Here are some of the fundamental sources and readings underpinning this episode of Finding Manuland - the story of the X Energy’s immanence in humanity’s main linguistic community.
Welcome to Power of Mana podcast. This is the Finding Manuland version, episode one, the X energy.
I'm Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland. Since this is episode one, let's begin with an introduction. I'm going to do something in this podcast which is very conventional in terms of podcasts. I'm going to set out what I'm going to do.
So this podcast is primarily about Mana, which is energy, or the X energy as many have called it. So I'm going to set out what I'm going to do. So this podcast is about energy. But then I'm going to do something slightly differently. I'm going to tell you about the journey I embarked upon which led to the discovery of Mana, about energy. So this podcast is about Mana. So it's about energy. It's about what the Chinese, ancient Chinese culture called Ch’i. That is called Ki in ancient Japanese culture. In Hindu, ancient, ancient Indian culture, it's called Prana. From around 3000 BCE, around the time the first Indo-European migrants from ancient Ukraine reached India. In Hebrew culture, we talk about Ruach. These are all equivalent to Mana. So Ch’i, Ki, Prana, Ruach. These are all equivalent to Mana. Mana is the X factor. It's the X energy. Teleama, Libido. Freud talked about Libido, Synchronicity. Nous, Vis Medicatrix Naturae, in Hippocrates.
Aristotle spoke of the Formative Cause. I'm speaking about Mana. Erasistratus spoke about Pneuma. Christians talk about the Holy Spirit. In Germanic culture, we use the term Woden. Our Wednesday is even named for this. Wodenazdeus. Mana. So we speak of Mana. I speak of Mana in Finding Manuland.
Mana, the X factor, the X energy is equivalent to all of these other manifestations of the same phenomenon. Ch’i, Ki, Ruach, Synchronicity, Libido, Pneuma, Holy Spirit. The Sufis speak of Baraka. Polynesians, as I do, speak of Mana, but I do not speak of Mana because the Polynesians speak of Mana.
However, what the Polynesians talk about using the moniker Mana is the same phenomenon. Polynesians started using Mana to describe this energy, which Finding Manuland is primarily about around 600 in the Common Era. This is significant, and we'll come back to why in a bit.
Avicenna spoke of Anima Mundi. So again, there's an M-N- sound in there. So all of these terms are for this same phenomenon as I call Mana, or [what] others call the X energy or X factor. There's so many different names for this energy in human culture. It's a Fifth Force in nature, which I have for the first time in human culture detected as being also implanted in our language and in almost every sentence we speak or think. This is the second element of what the Power of Mana podcast is about. So I told you I would obey convention and tell you what Power of Mana podcast and Finding Manuland is about. So it's about Mana, it's about energy. But the second element of what the Power of Mana podcast is really about, because we cannot understand Mana or energy without understanding language. So Finding Manu Land is about a particular energy. An Indo-European vision of this energy, this Mana, which we exchange as a function of human beings.
So the clue is in the word human. It has the same sound, M-N-. I've looked into the question of how and why this M-N- sound is so immanent in almost every sentence we speak in Indo-European languages and what this might mean.
I'm going to share this journey with you. This is what Finding Manuland is about. I've been looking into why the M-N- sound is so imminent in our language for several years now. Some other people call Mana or this M-N- sound, the X energy. It has all these different names and different global cultures.
Prana, Ch’i, Woden, Qi, Ether, Ruach, Nous, Pneuma, Mungo in Africa, Zogo in Africa, Atua in Polynesia, Libido. In Power of Mana and in Finding Manuland, we're going to focus just on one global culture. And we'll look out at the world and at humanity from the standpoint of that human culture, that global culture.
And we call it Indo-European culture because over half of humanity speak a language which is part of the Indo-European language family. Over half of today's humans speak one of these. And this language, the Indo-European family of languages, was first created in southeastern Ukraine.
So Finding Manuland is about inquiring into why this M-N- sound has colonised our minds and our words, and our meanings.
And Finding Manuland is about my physical journey across the area of the world between Ireland and India, where traditionally we speak Indo-European languages. And I call this area Manuland.
This is also a metaphorical journey through time. So I began with the question, the research question in my mind: Why is it that this M-N- sound recurs in the monikers of the mythological founders of certain peoples? Why is Menua one of the founders of the Armenian people? Why is Manu the first human in Indian culture? Why is Aryaman or Sapienta Manu or Angra Manu the first spirit or the first human in Iranian culture? Why is Manannnán the first, the most preeminent pre-Christian god in Irish culture, in Celtic culture? Why is Manawydan the mythological found or overlord or monarch in ancient Welsh culture?
