The first question is about the language or languages spoken in Anatolia before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans who will only come and mostly go through two or three millennia later when Çatalhöyük will no longer be an active center. Agriculture and herding are very important if not dominant in this period when the population stops roaming around and when it establishes sedentary dense agglomerate cities. All the more so with the spiritual center of Gobekli Tepe which is about one millennium older. What came first? Spirituality and spiritual centers, or sedentarism and agriculture? But this sedentarism and agriculture developed in Anatolia long before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. We need to see that the 8 or 10 millennia of the peak of the Ice Age were a long period when Homo Sapiens had to learn how to exploit nature intensively to survive the harsh conditions of that time. The second problem is the status of women in a society where the birth of 10 to 12 or even 13 children per woman is essential for the community, hence the species, to survive and survival was a central instinct in Paleolithic and Neolithic Hominin communities deeply impressed by the death rate of children from birth to six years of age. How was this possible and how these children were taken care of during the 18 months of breastfeeding and the subsequent 3-4 years of dependency? And that brought up an average of three children per woman able to live a full 29-year-long procreative life. What was the training and education the 6-13-year-old young pre-puberty children received and from whom? Can we seriously consider that a community then was a simple collection if not a juxtaposition of autonomous households? Who and what regulated the distribution of fields, the management of herds, the management of resources, the production of tools, weapons, cloth, and clothing, the construction of houses, and the providing of fuel, not to mention the management of hunting that can only be collective?
Keywords: linguistic phylogeny; demographic development; agriculture; herding; history; social rights; spirituality.
The Gauls are Celtic people and Celtic languages still exist and are spoken in Europe, particularly in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Spain, and a few other places. It is an Indo-European language that evolved from the language level of development (third articulation) the people who migrated out of Black Africa around 40,000 BCE had reached. They stayed on the Iranian plateau till after the Ice Age and started migrating from there around 12-10,000 BCE. They reached Western Europe circa 5,000 BCE. But these Indo-Europeans, as differentiated from their direct cousins the Indo-Aryans, had developed some kind of common language, Indo-European or close to it, and they left behind them in their migration or migrations some people and linguistic communication on Indo-European languages that developed in various regions or territories. Contacts and various alliances brought Indo-Europeans in collaboration and at times conflict, with many agglutinative languages of the Turkic older family established in Europe since 50,000 BCE. They took various routes to get to Europe where several Old European Turkic languages have survived till today like Saami, Finnish, Estonian, and a few more in northern Russia, plus the Hungarians who arrived where they still are around the 7th century AD. And we must keep in mind Basque, of course. These contacts, at times conflicts, of one-fourth of the final population of Europe after the Indo-European migration, meaning the Indo-Europeans only represented 25% of the European population a couple of thousand years BCE, and they still only represent 25% of our DNA, with all the Old European Turkic populations (75% of the final European population and our DNA today) produced a differentiation in various groups of European languages. This implied a diversification of Indo-European if there ever was only one matrix, which I doubt, in big families: Celtic languages; Romance languages; Germanic Languages which include Scandinavian languages, except the agglutinative Saami, Finnish, and Estonian that are agglutinative; Slav languages (including Polish); and Baltic Languages including Lithuanian and Latvian. One last thing. The Celts have had a writing system based on an alphabet of 20 letters for a good 3,000 years. the Ogham writing system that was preserved and slightly expanded by the Benedictines in the 5th century AD in Ireland. The letters of this alphabet are the first sounds of twenty trees that only existed all of them together within a limited territory in Germany, in the Rhine valley, around where Stuttgart and Frankfurt now stand. Did the Gauls use this alphabet? Have a good trip back to our distant roots that too many people have forgotten.
Sujay the indo europeanization-of_the_world_from a central asian homelandSujay Rao Mandavilli
In this paper, we bring together the concepts put forth in our previous papers and throw new light on how the Indo-Europeanization of the world may have happened from the conventional Central Asian homeland and explain the same using maps and diagrams. We also propose the ‘Ten modes of linguistic transformations associated with Human migrations.’ With this, the significance of the proposed term ‘Base Indo-European’ in lieu of the old term ‘Proto Indo-European’ will become abundantly clear to most readers. The approaches presented in this paper are somewhat superior to existing approaches, and as such are expected to replace them in the longer run. Detailed maps and notes demonstrating and explaining how linguistic transformations might have taken place in South Asia are available in this paper as understood from our previous research papers, and scholars from other parts of the world are invited to develop similar paradigms with regard to their home countries as far as the available data or evidence will allow them. This will help piece together a gigantic jig-saw puzzle, and lead to a revolution of sorts in the field, leading to a ripple-effect that will strongly impact several other related fields of study as well. We also re-emphasize our epigrammatic catch-phrases ‘The Globalization of Science’ and ‘Scientific Progress at the Speed of Light’, and attempt to show how the former will inexorably lead to the latter. This is done in a respectable level of detail, as zany and theoretical concepts gain respectability only if corroborated with real-world data from across the world. The end-result will be a transformation and a revolution in human knowledge, with inevitable cascading changes in cultural and social paradigms and relationships across nationalities and cultures, and rich rewards for scholars and students of Indo-European studies across the world.
When and where was Rigveda composed? How is it related to thee vast Harappan archaeological tradition. These are quintessential questions on ancient Indian history which do not have direct answers. I examine a large body of evidence to arrive at plausible answers.
The Gauls are Celtic people and Celtic languages still exist and are spoken in Europe, particularly in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Spain, and a few other places. It is an Indo-European language that evolved from the language level of development (third articulation) the people who migrated out of Black Africa around 40,000 BCE had reached. They stayed on the Iranian plateau till after the Ice Age and started migrating from there around 12-10,000 BCE. They reached Western Europe circa 5,000 BCE. But these Indo-Europeans, as differentiated from their direct cousins the Indo-Aryans, had developed some kind of common language, Indo-European or close to it, and they left behind them in their migration or migrations some people and linguistic communication on Indo-European languages that developed in various regions or territories. Contacts and various alliances brought Indo-Europeans in collaboration and at times conflict, with many agglutinative languages of the Turkic older family established in Europe since 50,000 BCE. They took various routes to get to Europe where several Old European Turkic languages have survived till today like Saami, Finnish, Estonian, and a few more in northern Russia, plus the Hungarians who arrived where they still are around the 7th century AD. And we must keep in mind Basque, of course. These contacts, at times conflicts, of one-fourth of the final population of Europe after the Indo-European migration, meaning the Indo-Europeans only represented 25% of the European population a couple of thousand years BCE, and they still only represent 25% of our DNA, with all the Old European Turkic populations (75% of the final European population and our DNA today) produced a differentiation in various groups of European languages. This implied a diversification of Indo-European if there ever was only one matrix, which I doubt, in big families: Celtic languages; Romance languages; Germanic Languages which include Scandinavian languages, except the agglutinative Saami, Finnish, and Estonian that are agglutinative; Slav languages (including Polish); and Baltic Languages including Lithuanian and Latvian. One last thing. The Celts have had a writing system based on an alphabet of 20 letters for a good 3,000 years. the Ogham writing system that was preserved and slightly expanded by the Benedictines in the 5th century AD in Ireland. The letters of this alphabet are the first sounds of twenty trees that only existed all of them together within a limited territory in Germany, in the Rhine valley, around where Stuttgart and Frankfurt now stand. Did the Gauls use this alphabet? Have a good trip back to our distant roots that too many people have forgotten.
Sujay the indo europeanization-of_the_world_from a central asian homelandSujay Rao Mandavilli
In this paper, we bring together the concepts put forth in our previous papers and throw new light on how the Indo-Europeanization of the world may have happened from the conventional Central Asian homeland and explain the same using maps and diagrams. We also propose the ‘Ten modes of linguistic transformations associated with Human migrations.’ With this, the significance of the proposed term ‘Base Indo-European’ in lieu of the old term ‘Proto Indo-European’ will become abundantly clear to most readers. The approaches presented in this paper are somewhat superior to existing approaches, and as such are expected to replace them in the longer run. Detailed maps and notes demonstrating and explaining how linguistic transformations might have taken place in South Asia are available in this paper as understood from our previous research papers, and scholars from other parts of the world are invited to develop similar paradigms with regard to their home countries as far as the available data or evidence will allow them. This will help piece together a gigantic jig-saw puzzle, and lead to a revolution of sorts in the field, leading to a ripple-effect that will strongly impact several other related fields of study as well. We also re-emphasize our epigrammatic catch-phrases ‘The Globalization of Science’ and ‘Scientific Progress at the Speed of Light’, and attempt to show how the former will inexorably lead to the latter. This is done in a respectable level of detail, as zany and theoretical concepts gain respectability only if corroborated with real-world data from across the world. The end-result will be a transformation and a revolution in human knowledge, with inevitable cascading changes in cultural and social paradigms and relationships across nationalities and cultures, and rich rewards for scholars and students of Indo-European studies across the world.
