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Understanding Our Origins Scythians and Ancient Greeks

Today we're going to get in touch with our ancestry and entertain the presentations by Asha Logos in his series called Our Subverted History. This is a brief introduction to the Scythians and Pelasgians as well as look at the Diomedes and the Trojan War. We will check in with Herodotus as well and see how these Revisionist Historians have been erasing and discrediting the accounts of those who were there.

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Duration:: 2h 14m
Broadcast on:: 09 Jul 2024
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What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading, accounting, consulting, and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at MossAtoms.com. Good morning. It is Monday, July 8th, 2024, and we are back once again. I didn't take a break this weekend. We did one on Saturday. That was pretty lengthy, almost three hours, and then we did another one last night with Stephan Verstopp and on his channel that I simulcasted onto here. That one was almost three hours as well, like two hours and 45 minutes, and now we're back. We're going to talk about some of the back story. Since we went into ancient Greece for a little while, and we've talked about the Orlanda book in the past, and we've actually read from it multiple times. I believe there's five episodes so far of me reading from it that my computer had to reset, so I lost my spout. So I'll have to go back to the fifth one and see where I left off to finish. But oh, man. So Bushmaster said he lost by a pound in sweat in this Georgia heat so far. Bushmaster, it is going to be 118 degrees according to my phone here today in Yuma. Yeah. And yesterday I did 3.8 miles on the elliptical in the morning, well morning-ish, and then late last night I had the desire to do it again. So I did another 3.8 miles last night, so I did a total of 2,000 calories according to the meter burned and 7.6 miles on that elliptical at max resistance. So that was the first for that. That was pretty, pretty fun. I just, without the phone to be able to read because you can't read on something that looks like that, I have the TV in the bedroom and I just turned that on and watch a video, find one that's at least like an hour and a half long, so I don't have to be messing around with it when I'm trying to use the elliptical. And yeah. So that's actually kind of how I got the idea to do this show today. I watched these last night to refresh my memory on it. This is like an introduction to the Sithian information and then it's going to go, we're going to go into the part three. I'm going to go from two to three. And then the third one, it's going to be mostly about ancient Greece. But we're going to the Palaskians, Palaskians, whatever I were actually talked about in the first part, a decent amount. So that was brought up a lot by Ammon. Like, Bitch, it's flashy. I think they're the descendants. Well, I mean, I'm positive they're descendants of Sithians. Let's see what Bushmaster had to say. Hold on. Did three tours three years in Iraq? Well, wow, glad you're still with us, man. How does day was 136? My Bradley driver drank four gallons of water and never got out of the bread. Yeah, I bet it's all coming out of his pores. They don't have any kind of like air circulation of those things, do they? Like, how do you not suffocate in that? That's crazy. Holy crap. It's like a, it's like a death box that causes death. So it's like a one to one ratio there. Okay. So last night, if you were watching the, the, the fond verse stop and talk, and I think you should eat the whole time that I was on, I didn't realize that was producer Steve until the very end, producer, Steve of the Freeman show, Freeman TV. He's been with Freeman forever. And so I didn't know that was, I didn't know for at the door was Steve Mercer. So that's, that's cool. And I've had Freeman on before and I've watched Freeman forever. And a lot of the guests that I have called upon to be on my show in the earlier days were people that I had remembered having seen X many years ago on, Reminda was really interested in talking with. And that's how I actually got in touch with Stefan the first time. So it was a football circle type of deal. Pretty cool. Anyway, I wish I had known it was Steve in the first place, but at least now I know. But someone had put up a comment in the live stream. And what it said was, I read the FBI document on Bill Cooper. And that guy was an idiot. He was asking for it. Well, first of all, your law, your thinking is flawed. These people were assigned to build a case to put this guy away and take his children. So that's the person who you're going to filter your perspective on how he behaved and who he was as a man through his enemies that want to destroy him because they were told to by the controllers of this horrific place that we live in, right? Why would you start there? Unless you were intending on having a negative view of the person. What makes you think that the people who want to take you down are going to say pretty things about you? How about this, buddy? I've listened to probably every single episode that's still in existence of the hour of the time. I've read his book. I wrote what could possibly be considered as the continuation of Behold the Pale Horse right here called "Preece Craft Beyond Babylon," where Bill himself gets to speak in his own words from transcripts from his show. I wouldn't have done all of that if I thought the guy was an asshole. I listened to him and let him speak for himself in his own words hour by hour as I listened to the hour of the time. He was a good father. He was a good man. So what this guy said, he was an idiot asking for it. What that really means is that that person is a coward and in order to make himself feel like less of a coward and less insignificant in comparison to Bill who had balls to stand up for his rights, he's going to cut that guy down because he should have been acting more like a pathetic slave like the guy who posted a comment saying he's an idiot who was asking for it. So now that that's been addressed. Let's move on. So I guess there is air conditioning in the Bradley but it doesn't do very much. Let's get into it. You know where the description links are? You know what I notice also. So Rumble is deleting subscribers. I have like 30 notifications that people were subscribing to my channel. I have less subscribers than it did on Friday but over the week I've had like 30 notifications. Yeah. So if you don't know, you're not getting your notifications, you might want to go check that out. You wouldn't hear this if you didn't. If you did get unsubscribed, so I don't know why I'm saying it because it's not like you're going to know anyway. And what else happened? Oh yeah. So the deleted videos. I am currently, I think I am anyway. Currently, let's see if I refresh this if it shows it. Hold on. I'm on ftjmedia.com right now too. And I think I'm streaming at the moment if it worked right. Yes. Yes, it actually is happening right now. That's awesome. So we're not just on Twitter and Rumble right now. We are going to be preserved. Whatever on ftjmedia where they will not take down any of our videos and the stuff that was taken down will be put back up there as time permits. Bill was right about William Greer. I think there might have been a little bit more to that. I still think Jackie got all wacky. It looks like she pulls his head into her lap and then his head this way because you see that lap come out. It looks like it's being pushed out like coming from an exit wound, not an entrance. You probably have more experience than I do, Bushmaster, but usually little in, big or out, you know. I don't know. And I saw it tough to smoke in the Zupruder film. That doesn't happen from the bullet impact. It comes from the gun, right? Obviously it's the powder residue. So if you see that tough to smoke right above her shoulder, then you see what happens to his head. It's kind of hard not to put those two together and say, something's up. Jackie, the Jesuit Jackie, the Jewess Jackie, whatever, you know. Oh, anyway. Jesuits are assassins, but sleepers too sometimes. We're going to start with conspiracy question mark, our subverted history part two, the Scythian and their kin. This is an Asha Logos video. When we get this started, jumping and getting another cup of coffee didn't sleep much last night. But my legs are getting huge and I would seem to have unlimited energy now right now for whatever reason. Thank you, NFR. Okay. Let's go to it. You can see. I can see. Let me get myself off the screen though. So I come back and here we go. So you're going to have to read this part because he doesn't do this as terribly as to the last thing that we were watching, but let me read this. I will always when I write it, when I make a video, unless I'm flashing something on the screen to add to something else without interrupting it, it will always be audible because not everybody's looking right at their screen when they're doing stuff, especially if they're driving. You can't read a screen when you're driving. A lot of times people listen to shows while they drive, especially long drives. That's what I do when I'm on long drives. So it's better. It's more of an experience if you can actually get all of it, you know, not miss big chunks of it because you have to read something. So it says, "There are a nation hardly in toils and warfare." "Hardy." Sorry. Let me start over. "They are a nation hardly in toils and warfare. Their strength of body is extraordinary. They take possession of nothing which they fear to lose and covet when they are conquerors, nothing but glory." So they don't pillage either. "Trogus, Pompeus," said that. It's always struck me that there seems to be something of a black hole and historical record as if much has been left out or danced around. And when dealt with it all, framed incorrectly and grossly mischaracterized. On that note, the Scythians seem to be the most appropriate starting point for our journey. In a very real sense, we'll be starting in the middle. As the Scythians seem to be the happy little sinter with respect to the Indo-European people, the tie that binds. With regards to the span of time, historians and cultural anthropologists often like to place them at the sinter point between the dawn of recorded history and approximately 3,000 BC and the present day. Geographically, they're situated roughly in the center of nearly all major activity until Rome hates her stride and Europe begins to take shape. This centrality is appropriate because they're not only occupying a central role in time and space, but in nearly every other respect as well. It's difficult to overstate their importance and relevance to the history of the Indo-European peoples. Sorry, before I get up and get that cup of coffee, I wanted to just say something. These people unite the gothic/dramatic people in the ruse. They all come from the same source, and that's something to keep in mind when you see how the spin doctors view and make more us to view both groups of people. This is an ancient war. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers, where you'll find over 30,000 mouth-watering choices that excite your inner foodie. 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You'll find this to be a recurring theme as the series continues. This subject is incredibly tricky to cover properly, because the label Scythian has been so elastic and flexible, stretching back to their very first mention. If we picture the proto-Indo-European people as a tree trunk, splitting off into two or three similar trunks before splitting off into ever smaller branches. The step people known as the Scythians and their kindred could best be thought of as the largest and most centrally placed of these two or three smaller trunks. And the one that produces far and away the most branches over time. Genetically, culturally, and linguistically, it's difficult to think of any nation or empire across the Middle East, Europe, or Asia that wasn't either founded or deeply shaped by this large family, within which the Scythian element is centrally placed. I'm forced to phrase it in such a way, because labels and language begin to fail us a bit here. Instead of speaking of them as one people that began to radiate outwards from the Caucasus across most of the known world, conventional theory has instead treated each subgroup as if they were a distinct people, with a different culture and way of life, emerging relatively independently from one another. And of course, we gave each of these a separate name, causing them to appear even more distinct. One group moves into India and suddenly becomes Indians, another into Persia and becomes Persians, another into Bactria and Parthia, and become Bactrians and Parthians. In many ways, this isn't the most helpful or efficient frame through which to view history, and it was bound to cause great confusion. For example, if you look up Scythian in Wikipedia or any similarly conventional source, you'll hear them spoken of as if they simply emerged out of nowhere around the 9th or 10th century BC. Yet intriguingly, the historian Marcus Justinus states, "The nation of the Scythians was always regarded as very ancient, though there was a long dispute between them and the Egyptians concerning the antiquity of their respective races. The Egyptians being confounded by these arguments, the Scythians were always accounted as the more ancient." This is quite the explosive statement, as our age tends to consider the Egyptians as the oldest of