“Right” as Indo-European Concept
In the language of Ancient Iranian emperor Darius’s inscriptions, drauga, the “lie,” is essentially the attitude of rebels, of usurpers who, like the Jan 6 insurrectionists and DOGE, deceive the people by pretending to be “monarch” in place of Darius himself. That struggle to define what’s “Right” (rta in Sanskrit (i.e. truth/what is), art, tru (th), reich, -rch (in monarch), reign (in sovereignty, foreigner)) in Indo-European cultures is THE struggle.
Source: Saving the Global Right
x’aranah, that mark of divine election which guarantees and expresses the legitimacy of a king. But one day he commits a sin. According to the single passage that mentions it in the remaining Avesta, the sin is lying: his extraordinary prosperity lasted until ‘he lied,’ until ‘he began to think the lying word, contrary to truth.’
Source: Pensees (78)
The deepest root of Tool 8. In Indo-European culture, “Right” (rta/truth/art/reich/monarch) is not an abstract principle — it is the foundation of sovereignty itself. When a sovereign lies, the x’aranah (divine legitimacy) departs and the realm becomes a Waste Land. The lie is the original sin in the Indo-European ethical system. See Mana.
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