The Elven-King 🧵

He is lord of Alfheim, ancestor to the Yngling kings of Sweden, valiant Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxons.

We delve into myth, archeology, and genetics to uncover the story of Yngvi, the Elves, and the magical origins of Northern Europe. Roman, Old Norse, and Medieval Swedish sources all refer to Yngvi, an enigmatic ruler of “Alfheim” and one of the primal Germanic ancestors.

The name is not Indo-European. And in Norse myth, he begins life as a hostage.

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The Arya Mandate of Heaven 🧵

These two men of the Fatyanovo Culture are often described as Indo-Iranian, but they're not.

Theirs was a third branch, one which chased the dawn to the farthest horizon - China.

The proto-Indo-Iranian marker, Z94, was seen first in the Poltavka outlier (I0432), radiocarbon dated to 2700 BC, contemporaneous to the earliest of the Fatyanovo Culture.

But this third branch, Z93* would go on a remarkable journey.

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The Dawn of the West 🧵

Long before Greece & Rome, a forgotten people forged the character of the West.

To bring life their stories, long silent, we go deep across the whole canon.

This is the story of Unetice - and the early Slavs, Germans, and Celts. Will keep the summary on top and delve into more detail below the line, for those interested...

MAKING AMERICA GREAT 🧵

In 1820, the US was 1.8% of global GDP.

By 1870, despite a brutal Civil War, it was 8.9%.

In 1913, 18.9%.

How?

This playbook would be copied by Germany, Japan, Korea, & China.

This is the story of the 'American System.' In the heady days following the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers debated how best to secure their hard-won liberty.

Through a deep study of British industrialization, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton developed a bold plan to develop the American economy.

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The Indo-Arya 🧵

For millennia, in India, children have memorized, in faithful transmission, the songs of a people called the Arya.

Though long dead, they speak through those songs, their bones, and their art, giving us an intimate glimpse of a forgotten past.


Horrific translations and political agendas have distorted this great saga.

But take them at their word, and the Arya give us not only their own story - but that of their Greek, Germanic, Baltic, and Slavic cousins.

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Northern Wisdom 🧵

In the dark mystic forests of Northern Europe, we glimpse the earliest threads of a primal path, lost yet echoing in our highest aspirations.

Civilization may have started in Greece, but these Northerners would cast this thread across the Earth’s horizons. We receive this tradition secondhand and skewed — the Norse are presented as nihilistic oafs, brutal barbarians — country cousins to the Greeks.

The Indo-Aryans are presented as drugged-up frat boys.

Let’s step beyond this, and take them at their own word.

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Young Bonaparte 🧵

What was the young Napoleon like? What drove the man who would become Emperor?

Here are glimpses of his character and episodes from the life of the young Bonaparte, shared by a childhood friend who acted as his personal secretary (link at end). The young military student at Brienne escaped the mediocrity of his environment by retreating into the classical age, "particularly Polybius and Plutarch"

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The Oath of the Solar Kings 🧵

With a lineage traced from the earliest Indo-European royals, the oath taken by the Solar kings, remembered in the RigVeda, is one of the primal artifacts of Indo-Arya and Indo-European kingship.

In it, we see the earliest conception of IE leadership and values.
The aristocratic IE conception of the world is dualist - a higher world of consciousness and generation that acts to shape, through a grasp of Arete, or the hidden order, unconscious matter of Earth.

In a quest for higher life far beyond the scope of any individual, the Immortals fashioned a thread of consciousness across generations, seeking to explore and expand the ability of consciousness, will, and intellect to shape matter to higher purpose.

Each of these verses, their oaths, the Upanishads, are stepping stones in that path.

We see this most clearly in the Isha Upanishad:

The seer, mindful, overcoming matter, self-fashioned
From the facts of things, he has hunted their purposes for immortal eons.

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Of Elves & Men 🧵
A Thesis on the Origins of the Nordic people

Tolkien delves into the spirits of the Northern forests of Europe, weaving tales of a lost age of Elves, Dwarves, and Men.

But obscured in myth, mathematics, and archaeology is a story just as magical.


Tolkien derives his Elves from the 'Alfar' of Norse myth.

Along with the Aesir, they make up the Gods -- sons of the "Victorious Devas."

But who were these "Elves"? What other traces of them do we find?

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Scions of the Dievas 🧵

The PIE term *deywós echoes with the meaning of "God" across the daughter languages. However, it just as often has the meaning "demon."

Dive deeper, and we see battle lines drawn, from when Gods contended.
Among the Baltic peoples, the highest God is named Dievas.

Sovereign over the Gods, he is father of the Divine Twins and of the Goddess of the Dawn.

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Who are Arya? Who are Dasyu? 🧵

Time to shed the low-IQ followers.

