Episode Details

Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. This is the Power of Mana podcast and the Finding Manuland branch of the Power of Mana podcast. I've recorded two episodes already of Finding Manuland and we're going to give this the moniker Episode Zero because it's an introduction to the podcast.

I want to challenge this view that many of us have and we hear anecdotally whenever anyone mentions, for example, that the etymology of a particular word comes from ancient Rome or ancient Greece.

We have a vague idea that Western civilization emanated from these two cultures. And what this vague idea, which is inculcated into us further each time someone gives us an etymology from Latin or Greek, which sometimes are genuine and sometimes aren't, what is inculcated into us is an absence, the absence of the actual common source from which all Indo-European languages emanate. And this is something that has emerged into my consciousness over the past three to four years as I began to research the MN.

What I now see is this MN sound immanent in most sentences which we speak or think in Indo-European languages.

And so the first purpose of Finding Manuland is to take us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India, where traditionally we speak Indo-European languages, which themselves emanate from a common source in a geographical location many of us don't know much about, but it's in southeastern Ukraine between the rivers, the Don and the Dnipro River, and specifically in Mykolaiv Oblast, which is the type site, as archaeologists call it, of a people, again, most of us haven't heard of, called the Yamna.

These Yamna created the first Indo-European language in that area. So Finding Manuland will take us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India through the medium of my physical journey.

So I will be telling you and explaining to you and illustrating to you the meanings in finding Manuland through visiting actual places, geographical locations. We will visit there physically and I will mention many of the places I have over the past three to four years explored and we will visit them through the spoken word.

Finding Manuland also moves us across time from 4000 BCE until the present, so space and time.

So most of us, our mental models of the past will begin if we're lucky and we've been trained or educated or grown up in a particular culture Most of our mental models will begin maybe around 1000 BCE, which is the time of the historical King David, the first king of the state of Israel, who features prominently in the Bible and the Old Testament of the Bible. David itself is an Indo-European name and David's father and forebears, or rather his mother's father was Uriah the Hittite. And until relatively recently, maybe about a century ago, all we knew about the Hittites were through the Bible and through the fact that King David was the grandchild of a Hittite. And this time frame of 1000 BCE