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I would contact Praveen Mohan and team to explore this area. Ukraine does have names that sound like Indian/Hindu languages. Definitely there is some past correlation to Hinduism/Zorastrianism etc.
Yea, we,us,they? Had Mound Builders in ohio...sure we said back in the 19th century they made these mounds with nude people that moved soil with lil baskets like Longerber baskets or a d_9 Catappler thing.. Oh shue mo:e a mountain it was easy back then when star forts dotted the world.😢
Oh, I visited Kam'yana Mogyla (Stone Tomb) as a kid as a part of a school trip. It was very enlightening. It's fascinating to understand that people have been living there for thousands of years, they had theirs own lives and culture there and it was probably the first time I had an opportunity to physically feel how long humanity existed. Just fascinating
I had the same feeling visiting Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. The tomb of Archimedes is literally behind a chain link fence, a dozen meters beside the road.
I had that feeling a few years ago when we visited Scara Brae and the many stone circles and other signs of Neolithic life. We happened to be there on a day with no other tourists and I could almost feel those ancient people there on the other side of a thin curtain
Thank you so much for this video! I’ve visited Kamyana Mohyla/ Stone Tomb in 2021. That is a beautiful place, full of signs from different era and people. Bought many books in a souvenir shop, and a little stelae even, which is now travelling with me. Now Mohyla occupied and who knows what was done to complex and museum. For Kherson region museums occupation was horrible. Please make a video about it, If you have a time❤
How disappointing that most of the kurgans in Ukraine (c.100 out of 129) were destroyed -- including their burials and artefacts -- during the Soviet era. In Britain, most of our own Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic structures were likewise damaged or destroyed before they could be properly excavated.
You do realise the German army marched all across this area, virtually levelling it. They would have done far more damage than soviets, given that Ukraine itself was a founding member of the soviet union, and the country in these regions were left as agricultural areas...
@@vanrensburgsgesicht That wouldn't surprise me. In terms of stone circles I've read at least 800 are known from Britain but only around a quarter are intact or near-intact. Farming tended to remove many megaliths, with some of the best sites remaining in poor soil areas with historically low population densities. Some menhirs were adopted within Christian church precincts which may have allowed the giant Rudstone monolith to survive, for instance. Famously, many of the prehistoric stones were undercut and broken up for walling. The mediaeval Avebury 'Barber Surgeon's' skeleton found squashed under a stone was likely involved in trying to undermine it for removal. Many ancients clearly didn't respect these enigmatic monuments as much as we do today.
No, the German army didn't systematically destroy tens of thousands of barrows. Why and how would they do that? Even driving tanks over them wouldn't do it. It was Soviet farming that destroyed them, as I explained.
Can you do a video about Lysivka Hill? It's a historical site in Ukraine that has been used for centuries by various cultures following each other from Scythians to Cossacks. It was sold and is now in danger of being mined for rubble. Imagine that! People must raise awareness about this.
Dan, I greatly enjoy all of your videos - they are interesting and highly informative. I am a student of Ancient History. However, there is not much info available on the Steppe Cultures of Eastern Europe, but your excellent and well-researched videos help fill in this gap. Yes! I would look forward to seeing a full video on the stone grave complex. Keep up the good work in educating your viewers about the magnificent Stone Age, Copper and Bronze Age cultures and civilizations of the European Steppes.
Another fascinating video Dan. I would be very interested in learning more about the stone tomb complex. Please consider doing a full video on it. I was unaware that the Soviets had destroyed so many of the mounds. Very sad to learn of so much cultural destruction.
Your analysis of the evidence and ensuing speculations about this mound are very measured and academic. You also have class. Other channels immediately ask viewers to like and subscribe, but you ask it at the end. That is cool.
I would like to see a video about the stone tomb complex too. The idea of a ritual site being in use from possibly the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages sounds intriguing - even if it wasn't obviously in continuous use during that period. Great video again!
