Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref The Milky Way, as the Path of the Souls ref 1. “Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw/ Kwakiutl people speak Kwakiutl, a Wakashan language spoken by Kwakwakaʼwakw people around Queen Charlotte Strait in Western Canada. It has shared considerable influence with other languages of the Pacific Northwest, especially those of the unrelated Salishan family.” ref, ref  2. “Oglala people (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning “to scatter one’s own” in Lakota language) are one of the seven sub ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref Mythical Family/Fairytale Marriages “Popular wisdom and standard social attitudes as transmitted in folk tales may show a matter-of-fact acceptance of the universality of marriage in a variety of manifestations. Folk-tales can feature marriage (labelled as such) between species, including humans – compare versions of the tale of the Frog Prince.” ref MYSTICAL MARRIAGE “Mystical marriage or spiritual marriage (also espousal to Christ) is a figure used to denote the state of a human soul living intimately united to God through grace and love. In a broad sense ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia “The peopling of India refers to the migration of Homo sapiens into the Indian subcontinent. Anatomically modern humans settled India in multiple waves of early migrations, over tens of millennia. The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal 65,000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within South and Southeast Asia took place. West Asian (Iranian) hunter-gatherers migrated to South Asia after the La ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) “In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the people of the Mal’ta–Buret’ culture (c. 24,000 years ago) and populations closely related to them, such as the Upper Paleolithic individuals from Afontova Gora in Siberia. Genetic studies also revealed that the ANE are closely related to the remains of the preceding Yana culture (c. 3 ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Austronesian peoples reached New Zealand, but have origin in Taiwan, with DNA that can be traced back to Neolithic China Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref 24,000 Years Old Proto-North Eurasian Language (Ancient North Eurasian) migrations? Beca ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Ancient Tattoos Ancient Siberians (Time???) 2,500 years old Ice Maiden, a Scytho-Siberian woman ref “In Siberian nomadic society, such as the Scythians and Pazyryks, both likely used tattoos. In such cultures of Siberia tattoos were the ultimate status symbol. For these culturs had tattoos that let everyone know just how tough and important they were. Warriors would get inked to show off their battle victories or their loyalty ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art “Atheist-Humanist-Leftists” World Mythology Series, 15 videos order: Show 1 blog: Comparative Mythology: the systematic comparison of mythic themes gathered from a wide variety of cultures and ideas https://damienmarieathope.com/2024/11/comparative-mythology-the-systematic-comparison-of-mythic-themes-gathered-from-a-wide-variety-of-cultures-and-ideas/ Show 2 blog: Creation myths: From chaos, Ex nihilo, Earth-diver, Emergence, World egg, and World parent https://damienmarieathope.com/2022/05/creation-myths-from-chaos-ex-nihilo-earth-diver-emergence-world-egg-and-wor ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref Cultures with Clay Human Myths Sumerians Ancient Egyptians Bible Qur’an Ancient Greek Ancient Iran Ancient Chinese Ancient Korean Ainu (north Japan, Indigenous people) Hindu people Birhor tribal/Adivasi forest people of India Garo people, a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group in Northeast India and Bangladesh Andamanese are Indigenous peoples of India’s Andaman Islands Indigenous people of Borneo Tai “Laotian” folk religion Altaic and Mongolian Buryat Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia Yoruba people, the West African ethnic group of Nigeri ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art Ket people/Yeniseian languages Dené–Yeniseian Tlingit people/Tlingit language/Na-Dené languages S = Samara culture M = Maykop culture L = Leyla-Tepe culture  Nordic Bronze Age/Norse mythology Sumerians/Sumerian religion Early Dynastic Period (Egypt 3150 BCE, or around 5,150 years ago)/Ancient Egyptian religion “Damien, spirituality is different from religion…”  My response: They are kind of different. Spirituality is a form of animism to me, and all religions have some form of animism thinking; thus, they are still similar.  “Flood myths a ..read more

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “High God, in anthropology and the history of religion, a type of supreme deity found among many nonliterate peoples of North and South America, Africa, northern Asia, and Australia. The adjective high is primarily a locative term: a High God is conceived as being utterly transcendent, removed from the world that he created. A High God is high in the sense that he lives in or is identified with the sky—hence, the alternative name. Among North American Indians and Central and South ..read more