Finding Manuland

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’s partly what my Finding Manuland project is about, and it’s completely consistent with my job as a writer. Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 of the Common Era, confirming that I am in the right place at the right time.In many ways, my journey to find Manuland has been leading up to this specific moment. I am about to visit a stone circle, the first of its kind discovered in human culture, which dates back around 10,000 years before the Common Era. For those who have been following my explorations, you’ll recall that our story began with a stone circle uncovered in May 2021, just eight months before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the first chapter of Finding Manuland, I mentioned my travels in eastern France around November 2021, when I was returning to eastern Ukraine from my last leave before my forced retirement from my diplomatic career with the OSCE.During that journey, I passed a warehouse named Manuland in eastern France, located in an agricultural machinery area. I had noticed the “MN” sound in various places over the years. Upon passing Manuland, I decided it was time to explore what this sound meant. The following morning, I ventured into the village of Maine, without a clear idea of what I was searching for or how to connect the MN sound to a project. I started my exploration at the church and, from there, moved in concentric circles around it. I then went for a run up the mountain and encountered a mound where a farmer was tending to his livestock.What I discovered there was a method of exploration. Each episode of Finding Manuland integrates three core elements: the MN sound, the concept of exchanging energy deeply embedded in Indo-European languages; expanding our mental models of time and space; and iteratively exploring these ideas.We began by considering ancient civilizations: Egypt, Greece, and Rome, recognizing how they relate to our current civilization. Recent evidence suggests that Indo-European languages originated in eastern Ukraine, specifically in Mykhailivka village, and spread from there across Europe to India, over a span of 6,000 years. This expansion has reshaped our understanding of space and time.The third element involves using this iterative method for exploration, which has guided me from Maine village to here, to the cromlech in Novoalexandrivka—a posh suburb of Dnipro, where property developers attempted to build a luxury home on a burial mound from 3,500 years BCE. This site, associated with the Yamna culture, was discovered when developers, in their haste to research it, accidentally unearthed a stone circle built by the Sredni Stog culture, a precursor to the Yamna.Yesterday, I visited Urfa and explored an impressive museum that showcased artifacts from Göbekli Tepe, including lifelike statues of animals and possibly stone gods. I have previously discussed the anthropomorphic aspects of the stones in the Dnipro stone circle, and it was a privilege to see these artifacts, which had been buried by the first Indo-Europeans.While traveling from Lake Van, where I sought Menua’s stables, I faced challenges in my journey. The museum in Van contained numerous references to Menua, who held significant importance in the region. My travels took me through the historical Kura-Araxes culture, where inscriptions from both the Assyrians and Hittites can be found. Despite their different languages, the Mitanni worshipped Indo-European deities.During my exploration, I also reflected on the unique aspects of the post-World War II legal order, emphasizing territorial integrity and defined borders—a contrast to the fluid borders of earlier human history. My journey through Urfa and Mardin has been eye-opening, especially in examining the MN sound and its connections to ancient deities such as Marduk.Mardin, whose name may derive partly from Marduk, intrigued me as I observed its lights from a distance. This exploration challenges us to learn about areas and aspects of life we wouldn’t otherwise encounter. The connection between Lake Van and its Iranian counterpart, both saltwater lakes at high altitudes, draws parallels with the Dead Sea, which is the lowest point on Earth. The relationship between these lakes is reflected in ancient stories, including the narrative of Noah’s Ark, which is said to have come to rest on the Ararat Mountains, near the region of Lake Van. Interestingly, state-of-the-art DNA analysis has revealed genetic links between ancient populations in this area and modern Jewish communities, reinforcing the interconnectedness of these regions.In the context of Finding Manuland, we recognize that we are situated in a borderland that was once predominantly Indo-European. This area has witnessed the evolution of various cultures, including the Kurds, who still maintain ties to this ancient heritage. I am currently about 50 kilometers north of the Iraq border, with Edessa serving as a historical crossroads for various empires.Göbekli Tepe is significant not only for its monumental structures but also as a site where the Indo-Europeans laid the groundwork for modern civilization. This connection is reflected in the ancient DNA evidence linking the Yamna culture, the early Indo-Europeans, to what we see today.As I prepare to see Göbekli Tepe, I am excited about how this moment connects to my journey that began in Maine Village in November 2021. This exploration of the MN sound continues to unfold, revealing new insights as we embrace various mediums such as video and podcasting. I look forward to sharing more of this fascinating journey with you.Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 built around... well, people have lived here since 5000 BCE, but it’s of most interest to “Finding Manuland” because we’re in search of stables with an inscription down to and by Menua, who was the son of the founder of the Urartu Empire.Some of us may remember from the Bible that Mount Ararat is where Noah’s Ark allegedly came to rest—or rather, the Ararat Mountains. This kingdom, Biainili (as they called themselves), which would later become Armenia and the capital of Armenia itself, is the center of what became the Urartu Empire. We’re interested in the truth, the complexity of history, and our ever-evolving mental models.Our mental model of time really begins around 4100 BCE. The Urartu Empire was at its height 3,200 years after that. As you see, this majestic lake—I once saw it from an airplane, with twinkling lights around it and the blue sky. I first saw this fort last night in a massive snowstorm, actually. I couldn’t work it out because you could just see lights up on what looked like a cliff. I thought it was mountains, but actually, it is a promontory leading out. As you can see on both sides, it’s quite low.We’re particularly interested in this place from a “Finding Manuland” perspective because the son of the first emperor was called Menua. Here, we’ll find an inscription to Menua, so we’re going to look for that. That “MN” sound in Menua’s name then went into Armenia—into the “MN” in Armenia. I’ve spoken about that before.In 1856, Russia lost the first Crimean War and ceded what was then Armenia to what was then the Sublime Porte, which became the Ottoman Empire and subsequently the modern state of Turkey. The old city up here was occupied by the Russians in the First World War and destroyed by them. Wherever we go, we find destruction by the Russians. This is why, as a result of the “Second Crimean War” which is currently ongoing, we must do everything we can to ensure that this kind of destructiveness by this state never comes to pass again.So, we’re going to look at the old city. We’re going to look for Menua’s inscription and the “MN” sound in a non-mythological founder of an Indo-European linguistic and cultural tradition: Menua.Menua was a historical figure. I’ve seen his inscriptions in Yerevan, and I’ve written about them before in the Menua episode (which I’ll link underneath this). In the Indo-European traditions, we have many mythological founders: Manu in India, of course, and Mannus, the subject of that six-part series I made earlier this year. We also have Manawydan in Wales, a mythological founder, and Manannán, who probably was a historical figure but was the preeminent pre-Christian deity in Ireland—part of the Celtic Indo-European tradition. But Menua was a historical figure, the son of the first emperor of Urartu. It went from being a kingdom to an empire, ruling most of Anatolia.This area of Anatolia—modern Turkey and Lake Van—is in fact the meeting point of many great empires. It’s part of Northern Mesopotamia, the interaction zone between Babylon, Akkadian, and Ur (which is down in Iraq). But here in Northern Mesopotamia, around where writing first emerged in cuneiform text, we’re going to see some inscriptions in cuneiform.We also had the Kura-Araxes culture, which was founded in modern Armenia and lasted from about 3500 BCE to around 2000 BCE. At that same time, Assyria is at its height; Babylon is at its height. They’re coming into this area and leaving the remnants of their writing. We also see traces of Kanesh, where the first Indo-European writing was found, which I’ve visited and spoken about before.Then we have: * The Hittite Empire: Rules this area from about 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE. * Urartu: At its height from 800 to 500 BCE. * The Achaemenid Empire: Darius the Great, who we’ll talk about again—very important in Iran. Today, protests are going on in Iran; we’ll see if the mullahs leave, then I can visit there, God willing.The Achaemenid Empire dissolves when Darius’s descendants die and Alexander (the so-called Great) takes over. Then comes the great Armenian Empire, which was at its height in terms of land, controlling most of Anatolia all the way to the Levant around 50 BCE. Now, the modern state of Armenia is on 29,000 square kilometers, again having been betrayed by the Russians.And now we have the Ottoman Empire, and the Kurds are here—Indo-Europeans as well in this area. So what we have here is an amazing interaction zone and Lake Van, an absolutely stunning place.I’m going to leave it at that for the moment, and we’re going to look for Menua’s stables.Recall who Menua is:Who was Menua?Finding Manuland XVI: M-N- sound in Armenia and Ireland’s first monarchs’ moniker.Recently I drove by the source of one of the rivers of Babylon: the Euphrates. Menua (790 BCE to 775 BCE) was the third monarch to rule the Biblical era Van / Ararat / Urartu / Bianili kingdom, whose successor state two millennia later is Armenia…Read on at: https://www.powerofmana.net/p/who-was-menuaContinued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 (Indo-European), Achmænaid (Indo-European) and now, I guess, mainly Kurd (Indo-European) and Turkish! Today, I’m driving to Van to, well, Find Manuland.Tushpa, a strategic point in Lake Van basin, was situated in the centre of the historic route from every direction to Van Plain.The capital, which included the first known written monument of the Kings of Urartu; was one of the most crowded and important Urartian centres with its splendid royal tombs, palaces, governmental storages, sacred sites, vineyards and orchards situated in fertile plains irrigated with dams and channels.Continued:Previous Episode:First Episode: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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, (ShutterStock Music).This poem by Amergin, preserved in the Book of Leinster and the Book of the Taking of Ireland, is an example in the Indo-European tradition of candid almost proud words put into the mouths of Gods.I am a wind in the sea (for depth)I am a sea-wave upon the land (for heaviness)I am the sound of the sea (for fearsomeness)I am a stag of seven combats (for strength)I am a hawk upon a cliff (for agility)I am a tear-drop of the sun (for purity)I am fair (i.e. there is no plant fairer than I)I am a boar for valour (for harshness)I am a salmon in a pool (for swiftness)I am a lake in a plain (for size)I am the excellence of arts (for beauty)I am a spear that wages battle with plunder.I am a god who forms subjects for a ruler!Who explains the stones of the mountains?Who invokes the ages of the moon?Where lies the setting of the sun?Who bears cattle from the house of Tethra?Who are the cattle of Tethra who laugh?What man, what god forms weapons?Indeed, then;I invoked a satirist…a satirist of wind.[John Carey’s translation of Song of Amergin: from The Celtic Heroic Age (2003) (pg. 265)]. Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

My favourite subject, and it all begins in Kherson — whether it’s the UN Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes in Ukraine or the Yamnaya community. A relatively small number of individuals created the language, the linguistic structures, the words we use in almost every sentence, the religions, the soul’s immanence in many Indo-European religions, including what I would characterise as Christianity and Buddhism. Created by this community, which is just amazing in itself, because most of us grow up with a mental model of Greece, Rome, maybe ancient Egypt before Greece, and then our cultures. It turns out this is not true. Greek and Italic culture, Italic and Celtic languages, as far as we know, formed inside a mixture of the Yamnaya community from this area in Kherson, Mykolaiv Oblast, right around the river where Russia and Ukraine — this has been an intersection point, an interaction point for millennia — out of an interaction between migrating Yamnaya from there after 2500 BCE, westwards near Odessa, just east of Odessa, and a community of people already there. Linguists and archaeologists have suspected this for decades.Jung explains why he believes archetypes are part of the collective unconscious of humanity: he can’t understand where else they could have come from. He talks about the wildest migration theories, which we now know since the 2015 ancient DNA revolution are scientific facts — the genetic content of people from India to Ireland whose ancestry comes from what they call the steppe, what I call ancient Ukrainian.For me, a lot of my work is about re-archetyping Ukraine inside the mental models of humanity. I realised, as many of us did, that there was a problem — whether it was former German policy or the policy of many of our governments. They were perceiving, and perhaps many of us did this too before becoming aware of Ukraine’s importance, not only in our current moment but over time, that Russia was managing by monopolising the myth of Russia’s superiority over Ukraine, archetyping Ukraine as not a real country. Every time Vladimir Putin speaks, he’s re-archetyping Russia as this great power. Many of us and our friends perhaps still perceive Russia’s culture — Dostoevsky, ballet — as somehow justifying its genocide in Ukraine. I’m a great fan of those writers because they’re very insightful and helpful to us.But I realised from the very beginning of the full-scale invasion, without understanding it as archetyping at the time, that my mission was to campaign for parity of esteem between Ukraine and other modern nation states which have won the monopoly, by fair means or foul. Certain communities after World War II managed to become UN members, including Ukraine, a founding member of the United Nations, which signed the UN Charter in 1945.As I dug deeper and followed this path from working in eastern Ukraine, I accidentally discovered the Yamnaya when property developers were destroying this extraordinary structure in a posh suburb of Dnipro. It made the front page of the New York Times. The local people were protesting, so in my capacity as a monitor, I went to discover what was going on. These property developers had destroyed a Yamnaya burial mound in which was buried the local monarch and various other people throughout the millennia, including the last person buried there — the head of the collective farm, believe it or not, around 1932. Delusions of grandeur, and continuity. Underneath the mound, when they destroyed it, was found a stone circle created by one of the major ingredient cultures in the Yamnaya.Through that, I began, from a position of extreme scepticism, to trace the linguistic journey of certain people carrying not just a language, not just words, vocabulary, sounds and meanings. There are about a thousand sounds and meanings in what we call Proto-Indo-European, or what I call ancient Ukrainian — the language spoken by the Yamnaya between 4100 BCE and 2500 BCE. I recognise these dates are uncharted territory for most people. Our history begins maybe around 1000 BCE with King David in the Bible. Part of my mission is to re-archetype our mental models — our idea of not just Ukraine but humanity, human history, European history, and Ukrainians’ position in it — to create new structures and frameworks. Because that’s how what I call disinfolklore and disinformation works: it creates untruthful frameworks in our minds. People inside MAGA, in the MAGA disinfolklore galaxy, have all these in-jokes, they know things you and I wouldn’t. This is how Russian disinformation is so successful — it’s not about intelligence or education, it’s about how people’s minds are changed.I’m quite upfront about this when I outline these histories. The ancient DNA studies are published in Nature and Science, the preeminent scientific journals. I stay away from anything not properly backed up. Feel free to follow up on anything to do with the Indo-European connection.Part of what helped me see this pattern — and this is what I really do, I hunt for patterns in data — is that I assimilate information, as many of us do on X. As we now know from the third report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference by the European Union, released recently and which I highly recommend along with the first two reports, X was involved in 86% of over 40,000 FIMI instances collected. This is where we are. Many of us have ethical dilemmas about whether we should be on X, and most of us are also on Bluesky and other places. But the fight is here and the examples are here.I saw Margarita Simonyan tweeting again in her folksy disinfolklore way — she does this a lot, telling stories, as indeed does Donald. They tell stories of frankly horrifying things. For instance, the way Donald communicated, I think in March 2024, that if the head of a major NATO country said they couldn’t pay for their NATO membership and asked would you protect us, he said he’d tell them to “do whatever the hell they want with you.” This was then reported by CNN as fact, though we’re not clear whether it ever happened. These folksy stories get taken up.Simonyan tonight is talking about how people in the offices in Moscow are saying that if Germany gives weapons to Ukraine, Ukraine won’t be able to do anything with them without Germany’s help, therefore Germany is complicit and they’ll have to strike Berlin. This is a classic piece of disinfolklore — there’s a distancing in the narrative form, presented as a folksy story. “People in the offices of Moscow” — the image is she’s just heard gossip.She’s done this before, at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June 2022. Many of us will remember this, where she said “people in Moscow are saying all our hope is in the famine.” She was sitting beside Putin himself, dressed in green — which is why I call her Maid Margarita Simonyan, like a reverse Robin Hood. This is an aspect of the disinfolklore analytical method: we can use folklore archetypes to interpret and combat those who are themselves using folksy archetypes.She said people in Moscow are saying all our hope is in the famine — meaning there will be famine in Africa, migrants will come to Europe, and the EU will release sanctions because “it’s impossible for us not to be friends.” This is the folksy banter of the schoolyard — a seven-year-old speaking to their best friend after an argument: it’s impossible not to be friends. But this isn’t a schoolyard chat. It’s a conversation beside the head of state of a country at war, planning to starve millions in Africa in a madcap attempt — something you’d only see in Don Quixote or a folktale. The plan to win in Ukraine is to starve millions of Africans, provoke Europeans into lifting sanctions, become friends with Europe, and abandon Ukraine. The way she tells it, it sounds like solid Russian strategy told in a folksy way. It’s absolutely horrifying when you parse it, but it passes most people by. It enters their minds.These are folktale archetypes, folksy stories communicating horrifying things. It’s a pattern they use, and it’s really effective because people like us share them — they provoke something in our emotions. Even if we think we’re harming the former president by characterising him as drunk, we’re still repeating the meme. The horrifyingness is slyly communicated, the energy continues, pinging around the world. Thankfully, today we see great advances in our political leadership over what we’ve experienced since February 2022.But this method of communication has impacted President Biden’s policy. “Don’t poke the bear” is a disinfolklore meme, probably the most successful one ever. It actually impacts foreign policy — it stopped America properly helping Ukraine. International relations itself, the entire discourse, is full of these metaphors and disinfolklore memes, represented as means of communicating foreign policy and strategy affecting the lives and deaths of millions. Whereas in fact, these strategies are only communicated by and through these means.What I have spotted, which as far as I’m aware no other writers have really noticed, is this continuity across multiple narrative forms and discourses. It’s obvious in anthropology, folklore studies, or Jungian psychology when they reference myths, archetypes, and storytelling. But the same dynamic is at play inside international relations discourse, inside the speeches of many of our leading politicians until recently, and obviously everything Donald says — he speaks this folklore fluently. The folksy stories, the January 6th anthem of the insurrectionists, the songs used in rallies, the folksy way of speaking about Al Capone, the archetyping of Melania as a character using haute couture clothes made by Ukrainian fashion designers in LA — Dressx — who supply comic book aesthetics for people like Elon Musk and Melania Trump who want to archetype themselves as characters in our information space by referencing superheroes or characters from contemporary folktale.That’s a sample of the scale. Because I noticed that many of the mythological founders in Indo-European peoples had this MN sound in their monikers: Manu, the first human in Indic culture; Yama, who comes from Aryaman — there it is, Aryaman, which gave its name to Iran — becoming Yama in India, with this MN sound, one of the founders in ancient Iranian culture from pre-Zoroastrian times. In Ireland, Manannán. In Wales, Manawydan. In Germanic culture, Mannus, the first human. In Greece, Minos. In Armenia, Menua. All these MN sounds.And then this other sound, RT — right, rita, truth in Sanskrit, arta in ancient Iranian, in Darius’s inscriptions. Darius founded the Achaemenid Empire — there’s the MN again — about 700 to 300 BCE, before Alexander the so-called Great. These RT sounds — the claim to monopolise what is right, unified right. These sounds recur again and again, patterns which seem to have some impact on our psyche, our minds — MN in mind as well.I think it’s these sounds embedded in stories, whether the stories are what we might consider folklore. And now I think we have to consider what folklore is: it’s what’s on TikTok, what we’re reading on X, the war lore that we discuss. These are modern manifestations of folklore. What’s common to them and to the Brothers Grimm and other community-forming tropes and informational units, like Russian propaganda in Russian-occupied Ukraine where I started looking at this in detail — what they have in common is these sounds inside them that recur, these patterns that have been around for thousands of years attached to the same meanings. MN is in meaning as well. They shine through, like different meanings shine through different signifiers.That’s the level I’m on. I know the Russians are looking at this linguistic level too, connecting symbols, signs, sounds, and images to what Jung called our unconscious — not our collective unconscious, but our individual unconscious. The stories are a means of communicating these and somehow controlling us. I don’t fully understand it, but I see the patterns and they’re empirical — empirical patterns through time, through culture. We see them every day. I collect them all the time.That’s really my focus, what I bring that’s new. I was shocked to see how Russia was using generative AI to represent Western leaders as cartoonish characters to help brainwash children in Russia. Then I saw at a recent meeting that many of our leaders were shown using generative AI as children — this was applauded and seen as fun. It is fun, but it’s very dangerous, dark stuff.I’ve tried to come up with a means of parsing any data, and I hope my twelve tools in my disinfolklore algorithm would help us see through nefarious attempts to manipulate our minds — like Russians using generative AI to represent foreign leaders as cartoonishly bad characters and embed those archetypes in minds. I saw early clues in Russian films about Gogol, who’s a Ukrainian writer but went to Russia to try to educate Moscow about Ukraine as a culture. All the Russians could see in his work was folktale, quaint characters. They did the same in a patronising way to Lesya Ukrainka — looking at Ukraine as a place of little, quaint people. A bit like how a previous generation of English people used leprechauns to archetype Irish people as inferior. Thankfully, that’s dead now.As an Irish person, part of my identity let me see this family resemblance. But it can be a positive power too. What Russia is doing to the minds of Ukrainians inside the occupation and inside Russia — they are on the cutting edge of this, and the tools they’re using, whether generative AI or narrative tools, are very much what I’m trying to combat and give us the tools to see. We’re not really at the races generally in our culture. If we just got to know what the Russians are doing, that gives us a menu of what we shouldn’t be doing by accident, and what we’re up against.Reading Harry Potter and things like that — I think reading Harry Potter is very innocuous. I know many people get exercised about its author. But as an artist myself, I’m amazed at what she achieved. Magic — it’s really important to understand how magic works, war magic, not to be afraid of it but to become familiar with it, because what the Russians manage to do, what Trump manages to do, is magical. We understand magic and magical tales.Primarily, this is where we get our archetypes. I understand this from my own experience — from cartoons, from Disney, from Grimm’s fairy tales, from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Child Catcher. Both good and bad archetypes. This is how I perceived reality when I arrived in eastern Ukraine in 2015, in this beautiful, halcyon, Arcadian forested area. From the first moment, I saw something folkloric about it. I didn’t understand what it was. That’s the intuition I’ve been uncovering. And at this point in my work, I can report that since we do take in archetypes as children from folktales, if we want to win the war for the next generation, we need to understand how these archetypes work and use them wisely. Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 ourselves. as societies as Indo-Europeans. It’s quite useful when you then come across this discipline, this aspect to this cultural psychology, and you see the laws of sympathetic magic and you don’t think, oh, this is about, you know, some great, I can’t even think of any of those famous Hollywood illusionists. No, it’s not. It’s about an aspect of being human and exchanging - ‘sympathetic’ in this sense is about exchange. It’s about pathos, pathetic, exchanging feelings. So when these 19th century, a lot of them were religious, they were missionaries South Seas. They encounter this concept of Mana. They’re amazed by it. They just think this is how the primitive mind works and over the course of thousands of years, we became more advanced than them. That’s not that interesting to me. What is interesting to me is how fascinated this was the whole industry they were in this concept Mana. No one seemed to notice, even some of the greatest minds, that M-N-, the same sound, is in the language that they were talking about, Common. Men, Human. They were really fascinated. There were various attempts then to connect this idea with Mana with early Roman religion, for instance, Numenism. Again, the M-N- in Numenism. There’s lots of fights over it. This is this idea that in early Roman religion, italic culture. You have a god. So this is an example I picked up from the deities protecting maternity (M-N-): “You have the tumulus and sentinus have given him life and feeling. Opus, these are all deities. Opus takes him up from the bosom of the earth. Vaticanus opens his mouth for the first time. Levana lifts him off the ground. Cunina cares for him in the cradle. Potina and Aduca give him drink and food respectively.”From the 19th century perspective, they’re looking at these pagan Romans having, like, gods for absolutely everything. There’s evidence that everything in the household - there is different household gods for every dimension of their lives. From our perspective, we look at these 19th century missionaries in as bizarre a way as we look at these Romans.What I think is really the link with Disinformation studies is that when we’re looking at memes and these things which come alive in our minds, which come alive in our culture and then are transmitted, they are contagion. Rhey become the object of contagion. That this is really what we’re talking about. It’s the same thing. It’s the same phenomenon (m-n-) that the Romans (m-n-), the ancient, the early Romans. Then they consolidated everything into a few deities. Underneath them were just hundreds or thousands of deities. As there were with the Hittites and in other early religious cultures. This is when we see life in memes and in certain things which take fire, which go viral. I think it’s a similar phenomenon. I think it’s the same thing really. What is common about it is Mana. There’s an energy in this rock. Or an energy in this God. Rhis deity that protects us or moves between us. I don’t mean protects us in a religious sense. I mean, actually, I don’t mean protect at all. But just that the energy moves between us. So I’m trying to connect these old manifestations (m-n-) of ideas of energy running between people with what we’re dealing with in the information space. Equally what we’re dealing with in our normal lives when you’re feeling quite down and you bump into someone who just brightens your life. You bump into a child or it’s a cat or a dog or your friend or your friend who always makes you laugh. What you’re really doing there is exchanging energy. I talked about it before from the biological sense that the mitochondria in our cells creates the energy. Now we know that they create all the energy which keeps us alive. That they transfer that energy between cells. So this model also has a biological um it’s a biological um uh correlate on it and uh that is really all i wanted to um that’s what i set out all of this now i finished now i set out to talk about four weeks ago.Please also consider listening to /looking at the following series of podcasts which are part of my Disinfolklore project. There is a lot of complementarity to Power of Mana/Finding Manuland and Disinfolklore, no least in the use of Mana in Disinfolklore as a means of communicating the desirability of parsing memes for their many meanings:Podcast | Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic’s Law of Similarity and Law of Contagion.An introduction.Podcast | Touching on Contagion in DisinfolkloreFinal part of a series of four podcast applying Cultural Psychology’s cutting-edge work on the jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic to Disinfolklore.Magic as Propaganda Disguised in DisinfolkloreWhy Mythology keeps popping up in Russian DisinfolklorePodcast | Touching on Contagion in DisinfolkloreFinal part of a series of four podcast applying Cultural Psychology’s cutting-edge work on the jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic to Disinfolklore.What Meaning MeansMeaning of identifying the meaning of the M-N sound - Most significant discovery in Indo-European linguistics since de Saussure? 