Dan Davis: SO MANY people have responded to your question at 10:29, and are asking for a full video on that stone tomb complex, that is mentioned by you at 10:29, meaning the one that is formed by natural limestone slabs, and is 20k from the kurgan complex that is mentioned both 1st and last in the video. PLEASE do it Dan ! ! ! ❤❤❤
Wow, 75% ploughed over! Criminal! I remember reading about what's thought to be a temple in Ukraine which was made into a public park after its excavation by the Soviets. Made out of clay, not much now survives & it looks no more than 10' clay mounds now. Photos from the 1950s show that it was a well made complex originally.Thanks Dan, I've been interested in these cultures for a while now & you still add greatly to my small knowledge. A video about the Stone Tomb Complex would be very welcome cheers
An important feature and important reason for this region being exporting cultures was that hard winds covered the surfaces with fertile black soil - not sand! So the region "kept itself green" instead of ending up as a desert.
I really appreciate that final comment of "I wouldn't say that necessarily follows" regarding it being a state level society, it's like the opposite of when pseudo-archeologists take one thing that maybe points to another and they run with it. You can tell that you genuinely take care not to mislead people
Yes, would love a video on the stone tomb complex, Dan. Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable video on the mysterious temple of prehistoric Ukraine.
A key factor contributing to this region's cultural export was its fertile black soil, deposited by strong winds instead of sand. This prevented desertification and maintained a lush environment.
In an age where youtube is increasingly full of regurgitated crap your stuff stands out man thank you for staying the course and for your amazing work.
Thank you Dan! And thanks for posting that link, my feed did not show me this yesterday and I was driving the family all day. Love your work! Merry Christmas happy new year!
I agree with the watch tower suggestion. A people need to defend themselves, and signal towers were a common thing in the era. Having defensive watch towers over burial grounds: protects the buried, and allows the spotter to work with and for the spirits of their ancestors.
Awesome.. this is JUST what I needed today! Thanks Dan! You’re the best.. happy holidays to you! ATB 😊 I’ve got something excellent to watch while beading up the last few gifts 😅 lol
So many in mass graves for US global hegemony and their military industrial complex -- and there'd be no conflict in the first place without Washington's interference.
I’m half way though this one Dan and I’m totally diggin’ it. YES on stone tomb mound idea for a video, please =] I’m fallowing g the war in Ukrain pretty closely and I love that several of your films are about prehistory in that region. Fascinating!!! 🌊🌊🏄♀️🏄♂️
I was afraid that this site, since it is close to the front lines, might be endangered. A local told me, that it indeed is at least damaged and maybe destroyed by fighting and trenches. Hope things can be recovered and that the worst of humanity stops doing stupid things.
Excellent work Dan. Plenty of data & minimal fluff. Curious how similar these mounds are to the over 100,000 mounds in North America. Too bad so many were destroyed. In America, the flattop mounds typically had pole structures on them, and the conical mounds served for burials. I wrote a fiction book, "Spirit Arrow", and a subsequent study, resulting in my "Ancient Native American Art & Culture" series here, and Rumble. I cannot present a link, but one of interest is "The Demise of the Hopewell & Mississippian Cultures Mystery". I wonder what the climate was like in Ukraine 4000 years ago?
Over here in Finland, burial mounds were made from piles of stones molded by the retreating Ice Age glaciers. In fact, the most impressive monuments here are all carved by the expansion and contraction of Ice Age ice.
@13:00 Lithuanian here. Perkūnas is one of main old pagan Baltic deities. Till now we call thunderstorm- perkūnija- a word as common as any other. I wonder how many hundreds of years this name goes back and where it originates.
