Ancient Ukrainians in Judea
Ancient Ukrainians in Judea
Finding Manuland IX: Where once we thought of Christianity as an emanation mainly of the Fertile Crescent, now we can perceive Christianity as yet another layer manifesting Indo-European Mana.
Hearing the word Yamnaya in the context of Ukrainian barrow-grave culture reminded me immediately of the Buddhist Yama.
I could not connect the two cultures, geographically separated by thousands of kilometres, as well as by several millennia.
Maybe it was just a coincidence that the monikers Yama (which derived from Aryaman) and Yamnaya both contained the sacred M-N- sound?!
I hadn’t then realised that Christianity grew out of a Roman colony so that the Roman Catholic faith was an amalgam of influences, including the Italic / Latin / Roman Indo-European culture which occupied Judea at the time of Christ’s sacrifice.
The earliest fragments we have of many parts of the bible were found in jars in what is today the State of Israel. Some of these texts are written in Greek, an Indo-European language. Greek was the lingua franca in the Roman occupied land of Judea where Christ lived and taught.
Note too that Latin, the language of the Roman colonisers, is an Indo-European Language. Of relevance also is that we now know through Comparative Archaeology, archaeogenetics and linguistics that the Philistines mentioned in the bible hailed from the Aegean1. They were Greeks (Indo-Europeans). The Philistines occupied Palestine first around 1100 BCE. The Philistines are therefore also Indo-European language speakers and Indo-European culture and religion conveyors.
The origin story Christianity tells itself inside itself is that it is almost wholly a product of Judaism. Our mental models see a natural evolution from the first Judaic King, Kind David2 - a probable historical figure who lived around 1,000 BCE.
Recently, I worked out the linguistic root of "David."
It's quite simple really: the sound we spell as "Deva" is related to "Deity" in virtually every Indo-European language spoken over the past 4,000 years: the sounds and meaning "Jupiter" (Rome), "Zeus Pater" (Ζεύς πατήρ) (Greece) & "Dyāuḥ pitā" (India) all began life before 2,500 BCE in Ancient Ukraine as *Dyēus pətḗr (Sky Father).
So even the first king of Judah - David - has an Indo-European name, which isn't surprising as we have contemporaneous written records - the Amarna Letters3 - attesting to the presence of Indo-European named monarchs in Judea from 1,400BCE.
Originally the sound we make every time we say "David" or "Difydd" was used by the first Indo-Europeans in eastern Ukraine to mean "day" or "shine." Dyfidd is one of the two provinces of Wales. Saint David is the patron saint of Wales, and the cathedral city of Saint Davids in south-west Wales was known in Roman times as Menevia.
Before the first Indo-European language speakers left eastern Ukraine before 2,500 BCE, *deiwós had already come to mean "deity."
We know this because if you have the same sound signifying the same phenomenon in an Indo-European language west (say in Ireland (día)) and east of Ukraine (say, in India (deva)), then, all other things being equal, that sound and its meaning were associated before the migrations.
As we saw previously, one of the first examples of writing found in Ireland was a Ogham script inscription found in Kilkenny but referring to the Bandon River thus: Loígde after the Primitive Irish deity *Loigodēvā.
Now, you can reassess all the "Davids" in your life by reference to how they match their god-like moniker. A lot to live up to!
So, yes, the idea that Christianity sprung from Judaism is true. Up to a point.
Yet, Judaism which cohered around 1100 BCE (according to the Old Testament) arose inside an environment that we now know (but which they could not possibly have known as the Indo-European language family was only first intuited in 1782 CE) was infused with at least five different evolutionary vectors of Indo-European language:
Romans, Greeks, Philistines (who arrived from the Aegean and first occupied Palestine / Canaan / Judea around 1100 BCE) and
Indo-European Persian Achaemenid Empire that ruled Judea / Phoenicia between ~521 BCE and ~331 BCE (at a time much of the Old Testament and Judaism itself was being solidified and institutionalised).
