i mean racial psuedoscience is pretty easy & simple to get into, because it has nothing to do with reality.
trying to figure out what historical ‘Cimmerians’ spoke, where they lived—dozens of books, reading asssyrian records, archaeology linguistics—years of work.
finding out how ‘Cimmerians’ were a kind of magic white people in the Hitlerian cosmology—idk that probably takes an afternoon with a weird paperback that got republished by american nazi party in the 90s
trying to figure out what historical ‘Cimmerians’ spoke, where they lived—dozens of books, reading asssyrian records, archaeology linguistics—years of work.
It doesn’t help that as far as I know the Cimmerians didn’t leave written accounts about themselves. I think I read that even the name is derived from what others called them.
In case it seemed like otherwise, I actually enjoyed the Conan movies for what they were (Conan the Destroyer was like the earliest example I can think of a D&D tabletop group chemistry in movie form).
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i mean racial psuedoscience is pretty easy & simple to get into, because it has nothing to do with reality.
trying to figure out what historical ‘Cimmerians’ spoke, where they lived—dozens of books, reading asssyrian records, archaeology linguistics—years of work.
finding out how ‘Cimmerians’ were a kind of magic white people in the Hitlerian cosmology—idk that probably takes an afternoon with a weird paperback that got republished by american nazi party in the 90s
It doesn’t help that as far as I know the Cimmerians didn’t leave written accounts about themselves. I think I read that even the name is derived from what others called them.
In case it seemed like otherwise, I actually enjoyed the Conan movies for what they were (Conan the Destroyer was like the earliest example I can think of a D&D tabletop group chemistry in movie form).