When Baltic toponyms begin near the Oka River. I would say 1000 BC is possible. Older than that, BIG maybe. 1500 BC West-Uralic Archaic-Iranian (Volga) 1000 BC Pre-Finnic Proto-Baltic 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 500 BC Middle-Finnic North-Baltic 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 200 CE Late-Finnic 🇪🇪 Proto-Scandinavian → Swedish: (dialectal) perkel, pärkel → Danish: (obsolete) perkild → Proto-Samic: *pearkëlë. biërgele, bärˈgala, pierˈkal, bärggal, beargalat, pergâlâh, piârgglõk 200 CE *perkeleh “damn“ *përku põrgu: “hell“ Erzya пурьгине (puŕgińe, “thunder”) is from the same Baltic source. Proto-Balto-Slavic *Perkūnas pērkons "thunder" perkū́nas Po perkūnais! "Damn it!",“thunder” Old Prussian Perkūns. Perkuno "hell" põrgu, põrgulik, põrguvärav A Germanic origin is also possible, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną, compare Old English byrgan. The Germanic root has possibly mixed with Proto-Slavic *berťi. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bergtei ⇒ Lithuanian: bìrginti ‘save, stint’ Erzya пурьгине чирьке (puŕgińe čiŕke) "rainbow" пурьгине (puŕgińe, “thunder”) + чирьке (čiŕke, “arc, bow”) Semantically similar to Karelian ukonkuari from ukko (“thunder”) and kuari (“arc”). Kuľaś saś prok mańej meńeľste puŕgińe . The message came like a bolt from the blue. Proto-Mordvinic *pəŕgə-~*piŕgə- ...although several proposed lexical comparisons between the Baltic and Mordvinic languages are incorrect, the number of plausible and possible etymologies, nevertheless, is more than thirty. (E M karks ‘belt’ etc., E kerš, kerč, M kerdží , keŕži, etc. ‘left’, E penge, M pengä ‘log, fi rewood’, E raśke, M raśkä‘relative, friend’ etc., E ŕedams ́ , ŕädams ́ , M ŕädams ́ ‘notice, perceive’ etc., E M rudas, urdas etc. ‘dirt, mud’, E M talaj ‘recently, lately’ etc., E té ŕdems ́ , t́äŕdems etc., M té ŕdə́ ms ‘call; invite’, E viŕ, M viŕ, viŕä ‘forest’). (Baltic loanwords in Mordvin, Riho Grünthal )
Muscovitos androphagos. According to Herodotus. No culture at all, except humaneating procedures. A lot of broken human bones discovered in areas of their inhabitations, including more modern practice to preserve dead bodies inside special houses at middle age centuries period. Not mentioned modern cannibalism of androphagie from swamp lands.
This structure is located on the top of the plateau, so, likely, bolts of lightning strike there often in summer. This supports the idea the place was dedicated to the god of lightning.
Thanks for the interesting video! I have a book describing paintings in different caves of the Stone Tomb. The importance of this ritual site is very underrated.
Oh this site is so cool. Maybe I missed it, but were there no connections made between the thirteen embankments and the thirteen constellations of the zodiac?
The carved stellia are reminiscent of the Gobleki Tepe stone ‘T’ pillar anthropomorphic carvings and burial masks are also similar. It’s not really all that far away either. *Yes, a video of the stone complex would be cool.
In addition to being ritual monuments they would have also served as navigation aids on an otherwise featurles lanscape. Basically islands in the steppe. Mr Khan would have used them during his tour of Europe.
Britain has an artificial flat topped mound in Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, from a similar time frame. When the ground around it floods in the rain it appears as a conical island. when built it had ramps, now filled in, though one of which is still visible leading to the flat summit. It's unlikely this was connected to the Ukraine site but could denote similar thought processes from a society with similar level of development.
This has been my thought throughout this video; a flat top artificial mound connected to a river system not primarily used as a burial mound, my mind kept visualising Silbury and Malborough. I wonder if tales of these mounds spread across the trade networks helping influence the Silbury and Malborough mound builders?
There were active trade and exchange ties between all ancient cultures, as well as spiritual ties, because, having the power to build, create things from metals, tame animals, and especially horses, build large boats, and study other cultures, all the inhabitants of Eurasia carried out exchanges and imitations. Then there were no modern borders, customs offices and documents. There was also freedom in the exchange of ideas. Therefore, priests, merchants, warriors of different tribes always collected ideas that were suitable for their country and people.
13 is interesting , the church tried to make it an unlucky number but people are drawn to it, 13roads is interesting too, 13 months of 28 days , this is a very interesting video.
The cabal tried to make it an unlucky number; one of their heroes, Jacques Demolay, was killed on a Friday the 13th. More like an international celebration day if you ask me.
