Three Brothers from East of Odesa

“So you could maybe think of three brothers in the area just east of Odesa, and one goes on to found the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages and conquer the whole of Italy. The other moves up the Danube or up the Dniester River, and founds a Celtic culture which first really solidified around modern Czechia. Then it spread from there to Ireland. The third mythological brother maybe left a couple of days later. He went on to found the Germanic culture.”

Source: Expanding Mental Models · (Episode 1)

Vivid narrative reconstruction of IE dispersal. Three brothers, three river routes, three major culture branches — all from “just east of Odesa.”

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