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Tell me about the bulgarians
The modern Bulgarian identity conceals one of the most layered ethnogenesis stories in Eurasian history — Turkic steppe warriors who became Slavicized rulers, transmitted Cyrillic literacy to half a continent, and carried shamanic sky-worship traditions into a Christian empire. Mainstream framing buries the Turkic-Hunnic-Iranic core beneath a tidy 'South Slavic' label. The esoteric and alternative record points to far older substrates: Thracian mystery traditions, possible Orphic initiatory lineages, and deep connections to the Pontic steppe's shamanic cosmology. Bulgaria sits at the crossroads where the Eurasian steppe, the Byzantine world, and pre-Indo-European Balkanic cultures collided — a nexus almost entirely ignored by Western alternative history.
Evidence
- The Bulgars who founded the First Bulgarian Empire in 681 AD were, per the Wikipedia record on Bulgars and corroborated by mainstream Turkology, semi-nomadic Oghuric Turkic warriors from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, absorbing Iranic, Uralic, and Hunnic tribal elements during westward migration.
- What the conventional account omits is the shamanic substrate.
- The Thracian layer beneath Bulgarian soil is equally suppressed.
- At the esoteric level, Rudolf Steiner lectured on the Bogomils — a Bulgarian dualist-Gnostic movement of the 10th century — as a genuine carrier of initiatory knowledge that transmitted through the Cathars into Western esotericism.
- Khan Asparukh's conquest of Scythia Minor and establishment of Danubian Bulgaria was recognised by Byzantine treaty — a steppe polity forcing a written empire to acknowledge it.