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Lol, I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to medieval Japanese weapons and armour. Sure.

It could have been any crest. The antlers and the crest aren't related. You sometimes get just antlers, you sometimes get a crest. Sometimes you get both. Or neither.

You're the one talking out of your ass, buddy.

By the way, the enuma elis is at least 700 BC. FFS, there's old English documents older than 900AD.
 
If I asked you to prove to me that Genghis Khan was a Mongolian, born and raised in Mongolia, from where he launched a rather massive military assault on everyone he seemed to know, both east and west of him, would you know how to do that? If I say, "Can you show me his grave, or any archaeological evidence like that?"

Your only real choice is to respond, "Umm, no. Here, I'll quote wikipedia real quick:

Years before his death, Genghis Khan asked to be buried without markings, according to the customs of his tribe. After he died, his body was returned to Mongolia and presumably to his birthplace in Khentii Aimag, where many assume he is buried somewhere close to the Onon River and the Burkhan Khaldun mountain (part of the Kentii mountain range). According to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path to conceal where he was finally buried. The Genghis Khan Mausoleum, constructed many years after his death, is his memorial, but not his burial site."

And then I snicker and say, "Well, how damn convenient is that, lol? Guess we need to start scouring the Historical source documents to see what we can find for 'proof', eh?"

As you work your way backwards, you find your 'best proof' - The Secret History of the Mongols. And you send it my way and say, "See. Pretty damn clear, CJ. It's all right here about exactly who Genghis was, where he was from, and all kinds of other important details about his life, and all the PhD scholars just rave about it, so it cannot be questioned, certainly not by a retired skibum/river rat in Colorado, the High Country, of all places. What an idiot you are."

And I say, "I see. So, that's some book Genghis wrote?"

"Umm ... no"

"So, who wrote it, and when and where did it enter the public domain?"

You stammer a bit and stall, starting to wonder if maybe you bit off a little more than you can chew and maybe CJ ain't the dumbass you were thinking he was, "Umm ... I'll just quote Wikipedia again:

The Secret History of the Mongols is the oldest surviving Mongolian-language literary work. It was written for the Mongol royal family some time after Genghis Khan's death in AD 1227, by an anonymous author and probably originally in the Uyghur script, though the surviving texts all derive from transcriptions or translations into Chinese characters dating from the end of the 14th century, compiled by the Ming dynasty under the name The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty (Chinese: 元朝秘史; pinyin: Yuáncháo mìshǐ). Also known as Tobchiyan (Chinese: 脫必赤顏 or 脫卜赤顏; pinyin: Tūobìchìyán, Tūobochìyán) in the History of Yuan.

The Secret History is regarded as the single most significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan. Linguistically, it provides the richest source of pre-classical Mongolian and Middle Mongolian.[2] The Secret History is regarded as a piece of classic literature in both Mongolia and the rest of the world.
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"I see. So, this Chinese copy of an alleged Mongolian original that nobody has ever seen produced by an anonymous author and handed to us by The Powers That Be in China that was not written until after Genghis died is the only proof you have? That's pretty weak sauce..."

Mongolia, eh? Let's take a look at the place. I'll enlist Julia Roberts on her little camping trip to help me. If you watch the first couple minutes, at about 44 seconds, they all come out of the yurt. Forget about them. Forget about the people, forget about the yurt, and just look at everything else you see. They'll go back in the yurt with the camera, but come back out, so watch the first couple of minutes, ignore the yurts and people and just focus on all of the other stuff you see in the picture. Ya ready? Mmmkay...:


