REPLY A -> see Vedic ‘Ushas’, from PIE “Heuwsos”. Other Dawn Goddesses of PIE descended cultures include the Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, Germanic Austra, and Baltic Ausrine. Devi/Aditi/Vak/Apah are the early Vedic/Hindu Cosmic Goddesses of the waters and the Mother of Gods. ----- REPLY B -> Asura Goddess Danu is likely Indo-Iranian as the Indo-Iranians were associated with Asuras (aka Greek Titans) and the Indo-Aryans with the #Devas (Greek Olympians) ----- REPLY C -> Druids were the same priestly class as the Brahmans of the Hindus. They had the same training, same function, same status, and conducted the same rituals. The Flamens of the early Romans were likewise of the same origin, as were the Magi of the Indo-Iranians/Medes. In fact, the historical Gautama Buddha himself was an Indo-Iranian/Saka-Scythian magi. ----- REPLY D -> Here we see the same division of the Gods as we see with the Green Olympian/Titans, the Vedic Devas/Asuras, and the Germanic Aesir/Vanir. Prominent members of the Tuath Dé include The Dagda ("the great god"); The Morrígan ("the great queen" or "phantom queen"); Lugh; Nuada; Aengus; Brigid; Manannán; Dian Cecht the healer; and Goibniu the smith, one of the Trí Dé Dána ("three gods of craft"). Several of the Tuath Dé are cognate with ancient Celtic deities: Lugh with Lugus, Brigit with Brigantia, Nuada with Nodons, and Ogma with Ogmios. And yes: we can identify, and I intend to do so, all of their earlier Vedic/Hindu/Roman/Greek/Iranian-Aryan/Germanic counterparts. ----- REPLY E -> At this time the Indo-Aryans would have been roughly around the area of ancient Bactria & Margiana and the Elamites of the Iranian plateau (in modern Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan/Afghanistan/Pakistan). New iron weapons most certainly gave the Sea Peoples and other “barbarians” the upper hand im against the longtime powers of the era (Egypt, Hittites, Trojans, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hurrians, Ugarit, Myceneans, Minoans, Elamites, Amorites, and etc). The Hittites/Luwians-Trojans and Hurrians in Anatolia, to the Mycenaeans and Minoans of the Aegean, to Ugarit, Canaan, and Egypt of the Levant, and to The Kassites and Amorites of Babylon and Mesopotamia.

Vedic origin of the Celts & The Tribe of Dan(u) PART 2 -> Greek ‘Danaos’ ***See 2nd/3rd slides for a brief summary of part 1 + added details*** In the #Vedas, Greeks were known as Yavanas: Yona/Yavana" are transliterations of the #Greek word for "Ionians”. In Homer's Iliad, "#Danaans" ("tribe of Danaus") and "Argives" designate the Greek forces opposed to the #Trojans. (REPLY A) #Egyptians called them ywnj, #Assyrians, Iawanu, #Persians, Yauna, Biblical #Hebrew, Yāwān, and #Babylonians, Yaman/Yamanaya. Yamnaya is also the name given to the 4th Millenium BCE early Bronze Age culture of the Steppes that is thought to have been the area from which the proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE) were last together before their, let’s call it, confusion of languages. The Yona are often mentioned along with the Kambojas, as two societies where there are only nobles and slaves. Kambojas were Indo-Iranians closely related to the later Persians, as seen in the name of Persian King #Cambyses, itself a Greek transliteration of #Kambojas. (REPLY B) In Greek #mythology, #Danaus was the king of #Libya. His #myth is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost #Mycenaean cities. Danaus, was the son of #King Belus of #Egypt and Achiroe, daughter of the river god Nilus, or of Sida, eponym of Sidon. He was the #twin brother of #Aegyptus, king of Egypt, and brother of Cepheus, King of #Ethiopia. After Aegyptus commanded that his fifty sons should marry the Danaides, Danaus fled to #Argos, which was ruled by King Pelasgus, the eponym of all indigenous inhabitants who had lived in Greece until the arrival of the loanian Greeks, aka Mycenaeans/Anatolians. When Aegyptus and his fifty sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus instructed his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night. Forty-nine followed through, but one, Hypermnestra, refused because her husband, Lynceus, honored her wish to remain a virgin. Lynceus and Hypermnestra then began a dynasty of Argive kings (the Danaid #Dynasty).

