Yet there are many questions about this period. European early modern humans(EEMH) lineages between 40,000-26,000 years ago (Aurignacian) were still part of a large Western Eurasian meta-population, related to Central and Western Asian populations. Once the soil was exhausted, residents picked up their belongings, moved to new lands, and constructed new villages. ref, Bayesian modeling applied to a dataset of new and published radiocarbon dates derived from domesticated millet grains suggests that after their initial cultivation in the crescent around the Bohai Sea ca. I am not a good fit in the atheist movement that is mostly pro-capitalist, I am anti-capitalist. "Veda" - means knowledge even in modern . And many believe the religious Jewish texts were completed around 2,500)ref,ref, Judaism is around 3,450 or 3,250 years old. This parallels the practice of theCucuteni-Trypillia culture, and is in contrast with the laterYamnaya culture, which practicedtumuliburials. [2] It was discovered during archaeological excavations in 1973 near the village of Syezzheye () near Bogatoye. . The teams innovative Bayesian phylogeographic analysis of Indo-European linguistic and spatial data, including basic vocabulary data from 103 ancient and contemporary Indo-European languages, decisively supports this theory. The researchers from the University of Helsinki and other European institutions date the earliest horsemanship to 3000 BC to 2500 BC among members of the Yamnaya culture. Volume I: The Ancient Eurasian World and the Celestial Pivot: https://www.academia.edu/11382971/In_and_Outside_the_Square_The_Sky_and_the_Power_of_Belief_in_Ancient_China_and_the_World_c_4_500_BC_AD_220_Volume_I_The_Ancient_Eurasian_World_and_the_Celestial_Pivot?email_work_card=title, Kurgan Copper Revolution: https://www.academia.edu/14001057/Kurgan_Copper_Revolution?email_work_card=title, Dynasty 0 Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, Ancient Egyptian History, Egyptian Predynastic chronology: https://www.academia.edu/31304670/Dynasty_0?email_work_card=title, Absolute chronology of the settlement of the Eastern Linear Pottery culture at Moravany: https://www.academia.edu/24741906/Absolute_chronology_of_the_settlement_of_the_Eastern_Linear_Pottery_culture_at_Moravany?email_work_card=title, Cha Si 48 Pages 2 FilesEgyptology, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Mesopotamia History, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Kurgans, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, Uruk Expansion, Uruk Period, Predynastic Egypt, The Narmer Palette, Predynastic Naqada, Eridu. Yamnaya households were small, consisting of only two or three families. While working their way across Asia through mountain valleys, pastoralists incorporated crops into their own way of life., We also find that the majority of the East Eurasian ancestry in the Shirenzigou individuals is-related to northeastern Asian populations, while the West Eurasian ancestry is best presented by 20% to 80% Yamnaya-like ancestry. So, Religion as we think of it, to me, all starts in a general way withAnimism(Africa: 100,000 years ago) (theoretical belief in supernatural powers/spirits), then this is physically expressed in or withTotemism(Europe: 50,000 years ago) (theoretical belief in mythical relationship with powers/spirits through a totem item), which then enlists a full-time specific person to do this worship and believed interactingShamanism(Siberia/Russia: 30,000 years ago) (theoretical belief in access and influence with spirits through ritual), and then there is the further employment of myths and gods added to all the above giving youPaganism(Turkey: 12,000 years ago) (often a lot more nature-based than most current top world religions, thus hinting to their close link to more ancient religious thinking it stems from). City goddesses include:Mumbadevi(Mumbai),Sachchika(Osian); Kuladevis include:Ambika(Porwad), andMahalakshmi. Religion myths which are nothing more than childlike stories and obsolete tales once used to explain how the world works, acting like magic was needed when it was always only nature. Over the centuries, Kets and other Yeniseian people suffered relocation, extinction, and loss of language and culture. A town in theprovincesmight adopt a deity from within the Roman religious sphere to serve as its guardian, orsyncretizeits own tutelary with such; for instance, a community within thecivitasof theRemiinGauladopted Apollo as its tutelary, and at the capital of the Remi (present-dayRheims), the tutelary wasMarsCamulus.ref, Household deity (a kind of or related to a Tutelary deity), Ahousehold deityis adeityor spirit that protects thehome, looking after the entirehouseholdor certain key members. Paganism: spread of Haplogroup J and its Seeming connection of Bull Worship, Pre-Pottery Neolithic (10000 6500 BCE) and Pottery Neolithic (70005000 BCE), 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe: first human-made pagan temple. They burned forests to create grazing land until about 2000 BC when they began to settle down. One of the earliest attested and thus one of the most important of all Indo-European mythologies is Vedic mythology, especially the mythology of the Rigveda, the oldest of the Vedas. ref, Early scholars of comparative mythology such as Friedrich Max Mller stressed the importance of Vedic mythology to