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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 its meanings and immanence’s hover around the same Moon-based metaphorical semantic signalling system of southern Ukraine from ~4,100 BCE as Finding Manuland has so far been elucidating.(Among the first documents with writing in an Indo-European language is this text I photographed in Ankara. It mentions a “native Anatolian” (an Indo-European as distinct from an Assyrian language speakers) Tarmana (1,900 - 1,800 BCE)However, since -Uman was ubiquitous in the first attested Indo-European language - Kanisite Hittite (1,900 - 1,800 BCE)it seems clear M-N- transferred into Turkic as the first Central Asian Turkic language speakers with Ancient Ukrainian so-called Steppe / Scythian ancestry millennia later abandoned their Indo-European tongues.Then with much later Turkic migrations into, say, Anatolia with Osman, the founder of the Ottoman / Osman dynasty that would dominate Anatolia from 1,200 CE onwards, M-N- returned and just become another source of M-N- immanent toponyms and words / meanings relating to measurement and the Moon-based metaphorical semantic signalling systems in formerly Indo-European occupied areas such as Anatolia.So my message of unity between apparent Indo-European peoples who are ignorant of our common origins now extends to Turkic language speaking peoples. Were united by our use in almost event sentence of signifiers emanating from the Moon-based semantic signalling system generated in Ancient Ukraine ~4,100 BCE onwards and injected as an immanence into every living Indo-European language, culture and religion from there, and perhaps also into every living Turkic language too.We truly are All Ukrainian!Much more on this over the coming years in future episodes, as well as on the meaning of the recent analysis of some of the first Ancient Genomes from early Egypt for Finding Manuland’s quest to understand M-N-‘s ubiquity in its sacred vocabulary (Amon) and names (Tutenkamen). Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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, MN in Manu and Mannus — we can be very sure that these are separate vectors of evidence all pointing to the same conclusion: that we all come from this Yamnaya community in southern Ukraine in some meaningful sense.If you’re listening to this, you understand an Indo-European language. You probably have ancient Ukrainian ancestry within you if you’re indigenous or relatively indigenous from anywhere in the space between Ireland and India. Unless your ancestors were some of the Turkic or Uralic migrants who founded the Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian peoples, chances are you have this genetic ancestry in you. But just by virtue of using an Indo-European language as your native tongue, it’s actually structuring your thoughts. You have this MN sound. You’re using it in almost every sentence.Manu and Mannus coming from a common source — like we do — means that all of these phenomena come from southern Ukraine. That’s the answer to the trick question of which came first, Manu or Mannus. The fact of the matter is the Yamnaya came first. The Yamnaya were so called by Russian archaeologists because they buried their dead in a pit grave. We find these pit graves across Europe, associated with the invasion of a patriarchal society that replaced the Old European society. The word for pit in Russian, which is an Indo-European language, is cognate with the word for womb and yemo and twin. So it’s circumstantially connected that we’ve ended up with an MN sound for the Yamnaya too, from whom this idea of Manu and Mannus travelled, emanated.We know this because when we come across similar sounds and meanings for the founders of mythological traditions, it’s either borrowing — a German visiting India and convincing them to use Mannus, which evolves into Manu, or an Indian visiting Germany — or it’s a coincidence. But then we find so many other founders of mythological traditions in Indo-European languages — in India, in Greece, in Ireland, in Celtic tradition — who have mythological founders with this MN sound in their name. So we come to the common source. And of course, MN is in “common source.” That expression comes directly from Sir William Jones’s lecture in 1782 to the Kolkata society, in which he announces his discovery of the Indo-European family of languages.The question we started with — which came first, the Germanic linguistic tradition or the Indic linguistic tradition? — is actually a trick question, because neither did. It was the Yamnaya, the Indo-European community in southeastern Ukraine, which came first and is the common source.We can use linguistics, ancient genetics, archaeology, comparative mythology, and a whole plethora of different vectors of evidence, all pointing to the same truth: that Indo-European culture and all Indo-European languages we speak today emanate from this same area around Kherson, around where the Russians are conducting their drone warfare at the moment. But we can also use the MN sound, and that’s the significance of what I have discovered and what I am telling you the story of in Finding Manuland.I’ll leave it at that for today. We’ll come back and talk about more MN, because I have at least 25 other episodes planned, and each of those opens up new episodes and new discoveries. I’m constantly travelling in this area between Ireland and India, and I have many new discoveries I haven’t even reported to you yet. All of that is coming. Thank you very much for your support.Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

The sun god Sūrya — and his mother has an MN 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 hot from being burnt by the sun — a play on words which transmits and transfers between languages and meanings and sounds, which I’m not going to go into today.She has three children: Manu, Yama, and Yamī. Many scholars think Yamī, who’s female, is a later transposition. But Manu and Yama are the most fundamental and ancient in the Indic tradition. Manu is the first man, the first human. Yama, the twin, is the first monarch, the first self-sacrificing king.Odin performs the same function in the Germanic tradition. Odin gave himself to himself, according to the ancient Hávamál text, and hung himself on the ash tree by the Royal Mound in Uppsala in Sweden. Woden’s Day commemorates Odin’s self-sacrifice. In the early pre-Christian Irish tradition, Donn is the Lord of Death who performs the same function — note the DN sound in both Odin and Donn. They are the first self-sacrificing monarchs to die, and after them they lead mortals to the afterlife. In the Indic tradition, Yama is the first self-sacrificing monarch, the first to die.Yama means a lot to me as a Buddhist, because Yama is the lord of death in Buddhism, which is one of the reasons I started paying attention to these monikers, these same sounds — Yama, Yamī, Yima in the Iranian tradition, Emir in the Germanic and Arabic traditions. Emir in the Arabic tradition is a king, and that comes across from the early Iranian, the Indo-European. I paid attention because Yama is quite important in the daily practice of many Mahāyāna — again MN — Buddhists who follow the Mañjuśrī tradition, the Tibetan tradition. But I won’t go into that today.We’ve got Manu and Mannus, and they have twins. In the Germanic tradition, Mannus is the son of Tuisto, twin. In the Indic tradition, Manu is the brother of the twin. We get this phenomenon — a bit of a muddle, like mixing puzzle pieces up. But the names, the sounds of the names are similar, and the function is the same. They’re mythological founders of a tradition.Manu in the Indic tradition is the first sacrificer. He is the first to sacrifice an animal, and the Brahmin who recreate this sacrifice through the Soma ritual — a substance some believe comes from the fly agaric mushroom, but I won’t go into that here. All we need to know is that the first sacrificer, Manu, is the brother of Yama and the mythological founder of the tradition. The mythological founder of the Germanic tradition is Mannus.In Irish tradition, the pre-Christian supreme deity is Manannán. In Wales, Manawydan. In the Iranian tradition, Aryaman — so Arya-Yaman, with MN in there. Yaman becomes Manu in India. The Arya element means something close to “area” in English, the centre. Aryaman was literally the treasurer in the royal household, which then became celestialised, goes up to the sky and becomes the symbolic treasurer, the king — a combination of the Manu and the Yama elements.Geographically, the Indo-Europeans who populated India and Iran are descendants of the same community I mentioned before, coming from the Sintashta. We have the same sound, same meaning, same mythological founders, same kinds of stories in these different traditions.It’s Manu in the Indic tradition who makes a deal with sky father — with Indra and Varuṇa, the supreme deities. If Manu sacrifices — first an animal, then substituted with the Soma sacrifice — like in Christianity where wine is supposed to be the blood of Christ, a placeholder for a true sacrifice. So it’s a development and evolution. In the Indic tradition, it’s the Soma sacrifice. They come from the same root. I’ve written before about the Indo-European roots in Christianity, a topic I will return to.If Manu makes a deal with sky father, Dyaus Pitā, with Indra and Varuṇa, who represent the sovereignty function — if Manu, as the man, the human, makes a sacrifice, then sovereignty, security, and prosperity, the fertility of the community, will be protected. Manu is the first sacrificer. Yama, his brother, his twin — in Germanic, you have a slightly different iteration, which you’d expect in different cultures, but the structure and the nomenclature are the same.We even have Ymir in Germanic culture, the primordial giant. And the sound of Hymir — a genuine thunder god, killed or perhaps only wounded. He went out in a boat with the giant Hymir on the outer sea and fished for a monster using an ox’s head as bait. Yima is in the Iranian tradition, in the Avesta, the ancient Iranian holy text — an equivalent of the Rigveda but written down much later, though thought to be just as ancient.Aryaman, as I mentioned, is a functionary in charge of the house, its hospitality, and in charge of the treasury of the nmāna. Mana meaning house, domain in ancient Iranian — mansion in English. We have that MN in all of these monikers meaning quite similar things.With all these continuities — same sounds, same monikers, same functions — today we’re focusing on Mannus and Manu because they’re so primary, but as I’ve floated around different Indo-European linguistic and religious traditions, all from the same common source, we have the same moniker, same function, same level. By level, I mean mythological founders of entire cultures. These aren’t founders of a village or one particular family. They are the founders of entire cultures which still persist today — in the case of India, comprising the one billion Indians who are Hindu and come from this tradition. I’m leaving out the 400 million other Indians, though many of those from the Muslim tradition are also Indo-Europeans. But there are many bifurcations and roads off, some of which I’ve dealt with and some I will. For now, we stay focused on Manu and Mannus.We know that Germany and German culture did not have very much or any contact with Indian culture, and vice versa. At the time of Tacitus, yes, Alexander the so-called Great from Greek culture had been to India. He had replaced the Achaemenid Empire, the ancient Iranian empire founded by Darius the Great — again MN in Achaemenid. But Tacitus didn’t necessarily have much command of this. Very few people until Sir William Jones, the Welsh scholar of Sanskrit, ancient Iranian, Celtic, Latin, and Greek, who became a Supreme Court justice in India and learned Sanskrit in order to translate the Laws of Manu — the Manusmriti, which contains this MN sound and the RT sound — which contemporary scholars believe is actually from about 600 CE but is named for Manu, the first human.In order to exercise jurisdiction over Indians, William Jones, living in Kolkata, decided to learn Sanskrit. Because he had already written the first Persian grammar in the English language and was a very skilled linguist from a young age, speaking many different languages, it was he who spotted that the roots of the grammar and the roots of verbs were so similar in structure that they could not have arisen by coincidence. He said that all of these languages must come from a common source, which perhaps no longer exists.That began a centuries-long journey to determine which came first. Was it the Indian? The German? The Scandinavian? The Irish? The Iranian? That journey brings us to the present, and one of the big breakthroughs has been the ancient DNA evidence published in 2015 and 2019, demonstrating that the Brahmin caste in India had, by around 1000 BCE, about 50% steppe ancestry from ancient Ukraine.We had all the cultural and linguistic artifacts, and then we find the ancient DNA. But I’m not tracing the ancient DNA or the cultural and linguistic artifacts — I’m tracing the MN sound through all these different cultures, a separate trajectory of evidence.It’s not just a question of one German visiting India, hearing the story of Manu and Yama written down in the Rigveda, returning to Germany, and convincing their mates. Perhaps they’re a poet, they visit India for a few months or years, then come back and convince one monarch: let’s adopt this story as our own. This is just not plausible. To become embedded as a mythological founder of a culture is really difficult. This is the primary story — it’s not one of millions of sub-stories. Here we have Manu as the first human and Mannus as the first human. The chances of one person going from Germany to India, hearing the story, going all the way back, and convincing everyone to replace their foundation myth — or the other way around, an Indian going to Germany, for which we have zero evidence — are very low.Of course, this is exactly what I’m trying to do: I’m trying to convince you that the mythological founders of all the Indo-European peoples have an MN sound in their names, and I believe this comes from the sound menyot, which means moon, coming from meh1, meaning measure — the moon as a measure of time. The idea of light shining through the moon is like the mind shining through a human. This core metaphor, the reversion to the moon-based metaphor, distinguishes all sentient beings from non-sentient things, stones from humans. We’ll see if in a thousand years’ time our entire Indo-European culture accepts Finding Manuland’s story as its foundational myth. But at least you see what I’m talking about.The idea of a German going to India and saying, our mythological founder is Mannus, why don’t you adopt that — or vice versa — doesn’t explain why we end up with Aryaman in the ancient Iranian tradition, or Manannán in the Celtic Irish tradition, which comes down as the pre-Christian supreme deity in Ireland. Many of those Celts probably came to Ireland via the Menapii — the MN in Menapii. Perhaps that explains the Irish case. But what we can say for sure, from empirical evidence, is that this MN sound is absolutely everywhere we look.We have heaps of archaeological, cultural, and mythological stories about structural similarities between the Rigveda and the Mahābhārata, another collection of ancient stories, not quite as anciently written down but very ancient. These have the same structure, the same names, the same sounds as the story written down by Tacitus in the first century CE. Now we have genomic evidence demonstrating ancient Ukrainian steppe ancestry in Ireland, on the island of Britain, across western Europe west of Ukraine, and east of Ukraine through the Sintashta, across the Andronovo horizon, across Central Asia.Here I’m trying to provoke in your mind this geographical journey — through to Afghanistan, down into Turkey and Anatolia, through Armenia, through Iran, across from Afghanistan into Pakistan, and into the Indus River Valley where the culture was seeded. Into the Brahmin caste, and they take over the whole of the Indian subcontinent down to a point near Bengaluru, where I’ve spent time, where we have the Dravidian line — the Telugu culture. Dravidian is the pre-Indo-European Indian culture which has survived. But we have this Indo-European layer, which brought Indra, who starts life in Iran as Zarathustra’s nemesis. By the time this deity gets to India, it becomes renamed as Indra, and India is named for Indra, this sovereign deity related to Manu, representing the Indo-European transformation of the Indian subcontinent.The stories, the names, and the sounds of these deities are in our minds today as the names of continents and countries. Iran takes its name from the Arya root, connected to Aryaman. And Éremón is the first high king of all Ireland, which some scholars, including me, believe is cognate with Aryaman. Éremón comes down as the name of the first high king from the mythological record, first written down around 1100 CE, long before we knew any of the rest of this — that Indo-European cultures existed, or that Celtic was a separate culture from Germanic.We have these separate vectors of evidence all pointing to a common source. And of course, the MN sound is in Éremón, the first high king of Ireland. Beyond all reasonable doubt, we have this steppe ancestry spread across Manuland, and the MN sound immanent in the mythological founders of all these cultures, from Ireland to India.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

So you see what I'm trying to do there. I'm expanding our mental models of time from 4100 BCE when Tamana's ancestors left ancient Ukraine to 2000 years later when Tamana's name appears in one of the first texts. The first times Indo-European language is written down in Ankira, sorry, in Kanesh, but then I see it in 2025.So it's written down between 1900 BCE and 1800 BCE in Kanesh, in ancient Anatolia, today's Turquia. And then roughly 4,000 years later, I, Estabones, I visit Ankira, which is named for a Celtic community who founded it around 300 BCE. I see this cuneiform text and the translation of it in Ankira Museum.And I know the significance of this because the reason I'm in Ankira, archaeological museum is to try and find this MN sound and its origins and to find it there in one of the first texts was more than I hoped for. And then the primary text which was published a couple years ago ontranslating Kanesite, Hittite, as it's known, this language. So this great scholar who took these 23,000 cuneiform texts from between 1900 BCE and 1800 BCE, which are mostly in Assyrian, which is a Semitic language, took those texts and deduced from them which are the Indo-European elements, the native elements in them. And he uses this uman sound to distinguishIndo-European from Assyrian. So again, that was beyond my wildest dreams when I conceived of looking at the MN sound and I thought, oh, that's quite interesting. There's MN sounding names in eastern France and in Ireland and on the island of Britain. I wonder how that arose. And then I found the Manapi, this community of Indo-Europeans. But then...way, going way, way deeper than Manapi, who dominated that area and the Monche, the area of the Monche, and then colonised Ireland and the island of Britain, and Normandy indeed, probably, from about 200 years into the Common Era. Deep, much, much more deeply than they are these other cultures.who also have the MN sound in their different monikers and their mythological founders. So it's interesting that the very foundation of the Germanic people and in their myths, we have these three sons, each of which represents a different function, the sovereignty function, the security function, and the fertility, prosperity function.It's a pattern which we see again and again in different Indo-European cultures and peoples. It's been established by Georges Dumuzel who had this intuition in the 1930s and then spent his entire career. And thousands of scholars since then have elaborated on it. And so the sovereignty function, which contains these two elements, the magico-religious,like the Brahman or the Flamines or the Phila in Irish society, and the juridical, which is like the legal element, the ruling, the procedural element of the monarch. So like secular and religious. This division is very, like in post-revolutionary France, where the de-clericalization of society, the joining in into the sovereignty function of this magico-religious and the juridical,the procedural, the ruling, the courts... That is very much part of the Indo-European model of governance and is part of the division which manifests in different ways in different cultures. So the second function, the security function, so my namesake is Stavones, represents the security element and in the Indian caste system, the Kshatriya, which is the army,the military. And then the Ing is the founding monarch of the tribe of Germans who invaded and occupied what would become a country named for them called England, represents the fertility and prosperity function. And as discussed, that's probably a holdover from the pre-Indo-European.So the Ingavionese takes their name from Ing, who corresponds to the old Norse god Freyr. So... Let's go back to the sovereignty function then in Germanic mythology. So I'm bringing your mind back. You probably have this mental model of the world. And this is also part of Finding Manaline because I don't only want you to developand evolve as I have this temporal model. mental model from 4100 BC all the way up to 2025, these 6,000 years, which I kind of illustrated by telling you the story of Tamana and me seeing Tamana. But the Hermiones, I want to also do the geographical space because for me it was a huge blank, Anatolia, Turkey,Armenia, Iran, India. These were all kind of blanks in my mind. And we all have them. We might know Turkey because we've gone there on holiday. But we don't really understand the Hittite empire. And I want us to be able to... to journey quickly, to flash between the coast of the west of Ireland, down to Lusitania,which is Portugal, which was occupied by a Celtic language speaking people, all the way quickly right across to Spiti Valley, which is the valley dividing Indo-European India. from Tibet, and I've also been there. And so the Hermiones take their name from Ermen, and the MN, of course, is the national god of the Saxons,and this MN sound is really in there, and indeed in Amon, the ancient Egyptian god, and some really interesting research. has come out recently looking at the ancient DNA of the ancient Egyptians, which points to perhaps why the MN sound is in Amon-Re, their supreme deity, and Tutankhamen and the Amarna letters and various other important Egyptian texts.But we'll get to that in a different episode. And so we all come from the same family. We understand the MN sound. It's part of our energy. We're communicating positive energy now. Me to you, you to me by listening to this. And this is my message of unity. So then let's run over.Let's fly over to India then. And so the Argy Veda is a book of songs, first written down around 1100 years before the Common Era. And this is our first evidence of Manu, the first human. And the Argy Veda songs we know were composed long before 1100 BCE. So, for instance, they describe funereal feasts,which we had no archaeological evidence of until around 20 or 30 years ago. which we found archaeological evidence of then in today's Kazakhstan, the Sintashta culture. And so the exact descriptions of the burials of... horses, skulls, and of the funereal feasts correspond to archaeological artifacts then found in the Sintashta culture.So then we know, even before we had ancient DNA evidence that ties the Sintashta to the first people who were 800 years later. The Syntashta culture is from around 29, sorry, 1900 to 2000 years before the Common Era. So around the time Tamana, our friend Tamana is living in Kanesh and whose name is appearing in this cuneiformtext that I then saw in Ankira. In January 2025, the Sintashta are burying their dead in the same way that the songs, the ancient songs, would be written down in the Ayurveda, this book written in the Vedic language, which predates Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language.And in 1100 BC, the Ayurveda, the songs are written down, they're divided into words, Mandala, again Amen and Mandala and Brahmanas, Amen and Brahmanas and they describe the Brahmin who are the priestly caste and Manu who is the first human. And so we know because of some of the archaeological evidence from the St.Tashta culture from between 1900 and 2000 BCE. And I know this is hard for you. I understand. That's why I'm kind of repeating myself. And the whole of Finding Man is about this. is about expanding mental models. So I'm bringing you on a geographical voyage. This is the third element in every episode.But I'm also bringing you on a temporal voyage. So we've got these songs in the Ayurveda. They describe funereal feasts, which we then find the archaeological evidence for almost exactly the same from 900 years earlier in the Santashta culture. So we know this is the same And until these archaeological remains were found in the Santashta tombs inKazakhstan in the 80s and 1990s, scholars believed that these funereal feasts were artifacts of the imagination in the Ayurveda. But then it turns out actually they correspond to archaeological evidence. And now we know through looking at linguistic but mainly ancient DNA and archaeological artifacts... that the people who would form the Sentashda culture actually came from ancient Ukraine.They were Yamna and traveled eastwards towards, settled for a couple hundred years in the Sentashda culture where they consolidated. And that culture then travels eastwards across Afghanistan and across what we call today Central Asia. and what's known as the Andronova Klein, as it were, which is basically a word just that describes 2,000,3,000 kilometers across of similar cultures, which we know from the archaeology, which kind of just develop and evolve, but they are the same kind of culture. We've seen the same artifacts in Afghanistan as we do in Sintashtar, as we do in India. And so we call it a climb because they're kind of climbing into each other beforeIndic culture then becomes a very dominant emanation of it. And so we see similarities in the songs, in the Ayurveda, and in how Tacitus is representing the songs of the Germanic people and how the Irish mythological texts, which aren't written down until between 700 years into the Common Era and 700 yearsafter Christ's birth and until around 1200 in the Common Era. And yet, even though they're written down in this late stage, the Irish mythological texts are the oldest vernacular literature in Europe. So we talk about Tacitus is writing down a few stories, but it's written that the Germanic tribe stories are written down in Latin.And they're not written down in the Germanic language, but we have the oldest mythological text in a vernacular. It's from Irish Celtic. So it's a great source of information for us because we can look at the Greek and the Latin and the Irish and the Vedic and the Armenian, for instance, and the Hittite,and we can find the commonalities between them and we intuit through a variety of methods what is the Indo-European-ness of this. And so... We look at the Arguveda where Manu is first mentioned, and Manu is, he is the sun, he's the first human, he's the sun of the sun, literally.He's the sun of Vivasvan, who is also known as Surya, the sun god, and his wife, Saranu.Continued:Continued from:Ep 3 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 the Roman and the Latin and the ancient Iranian, were such that they could not have arisen by coincidence, but they must have come from a common source.So our starting point today is wondering, did India's first man, was it called Manu (by coincidence?) with the Germanic first human called Mannus. If you assume the term human existed prior to these mythological founders, then you could say, well, maybe they did. And if this same phenomenon, which we call human, was called a human in the different cultures, then it would be quite natural for them to call one in one, we might call it Manu, Mannus, or Manawydin, or Manannán as in Ireland, or... Magnus in Scandinavia (with a G in there, but it's the same sound, it's the same word).That doesn't solve the problem of why the moniker human became so ubiquitous and universal. In fact, though, we do discover that in ancient Indian, they didn't call man or human, human. So we're left with... which came first, the chicken or the egg.I believe I found a solution to it, but I'm not going to ruin it right for you quite now. We're going to get there. So there's a story in every place and every time of culture being founded in Homer's work. Wagner, the great German composer of the 19th century, took Tacitus' work, took