An ice skate found in a likely Andronovo context is the same as those found thousands of miles west in Europe. This shows the Aryans in Asia maintained links with their homeland
https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-ice-skates-with-bone-blades-discovered-in-china
https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-ice-skates-with-bone-blades-discovered-in-china
livescience.com
Bronze Age ice skates with bone blades discovered in China
Ice skates made of bone have been unearthed from a Bronze Age tomb in western China, suggesting an ancient technological exchange between the east and west of Eurasia.
Reconstruction of Cees, a man of the Single Grave Culture in the Netherlands
You can hear the roots of North American English dialects in this 90 year old recording of a man from Somerset in England's West Country
https://youtu.be/XsB90aJ6Jp8
https://youtu.be/XsB90aJ6Jp8
YouTube
The Somerset Accent
http://www.videobash.com
The last remnants of what the Proto-American accent would have sounded like from a region of Britain from 80 years ago.
The last remnants of what the Proto-American accent would have sounded like from a region of Britain from 80 years ago.
These were made by Germanic pagans nearly 4000 years after Yamnaya/Beaker anthropomorphic stelae. Now that's continuity!
Forwarded from แ Sagnamaรฐr Stark แ
The Bamberg Idols: these three sandstone statues were found in the Regnitz River in Bamberg, central Germany. Very similar to Yamnaya stelae.
Forwarded from Aureus' Sylvan Bush-Arcadia
When Julius Caesar demanded that Germanic tribes desist from raiding in Gaul, he found that the German leader was none too respectful โ and all too willing to risk open conflict with Rome.
โI am not impressed,โ he concluded, โby Caesarโs threat to punish my โoppressionโ of these people. No one has ever fought me without bringing destruction upon himself. Let him attack whenever he pleases. He will discover what German valour is capable of. We have never known defeat, we have had superb training in arms, and for fourteen years have never sheltered beneath a roof.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar, 1st Century BC
https://echoesofdeadworlds.com/?p=3526
โI am not impressed,โ he concluded, โby Caesarโs threat to punish my โoppressionโ of these people. No one has ever fought me without bringing destruction upon himself. Let him attack whenever he pleases. He will discover what German valour is capable of. We have never known defeat, we have had superb training in arms, and for fourteen years have never sheltered beneath a roof.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar, 1st Century BC
https://echoesofdeadworlds.com/?p=3526
Echoesofdeadworlds
The Defiance of Germany
"Let him attack whenever he pleases. He will discover what German valour is capable of." [...]
Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
For God is my witness that our country is a sort of secondary divinity, and our first and greatest parent.
Hierocles, On How We Ought to Conduct Ourselves Towards Our Country
Hierocles, On How We Ought to Conduct Ourselves Towards Our Country
Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
For that element in us which is divine and intellectual and one - or, if you so wish to term it, intelligible - is aroused, then, clearly in prayer, and when aroused, strives primarily towards what is like to itself, and joins itself to essential perfection.
Iamblichus, On the Mysteries 1.15
Iamblichus, On the Mysteries 1.15
Forwarded from Traditionalism & Metaphysics (Horse Master)
To believe that the statues of the gods, such as they were fabricated by the ancients, participated of a divine influence, as much as the substances from which they were composed is capable of admitting, must appear ridiculous to every one who is ignorant that the construction of these statues was the result of the most consummate theological science, and that from their apt resemblance to divine natures they became participants of divine illumination. For, as Sallust well observes, in his treatise On the Gods and the World, (chap. 15) "As the providence of the gods is every where extended, a certain habitude or fitness is all that is requisite in order to receive their beneficent communications. But all habitude is produced through imitation and similitude; and hence temples imitate the heavens, but altars the earth; statues resemble life, and on this account they are similar to animals; and prayers imitate that which is intellectual; but characters, superior ineffable powers; herbs and stones resemble matter; and animals which are sacrificed the irrational life of our souls."
Statues therefore, through their habitude or fitness, conjoin the souls of those who pray to them with the gods themselves: and when we view the ancient mode of worshiping images in this light, we shall find it equally as rational as any other mode of conduct in which a certain end is proposed to be obtained by legitimate means. Some of these statues were called Diopeteis, or such as descended from heaven, "because, (says Jamblichus apud Phot. p. 554) the occult art by which they were fabricated by human hands was inconspicuous."
And we are informed by Proclus on Euclid, in his comment on the definition of Figure, "that this occult or theurgic art fashioned some of the resemblances of the gods, by characters, in an ineffable manner; for characters of this kind manifest the unknown powers of the gods: but others it imitated by forms and images; fashioning some of them erect and others sitting; and some similar to a heart, but others spherical; and others it expressed by different figures.
And, again, some it fabricated of a simple form, but others it composed from a multitude of forms; and some of these were sacred and venerable, but others domestic, exhibiting the peculiar gentleness of the gods: and some it constructed of a severe aspect; and lastly, attributed to others different symbols, according to the similitude and sympathy pertaining to the gods." Let not the reader, however, confound this scientific worship of the ancients with the filthy piety, as Proclus in his hymn to the Muses justly calls it, of the Catholics: for it is surely one thing to worship the images of those giant-like Barbarians called Saints, and another to reverence the resemblances of divinity; since the former conduct is horridly impious and full of delusion and insanity; but the latter is beautifully pious, is replete with real good, and is divinely wise.
โ Thomas Taylor
Statues therefore, through their habitude or fitness, conjoin the souls of those who pray to them with the gods themselves: and when we view the ancient mode of worshiping images in this light, we shall find it equally as rational as any other mode of conduct in which a certain end is proposed to be obtained by legitimate means. Some of these statues were called Diopeteis, or such as descended from heaven, "because, (says Jamblichus apud Phot. p. 554) the occult art by which they were fabricated by human hands was inconspicuous."
And we are informed by Proclus on Euclid, in his comment on the definition of Figure, "that this occult or theurgic art fashioned some of the resemblances of the gods, by characters, in an ineffable manner; for characters of this kind manifest the unknown powers of the gods: but others it imitated by forms and images; fashioning some of them erect and others sitting; and some similar to a heart, but others spherical; and others it expressed by different figures.
And, again, some it fabricated of a simple form, but others it composed from a multitude of forms; and some of these were sacred and venerable, but others domestic, exhibiting the peculiar gentleness of the gods: and some it constructed of a severe aspect; and lastly, attributed to others different symbols, according to the similitude and sympathy pertaining to the gods." Let not the reader, however, confound this scientific worship of the ancients with the filthy piety, as Proclus in his hymn to the Muses justly calls it, of the Catholics: for it is surely one thing to worship the images of those giant-like Barbarians called Saints, and another to reverence the resemblances of divinity; since the former conduct is horridly impious and full of delusion and insanity; but the latter is beautifully pious, is replete with real good, and is divinely wise.
โ Thomas Taylor