The Veneti of Ancient Europe - Part 1: Origins

The Ancient Veneti, an early offshoot of Proto-Indo-European ethnogenesis, are underestimated in their role as both culture-spreaders and traders along the Amber Road. In their migrations, they established a new religious, cultural and social paradigm that was eminently Indo-European in character, as is visible in the archaeological record wherever they settled.

The Veneti likely formed within the Proto-Italo-Celtic horizon in Central Europe - in either Poland or eastern Hungary, where the new custom of cremation seems to have originated. Around the 13th century BC they began expanding, bringing the Urnfield Culture, distinct in its practice of cremation, to the lands they settled, where inhumation was prevalent.

The Veneti settled almost every corner of Europe, from the Adriatic Gulf and Central Italy to Armorica and Britain, and from the Baltic Sea to Anatolia. They are considered among the earliest bringers of Indo-European culture in the regions they settled, predating the later Celtic expansion that would fragment the preexisting Venetic continuum and isolate the Venetic peoples.

The meaning of the ethnonym "Veneti" (or Venetkens, as they called themselves) is still debated, likely deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root "wenh-", meaning either "victorious", "sacred", "white", or "to desire/love".

This uncertainty reflects the variety of interactions that they had in different contexts, in a similar way as the term "aryan" for other Indo-European peoples acquired different meanings.

They were extensively documented in classical literature for their expertise in horse breeding, military prowess, extensive trade networks, and territorial expansion. In the Iliad, they are mentioned as allies of Troy. Authors like Livy, Pliny the Elder and Strabo observed their presence in different regions, noting the similarities between Veneti from disparate regions.

In summary, the Ancient Veneti represent an early phase of Indo-European expansion from their central european core. In the lands they settled, they introduced social and religious practices associated with the Indo-European worldview, anticipating the later waves of expansion of the Celts, Germans and Slavs.

??????? Who are the Piedmontese? (Part I)

What are the origins of the indigenous inhabitants of the Piedmontese lands, and above all, from which ancient peoples do they descend? Anyone who has been interested in local identity and culture will undoubtedly have encountered this question and also several attempts to an answer, more or less based on reliable sources and data. The question is not foreign even to the Traditionalist Pagan, who, wanting to follow the path to the Gods of his ancestors, first of all needs to know his own ancestry.

Read the first part of our series of articles on our website!

https://viaelectri.com/tpost/utokgmkbl1-who-are-the-piedmontese-part-i

Viaelectri

Who are the Piedmontese? (Part I)

We explore the ethnogenesis of the native Piedmontese people of Northwestern Italy in a series of articles.

?? Chi sono i piemontesi? (Parte Prima)

Quali sono le origini degli abitanti indigeni delle terre piemontesi, e soprattutto da quali popoli antichi essi discendono? Chiunque si sia interessato di identità e cultura locale avrà senza dubbio incontrato questa questione e anche innumerevoli tentativi di risposta più o meno basati su fonti e dati attendibili. La domanda non è estranea neppure al pagano tradizionalista, il quale volendo seguire la via al divino dei propri antenati necessita prima di tutto di conoscere la propria ascendenza, con la consapevolezza delle culture antiche alle quali i suoi antenati appartenevano, nella maniera più precisa possibile.

Puoi leggere la prima parte della nostra serie di articoli sul nostro sito!

https://viaelectri.com/tpost/ze3dzsvjd1-chi-sono-i-piemontesi-parte-prima

Viaelectri

Chi sono i piemontesi? (Parte Prima)

In una serie di articoli esploriamo l'etnogenesi degli autoctoni piemontesi dell'Italia nord-occidentale.

*Decline is an old temptation of the European soul, the dark side of its tragic courage. In spite of the sun of Attica, Hesiod had already whispered the song of the twilight, before the bards took it back under the grey sky of the old Germania and the Celtic countries.

It was this song that haunted Master Robert Wace, in his island of Jersey, one day as he traced on parchment the first lines of his Roman de Rou, in the middle of the 12th century:

«All things hasten to decay
All fall, all perish, all come to an end
Man dieth, iron consumeth, wood decayeth
Towers crumble, strong walls fall down, the rose withereth away*...»

*Certainly. But also, all things come back, they are reborn, they live again. Children are born and succeed to fathers.

And even if some generations would be forgetful and unfaithful, without them knowing it, through them life is transmitted and with it, a part of the heritage that other generations eager to return to the sources of the kingdom, beyond time, will find later on.*? History and Traditions of Europeans — Dominique Venner, 2002

Statue of Arminius during the Solar Flare