The Origin of Vampires

 Some of the earliest evidence of Ritual Vampirism comes from Tartaria  in Transylvania and stems to the fifth millennium BC. Remains   of a human body were found buried in a fire pit along with clay tablets upon   which were inscribed the names of the ’Sumerian’ god Enki  and the ranking number of Father Anu. The language was subsequently   termed ’proto-Sumerian’ and represented some of the earliest written   artifacts yet to be found.   

The descendants of these early vampires were the Sacred Ubaid   Race who, one millennium later, settled Mesopotamia and   founded the Anunnaki religion of the Sumerians in 3500   BC. Their Transylvanian ancestors were the Anunnaki Gods   themselves.   Various suggestions have been proposed in an attempt to explain the origin   and meaning of the word vampire. One recent suggestion was that   it was applied to a group of ’Watchers’ (Seers - Derkesthai: Dragons)   who had occupied a settlement near "lake Van", in Urartu  - Armenia. The original location - Greater Scythia  - is faultless, the association is without error but the etymology is   unresearched and the philology is completely absent.   Although that author’s suggested identification between Watchers  and Vampires is absolutely correct, the word vampire  does not in any sense relate to their former geographical location or origin   but, as we shall see, rather to the vampires’ social and spiritual   identity and status within a given cultural framework, which in this instance   was Scythian, overlaid on Celtic.  

In the journals of the 17th century cleric, the Abbé Calmet, the word vampire  is transliterated into its most common, and its earlier, central European   form which is spelt either oupire or oupere.   These spellings are common in literature of Calmet’s time and   represent the original form of the word vampire.   When the word migrated into Latin from Anatolian the u  became a v because, as we will recall, there is no u  character represented in the Latin alphabet. If there had been, then the   Latinized western European construction of the word would have been uampire.   By now bells should be ringing in the readers’ heads as they remember hearing   about wampires somewhere or another, perhaps in a humorous   context.   The Romans didn’t have a w and this letter   appeared in clerical Latin during the medieval period as v v,   as presented in the ridiculous phrase mortvvs svm. The vv  being used then as a long vowel sound to differentiate between u  and v sounds which were both represented by the Latin v.   So to recap, let’s have a look at the linguistic migration so far: oupere   - oupire - owpire - ovpire. At this point we must remember that the   word migrated from one language into another at a time when the most commonly used form of transmission was oral. This was bound to lead to confusion when   the word was written down for the first time, as it has in numerous other   instances.   By now we should be asking "If the word vampire was   originally spelt oupire, where on earth did the ’m’   come from?" All the author can say is thank heavens for the anomalous ’m’   because it is this component that really confirms the origin and meaning of   the word vampire, according to currently accepted scholarship.  Philologists would agree that the word vampire, as oupere,   in its present form originated from the Turkish word uber,   which means ’witch’. 

This would appear to present even more   problems because in addition to an anomalous ’m’, we now also   have a ’b’ to explain away! Nevertheless the author promises   you that tenacity and perseverance will bring its own rewards, so be patient   and do try and keep up.   Leaving the ’m’ aside for a moment, there would seem to be a   serious linguistic problem in that oupere is spelt with a ’p’   and uber is spelt with a ’b’, which the reader   might suspect would undermine the connection between both words. Especially   as vampire or oupere is European and uber  is Turkish and thus from a separate language group. However, this is not so.   

 The Siddir knotted together the web of dreams and loosened   those knots to release power and knowledge.  In other words they brought together and spoke or gesticulated a series of   mnemonics that would trigger off precontrived, imprinted states of   consciousness that acted as doorways into deeper seats of consciousness. 

In Gaelic   Scythian this ability and the name corresponding to it was called the Sidhe,   a term used to describe and name the Irish fairies, the Tuadha   d’Anu or Tuatha de Danaan as they were later called, a race   of priest kings or druid princes.   The Web of Dreams relates to both the witches’ knotted   ball and the Web of Wyrd or Fate (fata-fairy)   and in the Scythian and Celtic cosmology, the power associated with it   was thought to reside in the Otherworld, the realm of the gods   (druidic ancestors) which was entered via trance or dream states, achieved   whilst the druid or druidess occupied the fairy hills, the   mortuary raths where the forefathers were buried.   

