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I hope that link works. That's shows in my browser when I am on the page.

Some things I want to mention for the sake of understanding the correlations

between history and today.

Today we think of a soldier as an expensive item- the training and gear, and

transport, what to speak of their life at risk. But just the gear- an expensive

machine gun, an expensive specialized uniform, and so on.

Looking at the pictures of me dressed up as a 100 BC Central European Celtic

Warrior, I want to tell you the following:

The tops of the boots took one day to make.

The bottom of the boots took about two days to make.

The tunic is made of two whole deerskins, one on the front, died greed, and one

on the back died blue. That means two deer had to be hunted and skinned, the

skins curred, and so on. To put together that tunic by hand as I did, with hand

stictching, took a couple days.

The bronze sword, which is the low hanging one, was cast by my son Ekendra at

his college in his bronze casting class. We had to make a wax sword first,

taking a day, then he had to prepare the casting, cast it, cut it free, work it

down, etc., multiple days. It takes alot of time to make a sword. I spent a

day just putting the handle together. I spent half a day making the hardened

leather sheath for it.

The gloves which are not shown that I wear took a couple days to make.

The tork I'm wearing around my neck was one day of very hard work. Working with

metal, forging, grinding, etc., is hard and dirty and toxic. In fact alot of

this is toxic. No wonder lives were shorter.

The belt took at least half a day. Yeah, it's not that easy to really make a

best. The clasp itself takes some good time- again, metal work is never quick.

The arm band thing is a half day.

All together it takes craftsmen at least a month of work to make one warriors

gear and alot of expensive raw materials (as viewed in old time, like deer

hides, metal, the fuel for the forge fires, the time for the craftsman to take

away from other important village (farming/hunting) work). War was as

expensive then, as it is now, in other words.

Then there's the horse. That's a huge investement. Horses were wealth, period.

They are every bit as equal to a Humvy now, or a tank.

Then, warriors trained. They trained alot.

So to field one warrior the way I look, was a huge investment for a humble

village. When Vercingetorix demanded as many as possible for the fight against

Rome, that mean draining all of Europe of their resources and best young men,

and most were killed, which stripped the whole countryside of a generation of

breeding by the best. This happened a number of times through history (to many

peoples).

The lime in the hair...you know, if you read the Celtic discussion sites from

Britain where they do alot of re-enactment for films, nobody reccomends it.

They say it burns, and makes you bald. Well I don't know about bald, but if

it's wet, it stings. Bad idea to wear it when it's raining or near your skin

if you're sweating. I can't imagine a good dose getting in the eyes.

I put it on like wet cement. That's exactly what it feels like, and it is an

ingrediant of cement. It drys pretty quick, and starts to get dusty. Halfway

through the day, down at the market, white clouds of it are drifting off of me

as I walk. I have to be careful not to get it in people's faces. So one thing

is that no civilized and clean citizen would want to go too near somebody

covered in lime- it would get in their mouth and eyes and ouch...

Now I'm wearing it all day, and breathing it, and so on. When I get home, I

notice something different. You feel stronger, resilient, practically

invincible. I take a shower but somehow it doesn't leave you. It seems to be

deeply embedded since it is so fine of a powder. I notice my hands are swollen

as if I worked them out tremendously. The stuff is 97% pure calcium. You don't

feel the day passing, you don't feel fatigued, not nearly as much. I think

there's some magic there- by being "in" the stuff and taking it in so much,

although it's a bit austere and painful, you get a benefit of resilience. That

may be a part of why they did it.

It also makes the people part like the ocean for Moses. As I walk through the

crowd, people step aside. I am covered in white power, and there's chunks of

it in my hair. I look like some Major Shaivaite walking down the street in

Haridwar! Very similar look- all covered in ash. Lime is essentially the

result of burning certain things. It's a fine white ash, mostly calcium.

It is the next day, and I cannot oil my skin enough. It keeps soaking it up,

dose after dose. That stuff does a number on you, but oil is good, so maybe

it's building...like making the man half cement! They were said to be huge and

strong, perhaps this is partly why- huge bones from so much exposure to so much

calcium and metalworking, horse riding, field labor, hut building, hard life.

I am the first vegetarian in both sides of my family. But speaking of the

MacAoidh side, which goes back traceably 3000 years to the Ui Nialls of

Northern Ireland, they had hard lives in a Norther Cold climate, ate salmon and

dear. They used to hunt a huge type of Irish deer which is now extinct. (It was

huge, look it up on the web). They had these lives of which I've spoken, and

now the blood comes down, come to SF on boats in 1840's, then on down to me.

And due to my Indian friends, I become vegetarian. Strange. Just strange.

That's all. Some Indians have been vegetarians for many many generations, and

are just now taking up eating meat due to Western influence- exactly reverse

situation!

History. Interesting.

Peace, over and out,

Sincerely,

Das Goravani (Richard Vuerst-MachAeoidh)

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