Why has the tallest region in Europe (parts of Balkan) also been the
poorest when the next tallest region (Northern Europe) has been the most
affluent?
Answer: It's got absolutely nothing to do with tallness - and everything
to do with brainpower. Oops, did Klevius say something "blasphemic"?
Ok, here's Klevius' defense.
Väinö Myllyrinne, Finland, 251 cm (8 ft 3 in), had the world's biggest
hands - and a quite ordinary life, except for some circus trips to earn
some bucks on his stature.
So what if Väinö Myllyrinne had been born into a warrior family some
5,000 ybp and equipped with a brain like, say Klevius (but way more
aggressive)? Oops, Klevius did it again.
Height is genetically determined. Stunting because of malnutrition is
only between 1-2 cm in a study of the Chinese famine 1959-1961. What has
previously been assigned to malnutrition is in fact selection. Growth
hormone irregularities are relatively rare.
There's a distinct genetic growth stop at around age 14 for a huge (?)
part of the world's population, while others continue growing until the
age of 16-18. Mixing of these genes give results that no one so far has
studied in more detail. This is the basic reason for height variation
among today's humans. Klevius strongly suggests that someone starts a
research project based on this Klevius' problem formulation.
However, some continue growing also after their growth spurt. One such
an example was the world's tallest healthy man (most exceptionally tall
people are sick and die young) the Finnish Väinö Myllyrinta.
Väinö Myllyrinne (born 27 February 1909 in Helsinki – 13 April 1963 in
Helsinki, Finland) was an acromegalic (continued growth after the growth
plates have closed) giant who was at one time (1961–1963) the world's
tallest living person and is the tallest non-American person of all time
whose height is not disputed (do note that all Americans were
physically handicapped). He stood 224 cm (7 ft 4 in) and weighed 141 kg
(311 pounds) at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth
in his late thirties, attaining a height of 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) and
weighing 376 pounds. Myllyrinne is considered the tallest soldier ever,
having served in the Finnish Defence Forces. He underwent his conscript
training in 1929 in the Viipuri Heavy Artillery Regiment, and was 220 cm
(7 ft 3 in) tall and really strong. In the 1930s he travelled around
Europe. He returned to Finland in 1939 to serve in the Finnish Army
during the Winter War. In 1946, he moved to Järvenpää and ran a chicken
farm. He died in 1963 after a hip surgery caused inflammation. In 1962,
just a year before his death, he was measured by doctors at 2.47 m (8 ft
1.2 in). This confirms with normal shrinking over more than a decade.
He had a 340 mm (13.2 in) size hand, the largest known.
Väinö Myllyrinne
Väinö Myllyrinne with two upper average size women.
Peter Klevius' (who isn't tall) analysis: Because the northerners had
access to short and intelligent women to the north of themselves among
the hunter-gatherer population, they also got closer to the genetic
background of modern humans. So some kids became short, others average,
and some tall - and some even blond. Likewise, some got average IQ while
a few got the genius gene. And a few became highly intelligent giant
warriors at a time when size mattered - especially in sparsely populated
areas where hit and run attacks were easy and where they could gather
more of the same while going southward. One may assume that these
phenomena happened more frequently during bad farming times - which
occurred quite often in the vulnerable climatic borderland of farming,
and dwelling in dark woodlands in the extreme north added blondness and
fair skin.
The tallest people seem to have followed part of haplogroup I-M170. And
when it comes to aDNA there are hints that point to the same direction,
e.g. some tall ancient human remains in the southern Gravettian ice-age
refuges (e.g. Italy).
However, it's mainly tall people from Fennoscandia/Russia (Indoeuropeans
and Uralics) who - together with shorter people - constituted the stock
from which the technological expansion of the West emanated. This has
also led to many misconceptions, i.e. that being tall would somehow be
connected to intelligence - no matter how many short geniuses (Einstein
etc.) there are. Looking back in prehistory it seems more likely that
the opposite is true. However, luckily today we've already messed
everything up globally to an extent that it's impossible to tell
anything for certain based on physical appearance. So why not just
follow James Mallory's Bhuddist advise in the context of Tocharians:
Don't believe what you see!
The Indoeuropean language border just
south of the Uralic one is approximately the same as the border of
farming which is pushed to the dark north when affected by the
Gulf-stream.