When and where was Rigveda composed? How is it related to thee vast Harappan archaeological tradition. These are quintessential questions on ancient Indian history which do not have direct answers. I examine a large body of evidence to arrive at plausible answers.
A whole lifetime research to simply find where Homo Sapiens came from and thus what language Cro-Magnon spoke. This research does not cover the two migrations to Northern AND southern America. That will come later and will give nightmares to Clovis, this Franken King who broke a ritual vase in Soissons and gave his name to the Clovis Theory: all Homo Sapiens in America came from Siberia and they arrived after 15,000 years ago or so. It has been proved wrong in Canada and Alaska but they are not ready to change their minds and they refuse to consider a migration to South America, to Monte Verde before the Peak of the Ice Age (19,000 BCE). These researchers always consider what they think is the supreme trump-card of their game of bluffing poker.
Part One of this paper provides a case for rejecting the Autochthonous Aryan theory and
proposes an alternative to the Aryan Migration Theory, i.e. it examines why the genetic input from
Central Asia may have been extremely small and how the Spread of IE language and culture in
India might have occurred in trickle in scenarios i.e. when movements of IE speakers were small. It
suggests that the IE speakers first migrated into and settled in the northernmost tip of the subcontinent,
trickled into the plains due to climatic changes in the northernmost tip of India,
synthesized with the Harappans, fused with them and got the upper hand when the transfers of
population from North-West India into the Gangetic plains took place around 1900 BC, and then
desynthesized with whatever was left of the Harappan civilization till it vanished around 1400 BC.
Cultural contacts with West Asia and then with South India would complete the process of Spread
of IE language and culture in India. This paper suggests the need for delinking race with spoken
and written forms of language and culture while studying the identity of the Harappans, analyzes
the role of internal and external migrations in shaping Indian culture and questions some other longheld
assumptions about Post-Harappan India. This paper also suggests that an integrated
framework be developed for studying Ancient India. This paper stresses the need for adopting via
media approaches for resolving the Aryan issue and comes up with a new hypothesis which the
author hopes will be taken up for a debate and discussion. This also proposes a concurrent dating
paradigm and a new heuristic framework which the Author hopes will be useful both for future
cultural studies of Ancient India and for conducting further archeological excavations, and then uses
this framework to make his own inferences about the cultural and religious history of the subcontinent.
The methodology the author adopts is to take the Aryan Migration Theory (1500 BC) as a
base and work backwards to arrive at a fresh set of conclusions. Part Two contains all the major
conclusions such as methods to derive and reconstruct the languages of the IVC, the origin of IA
languages etc.
Welcome to the Western Original Sin & Fare Thee Well in HellEditions La Dondaine
I just published Welcome to the Western Original Sin & Fare Thee Well in Hell. James Harrod is a misguided white supremacist who thinks he is the archangel Gabriel. He uses a fiery keyboard on his computer to reject all those who do not speak Turkic languages, Indo-European languages, and Indo-Aryan languages. And he rejects the people who live in sub-Saharan Africa, you know all these black people, back to the dying hell of their jungles. He is one step away from rejecting all Asian people who speak any sort of isolating language, and he remains neutral about it, meaning he is guilty by proxy.
Amarigna & Tigrigna Qal Roots of Hindi LanguageLegesse Allyn
The Not So Distant African Roots of the Hindi Language
Authored by Legesse Allyn
https://www.amazon.com/Amarigna-Tigrigna-Roots-Hindi-Language/dp/153340335X
List Price: $14.95
8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Black & White on White paper
94 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1533403353
ISBN-10: 153340335X
BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology
"The Hindi language is rooted in the east African, ancient Egyptian dual languages of Amarigna and Tigrigna. This book provides a small sampling of the not so distant African linguistic roots of the words in Hindi."
http://www.amazon.com/Amarigna-Tigrigna-Roots-Hindi-Language/dp/153340335X
Bernard Marr just published Generative AI in Practice (1), which brings together the matter he has been dealing with on his blogs: Artificial Intelligence from the simple practical point of view of a user along with a systematic question about what can the consequences be for the various jobs these users have? But the book is always schematic when it shows the negative consequences will not compare with the positive consequences, though bad or good, they will require a lot of changes in the way we work, the jobs available, and the mindset of the users.
Bernard Marr does not insist so much on the negative sides of GenAI, but he does list them, particularly all sorts of cheating by using GenAI to replace one’s own writing work, all types of misuse of the intellectual property of such mechanical production of text, images, videos or any other copyrightable product that the user presents as his/her own.
But he does not enter the details, and thus he remains superficial. The problems of misinformation, hallucination, and bias are a lot less important, even with deep fakes, though Bernard Marr remains superficial on such dangers. He considers these GenAI products more like patentable or trademark problems, which they are but that’s the only side or point of view of the businesses using this technology.
At the present moment, lawsuits are emerging on the Intellectual Property front with people getting ready to go to court for unauthorized use of protected data and items within LLMs, or the use of voices, slightly synthesized (hence plagiarism and plain theft) as commercial products sold with an unshared profit. I will concentrate, in the second part, on chapter 10 on education to enter some details I know from the practice of self-learning at many levels of the educational system. (2)
Les Arts en Balade in Clermont-Ferrand this month of May 2024 were a success because they expanded to two cities outside Clermont conurbation, Thiers and Vic-Le-Comte, there were many people everywhere, there were 240+ artists or groups in about the same number of places: public spaces dedicated for such events, supportive professional institutions like the Order of Lawyers and the Order of Architects, many stores of all sorts opening their businesses to one or two artists, and also many apartments in the city transformed into workshops where artists could present their work. They were also a success because they lasted four days and were just as dense on Friday, May 17 as on the three following days up to Monday, May 20. Note the case of Michelin who opened their conference rooms and galleries in their Headquarters to three artists with a very good service guiding the visitors and making feel, equally at ease, the audience and the works of art, even from some green challenge declared to be ecological. Thank God we are not in the Orsay Museum of Le Louvre
This complete covering of the event I was able to work on, plus some suggestions for further development and opening to other arts than only plastic arts inside exhibition rooms or halls and on portable media. The opinions and tips are just mine of course, not those of an Artificial Intelligence requested to caress the wild artistic animals of this event smoothly and avoid ruffling their hairs. I apologize if some find it slightly rough at times. Arts are often harsh, and thus critics have to be harsh too. To critically cover an art exhibition is a love affair, and as they say in French, we could pretend that good lovers are also good at chastising those they love.
Les Arts en Balade à Clermont-Ferrand ce mois de mai 2024 ont été un succès car ils se sont étendus à deux villes hors agglomération clermontoise, Thiers et Vic-Le-Comte, il y avait beaucoup de monde partout, il y avait plus de 240 artistes ou groupes dans environ le même nombre de lieux : des espaces publics dédiés à de tels événements, des institutions professionnelles exprimant ainsi leur soutien comme l'Ordre des Avocats et l'Ordre des Architectes, de nombreux magasins en tout genre ouvrant leurs commerces à un ou deux artistes, mais aussi de nombreux appartements en ville transformés en ateliers. où les artistes pouvaient présenter leur travail. Ils furent également une réussite car ils durèrent quatre jours et furent tout aussi denses le vendredi 17 mai que les trois jours suivants jusqu'au lundi 20 mai. A noter le cas de Michelin qui a ouvert ses salles de conférence et d’exposition à son siège social à trois artistes avec un très bon service guidant les visiteurs et faisant sentir, également à l'aise, le public et les œuvres d'art, même de quelque défi vert déclaré écologique. Dieu merci, nous ne sommes pas au Musée d'Orsay ou du Louvre
Ce reportage complet de l'événement sur lequel j'ai pu travailler, ainsi que ...
A whole lifetime research to simply find where Homo Sapiens came from and thus what language Cro-Magnon spoke. This research does not cover the two migrations to Northern AND southern America. That will come later and will give nightmares to Clovis, this Franken King who broke a ritual vase in Soissons and gave his name to the Clovis Theory: all Homo Sapiens in America came from Siberia and they arrived after 15,000 years ago or so. It has been proved wrong in Canada and Alaska but they are not ready to change their minds and they refuse to consider a migration to South America, to Monte Verde before the Peak of the Ice Age (19,000 BCE). These researchers always consider what they think is the supreme trump-card of their game of bluffing poker.
