First Aryans in Judea: Trope of First Self-Sacrificing Monarch

Finding Manuland X: Ancient Ukrainians journey to Kazakhstan (Sintashta) past the Mitanni Empire, and on to Judea.

Drawing of Sintashta grave with chariot in the lower chamber. Former President of Kazakhstan’s modern ‘chariot’ at a museum close to where the Sintashta Culture’s graves from ~ 1,900 BCE were discovered. These Sintashta graves excavated in the past few decades provide the first (and only) archaeological evidence of funereal ceremonies that exactly match ceremonies described in India’s oldest religious text the Rg Veda that was written down around 1,200 BCE.

So-called “Aryans” ruled some land in what would become Israel for a few centuries around 1500 BCE, as Indo-Europeans. Four centuries before the historical King David and the historical King Solomon established the first State of Israel, according to the ancient Egyptian Amarna letters¹, Indo-European monarchs’ names are found across Palestine.

“The Amarna letters show that in the early fourteenth century [BCE - before the common era] most of the important cities of Palestine and Syria were controlled by men with either Aryan or Hurrian names… Among the Aryan princes of Palestine whose doings are detailed in the Amarna letters, we find an Indaruta as lord of Achshaph: this kinglet "bears the same Indo-Aryan name as his contemporary Indrota or Indrauta of the Rig Veda." Aryan names are also attested for the princes of Megiddo (Diri-diya), Ashkelon (Widia), the Hebron area (Shuwardata), Acre (Zatatna and Surata), Damascus (Biryawaza), and other places.”²

These "Aryans" are the missing link explaining why, as American theologian Bruce Lincoln noted, the Judaic sacrificial creation myth in the Book of Enoch is dependent on the "Iranian" (Aryan) model.

It is indeed anachronistic yet defensible to call the recently excavated Sintashta Culture³ in today's Kazakhstan "Aryan" or even "Iranian."

Iran and Aryan as words and identities arose from a religious reform by Zarathustra / Zoroaster that occurred four centuries after - the historical Zoroaster / Zarathustra, if they lived at all, lived around 1,400 BCE - what we know as the Sintashta Culture⁴ had evolved into new forms.

Yet, as recent excavations of Sintashta graves have shown the origins of what we would call Iranian and Aryan cultural traits are first discernible in the Sintashta culture.

This archaeological evidence was not available to Bruce Lincoln in 1975 when he deduced the dependent relationship between the Jewish creation myth and the Iranian Indo-European creation myth.

Marija Gimbutas’s archaeological⁵ approach to linguistics found that the gradual infiltrations of Indo-Europeans over millennia in the area between India and Ireland replaced a concrete pan-European culture (in Europe west of the Don River anyhow).

The ‘Old Europeans’, as she called them, culture and language was almost completely wiped out by the Ancient Ukrainian / Indo-European migrations. Only Basque culture survived. And apart from non-Indo-European cultures like today’s Hungary, Finland and Estonia, the entirety of the European continent today in terms of its languages, religions, genetic inheritance and cultural models is the ultimate product of Ancient Ukraine. So it’s not all that surprising that the M-N- sound keeps recurring in almost every sentence we speak, if that sound and associated meanings emanated in eastern Ukraine along with the entirety of Indo-European culture.

Gimbutas, operating before the advent of the science of archaeogenetics (using analysis of ancient DNA evidence to determine the origins of people whose DNA has survived over the millennia), was the first to set out what was known as the Steppe Hypothesis.

She used her encyclopaedic knowledge gained from participating in dozens of archaeological digs from archaeological cultures’ sites across the Indo-European cultural zone to trace all the Indo-European migrations back to a common Steppe source in Ukraine, which at the time (1960s) was occupied by Muscovy and considered by most non-Ukrainians to be part of Russia.

With Indo-European infiltrations arrived a patriarchal (we see this in the male chiefly burials that replaced whole community burials as well as in the sudden disappearance of feminine deities’ idols in burials⁶) society that used domesticated horses, cattle and wheeled carts on a scale never seen before in the history of humanity.

We now know as a matter of scientific fact that all the main Indo-European language families (Celtic, Greek, Armenian, Italic (Latin, Romance), Germanic, Slavic, Indic (Iranian and Indian)) arise from a common core language (Proto-Indo-European / Ancient Ukrainian)⁷.

Now we also know, beyond all reasonable doubt, that this language was first spoken in what is today is eastern Ukraine, I propose we now refer to Proto-Indo-European as Old or Ancient Ukrainian⁸.

