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How was culture born? It was born with the cult of the dead, with the religious worship of ancestors; that began with the pyramid and with the tumuli built by prehistoric men. All these things are vanishing and are even extinct. — Ernst Jünger
This blog is concerned with history, both human and natural, and race in its various senses. Its focus is genomic ancestry inference, phylogenetics, biogeography, linguistics, and the cultural past — in vignette close-up as well as panorama.
Ortu Kan is an Asiatic temporarily in the West but not of it. His people’s language is Altaic (sensu Miller).