such an extent that they practically equated it with Proto-Indo-European myths. This fact also tells us that the stream of movement went in both directions. Their material culture was very similar to the Afanasevo culture, and the populations of both cultures are genetically indistinguishable. Sifting through the relation of Bird spirits/deities of the sky (20,000 to 5,000 years ago), 16,000 to 12,000 years ago Magdalenian Sacred Ritual and Symbols. The researchers analyzed microscopic traces of plant residues trapped in pits and crevices on stone tools. Western Steppe Herder DNA was subsequently detected in several genetically similar or directly related ancient populations including theKhvalynsk,Sredny Stog, andYamnayacultures, and found in substantial levels in contemporary European and South Asian populations. Most of these have small speech communities in remote mountain areas, and as such are poorly documented. ref, Several low-level subgroups have been securelyreconstructed, but reconstruction of aproto-languagefor the family as a whole is still at an early stage, so the higher-level structure of Sino-Tibetan remains unclear. Such as:Maria Makilingis the deity who guardsMt. Ket language, albeit almost extinct, is the only language of the Yeniseian family that survived into the 21stcentury. For Tocharian, it may be necessary to assume an indirect dispersal as well in view of the late spread of agriculture to the eastern steppe. Artifacts, genes, and even a reconstructed language - Proto-Indo-European - all seem to match up. Eleven out of 12 green foxtail accessions were grouped separately from the clusters of foxtail millet. The period around 2000 BCE was marked by two migration waves moving in opposite directions. A century ago, it was a catch-all explanation for any change in the material record. In short, no. Latin does not have any of it. For the oldest stratum, Indo-Anatolian, the lexical evidence for cereal use is relatively modest, but not zero: we must at least admit the cereal term *(H)ieu(H) and perhaps *h(e)rsd-. Examples of elevated 13C values may indicate that pastoralists foddered animals with cultivated millet as it has been recently discussed for Bronze Age contexts in Kazakhstan. ref, Strikingly, not a single word for millet can be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European. Over many centuries, these dialects transformed into the known ancient Indo-European languages. Changes were initiated including unambiguous evidence of horse riding (prehistoric cavalry) and the introduction of metal weapons such as shafthole axes and spearheads. Yamnaya is derived from the Yamna horizon, the name given to the late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age sites where Yamnaya remains have been found. InShinto, the spirits, orkami, which give life to human bodies come from nature and return to it after death. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of theunderworld. There is a 1500 year gap between the Yamnaya (3300-2800 bc) and the Tumulus and Urnfield (1300 bc) cultures, which can be seen as the earliest Celtic cultures or ancestral to the Celtic culture. The proposed history books telling the history of the Israelites from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon. The rooted tree shows the genetic phylogeny of human populations from Africa, North Europe, and East Asia, with the colors of the branches roughly indicating the generalized skin pigmentation level of these populations. *proto stage of organized religion is 10,000 years ago. People on the steppe buried their exalted dead in kurgans; kurgans show up later in the Hungarian Plain than on the steppe, accompanied by the same kinds of artifacts we find in burials on the steppe. Paganism was originally a pejorative and derogatory term for polytheism, implying its inferiority. This emphasis underscores, rather than weakens, the ancestral component.ref. Material culture - what archaeologists pull out of the ground - isnt the most straightforward guide to understanding how people in the distant past migrated. Ket language lacks apparent affiliation with any major language family and is clearly distinct from surrounding Uralic, Turkic, and Tungusic languages, . The myths should not be understood as attempts to work out a rational explanation of deity.ref, While creation myths are not literalexplications, they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story. Steppe semi-nomads associated with the Abashevo-Sintashta and later with the Srubnaya-Andronovo communities moved from Eastern Europe eastwards to the Altai and even to Xinjiang. Socratesspoke of hearing the voice of his personal spirit ordaimonion: You have often heard me speak of an oracle or sign which comes to me. 2021, confirmed ANE-related geneflow among the Jmon people, partially ancestral to theAinu people. 