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14 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Did the Initial Upper Paleolithic feature the 1st East Asian invasion of Western Eurasia? Long Long before the Huns or Turks? The IUP in archaeological terms stretches from Mongolia to Central Europe & in the south includes West Asia. Chronologically it is between the last Middle
Paleothic phase & the new bladelet technologies ~50-35KYBP. The authors of the study have obtained ancient autosomal DNA from a IUP site in Bulgaria & rather than showing affinities to Western Eurasians is related to East Asians, including the ancient Tianyuan man. This suggests
that the ancient East Asian lineage that contributed present East Asians and first Americans was once more widespread and reached as far as Eastern Europe. This might correlate with at least part of the IUP. In the west this East Asian lineage seems to have become extinct& not
seen in modern Western Eurasian populations. The authors also suggest that these East Asian related people had "Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history". Who wiped them out in the West and how?
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Good question: In the vaidika tradition it doesn't take the same color as in later tradition. The great emperor trasadasyu is termed ardhadeva but only that. While deva &martya are distinct but the deva can assume any form for particular reasons. Thus indra assumed the form of
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8 Apr
The question here is an often a difficult issue for both initiate & lay H. As usual, my considered analysis of it will not be pleasing to some; hence, don't @ me if you get hot from reading it. Manage your outrage in other ways: 1) Humans were not around from the inception in
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7 Apr
The next page of our illustrates nakShatrasUkta: abhijit corresponds to the bright star Vega in Lyra. It is far away from the ecliptic and has been dropped even by the time of the mahAbhArata where indra mentions this to skanda in a cryptic legend. This probably was due to
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5 Apr
The next page the 2 aShADhA-s: another glorious part of the sky associated with the Sagittarius arm & the center of the Milky Way. The globular clusters surrounding the halo of the MW are superimposed against it. Most spectacular of these is M22, 1 of the brightest seen just NW Image
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The next 3 nakShatra-s (mantra of only 1st shown) anUrAdhA; jyeSThA and mUla/vichR^itau are parts of the constellation of Scorpius. The glorious constellation in midst of the Milky Way. It is notable that if mUlam is root the vishAkhe are the dual branches. jyeShThA could mean Image
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Next page of the illustrated nakShatra-sUktam: the 2 vishAkhA-s. This nakShatra is termed the nakShatra mistress of the nakShatra-s. It is easily visible but not particularly bright making this appellation more of mystery. Tradition holds it takes the shape of a toraNa or festoon Image
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