Apocalypse 7

 Salvete Omnes,

War in Ukraine continues - many media outlets bring news of potential ceasefire talks between the Russian invaders-  Putin government and  Ukrainian defenders - Zelensky government et al.
We all hope and pray for the peace sooner than later, while the number of refugees - women and children from Ukraine - is currently close to 3 million people. Human catastrophe in making.

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another  Four Horsemen of Apocalypse image - deeply religious painter Victor Vasnetstov who many works  have been painted for the St Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kiev, the besieged capital of Ukraine.

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Apocalypse 6

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine (Wojna na Ukrainie) continues - peace must prevail!

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Apocalypse of the Chateau d'Angers - commissioned by Duke de Anjou circa 1375AD this monumental tapestry - originally 140 meters long and 850 square meters of total surface - is housed in the castle of Angers.  

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three out of Four Horsemen survived - 

1st

3rd

4th

and horsemen of the fire-breathing horses

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Apocalypse 5

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine must end - peace is so dear!!

more of the XV century Apocalypse images: 

this time:
De Vier Reiter - Cologne Bible circa 1479AD

and Apocalipsis in dietsche- circa 1400AD from Gallica - BN de France

our present day would require one more Horseman - the Disinformation Horseman, perhaps I will draw one this weekend... Medieval style?

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Bairactar or Bairaktar

 Salvete omnes,

peace in Ukraine must prevail! 

long time ago there was a famous Arabian horse sire - stallion Bairaktar written also as Bairactar.
Supposedly his name Bairaktar was a Turkish word for standard bearer. Born in the desert (Syrian?) circa 1813, he was imported to Europe after the Napoleonic Wars and would become one of the most influential sires in the history of the American and European Arabian horse breeding history.

And there was a German king, Wilhelm I of Wurttemberg, who bought this stallion in 1817, rode him  and also had him used as a sire for this studs , including Weil, where our Bairaktar died in 1838 or 39AD. 

Nota bene, supposedly the oldest existing German stud is the Marbach Stud, near Gomadingen, in Baden-Wurttemberg, established more than 540 years ago by  Eberhard I of Wurttemberg as a private stud, elevated during the reign of Christoph of Wurttember to the official state stud.   
Below two monuments to Wilhelm I of Wurttemberg and of Bairaktar.

His skeleton still exists today. 

Incidentally, there is military aerial vehicle (UCAV) alias combat drone produced by the Turkish military, and this unmanned aerial vehicle is called Bayraktar. 

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Apocalypse 4

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine continues 

Four Horsemen again - from 1420AD manuscript - Wellcome Apocalypsis (Apocalypse)

and according to Hurriyet here will be truce negotiations between Russian minister Lavrov and Ukrainian minister Kuleba in Antalya, Turkey on March 10th. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will be presiding, God willing they will get the war in Ukraine stopped

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Apocalypse 3

 Salvete Omnes,

war in Ukraine continues  

Two Apocalypse-related  XIX century works of art from then partitioned Poland (between Prussia, Austria-Hungarian Empire and Russian Empire)
Ignacy Gierdziejewski - Polish painter active in the mid XIX century (died 1860)- his 1855 painting held at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. (Academia article about the painters and artists in XIX century Warsaw)

 

 Peace in Ukraine 

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Apocalypse 2 - Durer

 Salvete Omnes,

so war, conquest, famine and death ride on in so many parts of the globe - foremost in Mexico, Ukraine, African and Asian continent

and now let us look at Durer's Four Horsemen - 

big, fat articles on Wikipedia

so just images - 

Peace must prevail in Ukraine

Salvete

Apocalypse 1

 Salvete Omnes,

we had pandemic*, now we have conquest* war* and death*,  and who knows what else our lords have for us up the sleeve - so let's look at some Apocalypse imagery - the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.

Four Horsemen

Conquest on a White Horse -1st Horseman

War on a Red/Roan Horse -2nd Horseman

Famine on Black Horse -3r Horseman

Death on a Pale Horse - 4th Horseman

Apocalypse, Thuringia ca. 1350-1370 AD,  BL, Add 15243, fol. 12r

That German Apocalypse is a bit different - second linked description from British Library talks about it.
Peace in Ukraine!

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Smolensk 1634 and March 1...

 Salvete Omnes,

 

in Poland the Day of the Damned Soldiers is celebrated on March 1. After 1944 - the beginning of the occupation of Poland by the USSR, and patriotic Polish fighters fought the Soviet Union and their servile Polish security forces.
Gloria Victis.

 

And going back to 1634AD, our king, Wladyslaw IV, vanquished completely Russian Muscovite armies at Smolensk.

War in Ukraine, the Russian invasion of that poor country, is becoming more and more like a typical XXI century war (like Iraq 2002-16, Afghanistan, Israel over the Palestine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Kurdistan etc)- atrocities, powerful technologically driven weapons,  misinformation and propaganda, but also a fog of war.

This map - so  it is an attempt, by the Finnish military researchers, to observe incomplete and delayed developments on this war of aggression and imperial ambitions. 

