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Post by Charlotte on Feb 26, 2016 8:28:52 GMT -5
Let there be Heroes and legends of Heroes The Ural Mountains are a natural boundry between Europe and Asia. Wikipedia. Ethymology "As attested by Sigismund von Herberstein, in the 16th century Russians called the range by a variety of names derived from the Russian words for rock (stone) and belt. The modern Russian name for the Urals (Ypan, Ural), first appearing in the 16th-17th century when the Russian conquest of Sibiria was in its heroic phase, was initially applied to its southern part and gained currency as the name of the entire range during the 18th century. It might have been borrowed from the Turkic "stone belt" (Bashkir, where the same name is used for the range, or Ob-Ugric. From the 13th century, in Bashkortostan there has been a legend about a hero named Ural. He sacrificed his life for the sake of his people and they poured a stone pile over his grave, which later turned into the Ural Mountains." The Hero Ural-batyr, "hero,brave man", - "is the most famous kubair (epic poem) of the Bashkirs which - like many similar epics (the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, the Germanic Niebelungenlied, the mesopotamian Gilgamesh, or the Finnish/Karelian Kelevala)—tells of heroic deeds and legendary creatures, the formation of natural phenomena, and so on. The epic poem propagates the idea of the nation's eternal life and the ability of man to vanquish evil." Plot "Based on the Turkic, Iranian and, to some extent, Semetic folk song traditions, the poem narrates about the heroic deeds of Ural-batyr. Ural was born to an elderly couple, Yanbike and Yanbiroe. Yan (from Persian word -jan, meaning "soul"), and Yanbiroe means "Given Soul", while Yanbike means "Women of Soul". Ural evinces from his very infancy all the features of the legendary hero, such as unflinching courage, honesty, kindheartedness, empathy, and great phisical strenght. Unlike his cunning and trecherous brother Shulgan. "Ural is an eager enemy of the evil and Death which personifies it. Having matured, Ural sets out on the quest for death, with the desire to find and destroy him. On his way, he meets with various people and legendary creatures and is often deferred by long adventures; in all cases, his actions serve to save lives or quell the evil. Riding his winged stallion Akbuthat (or Akbuz At; White-Grey Horse), he saves young men and women prepared for sacrifice by the tyrannical Shah Katil from imminent death, tames a wild bull, destroys an immense number of devs marries the legendary Humai (from Persian Humay), a swan-maid, and finally smites the chief dev' from Persian -div) Azraka, whose dead body is said to have formed Mount Yaman-tau [/iin the South Urals. Ural-batyr perishes in his final grabble with the devs, as he is forced to drink up a whole lake where they had hidden from him, but he leaves his sons to continue his initiative."
Sounds like his sons and daughters are us on a quest to overcome death, the story of Baudolino to the Kingdom of Prester John. (my bold doesn't work, don't have particular letters in my alt function)
Sigismund von Herberstein
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_von_Herberstein
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South of the Urals, a natural boundry between Europe and Asia are the Caucasus Mountains. Had to post this great painting.
www.wikiart.org/en/lev-lagorio/on-the-caucasus-mountains-1879#supersized-artistPaintings-275580
Europe
www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eu.htm
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 3, 2016 12:10:11 GMT -5
Back to the Halls of Learning
Albrecht Dürer in der Walhalla
Illustrating Human History, and frequently cited, are the "Nuremberg Chronicles", printed and published by Dürer's Godfather Anton Koberger. First published in Latin 12 July, 1493, and in German 23 December 1493. Second to Heidelberg, Nürnberg was the center of the German Renaissance. Martin Luther and Phillipp Melanchthon initiated the Reformation from Wartburg Castle, the home, but much earlier, of St. Elizabeth of Hungery, also in Walhalla. The contests and feasts of the Minstrels were also held at the Wartburg 3 centuries earlier.
Number 1 Son of Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer: "We live by the spirit. The Rest belongs to Death". I take the liberty of making Hans Sachs, Poet and Singer, the number 2 Son of Nürnberg, because he wrote the famed "Nightingale of Wittenberg, heard everywhere these days", by people interested in such wonderful things, and because he, Sachs, was a "Shoemaker" and his Master a "Linen Weaver", met Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern, their teacher Hamlet.
