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I’m not certain how many of you know this, but the opening scene to Prometheus is actually supposed to be the Indo-European creation myth. Image
The twins Manu the priest, and Yemo his brother perform the first sacrifice. Image
Yemo is sacrificed to create the world and all life. Image
From the body of Yemo, Manu fashions the whole of mankind, this is why it’s called Mankind. The etymology is that we’re the sons of Manu. Image
This is why the engineer kills David later on in the movie because he offends him by telling the engineer his father wishes to live forever.
Death is integral to life. The Indo-Europeans understood this and so too did the engineers who are supposed to be them. Image
The whole movie had a lot of things you may not have noticed. The engineers even speak reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. It sort of feels like a home coming to a place you’ve never been to. Image
The last part to the myth is supposed to be Trito, who, like Manu, continues the sacrifice and appeases the Gods. However in this story, it seems the real Hero dies, and the sacrifice is broken. I wonder if this was an intended. Maybe some reflection is needed here. ImageImage

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I went to a bookstore within my country looking for a simple common book on music theory, and I could tell you a lot about the trajectory of a nation by the literature it promotes.
One of the things I noticed was in the music section that the books were almost entirely composed of biographies from more prominent musicians of the last few decades except for a single lonely shelf with the most awful books about music.
Right next to the music section was the poetry section. All but two books were from contemporary authors. I’m surprised they even allowed the Iliad and Beowulf to occupy that shelf next to that garbage.
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Thinking about the education I’m going to provide for my sons. Have you done this? Image
I’m thinking I’ll start them off by speaking Latin to them since birth, and then starting their basic music lessons at the same time I start teaching them the basics of arithmetic and spelling.
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Nov 26, 2022
A lot of people do not understand the terms clan, tribe, or country properly. So what are they you ask? Image
Rarely if ever do people use familial distinctions anymore beyond the word family, or they’ll conflate clans to tribes and won’t even relate a nation to the idea of blood ties.

This is against the majority of human history Image
A clan can be thought of as all those family members that descend from a single man whose name you share. It’s your extended family

A tribe can be thought of as all those collections of clans which share blood as well. Image
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Nov 19, 2022
People rarely speak of the patricians of Rome. Infrequently you may have heard someone is a patrician of a field or has patrician taste, but what does that mean?

Who were the patricians? Image
Patrician shares its root with pater, a title given to the father or leader of various Indo-European layers to society. These men happened to be the paters of their clans when Rome was founded by Romulus. Image
These fathers of Rome formed the nobility class of the ancient Mediterranean, and are responsible for the foundations of the modern world by being the foundations of the ancient Romans.

Do you know your Paters?

tocharus.substack.com/p/who-were-the…
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Why did Carthage deserve to be burned to the ground you may ask? Why were their men killed, their women sold to the far corners from f the republic in slavery, and their texts burned?
Why did the Romans salt the Earth where Carthage once stood so no crops could ever grow again?
The Romans had suffered an embarrassing campaign by Hannibal about half a century prior to them deciding to burn the former empire to the ground, but why so brutally you may ask? There’s a few reasons, but one sticks out clearly in my mind.
Rome burned it to the ground and salted the earth because the Carthaginians disgusted them. They would burn their own children alive to Moloch and Baal Hammon. If this sounds familiar it’s because it was also mentioned in the Old Testament.

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I think the average person genuinely does believe in the necessity of some level of eugenics, but won’t say it because of who it’s associated with. Image
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If the government incentivized healthy intelligent strong and beautiful people to procreate more for a moderate sum or a larger tax break, would you be for it?
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