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What I do as a writer

I write, I speak from a very, very remote place - Ani. It’s very, very beautiful, as you see with the mountains. I thought I would just muse a little bit on what I do as a writer as Decoding Trolls and how I see my role as a writer and where my substacks fit into it, what I’m working on now, what my plans are, and how you helped me by responding and reading and reacting to my work. I wrote about Eneduana, who is the first known named author in human culture. I discovered her in a very forgotten corner of a museum in Brussels, where a poem, a song she had written to the moon god Nanna, in cuneiform text had been preserved. She lived around 2500 BCE and was the daughter of Sargon the Great, who was a great emperor in Assyria and Babylon. This particular song, which she had written to the moon god Nana, was preserved in this forgotten corner of a museum in Brussels and had been written or copied about 700 years after she died. It was a little bit of a connection to her. It really interested me that she was dedicated to the moon god Nanna. As you probably know by now, my hypothesis for why the MN sound is so common in the English language and Indo-European languages is that the MN sound is a remnant of what I call the moon-based metaphorical semantic signaling system that was implanted by the first Indo-Europeans. It was so important to them that it became implanted in all of the daughter Indo-European languages. As you may remember from my hypothesis about Osman the Great, who was one of the Central Asians, Turkic language-speaking Central Asians who came to Anatolia as part of the conquest, his name became part of the dynasty, the Ottoman dynasty in Osman. My hypothesis was that since he and his dynasty arrived in Anatolia around 11 or 1200 years into the common era, they eventually conquered the whole area. As we saw from my work in the Hittite a year ago in the Ankara Museum, seeing Tarmana, his name was written in a cuneiform text from about 1800 BCE, which is 2,900 years before Osman the Great came. Modern-day linguists use the MN sound, the Uman suffix, and other suffixes, but mainly the Uman suffix in these documents. In these 23,000 cuneiform texts written, I found in a place I visited the summer before last, Kanesh, which was the actual and the mythological founding community for the Hittites, for the first Indo-European. Modern linguists use this Uman suffix to distinguish between texts. All the texts are written in Assyrian, but there are local Anatolian Indo-European words in there. Modern linguists use this Uman suffix to distinguish the Indo-European from the Assyrian. Flash forward 3,100 years later, 3,000 years after these texts. Osman arrives here on his horse, Osman the Great, and finds the Ottoman Empire, which would rule Anatolia until the First World War, basically. Three thousand years later, he arrives here with the MN sound. The first person who is appointed as a leader here is Menushur with an MN sound to replace the Armenians, who also have the MN sound. You begin to see the potential of Manuland to unite. We put a huge play in communities to find the differences between communities defined by different languages, especially by different language families, particularly the Turkic language-speaking family and Indo-European, say the Armenians. My conception of Manuland is to unite us and unite the Turkic language speakers who today occupy this land. It is replete with their MN-sounding names and words, which they or their ancestors brought from Central Asia when they first started arriving here about a thousand years ago. This is a sign of how I see my job as a writer. I do not merely describe the world; I intervene in the world and try to make it right. This is what Eneduana did in her dedications to the moon god Nanna. She composed songs, which were prayers, learned off by heart, and eventually recorded in cuneiform text so that I could see them. That is a form of writing, of course. The substance of what she did as the first known named author in human culture was independent of the form in which it was recorded and transmitted. It’s that substance I got to in this piece I wrote as part of my Decoding Trolls project, which is on recoupling the political right with moral rightness. I wrote a piece talking about how Meloni, Macron, Merz, and President Zelensky in Ukraine have the potential and are actually doing it by helping rescue the project that has been hijacked by the far right, who are doing very wrong things. For instance, President Trump threatened to invade Greenland and disturb the European Union, Greenland, and the state of Denmark’s territorial integrity. This is very unright from a legal point of view, as defined by the post-World War II legal order, which makes territorial integrity sacrosanct. It is also wrong from a moral point of view, and I am not afraid to say that. The second element in the six-element code of positive trolls distinguishes what is right from what is wrong, what is positive trolling from what is negative trolling. This standard is set by the post-World War II legal order. When the current American government says it doesn’t care about international law or the far right talks about not caring about international law, that right is there. I am not afraid to say that is wrong. That is unright. You are trying to usurp what is right and replace it. My job as a writer and an artist, and the clue is in the “writ” element in writer and also in artist. Arta in ancient Iranian, a Western language, means truth, and Rta in Vedic, an ancient Indian language, also means truth. We have this idea of truth and what is right hardwired into these Rt- sounds. My job as a writer, through whichever medium I use, identifies me as a writer because in our culture, people doing what I do traditionally wrote. Of course, now I’m experimenting, as you see here, with video and podcasts. I’m also doing my website, which involves learning, so I’m completely independent and can just write things. I can create and then be responsible for uploading it and putting it into a form that you can read to complement my substacks and podcast platforms where my podcasts are, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. OnX is where most of my raw writing work appears, but I do use images as well. I’m not a pure writer in that traditional sense. By learning these different mechanisms, different mediums, and ensuring that there is something unified about my content in terms of the Power of Mana, Finding Manuland project, the Decoding Trolls, more journalism, and then Diss and Folklore, which I’m very excited about as well. This is the medium through which Donald and the far right are attempting to usurp and replace the post-World War II legal order with their vision of legal and social order, which is quite akin to the Nazis. My discovery of Disinfolklore as a narrative form is something I also write about. I help teach myself and embed myself and others to interpret data, the kinds of data we use before we decide who to vote for, whether to go and demonstrate, or whether to participate in public life. Whether to resist those kinds of decisions are made on the basis of data. The very people who promote free speech are actually those who wish to shut it down and turn what is wrong into what is right, suppressing artists like me and others so that we can’t communicate our truth and give others the opportunity to hear how we interpret the world. That is my job as a writer, and that’s how I see myself. If I’m feeling pretentious, I’ll call myself an artist, which kind of takes in different media forms. I’m happiest being a writer, even though I also create content with video and am learning. As you’ll be seeing over the next year or two, you’ll see how I develop my technical skills using these amazing facilities we have now with iPhones and Substack itself. As I develop my technical abilities into different formats and forms, the substance of what I teach and what I write doesn’t change. It’s all on this theme of trying to recouple what is right in a moral sense and a legal sense, as defined by the post-World War II legal order. I aim to point out when what is not right is being promoted as being right by the far right, who have their anti-immigrant, anti-human rights rhetoric, pro-discrimination, etc. From my perspective, the Finding Manuland project and visits like this in Ani to places which are, as you see there, just across is the watchtower. That’s Armenia, the state of Armenia. One day, hopefully, this border will be open, and people will be able to flow freely again between these two countries, which have had such a complicated crisis history, hopefully sharing the heritage of the MN Sound. Once Russia is finally defeated and stopped stirring the pot and provoking tumult, we can find a more harmonious means of communicating with Turkic language speakers, Indo-European language speakers, Armenians, Turks, and all the people living in Manuland and on the borders of Manuland because we see that we have more in common with each other. We’re more united. We’re united by this MN sound and by its emanation from the first Indo-European language speakers in Mykolaivka village in eastern Ukraine. What I believe my hypothesis to be is the moon-based metaphorical semantic signaling system that they embedded in our language and which is still relevant today. As far as I can see, it’s quite embedded in the Turkic language-speaking community. We don’t really have written attestations of Turkic language until much later than Indo-European, maybe three millennia later. We can certainly see its immanence in, for instance, Osman the Great. In just to hear saying Menesher was the first viceroy of Ani when they conquered it. MN is everywhere in the Turkic language as well. I think we can use these commonalities to promote harmony between different peoples. That

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Finding Manuland: Episode XXIX

Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. This is the Power of Mana podcast and the Finding Manuland branch of the Power of Mana podcast. I've recorded two episodes already of Finding Manuland and we're going to give this the moniker Episode Zero because it's an introduction to the podcast. I want to challenge this view that many of us have and we hear anecdotally whenever anyone mentions, for example, that the etymology of a particular word comes from ancient Rome or ancient Greece. We have a vague idea that Western civilization emanated from these two cultures. And what this vague idea, which is inculcated into us further each time someone gives us an etymology from Latin or Greek, which sometimes are genuine and sometimes aren't, what is inculcated into us is an absence, the absence of the actual common source from which all Indo-European languages emanate. And this is something that has emerged into my consciousness over the past three to four years as I began to research the MN. What I now see is this MN sound immanent in most sentences which we speak or think in Indo-European languages. And so the first purpose of Finding Manuland is to take us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India, where traditionally we speak Indo-European languages, which themselves emanate from a common source in a geographical location many of us don't know much about, but it's in southeastern Ukraine between the rivers, the Don and the Dnipro River, and specifically in Mykolaiv Oblast, which is the type site, as archaeologists call it, of a people, again, most of us haven't heard of, called the Yamnaya. These Yamna created the first Indo-European language in that area. So finally, Manuland will take us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India through the medium of my physical journey. So I will be telling you and explaining to you and illustrating to you the meanings in finding Manuland through visiting actual places, geographical locations. We will visit there physically and I will mention many of the places I have over the past three to four years explored and we will visit them through the spoken word. Finding Manuland also moves us across time from 4000 BCE until the present, so space and time. So most of us, our mental models of the past will begin if we're lucky and we've been trained or educated or grown up in a particular culture Most of our mental models will begin maybe around 1000 BCE, which is the time of the historical King David, the first king of the state of Israel, who features prominently in the Bible and the Old Testament of the Bible. David itself is an Indo-European name and David's father and forebears, or rather his mother's father was Uriah the Hittite. And until relatively recently, maybe about a century ago, all we knew about the Hittites were through the Bible and through the fact that King David was the grandchild of a Hittite. And this time frame of 1000 BCE for us is the limit, but those of us who will listen to Finding Manuland will expand our portfolio of events from 1000 BCE backwards to around 4000 BCE. This is the moment when the Yamna culture, as far as we know, began in its way that interests us in southeastern Ukraine, insofar as the Yamna created the first Indo-European language. And it was the actual Yamnaya migrants and their cultural and genetic descendants who between 4000 BCE and 2500 BCE spread Indo-European languages to the space between Ireland and India in such a way that it then divided into all the main languages. Indo-European languages, some of which are extinct and some of which we speak today, Armenian, the Germanic languages, which includes English, the Romance languages, the Italic languages, which includes Latin and Spanish and Italian and French, and the Celtic languages, which includes Irish and Welsh, and the Baltic languages, the modern Slavic languages, and the Anatolian languages, which the Hittites were the first great Indo-European empire. And the Hittites. So remember King David, the first king of Israel from around 1000 BCE, where the historical King David lived, he was the grandson of a Hittite. Uriah. And the Hittites claimed their origins in a place which I visited relatively recently, which we'll talk about, called Kultepe, which is in modern Turkey, which is modern Anatolia. And it is generally believed by those who know these kinds of things. I I am standing on the shoulders of giants in Finding Manuland. I've read thousands of texts from the greatest and the best researchers over the past few hundred years and cutting edge research on the analysis of ancient DNA, for instance, to discover the stories which I will recount in Finding Manuland. The general consensus among contemporary scholars is that the Yamnaya, the cultural ancestors of the Hittites, left southeastern Ukraine around 4100 BCE and either traveled across the Black Sea, that's my pet theory, or around via the Balkans, if you can imagine that. So again, I'm expanding your mental models. You may have an idea of the space between Ireland and India, but by the end of Finding Manuland, which I hope will be actually quite infinite, you will populate this space in your mind, in your mental model, as I have, with actual places and names and times and events. So if you imagine people walking around from southeastern Ukraine past Odesa into Romania, to Bulgaria, Turkey, and around and down the west coast of Anatolia, where some of you might have been on holiday to Bodrum, which is the ancient place of Halicarnassus, And then they spread eastwards from there. So from around 4000 BC, these people left Ukraine, southeastern Ukraine, and over the course of hundreds of years, through migrations, gradually got into Anatolia. And then from there, the language from around 3700 BCE, and I'll post on the page for this website some of the language trees and estimates of how this happened, spread from there across the whole of Anatolia so that around 1900 BCE in this place called Kultepe / Kanis, which is in central Anatolia, central Turquia, which I visited, a community there of Anatolians and Assyrians who left us 23,000 texts, which we can now read in a library. That community then was seen as the origins of the Hittite Empire, which was one of the three great empires of antiquity alongside Egypt. and Babylon. But all we knew of the Hittites, we knew from the Bible until relatively recently. But the Hittite empire itself lasted maybe around 300 years from its height, from around 1600 before the Common Era to around 1200 years before the Common Era. And we know a lot about the Hittite Empire from its imperial library, which was discovered in 1908 in a place called Hattusa / Bogazkale, which I also visited recently and which we'll talk about in the future because it's a really important source of information about many stories. And the historical King David, the founder of the King of Israel, grandson of a Hittite, Uriah, actually... We now know that Uriah was not a true Hittite. He was what we call a Neo-Hittite. So after the Hittite Empire collapsed around 1200 BCE and some recent researchers believe that the absence of the Hittite Empire from The historical record for really for two millennia until very, very recent for three millennia was a purposeful act. So it was purposefully wiped from this historical record. So this is why even today it's not really part of most of our mental models. And we think of history beginning at 1000 BC with King David and his Indo-European name and his Neo-Hittite name. grandfather. And so the Neo-Hittites were what happened when the Hittite empire split and it lost its territorial integrity and its sovereignty and its prosperity. The Hittite Empire split into many different communities. And in today's Syria, many of them established their communities in today's Syria, which had been part of the Hittite Empire. And that's where the historical King David's grandfather, Uriah, came from. And what we will do in finding Manuland is, as I've done a little bit there, is I've taken you from 1000 BCE in Judea, where the historical King David lived, and I brought you back to 4000 years before the Common Era in southeastern Ukraine. I provoked in your mind the idea of Yamnaya migrants walking past Odesa, past Romania, past Bulgaria, into modern Turkey, down the west coast, and fanning out eastwards and bringing with them, Indo-European language. I've also provoked in you the idea that maybe they came across the Black Sea or as some of the latest analysis of ancient DNA of mitochondrial DNA suggests is that in fact the Yamnaya migrants came the other direction so they went instead of going around by Romania and Bulgaria that they went around by the Caucasus and into modern Armenia and spread from there eastwards across Anatolia to spread Indo-European languages. What we do know is and this was discovered by a Czech artillery officer in around 1921 who was able to decipher Hittite hieroglyphics sufficiently to determine that Hittite was an Indo-European language. So the Indo-European languages existence of this family of languages was discovered by Sir William Jones of Welsh, Sanskrit and Iranian Persian scholar. He discovered this in India as he was having the laws of Manu translated. And this is one of the reasons why we call this finding Manuland. Also, I want to give a moniker to the space between Ireland and India, because we don't have a moniker for it. And we don't, we think of these as disparate cultures, which of course they are. But there's this one uniting similarity between all of these cultures is that traditionally we speak Indo-European languages in this geographical space between Ireland and India. And William Jones discovered the existence of the Indo-European languages, which then provides this underpinning, this undermining of the idea of a space, a geographical space where we are united in our diversity, that we speak lan

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M-N- Sound Pops Up 3,924 Years Ago!