Dürer and Friends utilized the Observatory in Nürnberg to study astronomy, which brings us in a round about way, to Kepler, memorialized in Walhalla, and Brache, not so honored. "Oh thick wits, Oh blind watchers of the sky! Exclaimed Tycho, who in 1572 discovered a bright new star or comet in the Constellation of Cassiopeia, and in October 1604, Kepler observed a bight new star in the Constellation of Serpentarri, noted in the Rosicrucian Manifestos. The short-seen star of 1572 is assoociated with the birth of Lord Bacon, but how many believe that appearing stars or comets have anything to do with events on Earth, even though quantum physics holds that the Universe and Observer work together, but in their tortuous language. I have never been able to exactly determine when the "Middle Ages" began and ended, seems development continued uninterrupted, but as concerns the European Renaissance, say, 13th to early 17th century, many a Mind and Group Mind was alight.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 4, 2016 12:09:30 GMT -5
Much in a Name
Philippus, Aureolus, Theophrastus, Paracelsus von Hohenheim. Mr. Hall simply called him "the Hohenheimer", from a High Home, who refused the Mantel of the University of Basel:
"I am Theophrastus, and greater than those to whom you liken me; I am Theophrastus, and in addition I am monarcha medicorum and I can prove to you what you cannot prove...I need not done a coat of mail or a buckler against you, for you are not learned or experienced enough to refute even a word of mine...As for you, you can defend your kingdom with belly-crawling and flattery. How long do you think this will last?...Let me tell you this: every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes, and my shoe buckles are more learned than your Galen and Avicenna, and my beard has more experience than all your high colleges".
I have a bit of affinity with Paracelsus, because during the study of his life and his work under my Philosophy Teacher, Roger Weir, at a time I never even heard the name, I had alchemical dreams such as pouring a solution over an equal arm cross with which one used to turn on the sprinklers, the cross being greenish oxidized, pouring on the liquid caused a smoke to rise and when it cleared it was 'living' gold. Never heard of gold on the bottom of an alchemial vessel either. This and other dreams so impressed me that I went, many years later, in search of his tomb which I finally found in Salzburg after driving all over creation, from Salzburg, asking questions in every town. I wrote about it in detail somewhere on this board, but had to mention this particular part again for in my minds eye I still see the cross, the smoke, and the Gold.
Paracelsus was a contemporary of Copernicus, Leonardo, and Martin Luther, the three Men in the Walhalla, though Luther was added later as the Wittelsbacher were strictly Catholics. On several occasions I read that Paracelsus predicted to coming of a "great light", who would advance human knowledge, that Light said to be Lord Bacon, as mentioned in the last post. Also fitting here Pushkin's "Shakespeare created a new Humanity".
Paracelsus was first educated by his father, then "received humanistic and theological education from local clerics and the convent of St. Paul's Abbey in Lavanitat". I seems that almost all Luminaries I read about are educated by Priets and in Monasteries, just as was the case in ancient Egypt, Priests and Temples.
Paracelsus:
"The first quality belongs to the body, the two other to the soul, and they are its jewels. The body of man remains on the earth, but man having a soul and the two additional qualities are enabled to rise above Nature, and to know that which does not belong to Nature. He has the power to learn all that belongs to heaven and hell, to know God and his kingdom, the angels and spirits, and the origin of evil.
"If a man is to go to a certain place, it will be useful to him to know all about that place before he goes there; he will then after his arrival be enabled to move about freely, and to go wherever he pleases. The quality of each thing created by God, whether it be visible or invisible to the senses, may be perceived and known. If a man knows the essence of things, their attributes, their attractions, and the elements of which they consist, he will be master of nature, of the elements, and of the spirits."
Such is guarded by the Valkyre Maidens in the Walhalla.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 5, 2016 10:39:10 GMT -5
A Bust for Catherine the Great, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, 1729 - 1796 Catherine, of the House of Anhalt Zerbst, Prussia, joined to the House of Romanov by marriage, "was the most renowned and longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great "The period of Catherine the Great's rule, the Catherinian Era, is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian Empire and the Russian nobility. The Manifesto on Freedom of the Nobility, issued during the the short reign of Peter III and confirmed by Catherine, freed Russian nobels from compulsory military or state service. Construction of many mansions of the nobility, in the classical style endorsed by the Empress, changed the face of the country. She enthusiastically supported the ideal of The Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, when the Smolny Institute, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe, was established. "Like other enlighted despots, Catherine the Great played a key role in fostering the arts, sciences, and education." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_EnlightenmentA list of other despotic rulers is given in the link.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 6, 2016 10:19:26 GMT -5
Addendum to the last post.
