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Re: Humankind constipated in Europe *LINK*

"where did the white man left from to arrive in europe mr.western encycopedia answer that fari,i sensors tells i that you are well vesatile in this region..or maybe not..remember sey,real rasta dont run from truth because the truth makes ini stronger in the livity.."

* You may find this interesting in regards to a people known as the Kurgans who left from the Eurasian steppes. I think you will see from their customs a similarity with how Europe would deal with the rest of the world in later times.

"Where did they come from? The conventional wisdom is that somehow the original hunter forager groups somehow changed over time to become the pastoral tribes and proto-nations that would displace the agrarian Trypilians of the Ukraine and the Vinca of the Balkans. That is highly unlikely based on the evidence of archaeology and linguistics. Instead the Kurgans came in migratory waves up the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea into present-day Kazakhstan from the Kurdistan/Iranian region of the Middle East. If you're wondering how Caucasians made it to Europe, here's the beginning of the journey though we cannot be absolute sure. This is merely a best guess.

For these disparate tribes to become the Iranians (Aryans), Celts, Germans, Slavs and Baltics of later days would require three things; domestication of the horse, the invention of the wheel, and metallurgy.

David W. Anthony of Hartwick College is convinced that humans first rode horses about 6,000 years ago in the northern steppes of Kazakhstan. As he puts it, "Horseback riding was the first significant innovation in human land transport, preceding the invention of the wheel by approximately 500 years."

The skull of a stallion unearthed at Dereivka in the Ukraine shows bit wear, based on lab experiments done by Brown and Telegin, it was concluded that the amount of wear would have required at least 300 hours of riding. The skull is dated to around 4000 BC.

Others have argued that early domesticated horses were too small to be ridden, measuring 12.2 to 14.2 hands at the shoulder ( little more than 4 feet) - but I think that neglects one important fact. The humans who took up horseback riding weren't very tall either. Women may have been the first beneficiaries of such a discovery based on their smaller size and here we see the genesis of the Amazons. Not all the Kurgan tribes would have been horseback riders, the Romans leave accounts of the Celtic and Germanic migrations being done on foot - the change in diet had made them into physical giants compared to the agrarian Romans. Horseback riding also made it possible for larger population densities to spread effectively into the vastness of Eurasia.

Kurgan horse-herders like the later Scythians, rode geldings only, their main herds being kept wild under stallions, the mares were hobbled near the settlements and milked regularly based on the accounts we have.

In the Southern Ural Mountains, one Kurgan culture, the Sintashta (who along with the Srubnaya would later become known as the Aryans who invade Iran, Pakistan and India.) may have taken the next step. Again their grave mounds provide the clue. The Sintashta nobility are interred along with their chariots. The wheel has been discovered.

The final technological advance is again seen among the Sintashta. Metal production of copper for tools and weaponry have been discovered. The knowledge must have come from the Caucasus region because it was unknown to the Trypilians and Vinca of Eastern Europe.

Characteristics that become prevalent among the Kurgan are these; They had become pastoral and mobile, using domesticated horses and cattle for meat, milk and transportation. Oxen would be used to pull two or four wheeled wagons to move their family and belongings from one locale to another.

They worshipped the male Thunder God above all others. We remember the dyaus pater as Zeus, Jove, Thor, and Perun, these are some of his names left in the linguistic wake of the Kurgans. (Odin or Wotan came later and may have been an actual person - Freya was the Earth Mother and borrowed from the conquered races.)

The burial sites had become more elaborate. The later Scythian and Cimmerian burial mounds are immense in size and scope. The Tokharians of the Altai will erect clay pyramids in China that still stand, rivalling their Egyptian counterparts. The use of red ochre for burials is revived or continued by them, (see news for this week on that meme.)

A caste system had arisen that will distinguish them. A warrior nobility, priests, and the commoners drawn from the surviving remnants of the agrarian cultures they come to dominate, and who tend the fields for the new overlords.

For when the Kurgans do settle down they build massive hill forts to to consolidate their rule. At Kurgan sites at Miklajlovka, Skelja-Kamenolomnja and Liventsovka along the banks of the Dnieper and Don rivers are the prototypical megalithic fortifications that later are duplicated in the Greek, Illyrian, Celtic and Germanic landscapes. These hill forts are built on a scale that is now known as Cyclopean (for the ancient Greeks were convinced that only giants could have built these ramparts!)

The evolution of Indo-European languages is beyond my ability and patience to trace, but on the subject of hill forts it is worth noting that the English words hill, fort, berg and burgh all derive from the Proto-Indo-European word bhergh. ie, translation high. Here we see the concept of High Lords, and High Kings developing. They ruled from on high.

The Kurgans were fond of gold, panned from the rivers of the Caucasus. Figurines of lions, stags, horses and wild bison, the aurochs, were a popular motif of their craftsmen. Rich treasure troves of gold, silver and precious gems have been found (or plundered) in the burial mounds.

If lions sound incongruous for a people of the Eurasian steppes, we know from the Greek chroniclers that the range of the Asiatic lion (panthera leo persica) was far greater then, and the lions would come down from the mountains of Asia Minor to prey on livestock. The warriors must have gone out on great hunts to prove their bravery and we hear of one tale of Herakles and the Nemean Lion. Even more fearsome must have been the wild aurochs.

One strange and still not proven account of the Kurgans comes from the Russian naturalist P.S. Pallas of the hunts for the large land reptile called the Coluber Jaculator lizard which he wrote "is not venomous, is often six feet long, it moves about with erect head and breast, and when pursued defends itself by darting against the horse and his rider. There are likewise two other species of reptiles, the Berus and the Halys, both of a poisonous nature." - from "The Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire", 1812

Between 3000 and 2000 BC, the Kurgans begin the first of the many migrations out of Asia that will plague the peoples of Western Europe for millenia.

Are the migrations of the Kurgan peoples in response to an environmental catastrophe - similar to what Slavs and Avars faced in the fifth century AD? Or do they simple outgrow the Eurasian steppes. There can be no certainty on the matter. In time they will establish their nations, ideals and languages throughout Europe.

To the people they overrrun, they are the catastrophe."

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