Indeed, it's only now in the light of the archaeological evidence from the Sintashta Culture which matches descriptions of funerary ceremonies in India's earliest texts (1,200 BCE) that we can know for certain where these "Aryan" customs evolved centuries before Zoroaster's reforms created the Ahriman / Aryaman character from whose name is derived "Aryan" and indeed "Iran."

“The military elite of the Mitanni kingdom (of Aryan descent) was present in Syria and northern Iraq in the fourteenth century BCE and probably arrived there a few generations earlier, in the sixteenth to fifteenth century BCE.”⁹

We will come back to the Indo-European Mitanni (M-N-) again - not least because their treaty with the ancient Egyptian pharaohs is the first treaty we have evidence of in world history. And the Gods invoked to guarantee the treaty is observed are also Indo-European named gods.

The names of the gods the Mitanni worshiped were Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and Nasatya, all known from the Rg Veda.

Now on this map (see red arrows on the map below) we can see how geographically close Jerusalem / Judea / Canaan and the land which is today the modern state of Israel is to the Mitanni empire.

So that as we discovered in Finding Manuland IX that around 1,400 BCE there were Indo-European named monarchs in Judea / Canaan, we can now understand how those Indo-European monarchs were probably migrants from the Sintashta lands in modern Kazakhstan, along with the Mitanni.

So when Christ was born in Judea, the Greek speakers (Greek was the lingua franca of the Aramaic, Philistine, Roman and other residents) thought God was Zeus Pater (Ζεύς πατήρ). The Romans: Jupiter. The Jews: Yahweh. An Indo-European word “Logos” was the common moniker adopted as the fusion of these different conceptions of a deity. See:

Indo-European Immanence in Early Christianity.

The contemporary currency into which these different signs in different languages (together with their meanings) is converted is the word “deity.”

*Deiwos, as we’ve seen, as an ancient Ukrainian / proto-Indo-European word stemming from day/sky/shine is the only theological word that is attested in every Indo-European language family.

There is, however, more evidence of the Indo-European inheritance in early Christianity, which complements the linguistic, archaeogenetic, archaeological (which prove the Greek, Latin, Philistine and so-called “Aryan” determined environment which co-existed with the Judaic in the land of Judea at the time of Christ) and the linguistic evidence: what Comparative Mythology / Theology tells us:

The core trope in Christianity is of a human sacrificing themself, so that those who live (and die) after them can be saved. Christ is the first Christian to die, just as Yamá¹⁰ (known as Aryaman or Yima in Persia - Ymir’s son Odin in Germanic cultures) was the first Indian man to sacrifice himself to become Lord of Death, the Dead, and the Kingdom of the Dead.

This same structure is present in other Indo-European religions. In pre-Christian Indo-European Irish religion Donn is cognate with the Vedic Yamá, "Twin" (Indo-European *Yemós), according to a consensus among some of the greatest scholars of the Celtic languages and religion / mythology that have ever lived, including Kuno Meyer, John Carey, J.P. Mallory, Brinsley and Alwyn Rees, Georges Dumèzil, Jan Puhvel, Bruce Lincoln and Myles Dillon.

“Donn, who is described as 'king' of the Sons of Míl, may then be compared with Yamá himself, 'king of the Fathers', 'the first of men that died, the first that departed to the other world… the gatherer of mankind'. 'Yamá chose death, and found out the path for many, and he gives the souls of the dead a resting place.”¹¹

Donn, according to Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland" that was first written down around 1,100 CE long before the existence of Indo-European languages or their origins in Ancient Ukraine / Scythia was known as a scientific fact), was the grandson of the king of Scythia (modern day Ukraine).

Here are some excerpts from an English colonialist’s repetition of some of the key moments in the Book of Invasions (in an 1821 text whose purpose was to denigrate Celtic culture.

Nevertheless it serves our purpose here to reprint the accurate summation Wood gives of Scythia / Ancient Ukraine’s links to Ireland’s origin myth):

Note the mention of the character Eireamhón in the text above? Eireamhón is the same character we met elsewhere Érimón who was the first Gaelic / Indo-European high king of all Ireland.

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Some philologists believe Érimón and Zarathustra’s mythological Aryaman character who gives their name to Iran are cognates¹². Georges Dumèzil retracted his initial view on this matter¹³. However, the idea remains seductive, on the basis of the coincidence of the similar sound between the two names, that they both are mythological founders of two separate great Indo-European cultures, the inclusion of the M-N- sound in their respective names, and the fact that many of the great Indo-European cultural traditions’ founders share the same M-N- laden moniker.

As Donn was arriving to Ireland, just after making the following declaration he was drowned, and became Ireland’s Lord of Death¹⁴.

