Origins of Tocharians, Balts, Aryans by Professor Greg MacDonald
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Transcript of Origins of Tocharians, Balts, Aryans by Professor Greg MacDonald
Finnic-PIE Separation >9000 BC
12 m BC
8 m BC
3 m BC
9 m BC
5900
4400 BC Balt Tocharians
Where they came from - the Urals
FinnicPIE
Urals Volga
Pontic Steppe
PIE-Finnic Urals 12000 BC
Aral Sea
Turkics, Altai 11000 BC
South Uzbekistan to Urals West Siberian Lake
Finnic-Turkic Split
How they got back to Asia
Domesticated Horses 4400 BC
The Silk Road
What they did in Asia
Horse Breeding Trading Sanskrit
Slavic dialectHindu Vedas
BuddhismKushan Empire
Chess
How they returned to Europe
How Aryans went East They were Hunters
Free Nomads & “Noble men”
Agriculture from Assyria & Anatolia land controls, foreign ownership, ...taxes, fealty, hierarchies >7000 BC
Byzantine Farmers
Black Sea Flood 5600 BC (Noah)Coast Line
5400 BC
5600 BC
Dnieper Horses Agri 4400 BC 7000
Constantinople
Rome ......
Western Civilization Baghdad
Ukraine 4400 BC ‘Dnieper Divide’
Agri west Aryans, Horses east South Urals Sintashta 3400 BC
Balts-Indo Iranians Invented Chariot 2200 BC, S.Urals
noted In the Vedas
Achaim, Aryan Urheimat nr. Chilabensk
Eurasian Steppe 5300 Km Hungary to Mongolia
Aryan Trek East
1500 Gansu
3400 Sintashta
PII 4400 BC
1750 Khyber Pass
Persia 1800
Aryans Enter India: 1750 BC
Tochariansin Xinjiang
Western China
Cherchen Man
1900 BC
Tocharian woman 1900 BC China
The Beauty of Loulan
Swastika 1900 BC China
Tocharian Traders 700 AD
Afghan Sheepherder Gulnara KarimovaHelmand Province (Aria) Uzbekistan
Today
Tocharian Culture in Asia
• Horse Breeding & Trading 1500 BC• Sanskrit & Slavic Dialect 1500 BC• Hindu Vedas, Upanishads 1400-800• Buddhism (Sakya Culture) 500 BC • Silk Road- Kushan Trading >200 BC• Buddhism to China <100 AD• Chess 500 AD• Tocharian extinct 832 AD
Daina Poems
Barons 35,800 verses feasts & events of the mythical, astronomical & agricultural year
The Daina & The Veda dainà folk-songs, highest expressions of the native heart and mind. religious sentiments, philosophy
• Balts & PII >> Daina to India & Persia Daina became Sanskrit Vedic dhēnā and the Avestan daēnā in Iran
• the Indo-European root • “dhi, dhy-ei, dhei,” means “to think, or to ponder over
Immanuel Kant Nativist
PhilosopherKonigsberg
Wisdom is in the Structure
of the Mind
(contra empiricists)
Spread of PIE Languages 67-3800 BC
Germanic
Italic
Celtic3800 Greek
5300
Baltic Tocharian 5900
Tocharian
Baltic Indo 1500 Iranian
Hittite 6700
1000 BC
2500 BC
6700 BC
Balt 5900 BC Finnic was Parent of all PIE Languages
Slavic 500 AD
Language Evolution :* Finno-Ugric is a “Stem” > Nostratic Language
* 5900 BC Baltic-Tocharian decended from Finnic
* 1500 BC Baltic spoken from west Asia to Poland
*1500 BC Slavic dialect separated from Baltic (Ural)
* 500 AD Slavic became a separate Language
* 1200 AD Slavic Fractionated, Russian emerged
* 1200 AD Baltic Fractionated, Latgalian, Lithuan,
Confucius
China has
Zhì Wisdom
from the mind, the soul
Acupuncture
China has
ZhīKnowledge
sensory
experience
Zinatne?
The Silk Road
How they Returned to Europe
Balts, Goths, Scyths, Saxons, Alans
Saka-Scyth Culture
Sarmatiansin Crimea3rd c. BC
Amazon Women Scythian Men
Yuezhi Trading Cities of the Ancient Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Taklaman Desert
Kucha/ KuchiKurçi Toch. B
Kashgar/Kashi
Khotan/ Yutian
Turfan/ārśi, Gaochang Tocharian A
Ȕrȕmchi
Kroran
Yanqi, Agni
Note: Kurçi–Yuezhi (Goth-Kurzeme) Link
Yuezhi (Gu-ti) Exodus from China
Foundations of Kushan (Kurçi) Trading Empire
Slavs 500 AD
Goths
Kursi 400 BC Balts 1500 Saca ... Saxons Scyths BC Scyths .. ... 400 AD 200 BC
Amazons 800 BC
Migrations North Balts, Scyths, Saxons, Goths, Kursi
Yuezhi Guti
Kursi
Slavics 500 AD ..400 Goths Scyths 200 BC .... Saxons
...... Rome Mongols 1200 Silk Road ... Western Civilisation Yuezhi 176 BC Baghdad Kushans Sakya 550 BC
Caspian Cleavage
Baltic Culture Fractionates 1200 AD