peoples and empires, supposedly in full swing long before conventional historians claim the Scythians even entered the picture. But it gets even more intriguing, and I relate the following accounts not to agree or disagree with them just yet, but because they were stated by reputable and sober minds at their age and certainly deserve consideration. The 17th century Irish historian Jeffrey Keating outright claims the Scythians were of Noah and his progeny and claims that the Sumerians with an S were descended from them. Epiphanius of Salamis states that the Scythians were the ones who built the Tower of Babel and that the ancient Sumerians themselves were their descendants and goes on to state the Scythian monarchy began soon after the flood and continued to the captivity of Babylon. He further states, quote, "that the laws, customs, and manners of the Scythians were received by other nations as the standard of policy, civility, and polite learning, and that they were the first after the flood who attempted to reform mankind into the notions of courtesy, into the art of government, and the practice of good government," end quote. And herein lies one of the most intriguing mysteries of this people. Not only were they extremely capable warriors on the battlefield credited with the invention of metallurgy and bronze, longboats and galleys, even silk, and responsible for some of the greatest thinkers of the age, such as Anna Carces, one of the seven sages of Greece, as well as being brilliant artists and craftsmen who used the massive amounts of precious metals they acquired over time to produce pieces they would stand up to any created today. But they also seem to have been universally respected and well liked. The Greeks, very much their genetic and cultural kinfolk, seem to view them as their more wild and less domesticated cousins. Homer called them both the most just of all peoples, as well as proud, and according to Strabo, they will then, who quote, "by no means spend their lives on contracts and money acquisition that actually possess all things in common, except sword and drinking cup." Askelis, the Greek poet, calls them "the law-abiding eaters of cheese made of maresma," and tells us, "the Sakai were noted for their good laws, and were preeminently a righteous people." A writer in the first century BCE, by the name of Pompeius Tragas, gives the following account. Quote, "Justice is observed among them, more from the temper of the people than the influence of the laws. No crime in their opinion is more heinous than theft. Gold and silver, they despise as much as other than covetum. They live on milk and honey," end quote. He goes on to further praise their seeming complete ignorance of greed and covetousness and vise of every sort. In a manner deeply reminiscent of Tacitus' later portrayal of the ancient Germans, Geoffrey Keating refers to them as "a brave and generous people." And Strabo states, "We regard the Scythians the most straightforward of men and the least prone to mischief, and also far more frugal and independent of others than we are." So, who were these enigmatic people? As I mentioned previously, it can be difficult to tell where Scythian ends and Greek, or Indian, or Persian, or any other group begins, such was the interconnection between these peoples and cultures, and the times prior to the birth of Christ, but I'll be doing my best on Robin's story. A topic which will almost certainly require at least two videos within this larger series. They called themselves the sculatoy, and although they were just spread over much of the known world, they seemed to emerge into recorded history from the region stretching from Azerbaijan to Ukraine around the Black Sea. I think it's fitting to begin... Which is also why I think that the Khazarians might have been the ones that they kicked out. I think that might be where this rivalry began. In our description by calling them... Because unlike the sculatoy, the Khazarian jays, if you will, they were all about the marketplace, being the merchants and thieves that they were, and I think that's what the vision was there, or not the vision, the schism, right? I'm basing that off of what I read about in the oral Linda book about how the Frisians also viewed that, it also viewed magic, so I'm thinking there might be something there. Fiercely independent. Not only refusing to be cowed by foreign nations and cultures, but also nurturing deeply held customs and traditions that ensured they remained free from materialistic desires and the lure of the marketplace. Calling to mind that now well-known Nitzgean Maxim, "He who possesses little is possessed that much less, blessed be a little poverty." They would routinely bury their dead, especially royals with several pounds of food and precious metals and materials, and their now famous Kurgan Moundriges, of which over 100,000 still exist in Ukraine alone, that reached up to 70 feet high, using means and methods and funerary rights, deeply reminiscent of those practiced in ancient Sumeria and Egypt. They were masters of the horse and wheel, allowing for a great speed and mobility, and the flexibility to move anywhere at any moment, and faster than any of their peers. Their skillful breeding of horses and cattle is the reason for the size, stature, and variety tightly enjoyed today. All these details should be, you should recognize them from when Ammon was discussing the Scythians in the videos that we were watching. And their mastery of riding and archery technique caused them to be virtually unassailable, like even the largest empires and armies of their day, routinely making fools of kings and pharaohs that chose to try their luck. The ancient Persian Aryan custom of all youth learning three things, to ride, shoot straight, and always speak the truth, sprung from their cultural root. The Chivalric and Aristocratic Knightly tradition in Europe, in which powerful nobles so often preferred cavalry service, is also almost certainly an outgrowth of Scythian customs. They could move their homes with them on wagons, and seemed undaunted by even most difficult terrain. This mobility was used to masterful effect against several much larger armies and to destroy them. They'd lead the enemy deep into their territory while implementing a scorched earth policy behind them, causing a possible strain on their supply lines, threatening starvation and encirclement, choosing to fight only when the odds were strongly in their favor. Pioneers of the recurved bow and its mounted usage that later be copied by both Mongol and Han, Darius himself employed Scythians, no doubt extremely well paid, in the most important and central place in his force, as he waged war with Alexander the Great. Who was so impressed with their performance, he immediately sought an alliance with the Scythians after the dust settled. Alexander made the peace, but was to make the same mistake so many others would later make with the Germans, Goths, and Vikings. He failed to realize that this was not a unified empire he was dealing with, but something more akin to feudal chieftains. Making an alliance with one doesn't guarantee he doesn't have a brother or a cousin with just his larger force, and soon Alexander found himself staring down a large force of Scythians across the river to nine, reportedly stating with defiance that he'd never dare lay a finger on men such as them, yet if he did, he'd soon discover the difference between men like themselves and asiatic savages. As I mentioned in the previous video, I think it's most helpful to picture the Indo-European route as spreading out in successive waves, with these waves often conquering or establishing new nations, only to have newer and older waves crash into one another. At the center of this ocean, were those who Herodotus calls the "true" siths, or the "royal" siths, their aristocracy residing at the heart of their territory to which all other Scythians seem to willingly serve, and which Herodotus refers to as the largest and bravest of the Scythian tribes, which look upon all of their tribes in the light of servants. These royal siths prohibited the enslavement of foreign peoples, and it said they were served only by trueborn siths of pure blood. There were also extremely rowdy elements, which one might think of as the bodyguard on the front lines. These warriors at the outskirts and borders, especially, were known to drink unmixed wine, with the rest of the world at the time cutting it heavily with water. A habit that caused more than one Greek to go half mad when visiting and attempting to take up the habit for themselves, including the famous story of the Spartan king Cleomenes. I think there's more to that. I think they are drugging the wine as well. They were well acquainted with several drugs, and in what was possibly a ceremonial ritual used to set up a tepee-like structure with a fire in the middle, on which they toss cannabis on the hot stones and imbibe the smoke. And this goes to that fumigation. I'm not sure which gammons I've shown you and which ones I watched on my own, but they didn't smoke things, but they fumigated it. So they put up a tent, filled the fire, and then they would fumigate hotbox, basically. So they seem to place the highest values on nobility and justice, and were spoken of with praise by all who dealt or warned with them. These were not soft men. Again, much like the later Goths and Germanic peoples, war seemed to be viewed as almost a religious sacrament of sorts, not merely a source of pain and suffering and sadness, but rather something approaching a spiritual experience, and a chance to test one another's metal to earn glory through the display of great courage and heroic deeds, a chance to flex both mental and physical muscle in the highest stakes contest known to man. There's a fascinating story about the Scythians being pushed by one brother people from the east, the Masagatai, into another brother people to the west, the Sumerians, and being forced to attack the latter to avoid the former. The royal element among the Sumerians, who again were essentially Scythians, now known by a different name, refused to leave the graves of their fathers and fleet, and chose instead to divide into two camps and fight one another, to the last man as a final hurrah. And when the Scythians arrived, they took possession of an empty land. It's said that some outer tribes had the custom of drinking the blood of the first man they killed as a rite of passage, and would keep trophies as reminders of their victories. It's said that the heads of all slain foes in major battles would be brought to the king to obtain their just share of the winnings. They'd often make drinking cups out of the skulls. Imagine a soccer ball bag full of heads? Of their especially respected foes, which they would bring out for important gatherings and major events, and discuss the events behind the attainment of these grizzly souvenirs as they dined. Herodotus tells us that once per year, the governor of each district would mix a large bowl of wine, perhaps in those famous cauldrons of the type we seem to find across every ancient Indo-European culture, and that only those who would kill the foe have the right to drink. The account, again, I think it was just mine that was in there. So their dominance during long stretches of time are almost unbelievable. A passage from the works of Pompeius Tragas reads, and I quote, "they thrice aspired to the supreme command in Asia, while they themselves remained always either unmolested or unconquered by any foreign power." Darius, king of the Persians, they forced to quit Scythia in disgraceful flight. They slew Cyrus with his whole army. They cut off, in like manner, Zaparian. What they just said there about Cyrus might be another reason why there's a rivalry, because remember Cyrus? That's the Esther story, right? The Purim, if I'm not mistaken. They were having a free-for-all killing quote-unquote Gentiles. They liked their Cyrus king, right? If you know who I mean, if you know who I'm referring to. A general of Alexander the Great with all his forces, of the arms of the Romans they have heard, but have never felt them. They founded the Parthian and Bactrian powers. They are a nation hardy in toils and warfare. Their strength of body is extraordinary. They take possession of nothing of which they fear to lose, and covet when they are conquerors, nothing but glory. The first that proclaimed war against the Scythians was Cisostris, king of Egypt. Previously sending messengers to announce conditions on which they might become the subjects, but the Scythians, who were already apprised by their neighbors of the king's approach, made answer to the deputies, that the prince of so rich a people had been foolish and commencing a war with a poor one. For war was more to be dreaded by himself at home. As the result of the contest was uncertain, prizes of victory there were none, and the ill consequences of defeat were apparent, and that the Scythians, therefore, would not wait till he came to them, since there was so much more to be desired in the hands of the enemy, but would proceed of their own accord to seek the spoil. Nor were their deeds slower than their words, and the king, hearing that they were advancing with such speed, took to flight, and leaving behind him his army and all his military stories, returned in consternation to his own kingdom. Now it's said that the marshlands prevented the Scythians from invading Egypt, in their retreat from which they subdued Asia and made it tributary, imposing, however, only a moderate tribute, rather as a token of their power over it, than as a recompense for their victory. After spending fifteen years in the reduction of Asia, they were called home by the opportunity of their wives, who sent them word that, unless their husbands returned, they would seek issue from their neighbors, and not suffer the race of the Scythians to fall of posterity through the fault of their women. Asia was tributary to them for fifteen hundred years, and it was Nineus, king of Assyria, that put a stop to the payment of this tribute. End quote. And it's important to note here that Cisostris reigned in approximately 1900 B.C., so already we're seeing evidence that the Scythians not only existing, but dominating, long before Wikipedia and conventional academia claimed they arrived on the scene. In a story that well illustrates their insistence on honesty and direct dealing, in the early friction between... ...which would be completely... Step into the world of power, loyalty, and luck. "I'm gonna make him an orphan, he can't refuse." With family, canollies, and spins mean everything. "Now you want to get mixed up in the family business." Introducing, The Godfather, at ChampaCicino.com. Test your luck in the shadowy world of The Godfather's Slodge. "Someday, I will call upon you to do a service for me." Play The Godfather, now at ChampaCicino.com. "Welcome to the family." "The no-purchase necessary, V-D-W group. We were prohibited by law, 18-plus terms and conditions apply." 