Finding Manuland
by Decoding Trolls
Podcast | India’s gods before India
About this podcast
Finding Manuland takes us on mental journeys across the space between Ireland and India.
Finding Manuland moves us across time from 4,000 BCE until the present.
Our mental models of how the past and the present interact expand, through Finding Manuland.
We begin around 4,000 BCE with the Yamna community who lived between the Don and Dnipro rivers of Ancient Ukraine. These Yamna created the first Indo-European language. They buried their dead, covered in ochre, with their knees flexed, in the hundreds of thousands of mounds that still remain in the lands between Ireland and India - Manuland.
Today, over half of humanity uses sounds and meanings first forged on the Ukrainian steppe. Immanent in the genome of most humans who live in Manuland is the mitochondrial DNA of our Yamna ancestors. Everyone who can understand these words in an Indo-European language, is the cultural descendant of this community of migrants who spread so successfully east and westwards across the Steppelands from Ancient Ukraine.
Decoding Trolls is the first to discover that immanent in almost every sentence we speak or think through an Indo-European language is an M-N- sound coupled with meanings that were first forged by our Yamna forebears.
This might just be a coincidence. Or the M-N- sound might be THE fundamental cryptotypic semantic signalling system undermining the matrices of metaphors through which we communicate today. M-N- might well be a permanent monument, remnant and reminder of the Yamna and indeed Mana - the Subtle Energy we exchange with humans and animals - anchored in almost every thought we have.
In any event, Mana, Woden, Nous, Holy Spirit, Prana, Ch’i, Ki, Libido, Mungo, Synchronicity, Anima Mundi, Orenda, Manitu, Wong, Tondi, … are all manifestations of the same phenomenon that was present in the minds of Yamna, as in all ancient and contemporary humans. If only we can connect again to Mana, and harness it to impact positively every interaction we have inside our communities.
Such are the ideas that Finding Manuland elucidates located in the space, time, and culture of Manuland.
So our story emanates from Ancient Ukraine, and terminates in the questions:
Why is this M-N- sound and its associated meanings so immanent in Indo-European culture? Can we know what this immanence means?
If Mana is what remains of us in others when we leave them, then, there is Mana. Mana's permanent. Let's communicate positive Mana. And Finding Manuland will help remind you of this, in every interaction you experience today with other sentient beings.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 31 episodes
- Podcast | India’s gods before India · 59 minThe gods before the Veda So, we go to the crossroads, in the middle of the second millennium before the common era. The great power of upper Mesopotamia was a kingdom called…
- Podcast | The Crossroads · 47 minThe first of the Atlas journeys I introduced you to the Atlas series of Finding Manuland in five podcasts, published over the last while. This is the very first of the Atlas…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland: The Atlas, Episode Five · 33 minThe Harness Logic: Journeys and Papers Feed Each Other The journeys and the papers in the Finding Manuland Atlas series feed each other, and the Atlas grows out of the exchange…
- A Don Hacks the Moon · 58 minA haven, and two objectives Normally I find Finding Manuland a haven, a Garden of Eden, a means of escaping the world of geopolitics. Hardwired into Finding Manuland, at its very…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 4 · 46 minWe went in the first episode from Ireland to the island of Britain. Then we went on to the continent of Europe, through France to Germany, down the Danube, across to Romania and…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 3 · 49 minWelcome to Finding Manuland. This is the third episode of our new Atlas orientation series, which will last, hopefully, for hundreds of episodes. So this is the third episode. We…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 2 · 53 minYou’ll remember I spoke about how each episode of Finding Manuland looks at Mana, as the energy we exchange, as a source — the function of being human; the linguistic aspect, the…
- Podcast | Stonehenge and the Older Circle · 36 minStonehenge, where I am standing this Saturday morning, is the answer to a question I have been carrying since May 2021 - and it has taken me five years and three thousand…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland Atlas Ep. 1 · 58 minFinding Manuland is not just one trip. It’s a programme for a lifetime of journeys. I will bring you on the journeys — intellectual journeys, but mainly geographical journeys —…
- What I do as a writer · 16 minI write, I speak from a very, very remote place - Ani. It’s very, very beautiful, as you see with the mountains. I thought I would just muse a little bit on what I do as a writer…
- Video Podcast: Edessa and Göbekli Tepe · 25 minI’m Decoding Trolls, speaking to you from a place in southern Turkey called Göbekli Tepe, near the city of Urfa, historically known as Edessa. Yesterday, I saw an inscription…
- Video Podcast | Finding Manuland - Hunt for Menua’s Stables · 7 minSo, I made it to Van. Amazingly. It’s an amazingly blue-sky day, and I’m climbing up to Van Castle. It looks like I’m the first person to climb up here today because, as you can…
- Podcast | Finding Manuland - Road to Tushpa / Van · 30 minMenua, son of the founder of the Urartian Empire, once lived on the lakeside at Tushpa, whose modern name is Van (Türkiye). Tushpa / Van is the meeting place of many great…
- Solstice - Song of Amergin · 2 minPoem of Amergin, Celtic Ireland’s first poet-judge, sacrificing first Monarch and brother of self-sacrificing Donn (who features in much in my work) put to music and video by…
- Podcast | Indo-European Immanences · 26 minMy favourite subject, and it all begins in Kherson — whether it’s the UN Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes in Ukraine or the Yamna community. A relatively small number of…
- Podcast | Peppercorns, Mana, Early Roman Religion (Numenism), Communism and Seeing Life in Memes · 19 minAs some of you might remember, I studied law. I worked as a property lawyer in London for a little while. One of the features in English law is this idea that sometimes, for…
- How we can know M-N- sound’s ubiquity inside Turkic languages and culture is a function of Indo-European and Turkic languages’ early contacts. · 49 minM-N- sound appears to have many of the same meanings in Turkic as well as in Indo-European languages (Manas is the mythological founder of Turkic Kirghiz culture, Zaman signifies…
- Ep 6 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture? · 5 minThis 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…
- Ep 5 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture? · 20 minThe sun god Sūrya — and his mother has an M-N- sound in her name, which is amazing. Saraṇyū is her name, and she is of Tvaṣṭṛ, which is interesting as well. We’ve got Tuisto in…
- Ep 4 Using M-N- to determine which came first - Indian or Germanic culture? · 14 minSo you see what I'm trying to do there. I'm expanding our mental models of time from 4100 BCE when Tarmana's ancestors left ancient Ukraine to 2000 years later when Tarmana's…