 

 Ukraine needs some Polish winged hussars but

our Western leadership (POTUS will deliver SOTU today) is 'sin cojones'...
My friend Paul Zambrzycki( and owner of Persjarnia company ) with sponsorship from  OLD Poland Bakery from NYC and with help  from friends from Krakow's Kur Fraternity  went across the Polish-Ukrainian border into Ukraine with a food-truck full of food and hot coffee and tea. The lines of Ukrainian refugees - women and children in cars, trucks, buses and vans - are long, last night they were about 50km long going to each of the border crossings  (Medyka and Hrebenne are two largest border crossing between the two countries).

So let us pray for peace in Ukraine and pray for the Ukrainian peoples...

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Patryk Skupniewicz - Ph.D.

 Salvete Omnes,

life goes on not matter where we stand, live or die -:) 

and on the happier note tomorrow at midday my friend Patryk Skupniewicz will  defended   his dissertation  thesis before the Siedlce university academic commission  (Zytnia Street 3) in Poland.

The title - Sassanian Armament and Horse-harness in Light of Armament of Europe and Asia 3rd-7th century AD' - under the supervision of prof. dr. Katarzyna Maksymiuk.

W dniu 28 lutego 2022 r. o godz. 12.00 w budynku Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach przy ul. Żytniej 39, w sali nr 1.6 odbędzie się publiczna obrona rozprawy doktorskiej mgra Patryka Norberta Skupniewicza: "Sasanidzkie uzbrojenie oraz rząd koński na tle uzbrojenia Europy i Azji III-VII wieku'.

Buona Fortuna - Varaz (the Boar)

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War In Ukraine must stop

 Salvete Omnes,

it is not going to be about horses and riders, as the war rages on in Ukraine (map)

eh, the  imperially-minded Russian Federation and their supreme leader Putin put  their armies, in some strange limited fashion and against the typical Soviet-Russian military doctrines of artillery war,  against  poor Ukraine and her armies. 

My hopes and thoughts are with the poor people of Ukraine -  especially the civilian population that is already suffering from this assault and heinous imperialism by Russian government. But I truly pity the wasted, in my opinion, lives of these Russian soldiers who  have died and will die fighting for the imperial Russian idea. Their mothers will weep in the same way the Ukrainian mothers will...

Poland, where until this armed conflict some 2 million Ukrainians had been working and thus prospered, already took in some 145,000 refugees - women and children - from Ukraine. Slovakia took at least 20,000, while Hungary and Romania probably also a large number too, but I have not checked Romanian and Hungaria news. Also there is Moldova with her rebellious area of Transdnisitria.
Ukrainian men and boy - age 18 to 60 - are staying in Ukraine to fight of this invasion, as they should, because this is what men are for; men are  to defend their children and their women.
I hear that some of the Ukrainian men living in Poland are going back to Ukraine - God bless them.

My friend Anton Wysocki has been fighting in Sumy, eastern Ukrainian city north of Kharkov, - he is a great artist and patriot, historian and writer. Hope , these find artists - Sergei Shamnkov  and Antoly Telenik are safe and unhurt, but they live in Odessa and Kherson oblast respectively. 

But now the invade  Ukraine needs you to tell your governments to step in and stop this invasion and armed conflict - weak US leadership did nothing to prevent this war,  while European Union but for Poland and the Baltic Republic(old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), was lukewarm, and  only yesterday Federal Republic of German decided to allow for some arms - RPG and Stingers - to be shipped to Ukraine (how they gonna do this remains to be seen). Poland has been sending aid, including military supplies, and receiving refugee and wounded?. 
But then how is European Union to function without Russian natural gas and countless other materials and resources  delivered from the still functioning pipelines?
Pipelines like the  Yamal pipeline and NordStream-1. When Germany turned off her nuclear energy plants, save for only one that is to be decommissioned later this year.
Where renewable energy has proven itself to be a dismal failure. Where world leadership is populated by likes of Soros, Schwab and Gates and their ilk from World Economic Forum (WEF)  and WHO(run by PRoC and WEF).  

I hope this is not going to turn in all out nuclear war and thus world conflict(Russian Federation being one hell of a nuclear power), as the arch-enemy of Israel the Islamic Republic of Iran already probably has nuclear capabilities and Israel has been bombing war-ravaged Syria and Iranian targets in Syria. Nuclear  powers  - Pakistan is in conflict with India  about Kashmir, while India herself with Peoples Republic of China, and PRofChina wants to take Taiwan (a sovereign state)  - with US fleet's warship sailing through the Formosa/Taiwan Straits.

Our world is in flux - hope peace will prevail, too bad Belarus is on the wrong side in this conflict.

