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So this is the second part of the “Manu or Mannus: Which Came First?” I've decided to try and do these recordings in shorter elements. Then like a Netflix (where they issue the whole series at once)…

But instead of issuing a whole series of ten one-hour-long shows, these are going to be much shorter. Then you can decide whether you listen to them all together.

So Manu or Mannus… This episode, like all, will contain the three elements which are:

(1) Mana, meaning energy, I'm exchanging my energy with you, my Mana, you can hear it in my voice, the timbre of my voice. You by downloading it, by listening to it, you are taking in but you're also giving back. We're exchanging our Mana, our energy.

(2) Also in here, obviously, is the linguistic element, the Indo-European element, which includes both the mythological as well as the linguistic aspects.

(3) The third element are journeys, voyages, mental and physical. So I was describing how the first Germanic culture went up the Dniester River and/or the Danube River, two of the great rivers of ancient and contemporary Ukraine.

Also that in the three sons of Mannus - Herminones, Ingaevones (who founded the English people), and Istaevones -is this trifunctional structure which which is a very important means of tracing indo-european elements in our cultures.

So, most of us are aware of the Indian caste system. You have the Brahmin priestly caste. The sovereignty caste. Then you have the Ksatriya, who are the soldiers equivalent to my namesake, Istaevones in Germanic culture. Then you have the third caste, who are the farmers. The economic caste. The fertility element.

The function of the community which is expressed in the caste system. Well, that same tripartite structure... has been traced into most if not all indo-european culture linguistic and social cultures. So, again, it comes from a common source.

“The strongest reconstructions [of Proto-Indo-European] are those that are based on languages that are not closely connected, in order to eliminate the possibility of common innovation among a sub-group like Celtic or Balto-Slavic. A reconstruction based on evidence from Old Irish and Hittite is therefore stronger than one based solely on Sanskrit and Avestan, as they form a sub-group.”

The individual proper names at the origin of the ethnic groups are not the common names for gods, but they're, they're surnames. So we have Herminones, Ingaevones and Istaevones.

Those are probably the surnames. So you would receive your name according to the tribe you're in and the Germanic tribe you're in. But the particular element within it. Are you of the soldier caste or the fertility, the economic, the farming caste? Or are you like the Brahmin priest, the Herminones part or the Flamines in ancient Rome? So the source of these names for us is from the poetic, Carmina. Carmina, again the M-N- to describe Carmina (songs), the poetic.

So Tacitus, although this is all, he is our main source, our primary, our fundamental, source for understanding the origins of the Germanic people through the stories they told themselves, the myths they exchanged themselves before they were a written culture. And Tacitus himself, he’s a bit of a historian, but he's also a Carmina. He's a poet.

So he's writing in the poetic. So that first, that name, Ingea, probably from the Ingeavones. So Ingeia is probably the first name. Referring to an individual god and there's a parallel in Scandinavia which then occupied the island of Britain and became the dominant Germanic tribe there after 433 Common Era when the Romans withdrew from the island of Britain. The German Germanic tribes took over as we know in 1066. The Normans again M-N- in Norman. So they are related genetically and linguistically to the Menapii, who are very much at my origin story of here and Manuland.

The term Manuland comes from a warehouse near Maine