 The witch, as a seer or Merlin in   Scythian culture and society, consequently belonged to an exclusive genome  within a distinct holy and royal caste of overlords, which is reflected in   the Gaelic word for a witch - Druidhe - which is   pronounced Drui and is related to Draoi and Dracoi,   meaning a dragon. Drui itself means Man  (or Woman) of the Tree (not men of the oaks,   as some have suggested) and is also related to the Sanskrit dru,   meaning to run. This is associated with the ritual of running   the labyrinth, with which we will deal in due course.   Therefore in Galatia, which had its own druids and was the site   of the Nemeton, the largest regular gathering of druids in   Europe, the term for a witch was Uber meaning   Overlord, whilst in the Gaelic west the term for a witch  was Druidhe which meant the same as Uber - An Overlord.   In summary vampire in its earlier form - oupire -   derives ultimately from the Galatian Uber, which itself   is derived from the Aryan Upari and linguistically and   contextually the Vampire - the witch or druid  - was a Scythian High Queen or King: an   Overlord.   

It is interesting to note in this context that when he compiled his journals   in the 17th century Calmet, who had traveled extensively throughout   the Austrian empire as an official vampire investigator  accompanying imperial officers and soldiers, wrote that he had found no   evidence whatsoever to support any notion that vampirism was either a   supernatural phenomenon committed by praeter-natural beings - which he   utterly refutes - or that it ever occurred in any form, either as a cult or   in any isolated incidents, amongst the lower strata of society.   Without exception the enlightened Abbé was able to discover perfectly   ordinary explanations for the incidents he had investigated, which in his day   was quite remarkable, as the Church in past times had actively promoted   vampire paranoia.  

 As Professor Margaret Murray discovered herself, vampirism was   not the prerogative of the merchant or peasant classes, but was a cultic   observance confined to the environs of the nobility, often as an adjunct to   rites of the Noble and Royal Witch Covens of Scotland.   We can say with confidence then that real vampirism was indulged in by   living beings who, unerringly, were members of the pre-christian and   anti-christian high nobility and royalty. The most famous vampire   stories, those of Dracula, Bathory and de Rais, support   this conclusion. 

The historical evidence therefore supports the etymological   origin of the word ’vampire’ - An Overlord.  Vampirism, up until the early 1700’s, by which time it had been in   decline for several centuries, was not merely or solely the practice of a few   isolated, high-born opportunists seeking some form of personal   advantage or satisfying private perversions. Vampirism took two forms   and the bloodline descendants of the ancient vampire lords had,   in Britain, set the practice within an overall, multi-faceted   social and cultural framework, stemming from the Iron-Age, that never gets an   airing in the Gothic novel.  Vampires weren’t just vampires, as the penny dreadful would   have us believe, they were individuals and families who used the practice to   achieve specific aims and thereby fulfill those specific social obligations   which, since the Scythian-Celtic period of the High   Dragon Kings, were equated with their rank and position as leaders   and overseers.  

The Scythians  Throughout this discourse it must be borne in mind that when we speak of the Scythians  as ’fairies’, ’dragons’, ’vampires’   or ’elves’, we are not talking about either the client races   of the Scythians, or the ordinary Scythian citizenry, but of ’Royal   Scythians’.   As we have discovered, the vampire - as a "witch"   - belonged by genetic inheritance, to a distinct royal caste in Scythian-Celtic   society, that of the priest-king or priestess-queen, the prince and   princess-druids who had evolved very early on in human social history and who   belonged to a Eurasian-wide hereditary priestly community which had   originated with the Scythian-Aryans. The name Scythian  was originally spelt Sithian in 16th century England, and it is   from this tribal name that we obtain the word scythe, denoting   a curved bladed agricultural tool, so named because of its similarity in   shape to the Scythian sword.   The Scythians weren’t however named after their use of a curved   sword. 

The name Sithian is related to a group of words that   appear in Indo-European languages which are found as far apart as Eire  and Northern India, indicating that they had a common Aryan  origin in Scythia. These include - Sithia, Sidhe, Siddir and  Siddhi.   In Cymric ’dd’ is pronounced ’th’, whilst   in Irish and Scots the ’th’ is spelt   dialectically ’dh’ whilst the ’s’ beginning a   word is pronounced ’sh’. As we have related, the Siddir  in Danish society were witches who practiced the art of   knot tying and loosening.   

