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Discoverer of Disinfolklore. Twelve Tools to Deploy, Detect, Decrypt & Defeat the Disinfolklore Universe Before it Destroys Civilisation:

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Nice journal reference here and citation to my work on Disinfolklore.

Does two things of particular value to me as a writer:

1. Is a record that I created the Portmanteau ‘Disinfolklore.’

2. Correctly categorises ‘Disinformation’ as a particular form of ‘Disinfolklore.’

Thus giving me the whole field (which I’d be too humble to have claimed too loudly) while confining all the work focussing on Disinformation to a local province or region of my field.

Prof Yolles cites my work, the result of @peterjukes visionary decision to commission for @BylineTimes an early piece on Disinfolklore in Byline Supplement. Work now presented https://www.Disinfolklore .com in a very innovative format. Thanks @peterjukes Thanks Prof Yolles.

See Maurice Yolles, 2025. "The Psychological Impact of Technology: Narrative Memetics and Psychosocial Contagion in Digital Network," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Patrizia Gazzola & Gandolfo Dominici (ed.), Technology and Society - Boon or Bane?, pages 16-43, Springer.

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⚡️ My Munich speech: Our Disinfolklore Universe ~
Battling Archetypes

It’s appropriate to be speaking about our Disinfolklore Universe at a Pirate Party Munich Security conference event.

Those who founded the Pirate Party get what I am about to speak to you about.

There’s a flow between on the one hand culture, art, films, literature about pirates and geopolitical security.

Those whom we entrust with securing our conditions of civilised life don’t seem to understand this. This is partly why they’re such easy marks for Russian and MAGA Disinfolklore.

They get wrapped up so easily in Russian or MAGA trolls, like flies in a spider's web, it’s very hard for them even to understand they’re trapped inside Old Thinking.

Today I’m going to offer a perspective on what I call our Disinfolklore Universe. And I’m also going to offer a means to escape the troll memes wrap us up inside when we fall for MAGA or Russian Disinfolklore.

None of this is easy. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have all the answers.

Whenever you hear anyone talk about Disinformation or Disinfolklore as if it happens to other people. As if only stupid people fall for trolls. Whenever you hear chatter like that, be certain those people are easy marks for trolls. For MAGA and Russian Disinfolklore.

Today we live in a true Disinfolklore Universe.

The fabric of every dimension of our lives - work, personal relationships, life choices, fates - is infused with aspects of Druidey Don and Duncey Putin’s memetic onslaught.

Our Moods/Motivations/Intentions/Attitudes are being formed by what I call ‘Disinfolklore.’

Directly – through whichever media memes we consume.

Or indirectly, through our own minds and those of others, influencing us from archetypes created and evolving from Disinfolklore.

Batman and Robin are running America – you saw Elmo, Druidey Don, and the kid in the White House the other day?

https://t.co/lVD0q77lvT

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@J_MaestreVidal https://t.co/IEfqldHAmo

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⚡️Russia celebrates Wednesday - with human sacrifice to mythological character.

Russian ‘Wagner’ army unit sacrificed to Odin - the Shaman Trickster God of rubes after whom Whodanaz Dyeus (Wednesday) is named.

Odin/Whoden has no himself on an ash tree by the Royal mound in Uppsala, Sweden.

Here, Russian army sacrifices a Russian soldier to Baba Yaga (a kind of drone Russian soldiers named for a scary witch in Indo-European folklore) by tying him to a tree

[Jorge Maestre Vidal @J_MaestreVidal]

🇷🇺 This is the first case I'm aware of involving state-aligned actors using Yggdrasil for C2 comms

It is also interesting the division of operational responsibilities between access preparation (UAC-0099) and effects delivery (Sandworm)

https://t.co/84ZNgceBt0

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@J_MaestreVidal https://t.co/IEfqldH2wQ

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Russia celebrates Wednesday - with human sacrifice to mythological character.

Russian ‘Wagner’ army unit sacrificed to Odin - the Shaman Trickster God of rubes after whom Whodanaz Dyeus (Wednesday) is named.

Odin/Whoden has no himself on an ash tree by the Royal mound in Uppsala, Sweden.

