The Ancestral Tradition

The Ancestral Tradition is the theoretical tradition that connects the traditions we see manifest in the worlds most ancient religions — Sumerian Religion, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, and Vedic Religion, as well as the truly ancient traditions that were recorded in a more recent era as Norse and Celtic religion.

There are extensive connections between all of these religions. Each of these religions have figures, events, myths and legends preserved almost identically among themselves. These shared elements exist in spite of extreme geographical distances, numerous buffer civilizations, and millennia in what was (in some cases) near total isolation from one another.

We can consider direct transmission between some of these cultures as a possible origin for some of these shared traditions. Trade and migration bringing people of different cultures into contact with one another in ancient times, leading to the transmission and diffusion of goods and ideas like ancient religious beliefs.

However, these shared themes are too deep of features to be explained in this way. Some common elements could be the result of transmission. But when they exist alongside a common language, it is most likely that we have to look significantly deeper into antiquity for the truth. For example the Old Norse, Germanic, and Vedic language of India are all Indo-European languages. So when we have gods, goddesses, traditions, and myths in common, it becomes increasingly more likely that they are remnants from the time when these two people were one speaking the same language.

We can also consider conversion, as a possible cause of shared traditions. However, in many cases conversion is not possible. Unless of course we again look further backwards into ancient history and prehistory. In many cases, given the amount of time that had passed in isolation — which we see in the extensive independent development that is obvious within each system — this conversion would have had to take place very deep in history. This is because all people were closer together the further back we go towards the End of the Last Ice Age.

A superior answer for these shared traditions among Sumerian, Akkadian, Vedic, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Celtic, Norse, Greek, and many other religions is the existence of an Ancestral Tradition that existed when all of these diverse people were one.

The Indo-Europeans and the Ancestral Tradition

The Relationship Between the Indo-Europeans and the Ancestral Tradition is one that inevitably comes up when we look at human prehistory in general. Among the modern Indo-European language-speaking peoples are such diverse people as the peoples of Iran and India (predominantly Northern India) in addition to the Greeks, Irish, Norwegian, German, and English people.

All of these are Indo-European people, in that we all speak languages of the same language family: Indo-European.

However, we are culturally and genetically connected deep into antiquity, in addition to speaking languages of the same family. People of Ireland are the descendants of prehistoric agriculturalists from the Near East. As are the majority of people to some degree from Europe, from Greece to Germany, Norway, Sweden, and from the Ukraine to Britain and Iceland. All of these people are also directly connected with the people of Iran, Pakistan, India, Anatolia, and Central Asia in this same way.

There is relatively little blood remaining from the Natives of Europe, before the people who would become Modern Europeans one day, arrived in waves over centuries and millennia to claim the land from the native people — by force if necessary.

What is more is that all of the known Indo-European traditions (Ancient Greek Religion, Celtic Religion, Vedic Religion, Zoroastrian and Norse Religion) share important gods, myths, and themes with one another. Which they share in common with Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian religion.

The Akkadians were Semitic people. Since the Semitic languages are of the Afro-Asiatic language family, this connects the Semitic Akkadians (who are the ancestors of the Jews) with the ancient Egyptians, because the Old Egyptian language is of the same language family. However, the Sumerians spoke a language isolate. None of which appear to be related directly to the Indo-European languages.

What this means in practice is that we can Trace the Ancestral Tradition to a point — this juncture specifically — to the roots of Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, and Indo-European religion where the pass the invisible boundary from history into prehistory.

At this point, the Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, and Indo-European people begin to converge on the same place — the Near East — hypothetically increasing in proximity to one another as we move towards the last ice age. By following the descendants of the People of the Ancestral Tradition backwards through time, we do move towards a place:

The Near East. More specifically, towards Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent.

The People of the Hypothetical Ancestral Tradition all trace back to a similar region as we move towards the End of the Last Ice Age (the Younger Dryas, c10,000 BCE). They appear to share a tradition with one another, which we can see was preserved by all known traditions of their descendants.

They had a superior technology. They were the descendants of Anatolian farmers, all of them, agriculturalists. They herded their animals everywhere they went, and could farm, and forge metal. Their traditions were also deeper too, more extensive. Evidence by the fact that they gave greater care to a form of scholarly training in their traditions, which is why they are preserved.

These people are the proposed Lost Civilization.