The migrations of the Cimbri and the Teutons between 113 and 101 BC (left diagram), with places of major battles with Roman forces indicated. Drawing showing Cimbrian people during their European journey (right).
Posted on 12/14/2014 12:59:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The migrations of the Cimbri and the Teutons between 113 and 101 BC (left diagram), with places of major battles with Roman forces indicated. Drawing showing Cimbrian people during their European journey (right).
Barry Fell noted that this particular image from the Gundestrup Cauldron is holding up his hands and spelling "thunder" in Ogham -- and the figure is a thunder deity. One view (which IMHO is correct) is that the method of writing began as fingerspelling, a way to communicate silently and (if others were unfamiliar with it) secretly.
Interesting!
His hands are up, but something tells me he is NOT surrendering.
Ambrones (Ligures?) – Flood Survivors of the 2nd century BC (Cimbrian War)
http://freya.theladyofthelabyrinth.com/?page_id=610
Odal Land, The Cimbri — 120-114 BC — The Cimbrian flood
http://theudwinniler.tumblr.com/post/29698557551/the-cimbri-120-114-bc-the-cimbrian-flood
Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes - Cimbri and Teutones
http://theudwinniler.tumblr.com/post/29698557551/the-cimbri-120-114-bc-the-cimbrian-flood
Cymbrian flood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbrian_flood
Gundestrup cauldron (left). Plate E from the Gundestrup Cauldron (right), apparently showing Roman warriors.
Or maybe he was saying, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”
The only benefit I’ve noted from the global warming hysteria was for some researchers, considering it a cyclic event, to possibly explain its potential effects on human development and migration. Just glanced through the article and it seems to be folling that perception.
I wholeheartedly agree.
;’)
“Don’t taze me, bro!”
You look at the map of their wanderings, maybe they weakened the Gauls in advance of Caesar’s conquests.
They were Celts, I believe. :’) And Gaius had everything he needed to kick the living ka-ka out of the whole bunch.
And, from and for the fringe:
The Oera Linda Book
by Wiliam R. Sandbach
http://sacred-texts.com/atl/olb/index.htm
http://oeralinda.webs.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oera_Linda_Book
I'm thinking the Cimbri could have had some such effect on the Gauls.
European Kingdoms
Northern Europe
Jutes (Eudoses)
http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/ScandinaviaJutes.htm
“is that the method of writing began as fingerspelling, a way to communicate silently and (if others were unfamiliar with it) secretly.”
Fascinating. And now the gangsters, outside the pale of civilization by their own choice, are re-inventing it.
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