These Siddir were directly related to the mythic Norns,   the Mori or Fates who were said to be responsible   for the fate of mankind by the patterns that they wove in the way that   they tied and loosened the knots of the Web of Wyrd. The Siddirs,   as well as being seers, could control such power as to   influence the outcome of human affairs and in this respect their name   reflects their abilities which, in India, were called the Siddhis,   a word used to describe the powers of the Yogi who had self-realized.   

The curious Irish word - Sidhe - pronounced ’shee’,   ’sheeth’ or ’sheeth-ay’, attributed to the   fairies and meaning ’powers’, is therefore identical to Siddir  (sheeth-eer) and Siddhi (sheeth-ee) and is   derived therefore, from the people of the powers - the Scythians  or Sidheans (sheethee-ans). In Scotland  the royal fairies were called the Seelie or Sheelie  and their princesses were related to the sculpted Sheelagh Na Gigs  over church doorways, who do NOT depict ancient goddesses of fertility, but   were the royal Grail Maidens of the Elven kings and queens.     

The Sheelagh na Gigs were goddesses of sovereignty and transcendence, and their place over the doorways of churches, many of which were built on the sites of ancient sacred groves, indicated that in entering these buildings one was entering through the vulva of the maiden into the otherworld, the realm of Elphame and the Kingdom of   Heaven.

They were permitted above church doorways because the early church itself wanted to be identified with the old ways, firstly because it was in fact, at   least in the beginning, part of the old ways and later, when catholicism took  over, the Sheelaghs remained in place - in order to attract and   convert "pagans".   Along with the Irish Sidhe, the Seelie and   the Seelie Court of Scotland had a distinctly royal origin  in the Tuadha d’Anu who when asked, like their Pictish  descendants in Scotland, said of themselves that they were Scythian,  as Canon Beck himself has insisted.  

 Some people tend to think that the word sidhe means a hill and therefore that the Irish Danaan, as the Sidhe,   inherited this name as a consequence of fleeing into the hills after their   defeat by the Milesians. As we can see this is not so and the fairy  "hills", where the Aes Dan or Danaan,   the gods of the Irish, were said to live, weren’t all Sidhe hills.   These - the power hills - were the sacred temple-mortuary   raths and barrows, the creachaires or tomb-sepulchers, that   the Danaan priest-kings were wont to ritually occupy for   millennia before moving to Eire, and centuries before   their Iberian kinsmen, the Milesians, came looking for a fight. 

  The Sidhe, the Fairies, were the ’controllers   of the fate of mankind’ and so named in remembrance of, and in   identification with, their ancient Anunnaki (Anunnagi) ancestors.   In pre-christian history, although some practiced agriculture for a while,   according to Murray-Hall M.A. they abandoned it for their traditional   way of life and many of the Scythian clans remained solitary   and insular nomadic pastoralists - horse lords who ranged across large tracts   of Europe and Asia for centuries. 

Others opted late for a more settled   existence and mixed settled agriculture with pastorialism, a system that can   be found in both Takla Makan, where they built fine cities, and   in Ireland, where they became know as the trooping fairies. 

  In general they were usually tall, pale skinned, with golden red hair and   green eyes, unlike the Celts, who were stocky and squat, with   ruddy complexions and dark hair, and practiced settled agriculture from a   very early period.   The recent and rather unfortunate propagandist depiction of the Aryan  (Scythian) as a tall, ruddy complexioned blonde racist   yeoman-farmer-warrior-god has no basis in truth. In pre-christian history an Aryan was a High King, a warrior was a warrior and a farmer was a farmer and   ne’er the three e’er met. The real Aryans of fact were red haired   and green eyed, their hired military help, derived from their lower Ksatriya caste who were not Aryan were, sometimes, blonde and   blue eyed.   

The Aryan royal families didn’t intermarry with other tribes or   castes but, with the development by many of their clans of settled   city-states such as Scythopolis (30 AD, on the banks of the River   Jordan just south of Galilee) nevertheless they became urban   multi-racialists and appreciated cultural diversity.  

