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Post by joustos on Apr 17, 2018 23:03:20 GMT
Now that Italy is being ruined and destroyed by illegal African Blacks and Muslims (who want to get rid of everything that is offensive to them, such as the national flag, the religious Crosses, and the very see of Catholicism [which is not being imposed upon them]), I, as a native Italian, like to reminisce about the vanishing Italian culture and to share it with those who might be interested in it. The concept of culture is a very broad one, as it comprises material artifacts, art-works, linguistic works (esthetic, religious, legal, etc.), political institutions, and customs of everyday life. I will come back to this thread from time to time, as I explore what is available on the internet, rather than presenting a brief and abstract view all at once.
The following U-tube gives a glimpse of Italy as it is still existing, and of some festivals (as at Siena and at Venice). I will be going in some details later on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 23:15:22 GMT
Now that Italy is being ruined and destroyed by illegal African Blacks and Muslims (who want to get rid of everything that is offensive to them, such as the national flag, the religious Crosses, and the very see of Catholicism [which is not being imposed upon them]), I, as a native Italian, like to reminisce about the vanishing Italian culture and to share it with those who might be interested in it. The concept of culture is a very broad one, as it comprises material artifacts, art-works, linguistic works (esthetic, religious, legal, etc.), political institutions, and customs of everyday life. I will come back to this thread from time to time, as I explore what is available on the internet, rather than presenting a brief and abstract view all at once.
The following U-tube gives a glimpse of Italy as it is still existing, and of some festivals (as at Siena and at Venice). I will be going in some details later on.
>implying Italy has a culture... Italy seems like a remarkable place to vacation.
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Post by Διαμονδ on Apr 18, 2018 7:56:34 GMT
Many Italians are not against migrants! At least the media is creating such an image .. Shrug
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Post by joustos on Apr 18, 2018 15:05:30 GMT
Many Italians are not against migrants! At least the media is creating such an image .. That is true. In fact, the ruling Communists in the government welcome them, and the Pope has been inviting them ["venite, fratelli" : Come over, Brothers]. Most of the Italian media, like the American media, is controlled by the very people who have been aiding the infiltrators to reach the Italian shores. The infiltrators are single young men, who take over cities: mugging, raping, stealing, killing, and using the streets as their toilet. (They are not political refugees, with families, or people with simple skills who could be employed. Anyway, unemployment for the natives in Italy is already about 40%, the highest in Europe.) Some of them discover that they had been deceived by the promoters of the migration into Europe or into Italy as the land of milk and honey. The promoters want open borders in the U.S.A. and they have millions of dollars to buy politicians and to subsidize militant groups (trained arsonists). Their slogan is: No Justice[or, No Equality], No Peace. // Cornbread, I regret to say that Italy is no longer a good place for a vacation, or for me to return to it.
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Post by joustos on Apr 18, 2018 16:30:23 GMT
The beginnings of humanity: Judging from bones alone, it is hard to distinguish Androids and Humans, but when bones are found together with (stone) tools, then we can say that these are human bones. The earliest findings of "human" bones are from 2.6 billion years ago [or BC.] in three locations: Georgia, by the Caucasus Mountains, south of Ethiopia in Eastern Africa, and in Apulia (the heel of boot-shaped Italy). Most likely, humans evolved independently of each other in these locations, and that, by virtue of their climates, these origins are racial origins: Fulvian White ["Nordic"], Negroid, and Mediterranid White. (My own view, is that there were other points of origin, in South-eastern Asia.) The stone tools in all of these points of origin are small enough to be held by hands. Thus we speak of the Paleolithic Ages of various populations.
At the same time or earlier, humans built walls and houses with massive stone blocks(which no single modern human is able to lift or even cut. These aremysterious megaliths or "cyclopic" structures, which can be found in many parts of the Earth. This is a short account of Megalithic Italy.
www.youtube.co/watch?v=oJJ-SJbPmx8
In Calabria [the foot of boot-shaped Italy], at the town of Campana (CS) there are stone giants, one of which is clearly an elephant. (There were elephants all over the world some billions or millions of years ago.
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Post by joustos on Apr 18, 2018 17:33:53 GMT
The beginnings of humanity: Judging from bones alone, it is hard to distinguish Androids and Humans, but when bones are found together with (stone) tools, then we can say that these are human bones. The earliest findings of "human" bones are from 2.6 billion years ago [or BC.] in three locations: Georgia, by the Caucasus Mountains, south of Ethiopia in Eastern Africa, and in Apulia (the heel of boot-shaped Italy). Most likely, humans evolved independently of each other in these locations, and that, by virtue of their climates, these origins are racial origins: Fulvian White ["Nordic"], Negroid, and Mediterranid White. (My own view, is that there were other points of origin, in South-eastern Asia.) The stone tools in all of these points of origin are small enough to be held by hands. Thus we speak of the Paleolithic Ages of various populations.