Hi there, I’m Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland. This is the “Archetypes” episode. When we are thinking about transforming our own mental models—our entire conception of human culture in our minds—this is hopefully really why you are going to be interested in Finding Manuland. Obviously, you may not accept everything I say, or you may Google it and go, “Oh, maybe this or maybe that,” but that doesn’t matter. I’ll just say, as an aside, this week The Wall Street Journal has published an essay under the title “The Ancient Horseman Who Created the Modern World.” New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamna, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. That was published in The Wall Street Journal on the 8th of March, 2025. So, we’re not chasing genetic evidence; we’re chasing the evidence of sound and meaning—the cryptotypic signifying system which I believe the “MN” sound signifies. We’re interested in tracing that sound, the MN sound, from Ireland to India. Across space from Ireland to India, and across time from around 4100 BCE until today—so, 6,000 years. In Finding Manuland, we achieve this feat through various means. But that is not the only reason to listen to Finding Manuland. What really matters to me is that I can communicate to you my energy, my manner, my positive manner. Hopefully, I’ll do my best, as we all do, to communicate positive manner every day. Now we have this technology where we can communicate our manner, our meaning, our inner self, and our energy across the entire world and across time. Because obviously, as I record this, I don’t know when you’re going to listen to this. It may be in a hundred years. So, this is why hopefully there’s a big market for this. The vehicle for this is this amazing story about how this one sound traveled with this one community of people, the Yamna, with an MN sound in their name. I believe the idea of having a reminder lodged in our minds helps. When we are in these moments—reminder, minds, moments, all MN words—when our emotions take control and troll us into perhaps making mistakes and communicating bad or negative manner, then we’ll remember Finding Manuland. That will remind us to communicate positive manner in this moment. Then, we can just switch from being really annoyed at this poor person at the other end of the phone line, or our boss, or our pet who’s nagging us for food when we don’t have it, or when we can’t afford to do something. We get really annoyed, but then we just flick a switch, and we flick that switch into communicating positive manner, positive energy. So, if you’re asking me what the most important element or the most important meaning of Finding Manuland is, it’s this: I want us to use Finding Manuland as a little mantra. As a way of obviously contemplating all the amazing aspects of our human history since 4100 BCE until today, across the space from Ireland to India, but ultimately, this only matters in the moment when we are perhaps communicating negative, neutral, or indeed positive manner. We recognize that in the moment, and we give ourselves a little pat on the back. A little bit of pride never hurt anyone. So, part of the sign that our mental model of humanity and culture is being transformed is that our human relationships are being transformed. We’re better in conflict situations. We’re better in the moment when we used to get triggered into communicating negative manner. But really, what I am trying to do in Finding Manuland, as you’ve probably picked up, is to transform the archetype—your archetype of our human history since 4100 BCE—in your mind, just as it has been transformed in mine. Just as that Wall Street Journal article is making a tiny drop in the ocean to transform people’s mental archetype of ancient Ukraine and where the Indo-European languages emanate from. We saw earlier in February, on February 5th, Nature published an article which establishes as a matter of scientific fact what up until now many archaeologists and linguists had referred to as the “Steppe Hypothesis.” They referred to the Pontic-Caspian steppe as the place somewhere between western Ukraine (on the border by the Danube) and Kazakhstan, where the Yamna lived. They were the first community of humans to speak an Indo-European language—and let’s note that MN is in “human” as well—and that they came from somewhere in that space. Many Russian archaeologists had privileged places which are in today’s Russia. Russian philosophers like [Aleksandr] Dugin, who drive the current imperialist bent of the Russian Federation and provide the ideological backing, justify their willingness to destroy Ukraine by reference to histories which place Ukrainians in some subservient position to Russians. But this Nature research article of the 5th of February establishes as scientific fact what many linguists, archaeologists, and amateurs such as myself had already worked out: the Yamna emanate from this small community of people on the Dnieper River, in Mykailivka village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which is the type site of the Yamna for archaeologists. We’ll go into this article again, but I just wanted to raise that for a second. So, the first aspect of every Finding Manuland essay or podcast is what I’ve just spoken about: the main purpose is to communicate positive manner in the moment. The second element of every Finding Manuland aspect is linguistics. Mana is the X-factor. It exists beyond linguistics. This is what I mean by the fundamental “cryptotypic signifying system.” Mana is merely the access point. It is the opening into the cave, the opening into the mountain, the keyhole. It is the access point. This is fundamental to all human and non-human animals. All sentient beings experience mana and all sentient beings communicate mana—whether or not they can communicate about it or talk about mana is another question, but we as humans can. And so, the linguistic element—which I did talk about in the last episode and which I’m often raising because it’s a really important element—establishes the basis for the argument in Finding Manuland. Not only did the genes and the language pass from this Yamna community in Mykolaiv, ancient Ukraine, to Ireland and India, but the entire Indo-European language family, all the extant, living Indo-European languages today, emanate from that community. This is what that Nature paper established. If we’re going to look at that, we’ve got our MN sound, which is obviously what Finding Manuland is mainly about, but we also have this other idea: Dyeus, the sky, and Pater, the father. If we can find this sound—as we do in Greek, Vedic Sanskrit in India, in Roman (Jupiter), in the Germanic languages, in English as “Day,” and also in the idea of death (to go into the sky)—we realize something profound. We don’t really know, or many of us don’t really know, what happens when we supposedly die. Or, as we say in modern English (a Germanic language), we “go into the sky,” we’re dead. Once we find that in all these different Indo-European languages, then we know that it is possible for sounds, meanings, and indeed entire ideological systems associated with God (Zeus), and with the sky (Zeus), and with a vision of what happens after we die to persist. If that passed from Ireland to India from this Yamna community, then it is possible the MN sound and its meaning passed as well. It’s a proof of concept. It’s also very interesting, and this is why I come back to Zeus, Zeus Pater, and Zeus Mount Hazi. I was up on that amazing mountain, Hazizi (which is the Hittite name), recently. The Hittites were the earliest attested Indo-European language speaking people. We’ve got 7,000 documents from the Imperial Library at Boğazköy. In that, we understand the holiest mountain was Hazi, which I visited. You’ll see that it’s the same Zeus, and we have Jupiter in the Italic culture, the Roman supreme god. Obviously, the Greeks and Romans interacted directly, so maybe the Romans just borrowed Jupiter directly from Zeus Pater. But then we see that we’ve got Dyaus Pita in the Vedic language. So we’re wondering: okay, well how did a supreme deity get from Greece to India, or from Rome to India? Of course, we know Alexander the Great was in India, but is that enough to establish it in the language? Then we discover, oh actually, Dyaus Pita is there almost a millennium before Alexander the Great gets to India. So again, how are we going to explain this if we don’t have an idea of the genetic transfer in various ways between the Yamna community in Mykolaiv, centered on the Dnieper River? If we don’t have an idea of the linguistic transfer, the existence of the Indo-European language family where the roots of verbs and the syntax are the same in this whole series of languages: Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Vedic, Iranian, and so on. I’ve written before about how “Tuesday,” the name of our day of the week, actually means God. Tiwaz literally means just God—the entity in the sky, the concept in the sky, Sky Father, Zeus Pater. Tiwaz was a Germanic God. So, you’re basically saying Zeus, or “Sky,” for Tuesday. Try and remember that next time you say Tuesday, because you’re really invoking the sky, invoking two gods. It’s the most godly day. But we’ll come back to Mount Hazi. The sound and meaning, Hazi, Zi, Zi—it’s a mountain, the holy mountain. Zeus lived on a holy mountain. We know that in Hittite, Zeus meant God. We can deduce that Mount Hazi, on the border between Turkey and Syria, derives from this. So, the third component is journeying. * First component: Communicate positive manner. * Second component: Linguistics (which sits in our minds every moment we speak). * Third component: Journeying through cultures, time, and time-space to transform

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Harry’s Mana in Me!

My room in Severodonetsk (eastern Ukraine). As it was at the moment I read the email telling me Harry had died. My room now, after multiple Ruschian lootings of the house. My flat in Kosovo - our Mana remains in the manses, domains, maisons, and mansions in which we once lived. My cat Stanitsia on my OSCE bullet proof vest that I wore every day in work 2015-2018 in eastern Ukraine. On the way to Kyiv - at Kreminna (currently under a brutal Ruschian occupation). Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland . This is episode five, Harry's Mana in Me. If you're wondering what happened to episode four, I'm gonna publish it over the next few days. I want to split episode three into two parts. I got some feedback that it's quite long and indeed it is quite long. So we'll try and keep things a bit shorter and have more episodes. And I really appreciate the feedback on this. And thank you for being with me as I... learn as we learn as I learn this new format this new medium it is a new medium it's something more something different from radio something different from writing from tweeting and I'm really excited by it and because I We are talking about mana and the exchange of energy. The timbre of my voice communicates my mana into your mind directly in a way that text doesn't. I'm not saying text is better or worse or this is better or worse, but we will use all the weapons in our arsenal in order to help us communicate positive energy. manner. So before we've talked about mental models, what I mean by mental model is this archetype that we have in our mind of the world. And as we confront external reality and the environment around us and stimuluses, these provoke or touch or stir our archetypes and Fortunately, if you're listening to this, you're probably, as I aspire to be, I aspire to have my archetypes not fixed, my mental model of the world not fixed. I want them to expand as reality expands. changes. Nevertheless, there are unchanging principles, which for me is really summed up by the post-World War II legal order, not because I agree necessarily with everything, all of the content of the post-World War II legal order, the United Nations Charter, territorial integrity, the Genocide Convention, international criminal law, international human rights law, protection against being discriminated on certain protected grounds, and all of these kinds of issues which most states have signed up to, but every now and again try to rescind their consent to, and our information space is full of violations of this set of ethical plans. And we'll come back to why these are very important in finding Manuland a bit later on. But just to say, so these mental models that we're talking about, that's the general way I look at what mental models are. And the mental models most relevant to finding Manuland, as we've discussed, first, mana. Most of us didn't have any mental model of mana using that term. this energy we exchange as a function of being human, the idea that we have this capacity as sentient beings, whether it's animals or humans, those animated, which interestingly is a reversal of the MN sound, but we'll come back to the meaning of this element in Finding Manuland a bit later on. But we also have this energy exchange on a cellular level between our mitochondrial genome, which is about 32, 33 genes long, quite a short one. And then the famous one, the famous genome, which is the massive one, which is in the nucleus of our cells, the mitochondrial DNA, which actually is really key to to determining the identity and where the space where the Amnaya, who were the first Indo-European language speakers, lived in Southeastern Ukraine and ancient human DNA analysis in itself plays a very, is a very important character in our book. and in finding Maniland. However, the meaning of mitochondrial DNA in this sense is our cells, the electric charges which this ATP energy which is created by our mitochondrial DNA, these little factories in each of our cells, this energy is a model that emanates from us, it creates us, we are aggregates of billions and zillions of these cells, all of which have these little electrical charges made by mitochondrial DNA. And that itself is a model which can be seen in how we as aggregates of these zillions of cells exchange energy with others. So it is a metaphor. It's a metis device, far light. It gives light to this idea of energy exchange from the micro, from the cellular level, to the macro, to the civilizational level, if we like. But We're most concerned in finding Manuland with the exchange of mana and energy as humans, individual humans, because the purpose of all of this is to help us communicate positive mana in the moment, in the moments we find ourselves in today that we can recover, we can protect, we are in a situation where we're communicating negative mana whether it's in a shop or in the school room or in work or just on the street or when we're reading a newspaper and all of this information is affecting our moods, our attitudes, our motivations, in our mind, we can take control, we can take back control of how how we are reacting to the energy that we are receiving into our minds and Finding Manuland is mainly about that. You'll notice I'm going to tell you Finding Manuland is mainly about a lot of things but I'm going to reserve mainly about for what it really is mainly about. And so we have this now, if you've been listening and reading my work, you have a mental model of what manna is and Finding Manuland is about expanding that. We expand our mental model of space. So between Ireland and India, we fill in the gaps. We will be talking about a lot of places, villages in this area between Finding Manuland that we might not have been familiar with before and this is all a means of anchoring in our minds and our mental models a more expansive and more intense understanding of the geographical space between Ireland and India where traditionally we speak Indo-European languages and where Indo-European languages spread from around 4100 BCE until today from an area most of us aren't familiar in southeastern Ukraine. So the third element is time and we want to spend expand our mental models of I'm explaining this idea by reference to, say, Old Testament time. I realize that others of us will have different reference points. Many of us live only in the last 20 or 30 years, but I'm trying to expand our idea of time to around 4100 BCE. in this space in Southeastern Ukraine, where Indo-European languages were forged. And in order to expand our mental model of time so that when you're watching Flintstones, you will be able to say, no, that's not genuine. They didn't have televisions then. so that if you are listening to some popular culture thing or you're reading you know very deep text or watching a film and it's imminent to the manner the energy of the message is ancient greece was the original culture in western civilization you'll be able to not only react against this by thinking no that that's not the case the greek spoken indo-european language that indo-european language and the gods and the religion is some function of what the first Greeks inherited, the Danaeans inherited from the Yamnaya ancestors, who we now know from recent studies of the mitochondrial DNA of ancient humans, of the first Mycenaeans, again M.N., that they emanated from Southeastern Ukraine. They had this Yamnaya, they had this ancient Ukrainian steppe ancestry in their genes. And also the coincidences of the names of gods like Zeus, Peter, and the words and the roots of verbs. For instance, with Greek and Armenian, no one is quite sure and it's probably never been known which came first, but somehow basically Greek and Armenian separated. They were part of the same community and one set of people went one direction, the other went the other direction. And the result of this today is we have Greek culture and we have Armenian culture. So it's about expanding our mental models of this over what mana means and the energy exchange so we can colonize the moment with it. a space between Ireland and India, time, and also cultures. So I mentioned before how culture, the word occult, reveals what culture is. Culture is what is hidden. And we in Finding Manuland are going to reveal what is hidden. over the course of time in this space, all so that we remember what manna is in the moment. The whole means of communicating all of these elements is through different characters, which we can imagine a character in a novel or a film, but actually in Finding Mannyland we think of as characters All the words maybe you're not that familiar with, which I've mentioned already. It's places, it's times, it's people, it's villages, it's the names of writers, researchers. It's me, it's the time I'm telling you also about. So we talk about the long jure, jure. from 4000 BCE until today. But we also have the short durée, which is from November 2021, when in Eastern France, I saw on a warehouse site The word Manuland and suddenly the moniker existed that became part of me and my mind, which described everything that was inchoate at that moment. And the idea of inchoateness is something I learned about a lot when I studied. I did a master's in business economics. administration at Oxford a few years ago and this idea of inchoate needs. So you have supply and demand and when you have a hit product or service, that hit product or service has served what may well have been inchoate needs. No one knew they needed supply. a Walkman before they had a Walkman, you didn't know you needed to find your Manuland before I provided it to you. And this idea of inchoate needs, which are imminent, they kind of don't exist until you find them. But finding Manuland will uh serve us this inchoate need we all have to become better mana managers and the clue is in the word manager directing your mana and directing others mana having that respon

