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
