Yamnaya and Ancient Ukraine
Yamnaya and Ancient Ukraine
M-N- sounded Yamnaya Culture seeded the entire Indo-European culture zone with our languages, and, alas, patriarchy. EU accession day special edition.
⚡️Ancient Ukraine is where the first Indo-European language evolved.
The Yamnaya exactly around where Ruschists blew the dam (
) on the Dnieper created the first Indo-European language, religion, Indo-European patriarchal social model, industrialised use of wheeled carts, and the domesticated horse.
With these tools the Yamnaya and their descendants carried the Y chromosome R1b haplotype that is “strongly” associated with Steppe ancestry into ALL of our genes.
By 2,400 BCE almost 100% of those living on the island of Britain were of Steppe descent.
And by 1000 BCE (around the time the songs of the Rig Veda were first written down in the Vedic language) 50% of male Brahmin carried this marker of Steppe ancestry.
Donn, Ireland’s ancient pre-Christian Lord of Death’s grandfather was the monarch of Scythia (as Ancient Ukraine was known) when Donn’s story was first written down in in the cryptic Old Irish treatise known as ‘The Caldron of Poesy’ in the 8th century CE.
Today, Ukraine the originator and centre of the Indo-European cultural and linguistic zone contains the Donets, Don Hyper (Dniepr), Don Istris (Dniester) and Danube rivers that are named for “The Hidden One (Donn)”, the Lord of Death who fulfils the function of the mythological first earthly monarch to die that is the essence of ALL major Indo-European religions including Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam,… The Don river is part of Ukraine’s ancient lands and was part of modern Ukraine until taken from it by the Ruschists in the 1950s.
Last year Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4247) demonstrated using the largest data set of ancient DNA ever analysed - from Albania to Azerbaijan- that the Yamnaya were created in almost equal 50:50 measures of Levantine-Caucasian and East European Hunter Gatherer ancestry.
“All ancient Indo-European speakers can be traced back to the Yamnaya culture, whose southward expansions into the Southern Arc left a trace in the DNA of the Bronze Age people of the region. However, the link connecting the Proto-Indo-European–speaking Yamnaya with the speakers of Anatolian languages was in the highlands of West Asia, the ancestral region shared by both.
Westward and northward migrations out of the West Asian highlands split the Proto-Indo-Anatolian language into Anatolian and Indo-European branches. Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe by a fusion of newcomers and locals, admixed again as they expanded far and wide, splitting the Proto-Indo-European language into its daughter languages (Celtic (Welsh, Irish, Breton, Gaulish,…), Germanic (English, Dutch, German, Scandinavian,..), Baltic, Romance (Latin, French, Italian, Spanish), Slavic (Modern Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, …), Anatolian (all extinct), Armenian, Indo-European-Iranian (Vedic, Sanskrit, Hindi, Iranian,…) across Eurasia. Border colors represent the ancestry and locations of five source populations before the migrations (arrows) and mixture (pie charts) documented here.”
Today, Ukraine becomes a candidate for accession to the Indo-European zones most advanced emanation the European Union.
Finally back where it belongs.