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Mount Ḫazzi, the Hittites’ Mount Kassios: Episode XXXIV

Following in the footsteps of the Hittite emperors and empresses, Decoding Trolls makes a pilgrimage to Mount Ḫazzi on the Syria/Türkiye border. Decoding Trolls narrates his visit to Ḫazzi, or as it is written in the bible Mount Zephon (Saphon in Greek), the most sacred mountain in Hittite religion. In Hurrian religion (some of which was adopted by the Indo-European Hittites and ancient Greeks) the mountain deities Namni and Ḫazzi served the storm God Teššub (the supreme deity in the Indo-European Hittite pantheon and equivalent to Zeus in the Indo-European Greek religion). Note the Dyeus sound and meaning immanent in the second element of Mount Kassios’s moniker - sios. Mount Kassios is, according to Apollodorus, the equivalent of Mount Ḫazzi in Ancient Greece. The ‘zzi’ element in Ḫazzi may well also stem from the same Indo-European sound for ‘sky’ and deity we discussed before in the Death episode of the Finding Manuland podcast. For síus was the word and sound for deity in Hittite, the earliest attested Indo-European language, which, like all Indo-European languages, ultimately emanated from Ancient Ukraine, where Dyeus signified ‘Sky’ as in ‘Sky Father’ who would evolve into Iuppiter in Ancient Rome, Dyuh Pater in Ancient India, and of course Zeus Pater in Greece. Here, is the statue of the storm deity Teššub which I photographed on a recent visit to Karatepe in Cilicia (Türkiye). The Phoenician script written on this 8th century BCE depiction of Teššub was mirrored in an Indo-European Luwian hieroglyphic inscription found on the same site. This enabled scholars to crack the Luwian hieroglyphic code and in turn to decipher Hittite (an Indo-European language, similar to but distinct from Luwian. Hittite, however, adopted the same system of hieroglyphs from Luwian, which confused scholars quite a bit until they worked this out!). Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. Behind you, Behind me, rather, you will see Mount Zephon, which features in the Bible. It was also, interestingly, most interesting for us, a shrine and a place of pilgrimage for the Hittites and for the Hittite gods. And we're going to head up to this mountain. I don't know whether we're going to get there because it's very close to the border. It's a couple of kilometers from the border with Syria, and the army may well be there, so may not let us in, but we'll see if we get there. Okay, so... So as I suspected, I didn't make it all the way up the Holy Mountain at around five kilometers from the summit. There is a checkpoint and some soldiers were there guarding it, which I suppose gives us the idea, the understanding that these places are still very structurally important. So where I am is at the moment, looking down, you can see through the back behind me is the border with Syria and Turkey. And this is an interaction zone. It has always been an interaction zone between Indo-European and Semitic language speaking cultures. This is basically part of the Amanos Mountains. which divide Turkey from Syria. And that's what really drew me here because of the MN in Amanos Mountains. And I will, I think, be coming back here quite a lot. Zephon, it's called in the Bible in Hebrew, is Ḫazzi. in Ugaric and for the Hittites. As I was driving along the Mediterranean coast today, I turned a corner and suddenly there was this shadow of the mountain. And so I can relate it to other holy mountains which I've gotten to know since I began Finding Manuland. There's Mount Meru in India, in Northern India, which is the holiest mountain in Hindu and in Buddhism. In Ireland, there's Croagh Patrick and the crew. And we have Mount Elbrus, which sadly I don't think I'll ever get to visit because it's just over the border in Russia. But Mount Elbrus features a lot in Iranian, early Iranian mythology as the home and the place of the gods. And if you're traveling from ancient Ukraine, as the Yamnaya did along that route, you would... pass under the watchful eye, under the guardianship of Mount Elbrus. I've talked before, particularly in the Eneduana, who was the priestess to the moon god Nanna, who lived around 2300 BCE. I talked before about the ziggurat, the Tower of Babel, which any of us listening to this from Christian traditions who grew up in a Christian tradition will understand what the Tower of Babel is. Tower of Babel was a ziggurat where I studied at Oxford University has a ziggurat in... Saïd Business School, anyone who's been to Oxford, who's listening to this, who arrived at the railway station will see this ziggurat, which is an element in the design of the Saïd Business School. Jeremy Dixon, the architect, incorporated it because of two influences. One was one of the Eight Wonders of the World at Halicarnassus. And also this church, St George's Church in Bloomsbury in London, has this amazing ziggurat design. And a ziggurat design is a bit like a pyramid. It is a pyramid, basically, but not like an Egyptian pyramid. But it's the same idea where you have these steps going up to the top. And at the top of the ziggurat was the temple. That was where Eneduana would have made the sacrifices. It mimics the design of the mountains. And the idea of having the top of a mountain being where the deities live is somehow related. And it's part of what I'm looking at and what started me off were the burial mounds in Eastern Ukraine, especially in the steppe, the flat steppe land of Eastern Ukraine. They're a human attempt to recreate a mountain a sacred place a sacred space patriarch of the community the king the monarch would be buried underneath in a pit grave when Greece occupied this area I’m in today this was known as Antioch back in the day this whole area and i was in the city of Antioch yesterday which is an amazing place we'll talk about it again. And in Gordion and Gordios (note how once again we have the Dyeus sound in both Gor-dios and Mi-das’s (Gordios’s famously minted son) names), I had this experience, which I didn't really think I would get, which was to see the oldest burial mound in the whole of Anatolia. So Anatolia is basically contiguous with modern Turkey. The Hittites were the first Indo-European empire, founded this city, which was called Gordion, where Alexander the Great came, which has these 200 burial mounds around it. And that's where King Midas is from. And I also went to see the Midas Mound. which is actually built by King Midas for his father Gordius. And it's quite a spectacular mound and I've got great pictures of it. But what really interested me was this other mound, Mound W, which is the first mound where we have evidence of this burial tradition which began among the Yamnaya in ancient Ukraine. Important for me personally to see it with my own eyes, the first example of Indo-European writing we have from this century, 1900 BCE to 1800 BCE. And one of these texts has the MN sound in, his name is Tarmana. And Tarmana, who is described in the museum as an Anatolian, which means Indo-European. Tarmana is making a deal to buy a slave. Anatolian as an Indo-European language speaking member. and his name is Tarmana, so it was great to have that MN sound in Tarmana because if my idea, if my hypothesis that the MN sound is the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signaling system in Indo-European communities from Ireland to India over 6,000 years, from 4,100 BCE until today, and this is the central conceit, the central organizing focus for Finding Maniland, then to find evidence of MN in the first documents, the first written evidence we have of the existence of Indo-European languages in these Hittite documents was more than I hoped for. The consensus among scholars, Indo-European scholars today, is that the community of Yamnaya, who left ancient Ukraine around 4100 BCE, it is the language they brought with them from ancient Ukraine, which eventually, two millennia later, would become attested in Hittite, language that Tarmana spoke. I just wanted us to mark this and to say, look, we're on a holy mountain here. I feel very lucky to be here. And thank you for being with me on this journey, which is only beginning. Small sum every month. You know, I love you. You're amazing. Thank you. You make this possible. You actually make this possible. And your manner, your energy is in this. But those who just simply subscribe and who receive my emails once a week or however often I can do it, you too, you're amazing. And thank you for making this possible. And you're in my mind everywhere where I'm traveling. I'm going to leave it at that for today because it is quite cold. Continued: Continued from: First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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Ep 1 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?