What'd all ya'll see? That's right - a whole bunch 'o jackcrap nothing. Barren land. Barren of life, barren of natural resources. That's some tough livin' there, ain't it? Just to survive. The life of a Nomad, indeed. One for which I have respect and appreciation. There was the 'Mongol' Horde and Wave. But, anyone that wants to tell me that a group of people from the area known as Mongolia was at the helm of it gets resoundly laughed at, PhDs included. Not possible. Mongolians were no more capable of launching a 'global' military assault force, toppling multiple militaries, etc., in the 13th century than they are today. And that is because of that landscape I drew your attention to - it CANNOT support such. A cultural like that one (pretty damn unchanged in many ways, still, today) is not capable of sending all of its able boys and men of to war, with multiple horses each, etc. Imagine that Mongolian lady's Husband and oldest boy taking off with all of the best horses to go conquer the world. How in the hell is she going to survive? Not because she is a woman, but because keeping herself and her children alive in an environment like Mongolia ain't a one person job. How does she move the yurt from location to location by herself, etc.? And then, with the men and boys that would be causalities of war and never come home, etc. Gimme a break ... what crock 'o shite that Fairy Tale is.

I'll stop there with that - it is enough for one to get the idea of where I am going concerning the relative impossibilities of a military force the size of the Horde basically instantaneously springing up out of nowhere, to quickly disappear again from a place that is ridiculous to consider such happening because of the environmental limitations. All of the societal infrastructure for training, weapons manufacture, organization, food supply, etc., necessary to support a military wave could NOT have originated from the Nomads of Mongolia, with no history of such prior or afterwards, nor is there ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE OTHER THAN HEARSAY, other than 'lost copies' of 'alleged and never seen original' books handed to us by The Powers That Be. The land simply does not have enough natural resources, including the human societal density and infrastructure necessary.

But, that Mongol Horde, and the Blue, White, Golden Hordes were a real thing - just NOT a Mongolian thing. One of Genghis' realtive's names still lives on - the Vatican, named after Batu-Khan (don't forget about the flexion that occurs between b & v). There most definitely is a group of known Horse People from the Asian Steppes, but from the Western Steppes, not Eastern ...

We have seem to have a very different idea about how empire and conquest work.

I agree that the idea of the Mongol "horde" consisting of entirely mongols is laughable.

I was going to use the Ancient Greek King Alexander as an example but that would just cause argument because he falls outside the "modern" context.

However if we use the British Empire as an example, it managed to accumulate the largest empire ever.
Not by using only British soldiers, but by a careful series of allegiances and promises, in fact the vast majority of soldiers that fought for or with the "British" were not technically "British" at all.
I personally believe this concept was borrowed from the past, and has been a constant in conflict from time immemorial.

My enemies enemy is my friend etc.

Why would the Mongols be any different?
 
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(During the rise of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, the usually cold, parched steppes of central Asia enjoyed their mildest, wettest conditions in more than a millennium. It is thought that as a result, a rapid increase in the number of war horses and other livestock significantly enhanced Mongol military strength.)
Mongol Empire - Wikipedia
 
I find Fomenko interesting and am open to the idea that there could be serious issues with our historical chronology. Things covered up, lies told.
But the biggest weakness is that Fomenko is very Western and European centered and there are non-Western source materials that correlate with aspects of our received chronology. Just take Arabic sources alone, which I've become increasingly fascinated with as I've better learned to read the language. There's an immense amount of pre-modern manuscripts in the Arabic world. Though they are currently being burned by people like ISIS!

There are historical references to the Romans and Greeks and Alexander in Arabic sources that are fairly reliably hundreds or even a thousand years old that put some aspects of antiquity in the range our conventional chronology claims. Like Alexander of Macedon for example. Arabic lore and historical sources put Alexander about 800 - 1000 years before the mid-Abbassid era in which most Arab historians started writing. They also make reference to Indian kings and kingdoms and other nations kings and events of which we have very little other contemporary witnessing. And Arabic manuscripts are spread out all the way from West Africa to Turkestan.

I think there's something to be said for the idea that there are massive holes and lies in our chronology but I don't think all of it should be scrapped. Questioned yes but it's always good to remember there are historical sources out there that we haven't yet examined...
 
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