6,5005,800 years ago in Israel Late Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Period in the Southern Levant Seems to Express Northern Levant Migrations, Cultural and Religious Transfer, Stonehenge: Paganistic Burial and Astrological Ritual Complex, England (5,100-3,600 years ago), Complex rituals for elite, seen from China to Egypt, at least by 5,000 years ago, Chinas Civilization between 5,000-3,000 years ago, was a time of war and class struggle, violent transition from free clans to a Slave or Elite society. Owing to the historical distance of Yamnaya culture, and reliance on archaeological findings, debate continues as to its origin. In antiquity, several sky goddesses in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Near East were calledQueen of Heaven. We see styles of artifact and burial that are intrusive (meaning unlike older practices) to the new area, in this case the Hungarian Plain and to a lesser extent the Danube Valley. This is because of the types of graves that they left behind. Other weapons are bone spearheads and flint arrowheads. They also hunted deer and wild game. Heritage Daily reports that exactly when these new peoples arrived and how they mixed with indigenous Europeans remains unclear.. To read about a revolutionary technique for radiocarbon dating ceramic artifacts fromatalhyk, go to Carbon Dating Pottery, one of ARCHAEOLOGYs Top 10 Discoveries of 2020. The findings outlined on Wednesday document a shared genetic ancestry for the hundreds of millions of people who speak what the researchers callTranseurasian languagesacross an area stretching more than 5,000 miles (8,000km).ref, Millet was an important early crop as hunter-gatherers transitioned to an agricultural lifestyle. Its not exactly counterintuitive to guess that people from the steppe, whom we identify with the Yamnaya Culture, moved from one place to the other. Quite possibly, segments of the core Indo-European speech community moved west before they moved east, including those groups that ultimately introduced Tocharian and Indo-Iranian to Asia. nomadic herders known as the Yamnaya swept into Europe. Yamnaya people left a lasting legacy on the world, one that is still evident today. Creation myth definitions from modern references: Religion professorMircea Eliadedefined the wordmythin terms of creation: Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took place in primordial Time, the fabled time of the beginnings. In other words, myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution.ref, All creation myths are in one senseetiologicalbecause they attempt to explain how the world formed and where humanity came from. The Yamnaya culture, also called the Kurgan or Late Ochre Grave culture, of the late Neolithic and Bronze age Pontic steppe is believed to belong to one of several Proto-Indo-European. The culture is characterized by the remains of animal sacrifice, which occur over most of the sites. Religions continuing in our modern world, full of science and facts, should be seen as little more than a set of irrational conspiracy theories of reality. An example of this was the Roman Lares. Cory Johnston has been thoughtfully talking to people and attempting to promote critical thinking, social justice, and left-wing politics.http://anchor.fm/skepticalleft. Around 7,200 years ago spread both European-related dogs into the levant (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey) and Iranian-related dogs across the Near East. The Yamnaya culture vanished suddenly around 3000 BCE. Ketmythologywith those of speakers ofUralic languages, assuming in the studies that they are modelingsemioticsystems in the compared mythologies. We know that the Indo-Europeans sacrificed both animals and people, like many other cultures. It has long been known that pastoralists, belonging to the Yamnaya Culture from the Pontic Steppe region, in what is now Ukraine and southern Russia, changed the population of Central Europe in the Late Neolithic period. R-M780 occurs at high frequency in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Himalayas. The Yamnaya culture was semi-nomadic, with some agriculture practiced near rivers, and a few fortified sites, the largest of which is Mikhaylovka. InGreek mythology, the Earth is personified asGaia, corresponding to RomanTerra, IndicPrithvi/Bhmi, etc. Mostly pro-skeptic, I am a rationalist not valuing skepticism. These studies now provide a rich context to interpret present-day population structure of inner Eurasians and to characterize ancient admixtures in fine resolution. ref, The population of the Botai culture were connected to the earliest evidence for horse husbandry. These grains, found in small amounts, may have been eaten or employed in rituals of some kind. The Samara culture was an Eneolithic (Copper Age) culture that flourished around the turn of the 5th millennium BCE,[note 1] at the Samara Bend of the Volga River (modern Russia). Summarizing, the scarce archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence generally suggest that the gathering and processing of plants might have been a component in the subsistence strategies of the ancient North-Pontic people; however, offering a reliable conclusion about this matter is challenging. ref, TheMikhaylovka culture,Lower Mykhaylivka culture(36003000 BCE)is aCopper Agearchaeological culture which flourished on thePontic steppefrom 3600 to 3000 BCE. Cory Johnston @SkepticalleftyEvidence-based atheist leftist (he/him) Producer, host, and co-host of 4 podcasts@skeptarchy@skpoliticspodand@AthopeMarie. There are lots of different kinds of migrations. Here, we report genome-wide data from 19Upper Paleolithic to Early Bronze Age individuals from this Siberian region. Decoration consists of circumferential motifs: lines, bands, zig-zags or wavy lines, incised, stabbed or impressed with a comb. and Gobekli Tepe, by paganism