Siberia and Europe
We are all Native to the Earth; what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.
Evidence of a widespread Indigenous existence throughout Europe dominates the archeological record until about 1500 B.C.; or as late as 1000 or 1500 A.D. (in certain parts of Europe). Indigenous culture remains preserved in pockets of rural Europe in modern times; especially among Basque and Saami peoples.
Ancient annual ceremonies are still enacted throughout much of Indo-European assimilated-Europe to this day. A few European cultures still retain ancient lineages of pre-Indo-European language as well. Ancient native European languages are Finno-Ugric, Basque, Estruscan, Magyar, and others. Remarkably, Indigenous European society, and cultural language-vehicles to retain and transmit aboriginal Cosmos, Corpus, Praxis, and Axis, have survived in several unbroken traditional lineage systems into modern times.
Europeans commonly buried the deceased in fetal position facing west, and placed among eagle wings and feathers (especially sea eagle), or eagle bodies entire, in domed-shaped womb-tombs. Owls, were and remain, symbols of death in rural Europe; vultures (in Southern Europe) are symbols of transformation and resurrection, and considered companions of death and rebirth.
Eagle feathers are further used to designate clan head chiefs (2 feathers), and successors (one feather) marked for chieftain positions, in modern Scotland; ostrich plumes are used alternatively and interchangeably with eagle feathers in modern times.
During the Magdalenian period, the entire expanse of Europe is known to have utilized stylized eagle bone whistles (typically decorated with chevrons or double chevrons; and believed to symbolize water) in ceremony. Evidence of European bison (bision augurica; which survive in Poland) and bear skull altars, prevail during indigenous eras of life in old Europe; and are indisputable in the archeological record. The Saami are reindeer people.
Puebloan-type structures, long houses, tipis and thatched huts, are the principal dwelling structures inhabited in prehistoric and modern indigenous Europe.
Prior to European conquest by Indo-European peoples, Europe was culturally contiguous with Siberian culture, belief and practice. European cosmologies are synonymous with Siberian cosmologies, excepting modification through an admixture of agrarian cult elements (originating from Palestinian Natufian culture and transported by way of Iraqi Sumerian/mesopotamian migrations.