Here, Russian army sacrifices a Russian soldier to Baba Yaga (a kind of drone Russian soldiers named for a scary witch in Indo-European folklore) by tying him to a tree

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Russia celebrates Wednesday - with human sacrifice to mythological character.

Russian ‘Wagner’ army unit sacrificed to Odin - the Shaman Trickster God of rubes after whom Whodanaz Dyeus (Wednesday) is named.

Odin/Whoden has no himself on an ash tree by the Royal mound in Uppsala, Sweden.

Here, Russian army sacrifices a Russian soldier to Baba Yaga (a kind of drone Russian soldiers named for a scary witch in Indo-European folklore) by tying him to a tree

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️ I could not connect the two cultures, geographically separated by thousands of kilometres, as well as by several millennia.

I hadn’t then realised that Christianity grew out of a Roman colony so that the Roman Catholic faith was an amalgam of influences, including the Italic culture of which it emanated.

When I’d first heard the word Yama in that temple in Ulaanbaatar, Yama had seemed like an extravagantly exotic figure.

I didn’t know then that the Buddhist Yama had evolved out of India’s first self-sacrificing king – also called by that unusual name: Yama. Early India’s Yama’s twin was Manu.

I hadn’t known that the Indian Yama had begun life as the recognisably similarly named Iranian God Yima.

Or that there was a Norse God Ymir, who performed a similar role in that ancient religion as their near namesakes played in ancient Iran and India.

Nor did I know that, as mentioned, Woden, another manifestation of the Germanic God *Wodhanaz (after whom Wednesday is named), had, like Yama, sacrificed himself.

Woden, like Yama a Lord of Death, hanged himself from Yggdrasil, the cosmic ash tree as the foundational moment in Norse religion beside the three Royal Mounds in Uppsala…

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

💔📸 Children are burying children. There are no words for this.

“Above the small child’s coffin, the lid was lifted, and the entire crowd — the courtyard, the air itself — froze. No one could breathe.”

📸 Kyiv. Farewell to the Halych family, August 2025. Yuliya Kochetova.

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@commandeleven https://t.co/L0IpkVT1uc

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@franceinfo https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@GiorgiaMeloni https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@NunezLaurent https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@mhdksafa @Debp197 https://t.co/L0IpkVT1uc

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian.

Here is some of his humanitarian work.

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@gurkan_ergin https://t.co/Axqhde2xmM

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⚡️ Enheduana, the Moon, and Me

As a writer myself, it’s natural that I might have a special affection for the first known writer in human civilisation. Here is the only known image of Enheduana (2,286 – 2,251 BCE). Here she is depicted on an alabaster disk (see top image) which, as befits a priestess dedicated to the Moongod Nanna is, even after 4,000 years, as luminescent today as a full Moon is.

See how in Enheduana’s Disk, Enheduanna is, in scale, portrayed as being larger than the two attendants behind her, and the third priest (a naked male performing the work) in front of her? Here Enheduana is, compositionally taller and larger than the divinely inspired architectural form of the Ziggurat to her right on the Disk of Enheduana!

Ziggurats are, too, a part of our story here in Finding Manuland, where as cultural archæologists we look for the ancient in the everyday.

The transfer of the idea of a stepped tower with a temple at the top (in mimicry of the sacred holy mountains and burial mounds / mane - let’s recall the Dnipro Mound whose destruction by greedy property developers inspired the Power of Mana and Finding Manuland!) across Indo-European cultural space - in Buddhist mandalas, temples, stupas, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - until it reached the building and logo of my Alma Mater University of Oxford‘s Saïd Business School.

The Oxford Ziggurat was put there by divinely inspired architect Jeremy Dixon who liked the ziggurat of the Hawksmoor Church (St George’s) in Bloomsbury (see photo above), London and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

The Tower of Babel episode in the Old Testament of the bible was written down around 1,300 years after Enheduanna died, and was based on a ziggurat near Ur in Babylon.

At the end of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, Adam and Eve’s descendants go to Sumer and construct the city of Babylon of mudbricks around a Ziggurat - the Tower of Babel - or E-Temen-anki as it was known meaning “The House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth.”