I mean a grouped set of behaviors that I believe resemble the concept of paganism-type beliefs. Steppe semi-nomads associated with the Abashevo-Sintashta and later with the Srubnaya-Andronovo communities moved from Eastern Europe eastwards to the Altai and even to Xinjiang. We seek to retell the story of our beginnings. The period around 2000 BCE was marked by two migration waves moving in opposite directions. Later developments of this theme show that in fact the sun is being represented. Other authors have discussed analogies (similar folkloremotifs, purely typological considerations, and certain binary pairs in symbolics) may be related to a dualistic organization of society somedualisticfeatures can be found in comparisons with these peoples. ref, ref, The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia, Ancient DNA studies have already shown that human populations of this region have dramatically transformed over time. In more recent decades, archaeologists turned dramatically away from migration. Divergence into genetically distinct sub-populations within Western Eurasia is a result of increasedselection pressureandfounder effectsduring theLast Glacial Maximum(LGM,Gravettian). ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref, ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref, ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref,ref, Low Gods Earth or Tutelary deity and High Gods Sky or Supreme deity, AnEarth goddessis a deification of theEarth. Our side the Left is more often on the fact side, the other side the Right is a cesspool of mythology, propaganda, cult, conspiracy theories, and anti-intellectualism generally, or at least it seems as so many are out and proud of such foolishness. The books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God: Exodus 20:23 You shall not make other gods besides Me (not saying there are no other gods just not to worship them); gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves., Judges 10:6 Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him., 1 Corinthians 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords.. Architecture of the Floating (Or Sinking) City: How Was Venice Built? In a model in which the split between the European and Asian branches is assumed to be primary, we must admit at least *h2erh3 plow, *h2erh3ur/n (arable) field, *peis grind (grain), *sesh1io a cereal, *h2edo(s) a (parched?) I am not a leader by some title given but from my commanding leadership style of simply to start teaching everywhere to everyone, all manner of positive education. Proto-Indo-European was spoken by the Yamnaya people. Unlike the archaeological Yamnaya homeland, the linguistic homeland of the core Indo-European language community cannot be located in the eastern steppe, but must be situated around, and extending to the west of, the Dnieper River. Paganism is not a traditional religion per se because it does not have any official doctrine, but it does have some common characteristics joining the great variety of traditions. Please, These migrants from the steppe filled the Hungarian Plain with earthen burial mounds called, , permanent markers of their otherwise ephemeral presence. I classify Animism (animated spirit or supernatural perspectives). Both basal East and West Eurasians acquiredNeanderthal admixturein Europe and Asia. Ie. The Yamnaya migration is one of the most straightforward examples we find in the distant human past. Shamanistic rock art from central Aboriginal Siberians and Aboriginal drums in the Americas. Ancient Egypt: Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Predynastic from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago, Masked Head Hunters of Karahan Tepe 11,400-year-old monumental site from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A to B. Evolution of human skin color, white-skin is really under 10,000 years old? In FreudsTotem and Taboo, both totem and taboo are outward expressions or manifestations of the same psychological tendency, a concept which is complementary to, or which rather reconciles, the apparent conflict. 40,000 years old Aurignacian Lion Figurine Early Totemism? ref, Confucianismaround2,600 2,551years old. My Reasoned Speculations on the Early Migrations of Paganism 13,000 to 3,000 years ago, Cultural Transfer. Sherds of pottery and stone tools dont tell easily accessible stories. ref, Buddhismaround2,563/2,480 2,483/2,400years old. Fofonovo_EN near by Lake Baikal were mixture of 12-17% ANE ancestry and 83-87% East Asian ancestry.ref, Hokkaido Jmon peoplespecifically refers to the Jmon period population ofHokkaidoin northernmost Japan. By about 5040 ka a basal West Eurasian lineage had emerged, as had a separateEast Asianlineage. They also used milk to make cheese and yogurt. The Samara culture is regarded as related to contemporaneous or subsequent prehistoric cultures of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, such as the Khvalynsk, Repin and Yamna (or Yamnaya) cultures. Intriguingly, it is evident that many agricultural meanings that have habitually been reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European are effectively post-Anatolian. To master oneself, also means mastering positive prosocial behaviors needed for human flourishing. Overall, our study demonstrates the most deeply divergent connection between Upper Paleolithic