The idea of a nation has begun to fall to mean nothing more than those people underneath the control of a government. The gateway that used to separate country from country no longer exists, and the borders that used to rigidly outline the region alotted to a people has become blurred and covered by the passing ages. Europe has opened up her doors. What can the past teach us about today?
Most modern people look at the past with unforgiving eyes, looking down upon the people that have lifted them up. Those many moderns view themselves as superior in thought in some ways or all, not held down by ridiculous traditions. I am not one of those people. I hold a deep respect for my ancestors, as in a sense, I am an extension of their being. You too are an extension of your ancestors, and if you’re reading this, I doubt you’d disrespect your ancestors half as much as most modern men.
The ancient Indo-Europeans were a brutally honest people. They were pragmatic about life, as the consequences of inaction and lying were deeper then than they are now. They, as most other people, held a concept of self in high regard, and its necessary opposite of other. The dividing line of their culture was the inside of their home, vs the outside of their home, family and non-family, the known, and the unknown. I’m certain everyone is familiar with the term dominus, domicile, domain. All of these latinate words derive from the same word domi, meaning home. Its opposite is foris, meaning outside, from which we derive the words forest and foreign.
Just as there is a concept of inside and outside, so too was there a concept of inborn and outborn, those inside the tribe vs those outside the tribe. The word ingenuus is a latin word, meaning inborn, or quite literally born into the family. All other men were considered outsiders to the family, different, other-than.
From the ancient Greek word xenos we derive words that ultimately mean strange, foreign and outsider. To the Greeks, the word meant something along the lines of guest. You see, to the Indo-Europeans, there was no singular concept of stranger. There was only ever a particular kind of stranger. Be the stranger a guest as in xenos, from the field as from the term agros which we derive ager meaning field and eventually peregre from the field and ultimately peregrinus meaning wanderer, there is always a specific type of stranger to the Indo-European.
These concepts of other heavily influenced the militaristic society of the Indo-Europeans, who had no need to take slaves of their own people. As the culture, tongue and concepts of the Indo-Europeans spread, they began to conquere their neighbors, some of who they opportunistically took as slaves rather than killing. The term slave however is not centralized, and infact changes from society to society, often being derived from the name of the people they conquered. We as English speakers even use the word slave, deriving from the word Slav, meaning the Slavic peoples. Eventually the idea inborn began to overlap with the idea of freeman, and the idea of stranger began to overlap with the idea of a slave.
These ideas overlapped so greatly, that the Romans even began to call their children liberi, meaning the free, which all men would recognize as sharing the same root as the word liberty. Those who were born into the society were born free, and all slaves were thus considered outsiders to the society, stripped of all societal protections and rights granted to those of the society and inborn.
The same can be said for people, where the Germans have the term leute meaning people, which shares an Indo-European root with the Greek word Eleutheros meaning freeborn. The inborn were the freeborn, the outsiders have no rights, no protections, no claim to the land or its state.
However there is an exception to be made, one that greatly defines the Indo-Europeans as unique. The idea of a guest, one welcomed into the society. You see guests actually had different, and often more rights and protections in a society than inborns as they were protected by their host. This relationship of guest and host was conveyed by the thesúmbolon, literally meaning the mark or sign of recognition. It was a ring symbolically cut or broken in half, and worn in some manner by the guest and the host, showing to all inborn that this man was a foreigner who can be trusted, and should be forgiven for not knowing the customs of the land.
The xenos of the Greeks, the gasts of the Germanics, all guests had rights different and beyond those of their host society. They had won the affection, the philótēs of their host. This shares a root with words we recognize for love phile in Greek, and family filius in Latin. They were treated as brothers bonded by friendship and symboloically represented with a ring.
The Indo-Europeans held the idea of a guest and hospitality in high regard, often passing down stories of shapeshifting Gods that would test men by disguising themselves as ordinary travelers, asking for lodging. If you look into the stories of Zeus and Óðinn you shall find many abundant examples of an old man begging his stay for the night, and those who take care of their guest without question and with great respect rewarded with high honors and gifts.
Yet there is a greater concept that is now missing in this. A guest should not overstay his welcome, and a host should not allow his guest to run rampant among the inborn. Afterall, the inborn have the rights to the land, and the guest is merely visiting. Europe has opened her doors, the rights of the natives are trampled in favor of the strangers, the foreigners, and those who come to the nation to take the resources that took thousands of years of assemble into a living society.
The simple fact of the matter is that those who have come to the nations of Europe do not share a history or a culture, and definitely not the blood of those who have raised the nations of their ancestors to prominence. You cannot import millions of people into the nations that are not theirs and expect them to perfectly simulate the native population, because simply put they are not nor will they ever be the natives of the land. The guest has overstayed their welcome, the host has let their guest run rampant, and the door has been removed from the hinges so it may be closed no more.
It is important to think about your history and your culture, as well as the men that led us to be where we are. Should you turn your back on your ancestors and the way in which you came to be, you shall never learn from the lessons they have left you. I know that these words will seem harsh to most, and obvious to few, but that is why what I say is forbidden, because the truth hurts and cannot be fought, so it must be silenced. As always brothers, I’m here with you in the abyss.
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