Part One of this paper provides a case for rejecting the Autochthonous Aryan theory and
proposes an alternative to the Aryan Migration Theory, i.e. it examines why the genetic input from
Central Asia may have been extremely small and how the Spread of IE language and culture in
India might have occurred in trickle in scenarios i.e. when movements of IE speakers were small. It
suggests that the IE speakers first migrated into and settled in the northernmost tip of the subcontinent,
trickled into the plains due to climatic changes in the northernmost tip of India,
synthesized with the Harappans, fused with them and got the upper hand when the transfers of
population from North-West India into the Gangetic plains took place around 1900 BC, and then
desynthesized with whatever was left of the Harappan civilization till it vanished around 1400 BC.
Cultural contacts with West Asia and then with South India would complete the process of Spread
of IE language and culture in India. This paper suggests the need for delinking race with spoken
and written forms of language and culture while studying the identity of the Harappans, analyzes
the role of internal and external migrations in shaping Indian culture and questions some other longheld
assumptions about Post-Harappan India. This paper also suggests that an integrated
framework be developed for studying Ancient India. This paper stresses the need for adopting via
media approaches for resolving the Aryan issue and comes up with a new hypothesis which the
author hopes will be taken up for a debate and discussion. This also proposes a concurrent dating
paradigm and a new heuristic framework which the Author hopes will be useful both for future
cultural studies of Ancient India and for conducting further archeological excavations, and then uses
this framework to make his own inferences about the cultural and religious history of the subcontinent.
The methodology the author adopts is to take the Aryan Migration Theory (1500 BC) as a
base and work backwards to arrive at a fresh set of conclusions. Part Two contains all the major
conclusions such as methods to derive and reconstruct the languages of the IVC, the origin of IA
languages etc.
Welcome to the Western Original Sin & Fare Thee Well in HellEditions La Dondaine
I just published Welcome to the Western Original Sin & Fare Thee Well in Hell. James Harrod is a misguided white supremacist who thinks he is the archangel Gabriel. He uses a fiery keyboard on his computer to reject all those who do not speak Turkic languages, Indo-European languages, and Indo-Aryan languages. And he rejects the people who live in sub-Saharan Africa, you know all these black people, back to the dying hell of their jungles. He is one step away from rejecting all Asian people who speak any sort of isolating language, and he remains neutral about it, meaning he is guilty by proxy.
Amarigna & Tigrigna Qal Roots of Hindi LanguageLegesse Allyn
The Not So Distant African Roots of the Hindi Language
Authored by Legesse Allyn
https://www.amazon.com/Amarigna-Tigrigna-Roots-Hindi-Language/dp/153340335X
List Price: $14.95
8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Black & White on White paper
94 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1533403353
ISBN-10: 153340335X
BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology
"The Hindi language is rooted in the east African, ancient Egyptian dual languages of Amarigna and Tigrigna. This book provides a small sampling of the not so distant African linguistic roots of the words in Hindi."
http://www.amazon.com/Amarigna-Tigrigna-Roots-Hindi-Language/dp/153340335X
Bernard Marr just published Generative AI in Practice (1), which brings together the matter he has been dealing with on his blogs: Artificial Intelligence from the simple practical point of view of a user along with a systematic question about what can the consequences be for the various jobs these users have? But the book is always schematic when it shows the negative consequences will not compare with the positive consequences, though bad or good, they will require a lot of changes in the way we work, the jobs available, and the mindset of the users.
Bernard Marr does not insist so much on the negative sides of GenAI, but he does list them, particularly all sorts of cheating by using GenAI to replace one’s own writing work, all types of misuse of the intellectual property of such mechanical production of text, images, videos or any other copyrightable product that the user presents as his/her own.
But he does not enter the details, and thus he remains superficial. The problems of misinformation, hallucination, and bias are a lot less important, even with deep fakes, though Bernard Marr remains superficial on such dangers. He considers these GenAI products more like patentable or trademark problems, which they are but that’s the only side or point of view of the businesses using this technology.
At the present moment, lawsuits are emerging on the Intellectual Property front with people getting ready to go to court for unauthorized use of protected data and items within LLMs, or the use of voices, slightly synthesized (hence plagiarism and plain theft) as commercial products sold with an unshared profit. I will concentrate, in the second part, on chapter 10 on education to enter some details I know from the practice of self-learning at many levels of the educational system. (2)
Les Arts en Balade in Clermont-Ferrand this month of May 2024 were a success because they expanded to two cities outside Clermont conurbation, Thiers and Vic-Le-Comte, there were many people everywhere, there were 240+ artists or groups in about the same number of places: public spaces dedicated for such events, supportive professional institutions like the Order of Lawyers and the Order of Architects, many stores of all sorts opening their businesses to one or two artists, and also many apartments in the city transformed into workshops where artists could present their work. They were also a success because they lasted four days and were just as dense on Friday, May 17 as on the three following days up to Monday, May 20. Note the case of Michelin who opened their conference rooms and galleries in their Headquarters to three artists with a very good service guiding the visitors and making feel, equally at ease, the audience and the works of art, even from some green challenge declared to be ecological. Thank God we are not in the Orsay Museum of Le Louvre
This complete covering of the event I was able to work on, plus some suggestions for further development and opening to other arts than only plastic arts inside exhibition rooms or halls and on portable media. The opinions and tips are just mine of course, not those of an Artificial Intelligence requested to caress the wild artistic animals of this event smoothly and avoid ruffling their hairs. I apologize if some find it slightly rough at times. Arts are often harsh, and thus critics have to be harsh too. To critically cover an art exhibition is a love affair, and as they say in French, we could pretend that good lovers are also good at chastising those they love.
Les Arts en Balade à Clermont-Ferrand ce mois de mai 2024 ont été un succès car ils se sont étendus à deux villes hors agglomération clermontoise, Thiers et Vic-Le-Comte, il y avait beaucoup de monde partout, il y avait plus de 240 artistes ou groupes dans environ le même nombre de lieux : des espaces publics dédiés à de tels événements, des institutions professionnelles exprimant ainsi leur soutien comme l'Ordre des Avocats et l'Ordre des Architectes, de nombreux magasins en tout genre ouvrant leurs commerces à un ou deux artistes, mais aussi de nombreux appartements en ville transformés en ateliers. où les artistes pouvaient présenter leur travail. Ils furent également une réussite car ils durèrent quatre jours et furent tout aussi denses le vendredi 17 mai que les trois jours suivants jusqu'au lundi 20 mai. A noter le cas de Michelin qui a ouvert ses salles de conférence et d’exposition à son siège social à trois artistes avec un très bon service guidant les visiteurs et faisant sentir, également à l'aise, le public et les œuvres d'art, même de quelque défi vert déclaré écologique. Dieu merci, nous ne sommes pas au Musée d'Orsay ou du Louvre
Ce reportage complet de l'événement sur lequel j'ai pu travailler, ainsi que ...
A novel of political fiction that does not reach science-fiction but wants to tell us a lot about the modern world and what the choices are for us in this decaying future. The pattern, the Gestalt of this book seems to be that no matter what humans try to do, good or bad, progressive or reactionary, democratic or dictatorial, there is no hope and no future for those initiatives. Any attempt at changing the decaying world we live in is doomed to be a failure.
What is history? The production of what happens in our world, in fact, in the cosmos, and no human individual, no human crowd, no human anything can control or change the course of such events. If by any chance we want to understand what makes history, we have to consider billions, maybe trillions of parameters in the cosmos and we, the human dwarves we are, do not even control half a dozen of them and our vanity makes us believe we can command the cosmos because we want to be gods. In the old days and in other civilizations than the Western denied Bible, they were humble enough to give this power to a God that was not of the human species.
Here Salman Rushdie follows a witch bewitched by a goddess who pretends she can create a whole empire from a bag, or rather a sack of seeds, and this leads to a total and pitiful defeat and absolute termination of the attempt, but it means Salman Rushdie is predicting that all the positive elements his witch tries, religious tolerance, education for boys and girls equally, women’s rights, gender-friendly policies, peace and coexistence, and finally freedom of expression are all doomed to fail and crumble as soon as they reach some height. In other words, his novel and his vision are the rewriting of the Babel Tower myth.
