Silk Loop Neck Stories Part 2

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

"The second part of the Marlezon ballet is revealing" …

An unexpected revelation, in the first part of this article, is the indication of the final destination of the caravan trade by the Venetian merchant.

“Whoever has goods, it is better to stop by Urgench, as all goods are well sold here; whoever does not have them, it is better to go by a shorter way (to the north of the Aral Sea) from Saraichik directly to Otrar."

The lively trade in Urgench (Khorezm) is also confirmed by Ibn Battuta, recognized by all modern historians, in his work: "A gift to those who observe the wonders of cities and wonders of travel."

Where by the way he mentions:

“From Balkh, after seven days' journey, I reached the mountains of Kugistan, where there are small villages and many cells of pious people who have moved away from the world. Then I arrived in Berat, the largest city in Khorasan. Since the invasion of Chinggis Khan, of the four main cities of the Khorasan, only two, Herat and Nizabur, are inhabited, and the other two, Balkh and Merav, lie empty in ruins."

So why is the mentioned city of Otrar so glorious that the glory of the trade center has crossed the continents. “Otrar” is translated from Turkic as - center.

In any annals, chronicles there is no information about goods or products that this region was rich in.

But an unexpected answer, we are prompted by the attentive ancient Roman writer Pliny, who called the Volga Bulgars "Serichesky Issedons", which they interpret from the Sarmatian language, who know how to do Silk handicrafts."

Perhaps anthropologically, as well as linguistically, he connected the Volga Bulgars with the Issedons, inhabiting, according to the map of Ptolemy, the valley of the Syr Darya river.

Herodotus testified about the existence of the country of the Issedones, and also wrote that the Issedones live opposite the Massagets.

The Greek Philostradus (III century) reports: the Persian king Cyrus, having gone across the river Istra, against the Massagets and Issedons, and these Scythian peoples, was killed by a woman who reigned over these peoples, and this woman cut off Cyrus's head, which may indicate the proximity of these tribes …

In the same place on the map of Ptolemy and, on the map of Pomponius Mell (in the title), the area under the name Seres is indicated. It is unlikely that a people or a country would be named after an insect (silkworm).

The Seres (Lat: Seres) were the inhabitants of the land of Serica, called by the ancient Greeks and Romans by the people of "the land where silk occurs".

Serica - was described by Ptolemy as a country bordering on the Scythians and under the mountains (Tien Shan ?!).

A summary of the classical sources on Seres (essentially Pliny and Ptolemy) gives the following account:

The Seres region is a vast and densely populated country, a people of a moderate, fair and meager nature, avoiding clashes with their neighbors, and even shy.

Do not mind getting rid of your own products, of which raw silk is the main product.

The ancient Fathers also describe Serica's pleasant climate and its abundance in natural resources. Among them are iron, furs and skins, and precious stones.

More precisely, the origin of silk was given by the 19th century German orientalist Christian Lassen, on the basis of the ancient Sanskrit Vedic manuscripts he studied, from where he got three "addresses": - *** saka, Tukhara, and Kanka ***.

[Lassen claimed to have identified references to the Seres in Hindu scripture, as the "saka, Tukhara, and Kanka".

(Indische Alterthumskunde: Bd. Geographie und die; lteste Geschichte. 1847)]

saka is the territory of the steppes of Central Asia.

Tukhara - the valley of the Syr Darya river.

Kanka is an antique city of the ancient state of Shash.

“In Khorasan and Maverannahr there is no country like it (Shash) in terms of the number of cathedral mosques, cultivated villages, in the vastness and abundance of buildings - up to the strength and courage of the inhabitants”. ("Book of Ways and Countries" by Abu-l-Kasim ibn Haukal).

Ephor, who lived at the court of Philip the Great, speaks of "various nomadic peoples, distinguished by special piety," so that none of them causes suffering even to an animal.

Peoples who move their homes from place to place; feed on the Scythian - milk from mares and have all the property in common.

Strabo says the same thing, from the words of Ephorus, and compares the cruelty of stavromats with the meekness and piety of the Saks, thanks to their milk food, which is distinguished by the absence of cruelty.

They have everything in common, "they have nothing to slave because of what and they are irresistible for their enemies."

On the map of Pomponia Mella (in the title) - Seres - an area in the area of modern Semirechye. Further, the 90th meridian of east longitude for the ancient descriptors of lands and countries, was the land - terra incognita.

The numbers on the map indicate: 1 - Sacae, 2 - Sagdiani, 3 - Massagetae.

In the same picture, the model demonstrates the famous Uzbek Khan-atlas, the ornament resembles the ancient robes of the Russian boyars.

This is the most ancient technology for dyeing and dressing fabrics. Even in the legend about its origin, the words of the master sound like this: -

“I took the green of the foliage washed by the rain, added the color of tulip petals, the blush of the dawn, the blue of the night sky, the glare of the sun on the fast-flowing water of the irrigation ditch, the glitter of the eyes of my beloved daughter, and mixed everything.” (see link)

In the "Life and Deeds of Peter the Great" edition of 1774, volume 2, page 87, it is described:

“The sovereign reasoned to establish a merchant class before Tibet and India. For the Bukhara caravans coming to Orenburg and Astrakhan proved that between India and Bukharia there is an endless succession of merchants, because they are not only silk and paper fabric made in Bukhara, but all kinds of Indian goods, and besides that, precious stones, gold and silver for sale they bring it."