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And I also think it's interesting that they talk about them, you know, despising gold and silver, yet they imposed, you know, a tribute anyway. Obviously, they still needed something, right? So it's just something I pick up when I'm watching this. Persia and Cyrus, the Scythians faced one of their only significant defeats, by what they would come to see as a deceitful trap. A large army of Scythians, on a custom to wine, found an empty Persian camp, purposefully stopped with a drink, and almost immediately got very drunk. The Persians attacked at the key moment, routing the Scythians, and capturing and subsequently killing their general Sparta Pisces, son of the queen, Tamarsus. She promptly led a force out to challenge Cyrus herself. And, to quote Herodotus, the greater part of the army of the Persians was destroyed, and Cyrus himself fell, after raining nine and twenty years. Search was made among the slain by order of the queen for the body of Cyrus, and when it was found, she took a skin, and filling it full of human blood. She dipped the head of Cyrus in the gore, saying, "As she thus insulted the corpse, I live and have conquered you and fight, and yet by you I am ruined, for you took my son with Gaia, but thus I make good my threat, and give you your fill of blood." Of the many different accounts which are given for the death of Cyrus, this which I have followed appears to me most worthy of credit, end quote. "Can't even mess with the Scythian women, they will mess you up." And my favorite story, illustrating their martial dominance and willingness to toy with foes, is the instance in which a large Persian army under Darius, somberly organized in battle array and awaiting a signal, began to hear playful cries from the Scythian army. Darius is said to have asked what the clamor was, only to find out that they were passing the time by exportingly chasing a hare. He's said to have stated, "These men have very slight regard for us, and I perceive now that Gobrias spoke rightly about Scythian gifts." Seeing then that, now I myself too think that things are so. We have need of good counsel in order that retreat homewards may safely be made. It's said that Gobrias replied, "O king, even by report, I was almost assured of the difficulty of dealing with these men, and when I came I learned it still more thoroughly, since I saw that they were mocking us. Now therefore my opinion is that as soon as night comes on, we kindle the campfires as we are wont to do it at other times also, and deceive with a false tale those of our men who are weakest to endure hardships, and tie up all the asses and get us away." There's also the story of two Scythian youths of royal birth being driven from their country and founding a settlement near a capidosia to engage in Viking-like raids for many years with great success, until finally several surrounding peoples banded together to set a massive ambush and cut them to pieces. Quote, "Their wives, when they found that exile was added to the loss of their husbands, took arms themselves, and maintained their position, repelling the attacks of their enemies at first, and afterwards, assailing them in return. They relinquished all thoughts of marrying with their neighbors, saying that it would be slavery, not naturally. They also took revenge for their husbands that were killed in war, by a great slaughter of their neighbors." There's an interesting anecdote that speaks of a Scythian skirmish with the mythical Amazons, who it seems were likely very real, and ironically, are likely the genetic kin of the Siths. They may have come to be, in a matter very much like the situation described. It was only after the battle, upon viewing the dead, that they realized their defeated foes were actually women. After some discussion, it was decided these Amazons were a worthy people, and thus the Scythians sought them out. Finding their location, they sent a contingent of men to set up camp near them, with orders too flea of attacked. Drawing a bit closer, with each passing day, while signaling their peaceful intent. After some time, a Scythian and Amazon finally met face to face. The two managed to clumsily communicate, and the two groups soon followed suit. And as each man paired off with a woman, a new tribe was born. And this is illustrative of a larger point mentioned previously, one that bears repeating. The Scythians left a trail of their genetics and culture across most of the known world. To this day, most historically literate peoples from a wide variety of nations can trace themselves back to the Scyth. That means you and me guys. In fact, recent finds seem to show their influence extended all the way into modern Korea, with the so-called Scylla royal burial mounds. Check this out. Now, what do we know about America, right? This may be an indication of some seafaring that came over here, and this also might link to the guy whose actual name was Inka, who was a Frisian who parted that they talk about in the Orlando book, and they don't know where he went, but he went this direction. This is a mound building, you know, it's graves, mound burials. That was Scythian in nature. Maybe other cultures did it, but I'm just saying to find large bones in America, an awful lot. In these mounds, I think there's something here just saying. I think there's big indications that the Scythians were here a long time ago. In Guangzhou, closely resembling those with the Scyth, and containing remarkably similar goods. In the previous video, we spoke of India and the Sakya tribe, from which Buddha was born into the warrior caste. Interestingly, the Jats in western India favored by the colonizing Brits as a martial race, claimed to center this tribe. The Persian empire, as well as the medium, bactrian, and parthenian, were essentially direct outgrowths of the Scythians. What I find even more interesting is the wealth of connections to the Spartans, with regards to appearance, customs, traditions, culture, and mindset, and I've included a link in the description to an impressive article discussing this topic. Though slavery was prohibited among the royal Scythians, it was practiced in many of the surrounding tribes, using a structure similar to that of the Spartans and their helots. Both were well respected, intelligent, but abhorrent pretentiousness, disciplined. You know, they might be related to the Spartans, but remember the Spartans had battle buddies? That movie 300? That was 150 and their boyfriends. Let's get this straight here. It's a little bit of a weird culture. Unrivaled on the battlefield, both seemed to honor simplicity and the shunning of wealth and the marketplace as a virtue. They also seemed to share origin stories among so many other things. It's a virtual certainty that these two peoples were genetic in. It's a depressing fact that the great majority of their magnificent art has no doubt been lost forever due to the activities of grave robbers who not only steal the gold artworks, but often melt them down, activities which continue to some extent to this very day. In fact, if it wasn't for the Russian czar, Peter the Greats Decree of 1718, which ordered the collection of these antiquities and established brutal punishments for thieves, we'd be left with virtually no traces of their existence. And Peter the Great may have been to send enough them because the Rus were comprised of these Scythians. But actually, I think even if he was Germanic in nature, which I think it was, that may still make him a Scythian. So what did they look like? Modern historians seem intent on portraying them as an Indo-European and Mongoloid mixture, though none of the hard evidence seems to point in this direction, especially the further back on moves through time. And this seems to be the all too common air brought about by associating them with the peoples existing today and the regions they will so long ago. Thankfully, we've been left with several first-hand descriptions and a wealth of art created by themselves and surrounding nations, depicting their style of hair, dress, and their facial features. To go over a few of these descriptions, Herodotus describes the Budini and Scythia as red hair and grey-eyed. Hippocrates speaks of their ruddy skin, Eris Mappies of their fair hair, a second-century BC envoy from China named Zhang Kuan speaks of their blue eyes, as does Pliny the Elder and the Greek philosopher Polimon. The fourth-century historian Marcin Ellis speaks of the Allens, direct kin to the Scythians, as being tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. It seems much of the Mongoloid admixture probably happened over time, across every nation in which those tribes that didn't move west ended up putting down their roots, as not a singer. And that was something that the Phryzians did warn about is that mixing because of the loss of culture and because they would introduce foreign ideas into their mix that would be conflicting with what they held sacred. Mongol ancient description describes them with physical features that might be deemed asiatic. Historian Tamara Rice states, "In fact, until sometime in the 5th or 4th century BC, the predominant inhabitants of even western Siberia were a fair-haired people of European origin, and it was after that date that an influx of Mongoloids resulted in a very mixed type of population." And what became of those that moved west? I believe we know these as the Yamnaya people that moved into Europe in waves, starting around 2000 BC, that people most closely resembling the Scythian culture and way of life would undoubtedly be the goths. Many historians prior to World War II had such trouble drawing dividing lines between the Germanic and Celtic and Scythian peoples that they considered distinctions to be arbitrary. And Sharon Turner, in History of the Anglo-Saxons, states, "The Anglo-Saxons, lowland Scotch, Normans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Lombards, and Franks have all sprung from that great fountain of the human race, which we have distinguished by the terms Scythian, German, or Gothic." Genetic research seems to bear this out clearly, with the boundaries of the R1A haplogroup matching the vast expanse of their movement over time. Culture and custom seems to bear this out, with the Germanic peoples sharing so much of their historical character and traditions with the Scythians. The similarity in the burial mounds of the Swedish kings in Uppsala, with those of the Scythian loyalty, is striking. And the specific type of R1A genetic signatures found in Norway and Sweden clearly resemble those existing throughout the trail of the Scythians, extending into the Altai region, where many Scyth settled down and left. And it wouldn't be uncommon for the Native Americans, if you want to call them Native migrants as well, but for them to take on the practice of that which they saw around them. And he talked about these people kind of being the first to come out after the deluge to establish society or community or whatever. They don't want us to know anything about that. Everything starts in Samaria, right? This predates that for the most part and maybe even be what comprised Samaria. But also it's kind of interesting that, you know, so there could be a mixture of Native American in there as well, but a lot of the folktales in the Native American culture have to do with large men who are pale-skinned. Another indication will sometimes call them, "Oh, that was the Vikings." But what was it more specifically? Was it the Scythians? But their lasting genetic mark. The human genetic data is even supported by a comparison of the genetics of the Norwegian pure horse and the Mongolian horse. And the data suggests that the migrants to Scandinavia brought within their prized horses, which became the root stock of the Norwegian equines of today. There is also a strong connection to the Polish royal houses, and it's theorized that their famed and feared Polish cavalry Hussars were an outgrowth of the Scythian root. Scottish clans, such as the Macdougals, McDonald's, and Macalesters, also share the same unique genetic markers. And in a Scottish document, the Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish trace that reads clearly back to Scythia. I spoke earlier of the