REPLY A -> something to keep in mind, Herodotus divided the Greeks, into Achaeans, Aeolians, Ionians and Dorians. Ionian Greeks were actually located in western region of Anatolia (modern Turkey), which is where we see the Luwians/Trojans of Wilusa and the Hittites/Lycians/Lydians/Celicians of Kizzuwatna and Hattusha. The Dorians were located in the Macedonian region and later formed the culture of the Spartans. --- REPLY B -> The Akkadian name for the Sumerian God Enki-associated with the Waters-was Ea/A’as/Yah, and the original moon god of the early Egyptians was Iah. The first King and mythical ancestor of the Vedic tribes was known as YAma and Yima (and in Germanic accounts, the giant Ymir). Sooo, perhaps the people of YAH? This is essentially what I argued way back when I covered the Bronze Age migrations of the confederation of tribes in the near East/Syria/Anatolia during the middle/late Bronze Age, called the Hayasa-Azzi….Also the Indo-Iranians heavily influenced the founding mythologies of the Greeks and the Greeks and Persians heavily (and I mean very heavily) influenced the writing of the Old and New Testaments. Future post will explore how Persian imperial administrators collected all local mythologies of their subjects provinces and tried to write down/canonize them and install temples to both collect taxes and control the population. This usually involved bringing in a new priestly elite to oversee this shift-ie the “returners” who were usually of a different culture, as the Assyrian and Persian practice was to swap elites of different conquered areas, which would also entail changing the religions to more closely match the Zoroastrian account of Ahura Mazda as the One Good God who gave power to the One Good King, that of the Persian emperor. One God = One King as his chosen representative. The Babylonians started this shift with Marduk, the Assyrians continued it with Ashur, the Persians nearly perfected it with Ahura MaZda, and then Roman Empire completed the process when they adopted Christianity as the Cult of Empire (why was fake Jesus so adamant about paying the Roman tax collector? Why was Ezra, a Persian administrator, so involved in the writing of the Old Testament? We will come back to this….Likewise the Indo-Iranian Persians, who, remember worshiped Asuras and saw Devas as demons (with the situation reversed in the Vedic Indo-Aryans and Ahura Mazda being the same as Asura Varuna-Medha) produces inscriptions that mention how they sought to replace the religions of the Deva worshippers with versions that honored their God, Ahura Mazda. As I pointed out, Devas were associated with the Greek Olympians and the Persians saw basically all religions of astral/planetary Gods as being Deva-Worshippers, which would include the Arabian/Mesopotamian-based religious cults practiced by the real Canaanites. There is much much more to say here, in time. --- REPLY C -> Samson was a Danite hero, and his berserker war bloodlust is a common trope of the furor/frenzy of the warrior God/divine poet/priest found in nearly all ancient PIE based religions: from Wodanaz (Odin) to Achilles and Ajax of the Iliad and to Bhishma/Drona/Parashurama of the Vedic Mahabharata. Going back to my posts on proto-Germanic etymology, this divine madness is seen in not just the warrior but also the priest or poet. Wodanaz = lord of frenzy', 'leader of the possessed’, inspired, delirious, raging' + suffix *-naz ('master of') = divine possession or inspiration, and ecstatic divination. Also, Samsun is a solar God, so when he cuts his hair and loses his powers, that reflects the belief that the rays of the sun were his “hair” and when they are covered up he temporarily loses his power.

PANCHA JANAAHA’, means ‘Five Peoples’, and refers to the five original Vedic tribes of Ailas/Chandravamsha, aka, The Lunar Dynasty: The Danus, the Yadus, Turvasas, Druhyus, and Purus. The Danu were named so after their founder: Asura Goddess Danu (Asuras pointing to an Indo-Iranian origin, which, remember, included both dark hair Indo-Iranian and light/red haired Scythians and later red haired Celts/Germans)…I argue that this Bronze Age Goddess and tribe is the same as the Tribe of Danu found in Iron Age Celtic mythology, where Danu is seen as the mother of the Irish Gods named the Tuatha De Danaan. See part 1 for more on her…I also argue that the Rigvedic People of Danu are the same as tribe of the Greek Danaos, as well as the later Biblical ‘Tribe of Dan’. The Sea Peoples-who helped contribute to the #BronzeAgeCollapse around 1200 BCE-included the Denyen and Peleset, who I argue should be identified with the Greeks-Achaeans (Philistines) & Anatolians-Trojans (Danaans), respectively. Thus, the biblical Tribe of Dan(u), would have been one of these largely Vedic/Indo-Euro groups descended from the Rigvedic Goddess Danu who sacked or settled (or both) all over the coastal regions of nearly every major population center at the close of the Bronze Age.