Herder's work from 1777. Herder in Germany who, a part of Germany which was under French occupation, occupation by a Romance language speaking community, who had been the Gauls.The Romans conquered them and took away their language. So only a small part of France, Brittany, spoke a Celtic language. And in fact, the Britannic Celtic language itself emanated from the island of Britain. So the Romans really comprehensively destroyed the Celtic language-speaking aspect of what would become French society. And the French then... take on a name, a foreign name for their tribe, the Franks, when really they are the Gauls. And so Charles de Gaulle, like me - my middle name is Scott, and Scott is the original name for Ireland. people who bear the name of their tribe, like Goethe or Sir Walter Scott, of their country, of their nation, state. So Herder, which was in Frankfurt under occupation by the French, then says in 1777, where is our Shakespeare? Who will unite the 10 Germanic tribes that Tacitus had spoken?We need a common culture to do this. Like the English have their Shakespeare and the community unites around the common language, the common tribe. We need the similar. And Wagner and Goethe and other brilliant German artists... took up this cause and they gathered the folklore and the language, the Grimm, the Brothers Grimm and the stories.90 years later, we had the first unified German state. It is one of my founding assumptions that states and nation states today... were founded on these common culture, these common stories. I think what I can try and do, and you're a part of this, with Manuland as a moniker to describe the community of people who live between Ireland and India, who emanate from the Yamna, whose ancestors left ancient Ukraine by around 2500 years before the Common Era. We can all find a commonality and a reason to unite, provided our mental models of history change.So we don't focus on what happened in the 18th or 19th century into the common era. We develop a mental model, which I have taught myself over the past few years, where I dance in my mind between 6,000 years, between really 4,100 BCE, which is really when we assume we have the first evidence the Yamna grew up inside ancient Ukraine. Then a group left there to eventually, via Armenia, enter Anatolia, who would 2,000 years later become the great Hittite Empire, which is, and the Hittite is the first, the earliest attested in the European language. Last January, and I've written about this as well, you'll see in earlier posts, last January I saw some, the first writing we have in any Indo-European language, which is from this place, Kanis, I spoke about in my, in the first little sub-episode here.And Kanis/Kültepe, we have this. I went to Ankara (as mentioned above) To this amazing archaeological museum. Because I wanted to see the first writing in an Indo-European language. I found it. I posted the picture. I’ll actually post it on the page here, Tarmana. So the first writing in any Indo-European language that we have, where billions of words are written every second today, whether it's on social media... or in computer systems or on paper for shopping lists between Ireland and India over the course of the whole America, of course, which emanates from a whole muddle of different Indo-European traditions. that the first writing we have from this place, Kanis/Kültepe, in an Indo-European language between 1900 and 1800 years before the Common Era is Tarmana. It's an M-N- sound. I have to say, that was beyond my wildest dreams, was to actually see it and photograph it in the Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. They didn't know the significance to me and to the M-N-sound.So I’m expanding your mental model from thinking um about history from the 19th century or the second world war to we want to run by the end of this I want like my mind runs very agilely through this time from 4100 bce when Tarmana’s ancestors lived in ancient Ukraine. So Tarmana, his name is written down in this cuneiform text for me to photograph in 2025, January 2025. His name, the text I saw, the cuneiform text I saw was written down between 1900 and 1800 BCE. So it was 4,025 years. years old, give or take. Now, 2000 years before then, Tarmana’s ancestors lived in Ukraine. In the Lower Don.We have around 1200 words, sounds, meanings. So not just the words, the sounds and the meanings. which Tarmana’s ancestors spoke in ancient Ukraine. It's called Proto-Indo-European. I call it ancient Ukrainian because now we know it was spoken in ancient Ukraine. The M-N- sound is there in the word for moon, which is a much more important word in their culture and in their community than it is in perhaps ours until I came along and discovered this origins of the M-N-sound.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 shorter. Then you can decide whether you listen to them all together. So Manu or Mannus… This episode, like all, will contain the three elements which are: (1) Mana, meaning energy, I'm exchanging my energy with you, my Mana, you can hear it in my voice, the timbre of my voice. You by downloading it, by listening to it, you are taking in but you're also giving back. We're exchanging our Mana, our energy. (2) Also in here, obviously, is the linguistic element, the Indo-European element, which includes both the mythological as well as the linguistic aspects.(3) The third element are journeys, voyages, mental and physical. So I was describing how the first Germanic culture went up the Dniester River and/or the Danube River, two of the great rivers of ancient and contemporary Ukraine. Also that in the three sons of Mannus - Herminones, Ingaevones (who founded the English people), and Istaevones -is this trifunctional structure which which is a very important means of tracing indo-european elements in our cultures.So, most of us are aware of the Indian caste system. You have the Brahmin priestly caste. The sovereignty caste. Then you have the Ksatriya, who are the soldiers equivalent to my namesake, Istaevones in Germanic culture. Then you have the third caste, who are the farmers. The economic caste. The fertility element. The function of the community which is expressed in the caste system. Well, that same tripartite structure... has been traced into most if not all indo-european culture linguistic and social cultures. So, again, it comes from a common source. “The strongest reconstructions [of Proto-Indo-European] are those that are based on languages that are not closely connected, in order to eliminate the possibility of common innovation among a sub-group like Celtic or Balto-Slavic. A reconstruction based on evidence from Old Irish and Hittite is therefore stronger than one based solely on Sanskrit and Avestan, as they form a sub-group.”The individual proper names at the origin of the ethnic groups are not the common names for gods, but they're, they're surnames. So we have Herminones, Ingaevones and Istaevones. Those are probably the surnames. So you would receive your name according to the tribe you're in and the Germanic tribe you're in. But the particular element within it. Are you of the soldier caste or the fertility, the economic, the farming caste? Or are you like the Brahmin priest, the Herminones part or the Flamines in ancient Rome? So the source of these names for us is from the poetic, Carmina. Carmina, again the M-N- to describe Carmina (songs), the poetic. So Tacitus, although this is all, he is our main source, our primary, our fundamental, source for understanding the origins of the Germanic people through the stories they told themselves, the myths they exchanged themselves before they were a written culture. And Tacitus himself, he’s a bit of a historian, but he's also a Carmina. He's a poet. So he's writing in the poetic. So that first, that name, Ingea, probably from the Ingeavones. So Ingeia is probably the first name. Referring to an individual god and there's a parallel in Scandinavia which then occupied the island of Britain and became the dominant Germanic tribe there after 433 Common Era when the Romans withdrew from the island of Britain. The German Germanic tribes took over as we know in 1066. The Normans again M-N- in Norman. So they are related genetically and linguistically to the Menapii, who are very much at my origin story of here and Manuland. The term Manuland comes from a warehouse near Maine in France, near this village Maine in France, in eastern France. The Normans, Normandy, this peninsula pointing out into the Manche (into the so-English Channel...). The Normans invaded the island of Britain and took over. Although many of the individual words in the English language are indeed French, the structure, the roots of verbs, determines that English, which developed after this, is a Germanic language. The Germanic tribes, including Ing, the Ing, Ingwia, the Germanic tribe. So Ingwia was a god, and so the people who worshipped that god, they became known as the Ingavones. So that is how peoples were named either by themselves or often by others. They were in the same way that, say, Christians are so-called because they worship Christ, that the Ingua worshipped this god, this Ing, this god of Ing.They took over the island of Britain or parts of the island of Britain, mainly from East Anglia onwards, where I also lived there for a few years, So I have a sense of that and I recently visited some of the earliest mounds which were built by these Ingua in Saxon mounds near the border between Suffolk and Essex.So Ingwe refers to an individual god, and this points us towards a similar interpretation for the others. So for the Hermenones and the Istavones. So Hermen being the god, son of Ymir. And... each of these three groupings these tripartite group groupings has a tribal ancestor from whom they take their name who who either began as a god or started off as a particularly one of these these imaginary brothers or sisters that I have down near Odesa who decide one goes off in one direction the other and the other and the other and the other and they, in actual historical fact, then found these different communities. There's many different theories about how these migrations took place, and there's no reason why they would have happened the same way everywhere. So there's a variety of different models. I've given you one kind of imaginative, cute one, where my ancestor, Istavones, leaves... leaves this area where the Usatova and the Yamna created the first Celtic, Italic and Germanic languages and cultures. So one of them, the founder of the Italic, goes off one direction. A few years later, another sister leads a troop of a couple hundred families in another direction on wagons.And another year, a few years later, they go in another direction. And out of these migrations comes these respective traditions.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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-disinformation skill set (which I talk about mostly in my disinfolklore project), I solve the problem of the origins of the M-N- sound in the word we use to signify our species. I also propose why the Mana in humankind is so important. Why the energy in humankind,… Why the M-N- sound in the moniker human is so important to understanding what it means to be a human living in communities today.This is what Finding Manuland is about - these three elements: Mana exchange, Linguistics, and the changing of mental models. Around November 2022, I did finally solve or come up with a cogent hypothesis about the meaning of this M-N- sound; why it is SO immanent in our language; and why it's used to signify our species and so many mythological founders in Indo-European cultures. However, as ever in any human endeavour, solving one problem opens up worlds I never imagined existed before I set out to find Manuland. Yet, even before then, while I was on that search, that result only opened up new avenues and new vistas. Every time I travel to a new place which is connected to the M-N- Sound between Ireland and India (as I spend most of my time now doing) whole new vistas open up. That's why I think Finding Manuland will be one project and program which I will continue for the rest of my life. Hopefully you will join me on this amazing journey. Thank you very much for being along with me on this journey!It's amazing that when I finish recording this, I can just send it out to you and you see it, hear it, feel it. Especially if you've paid to receive Finding Manuland, your Mana is totally in my Mana now and my Mana, my voice, is inside you. The things I can share with you, which perhaps you didn't know, become an essential part of you. So the root of the pre-Germanic language first became established in Central Europe. They spread up the Dniester River, which is in today's Ukraine, and the Danube River. So this D-N- sound (which alongside the M-N- sound is one of the three main sounds I have found inside almost every important vocabulary in each Indo-European language). Sounds and meanings immanent in almost every sentence we speak in an Indo-European language today. The D-N- sound is very important with that. In fact, my interest in the D-N- sound predates my interest in the M-N- sound. D-N-‘s in the Don River. It's in the Donets River. We're moving, if you can adjust your brain now, we're moving westwards from the Don River, one of the great rivers of Europe, westwards to the Donets River, where I worked on a bridge over the Donets in eastern Ukraine between 2015 and 2018 on a bridge which divided the Russian occupiers from government control.We're moving westwards across to the Don, the Don-Hyper (Dnipro) River, the Dnipro River, as it's known today, where I lived in the city of Dnipro, which is basically Don Hyper, the upper Don, when you're looking at it from the perspective of Crimea, you're looking upwards towards the Dnipro River from the exact place where it turns out the Yamna community who forged the forebear of all extant, all living Indo-European languages lived, before the migrations.I lived in the city of Dnipro from 2018 to 2022, and we're moving westwards then on to the Dniester, the Don-Istris River, another great river of Europe, and then further west to the Danube, that also runs through Ancient and contemporary Ukraine. And all of these rivers are in, were in ancient Ukraine and are in modern Ukraine, except for the Don River, which was taken away from Ukraine in 1953, I think it was, by Khrushchev. But we won't go there for the second. So this D-N- sound’s very important. We've got the Tuatha de Dannán, who were the second of the three mythological Indo-European invaders of Ireland.We have the Danaeans, who were the first Greeks, according to Homer, and the Sea People. We have many different cultures across Indo-European and important monarchies. with this d-n- sound in it. And then the other is the r-t-, the -Rch, Rg / Rt / Reg / Rch / Rit / Rd sound, meaning right, meaning truth, Rta, from the Vedic, from the Sanskrit, and Arta in the ancient Iranian.That r-t- is in right, -Rta, and almost every sentence we speak. Yet the M-N- sound, I hope you'll be convinced or you'll see why I think it's more fundamental. For instance, it's the M-N- in fundamental! So the root of the pre-Germanic language basically comes from the Yamnaya, who lived the Yamna in Ukrainian, a transcription from Ukrainian. The Yamna lived in an area which is under a lot of fire at the moment in Kherson, around Kherson and Mykolaev in southern Ukraine. A community of Yamna spread from there westwards towards today's Odesa. And they joined up with this Usatovo group. culture, who have many, many things in common with the Yamna.And out of this meeting, out of this community, which was formed of the Yamna and the Usatova, came the Italic, the Celtic and the Germanic language communities. Now, linguists still don't know which came first. It's possible Germanic evolved later on in an area which is closer to where Germany is now, or it's possible they individuated around that area then just east of Odesa into Celtic, Italic and Germanic language families.What is certain, according to linguists, is Celtic culture and Italic culture individuated there. So when I say Italic, I mean everything you know about the Ancient Romans was seeded in this area. So a community of this joining together of the Usatobo and Yamna community, a community offshooted from this. It was their descendants who would unify all the tribes in what we today call Italy and who would become ancient Rome. So we see Rome as the beginning of something. And Romulus and R(y)emus, whose grandfather, by the way, had an N-M- reversed sound in their name, Numitor. So all of that comes from this community.So this is what I mean by expanding your mental models of time and cultures and community. We have this journey which the early Proto-Germanic language speakers took up from the Azov Sea coast, from the Black Sea coast, up the Dniester River and up the Danube River into what today we would call Germany. We would assume that they brought with them this M-N- sound and Mannus as their mythological founder. Why? Well, there is this saw, as it were, which we have in linguistics and in this kind of work, which says that basically if you have the same linguistic language, phenomenon and meaning in an Indo-European language west of Ukraine and as in an Indo-European language east of Ukraine, then we can be, all other things considered, assume that this comes from the common source. So the first Indo-Europeans in India also came from Ukraine, ultimately, and we know this now as a matter of scientific certainty since 2019 when the journal Science published the first peer-reviewed examination of the ancient DNA and the Brahman, who were a priestly caste in ancient India, and again notice the M-N-sound in Brahman. In Flamines, who were the priestly caste in ancient Roman culture, again, we have the same M-N-sound in there, which is, of course, interesting and not a coincidence. Because, as just discussed, they all come from this Yamna, M-N in Yamna as well, community in southern Ukraine. So we've got Manu and Mannus, who not only sound the same, they've got this M-N sound, they also fulfill the same function.The society, the community, the communality, the municipality, the country emanates from Manu in Indian lore and also from Mannus in German lore. So we have this coincidence or borrowing or from a common source. We always have these three choices when we're faced with these commonalities like the first human in Indian culture is Manu and the first human in Germanic culture is Mannus - Is this a coincidence? Is it borrowing one from the other? So as was thought, the Germans copied the Indians. Or, third, is it from a common source? The M-N-, by the way, is obviously in common as well, in the word common.All of us can make a decision about these issues. I've told you before about this principle that if you've got an instance of a similar trope or function or moniker in one Indo-European language west of Ukraine, if you've got another east of Ukraine, then it's more likely than not on the balance of probability, this is an emanation from a common source. It's not a coincidence. It's not borrowing. And so writing in 98 years into the Common Era, the Roman writer Tacitus mentions the Germanic legend of tribal origin. And note, of course, Tacitus didn't know about the existence of Indo-European languages.He didn't realise that Germanic linguistic and mythological and religious culture had emanated from the same place ultimately. that Roman culture had. The Romans saw themselves as much more advanced than the Germans at the time. The Germans did fight against them very well and preserve their culture in a way that other countries didn't. For instance, France, which was a Celtic culture, Gaul, it lost its language, and it became a Romance language and evolved from there. Indeed so did what would become the English twice. England and the island of Britain was a Celtic culture when the Romans arrived and the Romans wiped the Celtic culture out. So you could maybe think of three brothers in the area just east of Odesa, and one goes on to found the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages and conquer the whole of Italy. The other moves up the Danube or up the Dniester River, and founds a Celtic culture which first really solidified around modern Czechia (the Hercunian forest), as it was known. Then it spread from there to Ireland. the island of Britain, all the way to the south of Spain, Lusitania, parts of Italy, northern Italy. Aboats, the current capital of Türkiye, is a Celtic founded city (I was also there last January).The third mythological brother maybe left a couple of days later. He went on to found, and maybe his sister, maybe she went on to found the Germanic culture. Then centuries later, they all forget they come from the same source. But they do see there's some family resemblance to their different languages and cultures and myths.So writing in 98, Tacitus mentions the Germanic legend of tribal origin. “In their ancient ballads, their only form of recorded history, they celebrate Tuisto, a god sprung from earth, and they assign him a son called Mannus, their progenitor, through his three sons. The Romans were fully aware that Scandinavia... was also a womb of nations.”Scandinavia is a Germanic culture. So even the Romans knew that then. But again, they couldn't guess for a second that it all came from Ukraine, from ancient Ukraine. And this area of Scandinavia continually sent forth new waves of migrations. What they could not know is that the Germanic settlers of the north also belonged to the Indo-European group. And in a similar manner, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, who then occupied the island of Britain after the Romans withdrew in 423, they themselves were also a Germanic religion. “And the Germans celebrate in their ancient songs, which are their only means of remembrance or recording the paths, an earth-born god, Tuisto,…”Tuisto, meaning twin. But also, it also sounds a bit, it could be like, Christo, Deusto, could also be God, Twisto. It could be the meaning of God, Deus. We've talked before about that, meaning sky. “His son Mannus was the origin of their race and their founder. They assign three sons to Mannus. And from their names, they call those close to the ocean, Ingaevones. Those in the middle, Hermenones. And all the rest, Istavones…”And notice, Ingaevones gives their name to England, to the English. So it was that community of Germans from around the area of Denmark, today's Denmark, again D-N- in there, who then would occupy and dominate the island of Britain and become the English. Those in the middle, Herminones, so the M-N- is in Herminones, and all the rest, Istaevones. Note my name is “Stephen.” My name is derived from Istaevones. And the trifunctional interpretation of Tuisto's three grandsons, or Mannus's three sons, was proposed in 1939. And... Basically, the Ingaevones corresponds to the fertility function, the economy, the farmers in society. Herminones corresponds to the sovereignty function, which contains the magical and the juridical elements. And the rest Istaevones, my namesake, corresponds to the military. And so we will continue this episode in a second.Tacitus:GERMANIA, CHAPTER 2(The Germans) celebrate in ancient songs-which are their only means of remembrance or recording the past—an earth-born god, Tuisto (or: Tuisco). His son Mannus was the origin of their race and their founder. They assign three sons to Mannus, and from their names they call those close to the ocean Ingaevones; those in the middle, Herminones; and all the rest, Istaevones.Each of these three groupings thus has a tribal ancestor from whom they take their name: the Ingaevones from Ing, who corresponds to the Old Norse god Yngvi (Freyr); the Herminones from Irmin, the national god of the Saxons according to Widukind of Corvey and others (who may also correspond to ON Jormunr, a by-name of Oöinn); and the Istaevones from *Ist, who is unknown elsewhere.23 This brief account—taken from the ancient songs of the Germans themselves.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

⚡️ 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. What did you do to halt this inevitable future being realised? @ZarinaZabrisky has been cataloguing this inevitable future for ALL European cities meanwhile, @Bundeskanzler and @POTUS are asleep at the wheel.What 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 almost in every sentence, the religions, the solid imminence in many Indo-European religions, including, I would characterize Christianity as an Indo-European religion, and Buddhism created by this community, which just in itself is an amazing, just amazing, absolutely amazing, because most of us grow up, we have a mental model of Greece, Rome, maybe ancient Egypt before Greece and then our cultures…What 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 almost in every sentence, the religions, the solid immanence in many Indo-European religions, including, I would characterize Christianity as an Indo-European religion, and Buddhism created by this community, which just in itself is an amazing, just amazing, absolutely amazing, because most of us grow up, we have a mental model of Greece, Rome, maybe ancient Egypt before Greece and then our cultures. And that turns out this is not true. And that Greek, Greece and Rome, Greek, well, Italic culture, Italic and Celtic languages, as far as we know, formed inside a mixture of the Yamna community from this area in Greece. Kherson, Mikhailov, Oblast, you know, right around the river where Russia and Ukraine, you know, this has been an intersection point, an interaction point for millennia, out of an interaction between migrating Yamnaf from there after 2500 BCE, westwards, near Odessa, just east of Odesa, and this community of people there. Linguists and archaeologists have suspected, many of them have suspected this for decades, for a few decades, but And Jung refers to the reason why Jung explains why he believes that these archetypes are part of the collective unconscious of humanity is he just can't understand how else they could have come from, where else they could have come from. And he talks, Jung talks about the wildest migration theories, which now we know since 2015, ancient DNA revolution, as it's known in the, in the literature, uh, is scientific facts. So the scientific fact of, um, the genetic, uh, content of people from India to Ireland, uh, whose, um, genetic ancestry comes from what they call the step, but what I call ancient Ukrainian. And so for me, a lot of my work, you know, is about re-archetyping Ukraine inside the mental models of humanity. Because I realized, as many of us did, there was nothing, there was some problem that people had, whether it was the former German policy or the policy of many of our governments. They all were perceiving, and perhaps many of us did this as well before we became aware about Ukraine, and at its importance, not only in our, in our current day, in our current moment, but its importance over time, um, that, um, that there was something they basically, Russia was managing by, uh, by controlling, uh, the, by monopolizing the myth of Russia's superiority of Ukraine archetyping, Ukraine is not a real country. Every time Donald Putin speaks, he's re-archetyping Russia as this great power. And many of us and many of our friends perhaps still will perceive Russia's culture as somehow justifying its genocide in Ukraine and its activities in Ukraine or Dostoevsky or ballet. And I'm a great fan of those writers because I think they're very insightful and very helpful. to us. But, um, so I realized that basically from very beginning of the war of the full scale invasion without really, um, understanding it as being archetyping at the time. But I realized that what, what I had to do, what I had to do, my mission was to try and, uh, at least, uh, campaign for parity of the steam between Ukraine and other modern nation states, which have won the monopoly, by fair means or foul, certain communities of people after World War II, who had managed to become UN members, including Ukraine, which was the founding member of the United Nations. signed the UN charter in 1945.But then as I dug into it more deeply and followed this path from when I was in Eastern Ukraine, working in Eastern Ukraine, I accidentally discovered the Yamna when some property developers were destroying this extraordinary structure in a posh suburb of Dnipro.And it made the front page of the New York Times, and all of the local people were protesting. And so I went to, in my capacity as a monitor, to monitor the security situation, I went there to try and discover what was going on. And what I discovered was these property developers had destroyed a Yamna burial mound in which was buried the local monarch. and various other people throughout the millennia, including the last person to be buried in there was the head of the collective farm, believe it or not, in like 1932. So delusions of grandeur there and continuity. And underneath this mound, when they destroyed it, was found the stone circle, which was created by one of the major ingredient cultures in the Yamna. And And through that, I began to, from a position of extreme skepticism, that we could trace the linguistic, the journey of certain people carrying not just a language, not just the words, the vocabulary, the sounds and meanings which we use today.There's about a thousand sounds and meanings in what we call Proto-Indo-European. or I call ancient Ukrainian, which is the language spoken by the Yamna between 4,100 BCE and 2,500 BCE. And I recognize I'm throwing out these dates. For me, it's really chartered to territory for most people.Most of us, our history kind of begins maybe around 1,000 BCE with the first... King David in the Bible or whatever. But again, what I'm trying to do and part of my mission is to re-archetype our mental models, our idea of not just Ukraine, humanity, our human history and our European history and Ukrainians' position in it, but to create these new structures and these frameworks, because that's how what I call dis-folklore and disinformation does. It creates frameworks, untruthful frameworks in our minds. So, you know, people inside MAGA, in the MAGA disenfoked or galaxy, you know, they have all these in-In jokes, they know all about these different things which you and I wouldn't know about. And this is how it works, as I understand. This is how Russian disinformation is, why it's so successful, because it's not a question of people's intelligence or their education. or anything like that. It's about how people's minds are changed.So I'm quite upfront about this when I outline these histories and all of this stuff, which is, you know, the ancient DNA studies is published in Nature and Science, the preeminent scientific journals that stay