Sorry boys and girls, no future for any progressive dream, just as much as for any regressive nightmare. Life and history are neither a dream nor a nightmare. They are nothing but cosmic determinism governed by the cosmos itself, and we can be happy with the fact our world is not in a black hole. But after all, maybe that’s the destiny and fate of humanity, to end up in a bottomless black hole.
This series is very well done, suspenseful, at least as much as possible, twisted and distorted like any crime series should be but unluckily it is biased. It states to anyone who wants to listen that crime has roots in only one thing: family dysfunctioning and nothing else. The fact that society leads some people who do not fit in the standard mold to rebellion, frustration and violence by being biased against them and bullying them all the time and if they want to have contacts with people, they have to go down on their knees and beg for a favor.
That’s too bad because the cases in this rural north Wales area deserve a lot better, and probably, a more open vision of crime in this community.
LA CHAISE-DIEU MÉDIÉVALE & LA RÉVOLUTION BÉNÉDICTINE--MEDIEVAL LA CHAISE-DIEU...Editions La Dondaine
On July 13, 2024, at La Chaise-Dieu, the European Network of Casadean Sites will present a public conference on the topic of the Benedictine Revolution in Livradois-Forez, led by the La Chaise-Dieu Abbaye, starting a bit earlier with the religious reform brought up by Charlemagne in the 9th century. The Abbaye was founded less than 200 years later. The conference will focus the discussion – and it has to be a discussion – on the consequences of the Carolingian religious reform, the agricultural revolution with the invention of the horse collar and the management of the land, the rotation of crops, cultivation, and fertilization. Then the proto-industrial revolution that will bring five types of watermills for grain, oil, tan, hemp (fiber and cloth), and slightly later paper. This will make Livradois-Forez an essential region producing hemp cables and hemp cloth for ships. The first result was 75 days without any work in the year, no work before and after morning and evening angelus, and a pause with midday angelus. The second result was better food and demographical expansion, up to the end of the 13th century.
Then things became darker. Overpopulation brought unrest and all sorts of contests and conflicts at the religious level itself (Crusades in the Middle East, but also against the Cathars in France. Then in 1346, the Black Death, a pandemic in Europe of the bubonic plague, caused a tremendous level of deaths. Then, the One Hundred Years War started in 1337. The resilience of the population enabled Europe in general to go through, and around 1450 the printing press was developed by Gutenberg enabling the printing of books for the highly-needed university training of great numbers of people to bring Europe back on its feet. The Renaissance was the result of this period, a tremendously positive and creative period, and at the same time, a highly-disturbed era with The Reformation, and the religious wars that concerned all countries at a time when nationalism was emerging.
Two speakers-debaters will present the five or six centuries concerned as fast as possible to let the audience debate questions like:
1- The influence and impact of Charlemagne’s religious reform.
2- The feudal system: land ownership and serfdom.
3- The role of technology to produce energy, replace human work, and develop new products.
4- Religious tensions with Avignon and Rome conformist Popes.
5- The role of The Inquisition and religious justice.
6- The fate of the cable industry when Omerin In Ambert is number one in Europe or the world for various high-security and high-technicity cables.
7- The culture: architecture, music, painting, carving, theater, oratorio and opera, literature.
It will take place at LA CHAISE-DIEU – AUDITORIUM GEORGES CZIFFRA
SAMEDI 13 JUILLET 2024 – 14-17 HEURES 30.
The two main speakers so far are Dr Jacques COULARDEAU (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and PhD Graduate Student Clément GOMY (Université Clermont Auvergne
Xavier Rouard searches and researches the linguistic world, scientific research of course, for the origin, the cradle, the homeland, or the motherland, of Indo-European. He is not the only one in the world, but he goes against practically all the others by positioning this linguistic nursery in Central Asia based on a Eurasian or trans-Eurasian language or languages. But precisely Eurasian languages only came into existence from the moment when syntactic-analytic Indo-Iranian languages left the Iranian plateau where they had stationed themselves when they arrived from Black Africa, some 40,000 years ago, or BCE, not much difference here. They had to go through the Ice Age first and finally get on the move after this climate event probably around 15,000 BCE, some east to the southern Asian continent, with Pakistan and India, others west down into Mesopotamia and from there to Europe. These people, on both side, encountered people who spoke other languages, Turkic agglutinative languages, and isolating Sino-Tibetan languages, mostly. These languages had integrated the Denisovans and their own language(s). Thes encountered people were hybrid Homo Sapiens with a varying proportion of Denisovan DNA in Central Asia, and the same in Mesopotamia with a varying proportion od Neanderthalensis DNA. When they reached Europe, the population was essentially of Turkic language and origin with a varying level of hybridization with European Homo Neanderthalensis. It is such encounters that generated or engendered the various Indo-European or Indo-Aryan languages
My approach is phylogenetic and thus it is absolutely impossible for me not to take into consideration the migrations and geographic, hence social, cultural and linguistic movements of these populations. That’s the basic principle of Joseph Greenberg who considered that all these migrations had only one matrix or melting pot that produced the emergence of human articulated language on the basis of what these emerging Homo Sapiens inherited from the other Hominins from which they were descending.
But Joseph Greenberg and his disciples encountered a problem: in all language you should find a certain number of words whose “roots” are universal and stable in meaning. These are the roots coming from Black Africa before any migration out of Black Africa. The problem is then that it does not enable any topology of languages. So, they, Greenberg and his disciples, tried to introduce “grammatical” or “syntactic” words, but even so it does go that far.
To get somewhere you have to ask the question about the phylogeny of articulated language(s), and there you only find three articulations in a precise order: root-languages (by the way vastly ignored by Xavier Rouard), Isolating character languages, and agglutinative as well as synthetic-analytic languages according to the migrations out of Black Africa. If you do not consider this phylogeny, then you put all sorts of languages together in the melting pot [...}
Three crime series in one entry.
First, The Brokenwood Mysteries; seasons 1 to 3.
Second, The Coroner, Complete Series.
Third, The Unforgotten, Series 1 to 4, Complete Series.
Police series, detective stories, criminal mysteries, and many other options in the field of crime and delinquency have been explored by the English from the first moment they started existing, a very long time ago.
Shakespeare and he was not the first author in the field, loved those stories of crimes and criminals, having people assassinated, or mutilated, or tortured on the stage from Titus Andronicus to Romeo and Juliet.
Dickens was a good one too in that field, but Shakespeare looked at crime from the outside, from some ethical point of view. Dickens looked at it from inside, from the point of view of the criminals themselves forced to commit crimes in order to simply survive.
Then you had Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein and then later on Dracula came into the picture, and many others trill we came across Conan Doyle who edicted the proper form of a crime story or detective story, hence an investigation of a crime we can only see from outside, and the investigation is to get into it to see how it got developed and who was the criminal.
Since then, with the radio at first, the cinema next, and finally television leading directly to streaming and the Internet, those police adventures have just become adventures, and the extreme form is what they call action films where violence is no longer criminal since it has been transformed into the ultimate survival if not the final renascence before the apocalypse.
Enjoy these series.
The Mayas are more a cultural and historical mystery than a vast field of knowledge. We know less than we can even imagine about them. Where did they come from? What language did they speak before coming to Mesoamerica? What were their beliefs before arriving in Yucatan? They brought with them cacao, chocolate, writing, mathematics, extremely advanced calendars, phenomenal knowledge about stars, planets and the cosmos. They even brought with them a vigesimal counting system with the mathematics going along with it, including the equivalent of our zero (that we borrowed from the Arabs in the 17th century) that enabled them to count up to the infinite.
The most remarkable achievement is that they managed to merge phenomenal art with the glyphic writing system of theirs. We know the glyphs were works of art, for one, and a syllabary phonetic writing system, for two. For a very long time the second aspect was rejected, particularly by Sir Eric Thompson. Luckily this untruth was rejected after his death, with a little bit of disregard before his death. The glyphs were not flat symbolic of items and purely artistic, like some kind of secondary if not superfluous decoration. The colonizing Spaniards considered that decoration as diabolical and they burned and destroyed all the books and artifacts that carried such artistic representations of Maya reality and such glyphs that could only be the language of the devil.