Here in the manner of a Netflix season, I’m going to drop all six episodes in this ‘Mannus or Manu’ season in one go. Then, on PowerofMana.net or Spotify or Apple Podcasts (search for ‘Finding Manuland’ and subscribe!!), you can binge listen, or eke out listening as you might savour a fine wine. Germany or India: Which came first? Let’s use the Finding Manuland method to see which of these two great Indo-European cultures arrived first into history? Hint: It’s a trick question, and I’ll reveal all at the end: On the way there though we’ll run through the staples of Finding Manuland method: Mana, Language and Journeying: that’s the components of every Finding Manuland podcast! I'm Decoding Trolls and this is the Finding Manuland podcast. As ever, we'll go through the three elements in the Finding Manuland podcast method. We look at Mana, the M-N- in Mana meaning “energy.” The energy we exchange as a function of being sentient beings. The second element is language and linguistics. So the M-N- element in Indo-European languages, which we can trace back to at least 4100 BCE, when the first Indo-European language was spoken in southern Ukraine. The third element is: journeys. Mental and physical journeys. My aim in Finding Manuland is to change your mental model of history, of human culture, of Indo-European culture. If you can understand the words I'm saying today, then you are an Indo-European. You speak an Indo-European language either as your first your native language or you have learnt it. The second part of this the third element in the Finding Manuland method is the physical journeys we embark upon in every episode. I spend my time journeying in the space between Ireland and India and going to places in search of insights about the M-N- sound immanent in almost every sentence we speak. To places looking for the remnants in today of our last 6,000 years of culture. So I try to communicate all that to you. Most of our podcasts are a mixture to a greater or lesser degree of those three elements, Mana, language and journeying. Mana, language and voyaging. Today we're going to use the M-N-sound to look at which came first, India or Germany. Which came first, Manu, India's first human, or Manus, Germanic culture's first human. This is a story which is very dear to my heart because it was noticing this supposed coincidence between the fact that India's first human was Manu (and I think I probably learned that from a Lonely Planet guide from traveling in India in the 90s), and then realizing that actually in Germanic culture (and the clue is in the MN sound in Germanic, Allemagne culture) was Mannus, its first human. So that question had occurred to me decades ago. And it came to the fore when I tell the story in the very first episode of Finding Manuland, (which you will find in a textual version on powerofmana.net). I tell the story of how I was returning to my diplomatic posting in Ukraine in November 2021, just before the full-scale invasion, and how I came to the town of Maine in eastern France. I kept on going through different M-N-sounding towns around there. Out of that journey, I discovered, actually, that there is this great community of Indo-Europeans called the Menapii, for whom the Manche is named, which is what the English call the “English Channel.” The French call it the Manche, because the Menapii ruled out of Cassels, which is this amazing hilltop town. It's on a mound, and it's beside another mound in eastern France. Out of that journey and out of that realisation that there's something going on, something M-N- going on in this area - We've got Mons (which is in today's Belgium). We've got Maine. Amiens. We've got lots of different places names that have M-N immanent within them. A phenomenon which I'd also noted elsewhere. Since then, I've discovered, there's thousands of place names in Ireland, including Fermanagh, which is a northern county, Monaghan. Loch Ghormain (Wexford). Kil Mhaintin (Wicklow) and these names also came from the Menapii colonisers, who colonized Ireland and around the coast of England around 100 or 200 AD in the Common Era. The Menapii themselves were just yet another community of Indo-Europeans. Of the thousands of Indo-European communities between Ireland and India, who all grew out of a relatively small community, of Indo-Europeans called the Yamna, who lived in southern Ukraine from at least 4100 BCE. Today all of the living Indo-European languages which we speak between Ireland and India emanated from this community of Yamna in southern Ukraine. But I didn't know any of this then. I was just looking for why is this M-N-sound ubiquitous. So I had this notion that I could try and find an answer to why M-N- was occurring in so many place names. Finding Manuland is about telling you the answers I've found. So in 1947, it was assumed that the Germanic “man” within “Mannus” stems came from Sanskrit (which is an ancient Indian language, not the most ancient that we have which is Vedic). It's an ancient Indian language. So there, and actually in Germanic, if you put into Google Translate “Indo-European,” up until very recently it used to translate “Indo-European” into “Indogermanisch” (nice to see an M-N- sound recurring in that now archaic name for the world’s largest language family!). When these artefacts became solidified in the German language... The idea of Indo-European languages was quite basic compared to what we know about today. Particularly since 2015, when the first definitive paper using ancient genetics, the examination of ancient DNA, was published in humanity's preeminent scientific journal, Nature. Since then, we understand a lot more about the Indo-European languages and where it came from, who spoke it and the meanings. As far as I'm aware, I'm the first person to trace this M-N- sound, which is ubiquitous in every Indo-European language, every part of the tree living Indo-European languages. Indeed, as I outlined in my Hittite podcast, that the -Uman sound, so the -Uman sound, is used by modern linguists to determine which is Hittite (which is the earliest attested Indo-European language. Hittite was spoken in Anatolia, which is now mainly covered by the nation-state Türkiye (which is a mainly non-Indo-European people). The sound -Uman is used by modern linguists to distinguish between Indo-European Hittite and non-Semitic Assyrian. So in this place, Kanis, where I have visited a couple times and I've told you some stories about it, and I’ll continue telling you stories about it because it's such an important place. It's the mythological and actual genetic route of Hittite. The Hittite empire was one of the great empires of antiquity. When scholars are given a set of documents, as they have in this village, Kanis, around 20, 23,000, I think it is, cuneiform texts, and they're trying to distinguish what which is the Indo-European root of Hittite, Kanisite Hittite in this document, and which is the Assyrian, then the -Uman sound is used to distinguish the Indo-European from the Assyrian. Of course, I didn't know this when I was in Eastern France years ago. I've only found this since - since I’ve been out Finding Manuland. So we're looking today at which came first, Manu, India's first human, or Mannus, Germanic culture's first human. Rig Veda 10.63.7 “Ādityas, to whom, Manu, having kindled the fire, offered the first sacrifice with (reverent) mind,(aided) by the seven ministrant priests, do you bestow upon us prosperity, free from peril; provide for us plural asantpaths easy to travel for our well-being.” The best the Oxford English Dictionary can say is, today (this is the contemporary view): The pre-Germanic etymology of the word “Man” is problematic. Formerly, the -nn- of the Germanic consonant stem was held to have developed from an earlier -nw- , directly reflected in Sanskrit manu man. So the older view was that the German Mannus had come from the Indian culture; That the word “man” or human that we use in English (which is a Germanic language, it is an offshoot of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages), is that, somehow, this had come from India. But today, the Oxford English Dictionary merely says the pre-Germanic etymology of the word man is “problematic.” I'm going to solve this “problem” here, in Finding Manuland. I have a very convincing solution to the ages-old issue about why the actual word we use to describe our species contains the M-N- sound. In case people think, well, he's just an amateur. How could he solve a problem which linguists have not been able to solve for hundreds of years? To that, I will say, in all humility, for instance, the Hittite language was discovered to be an Indo-European language by a Czech artillery officer in 1915. Nobody believed him at the time. It took decades for his insights to become understood as scientifically well-grounded and correct. All science and all the sciences have been advanced by amateurs such as myself. You don't need, obviously, to believe anything I say. You can Google things which I say and do your own research. I hope the physical journey and intellectual journeys that I take you on though will give you enough of an intellectual boost that even if you don't accept what I say as true, then you will learn many things which are true of which you knew nothing before you began Finding Manuland. Given the state of the world today, I want Finding Manuland to be this nice little womb-like little pit that you can you can duck and dive into away from the cares of the world. Allow me to communicate my Mana (my energy) to you through the timbre of my voice! Using established scientific techniques and cross readings between hundreds of years of history comparative archaeology, cultural psychology, comparative linguistics, comparative religions, comparative mythology and my anti-disinformat

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Donald's Deceptive Archetyping of America as "Mediator" between Israel / Iran and Understanding Iran-attack Blowback.