away from anything that's in any way unkosher or not backed up.Feel free to follow up on anything to do with the Indo-European thing, because it's key to my mission to re-archetype the idea of Ukraine in people's minds, but also it's the key to understanding how archetyping works, I believe, in our minds, in Indo-European's minds.To be continued…Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 our mental archetype.I want us to privilege ancient Ukraine in the way that today perhaps we privilege ancient Rome or ancient Greece. Because everything in ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient Iran, and ancient Ireland—all the languages and religions which emanate from this Yamna community—is like an acorn growing out of a seed. That seed is in the Yamna community in Ukraine.We can trace that through every single branch of the Indo-European family of languages, no matter how early they split from that Yamna community in Mykhailivka. The general consensus in this Nature paper of February 5th, 2025, underpins this: this community of Yamna last lived together around 2500 BCE. At that point, for whatever reason, the community began to divide.The Hittite and Anatolian branch split from a community which lived between the lower Volga and today’s Armenia around 4100 BCE. That branch eventually conquered all of Anatolia until the Mongols and modern Turkey gradually eradicated the Indo-European language as a daily language in that space. But that branch is attested in the 7,000 or 8,000 texts in Boğazköy, which I visited. If we can find the MN sound in there, then we know we’re on to something—that the actual Yamna who lived in Mykolaiv used the MN sound for this meaning regarding the exchange of energy.I am assembling a new archetype for your view of the whole of Indo-European human history in your mind, like putting together an IKEA bed. It takes a while to make it stable and secure enough to import into your proper bedroom. That is what I’m doing with Finding Manuland.When I use the term “human,” I’m using that as an emanation of the Indo-European languages. It happens to be an MN sound. We humans, we have our mind shining through our bodies, like the light shines through the moon. That mana, that energy, is in all of us as humans.Interestingly, in animals, who are also animate creatures, there is a reversal of the MN. We find this in words like “name” (which is an anagram for Manet) and “moniker.” We see this reversal in animal, animate, and anima (meaning soul). We’ve got two forms of sentient beings: human and animals. In one, we’ve got MAN, signifying the mind shining through us; in the other, we’ve got animal. We’re slightly distinguishing it.We vaguely know a mental model of history that starts with Rome, Greece, or Egypt. But if you’re like me, the space between Ireland and India was full of blanks. I wasn’t even aware of them because I didn’t focus on them. My archetyping helped me avoid focusing on what I didn’t know—like the geography of Turkey.I’m strictly traveling there as much as I can. I was there for three weeks after the New Year, visiting Mount Hazi. Each time I go, my mental blanks fill in. When I go to places with the MN sound in their name, or places associated with texts or orthostats (stones with carved stories), I am trying to imbibe the energy. Gradually, over the coming years—God willing—I will fill in that geographical space between Ireland and India and adjust my mental model from 4100 BCE to the present day.Most of us have access to Apple Maps or Google Maps. If I mention Armenia, note the MN sound. Maybe you think of it as just a former Soviet place. But in two seconds, you can look it up. You’ll see how small it is today (3 million people), but once it extended almost to Constantinople and well into Syria. We see remnants of that with communities of Armenians still in today’s Syria. We remember its precursor culture, Ararat (mentioned in the Bible), where Noah’s Ark ends up. There is your geographical mental model expanded. That’s the equivalent of your IKEA bed stand—you can take it out of the spare room now.Armenian is itself an independent branch in Indo-European languages. It is analogous to the entire Germanic branch. Armenian, spoken by only 3.5 million people, is the acorn seed equivalent to the entire Germanic or Italic branches.I hope you can just lie down, listen to my voice, and be lulled into a moment where you feel there’s more to life than the crazy stuff going on in the world. I want this to be a rich experience.Now you know about Armenia. We have lots of different branches, but two main splits: the split around 4100 BCE and the split around 2500 BCE. We know as an empirical fact that the genome of that Yamna community spread from Ireland to India. We find isotopic evidence, like strontium levels in teeth, relating to the food grown in the soil.Then we have the Anatolian branch. Anatolia is like a character in Finding Manuland. I visited last summer, camped on the beach, and looked for these archaeological artifacts. It was interesting to discover the Mitanni Empire, which worshipped Indo-European gods in modern Syria. They fought a big battle with the Hittites, leading to the first peace treaty in human culture—the Treaty of Mitanni. It mentions Indo-Aryan gods corresponding to Indra and the Nasatya around 1400 BCE. That is 300 years before the Rig Veda (written around 1100 BCE) provided the first written evidence of these gods.My provisional hypothesis—and I do have a basis for this—is that the “NN” sound seems very common in Assyrian and Babylonian. They use “NN” to the same extent we use “MN.”Just as a spoiler alert: looking at a cache of cuneiform texts from Kanesh (near Kayseri, Turkey) from 1900 to 1800 BCE—about 400 years before the Imperial Library at Boğazköy—we have 23,000 texts. Among them are the first examples of writing in an Indo-European language. Modern scholars distinguish between the Indo-European (or native/Anatolian) parts and the Assyrian parts.How? One main way is the sound “Uman.”I started from the intuition that MN was in Manannan (Ireland’s pre-Christian god), Manawydan (Welsh), and Manu (India, the first human). Ireland has the oldest vernacular literature on the European continent aside from Greek and Rome. Manannan is first mentioned in writing around 650 CE.Flash forward from that intuition—and the decision I made in Eastern France when I saw “Manuland” on a warehouse—to now. I am looking at this very recent text, Kanesite Hittite, a definitive analysis of those 23,000 cuneiform texts found in the basements of merchant houses that burned down around 1800 BCE. The author works out that this -uman sound distinguishes Assyrian names from Hittite (or Proto-Hittite) names.I mentioned before being in Ankara at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. I hoped to see the earliest piece of writing in an Indo-European language. And there it was. It was a cuneiform text of Chamana contracting with another native Anatolian for the purchase of a slave. Seeing the MN sound in Chamana’s name was not coincidental because the -uman ending is characteristic of Indo-European names even in 1900 BCE.For me, searching and Finding Manuland, going from Manannan to finding evidence that in another Indo-European language this -uman sound is so characteristic, was amazing.In the Kanesite Hittite book, the scholar discerns that if you see a name ending in -uman, it is Indo-European. That is a tiny example of how our mental models can be developed. I am giving you pegs from which to hang a new framework for looking at the past.This is our forest: the space between Ireland and India, and the time between 4100 BCE and today. We are lines stalking prey in this forest. We see these “lines” on stones, for instance in Karatepe, where mythological texts from 800 BCE (a century before Homer) mirror stories from the Hittite library of 1400 BCE. I recommend the book From Hittite to Homer.We are the lines wandering around this forest. We are surrounded by time before and the unknowable future, but we’ve got 6,000 years to wander around. This is the archetype I am assembling in your mind. All of this will hopefully gel enough so that in today’s quotidian work, we remember the power of mana.As my mental model of our origins has been transformed, I’ll communicate that to you.Here is one of the very earliest pieces of writing in any Indo-European language. Tarmana (note the M-N- in his name!) contracts to buy a slave from another Indo-European language speaker (described as an ‘Anatolian native’ in this sign in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations which I visited recently in Ankara).Below are a few photographs of my visit to the Karum suburb of Kanis/Kultepe, where this tablet and 23,500 others like it were discovered in the basements of merchants’ houses. These tablets are mainly in the Assyrian language. But many of the tablets (such as the one photographed above) contain ‘native Anatolian’ (i.e. Indo-European) names. Two recent books examine these texts to parse all the translation data since these tablets were discovered to determine which of the signs in the cuneiform script signify Indo-European sounds and meanings.Here is one of those books, which we’ll return to again (I’m grateful for your patience. It takes me a long time to process all these data in my mind):Continued:Continued from: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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

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 on the road. I am in Turkey and I am here in Ankara, here to visit the Museum for Anatolian Civilizations. We will get to this again in the future.It does take me quite a bit of time to to process what I see. But I wanted to talk to you quickly before we get to the 10 reasons about why finding Manuland matters. I want to quickly talk about methods. So I had this vision for my life in October/ November 2021. You might remember, you might have read one of the first episodes of Finding Manuland where I describe it being in this village called Maine in eastern France and in being in a hotel room that night and thinking:“Look, I've always wondered why is it that the first man in Indian culture is Manu and the first in Germanic culture is Mannus and in Ireland Manannán. Instead of just wondering about this stuff, why don't I try and find an answer to it and see if there is a connection between all of these MN sounding place names, and I was in one that day, and this phenomenon which I had noticed of MN sounds also in almost every sentence we speak. So we have this questioning about geography, about mythology, early pre-Christian religion, and also about our everyday language. And as I had this revelation that perhaps I could investigate this and see if I could come up with an answer, I passed by a warehouse in eastern France called Manuland.”There was this Manuland writing on it. And it's basically an agricultural machinery company in eastern France. And I thought, wow, that is a bit of a sign. That's a moniker and a sign. And so I will start investigating this. And I was on my way back to my diplomatic posting in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine.This was a few months before the full-scale invasion. And I was rushing back there after a couple of weeks vacation in Ireland. And I decided, well, why don't I take my time and just kind of wander around and test this to see if I can come up with anything interesting and to see if finally Manuland is a goer. And so I got in touch with my boss and he said, that's fine, take your time. And which was great. And I spent a couple of days wandering around, but I had this vision for my life…And this vision I've now realized to some extent. And the vision for my life was I would just arrive in a town, maybe with an MN sound in its moniker, in its name, and I would look for a method of exploring life. And I don't know what I'm looking for. And this is how all innovation happens.This idea of serendipity. So serendipity isn't accidentally uncovering something. It's putting yourself into a position where if you do see signs of something interesting... along a vague theme that you you will spot them you're looking for them you're scanning for them you're looking for these weak signals and you're chasing those weak signals and that realization of that that chasing of that weak signal then leads you to further. And I learned all about this and how you institutionalize innovation as a MBA student at Oxford University a few years ago. And how do you institutionalize innovation in companies? You try to keep the explore-exploit ratio in business. sync.So exploit is I had this idea of an MN sound in mythology, in language and in place names. And I could explore just one of those. So that would be exploiting this idea. But exploring necessitates also moving forward. And where we're at now from that moment in Maine village in France, where I arrive and I just have this vague idea of what I'm going to, what am I going to do there? Okay. I go to the center of the town. It's a church. Then I decided to go run in circles, in ever increasing circles. And eventually I came to a mound and the giant herdsman.And that method worked for there, but I had to evolve that method. So I don't just exploit it, I explore new methods. And so three years later, we're talking about finding Manuland, which is a moniker, which is a frame for the entire project of looking at the MN sound in our everyday language, in geographical place names, and in the mythological founders inside the Indo-European cultures, as I now understand them to be. And Now we have this new output, which is a podcast, which I'm still exploring. Thank you for being with me on this journey, this metaphorical journey, but this actual journey of iterating, of exploring, but also exploiting what I found so far.So now, as I mentioned, I'm in Ankara and I'm spending as many days as I need to get to know the Museum of Anatolian civilizations. I probably won't talk about much about what I found for a while because it takes time. And in some respects, I'm using this museum as an index to places in Anatolia, which is the modern country of Turkey. And then by seeing where artifacts, which are of particular interest in the emanate from where they come from I note down these places and I and we will visit these places and so this idea of exploring now but I haven't I won't be exploiting what I found for a time but instantly sometimes I see an artefact which immediately I saw something yesterday very briefly which I'm going to go back again today and see and I will explore that further but this constant iteration from the explore exploit ratio and fine tuning it is Out of that process, out of that mode of being, emanates all great innovations and inventions and ideas. And finally, Manuland is an institutionalisation of this idea. And... we don't know where we're going to end up. I have working hypotheses, which I didn't have when I was in Maine in that village. And one of the core ones is this reversion to the moon-based metaphor.Metaphor meaning metis, device, and phar meaning light. So the device for light is a metaphor in our language. And out of metaphors, this whole... interlacing and matrices and ever-increasing networks and matrices of metaphors emanate our entire mode of interpreting external reality and our mental reality and it is a working hypothesis in Finding Manuland you may have picked up that reversion to the moon-based metaphor is an actual empirical phenomenon. So we see it in the names of the mythological founders of the great Indo-European peoples, Mannus, Manu, Manawyadan, Manannán in Ireland.And we also see it in the place names in many different places in Anatolia and Ireland. Thousands of place names have this MN sound inside them, as indeed all across Manuland from Australia. Spiti Valley in the Himalayas, which is a valley that divides Tibet from the rest of the Indian part, the Indo-European society, and all the way between there and Emain Macha, which I also visited recently in northern Ireland, which I haven't spoken about as yet, but again, it's cooking away and I haven't exploited it yet, but I have explored it. And in each of these podcasts, we are evolving and iterating a method where we talk about MN.So there's three elements I mentioned. I will try always to structure the podcast by MN, But of course, we do iterate, so it will innovate and we will change this. But fundamentally, it's this looking at mana, meaning energy. So this MN sound signifying energy, mana, energy, which we had earlier.And I mentioned before we talk about in the Pacific where manna still meant energy. I believe that's an emanation of the contact from early Indo-European India with the Pacific region. And they matched their existing conception of what it means to be human and what it means to be human or an animal itself. And again,I haven't got to this yet, but we will come to it again because it's really important. So we've got human, we've got MN in human and in animal and animate, we've got the NM is reversed. So we've got the MN is reversed and animate and animate. So we have these two forms of sentient beings in our communities, in our universe, animals and humans. And we have this idea in early, in Latin, manes, amhain, again, M-N for meaning soul, manes, soul in life. uh in in latin cultures and so it's the soul which animates the human or the inanimate creature so again we have all of these little elements in and of course mn in element as well which element contains two elements to it Alu meaning light, light shining and mana meaning the meaning shining through the light. And so we have all of these little signposts in our language. And that's the second element I'll always try and bring into our podcast, which is so first we look at mana as energy. It's what animates us. It's what spurs us on. It's what at a fundamental level we move according to energy and And I maintain that actually what matters when we're speaking to each other or communicating, amen and communicate, is this exchange of energy.And if there's one message in Finding Manuland, Finding Manuland podcast, well, there is one message, but there's many messages. It is that this fundamental aspect of what it means to be human or an animate creature sent in being is what matters most. And this is what we're really trying to capture and maintain.And if you're in a moment today where you are perhaps, you're feeling a bit flustered because someone doesn't really understand what you're saying and you're really trying to communicate it clearly and it's really important to you um i want us to try and recall this a fundamental message in finding manuland is actually what matters in that moment is that you're there together and communicating energy and the words and the emotions which you are communicating unconsciously if we can if we can surface them and understand that actually today, right now, I'm talking about the film with you and the film we saw, you think it was rubbish. I think it was amazing. And it doesn't really matter what we're talking about. What does matter is that we're there together and we're humans. And in Turkey, going through the mountains, I visited this amazing Hittite site the other day. And as I was going over this mountain range, Suddenly, I got to the top to a pass and I looked down and I could see this entire kingdom, which I now understand is the kingdom of Hatti, which the Hittites, the first Indo-European empire, which was at its height between around 1650. 1500, 1400 BCE and 1200 BCE, before the Common Era.And this kingdom, which was the core part of the Hittite empire, laid down before me. And I could see these mountains and I got a picture of it. And so I decided to stop to take a photograph of it. And then this lion-sized dog, this massive dog, these Anatolian sheepdogs, which are everywhere, He or she, I think it was a he, he came to visit me and I happened to have bought all that. I didn't have any dog food. I'm going to get some dog food. So when you're driving around here, you see all these dogs in the mountains and they need a bit of food and cats as well.Actually, I might get cat food because, as some of us might know, dogs love cat food because in cat food is this tureen. It's this thing which cats need to live on, but dogs don't actually need it. So cat food's a lot more concentrated.That's a tip for those of us who feed and exchange manna with these sentient beings. And so I had this sense that this lion-sized dog resembled the lion IFC in the museum. There's just all of these sculptures of lions, these orthostats of carved lions, because in the Hittites, lion signified was very important in their religious and mythology and their idea of taming lions. The wild.So I fed this dog all this bread and at the end his tail was wagging away and we both went on our way and I saw this lovely phenomenon on my way into the kingdom of Hatti on my way to this amazing site which again I'll talk about in in the future when I process what I saw this Hittite site with all these orthostats and actually even Bronze Age burials and along the way, along the path, along the road, I saw these little brown piles and lots of dogs sitting beside them by the side of the road. And eventually I saw a car stopping and I saw them decanting dog food out and dogs uh coming uh from from afar to eat these piles and now that was an exchange of mana between the humans in that car and and these dogs these massive anatolian sheepdogs which you you see all over the place in this um in this place so that in the context of this podcast is an explanation of what Mana exchange is it's about exchanging energy and in that case it's through food with me with this giant lion who was guarding the passage into the kingdom of of Hatti, the first Indo-European empire, which is very important to us because we have 7,000 texts in Hittite language, most of which are now translated.They were found in the Imperial Library in Boguskoy, which I also visited a while ago. I have spoken a bit about visiting Boguskoy, but again, we'll get back to it. And if my hypothesis that MN is the fundamental signifier and sound in Indo-European languages is to hold true, then we would expect to find MN in Hittite as well, being the most attested Indo-European language, the earliest attested Indo-European language, because the earliest other text we have in Indo-European language is in the Rg Veda, which is about 1100 languages. BCE and its songs that were composed before then. And it was then recorded in there.And MN is all over there, all over the Rig Veda. Manu being the first mythological founder of humanity. And I'm not going... Well, all I will say is... My hope was, and MN's and Finding Manuland is also predictive, it should be about helping us to predict things and...I had this intuition in that village in Maine, Maine, M-A-I-N-E, I can't pronounce it. Oh, I remember I asked the herdsman when I got to this giant mound and I said to him, what's the, in French, what's the origins of Maine? And he pointed towards Cassels, which is the historical place for the land for the Menapii, who were this community that ruled the Marsh, the channel, the English channel, and became the Brigantes in Britain, on the island of Britain, and also arrived in Ireland. And out of the Menapii emanates a lot of the MN-sounding... names in Ireland and on the island of Britain and indeed in France and today's Belgium, around that area, the Menapii, the MN sound. But the Menapii don't explain why MN is all over Indian place names or all over Anatolia. So the essential meaning of the MN sound in Ireland on the island of Ireland those thousands of place names may have emanated directly from the Manapi who conquered the island of Ireland it would seem and gave their place names to Loch Gorman which is Wexford, Cil Mhaintin which is Wicklow, Fermanagh, County Fermanagh and Monaghan and thousands of other place names. So the Menapii may have been the proximate cause, but they are not the ultimate cause. And Finding Manuland is exploring for ultimate causes of all of these meanings and of these... the appearances of the sound. So we're looking at mana as an energy exchange and the MN sound as a moniker. We're also looking at the language because the language we use in each sentence is an artifact of these thousands, these millennia of history. And it's a core assumption of finding Manuland, but it's beyond an assumption now because of what I've found and even reported to you so far, that the language itself is an artefact. Almost every sentence we speak, we can trace when we use an MN sound in sacrament, in moniker, in mantra, in mandala, in... all of these words that communicate similar meanings in different Indo-European languages, they emanate from a common source, which is this moon-based metaphor, this MN sound, this idea of light shining through the moon, in the same way in semantics that a particular meaning sounds through a signifier and so we have this idea this light shining through the moon and in our language if we can uncover the connection between the words we use every day in our lives in our ordinary workaday lives when we're walking around the place and talking about various communities or communal meanings or we're talking about energy or we're talking about power. We're talking about why is, for instance, the president of Georgia, she still holds power even though the illegitimate government has power. has appointed its new president. But these essential elements in our way of looking at the world, our way of organizing the world in governance, in government and in our monarchies and in the security and the fertility and prosperity of our communities, there is remnants which we can trace backwards through time. And for me, back to the beginning of our evidence of the Indo-European era, which is 4,100 BCE in southeastern Ukraine, and the cultural descendants of those Yamnaya, MN and Yamnaya, ended up taking over the entirety of Anatolia, which became Turkey after the Turks invade and conquered it in the 11th century in the Common Era. And they also, those Yamnaya's descendants, a bit later, so an early group of them, left around 4100 BC and populated, eventually conquered the whole of Anatolia. And then later groups left and ended up conquering all the other, the rest of the land between Ireland and India in the various Indo-European linguistic groups. And therefore, when we find MN Sounds in the names of the mythological founders of all of these people, the Germanic people and the Indian people and the Irish people, the Celtics, the Keltoi, the hidden ones, the people who worshipped the hidden one, Dusko or... Donn in pre-Christian Ireland, who incidentally in the mythological record was born in ancient Ukraine in Scythia. And this was known long before we understood that all Indo-European languages emanate from the Yamnaya, from this area of Scythia. And so we have this idea that as we iterate on our journey from this village in Maine in eastern France, that we've discovered quite a lot about the meaning of manna, the meaning of energy exchange, the MN sound and language. And then the third element in each of the podcasts, which is about, excuse me, if I was better at editing, I'd edit that out and I will get better at editing. But it's, anyway, it's really complicated and I'm trying to learn, but I will, I'll get better at it. So stick with me, stick with us. And so that third element in each podcast, first we got the, it's about manna, manna exchange, then about language, and then it's about journeys. It's about a physical journey between Ireland and India.So today I'm in Ankara, as I mentioned to you. It's about this physical journey between Ireland and India to different places to look at MN-sounding places, places connected to MN. And so while I was here, I had read ages ago that the Celts, a Celtic language-speaking community, had occupied parts of Anatolia from about 300 BCE until the Romans, MN in Roman, got rid of them. And when I was coming to Ankara to go to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, I thought, okay, let me see if I can find out where the boundaries of these so-called Galassians, as they were called.The Romans called them the Galattians, but they were a Celtic language speaking community. And it turned out Ankara was... was the center of where they lived. And this Celtic language speaking community laid the foundations of this amazing place that I ran to yesterday in Ankara Castle. And so when I talk about serendipity, it's not an accident that I discovered this, but nor is it determined. I had this memory of wanting to find the Celtic language speaking people who were just another Indo-European lair in Anatolia after the Hittites and the previous the Hittites precursors. But because I was here, I discovered it.Another one is I wanted to... Mounds are very important. Burial mounds are really important because until we had ancient DNA analysis, it was Marija Gimbutas... who was a Lithuanian-American linguist, world-class Indo-European linguist, but also at the same time a world-class archaeologist. And it was she who, through a combination of archaeology and linguistics and looking at material artefacts and putting them all together, formulated what was then called the step hypothesis, where she looked at what we now know to be Yamnaya migrations, MN and migration as well, from eastern Ukraine, westwards and eastwards. And she determined what is known as the step hypothesis, is that we could associate the spread of Indo-European languages, which, as we know, it's an empirical fact, with We all speak Indo-European languages traditionally in this area between Ireland and India. And that emanates from a common source. And the key question was, where was that common source? Who is it? And Marija Gimbutas used the migrations of the Yamnaya, which was marked by different artifacts, but particularly by burial mounds. And this idea of burying a patriarch, One human, one male human usually with amazing grave goods underneath a human built artificial earthen mound. And there's 100,000 of them in Ukraine, in current Ukraine. But you could chart the migrations of the Yamnaya across Europe, east and west. using burial mounds, which determined that the same people, the people with the same religious ideology had created these burial mounds. And often you'll see the artifacts in them are quite similar. Marija Gimbutas, and someone wrote to me about this earlier, so I'm going to set it out here.It's immanent in everything I do, is what she amazingly was able to do. And ancient DNA evidence since 2015 has demonstrated the truth of what Marija Gimbutas used archaeology and artifacts to propose the step hypothesis. So we now know that ancient DNA analysis demonstrates that people from between Ireland and India have various degrees of Yamnaya ancestry, ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya ancestry inside their genome even today. And we can even see, for instance, nature, The preeminent scientific journal published emphatic evidence that on the island of Britain, around the 2,450 years before the Common Era, the genome of 90% of the population on the island of Britain changed to include Yamnaya, Or what they called Beaker, but it's Yamnaya ancestry from what we now know to be ancient Ukraine. But this idea of mounds was very important to the beginning of finding Manuland because it was a burial mound, the destruction of a burial mound in Manuland. Dnipro in the city I was living in in eastern Ukraine in May 2021, which first led me to the discovery of the Yamnaya and this idea that one people could be responsible for spreading a language from Ireland to India and that they came from this area, eastern Ukraine, where I happened to be. But it was an article in the New York Times about the destruction of a burial mound, a Yamnaya burial mound in Dnepro in the suburbs, a posh suburb of Dnepro. Property developers wanted to build a posh house on top of it. So they use this trick in Ukrainian law where they got this archaeologist who said he would research the mound. And I use research with air quotes.And the old Soviet way of doing archaeology, the way the old way of doing archaeology probably everywhere was you just destroy it in order to research it. And so they were able to destroy the mound by saying they were going to research it. So they got all the permissions. But underneath the mound, they found a stone circle.And you'll see some of the first episodes, the written episodes of Finding Man. And we talk about the Kromlik and this stone circle. And that stone circle was built by the Stedni Stog community, who... who were one of the ingredients in the Yamnaya and the Sredni Stog contributed to the formation of Indo-European languages.But they are Old Europe, according to Marija Gimbutas's separation of the two chronologies. So we've got Indo-European, which began with the Yamnaya spread from Ireland to India. And prior to that, we have Old Europe. And the Old European layer is visible in... around the same geographical space in Europe that the Indo-Europeans would eventually cross.But they had a different material culture. And from that different material culture, for instance, as Marija Gimbutas demonstrates from her archaeological researches across Europe, that you have this break in the archaeological record virtually everywhere where the At one point, everyone in the community is buried together and you have in temples and excavated religious sites, you have roughly 95% of the artifacts are representations of the female, of women. And I will see some of these today in Museum for Anatolian Civilizations, and they're quite distinctive. I've seen them in museums in Poland, in Ireland, in Germany, and now in Anatolia. They're quite similar, so you don't need to be Marija Gimbutas to see that, okay, we have artifacts which are quite similar in all of these places, and these represent the old Europe world. the old European layer, pre-Indo-European. And so we often talk about the old European as being more maternal, goddess worshipping, more equal societies, egalitarian, everyone buried together, not with grave goods. And then suddenly you have this break.And in Dnepro, it was so wonderfully illustrated by this mound, which no longer exists, that that you suddenly go from this point where everyone is buried together, you don't have real grave goods apart from some female altars. The AAA culture in Ukraine, ancient Ukraine, is very typical of this old European layer.And then suddenly you go to one male burial, patriarchal burial. The whole community must have worked for ages to build these mounds. And that demonstrates around the same time that people started speaking Indo-European languages and worshipping Skyfather, Dias Petar, who who you will remember from a previous episode, and this whole religious, this whole contract with Skyfather.If Skyfather protects the crops, then the community will live together in peace and will eat properly. And this whole religious ideology became part of the the spread of Indo-European languages and the spread of this patriarchal mode of social organization. Well, because I'm in Ankara, I started looking at places near Ankara and I discovered Gordian, where King Midas, you might remember, and the Gordian Knot, basically the Gordian Knot, when Alexander, the so-called great, unfurled the Gordian Knot in he apparently that means he could rule asia um we will investigate this further but in this place called gordian where the third largest mound on uh artificial burial mound in the world is present which was king midas's for king midas's father and one of the the ways in which why we think of king midas having the golden touch from from our uh i was going to say shakespeare but i'm I don't know if Midas is mentioned, Shakespeare may well be, certainly mentioned in James Bond, this idea of the Golden Touch, that emanates from this, the third largest artificial burial mound in the world, which was for his father, King Midas's father, and amazing artifacts were found in there. And in fact, this site, Gordian, has the largest concentration of burial mounds anywhere. And interestingly for me, was the fact that the earliest of them dates from around 800 BCE, so quite late. So even though we had the Hittite empire collapsed around 1200 BCE, the first Indo-European empire, they didn't use burial mounds. And these burial mounds... were used by the Phrygians, by King Midas was a Phrygian, which is an Indo-European community, we assume.And they, so they burial mounds as a mode of burial and patriarchal mode of burial didn't come to Anatolia until around 800 BC. And that is millennia later than I thought. And that's really interesting. And it's really helped. It's because of the importance of mounds and note the MN sound in mound and mountain that we iterate and we're open to evidence. And that gives you a bit of an idea of how I'm keeping the explore-exploit ratio in sync in real time. So 10 reasons why finding Manuland matters. We're not going to get to all the 10 reasons today, but I'm going to look at the first couple and then I'll leave you to it. So the first reason why finding Manuland matters is because it's not generally known that all Indo-European languages can be traced to ancient Ukraine. I'll post in the posts that generally In my Finding Manuland podcast, I record the podcast and I put it up there. And then the software automatically creates the transcript. And then I post the transcript in the post. So if you receive this by email, you'll see, you'll just receive the talk, the podcast itself.But if you go to the website page where the talk is, a day or two later, you'll see the entire transcript. And I also post in... various artifacts images and references which i've made in the podcast interspersed through the transcript which is automatically generated and i i correct it so it takes a few days so if in the past you haven't looked at the actual website of the podcast and you're wondering about this or that reference you'll see them there. And if there's a reference you don't see that you want to see or expect to see, contact me, write a comment, and hopefully I'll see the comment.And if I do see the comment, I will find the reference and I'll post it there. in the image. So from the perspective of Indo-European languages, I didn't really know. I just had a vague recollection. I'd seen the language tree before I found Manilan, before I decided to go on this journey. I remember seeing a language tree, for instance, when I was posted as a diplomat in Kosovo and my boss had it on her wall and Albanian, which is the lingua franca in Kosovo, was seen as it's kind of out there. It's like Armenian or indeed Anatolian, it's definitely from the common source. It's definitely from southeastern Ukraine, as we now know, but it separated from at an earlier, at an early point. from them and is quite distinctive and evolved and developed on its own. However, it does have sufficient common characteristics in the roots of verbs, the grammar and the syntax to determine it is an Indo-European language. And I remember seeing the language tree, which is a very early metaphor to describe the way languages evolve, which emanated from biology at the time in the 19th century, in the late 17th century. And I did that post about William Jones, Sir William Jones, the Welsh Sanskrit ancient Iranian scholar who discovered the existence of Indo-European languages in, I think it was 1783 in Kolkata.He announced this discovery. I recently read the definitive biography of William Jones, which was fascinating to someone like me. And again, it wasn't an accident that he was the person who discovered Indo-European languages. He was so bright as a child. Both his parents nurtured him and gave him access to the best education. changed their entire family structure to suit his education because he was so brilliant. He spoke so many languages, even as a teenager and at school. And then he, like many of us in life, took a bit of time to try and find a way of earning a living for from doing what he loved most.And again, like me, for instance, he went to an Oxbridge. I went to Cambridge. He went to Oxford to study law and he became a judge. And then he went to India as a judge, as a Supreme Court judge in Kolkata, just at the beginning after a load of corruption had led to the English state government. taking over India from the East India Company. And it was while there as a judge, William Jones learned Sanskrit. And while he was learning Sanskrit, this ancient Indo-European language, And the reason he was learning Sanskrit was to translate the laws of Manu, the Manusmriti, which the laws of Manu are an ancient Indian law code. Well, we now know that basically the laws of Manu were written down around 600 in the Common Era. So it uses Manu, the Manu who is mentioned in the 1100, years before the Common Era, Argy Veda uses Manu to try and communicate a sense of antiquity to it.And William Jones's idea was, well, if England is going to administrate the law, for Indians, the English, but Jones was Welsh actually, the English should, Welsh is a Celtic language, like Irish, and the English should then learn what the Indian's law code is and how they administrate himself. So he thought, okay, I will learn Sanskrit and translate the Manushmriti and then my judgments in cases involving Indians will be better and closer to... the judgments that they would have had had the English not taken over. So again, we see this idea that MN is everywhere. I didn't know any of this at the beginning when I was in Maine village, but then I discovered, well, actually the laws of Manu this ancient Indian law code are what led directly to the discovery of the Indo-European languages and the English, the discovery of the English, sorry, of the Indo-European language family. So the serendipity, this idea that it isn't an accident or a coincidence, it's you put yourself in position where you iterate and where you can innovate and you're open to these weak hearing this weak signals and data and following them dismissing obviously moving on moving forward not getting stuck somewhere but when you see a weak signal that communicates something relevant to the journey you're on you have the openness and the capacity to follow it and to to look at it. And so William Jones' discovery of the existence of an Indo-European family then prompted the idea that this must come from a common source.He himself wrote, he used common source and MN obviously in common as well. that perhaps this common source does not exist any longer. And that common source we now know was spoken by the Yamnaya in southeastern Ukraine. And from there, from there, it's spread out to Ireland and India.And so the second reason why finding Manuland matters is because all Indo-European languages can be traced back to ancient Ukrainian. in a way that no other precursor language that influenced today's Indo-European languages can be. And not a lot of people know this. And I think it's very important. So Russia, for instance, is currently prosecuting a genocidal war.It's killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians since the 24th of February 2022. And many people have fell for the troll, which was Russia does this because Ukraine historically belongs to Russia and Ukrainians don't matter. Now, obviously, in an ideal world, we would have the intellectual discipline to think this through for more than two seconds.But it's repeated so frequently that many people fell for this troll. And the irony, of course, I then discover is that actually ancient Ukraine not only, uh, out of ancient Ukraine emanates the idea of Russia. So, um, the, the term, uh, the idea of a Russian empire was created in, in the Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, um, 16, in the 1690s, this idea that you would have to, and then in, um, 1721, when Russia occupied left-bank Ukraine, which is the western part of Ukraine, Russia decided to call itself an empire. And because of this ideology of Russian empire had been created in Kyiv, they just borrowed that. So they stole that.So that's the modern history of Russia. So the irony that Russia somehow created Ukraine, it's the exact opposite. But then when you delve back into history, it actually turns out that ancient Ukrainians, the ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya, were the first to create Indo-European language from which Russia...Russian culture and all the other Indo-European language from Ireland to India emanates. And so if you are going to be a German or a French person or an English person and say, oh, well, we think Ukraine definitely, no, like Russia shouldn't be conquering it, but look, it's doing it. And anyway, Ukraine used to belong to Russia.So, you know, it's not too bad. Well, actually, The irony of this is that, well, A, all our nation states are figments of our imagination which have become reified in international law. And some people have been really lucky, like the Irish people. And indeed, the Turkish people, some people have been very lucky and fought for generations and hundreds of years to have a state in which they can exist with that and just live their lives according to their own culture. And many other cultures have not been that lucky. But in the case of Ukrainians, they're one of the lucky cultures. They have a state.They will always have a state. And thankfully, from a military point of view, they will be able to defend their state and get rid of the Russians. But all our modern nation states are contingent on lots of different factors. So they're all new. The first unified German state was in 1870.So this idea that somehow Germany is older than Ukraine or more valid than Ukraine obviously doesn't matter when it comes to committing genocide. What matters is the international rules-based order as established. Ukraine signed the UN Charter in 1945 when it was formed, when the United Nations, so it has been a state always.But the second reason why it's ironic is that actually when you delve into it for a bit more than five minutes, you discover that that people occupying the land, which is today Ukraine, ancient Ukrainians, who we can use the moniker ancient Ukrainians just as we use ancient Greeks or ancient British or English or Germans. It's a retrospective.It's anachronistic story. But if we are going to afford parity of steam to all nation states, nations which now are states, between the Greeks and the Albanians and the Indians and Iranians, then we must do so for the Ukrainians. And so it's a conscious effort on my part, and this is part of the meaning of Finding Manuland, is to help us to change our culture and our perspective of Ukraine. because of the stakes, because if we are less susceptible to this contemporary Russian propaganda, Russian disinfolklore, as I call it in my other project, then we won't find ourselves being persuaded to somehow accept that Russia can erase whole cities and kill hundreds of thousands of people on the basis of a troll. And finding Manuland... The stakes could not be higher today, but they're also connected to how I've discovered finding Manuland, because I was in Ukraine as a monitor for a peace monitoring mission for the Minsk, MN and Minsk as well, the Minsk peace agreements that... But that was my purpose there between 2015 and 2022. The reason I got interested in this mound in Dnepro in May 2021 was because the chief mound guardian, this community of an NGO, a non-government organisation, In Ukraine, in contemporary Ukraine, the chief mound guardian who is in charge of this organization was quoted in the New York Times as saying that the destruction of this mound, this burial mound, is a national security issue. And because of that, I was able, as a security monitoring diplomat, to persuade my boss... Actually, this is important.We have groups of local residents who are protesting We have the chief man guardian saying this is a national security issue and saying this is cultural genocide, which is the destruction of ancient Ukraine's heritage, cultural heritage, and the around which contemporary Ukrainians find their identity.And one of the first things the Russians did when they occupy spaces was empty out the museums in Ukraine. They, in this city called Melitopol, which I know well, which is still under occupation, and a city I visited a lot in southern Zaporizhia, the very first person the Russians forcibly disappeared was the Crimean, Muslim, Crimean, Tatar, female head of Melitopol History Museum. because they wanted to find the Scythian gold there. And when she wouldn't reveal where they had hidden the gold, they took her deputy as well. Russia occupied this other amazing place nearby southern Zaporizhia on the particular... orders of the Russian president Putin called Stone Grave, which is this site that I've also visited and talked about and will talk about again, where we have evidence of ritual use going back 10,000 years. We have early example of old European writing, which we can't decipher. No one is able to been to decipher. So these, well, actually, it's a bit more complicated. And Marija Gimbutas, who was the first really to determine this is a language, an old European language, since her insight, I've now read research that people have begun to decipher old European writing. But anyway, we'll come back to that. So this idea of archaeology and state formation and And going back to ancient times is very important in finding Manuland.And I'm going to finish right now because I'm not going to go on forever on this today. So we've got to two reasons why finding Manuland matters. I'm going to leave you with this, why it really matters to me and to us as a community of Indo-European language speakers. And if you can understand what I'm saying, than you are an Indo-European language speaker. We're all part of the same community, which is that this is an essential message of unity. If we've got a moniker, Manuland, to describe all the peoples between Ireland and India, including the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and the Kurds, who are also an Indo-European language speaking people, Armenians and Irish people and Germanic language speaking peoples like the English or the Scandinavians and the Romance language from the Italic, from the Indian. And if we, and the Slavic peoples and all of these different communities of people were all bound together by the fact that we use the same metaphors in our language or deep in there, the MN sound being the most important I maintain, we are bound together and this we are unified we are one people and until I came along and until William Jones came along to identify the existence of the Indo-European language family we all thought we were completely different 100% different Irish and English and Indians and Armenians and Greeks and Romans. We all thought we were different, but in fact, we're all from the same community. And what we have since the first Yamnaya invaders, the first Beaker people, for instance, arrived on the island of Britain, we just have these successive waves of migrations, uh, But fundamental to all of these waves and migrations is the same. We're all part of the same linguistic family. And if we can remember that in moments when there is tension between us, that what we're A doing is exchanging mana and energy, And that is what makes us literally human. It's why we're called human.It's why the MN sound is in the word human. But we are all from one community. And if we can find what binds us and ties us together in Manuland, as citizens of Manuland, then we can find a way together. to peacefully coexist more easily than if we think the differences is what divines us.And I'm going to leave that there for today.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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) into every branch of the Indo-European / Ancient Ukrainian language family, then, that’s proof of concept: It’s definitely possible we might trace the M-N- sound too from Ancient Ukraine between 4,100 BCE - 2,500 BCE into every branch too.As Finding Manuland unfurls, our journey across Manuland (which begins in 4,100 BCE with the Yamnaya Culture in Ancient Ukraine between the Don, Donets, Dniepr, Dniester, and Danube rivers across the space between Ireland and India until today) will demonstrate that M-N- is even more fundamental a sound and meaning than *Dyeus and death itself.Earliest example of writing in Ireland is LOGIDEAS written in the Ogam script on a stone at Thomastown in Kilkenny. LOGIDEAS is a written remnant of the pre-Christian Irish deity Loigodēvā who was embodied by the River Loígde (which the English renamed the Bandon - coincidentally echoing Donn Irish culture’s pre-Christian Lord of Death and grandson of the monarch of Scythia / Ancient Ukraine)…Hi there, welcome to the Power of Mana podcast. This is the Finding Manuland version of the Power of Manor podcast. This is episode three, a bit of housekeeping. So you're all part of my journey understanding this new amazing medium with lots of potential, which I think is the best means I have available to me at the the worldview and the Finding Manuland concept of history, culture, language in this moment. And so thank you for being along. So this is episode three. In time, you will see everything appear on the proper website, on the powerofmana.net website with the proper numbering. So just bear with me at this.So I've said to you before that every episode of the Finding ManuLand podcast will comprise three elements. And these three elements are about mana, MN, this MN sound, which is immanent. in our language in almost every sentence i speak in the podcast itself but also almost every sentence you hear out out in the outside world it's in immunity it's in communal it's in community it's in moniker it's in manus the mythological founder of the germanic people it's in manu the mythological founder of uh the indian uh people of indian culture it's in Sapianta Manu and Angra Manu, who are the founders in the Iranian people. It's in the moniker for Mananan Maclear, who's one of, who's the preeminent pre-Christian God in Ireland. so we've got this mn sound which i am communicating to you means energy that's our hypothesis our standing focus so every episode deals with this aspect of human mn in human as well this human communication where we are constantly exchanging energy with our brethren with our fellow human beings, but also other sentient beings, our animals, anima, which is a reversal of the MN, and animal and animate, and manes, which is the soul in Latin. And... We exchange this energy as a function of being human.It's from the micro, so it is from the cellular level. Our cells, our mitochondrial DNA code for this aspect. The energy which is created within each of our cells is coded for by what we today call mitochondrial DNA, which is passed along the matrilineal line, the feminine line.Not only is this one aspect of being human that we really now understand on a micro, almost quantum level as being coded for, and we have a mechanistic explanation for it and understanding of it, we can conceptualize it, but it's also on the macro. So we have sacraments, we have matrimony, we have all of these words that, which have this sound imminent in them, in the modern English language. And my starting point was trying to wonder what is going on here. Is there anything going on here? What is the pattern here? So each of our episodes is dealing with this element, and MN is in element itself. An element itself contains two elements.It has the alu, ele, light, which is shining through aspect, and the munt, the munt, the MN, sound which is about the energy so it's the energy shining through it's the light shining through the energy it's like the moon it's like the light shining through the shape of the moon or as we understand it reflecting off the moon and so you have this yin and yang we have this light and darkness we have this shape we have something shining through something else and this is the word we have in modern english called meaning again m n sound so meaning a meaning is something other shining through something else. So we have this whole network of meanings and signifiers of which all of our language is made and consists of. So this is the kind of a mystery. This is the, it's more of a phenomenon, an MN as in phenomenon, that shines through our entire human culture. But for me, and maybe for you, because you understand these words, I'm speaking to you in an Indo-European language. For us, it's a particular shining through. It's this MN shining through. So we're looking at this pattern in today's world and looking backwards to see how has this arisen?What does it mean? Is it just random or is there something a bit more to it? So every episode is looking at this energy, which we exchange as a function of humans and I want to remind myself and all of us that when we're interacting with people, with other beings, that actually what's going on, despite the words or the emotions or the motivations or the attitudes, the intentions, the moods, we're disclosing and exchanging that really what's going on here is an exchange of energy so that we can focus ourselves. on what matters, that we are humans today, exchanging energy like inside our bodies are trillions of cells, constantly exchanging energy with themselves.And then when we interact with the external environment, we are also exchanging energy, not only with the environment and what we would call inanimate objects like stones, but mainly with Other sentient beings, including humans and animals, with whom we have this relationship of equals in a way, because what we are actually doing is exchanging manna and energy and the remnant of the memory of beings. This important function of our capacity of as humans is this MN sound in Indo-European languages. In different other language families, there may be other sounds. And I have a few ideas about that, but nothing fixed because I don't speak any non-Indo-European language. uh languages and i just happen to spot this mn phenomenon in indo-european culture and that's what i've spent the last few years journeying on so this first thing is we have this energy this manner in each episode but we also have this language because the mn is a form of language it's a sound It means something in different forms, in different words. So the Power of Mana, the Finding Man Who Land podcast is also a journey through language. And it's also a journey through space and time.And so this is the third element, the third dimension of the Finding Manu Lamp podcast. So we are starting off in today and we notice this phenomenon of the MN sound and we're thinking, wow, how's this arisen? Why is it that Manus in Germanic culture, he's got the MN in his moniker.Manu in India has an MN in their moniker. Mananen in India. In Ireland, a Celtic culture has that MN in their moniker. Manaudan, another Celtic culture in Wales, one of its mythological founders is Manaudan. And we have all of these different linguistic cultures with this... important manifestation of this MN sound in the mythological founders, monikers.And then we notice in the language we speak, almost every sentence we speak, we've got this MN sound which occurs in certain key vocabulary like the word meaning. And we try to discover, well, how could this have arisen? Is this borrowing that Celtic culture borrowed it from Germanic culture or Germanic from Celtic culture or Indic culture borrowed it from the Germans or Germanic? from Iran, and Iran borrowed it from Ireland, or how did this happen? And then we look, is there archaeological evidence for these kinds of exchanges of, not just of energy, but actually of energy really manifest by the coincidence or the borrowing or the separate invention of the this important sound, which is not only the sound, it's not only the sound of MN in these monikers, in these words, in these meanings, it's also the associated meanings. So the first human in Indian culture is Manu, the first human in Germanic culture, and MN is in Germanic because it comes from, it derives from Manus, the first human in Germanic culture is Manus, The preeminent god in Irish culture is Manannan. And Eremon is the first high king of Ireland. Eremon, M-O-N, in there. Then we look at all of these toponyms. The names in Ireland is about three, four, five thousand toponyms. We'll come to this. which have the MN sound in them. Some of us will be watching with great joy, slight trepidation obviously, but mainly great joy, the liberation of Syria from the Assad clan and many of the names of the places in Syria or what it was called Assyria. have this MN sound in them.And these are very much part of our story because of the importance in our story of Anatolia, which is today's Turquia, where we have this interaction zone between Anatolia and Assyria, this interaction zone between ancient Egypt, between the Mitanni, which is an between the Hittite, which is probably the greatest Indo-European empire, maybe until what happened in Europe after the 1800s. And we have this interaction zone between the Indo-European, between the Egyptian and the Semitic. The Assyrians are a Semitic people. And in Judea, we have this interaction. Long before the Bible, half a millennium at least, we have evidence. We have archaeological evidence of interaction between what we now know as the Indo-European people, the ancient Egyptians, and the Semitic peoples, who would then become the Assyrians, who would then become the Jewish community. And we have archaeological evidence from the Amarna letters from ancient Egypt, which are from 1400 BCE, which demonstrates, which proves that we had Indo-European monarchs in areas of what is today's Judea and Palestine. And for us, in fact, in Finding