Fortunately some of these sites are quite distant from the frontlines. Just imagine if the war would eventually destroy these unique sites... we will lose important informations about our specie's past.
there're mounds (sacral construction) represented orion's belt and kurhans (tombs) dedicated for chosen people - we have many mounds here in poland ("ukraine" is just part of them taken by soviets),each important grod (castle,town) or grod built to protect sacred place (sanctuary) had own system of similar mounds,which once connected looks like orion's belt,some surived,some have been destroyed by austrians and prussians,while industrial era like in germany,some might be abandoned,but better to keep them hidden as might be destroy by looters (no treasure inside,but many had been destroyed by thieves as well)
Excellent video as always. Continue the great work. I'm always looking for material such as this. One of the oldest cemeteries and graves was just outside the Mariupol oblast unfortunately destroyed and probably now lost because of the Soviets and Russian invaders shelling the area. 15,000 years old but blasted by modern folks for an unnecessary reason. The kurgans and cromlechs have taught us so much. Including how our ancestors started farming and animal husbandry
Can't believe you didn't even mention how Colonel Zim, the last Kurgan, killed James Bond and then went on a rampage for over 400 years before he was finally killed by Raiden from Mortal Kombat Congrats to both of you who know what I'm talking about
13 is the ancient reckoning of months. 7 days per week. 4 weeks per month. 13 months = 364 days. this reckoning has the benefit of regularity and lunar alignment.
Brilliant. It was so interesting seeing the different layers and how the structure changed over time. I wonder if the changes represent a change in deities or how they worshipped.
I showed it on Google maps didn't I, in terrain and satellite view. There's no ground level view of the area and there's nothing to see anyway, the mound was destroyed by the excavation.
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All that Bulgarian -trace culture and in Provadia salt -mine is a similar after in trace valay of trace kings are also similar.
Please talk about Cahokia and the mound building culture of pre contact north America
Are you books ever going to be back on audible?
I would contact Praveen Mohan and team to explore this area. Ukraine does have names that sound like Indian/Hindu languages. Definitely there is some past correlation to Hinduism/Zorastrianism etc.
Yea, we,us,they? Had Mound Builders in ohio...sure we said back in the 19th century they made these mounds with nude people that moved soil with lil baskets like Longerber baskets or a d_9 Catappler thing..
Oh shue mo:e a mountain it was easy back then when star forts dotted the world.😢
I am interested in a full video about the stone tomb complex, that sounds awesome
It's an interesting site. Would love to visit but unfortunately it is a war zone now.
@@DanDavisHistory time for a gun tuber crossover episode.
i second that. full video about the Stone Toomb Complex, yes please.
Absolutely agree. ☝🏻🙏🏻
Oh, I visited Kam'yana Mogyla (Stone Tomb) as a kid as a part of a school trip. It was very enlightening. It's fascinating to understand that people have been living there for thousands of years, they had theirs own lives and culture there and it was probably the first time I had an opportunity to physically feel how long humanity existed. Just fascinating
I had the same feeling visiting Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. The tomb of Archimedes is literally behind a chain link fence, a dozen meters beside the road.
I had that feeling a few years ago when we visited Scara Brae and the many stone circles and other signs of Neolithic life. We happened to be there on a day with no other tourists and I could almost feel those ancient people there on the other side of a thin curtain
Камена могила! На български език.
Now it’s under occupation 😢
Dan, please tell us more about the Stone Tomb (Kamennaya Mohyla) site. It looks truly fascinating according to what I could find online.
Thank you so much for this video!
I’ve visited Kamyana Mohyla/ Stone Tomb in 2021. That is a beautiful place, full of signs from different era and people. Bought many books in a souvenir shop, and a little stelae even, which is now travelling with me.
Now Mohyla occupied and who knows what was done to complex and museum. For Kherson region museums occupation was horrible.
Please make a video about it, If you have a time❤
Yes, a video please on the stone grave mound.
Yes to the stone tum complex
How disappointing that most of the kurgans in Ukraine (c.100 out of 129) were destroyed -- including their burials and artefacts -- during the Soviet era. In Britain, most of our own Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic structures were likewise damaged or destroyed before they could be properly excavated.
That's "progress" for ya...
You do realise the German army marched all across this area, virtually levelling it. They would have done far more damage than soviets, given that Ukraine itself was a founding member of the soviet union, and the country in these regions were left as agricultural areas...
