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Ritual Mound Migrations: Kurgans, Dolmens, and later Pyramids likely all trace back to Siberia, helping show how Yeniseian languages, may have influenced Proto-Indo-European languages
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refMy thoughts on Kurgan origins, migrations, and the links to Y-DNA "R" and mt-DNA "R" migrations...
32,000-21,000 years ago Yana Culture, at the Yana Woolly Rhinoceros Horn Site in Siberia, with genetic proximity to Ancient North Eurasian populations (Mal’ta and Afontova Gora), but also Ust-Ishim, Sunghir, and to a lesser extent Tianyuan, as well as similarities with the Clovis culture
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref32,000-21,000 years ago, Yana Culture, at the Yana Woolly Rhinoceros Horn Site in Siberia, with genetic proximity to Ancient North Eurasian populations (Mal'ta, Afontova Gora), but also Ust-Ishim,...
Japanese Kofun “ancient grave” Megalithic Mound Tombs or Tumuli (mounds of earth/stones over graves) like Barrows, and Burial mounds/Kurgans
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refKofun "Kofun (古墳, from Sino-Japanese "ancient grave") are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. Kofun were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early...
Earth diver, Axis Mundi, and World Turtle Mythology
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “The earth-diver is a common character in various traditional creation myths. In these stories, a supreme being usually sends an animal (most often a type of bird, but also crustaceans,...
Discussing Ancient North Eurasians migrations: genetics, religion, and rape; (rape 25,000 years ago?) from a lingering patriarchal past, can we find a humanistic secular feminist future?
ref “MA-1 genetic affinities of Mal’ta–Buret’ culture.” ref Mal’ta–Buret’ culture of Siberia near Lake Baikal “The Mal’ta–Buret’ culture is an archaeological culture of c. 24,000 to 15,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic on the upper Angara River in the area west...
Shapeshifters: found among Totemists, Shamanists, and Paganists?
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “Shaman Wearing a Jaguar Pelt” Photo credits for the second Pic come from an Ecuadorian book about Valdivia. shape-shift·er: one that seems able to change form or identity at will....