The Vikings, Goths, the Seima-Turbino, phenomenon, Kurgan people etc.
are all example of movements of mainly tall male warriors in the first
stages. And all of them were closely connected to Uralic speaking
cultures.
This map from Chernyc's Nomadic Cultures in the Mega-Structure of the Eurasian World
(2017) emphasizes the hot spot area of metal working in the 5th
millennium. However, do note the upper reaches of the darker area which
points towards the most often cited Urheimat of proto-Uralic. This
strange tail seems to be quite unexplainable if you don't take this into
account.
The unfortunate belittling of first the steppe people and then the
Uralic speakers has blindfolded many theories - and maps. Here the
Corded Ware culture well overlaps later Uralic areas. Klevius assumes
the people there must have spoken relaed languages at the time of Corded
Ware.
According to Klevius, Corded ware horizon is a mix of Indoeuropean and
Uralic with bilingual border zones. Although Iceland was populated from
Fennoscandia some two millennium later, Icelandic has many
characteristics in common with Finnish. This makes sense when
considering the Vikings started as "Finland-Swedish" (see
Origin of Vikings)
explorers/raiders capable of making themselves understood from Finnish
Karelia to Old Nordic Scandinavia and beyond, e.g. Shetland, Scotland,
England, Ireland etc. And do note that 'land' is an old pre-Viking age
Gothic word.
Haplogroup U descends from a woman in the haplogroup R mtDNA branch of
the phylogenetic tree, who is estimated to have lived around 55,000
years ago. An Upper Palaeolithic human who lived in Western Siberia c.
45,000 years ago has been shown to belong to the U* mitochondrial
haplogroup. Haplogroup U has also been found among ancient Egyptian
mummies excavated at the Abusir el-Meleq archaeological site in Middle
Egypt, which date from the Pre-Ptolemaic/late New Kingdom, Ptolemaic,
and Roman periods.
Red hair distribution from a northern heartland. The Uralic speaking
Udmurts have been described as the "most red-headed" people in the world
and having "deep blue eyes".
Blond hair distribution was connected to southern Fennoscandia being
the northernmost place were small scale farming was possible due to the
Gulf stream. However, this part of the farming world was also the
darkest, hence putting immense pressure on vitamin D uptake - resulting
in survival advantage for fair skinned people in the farming/hunting
communities. The northern hunter-gatherers, like Inuits, Sami etc., got
their vitamin D from other sources.
Read about
Kvenland and Finnland - the oldest 'land' in the world.
If, as Klevius working theory suggests, the boost in intelligence, that
created the unique paleolithic Eurasian art etc. track from Mal'ta Buret
to the Pyrenees, was the result of a Homo floresiensis like tropical
island dwarfed brain genetically flowing up in the form of Denisovan to
big skulled northern homos, then we would expect a concentration of
intelligence genes in the sparsely populated north (because those going
back south were diluted by the mass of people already there). Most of
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The tallest people used to live in Australia - already some 40-60,000 ybp.
There are two main unsolved mysteries about height:
1 Where did the tall genes originate?
2 Which genes determine earlier and later growth stop?
Lake Mungo man (Australia) who lived more than 40,000 ybp is estimated
to 196 cm (just a couple of centimeter shorter than Klevius childhood
friend).
Mungo Man's "wife" was found 400 m away from him.
These guys from the Burrup peninsula (Western Australia), photographed in the 1920s, were 200.6 cm and 195.5 cm.
These guys photographed in the 1920s in North West Australia, were reportedly both over two meter.
However, most Aborigines are of relatively short stature, and the tall
guys above were reportedly even less intelligent than other tribes the
Western "conquesters" - to use a word commonly used about muslim
colonizers - had met with.
Southern farmers were short and not particularly intelligent
It's a myth that - as Klevius still thought 1992 - that farming caused
civilizations. It was only when the gains of farming was utilized by
non-farmers that the so called "civilizations" emerged in Mideast. Long
before this time there had already been advanced civilizations from Ural
to Ukraine.
Klevius theory on IQ and human evolution and its relation to stature - the first truly intelligent humans weren't tall.
