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Standardized currency in the form of copper rings, thin ingots (which I can't help but think resemble boats), and ingots in the shape of axe heads. The sheer amount of these objects with no variation implies a civilization with an almost industrial output of this currency, and currency like this would only be needed by a significantly advanced, sophisticated, and large civilization.
The tendency upon recovering graves with goods is to assume the dead would carry the 'sacrificed' items into the afterlife. Obviously there is no reason for a Frya's people to have this tradition, so the idea of these goods being buried with someone of status in order to take the currency out of circulation and in-effect lower inflation seems attractive. It is also human tendency to be buried surrounded by belongings regardless of afterlife beliefs, as seen today with people being buried with watches and jewelry.
Standardized currency in Bronze Age Europe
Re: Standardized currency in Bronze Age Europe
A very good link.
The Finnish mythology utilises a 10-based organisational culture (Finnish counting system is 10-based), as present also in toponyms (Satakunta 'Hundred-men'), and used a 10-based decimal system (SKVR poetry). The Germanic hundare and hunno (the chief of hundare) use same idea. As there has been a long argument among academics whether that means in Germanic military organisation context a literal hundred (as the term implies), or 120 (as per the Germanic counting system, which is 12-based), the archeological finding of a whole hundare suggests it was a 120.
Royal and metric system connects to kilograms via three-dimensional units (p. 66 here) and the metric measurement units were well known to likes of e.g. ancient Egyptians (here and here; notice the Frisian Jol).
The axe-heads would double as mini-axes, similar to modern camper's ultra-lightweight small axes, but in religious context would connect to likes of Ukko's axes.
The Finnish mythology utilises a 10-based organisational culture (Finnish counting system is 10-based), as present also in toponyms (Satakunta 'Hundred-men'), and used a 10-based decimal system (SKVR poetry). The Germanic hundare and hunno (the chief of hundare) use same idea. As there has been a long argument among academics whether that means in Germanic military organisation context a literal hundred (as the term implies), or 120 (as per the Germanic counting system, which is 12-based), the archeological finding of a whole hundare suggests it was a 120.
Royal and metric system connects to kilograms via three-dimensional units (p. 66 here) and the metric measurement units were well known to likes of e.g. ancient Egyptians (here and here; notice the Frisian Jol).
The axe-heads would double as mini-axes, similar to modern camper's ultra-lightweight small axes, but in religious context would connect to likes of Ukko's axes.
Re: Standardized currency in Bronze Age Europe
I remember reading about the Cornish monopoly on the tin that fueled the bronze age, and the discovery of axe-shaped tin ingots off the coast of Crete marked with Phoenician glyphs. Further confirmation of Herodotus' brief account of the Cassitrides (Tin Islands), and perhaps confirmation of OLB's perspective on early British-Mediterranean cultural, material, and genetic exchange.
OLB is the only alternative historical source I've found that pins the Druids as a foreign prostheletyzing body; most are happy to claim them as a noble caste of indigenous keepers of wisdom.
Posting here because I couldn't find a relevant category re: echoes of OLB in archeology. The stanskrif on an Ionian coin dated to the 6th century BC:
Ionian coins are thought to represent the earliest instance of coin usage in the Hellenic world.
This particular coin, the one with the eight-spoked solar wheel on one of its faces, is the earliest known Ionian coin to achieve wide citculation.
We know the Ionians from OLB as self-exiles from Frya's land, pirates of the Mediterranean.
'Ionian' is also one of the three ethnic branches of the Greek flood myth. By the classical period they were derided by the other Greeks- Herodotus is a notable example, who flamed the Ionians for claiming to be the most ethnically pure of the Athenians .
Despite the contempt they were held in, they were wealthy international traders who colonized the Cycladic Islands and the coast of Asia Minor. In fact, Anatolian and Libyan words for the whole Greek population were derived from names for the Ionians. We find them front and center in the Homeric hymn to Apollo, dated to about a century before the electrum coin seen above.
According to the hymn, it was the Ionians who first instituted the grand Church of Apollo, originally headquartered on the tiny island of Delos where the Iforemost of the Ionians would gather on an annual basis to celebrate the birth of the Sun God. The cult of Apollo would grow into the foremost religious institution in the Mediterranean; and if you plot the other chief cultic sites of ancient Greece on a map, Delos is the radial center.
This feeds back into the Hyperborean Myth:
Primary sources relate that Apollo and Artemis were born from a Hyperborean Maiden, and Apollo himself is usually described as golden-haired; perhaps euphemistically, for his solar attributes; perhaps literally, describing the Hyperborean phenotype.
Euripides the 5th century Athenian playwright said Ion, forefather of the Ionians, was the bastard child of Apollo the Hyperborean...
Another common glyph on Ionian coinage is the swastika:
This bad boy is almost universally distributed in antiquity, begging the question: what about the Germano-Britannic archeological and scholastic monopoly? What about the fake antiquities market?
