Episode Details

Here we provide an answer to the question of which came first the Ancient Indian mythological first human and first sacrifier Manu (Vaivasvata) the son of Saṃjñā and Bhāskara (sun-god), or the first of the Germans, son of Tuisto/Twin, Mannus?

Tacitus:

GERMANIA, CHAPTER 2

(The Germans) celebrate in ancient songs-which are their only means of remembrance or recording the past—an earth-born god, Tuisto (or: Tuisco). His son Mannus was the origin of their race and their founder. They assign three sons to Mannus, and from their names they call those close to the ocean Ingaevones; those in the middle, Herminones; and all the rest, Istaevones.

Each of these three groupings thus has a tribal ancestor from whom they take their name: the Ingaevones from Ing, who corresponds to the Old Norse god Yngvi (Freyr); the Herminones from Irmin, the national god of the Saxons according to Widukind of Corvey and others (who may also correspond to ON Jormunr, a by-name of Oöinn); and the Istaevones from *Ist, who is unknown elsewhere.23 This brief account—taken from the ancient songs of the Germans themselves.

Yamnaya burial uncovered when in May 2021 at Surskiy / Novosleksandrivka / Dnipro property developers destroyed the Mound under which he was buried (and sparked my Finding Manuland journey):

Transcript:

Hi, I'm Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland, a What's the Power of Mana podcast. This is episode two. Let's get right to it. We've got a lot of ground to cover and only infinity in which to cover it. So there's three elements to every episode of Finding Manuland.

First, the use of mana, the use to which we can put mana. the practice you can take today in your daily work, in your daily doing your chores, going into shops and interacting with other sentient beings, including your pets and your friends and your lovers and your former lovers.

So mana is an energy which we exchange as a function of being human beings. It's so important that it's imminent in the name we now have for our species. This energy is within us and is communicated to others. And most of us have forgotten about this. However,

I found the artifact of the existence of this energy lodged inside our language, the Indo-European, Germanic, language of English. It's also, I postulate, lodged inside other Indo-European languages and we'll go through some parts of other languages during the Power of Mana podcast and in Finding Manorland.

The second element in every Finding Man In Land podcast is about language. So it's about how this MN sound, which is in mana, how this MN sound and particular meanings, including both the idea of meaning and the meaning of the MN sound imminent in the word meaning.

So if this sounds a bit like gobbledygook, it won't at the end. Just know that MN is in meaning, and without an idea of meaning, it's impossible to disaggregate one signifier from another. And our entire language and meaning systems which language communicates depends on vast interlocking matrices of networks.

of metaphors and metaphor breaks down into two elements and meta means device and far means light So the idea of metaphor is contained within that simple breakdown of the words. And in this we demonstrate how sometimes, not always, breaking down words or signifiers into their elements, then parsing those elements for meanings,

can illuminate the entirety of highly complex concepts like metaphor. So metaphor is a device to see and you see one word, the meaning of one word, through referencing it to another. And before you know it, you have infinity of these relationships and an understanding of a language and the meaning which underpins it.

This MN sound an