Manuland, this idea of looking, so the Bible itself, the Bible which the Christians use and people of the Jewish community use, uh itself would began to be formulated well the events it describes really uh king David the historical king david and the historical king solomon and let us remember that king david's his grandfather was uh a hittite was an indo-european and dea devas is what this episode is going to really be about so it's good we're talking about and then solomon we've got the mon element and solomon who's the the second king in Israel, the historical King David and the historical King Solomon monarchs are around 1000 BCE. But this is the element, the third element in every Finding Man and Man podcast is this journey. I'm going to take you on this mental journey, this journey through your mind, which is going to hopefully transform your mental geography as it has and is transforming mine. So that in our minds, when I started out in this journey... The Bible, biblical era, maybe 1000 BCE, was about as early as my mind went.And for a long time, and for a long time in history, this was seen as the beginning of history. And then prior to that, we had what we call prehistory. But actually, the finally Manuland perspective, which I am inculcating into our minds... looks at the 4100 BCE.So the journey from, the temporal journey from 4100 BCE, six millennium, again, MN. In millennium, there's so many of these spatial concepts which have the MN sound in them, which emanate, and this is key in finding Maniland, from Menyot, which means moon. And Menyot contains two elements.MEH1, which means measure, and then nyot, which we will come to in later episodes. And so between 4,100 BCE, in an area of ancient Ukraine, southeastern Ukraine, Mykolaiv Oblast, which is the type site of the Yamnaya, again M-N in Yamnaya, between 4100 BCE and 2500 BCE.So that's a chunk of time that most of us don't have in our minds. But by the end, or as Finding Manuland develops, We will populate this chunk of time in our minds with many different events and concepts and phenomenon. Because it's a really phenomenally, both literally and metaphorically, important point of time.Because between 4100 BCE and 2500 BCE, in an area of southeastern Ukraine, between the Don River, which is part of Ukraine's historical lands, ancient Ukraine's historical lands, the Don River... historically determined the borders, the boundary between Asia and Europe, between the area where the goddess Europa, who started their life, as a provincial deity in a part of what we now know as Greece, but gradually their patronage and their coverage spread all the way over an entire continent. But their bailiwick... the limit of their protective embrace was the Don River. And we know this from, and I will post this map we have from Isadora of Seville, who will be a character in our story as well, from around, I think it's around 500 BCE, Christian era, where Isadora of Seville's etymologies, which was the Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica, of perhaps the Finding Manuland, he says modestly, of the ancient world, of the time. There's this story in the Irish mythological record where...The entire, this famous book, which is missing, we've got elements of it. It's called the Book of Dhan Shnakta and that's Drum Shnakta. And that book contains many of the purer remnants of the Indo-European inheritance itself. in early Irish culture, as mediated through the Celtic language family.And now we've got bits of it, but we don't have the whole book. And one of the tragic stories in the history of Irish culture is that a group of monks who possessed this book, they swapped it for Isidore of Seville's etymologies.But in Isidore of Seville's etymologies, one of the elements in it is the map of the world. And this is where we are shown the Don River, the Tane, the Dane River, as being the limit of Europe. And the Donets River, where I was when I discovered the power of manna, working as a diplomat between 2015 and 2018. And then the Dnieper River. So I'm bringing your mind here from the Don to the Donets, now to the Dnieper River, the Dnieper, which it's today, it's called the Dnieper. Some people in English call it the Dnieper River. Anyway, I won't get into that.But it's the Dnieper River, and that breaks down as Don Iper, height, the higher Don River. And so you have the Don Iper, you have the Don, you have the Donets, the Don Iper. Then we have the Donister, the Dnieper River, Donister. So I'm bringing you right across contemporary Ukraine today.And then we go further west and we get to the Danube River. So here we have some of the great rivers of Europe. The Don, the Donets, the Dnieper, the Dniester and the Danube, which coincide with the whole of Ukraine. And this will be part of our story as well. The DN sound is important.And we'll come back to why. It's not only important as a part of my story that I'm telling you of my journey to find Manuland, which began... Well, I worked as a diplomat in Ukraine, and I also worked on the Dnieper. I lived in Dniepro between 2018 and 2022 in the full-scale invasion. And the mound, the burial mound, the Yamnaya burial mound in the outskirts of Dniepro, which I came across as part of my work in May 2021... is one of the starting points for finding Manuland and a journey which it has brought me on to realise that actually the whole Indo-European language, religion, culture, outlook... that we experience today between Ireland and India, which are the traditional Indo-European lands between Ireland and India. And obviously now Indo-European languages are spread to the Americas and to other parts of the world. But the traditional area between Ireland and India, that is the area I call, I use the moniker Manuland, because in our minds we don't see this area as... We see Europe as one place today, but as I've just alluded to, the goddess Europa, who started off as a provincial deity, and with Zeus, who is part of our story today. And in the same way, I'm trying to spread our mental models of...Rather than having lots of individual countries between Ireland and India only, we now have an identity as Indo-Europeans that we can define ourselves positively with, that we have differences, each of us in different cultures, whether we are Indian or Iranian or Irish or Tajik or Armenian or...or german or greek or ukrainian or polish or spanish etc or french we have all these separate identities but we also have this common identity and the common identity is grounded on our common language we speak a language that emanated from this group of yamnaya people in this area of southeastern Ukraine between these great rivers, the Danube on the western side of contemporary Ukraine and the Don on the eastern side of contemporary Ukraine. And in a particular area, Mikolaev Oblast, where Russia and Ukraine are currently fighting each other, in the very space, in the very islands. So you have the Don Iper River there, a very wide river. I mean, unbelievably wide river for those who come from countries like I do with long rivers, but not wide rivers. And on this, there's just this massive numbers of islands and it's very hard to cross it. And every day there are these battles happening. Extraordinary battles there using drones, submersible drones, buried mines, fighting starving Russians and fires.And this is the very interaction zone where... In the miracle of miracles, one language family was forged, which then took over the world. It spread from 4100 BCE to 2500 BCE. It formed there and it spread from Ireland to India. And that is the amazing miracle we're really concerned about in Finding Manuland, because when you see all of these coincidences between this MN sound and the meanings over time and in different cultures, you then always asking, is this borrowing? Is this separate invention? Or is this a coincidence? Is it a pattern that means nothing? And then as I was investigating this and I then discovered the existence of the Indo-European family, which I was only really dimly aware with and didn't really understand too much about it and what we could know about it today, given, Given the analysis of ancient DNA using mitochondrial DNA, remember I mentioned before that each of our cells, each of our complex cells has two different genomes.One is the nucleate genome, which is just massive. It's the huge one. It was the famous one, the one that they were trying to decode at the turn of the millennium and we thought it was going to change everything. But then there's the other, the mitochondrial DNA, which is passed along the matrilineal line.And it only has about 32, 33 genes in it. And that's what codes for the energy production in each of our cells. And ancient DNA, the ancient DNA revolution, which was launched in... In 2015 with this Nature article. So it was at a time I was in eastern Ukraine.And this article in Nature determined the signature of what it calls step ancestry. But what I call and what we call in Vanyumanulan ancient Ukrainian ancestry. Because now we know through various sources, and we will get to it again, from various different evidence lines, whether it's archaeology, linguistics, and now looking at ancient DNA information through mitochondrial DNA, we know that in fact the Yamnaya are not just steppe. They're not from the Pontic Caspian steppe or southern Russia or this vague area you will see in some of the, most of the literature, even to today, that the steppe, the signature of steppe ancestry was determined in this Nature article that you could then use this signature as, you could look at ancient DNA and go, okay, this has X amount of ancient DNA from this particular geographical area. And so this step answer, so then when you look at this literature and you find out, okay, actually there's a physical, this physical scientific evidence today, material evidence of migrations from this area that, to Ireland on the western zone, and to India on the eastern part. And we have these coincidences of meaning and sounds for the same kinds of concepts. We have this phenomenon that in every Indo-European language... We have this MN sound is in the words we have for time, temporal.So in English we've got moments, month. We've got the moon is obviously very, very important. We've got Monday. We've got millennium. there's a whole panoply of them. And we can trace this back to the word, to the sound and the meaning that the first Indo-Europeans, these Yamnaya in ancient Ukraine, these ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya, the first Indo-Europeans between 4,100 BCE and 2,500 BCE, used to describe measure, so menyot, And that became the word for moon, for the moon, the measuring instrument. And so that's one trajectory of meaning, one vector of meaning that is still alive today in every Indo-European language. And we have... This is not a mystery.Well, I mean, there's lots of mysteries still, but this is not... It's not borrowing. It's because it comes from a common, and MN is in common as well. It comes from a common source, and the common source we now know through archaeological, linguistic, and ancient DNA analysis, this common source emanates from this part of eastern Ukraine, of southeastern Ukraine, where when the Yamnaya who forged the first Indo-European language that many of us aren't aware of, and I certainly wasn't aware of it. And believe me, like the moment I discovered this, it was just, well, I didn't believe it at first because what are the chances that me randomly ending up in Ukraine and randomly embarking on the journey. I was there in Eastern Ukraine as a diplomat, helping to monitor the peace, the Minsk peace process between Russia and Ukraine between 2015 and 2022. What are the chances that while they're in this place that I always considered, Ukraine wasn't really part of my mental model.And in most of the mental models of Europeans, Ukraine is still on the periphery. what are the chances that I would discover this place that I thought was on the periphery is in fact, is in fact the battery. It is the power, it is the center of what powered these huge migrations that were so successful that they seeded the same language between Ireland and India. And what are the chances of me in 2015 ending up in this place and discovering the power of man as... imminence in our language, in our mythological cultures, and in our identity and function as humans and sentient beings, And then actually being in the place where this began.And so finding Manuland is this journey. It's a mental journey. It's temporal between 4100 BC to 2500 BC. Because that is the moment we now know. And I'll go into the reasons how we know this. Where Indo-European languages were germinating. And then from 2500 BCE, the Western Indo-European languages, so the Celtic language, the Germanic language and English.I'm sorry to say any English listeners who didn't know this, I didn't know this, even though English is my native tongue. I am an Irish person who lives in Ireland, who has a Celtic consciousness. whose forebears would have spoken Celtic languages, but now they speak a Germanic language, an English language.So that's a journey in my genes, in my genome, in my cultural genome. But the Western Indo-European languages, so the Germanic, the Romance, which emanate from the italics. So there's this place... near just east of Odessa, the modern city of Odessa along the coast, where it is believed this Usatova, the combination of this Usatova community and the Yamnaya community, they forged... The Italic, the Celtic and the Germanic language, linguistic and cultural families were forged out of that interaction in that geographical space. And I don't know about you, but I just find that fascinating.So the, you know, the acorn out of the, rather, the oak tree out of the acorn. So the acorn is there, is in that spot. We still don't know that. did the Germanic language family and the whole of Germanic culture. And by this, I mean the language, I mean the outlook, the mythological history.We don't know, did that come a bit later or earlier? But what we do know for sure is that the Italic and Celtic language were one community. And then probably the mechanism was through migrations of part of that community went one way and the other part went the other way.And so all that we know of ancient Rome and Roman culture... And all that emanated from that, the Romance language, Spanish, French, that emanated from Latin, from the Italic culture, all of that began its life in ancient Ukraine and in a relatively small area, which I've travelled around and travelled through, sadly before I understood this,And I just think that's amazing. And so finding Manuland is about discovering that we know these things, understanding how we can know these things. So I encounter these ideas first and then I'm like, how could that be? And I spend, I've read thousands of texts over the past few years and that's what I'm sharing with you here.And then, so all of those languages, came after 2500 BCE. But the significance of the 4100 BCE is that what we call the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages emanated from that area and ended up in what is today modern Turkey, and Anatolia, and established a foothold there then. And that, I'd just like you to have this concept in your mind that there's two main branches of the Indo-European language family. One is the Anatolian, and the other is all the others, really. And then there's sub-branches there of the Western language, Indo-European languages, western of ancient Ukraine, so Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Slavic, Scandinavians are Germanic, and what have you.And then the eastern, which is basically what they call the Indic branch, which contains Iranian and Sanskrit, and today's hint, which developed into Indian. Hindi and Tajik and all of those. So those branches themselves come after 2500 BC. And the Anatolian is around 4100 BC.So I'm going to just look at... We can trace this through words and through meanings. And this, the meaning of death, which today... So the meaning of death... is literally to the sky. So when you say someone has died, what you're really saying is someone has gone to the sky. And how do we know this?We know this because there's only one word for... There's only one religious word which appears in every single Indo-European branch. And so... Normally we know if a word and a meaning, if a sound, which is a word and a meaning, appear in one Indo-European language, say Germanic, which is west of Ukraine, and the same sound and meaning appears in an Indo-European language east of Ukraine, say in Sanskrit, which is an ancient Indian language, then we know on the balance of probabilities that it might be from the common source. It could be borrowing. So someone from early German culture might have met an Indian person and somehow seeded this entire concept. But when we come to something like, say, manus, M-A-N-N-U-S, which is in the sound Germanic and hermiones, the first German. When we have Manus as the mythological founder of the Germanic people, and we know from Tacitus, who's a Roman writer, writing around, I think it's about 98 years into the Common Era, who's our source for the early German culture, we know Manus existed as a concept then. And then we know Manu existed, Manu is the first human in Indian culture, and our source there is from about 1100 years before the Common Era, then there's something with this MN in both those monikers, and it's unlikely that one Indian met a German around 50 years into the Common Era and said, oh, you know, our first human is Manu. Why don't you call your first human Manus? Manus. And the German person goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, great. And then the German person convinces everyone in the Germanic, the 10 Germanic tribes, historical Germanic tribes, so the mythology goes, to call their first human Manus. And this is what will bind us together as Germans. That... That just sounds implausible to us. What is much more plausible is that this comes from a common source. And then when we discover Germanic and Sanskrit are both Vedic, which is the first language that Manu appeared in, in the Argy Veda, which is first written down or first composed, first written down around 1100 words. years before the Common Era, but was probably composed over the prior millennium and just in songs. So Manu existed very early. We've got evidence there existed very early.We have no evidence of sustained intercultural contacts between people in India, on the Indian South Continent, and people where the Germanic peoples lived. So we know on the balance of probability, the MN sound and the moniker Manu, Manus, probably emanates from the common source. But there's two sources.And then we have, for instance, Manawadon and Manannan in Ireland and Minos and Greece and all that. And we'll get to all of those. So I'm just trying to illustrate how... On all other things considered, if you've got a sound and a meaning which exists in one Indo-European language, east of ancient Ukraine and contemporary Ukraine, and the same sound and meaning which exists west of Ukraine, you know you're probably coming from a common source. But in the case of this word, dies... it appears in every Indo-European language. And it's the only theological, it's the only word, religious word, that exists in every single Indo-European branch. So it's so entrenched that the Yamnaya, it's so entrenched that the Yamnaya between 4100 BCE and 2500 BCE in ancient Ukraine, It must have been on their minds. It must have been the most important word on their minds because they carried it through into all their descendant people. And by descendant people, I don't just mean today we can chase, we can trace the genetics, the ancient genetics of this steppe ancient Ukrainian gene, genome, and the particular part of it. into the Brahmin DNA of the Brahmin in India. And again, MN and Brahmin. We can trace it into the Flamines and all of the priestly people in ancient Rome. And now, believe it or not, and we'll get to this again, we can even trace it into everyone living in the island of Britain in 2450 BCE. And my source for this is Nature, which is the preeminent scientific journal and an article which it published in 2019. And now since then, we've discovered that actually, despite the myth or the mythical history or the hope, the island of Ireland also got this step gene. around 2450 so we we can trace the the material remnant of this migrations in our genome but there's also i'm talking about the cultural uh descendants so so often people sometimes peoples who are not genetically related using the latest dna techniques so there's no they did not descend from each other genetically but they did change the language so sometimes uh I mean, the model, the elite changes the language of the entire culture, the entire community. And so that's why we're talking about this, this descent. And so we've got this, this sound, meaning sky, bright sky in the first Indo-European language in ancient Ukraine. and shining sky bright sky and so between 4100 BCE and 2500 BCE we know that this was the idea of the sky and the sky father sky protector so dies pater in in in that language I've mentioned this before in episodes and that becomes Zeus pater who is the preeminent monarch of the sky, sky father in ancient Greek culture. Jupiter, Jupiter, Zispater, Zupater in Rome, in ancient Roman culture. And there's a Diapata in early Indian culture as well. So this bright sky, bright sky. And so when you say someone is dead today in modern English, what you are literally saying is they've gone to the sky. And I think that's quite sweet in a way. It's quite nice in a way. But imminent in that is a whole ideology and religious ideology. Because my starting point for finding Manuland in a geographical spatial way, one of my main starting points, I've written about this and I'll speak about this, is this mound, this burial mound, this Yamnaya burial mound, which property developers in a suburb of Dnipro uh destroyed uh on a lot we're using the they said they were researching it but really they were just trying to destroy it so they could build a new mansion uh for mn and mansion for or domain for uh for an oligarch in the outskirts of dnepro in the smart and it was The local community protested against it, which me as a monitor, as a monitoring officer for the OSCE in eastern Ukraine, my job was to monitor any national security related issues, protests and the like that might spark some more significant conflict. And there was this group, civil society organization in Ukraine called the Mound Guardians, the Kurgan Guardians. And they were quoted in the New York Times. Their leader was quoted in the New York Times as saying, this is an aspect of cultural genocide to destroy one of the 100,000 burial mounds of the Kurgan people, of the Mound people, the Yamnaya people. in order to build a mansion for an oligarch, and pretending you're researching it. This is part of the destruction of our heritage. And they said this is a national security issue.So I discovered this... existence of the Yamnaya through the destruction of this mound to try and work out what is going on here. What is this? It's a 5,000 year old burial mound. There was a number of humans buried in it.And one of the earliest burial in it was of a human who was a monarch with crouched knees and covered in ochre. And I saw the pictures and I went to this place and it turned out when the property developers destroyed the mound itself, underneath it was a stone circle.And the stone circle had been created by precursors to the Yamnaya people, what they called the Stredni Stog people, middle stack, literally. It is out of the interaction of the Yamnaya and the Shredni Stog that the Indo-European languages were born. And this particular burial mound was so special because what it was was you had the Sredni Stog buried their dead. in communal graves with very few or none grave goods and then suddenly you have this switch into the burial of one male masculine monarch on their own with this massive mound which would have been built using huge communal work to the whole community who's coming together to build this mound. I mean, these mounds, there's 100,000 of them still in Ukraine, across Ukraine, and they feature part of our story because we can trace the migrations from Assyria. And this idea of burial, this religious idea of being buried under a mound, which usually it seems to signify the underworld and is related to Skyfather and a whole set of beliefs,which we might be familiar with if we're Christians, of this idea of heaven and the patriarch Zeus Pater in heaven. And this whole journey, which many of our Indo-European cultures went through, where you start off with Skyfather, around that time, early in the early part of the culture, then your heroes die and they go to the sky.Then by the time we get to our more egalitarian cultures, in many Christians' beliefs today, everyone goes to the sky when they die. Everyone goes to St. Peter, again, Peter Pater, who weighs the stones as you die. And so perhaps now when you hear the word death death and and fear is in your mind and in your heart you'll remember this um there'll be a reminder in your mind mn in reminder as well there'll be a reminder in your mind that finding manual land is going to bring you on journeys through language culture time metaphorical journeys journeys my journey from this time in contemporary Ukraine from 2015 on, so the short Jure, but then the long Jure from 4100 BCE until today, as well as journeys through our cultures, so our cultures across this place I now call the moniker Manuland, which we didn't have a word for before, which we didn't have a moniker for, where we speak Indo-European languages, from Ireland to India, and also journeys inside these cultures where we find the commonalities in them, which demonstrate this MN sounds immanence in many of the most important and fundamental phenomena, whether linguistic or cultural, or mental phenomenon in these cultures and this is what finding manu lands about so that is the meaning of death which we'll come back to again because it's not only important in our own minds because death death defines us in many respects. And the burial customs we use are one of the main means that archaeologists have used to determine the differences between cultures. So before we had ancient DNA analysis, we knew who were the Yamnaya buried from their burial customs? There was about 22, 23 common aspects of particular burials that we could trace between Ireland and India and say, oh, these are part of the same archaeological culture, which we now know as Yamnaya, that became the Beaker people in India. in England, which for any of us over that generation who watched the Muppets, thinking of Beaker and the Beaker people, it's very helpful. It helps perhaps personalise them or make them seem like warm people, but the Beaker people whose genes contain the ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya genes, and most people in England today emanate from the Beaker people or some function of them, whether they came with the Germanic migrations, with the Saxons, with the Normans, again, MN, Normans, with the German invasions from Denmark, that DN is in Denmark, which is, we'll come back to that, the DN, the Don, the Dnieper, the Danube.So there are other important sounds in Indo-European languages which we'll talk about, but the MN sounds, immanence, in so many of the most fundamental and important concepts is what really ties the organising focus of our entire Finding Manuland project. And the easiest way I explain why the MN sound is so important is because it's in meaning.If we don't have a meaning, if we don't have a concept of meaning that A can mean B... then we don't have a language. And MN even populated, colonised this very complicated idea that you can have one word with another meaning shining through it and that other, like the moon, like the light shining through the moon shape or the moon shape shining through the light. And without that, that the light shining through is another word, which itself depends on another word. And you have this whole network. of words but this MN sound I maintain is the fundamental sound in our entire culture and that's what's led me to understand the meaning of death the lords of death which is something we'll come back to because it's very important to trace who are the lords of death whether it's Odin in Germanic culture or Yama in Indian culture or Aryaman in In Iranian culture, this function, this person who looks after the death process, who's the first human to die, the first monarch, the first king to die, and who leads us all through, is buried in a mound, in a burial mound, and they lead us all on this journey. All of us will eventually travel on in this form to death and to the sky but let me leave it with that so death next time you hear death just think this just means going to the sky and that can't be too bad.Continued:Continued from:First episode: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 writingfrom 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 manawhether 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 howhow 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 spreadfrom 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 civilizationyou'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 siteThe 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 manahaving that responsibility so this episode is about um my friends harry his mana in me and my friend harry um I heard that he had died. I was in eastern Ukraine at the time, living in this city, which is now under occupation, and where the Russians killed 10,000 of my neighbours after February 24th,2022.So that is an immense source of sadness for any of us who are aware of this, and it never leaves my mind. But I was in Severodonetsk, in the house, the lovely house where I lived, with the lovely family I lived in. And I heard from Harry's brother, George, through email that Harry had died.And so I had this long railway journey from eastern Ukraine, which involved an overnight. And I would wake up in Kiev, where I got a British Airways jet to London. And then I rented a car and then drove to Devon, which actually has an MN sound in its original name.into Devonshire where Harry had lived and where his family lived. And over the course of this whole journey, which took about 30 hours, I had a lot of time to contemplate and meditate on the impact that Harry had had on my life. And this is really where this idea of inchoate need comes from because it was inthat journey, that mental journey, but also that physical journey, that quest to determine the meaning of Harry to me and to try and verbalize and understand what it was that he had affected me as one of many, many of friends that I have had in my life. And Out of that