royal Scythians being known as the true or authentic Scythians. I found an interesting parallel here with the Germanic peoples who in Latin were known as Germani, which is the plural of the adjective Germanus, which can mean seed, and was often used to mean authentic or genuine. To the Romans, they were known as the authentic Celts, and Nineus, in his account of germ, seed, yeah, we can understand that root, right? The rival of Hingust and Horsa in Thanet states that messengers were sent to Scythia for reinforcements. The context shows that these, in fact, came from North Germany, so evidently the name of the genuine Scythians persisted long in Northern Europe. Varials found near Brandenburg, dating to the 6th century BC, are yet another clear testament to their presence. The skulls discovered in the royal Scythian tombs near Savon, Armenia, which likely date back to between 900 and 500 BC, show a Dalakosophallic type, best matching the modern Nordic type. And there seems to be a great number of parallels with the Scythians and Vikings, in particular, across the board. Both had a long history of extracting wealth from neighbors, but rarely wishing to stay and rule. Siro says Magyar is in the purple right here. I'm Victoria Cash, thanks for calling the Lucky Land Hotline. If you feel like you do the same thing every day, press 1. If you're ready to have some serious fun, for the chance to redeem some serious prizes, press 2. We heard you loud and clear, so go to luckylandslots.com right now and play over 100 social casino style games for free. Get lucky today at luckylandslots.com. That's how it's spelled. It's like M-A-G-Y in the Frisian account, in the Orlando book, of those who practice magic. They spell it with a Y. But again, it's a translation, so maybe it was just a translator's prerogative. And seemed to prize simplicity, courage, honor, and consider combat to have something akin to a spiritual significance. Both were fiercely independent, often stubborn and prideful, both equally shunned, domesticated life and all of its trappings. It's noted in the Icelandic sagas that men from Asia became the aristocrats of Sweden and Norway. And this can only be a reference to the Scythians and related tribes, who were later to push back eastward as the Roos, leaving behind a ruling cat. Sivar says, "Heaven Roos, right there in the middle." This is that potential Qazarian tie here, but also they were the, let's call him a germ, the seed of the Russian people as well. Good people. I asked and the title of the nation we know as Russia today. In my research, multiple sources speak of material goods with a Scythian stamp appearing with a greater frequency as the Viking era approaches. So even having said all of this, we've just scratched the surface here, and I've only been able to provide some of the meat of the overall story. In a future video, we'll be covering the Goths and Germanic peoples specifically, and in another, I hope to deal with the history of these enigmatic people prior to approximately 1,200-1500 BC. Many of you may know there's still an elephant in the room to be dealt with related to this topic, and I'm looking forward to dealing with it to the best of my ability. And selfishly, I wanted to close with some subjective editorializing. I've come to respect these people, their culture, worldview, and manner of being, and I think we have much to learn from them. Time and time again, they add opportunities to conquer and settle in large urban centers, and embrace the ease of life and conveniences these provide. Situated as they were, centrally located between the east and the west, much like the Khazars would do in the same region later, they could have devoted themselves to becoming merchants, growing. Again, another indication that some of them may have split off as the Khazars. Fat and happy, potentially, from the process of buying and selling between empires, dealing both goods and human beings. They seem to very consciously and purposefully reject this path, and time and time again speak as if they recognize the threats of orienting their lives towards the materialistic marketplace, and the softness and dependence and domestication that inevitably follows. These are ideas that seem to remain in the western bloodstream for many, many generations to come, an immune system that caused most populations to view real labor with pride, not shame, and caused the aristocracy to look with great suspicion on the merchants that began to rival their power into Mary. So that shows, again, the parasite versus the independent who goes and seeks and gathers and takes and works versus somebody who gets other people, convinces them and tricks them into working for them. With their fat flour and slaves them straight out. And slowly but surely change the face of their nations. Currently, we orient virtually all of our intellectual energy and efforts towards the marketplace, towards the creation and marketing and buying and selling of goods and services, the majority of which don't seem to be causing an increase in true happiness or fulfillment, and a key few of which seem to be definitively having the opposite effect on a mass scale. The Scythians managed to produce great minds, pioneering inventions, explores the likes of which we'll probably never know the full exploits of, and might be hard-pressed to believe, even if we did, and a class of strong and robust and self-sufficient men who seemed to have been liked and feared and respected by all that they encountered. I wonder if that's Ralda up there or if it's Odin, but it could be Ralda. He's got both eyes. And they did so while embracing nature, both within and without. I have to wonder what they think of our concrete jungles, our sequestering ourselves in cubicles for the lion's share of our days and service to a corporate entity in whom we have no stake, and CEOs and shareholders who we have no personal connection to, and our rush to toss everything that served us so well by the wayside to adopt every form of newness and novelty without regard to its longer-term ramifications on mind, body, and soul. Though the modern world equates labor and hard work with strife and equates the minimization of these things with happiness, I have to disagree. Work is psychologically gratifying, and so far as we can clearly grasp its purpose and utility. And in this respect, it strikes me that few things could be as deeply gratifying as providing complete self-sufficiency for self and family and tribe, thereby bowing the head and bending the knee to no government, no nation, no foreign individual or corporate construct, least of all those seeking to live parasitically by directly or indirectly imposing servitude on others. We may no longer live in a world of frequent physical conflict, at least not at the moment, and certainly not with bows and arrows and swords and axes, but characteristics like courage are almost equally valuable across all eras, all environments and situational contexts, as are genuineness and trustworthiness, and the discipline to avoid covetousness and petty materialistic pursuits. I can't help but feel that relative to our ancestors, we've largely forgotten how to be men. The proxies of drinking beer and watching football have been substituted for our sense of personal responsibility, our highest responsibilities to family, extended family, to culture and nation, and to the creator. We've been coaxed into trading true independence and self-sufficiency for a servile consumerism. This is dependence begets subservience and finality suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the design of ambition. Thomas Jefferson. Instead of our foremost goal being to deeply understand our world and all of its machinations, in order that we might meaningfully improve it and ourselves, we've been convinced to outsource this process of understanding to men who call themselves experts and intellectuals, while we devote the majority of our time and attention to seeking some purely financial edge over our filament. We're a ship of the dollar and that we may explore small men. Or just survival doesn't have to be for pursuit of competition, but we are in a system that right now they don't take anything else for your rent besides money. So it kind of forces you into this position to where you have to acquire, earn, or some other way obtain something to feed that beast that keeps going, getting hungry every month. Turns them into tools of powers they don't understand and in many cases don't even care to understand. There are much higher and worthier things in this life. The goal of those who currently call the tune is to level every mountain, to cultivate fully dependent and controllable and domesticated men. With three Abrahamic religions to do with. Units and cogs, not individuals. The Scythian would have been their worst nightmare, with an uncomfortable spirit and a studiously developed worldview. And that's why they attacked Germanic people and that's why they attacked the Russians, making them eternally immune to this siren song. Modern men, on the other hand, has been shaped into their dream come true. Perhaps it's time we stopped playing another tribe's game. Another tribe's game. Nice, but I just wanted to read this. This is from Lin. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. And that's Linberg. Chuckie and started channeling our inner Scythian. Yes, let's start channeling our inner Scythian before we don't have an opportunity to get out of this mess. Please. That's the end of the first one. Nice short video there. Pretty decent. Okay, so before we go any further, there's a couple of things I need to show you. I found rare footage of Bushmaster in his crew. Well, basically, he's Bushmaster in his tank. Hold on. Hold on. Here it is. It's a little hot in these rhinos. Come on, girls. Come on. The mother rhino is giving birth. This is the end of the video. This is the end of the video. This is the end of the video. I'm just teasing, but I'm sure that's how it felt though. Yeah, well, it was three minutes long, dude. We weren't going to go through the whole thing. The clip was a little long. I wasn't chopped up into smaller, so I had to go somewhere in the middle. All right, and one other thing. It might be hard to listen to the guys. What do you call it? His delivery? Somebody find it difficult, but it's it's happening anyway. Let's Rosenthaw. Rosenthaw was a senior aide to Senator Jacob K. Javitz. Rosenthaw was murdered in a terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey. He says the same thing, murdered, but he was really assassinated. Isn't that the same goddamn thing? They say murdered, but really this man was assassinated for exposing too many secrets. In 1976, he wrote a book called The Hidden Tiering. This man was a Ashkenazi Jew, and he was telling it all. He writes in this book, and I quote, "At first, by controlling the banking system, we were able to control corporational capital. Through this, we acquired total monopoly of the movie industry, the radio networks, and the newly developed television media, the printing industry, newspapers, periodicals, and technical journals had already fallen into our hands." He's talking about the Jewish control of all these things. He goes on to write, "The richest plum was later to come when we took over the publication of all school materials. Through these vehicles," he writes, "we could mold public opinion to suit our own purposes. Damn, old brothers and sisters, but it gets deeper." He starts talking about religion. Here's the point here, the bigger point. Rosenthaw writes, "We are amazed by the Christian's stupidity in receiving our teachings and propagating them as their own. As a result, Christians doesn't have God's word on a certain matters. They have the Jews were." Judaism is not only the teaching of the synagogue, but also the doctrine of every Christian church in America. Through our propaganda, he writes, "The church has become our most avid supporter. This has even given us a special place in society. By them believing the lie that we are the chosen people and they are the Gentiles." There we go, there they have it. It's more receipts for what I've been saying, that's all. Let me see. Next one is this. Okay, now this one's called Hellenic Greece, Troy, and the real game of thrones. Hellenic Greece represents a high point of human history, and specifically a high point in the western tradition. Their sculpture and artwork seemed divinely inspired. Hello, it is Ryan, and I was on a flight the other day playing one of my favorite social spin slot games on Chumbukasino.com. I looked over the person sitting next to me, and you know what they were doing. They're also playing Chumbukasino. Everybody's loving having fun with it. Chumbukasino is home to hundreds of casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere. So sign up now at Chumbukasino.com to claim your free welcome bonus at Chumbukasino.com and live the Chumbulites. Sponsored by Chumbukasino, no purchase necessary, VGW Group, void were prohibited by law, 18-plus terms and conditions apply. Their poets and thinkers and writers are to this very day among the best the worlds ever produced. Up until fairly recently, all of Europe felt a living connection to this past, that strongest of genetic and cultural bonds that causes such profound feeling of resonance on viewing the masterful creations in stone and marble, or reading the profound thoughtful works of Plato, or Heraclitus, or those lofty words of Homer. The German philosopher Hegel went so far as to state, at the name of Greece the cultivated German finds himself at home, all that makes life satisfying and elevates and