The spread of the Red & Yellow schools of the bauddha-mata in Mongolia reveals some of the worst counter-religious aspects of the tAthAgatan movement. In some ways it acted no different from the west Asian counter- religions, clearly establishing the shared ugliness across these
movements. Lama Agvan dordchiev remarked that "...the conversion of various nations [to the nAstikamata] has to be different; while one will be converted by mere discipline, others are to be subdued by magic powers, i.e., terror." : Sounds familiar? To things recommended by the
Lamaistic documents in this regard are: "influence the ruler to interfere with the old religion through economic encouragement of the converts [to the nAstikamata]; "iconoclastic purges of the shamanist idols". The Lamas called on the descendants of Khasar, the brother of Chingiz
Khan, & the Chingizids who they had converted to make "Shamans & Shamanesses of the heretical, idolatrous faith were made to renounce the propagation of (their) deities & idols." The Lamas then sent out their disciples: "to enter the gers of all noblemen, dignitaries & commoners
collect their Ongghot images and burn them in giant pyres." Given the Mongol attraction for the old religion the functionaries of the Panchen Lams then resorted to substitution of the deities of the "bhairava-tantra" for those in the old, vilified religion.
Another approach they resorted to, was to initially retain the fire ritual hymns with some minimal lamaistic adaptation. Remarkably, the Japanese expedition to the Mongol Olon süme site recovered fragments of manuscripts of such incantations that remain poorly studied
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In some parts of the world aDNA studies have become a matter of fact tool for reconstructing lost history like this massive study of the Avar Khaghanate individuals from Hungary. Like the earlier study it shows the tale of "Mongols" before the Chingizids nature.com/articles/s4158…
It seems the East Asian component of the Avars in the west can be modeled best with Late Xiongnu& certain Xianbei (Serbi) individuals. We take the Xiongnu to be early members of the Mongolic branch, while as Shimunek demonstrated Xianbei to be early members of the Serbi branch of
Serbi-Mongolian (Serbi = para-Mongolic). When the Serib Khaghanate rose it incorporated several elements of the Xiongnu Hun Shanyuate into it. The Rouran Khaghanate that arose upon the disintegration of the Serbi, it was likely led by a Mongolic group. Even the name Mongol might
The early Arya-s imagined the tumulus (kurgan) as a shelter with the "mother" - i.e. earth. This is clarified in the tR^icha deployed for the funerary rite of the piling of the kurgan, i.e. shmashAna:
uch Chva~nchasva pR^ithivi mA ni bAdhathAH sUpAyanAsmai bhava sUpava~nchanA |
uchChva~nchamAnA pR^ithivI su tiShThatu sahasram mita upa hi shrayantAm |
gR^ihAso ghR^itashchuto bhavantu vishvAhAsmai sharaNAH santv atra ||
~May the earth stand piled high above him; verily upheld by a 1000 props. May it be
the house dripping with ghee; Through eternity may he be sheltered here! Truly that shelter on the steppe has been a great mechanism to understand our pitaraH.
The Israeli program to make best use of the high cognitive capacity of their people
Such a plan might work to some degree even among peoples with much lower pop. density of cognitive capacity but what they may lack is the necessary cohesion
via @Rjrasvapalladiummag.com/2024/01/26/the…
Many of the cognitive elite& their descendants who played a key role in the Soviet Rus programs moved Isr & added mental muscle to their capacity in the 1990s.
I'll mention one admittedly anecdotal case: met an individual who had served in the above. He was politically a mild guy: was ready to concede 2-state solution, wanted to sign treaties with the Mohds, was quite critical of his own politicians etc. An equivalent H guy would be
A 🧵on interdigitation in IE branches. 1 of the offshoots of the recent archaeogenetic work is the developing view that Greek- (Greco-Armenian) sprang directly out of Yamnaya, with Greeks sojourning in the upper Balkans before reaching the peninsula& islands. This is consistent
with certain linguistic (word) trees that favor an early branching of Greek (Greco-Armenian) after the basal most branches Anatolian & Tocharian. But until not long ago there was an alternative or partly overlapping linguistic hypothesis of Greco-Armeno-Aryan. Was that signal
entirely illusory or was there something to it that is still relevant. It has 3 dimensions: 1. Certain isoglosses; 2. Certain literary usages; 3. Certain seemingly apomorphic mythological elements. The linguists who see it as illusory generally take these shared features as
🧵Some "great books" for H educational reading with some comments 1. Excerpts from the 4 shruti-s & their a~Nga-s (I know many would go apoplectic with this suggestion: I see your point) 2. vedA~Nga-jyotiSha with numerical examples& practical observations of the sky
3. kaNAda's sUtra-s w commentarial material 4. excerpts from jaimini' sUtra-s with glosses 5. pata~njali's yogasUtra-s w vyAs-abhAShya 6. excerpts from itihAsa-s & harivaMsha 7. excerpts from proto-skandapurANa 8. readings from mAlinIvijaya, nishvAsa, netra, lakShmI, pauShkara
9. kumArasaMbhava 10. kAmasUtra of vAtsyAyana (I understand some people might object) 11. kauTilIya arthashAstra 12. readings from charaka, sushruta, vAgbhaTa & kAshyapa saMhitA. 13. e.g.s from the AryabhaTIya -- at least work out of kuTTaka & sine tables.
The ancient world, unlike many neo-occidentally conditioned folks, recognized that leadership of men was related to something special -- it could be seen as a the charisma seen only in a true leader. That's why we have approximately equivalent words: Skt: shrI; Iranic: Xvarena,
Turkic: kut, Mongolic: suu, Chinese: yun, Arabic: dawlat. That it cuts across religions and ethnicities in Eurasia indicates that it is something primal.Even the Austronesia Maoris had something called mana. At times of stress nation can only be led by men with that special thing
Despite the neo-occidental conditioning, one can see that the pull of this special charisma exists to date in the west. It is something an oligarchy deep state greatly fears for it would transfer the mandate from their shadow government to the "ekavIra". The word ekavIra is an