The Aryan Hittites in particular were close allies of the   Jews whose Draconian royal family, the House of David,   made the Israelites, in a cultural sense, an early Aryan   nation, and the Scythians and the Aryan Scythian   Gaels had numerous settlements either in or adjacent to Israel  and Judea.   The comparatively early use of the horse and of horse related technology   separated the Aryans from the other tribes that occupied the   middle-east and Eurasia. In Mittani, Mesopotamia,   Akkad and Anatolia the Hurrians  (whom in the 1920’s B. Hrozny described as the earliest Hindus)   were the absolute Overlords and their supremacy is credited to   their early use, like the Kurgans, of horse-drawn chariots.   The Hur syllable in Hurrian has been asserted by scholars,   including G. Contenau (’La Civilisation des Hittites et des   Hurrites de Mittani’) to be Har or Ar,   meaning that the Hurrians, like the Scythians were   Aryans with an Aryan Vedic royal-sacral family of gods.   These they bestowed upon the Hittites whose culture they   dominated, (as the Hurrian or Aryan Mittani did   in Mesopotamia) and the Hittites, in turn,   provided the Greeks with these red-gold haired gods, including Zeus  or Dyas Pater - the Jewish Jehovah, whose ancient   symbol, shared with the sacred dynasty as a whole was - ironically - the   swastika.   The early "Scythians", the people of the powers,   occupied a region spanning The Balkans, Transylvania, Carpathia, the  Ukraine and later, Siberia and Takla Makan  where the Tocharians, as the Elves were   mistakenly called by early linguists, spoke a ritual language which is now called   Tocharian A but which originated in Thrace in 1800 BC   and thus had connections with the Fir Bolg and consequently   with the Tuadha d’Anu as a whole, who began migrating from   Central Europe to Ireland at that period.   Over the centuries, from 5000 BC onwards, the Scythians had   also migrated into the middle-east and had provided ruling families for many   tribes and nations along and beyond the eastern Mediterranean coast.   In the ’Annals of Irish History’ the Scythian ’Tuadha   d’Anu’ who had migrated farther still, to the islands of the north,   were described as a tribe of deific queens, kings, princes and lords and were   noted for having druids of their own. In Japan’s   North islands there lives a shamanic tribe called the Ainu  whose early writing style has been identified as being Gaelic Ogham!  

As a noble tribe, a sect of the Aryan peoples who, during various   migrations, had also wandered east several centuries before the d’Anu  displacement and their reputed first journey to Eire in 1500   BC, the Aryan-Scythian horse lords, traveling south-east via Persia   (Iran) from 1800 BC onwards, had entered the Indus Valley and intermingled   with the Dravidian population.   This migration was to lands already formerly under Sumerian and   consequently Ubaid control. The westward migration of the Scythians  or Sidheans also included these very same Dravidians  who, so British traditions state, were the messengers and summoners or   ’fetches’ of the Merlins.   These curious and delightful beings were also known as brownies, for   obvious reasons and adopted the habit of body tattooing in emulation of their   Scythian lords, who in Britain and Ireland were known as the   Pixies, which is a name derived from Pict-Sidhes or painted   fairies.   The confusion which arises when the Picts are described as   being short and brown may be clarified when we remember that the Scythian   Caste System consisted of three closely interknit, co-operating races,   whose traditions and practices would inevitably b

From this encounter arose the eastern branch of the Aryan, Vedic  "Hindu" religion, with its druids  or magi - the Brahmins - and a pantheon of gods who   were virtually identical with the Sumerian, the Egyptian, the Hittite,   The Irish, the Gaulish, the Danish and the Greek, all of which stem from this   early family of Elven goddess-queens and god-kings whose first   home was to be found in The Balkans, Transylvania,   Carpathia and the Caucasus regions of Greater   and Little Scythia.   Within the Brahmin caste special Tantric rites were and   still are studied and practised. Evidence suggests that these ancient rites   were brought to India from Sumeria. This accords with the   assertion that Qabalah itself originated there also and the   author has long maintained that Tantra, particularly the Kaula   Vama Marg and Esoteric Qabalism are simply variations of each   other. The Tree of Life symbol and its hidden meanings appears in   Druidism and given the evidence to date, we can confidently say that Tantra  and Qabalah are descended from ancient Ubaid Druidic   philosophy.   The right hand path version of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra  concerns itself with studying and practicing sexual rites that one might find   associated with the Kama Sutra. This form of Tantra  promotes penetrative intercourse as a method of changing consciousness and   has attached to it various commentaries on right-living and right-thinking.   This was thought by some Indian scholars to have originated with those who   were depicted by one Indian scholar as the animistically minded, sex mad weasels,   the Dravidians. The left hand path however is   somewhat different.   This discipline can be found in both Hinduism and Buddhism and   concerns itself with the practice of vampirism. This alone is   sufficient evidence to allow one to ascertain that the ’Black’   or Left Hand or Kaula Path preceded the later right   hand path which, though joyously tactile and self indulgent to begin   with, appears many centuries later to have been somewhat sanitized for public   consumption. The yogic disciplines associated with the Kaula Path,   originating with the Scythians, are intended to lead the   practitioner to what one might call ’union with godhead’.   This psychological condition is manifest in mystical christianity as being   the perception by the devotee of ’the kingdom of heaven’. That few christians   ever achieve such a state is not to be wondered at, as christianity is   also a royal blood tradition, exactly like its brother and sister, Druidism  and Witchcraft.  

