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  • Chaim Potok (1929 - 2002)
    Potok ====(February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen (1967), which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller lis...
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  • ? Potok (1858 - 1858)

About the Potok surname

Some Potok families from hte Holy Land of America may have ancestry in and thus named after
Tocpo ( Tok-Po ) tribe among the Diaguita peoples of Chile and Argentina .
The latter may be descended from Ag-Had-Ta ,from the royal lineage of the capital of the Holy Land ,
at river Solimoes in Amazonia ,son of Shan-Mar-Gawa-Ha son of Asshakan-Newa-Ha son of
Argabed-Wahaya ,who was called cAbdallah in Kano Hausa traditon .

Hadés or Aidés ( Awhiddha ) ,or Di(s) or Pluto ,was the name of A-Wa-Hayat-Daha ,one of the twelve
ancestors of the twelve tribes of the Chosen people,the Native Americans ,the ancestor of Daha peoples,
called Iranian Arya after his alternative name Ag-Ayar-A'arre-Wa,at Greeks and Latins respectively .
Ag-Had-Ta thus is the synonym of Di-Ag-Ta ,from what Diaguita might have been formed ,
and of Ta-Wa-A'arre-Ag ,that is Tuareg.
He may be identical with Tago ,king of Celts ,who might have hence organized the Tuareg alliance
in Africa too,called also Keltagulemust ,or ,literally, People of Turban in the language spoken by them ,
referring to their partially Celtic origin .

River Tagus in Portugal might be named after him as well ,or the other way around ,although it is ,
at its lower flow,not a little Potok any more .
Tok-Po thus may be the basis for that country's name as well,as Portugal or Portocal can be
derived from Po-Or-Tok-Al or -Gal .
Tago's brothers might have been Gala and Niptasen ( Ni-Pettaasha-En ) ,kings of Numidia ,
who may be identical with A-Wa-Ga'ala and Asha-Petta ,sons of Shammar-Gawa-Ha mentioned above .
He might have been called Samar in Georgia ,and Zelalsen in Numidia ,and may be identical with
Seelig-Alexander ,that is with Alexander ,son of Alexander ,king of Makedonia to the queen of India,
formerly married to Asssakan .
For the latter reason Alexander might have been called New Assakan ,or her new husband ,
or an Asshakan-Zhe ,that is approximately a Bavarian Jew .
Accordingly to this,his name in Kano was Bayaajidda ( Bayawar-Zhyda ) ,as well as Makassarkin ,
son of cAbdallah from Baghdad .
Makassars of Makedon origin might largely have formed his people .

Gala may be the ancestor of Andal-Galá chiefs among the Diaguita ,who may of part be of Andaluz,
that is Andal-Lus origin ,while Yo-Cabil and Pulare tribes may be a branch of African Qabil and Pulaar
peoples ,as well as Mu-Sitian be of the Sitemu ( Sitian-Mu ) Baga .
Baga ,king of Mauretania might have also been a brother of Tago .
Founders of Copiapó may be related to Kop'-O-Yap tribe of New Guinea ,whose name might mean
Head Of Yap ,in Mikronesia,and who may be one of the antique Sea Peoples ,together with the
Calchaqui ,the successors of the Chak-Kal ,who might have already then lived in Oceania .

First Diaguitas may be named after Gidea ( Git-Dea ) ,king of Lagash ,possibly identical with
Uar-Lagash,king of the Gitu ,or after Daya-'Agga from the A'ad-Yamma tribe ,living in the XIInd
century BC .

So,Potok families and Tokpo tribe ,as well as some of the nobility of Portokal may be related to
these persons in some way.
Potok itself means a stream in Slavic .

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