"The national Enlightenment in the Russian Empire differed from ita Western European counterpart in that it promoted further modernization of all aspects of Russian life and was concerned with abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia."
In this aspect it had to be different according to politics and Russian tradition. Other than that, I think the western Enlightenment greatly influenced "further modernization". It was the 18th century. Furthermore, it was the time when Benjamin Franklin, Ambassador to France, was very much involved in setting the stage for the founding of America via the European Enlightenment.
At that time also, afoot were the so-called "by-products of the Enlightenment", citizens of the Polis of the Cosmos, men "without even a vestige of national identity", in particular one "Count August Benyowsky" who met Franklin in Paris in 1781, and who troubled Catherine greatly, because, it is written, he wanted to dispose the Empress, who, however, found such reports ludicrous. They were called "random travelers" by face value interpreters, by Thinkers "travelers with a purpose", of a "Cosmopolitan Culture", though the purpose was "not made clear", stated at the exhibition of such things at the Library of Congress in 2001. History calls them derelicts who "produced nothing except perhaps witty conversations and, occasionally, scandalous memoirs."
These aimless drifters without family, homeland or mother tongue, of an international fraternity, all belonged to "The Republic of Letters" and had access to European Courts, and Catherine's Court. They traveled to Petersburg, we are informed, and "seldom ventured far from the Imperial court, the site of the patronage they hope to exploit. However fascinating they may be as people, they are parasites on the court and its members."
"Often dandies, sometimes sexually ambiguous, homosexual, or bisexual, they arouse society's curiosity, but not its loyalty", so "with just cause, they are trusted nowhere. As a result", we can read, "they are received by everyone, chased from everywhere. They keep moving from royal court to royal court, usually aimlessly".
How can such be written, Vagabonds received by everyone and chased from everywhere, and the rest? Conventional history is uninspiring.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 7, 2016 11:46:04 GMT -5
Yesterday, I was thinking more on this Enlightenment tale, intriguing and delightful, of paramount importance in our Journey, and so much more to it than this snippets. I might have misunderstood the historian Aleksandr Stroev whom I quoted in my previous post, also in a thread "Another Centre of the World".
"In 1772, in the same letter in which he records the arrival of the news in St. Petersburg of the Beyowsky rebellion, the celebrated Russian civil servant and dramatist D.I. Fonvizin goes on to observe that "the history of our century will prove interesting to posterity. How many great upheavals! How many strange adventures."
Count Benyowsky, spelled Beyowsky in the article. When I read through quiet a bit of information back then, the Count's name frequently changed, or changed his name. Perhaps he was the "celebrated Chevalier D'Eon Beaumont", one of the men of the "Cosmopolitan Culture" of Europe of the 18th century "without even a vestage of national identity". Apparently, he was the most important, though elusive visitor of European courts. To my utter astonishment I saw his name in not to be missed, large gleaming brass letter over a Pharmacy in Cairo. I asked, but no one knew who he was or why he was noted in Cairo.
Anyhow, the "literary historian Aleksandr Stroev has written a delightful work chronicling the escapades of some of these random avantiuristy. His adventurers are all continental Europeans by birth. And whatever their intentions they never leave the cozy confines of the continent. They undertake their journey to Petersburg, usually from Paris, often via Berlin and Vienna. They arrive by themselves, without family encumbrances. Once there, they seldom venture from the Emperial court, the site of the patronage they hope to exploit. However fascinating they may have been as people, they are parasites on the court and its members. They produce nothing, except perhaps witty conversation and, occasionally, scandalous memoirs." It is also noted that "they all spoke French".