 Many christians haven’t got a clue about this aspect of Jesus’   teaching and are in any case not encouraged to explore its possibilities   because such union leads to physical and psychological freedom, the   very last thing that the established churches wish to encourage in the   masses, even though Jesus himself preached it.   Union with Godhead, dwelling in Elphame, realization of the Buddha  or whatever one likes to call it is accompanied by a range of powers which   were catalogued by the amazing Edwardian lady explorer Alexandra David   Niel, who witnessed the performance of these remarkable powers or Siddhis  by Buddhist monks in Nepal and Tibet, whose ritual and   philosophy owed much to the indigenous religion Bon-Po which   ethically followed the same path as Kaula Vama Marg.   In the west we call it magic but, as we have seen, it was also known   as the Sidhe. Kaula Tantra is dedicated to the Goddess   Kali who is associated with both creation and destruction in the   Hindu pantheon. Kali is a lunar deity who, like Tantra  itself, moved east from Sumeria. As a moon goddess she is   associated particularly with moon blood and the essences of the female   organs of generation.   

So what can we say of the nascence of Vampirism so far?   Principally that it originated, not surprisingly, in Transylvania  and the Central Eurasian region known as Scythia and that its   practitioners were of a distinct race, the Elves, the high   goddess-queens and god-kings of the Arya or Aesir.  Vampirism was the central feature of a philosophy based on   endocrinology, rather than occult mumbo-jumbo and used the consumption of   female blood and mumae to enhance awareness and lead the practitioner   to union with godhead.   

The powers accompanying such an elevated state of consciousness were called   the sidhe or siddhi and were, with vampirism,   the foundation of the cults of Druidism, Tantric Kaula Yoga, Qabalism,   Alchemy, Rosicrucianism and Witchcraft. Kali, like all the Ubaid Deities was a flesh and   blood being. She, Kalimaath or Kali Marg, was a daughter of   Lilith and Samael, son of Anu, who appears in the Aryan   pantheon as Ahura Mazda and in Iran as the Medean god Zoroaster. Anu himself was the god who gave his name to the Tuatha   de Danaan and as Sitchin has suggested the definition of the   word god itself is ’descended of Anu’.   Based on the spelling ’Tuatha de Danaan’, some have suggested   that these Irish elven folk derived their name from an Irish mother goddess   named Dana. If they had checked the earlier spelling - Tuadha   d’Anu (Tribe of Anu) - they would have discovered that   the Scythian Sidhe were the sons and daughters of Anu  and the Ubaid gods and goddesses.    To recap then we have a clear connection between the words siddhi  and sidhe both of which originate from a Scythian  or earlier proto-Aryan-Ubaid root. 

The Scythians, as the   Aryans of Persia and Asia provided the people then with their   religious and social structures and mores and spread their wisdom and   overlordship, mostly by invitation from prospective client tribes, throughout   Britain and Europe.   The Scythian Aryans, as the ’Danaan’ settled in Eire  and Scotland whilst in Wales they were known as   the House of Don (Dan) or the House of Gwynnedd. This   house sired the line of Llewelyn Princes, whilst in Scandinavia  the Danaan became the Danes or Vikings and produced a junior cousin   line - the Svei or Swedes - from which descended   the Ruotsi clan who founded Russia. In Denmark  the Sidhe was present as the Siddir, a class of   seer or witch who were later separated from the Godthi or Gothi,   the Danish Druids.   