Imagine how surprised I was when I discovered this catalogue of an exhibition at the MET Museum of Art in New York. They provide some images of the glyphs, and even some sentences written with them. But they systematically ignore the glyphs, transliterate the sentences and words into Latin-transliterated Maya, and simply work and speculate on these transliterations and their translations into English. They lose all the richness of meaning and beauty of the glyphs. In other words, they terminate, bring to a final end the destructive work of the Spaniards, the culturicide of the Mayas and the Maya culture and civilization. My full study (about 15,000 words, only in English) is available
The 3 Literacies of Modern Age, the Trikirion of CommunicationEditions La Dondaine
Review of the Trikirion of Communication:
Symboleracy, Numeracy and Techneracy
The starting point is the phylogeny of communication because the educational topic I am going to address cannot even exist if there is no communication. We have to understand that all Hominins were communicating. Probably all Hominins after Homo Erectus included had some command of some articulated language, but only Homo Sapiens reached the comprehensive and sustainable command of the fully-articulated language, probably around 200,000 BCE.
The next great stage Is the development of representational and symbolic Inscriptions and paintings or engravings on all durable media available, rockface in caves, stone, bone, ivory, and tusks. This symbolic transcription of stories and experience, maybe some spiritual language accompanying some rituals, is the first form of writing seen as symbolic transcription and going back to 300,000 BCE with Homo Naledi, 100,000 BCE with Homo Neanderthalensis, and 50,000 with Homo Sapiens.
Syllabic and alphabetical writing only came around 3,500 BCE for Homo Sapiens. There might have been older cases, but archaeology has not yet covered the whole world for all types of symbolic inscriptions that could have led to symbolic phonetic writing. The next stage was the printing press which enabled mass education and mass communication.
ENTRE IA & LES ÉCRANS LE THÉÄTRE EST EN QUESTION
The Journal “Théâtres du Monde” has just published its 34th issue. I have two articles published in that journal. So here is first of all the table of contents of the 2024 issue, and I added to these three pages all the preparatory work I have done to write the two articles that deal with the series HUNTERS and the author Lorraine HANSBERRY. These reviews and critiques are all bilingual, English for some and French for the others.
I do feel like a raisin the sun. I also added some documents on the recent question brought up about race in the USA where some states are restricting the teaching of slavery and Black history in the USA because it may, might, would, and I think SHOULD traumatize the poor white darlings who really need some traumatization about their imperialistic ideological terrorism.
Four films or series.
1- John Woo’s Silent Night (2023),
2- Doug Liman’s Road House (2024),
3- Albert Hughes’s The Continental (2023),
4- Marcela Saïd and Julien Despaux’s Ourika (2024),
all seen on Amazon’s Prime Video, hence distributed by Amazon Prime Video, all dealing with violence in our societies and all claiming that violence is justified top answer and respond to a violent society, a violence coming from outside our community, and that outside can introduce anti-immigrant accusations or plainly racist claims, both anti-white and anti-any-ethnicity.
Does it help us understand this violence ? Does these films enable us to devise a proper response to prevent and solve such violence? Both times, a resounding NO. But in both cases, it plays in the hands of the most extreme forces on the nationalist side of life, the side that refuses to consider those who are not pure according to their definitions as the cause of all our problems, and not only those people but also all products that may come from the countries concerned by these ethnic groups. This is true in the USA, in Canada, with Mexico playing the wide-open gate to the previous two, and all over Europe.
What game are these streaming services playing? Preparing coming elections! But it might go the wrong way for them. Now what is the wrong way? Good question. No answer because the ballot boxes will be the only valid answer. First stop, the European Elections in June 2024.
Mo Xiang’s third volume of the saga on The Blessing of a Heaven Official is there in front of me and this saga is emanating with so much force that no one can resist the tanha that tells them “Go For It! There is pleasure in it all!” I am sure you want to discover the pleasure there is in these volumes, but remember the authoress is a woman and as such she develops a sweet, soft, and catching psychology that will turn you completely berserk if you do not keep your feet well anchored in the earth.
The King Ghost Hua Cheng from Ghost City is behind every move the ascended Xie Lian is inspiring or is inspired by and for. His meeting this Xie Lian after 800 years of supernatural and surreal life in our vast cosmos was so mind-stirring, intelligence-moving, and body-inspiring that the pure ascetic Buddhist he is supposed to be, nearly fell into the cauldron of eroticism. He managed not to fall, but that was very close this time since he was unconscious and Hua Cheng took advantage of the situation and pretended that he had to save his “friend” before he drowned, though Hua Cheng knew perfectly well Xie Lian could not drown, hence cannot die. But, well, Hua Cheng kissed Xie Lian unconscious as he was, I mean in his unconscious mind, because Xie Lian was unconscious, and thus he could kiss him since he could not protest. What a twisted and I guess tortured mind he is. He should try Buddhist meditation to hypnotize himself into plain decent abstinence.
But sure enough, the encounter with the Venerable of Empty Words promises to be a fair adventure in which Xie Lian’s mind and body will be chastised, abused, and even probably raped. There will be quite a lot of repair work to do on the psyche and the conscious rightfulness of our Xie Lian. I guess Hua Cheng will take advantage of such situations to steal a couple more kisses. Never trust a ghost because they have no soul anymore and they have no honor either. So, lying, pretending, and even impersonating what they are not to seduce their gullible victims is some kind of sport for these fuzzy beings, if they can really BE.
Oppenheimer is an essential character in US history. He is the left-leaning Jew who provided the USA with the Atom Bomb that enabled the US to defeat Japan faster than the planned standard land and air attack by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, officially endorsed in the Yalta Conference ( 4–11 February 1945) by Churchill, Truman, and Stalin. Truman did not have the atomic bomb yet and will only have it in July 1945. So, he bluffed and agreed with the Soviet plan because he had no alternative … yet. He reneged his agreement in July-August 1945, and he dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The victory over Germany was a joint effort. The victory over Japan was a self-centered and egotistic solitary procedure not even negotiated with the allies of the US. The United Kingdom might have been informed, maybe. But the USSR was not. The Americans were already and had been for nearly two centuries, on the “America First” and “Make America Great Forever” lines that we have known all along and directly since 1918.
And within 9 years Oppenheimer will be ostracized because he was leaning to the left and there were Communists around him. He submitted and disappeared in some sideline university job. He had nowhere to go, as opposed to Charlie Chaplin who went back to England. As a Jew, he could have gone to Israel, but that was not a real optimistic solution at the time. He might even have gone to the USSR with his communist wife. But he stayed put in the USA, in his closet-university-job. The film does not really explore this dilemma: hide away in the USA, go to the Jewish Israel, or go to the USSR. On one hand, it was his old depressive nature that came back. On the other hand, it would have been going back to his faith and his roots, even if it could have looked like treason. On the third hand, on yet another other hand, it would have been plain treason.
THE DESCENT TO HELL IN THREE STAGES – 2003-2015-2019
I brought together three films and series presented here both in English and French in anti-chronological order.
1- The film 7500, 2019.
2- The series Blindspot, 2015-2020.
3- The film The Dreamers, 2003
If you take them in this backward order, you may understand that today’s world is not at all different from the one in 1968 when the Vietnam War was going on full blast, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was in full swing and the West per se was living its first full sexual revolution with the arrival of the baby-boomers to the full unquenchable desire to hormonally and fully enjoy life. Have some interesting reading.
FIRST STAGE – AMAZON STUDIOS – 7500 – 2019
There is little to say about such a film. It is just artificial entertainment that shows nothing and proves nothing. It is all stressing detail to keep the audience glued to the screen.
SECOND STAGE – BLINDSPOT – FULL SERIES – FIVE SEASONS – 2015-2020
A very long series for very little apart from stressed and stressful situations that always end well anyway, meaning leading to a worse situation in the next episode.
THIRD STAGE – BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI – THE DREAMERS – 2003
Paris Spring 1968. We all know what happened then in France. The victory of the unions, the defeat of the left, and the impossibility for the left to understand that any “events” of that sort will always lead to the victory of the right in the next elections, and today we have to update the data and say the victory of the extreme right. It might be slightly more complex, but basically, that’s what it is and when the left wins this social-minded left will become conservative within at the most two years and it might even turn reactionary within these two years, at times even less. They like power so much.
Amazon Prime Video and Blumhouse Productions love dysfunctioning mothers who, in the name of their love for their children, are ready to kill anyone only on their gut feelings that this anyone is guilty of who knows what apart from the devil.
The film is tricky enough to lure and fool the audience, and the horror of the racist and dysfunctional situation can be believed till the end when the trick is revealed. Note this revelation implies that all daughters from divorced or motherless families are by definition, even by principle, liars.