So I think Mr. Stroev is conceiling much information in this delightful account. Apropos Count Benyowsky, "some think he might be headed to Britain's North American Colonies, presumably to fan the fires of rebellion there", but it was found that he was in Morocco receiving an honourable Citizenship. The Citizenship I made up cause I forgot why he was said to be there. Today we would call these Travelers members of the Diplomatic Corps.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 9, 2016 13:20:32 GMT -5
Must look for my Brochure of Walhalla to learn who were members of the Committee selecting Persons to be commemorated, which would require a great deal of knowledge of history of thousands of years and the men and women who forged it. The sorting out of how to proceed, to grow toward a better system of managing Humanity's existence on Earth to allow time for study of "Man, look at Man" as Hildegard von Bingen bids, because that is the plan in the Greater, by endless wars to discard what doesn't work and try something else. One such manager partaking in the chaos of our Journey and remembered at Walhalla, was
Genseric or Gaiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
"Genseric was the illegitimate son of King Godigisel; he is assumed to have been born near Lake Balaton (Hungary) around 389. After his father's death in battle against the Franks during the crossing of the Rhine in 406 AD, Genseric became the second most powerful man among the Vandals, after the new king, his half-brother Gunderic.
King Geiseric, 428 - 477, "who established the Vandal Kingdom was one of the key players in the troubles of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. During his nearly 50 years of rule, he raised a relatively insignificant Germanic tribe to the status of a major Mediterranean power — which, after he died, entered a swift decline and eventual collapse.
"Gaiseric caused great devestation as he moved eastward from the Strait of Gibraltar across Africa. He turned on Bonifacius, defeated his army in 430, and then crushed the joint forces of the eastern and Western Empires that had been sent against him. - Gaiseric's fleet soon came to control much of the western Mediterranean, and he annexed the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta and Sicily.
"His most famous exploit, however, was the capture and plundering of Rome in June 455. Subsequently the King defeated two major efforts of the Romans to overthrow him, that of the Emperor Majorian in 460, and that led by Basiliscus at the Battla of Cape Bon in 468. After dying in Carthage at the great age of 88, Gaiseric was succedded by his son Humeric.
"Renaissance and Early Modern writers characterize the Vandals as barbarians, "sacking and looting" Rome. This led to the use of the term "vandalism", to describe any senseless destruction, particularly the "barbarian" defacing artworks. Modern historians tend to consider the Vandals (and Goths), not as violators, but as continuators of Roman culture during the transitional period from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages."
The Vandalic language "was of the East Germanic linguistic branch. - All Vandals that modern historians know about were able to speak Latin, which also remained the official language of the Vandal administration (most of the staff seems to have been native African/Roman)." Very little is known of the Vandal Poets and their work.
This gives a general idea of the King and the Vandals who "have been not anymore destructive than other invaders" during the time of the great European Migration of many Indo European tribes.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 10, 2016 10:54:14 GMT -5
The Alans "The name Alan is an Iranian dialectical form of Aryan, a common self-designation of the Indo-Iranians." Aryan means 'noble', seems the Alani, "an Iranian nomadic pastoral people of antiquity", thought of themselves as a noble tribe, "they spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian." Josephus calls the Alans Scythians, the later Scots. Apparently, the Aryans are the proto Indo-Europeans of the 4th millennium BC. King Gaiseric was succeeded by his son Hunnic who "defeated the Goths in the Pontic Steppe around 375 AD, many of the Alans migrated westwards along with various Germanic tribes. They crossed the Rhine in 406 AD along with the Vandals and Suebi, settling in Orléans and Valence." "Possibly related to the Massagetae, the Alans have been connected by modern historians with the Central Asian Yancai and Aorsi of Chinese and Roman sources respectively. Having migrated westward and become dominant among the Sarmatians on the Pontic Steppe, they are mentioned by Persian and Roman sources in the 1st century AD. At that time they had settled the region of the Black Sea, and frequently raided the Parthian Empire and the Caucasian provinces of the Roman Empire. In 215-250 AD their power on the Pontic Steppe was broken by the Goths." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlansThe Alans split into groups and some fought for the Romans, and "5,5000 Sarmatian/Alanian heavy cavalry (called cataphractarii, i.e. clothed fully in scale armour) consisting of prisoners taken in war were posted to Britain in 175." Lucius Artorios Castos The Roman military commander, melded with the mythical King Arthur, Artorios a descendant of the Sarmatian/Alani, "a battle leader of the Romanized Celts and Britons against the Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Briton after the Roman army had withdrawn. Arthur and his military leaders could therefore manage to train the natives as armoured horsemen after Iranian patterns against the attacks of Angles and Saxons fighting on feet until the victory of Badon Hill." It gets really complicated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Artorius_CastusIndo European was spoeken around 4,500 BC in the Pontic Steppe cdn4.sci-news.com/images/enlarge/image_2516_1e-Indo-European-Languages.jpg
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 11, 2016 10:05:52 GMT -5
The migration route of the Alans is shown clearly in the 'Alan' link in the last post, their homeland being North Caucasus.