As you dear reader already know, until proven wrong Klevius analysis of
the evolution of modern humans is in its shortest form as follows:
1 The early IQ track visible through the Aurignacian art/technology
track from Baikal/Siberia to the Pyrenees means something extraordinary
happened in the Altai region more than 50,000 ybp when the first sewing
needles were already in use.
An extremely sophisticated stone bracelet was produced in Siberia/Altai
more than 40,000 ybp. Both the needle above and the stone bracelet were
found in the Denisova cave.
2 DNA analysis from the Denisova cave has revealed both hybridization
between so called Neanderthals, Homo sapiens sapiens, and a third party,
the so called Denisovan who in turn is also linked to Australia, Papua
New Guinea and Melanesia.
3 Homo floresiensis proves that a bigger skull can shrink in a tropical
jungle/island environment without loosing IQ. So if a similar but
opposite (i.e. expanding skull while keeping up the per cm3 IQ) process
was at stake among the so called Denisovans when they managed to
re-enter mainland Asia during lower sea level, they would sooner or
later meet with their big skulled northern relatives in the Altai area.
As a resukt some of their kids would get both a big skull as well as
high IQ. How many of them is up to guesswork so far but there must have
been quite a few (proportionally - considering small population) of them
to cause such a rapid spread of what we might call the truly modern
human over the world.
However, this spread was far from even. Climatic as well as geographical
factors played an important role - compare e.g. Mammoth fluctuation,
migration and extinction.
When farming emerged population rapidly increased while stature and
intelligence decreased (e.g. compared to the early geniuses in Altai).
So when the tall Kurgan people from the Russian steppe met the southern
farmers the difference in height could be up to half a meter - and some
of the Kurgans also possessed superior intelligence due to their mating
connections to the north. So whereas mating with average farmer girls
didn't produce many geniuses, the opposite was true when it comes to
girls/women from the north.
Klevius will teach you more about this scenario later on but in the
meantime he suggests you read the Finnish/Karelian epic Kalevala where
Louhi is a "wicked queen" with magical power of the land known as
Pohjola (the North). Louhi promises her eldest and most magnificent
maiden daughter to the smith Ilmarinen if he forges a Sampo (or Sammas)
which was a magical artifact constructed by Ilmarinen that brought
riches and good fortune to its holder.
Klevius wrote:
Klevius' Finland-Swedish Hobbit story
The Dragon of Evil, Tolkien, and Moomin Mum
The Dragon of Evil in the Tolkien calendar by Tove Jansson
Everyone (except islamist muslims) seem to agree that islamism is evil.
However, many, especially politicians and muslims, claim that islam is
"a great and peaceful religion". From this we may conclude that islamism
contains both islam and evil in an inseparable connection which poses
the question how islam could possibly be without evil. Even more so when
considering that the original spread of islam during more than hundred
years (before it settled as sultanates simply sponging on slave business
- the so called "golden age") was completely based on evil religiously
"justified" robbery, slaughtering, raping and enslavement of the
"infidels". Islam's problem is it foundation in evil medieval parasitism
that it has now brought to the modern society.
The twisted logic that evil islam should be blinked as "islamism" has
led to a variety of incomprehensible stand points. For example and
ironically, because of muslim terrorists muslims now ask for extra
protection against "anti-muslim sentiments" - on top of the general
protection already in place. Why? Does this mean that non-muslim
right-wing politicians also should get extra protection because of
right-wing extremists? However, the worst twist of all is by far the
Saudi based and steered (by the Saudi dictator family) all muslim's
world organization OIC and its sharia declaration via UN.
Klevius has no knowledge about J R Tolkien's view on islam. However,
Klevius is convinced that J R Tolkien would have shared Klevius
definition of evil based on Human Rights equality.
J R Tolkien's main hero since he was a boy and throughout his entire
life was Kullervo in the Finnish epic Kalevala. Many characteristics of
Kullervo can also easily be traced in Beowulf and Hamlet both of whom
were Scandinavians from a time when Fennoscandia was known as Kvenland
(see further down). This period is called Vendel time after a small
village near Uppsala in eastern Sweden which at that time was populated
by Finns and some old Nordic speaking bi-lingual "Finland-Swedes" (see
more about this further down).
Klevius is convinced that Tove Jansson would have full heartedly
approved of Tolkien's choice of such an ambiguous hero as Kullervo.