A look at the RgVeda, the Nordic corpus, and the fact that an honored group of people are literally called "Whites" in the RgVeda.

It's probably different than you think.
The first common misconception is that the term "Arya" is only appropriately used to refer to the Indo-Iranians.

We see the root in a number of Gaulish names (Ariovistus most famously) and also Germanic ones (below).

But it means something very precise in Germanic...

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LADY LIBERTY OF THE EAST 🧵

In the RgVeda, we encounter a goddess relegated to obscurity in later Indo-Arya culture, yet central to its primal form.

She is Aditi, goddess of liberty, and she is key to understanding primal Indo-Arya and broader IE culture. The root of Aditi is different from her modern analogues -- liberty and freedom.

Liberty is from a root h₁lewdʰ- that implies growth. Freedom is from a word for beloved - showing the Germanic conception of sovereignty tied to friendship.

But Aditi means "boundless."

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Who are the Arya? 🧵

This image recently made the rounds, but let's dive deeper into the paper "Iarl and Iormun" and see what if this sheds further light on the Indo-Europeans, and especially, its less studied Germanic and Celtic branches. https://t.co/qXlAyQR5j4twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The author John Bengston is a founder of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP), which attempts to use interdisciplinary methods.

He's also done work with the Santa Fe Institute.

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ARETE & AGONY 🧵

To the Indo-Europeans, the daily contest, or Agon, to shape the world, against others, against nature, was a fact of life.

Against this crushing truth, they crafted a higher ideal, so that one could face, and not turn away from the Agon, emerging transcendent In the Classical cultures, this ideal took the root of *h₂er-, meaning “to put together, to fix, to fit.”

The Greek ideal of Arete & Indic Rta as well as their term for their elites, Arya & Aristocrats show two potent models.

But the Romans & Norse also had powerful ones.

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Northern Allfather 🧵

Shrouded in the mists of the dawn is a figure who crafted Northern Europe, especially the Germanic & Slavic peoples.

Old when the Gods were young, he and his son would echo in the myths of the Indo-Europeans, as heroes, as villains, but ever magnificent. When Tacitus catalogues the knowledge the Romans have on the Germans, he notes three of their major tribes, the scions of:

Hermin
Ingwe
Istva

Each are said to be grandsons of a mythical founder, Tuisto.

But who is this forgotten Allfather?

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INDO-IRANIAN WOMEN 🧵

A woman of the Sintashta Culture, shown at different life stages.

In both myth and archaeology, there is a host of evidence that Indo-Iranian women were warriors, war queens, and explorers. While we see evidence of varying status female burials in the Yamnaya Culture, we find no clear evidence that women rode horses or were warriors.

However, in the Indo-Iranian culture that gained mastery over the steppe around roughly 2000 BC, this changes.

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THE STEPPE FRONTIER 🧵

In the earliest songs, the Indo-Europeans share their deepest drive: the discovery of free frontiers.

And their primal nightmare, amhas, narrowness, a meaning that survives in angst & anxiety.

What do we know of this primal tradition of liberty? twitter.com/i/web/status/1… In this thread, the wavetop view will be available above the break, but you can click into it to get a deeper view.

Were Elves Real? 🧵

In folklore, short, fair, and beautiful sorcerous beings inhabit mysterious northern forests.

Now, combined with the genetic & archeological record, we can rediscover the magical story of the origins of Northern Europeans. In numerous myths and tales, most notably in fantasy, elves are diminutive, fair, and enigmatic beings who excel at both craft and magic.

But does this fantastical concept have roots in older myth? Or is it a recent invention?

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The Indo-European War King 🧵

The earliest Indo-European myths remember Mithras as war-king.

But what would a War King do? What were his duties? How did he competently lead the clans? In the Avesta, Mithras is remembered as the king who “sets the battle a going… standing against [armies] in battle, he breaks asunder the lines arrayed.

The wings of the columns gone to battle rumble, and he throws terror upon the centre of the havocking host.”

But he was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

THE GOD EMPEROR 🧵

The Immortal God emperor stands nude, sated from his harem.

He faces a man, sword in hand, ready to kill him.

The God emperor looks at the face, sees his own: his son.

Why would a son kill his own father?

And what does it mean to kill a God? Through will, Ouranos has united the clans of the steppe.

He is the living incarnation of the Sky Father, and father to all of the clans.

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https://twitter.com/sovelios/status/1645138282643161094?s=20

WHY WE LOST 🧵

We actually won the war in Afghanistan in a few months.

We then lost not because of the usual idiot reasons bandied about.

We lost because our ideology completely blinded us and led us to destroy every institution that could beat the Taliban. Afghanistan has been at war for 30 years, since the Soviets tried to make it an SSR.

In that time, Afghans got very good at fighting wars.

The Taliban won because their religious affiliation allowed them to integrate various groups easily.

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