"The fourth century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinnus wrote that the Allan were tall and blond. Nearly all the Alani are men of great statue and beauty; their hair is somewhat yellow; their eyes are terribly fierce."
The Tarim Basin was mentioned bring the Tarim Mummies to mind, which "are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian language in the Tarim Basin. -- The mummies are Europoid, likely speakers of Indo-European languages." They date back to 1800 BCE, but the history of ancient cultures can be dated to ca 10,000 years BCE.
The World-wide influence of the semi-mythical King Arthur, descendant of the Sarmatian/Alan regarding our objective and subjective/psychological sojourn here, confirmed and applauded time and again as it betokens our ideal of Justice, Integrity, goodness and right, expressed by King Arthur in the film:
The Saxon chief asks Arthur: "What are you fighting for?"
King Arthur: "I am fighting for a cause beyond Rome's and your understanding."
I read something I really liked:
"Recently, in a series of publications, Helmut Nickel and C. Scott Littleton argued that the roots of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as well as those concerned with the Holy Grail, are not to be found in the indigenous Celtic tradition of the British Isles, as most Arthurian scholars hold, but rather in a "Scythian tradition" that seems to have originated from the religious beliefs of Iranian Sarmatians/Alans of the Hungarian Plain of the 2nd century A.D.
"These beliefs centre around the divine sword, the sacred cup of heavenly splendour, the dragon standard as military symbol, and early literary traditions connected with them. The resemblances are not limited to mythology. In some cases artefacts (as for example scale armour and standards) or representations, strongly related to mysthological-religious matters were also similar. Now, our whole story starts with one such material connection, with the golden serpentine dragon symbol of the Dacians."
Here is a partly funny, philosophical musings, with a bit of history video in which King Arthur affirms to be a Sarmatian, the Dragon Standard his hand.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 12, 2016 11:02:20 GMT -5
The Dragon Guardian of the Dacian called hoardweard was mentione in the srticle, so I thought I read up on the Dacian Kingdom. media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/10/b3/b1/10b3b165b62cd7c4437870f253f85da9.jpgThe Wikipedia link alone made my head spin, and though I don't take everything I read as correct history, wiki stating also that the neutrality of some sections are disputed, I found some interesting things I can connect with other things, below the cover text. The Greeks called the Dacian Getae. "Dacian was bounded in the south approximately by the Danubius river (Danube), in Greek sources the Istros, or at its greatest extent, by the Haemus Mons. Moesia (Dobrogea), a reagion south of the Danube, was a core area the Getae lived and interacted with the Ancient Greeks. In the east it was bounded by the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) and the river Danastris (Dniester), in Greek sources the Tyras." "At times Dacia included areas between the Tisa and the Middle Danube. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus corresponds to the present day countries of Romania and Moldova, as well as smaller parts of Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungery, and Ukraine. "Dacians (or Getae) were North Tracian tribes. Dacian tribes had both peaceful and military encounters with other neighboring tribes, such as the Sarmatians, Scythians, and Celts. "A Dacian Kingdom of variable size existed between 82 BC until the Roman conquest in AD 106. The capital of Dacia, Sarmizegetusa, located in modern Romania, was destroyed by the Romans, but its name was added to that of the new city Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa) built by the latter to serve as the capital of the Roman province of Dacia." In aforementioned Sarmizegetusa (Ural Mountains Post) is the Stonehenge-like site, the name seems to incorporate Sarmatian but I wouldn't know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia I love Geography d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/img/original/map_danube_carpathian.jpg
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 13, 2016 9:14:02 GMT -5
Dacian territory, almost forgotten, amazing Moldova in the flood planes of Europe, land of 100 mysterious Hilocks, Herons and Storks, 89 km long cave, remarkable Monasteries, Vinyards and 50 km Wine Cellar. It is said that a single day among oak trees will fill you with the age-old energy of the trees and crystalline air for days to come.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 14, 2016 11:07:38 GMT -5