Fortuna audaces iuvat 

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War in Ukraine must stop

Salvete Omnes ,

no horses here, just a human tragedy 

the people of Ukraine need peace, the people of Russia need peace - now!
POTUS and NATO and Peoples Republic of China, and India need to act now

the above photo comes from Twitter - I claim no copyright 

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Estonian Native Horse and genetics

 Salvete Omnes,

while perusing academia.edu subscriptions and searching for the Birka warriors etc I came across Gus Cothran's page on academia. 
I guess I started my adventure with horse genomics by reading prof. Cothran's articles etc.
So in his(and esteemed colleagues)  2019AD article -  Population Genetic Analysis of the Estonian Native Horse Suggests Diverse and Distinct Genetics, Ancient Origin and Contribution from Unique Patrilines- (link) we have a study of the Estonian Native Horse -    University of Oklahoma livestock and breeds page - wiki page, breeders pages. 

The horse averages 147cm at withers and about 430kg in weight (I guess the stallions). Its gene pool includes Mongolian horse and the Yakutian; Scandinavian horses like Gotland Pony, Norvegian Fjord, and Islandic Pony; British Isles horses - Exmoor and Shetland,  Polish Konik and Carpathian Hucul... 

This small horse might have been part of the horses' pool used by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth armies as between 1569-1629 Duchy of Livonia was part of our Polish state. Also, it is reasonable to infer that some Polish stallions left their progeny among the herds of the Estonian horse during that period.  After 1620s the Duchy of Livonia was conquered and annexed by the Swedes who already held the northern part of Estonia. It all ended with Peter the Great of Imperial Russia conquering all of Estonia during the Great Northern War. And Estonian horse became popular in Imperial Russia.. and so on until the present it is the native breed in the independent Estonia. 

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Swit panstwa polskiego et inne linki

 Salvete Omnes,

[in Polish]

chciałbym podzielić się z Wami, drodzy surferzy netowi, paroma linkami do książek i rozmów/wywiadów, które ostatnio przesłuchałem czy czytałem.
największa moja ciekawość wzbudził wykład profesora Andrzeja Buko - academia  , FBC , lubimy czytać - związany z książka 'Świt państwa polskiego'  , który odbył się na portalu Archeologia Żywa i był/jest zatytułowany Rywale rodu Piastów? - Andrzej Buko | KONTEKST 51. - czytałem książki profesora 'Bodzia' (2015), 'The Archaeology of Early Medieval Poland' (2008) i coś tam artykułów - eg ten artykuł.  Szczerze polecam ten wykład plus pytania i odpowiedzi po prezentacji tematu. Nota bene nie słuchałem jeszcze Q&A o Rusi Kijowskiej z Dariuszem Dąbrowskim (świetna 2-tomowa praca tego historyka o Danielu Romanowiczu), ani spotkania z Bartoszem Kotnym et al.  o kulturze przeworskiej, ani też o Scytach,Władcach Wielkiego Stepu. Może nadrobię -:)

Teraz pokłusujemy do XVII wieku, i tamże na portalu Ostoja Tradycji można posłuchać spotkań i gawędy dwóch Jacków - Komudy i Bartosiaka (Strategy and Future) na tematy wojenne (eg ta gawęda) i wojenno poboczne staropolskie, a wszystko w kontekście nadchodzącej premiery filmu fabularnego zrealizowanego  min z funduszy zebranych od darczyńców i Fundacji Ulanów króla Jana etc- premiera owego 'Diabla Łańcuckiego' ma się odbyć na Zamku w Krasiczynie 19 lutego, AD 2022. 

Na portalu Strategy and Future Jacek Bartosiak rozmawia z prof. Andrzejem Nowakiem, wielkim historykiem polskim i autorem serii Dzieje Polski  - temat: Rzeczpospolita, od Piastów po współczesność. 

Na portalu Historia Bez Mitów - rozmowa o micie Piłsudskiego w PRL. - gdzie Brunon Różycki i Tomasz Ciołkowski rozmawiają o meandrach mitu Marszałka. Wcześniej, bo we wrześniu 2021 odbyły się:  rozmowa mości Brunona z prof. Lechem Wyszczelskim na temat zaniedbań J. Piłsudskiego w wojsku miedzy 1926-35., i rozmowa tych dwóch przedmówców na temat Marszałka jako wojskowego 1914-23.

I na koniec raport z Fundacji Adarma - jako, że biją w teorbany, kotły i bębny wojny media a politycy jakby na Ukrainie nie toczyla sie wojna of 2014 a Białoruś z 'utajnionej przyjaciółki' stała się wrogiem RPIII - to warto poczytać krytykę projektu reformy Wojska Polskiego przygotowanej przez Strategy & Future jako Armia Nowego Wzoru. Krytyka jest arcy-konstruktywna, obfituje w odwołania do historii wojskowości, w tym oczywiście staropolskiej.

Z końskich tematowa w literaturze przedmiotu to dodam, że Infort Editions wydało prace  'KAWALERYĘ MIELIŚMY NADWERĘŻONĄ...' o koniach kawalerii epoki 1788-94 i 1806-14, Autorem jest Krzysztof Kuczyński, a prace można znaleźć tutaj.
Zresztą praca Mariusza Sampa o wojnie Mieszka I z Wieletami pt Brenna 991AD, tez mogłaby wzbudzić zainteresowanie, jak i krotkie wprowadzenie do Połowców Węgierskich Jakuba Juszyńskiego.

miłego czytania a słuchania etc

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