Finding Manuland
by Decoding Trolls
Finding Manuland takes us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India. Finding Manuland moves us across time from 4,000 BCE until the present. Our mental models of how the past and the present interact expand, through Finding Manuland. We begin around 4,000 BCE with the Yamna community who lived between the Don and Dnipro rivers of Ancient Ukraine. These Yamna created the first Indo-European language. They buried their dead, covered in ochre, with their knees flexed, in the hundreds of thousands of mounds that still remain in the lands between Ireland and India - Manuland. Today, over half of humanity uses sounds and meanings first forged on the Ukrainian steppe. Immanent in the genome of most humans who live in Manuland is the mitochondrial DNA of our Yamna ancestors. Everyone who can understand these words in an Indo-European language, is the cultural descendant of this community of migrants who spread so successfully east and westwards across the Steppelands fr
Episodes
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Podcast | India’s gods before India
The gods before the Veda So, we go to the crossroads, in the middle of the second millennium before the common era. The great power of upper Mesopotamia was a kingdom called Mitanni. The M-N- is in Mitanni. Its people spoke Hurrian, a tongue that is, as the handbooks put it, “neither…
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Podcast | The Crossroads
The first of the Atlas journeys I introduced you to the Atlas series of Finding Manuland in five podcasts, published over the last while. This is the very first of the Atlas journeys proper. I saved one of the best for it. Radiating out of this one is a series of pathways through the Anatolian…
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Podcast | Finding Manuland: The Atlas, Episode Five
The Harness Logic: Journeys and Papers Feed Each Other The journeys and the papers in the Finding Manuland Atlas series feed each other, and the Atlas grows out of the exchange: Atlas Intro Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4. A journey grounds a paper. A real place, object or photograph gives…
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A Don Hacks the Moon
A haven, and two objectives Normally I find Finding Manuland a haven, a Garden of Eden, a means of escaping the world of geopolitics. Hardwired into Finding Manuland, at its very core, rest two objectives. One: I want to re-centre Ukraine in our species’ story of origins and in the Indo-European...
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Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 4
We went in the first episode from Ireland to the island of Britain. Then we went on to the continent of Europe, through France to Germany, down the Danube, across to Romania and Bulgaria and into Greece. And see what I’m doing there. Those are all countries most listeners will probably be able to...
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Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 3
Welcome to Finding Manuland. This is the third episode of our new Atlas orientation series, which will last, hopefully, for hundreds of episodes. So this is the third episode. We went from Ireland to Britain, then on to the continent, through France to Germany, down the Danube, across to Romania...
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Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 2
You’ll remember I spoke about how each episode of Finding Manuland looks at Mana, as the energy we exchange, as a source — the function of being human; the linguistic aspect, the miracle of M-N- being immanent in so many words we use, and places we go, and the founder figures, and so much else...
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Podcast | Stonehenge and the Older Circle
Stonehenge, where I am standing this Saturday morning, is the answer to a question I have been carrying since May 2021 - and it has taken me five years and three thousand kilometres to carry the question back to these stones. I want to say something at the outset that will only be fully earned by...
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Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 1
Finding Manuland is not just one trip. It’s a programme for a lifetime of journeys. I will bring you on the journeys — intellectual journeys, but mainly geographical journeys — across the lands which stand between Ireland and India. So let’s call it an atlas. It’s an atlas of Manuland, that area...
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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...
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Video Podcast: Edessa and Göbekli Tepe
I’m Decoding Trolls, speaking to you from a place in southern Turkey called Göbekli Tepe, near the city of Urfa, historically known as Edessa. Yesterday, I saw an inscription dedicating Roman-era columns to the king of Edessa, son of Manu. This inscription dates back to around the third century…
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Video Podcast | Finding Manuland - Hunt for Menua’s Stables
So, I made it to Van. Amazingly. It’s an amazingly blue-sky day, and I’m climbing up to Van Castle. It looks like I’m the first person to climb up here today because, as you can see, there aren’t many footprints. There are no fresh footprints; I’m causing the only fresh ones around. This fort was...
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Podcast | Finding Manuland - Road to Tushpa / Van
Menua, son of the founder of the Urartian Empire, once lived on the lakeside at Tushpa, whose modern name is Van (Türkiye). Tushpa / Van is the meeting place of many great empires Kura-Araxes, Hittite (Indo-European), Mitanni (Indo-Europeanish), Babylon/Mesopotamian/Assyrian, Urartu, Armenian...