The Dacian Kingdom and the Tarim Mummies The Kingom was extensive: "In BC 53, Julius Caesar stated that the Dacian territory was on the eastern border of the Herecynian forest." The Herecynian forest is the eastern part of the Black Forest. "According to Strabo's Geographica, written around AD 20, the Getes (Geto-Dacians) bordered the Suevi who lived in the Herecynian Forest, which is somewhere in the vicinity of the river Duria, the present day Vah (Waag)." In simple, the Suevi who lived in the eastern Black Forest, are the modern Schwaben, their land bordering western Bavaria. "Dacians lived on both sides of the Danube. According to Strabo, Moecians also lived on both sides of the Danube. According to Agrippa, Dacia was limited by the Baltic Ocean in the North and by the Vistula in the West. The names of the people and settlements confirm Dacia's borders as described by Agrippa. Dacian people also lived south of the Danube." Via DNA, scientists "suggest that the Tarim Basin was continually inhabited from 2000 BCE to 300 BCE and preliminary results indicate the people, rather than having a single origin, originated from Europe, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley and other regions yet unknown. "Mair claims that "the earliest mummies in the Tarim Basin were exclusively Caucasoid, or Europoid" with east Asian migrants arriving arriving in the eastern portion of the Tarim Basin around 3,000 years ago while the Uyghur peoples arrived around the year 842. In trying to trace the origin of these populations, Victor Mair's team suggested that they may have arrived in the region by way of the Pamir Mountains about 5,000 years ago. "Mair has claimed that: "The new finds are also forcing a reexamination of old Chinese books that describe historical or legendary figures of great height, with deep-set blue or green eyes, long noses, full beards, and red or blond hair. Scholars have traditionally scoffed at these accounts, but it now seems that they may be accurate." Another snippet "Classical authors applied a generalized steriotype when describing the "barbarians"—Celts, Scythians, Thracians—inhabiting the regions to the north of the Greek world. In accordance with this steriotype, all these peoples are described, in sharp contrast to the "civilized" Greeks, as being much taller, their skin lighter and with staight light-coloured hair and blue eyes. For instance, Aristotle wrote that "the Skythians on the Black Sea and the Thracians are streight-haired, for both they themselves and the environing air are moist; according to Clement of Alexandria, Xenophanes described the Thracians as "ruddy and Tawny". According to my Philosophy Teacher, the Great Alexander said that Aristotle took him above the regions of Thrace, so I wonder what Aristotle meant by the Scythians and Thracians themselves are moist, besides the air. Maybe Alexander meant to state that Aristotle taught him "in the moist" about the Tracians, rather than geographically. "Body-painting was customary among the Dacians. It is probably that the tattooing originally had a religious significance. They practiced symbolic-ritual tattooing or body painting for both men and women, with hereditary symbols transmitted up to the fourth generatin." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 15, 2016 11:43:37 GMT -5
A few more lines on this stupendous migration of the time under consideration before I get lost in the tides of these times. By stating in my last post that parhaps Aristotle taught Alexander "in the moist", I meant the moist being the opposite of dry face value interpretations to which a little brain moisture has to be added. This is also a refresher course for me as I have written some of this history about 5 years on facebook where a Teacher with little to none brain moisture, pardon me, told me it was "nonsense" owing to my blanket statement that "we're all Kelts". My Philosophy Teacher: "A thing is never only that and nothing else", must be considered, but in the round I was right. Not that I care other than being glad of having a little understanding. Truly little, most of the Persons and places i never heard about, and names I have to look trice before I can spell them etc. "The earliest Tarim mummies, found at Qäwrighul and dated to 1800 BCE, are of Europoid physical type whose closest affiliation is to the Bronze Age population of southern Siberia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and the Lower Volga. "The cemetary at Yanbulaq contained 29 mummies which date from 1100-500 BCE, 21 of which are Mongoloid—the earliest Mongoloid mummies found in the Tarim Basin—and eight of which are of the same Europoid physical type found at Wäwrighul." Among the mummies noted in the wiki entry are the "Witches of Subeshi" (4th or 3rd century BCE), who wore 2 foot long (0.61 m) black felt conical hats with a flat brim." And: "Asia, especially Persians, knew the Skythians in Asia as "Saka". The Indo Skythians hade the name "Shaka" in South Asia, an extension of the name "Saka". Herodotus (7.64) describes them as Skythians, called by a different name. - The Sakae, or Skyths, were clad in trousers, and had on their heads tall stiff caps rising to a point." These Skyths were the "Golden Warriors", and their stiff caps rising to a point correspond