The Chukchi - reindeer warriors of Siberia

 Salvete Omne,

a little change of climate, latitudes and quadrupeds - the reindeer herders of Siberia - the Chukchi.

Interesting historic book on the traveling and  wintering with the Chukchi and Eskimo/Inuit  in 1853 -  

Sledge & dogs - Siberian husky

the Chukchi clans of north-eastern Siberia had been the reindeer warriors for ages, participating in the endemic warfare of the Siberian tundra and taiga.

Chukchi costume as described Lieut. Hooper (Royal Navy - 1853AD )

They had their own armor, bows, arrows, warclubs and knives etc - 

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wresting of the Chukchi warriors

wrestling 

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Stele for the fallen horseman

 Salvete Omnes,

stele of Dexileus - @ Andrzej Baranasz

   so the new terrible war started in the south western Asia - US, Israel, Persian Gulf States vs Iran (and perhaps Houthis and other Shias muslims in Lebanon, Iraq and Bahrain? etc), on top of the other wars: between Pakistan and Afghanistan, civil war in Sudan, and the horrible war in Ukraine. 
Allegedly it was the Israeli attack that killed the 86-years old leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, in effect making the old leader a martyr. The Shias are like us, the Roman Catholics, they love martyrdom, saints, feasts of martyrs and suffering to no end. 

   Many good soldiers &  innocents will die on all sides (like these schoolgirls yesterday), the world economy will suffer if the Persians close the Strait of Hormuz and oil & LNG gas will go up on the markets. Some industrial states, like PRCh, South Korea, Japan etc depend on the Gulf oil. European Union, cut off from the Russian oil & gas, will have to rely more on our American oil & LNG gas.. Hardships may be coming if this war is not ended quick.

   I would like to just post these ancient, VI c.- IV c.BC,    Athenian stelea for the fallen cavalrymen, in order to just remind myself and all of you that any and all wars of aggression are evil and malice combined, unless in self-defense. 

Stele for Meknes, @ Giovanni Dall'Orto 

In this interview  prof. Ted Postol on the technology of ballistic missiles and interceptors (Iron Dome, Patriots etc) , the oil export economy and human suffering. I recently read the great work by American journalist Annie Jacobsen - The Nuclear War (2024), and prof. Postol's name and research & theories & experiments are aplenty in the Annie's book. 

stele 560-550BC, from the tower at the Dypilon Gate - @Ad Meskens

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Stanislaw Bohusz-Siestrzencewicz - horses and wagons

 Salvete Omnes,

Polish turn of the XIx century painter and graphic artist - Stanislaw  Bohusz-Siestrzencewicz (1869-1927), disciple of Bogdan Willewalde and Jozef Brandt. Artist was very much rooted in Polish culture of Warsaw and Wilno (Vilnus nowadays). Author of many articles  eg Piekno i Sztuka (Wilno 1916) [Beauty and Art]. The world depicted in his paintings was eradicated by the Red Bolsheviks 1917-1921, and later by the Nazis, Soviet Communists and Banderites 1939-45. 

painting of Tatar captivity and slavery - painted by Jozef Brandt and Stanislaw 

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also author of these wonderful drawings done in quill pen and ink, published in Wilno 1913, (the printing of drawings was done in Warsaw)

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. enjoy

Valete