You might also find the father falling in an ice-cold river under a blizzard of some sort funny, and with his winter coat on, and then he goes on parading around outside, in the unheated car, and even in some kind of social situation without changing his freezing clothes. Like at the Oscars yesterday the costume design Oscar was delivered to a costume designer wearing no clothes at all, except a small cardboard sign where sexually necessary for the picture, meaning that costume designers are so badly treated and paid that they cannot even afford to buy underwear.
A little bit more about the context, schools, religion, Islam and girls, divorced parents, single Muslim male parent, etc. would have maybe given some depth to the story and made it less artificial.
A film that wants to be science-fiction. So, learn the lessons that emerge from it.
1- Let black doctors or scientists get into a hospital “laboratory” and the most unimaginable horrors will take place.
2- Let black people be fully treated in a hospital and they will become guinea pigs, especially in the hands of black doctors.
3- Let a mother treat her son and the worst possible crime will take place under your own nose and in front of your own eyes.
4- Shall I go on?
If this is not pure racism laced with some sexism, I just wonder what would qualify. How can anyone imagine such man-made scientific schizophrenia to be possible in the hands and under the scalpel of a doctor, a scientist? I guess it is urgent to have clear regulations and controls on such activities. Because be sure that wild clandestine medical experiments are happening every day in the world.
Duration is all that plants and animals experience. They last as long as either possible or necessary. When the phylogenic target of bringing in the next generation of life is fulfilled, the plant or the animal can die or wither away. Homo Sapiens, and probably most Hominins developed from experience the need to measure this duration, at first in days and nights, and then in clusters of days and nights. Then they can coordinate their observations and notice some cosmic items go through regular existential cycles, first of all, the sun rising or lowering in the sky with shortening or lengthening days and nights. Second, the moon and its phases are numbered as two, four, or three, but systematically waxing and waning. You can easily measure all that in solar days and that is the beginning of time: a human invention quantifying the duration of anything in observable regular elements.
From what we know the Mayas were among the most advanced people for such time-quantification and they developed all sorts of calendars to do this. But they were neither the first one nor the last one. They were not the best either, though they were very good. I will even say that all the lines of dots or check marks or squares or other geometric forms we can find in all the caves in the world in which Hominins and Homo Sapiens lived and that they decorated in many ways are the quantification of various phenomena, though we don’t always know which ones.
This book by Hunbatz Men concentrates on Mayan calendars but in modern language and modern terms, not necessarily in the real Mayan terms at the time, up to 3,000 years ago. It assumes the Mayas were aware of the leap years, though we do not seem to have any real reason to believe so. The author does not work on any serious lunar hypothesis, maybe a calendar. It vaguely mentions but does not explore the Venus cycles as Morning Star and as Evening Star. To work on the Pleiades, why not, yet one question does not concern such a long cycle but the simple working of the ritualistic 260-day Tzolk’in Calendar that is out of sync with the solar calendar, the 365-day Haab Calendar, and even more so if we consider the 360-day Haab Calendar, and how the ritual activities dictated by the Tzolk’in Calendar can be prescribed and predicted and performed when their Tzolk’in dates can fall at any time, in any season in the Haab Calendar. It is hard enough to coordinate the 12-and-a-half moon cycles over a solar calendar, but many civilizations are dealing with it and managing it with cyclical corrections.
That’s why it would have been good to give us some elements on this very same problem with the Tzolk’in calendar when we can compare with the difficult adaptation of the Muslim Lunar ritualistic calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The floating Ramadan is the result of this necessary adaptation. In other words, the present book is slightly short.
To bring together South Africa in the days of apartheid and from the point of view of the white Afrikaners with the tremendous career of Queen with Freddie Mercury and after his death without him shows how ahead of their times this band was when they started as a boys’ band and then when they matured into a full-fledged career.
Apartheid and racism bring segregation and discrimination which systematically reject differences. No future for those who do not have the skin color, the religion, the language, the sexuality, the musical affiliation, even as a simple audience, as the dominant, selected, elected, chosen entity that only has god and science over their heads. And their God has chosen these people to be his chosen people, and these people chosen by God believe what God has explained to them that science justifies their elected-ness, selected-ness or chosen-ness. They are the acme of the creation, and all others are just plain rejects that no one has the heart to destroy.
But be sure God will do it some day. Which god since there are many if not even plenty? Who cares. Each God will recognize his own supporters when they are all dead.
But then you may have no supporters at all, dear God or Gods. It does not really matter. We don’t need these supporters to eat, drink and survive. We have all we need in heaven and the sky. In fact, it was a mistake of ours to have created humanity. The planet would be so much better with none of the human parasites.
Meet the Madman Prophet, who is most the time mixed up with the other God Profit who is universal and derails every so many years, not so many as you may think every ten years or so. But with this God there is always a small population that manages to store away what they need to take over when the crisis has come to an end and the dead victims have been buried or cremated.
An interesting experiment to bring a poetry workshop in a prison For us who have lived in the mythology of Johnny Cash and San Quentin, and all his songs and work about and in prisons there is nothing strange about that But what happens afterward? The inmates get some satisfaction in their work, writing poetry and singing, slam or whatever it may be, but what’s next after their prison term? No reason to reject the experiment but a follow-up action is necessary to know what these men – and it is only men – have become or will become when they get out of the railings, out of the cage. We are not all Johnny Cash, are we?
Since this operation was sponsored by Alliance Française, it would nice to know what kind of follow-up work this Alliance Française is going to perform. The responsibility cannot be the poet’s. But it is interesting to be confirmed one more time that there are many ways for prison inmates to reform. One element is not taken into account. 98% of the population is Sunni Muslims. What is the impact on such an experiment? What does Islam bring to the experiment that would otherwise not be there. Étienne Russias should try to show us this dimension, since, as far as I know, he is a standard young man educated in the Christian traditions, maybe not the religion, but the traditions definitely like being christened, being buried religiously, being married religiously. How did he deal with a 98 percent Muslim group? How many Muslims were taking part, among the inmates and among the workshop workers?
But that’s the beginning of the intelligent globalization we need, a globalization that is founded on differences and not some westernized homogenization.
(No French Translation) The Incas partly inherited and partly developed phenomenal agriculture in the very hard conditions of the Andes: desertic areas, difficult water resources, high altitude, no real draft animal, no wheel, and yet the Andes before and under the Incas produced miraculous results that the Spaniards destroyed in a few years with epidemics and mass killing.
It is easy to say the Incas were barbarians and that covers the genocide, the culturicide, the systematic uprooting and exposing of anything they could have believed or done, based on NO direct contact with them before the “conquest” that must have killed 50% of the population in two or three years with smallpox and other infantile and childhood diseases, plus a few sword killings when there was some resistance.
Unluckily, Gordon McEwan does not really come to a clear vision in his book because he only bases his work on what has been collected by others essentially on the only source of some Spanish colonizers trying to justify the massacre and apocalyptic colonization. The real barbarians were the colonizers, and it is their testimony that is nearly only taken into account. Archaeology is about one century behind what it is in other regions of the world.
Things have slightly changed over the last ten years, but we are still a long way behind what we should have done. That leaves the door open to some like Hunbatz Men pretending the Mayas, Incas and many other Indigenous Native Americans are the descendants of the humanoid people who were established in two continents that have disappeared without leaving any trace of their existence behind them, Mu and Atlantis. And then it is easy to bring in that the inhabitants of these two disappeared continents were extra-humans from some distant civilization who landed on earth and prospered and then found some humanoid animals there and civilized them. We are their descendants, I mean of these extra-humanly civilized humanoid animals from long ago.
Maybe we could simply ask some questions about the origins of the Incas, the Mayas, and many other native American peoples of South and Meso-America. We know the Native Americans of North America and Canada up to Greenland came from Siberia. But that solution is not, feasible for the Native Americans of South and Meso-America. But we are so mentally colonized by North American Protestant Puritans who believe they are the center of the world that research about South America and Mesoamerica has scandalously been neglected. Some mental colonization of this type is also a genocide since it excludes millions of people from what these North American WASPs call the “human race” which is of course white, etc.
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at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
1. Jacques Coulardeau vs Xavier Rouard
Retrospective vs Prospective
The true story of Asterix the Gaul and Balkan peoples from
Central Asia to Europe
La véritable histoire d’Astérix le Gaulois et des peuples des
Balkans de l’Asie centrale vers l’Europe
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370158415_The_true_story_of_Asterix_the
_Gaul_and_Balkan_peoples_from_Central_Asia_to_Europe
April 2023
Preprints and early-stage research may not have been peer-reviewed yet. I am just going to peer
review it in a minute.