On Enheduana’s Disk the naked priest bowing in front of Enheduanna makes the offering, a reenactment of the primal sacrifice, on her behalf. Again, we have touched on the importance of sacrifice re-enacted as ritual accross the entirety of the Indo-European cultural space before. The sacrificial offering, whether in the form of wine or bread in a Christian ceremony, or a goat (the word “sacrifice” is etymologically derived from the ritualistic killing of a goat) in other cultures is a re-enactment of the primal motivation of the foundation of whichever culture is making the sacrifice.
The offering represents a part of a contract with Sky Father, the Moongod or whichever local deity a culture wishes to troll into protecting their sovereignty, security and prosperity / fertility. In Buddhism we make material and mentalofferings as part of our daily practice. And in Tibetan Buddhism the mentaloffering of a Mandala with a Ziggurat at its centre symbolises the dedication of what merit we have gathered to all of humanity, the multiverse and the entire Cosmos.

Enheduana, after her initiations, was to spend the rest of her life in the Ziggurat at Ur.

Sadly, and she writes about this in the text modern scholars have called the Exhaltation of Inanna, Ur was invaded by Lugulanne.

Enheduana writes thus of Lugulanne’s desecration of the temple of the Supreme God An in which she resided.

“He has stripped An Of (his temple) Eanna. He has not stood in awe of An-lugal

That sanctuary whose attractions are irresistible, whose beauty is endless,

That sanctuary he has verily brought to destruction.”

The same emotion I experience when I learn, daily, of Ruschia’s latest monstrous destruction of places I and Ukrainians held sacred.

Episode XXVI ~ Finding Manuland: Two Second-Millennium Writers on the Moon’s Control of Our Words, Meanings, and Minds:

https://t.co/Bt031OxnxU

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⚡️ Enheduana, the Moon, and Me

As a writer myself, it’s natural that I might have a special affection for the first known writer in human civilisation. Here is the only known image of Enheduana (2,286 – 2,251 BCE). Here she is depicted on an alabaster disk (see top image) which, as befits a priestess dedicated to the Moongod Nanna is, even after 4,000 years, as luminescent today as a full Moon is.

See how in Enheduana’s Disk, Enheduanna is, in scale, portrayed as being larger than the two attendants behind her, and the third priest (a naked male performing the work) in front of her? Here Enheduana is, compositionally taller and larger than the divinely inspired architectural form of the Ziggurat to her right on the Disk of Enheduana!

Ziggurats are, too, a part of our story here in Finding Manuland, where as cultural archæologists we look for the ancient in the everyday.

The transfer of the idea of a stepped tower with a temple at the top (in mimicry of the sacred holy mountains and burial mounds / mane - let’s recall the Dnipro Mound whose destruction by greedy property developers inspired the Power of Mana and Finding Manuland!) across Indo-European cultural space - in Buddhist mandalas, temples, stupas, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - until it reached the building and logo of my Alma Mater University of Oxford‘s Saïd Business School.

The Oxford Ziggurat was put there by divinely inspired architect Jeremy Dixon who liked the ziggurat of the Hawksmoor Church (St George’s) in Bloomsbury (see photo above), London and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

The Tower of Babel episode in the Old Testament of the bible was written down around 1,300 years after Enheduanna died, and was based on a ziggurat near Ur in Babylon.

At the end of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, Adam and Eve’s descendants go to Sumer and construct the city of Babylon of mudbricks around a Ziggurat - the Tower of Babel - or E-Temen-anki as it was known meaning “The House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth.”

On Enheduana’s Disk the naked priest bowing in front of Enheduanna makes the offering, a reenactment of the primal sacrifice, on her behalf. Again, we have touched on the importance of sacrifice re-enacted as ritual accross the entirety of the Indo-European cultural space before. The sacrificial offering, whether in the form of wine or bread in a Christian ceremony, or a goat (the word “sacrifice” is etymologically derived from the ritualistic killing of a goat) in other cultures is a re-enactment of the primal motivation of the foundation of whichever culture is making the sacrifice.
The offering represents a part of a contract with Sky Father, the Moongod or whichever local deity a culture wishes to troll into protecting their sovereignty, security and prosperity / fertility. In Buddhism we make material and mentalofferings as part of our daily practice. And in Tibetan Buddhism the mentaloffering of a Mandala with a Ziggurat at its centre symbolises the dedication of what merit we have gathered to all of humanity, the multiverse and the entire Cosmos.

