Pirates Merchants Devils and Dark Deeds

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Culture is a journey of experiential discovery in an ever-changinglandscape. Our Northern history remains largely unsung, eclipsed by theglamour of the classical world and its colourful legacy of Romanised culture.But there is another world, no less vibrant and exciting, no less fascinatingor challenging. Locked into our DNA is a very diff erent history . .In its immersive wonder we can find answers to age old challengesconcerning how culture evolves, what were the catalysts, who werethe antagonists, who were the oppressed, the exploited, what werethe real events, and who was really behind the violence in the tusslefor power a thousand years ago. Removing layers of accumulatedconcepts regarding faith, myth and magic, this book exposes thesocio-religio-political machinations that rocked the northern world,changing its landscape, the people and their beliefssystems irrevocably.From Rock Art to Pazyryk Mummies, Coffin Boats to RoyalScythians, from the Sami to the Evenki, from Ethnicity to theEnarei priesthood, and from Thunder spirits to the NorthernCrusades, the threads that bind them all are founded in trade.Trade is the currency and agent for change in the world impactingeverything from war to religion. The Cosmic Mill turns, churningmagic and myth into profi t and fear.Here be pirates and dragons.....

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