nice explanation! you are totally correct about the temperature change cycle- don't let the pseudo-environmentalists hear you say thatthose who buy over-large houses to heat and "hybrids" all for status while claiming superiority and going to a rock concert "for awareness", patting each other on the back, as they drive around on vacation for fun, as if wasting oil is a past-time... all the while, money is funneled into a charity whose only purpose is to make you worry about how the Earth continues as usual, except it's in a manner we don't like...
i am no fan of the Southwest, having lived in Reno, Nevada most of my lifebut that is neither here nor there... arg, the dryness of the Great Basin!
what i find interesting about the Substrate Hypthosis concerning Germanic languages is the Old Norse relationship of the Vanir and the Aesir who had a war but then intermarried, this relationship is very interesting concerning possibly native non-Indo-European fertility cults and the Nerthus Cult- with fertility twins, Freyr and Freya whose father is Njord (thought to be the male twin counterpart to Nerthus), also Freyr was a very important god before Norse times as seen in the language of Frea in Old English as "God". It is interesting that Freya would have half of the Slain in Heaven, a homage to the original "Lord" god later worshipped as a separate aspect from his sister in Ingvi-Freyr in Sweden.
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