So I start from that point and that led me back to back all the way from 2020 when I began this journey in earnest. This began in 2020 and this led me all the way back from then to around 4,000 BCE. And in southeastern Ukraine, as I now know, in an area many of us don't know much about. I didn't know anything about it before I spent seven years in Ukraine between 2015 and 2022 as a diplomat. And to understand the Power of Mana and Finding Manuland and the immanence of this M-N- sound, it's impossible, I now see, to ignore the ultimate source of all Indo-European languages.
So M-N- is the characteristic sound and meaning in Indo-European languages. And as far as I can see, I am the first person who understands this properly in its universal meaning. Since I am standing on the shoulders of giants because I've read thousands of texts since 2020 and traveled tens of thousands of kilometres and visited many, many different sites of ancient and current Indo-European peoples and towns and villages with the M-N- sound in their moniker. In order to come to an understanding that M-N- is the characteristic sound and meaning in Indo-European languages.
But I do not expect you in the first podcast to take this on board and believe this as an article of faith. So I'm going to ask you gently in a way that I'll ask you again and again throughout Finding Manuland is just to park this idea that M-N- is the characteristic sound and meaning in Indo-European languages and then you can test the stories I'm going to recount to you over the coming months and years against this primal primary uh primary uh hypothesis or conclusion in my case but it's just a hypothesis for you.
So Finding Manuland is also about a cultural journey. Culture is what is hidden. The word in modern English called ‘occult’ captures the etymology and meaning of the cult element in culture. Note en passant, the M-N- is even in the word element.
So I'm going to teach you or help you get your eye into seeing this M-N- sound, which is in occult. Almost every sentence we speak or read or write in Indo-European languages. So the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family takes its name from Keltoi, the hidden one, a lord of death. Akin to Woden. Remember, in Germanic culture, what we call Mana is sometimes called Woden, and Odin, who is the lord of death in ancient Germanic culture, for whom our Wodanazdyeus, our Wednesday, Woden Dios, Woden God, our Wednesday is named. So Mana is in Woden and Woden is Mana.
So Woden is like Christ or Aryaman in ancient Iranian culture or Yama in ancient Indian culture or Jupiter, Deus Peter, Zeus Pater, Zeus Pater. In Roman, it's ancient Latin culture, it's Jupiter. In ancient Greek culture, you have Zeus Pater, whose name is the supreme god, the supreme deity like Woden. In Greek culture and in Indian culture, we have Diyapyata.
And all of these manifestations of a supreme God to whom we have a contract with emanates from Sky Father, who is a creation of the same ancient Ukrainians, the Yamnaya. There's that M-N- again. the Yamnaya who created the first Indo-European language between around 4,000 BCE and 2500 BCE.
So to understand the Power of Mana and the M-N- sound we need to journey through language, through space, so through Manuland, across time from 4,000 BCE until the present and into our culture and into all the many layers in our culture today and into all the many layers of our culture over time. I'm a cultural archaeologist, so I examine, there's that M-N- sound again, I examine and unpack the layers of our culture over time. So I'm speaking to you in English now, which is a Germanic language. It's part of the Germanic or Gothic branch of Indo-European languages. whose existence was discovered in the 1780s by a Welsh scholar of Persian, ancient Iranian and Sanskrit, whose name was Sir William Jones. Jones in 1780s was a judge in india and he was translating india's ancient law code the laws of Manu when he suddenly understood that no philosopher or philologer could look at the grammar roots of verbs and vocabulary in Sanskrit which is an ancient Iranian, Indian language, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Latin and Persian without concluding that the similarities in the grammar, roots of verbs and vocabulary are so intense that they could not have arisen by coincidence or borrowing. No philosopher could look at these languages without concluding that they come from a common source. So there's that M-N- amen, even in the first statement that Sir William Jones made publicly about his discovery of what we now know by the moniker Indo-European languages. So note how M-N- is in Manu, India's first human, whose laws Jones was translating, and how he uses another M-N- sound-filled word, common, to describe what today I call ancient Ukrainian, the first Indo-European language, but which some scholars call proto-Indo-European.
