Origin of language and culture: ancient history of mankind

Horned Hunter — Shaman, Ancestor, and Deity

Natalia Mikhailova

There are numerous depictions of antlered figures in the rock art of prehistoric Eurasia and many representations of horned humans in the Far West of North America. These antlered and horned individuals have in some cases been interpreted as wearing animal headdresses. Headdresses with deer antlers are recognized archaeologically in Mesolithic Europe. A prehistoric bighorn sheep headdress has been discovered and dated from Utah in the United States. Also there is historic ethnographic evidence of deer and bighorn sheep headdresses/disguises for Siberia, northern Europe and North America. We propose to compare these data and review similarities and differences in these cultural traditions. We highlight comparative data regarding their age, and associated animal ceremonialism in indigenous religious expression.

A lingvo-socionical associative experiment

Nadiya Medvedovska

An associative experiment on perception of semantics of pieces of music is described. A number of positions of socionical theories is experimentally confirmed. In experimental groups of students it is revealed the preferable selection of the semantics of the same information aspect.

Linguistic analysis for determining the integral types. Part 3.

Vitalina Tumolska

In the third part of the series devoted to the use of linguistic analysis in the identification of ITIM it is explored the concept of “Ordnung” (“order”) in the German language from a position of linguistic and socionic analysis.

On the distribution of the toponyms “Arya”, “Arya”, “Aria”, “Arja”, hydronyms “Danu”, “Dan”, “Don” and others in Eurasia and Africa in the context of migrations of Indo-Iranian peoples. Part 1

А.В. Букалов

Maps of the distribution of toponyms associated with the self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples (“Arya”, “Arya”, “Aria”, “Arja”, “Arjan”, and others), as well as hydronyms associated with the Indo-Iranian name of water (“Danu”, “Dan”, “Don”) are given and analyzed. The obtained toponymic trajectories correspond well to the well-known historical migrations of Indo-Aryan peoples to Siberia, Asia, and to the spread of the haplogroup Z93. However, a number of toponymic trajectories follow from the Middle East region in North Africa and into the African continent, despite the fact that the presence of the haplogroup Z93 is currently traced in Africa only from the Horn of Africa to South Sudan. The result indicates the need for a further search for the haplogroup Z93 in Africa west of South Sudan and the study of possible migrations of certain groups of Indo-Aryans or their descendants into the African continent.

The term and toponym “Maydan” in the light of the Indo-European peoples migrations. Part 2

А.В. Букалов

There are discussed the variants for the origin of the term "maydan", taking into account the possible contamination of values, as well as the distribution of the preceding and related Indo-European, Indo-Iranian terms in Eurasia. The possible reasons for the developed semantics of the term in the Ukrainian and Russian languages are analyzed, in contrast to the much narrower semantics in the Iranian and Turkic ones.