Enheduana, after her initiations, was to spend the rest of her life in the Ziggurat at Ur.

Sadly, and she writes about this in the text modern scholars have called the Exhaltation of Inanna, Ur was invaded by Lugulanne.

Enheduana writes thus of Lugulanne’s desecration of the temple of the Supreme God An in which she resided.

“He has stripped An Of (his temple) Eanna. He has not stood in awe of An-lugal

That sanctuary whose attractions are irresistible, whose beauty is endless,

That sanctuary he has verily brought to destruction.”

The same emotion I experience when I learn, daily, of Ruschia’s latest monstrous destruction of places I and Ukrainians held sacred.

Episode XXVI ~ Finding Manuland: Two Second-Millennium Writers on the Moon’s Control of Our Words, Meanings, and Minds:

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

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@afpfr https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

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@CBSNews https://t.co/L0IpkVT1uc

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@TheEconomist https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@franceinfo https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

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⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

@Marcel4EU https://t.co/L0IpkVTzjK

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Revolutions in Paris, DC, Berlin: Turning, Then Righting

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

The movement I want to bring into our minds is turning, then the straightening. I am going to keep saying it.

Turning, then righting. I want to embed it, so that when our minds are being turned by someone, in real time, we recall this little mantra.

Turning, righting.

When you see a revolution on the streets of Paris, whether in 1789 or today, that is turning. And then comes the righting of the turning.

Think of a wheel. The wheel is turning, with a Tr- in it, the consonantal pair. When it stops turning, it is righted. You have a wheelwright who fixes it. The wheel was turning, then it was broken.

There is a riot, perhaps, or an insurrection. Then someone rights it. The wheelwright rights the wheel.

So you create the chaos, which is the turning. Then you purport to save it, to solve it, which is the righting.

The riot is the turning. The strong man who says I will lock every rioter up, or indeed the strong woman leader who says it, I will lock the far left up, that is the righting.
And because the hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, the righting is his to offer.

Think of a wheelwright who plants stones or nails on the road. Think of running a business that fixes tyres. You guarantee yourself plenty of custom by putting nails on the street.

The hand that offers the righting was behind the turning, and he is ready for it, because he planned it.

The oldest shape of the trick is the damsel in distress. France is in distress. Europe is in distress. russian Disinfolklorists love the motif, and I have written about it often.

The hero needs a damsel. If there is no damsel in distress, well, no bother. You distress one. Then you ride in.

America was great. You say it is not great. You convince people it is not great. In fact you make it ungreat. You degrade America. You distress America, and then you say you are going to save it.

There is an abhorrent cultural meme I have spoken about before, the men who call themselves pick-up artists. They nag their victims.

Your nose is a bit too big. Wow, I am surprised you ever had a girlfriend, because you are pretty ugly. Then they use that vulnerability to hook the person. That is the micro level.

On the macro level we are not used to this. We are not used to it in geopolitics. We are not used to it in politics. We are not used to people arranging riots like the January 6th insurrection and then riding in to supposedly fix it. We are not used to countries carpet bombing, let us say, Syria.

Imagine a country like russia, which was having problems in Ukraine in the summer of 2015. It decides to carpet bomb Syria, which it starts doing in September 2015. That provokes millions of migrants, because nobody wants to die. The migrants come into Europe. They cause political chaos. And the people who ride to the rescue are PiS in Poland and Orbán in Hungary. Germany had a lot of problems. Merkel invited them in, legalised a million migrants and more or less absorbed them.

Now we have the AfD, supported by russia, riding high in the polls.

You cause the distress, then you purport to solve it. You cause the distress, then you sponsor political movements like the National Rally, you offer them massive loans, and then you purport to solve it. The same trick in Reform. It is a routine.

Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://t.co/SF34g19BLn