So in 1782, when Sir William Jones announced this discovery to the Asiatic Society in Kolkata in India, he opined that perhaps this common source no longer exists. And for over 200 years after that moment, when by looking at the grammar, the roots of verbs and the vocabulary and the structure of Sanskrit, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Latin and Persian, and we've discovered many other Indo-European languages since then. From that first moment, Sir William Jones understood that perhaps these languages all came from a common source. And my insight about this M-N- sound, my hypothesis, which I started out on this journey of Finding Manuland using a methodology which is very common in science, especially now with the advent of data analytics and machine learning where you, you look for patterns and data often using neural network algorithms. It's called hypothesis-free research.
So you gather billions of different or millions of different data points and you look for patterns in them and you form hypotheses from these patterns.
I began on this journey simply looking at a question of why is Mannus the first human founder of the Germanic people and Manu the first founder of Indian culture?
Why is there this same sound in their monikers? And that is the journey which I'll be describing to you. So all of these different linguistic cultures which we can attach to particular geographical spaces and which would have evolved over time all come from a common source language that was first spoken in southeastern Ukraine by the ancient Ukrainian community, which contemporary archaeologists use the moniker Yamnaya. Note how even in the name of the community who created the first Indo-European language, that we also have this M-N- in their moniker, Yamnaya. Now, I have detected this imminent M-N- sound in the word common, but I did not start looking out for what I now understand to be the fundamental cryptotypic signifying system in Indo-European languages, the M-N- sound. No, I began to research the question of why there were so many mythological founders of Indo-European peoples whose names contained the M-N- sound. Except I didn't even know they were Indo-European peoples then.
I was simply looking at different linguistic or mythological founders of peoples. Then I discovered the existence of Sir William Jones and of Indo-European languages and how we characterize them, and of all of the work done over the past 200 years since Jones's insight to try and uncover origins.
What is this common source? What is coincidence? What is borrowing? And what is the common source?
So these are the three options we always have when we come across these similarities in different elements of Indo-European languages and Indo-European mythological stories.
Is it borrowing? Is it coincidence? Or Is this a remnant from the common source from which the entire language family in all of its manifestations, Germanic, Celtic, Indic, Iranian, Baltic, Scandinavian, Slavic, Greek, Latin, Anatolian. Is this a remnant in our todays, in this sentence, in the sound I'm using to communicate something with you in our community? Is this a remnant of something very ancient? And the Power of Mana and Finding Manuland is about discerning what is in the language we use today to communicate with each other.
What is very ancient? And I did not know what the Yamnaya were, or this common source was, or even Indo-European languages, yet when I discovered that actually all these linguistic cultures with M-N- sounds and the monikers of their mythological founders had already, had already, and now we know this with scientific certainty since 2015, that they had already been grouped into one language family. Well, that inspired me to continue looking into why this M-N- sound is so immanent in almost every sentence we speak. Finding Manuland was born of what originally was hypothesis-free research.
I simply spotted a pattern and I wanted to understand, is this borrowing? Is it coincidence? Or is there some other reason? M-N- is also, of course, in the word human. And everything we do in Finding Manuland, we're looking at this M-N- sound as a conveyor of energy that is immanent in our communities and the interaction of us humans who comprise our community.
The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the pre-Germanic origins of the word ‘Man’ are problematic. I wondered what does problematic mean in this sense? In ancient Indian lore, the first human is called Manu. So which came first? Mannus in Germany or Hermiones in Germany or Manu? Mannus or Manu, who is first? So is India borrowing it from Germanic culture? Is Germanic culture borrowing it from Indian culture? Is it a coincidence that both of them have mythologies and the origins of their people have in them this moniker, this M-N- sound in the moniker of the mythological founders, Mannus or Manu?
So we can look at where Manu in Indic culture first appears. He, the first human sacrificer who makes a deal with Dyeus Pater, with Sky Father. He sacrifices in order for the community to live in sovereignty, in security and prosperity. So Manu first appears in the Rgveda, which is if not humanity's oldest book, one of humanity's oldest books, and it's certainly the oldest book in Indo-European culture. It's a book of songs. The Rgiveda is a book of songs. That is the foundation of Indo-European Indian culture. So there was people living in the subcontinent of India, before the ancient Ukrainian migrants, descendants, arrived in the subcontinent and established what we today see as Indian culture and Brahmanism. The Rgveda was first written down in 1100 BCE. And Mannus, the founder of Germany's ten historic tribes, Mannus first appears in writing around 50 years after the birth of Christ in a Roman writer Tacitus.
So on the face of it, we could see, oh, Germany had copied India. But this is the cliffhanger I'm going to leave you on today. So please come back for episode two of Power of Mana, and then we'll get to the bottom of which came first, Manu or Manus. Thank you for listening.
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