h and I was most impressed with this port, its a lovely addition to Pandora's jar.
As  for Watership Down..  I've had to just re-check and I'm glad it has no  real hidden connotations according to the author (I dislike it when its  all allegorical (except for the bible)) but regardless, its a powerful  story.
		
		
	 
It does though doesn't it? It's a  Holocaust/Old Testament Exodus Jewish History story, concluding with  getting their kin out of Stalinist Russia for their fledgling new home. 
There's a mish-mash of Hebrew in the Rabbit's mythology (El-ahrairah) which echoes the Lost Tribes business.
		 
		
	 
Again sadly no, as the author stated.  In addition you should be aware  that the same Church fathers and biographers of the era were well aware  that the Lost Tribes / Twelve tribes of Israel were allegorical in  nature and simply representations of the Zodiac under Jewish  interpretation, rather than the earlier Eygptian/Indo-Persian (totally  made up word for the gist of things) then Greek/Roman variants, as we  can see from their writings :
Excerpt from 
http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2639
"Here we discuss the evidence for the motif of "the Twelve" in antiquity,  including as concerns the Bible as well as in other artifacts and myths  in numerous other cultures. As we can see, the ancients in many places  around the world have been very focused on this sacred number, which  signifies the 12 hours of day and night, the 12 months of the year and  the 12 signs of the zodiac. The Twelve is, in fact, a motif found  ubiquitously, dating back centuries to millennia.
Were the 12 Tribes of Israel Based on the Zodiac?
This  is a subject about which there is much disinformation, including  attempts to claim that the zodiac postdated the founding of the  Israelite nation with its 12 tribes and that, hence, the numbering of  the tribes could not be based on the 12 zodiacal signs, as has been  suggested by many people since ancient times.
Testimony of Josephus and Philo
The  claim that the 12 tribes of Israel were identified with the 12 signs of  the zodiac is spelled out clearly by the ancient Jewish writers Philo  and Josephus, during the first century. During the first century BCE,  Diodorus Siculus identified the 12 tribes with the 12 months.
As I relate in 
Christ in Egypt (261):
See  Exodus 39:9-14: "...they made the breastplate... And they set in it  four rows of stones... And the stones were according to the names of the  children of Israel, twelve...according to the twelve tribes."
As Josephus says (
Antiquities,  3.8 ): "And for the twelve stones, whether we understand by them the  months or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that  circle which the Greeks call the zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in  their meaning." (Josephus, 75.)
Earlier than Josephus, Philo  ("On the Life of Moses," 12) had made the same comments regarding Moses:  "Then the twelve stones on the breast, which are not like one another  in colour, and which are divided into four rows of three stones in each,  what else can they be emblems of, except of the circle of the zodiac?"  (Philo, 99.)
As we can see, by the first century it was well known that the theme of "the 12" was astrological in nature.".
If you distrust this lady and want a modern scholars opinion then please  take the time to watch the excellent 'Hidden Story of Jesus' by Oxford  Brookes Theologian Dr Robert Beckford here  
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7956238808750388174#