journey,just to flash forward to the end of that journey, I had this inchoate need for a word, for a meaning, for a sound to communicate both to myself and to you as listeners what it means for other people to impact your destiny.And when someone dies, perhaps other people have done this, you do a census of how they affected you. And this is part of the grieving process. And so I had identified an inchoate need. I didn't realize this was an inchoate need at the time for the concept, which I now use the word manna to describe.At the time, I didn't really have any word for it. Now I know I have the word manna, so I can express it quite simply, that Harry's manna became a part of me. His energy became a part of me. And Harry's manna lives on inside me.And so this is a way of modeling how manna works, not just in the moment to... to be sculpted or to impact our moods, our intentions, our attitudes, our motivations. Others' mana does that. And our mana, our energy obviously affects others' moods, motivations and attitudes in the moment. and intentions, indeed, intentions mens rea,as it's expressed in early Roman law and in current English or American law, or Welsh law for that matter, or Indian law for that matter, or Irish law. We could go on, but we won't on that front. But this idea of manna can be modelled in this this sense of how other people impact on our lives. Now,of course, in very complex modern lives that many of us live, and probably if you know what a podcast is, you live in this very complex world that I also live in, where I am being bombarded, I mean, in a positive way, with sensory perceptions and decisions and thoughtsthe forks in the road a billion times a day i can decide what to do and how to react to information of all kinds and this idea of that information information there is mn in there as well And it's what forms us. It composes us. Compositive activity, as Buddhists talk of the concept of karma, is compositive activity.So this is the idea that we are, as a bundle of aggregated cells, we are but. We are but. We are composed of, yes, of course, cells, but we are composed of what we do. Our compositive activity is is how we interact with the external environment. And it's nothing more nor less than that.But mana, there is an eminence, there is something inside how we react in the world. And obviously that's one of the main purposes of power of manna is so to help us uh colonize our um our our that that part of us which is composing our life in themoment so that we communicate positive manna and rescue what could be negative situations from to become positive situations to communicate So that's the main thing. But in the context of thinking about Harry and his impact or the impact of anyone else, this is a very simple model,which happens to us a million times a day in a million different ways, so much so that it's very hard to keep track. keep keep um keep a rein on it but if we can distinguish between the main impacts if you like and again mn in main and and and secondary or tertiary impacts into ourlife so it is very true that every moment in our life determines the next moment what we eat today may determine when we die or the aggregate of the poison or positive stuff in our minds and in our physical bodies, in our cells that maybe are replicating cells or our mitochondrial DNA will make a mistake right now,which will impact people in zillions of years. And all of that is true. But we're trying to take a view on this and look at main categories. And in this sense, looking at Harry's manner in me and my life is both a model,but it's also a model as a way of showing you how the manner of someone else in your life has impacted you and giving you a language for to talk about it and giving you something to perhaps reflect on.But it's also a way of exposing and understanding what mana is and what I mean by mana and energy. And when I say manna is what remains of you in others after you leave them this is we can understand it say in the sense of food you eat an apple today and it impacts all ofthe cells made that day and as we know from we know the yamnaya came from southeastern ukraine and from this area between the don and river and the Dnieper river of ancient and indeed modern Ukraine because of the food which the Yamnaya, the ancient humans,the ancient Ukrainian Yamnaya ate while their teeth were being formed and we can now through amazing, through science, can examine MN and examine the teeth of these ancient Yamnaya humans and determine that the wheat, that the particular signature, the isotopic signature of the wheat, of the food they ate is imminent in those teeth even today.So there is another idea of imminence and of manna, the manna of the food that was grown in those days is in their teeth. But again, we're focusing here on the main manor and also the serendipitous aspect of this. So I was on this long, long train journey, which I actually always loved to take.And I miss taking it because I would get into the, I would have a whole little capsule compartment to myself on the train in Rubizhny, which is now a ghost city after Russia shelled it relentlessly. At around five o'clock and I'd wake up and around seven o'clock in the morning,then trundling through the whole of Europe's largest country through Ukraine, I would wake up in Kiev and then I'd arrive at the train station and get into a car and go to the airport and then fly to Harry. And what I realized on this long journey, and I remember stopping near Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge,which will be a minor part of our story here. near Stonehenge and realising that actually having done a manna audit, and this is a concept which I introduce right here, but we'll be talking about again. Having done a manna audit, I realised Harry had been the most impactful personhuman, apart from my close family, on my entire life's trajectory. I could make an argument for everything good that had happened to me in terms of career and the main bifurcation points since the age of basically 21 Harry had had that the greatestimpact and I remember stopping the car and trying to write it down as I said I didn't have a word for it then I didn't know about manna then I didn't know about Amen, sound, imminent in our language as a reminder, a manner reminder system. But I did have a sense that what remained of Harry,even now he was going through the death process, what remained of Harry in my mind, in me, was highly significant. It was a legacy and no one could ever, nothing could happen that could take it away. And so... I guess this brings us back to the main point of finding Manu land which is if thisis the case that someone like in my case Harry has this massive impact their mana becomes a part of me and the remains of them are in my mind forever then if I turn that on its head surely I should be more inspired to leave positive mana everywhere I go. And again,this is the main point of finally Manu Land and all of these stories and all of these characters is to try and anchor and embed in our minds this idea that we can control the communication of positive mana. And we'll be talking again about how do we determine what positive mana is But for me,the standard is set by, for instance, the post-World War II legal order for which there is a consensus among humanity that we should not discriminate on the grounds of sex. we should maintain territorial integrity sovereignty we the human rights we have the right the human right to participate in decision making and nobody can takethis away in a valid way and so we have this whole set so that's for me is this is the standard if you want to determine what's positive what's negative what's neutral and Mana, if the meme you're promoting contradicts that, then I determine that that is negative mana. And obviously, no one really cares what I determine.But in my own life, what I'm trying to do is communicate positive mana. And so for millennia, humans have exchanged mana instinctively. But finding Manuland will help transform us, I hope, into conscious mana exchange experts. This is the first manual which is ever published or spoken that teaches practical lessons in mana mindfulness.And so the dictionary, as discussed, defines mana as a power or psychic force And I'm giving the tools, giving myself the tools, reminding myself of the tools to mobilize our family, our colleagues, ourselves, our family, our allies into selflessly gifting us manna and receiving our manna and the manna we all need to succeed.And I grasped the power of active manna management, though without having the word to do it after Harry died. And I wondered about how others influence compounds permanently through our lives courses, even after they die. So certain things were set in train in my life and what I do by my interaction with Harry,by his energy becoming a part of me. And these live on long after his death. So when I looked at it, I thought, well, because of Harry, basically, I got into Cambridge University to study Roman law. And without understanding Roman law, I would never have discovered the power of man or finding manly land.I had been on a postgraduate scholarship to Georgetown University, studying intellectual history, philosophy. 18th, 19th, 20th century and postmodern intellectual history as a post-grad, Georgetown. And I reached that moment where many of us have in many times of our life, but particularly say if we're lucky enough to have gone to university or after school,when we've um tried to work out what are we going to do next and I just needed a bit of space and time to do that and Harry offered uh me to come and stay in his house which I did in uh Devon which um uh which uh from where I concocted this madat the time mad plan to uh to basically go to Cambridge University and study law and so I'd always thought oh um Law is probably what I want to do because I want to impact on politics and on the world.And I noticed a lot of the people I admired had studied law, so I wanted to do law. And I decided now is the time to actualize this. How can I do this best? I'll go to Cambridge. How do I get into Cambridge?Well, I just went through all of the hoops while I stayed in this mansion in Devon. which is, interestingly, the original name of Devon in Roman times. It was Dumonia, so D-U-M-N-O-N-I-A. And that has been corrupted over the years into Devonshire, and now it is Devon. But there was even an M-N sound in Dumonia.I can kind of see why they changed that, because it's pretty hard to pronounce. But presumably, if you're an ancient Roman, dumb nonia was pretty easy to pronounce but nowadays it's not anyway so i was in devon and um i spent a few months assembling my application you're getting all myschool transcripts and and coming up with the case uh to apply to cambridge uh and and i got in i got into this ancient law college there from which was found in 1350 to train to train lawyers and I studied Roman law there and international law and that's the sourceof my the standard I use to determine what's positive manner and negative manner because I have this you know strong awareness of the post-World War II legal order and what we've inherited from that so basically I I scored my first diplomatic post in an organization called the OSCE, which most of us haven't heard of.I hadn't heard of it. But while I was staying in June, then with Harry, his sister was working for this organization called the OSCE, Organizational for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is 57 member states are part of it. And she was working at the time in Albania.And it was lodged in my mind, the existence of this organization. And so then, flash forward, so this is around 1996. This is in 1997, actually, the autumn of 1997. And then in 2007, so only two years later, no, it was around 2011, actually. And I was living in Belfast and I was unemployed.My job had finished with a political party which I had been general secretary of in Northern Ireland called the Alliance Party, anti-sectarian political party. And the funding for my post ended. I became unemployed. And so I was looking for jobs, applying for jobs, and I saw Ireland had been part of, it was leading the OSCE,this organization at the time. And I thought, gosh, I'll have a look at that. I remember Harry's sister Evie worked for it. And I looked on their website and I applied for a job there and I got it. And that was my first big break in international and to become a diplomat.And I went from living in a loyalist, loyal to the English crown, council estate, which I was living in because I was trying to get jobs. I had been selected for a council seat for a nomination in the party that I worked for,but I needed to live in the area and the only place I could afford was this particular part of East Belfast. And so I went from there, from this situation, which was quite difficult from many perspectives, to arriving in Kosovo, in Southeastern Kosovo, to working as a diplomat. And that was amazing.That set me on a course to discover the power of manna. And when I, part of the reason why I aspired to be a diplomat or realized it was possible, well, Harry's dad, he was both a diplomat and he had a master's in business administration. So this two combination, these two combinations,seemed opposite to also being a lawyer. And so I've done all three, but there was this model in my life, which was of Harry's father who'd done his MBA at Harvard and then become an ambassador. And I thought, wow, that's an interesting model to follow. And I got to know him a little bit and that personalised it.I didn't know very many, or if any diplomats, few children in school whose parents were diplomats, but they weren't part of my milieu. But to get to know one just made it seem possible to be one. And then I became one.And while I was in Kosovo, my mission, I had a mission, MN, a mission in Mongolia, MN in Mongolia. And I went to Mongolia and I wrote to Harry's brother. And I said, I'm in Mongolia. And he said, oh, right, could you go to this place? And he suggested going to this Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Gelap Monastery,which follows the Dalai Lama's tradition. And he asked, would I just take a few photographs for his thesis? because he had written a PhD thesis on a particular aspect of Tibetan culture. And he thought, maybe I can get a cover. I didn't have a very good camera. But anyway, I went to this monastery.It was very cold in Mongolia, in Ulaanbaatar at the time, because Harry's brother suggested I go there. And lo and behold, a week later, I was a Buddhist. And I had had no tension of becoming a Buddhist. But... I became one and I am one.And it's a very important aspect of power and mana because I realized as I was exploring this idea of mana and energy that actually it was the same idea that is in what we understand as karma. And then I looked up karma in which, and karma is compositive activity.I looked up karma in the Princeton Dictionary of Philosophical Thought, and actually the entry is under the word karman, and it describes karma as an inflection, which is a linguistic term, of karman. And so mana, I intuited that mana was in Karman because it's this idea of an energy that continues through our mental continuum,through our consciousness over time. And so I had intuited that what I was looking at, which I now understand as being the X energy, synchronicity, mana, whatever we want to call it in whichever culture, but we're focusing on Indo-European culture in Finding Manorland, that it was the same phenomenon. And in Mongolia and the Buddhist element.And so that... is very was very important and perhaps one of the elements one of the things which I um uh which enabled me to become a Buddhist I think because I had no interest in religion when I landed at um in Ulaanbaatar that that time that it was very coldminus 20 minus 30 uh I had no interest in religion I had no interest in Buddhism really I had no knowledge of it I had been in India and 21 years earlier. And again, Harry had been part of that because Harry's stepmother had sat next to some people at dinner in Ireland.And these wonderful people funded and ran a charity to educate poor and clever children, mostly girls. all around the world, but they needed, they wanted to change the way they did things in India and Nepal. And they just happened to mention to Harry's stepmother that they needed someone togo to India to travel around and go and visit various schools and parents of children whose educations they'd sponsored in these elite schools and basically do a consultation job. And Harry told me about this and I was like, wow. I want to do that. And so I spent six months in India and Nepal.And so flash forward 21 years and I make this encounter with an ancient Indian religion in the clothes, in the guise of the Tibetan manifestation of it. But India is not this mystical place. It's a very real place for me. And my six months there became a very important part of me and my identity and mylife and my manner really affected me. The energy of India affected me, but not so much that I wanted to, I was interested in Indian religion or anything like that. And so there was this premonition in my mind in Mongolia when I become a Buddhist, it wasn't just from, I mean,I liken the metaphor to use is really like a, I was like a golf ball hovering around the hole on the 18th green, perhaps, because when I became a Buddhist, people said to me, oh, I always knew you were Buddhist, but I didn't know I was Buddhist until it happened. AndMy encounter with ancient Indian culture in the guise of Buddhism, which I now recognize is another Indo-European religion and imminent in many of the practices. which I engage in on a daily basis. And I'm not trying to convert you in any way, shape or form, because I see Islam, Christianity, and many Zoroastrianism.There's a whole portfolio of Indo-European religions, which I conceive of as Indo-European religions. And the interaction between Indo-European culture and, for instance, Judaism in Judea around the time Judaism was forming, which is around empirically, we know around 1000 BCE, Indo-Europeans, ancient Ukrainians, the people spoke this language. I mean, at the time they called them Aryans.living in Judea. And we know this from the Amarna letters from 1400 BCE, where the Amarna letters were found in ancient Egypt, well, in contemporary Egypt. And they include references to various Indo-European named kings, monarchs in the land of Judea. So this is beforeuh, the, um, before the Jewish, uh, faith and community, uh, coheres and becomes an entity. So we even have Indo-European-ness at the very beginning of Judaism, which is something that might, um, uh, confuse our mental models of how things work. And this is what Finding Man and Land is about because I, I've worked on intuitions and thethe phenomena and the things which I've discovered are just so amazing that I had to establish this podcast. And so that was part of why I did that. And then when I was from Kosovo, from the OSCE, I ended up in working for the OSCE also in Ukraine. So Harry's Manor was in that as well.And suddenly I found myself in eastern Ukraine, where I discovered the Yamnaya eventually, not for a few years after 2015 when I arrived there, and Manna. I had this, I realized, okay, now maybe I can do a master's in business administration. because I have this job where I have a bit of time,and I have the money now to pay for it, and maybe I never will again. And so I conceived of this idea to do administration, a master's in business administration, the MN administration at Oxford, which I did do. And that gave me access to the Bodleian Library, which is one of the great libraries in the world.And for For around eight years, I had online access to about 13 million texts. And out of that access, from February 2020, when I really started researching MN and MANA and trolling and various elements in finding Manuland, this would not have been possible for me to do if I hadn't had access to to the Bodleian online,sitting in my apartment in central Dnipro in Ukraine, and then laterally after the full-scale invasion in Ireland, in the west of Ireland. So Harry's Manor was in that through the connection with, I wouldn't have got into Oxford to do an MBA had I not gone to Cambridge, through the OSCE, which...gave me the time the job the money to go to Oxford and so Harry's Manor is in me all the time and everything I do it's in everything I say it's in this podcast and if I just leave you I'm not going to leave you with a cliffhanger today And you'll be happy.And this is going to be the end of this episode because I'm going to try not to go on too much. But just a little exercise that you think through how others' manner has combined with yours and of which you're composed.in a way i'm sure we all have a harry in our life we all maybe have if we're lucky we'll have a few harrys in our lives but maybe there's someone who's the main person and you may not even recognize them as such because it wasn't until thatlong journey from eastern ukraine to uh dumonia after harry died that i realized wow he is the most important impact on my life apart from my close family And so let's leave it on that positive note for now. Great.Continued:Continued from:First in series: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 out what I’m going to do, and then I’m going to do something slightly differently — I’m going to tell you about the journey I embarked upon which led to the discovery of mana.This podcast is about mana, which is energy — or the X energy, as many have called it. It’s what the ancient Chinese culture called qi. In ancient Japanese culture, it is called ki. In ancient Indian culture, it’s called prana — from around 3000 BCE, around the time the first Indo-European migrants from ancient Ukraine reached India. In Hebrew culture, we talk about ruach. These are all equivalent to mana.Chi, ki, prana, ruach — mana is the X factor, the X energy. Teleama. Libido — Freud talked about libido. Synchronicity. Nous. Vis medicatrix naturae, in Hippocrates. Aristotle spoke of the formative cause. Erasistratus spoke about pneuma. Christians talk about the Holy Spirit. In Germanic culture, we use the term Woden — our Wednesday is even named for this: Woden’s day. The Sufis speak of baraka. Polynesians, as I do, speak of mana.I do not speak of mana because the Polynesians speak of mana. However, what the Polynesians talk about using the moniker mana is the same phenomenon. Polynesians started using mana to describe this energy around 600 in the Common Era. This is significant, and we’ll come back to why in a bit.Avicenna spoke of anima mundi — so again, there’s an MN sound in there, as Carl Jung noted. All of these terms are for this same phenomenon that I call mana, or that others call the X energy or X factor. There are so many different names for this energy in human culture.It’s a fifth force in nature, which I have for the first time in human culture detected as being also implanted in our language and in almost every sentence we speak or think. This is the second element of what the Power of Mana podcast is about.We cannot understand mana or energy without understanding language. Finding Manuland is about a particular Indo-European vision of this energy, this mana, which we exchange as a function of human beings. The clue is in the word human — it has the same sound, MN.I’ve looked into the question of how and why this MN sound is so immanent in almost every sentence we speak in Indo-European languages and what this might mean. I’m going to share this journey with you. This is what Finding Manuland is about. I’ve been looking into why the MN sound is so immanent in our language for several years now.Some other people call mana, or this MN sound, the X energy. It has all these different names in different global cultures: prana, qi, Woden, ki, ether, ruach, nous, numa, mungo in Africa, zogo in Africa, atua in Polynesia, libido.In Power of Mana and in Finding Manuland, we’re going to focus on just one global culture. We’ll look out at the world and at humanity from the standpoint of that culture. We call it Indo-European culture because over half of humanity speak a language which is part of the Indo-European language family. This language family was first created in southeastern Ukraine.Finding Manuland is about inquiring into why this MN sound has colonised our minds, our words, and our meanings. It’s about my physical journey across the area of the world between Ireland and India, where traditionally we speak Indo-European languages. I call this area Manuland. This is also a metaphorical journey through time.I began with a research question: why is it that this MN sound recurs in the monikers of the mythological founders of certain peoples? Why is Menua one of the founders of the Armenian people? Why is Manu the first human in Indian culture? Why is Aryaman, or Sapienta Manu, or Angra Mainyu the first spirit or the first human in Iranian culture? Why is Manannán the most preeminent pre-Christian god in Irish culture, in Celtic culture? Why is Manawydan the mythological overlord or monarch in ancient Welsh culture?I started from that point, and it led me all the way back from 2020, when I began this journey in earnest, to around 4000 BCE — to southeastern Ukraine, an area many of us don’t know much about. I didn’t know anything about it before I spent seven years in Ukraine between 2015 and 2022 as a diplomat.To understand the power of mana and Finding Manuland and the immanence of this MN sound, it’s impossible to ignore the ultimate source of all Indo-European languages. MN is the characteristic sound and meaning in Indo-European languages. As far as I can see, I am the first person who understands this properly in its universal meaning — though I am standing on the shoulders of giants, having read thousands of texts since 2020 and travelled tens of thousands of kilometres, visiting many different sites of ancient and current Indo-European peoples and towns and villages with the MN sound in their moniker.I do not expect you in the first podcast to take this on board as an article of faith. So I’m going to ask you gently — in a way that I’ll ask you again and again throughout Finding Manuland — just to park this idea that MN is the characteristic sound and meaning in Indo-European languages, and then you can test the stories I’m going to recount to you over the coming months and years against this primary hypothesis — or conclusion, in my case, but it’s just a hypothesis for you.Finding Manuland is also about a cultural journey. Culture is what is hidden. The word in modern English occult captures the etymology and meaning of the cult element in culture. Note, en passant, the MN is even in the word element.I’m going to help you get your eye into seeing this MN sound, which is in almost every sentence we speak, read, or write in Indo-European languages. The Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family takes its name from Keltoi — the hidden one, a lord of death, akin to Woden.In Germanic culture, what we call mana is sometimes called Woden. Odin, who is the lord of death in ancient Germanic culture — for whom our Wednesday, Woden’s day, is named — is mana, and mana is in Woden.Woden is like Christ, or Yama in ancient Iranian culture, or Yama in ancient Indian culture, or Jupiter — Deus Pater — or Zeus Pater. In Roman culture, in ancient Latin, it’s Jupiter. In ancient Greek culture, you have Zeus Pater. In Indian culture, we have Dyaus Pita. All of these manifestations of a supreme god to whom we have a contract with emanate from Sky Father, who is a creation of the ancient Ukrainians, the Yamnaya. There’s that MN again — the Yamnaya, who created the first Indo-European language between around 4000 BCE and 2500 BCE.To understand the power of mana and the MN sound, we need to journey through language, through space — through Manuland — across time from 4000 BCE until the present, and into all the many layers of our culture today and over time.I’m a cultural archaeologist. I examine — there’s that MN sound again — I examine and unpack the layers of our culture over time. I’m speaking to you in English now, which is a Germanic language, part of the Germanic or Gothic branch of Indo-European languages, whose existence was discovered in the 1780s by a Welsh scholar of Persian, ancient Iranian, and Sanskrit, whose name was Sir William Jones.Jones, in the 1780s, was a judge in India. He was translating India’s ancient law code, the Laws of Manu, when he suddenly understood that no philosopher or philologer could look at the grammar, roots of verbs, and vocabulary in Sanskrit — which is an ancient Indian language — alongside Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Latin, and Persian, without concluding that the similarities in grammar, roots of verbs, and vocabulary are so intense that they could not have arisen by coincidence or borrowing. No philosopher could look at these languages without concluding that they come from a common source.There’s that MN, even in the first statement that Sir William Jones made publicly about his discovery of what we now know by the moniker Indo-European languages. Note how MN is in Manu, India’s first human, whose laws Jones was translating, and how he uses another MN-filled word — common — to describe what today I call ancient Ukrainian, the first Indo-European language, but which some scholars call Proto-Indo-European.In 1782, when Sir William Jones announced this discovery to the Asiatic Society in Kolkata, he opined that perhaps this common source no longer exists. For over 200 years after that moment — when, by looking at the grammar, the roots of verbs, the vocabulary, and the structure of Sanskrit, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Latin, and Persian (and we’ve discovered many other Indo-European languages since then) — from that first moment, Sir William Jones understood that perhaps these languages all came from a common source.My insight about this MN sound began as hypothesis-free research — a methodology very common in science, especially now with the advent of data analytics and machine learning, where you look for patterns in data, often using neural network algorithms. You gather millions of different data points and look for patterns in them, and you form hypotheses from these patterns.I began on this journey simply looking at a question: why is Manus the first human founder of the Germanic people and Manu the first founder of Indian culture? Why is there this same sound in their monikers? That is the journey I’ll be describing to you.All of these different linguistic cultures, which we can attach to particular geographical spaces and which evolved over time, come from a common source language that was first spoken in southeastern Ukraine by the ancient Ukrainian community which contemporary archaeologists call the Yamnaya. Note how even in the name of the community who created the first Indo-European language, we have this MN in their moniker.I detected this immanent MN sound in the word common, but I did not start looking out for what I now understand to be the fundamental cryptotypic signifying system in Indo-European languages. No — I began to research the question of why there were so many mythological founders of Indo-European peoples whose names contained the MN sound. Except I didn’t even know they were Indo-European peoples then. I was simply looking at different mythological founders of peoples.Then I discovered the existence of Sir William Jones and of Indo-European languages, and of all the work done over the past 200 years since Jones’s insight to try and uncover origins. What is this common source? What is coincidence? What is borrowing? And what is the common source?These are the three options we always have when we come across similarities in different elements of Indo-European languages and mythological stories. Is it borrowing? Is it coincidence? Or is this a remnant from the common source from which the entire language family — in all of its manifestations: Germanic, Celtic, Indic, Iranian, Baltic, Scandinavian, Slavic, Greek, Latin, Anatolian — has emerged?Is this a remnant in our today, in this sentence, in the sound I’m using to communicate something with you in our community? Is this a remnant of something very ancient? The Power of Mana and Finding Manuland is about discerning what, in the language we use today to communicate with each other, is very ancient.I did not know what the Yamnaya were, or what this common source was, or even what Indo-European languages were, when I discovered that all these linguistic cultures with MN sounds in the monikers of their mythological founders had already been grouped into one language family. We now know this with scientific certainty since 2015. That inspired me to continue looking into why this MN sound is so immanent in almost every sentence we speak.Finding Manuland was born of what originally was hypothesis-free research. I simply spotted a pattern and I wanted to understand: is this borrowing? Is it coincidence? Or is there some other reason?MN is also, of course, in the word human. Everything we do in Finding Manuland, we’re looking at this MN sound as a conveyor of energy that is immanent in our communities and the interaction of us humans who comprise our community.The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the pre-Germanic origins of the word man are problematic. I wondered: what does problematic mean in this sense? In ancient Indian lore, the first human is called Manu.So which came first — Manus in Germany or Manu in India? Is India borrowing it from Germanic culture? Is Germanic culture borrowing it from Indian culture? Is it a coincidence that both have mythologies with this MN sound in the moniker of their mythological founders?We can look at where Manu in Indic culture first appears. He is the first human sacrificer, who makes a deal with Deus Pater, with Sky Father. He sacrifices in order for the community to live in sovereignty, security, and prosperity. Manu first appears in the Rigveda, which is, if not humanity’s oldest book, one of humanity’s oldest books, and certainly the oldest book in Indo-European culture. It’s a book of songs — the Rigveda is the foundation of Indo-European Indian culture.There were people living in the subcontinent of India before the ancient Ukrainian migrants’ descendants arrived and established what we today see as Indian culture and Brahmanism. The Rigveda was first written down in 1100 BCE. Manus, the founder of Germany’s ten historic tribes, first appears in writing around 50 years after the birth of Christ, in the Roman writer Tacitus.So on the face of it, we could see — oh, Germany had copied India. But this is the cliffhanger I’m going to leave you on today.Please come back for episode two of Power of Mana, and then we’ll get to the bottom of which came first: Manu or Manus.Thank you for listening.Here are some of the fundamental sources and readings underpinning this episode of Finding Manuland - the story of the X Energy’s immanence in humanity’s main linguistic community.Continued:First in Series:Continued from: Get full access to Power of Mana at www.powerofmana.net/subscribe

