User talk:71.246.153.127

I think I do know why they are so determined to prevent a connection between the geats/goths and the Getae. First, to point out further how ridiculous the disconnection between the two peoples is, both the Goths and the Getae are known to be of Scythian origin and the Greeks called the Goths the Gouttai. There is no difference between the Goths and the Getae culturally and the Goths lived in the same areas around the Black Sea as the Getae. In the same article, the Crimean Goths are mentioned. Considering how easily vowels shift between languages, linguistically speaking it is amazing there isn't greater different in the names!

Secondly, as to why they work so hard to prevent this knowledge from being known, my guess is because the Scythians are known to be a confederation of tribes (Chinese Historians mention 10 Scythian tribes) who originated in the Caucus Mountains, around the Black Sea, around 700 BC. The Bible says the 10 northern tribes of Israel were removed from Israel and put in the Caucus mountains in 722 BC by Assyria.

One of the exiled tribes of Israel was named Gad (in English). The pronunciation in Hebrew was Gat. Also, whenever the Israelites lived in exile, they would adopt the name Sukkot, which means tents in Hebrew. The festival of Sukkot is a major Jewish holiday even today. Sukkot pronounced quickly easily becomes "Skyt" to an outsider who doesn't know Hebrew.

Therefore, it is very easy to argue that the Get people were actually Gat from Israel (though that disconnection is intentionally made too).

So, the objection is most certainly religious in nature. They do not want the Geats or the Goths to be acknowledged as descended from Israel.


 * Well, that is a fascinating theory, but I don't know if you'll find the historiography for all that, so I wouldn't go that far myself. But the connection between the Dacian Getae and the Gothic Getae is solid in historiography, seems always to have been, and those people seem to have gone back and forth multiple times between Scandinavia and Romania in prehistory, which is not what wikipedia wants you to think. 71.246.153.127 (talk) 23:29, 10 August 2018 (UTC)