The idea I'm working most with at the moment is what I call archetypal disinfolklore. So what I'm looking for in any form of data, whether it's on my feed or in a tweet or in a pronouncement by the President of the United States, I'm looking for what is the archetypal identity this person is trying to entrench in my mind? And so, for instance, today, Donald was trying to archetype himself as peacemaker. He attacked Iran in a breach of the US Constitution, a breach of international law. And then today, he tries to archetype himself very slyly as peacemaker between Israel and Iran when he is a protagonist in the war and he has brought the United States into a state of war. So because I'm looking for the archetypal identities that the author of such tweets or pronouncements is making, I'm looking for that. And so I find that quite helpful. And it's the first of 12 tools in this toolkit, which I've created for Disinfolklore. And I see... Well, I believe I see exactly what President Trump is doing today. And as many of us who may have been online today will have seen, very many astute geopolitical analysts are dumbfounded by what President Trump is doing. I believe what President Trump and those behind him are doing is extremely clever. And it's precisely what I witnessed the Russians do in eastern Ukraine, where I was between 2015 and 2018. And part of my job was to monitor about 180 ceasefires. And so what Russia was doing there was it was archetyping itself as adhering to ceasefires. And then every morning I was gathering evidence from Russian occupiers and from Ukrainian soldiers about how the so-called ceasefire had been breached. And this is decoupling the idea of ceasefires from meaning. And what Donald is doing today, and now I look back at his attempts to have ceasefire in Ukraine with wider eyes because he's archetyping himself as peacemaker. And he's decoupling the idea of ceasefire from an actual concrete absence of fire. And what he's really doing inside all of our minds is exactly what the Russians were doing in eastern Ukraine and elsewhere. And this is where I think he is. I wrote or I spoke about this in Munich in February 2025, where my big fear or my yeah my fear was what donald did inside MAGA he would manage to do to the entire human race and what we see today is a manifestation of this ceasefire ceasefire Israel Iran and so what I'm looking for is the archetyping, what he's doing, and that's in any text we can see this. People are archetyping themselves as particular people, with particular ideas, and that's a perfect example from today. So I'm looking for that in the data. What is he up to? And we see people, a lot of very clever people today are dumbfounded by this. They don't understand what he's doing. They think he's mad. But I don't believe he is. I think this is a very conscious strategy I've seen at work before. And I think we ought to be very wary of it. Well, I think in Europe... Ukraine is the key. So yourself, Joni, Dietmar, we're all engaged in the quotidian. We're watching the war unfurl, the 1200 kilometer contact line. We're reading Zarina's work in Kherson about first person view drones. We are looking and have been for the past two to three years at the Sha'id drones coming in and watching the nature of warfare change before our eyes in a very granular way. And when I then look at the conversation around the run-up to the attacks on Iran by the United States and chatter about blowback as if we are still in the 1990s where all Iran has and all Russia has and all China has are a few missiles. It does disappoint me because we have a lot of experts, people who get paid a lot of money and who have a lot of traction and a lot of clout, who don't seem to understand, because they are not focused on the granular detail of what is happening in Ukraine, and this is one of the great advantages we have by being enmeshed in this, is the idea of blowback for me is It's drone warfare on the streets of America. It's accentuating the division which is legislated into existence every time Donald tweets. It's an armed so-called pro-Palestinian movement, so not just the post-October 7th manifestation. It's a muddle between ICE with their masks, mass deportations of homegrowns and a whole soup. I mean, we couldn't imagine a better place for a civil war with telegram. created, executed, and run by the Russian security services, TikTok, likewise from China. And that is what I think the lesson for Europe is, if people are watching. But MAGA has successfully archetyped Ukraine as this issue that doesn't matter, or President Zelenskyy as someone who doesn't matter, or the war there as something that doesn't matter. And it's quite disappointing in England. We saw the attacks on Brian. So I wrote a piece last week because this is how I conceive of the blowback. Iran, China and Russia will be doing this over the last year. As Zarina makes the point, Heerson was liberated in September 2022. And all of us expected a blowback from Russia. None of us expected the blowback to begin a year later in July. We thought of in terms of shelling and the blowback there has been extraordinary. We've had two years of it. And most of the people we know in real life, you know, people who have normal lives who just tune into the news every now and again, have no awareness that in this part of Ukraine, people are being hunted, humans are being hunted by first person view drones, which cost $500. And when the NRA discover these and everyone else discovers these. So that's how I see things playing out over the next year or two. And in the streets of England, I mean, well, Europe is trying to distance itself as much as possible. I note the airplanes came from, I think they came from Missouri for the bombing in Iran. So Keir Starmer managed to keep England out of it. But the so-called pro post October 7th pro-Palestinian movement, I distinguish between people who are genuine and always have been genuine and useful idiots and people who are knowing useful idiots who are part of this giant troll which I perceive was created by Hamas with Russia and Iran to distract from Ukraine. and we will see something extraordinary. We've already seen protests in Times Square, we've seen the daubing of fighter jets in an English base, and now the government has reacted by prescribing a pro-Palestinian organisation. Nothing I have heard from experts or politicians suggests to me they perceive the threat in the same way that I do. So I'm just doing my best to try and raise this as a possibility. But Ukraine is ground zero in understanding where warfare is today. and how it's changed and how it will come onto our streets. And it's already in our information space. And sadly, the President of the United States is part of the problem. The key for everything for me runs through Ukraine. Things are going very well there. Sue me, Ukraine has massively defeated Russia, Russian forces there. They're still occupying part of Russia. NATO will give 45 billion this year, Mark Rutte said today, mostly to manufacture different weapon systems inside Ukraine. They have a better analogue than the HIMARS. They have great drones, hundreds of different iterations of drones. So the key to everything, including getting rid of the Russian occupation. And the key to the release of humanity from this curse is in the battle line, the 1200 kilometer battle line in Ukraine. And the more we personally can understand about it, apart from these massive attacks that we see, these spectacular attacks that Russia prosecutes, which have no impact on the battlefield, the more we'll be able to interpret reality and help people in Georgia and other countries, which, and indeed, this is self-defense, if my horrific prediction comes through over the next year. So that's my message of optimism is in Ukraine and everything that's happening in Ukraine. Out. Get full access to Disinfolklore at www.disinfolklore.net/subscribe

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Podcast | Peppercorns, Mana, Early Roman Religion (Numenism), Communism and Seeing Life in Memes

As some of you might remember, I studied law. I worked as a property lawyer in London for a little while. One of the features in English law is this idea that sometimes, for whatever reason, commercial property is let at a peppercorn rent. Generally speaking, in this day and age, no peppercorn passes between the landlord and the person who’s leasing the property. It’s in all the leases. So that was always just a little curiosity to me, as indeed was the fact in contract law, in English and in American contract law, for there to be a contract to take place, there needs to be an agreement. There also needs to be what they call Consideration. If I contract with you, James, to buy 12 widgets, you have to, for the contract to be valid, you have to in some way pay me a deposit. This is the importance of the deposit. So there’s this reciprocity. I was very interested in this book, which I read a couple of years ago by Marcel Mauss, who is one of the, you know, in every academic discipline, there’s always a few founders who are in every, in the first paragraph in every book. When you look at the laws of Sympathetic Magic, Marcel Mauss is right there. That’s how I knew I was kind of, this is an interesting area to be in. I noted when I was reading this seminal text that some of you might have read as well called The Gift, by Marcel Mauss is he talked about early Germanic law and early Germanic contract law, which is from... which probably actually then becomes part of English law, even though English law says it’s coming from Roman law, which is a distinct Indo-European tradition from the italic as distinct from from the Germanic but in Germanic law each contract, sale or purchase, loan or deposit entails a pledge. “One partner is given an object, generally something of little value like a glove or a piece of money, a knife or perhaps as with the French a pin or two. This pledge is in fact imbued,” this is Mauss writing, “this pledge is imbued with the personality of the partner who gave it. And the fact that it’s in the hands of the recipient moves its donor to fill his part of the contract or her part and buy themselves back by buying the thing.” So when I saw this, I was like, ah, that’s interesting. What’s going on is if I’m, if James is letting me rent his property, his skyscraper in Manhattan at a peppercorn rent, I give him this peppercorn. Actually in that peppercorn is my energy, it’s my Mana. It’s my personality. I’ve obviously got his because I’m in the I’m in the block itself. What the whole gift is about and Mauss’s book is about is he’s looking at various different cultures and the exchange that in many different cultures, especially in Ameri-Indian cultures where early examples come from this potlatch, which is this institution of a meal, a communal meal, where you’re being hosted or you’re hosting your child’s getting married. You have to host the whole village. You give them food and drink and stuff like that. That interested me because in a lot of Irish mythological texts are about these big feasts. I always wondered what’s going on here. It appears as if there is this idea of when you eat, when you partake of the feast, you’re taking something into you. So this is this idea of your energy, your Mana is being affected by what is coming into your body. Just as it is what’s coming into your mind from memes and from disinformation. Equally, of course, what you’re giving into other people’s minds. So this is a reason. So this is why in my X and Bluesky profiles I say ‘there is Mana,’ ‘Mana is permanent,’ and ‘Communicate positive Mana’ (note the M-N-sound in Communicate, Permanent, and, of course, Mana). This is this idea that, and what the Russians are doing is communicating just such negative Maa and driving us all to driving us all nuts with it. So this meaning of... And then I discovered this, which I’ve written about in my other project (Finding Manuland/Power of Mana), which isn’t so directly relevant. But that there’s lots, there’s heaps of different names for what I call Mana and this phenomenon which many people have written about from the beginning. I’m just applying it to Disinformation studies. That’s my contribution to contemporary culture. Why particular memes take hold. Become contagious and how to detect in particular innocuous artefacts of what I call Disinfolklore or stories to detect in them these three archetypes: Russia’s invincible, Russia’s undefeatable and Russia has the right to intervene in its neighbours of political destinies. So you can see that energy, that Mana in billions of different stories and items of Disinfolklore being voiced by everyone from Biden to Bill to people who aren’t pro-Russian. I have too in the past. We hear it from our friends all the time about Russia as being invincible. Thankfully, what we’re seeing at the moment is this archetype, this transition, this change. I don’t think if Russia does manage to take Pokrovsk, this is not going to disrupt the change in archetypal identity that appears to be taking place in the minds of, if not Donald (because obviously we know he changes with the weather), but in the minds of everyone around Donald. People - someone said to me today - someone who like two years ago We’re always having intense discussions about Ukraine and he was always like, “oh, Russia, basically Russia’s invincible, nothing will happen.” Now today he’s arguing the opposite. That’s a really good indicator for me. The different words we have for this in different cultures, in Chinese cultures, it’s called Chi. It’s Qi in Japanese culture, in Hindu, it’s called Prana (breath). It interests me. It’s not called Mana in Hindi culture now. In Hebrew culture, it’s called Ruach. These are all varieties of what I call Mana. The Police would talk about synchronicity. That’s what that album means, synchronicity. So teleama, libido. Freud talked about libido. Nous. Someone else talked about Nous. Aristotle or someone like that: Vis medicatrix naturae. So kind of a formative cause. Pneuma. Holy Spirit, Woden. Actually, in Germanic culture, interestingly. So there is this, or X-energy. So there is this, a lot of different people have noticed what I call Mana. But obviously this was before the disinformation age. So they didn’t really apply it to memes. What we’re dealing with in our timelines or what is in the what is in the information space and in the minds of our leaders and our leadership and how they’re affected. We, as those pro-Ukraine, people in the pro-Ukraine information space, we have such a history, an in-depth history of this up and down since February 24th 2022. Where we’ve watched all the world leaders go through these changes like from “we need to give Putin a climb down” to ‘would you like ketchup with your 250 4th generation Gripen fighter jets Ukraine.” We’ve seen this evolution of ideas and changes in archetypes in people’s minds. I think that gives us an edge in terms of it gives us a huge data set. A huge learning set for our algorithms, which a lot of other people don’t have. This idea that when we write something that other people read changes them. Likewise, what they write changes you. When you’re speaking to people. So this is what I mean by I’m looking at this in a particular segment of how we spend each day or of our consciousness or in human history, in human culture, which is in disinformation and Disinfolklore is what I’m particularly interested in. Its insights or what I see in it is it applies in all forms of communications. It’s deeply embedded into our language. This M-N- sound in communication, communal, communal feast,… The M-N- sound in there and in meaning. It makes sense to me that this sound and the meaning and this idea of exchange and energy exchange was known and used by the first Indo-Europeans, the M-N- in Yamna as well, the first Indo-Europeans. We’ve just kind of lost sight of it. It is embedded in the language. You don’t need to be interested in linguistics and what unites all native Indo-European language speakers between Ireland and India in terms of their mental frameworks to find this is a useful tool for parsing data. There was a lot of work done in the 19th century when the Polynesians were discovered to have this concept of Mana. It’s important to know now a lot of the genetic… We know there was a lot of trade between India and Polynesia and between traders and Brahmin traders at the time. The people in the late 19th century didn’t really understand this that much. In fact, it’s really only becoming and I see stuff’s coming up in the last few months on looking at ancient DNA to try and work out the migration patterns in the Pacific. The meaning of Mana in these tribes where, this is classic, 19th century stuff I’ll quote: “the Melanesian mind is entirely possessed by the belief in a supernatural power or influence almost called almost universally Mana. This is what works to affect everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men. Outside of common processes of nature, it is present in the atmosphere of life.” What I started today with to talk about magic, what I’m trying to do is decouple the idea of magic from something that is otherworldly to its initial and true meaning in our governance systems - Magistrate. Majesty. Magi. Magus. Magister as distinct from minister. The magister is the master and the minister ministrates to the master. We now have that in our governance discourse. When we talk about ministers this is part of the same semantic field and the same signifying field in Indo-European communities across the world as Magic. Because of various cultural reasons, we associate magic with something that is otherworldly and that is the opposite of science. In fact, it’s intrinsic to the way we organize ou