Vedic origin of the Celts and the Tribe of Goddess Danu PART 3 -> The Greek ‘House of Dan(aus)’ continued (see part 1 + 2) Danaus-brother of Aeguptus in the Greek account-was also said to have invented the first #ship and fortified city walls-hallmarks of the Indo-Iranians/Indo-Hittites (aka Ionians) of the late 3rd Millenium BCE Sintashta and Andronovo Cultures of the central Asian steppes, which is thought to represent an eastward migration of the Corded Ware culture of western Europe, showing an early Vedic connection between Bronze Age cultures of Western Europe, Central Asia, and Northwest India (modern Afghanistan/Pakistan). Sintashta was also The #SintashtaCulture (circa 2100 BCE) is where the proto Indo-Iranian languages likely branched off from proto-Indo-European/proto-Anatolian (Indo-Hittite). It is also where we first see horse driven, War Chariots-a staple of later Indo-Euro/Indo-Aryan culture-who introduced them everywhere from Babylon to Egypt. Sintashta also had some of the earliest and most sophisticated metallurgy/production of bronze weapons, and was also one of the first cultures to build cities with circular fortified walls. (REPLY D) In parts 1-2, the Biblical Tribe of Dan were described as sea faring warriors who “stayed on their ships” in the Song of Deborah. This means by the time of late Bronze Age collapse the Sintashta based Graeco/Mycenaean-Armenians & Indo-Aryans/Iranians had developed a sea faring culture, likely due to back and forth migrations between the Corded Ware and Sintashta cultures, particularly, the Corded Ware offshoot known as the Battle Axe Culture, which flourished in the coastal areas of the south of the Scandinavian Peninsula from 2800 BC to 2300 BC and is what led to the emergence of the Nordic Bronze Age. (REPLY B) And why would they stay in their ships? Well the Indo-Aryan/Greek tribe of The Sea Peoples known from Egyptian inscriptions as ‘The Denyen’ likely didn’t feel like fighting their Vedic cousins, The Peleset (aka Philistines). (REPLY C) Finally: where does Egypt fit into this? Well we have to go back to my posts on the Indo-Iranian/Hurrian Empire of Mitanni (1600-1300 BCE)………who not only controlled most of Syria/Canaan-where the Tribe of Dan AND the Mitanni-Hurrians (aka the Horites) were said to have been located-but they also intermarried with Egyptian Pharoahs of the New Kingdom, including the Aten worshipping Akhenaten, with Nefertiti being an Indo-Iranian/Hurrian Princess. This means that the most famous dynasties of Egypt, the New Kingdom, we’re half Indo-Iranian/Indo-European (aka Vedic because as my old post showed they worshiped the Vedic “inner-Sun”, the Atman/Brahman, as the Sun Disk Aten. Let’s also add that the “foreign horse riding warriors” who introduced the chariot into Egypt-known as the Hyksos-were likely a confederation of Indo-Iranian tribes, with the names of the “foreign rulers”, being cognates of Names we find in Indo-Iranian cultures (ex: Khyan = Kewan/Kevan, aka the Iranian word for Saturn). Thus the Argos mythology-and the Biblical narrative of the Tribe of Dan and the Rigvedic Tribe of Danu-seem to be at least in part accounts of the Sea Peoples during the Bronze Age collapse-who were largely Greek/Trojan/Anatolian/Minoan-Cretan-Cyprus (ie Indo-European/Indo-Iranian). QAfter the invasions of Egypt by the Sea Peoples, the Egyptian New Kingdom settled many of the groups on their borders in the levant, and used them as mercenary soldiers against the groups of raiders in the highlands of Canaan-so here is where he see the Bible narrative of “enemy” Hittites, Amorites, Hurrians, and Philistines; they were settled in the Levant, first, by the Egyptians as a buffer against the Indo-Iranian Scythians, Medes, and eventually, the Persians, who captured Egypt in the 7th century BCE, likely sending many of these Greek mercenaries back to the Greece where they became the Dorians and the Hellenes. Once the Persians controlled it, they likewise stationed soldiers in the Levant as a buffer against the Greeks and Romans. And yes: the Persians helped to canonize and write down the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. These events and The groups of Sea Peoples are thus likely the inspirations for parts of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, as well as the Mahabharata of the Hindus, and the founding myth of Rome where a Trojan hero, Aeneas, founds Rome after fleeing the Trojan War. I’ll identify the likely groups of sea peoples in time. The Tribe of Dan peoples were at least partially descended from the Vedic Indo-Iranians of Bactria, the related Sintashta and Andronovo Cultures, and the early PIE Anatolian branches (Hittites/Trojans). This means they are the Celts/Irish/Welsh, and their priests, the Druids. Druids were the same priestly class as the Brahmans of the Vedic Hindus. They had the same training, same function, same status, and conducted the same rituals. The Flamens of the early Romans were likewise of the same origin, as were the Magi of the Indo-Iranians/Medes (historical Gautama Buddha himself was an Indo-Iranian/Saka-Scythian magi). Druid means “knower/to see”, and is a cognate term for the Sanskrit ‘Veda’: ‘knowledge, wisdom’, which itself is derived from the root vid- "to know" and the Proto-Indo-European root *u̯eid-, meaning "see" or "know.” So yea: the Tribe of Dan stayed on their ships because the Philistines were also Greeks and they saw no need to fight them for the “Israelites”, who were if not literal Assyrians-yeah, I Can back up the argument-at the very least, were Assyrian approved elite “returners”. (REPLY D) REPLY C -> Samson was a Danite hero, and his berserker war bloodlust is a common trope of the furor/frenzy of the warrior God/divine poet/priest found in nearly all ancient PIE based religions: from Wodanaz (Odin) to Achilles and Ajax of the Iliad and to Bhishma/Drona/Parashurama of the Vedic Mahabharata. Going back to my posts on proto-Germanic etymology, this divine madness is seen in not just the warrior but also the priest or poet. Wodanaz = lord of frenzy', 'leader of the possessed’, inspired, delirious, raging' + suffix *-naz ('master of') = divine possession or inspiration, and ecstatic divination. Also, Samsun is a solar God, so when he cuts his hair and loses his powers, that reflects the belief that the rays of the sun were his “hair” and when they are covered up he temporarily loses his power. REPLY A -> I believe I have showed compelling evidence that we can identify the narrative of the #Biblical #TribeOfDan with the Vedic #IndoIranian worshippers of #Goddess Danu who are mentioned in the much earlier Rigveda. This Bronze Age tribe eventually-after mixing with local indigenous Neolithic populations of Western #Europe as well as their Indo-Euro cousins of the #CordedWare and #BellBeaker Cultures-ended up as the early Iron Age Celts, which in turn, gave rise to the the Scotts, #Irish and #Welsh (see slides for how the origins of Red Hair lies in the Indo-Iranian groups of the more northerly areas of the steppes, particularly, the Scythians.) REPLY B -> It is thought to have been responsible for spreading Indo-European languages and other elements of Indo-European culture to the region. It co-existed for a time with the hunter-gatherer Pitted Ware culture, which it eventually absorbed, developing into the Nordic Bronze Age. The Nordic Bronze Age has, in turn, been considered ancestral to the Germanic peoples. REPLY C -> Fellow Sea Peoples clans have likewise been identified with various Mediterranean polities, to varying acceptance: the Ekwesh with the Achaens, the Denyen with the Danaans, the Lukka with the Lycians, the Shekelesh with the Sicels, the Sherden with the Sardinians, etc REPLY D -> The Steppe life of the Bronze Age was not for the weak; warfare and raiding were constant threats, creating the need for fortified towns that doubled as commercial centers for weapon manufacturing. Round towers-as opposed to square or rectangular-also called drum towers, are more resistant to siege technology such as sappers and projectiles than square towers. The round front is more resistant than the straight side of a square tower, just as a load-bearing arch. This principle was already understood in antiquity….Also Sintashta and its neighbor-the related Andronovo Culture-both interacted and traded with Bactria-Margiana and the Indus Valley Civilization to their south, both of which I have done posts on where I argue for their Vedic connection.