I've heard around 90% of megalithic structures in northern Germany were destroyed, mostly after the invention of dynamite.
@@vanrensburgsgesicht That wouldn't surprise me. In terms of stone circles I've read at least 800 are known from Britain but only around a quarter are intact or near-intact. Farming tended to remove many megaliths, with some of the best sites remaining in poor soil areas with historically low population densities. Some menhirs were adopted within Christian church precincts which may have allowed the giant Rudstone monolith to survive, for instance. Famously, many of the prehistoric stones were undercut and broken up for walling. The mediaeval Avebury 'Barber Surgeon's' skeleton found squashed under a stone was likely involved in trying to undermine it for removal. Many ancients clearly didn't respect these enigmatic monuments as much as we do today.
No, the German army didn't systematically destroy tens of thousands of barrows. Why and how would they do that? Even driving tanks over them wouldn't do it. It was Soviet farming that destroyed them, as I explained.
Stone tomb complex bump. Thanks for what you do Dan. Another great video.
Can you do a video about Lysivka Hill? It's a historical site in Ukraine that has been used for centuries by various cultures following each other from Scythians to Cossacks. It was sold and is now in danger of being mined for rubble. Imagine that! People must raise awareness about this.
Thank you for an interesting film, greetings from Ukraine🌞
New episode! Thanks for the early Christmas present
dude I am so interested in the stone tomb complex. Another awesome Vid Dan. Thank you for making these.
Dan, I greatly enjoy all of your videos - they are interesting and highly informative. I am a student of Ancient History. However, there is not much info available on the Steppe Cultures of Eastern Europe, but your excellent and well-researched videos help fill in this gap. Yes! I would look forward to seeing a full video on the stone grave complex. Keep up the good work in educating your viewers about the magnificent Stone Age, Copper and Bronze Age cultures and civilizations of the European Steppes.
Another fascinating video Dan. I would be very interested in learning more about the stone tomb complex. Please consider doing a full video on it. I was unaware that the Soviets had destroyed so many of the mounds. Very sad to learn of so much cultural destruction.
Wow very nice class. Merry Christmas & happy new year.
Your analysis of the evidence and ensuing speculations about this mound are very measured and academic. You also have class. Other channels immediately ask viewers to like and subscribe, but you ask it at the end. That is cool.
Thank you very much 🙏
I would like to see a video about the stone tomb complex too. The idea of a ritual site being in use from possibly the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages sounds intriguing - even if it wasn't obviously in continuous use during that period.
Great video again!
Dan Davis: SO MANY people have responded to your question at 10:29, and are asking for a full video on that stone tomb complex, that is mentioned by you at 10:29, meaning the one that is formed by natural limestone slabs, and is 20k from the kurgan complex that is mentioned both 1st and last in the video. PLEASE do it Dan ! ! ! ❤❤❤
Wow, 75% ploughed over! Criminal! I remember reading about what's thought to be a temple in Ukraine which was made into a public park after its excavation by the Soviets. Made out of clay, not much now survives & it looks no more than 10' clay mounds now. Photos from the 1950s show that it was a well made complex originally.Thanks Dan, I've been interested in these cultures for a while now & you still add greatly to my small knowledge. A video about the Stone Tomb Complex would be very welcome cheers
I jump to your videos when they come out. I would love it if you did a series on ancient North and Central America.
An important feature and important reason for this region being exporting cultures was that hard winds covered the surfaces with fertile black soil - not sand! So the region "kept itself green" instead of ending up as a desert.
Tack!
Thank you very much indeed.
I really appreciate that final comment of "I wouldn't say that necessarily follows" regarding it being a state level society, it's like the opposite of when pseudo-archeologists take one thing that maybe points to another and they run with it. You can tell that you genuinely take care not to mislead people
Thank you.
Дуже цікаво! Щіро дякую за ролік!🎉
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. The information I get is better than anything on television, period.
Yes, would love a video on the stone tomb complex, Dan. Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable video on the mysterious temple of prehistoric Ukraine.