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Podcast | Contaminating our Information Environment

I’m 100% comfortable with using the term ‘meme.’ I use the term ‘meme’ interchangeably with the term ‘informational unit’ and also with the term ‘troll,‘ where troll is describing the item of Disinfolklore or the item of information. So ‘meme,’ for me, is more than simply the visual image that we have come to think about it as being. Obviously, when the term ‘meme’ was coined in whatever was 1976 by by that English philosopher Dawkins, it described ‘informational unit.’ What I call informational units (which are communicated in cultures in the same way that genes, or the genome are communicated biologically). I discovered Disinfolklore as a narrative form in eastern Ukraine, where I gradually realized—while working in Russia-occupied Ukraine between 2015 and 2018—that what I was observing were particular items of Disinfolklore, usually recurrent memes or “units of information.” The quotidian, daily ebb and flow of news and “newsey” content made me wonder: was there a system behind it?As I looked more deeply, I realized that Russian military strategy includes the concept of Information Confrontation. According to Russia’s military doctrine, Information Confrontation comprises two elements:1. The means (instances of information such as memes, trolls, and informational units).2. The Information Environment.This led me to what I now call a Disinfolklore galaxy—a system Russia created inside occupied Ukraine. Every thought, every movement, every aspect of reality—from where you work to how you commute, to the people you talk to, whether family or colleagues—is injected with what I call Disinfolklore. Ideas meld with the texture of life itself. Unless you profess certain memes, beliefs, or informational units, you risk consequences. If you get it wrong, you might lose your job—like the ABC News journalist who called Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, “full of hate.” That journalist lost his job. This is a perfect example of how the Information Environment impacts every aspect of life: you say something, and you lose your job.That was eastern Ukraine, where I discovered what I now call the Disinfolklore galaxy. Today, I conceptualize the Disinfolklore universe as being made up of many different galaxies. The MAGA Disinfolklore galaxy shares many continuities and similarities with what I saw in Russia-occupied Ukraine.In early November 2024, just after the U.S. presidential election—which Donald Trump reportedly won—I had a vision. What happened to MAGA, to those who are part of MAGA, was going to happen to all of humanity, starting with America. This vision became the basis of my talk at the Pirate Party Conference in Munich during the Munich Security Conference: Welcome to Our Disinfolklore Universe. Today, we see the same melding of reality in America’s relationship with Ukraine, which is why we’re here. We want Ukraine to win, but most of us understand America will never tip the scales in Ukraine’s favor. Now we just hope it doesn’t tip them against Ukraine. Ukraine has been central to U.S. politics since 2016.The Republican National Convention in August 2016 marked a turning point. Paul Manafort, whose work contributed directly to this war in Ukraine, was later imprisoned for operating as an unregistered agent for Ukraine’s former president. Manafort had the commitment to deliver military support for Ukraine removed from the Republican platform. I have posted before about the exact moment when MAGA shifted to a pro-Russia stance. Recently, Reuters reported evidence that the United States may not fund Ukraine militarily next year. This path—from secretive policy changes to mainstream acceptance—illustrates how thousands of memes invade our information space, forming what I call the Disinfolklore galaxy.My main teaching, for lack of a better term, is that when we tune into individual memes and informational units daily, we fail to see the larger structure: a Disinfolklore galaxy as powerful as the one that surrounds those who embraced MAGA. This phenomenon is not about intelligence or education; it is a deliberate attempt to hack minds and surround people with an information environment designed to influence behavior.Paul Manafort remains a dark force behind much of Ukraine’s division between 2004 and 2014. The irony is stark: those he worked for—and MAGA—claim the Maidan uprising was engineered by the U.S., even though Manafort supported Yanukovych, who, according to leaked texts from his daughters, arranged the massacre on the Maidan in February 2014. At that time, European leaders were in Kyiv urging demonstrators to accept a deal with Yanukovych, but he fled. Manafort later worked for Donald Trump. Though not prominent publicly, he appeared at the national convention, and his influence persists. Today, figures like Tulsi Gabbard amplify narratives reminiscent of Russian disinformation playbooks. Her recent video about nuclear war exemplifies Disinfolklore: carefully crafted aesthetics, deliberate archetyping, and messaging designed to evoke fear. The imagery—dark tones, ashes, and even her gray hair—suggests archetypes of witches and doom. This is not accidental; it is psychological warfare.Applying my Disinfolklore analytical method, I interpret her message as a statement of power: surrender to us, and we will protect you from elites who allegedly seek nuclear war. For those who resist, the underlying message is intimidation—“You are powerless.” This aligns with decades of narratives portraying cities as lawless and elites as corrupt, themes deeply embedded in American discourse.The method I use draws on cognitive models like Paul Ekman’s Atlas of Emotions: trigger, experience, reaction. Every day, we undergo countless emotional journeys triggered by stimuli—tweets, images, videos. Separating experience from reaction helps us resist manipulation. Gabbard’s video triggered curiosity in me; my reaction was analysis, not amplification.Ultimately, Disinfolklore thrives on fear, negativity, and archetypes. Whether through memes, videos, or orchestrated spectacles like Russia’s missile strikes or human safari footage shared on Telegram, the goal is the same: to create a distorted reality. This is what I observed in eastern Ukraine, and it is what we see now globally. Unless more of us wake up to these tactics, their influence will deepen. Elon Musk dresses up in superhero costumes, the Pirate Party began as a party of protest, and pirates from literature, from art became their part of their their moniker, their folk the folk heroes of pirates. They were going to be the pirates. So it was appropriate, but I made the speech there, and then, since then, I’ve worked carefully on detailing the whole idea, this whole aspect of the Disinfolklore narrative method / narrative form and Disinfolklore, analytical methods. So it’s many different things, which concerns the Disinfolklore universe. When I saw Tulsi Gabbard’s “Nuclear Ashes” speech in the run-up to America’s bombing of Iran, I decided to apply the method—a 12 tool algorithm designed to help us interpret any Informational Unit. Any meme, whether it’s a photograph or an image circulating in the English information space. We’re likely seeing similar patterns in Northern Ireland right now, where riots have erupted following allegations that two immigrants allegedly attempted r***. This turmoil reflects a perennial theme in Disinfolklore—and in Indo-European thought—where outsiders enter the inner realm and threaten its fertility, sovereignty, or security. These three archetypes recur across Indo-European societies, as noted by leading theorists of language, linguistics, and religion.Since recognizing this pattern, I’ve used it as a tool for analysis—whether examining riots in Ballymena or other unrest. I wouldn’t be surprised if Telegram is involved in amplifying hatred. Applying these methods helps us understand what leaders and influencers are trying to do—whether in Ukraine, Russia, or elsewhere. Russia demonstrates the endgame: a nightmare reality, mirrored by the CCP, North Korea, and Iran—societies deeply embedded in Disinfolklore, using stories to hack minds.Tulsi Gabbard’s video is archetypal Disinfolklore. The aesthetics immediately reminded me of a strange artifact a Ukrainian friend sent me during the war: a man in 1970s-style visuals discussing hypermodern issues like global warming and environmental catastrophe. Gabbard’s video evokes a similar mood—dark, foreboding, like being lost in a forest. It is cynically and carefully produced, down to details like her gray hair strand, reminiscent of a character from The Munsters. This deliberate archetyping casts her as a witch, placing viewers in a negative psychological space.The imagery—dark backgrounds, ashes—reinforces this mood. For someone like me, who filters what enters my mind, the video felt abrupt and unsettling. Was it responding to something in the news cycle, or was it simply injected into our space as a deliberate artifact? Either way, it signals intent. Combined with events like the activation of the National Guard and military parades in D.C., it suggests escalation—a coup in motion since the disputed 2020 election, now accelerating.Applying the Disinfolklore literacy tools, I see deliberate archetyping: Gabbard as a witch-like figure, invoking nuclear war, ashes, and elites. The message is layered but clear: fear. This negative mood bypasses rational filters, embedding itself in our minds and triggering routines and traumas. Coming from someone tied to U.S. intelligence circles, the irony is striking—she positions herself as anti-elite while claiming elites want nuclear war because they have shelters. This is nonsense, of course, but effective as psychological manipulation.The third tool—finding the Mana in the meme—ask

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Ep 3 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?