adorns it, we derive directly or indirectly from Greece. Voltaire once paid the highest compliment to the famous court of Frederick the Great by proclaiming it, "was Sparta in the morning, Athens in the afternoon." An author, Madison Grant, compared to Sparta and Athens' relationship of martial discipline and artistic mastery to Prussia and France, and considered this combination to be the ideal. Hellenic Greece was almost universally acknowledged as a breath of fresh air, of flowering of mind, body, and soul. An exceptional people who cultivated for themselves an exceptional existence, which inevitably produced exceptional art, heroes, and ideals. Ancient Troy, one of the most intriguing mysteries in the historical record, and one that captivated the hearts and minds of the western world for centuries. The events that took place in this region over the span of just over ten years shook the world, and would leave a lasting imprint on the western psyche, stretching up to this very day. They inspired one of the first transcendent works of heroic literature and Homer's Eliad, a creation that stands to this very day as one of the greatest works ever penned, as well as one of the most quintessentially western, or Euryan. The very first book, printed in English, was another account of this pivotal event, firing the imaginations of entire generations, as it remained the most popular book throughout much of Europe per centuries. Many of the greatest works of art were directly inspired by the fall of Troy. The lineage of the royal houses of Europe traced back to the figures involved, and historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Xerxes, and the earliest emperors of Rome, all paid personal homage to the site and its heroes. Both Rome and Britain were alleged to have been founded by aristocratic ancestral lines fleeing Troy after its complete decimation at the hands of their brother Greeks, who were another offshoot of this singular bloodline. Eman shows this exact picture often, but it's not the stenciled version, it's the one that he flashes that's painted. This period of history, this region, and the events contained within both represents something akin to a very real game of thrones, one that needs no hype or exaggeration to be one of the most important stories ever told. And yet, within a few hundred years, our understanding of all things Troy changed completely. Homer's account of the events was called into question, and then the validity of Homer himself as a historical personality was challenged. The root historical sources he drew from, long believed to be passed down from indirectly involved in the events, were suddenly labeled frauds. Our understanding of the conflict itself became muddied and confused, with some suddenly questioning if it occurred at all, and finally proclaiming that Troy itself probably didn't exist, but was rather some fanciful invention. The slowly racing of history, and elimination of any positive, strong examples of societies. Flash forward to the present day, and Troy is a mere footnote of history. Poorly understood, if at all, by most modern students, and mentioned in passing, and often derisively or dismissively by modern professors. The last major production on the theme was the BBC and Netflix production, Troy, all of a city, in which the most renowned warrior of them all, Achilles, universally described in historical accounts with blonde hair and hair skin, was played by a man whose ancestors hail from Ghana. An acceptable change, says the New Yorker, because they consider Achilles to be fake anyway, so quote, "imaginative license and casting seems perfectly acceptable," end quote. If you search Wikipedia to better understand who the Trojan people were, you'll find nothing, literally no entry. Google Dorian Invasion, for most regions, and this will be your first result. It's incredible. Though we've lost all in depth understanding of our own roots and origins, and subsequently our recognition of the importance of this understanding, it's been cleverly replaced with a substitution we can all experience vicariously, created by teams of writers out of thin air. We no longer have any grounding in who or what we are, or where we've come from, but we've managed to replace all of these pesky concerns with an invented fantasy reality, one which it's... Dude looks like a... the composite of Saturn here with this scythe. It's been deemed safe to discuss freely. I sincerely hope everyone listening to these words will give some thought to just how dangerous this is, how devastating the ramifications of tossing out such a wealth of valuable historical context, all of the great tales and myths and legends of our ancestors. These events and the stories that grow up around them are informative and shaping, meant to be guiding and teaching tools and sources of inspiration and energy and life force. The generations who paved the way for us hoped that their sacrifices might be remembered, and that their lives and the manner in which they lived them might be recounted. Not for petty reasons of ego, but as examples of right thinking, right living, right being, and ideals to strive to equal. We now live in some twilight zone reality in which we allow a handful of men in Hollywood and New York to completely reinvent our past, to shape our present, and thereby orient our course for the future, severing our roots and replacing them with artificial concoctions. Springing from minds that, for the most part, aren't exactly students or admirers of Western culture. I don't mean to pass judgment on those deeply invested in shows like Game of Thrones, their technically well-made productions and the mass interest so many feel for them comes from a good place. We're desperate for some real connection to and understanding of our past and the archetypal essence behind it all. A starving individual isn't going to hold out for a healthy and natural, well-rounded meal. He's going to latch upon anything edible that's nearby and make the best of his lot. I'm simply arguing that an exceptional feast lies just out of reach, and we're contending ourselves with some cheap soda and heavily processed cheese from a cane. So, diametes here, that's the picture on the left in the thumbnail. It's not that picture, but it's a picture of diameter. It's a statue of diametes. And then on the right-hand side, that's the rod of this in case anybody was wondering about the thumbnail. I'll be it attractively packaged. To anyone that might claim that events like the fall of Troy and so many others throughout the very real historical record aren't at least the equal of anything being churned out by the wizard behind the curtain of popular culture today. I'd argue that perhaps you haven't read them with open eyes. You probably haven't read them in the original ancient Greek either, which means you probably are not really reading them at all. I mean, you know, I mean, but for what we've learned about the Septuagint and what it says, there's a lot lost in translation. Really no comparison. These are objectively great tales overflowing with pathos and energy and spirit and depth, whereas so much in our age has become a copy of a copy of a copy exaggerated for effect and thereby simultaneously caricatured and cheapened. Slowly but surely we're awakening to the power of truths at the core of our history. And someday soon I hope these healthier and more powerful tales might be brought back to life and embraced once again. One other very important point before we begin, the historical record has become less interesting, less inspired and infused with natural energy, in large part because in our age academics choose to view it through an artificial framework of their own subjective design. The ancients didn't see the world in terms of firm national boundaries drawn on a map. This was a world structured according to kinship and ancestral lines. Terms like "hellenic" or "royal Scythian" were as much racial designations as anything and one couldn't become either of these merely by moving into the geographical area. It's no coincidence that so many ancient texts are filled with detailed accounts of lineage. It's recently become the fashion within modern academia, here as in so many other respects, to paint our ancestors as in veteran liars, creating detailed family trees solely for nefarious purposes of basking in undeserved glory. Whereas the usual suspects don't even realize that children are not for eating. I feel these accusations of petty motives are a case of projection. I find it strange that we now mistrust and dismiss so many ancient historical accounts as a default academic position. If we didn't have so much documented footage in this age of technology, it'd be easy to imagine a future in which some bespectacled intellectual would pronounce in supremely confident tones that of course there was no former TV star as president of the United States. You see people like to feel as if they live in exciting times, so they'll often make up stories. He'd speak this sagely, of course, as most viewers nodded in bovine agreement, and then he'd proceed to doubt whether a Donald Trump even existed as a person of all, with perhaps a condescending laugh directed at those who believed otherwise, and then go on to create several elaborate reasons as to why he probably didn't exist. And this is just one of the many reasons I encourage everyone to seek out root historical sources, and beware the derivatives and speculation of academics, who merely create their own subjective interpretations of these root sources, and all too often do so according to modern prejudices and politically correct cultural whims. Once upon a time, there was a significant overlap between our heroes and our guards. The great Greek thinkers and poets were usually courageous men of well-rounded and multi-faceted education, who more often than not fought in the battles of their age. Times have changed, unfortunately, in this age of self-professed experts. And for the record... There's that fake expert thing coming up again. I certainly don't claim the title of expert myself. I'm merely someone who's worked hard to build a context picture that makes sense. Some of this seeks only to make corrections to the prevailing narrative in those cases where the truth of the matter seems to have been egregiously violated or overstepped. So, to set the stage, I believe that of course Troy existed, and that we almost certainly know its location. I believe the battle-homer references, as well as the eventual fall of Troy, both came to pass. I've even come to believe, strongly, that the individuals mentioned in the tale, from Achilles to Menleus to Priam to Ademinon, also existed. And if their exploits have been exaggerated by some throughout the years, this is hardly grounds for their dismissal as... Veneration isn't the same as fabrication. Being, you know, elaborating on something isn't the same thing as it being a myth. Living and breathing human beings. In short, it's my opinion that the only things up for serious debate are the details. Was there an actual Trojan horse? Was hell-enforceably kidnapped? Or was there some willingness? Which individuals bear the blame for the hostilities? And so forth. Do I feel that these answers matter far less than the broader picture? I believe the Hellenic Greek element, they waged such a brutal and prolonged war against Troy, one which likely took place around 1200 BC and over the span of 10 years, and raged all along the western coast of Anatolia, with Troy as its central flashpoint, was a battle between men of very similar stock, language, and culture. While it's likely those at Troy spoke a dialect we now call Louisan, there's no evidence of any need for translators of any sort when those from Greece and Troy visited one another's courts. And there seems to have been several intermarriages and close familial relationships between the two, to the extent that many were torn throughout the course of the war as to which side to support. They also had several shared heroes, customs, and traditions. To cite what reports to be a first-hand account by Dictus of Crete, "Trojan princes and Trojan allies. It is a sad thing for us to be a war with the Greeks." Can you imagine there's so much of these artifacts that scumbag merchants and thieves and no regard for the historical value or the artistry and would melt it down to make a stupid bullion, stupid squares, they could, you know, squirrel it away somewhere. So many of those artifacts, they were talking about the Scythians being buried with pounds and pounds of gold, all taken, all taken and melted down. But an even sadder and more painful thing that for the sake of a woman, we have made enemies of the closest friends, of those who, being descendants of Pilops, are joined to us even by ties of marriage, end quote. However, we should stop for a moment here to clarify terms and descriptors. Greek is a lazy umbrella term here. In reality, there were several fairly distinct peoples mixing in this region. Crete Schmer argues that there were three major waves of movements in Greece, beginning with the proto-Ionian element in about 2000 BC, perhaps better referred to as Pulastian, followed by... There it is, Pulastian. Hello, it is Ryan and I was on a flight the other day playing one of my favorite social spin slot games on Chumbagocino.com. I looked over the person sitting next to me and you know what they were doing. They were also playing Chumbagocino. Everybody's loving having fun with it. Chumbagocino is home to hundreds of casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere. So sign up now at Chumbagocino.com to claim your free welcome bonus