Culture is a journey of experiential discovery in an ever-changing
landscape. Our Northern history remains largely unsung, eclipsed by the
glamour of the classical world and its colourful legacy of Romanised culture.
But there is another world, no less vibrant and exciting, no less fascinating
or challenging. Locked into our DNA is a very diff erent history . .
In its immersive wonder we can find answers to age old challenges
concerning how culture evolves, what were the catalysts, who were
the antagonists, who were the oppressed, the exploited, what were
the real events, and who was really behind the violence in the tussle
for power a thousand years ago. Removing layers of accumulated
concepts regarding faith, myth and magic, this book exposes the
socio-religio-political machinations that rocked the northern world,
changing its landscape, the people and their beliefs
systems irrevocably.
From Rock Art to Pazyryk Mummies, Coffin Boats to Royal
Scythians, from the Sami to the Evenki, from Ethnicity to the
Enarei priesthood, and from Thunder spirits to the Northern
Crusades, the threads that bind them all are founded in trade.
Trade is the currency and agent for change in the world impacting
everything from war to religion. The Cosmic Mill turns, churning
magic and myth into profi t and fear.
Here be pirates and dragons.....