Xavier Rouard
Bachelor of Business Administration
Second Counsellor at French Embassy in Pristina
Pristina, Kosovo
2. https://xavierrouard.academia.edu/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xavier-Rouard
BIOGRAPHY
diplomat, linguist, and independent researcher. Fields of interest: Gaulish language, Slavic
languages, Indo-European languages, Dravidian languages, Secret services in the Cold War. My
work was published on Sciences-Faits-Histoires.com, Academia Letters, and Scientific Culture
(https://sci-cult.com/wp-content/uploads/8.1/8_1_2_Rouard.pdf).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Languages and
Linguistics
Neolithic Europe
Etymology
Ancient Indo-European
Languages
Indo-European Studies
Neolithic Archaeology
Slavic Languages
Balkan prehistory
Southeast Asian
Studies
Anatolian Studies
Dravidian Linguistics
Comparative Linguistics
Sanskrit
Finno-Ugric languages
Kartvelian Languages
Ancient DNA Research
Indo-Iranian Linguistics
Iranian Archaeology
Gaulish language
Economic History
Slovene History
Comparative Religion
Claude Hagège
Secret Services
Historical Linguistics
more
AFFILIATIONS
University of Rouen (France), Slavic languages, Alumnus
Description
Based on my study DID INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES STEM FROM A TRANSEURASIAN
LANGUAGE? AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, published in Scientific Culture in
January 2022 and on my profiles on Academia and RG, I will relate to you the true story of
Asterix the Gaul and Balkan peoples from Central Asia to Europe.
Excerpt/Extrait
La véritable histoire d’Astérix le Gaulois et des peuples des Balkans
de l’Asie centrale vers l’Europe
Sur la base de mon étude LES LANGUES INDO-EUROPEENNES SONT-ELLES ISSUES
D’UNE LANGUE ORIGINELLETRANSEURASIENNE ? UNE APPROCHE
INTERDISCIPLINAIRE, publiée dans Scientific Culture en janvier 2022 et sur mes profils sur
3. Academia et RG, je vais vous raconter la véritable histoire des migrations d’Astérix le Gaulois
et des peuples des Balkans de l’Asie centrale vers l’Europe.
1/ Etudes linguistiques
Selon Kassian (2021), les langues eurasiennes sont issues d’une langue eurasienne
originelle, qui incluait les langues samoyèdes et s’est séparée entre -18.000 et -8.000. Cela est
cohérent avec Pagel-Atkinson (2013),postulant que les sept familles linguistiques eurasiennes
forment une macro-famille linguistique qui a évolué d’un ancêtre commun il y a environ 15.000
ans, dont le foyer originel était situé en Asie centrale et duquel le dravidien, le kartvélien et la
basque se sont séparés en premiers, suivis de l’indo-européen il y a environ 8.700ans, ce qui
contredit la théorie des Kourganes, qui postule une formation bien plus récente du PIE.
Il existe deux théories principales pour le peuplement de l’Europe et la formation des
langues indo-européennes. La théorie conventionnelle, celle des Kourganes, place le foyer
originel des langues indo-européennes dans les steppes pontiques vers -6.000. Une théorie
alternative lie la formation des langues indo-européennes à l’arrivée de l’agriculture en Europe
depuis l’Anatolie il y a 8.000 à 9.500 ans. Cette théorie me semble mieux à même d’expliquer
la formation des langues archaïques des Balkans, et plus globalement des langues archaïques
européennes.
La formation de l’indo-européen dans cette région pourrait également être attestée par
l’intéressante langue burushaski du Nord du Pakistan qui, selon Witzel (2012) mélange des
traits des langues dravidiennes, du sanskrit et des langues caucasiennes et partage la
numération vigésimale avec le dravidien, le caucasien, le basque et le celte, qui a laissé des
traces en français (vimsati, vingt en dravidien, pourrait même avoir donné vingt en français).
Greenhill (2012) place le burushaski entre le kannada, langue dravidienne, l’hindi, les langues
caucasiennes et le basque, ce qui soutient son caractère archaïque. Mosenkis souligne aussi
les liens du burushaski, qu’il juge très archaïque, avec les langues sino-caucasiennes et indo-
européennes comme l’arménien, le phrygien et les langues paléo-balkaniques. Boc et al.
(2010) souligne les liens entre les langues celtes et indo-iraniennes, slaves et indo-iraniennes
et slaves et celtes, estimant que cela pourrait attester d’une ascendance commune bien plus
proche entre ces familles linguistiques que généralement considérée ou d’une migration
intensive des ancêtres des locuteurs de ces langues.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370158417_La_veritable_histoire_d'Asterix_le_Gaulo
is_et_des_peuples_des_Balkans_de_l'Asie_centrale_vers_l'Europe [accessed Apr 26, 2023].
The true story of Asterix the Gaul and Balkan peoples from Central
Asia to Europe
Based on my study DID INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES STEM FROM A TRANSEURASIAN
LANGUAGE? AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, published in Scientific Culture in
4. January 2022 and on my profiles on Academia and RG, I will relate to you the true story of
Asterix the Gaul and Balkan peoples from Central Asia to Europe.
1/ Linguistic studies
According to Kassian (2021), Eurasian languages stem from an original Eurasian
language, which included Samoyedic languages and split between 18,000 and 8,000 BC. This
is consistent with Pagel-Atkinson (2013), postulating that the seven language families of
Eurasia form a linguistic superfamily that evolved from a common ancestor around 15,000
years ago, with a homeland in Central Asia, from which Dravidian, Kartvelian, and Basque
were the first to separate, followed by PIE around 8,700 years ago, which contradicts the
theory of Kurgans, postulating a much later formation of PIE.
There are two main theories for the peopling of Europe and the formation of Indo-
European languages. The conventional theory of Kurgans places the original homeland of
Indo-European languages in the Pontic steppes around 6.000 BC. An alternative theory links
the formation of Indo-European languages to the arrival of agriculture in Europe from Anatolia
8.000 to 9.500 years ago. This theory seems to me more suitable to explain the formation of
archaic Balkan languages, and more globally of archaic European languages. Albanian would
for instance be linked to Hittite from Anatolia.
The formation of Indo-European in this region could be also attested by the interesting
Burushaski language of Northern Pakistan which, according to Witzel (2012) mixes features
from Dravidian, Sanskrit, and Caucasian languages and shares the vigesimal numeration with
Dravidian, Caucasian, Basque and Celtic, which left traces in French (vimsati, twenty in
Dravidian, could even have given vingt, twenty in French). Greenhill (2012) places Burushaski
between Kannada, a Dravidian language, Hindi, Caucasian languages, and Basque, which
supports its archaic character. Mosenkis also underlines the links of Burushaski, which he
considers very archaic, with Sino-Caucasian and Indo-European languages like Armenian,
Phrygian, and paleo-Balkan languages. Boc et al.(2010) underline the links between Celtic and
Indo-Iranian, Slavic and Indo-Iranian, and Slavic and Celtic, considering that this may be the
evidence of a much closer common ancestry between these language families than generally
thought or of an intensive migration of the ancestors of the involved nations.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370158415_The_true_story_of_Asterix_the_Gaul_and_Balkan
_peoples_from_Central_Asia_to_Europe [accessed Apr 26, 2023].
5. MY CONTRIBUTION OR PEER REVIEW
Dear Xavier Rouard,
I read your article and here are my remarks, as fast and short as possible.
1- No reference to before the Peak of the Ace Age generally dated at 19,000 BCE with about 10,000
years centered on that peak from 24,000 BCE to 14,000 BCE. Only one mention of the Gravettians in your
text but it remains a side element. The Gravettians were in Central-Eastern Europe circa 30,000 BCE.
2- It is not clear whether “-12,000” means 12,000 BCE or 12,000 BP which would be circa 10,000 BCE.
This is an irritating element with some archaeologists who use “before present” dates which means an
unclear reference since it increases every year by one year. They could use other “zero” years, but it has to
be a fixed point in time.
3- No mention of before the Gravettians, hence of Genevieve von Petzinger’s The First Signs. Some
references to books that are nearly one century old, or even more are also surprising when we know
archaeology has discovered more over the last ten years than over the two or three centuries before ten
years ago. China is typical with the new alliance launched last year or so in the whole of Asia to boost
archaeology in Asia. We know so little about Asia, apart from the opium wars and the levitating Tibetan
Buddhists.
