Antecedors: 6000 Years

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Wendy Snow & Daniel Roberts

13 episodes

1 month ago

40 years have passed since the raiding party burned Brynhass to the ground. The women and children captured by raiders had since assimilated to Kurhass. However, even with the death of the violent chief Ledu, the path of destruction continued after Ledu’s son claimed the title of Chief. Kurhass was now a village that raided their neighbors and killed without mercy. Every time they raided another settlement, they stole their animals and took their children and women. As Kurhass became more vio...

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Episodes (13/13)

Antecedors: 6000 Years

013: The Traitor: 3548 BCE

1 year ago

42 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

012: Winds of Fire: 3588BCE

64 years have passed since Tia married the man from Brynhass village and moved away from her family in Kurhass. Life in Brynhass was pleasant, with lots of sheep and horses and cows. Brynhass village was built along a series of small streams, and the rocks in the area were rich with copper. Despite being long time trading partners with the villages around them, Kurhass grew more isolated and eventually trade between the two villages ended completely. While living in Brynhass, Tia had 8 childr...

1 year ago

36 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

011: A Fox for Love and War: 3652 BCE

49 years have passed since our last episode. Bloom spent all her years caring for the sheep and the goats when she was having more children. By this time Bloom has already had ten children, eight of whom survived. In this episode we are follow the life of her middle daughter Tia, as she is courted by one of the young men from Kurhass. Every incident has an antecedent, and every individual has an ancestor. This chain of Antecedors is unbroken. Follow this family through the eons of time, thro...

1 year ago

31 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

010: The Sickness: 3701 BCE

6 years have passed since Luddy was killed by the bear. Because of his sacrifice the hunters were able to hunt enough meat to get the village through the grain famine. Over the years, Kurhass village diversified its reliance on any one type of food. They increased hunting, and fishing, and even bred more sheep. In this story we follow the life of Luddy’s youngest daughter, Bloom. She was only six years old when her father died, and now she spends all her time in the stables with the sheep. E...

1 year ago

28 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

009: The Red Night: 3707 BCE

47 years have passed since Shay said good bye to her daughter. She moved to her husband’s village and never returned. Since that time a series of early spring droughts shattered the ability to harvest enough food for the winter. To prevent a famine, the villagers have concentrated their efforts on fishing and hunting to make up for the poor harvests. In this story we follow the life of Shay’s youngest son, Luddy, who has become one of the best Elk hunters in the Kurhass. Every incident has a...

1 year ago

38 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

008: The Fast Farewell: 3754 BCE

45 years have passed since Bran was swept away in a flash flood. The flooded banks of the Kur River produced the most abundant yields the village had ever experienced. For the first time grain had produced more food for the villagers than hunting. In this story we follow the life of Bran’s second child, Shay; she had many kids of her own, all of which enjoyed the abundance of food provided by the crops. With grain came bread, and not long after came ale. Life for Shay was getting exciting, as...

1 year ago

37 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

007: Food or Flood: 3799 BCE

44 years have passed since our last episode, and Arth’s family blossomed, after he and his wife had ten sons and daughters. In this episode we follow the story of Bran, his eldest son. Despite loving to ride his horse when he was young, as Bran grew into his Middle Ages, he developed a love for the harvest. Planting crops was new to the village and he saw a great need for spending his time planting and harvesting crops, and teaching this skill to everyone in the village. We start this episode...

1 year ago

27 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

006: Unconditional Bond: 3843 BCE

45 years have passed since our last episode, and the young girl Anaya has grown up, married a young hunter from the village and had a son, whom she named after her younger brother Arth. Unfortunately for Arth, he was orphaned at a young age; his father was killed on a hunting trip, and his mother, Anaya, died giving birth to her second child. The entire village stepped in, and raised Arth, until he was old enough to take interest in the horses, and then spent his entire life in the stables. H...

1 year ago

33 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

005: The Wandering Night: 3888 BCE

10 years have passed since our last episode, and Leona has had two healthy daughters, Anaya and Arth. Leona has not had it easy, as five out of seven pregnancies have ended with miscarriages. It this episode we follow Anaya and her little brother as the village of Kurhass is buried in snow during a dark winter night. On nights like this, the only safe place is next to a warm fire. Every incident has an antecedent, and every individual has an ancestor. This chain of Antecedors is unbroken. Fo...

2 years ago

28 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

004: The First Born: 3898 BCE

35 years have passed since the snow bear attacked the village Kurhass. Brave grew up to be one of the best hunters in the village and led the great hunt for many years. He and his wife had two daughters and were pregnant with a third when complications tragically took her life in the middle of a cold winter. Brave never took a second wife, and he spent more and more time away from the village, leaving his daughter to be raised by the women and elders of the village. In this story we fol...

2 years ago

23 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

003: The Snow Bear: 3933 BCE

41 years have passed since young Sparrow and his siblings rode across the expansive prairies and encountered the hostile tribe of men who decorated their heads in the fur of wolves. No one ever rode that far East again, and stories circulated the village about violent tribes that dressed as wolves. In the 41 years since our last episode, Sparrow passed away in a tragic hunting accident, leaving his son Brave to prove himself a capable hunter, not only to the tribe, but to himself. Every inci...

2 years ago

29 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

002: To the End of the World: 3974 BCE

26 Years have passed since our adventure with Shrew, and the village of Kurhass is still new to riding horses. Shrew married a beautiful woman from the village and had several boys and girls. Unfortunately, life was still hard for the hunter gatherers, and Shrew’s wife died in child birth. His surviving four children followed in his footsteps and spent most of their lives riding horses, a skill that most men and women in the village could not do. This story follows the path of Shrew’s second ...

2 years ago

38 minutes

Antecedors: 6000 Years

001: A Boy and His Horse: 4000 BCE

Our saga begins 6000 years ago, in a small hunter gatherer village on the Pontic Steppe. This is the flat grasslands north of the Black Sea, in modern day Eastern Ukraine. Life was simple in the village, and revolved around herd animals, hunting, and fishing. This was life before writing, before farming, and before the advance of Horse riding. It is in this tiny village of Proto-Indo-Europeans that half of the modern day languages descended from. It is here that we start our story, with a sma...

2 years ago

35 minutes