#Indo Europeans

[castilestateofmind]

"They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses".

-Diodorus of Sicily.

Brooch of Lancia. Representation of a Celtic warrior from the Iberian Peninsula with a decapitated head hanging from his horse which is decorated with solar wheels.

[historyfiles]

Indo-European River Names: a name for a river in Indo-European tongues was 'tan, dan, don', with rivers all over Britain using this while the same is true of Russia and Ukraine:

[indo-europeans]

Was killing men for their wives + having lots of wives the norm during Abraham’s time in general or more near Egypt?

 “I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'this is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you”

- Abraham, to his wife & half-sister

[chomametchi]

sometimes language families fuck me up a bit. like hi we used to sit around the same fire and we saw the same birds flying south and our children climbed in the same trees but then we parted ways and now we might not understand each other at all but maybe we can still recognize each others words for the moon.

[meluhha]

evidence of attacks on the Indus Valley

There is evidence to suggest that the Indus Valley civilization was attacked by invaders. One of the primary pieces of evidence is the presence of fortified cities and citadels at many Indus Valley sites. These structures suggest that the inhabitants of the civilization were concerned about the possibility of attack and were taking steps to defend themselves.

In addition, there is evidence of violence and warfare in some of the archaeological remains from the Indus Valley. For example, skeletons with evidence of violent injuries have been found at some sites. 

[janmisali]

in proto-indo-european there were three different consonants that are reconstructed as voiceless dorsal stops (k-ish sounds). one of them is reflected as [k] in most descendant branches, one of them is sometimes [k] but sometimes a sibilant, and the other one is commonly reflected as a rounded consonant like [kʷ].

and what messes me up is how it Almost makes perfect sense to transcribe these as *k, *c, and *q (respectively), using the three letters the latin alphabet already has for k-like sounds. but you can't do that because there aren't enough g-like letters to use for all the voiced and breathy voiced counterparts to these consonants. it's so unfair

[yvanspijk]

Sí, oui, òc!

Italian sì, Spanish sí, Portuguese sim and many more Romance words for 'yes' come from Latin sīc, which meant 'so; thus; like that'. In Popular Latin it got an extra meaning: 'yes', born out of the sense 'like that', i.e. 'like you said'.

French oui has a completely different origin. It comes from Old French oïl, a univerbation of o il, literally 'yes, it (is/does/has etc.)'.

O stemmed from Latin hoc (this), which became òc (yes) in Occitan, a group of languages whose name was derived from this very word.

[tower-of-hana]

Indo-Europeans be like what do you mean you can't conjugate this verb? It's a regular i-stem verb of the ua subclass of the eu sub-sub class of the ye sub-sub-subclass that nazalizes, palatalizes, and undergoes anywhere from 17 to 30 different forms of umlaut simultaneously depending on what conjugation you're using and gets replaced with a completely different verb when it's passivized!

[chimeride]

Illuyanka, the 248th Known One.

[canisalbus]

I want you to know that your art is very important to me, and I'm very invested in all of the characters I have seen from you. Also, the discussion about Finnish and other languages having gendered words or not has been the last little push to get me to start learning Finnish which I think is fun.

I'm making this a little compilation post of all the language asks I got. Thank you for sharing, this was genuinely really interesting!

[castilestateofmind]

While the modern world seeks progress in the ephemeral, in Tradition, that which does not pass, the eternal truths of existence reveal themselves, transcending the fleeting illusions of our age.

[despazito]

My roman empire

[indo-europeans]

The Hittite Plague is described as the first known record of biological warfare, dating back ~3500 years.

Before and during World War II, it was developed as one of seven standardized biological weapons by Americans in cooperation with Germans. 

The US biological warfare program supposedly “ended” barely fifty years ago: 1969. But in actuality, the program continued, just under more obscure names like “Project 112″

[eyelessseraphim]

[krakenpocalypse]

And it’s all thanks to your no-good, cattle-stealing, great-great-great[x100]-ancestor.

What's weird to think about sometimes is that neolithic societies that replaced and conquered other neolithic societies are still influencing the world today.

The Indo-Europeans, whoever they were, straight-up absorbed and replaced most neolithic cultures in Europe and colonized large chunks of the Indian subcontinent, creating a bunch of religions and languages that are still influential today.

Like a good chunk if not most of the world's population can trace a lot of their current culture or the cultures currently heavily influencing them back to a bunch of dudes stealing cattle around the black sea 10,000 years ago. Like we aren't disconnected from those guys. Their cattle stealing set off a chain of events that led to you reading this text post. And that butterfly effect is gonna keep on building long after we're all dead. We're still telling versions of their campfire stories. The warrior stealing cattle from a giant snake directly evolved into the knight rescuing a princess trope. You can't escape the cow dudes.

[pagan-stitches]

Finished sun goddess tapestry