There were twelve Ionian cities; just like there were twelve tribes of Israel. The Jewish Templar Coalition that is supposed to have launched banking in Europe vs. the Ionian Merchant Coalition that gave Europe it's first system of coinage.
I've got a handful of threads but lack the confidence to braid them into an enduring or load-bearing shape as I'm not sure if any primary source is really trustworthy.
Check it out: Herodotus said the Colchians were black Egyptians, his proof being that they practiced circumcision. LA Waddell thinks the Egyptians learned circumcision and baptism from the Gothic Aryans. Experts on the transmission of Iron technology trace iron-working and swordsmithing from the Crimean back to ancient Colchis; Apollonius of Rhodes calls the Colchian princess Medea a 'daughter of the sun' (Hyperborean Sun God Apollo?)
Medea is mentioned in the OLB in the form of 'Medeasblik', a citadel whose burgtmaagd was stolen.
The Argonautica describes the miracles wrought in Colchis by Hephaestus, God of the Forge; it also says king Aeetes of Colchis is the blood relative of the Queen of the Phaecians; and some believe the Phaecians described in the Odyssey are actually the Frisians.
The OLB casually mentions the existence of Frisian iron weapons in the Age of Bronze; and the legends relate that the metallurgy of Colchis was miles ahead of the Hellenic world.
When Jason and Medea visit the Phaecians, they are gifted twelve Phaecian maidens as a dowry from Medea's aunt. Maidens who are described as golden-haired.
That number 12 again, and everyone's hair the color of electrum.
OLB is the only alternative historical source I've found that pins the Druids as a foreign prostheletyzing body; most are happy to claim them as a noble caste of indigenous keepers of wisdom.
Posting here because I couldn't find a relevant category re: echoes of OLB in archeology. The stanskrif on an Ionian coin dated to the 6th century BC:
Ionian coins are thought to represent the earliest instance of coin usage in the Hellenic world.
This particular coin, the one with the eight-spoked solar wheel on one of its faces, is the earliest known Ionian coin to achieve wide citculation.
We know the Ionians from OLB as self-exiles from Frya's land, pirates of the Mediterranean.
'Ionian' is also one of the three ethnic branches of the Greek flood myth. By the classical period they were derided by the other Greeks- Herodotus is a notable example, who flamed the Ionians for claiming to be the most ethnically pure of the Athenians .
Despite the contempt they were held in, they were wealthy international traders who colonized the Cycladic Islands and the coast of Asia Minor. In fact, Anatolian and Libyan words for the whole Greek population were derived from names for the Ionians. We find them front and center in the Homeric hymn to Apollo, dated to about a century before the electrum coin seen above.
According to the hymn, it was the Ionians who first instituted the grand Church of Apollo, originally headquartered on the tiny island of Delos where the Iforemost of the Ionians would gather on an annual basis to celebrate the birth of the Sun God. The cult of Apollo would grow into the foremost religious institution in the Mediterranean; and if you plot the other chief cultic sites of ancient Greece on a map, Delos is the radial center.
This feeds back into the Hyperborean Myth:
Primary sources relate that Apollo and Artemis were born from a Hyperborean Maiden, and Apollo himself is usually described as golden-haired; perhaps euphemistically, for his solar attributes; perhaps literally, describing the Hyperborean phenotype.
Euripides the 5th century Athenian playwright said Ion, forefather of the Ionians, was the bastard child of Apollo the Hyperborean...
Another common glyph on Ionian coinage is the swastika:
This bad boy is almost universally distributed in antiquity, begging the question: what about the Germano-Britannic archeological and scholastic monopoly? What about the fake antiquities market?
There were twelve Ionian cities; just like there were twelve tribes of Israel. The Jewish Templar Coalition that is supposed to have launched banking in Europe vs. the Ionian Merchant Coalition that gave Europe it's first system of coinage.
I've got a handful of threads but lack the confidence to braid them into an enduring or load-bearing shape as I'm not sure if any primary source is really trustworthy.
Check it out: Herodotus said the Colchians were black Egyptians, his proof being that they practiced circumcision. LA Waddell thinks the Egyptians learned circumcision and baptism from the Gothic Aryans. Experts on the transmission of Iron technology trace iron-working and swordsmithing from the Crimean back to ancient Colchis; Apollonius of Rhodes calls the Colchian princess Medea a 'daughter of the sun' (Hyperborean Sun God Apollo?)
Medea is mentioned in the OLB in the form of 'Medeasblik', a citadel whose burgtmaagd was stolen.
The Argonautica describes the miracles wrought in Colchis by Hephaestus, God of the Forge; it also says king Aeetes of Colchis is the blood relative of the Queen of the Phaecians; and some believe the Phaecians described in the Odyssey are actually the Frisians.
The OLB casually mentions the existence of Frisian iron weapons in the Age of Bronze; and the legends relate that the metallurgy of Colchis was miles ahead of the Hellenic world.
When Jason and Medea visit the Phaecians, they are gifted twelve Phaecian maidens as a dowry from Medea's aunt. Maidens who are described as golden-haired.
That number 12 again, and everyone's hair the color of electrum.
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