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 languages which emanate from a common source in southeastern Ukraine. And one of the abiding messages in Finding Manuland is that this is a message of unity, that we are very diverse, but we are all of the same people. So we will use this moniker Manuland to describe this this geographical space but also as a purposeful method means of transforming our mental models of this space and of this time from 4000 BCE before the common era until today in 2024 because we will range around this space and this time like the Yamnaya themselves and at the moment it might seem quite blank to you many of the countries and places that we'll visit and many of the times But I will purposefully, and I will repeat myself a lot through Finding Manuland, because what I'm trying to do is inculcate, I'm trying to fill in these blanks between 4000 BCE and today, and these blanks in the geographical space. And the purpose of all of this is to... rebuild our mental models of how the past and the present interact.And through Finding Manuland, we'll watch how our mental models expand. So we begin around 4000 BCE with the Yamnaya community. Notice the MN sound in Yamnaya and in community. We begin around 4000 BCE with the Yamnaya community who lived between the Don and the Don Hyper (Dniepr) rivers of ancient Ukraine.These Yamnaya created the first Indo-European language. They buried their dead, covered in ochre with their knees flexed in hundreds, hundreds of thousands of mounds, of burial mounds, tumulus, which still remain in the lands between Ireland and and India in this place, which we'll call Manuland. The Yamnaya also had a contract with Skyfather, Dyeuspater.So forgive my pronunciation of all of these words, but I hope you'll get the picture. And I will post on the page for this webcast or this podcast, rather, some of the references, which will help you See the actual how the modern linguists write these.So the religious identity of the Yamnaya, which then spread along with the language, was very important. The idea was of a contract with Skyfather, Dias Pater. And in return for sacrificing to Sky Father, the community's sovereignty, security and fertility stroke prosperity, these three dimensions necessary for a healthy community will come into our story of Finding Manuland a lot. So the idea the Yamnaya used, which was spread into various other Indo-European religions in one form or another, was that in return for the sacrificing an animal to Skyfather, the community would be protected by Skyfather. And Dyeus Pater is the only animal religious term that is imminent in each of the main Indo-European language families. We are very familiar with Zeus Pater, Zeus Pater from the supreme deity in Greek culture. So the Yamnaya whose descendants, whose cultural and, in the case of Greece, genetic descendants, the latest research published in Cell Journal, demonstrates that the Mycenaeans, the Achaeans, the Danaeans, the first Greeks, the first Greeks are... the first people occupying the land we understand as Greece today, who spoke in Indo-European language, and the first Greeks who Homer calls the Danaeans or the Achaeans. The first Greeks, their genetic ancestors left ancient Ukraine and became the Mycenaeans. They would have left just before 2500 BCE.So this is why this time range between 4000 BCE and 2500 BCE is very important because, scholars, there is a consensus among linguists that that in order for the diversity we experience today in Indo-European languages, think of the difference between Irish and Albanian, there's only 42%. There's this method of comparing Indo-European languages called the Swadesh method, method and the swedish method has a hundred different words which describe aspects of humans and community which are common to all cultures like hand like finger like eye and it uses this list and there's a few different versions of the list to compare the how comparable different indo-european languages are so for instance Irish and Albanian have, I think it's 42% cognateness. Irish and Armenian have 43% cognateness. But Irish and a Germanic language like English have something like 63% cognateness. And those percentages relate to the number of these words in the Swadesh list, which emanate from...clearly from the same common source from the same root and we can trace these uh words like deus meaning sky bright sky which became god which is this idea that when you die you go into the sky well initially It was only heroes which went into the sky. Everyone else went into mounds.They went into Valhalla or the earth or to hell with one L. But eventually through the spread and I suppose inflation, we all ended up going into the sky in our conceptions, into the heaven, to sky father. And that is in death, the idea of death, death.So we go into the sky when we go through the deus process, deus, death, deus. And so this word deus, which is in all Indo-European languages, the only religious term, which is in every single Indo-European language, we know for certain then that that comes from the common source language. from before 4000 BCE, from before the first migrants left ancient Ukraine and they left and ended up in Anatolia to eventually find the Hittite and Luwian and other Indo-European languages which are now mainly extinct in Anatolia and Turkey but for which we have many written records we know because this word is in those languages that the Yamnaya spoke they used this idea of Dyeus the sky and God the deity and the idea of going into the sky and the idea of making a contract with God and sky father before they left and so Zeus Peter in ancient Greece Jupiter in ancient Rome and in India we have a Duha Peter as well so we have this evidence of this contract with Sky father and it's all of course interesting that Saint Peter In the Christian faith also is this idea that you go to Saint Peter and he weighs your fate with white and black stones at the gates of heaven.So these are all Indo-manifestations of an Indo-European inheritance. And when you bear in mind, as we will in Finding Manuland, and we'll look into the Indo-European presence in Judea, hundreds of years before the historic King David lived around 1000 BCE, and hundreds of years before the Bible, so the Old Testament arrived, was the events in the Old Testament began, I mean, obviously Genesis and stuff, but with King David and King Solomon around 1000 BCE. And then over the following millennium, they were gradually written down in various different forms and became what we understand today as the Old Testament and the New Testament.But for 1400 BCE, we had Indo-Europeans living in Judea. And our evidence for this is in what are called the Amarna, again, Amarna letters from ancient Egypt, which is an archive from 1400 BCE. And this has letters in it referencing Indo-European monarchs in Judea. And indeed in Aleppo in Syria, which is around from where King David's father or grandfather Uriah emanates. So we understand that this soup of different cultures obviously included Egypt and Babylon, but also included Indo-European and Hittite and the cultural and genetic descendants of and religious descendants of the people, the Yemnaya, who left ancient Ukraine from between 4000 BCE and 2500 BCE.Out of this milieu came what we consider to be the Bible. And so again, our mental models that the Bible is purely the emanation of the Semitic language family and Semitic culture is itself going to be contested in finding Manuland.And this is part of what I'm offering you and those of you who read and listen to this podcast. We are going to rearrange our mental models today of time from 4000 BCE and space, but also of our culture. So 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 Yamnaya ancestors. And some of us might know that we actually carry, each of us carries two different genomes. We carry our main genome, which is based on the nucleus of our cell and every single one of the cells, the zillions of cells in our bodies carry. has two different genomes and one of the genomes, mitochondrial DNA, which is much smaller than the other, maybe has 32, 33 genes in it. This is what is used in the latest ancient DNA research that demonstrates that most modern Europeans and most people in Manuland carry to one degree or another the mitochondrial DNA of our Yamnaya ancestors. So until 2015, when Nature published research, which we'll refer to again and again, this is known as the ancient DNA research, revolution. Linguists and archaeologists had worked out that we probably emanated from the Yamnaya and that the first Indo-European languages were spoken in the river valleys of eastern and southeastern Ukraine. However, since 2015, we have been able to isolate elements in our genome which are traceable with certainty now to the area between the Don and the Dnipro. The Dnipro and some of the latest research demonstrates through another method which complements looking at the mitochondrial DNA inside each of our cells, which is called isotopic analysis. So we today can look at the teeth of ancient humans, like ancient Yamnaya from Southeastern Ukraine, and we can determine beyond all probabilities where the food which was grown that was eaten by these ancient humans, where the food was grown.And we now know through the isotopic analysis of ancient Yamnaya that between the Don River and the Dnieper River, these ancient Yamnaya's teeth were formed. And so this sparks the other element which you will often see in the literature which I will reference and we will try to avoid. And again, mental model will be changed, hopefully through Finding Manuland, is this idea of steppe ancestry or Pontic-Caspian steppe. So you'll often read that Indo-European languages began the Pontic-Caspian steppe or the steppe of South Russian or Russia or the South Caspian. the southern steppe or steppe ancestry, these are all placeholders from a time before we understood through isotopic analysis that the Yamnaya came from southeastern Ukraine. So we're not only decolonizing or decolonizing the, we are rather decolonizing our view of prehistory so that rather than looking at the past and not thinking about ancient Ukraine, as being in any way analogous to ancient Germany or Ireland or Greece or Rome.As part of Finding Manuland, we will decolonize our mental model. We will create a presence where there is an absence. And this will be true to history and true to the science, the latest science and the latest research, of course. But we are also purposefully recentering ancient Ukraine as part of our mental models of where we come from in a way that very few researchers are doing yet. And this is extremely important in the light of the war in Ukraine, because part of Russia's message to the world is that it is the originator and the inheritor of the mantle of the origins of our culture whereas in fact the culture it is trying to eradicate is the inheritor of it. And so this is a very important part of Finding Manuland as well. We are recentering Ukraine and ancient Ukraine in the mental models of humanity and we are giving ancient Ukraine parity of esteem with other countries…cultures we have no problem with calling ancient Greece Greece and with seeing continuity over thousands of years between ancient Germany and Germany and Ireland and England and France and parity of esteem demands all modern nation states all of whom trace their origins and their raison d'etre to various paths, pasts, which are mythologically or recorded in stories and in texts from the past. We need to do this with Ukraine, particularly, not least because it actually turns out, and I am as surprised as anyone of this, as someone who spent 2015 to 2022 in eastern Ukraine as a diplomat, I had no idea until around 2022 about the Yamnaya and that actually not only should we accord ancient Ukraine parity of esteem with other ancient cultures, but actually since the Yamnaya began the first Indo-European language, we should probably agree. accorded a bit more parity of esteem. So decoding trolls is the first, that's me, I'm the first to discover that imminent in almost every sentence we speak or think through an Indo-European language is an MN sound coupled with meanings that were first forged by our Yamna forebears. This might be a coincidence, or the MN sound might be the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signaling system undermining the matrices of metaphors through which we communicate today. So that's quite a mouthful. So what I have discovered is that there's this MN sound which is imminent in almost every sentence we speak. It is imminent in the monikers of the mythological monarchs who founded many of the great Indo-European cultures.This MN sound pops up continually over this 6,000 years since the Amnaya first left ancient Ukraine. Sometimes the MN is a coincidence. Sometimes it is borrowing. And other times it comes from a common source, the ancient Ukrainian word for the moon, modern linguists call menyot. And we have... Around a thousand words which were used by the Yamnaya.I call it ancient Ukrainian. Most other scholars call it Proto-Indo-European. And we have about a thousand words which... are the roots of words which we use in today's modern Indo-European languages. One of them, for instance, as I mentioned, is Dyeus, meaning sky, sky, bright sky, the idea of God, deity, deva. That is in every Indo-European language, but other words are, for instance, they appear in Irish and Armenian. And generally speaking, if there is a root of a word in an Indo-European language, which is similar from an Indo-European language, traditionally spoken, West of Ukraine and East of Ukraine, then we can, all other things being equal, consider that that word comes from the common source.But in certain cases, like the word Dzias, we've got this word in every single Indo-European language. So we can be certain that this emanates from a common source and was therefore spoken and used by Yamnaya migrants before they left ancient Ukraine around 4000 BCE and was used also by Yamnaya between 4000 BCE and 2500 BCE.2500 BCE being the latest moment one community of Yamnaya lived together. And this community then broke up and migrated and created all of the Indo-European languages which we speak today. So there is a few other sounds which are imminent, which are really important in Indo-European languages, which we'll also talk about later, the writ sound so it's in sovereignty writ as in law it's in security fertility prosperity right writ and that that is imminent in the mythological texts as well as in our ordinary language so it's another contender to be one of the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signalling systems undermining the matrices and metaphors through which we communicate today.So it's a founding assumption in Finding Manuland that all of our language is made up of It's parasitical on metaphors. So we've got a whole matrices, a networks of metaphors through which we say this is like that, that is like this, and the whole idea of meaning - which has mn in it - is that you have something different from something shining through it like the light shines through the moon or the shape of the moon shines through the luminescence illumination of the moon and MN is in meaning. And this is one of the reasons why I say that MN is the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signaling system, undermining the matrices and metaphors through which we communicate today, because the idea of meaning, so the meaning of meaning, but also the moniker meaning, the word meaning, this is also an MN sound. So we have this other one, RG RIT, RT meaning truth, this is a really important cryptotypic semantic signalling system to an Indo-European language and we'll talk about it again because if I'm saying, if I'm claiming MN sound is the fundamental, then I have to demonstrate using others that mn sound is more fundamental than it so the rg rit one is will go into is really important but not as fundamental as mn then there's others which i have also found inside almost this don dn sound which is really important in the danaeans the first greeks the don river the danube those are the two rivers which set the boundaries of ancient Ukraine, really. And in between them, the Donetsk, where I worked for three years on a bridge over the Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, when I discovered the Yamnaya's existence, the Don Iper, the Dnieper River, where I worked as a diplomat living in Dniepro, the city of Dniepro in eastern Ukraine for four years between 2018 and 2022. the Don Iper, then we have the Donister, the Dniester River, very important river as well in the European context, and then the Danube.So even modern Ukraine has these rivers in the capital of Armenia. Yerevan, we have the Harazdan River, we have the Danaeans, the first Greeks, we have down in a place I also visited relatively recently, which we talked about in the first which we will talk about in future podcasts and talked about before, which is Karatepe, which is where we found the Rosetta Stone that enabled the decipherment of Luwian, which is an important Indo-European language in Anatolia, and where we have documented. You'll see some of the images I've used so far to illustrate the power of Mana and Finding Manuland podcast come from Karatepe.These are stone carvings of mythological stories and they're an important source and very important element in Finding Manuland because they show us what kinds of stories were being spoken about around 800 to 700 BCE, before the Common Era in the ancient empire or kingdom of Cilicia, which had been under the Hittites, but then... became an important gateway through the gates of the Amana gates into Assyria, modern day Syria. And so that area was ruled by the Danaeans. And we have the references to the Danaeans in five or six ancient Egyptian texts as being the sea peoples and coming from Greece. And The second grouping of Irish Indo-European migrants of ancient Yamnaya descendants, cultural and linguistic descendants, onto the island of Ireland in the mythological record were... the Tuatha de Danann, the worshippers of the goddess Danu. So we have this DN sound as well, which is imminent in many of our mythological texts, which is very, very important to contemporary and tracing paths to the past. But I maintain it's not as fundamental as the MN sound, mainly because the DN sound isn't as common in today's language in a traceable way. in a way that we can trace the meaning of it. So moon, for instance, in modern English, clearly relates to Meh₁n-ṓt , which is the word the ancient Ukrainians used for moon before 2500 BCE. It has the same sound and it has the same meaning, so moon. But in many cases, the DN sound isn't as fundamental. But we'll go into this in more detail later. I just want to justify why I say that MN sound is, might be the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signalling system undermining the matrices of metaphors through which we communicate today. So MN might well be a permanent monument, remnant and reminder of the Yamnaya and indeed of mana. And this is where we get to the key.Mana, the subtle energy we exchange with human animals is anchored in almost every thought we have. Mana, Wudan, Nus, Holy Spirit, Prana, Chi, Ki, Libido, Mungo, Karman, out of which Karma comes, Synchronicity, Anamamundi, Renda, Manutu, Wanga, Tondi. These are all manifestations of the same phenomenon that was present in the minds of the Yamnaya. as in all ancient and contemporary humans. If only we can connect again to manna and harness manna to impact positively every interaction we have inside our communities. So, so far I've talked about re-colonizing your temporal mental model from populating it with events and places and peoples from 4000 BCE, before the common era, common era, to the present.I've talked about populating your mental model of the space between Ireland and India. But here, Finding Manuland wants to populate your consciousness in the present with this idea of energy and energy exchange. And energy, as far as we know, our cells' energy is created. It's this called ATP energy. which interestingly is a supermarket in modern Ukraine.But that is definitely a coincidence. I'm not suggesting that ATP named itself after the actual fundamental energy source in complex cells that we as humans and animals and actually, interestingly, mushrooms also have. They also have these two elements. two genomes inside every cell and it is our mitochondrial dna which creates this energy this electric charge without which we cannot exist and so that is the micro on the cellular level in our trillions of cells we have these little energy factories and that is coded for through our mitochondrial cells DNA and it is this mitochondrial DNA which enables us to understand that we are in most cases in the people between who lived traditionally between Ireland and India we have to one degree or another to one degree of dilution or another the we are the genetic the actual genetic descendants of these yamnaya we have the mitochondrial dna passed along to us through the matrilineal line through our mothers and our mothers mothers and our and so on of the yamnaya who left ancient ukraine so today i'm using i'm speaking to you in an indo-european language english which is part of the germanic family mn in germanic from manus And so clearly I'm the cultural descendant, the Yamnaya are my cultural ancestors, but I also have the ancient DNA of the Yamnaya as for instance, on the island of Britain, we now know through peer reviewed research published in the preeminent scientific journal in today's humanity, Nature, it was published in around, I think in 2021 actually, that the genome of 90% of the population of the island of Britain changed.So before 2450, before the Common Era, there was no trace of Yamnaya in the genome and the people on the island of Britain. And then over the course of a very short time, maybe a couple hundred years, it might be sooner or a bit longer, but over the course of a very short period, 90% of people living on the island of Britain suddenly, suddenly, and this is one of the mysteries we will explore, suddenly got Yamnaya into their bloodstream. And they have the mitochondrial DNA of Yamnaya. Yamnaya is suddenly in there. So our starting point is that we do all speak in Indo-European language, most of us, traditionally between Ireland and India. And this was discovered by William Jones, Sir William Jones the Welsh. a Persian and Sanskrit scholar who was translating the laws of Manu, the Manusmirti in India, when he realized that the coincidence between the grammar, the roots of verbs and the vocabulary in Sanskrit, Persian, the Celtic, the Germanic, Greek and the ancient Latin languages. There were so many similarities between the grammar, the roots of verbs, that it was impossible for such similarities to have arisen through coincidence. And that's what many scholars, including myself, that intuition he had. in, I think it was 1782, that, and he announced this publicly around 1782, that we have been researching this intuition ever since. And as far as I'm aware, I'm the first human to notice the MN sound. So many scholars have explore the MN sound in respect of particular poetic or linguistic traditions or religious traditions, either in the Indo-European world or in parts of the world where Indo-European languages came into contact, sustained contact very early on. But nobody else, as far as I'm aware, has put together all of the imminence of this mn sound and brought it up into the the contemporary and nobody else has discovered that this mn sound is probably the fundamental cryptotypic semantic signaling system underpinning all of our interactions and our languages today and this idea of crypto types was theorized which is that there is a level of communication between sentient beings that is only manifest in language but actually exists independent of language. So this is this idea of mana, woden, anus, the holy spirit, prana, chi, synchronicity, karman, mungo, libido, tondi, wong, manutu.This is this idea that there is this energy exchange which we know is an empirical fact. occurs inside our cells between the nucleus of the cell and our mitochondrial system and out of this exchange of energy we emanate and everything we think and do from the micro to the macro emanates from the construction of airplanes to the wiggling of your finger or of your toe and all of these words I'm speaking and all of these thoughts I have. But the idea is that they're underpinning or undermining all of these evidence of existence and the aggregate we are of zillions of cells and cells…All the thoughts we have and all the words we have and all the learning we have and the thousands of years of history that we can access through recorded words. Underneath all of this is this mode, this cryptotypic semantic signaling system. And I believe MN is the fundamental signal. cryptotypic semantic signalling system in Indo-European culture. That's important.I'm not making any claims for the many other linguistic cultures which we know. I'm just dealing with the Indo-European language because I'm fluent in it, in one or two of its manifestations. and more than half of humanity speak an Indo-European language. So the MN sound being imminent in most of our thoughts and communications in an Indo-European language is quite an interesting insight into what this energy exchange, which is fundamental and which so many other religious, academic and New Age scholars and cultures, mana, woden, noose, holy spirit, prana, chi in India, or sorry, in China, ki, prana in India, synchronicity, the police, that's a joke, karman in Buddhism and other Indo-European religions. So I think we can harness this by keeping it in mind and finally Manuland is trying to expand our mental models of time, of space, but also to help us understand about this energy exchange so we can harness it positively, to impact positively every interaction we have inside our communities.So these are the ideas that Finding Manuland will elucidate. They're located in space, time and the culture of Manuland. Our story emanates from ancient Ukraine and it terminates in the questions. Why is this MN sound and its associated meaning so imminent in Indo-European culture? Can we know what this imminence means?If Mana is what remains of us in others when we leave them, then there is manna. Manna is permanent. Let's communicate positive manna. And finding mannuland will help remind you of this in every interaction you experience today with other sentient beings. 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