'Now,’ he cries, ‘I will put whatever there is in Ireland under the edge of spear and sword.’ And a new wind seizes upon his ship, driving it upon the shoals so that he is drowned, and is buried on the island that comes to be called Tech Duinn, the House of Donn...in other sources, we are told that all of the dead – or at least all of the Irish dead – go to the House of Donn; and in one early poem it is said that all who go there are Donn’s own descendants¹⁵.

In the Scandinavian offshoot of Indo-European Germanic culture’s foundation myth Odin, for whom our Wednesday ("... Tacitus called the primary god Mercury, a name associated with the German Wodanaz or Wodan / Wotan (related to the Anglo-Saxon battle god Woden and later the Norse Odin )— thus the Latin Mercurii dies, the Germanic Wodaniztag, and the English Wednesday..."¹⁶) is named sacrifices himself too.¹⁷

Jan Puhvel, a preeminent Indo-European scholar, elaborates on Odin's sacrifice:

In the Norse myth the "giant" Ymir (< Proto-Germanic *Yumiyáz< Indo-European *Ym(mi)yós, "Twin") is slaughtered by the gods (Odin and his brothers) and the parts are used to fashion the world¹⁸.

Likewise, in the Indo-European Roman tradition, twins Romulus and Remus were sacrificed at the beginning of their culture. Puhvel suggested Remus might well originally have been called *Iemos and since:

"the initial sequence *yem- has been eliminated from the Latin phonetic pattern. By the same token, I assume that the mythical name *Iemos (= Vedic Yamá, Avestan Yima) was changed to Remus by attraction to the name Roma, perhaps by alliterative.”¹⁹

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1. “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-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

2. See page 59 of 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

3. “…the rites performed at the Sintashta burial ground (in the southern Ural region, northeast of Magnitogorsk) had a pronounced Indo-Iranian character. The tribes that used this and related burial grounds from the eighteenth to the sixteenth century BCE carried out both individual and group interments. The wooden burial cover was held up by wooden posts; the most ancient of Indian scriptures, the Ṛg Veda, makes reference to a similar practice…The sacrifice of animals is reminiscent of another ancient Indian sacrificial custom, the Agnicayana. The Sintashta burial ground reflects a stage of ancient Indian beliefs earlier than that found in the Ṛg Veda. Moreover, elements of the funeral rites have parallels to those in a wider area…” in Litvinskii, B (2005) “Prehistoric Religions: The Eurasian Steppes and Inner Asia,” Encyclopedia of Religion, 11, pp. 7382–7388.

4. See footnote 1.

5. Gimbutas, Marija. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500– 3500 B.C.: Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley, 1982.

6. See footnote above.

7. See for example screenshot above from Kloekhorst A. Proto-Indo-Anatolian, the “Anatolian Split” and the “Anatolian Trek”: A Comparative Linguistic Perspective. In:Kristiansen K, Kroonen G, Willerslev E, eds. The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press; 2023:42-60.

8. Mallory, J. P, and Adams, D. Q. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006

9. Lubotsky A. Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Wagon Terminology and the Date of the Indo-Iranian Split. In: Kristiansen K, Kroonen G, Willerslev E, eds. The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press; 2023:257-262.

10. The story of Yama is told first in the “Ṛg Veda dating from between c.1700 bce and c.1200–1000 bce…were first put into an orally transmitted saṃhitā collection, arranged into ten maṇḍalas, or ‘books’, possibly around 1200 bce…”https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198610250.001.0001/acref-9780198610250-e-2083?rskey=QG7Wjx&result=3

11. Rees, Alwyn D, and Rees, B. R. Celtic Heritage : Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Print.

12. Rees, Alwyn D., and B. R. Rees. Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. pp. 108

13. Dumézil, Georges. L’idéologie tripartie des Indo-Européens. Bruxelles (Berchem): Latomus, 1958. pp. 94

14. Donn: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-1542?rskey=8MXt33&result=3

15. John Carey “The Voice of Amairgen, and Ireland's Myth of Itself.” In private correspondence Professor Carey (http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A007/jcarey) confirmed Rees brothers’ (as well as Bruce Lincoln, Myles Dillon and Kuno Meyer’s) view that Yama and Donn are cognates.

16. See “German Mythology” in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195156690.001.0001/acref-9780195156690-e-605?rskey=Wjxz8S&result=1)

17. See “Germanic Divinities in Weekday Names,” Strutynski, Udo in Journal of Indo-European Studies 3, 1975, pp. 363–384

18. Odin:https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195156690.001.0001/acref-9780195156690-e-1171?rskey=P0GlOr&result=3

19. Puhvel, Jaan. "Remus Et Frater." History of Religions 15.2 (1975): 146-57.

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