to the Witch mummies of the Tarim Basin. There are other cultures with conical hats, so do the dwarf, Zwerge, in Bavarian gardens, which tradition says, protect the homestead provided they are hidden lest they loose their power. I have one on my balcony who angled a fish from the deeeep, and usually bring a small one to some people I work for to hide in their garden, telling them of the tradition. They don't know quiet what to make of such stories and I don't know if they actually hide their Zwerg. "Saka relates to the Iranian verbal root, sak-, "go, roam", and became nomad. Some years ago, in an artice of the "Daily Mail" UK, was stated that "the first Americans came from Europe not Asia", in the stone age, their "tools between 19,000 and 26,000 years old", and: "The discovery suggests that the owners of the tools arrived 10,000 years before the ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World, reported The Independant." Some time along the way was a Headline that DNA reveals "Native Americans Hailed from the Siberian Highlands", who migrated via the Altai Mountains to Siberia, and that their ancestors might come from Mongolia. Mongolians, Eskimos, and American Indians have the same facial features and physical constitution, so do the people of Tibet, as a Maya Teacher writes that his people wandered and wandered for a long long time until they reached Tibet where they were called "Naga". Another study in "Science & Environment", BBC News, "suggests about a third of native Americans, whose ancestors crossed from Siberia came from an ancient population related to Europeans." "Archaeologists are hopeful that they will add another dimension to understanding the spread of humans across the world", so they are turning their attention to Tennessee, Maryland, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. apropos "we're all Celts", meaning the descendants of the proto Keltoi of Herodotus, I found them in Virginia and Texas.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 16, 2016 10:41:43 GMT -5
www.forsters-posthotel.com/upload/bilder/699_hotel83_060913.jpgDuring all this traveling we remain tethered to the Walhalla via the Danube, in which greater environs these historical figures had their Being and tremendous events transpired. Europe's second longest river, 1,780 miles, (the Volga being the longest) originates in Germany and flows southeast through ten countries, "passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries", which lands of the basin are given in the link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danubeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube#/media/File:Danubemap.pngThe Danube is to Europe what the Nile is to Egypt, like the Nile, its Quelle cannot be pinpointed precisely. Along its flow it has many tributaries, one of them being the little brook flowing through my hometown and replenishing the moat around the aforementioned Wasserschloss (Eschenbach Castle) in connection with Otto of Freising, called Ilm, via the Isar river flowing through Munich. Regards comparing the Donau with the Nile, the confluence of the Sava river into the Danube at Belgrade can be seen as the confluence of the White and Blue Nile at Khartoum, the cities, Monasteries, and Churches can be the districts and Temples on the Nile, and the nine countries of the drainage basin of the Danube can be likened to the seven arms of the Nile Delta flowing into the Mediterranean. In this video, scenery along the Danube, some cities and countries begins at 1,29 minutes accompanied by music Die Donau as a rivulet 1.bp.blogspot.com/-qeTj0yhe5G8/TihYnvH28kI/AAAAAAAAAvY/wdK0CnDhcM4/s1600/20110721-_DSC3842.jpg"rises on the castle grounds near the left corner of the front face of the castle Donaueschingen in a karst sprin. The karst spring has an embankment of 15 to 70 l/s and enters into the Brigach after flowing 90 meters belowground. The Brigach and the Berg became the Danube after 1,5 km. The source is one of 22 sources in the area of the junction of Brigach and Breg. All of these sources are fed by both water which trickles away above them and rainfall which trickles away on the karstified downs of a landscape called Baar. Together, the Brigach and Breg empty out between 400 and 1000 l/s. "As early as 1847 the following definition can already be found in the Universal Lexicon of the Grand Duchy of Baden): "Danube, the biggests river of Germany, rises at the Martinskapelle in a wild and lonely area of the Black Forest, is called Brege at its origin and forms the river Danube in Donaueschingen where it is unified with the Brigach." We just say that die Donau entspringt in the Black Forest. It also "gives an important part of its water to the Rhine..." A mythological meaning is also given. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_of_the_Danube
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 17, 2016 10:13:07 GMT -5