At the same time or earlier, humans built walls and houses with massive stone blocks(which no single modern human is able to lift or even cut. These aremysterious megaliths or "cyclopic" structures, which can be found in many parts of the Earth. This is a short account of Megalithic Italy.
In Calabria [the foot of boot-shaped Italy], at the town of Campana (CS) there are stone giants, one of which is clearly an elephant. (There were elephants all over the world some billions or millions of years ago.
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Post by Διαμονδ on Apr 18, 2018 21:47:28 GMT
Italy today!
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Post by Διαμονδ on Apr 19, 2018 7:38:18 GMT
Map Blonde people in the regions of Italy!
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Post by joustos on Apr 19, 2018 22:04:55 GMT
Map Blonde people in the regions of Italy! I wish to add a map on which the Regions of Italy are named. Each region has Provinces (like "Counties", which have a number or cities or towns. [For Reference]
www.bambinopoli.it/Italia/Italia.php
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Post by joustos on Apr 20, 2018 14:14:25 GMT
What is called the Neolithic Age comprises specialized hand stone tools, but, most importantly, Agriculture, and masonry building. As agriculture originated in the upper Middle East, so did the populations that migrated to Italy. This was also the Age of advanced speech. The languages that developed in Italy reflect the different times of the migrations and possibly the specific original places of the immigrants, for instance: Messapic in Apulia[Puglia], Latin in Latium [Lazio], Etruscan in Tuscany [Etruria;Toscana], Greek in Magna Graecia [the regions south of Roma, as the Romans called this broad area], etc. Like the ancient Mideastern language, all the Italic languages were Indo-European (which, according to my own studies and etymologies, are derivatives of Ancient or B.C. Greek. [My own native language, in Magna Graecia, is an admixture of Greek, Latin, and Italian, like Ayioste [hurry up ]; nustierzi [nudius tertius: the day before yesterday]; casa [house, of Umbrian origin]. I have established, etymologically (not merely geographically), that, contrarily to current opinion, Etruscan, Basque, and Anglo-Saxon are Indo-European.
Masonry building, or architecture, is a major trait of he Italic peoples. From the Megalithic Age, I'll jump to the Neolithic [+] Age, when Greek and Roman architecture became conspicuous. However, private masonry houses were modest. Some of them resembled huts or wooden architecture, with entrances which typically employed the post-and-lintel structure; others had a circular plan whose wall tapered off into a conic structure, and the house is usually called a "beehive house". There are remains of beehive houses in the Mideast. In Italy (especially n Apulia) they are called Trulli and have been built into modern times. Click on TRULLO in the following page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_house
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Post by joustos on Apr 20, 2018 18:30:26 GMT
The historical culture of Italy has two major components: the Magna-Graecian Culture (which is an extention of the Hellenic or Helladic culture) and the Roman Culture (which is based in part on the Etruscan culture and on the Hellenic culture). What is called Magna Graecia [the Greater or Larger Greece] started in the 1st millennium B.C. with the colonization (by Helladic Greeks) of the shores of southern Italy, from Cuma [Kyme] near Naples to Ragusa at the southernmost point of Sicily. An overview of the Helladic culture: The creation and development of the Greek language; epic and lyric poetry; dramatic poetry; music; the theaters; temple architecture; sports; stadiums; sculpture; painting and mosaics; pottery; painted pottery; philosophy (starting in Ionia in the 6th century B.C.); formal teaching; academies; medicine; etc.
The philosophers of Ionia (Anaximander, Herakleitos, etc.) were supplemented by the Italic philosophers (Pythagoras [from the Aegean Samos], Parmenides and Zeno the Eleatic [near Paestum], Empedokles of Acragas in Sicily, etc., and by the Athenian philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle).
Back to architecture. Greek architecture of temples [houses of gods] is typically like that of tree-trunks (now stone columns) which are either free-standing or joined by masonry walls, in which case there is a post-and-lintel entrance. The following site includes pictures of still standing temples and theaters in Magna Graecia: at Paestum [Poseidonia, near Naples], Segesta and Syracuse in Sicily, etc.
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Post by Διαμονδ on Apr 20, 2018 18:39:25 GMT
joustos How about the influence of the ancient Germans and other groups!?
