The Search for the Homeland of the Gods

The Search for the Homeland of the Gods entails tracing the traditions of the gods through the cultures that carried them, back to their original homeland as a people united, and before if possible. From the archaeological complex associated with that culture, to the next culture backwards in time that seems to be a relative — of the same cultural, ethnic, and linguistic family — identified based on evidence of shared beliefs and traditions, similar material culture and way of life, and genetics.

Genes, Migrations, and Language

In some places we have genetic proof of migrations. Enormously beneficial because genetic evidence enables us to definitively identify the influx of new peoples to a region, and their origins. We can even gauge the type of interaction between two peoples with genetics, based on the percentage of each of their genomes in their descendants. Material evidence of a culture that can be dated and reliably be linked to genetic information is ideal. Though sometimes we don’t get what we want. Nonetheless, genetic information itself is hugely important (especially in the case where language is not — or cannot be — known) because with it we can relatively confidently reverse engineer a timeline of migration pattern and transmission line for both language and knowledge of the Ancestral Tradition.

In modern science we have genetic evidence for these migrations. We know that multiple waves of newcomers to Ireland and the British Isles can trace their bloodlines back to Neolithic Farmers in the Near East. We also know them to be linguistically related, in addition to distant ethnic ties, to one another based on the modern profusion of the Indo-European language family. We can also trace the arrival of the Vedic Peoples into Ancient India, an Indo-European speaking peoples who brought a new form of civilization early on, and whose language links them with the people of Ancient Ireland. There are even more curious connections than these.

Using these lines of evidence we can tentatively trace a cultural movement meandering through Europe from the East and South — a pathway through time moving through the areas of Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Spain, and Greece towards Anatolia. On the other side of the Fertile Crescent we can trace these peoples through Iran, India and Asia. Ultimately we are looking for places of convergence in space and time between disparate people who used to be one, a single culture.

Tracing The Gods

Using these four veins of evidence — linguistic, genetic, cultural artifacts, and mythology — there is enough evidence to make headway in the task of piecing together the lost story of the Ancient Tradition. In our search for the Homeland of the Gods, we are searching for the homeland of the people who carried this original mythology, and therefore the homeland of the tradition itself. As far back as we are able to go … at least. The culture is important, and the people, but the origin of the tradition is equally so.

The Search for the Homeland of the Gods is founded on the assumption that the ancient gods within all world mythology can be traced back to a single tribe of historical individuals — people who actually existed and events that are historical at their core but hidden in myth and fantasy. A culture that accomplished extraordinary things in prehistory that have been forgotten. Some believe that the people are an ancestor people, a society that developed urban centers, farming, and perhaps global exploration by sea. Others interpret the stories of the ancient religion as proof of contact between extraterrestrials and ancient man, Ancient Aliens.

It is too early to explore that truth.

What we can say now is there the evidence suggests an ancestral tradition that branched out early in our prehistory, perhaps in the few thousand years before the first cities were built in Sumer c.3000 BCE. Because of the modern diffusion of both language families and the Ancestral Tradition, I conclude that in the distant past this tradition most likely was singular. A tradition shared by a unified people, or perhaps among a number of clans within a tribe, who eventually, naturally broke from one another over centuries of separate existence and growth.

There is evidence for a coherent tradition across centuries, and between cultures who have no business being connected except by this link, in addition to a shared way of life and general level of culture, and traditions passed through generations that still bear similarities. It is hard to understand how this tribe so successfully preserved their knowledge. It is honestly unlikely that so many similarities between ancient traditions remained, after so much turbulence in their daily life, and after so much time had passed. Unless they paid special attention towards preserving that knowledge, attaching significant importance and value to that part of their culture, a memory of a golden age.

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