So this is the second part of the Manu or Manus which came first. I've decided to try and do these recordings in shorter elements and then like a Netflix where they issue the whole series at once but instead of issuing a whole series of 10, one hour long shows,
these are going to be much shorter and then you can decide whether you listen to them all together. So Manu or Manus, this episode, like all, will contain the three elements which are mana, meaning energy, I'm exchanging my energy with you, my mana, you can hear it in my voice,
the timbre of my voice and you by downloading it, by listening to it, you are taking in but you're also giving back, we're exchanging our mana, our energy. And also in here obviously is the linguistic element, the Indo-European element, which includes both the mythological as well as the linguistic aspects.
And the third element are journeys, voyages, mental and physical. So I was describing how the first Germanic culture went up the Donistris River and or the Danube River, two of the great rivers of ancient and contemporary Ukraine, and also that in the three sons of Manus, Hermanones, Injabones, who founded the English people, and Istabones is this trifunctional
structure which which is a very important means of tracing indo-european elements in our cultures so most of us are aware of the indian caste system where you have the brahman the priest the priestly caste the sovereign caste and then you have the kshatri who are the soldiers equivalent to my namesake, Istabones.
And then you have the third caste who are the farmers, the economic caste, the fertility element, the function of the community which is expressed in the caste system. Well, that same tripartite structure... has been traced into most if not all indo-european culture linguistic and social
culture so again it comes from a common source so the individual proper names at the origin of the ethnic groups are not the common names for gods, but they're, they're surnames. So we have Hermanones, Ingavones and Istavones. Those are probably the surnames. So you would receive your name according to the tribe you're in and the Germanic
tribe you're in. but the particular element within it. Are you of the soldier caste or the fertility, the economic, the farming caste? Or are you like the Brahmin priest, the Hermenones part or the Flamines in ancient Rome? And so the source of these names for us is from the poetic, Carmina.
Carmina, again the MN to describe Carmina, the poetic. So Tacitus, although this is all, he is our main source, our primary, our fundamental, source for understanding the origins of the Germanic people through the stories they told themselves, the myths they exchanged themselves before they were a written culture. And Tacitus himself
He's a bit of a historian, but he's also a carmina. He's a poetic. So he's writing in the poetic. So that first, that name, Ingwia, probably from the Ingavones. So Ingwia is probably the first name. referring to an individual god and there's a parallel in Scandinavia which then
occupied the island of Britain and became the dominant Germanic tribe there after 433 Common Era when the Romans withdrew from the island of Britain the German Germanic tribes took over as we know in 1066 the Normans again MN in Norman and So they are related genetically and linguistically to the Manapi,
who are very much at my origin story of here and Manuland. And the term Manuland comes from a warehouse near Man in France, near this village Meng in France, in eastern France. But the Normans, Normandy, this peninsula pointing out into the Manche, into the English... The Normans invaded the island of Britain and took over,
but although many of the individual words in the English language are indeed French, the structure, the roots of verbs, determines that English, which developed after this, is a Germanic language. The Germanic tribes, including Ing, the Ing, Ingwia, the Germanic tribe. So Ingwia was a god, and so the people who worshipped that god,
they became known as the Ingavones. So that is how peoples were named either by themselves or often by others. They were in the same way that, say, Christians are so-called because they worship Christ, that the Ingua worshipped this god, this Ing, this god of Ing.
They took over the island of Britain or parts of the island of Britain, mainly from East Anglia onwards, where I also lived there for a few years, So I have a sense of that and I recently visited some of the earliest mounds which were built by these inguier in Saxon mounds near the border between Suffolk and Essex.
So Ingwe refers to an individual god, and this points us towards a similar interpretation for the others. So for the Hermenones and the Istavones. So Hermen being the god, son of Ymir. And... each of these three groupings these tripartite group groupings has a tribal
ancestor from whom they take their name who who either began as a god or started off as a particularly one of these these imaginary brothers or sisters that i have down near odessa who decide one goes off in one direction the other and the other and the other and the other
and they, in actual historical fact, then found these different communities. There's many different theories about how these migrations took place, and there's no reason why they would have happened the same way everywhere. So there's a variety of different models. I've given you one kind of imaginative, cute one, where my ancestor, Istavones, leaves...
leaves this area where the Osatauva and the Yamna created the first Celtic, Italic and Germanic languages and cultures. So one of them, the founder of the Italic, goes off one direction. A few years later, another sister leads a troop of a couple hundred families in another direction on wagons.
And another year, a few years later, they go in another direction. And out of these migrations comes these respective traditions.
Continued:
Continued from:
Ep 1 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture?
Here in the Manner of a Netflix season, I’m going to drop all six episodes in this ‘Mannus or Manu’ season in one go. Then on PowerofMana.net or Spotify or Apple Podcasts (search for ‘Finding Manuland’ and subscribe!!), you can binge listen or eke out listening as you might savour a fine wine.
First in series:
Finding Manuland I
In October 2021 I was returning from my final vacation before my forced retirement from my beloved diplomatic posting to Ukraine.
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