at Chumbagocino.com and live the Chumbalites. Sponsored by Chumbagocino, no purchase necessary, VGW Group, void were prohibited by law, 18 plus terms and conditions apply. A proto-Achaian element, around 1600 BC, and finally a Dorian element, around 1200 BC. Herodotus seems to agree here and saying, quote, "The chief peoples were the last demonians among those of Doric stock and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time. The first a Pulastian and the second a Hellenic people. The Pulastian race has never yet left its home. The Hellenic race has wandered often and far," end quote. Much like I'd mentioned in earlier videos, these waves seem to be migrations of what was likely once a singular racial stock. Having said this, there do seem to be some noteworthy differences. The more indigenous, Pulastian and Ionian stock seem to have been a bit more quiet and peaceful, a bit more attached to the land. Perhaps a bit shorter and stature, and more similar in physical appearance to those dark-haired Pinoans and Mycenaeans pictured on so many walls and frescoes in the region. Of the Achaeans, Historian J. Bagmalberry states, quote, "It is uncertain at what time the Achaeans made their first appearance in the Greek Peninsula. They were a people of blonde complexion of Indo-European speech, who came down from the regions of the Danube and made conquests in Thessaly and the plain of Spirkius. In the course of time, some of their chieftains won lordship over the Peloponnesus, in Argalus and Laconian, probably by marriages with the daughters of the old Greek dynasties. It is not probable that the Achaean invaders came in great numbers. They formed a small ruling class who were soon assimilated in speech and manners to their Greek subjects. They did not work destruction. They won lordship and leadership, and their adventurous spirit guided Greece to create enterprises." End quote. There is an intriguing reference to an encounter on the battlefield of the champions Glaukis and Diomedes, who end up thrusting their spears into the ground, embracing one another as brothers and exchanging armor, as they recall their ancestral ties. Are you seeing that helmet on the left here? See that right there? Looks familiar, right? They kind of look more like dragon heads than they do snakes, but they might have a spike scale on their back, but that looks an awful lot like the medical symbol does not. The dueling snakes in the antidote. "Both are mentioned as being amongst the greatest of the Achaean warriors. Yet one seems to represent the Achaean Continental Greek royal house, and the other the Achaean royal house in Asia Minor. This anecdote, like so many others, seems to..." And they're standing on the tail, which shows dominance over it, right? I think, and holding it by the neck or whatever. I think that's an indication of they have mastered the control of the snake, or the dragon, or whatever that is. "Build straight two things. Firstly, the close ancestral connection between the rulership of Greece and Troy. Secondly, that an Achaean royal line dominated the region of the day. The final major wave that formed the composite we've come to know as Hellenic Greece, the Dorians, entered the scene more like rampaging lions. Historians and scholars have long remarked on their seemingly extreme focus on the martial and militaristic, and I tend to think there's a relatively clear-cut explanation for the extremity of this trait. There's an intriguing passage in Plato's laws in which he speaks of the birth of the Dorians as a subset of the Achaeans. "Now, during this period of ten years, while the siege lasted, the affairs of each of the besiegers at home suffered much, owing to the seditious conduct of the young men. For when the soldiers returned to their own cities and homes, these young people did not receive them fittingly and justly, but in such a way that they're ensued a vast number of cases of death, slaughter, and exile. So they, being again driven out, migrated by sea. And because Dorias was the man who banded together the exiles, they got the new name of Dorians, instead of Achaeans. But as to all the events that follow this, you, lassandemonians, relate them all fully in your traditions." In other words, it seems that Dorians came to be a self-selected subset of those most courageous Greeks that sail off to fight a Troy. So not only were they innately something of a military caste, but now we add to this their anger at being expelled from their own homes, and we have a recipe for the future martial mindset of the Spartans, who would reach the peak of their power and control some 600 or so years later. And with regards to the Dorians, we have another extremely intriguing citation from Herodis, who was likely a Dorian to send himself. Entracing their lineage, he follows the ancestral line descent up to Perseus, and then says, "If we follow the line of Dinon, daughter of McCreusius, and trace her progenitors, we shall find that the chiefs of the Dorians are really genuine Egyptians. In the genealogies here given, I have followed the common Greek accounts." And then he proceeds to add the mysterious "enough, however, of this subject, how it came to pass that Egyptians obtained the kingdoms of the Dorians, and what they did to raise themselves to such a position. These are questions concerning which, as they have been well treated by others, I shall say nothing. I proceed to speak on points which no other writer has touched." This seems to indicate that other authors of his time, whose writings have somehow been lost to posterity, covered this topic in depth. But maybe we'll find some in the Herculean library that there are uncovering at the moment. When we recall the fact that so many of the most ancient pharaohs that we have yet on earth have been found with fair hair intact, and that the genetic testing of two in common showed a direct connection to northwestern Europeans, yet virtually no connection to modern-day Egyptians. And when we further consider the wealth of finds in Sumeria and surrounding territories, depicting their leaders and gods with blue eyes, and Sargon the Great's comments about ruling over a black-headed people, the idea of an Indo-European element with fair features existing in the region is more than a possibility, but rather seems an obvious factual reality. The ancestral and cultural connections between the Persians, Scythians, Greeks, and others to places like ancient Sumer and Egypt seems far stronger than modern academics seem willing to credit, all the way back to the dawn-recorded history and beyond. And even Helen herself, after being taken by Priam prior to the Trojan War, seems to have spent her years in Egypt during hostilities. And of course we have a Thebes in Greece, which Homer seemed to consider of the greatest antiquity and a Thebes in Egypt, something which many academics attempt to this day to pass off as peer coincidence. And with regard to the racial character of Hellenic Greece and Troy, thankfully we have several accounts, the best of which exist in the masterful artistic products of their own hands, including sculpture that remains, to this day one of the greatest ever produced. The 5th century poet Pindar, hailing from Greek Thebes, referred to the Greeks as the fair haired denor, and fragments from a 150 BC travelogue described the women of Thebes in particular as "the tallest, prettiest, and most graceful in all of Helles. Their yellow hair is tied up in a knot in the top of their head," end quote. The Spartan Alkman was one of the first ancient voices who praised the athletic Spartan females, specifically mentioning their golden hair and silver or light gray eyes. Even as late as the 4th century AD, Adamantius, an Alexandering physician and scientist, wrote in his physiogonomenica that "of all the nations the Greeks have the fairest eyes," adding that "wherever the Hellenic and ionic race has been kept pure, we see tall men of fairly rod and straight build, of fairly light skin and blonde," end quote. And of course, the list of gods and goddesses and heroes with similar features is far too large to cover here. But what I find even more interesting is the physical accounts written down in the first hand account of the events of Troy, authored by one Darius of Phrygia, of those more mysterious citizens of Troy itself. I find his writing style fascinating and that he chooses to give a brief, physical, and psychological description of nearly every major figure involved. A document now completely at a print, which should surprise no one, that I've linked below this video along with the other purported first-hand account of Troy. Nearly all of the figures are described as having either fair skin, eyes, or hair, with a large percentage of these two being blonde, such as Agamemnon, who was described as quote "blonde, large, and powerful," he was eloquent, wise, and noble, end quote. And to give one particularly amusing example, Polyxina was fair, tall, and beautiful, her neck was slender, her eyes lovely, her hair blonde, and long, her body well proportioned, her fingers tapering, her legs straight, and her feet the best. Surpassing all others in beauty, she remained a completely ingenuous and kind-hearted woman. The second account of Troy, which claims to be first-hand, is called the Dictus Cretensis, authored by Dictus of Crete. Like so many other ancient sources, both documents were accepted as pieces of the historical record, up until fairly recent times, during which academics had led the charge to label both as frauds or inventions, a stance I can't help but be extremely skeptical of. Its thought both may have been used by Homer in crafting his account, along with other sources we no longer have access to. But what's additionally fascinating is that each represents an account from an opposite side of the battle, and in reading both, it's easy to see how each side might have blamed one another, and how an event that Herodot's claims was sparked by a misunderstanding might have snowballed into one of the most monumental and impactful wars in Western history, between two equally stubborn and prideful and powerful foes. It's unfortunate that Derry's account is so short, so little has come down to us about the nature of Troy and her people, and no doubt much like the burning of Alexandria, the complete destruction of Troy likely meant that many written records, or the bards and storytellers that might write them, were lost forever. On this topic, there is a curious mystery that to this day remains unsolved, involving what we today call Troy towns, which usually manifest as turf-cut mazes, though are sometimes created with stones. A popular theory was that these representations of the ancient labyrinth of Crete, another that they represent the layout of Troy, or the concentric circles of Atlantis as Plato described it, or both. There were once thousands of these scattered throughout Europe and Scandinavia, and hundreds still exist to this day, with the majority being found in Sweden, yet incredibly, they're even found in places like Egypt, India, and Peru. One of the more intriguing theories... And Peru. And if you're familiar with Brian Forster's work, you'll see a lot of these... ...is that these symbols are tied to arcane. The studiously ignored archaeological site on the Russian steps, with the layout so closely resembling that of Troy. Deemed swastika city, due to the prevalence of swastikas discovered in the area, also dubbed the Russian Stonehenge, and dating back at least 4,000 years. Though recent evidence indicates 5,000 to 6,000 years may be a better estimate. And its construction indicates that the builders... Imagine if David Boye's song was swastika city instead of suffragit? Ah. Hey, man. It's had advanced astronomical knowledge, and the site itself may have been something of an observatory, one which was mysteriously burned down and abandoned, essentially overnight. Because this site exists in that vast area representing the stomping grounds of those ancient areas who left almost no written records, oral friends, the Scythians. It's important to speak about the likely connections here. There's a little bit of lack of continuity here. They're showing Peru and elongated schools after they were just talking about Russia, so it's kind of confusing if you're not reading the screen. It's well known that there were extensive contacts. And that's actually a frame from a Brian Forster excavation or whatever his book that shows it on the bottom, I said his name. It's between the Scythians and Greeks, with royal Scythians intermarrying, often with Greeks and Thracians, and often providing elite military squadrons and bodyguard contingents to protect leadership, similar to the Praetorian Guard, which would later make its appearance in Rome. The Achaeans and Dorians were said to have come from the region. It must be hard to be a one-handed bow hunter. The Scythians, occupying vast tracts of territory north of Greece, claimed Heracles, also known as Hercules, as the progenitor of their race. And the Dorians pushed down into Greece has long been known as the Return of the Heraclidae, and was seen as the reclaiming of land that was rightfully theirs, granted to them by their own progenitor, Heracles. Damn, he's got loose skin on his god, just like I do a little bit. Such was the strong connection between the Greeks and Scythians, that the two peoples named the Calapidae and the Alizonis on the border between Greece and Scythian lands were essentially a blend between the two. Achilles, widely hailed as the greatest of those Greeks who fought a Troy, may have been both Greek and Scythian himself. Byzantine historian Leo the Deacon, quoting the more ancient Greek historian, Ariane of Nicomedia, outright says that Achilles was a Scythian, who had been banished to Thessalied due to his hot temper. Alchaeus, the Greek poet of the 6th century BC, referred to Achilles as "the Lord of Scythia". During the war with the Trojans, there are multiple offhand references in the Dictus Cretensis to Greek and Scythian cooperation, especially between Achilles and the Scythian king. Arriving back with Achilles after he'd engaged in multiple coastal raids on Trojad posts, the Scythian king, "having learned that our men had arrived, came and brought many gifts." Much of the gold artwork of these two peoples was so similar that many Scythian pieces were long thought to be Greek in origin, and its thought to the Scythian-curved bow was adopted by the Greeks. The Dorian and Scythian genealogies match astonishingly well, each harkening back to three brothers in which power was granted to the youngest, and speak of three social divisions, akin to a producer class, a priest class, and a warrior class. The Scythians were everywhere referred to by Greek writers as "warriors who held all things in common, aside from their sword and drinking cup," and the Spartiates were spoken of as having similar customs. So it's interesting to compare this to the line from Plato's Cretius, who, in discussing Atlantis, and the origins of the Hellenic people, speaks of "a superior class of warriors who dwelt apart, and were educated and had all things in common, like our guardians." 