It is sad sometimes to write that the intrigue in the caravan routes, the world's “bestseller” of ancient times - the Russian morocco - is a carefully hidden history of Russia almost until the 16th century.

The ancestral home of silk, lost technology has been erased from the history of world civilization. The development of Central and Central Asia has been removed from history - a question and, an answer that is carefully guarded by (by whom?) And modern pundits, indulging generally accepted doctrines, unwittingly become accomplices in perjury.

And they are not subject to jurisdiction …

The East cannot be judged by our morals and concepts, the Issedonian "silk cocoon" is still waiting for its "Schliemann".

Russian researcher of Central Asia - Bartold V. V. in his works, he noticed that all Arab writers and chroniclers are limited in their works to the extreme point - the city of Taraz.

Semirechye and East Turkestan, Kashgar and Yarkand were "given" to the chroniclers of China. Although it is worth recalling that East Turkestan, so mentioned Xinjiang, only in 1881 fell under the jurisdiction of China.

All this medieval exposition of manuscripts and manuscripts, presented to the reader's judgment - these are "compositions" on a given topic, Arab "scientists" and Chinese chroniclers.

What were the falsifiers of history based on, "destroying" the ancient civilization in memory, moving the homeland of silk far to the east?

Ptolemy in his writings calls the main river Serica as Bautisus, it was identified as a yellow river (Huanghe), is the Syr Darya distinguished by the purity of its waters?

According to the first syllable, Sinae (China) was interpreted as Serica.

Ptolemy's map was enlarged to the east and the name "Serica" was moved to the ends of the earth.

The Scottish orientalist and writer Henry Yule sharply criticized all these arguments, mildly expressing that it is very easy to confuse the issue to any extent by changing its latitude and longitude.

(Cathay and the way thither; a collection of medieval notices of China. Vol. 1.)

The term "Great Silk Road" (Great silkroad) entered historical science at the end of the 19th century, after the publication of the book "China" by the German historian K. Richtofen in 1877.

A small excursion into the present. From the diary of a shuttle trader to China:

“1992 On a normal, Russian asphalt road we reach the customs point with China. Registration for 30 minutes, either from the Russian customs, or from the Chinese.

We are in China! The roads are useless, dust, dirt, zero conditions, but we collect the goods and return happy.

2001 The road was broken at the end, the speed is minuscule. Customs clearance - as if we were exporting all the secrets of Russia. And these are ours … China - customs: clearance 10 minutes, as if they have been waiting since yesterday.

The road is a perfectly flat freeway. On both sides, almost from the border itself, there are two-three-storey mansions and offices. Shops and warehouses with all kinds of goods, no need to go to the center - they will deliver at least something … We sit and relax in a cafe while the "help" completes the order. Service "!

This is how China, with a correct tax policy, without sources of raw materials, boosted its economy in ten years, gave wide scope to entrepreneurship, and made infrastructure arrangements for it.

Now imagine India, which in two and a half millennia (!) Of trade and small-scale production of goods, how much wealth has accumulated?

Even two hundred and fifty years ago, India was the richest, most fruitful country in the world.

All travelers, merchants who visited India three hundred, four hundred, a thousand years ago, whether they were Spaniards, Portuguese, Persians or Arabs, talk with amazement about the wealth of India, about the flourishing state of its industry.

But this wealth was not concentrated in the hands of a few, the caste system and communal organization made it impossible to transfer all the wealth provided by agriculture and industry into the hands of a small group of people.

Great Britain divided India into 708 sovereign princes, of whom only 108 eligible for the honorary salute are represented in the House of Princes.

These micro-states owe their nominal independence to the great sepoy uprising of 1857, when their wives and children were killed along with the rebels.

The richest kingdom of the Great Mughals was "tied" with the impoverished Mongols in order to hide their deeds behind the mythical campaigns of the Mongol-Tatar hordes, to direct world attention to China.

What happened to the treasures of Golconda and Bedjapur?

Yes, for such fabulous riches, one can rewrite not only history, but also the Bible, especially since it coincided with the policy of the papal throne.

In the middle of the 19th century, the expansion of Russia into Central Asia began, the need arose again to prevent this, as in the time of Peter I.

To stake for the future the lands of Central Asia, to present the peoples of Central and Central Asia as cruel, worthless "natives".

So they seduced history, destroying in the memory of the people their piety, peacefulness and centuries-old labor of their ancestors.

The ruins of Otrar are being dug up.

Reluctantly, he reveals his secrets, because we have consigned to oblivion the piety of our ancestors …

Applications:

Tokhars -

Lassen, Christian - _Christian

Abu-l-Kasim ibn Haukal "The Book of Ways and Countries" -

Jul, Henry - _Henry

Henry Yula “Cathay and the way thither; a collection of medieval notices of China …, Volume 1

Khan silk -