My statement that "we're all Celts", including the Native Americans, and that I found decendants of the tribes I'm writing about in Virginia and Texas, is yet confirmed again just last month by "an international group of geneticists", finding that the people of the Americas are related to the people of Altai in Siberia which borders on China and Mongolia. rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/02/23/its-official-native-americans-and-siberians-are-cousins_569517As to my claim, I found the information of the Vandal and Alan invading Africa under King Genseric, the Vandal a East Germantic tribe, the Alan a pastorial people, but of same ancestry, that I found them in Virginia and Texas. Upon arrival, the Vandal wanted their own state called "Westsylvania", but were denied by the governments of Virginia and Pennsylvania. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalia_(colony)The Wends of Texas Mecklenburg in northern Germany was occupied by Slavs of Celtic origin, called the "Wends", (variation of Vandal) descendants of 10th century slavic tribes of central Europe, called "Near East" or Baltic Countries. The Wends traveled from Hamburg near Mecklenburg, to Hull, Yorkshire, sailed across the Atlantic, settled in Texas and established "Low Pin Oak", 50 miles east of Austin. "The largest single migration of Wendish immigrants to the United States settled in Texas, using Serbin as their "mother colony". On September 20, 1854, about 550 Wendish Lutherans from a congregation in Prussia and Saxony left for Texas under the leadership and pastorial care of John Kilian. . . . It is unclear whether either of the two Sorbian languages is still spoken in Serbin. According to a 2000 U.S. census, 37 people in the 78942 Zip Code area (which include Giddings and other nearby towns) spoke a Slavic language other than Polish or Russian at home." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends_of_TexasThe city of Charlotte in Mecklenburg County NC, is named after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, wife of King George III. Her ancestor are said to be Vandal/Quadi of North Africa invaded by them under King Genseric. The tribes mixed with Spanirds, hence her Mulatto appearance. 1.bp.blogspot.com/-bvtHv_ZbfoU/VUowQLR0laI/AAAAAAAB64Q/KoVmoYz3_S0/s1600/queen_charlotte02.jpg
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 18, 2016 11:34:25 GMT -5
Easy to get sidetracked when so many things belonging with a subjects come to mind. The "barbaric" Indo-Skythians, north of Greece, "in sharp contrast with the "civilzed" Greeks", are described "as being much taller, their skin lighter and with straight light-coloured hair and blue eyes, I associate with the Alan, an Iranian nomadic pastorial, noble people, the Aryan, became "dominent among the Sarmatians..." The Persians called the Skyths "Saka" or "Shaka", who, according to Herodotus, "were clad in trousers, and had on their heads tall stiff caps rising to a point." An image of tall "Golden Warriors" depicts them with such hats, which reminded me of the Tarim Basin "Witch Mummies". It doesn't matter if the hats of the Golden Warriors statue are shaped differently from the Tarim mummies hats, the idea is the same. Apparently, the Golden Warriors belonged to the Priest cast, as were the Druids of the Celts. Those golden hats found in Germany, attributed to the Bronze Age Urnfield Culture, oval shaped with straps, suggest the same. The Phrygian Cap also associated with eastern Europe Anatolia. And what of the most famous Wizard Merlin, the embodiement of Wisdom, on his arm an owl. Through all this runs the idea of magic as spoken of in Texts of ancient cultures, among them the Egyptians, now mostly ascribed to delusion of the Ancients. It is, however, kept alive at Halloween. The costumes of the Turim mummies. "and especially textiles, may indicate a common origin with Indo-European neolithic techniques or a common low-level textile technology. Chärchän man wore a red twill tunic and tartal leggins. Textile experts Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who examined the tartan-style cloth, discusses similarities between it and fragments recorded from salt mines associated with the Hallstatt culture." A fraction of a fraction of what transpired over 1000s of years, north, south, east and west of the Danube, and far afield, thus a perfect location for the Walhalla in the heart of Bavaria, by the celebrated Donau, yes? Where it all happened, im Salzkammergut, the vast Salt Chamber. Time permitting, this is an informative, historical snapshot, 18,000 years to the present with beautiful scenery, the scope of the chamber from a hot air balloon. In the beginning St. Gilgen, where I began my search for Paracelusus' Tomb, the Wolfgangsee where I had lunch in the very same Restaurant Paracelsus enjoyed a few bears, driving back my Sister's car broke down, a farmer on a tractor came along and kindly towed me -- it's a long story , a visit to the salt mines, the animal worlds, and toward the end Hallstatt, the oldest town in Europe, UNESCO World Heritage Site inhabited by ca. 1000 Souls, and everywhere the food is organic.
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