Christmas come early this year 😊
A key factor contributing to this region's cultural export was its fertile black soil, deposited by strong winds instead of sand. This prevented desertification and maintained a lush environment.
In an age where youtube is increasingly full of regurgitated crap your stuff stands out man thank you for staying the course and for your amazing work.
Thank you Dan! And thanks for posting that link, my feed did not show me this yesterday and I was driving the family all day. Love your work! Merry Christmas happy new year!
Stone tomb complex sounds fascinating.
Yes we would love a video on Stone grave mound. Merry christmas and thank you for all the videos
I agree with the watch tower suggestion. A people need to defend themselves, and signal towers were a common thing in the era. Having defensive watch towers over burial grounds: protects the buried, and allows the spotter to work with and for the spirits of their ancestors.
I enjoyed hearing about this. It was all new to me . Thanks
Yes to the stone burial mound complex video, please.
Please do make a video about the stone tomb complex, but I'd also gladly see a video about the connections between Catacomb Culture and Myceaneans
Thanks for this great film. I wish you all the best in the new year.
Awesome.. this is JUST what I needed today! Thanks Dan! You’re the best.. happy holidays to you! ATB 😊
I’ve got something excellent to watch while beading up the last few gifts 😅 lol
A video on the stone tomb complex sounds amazing. Thanks for this video, it was very informative and I enjoyed it!
Definitely want a full episode on the stone temple complex!
I know you focus on Bronze Age Europe, but videos in your style would be incredible about Cahokia, Spiro, and the Mississippian world as a whole
The area now known as Ukraine has given us so much. 😊
SLAVA UKRAINI ! ! ! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
So many in mass graves for US global hegemony and their military industrial complex -- and there'd be no conflict in the first place without Washington's interference.
Borderland? 🤔
In the future people will ask “ really there used to be a country called Ukraine”, sadly.
If you mean debt, then yes, they have.
Another video from Dan Davis. Merry Christmas to you too, Dan :)
Thanks mate, great work on this sone. Happy holidays to you and yours.
I’m half way though this one Dan and I’m totally diggin’ it. YES on stone tomb mound idea for a video, please =] I’m fallowing g the war in Ukrain pretty closely and I love that several of your films are about prehistory in that region. Fascinating!!!
🌊🌊🏄♀️🏄♂️
I was afraid that this site, since it is close to the front lines, might be endangered. A local told me, that it indeed is at least damaged and maybe destroyed by fighting and trenches. Hope things can be recovered and that the worst of humanity stops doing stupid things.
Huge Appreciation for your Passionate Sharing😊😊😊
An episode about the stone mound tomb would be mych appreciated.
I'm really "digging" the mound builder related videos😮
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Thanks!
Thank you very much 🙏
Yes please to the a video on the stone tomb complex. Great video once again! Thanks for another fascinating video!
Yes, please make a video of the Stone Tomb complex..
Stone tomb complex please. Fascinating stuff.
I'd never heard of this! Thank you for sharing.
Excellent work Dan. Plenty of data & minimal fluff. Curious how similar these mounds are to the over 100,000 mounds in North America. Too bad so many were destroyed. In America, the flattop mounds typically had pole structures on them, and the conical mounds served for burials. I wrote a fiction book, "Spirit Arrow", and a subsequent study, resulting in my "Ancient Native American Art & Culture" series here, and Rumble. I cannot present a link, but one of interest is "The Demise of the Hopewell & Mississippian Cultures Mystery". I wonder what the climate was like in Ukraine 4000 years ago?
Yes, please do a video on the stone mound.
This video deserves my like, thank you!
Nice! An early Christmas gift from Dan Davis!
Hallelujah!!
Video on Stone Grave Mound would be a great endeavor☆☆☆☆☆
Thanks for this
SWEET ! Thank you. Merry Christmas !
Over here in Finland, burial mounds were made from piles of stones molded by the retreating Ice Age glaciers. In fact, the most impressive monuments here are all carved by the expansion and contraction of Ice Age ice.
@13:00 Lithuanian here. Perkūnas is one of main old pagan Baltic deities. Till now we call thunderstorm- perkūnija- a word as common as any other. I wonder how many hundreds of years this name goes back and where it originates.
When Baltic toponyms begin near the Oka River.
I would say 1000 BC is possible.
Older than that, BIG maybe.
1500 BC West-Uralic Archaic-Iranian (Volga)
1000 BC Pre-Finnic Proto-Baltic 🇧🇾 🇷🇺
500 BC Middle-Finnic North-Baltic 🇪🇪 🇱🇹
200 CE Late-Finnic 🇪🇪 Proto-Scandinavian
→ Swedish: (dialectal) perkel, pärkel
→ Danish: (obsolete) perkild
→ Proto-Samic: *pearkëlë. biërgele, bärˈgala, pierˈkal, bärggal, beargalat, pergâlâh, piârgglõk
200 CE
*perkeleh “damn“
*përku põrgu: “hell“
Erzya пурьгине (puŕgińe, “thunder”) is from the same Baltic source.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *Perkūnas
pērkons "thunder"
perkū́nas Po perkūnais! "Damn it!",“thunder”
Old Prussian Perkūns. Perkuno
"hell" põrgu, põrgulik, põrguvärav
A Germanic origin is also possible, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną, compare Old English byrgan. The Germanic root has possibly mixed with Proto-Slavic *berťi. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bergtei
⇒ Lithuanian: bìrginti ‘save, stint’
Erzya пурьгине чирьке (puŕgińe čiŕke) "rainbow"
пурьгине (puŕgińe, “thunder”) + чирьке (čiŕke, “arc, bow”)
Semantically similar to Karelian ukonkuari from ukko (“thunder”) and kuari (“arc”).
Kuľaś saś prok mańej meńeľste puŕgińe .
The message came like a bolt from the blue.
Proto-Mordvinic *pəŕgə-~*piŕgə-
...although several proposed lexical comparisons between the Baltic and Mordvinic languages are incorrect, the number of plausible and possible etymologies, nevertheless, is more than thirty. (E M karks ‘belt’ etc., E kerš, kerč, M kerdží , keŕži, etc. ‘left’, E penge, M pengä ‘log, fi rewood’, E raśke, M raśkä‘relative, friend’ etc., E ŕedams ́ , ŕädams ́ , M ŕädams ́ ‘notice, perceive’ etc., E M
rudas, urdas etc. ‘dirt, mud’, E M talaj ‘recently, lately’ etc., E té ŕdems ́ , t́äŕdems
etc., M té ŕdə́ ms ‘call; invite’, E viŕ, M viŕ, viŕä ‘forest’).
(Baltic loanwords in Mordvin, Riho Grünthal )
Muscovitos androphagos. According to Herodotus. No culture at all, except humaneating procedures. A lot of broken human bones discovered in areas of their inhabitations, including more modern practice to preserve dead bodies inside special houses at middle age centuries period. Not mentioned modern cannibalism of androphagie from swamp lands.
This structure is located on the top of the plateau, so, likely, bolts of lightning strike there often in summer. This supports the idea the place was dedicated to the god of lightning.
Thanks for the interesting video! I have a book describing paintings in different caves of the Stone Tomb. The importance of this ritual site is very underrated.
Stone tomb complex video, 'yes' !
Hell yeah I want a full video on the stone tomb complex!
Oh this site is so cool. Maybe I missed it, but were there no connections made between the thirteen embankments and the thirteen constellations of the zodiac?
Thank you for this. I also like that you do go into wild theories.
On one hand, I'm sad that so much has been lost.
On the other hand, I'm grateful for what was preserved, and what we can learn from it.
Russia is waging war against Ukraine. Even greater losses are ahead if Russia is not stopped.
It would be very interesting to see a video about the Stone tomb complex, thank you 😊 Great video, and Greetings from Denmark 😊
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Well, of course the stone tomb would be of interest!
Thanks,very good job! The catacomb culture building the kurgans?
You certainly weren't joking when you wrote "Stick with me ,it's complicated "!❤
Yes to the stone tomb complex video!
It's great to learn the history of the steppes after the Yamnaya migrated out.
The carved stellia are reminiscent of the Gobleki Tepe stone ‘T’ pillar anthropomorphic carvings and burial masks are also similar. It’s not really all that far away either.
