In the Den of Wolves (Chasing Shadows Book 1) by James Eden

Author:James, Eden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE

FRANCE, 1941

Adler’s idea was quite brilliant and suited multiple aims all in one swift stroke. The growing pseudo-archaeological movements promoted by the Nazi regime were becoming an extensive propaganda tool to search for supposed evidence of Indo-Germanic achievements. The aim was to bring research findings to the German people to reinforce the ideology of Aryan superiority. Of all the organisations involved, Adler’s idea was perhaps particularly suited to Amt Rosenberg who saw world history shaped by the fight between the pure-blooded Nordic people of Atlantis and the Proto-Semitic peoples of the ancient Near East.

One branch of archaeology was endeavouring to find the island city of Atlantis itself, believed to be somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean, not the Mediterranean as so often erroneously claimed. The legendary lost island was claimed to be the birthplace of the Nordic race from whom the Aryan peoples descended and who were destined to control and influence the development of mankind. A second branch was seeking to prove that the Germanic people were not destroyers of culture, as had been portrayed by the Romans, but were in fact guardians and protectors of superior Nordic values, much misunderstood by non-Aryan peoples.

In fact, a research expedition to the Middle East, funded by the Ahnenerbe thinktank was endeavouring to find evidence in support of a theory that an internal power struggle within the Roman Empire between Nordic and Semitic peoples precipitated its division into East and West. Part of the claim of legitimacy to the title of Holy Roman Emperor rested on whoever possessed the most ancient and valuable of holy relics, a clear indication of Divine favour. This, it was alleged, was part of the motivation behind the later foundation of the Hospital Order of Saint Mary of the Teutons, to protect and defend the Holy Land and the Christian territory of the Germanic-speaking peoples of northern Europe.

Predictably, the expeditions had found very little of value to support the notion of Aryan superiority, but Adler had managed to implant a seed that one of the expedition teams had stumbled upon the possible resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. It was a completely fanciful and fabricated claim. The last Biblical record of it was when King Josiah commanded its return to the temple in Jerusalem in 642 BCE. There was no mention of it being carried off to Babylon along with other holy utensils when the city fell in 607 BCE, suggesting it had disappeared in the interim just as the prophet Jeremiah said it would. Since its disappearance from Biblical narrative, the only other mention of the Ark was in the 14th century national epic Kebra Nagast.

Written in Ge’ez, an ancient South Semitic language of the East African branch, the text of Kebra Nagast claimed to hold the genealogical record of the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia. According to the account, the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of Israel had a son together. On her return to Ethiopia, the Queen raised this son, Menelik,

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