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Now before we go further here, it's important to make clear that I'm not claiming the Greeks were Scythians, any more than I'm claiming the Scythians were Greeks. But rather that these two labels conceal another labeling mechanism that was likely more widely used and more comfortable to those in the ancient world. The ancestral. The Hellenic and Scythian appear more like two branches from a single root. It gets even more interesting. Herodotus mentions three nations, or their royal houses, tracing back to Heracles, who again I can't help but believe was a very real person, even if many of the tales of his specific deeds might be inventions or exaggerations. These three nations are the Scythians, the Dorians, and the Lydians. Lydian was the name for those occupying the region of Troy. And so once again we find a direct genetic tie that binds the major powers of the day. And finally, to tie virtually the whole of the ancient world together, we've already mentioned that the Buddha was almost certainly of Aryan stock of the Saka or Sakai people, but Ashoka as well, widely hailed as one of India's greatest rulers, a famed conqueror turned Buddhist peacemaker, responsible for the Ashoka Shakra, which became the basis for the Indian flag, and bears a striking resemblance to the royal symbol of Macedonia, was of Greek descent. The famous Ashoka pillars, which show a connection to both Greek and Persian architecture, were among the most prominent targets of Muslim iconoclasm, with only a few remaining intact in the present day. The Persian ruling elite, the Achaemenanids, note the linguistic similarity here to the Achaian, marked their descent from Achaemenis, son of Perseus, half brother of Heracles. Ancient Persia was the epitome of an Aryan empire, prior to their conquest of much of the known world turning them into a stew of very peoples, much like Rome would become later. Persia would develop close ties with Lydia, and thus consider the Trojan War an affront by the Greeks, and this was the catalyst for so much bad blood and future conflict between Greek and Persian. In fact, Herodotus opens his landmark work, Histories, recounting the Persian opinion of the war as the fault of the Greeks, and their claim that the incident with Helen was an overreaction, siding with the Trojan perspective that she'd not have gone back to Troy with Priem unless she wanted to. It's said that the Phoenicians set all this in motion, initially, that people the Greeks seemed to view as closely related to the later Trojans, by carrying off the Greek royal I/O, the daughter of the King of Argos, Anakis to Egypt. So I just wanted to double check and verify it. So I just pulled out the oral Linda book, PDF, and I searched for Leda, YDA, and yeah, that was one of the three daughters, right? So you had Riah, which the Phryseans, you know, put in the highest position, and then Finda and Leda. And Leda were the darker-haired ones, and they just had a place down here called Lydia, which I think may have some connection to those names, and Finda being Finnish, Finnish, right, Finland, the Finns. The Greeks are said to have retaliated courtesy of an incident in Tyre, where the Greeks were accused of stealing away the King's daughter, Europa, and then in a second incident in which the Greeks likely Jason himself, from the story of Jason and the Argonauts, carried off Madea, another King's daughter. See how it's coming together? See how this is connected to what we were talking about before, or watching before with them? Regardless of the spark that ignited the blaze, I believe the Battle of Troy really was all it was made out to be. It's like filling in some more of the details for us. A clash of lions, highly skilled warriors, and their prime fighting for honor and glory, to be sure, but also to decide, as the Dictus Cretensis states, "Who would rule the world?" And indeed Troy's fall made it possible for the Greeks to carve out an empire the likes of which few powers would ever equal. I never had Dictus Cretensis, but I think there is a cream for that. And depending on whether you believe ancient historians or modern academics provided the root stock in both Rome and Britain, a future empires they would one day do the same, as a large party of defeated Trojans was forced to relocate to these distant outposts after their loss. Vergil's Aeneid, among several other accounts, reports the royal Aeneas escaping the destruction of Troy and making his way to Italy, as his grandson Brutus is said to have journeyed to Britain, founding a city he called New Troy, later known as London. Though several BBC articles and assorted academics mock and deride this tale, I've yet to see any evidence overturning the scores of more ancient accounts which plainly saw this event as factual. I'm going to say that we're probably going to go 15 minutes over, and I hope that doesn't mess up. What was formerly known to speak through video is now FTJ Media Guys, FTJMedia.com's with the video site. And you can still go to moneytreepublishing.com to get all of the material that we've been covering as far as the Europa series, the plenty of books, if you want to pick up a copy of mineconf in a translation that's not going to be changing things or adding chapters that were never there before, because that happened, that happened. And yeah, so there you go. 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We must also prefer subjection and slavery to them, before the enjoyment of our native liberty. Your demand, therefore, Caesar, is scandalous, since the same vein of nobility flows from ennius, in Britain, and Romans, and one and the same chain of consanguinuity shines in both, which ought to be a band of firm union and friendship. That was what you should have demanded of us, not slavery. We have learned to admit of the one, but never to bear the other. And so much we have been accustomed to liberty that we are perfectly ignorant what it is to submit to slavery. And even if the gods themselves should attempt to deprive us of our liberty, we would, to the utmost of our power, resist them in the defense of it. Yes, versus Godfearing, right, versus this, the Godfearrs, the Yahwests. No, it doesn't matter who is going to try to take away your freedom. They would defend themselves. Even if God himself came down and tried to subjugate them, it would not go down with them. No, then, Caesar, that we are ready to fight for that and our kingdom, if, as you threaten, you shall attempt to invade Britain. Unfortunately, it's not my aim in this video to recount the battles themselves. Homer's poetic account of the hostilities is without parallel here. But I did want to mention a few of the lesser known elements. First, the Dictus account mentions Amazons coming to assist Troy, and Achilles himself, striking their leader with his spear, before then seizing her by her hair to pull her off her horse, an event immortalized in several sculptures since. The hero and his fiery Greeks were in no mood to be as kind to the Amazons as the Scythians had been in their earlier encounters. Quote, finding Pentecilius still half alive, we marveled at her brazen boldness. Almost immediately, a meeting was held to determine her fate, and it was decided to throw her, while still alive enough to have feeling, either into the river, to drown, or for the dogs to tear apart. For she had transgressed the bounds of nature and her sex. End quote. Because that was a foreign idea. Where the hell did that come from? Right? What influenced that? That's a very patriarchal position to take, knowing damn well where these people came from originally and what they felt about their women. That's a very injected sensibility. There are lack of sensibility. What the fuck? Kind of feels like the old priestcraft creeping in there, doesn't it? 'Cause the hostilities raged for 10 long years, the Greeks even farmed the land nearby Troy's walls to keep the army fed. And both sides reportedly took long breaks over winter. Children in Greek even mixed freely in the sacred grove during this time. There's also mention of games and sports in the long period between battles, including an archery contest, in which a dove was suspended high in the air on by a string between two masts. Ulysses and Marionis were said to have been the only ones that hit the mark, only to be outdone by the winner, Philoctetes, who claimed and then proceeded to prove he could cut the string itself with his first arrow. Achilles, it said, awarded him a double prize for this feat. The massive Ajax carried off all prizes for the boxing matches, and it said that Diomedes won the footrace which took place in full armor, a contest which would later go on to be one of the most popular Olympic events. Finally, this minus the armor, of course. This wasn't just a battle of sword and spear. Chariots and cavalry, those mainstays of the ruling cast of the ancient world, were used far more often than one might suspect based on popular accounts, especially by the heroes and the leaders themselves. One of the many reasons I've always looked back in humbled awe at the history of the Aryan peoples is their track record of flexible and adaptive problem-solving ability, the very definition of intelligence. It strikes me that the true test here when faced with a vastly complex problem with hidden variables and unknowns, and often no clear and simple historical precedent to draw from with regards to solving it, is this. This one crumble under the weight, run or hide or engage in mental gymnastics to pretend the problem doesn't really exist, or does one find the energy and strength and spirit to face the problem head on and work to create right order and healthy structure in the face of our natural inclination as human beings towards chaos. Can I ask, does anybody else have this issue where you're I think it's what we're made of, I don't know, male, whatever, but are we not instinctively problem solvers? Doesn't it kind of grind our gears in a way to where we just can't comprehend the illogical approach of people who complain about things, but when you try to assist, they don't want your help. It's providing them with suggestions, or you attempt to intervene or stand up for or anything like that, and it's not perceived well, right? I mean, it's kind of a strange thing, never mind, I'm moving on. The generation. This problem-solving ability is of the highest and broadest sort. And does he not just say the same thing I just said at the next line? It's not the silly bookish understanding of intelligence and education that modern schooling so drills into our heads, whereby children are rewarded for memorization and regurgitation of facts, but a multifaceted merit, capable of adapting and adjusting to anything thrown its way, capable of creative and independent thought, not the follower of rule books and guides, but capable of creating them when the need arises. I wanted to end this video dedicated to a prime example of this, and highlighting a people that represent a tall peak in the history of human achievement. The famed Spartans were a branch of the Dorians who in turn were a branch of the Achaeans, and they weren't always those Spartans we've come to know of today. Initially, when their world seemed pleasant and well-ordered, they were, by all accounts, a pleasure-loving folk, fond of dance, song, pioneers in music, known for a beautiful pottery, and the most delicate and intricate ivory carvings. With their subconscious shaped by the events following the Trojan War, in which their Dorian forefathers weren't allowed to return home, and subsequently observing a rise into generosity and mob revolts, a falling way of discipline and order, they put away these habits almost overnight. Under the guiding hand of a man named Lycurgus, they were to reshape themselves into a martial elite without equal. Now, that's impressive. They became what they needed to beat in order to preserve themselves, governing over a certain... Take heed to that and pay attention to that example. Bioclass of hellets that outnumbered them at times nearly ten to one. This was a people that sought to be masters of men not through deceit or trickily or manipulation, but by being harder on themselves than those around them, and thus crafting themselves into individuals not only worthy of dominance, but fully capable of acquiring and maintaining it. The Spartans came up with their own take on colonisation. They turned their eyes west and began to wonder what opportunities there were beyond the mountains. It was there that they would go to satisfy their land hunger. It was there that Shangri-La would reveal its darker side because it was there that a slave nation would be created to serve the Spartan master race. Again, something that wouldn't fly with the core royal sithians, the word class. But I think you can understand their frustration. Hey there, it is Ryan Seacrest with you. You want to make this summer unforgettable? Join me at Shumbak Casino. 