4- To set the origin of language in the time-period and the space-territory considered by your article is
very limited in interest. What were the human migrations from the Black African nest or nests to the whole
world? Three vast migrations can be identified all before the Peak of the Ice Age. The reduction of the
migrations of Homo Sapiens to various migrations from here or there, but NOT FROM BLACK AFRICA, after
the Peak of the Ice Age is not scientific, and what’s more it covers up a rejection of the BLACK AFRICAN
origin of human language, and we have to drop the approach about the origin of particular languages to
speak of the origin of human language because then we can speak of the phylogeny of language in three
stages with three articulations despite Martinet and Chomsky who only consider two such articulations: to be
binary is so simple. These primordial migrations started around 250,000 BCE at least (beads in Morocco
dated at 300,000 BCE).
6. 5- To base the linguistic approach on words, even utilitarian words like the article “le” is fictitious. It is
old-fashioned because we know language is not a set of words but a rich architecture with three levels:
phonetic rotation of vowels and consonants; the morphology of complex phonetic units (often called words,
though…, despite what Zellig Harris said for my own approach and absent from Rouard’s essay, but it only
concerned phonetics); and thirdly, the syntax of the semantic complex construction with the basic
morphological units. What’s more, it is absurd in a way because Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen
proved long ago that all languages have only one nest in Black Africa, and this is based on a comparative
lexical approach based on a set of one hundred or more basic words that have the same roots and
meanings in all languages, even the languages that are not tri-consonantal root languages. So, no surprise if
in all languages of this world, there are some common universal roots like “water” or “father.”
6- The use of genetics is off the point because any linguist who is a linguist and not a biologist knows
there is no gene of language because language was developed by Homo Sapiens based on genetic
mutations selected naturally to enable them to become the long distance fast bipedal runner he is, and
based on his experience once he got down or out of the forest into the savannah. The haplogroups you refer
to are genetic and have evolved by general evolution laws that are biological and haphazard anyway and
selected by sexual reproduction. That’s where it would be interesting to follow Darwin on that: sexual
reproduction that takes two individuals. The male can be replaced at any time by any other male for
fertilization. No need to have any permanence in the relationship. A woman cannot because the pregnancy
and the birth are entirely carried by her and the newborn will be breastfed for 18 months, and women from
age 13 to life expectancy 29 will have to be pregnant every 18 months at the most, making the birth of the
next child correspond to the weaning of the previous one, if he has survived. And that will enable the
community to produce two or three individuals who will fulfill a full life expectancy of 29 years so that the
community will grow and will be able to expand, to migrate. Note culture does not migrate alone. It is carried
by people. I am, of course, speaking of the humanity that had a life expectancy of 29 years, which was true
for ancient communities starting with the emergence of Homo Sapiens 300,000 years ago, or BCE as to that,
and for the laborious classes up to the 19th century.
7- The population of Europe starting circa 50,000 BCE is not scrutinized. Where did they come from?
What language did they speak? Theo Vennemann genannt Nierfeld answers the second question: Turkic
languages (and Basque is the Turkic language that survived the Ice Age due to the regrouping of all at least
western, European people in the vast Basque country that included then the whole left bank of the Garonne
plus the Garonne’s valley itself. I learned that for the first time from Jacques Teyssier in Bordeaux (Université
Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne) in 1970-1973. I have answered the first question and this third migration
out of Black Africa, the second migration out of Black Africa in my first book on the language of Cro-Magnon,
and the first wave of it covered the whole of Europe from the Middle East, plus the Caucasus, plus all the
territories around the Caspian see, of course, the Urals and the whole of Russia and most of Scandinavia,
plus the whole of Siberian but sharing it with the populations of the first migration out of Black Africa that
covered the whole of Asia, with some sharing when the second migration out of Black Africa, first wave,
arrived. Around 50,000 BCE the whole world outside Africa, meaning America was excluded, but Australia
was concerned, was speaking languages of two big families, agglutinative Turkic languages and isolating
character languages. Note by then the Semitic languages were all contained in northern Africa and the
Sahara: they were the first migration out of Black Africa and thy migrated probably around 250,000 BCE.
Note the second wave of the second migration out of Black Africa around 40,000 BCE remained on the
Iranian plateau and will move down from it only after the Peak of the Ice Age when the Ice Age was finished.
But then the logic changed since only the communities that had survived were still there and they were
probably vastly isolated and had developed some common languages, community by community knowing
that the original three migrations and the original three language families (with the fourth one with the second
wave of the third migration, Indo-European and Indo-Aryan languages) could borrow words, at times maybe
some morphological elements or even syntactic elements, with some survivals from older articulations and
some “announcements” of what would come later in the phylogeny of language. That phylogeny is a
continuous phenomenon and each state in this long process is the result of the evolution of the previous
state (within each particular language or group of languages). Thus, there is no real origin of any language.
Any language derived and still derives from what it was before, what the concerned speakers spoke before.
It is the retrospective method that tries to reconstruct past states of a language from the present state that is
wrong, first because it cannot go beyond 15,000 years backward, and second because language evolves
prospectively and not retrospectively. Just try to make Turkic Medea go back to what she was before her
elopement or kidnapping by Jason with the Golden Fleece.
8- The population of Asia is totally ignored reducing A2sia to a little part of Eurasia. That’s a regrettable
bias.
9- Contacts with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans are totally ignored. Too long to enter into details.
7. 10- Julien d’Huy and his master Jean Loïc le Quellec are totally ignored, with Julien d’Huy’s study on
the myths of the two Americas being connected to Southeast Asia for South America and Siberia for North
America. And remember Siberia is divided between the agglutinative Turkic languages on the one hand, and
the isolating Sino-Tibetan or Tibeto-Burman languages on the other hand.
11- We should explore the phylogeny of language in three stages around three articulations that have to
be in one single phylogenic order. But too long to get into details. And if we take writing into account, we
have to wonder if all the geometric figures you find in caves (all over the world) or on rock faces are not the
first symbolic representations of a discourse that they accompany, or if they are entoptics that do not short-
circuit the previous remark. Is writing an entoptic development? There, Von Petzinger is a good starting
point, but most old books, including Marshack, have to be reexamined critically The lunar cycles Marshack
speaks of are, in fact, menstrual cycles because it is a lot more vital to observe these menstrual cycles to
produce the 10 to 12 pregnancies of every woman in sixteen years.
12- Conclusion: that is why I very critically consider what has been produced by the mostly
institutionalized sexist and racist (both by not mentioning Black Africa and women) anthropology,
archaeology, and even linguistics. So, you can see why Astérix leaves me as cold as the North Pole ice
sheet. Maybe that’s why it is melting, I mean Astérix is heating the planet with all his magical fighting. Note in
those days, the normal Gaulish woman had to produce 10 to 12 pregnancies in 16 years, and I cannot say
children are overwhelmingly present next to Astérix, and pregnancy or delivery or taking care of children,
including breastfeeding, are not exactly central in these comic books. All elements without which we cannot
even visualize what life was like circa 250,000 BCE in Black Africa just before the first migration started. And
they did speak then because no migration of any importance was possible without planning, managing, and
discussing every single element. At least, Stephen Mithen in his Singing Neanderthals envisaged a language
before Homo Sapiens, though mostly based on body language and tonal production but with some simple
calls slightly more developed than those of monkeys and apes, since Neanderthals had not gone through the
mutations that produced Homo Sapiens from Homo Ergaster.
I have thus proofread this “contribution” and will upload it. As you know my latest study on Çatalhöyük in
Anatolia (25,000 words) will be presented in Romania, and I am catching up on Göbekli Tepe. And I am far
from having reached the end of this trail that has to be blazed step by step after step. By the way, I do not
produce complete and exhaustive bibliographies because with the Internet and AI we can, with the machine,
get such bibliographies, even better than anything we can or could humanly produce with our own hands.
But do not use ChatGPT for this task, because it will systematically exclude what would be statistically “non-
significant” for it, meaning what would stand at a very low level of probability.
Billy Porter declared, yesterday night, on PBS that poetry produces critical minds. I am afraid in the field
of archaeology and with ChatGPT to increase the result, only dominant ideas can survive. Look how Biden
reveals, by not trusting his Vice President to run in the next election, how vain he is and let’s say
subconsciously biased as for sex/gender and race. And ChatGPT would tell him at 82 next year his
probability of a heart attack is so close to the maximum that it would be wise not to run. When you reach a
certain age, you cannot run anymore, you can only jog, and on a gentle down-going slope. True enough,
jogging against overweight Trump may be difficult for Trump who is out of sorts and training, as for jogging.
We live in a society of institutionalized biases, many biases.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU