Post: #26

While we're on the subject:





This posits that the original Indo-Aryan civilization was based along the Baltic Sea, which could well have migrated to Russia and subsequently to India in the manner we've been debating. Interesting stuff but you really do have to listen to the whole thing.

Post: #27

(09-18-2014 09:22 AM)FretDancer Wrote:  I started learning Russian aprox. 2 weeks ago and I couldn't have seem this thread at a better time. Even though I'm obviously way too novice to understand this (I can understand a few common words), I will keep this thread in mind.

By the way Mage are you Russian? Or is Russian a non native language for you?

I am not russian. Russian is my 2nd language that I leaned naturally at 5 years old while playing with russian children and watching russian cartoons. I have never learned it in school and I have no knowledge of of it's grammar rules, but I speak it like a native user. At 7-8 years old I absorbed English in similar way. I am culturally at a unique position where I can be familiar with both anglosphere and russosphere culture at a very high level. I can understand and enjoy both the humor of Yevgeny Petrosyan and Big Bang theory. This gives me a very broad insight into the extents of culturral differences and also reveals some baseline of human nature that is not-culture particular. This is all because I was at this particular age and country when absorbtion level of languages and cultural savy is high when iron curtain fell. My peers that are one or two years younger then me speak English and don't know Russian. My peers that are one or two years older then me speak Russian and don't know English.

My primary language is Latvian which is officially the second oldest Indo-European language after Lithaunian. Latvians have a movement that explores ties with sanscrit and Vedic culture as well. I just put in a russian video because there would be people who emulate Roosh and learn Russian here, sadly can't expect people to learn Latvian or Lithaunian, the population that speaks these languages are too small sadly.

Post: #28

(09-19-2014 06:12 PM)Brian Boru Wrote:  This posits that the original Indo-Aryan civilization was based along the Baltic Sea, which could well have migrated to Russia and subsequently to India in the manner we've been debating. Interesting stuff but you really do have to listen to the whole thing.

Aryans are not European people. They're from the region that, today, is now called "Iran/Persia".

Post: #29

Wow, you reached a native speaker level by playing with Russian children and watching cartoons? Amazing! Was this in an environment with lot's of Russian language involved or was it like 3 or 4 Russian kids that you hanged out with and when you came back home you turned on the TV to watch some Russian cartoons?

Post: #30

(09-20-2014 04:49 AM)FretDancer Wrote:  Wow, you reached a native speaker level by playing with Russian children and watching cartoons? Amazing! Was this in an environment with lot's of Russian language involved or was it like 3 or 4 Russian kids that you hanged out with and when you came back home you turned on the TV to watch some Russian cartoons?

There is nothin amazing about it. Many children grow up multilingual in mixed cultures.

Post: #31

Mage, can you post some links where people examine the links between Latvian and Vedic culture? I think that would be really interesting.

paldies jums, спасибо

Post: #32

(09-22-2014 11:25 AM)Brian Boru Wrote:  Mage, can you post some links where people examine the links between Latvian and Vedic culture? I think that would be really interesting.

paldies jums, спасибо

I couldn't find any specific blog or website devoted to this subject but if you google it there are many articles touching this. All depends whether do you want to research it from scientific, vedic or ethno-centric pagan viewpoint.

Post: #33

Great thread, enjoyed the discussion on languages. He's right about the origins of the Aryans except that they came from beyond Persia. The steppes is most likely.