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Even back then, so there's some contention here. There's some argument here about what democracy used to mean and we need to restore the name. I think that might be a little bit of either Ashologos is looking at it from a more modern view or he's looking at the sources themselves and they're saying that they perceived it as mob rule even back then. Or a sneaky way to get to that socialism dependency and then what we would today call communism. So I don't know. The democracy thing, the way it's used now and the way apparently the Spartans perceived it, I think there's something we should consider there because most certainly democracy, the way they talk about it now, is as Bill Cooper had mentioned, the founders of Marxism and well, not the founders of communism, but the founders of Marxism. Mr. Carl himself, I believe, is the one or maybe was Lenin said that democracy is the stepping stone or the gateway to socialism and socialism's and its end goal is communism, right? And of those who are most willing and able to deceive, manipulate, and control the mob. Legend has it that when confronted by a supporter of democracy, he urged a man to quote "start with your own family." Unlike Athens, who would eventually shift in this general direction prior to its decline, Sparta was to be shaped into a hierarchy of merit, self-discipline, hardness, and courage. At the age of seven, their voice were sent to live in a communal militaristic barracks, undergo a well-rounded education with a militaristic focus, and we're encouraged to make their own beds from reeds to sleep outside, and even haze and spar with each other in the conspiracy. When you look at what was happening around them to the people that they were kin with in seeing the degradation, it'd be like seeing what's happening to hear and wanting to branch off and understanding that something's coming. You can't be that weak and expect nothing to happen to that society. All this makes sense to me, makes perfect sense, that they became what they needed to become in order to feel that spot that needed to be filled, and they had the tenacity to do so. And I think if you're looking at Berlin and the depravity that was occurring, Mr. Hitler did the same. He became what he needed to become. "The destructive manner of brothers seeking to improve one another. Spartan girls at the same age were sent to learn dance and gymnastics, and were even taught to ridicule the boys to toughen their skin. In the infamous contest of endurance at the altar of Artemis, cheese was placed at the top as the boys would compete to reach it, being flogged as they attempted to do so. The best of these children would graduate to the right of passage of the kryptia. According to Plutart, every autumn the Spartan E-Forres would formally declare." Here, let me go ahead and just read this. Kryptia, or kryptia with a K, meaning hidden, secret things, cryptic, right? So we get the word. Organized by the ruling class of Sparta, a mixture of secret police and elite forces training. How cool. When it's done in the right way, not when it's freaking J-run government coming into no-knock radio at 3 AM to murder you and your family. Not that type of secret police, not the Cheka, not the FBI. "The war on helots, while having any Spartan do kill a helot if he felt wholly justified doing so. Young Spartans would then roam the Luconian countryside armed with knives, targeting the most rebellious among their subjects. But to add to the challenge, they were forced to do so in secret, for to be caught meant a severe flocking. Teaching them..." "Like assassin skills. You know? What do you call that? Oh, I can't think of the word right now, to be not nearly strong, but also stealthy." "Stealth was the word I was looking for, yes. Thank you, Asha Lagos." "Quick and confident. Only those who showed success here were likely to obtain positions of leadership, restricting the command of Spartan armies to the most tried and true. Even their music became martial, and their famed phalanx was known to advance at walking speed accompanied by rhythmic music and chants. Practice." "You wouldn't expect a culture like that to be singing jingles and pop songs while they're going into war. Of course it would be war songs. It would be the fitting of the mindset." "They studied intently. They laughed at the concept of walls as contrary to their nature. And the Spartan king, Agisylaeus, when touring neighboring cities, walls and defenses, was said to have remarked, "Fine quarters for women." And when asked where his own walls were, he pointed to his troops, saying, "These are Spartan's walls." Though their prowess was universally recognized by their neighbors, they were far from bullies, and in fact were known to be notoriously cautious about committing to warves, often showing tremendous restraint. When allies would ask for their aid, the Spartans were known to send a single tactician or advisor rather than an army, similar to the Germans lending out their general or officer staff to their allies. Punishment for cowards was extremely severe, because it was engaged in naturally by the entire community. A bit like Amish shunning, but far more impactful. Piers were embarrassed to share a meal with them. They were left out of sporting events, had to give the right of way on the streets, had to turn over their seats at events to younger men. Women refused to marry them. They were often forced to wear embarrassing rags and sport half-shaving beards. In short, until they reversed their shame, they were second-class citizens, and they were made to feel this difference. Much like the Scythians, although the Spartan woman's place was at home and hearth devoted to that most important professions of shaping the next generation, they were shown great respect. Even the least of them were apparently highly prized. And this is super key to any strong society right here, the family. It's the most important thing. Paid as nannies and caretakers by the Greeks. And there's a well-known story of an attic Greek woman once asking, "How is it you Spartan women are the only ones who exercise some control over your men, only to receive the reply, because we are the only ones that give birth to men." Dude, everything they say is badass. I love it. In our age, weak and degenerate individuals largely call the tomb and have worked to equate healthy masculinity with greater stupidity, and many have no doubt come to view the Spartans themselves in this mold. Socrates corrects us here. Quote, "They conceal their wisdom and pretend to be blockheads, so that they may seem to be superior only because of their prowess in battle. This is how you may know that I am speaking the truth and that the Spartans are the best educated in philosophy and speaking. If you talk to any ordinary Spartan, he seems to be stupid, but eventually, like an expert marks me, he shoots in some brief remark that proves you to be a child in court. And though they spoke little, what few offerings they did provide reverberate down through the ages. The king of Macedonia and Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, far from a weak man himself, reportedly flew into a rage at the Spartan syndrome just one ambassador, as opposed to the usual letting to deal with him. I, the ambassador, replied, one ambassador to one king. After invading Greece and attaining several victories, Philip sent a message saying, "If I invade Laconia, you'll be destroyed, never to rise again." Because Spartans, confident they could stop him before he'd done so, replied with a single word. If meeting the Persian governor of the sea coast of Asia, Haidarnes, they refused to fall before him and do what the essence, as all other nations had, stating it wasn't their custom to worship men, and that they hadn't come to Persia for that purpose. Haidarnes is said to have promised them great rewards, stating, "Men of Lasandémon, why will you not consent to be friends with the king? You have put to look at me and my fortune to see that the king knows well how to honor merit. And like manner, you yourselves, were ye to make your submission to him, would receive at his hands, saying that he deems you men of merit, some government, and Greece." Haidarnes, they answered, "Thou art a one-sided councilor, thou hast experience of half the matter, but the other half is beyond thy knowledge. A slave's life thou understandest, but never having tasted liberty, thou can'ts not tell whether it be sweet or known. Ah, hath thou known what freedom is, thou wouldst have been us, fight for it." End quote. And fight for it, they did, heavily outnumbered at the famous last stand at the hot gates of Thermopylae, facing an army anywhere from 10 to 100 times their size, depending on which account one chooses to trust. An army set to drink rivers dry, and fire off enough arrows to blot out the sun. The Spartans quipped, "So much the better, we will fight in the shade." And after again being offered wealth, and land, and other enticements to put down their arms, they steadfastly refused, offering only that ever-relevant reply that echoes through the ages, "Come and take." And what was to go down in history as one of the most powerful displays of martial excellence, genuine courage, and masterful discipline, an army of over 100,000 men was held off and delayed for seven days by this handful of lofty souls that chose to sacrifice all for everything they left best. And by doing so, bought their armies enough time to potentially change the course of the entire war. This Spartan defense against Persia is analogous to our situation today. Spartans consider these late empire Persians to be corrupt and degenerate powermongers, seeking to stamp out freedom and sovereignty. And let's be frank about our situation in the West. We stand at a very real precipice, facing dangers of a sort never-before experienced by our predecessors, and must now answer that weightiest of questions to be or not to be. We stand on the brink of collapse. We either find a means of cultivating and harnessing inspired leadership once again, in that Marcus Aurelius mold, those that see power not as a privilege or as a means of personal gain, or as an end in and of itself, but as the greatest of responsibilities as a burden thoughtfully born by a fatherly nature. Oh, so this is a different line than what he's saying. It says if not, if it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it at the head of a household towards a meaningful end. Or we seed our world and its future to the merely ambitious and the forces they ultimately serve. The wimps and weasels, the narrow shoulder turd parasites. Is that how we go down? It looks like his head's been cropped down there, doesn't it? Doesn't look like it's really there. It's like it's been added on top and there's no neck. But they're kind of waiting for it, I guess. I don't know. A rootless and clamoring merchant class, stamping out culture and race and exceptional uniqueness of any and every kind, and finally human spirit itself, in the service of profit margins, couched and false ideals as their cover. Men who seek the destruction of everything natural, conceptions of family, hierarchy, masculinity and femininity, gender itself, and way to war against everything lofty and exceptional and beautiful, because these ideas are so foreign to their small and cynical nature. They seek a world without depth or peaks, but rather that even keel of petty materialism. Each generation a bit smaller and more tame and more easily controllable than the last. So which way, Western man? Will the future be controlled by the pioneering, adventurous, heroic and courageous? Those always seeking new shores and horizons, seeking to create, explore, expand, improve, instill order and structure and purpose? Or will this world become a marketplace ruled by the dollar and thus ruled by the masters of the dollar? This is our crossroads. After decades of shrinking, of being constrained and restrained, perhaps it's time to stand again, to break free of these fetters and once again become independent and fully formed human beings. If we're not capable of channeling that discipline, that back to basics, clarity of mind, and that courage to face all obstacles and challenges, no matter how daunting they may seem, this world will become a very, very dark place. The Spartans made their choice to stand with unbended name, loud enough to echo down through the generations. What will be our echo? Great way to end. All right, we will pick this up. We're going to talk some more about the Scythians and this ancient history of ours, of ours, because it's our identity. And it's about time we remembered it. You guys know where the links are to help out the show? Much appreciated. 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