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Post by joustos on Apr 21, 2018 21:53:14 GMT
joustos How about the influence of the ancient Germans and other groups!? I am still dealing with the ancient (pre-Christian) historical culture of Italy, but, as I have touched on the demography of Italy, I will answer your question at least in part.
What is this land that we are calling Italy? Originally "Italia" was the Greek (or Oscan-Greek) name of most of today's Calabria [ the foot of boot-shaped Italy]. The colonizing Greeks called themselves Italiotai in contradistinction to the Ionic, Attic, and other Greeks. The name was extended to the "boot" as far as Rimini or the Rubicon River in Caesar's times. Then, in Augustus' time, "Italy" was set up as a province of the Roman Empire, from the Alps downwards, and it corresponds practically to what today is called Italy. Thus, it included, at the North, the Po Valley and the populations called Veneti, Celtic, and Ligurians.
Political Rome lost is supremacy when, in A.D. 312, Emperor Maxentius lost in the battle with the other Emperor, Constantine. The latter founded Byzantium as the capital of the eastern Roman empire, and Rome was administered by minor emperors of by the Pope. For me, this was the beginning of the Middle Ages in Italy. The civic cares and defenses were abandoned, and it was easy for a Germanic tribe, the Longobards [Langobards, long-bearded ones] to move into Italy and establish their capital at Pavia, in the region which is appropriately called Lombardy [Longobardia]. By A.D. 700, they established also another capital near Naples, in southern Italy. The Longobards are the main source of the blondish people in the North and the South of Italy. However, the French Normans (of Norwegian descent) settled in parts of southern Italy and of Sicily before the Norman invasion of England (in 1066). The Longobards and the Normans practiced feudalism (which was absent in Roman Italy)and left some of their words in the language of the Italians. (For instance, Guerra, akin to "War" replaced the Latin Bellum.) They were Christians and sometimes they became patrons of church music or church architecture (as in Sicily).
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Post by joustos on Apr 25, 2018 15:34:02 GMT
Having touched upon the Greek architecture and culture in Italy [Magna Graecia], now I will touch upon the other major ancient culture of Italy, namely the Roman one.
In Roma Antiqua there developed two important aspects of culture: Jurisprudence and Architecture. Briefly: The creation of Jurisprudence is tied up with the political circumstances of Rome. The city, a village on seven hills by the Tiber River, was under the jurisdiction of a king, domestic or foreign (Etruscan) until, around 510 B.C., when the men decided to get rid of the monarchy. As they succeeded, they became FREE men and decided to remain and protect their freedom, rather than being ruled by some king or despot. So, they formed a political society called a Res Publica [Republic], which was literally anarchic (without a ruler). The elders of the city, called Senators, were the administrators of their common or public affairs -- how to peacefully and efficiently live together -- how and when to create roads, aqueducts (waterways), etc., and above all,defend themselves militarily from attackers. Two counselors or "presidents" were appointed by the Senate, so that one of them could be the military leader (or "commander-in chief") when needed. As holding the power ["imperium"] he was called "imperator", but he had no jurisdiction over, he was not the lord of, the (FREE) citizens.// To take care of wrongdoers and to resolve litigations between citizens,jurisrudents (citizens who were experts in what is right and wrong) were appointed, who operated in courts of law (usually held in the Temple of Jupiter. "Jurisprudence" is the wisdom or knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. How is this knowledge obtained? My own explanation: In the Republic, no citizen was allowed to lord over another citizen: every citizen had the duty to respect the freedom of the other citizens; any action to the contrary was wrong, a crime. So, the jurisprudents (not the Senators) actually made laws about the social behavior of the citizens. [In the modern republics, he Senate or other civil administrators make "judicial laws" as here are no jurisprudents.] The Justinian Code of Law summarizes "Roman law",namely the practices of the Jurisprudents.
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Post by joustos on Apr 25, 2018 16:11:24 GMT
To continue: The Republic, with its jurisprudence, and architecture are the glories of ancient Rome. Briefly: Roman architecture is, in part, like the Greek one, as some temples in and out of Italy, still testify. Typically, the Romans used the ARCH, which was inherited from the Etruscans. The arch, rather than the post-and-lintel structure, can support a great weight -- the weight of a bridge's road and its vehicles, the weight of very tall walls (and, in the Middle Ages, of wide windows), the weight of a masonry dome or of a roof that spans between distance walls, etc. The Roman Bath-houses, the round and domed Pantheon, etc., are clear examples of the virtue of the arch. At the same time, the Romans invented construction materials, such as the "cement", which made huge buildings possible.
www.ancient.eu/Roman_Architecture/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture
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