But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, wheter or not we look down to acknowledge them.Roughly half the world’s population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive de world and the world perceives us. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptbility to sickness have been lived before. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on.
“When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, wheter or not we look down to acknowledge them.” The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead pergaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you.
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