Eurasia’S Altai Heritage

EURASIA’S

ALTAI HERITAGE

SEIDAKHMET KUTTYKADAM

Copyright © 2017 by Seidakhmet Kuttykadam.

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CONTENTS

About This Book

Translator’s Preface

Prologue

Part I: On the Path to Humanity

Chapter 1: The Great Tripartite Continent

Chapter 2: Musician and Artist

Part II: Primordial Knowledge

Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Primordial Knowledge

Chapter 2: Altai: Cradle of Knowledge

Chapter 3: Proto-Altaic Culture: The Golden Age

Chapter 4: The Building of the Ancient Cultures

Chapter 5: The Proto-Altaic Flame

Chapter 6: Primordial Religion

Chapter 7: Proto-Language

Chapter 8: The Spiritual Heritage of the Proto-Altaians

Part III: The Altaians and The Aryans

Chapter 1: The Altaic Race

Chapter 2: The Aryan Race

Chapter 3: Races and Peoples

Part IV: The Birth and Evolution of Europe and The West

Chapter 1: Ancient Greece

Chapter 2: Prometheus and Orpheus

Part V: Descendants of the Aryans and Altaians

Chapter 1: Scyths or Sakas

Chapter 2: The Fate of the Altaians

Chapter 3: Birth of the Turkic Peoples and the Totem of the Wolf

Chapter 4: The Religion of the Turkic Peoples

Chapter 5: The Turkic Mission

Epilogue

Notes

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Seidakhmet Kuttykadam, born in 1946, is a publisher, essayist and original philosopher from Kazakhstan. His immense erudition, inquisitive mind, subtle intuition and bold imagination have enabled him to write this most unusual book.

This colourful, engaging book is for anyone who has not lost interest in the fate of humankind and its history.

The work of Seidakhmet Kuttykadam poses a radical challenge to established ideas of the development of human civilization and introduces with a great jolt an entirely new paradigm in the historical sciences.

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

The book you are about to read presents the outlandish theory that all human civilisation and language began once at a single point on Earth and a specific point in time. It is a re-reading of history up to the modern day that witnesses the spread of culture from this single point, and how it changed, and who it touched and how. It posits the notion that the original, or primordial, knowledge of human beings was something pure and useful that over time has been distorted into something that is too often wicked and harmful. From simple beginnings, when knowledge was a necessary means of understanding nature, when humans lived as part of nature, knowledge, in the author’s view, has become an end in itself, pursued for its own sake and in disregard of the real difficulties humanity now faces.

By placing the start of reason and cultural development in one place, and denying that similarities in cultures are only a symptom of our common human nature, Kuttykadam places greater significance upon the details of that original culture and on our knowledge and culture as a species. For him, cultures are not merely the random off-shoots of the multiple ways that human beings may conceive of and interact with the world. All of them started in one important place. And because culture began in a single place at a certain time, that time and place retain a mystical significance to all of humankind. All subsequent cultures have in some sense been working backwards to that point ever since – endeavouring to recall their origins, to forge a connection with their own primordial knowledge.

Our purpose as heirs of this original knowledge is to find our way back to it, which also means finding our way back to a single culture, where all cultures unite. Kuttykadam strives to remind his readers that our differences are imaginary and artificial. And this is the author’s optimistic message to his reader. For Kuttykadam, there is a plan. The pursuit of knowledge is not arbitrary, but is a search for our genuine, objective and original knowledge that contains within it the purpose of all humanity, and is codified within the archaeological findings from the times of the most ancient human civilizations. Beyond this, he seeks to establish that knowledge is within ourselves. Because our original knowledge sprang from an immediate relationship with nature, rediscovering that knowledge is within the capability of each human being.

To the modern reader, this book, a collection of translated extracts from the original, may initially be dismissed as nonsense. It is unorthodox, controversial, and it flies in the face of much contemporary linguistic theory, including relying heavily on the assumption of an Altaic language family, a concept long since debunked by the academic world. Kuttykadam goes further still, proposing a Proto-Altaic language that is the master language family from which all others proceeded. Indeed, one of the book’s primary aims is apparently to locate the centre of the world and civilization in Altai, so that if it does seek to establish sense of purpose, then it is a sense of purpose designed specifically for the modern Kazakh people. The notable lack of any challenge to its own hypothesis, and the careful selection of quotations and materials to support it will undoubtedly prompt sceptical reactions from other academics. The author notes this himself in his own introduction.