The official Tolkien calendar of 2016 (left) is illustrated by Finland-Swedish Tove Jansson (aka Moomin Mum).
Tove Jansson has also illustrated Swedish and Finnish books by Tolkien
(right). However, she is most famous for her Moomin books and
illustrations.
Klevius wrote:
Finland-Swedish Moomin Mum Tove Jansson 100 years
Back then Hitler (the Germans) cried for more cake - today islam (the muslims) do the same!
A brave caricature, 'more cake' was made by Tove Jansson in Finland
during a time when Hitler (the Germans) were considered friend of
Finland in its war against Stalin's communist Soviet-union.
Here Tove Jansson with her longtime partner Tuulikki Pietilä
Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a
Swedish-speaking novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author
from Finland. For her contribution as a children's writer she received
the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.
Tove Jansson is best known as the author of the Moomin books for children and the astonishing
The True Deceiver
for adults. The first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood,
appeared in 1945, i.e. the same year Astrid Lindgren, an other world
famous Swedish speaking author, published her first book about the
Tomboyish Pippi Longstocking.
Like Klevius, Tove Jansson belongs to the tiny bilingual Finland-Swedish
minority. In fact, access to her summer house on the pic passes a
nearby place where Klevius used to live, neighboring a carpenter who
used to build Moomin furnitures for Moominland.
However, unlike Klevius, Tove Jansson never had kids. It's even alleged
that she felt slightly uncomfortable with kids. So where Klevius has
been a family man in practice, Tove Jansson created her family
environment as a fiction.
For more on this topic do visit
Klevius' Love Letter to Edith Södergran (an other world famous Finland-Swede).
The little bright Hobbit girl and the giant blonde warrior
There seems to be no way of
avoiding the fact that the first truly intelligent modern humans arose
in northern Eurasia. The art and genetic tracks (see below) are more
than convincing albeit not yet visibly presented as such other than on
Klevius book, blogs and sites so far (though the field is slowly but
inevitably moving towards Klevius).
The people who got the new brain set up were short in stature as
most Siberian people were until recently. However, when Seima-Turbino
like phenomenons started (possibly even long before Seima-Turbino) big
guys who had become blond in the north hunted for cute mongolic looking
girls (compare Kalevala). Some of those girls possessed still a great
chunk of the original super brain (compare the Denisova cave etc) so
some of the kids produced with the blond giants turned up really smart.
Their smartness together with a strong physical constitution in a
sparsely populated river way landscape with small villages/camps
constituted an ideal environment for nomadic robbery. And after some
time some of these guys had collected enough financial and man power to
go further south. Klevius will in detail explain this development later.
Suffice to say that this is also the explanationary basis for why the
Goths from the north managed to conquer the whole of Europe.
Klevius wrote:
Klevius Midsummer quiz: How come that Klevius can read Beowulf but modern Brits can not?!
Klevius question to BBC: Why so much focus on Muhammad and so little on Beowulf?
The epic poem Beowulf, the masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon literature, was
composed in pre-Viking time by an anonymous poet. It tells the story of a
Scandinavian hero whose feats include battles with the fearsome monster
Grendel and a fire-breathing dragon. It survives in a single manuscript
dating from around 1000 AD. In form (e.g. alliteration) and content it
follows much of the Finnish Kalevala (pictured below). Not the least as
how it's influenced by later Christian material.
The simple answer is that as a Finland-Swede Klevius happens to master
not only Swedish and Finnish but also old Finland-Swedish dialects - and
in an extension most old wordings based on Old Nordic (aka Old Norse)
over an area covering all the Nordic countries (incl. Gotland) plus
Netherlands, England, Scotland plus most of the north Atlantic islands east of Iceland.
In the 1990s when Klevius studied English at Stockholm University they
offered a video recording of a play based on thousand year old English
texts. To Klevius astonishment he immediately recognized many
familiarities with the East-Nyland dialects Klevius had grown up with.
So when two Norwegian linguists a couple of years ago stated that
English is a Scandinavian language Klevius applauded them.
So what does this have to do with Midsummer? Well, it's not just
linguistics but a load of other familiarities as well, not to mention
the fire feasts which may even be traced back to the Celts. And remember
that much/most pre-Christian cultural influences are shared within all
the Nordic countries.
For a background take a look at Kvenland:
