyanem Vaejah by Macedonian King Cassander and his peer in Asia, Seleucus I Nicator, still exists

Although the Jewish, Greek, Arab, Turkish, and Persian scholars' alteration of the Kurds' ancient symbolic name has survived for two and a half thousand years, their attempts to physically, morally, psychologically, and territorially eliminate the Kurds has failed. Consequently, the current serving freedom forces and supporters of 'Huart' are uncannily reflecting the power and purpose of their ancestors in the days of the Median Empire. Armed with a benevolence and wisdom reminiscent of King Cyaxares, the present Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocolan's campaign from his prison confinement on Imrali Island off Istanbul is upheld militarily in Turkey and Syria from northern Iraq by Murat Karayılan's guerrilla armies. Once again the footsteps of the valiant Median General Harpagos are traced in the Kandil Mountains as Karayilan prepares to lead the Kurds against the descendants of their ancient Persian and Semitic conquerors in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's Iran.

While the Kurds face the ultimate battle for the resumption of the territories of their Median forebears and as the contradictions between the lines of the various historically layered sources of evidence become apparent, a more accurate and credible account of the history of the Airyanem Civilization is in the process of being constructed.

Research compiled by Kurdish author and former guerrilla Hamma Mirwaisi now reveals the Kurds' origins and culture in two historical novels written by Australian Alison Buckley. Vashti: Queen of the Ancient Medes and its companion, Esther: Mystery Queen of the Medes, provide historical and cultural information and political inferences about the past and present Airyanem (Kurdish) civilization. Two more volumes, Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, are planned for the unique, seminal Airyanem Civilisation series. The Unified Kurdish Language: The Language of Zoroaster and Darius the Great, by the same authors, is based on the Prophet Zoroaster's spiritual Song of Gatha and the Behistun cuneiform inscriptions written by Darius the Great on Mount Behistun near Kermanshah in Iran. It promotes the language as an aid for a Middle Eastern Economic Union to extinguish wars and destruction and afford ongoing peace, economic growth, human rights, and just dispersion of wealth for the Kurdistan region.

These prospects point to the realization of an apparently relevant yet little-known prophecy in the Old Testament book of Isaiah (5), where the Medes execute a complete victory over the kingdoms ruling the Aryan lands. After centuries of dispossession, displacement, persecution, and ravishment of her peoples and her resources, it would be a just outcome of millennia of conflict. Then Kurds will once more take their rightful place amongst the nations, bearing the name 'Huart' but less of the pain of generations of ignominious loss, including that of their symbolic name.

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
  2. Holy Bible, Genesis 10:2
  3. click here
  4. Hamma Mirwaisi, Return of the Medes, Wheatmark, 2010 p. 122
  5. Holy Bible, Isaiah 13:17-20

 

Note

Just type in "who are the Kurds" in Google, you can see many sources wrote about this subject but never came up with logical answer to trace back the word Kurd to meaningful explanations.

Based on Hamma's analysis, the word Kurds came during the Seleucid Empire.  The military used word Kurt instead of Huart to identify rebel fighters, which in time evolved into word 'Kurd', a name born proudly by the majority Median fighters comprising the rebel armies to our time Iranian army is using words Xebar Huart for military readiness. The Persian scholars are saying that work Kurd meaning brave person, large part of Medes people are known today as Kurds and the rest of Medes people are known under other names as Lor, Talish, Azeri and others who believe to be Medes.  

Just type "Who are the Kurds" in Google, you will get many different answer.

Who Are the Kurds? - Institut kurde de Paris

The first question that comes to mind is that of the origins of the Kurds. Who are they? Where do they come from? Historians generally agree to consider them ...

Who Are the Kurds - Asian History - About.com

asianhistory.about.com "- ... "-  Asian History Glossary  "-  Glossary, K-M "-

Glossary definition of the term Kurds from your About.com Guide to Asian History.

Who are the Kurds - Wiki Answers

wiki.answers.com "- ... "-  Kurdish Language and Culture "-

One of the Kurds' own historians remarks that between 1500 and 600 BC, their history seems lost. This is because of the problems in chronology that pervade ...

Who Are The Kurds? - Washington Post

A Washington Post report with background information about the Kurds.




Authors Bio:

Hamma Mirwaisi was exposed to the oppression of Kurds while still a youth, as his education was frequently interrupted by Iraqi government harassment. Forbidden from entering university in 1968, he had little choice but to join the peshmerga (freedom fighter) forces of Mustafa Barzani from 1968 to 1975 in their battles against the Iraqi Government forces.
Although the conflict was resolved by treaty in 1975, he foresaw reprisals by Saddam Hussein's secret service against his extended family. He took his wife and two children to Iran, and in 1976 they entered the US as legal refugees, settling in Valley City, North Dakota.
Mirwaisi completed BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. That led to a technical career, beginning in 1982 at the Sperry Corporation in Minneapolis. Sperry's merger with Unisys Corporation caused the end of his program, and he took up Ph.D. studies in Radio-Frequency (RF) Engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Eventually he returned to work at Honeywell, where he completed his career, becoming the Senior RF Engineer on the Air Force Satellite Communication program.
The tragedy of the Kurds intervened again in 1995. His sister and her two-year-old daughter were drowned while escaping Saddam Hussein's reprisals against the Kurds for their rebellion during the first Gulf War.
He returned to Kurdish affairs in 2004, when the US Army called on him to serve as an interpreter in the second Gulf War. At the end of that assignment, he began seeking American corporate sponsors for the rebuilding of Kurdistan. However, the Barzanis, who controlled the Kurdistan Regional Government, saw the initiative as a scheme to undermine their own influence and expelled Mirwaisi from Iraq. The doors to government and corporate sponsorship of works in Kurdistan (at least those that did not include a Barzani rake-off) slammed shut.
Since then, Mirwaisi has devoted his efforts to spreading the word about Kurdish history and culture through writing and speaking. After his first book, Return of the Medes, he was invited to serve for a year as an honorary member of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), a Kurdish parliament in exile that sits in Brussels. He is the author of many other books on Kurdish affairs

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