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Post by rrichad on Apr 15, 2012 13:24:05 GMT 3
I am Lithuanian, oldest intact indo european culture in Europe along with Latvians. Horse people to the core and home to Lipka Tatars. Took a trip to Mongolia in 2010 and was hooked on a still living and essentially intact horse culture, unchanged for thousands of years. Plus it was the home of Chinggis Khan, a man I greatly admire for his ability to lead. i set up a tour company in the Kazakh west of Mongolia to take people on horse riding adventures. One day I would like to ride from Mongolia to Lithuania
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Post by rrichad on Apr 14, 2012 9:53:05 GMT 3
"The Baltic crusade however was truly bloody, a pity too that the last "pagan" stronghold in Europe got converted eventually; even if they managed to win strategically, they lost culturally."
Nah they didn't - luckily. There are more people reverting back to paganism every day in Lithuania, especially young people who see thru the Catholic Church's desire to keep people ignorant and controlled. The rot started when Peter usurped the power of Jesus' wife, Mary Magdalene, rewrote or ignored many of the gospels which didn't fit his worldview, and generally changed the principles of the whole thing...
Aynur is right when he talks of dumbing down of nations. That is a fact, that men would now rather die than think for themselves...
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Post by rrichad on Apr 14, 2012 9:25:53 GMT 3
Old thread - new news. Oddly enough the Lithuanian goddess who used horses to pull the sun across the sky was named Saule. And a Kazakh name is also Saule which means "sunshine" or "sunny". I have no idea why this linguistic connection exists, but I put it down to common Indo European roots three thousand or so years ago... also Lithuanians noted as superb horseback fighters, and horse was part of religious rites for thousands of years, up until 19th Century. Their horses were also small like Kazakh and Mongol horses, but with bigger feet for riding in swamps. Since the Soviets got kicked out in 1989-90 Romuva is displacing Catholicism especially among younger people. We were never really converted after all
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