PavelCal

Music Maker. Texas-Mexico.

[PavelCal @Pavelcal]

Amigos! Ya salió en plataformas mi nuevo disco de jazz!
NUDO INFINITO
Incluye colaboraciones de @LeonelGOficial @marcorenteriao @RogerNuncio Carlos Sustaita, Emiliano Coronel, @jbrauet Daniel Ponce

https://t.co/0BGS04MNa3

[PavelCal @Pavelcal]

Mi Reyno hermoso! Que bonito video!!!!

[Manuel Herrera Maldonado @globoballoon]

¡Mérida eres hermosa! Mucho gusto en conocerte: Tu gente, tu cultura, tu comida, tu cielo azul. Todo me ha encantado de ti.

Música por @Pavelcal

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Pakistán e India se odian, viven en guerra, tienen una carrera de arsenal nuclear.

Sin embargo tienen la mejor ceremonia de apertura y cierre de frontera del mundo.

[Riccardo Bosi @RealLTCRicBosi]

A true story.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago.

The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans.

Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites.

Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written.

The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention.

El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity.

"Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different.

The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes.

Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe.

The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire.

In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it.

The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence.

So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East:

The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys.

The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world.

Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic.

Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite.

History has a very dark sense of humor.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explains how to discover what you were born to do (in 2 mins)

[Manel Márquez 🍉 @manelmarquez]

El fachapobre es una de las creaciones más sofisticada del capitalismo.

¡Qué buen explicado!

¡Escuchen y difundan!

[Julián Macías Tovar @JulianMaciasT]

Otra lección de historia que no se esperaba Risto Mejide.
El califato de los Ayatollas lo instalaron EEUU y Francia por miedo a un gobierno democrático. Antes en 1953 la CIA dio un golpe al gobierno democrático que nacionlizó el petróleo e impuso al Sha.

[Rincón Curioso @RincnCuriosoo]

Después de 144 años de obras, finalmente la Sagrada Familia de Barcelona ha alcanzado su máxima expresión con la instalación de la última pieza de su torre central.

[aapayés @aapayes]

Uno de los vídeos más compartidos a nivel mundial.
🇵🇸✊️
Gaza-Palestina

Israel lo hizo.

[Alán Barroso @AlanBarrosoA]

No te tiene que gustar maduro para criticar lo que ha hecho EE.UU.

[José Luis 🇲🇽 @menjoss]

PARECE MEME PERO ES LA REALIDAD

https://t.co/reycf9WS6d

[adam @AdameMedia]

I hope the legend who made this is having a wonderful day 🤣👏🏼

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This short video will make you RETHINK your entire life ‼️‼️

[adam @AdameMedia]

Charlie laughed.

The co-host laughed.

The crowd laughed.

The murder of 400,000 people, and they think it’s hilarious.

Now leftists make jokes about 1 man and its end of the world.

Hypocrites.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US.

They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe.

This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

“We are tired of being pitted against our neighbors.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

JB Pritzker: “Do you carry with you citizenship papers? How do you prove to somebody that you’re a US citizen? Your accent? The color or your skin? That’s not the country we live in. You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers the way they did in Nazi Germany”