Siberians and the First Americans and reveals human and pathogen mobility across Eurasia during the Bronze Age. ref, Genomic study of the Ket: a Paleo-Eskimo-related ethnic group with significant ancient North Eurasian ancestry, The Kets (an ethnic group in the Yenisei River basin, Russia) are among the least studied native Siberians. From there, further linguistic divergence led to the evolution of their current descendants, the modern Indo-European languages. Yamnaya people moved from place to place in search of pasture for their herds. The Yamnaya were nomadic pastoralists who originally lived on the steppes of Eurasia before moving west. The settlements of the Botai which consisted of, were relatively large and permanent. Yamnaya culture or at least Proto-Indo-European Languages/Religions may actually relate back to North Asia? Although the family is traditionally presented as divided intoSinitic(i.e. By the mid-2nd millennium BCE, the formation of the steppe belt cultures was completed, and these cultures continued to exist until relatively recently. Ancestors are therefore themselves tutelaries to be worshiped. Many people just want to see developed religious dynamics everywhere even if it is not. Rational thinkers must ask themselves why continue to believe in religions stories. Very much like the lyrics of the famous She may be ancient Egypts most famous face, but the quest to find the eternal resting place of Queen Nefertiti has never been hotter. Each letter in Old Slavonic alphabet has a number and meaning which is a code basically. Scenarios in which the European branches moved west and the Asian branch stayed east of the Dnieper, therefore, While Gimbutas was largely correct in assuming that the increase of agriculture is synchronous with the incursion of the Kurgan [] people into Europe, , especially in the European branches, we must assume that the onset of this process had already started before the final dissolution of the core Indo-European dialect continuum, on or close to the steppe. When we add the. Yamnaya people were pastoralists who relied on herding sheep, goats, and cattle. Instead, all that is found is largely fragments until the domestication of religion. Representation of a Yamnaya Culture horse rider. MakilingandMaria CacaoandMaria Sinukuan. A creation myth acts as a cornerstone for distinguishing primary reality fromrelativereality, the origin and nature ofbeingfrom non-being. We used three recently active transposons (TSI-1,TSI-7, andTSI-10) as genome-wide markers and succeeded in demonstrating geographical structures of the foxtail millet. Creation by the dismemberment of a primordial being. He hypothesizes that the Tripolye culture was taken over by PIE speakers by c. 4000 BCE or 6,021 years ago, and that in its final phase the Tripolye culture expanded to the steppes, morphing into various regional cultures which fused with the late Sredny Stog pastoralist cultures, which, he suggests, gave rise to the Yamnaya culture. ref, According to Anthony (2007), the early Yamnaya horizon spread quickly across the PonticCaspian steppes between c.3400 and 3200BCE or 5,421-5,221 years ago: The spread of the Yamnaya horizon was the material expression of the spread of late Proto-Indo-European across the PonticCaspian steppes. Genetic analyses show that all ANE samples (Afontova Gora 3, Malta 1, and Yana-RHS) show evidence for minor gene flow from an East Asian-related group (simplified by theAmis, Han, or Tianyuan). Are there elements of the same in Yamnaya movememt? Creation myths address questions deeply meaningful to the society that shares them, revealing their centralworldviewand the framework for the self-identity of the culture and individual in a universal context. Contemporary Western astrology is often associated with systems ofhoroscopesthat purport to explain aspects of a personspersonalityand predict significant events in their lives based on the positions of celestial objects; the majority ofprofessionalastrologers rely on such systems.ref, Around 5,500 years ago,Science evolves,The first evidence of science was 5,500 years ago and was demonstrated by a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world. Around 2,140 to 2,116 years ago, the Prophets was written during the Hasmonean dynasty, and finally the remaining books. In that regard it was the opposite development from the Near East, which first developed agriculture then only pottery from circa 5500 BCE, perhaps through contact with East Asians via Siberia or Central Asia. ref. He brings back knowledge from the shadow realm, thus linking his people to the spirits and places which were once mythically accessible to all.anthropologist Barbara Meyerhoff ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, Sino-Tibetan, also cited asTrans-Himalayanin a few sources,is afamilyof more than 400 languages, second only toIndo-Europeanin number of native speakers. Four groups, Daur, Mongola, Tu and Dungans, are located alongside other East Asian populations and displaced from the three inner Eurasian clines. ref. The graves found are shallow pits for single individuals, but two or three individuals might be placed there. Top image: Top view of the Dolmen of Oberbipp in Switzerland, one of the largest burial sites in the study, where Neolithic remains were studied, revealing clues to the Yamnaya Cultures migration to Europe.