The earliest image of St Peter in which he has blonde hair and beard which was common among the Tribe of Zebulon to which he belonged.
However, when it says Pontus it is not referring to the area of Pontus in Asia or Turkey but to the Pontus-Caspian Steppe region. This was the area north of the Black Sea and stretching to the north east of the Caspian Sea into Russia. On the west it stretched into eastern Europe.
Pontus of 1 Peter1
The area of Cappadocia in Asia is not what St Peter is referring to but the land south of Pontus in Eastern Europe in which the Dacians and Carpians lived in the area of modern day Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The area to the south of them was called Moesia which were the lands of a tribe of Aaronite Samaritan priests of J1 y-dna known as the sons of Moses. They may be the ancestors of many of the Ashkenazi of J1 y-dna. Among them may also be the J2 and E1b y-dna ancestors of the Ashkenazi. They had fled north from Samaria after their defeat by John Hyrcanus who destroyed their Temple in 128 BC. They entered into an alliance with the descendants of the Tribe of Gad (Getae or Goths) of I1a3 y-dna, the Dacians of the Asrieli clans of Manasseh (R1a Z93) and the Thracians of I2a1 clans of Dan. They were conquered by the Romans in 29 BC. Getae or Goths then moved further north into Poland and some into southern Sweden.
Some of the Tribe of Gad had gone into the south-east to Australia. I y-dna has been found among about 10% of Aboriginal Australians but this has been dismissed by scientists as due to recent European immigration. While some of it may have entered the Aboriginal community from Dutch or British men, much of it comes from the Tribe of Gad, just as some of the R1a and R1b found among Aboriginal Australians comes from the Tribes of Reuben and Manasseh. When the Tribes left Australia around 1530 the remnant of the Tribe of Gad (I1a3 Y16435 y-dna) were settled in the Ottoman ruled lands in southern Serbia and Albania and became assimilated to the local culture and the Albanian Orthodox Church.
Some of the Tribe of Gad had gone into the south-east to Australia. I y-dna has been found among about 10% of Aboriginal Australians but this has been dismissed by scientists as due to recent European immigration. While some of it may have entered the Aboriginal community from Dutch or British men, much of it comes from the Tribe of Gad, just as some of the R1a and R1b found among Aboriginal Australians comes from the Tribes of Reuben and Manasseh. When the Tribes left Australia around 1530 the remnant of the Tribe of Gad (I1a3 Y16435 y-dna) were settled in the Ottoman ruled lands in southern Serbia and Albania and became assimilated to the local culture and the Albanian Orthodox Church.
Cappadocia in Asia
Cappadocia or Carpo and Dacia of 1 Peter 1 in Europe.
The area of Galatia or Gaul or Giladi was not Galatia in Asia but Gaul in Europe which included France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Northern Italy and Germany. The Bithynia of 1 Peter 1 is not the one in Asia but is the British Isles. Those translating the Gospel into Greek misread 'and in Britonia'ובבריתוניא for ובביתוניא'and in Bithnyia'. The medieval Rabbis also referred to the area of Tzeraphat (Frankish Empire) and the Isles of Tzeraphat (British Isles) as the location of exiled lost Tribes. These are the lost sheep of the House of Israel that the apostles went to bring the Gospel.
Christian legends speak of St Peter visiting Britain at least two times. Thus it is probable that St Peter visited these areas later mentioned in his letter written in Rome (Babylon). His red haired brother St Andrew also visited these areas. Peter's first visit to Britain would have been before 43 AD and his second sometime after 55 AD.
It would seem that most of the lost Tribes had moved north out of the Middle East by the 1st century AD and some had gone north over the Caucasus Mountains and others had gone into Europe via Asia or Turkey. At this stage Asia and no doubt the countries of the Caucasus region were still mainly of Israelite ancestry. Of course some of the Israelites had also gone south out of the Middle East and others towards the East.
My theory that IJK is the ancestor of the Israelites of both IJ and K y-dna groups seems to be confirmed in the Wikpedia article on I y-dna:
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It would seem that most of the lost Tribes had moved north out of the Middle East by the 1st century AD and some had gone north over the Caucasus Mountains and others had gone into Europe via Asia or Turkey. At this stage Asia and no doubt the countries of the Caucasus region were still mainly of Israelite ancestry. Of course some of the Israelites had also gone south out of the Middle East and others towards the East.
My theory that IJK is the ancestor of the Israelites of both IJ and K y-dna groups seems to be confirmed in the Wikpedia article on I y-dna:
...The existence of Haplogroup IJK – the ancestor of both haplogroups IJ and K (M9) – and its evolutionary distance from other subclades of Haplogroup F (M89), supports the inference that haplogroups IJ and K both arose in Southwestern Asia...
