Tumulus

We're able to use-- We are able to remember them, which I think there's something, I mean, quite beautiful about that, but also, but also uncanny.

About the, about the burial mounds, though, it's possible that they were related to something much more every day.

There's a, there's a fellow called Alex Nikitin, who's one of the leading researchers in this archaeogenetics field, who's working precisely on, um, Indo-European and Ukrainian topics.

And i-i-in, and the, the nature of the archaeogenetics is that every, like every three weeks, they make a new argument [chuckles] because they have more evidence all the time.

but um But Hawley is interesting because we only found it out recently.

It means Hill Beyond the Burial Mound or Hawley Hedge from the Burial Mound.

Interesting.

And I said that to someone.

Okay.

Tumuli is what they refer to these things are conventionally.

You know, long passage leading into an internal reaction chamber, and Newgrange specifically has a tiered vault, like a tiered upper vault inside the chamber, very reminiscent of a later implementation that we have inside the Red Pyramid, Bent Pyramid, et cetera.

So within Newgrange, there is a curb stone outside of Newgrange that's inscribed with all of these perplexing symbols, and based on my interpretation of these symbols, that curb stone is actually an instruction manual.

The ancient dark of Mesopotamia and the dark of rock-cut Ptolemaic tombs.

The dark of Henge and Ziggurat, of Barrow, Cairn, and Tumulus.

What's that? At the sound of George's voice, the fugue released him, and he shook his head, confused, brain fogged with names and images he neither knew nor recognized.

The lizard in him hissed a warning.

What the? I believe it to arise from the ancient barrow, or tumulus, above which you have had your new wing erected.

Major Dale fell back in his chair, temporarily speechless, but breathing noisily.

Then, "'Tumulus,' he said hoarsely, "'do you mean to tell me the house is built on a damn burial ground?' "'Not the whole house,' I corrected him.

"'Only the new wing.' That is the place haunted by the spirit of some uneasy ancient Britain or something of that sort, Addison.

Hang it all.

And that's just north of the Black and Caspian Seas.

And he also, he witnessed them erecting burial mounds.

So I guess he was there and one of them had died.

They did like some sort of cremation burial or cremation.

And he described the Alans of almost all of their men are of great stature.

And their hair generally blonder fair.

They also erected great burial mounds or kurgans.

And

We've got Stonehenge, Avebury.

We've got the Tumuli, the Henges.

It's really...

It's really powerful here.

Cause I, I want to actually like try to imagine, uh, what, what is the, the, what is the, uh, topographic map both, uh, in the book, in the GM's head and in the player's head, as we imagine a moment of play resolving here.

Uh, so let's say for example, that like I, uh, want to go to the Barrow Mound.

And I'm currently in Brandonsford.

But people told me that the sword is there.