“Aryans” (probably Indo-European Sintashta culture migrants from today’s Kazakhstan4) around 1500 BCE5.
The Indo-European philistines of 1100 BCE whose occupation of parts of Palestine played a dominant determining role in the system of pressures out of which King David and King Solomon's first state of Israel was forged6 - note how the second king of the Jews also has the M-N- sound in his moniker.
Even the word of God without which Christianity would not make much sense, even within its own logic, is an Indo-European Greek word *Logos.7
So, you see, where once you thought of Christianity as a sole emanation of the Fertile Crescent / Judaism actually cannot even be spoken of in its original sense without invoking Indo-European and ultimately Ancient Ukrainian concepts, signifiers, and meanings.
Continued:
Previous instalment ~ Manuland VIII
First in series:
“…The Philistines were a group of people from the Aegean who arrived on the southern Palestinian coast at about the same time that the Israelite tribal groups were forming in the highlands…” in Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195139372.001.0001/acref-9780195139372-chapter-6;jsessionid=3F74A742DBE59F8A2C1B4F479AD95CBF
“…One of the best examples of the aggrandizement of David is the Goliath story; the accomplishment of Elhanan in slaying the Philistine warrior (2 Sam. 21.19) becomes part of the David legend (1 Sam. 17)… Reading the biblical account of the emergence of the monarchy while simultaneously considering social-science models of state formation has led recent investigators to reassess the role of the Philistines… True, the early Israelite state is linked to the need for military forces that could deal with Philistine incursions. It also had to repel the raids of such groups as the Ammonites (1 Sam. 10.27) and Amalekites (1 Sam. 30.1), and perhaps meet threats from neighboring Moab, Edom, and Syria (1 Sam. 14.47; 2 Sam. 8.1–14)…The tenth century [BCE] saw the recovery of tribal lands lost to Philistines, the capture or incorporation of nontribal enclaves still surviving in tribal territories, the development of regional centers, and the establishment of trade routes…”See Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195139372.001.0001/acref-9780195139372-chapter-6;jsessionid=3F74A742DBE59F8A2C1B4F479AD95CBF
“In 1887, Egyptian peasants rummaging in ruins on the plain of Amarna found inscribed clay tablets… Eventually, the corpus of letters, with four attached inventories, would number 350…The language of the Amarna Letters, with a few exceptions in Assyrian, Hurrian, and [Indo-European] Hittite, is Babylonian… Correspondence with independent powers to the north is attested from late (about the thirtieth year) in the reign of Amenhotpe III to early in the reign of Tutankhamun, a period of about twenty-five years…” in the Oxford Companion to Ancient Egypt (2005): https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195102345.001.0001/acref-9780195102345-e-0026?rskeyEJzn9r&result=2
"Prehistoric Religions: The Eurasian Steppes and Inner Asia." Encyclopedia of Religion (February 23, 2023). https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/prehistoric-religions-eurasian-steppes-and-inner-asia
“…For orientalists, there is no avoiding the conclusion that the Aryan takeover of northwest India was related, somehow, to the appearance of Aryans in Mitanni and the Levant. But this takeover, which had probably occurred by ca. 1500 B.C., seems to have resembled the others only in its objectives and not in the way in which it was carried out. Even though its relationship to the end of the Indus Valley civilization remains unclear, the Aryan takeover of northwest India must have been far more violent and destructive than the other takeovers reviewed here, and must have been effected by a force far larger than those that took over states in the Fertile Crescent…” from Drews, Robert. The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186580
See footnote above.
“Logos, the “Word,” is a name or title traditionally applied by Christians to Jesus as the Christ, in whom the Logos, or divine reason, was incarnate. Theologically speaking, in the context of the doctrine of God as the Trinity, Christ as Logos has always existed. So it is that the evangelist John begins his gospel with the words “In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was in God's presence, and what God was, the Word was.” As a purely philosophical term, logos is the principle of order and knowledge in the universe” from the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford University Press (2005): https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195156690.001.0001/acref-9780195156690-e-951?rskey=e9fnFV&result=1