The Scythian Danaan in Eire, as in the rest of   Europe, were a race apart, a ruling caste within which, like the original   race of the Gods from whom they descended, there were further caste   classifications.   In Denmark these were later named the Jarl, Carl  and Thrall castes whilst in Eire they were broadly speaking the   Druids, the Kings and the Warrior Smiths. In India they are   still defined as the Brahmins, the Ksatriyas and the Sudras.   The original castes of the Gods were: a)   the   common gods - gods of Earthb)   the   gods of Heaven and Earthc)   the   gods of HeavenThe first class were what we   might call jobbing gods who became the genii locus or pagan   spirits. The second class - the gods of Heaven and Earth  - were the Titans, the Repha’im and Morrighans, the Angels  and Valkyries who interceded between the transcended gods, the divine ancestors - the gods of Heaven - and man.  Heaven was the otherworld, not a place up in the stars,   but a state of being which was adjacent to our own dimension -   called sometimes the mirror-world, most competently described, more than   once, in the Mabinogion - which could be freely entered and left by   the gods of Heaven and Earth, the Portal Guardians. In this place, also known   as Elphame, Hades, Hel, Caer Glas and Tir Na n’og there dwelt   the essences of the previous gods of Heaven and Earth who had passed on to   become the transcended ones, the ’antecessors’ or ancestors of the   later witches.   By dwelling in tombs the gods of Heaven and Earth, the Danaan Queens and  Kings, made contact with their ancestor Gods and passed their wisdom   and edicts on to mankind. Today we might call this process invocation.  These gods are carried in the blood and by invocation, we bring   their qualities and identities to the forefront of conscious being and give   them voice. These druidic gods and goddesses of Heaven and Earth were   effectively the highest overlords on Earth, the elven rulers of   the human kings and queens who ruled beneath them.   Often we find mention of the fairy blood in the medieval era in connection   with the ruling nobility of the time. We might then be tempted to come to the   logical conclusion that all nobility and royalty was thus of Fairy   origin. However this is simply not the case. Despite the   usurpation of the original fairy families by the church sponsored new   nobility, the previous kingly and noble dynasties were essentially human   anyway.   The fairy blood at that time, the dark ages and the medieval   period, was carried by the descendants of the Archdruidic dynasties  who formerly ruled over the contemporary Celtic and Eurasian kings and lords,   it was not carried by any or all of the royal or noble families of the time   simply because they were the heads of their castes, because over such class   distinctions were positioned additionally, the castes of the elven   god-kings themselves.   

The gods of Heaven and Earth - the Archdruidic caste -   dwelt in Barrows and Bergs which in Eire were   called Raths, meaning a ’royal seat’. These Raths  were the holy shrines and sepulchres built by the Danaan - the   original Gods of Ireland according to the ’Annals of Irish History’   - to house the mortal remains of their ancestors and act as royal palaces for   the Portal Guardians. In specific cases these Gods are named, and we learn,   for instance, that Newgrange was the shrine occupied by   Nuadha and later Oengus. 

  The devotional and holy nature of these places has led some scholars and   commentators to believe that, because they were tombs and temples, then those   said to occupy them must be purely spiritual entities, gods of an ethereal   nature. Originally nothing could have been farther from the truth. Both Nuadha  and Oengus were kings of the Danaan and contemporary   descriptions of them and their kin leave us with the picture of the Danaan  as a race of people with prodigious and very earthly appetites.   From their kinsmen in Siberia we know that, by our dubious   standards, they were complete junkies and imbibed any form of drug they could   get hold of. These would have included cannabis and cocaine, prevalent in Egypt  and the Levant at the time, as well as the drugs classically   associated with the druids and the elves such as Amanita   Muscaria and Psylocybin, the fairy mushrooms of children’s   picture books everywhere.   