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Glad you took the time, it's often worth it, get well soon

She has a great way of asking all the right questions!

Croeso mawr

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diolch Luke

Thanks, Bobbie

That's very kind, thank you.

It's intriguing yes

Diolch, Deborah

take a look at the other videos I post

a few hundred years later with a bit of overlap

@@CelticSource so say theirs a geal mercenary that working as a crusader would it be possible for him to be alive around the time when rome was driven off from the British isles

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please check out any standard history of Ireland

Wikipedia?

There are a couple of old buildings that have proven the travels you ask about. One of the buildings is a church.

yes, do!

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diolch Evan

Siond Davies, The Mabinogion (Oxford World Classics 2007)

Fascinating how history is so easily re-written

@@CelticSource Yep. If Hercules was a Jew, it changes everything. Dig deep in to this subject using Gaelic eyes. The Gaels would have you believe that Goidel Glas, Moses, and Scythia all existed at the time of Babel. Total bullshit. This is the history I am trying to re-write. I hope nobody fecking minds and I hope some people help.

yes, available now on Audible

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see this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebZ1d5l_ytOUm40.html

Indeed

@@CelticSource I like to operate on the presupposition that there is more logic, meaning and missing coherence than is often assumed. I am constantly surprised by the way single-words or sentences in the Triads or Taliesin fit with hypothetical lost branches of the Mabinogi.

I agree

I think it's Patrick Simms-Williams who thinks it could also have been North Western France, Armoica.

Wow. You're so clever.

@CelticSource I get that a lot. However the information is available to anyone who wants to waste their life overlooking it until it becomes undeniable.

Not so. There are factual elements in the cultural context of a poem that we can read as being historically reliable. But there is a subject element also, yes, just not where this particular argument is focussed.

@@CelticSource The factual and cultural elements are secondary to the spirit and the layered and most often hidden message of the poem, often with elements hidden from the very writers themselves. I think you are simply being territorial and that Robert Graves overall message of poetry being estranged from its mystical source is so obviously missed on you. This tends to happen to people with myopic and narrow dispositions that have no business in poetry to begin with. You are the epitome of what Graves rises up against.