So the Ingaevones, this is the ancestors who then became the English, comes from Ing, who corresponds to the Old Norse god Ingvi, Freyr. And Freyr is actually a pre-Indo-European remnant, we believe. So in this tripartite structure I talked about where we have sovereign, soldier (so sovereign representing, you know, the monarch, the magical aspect of sovereignty, (which is all of the mystical, mythological, the poetic)), the stuff I'm really talking about today (in the context of if we're trying to build a culture of Manuland among all the Indo-European peoples) we’re reaching back into history to find our common ancestors and this M-N-sound and this area, the Yamna. So that's kind of what I'm doing here. You have the soldiers, the security function, which is my namesake, the Istavones. Then the third function, the economic function, the fertility function, basically, we believe, which corresponds to Friday, the day Friday, corresponds to the Old Norse god Ingvi, whose name is also Freyr. This is a pre-Indo-European layer. So prior to the Yamna, and their descendants spreading out from ancient Ukraine across to Ireland and eastwards to India, there was a common European culture, old Europe, old European culture. I've written about it before in the context of its female goddess worshipping, which is often we also think of that as the fertility function. And the amazing archaeological museum I visited in Ankara, which, as you now know, was founded by a Celtic language-speaking community a couple hundred years before the Common Era, and the Romans eventually conquered there as well. That museum amazing archaeological museum which will come into many of our episodes to come. I've already printed pictures just has vast numbers of these goddess forms which we find in every area between Ireland and India really, but particularly between Ireland and Anatolia and Ireland and Turkey in Europe. This is the old European culture where most of the idols we find in archaeological sites from this era are female forms. 95% of them are female forms according to experts who have studied this and there's many of these sites in ancient Ukraine and contemporary Ukraine and also across Anatolia. This layer was then replaced by the Indo-European layer, the Yamna, the emanations of the Yamna community who founded all the living Indo-European languages. And my, one of my starting points, I talk about it in the second and third episodes of Finding Manuland. Well, actually, I write about it because I haven't spoken about it yet, but I will get to voicing those episodes. This mound in Dnipro, Dnipro, the upper Don, when you look at it in this D-n- sound, in Dnipro, where this mound, again, M-n-, in Mound, where this mound was destroyed by property developers in May 2021, which was another of my starting points for this amazing journey across Manuland. Underneath this Yamna burial mound, where there was one, well, the first person buried there was the local monarch, the local Rì, the local Rex, the local king, reich. And there was assorted other bodies in there, including the body of the Soviet era head of the collective farm who had delusions of grandeur. But underneath this mound was a stone circle. And that stone circle was built by the Stredny Stog culture, which predates the Yamna. And as part of this old European layer, this unified culture across Europe from Ireland to Ukraine and indeed in Turkey and Anatolia and stuff where we find the same kinds of artifacts. And we also find, in many cases, the same script which no one has cracked as yet and probably fed into the Indo-European language. We'll come back to that because it's very important. But the old Norse god Ingua Freyr probably corresponds to this layer and it's the survival. So in Greek mythology, for instance, the story I've just told you is often it's, two gods fighting over each other and dominating a woman. And the woman is the fertility function. And this is a mythologized rendering of an actual historical story, which is the Indo-Europeans, the Danaeans - the Achaeans is another word they use - but the Danaeans, who are these ancient Ukrainians who over the course of of several centuries made their way from ancient Ukraine into Greece, bringing with them their mythology and their culture, which then beats in terms of a break in the archaeological record and overcomes the existing old European layer, which is often represented in mythology by the female goddess. And that is the Frideside in Oxford, where I studied... We have Frideside Shopping Centre and Frideside Church and that Fride, which corresponds to Friday. I talked about the tripartite structure and that structure, which was discovered by Georges Dumèzil in the 1930s, that structure actually is in the Germanic. days of the week, which is Tiwaz, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mercury in the Roman, but Woden's day, Odin. And Woden corresponds to the father of the Hermiones, Odin. Ukraine, for instance, has just created this amazing drone interceptor and they've decided to call it Odin. And again, the D—N- sound is... is in there. But Odin and Hermiones correspond to this sovereignty function. So that's Tiwaz Tuesday. I also wrote one of the Finding Manuland episodes on Tiwaz, which is basically Dies, Dies, Tis, Tiwaz, which is a Germanic word rendering of God. Tiwaz, Twisto. That represents a part of the sovereignty function. Then we have Thursday, Thor's day, and Thor and Thursday is this Istaevones, the soldier, the security element. So we've got this tripartite structure which recurs actually in the Germanic days of the week. It doesn't quite correspond in the Roman days of the week, but it is an interesting phenomenon of it. And Friday, Freya’s Day, Friday is the pre-Indo-European layer. Do we've got the Herminones, the German, the -M-N- sound in German. The Deutsche - the name that the Germans give to themselves today, the Deutsche - that comes from Teut, meaning “place.” So in Ireland, for instance, we have the second Indo-European layer of mythological invaders I talked about are the Tuatha de Danann, again the D-N- sound, but the Tuatha elememt is cognate with the Deutsche, the Teut, Teuts, which basically corresponds to place. Mannus, the son of Tuisto, the founder, the mythological founder, twin of the Germanic, people, a twin like Romulus and Remus or Yama and Manu in Indian culture. In Germanic, it's Twisto and Mannus. It's the son, the father and the son, which again is kind of a family resemblance with the Christian element, the son of God. And The Herminones came from Irmin, the national god of the Saxons, according to Wittukind of Corvée. So we have this M-N/, immanence, in Herminones, Irmin, Mannus, and also in Germeneur. which is a by-name of Odin, again the D-N sound in Odin, who gave their name to Odin's day, Woden's day, Wodanaz day, Odin. White supremacists sadly support Odin. The Wagner military unit, which was part of the Russian army until it was annihilated by the Ukrainians. In Bakhmut, they worship Odin. We have many white supremacists worship Odin today. But of course, that is a corruption of that. But so we have the D-N- and the Old Norse Irmin, the M-N- again in Germaner. and Irmin in other Scandinavian languages. So, again, we have this coincidence, this coincidence in so many different subunits of Germanic culture, but we focus on the Mannus element of it and the... Basically, every monarch really would have these people declaiming their stories, recording their stories. So this is part of the poetic, the Brahman function, the Filid in ancient Ireland or the druid function. That culture is recreated over time by storytelling, by the kind of thing which I'm doing now that we have access thankfully because of Tacitus to these very ancient stories from there and from other cultures. We can put them together and out of this derive not just a means of passing time and amusing ourselves but also of finding commonalities between our different indo-european cultures between Ireland and India. Where we have fought so many wars and have had so many different struggles of understanding with each other. If we can somehow recall and remember and remind ourselves that we are all from the same root, and now we know through ancient DNA that we come from the same gene pool. I carry within me the genes of the Yamna. Most people living in Indo-European cultures between Ireland and India… We have in our genomes this immanence, the... the genes of people who lived in southern Ukraine at the time, before 2500 BCE, when they started migrating in groups westwards and eastwards and northwards and to become the Italic, to become the Celtic and all that's left of the Celtic today. All living Indo-European languages, cultures and religions emanate from Mykhailivke, the Yamna type-site in Zaporizhzhia: Ireland is the only Celtic nation-state which has sovereignty. Wales, for instance, is the only Celtic state, only Celtic country, where there's a really very vibrant and living Celtic language, which my niece... but Wales is not yet independent. Scotland, another Celtic country, is also subject to Ingaevones and Ingaevones’s ' descendants - the English. So then we have the Germanic, obviously, which became Ingaevones and becoming part of the English language, and the Scandinavian countries, and, of course, Germany, which first became the first unified nation state in 1870. I also told that story in an earlier episode where I talk about the discovery of the existence of Indo-European languages in 1782, I think it was, by William Jones. A Welsh Sanskrit and ancient Iranian Celtic language and Germanic language, Greek and Latin language scholar who discovered that the coincidences in the structure, the roots of verbs and the grammar between these different languages, between the Celtic, between the Celtic and the English, between the Celtic and the Germanic, the Celtic and the Sanskrit and

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Decoding Trolls decodes the meanings immanent in memes - visual, audible, linguistic,... any kind of sensory stimulus. Decoding Trolls conceives of any emotion-moving activity of body, speech, or mind as trolling. Trolling others' emotions is what sentient beings do! The point is to control it - through getting, seeing and harnessing trolling's Mana / Power to affect our moods / intentions / attitudes and motivations. This channel is about Positive Trolling, which we define as any troll that conforms to these six criteria: Generous, Right, Patient, Energetic, Focussed, and Insightful.

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