Favourite Crying Themes {for years to come?} Re:24

favourite
crying themes
for years to come
re: 2-4-'04
the huns
and the end
of the western roman
empire

THIS APPEARANCE
of a conquering Mongolian people
in Europe
may be taken to mark a new stage
in human myDi-history?
Until the last century or so
before the Christian era,
the Mongol and the Nordic peoples
had not really been
in close touch
...

Far away
in the frozen lands
beyond the northern forests
the Lapps,
a Mongolian people,
had drifted westwards
as far as Lapland,
but they played no part
in the main current of history.
For thousands of years
the western world carried on
the dramatic interplay
of the Aryan,
Semetic and fundamental
brunet peoples
with very little interference
{except for an Ethiopian invasion of Egypt or so}
either from the black peoples to the south or
from the Mongolian world in the
Far East
...

IT
IS PROBABLE
there were two chief causes
for the new westward drift
of the nomadic
Mongolians?

One
was the consolidation
of the great empire of China,
its extension northward
and the increase of its population during
the prosperous period
of the Han dynasty.
The other
was some process
of climatic change;
a lesser rainfall
that abolished swamps
and forests perhaps,
or a greater rainfall
that extended grazing
over desert steppes,
or even perhaps
both these
{or as yet unknown}
processes going on
in different regions
but which anyhow facilitated
a westward migration
........

A very possible
third contributory cause
was the economic wretchedness,
internal decay
and falling population
of the former Roman Empire?
The rich men
of the later Roman republic,
and then
the tax-gatherers
of the military emperors
had utterly consumed
its vitality!

SO
we have
the factors of thrust,
means and
opportunity?

These
were pressure
from the east,
rot in the west and
an open
road
.............

The Hun
had reached
the eastern boundaries of European Russia
by the first century A.D.,
but it was not until the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. that these horsemen
rose to predominance upon the steppes.
The fifth century was the Hun's century?
The first Huns to come into Italy
were mercenary bands in the pay of Stilicho the Vandal,
the master of Honorius.
Presently they were in possession of Pannonia,
the empty nest of
the Vandals.

By the second
quarter of the fifth century
a great war chief had arisen among the Huns, ATTILA.
We have only vague and
tantalising glimpses
of his power.