This Indo-European, ancient Ukrainian ancestry is in us. When coupled with all of these similarities in the mythological record — and particularly, in the context of today’s episode, MN in Manu and Mannus — we can be very sure that these are separate vectors of evidence all pointing to the same conclusion: that we all come from this Yamnaya community in southern Ukraine in some meaningful sense.

If you’re listening to this, you understand an Indo-European language. You probably have ancient Ukrainian ancestry within you if you’re indigenous or relatively indigenous from anywhere in the space between Ireland and India. Unless your ancestors were some of the Turkic or Uralic migrants who founded the Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian peoples, chances are you have this genetic ancestry in you. But just by virtue of using an Indo-European language as your native tongue, it’s actually structuring your thoughts. You have this MN sound. You’re using it in almost every sentence.

Manu and Mannus coming from a common source — like we do — means that all of these phenomena come from southern Ukraine. That’s the answer to the trick question of which came first, Manu or Mannus. The fact of the matter is the Yamnaya came first. The Yamnaya were so called by Russian archaeologists because they buried their dead in a pit grave. We find these pit graves across Europe, associated with the invasion of a patriarchal society that replaced the Old European society. The word for pit in Russian, which is an Indo-European language, is cognate with the word for womb and yemo and twin. So it’s circumstantially connected that we’ve ended up with an MN sound for the Yamnaya too, from whom this idea of Manu and Mannus travelled, emanated.

We know this because when we come across similar sounds and meanings for the founders of mythological traditions, it’s either borrowing — a German visiting India and convincing them to use Mannus, which evolves into Manu, or an Indian visiting Germany — or it’s a coincidence. But then we find so many other founders of mythological traditions in Indo-European languages — in India, in Greece, in Ireland, in Celtic tradition — who have mythological founders with this MN sound in their name. So we come to the common source. And of course, MN is in “common source.” That expression comes directly from Sir William Jones’s lecture in 1782 to the Kolkata society, in which he announces his discovery of the Indo-European family of languages.

The question we started with — which came first, the Germanic linguistic tradition or the Indic linguistic tradition? — is actually a trick question, because neither did. It was the Yamnaya, the Indo-European community in southeastern Ukraine, which came first and is the common source.

We can use linguistics, ancient genetics, archaeology, comparative mythology, and a whole plethora of different vectors of evidence, all pointing to the same truth: that Indo-European culture and all Indo-European languages we speak today emanate from this same area around Kherson, around where the Russians are conducting their drone warfare at the moment. But we can also use the MN sound, and that’s the significance of what I have discovered and what I am telling you the story of in Finding Manuland.

I’ll leave it at that for today. We’ll come back and talk about more MN, because I have at least 25 other episodes planned, and each of those opens up new episodes and new discoveries. I’m constantly travelling in this area between Ireland and India, and I have many new discoveries I haven’t even reported to you yet. All of that is coming. Thank you very much for your support.

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