• Hexamerous [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 hours ago

    Timmy to lead the new Ukrainian Ahnenerbe organization.

    Well, at least we might get a new Indy movie out of it. Indiana Jones: The search for Banderas lost Totem(kopf)

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    15 hours ago

    I like tall women as much as the next guy but Amazons co star in the Greek myths with centaurs and shit because they’re a kind of psycho sexual projection of Ancient Greek misogyny and an extrapolation of tales of encounters with the less sexually segregated nomadic peoples to their north and not a literal thing that existed.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      15 hours ago

      Yeah, ancient Greek accounts of groups like the Scythians are wild, it’s all like “They’re horrible savage barbarians, doing savage, animalistic things like eating raw meat and not oppressing their women.”

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          11 hours ago

          Yeah, I think so. It’s complete nonsense. I have a friend who is rather busty, and she also does archery as a hobby, it’s a weird nonsensical claim just made to other them. But it pushes a common idea that the Greeks and Romans had about other societies, that they must do something horribly wrong to their women, to justify their own cruelties.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      15 hours ago

      Also the Forerunners from Halo, but this was all lost when Адам and Єва (those were their true names) were cast out from едем, which I understand to be somewhere in modern day Kyiv

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    The Kurgan hypothesis famously states that the copper age culture that first spoke Proto-Indo-European lived very specifically within the internationally recognized borders of modern day Ukraine. They definitely did not migrate from the territory of any other modern-day country to the Pontic-Caspian steppe in a way that would cast doubt on the idea that Ukraine was the true birthplace of PIE. They also definitely did not live on both sides of Ukraine’s arbitrary modern borders in a way that would cast doubt on the idea that Ukraine was the true birthplace of PIE. Archaeologists and linguists are also obviously all in complete consensual agreement about how the location of the Proto-Indo-European urheimat is a completely solved problem and thankfully no longer a point of contention that might never have a clear and easy answer.

    Jeez, aren’t we so lucky that human prehistory is so simple and lets me construct a nationalist narrative for a country that wouldn’t even exist until like five millennia later?

    [THIS ENTIRE COMMENT IS WRITTEN WITH SARCASTIC INTENT]

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      14 hours ago

      indo-european langagues were a mistake and i want to find at least one modern nation state that we can hold 100% responsible

      [insert meme graph about “hole left by the christian dark ages” but it’s “hole left by the needlessly complicated grammar dark ages”] we would have had FALGSC a thousand years ago if the milk drinkers has just stayed in their corner and not bothered west/south eurasia with their bendy verbs

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    19 hours ago

    I’m a Ukrainian Zionist. A lot of people don’t know this, but Ukraine is actually a lost tribe of Israel. They built the pyramids before using that knowledge to build Kiev.