PIRATES MERCHANTS DEVILS AND DARK DEEDS

<p>Culture is a journey of experiential discovery in an ever-changing</p><p>landscape. Our Northern history remains largely unsung eclipsed by the</p><p>glamour of the classical world and its colourful legacy of Romanised culture.</p><p>But there is another world no less vibrant and exciting no less fascinating</p><p>or challenging. Locked into our DNA is a very diff erent history . .</p><p></p><p>In its immersive wonder we can find answers to age old challenges</p><p>concerning how culture evolves what were the catalysts who were</p><p>the antagonists who were the oppressed the exploited what were</p><p>the real events and who was really behind the violence in the tussle</p><p>for power a thousand years ago. Removing layers of accumulated</p><p>concepts regarding faith myth and magic this book exposes the</p><p>socio-religio-political machinations that rocked the northern world</p><p>changing its landscape the people and their beliefs</p><p>systems irrevocably.</p><p></p><p>From Rock Art to Pazyryk Mummies Coffin Boats to Royal</p><p>Scythians from the Sami to the Evenki from Ethnicity to the</p><p>Enarei priesthood and from Thunder spirits to the Northern</p><p>Crusades the threads that bind them all are founded in trade.</p><p>Trade is the currency and agent for change in the world impacting</p><p>everything from war to religion. The Cosmic Mill turns churning</p><p>magic and myth into profi t and fear.</p><p>Here be pirates and dragons.....</p><p></p>