Yet fundamentally the aim of the book is to support the hypothesis and at least make believable the idea that human civilisation could have begun in Altai. And as it lists the various emergences and disappearances of nations, it also seeks to remind the reader that all nations started somewhere – and Kazakhstan, since the fall of the Soviet Union, is now relatively new again. It has yet to define its new purpose, its new role in the world. But – as Kuttykadam reminds readers – it has a much longer history, and perhaps much longer than many had realised. While Kazakhstan may seem to be a minor player now, defined by its relationship with Russia, its future lies ahead, and the Kazakhstani people are destined for great things.

In this sense the book may be read literally or as an allegory. Regardless of our views on the academic scrutiny or historical veracity of some of its claims, one fundamental point remains. The message of the book is optimism. It advocates learning, knowledge and wisdom; mutual understanding and unity between nations; building bridges, as opposed to waging wars. Kuttykadam argues that this was the start point of humanity, from which it has since drifted too far.

As English-speaking readers, this book, presented here in abridged form from a larger text, may give us an unparalleled insight into the modern Kazakh mentality, and its continuing cultural and intellectual development which began, as if from nothing, in 1991, but which, as the author reminds us, has also been ongoing since the earliest times. This is a nation in search of an identity. And in analysing its history the author is contributing to that quest. The Kazakhs, as he teaches us, are a nomadic people, whose history is inextricably linked with that of Chingis Khan and the Golden Horde, with pillage and plunder, the yurt and mystical belief, but they are also a philosophical, thinking people, with links and influences upon the history and philosophy of the West, and the rest of the world.

PROLOGUE:

WHY I PICKED THIS UNUSUAL SUBJECT

Humankind has always taken great interest in its own spiritual origins, and much has already been learned about the ancient human cultures. Yet to this day the great mystery of where they all came from remains out of reach. It is now clear that the great civilisations of the past all came about through the external influence of a superior intelligence. But who was this? God? An alien civilisation? Or some as yet unknown intelligence that appeared at some point on Earth?

I myself tend towards the latter, earthly explanation. But then how did it come about? And why has it not been preserved in humanity’s collective memory?

It is paradoxical but true: the human intellect has thought up so many convincing theories for the origin of the Universe, the Solar System, planet Earth, of life itself and the evolution of living organisms, and the appearance of its master - Man. And yet the awakening of that superior intellect itself, belonging to humanity, the causes, conditions and the ‘mechanism’ of its genesis remain a vast ‘black hole’. In other words, the intellect cannot discover the source of its own origins, and yet without that knowledge we can never fully know either the destiny of humankind or its history, the civilisations it has created or the clouded common intellect of the present day. These notions previously existed in the form of myths and legends, in mystic speculation, but this has long since all been brushed aside as ‘fairy tales’. Yet perhaps we might look again at these as new strands of knowledge on the origins of humankind, which, unsurprisingly, are very much linked to ‘fairy tales’.

As well as asking how this intelligence came about, it is of equally great importance that we ask where it came from, where it spread and the ‘technology’ that cultivated this intelligence among the wild tribes populating the entire world. We must also investigate how it was that some of them came to create their own great cultures.

I have my own theory on this, which I would now like to lay out for you. I should point out that at least one tenth of scientists, historians and philosophers in various countries have come up with similar theories, though none has ever put it in quite the same way.

Such was the seductive appeal of Immanuel Kant’s adage, Have the courage to use your own understanding, which has enticed so many into intellectual ‘escapades’, that I myself have also been enticed by it.

But having set out my ideas on paper I realised that it was such a paltry thing, and that I would also need to describe, albeit briefly, how humanity has ‘taught’ itself out of its ‘divine’ original intelligence and so degraded to the point of this modern-day madness, fully convinced all the while that it is advancing forward.

As our guides across the prehistoric dark ages and our companions through the mysteries of ancient history we shall call upon the Avesta, Herodotus’s History, Spengler’s Decline of the West, Karl Jasper’s Origin and Goal of History, René Guénon’s Symbols of Sacred Science, Mircea Eliade’s History of Religious Ideas, Taoism and Sufism. Our principal source of most invaluable material will be the unique and almighty two-volume compilation of the works of Soviet historians, Myths of the Peoples of the World.

Spengler starts out by posing a question: Is there a logic of history? Is there, beyond all the casual and incalculable elements of the separate events, something that we may call a metaphysical structure of historic humanity…?¹ Answering in the affirmative, he concludes that while the ancient world died not knowing its own fate, it believed until the last in its own eternity. Each day then was lived as it came, in bliss and