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Celtic artefacts from the La Tène period found in the Carpathian Basin (warrior equipment, vessel, costume components) suggest a western origin from groups originating in:
-north-eastern France
-the Rhineland
-Swizerland
-northern Italy
Source: Dominik Repka
Spatial distribution of costume components of the Western Celtic origin.
A: Torcs of the Upper Rhine type
B: Chain belts composed of twisted iron segments connected by means of bronze rings
C: Fibulae of the Early La Tène scheme with false spring
The Proclaimers, “500 miles” belted out by Scottish football fans at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
If you mix American Baseball with the Tartan Army and The Proclaimers, this is what you get. Surreal but absolutely glorious.
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Recent genetic, isotopic, metallurgical, and archaeological evidence increasingly supports a model of deep, durable interaction corridors connecting northwestern Europe with central Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean.
Morality must be extensively weighed through a systems need to constantly define it. Morality must be extensively weighed through a system’s constant need to define, test, and correct itself. Including how it embraces, rejects, preserves, or reforms tradition.
Frisians are not simply “Germans by another name.” They are a North Sea coastal continuity population whose identity was preserved through marshland ecology, maritime trade, local law, and regional autonomy, later expressed through a West Germanic language blanket.
The same North Sea–Rhine–Iberian–Balkan–Anatolian–Levantine corridor repeatedly carries prestige goods, military finance, cult offices, mythic symbols, saints, and sovereignty stories.
So how do you explain this @Gnosisinformant? He literally murders Crispus and Fausta under guise of "heresy", Maxentius has ties regionally to said Balkan states/Thrace.
Gospel of Nicodemus - Acts of Pilate, an apocryphal Christian text associated with Christ’s trial, resurrection, and especially the Harrowing of Hell. Some later summaries say it was “reportedly” written by someone from an “Order of Nicodemus,” but that “order” itself is
Carthago Nova is not a side note. It was a protected harbor near silver mines; Hasdrubal founded/used it around 228 BCE as the base for Carthaginian exploitation of Iberia, with silver passing through the city, plus arms storage, palace, garrison, sanctuaries, and
Gospel of Nicodemus - Acts of Pilate, an apocryphal Christian text associated with Christ’s trial, resurrection, and especially the Harrowing of Hell. Some later summaries say it was “reportedly” written by someone from an “Order of Nicodemus,” but that “order” itself is
Bithynia then becomes even more important because of Nicaea and Nicomedia.
Nicaea, modern İznik, was a major Bithynian city and later hosted two ecumenical councils.