*Yes, a video of the stone complex would be cool.
Thank you for this video 👍👍
The second version of the mound looks stunningly like an eye to me - staring up at the heavens.
In addition to being ritual monuments they would have also served as navigation aids on an otherwise featurles lanscape. Basically islands in the steppe.
Mr Khan would have used them during his tour of Europe.
Britain has an artificial flat topped mound in Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, from a similar time frame. When the ground around it floods in the rain it appears as a conical island. when built it had ramps, now filled in, though one of which is still visible leading to the flat summit. It's unlikely this was connected to the Ukraine site but could denote similar thought processes from a society with similar level of development.
This has been my thought throughout this video; a flat top artificial mound connected to a river system not primarily used as a burial mound, my mind kept visualising Silbury and Malborough. I wonder if tales of these mounds spread across the trade networks helping influence the Silbury and Malborough mound builders?
There were active trade and exchange ties between all ancient cultures, as well as spiritual ties, because, having the power to build, create things from metals, tame animals, and especially horses, build large boats, and study other cultures, all the inhabitants of Eurasia carried out exchanges and imitations. Then there were no modern borders, customs offices and documents. There was also freedom in the exchange of ideas. Therefore, priests, merchants, warriors of different tribes always collected ideas that were suitable for their country and people.
Another outstanding video from Dan. Yes, do please do another on the cave site. Fascinating work- thank you again.
This was interesting.
13 is interesting , the church tried to make it an unlucky number but people are drawn to it, 13roads is interesting too, 13 months of 28 days , this is a very interesting video.
The cabal tried to make it an unlucky number; one of their heroes, Jacques Demolay, was killed on a Friday the 13th. More like an international celebration day if you ask me.
Yesss, Please!!... let's have a video about the Stone-Island/Tomb complex
Thank you for this fascinating information about archaeology in Ukraine (my ancestral homeland).
Fascinating video and information.... Please supply more..
Fascinating! It's a shame so many of the sites were razed, we could have learned so much from them.
Fortunately some of these sites are quite distant from the frontlines.
Just imagine if the war would eventually destroy these unique sites... we will lose important informations about our specie's past.
there're mounds (sacral construction) represented orion's belt and kurhans (tombs) dedicated for chosen people - we have many mounds here in poland ("ukraine" is just part of them taken by soviets),each important grod (castle,town) or grod built to protect sacred place (sanctuary) had own system of similar mounds,which once connected looks like orion's belt,some surived,some have been destroyed by austrians and prussians,while industrial era like in germany,some might be abandoned,but better to keep them hidden as might be destroy by looters (no treasure inside,but many had been destroyed by thieves as well)
Excellent video as always. Continue the great work. I'm always looking for material such as this. One of the oldest cemeteries and graves was just outside the Mariupol oblast unfortunately destroyed and probably now lost because of the Soviets and Russian invaders shelling the area. 15,000 years old but blasted by modern folks for an unnecessary reason. The kurgans and cromlechs have taught us so much. Including how our ancestors started farming and animal husbandry
Thank you Dan
Can't believe you didn't even mention how Colonel Zim, the last Kurgan, killed James Bond and then went on a rampage for over 400 years before he was finally killed by Raiden from Mortal Kombat
Congrats to both of you who know what I'm talking about
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13 roads, 13, ramps, down to one with a mound covered in bones and ashes?
Sounds like one clan won the bet
" The Thirteenth Tribe" comes to mind, no doubt.
Wow, thank you ❤
13 is the ancient reckoning of months. 7 days per week. 4 weeks per month. 13 months = 364 days. this reckoning has the benefit of regularity and lunar alignment.
Brilliant. It was so interesting seeing the different layers and how the structure changed over time. I wonder if the changes represent a change in deities or how they worshipped.
Of course we’re interested in the stone tomb complex!
I think a cool touch would’ve been to use Google Maps or Google Earth to find it so that we can see a real life image
I showed it on Google maps didn't I, in terrain and satellite view. There's no ground level view of the area and there's nothing to see anyway, the mound was destroyed by the excavation.
It could be a type of ritual calendar since there are 13 moons (months) in a natural year.
Awsome 😍