Pannonia
Once, fearless Sarmatians, in the picture which is extraordinary beautiful, fought and lost a battle with the Roman legions on the frozen Danube, because they rushed, on the horses, through hard combat order of legions – legions who were trained in the countless battles around the world, from Britain to Libya. (This battle, battle with the mythical beauty, took the place near of today's Belgrade.)
Just as to them related Scythians – whose barbarous customs described and Herodotus – and Sarmatians respected the unknown God in the form of upright stuck in the ground sword, the God whom they did not build any idols or temples. (Scythians, if we believe Herodotus, offered to God human sacrifices – in some kind of platform, built from sticks, where the "holy sword" was ritually poured over with the blood of sacrificed captives.)
Somewhere in the time when the Sarmatian name ceases to be mentioned in the annals and chronicles, the Scythian-Sarmatian motive of the "holy sword", on somehow mysterious way, raised again, in the other end of the continent, on the British Isles. This is the "sword in the stone" from the cycle of Celtic legend about King Arthur. This phenomenon may be less mysterious if we consider that the Roman legions in Britain, were largely made up of Sarmatian warriors who remained there, after the collapse of the Empire. More important is, however, the tradition that is preserved by the Celtic peoples of Britain, in their traditional story about their own homeland in the far away East, somewhere in the "barbaric" Scythia.
The Sancitity of the steppes
We do not know whether is it justified to speak of the "sanctity of plains" (more than of sacredness of the mountain, forest, or any other, natural environment). However, one thing remains out of the discussion: incomparable sense for the space that had a nomadic steppe inhabitants (and it is opposed to sense of sedentary - agricultural or maritime population). Is right there lies and the root of this feeling of that wonderful endeavor in which inhabitants of nomadic plains dared to go, creating a vast, large kingdoms and empires that have been, with their size comparable to those created by Caesar?
The practice of contemporary historians to call miniature Greek polis-states, while they denying that right to really giant political creations of eastern nomads such are the Scythians, or Huns, is the pure arbitrariness. It was not just a "week confederacy of tribes" (that assumption is unfounded due the size of their conquests), but apparently well-established states and empires – the states that were based on tribal alliances. States, like was the empire, that once was build by the Goths (in the third and fourth centuries AD), which was stretched over a wide area from the river Don to the river Tamish. Or, short in duration, empire of Attila, the Hun leader, whose rule stretched as far to Italy and Cyprus (Attila, who coined its own money and whose funeral ,rites accompanied with unsurpassed cruelty, describes and Priscus and which was near to small river, which could be a stream of Nadel river, near to today Pancevo ).
Both, Huns and Goths, in fact, were not ethnically compact communities, but, presumably, the motley alliance of various tribes, nations and ethnicities. And that's basically is and Russia, Slavic vast empire, whose first historical center is also located in the plain, in the South Russian steppes.
Nestor the Chronicler, in his “Primary Chronicle” (the oldest preserved chronicle about East Slavic people), preserve and only Slavic saga about homeland, which, according to the letter of that ancient chronicles, is located somewhere near to the river Danube in Pannonia.
They must be how, after all, since the most ancient times, nomads followed the same or very similar paths of migration as well and in later periods too, moving in the lowlands, in these sea for the nomads, to the Pannonian plain. The remains of houses from the Neolithic period, however, with triangular gables, painted in bright colours (found near to town Vrsac, North Serbia) are strikingly reminiscents of country houses, such in the Pannonian area were constructed even in the beginning of the last century – which allows the assumption that the sedentary lifestyle of the past population was much more similar to today lifestyle than is commonly accepted in our thoughts.
The Mystery of Pannonia
Undoubtedly, Pannonia has its mysteries, that are still waiting to be resolved. They beginning with the oldest – Paleolithic hunters, who lived in constant, agitated crowds, lived in their tents from mammoth tusks, which raised under the open sky, with its mysterious weapons and tools maded of bones and stones, and with their more than mystical deities. Those hunters, therefore, that in the caves of Europe, in addition to the paintings on the walls of caves left and always the same, enigmatic sign: their handprint.
One of these mysteries are the cultures of inhabitants of Europe in the Neolithic time, which flowered during the long periods of time in Europe marginal areas, peripheral parts; in the region of the lower Danube.
Indo-Europeanisation was a long process, that went through several successive waves of migration, gradually changing the look of the continent, the composition of its races, nations and ethnic groups, to this stage which is known to us in today Europe. It was a "process" whose key plays and plots we do not know, because in modern science there is no consensus about the issue: the Aryan homeland, and even not about some second instance migration centers. However, it is certain that, if not all, some of the major routes of migration Aryans in Europe led through Pannonia.
Gold of the North
A Romanian author, Geticus in his book “Hyperboreans Dacia”, notice a fantastic assumption – abundantly corroborated with the toponymy and Romanian folklore – thus, his idea is that the old Dacia was ancient (though, of course, only the second) center of Hyperboreans tradition, between two circles of civilization, the Mediterranean and North ones. The center of the cult of Apollo, according to this author, was just in the Danube Delta; that center radiated its influence to the South, and from Danube to the Mediterranean, mediating to the nations of the South "Gold of the North" – gold of spiritual heritage from Hperborea ancestors. Some artifacts, such is Apollo's Sun chariot, found in Dupljaja, near to Vrsac, are more disturbing in itself than mere Geticus hypothesis – the hypothesis that, in fact, offers a much more elegant explanation than the one that gives us the official archeology: that in fact, there was the influences from the South to the North, from centers in the area of the Mycenaean culture.
Boris Nad
Translated by Vesna S. Disić
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