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From Glacial Rivers to Ritual Scripture: A Semantic Recursion Map PART I — Origins: Rivers, Forests, and Memory The Glacial Basin Cosmogram The Danube–Dniester–Dnieper–Don Complex Eden as a Semantic Knot Descent Vectors and Riverine Memory Forest Economies and Ritual Geometry Pre-agricultural Food Forest Cultures Oak, Fire, and Wood: The Three Technologies Grove Rites and Semantic Friction The Collapse That Closed Eden Black Sea Inundation (~5600 BCE) Elite Displacement and the Burial of Memory From Ritual Landscape to Mythic Loss PART II — Transmission: From Collapse to Codification The Southward Drift of Ritual Elites Anatolian Zones and Symbolic Carriers Zagros and Upper Mesopotamia as Memory Filters Ritual Substructures Without Scripts Sumerian Recursions: Encoding the Collapse Atrahasis and the Flood Knot Enūma Eliš and the Order Template Inanna’s Descent and the Feminine Recursion Axis From Temple to ...

  Table of Contents Preface Introduction Scope and Purpose of the Study Overview of Methodological Approach Summary of Key Hypotheses Part I: Eurasian Origins and Indo-European Beginnings Chapter 1: Corded Ware to Sintashta – Eurasian Roots of the Indo-Aryans The Genetic Signature of Corded Ware Cultural Continuities to Sintashta Steppe Mobility and the Yamnaya Horizon Chapter 2: The Indo-Iranian Homeland – Mapping the Genetic and Archaeological Matrix Defining the Proto-Indo-Iranian Zone Linguistic Paleontology and Cultural Markers Archaeological Correlates: Srubnaya, Poltavka, and Andronovo Chapter 3: Sintashta and the Birth of the Indo-Aryans The Sintashta-Arkaim Culture Chariot Warfare and Vedic Parallels Ritual and Metallurgy in the Indo-Aryan Proto-World Chapter 4: Cultural Confluence – Andronovo, BMAC, and the Vedic Seed The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Andronovo-BMAC Interactions Transmission of Religio...