Tristan S. Rappさんのイラストまとめ

Consider the stories we tell set in the "far future". Most of these take place only as far as the 3rd or 4th millenniums. Even such works as Warhammer 40k, set in an almost incomprehensibly distant future, is closer to the present than the first modern humans to enter Europe.

Pre-Hispanic Philippine society had a tripartite class-division similar to early Indo-European societies. At the top were the Datu, chiefs or kings, beneath them the Timawa, thanes or knights, and at the bottom Oripuns, serfs and slaves.

This isn't to say the problems don't require *innovation*. But there are other ways to innovate than just going bigger. Not every clever new idea has to be a technological idea. Sometimes, if you've found you were going the wrong way, the first thing is to take a few steps back.

Again, self-affirmation is, to an extent, healthy & even crucial. But so, so many movies have variants of this theme now. The villain is always misunderstood, the hero is always repressed. The central virtue is always affirmation, never growth or reflection, let alone repentance.

The message is most often spread in family movies, so it might be most illuminating to look at some of them. I'll start with Aladdin, since it is a movie that might *seem* to follow this theme, but actually rebukes it.

While Anglophone metal-bands, TV producers and icecream-companies may think their excessive use of umlauts and dashed letters makes for a fun and quirky aesthetic, what they don't realise is that an average of 4 Scandinavians die from strokes every year trying to read them.

The very name of Latin America is, when you think about it, quite crazy. Imagine telling an ancient Italian tribesman circa 800 BC that Latium, the backwater triangle of land southeast of the Tiber, would end up giving name to an an undiscovered area larger than the known world.

Returning to my reflection here on the fleeting nature of ethnicities and cultures, another example of this general impermanence is with states.

We tend to perceive the borders of modern nation-states as God-given facts, but in truth, countries have and do vanish in a fortnight https://t.co/XBq5uUmh1V

Give me a Christmas with wassailing, revelry, twelve nights, demoniac carnivals, communal singing and a lord of misrule

Indeed, these images are clear enough for us to identify the chariots as being of the 'biga' type - that is, two-horse chariots similar to those used in contemporary Mycenean Greece.

Were they still used for war in the North or merely ceremonial? We may never know.