The Danaan were hardened drinkers and unscrupulous womanizers,   whilst accounts of their princesses relate that they often mated in public   with the highest nobles of their clan, to prove or reiterate their social   standing to onlookers. (Heroditus: The Histories).   Counterbalancing this view of them, born of our own hypocritical   conditioning, the Danaan, whether in Eire or   mainland Europe or Asia, were the finest smiths,   jewellers, poets and musicians of their time, they were the Lords of fearless   warriors and gifted horsemen and, despite what we might think of the   foregoing, they were a righteous, meticulous people who maintained standards   of conduct in areas of their social life where such standards were considered   essential for the harmonious order of society.   

Great emphasis was laid upon honesty and truth in one’s words and one’s   dealings, the maintenance and conservation of the natural environment was   paramount, and infractions, such as the cutting of trees, could mean death.  

 Emphasis was also laid on hospitality and courtly behavior to one’s peers or   guests, the honoring of one’s ancestors and heroes, and the maintenance of   extended family ties through fostering.    They weren’t bothered about the petty morality we imbue our sexual behavior   with but would kill a man for breaking his word or lying. They were an heroic   people and, compared with us today, a far more moral race whose standards of   conduct, not invested or centered on our kind of childish taboos - but placed   where it matters - puts us to shame.   

 They were a race centered on their spirituality which itself was centered on   gnosis and transcendent consciousness. This made them, like their later royal   Viking cousins, a fearless people much loved and also much feared in   turns, by all who knew them, whether in Eurasia or the British islands.   In about 500bc the Milesians entered Ireland from   Iberia. Having defeated the Danaan tribes they   put many of them to flight. It was during this period that the Danaan became known as the Daouine Sidhe - the people of the hills - an   erroneous use of the word sidhe.   One group, the tribe of the Danaan king of Ulster, Bruidhne  (mistakenly called Cruithne by the Romans), fled to Caledonia  where they became known as the remnant of Cruithne or the ’Cruithainn’.   Other Danaan clans fled to Wales and the south   west of mainland Britain. Several centuries later, when the   Romans were unfortunate enough to encounter them in Scotland,   they referred to these Danaan as ’Picts’ and it is this   word that has adapted itself to become one of the names we use to describe   the elven peoples - the pixies - or properly the Pict-Sidhes  as we have already seen. 

  These being also came to be known as the Leprachauns and the   etymology of this word, though thought to mean ’small-bodied’ actually   means ’scaly-bodied’ from the Latin word lepra as in leprosy  - scaly skinned.   The scaliness referred to was derived from the fish -scale   style of armour which was common to the draconian Dacians,   the Zmei, the Danes and the Danaan,   all of whom originated in the region now known as Greater Scythia.   The scaly, twin-pronged tail of the wouivre or mermaid was also   derived from the use, by grail maidens, of fish-scale   plated leggings. When worn with the swan’s or raven’s feather cloaks,   we have the classical image of the Harpie, reproduced in   medieval depictions of Melusine.  Pict or Pictish means ’painted’ and   the Danaan earned this appellation by virtue of their use of   tattoos or woad to decorate their bodies with totemic or magical markings,   the favorite being the labyrinth or spiral whorl.  

The ancestors of the Irish Danaan - the Ubaid Danaan  - had been using tattoos and woad since 4000 BC and examples of it can also   be found in depictions of the Egyptian god Osiris or Asher  as he is also known, and in the depictions of the Hindu gods Vishnu  and Siva. Kali herself was also known as Kali   Azura - the Blue Kali.  The spiral or whorl - the labyrinth - is the subject of a later essay in   which it and its painted or carved symbol, lie at the centre of vampire  and elven tradition. The spiral can be found carved into the   rock at Newgrange in Ireland and also featured as   a sacred design associated with the dwellings of the related Kassite   Danaan clans who migrated to Britain.  

 In the Gaelic language we find two words specifically defining ’vampires’.   The first - Creachaire - means a sepulchre, a tomb, a shrine   and a temple, indicating that the character we later become familiar with as   the "vampire" of Gothic legend was in fact a   "dweller in the tombs", a druidic priest-king or   priestess-queen - an Uber or Witch Overlord.   In Eurasia, particularly in the permafrost of Siberia and the   arid wastes of Takla Makan in China, the   mummified bodies of Scythian Chieftains and Shamankas  or Priestess queens have been found. In Siberia  the frozen remains of a male were unearthed. He had been tattooed with animal   designs reminiscent of the totem Pictish salmon often found carved on stones in Scotland.