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Solstice - Song of Amergin
Poem of Amergin, Celtic Ireland’s first poet-judge, sacrificing first Monarch and brother of self-sacrificing Donn (who features in much in my work) put to music and video by Arnold Hensman. Reading by Daniella Hensman. Filmed at Newgrange, Ireland. Music: Walking on Clouds, by Tea Time,...
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Podcast | Indo-European Immanences
My favourite subject, and it all begins in Kherson — whether it’s the UN Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes in Ukraine or the Yamna community. A relatively small number of individuals created the language, the linguistic structures, the words we use in almost every sentence, the religions, the...
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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...
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How we can know M-N- sound’s ubiquity inside Turkic languages and culture is a function of Indo-European and Turkic languages’ early contacts.
M-N- sound appears to have many of the same meanings in Turkic as well as in Indo-European languages (Manas is the mythological founder of Turkic Kirghiz culture, Zaman signifies time in Turkish, for example). M-N- might therefore be Turkic rather than of Indo-European origins. Especially where…
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Ep 6 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?
This Indo-European, ancient Ukrainian ancestry is in us. When coupled with all of these similarities in the mythological record — and particularly, in the context of today’s episode, M-N- in Manu and Mannus — we can be very sure that these are separate vectors of evidence all pointing to the same...
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Ep 5 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?
The sun god Sūrya — and his mother has an M-N- sound in her name, which is amazing. Saraṇyū is her name, and she is of Tvaṣṭṛ, which is interesting as well. We’ve got Tuisto in the Germanic and Tvaṣṭṛ in the Indic. She and the sun have three children. There are stories about how she got really…
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Ep 4 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?
So you see what I'm trying to do there. I'm expanding our mental models of time from 4100 BCE when Tarmana's ancestors left ancient Ukraine to 2000 years later when Tarmana's name appears in one of the first texts. The first times Indo-European language is written down in Ankara, sorry, in…
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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...
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Ep 2 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?
So this is the second part of the “Manu or Mannus: Which Came First?” I've decided to try and do these recordings in shorter elements. Then like a Netflix (where they issue the whole series at once)… But instead of issuing a whole series of ten one-hour-long shows, these are going to be much...
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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....
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Human Safaris - Humanity’s Future Began in Kherson. Twice.
⚡️ Kherson today is the future of EVERY single European city. russians safari hunting individuals with armed drones. This future’s out there, thanks to Zarina Zabrisky reporting. It’s just not evenly distributed. Yet. Killing people going about their daily business every day, on every street.…
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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.…
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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...
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Ten Reasons Why Finding Manuland Matters - Vol. 1 - Episode XXXIII
Today, we’re looking at how the Finding Manuland iterative method of discovery works. And, we look at the first two of ten reasons why Finding Manuland matters. I'm Decoding Trolls and I'm welcoming you to Finding Manuland. And this is our first recording, which is on the road, as it were. I am…
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Sky Episode: Finding Manuland XXXII
Deity, Death, day, *Tiwas (Germanic deity who gave their name to Tuesday),… all derive from the Ancient Ukrainian word for sky *Dyeus. That’s right: when you say someone is ‘dead',’ quite sweetly, you’re saying, ‘they’re in the sky.’ If we can trace that sound and meaning (*Dyeus meaning sky)…
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Harry’s Mana in Me!
My room in Sievierodonetsk (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...
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The 'X Energy' Mana
Welcome to the Power of Mana podcast. This is the Finding Manuland version, episode one: The X Energy. I’m Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland. Since this is episode one, let’s begin with an introduction. I’m going to do something very conventional in terms of podcasts: I’m going to set...
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Finding Manuland: Episode XXIX
The text of this introduction to Finding Manuland, edited from the remastered recording for reading. I'm Decoding Trolls. I write at Disinfolklore.eu, on X as Disinfolklore and DecodingTrolls, and at Disinfolklore.net, DecodingTrolls.net and PowerofMana.net. An introduction to Finding Manuland Hi...
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Finding Manuland takes us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India. Finding Manuland moves us across time from 4,000 BCE until the present. Our mental models of how the past and the present interact expand, through Finding Manuland. We begin around 4,000 BCE with the Yamna community who lived between the Don and Dnipro rivers of Ancient Ukraine. These Yamna created the first Indo-European language. They buried their dead, covered in ochre, with their knees flexed, in the hundreds of thousands of mounds that still remain in the lands between Ireland and India - Manuland. Today, over half of humanity uses sounds and meanings first forged on the Ukrainian steppe. Immanent in the genome of most humans who live in Manuland is the mitochondrial DNA of our Yamna ancestors. Everyone who can understand these words in an Indo-European language, is the cultural descendant of this community of migrants who spread so successfully east and westwards across the Steppelands fr
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