But, one man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
A tuffet, pouffe or hassock is a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat.[1] It is distinguished from a stool by being completely covered in cloth so that no legs are visible. It is essentially a large hard cushion that may have an internal wooden frame to give it more rigidity. In short, if you want to set on a large, had cushion, you have to tuffet out.
A vain attempt to get this thread back on track.
Even ethnic subgroups, after 3000 years, are not particularly pure, thanks to intermarriage, adoption, immigration, and, um, well, Kurdistan is on several invasion routes, soldiers get lonesome, and local girls need some cash. Genetics is nearly worthless for tracking the history of a culture. You are not who some of your long-dead ancestors were.
As for the Hittite culture itself, the empire, with its political system, is dead, the language is dead, the religion is dead, the art is dead, and so on. A Modern Kurd may consider himself a Hittite, but he is no more Hittite than you or I.
Another discussion could ask, “When is a culture dead?” Cultural extinction happens all the time.
And Aram Hittite KURD should remember that most of the people on this board are from Great Britain, the US, and I seem to remember there being some quiet, but polite, nation to the north of the US. Few of us are Turks or Iranians. These countries support Kurdish independence, put up with Turkey, and actively dislike Iran. We are not the enemy.
And now, tuffets are part of the ottoman empire
Serious scientists don’t capitalize “truth”-in fact, they rarely use the term.
German scientists capitalize it, and you can’t get more serious than them. But they also capitalize scientist. It’s a noun thing.
Do German Scientists write KURD in all caps?
Only when used as an acronym for East Germany: Kommunist Uber-Republik Deutschland.
Does that mean the residents of the former East Germany are Hittites? I ask because I thought that West Germany had more Turkish guest workers.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
This is an obvious historical allegory.
Little Miss Muffet represents the Sultan, who was kept in a state of isolation and decadence - like a harem member. So he is portrayed as a little girl. The Sultan ruled the Ottoman Empire - sitting on a tuffet, which as noted is a synonym for an ottoman footstool. From this position he was oppressing (eating) the curds (the Kurds) and the whey (the Armenians, derived from Hayrenik, the Armenian word for Fatherland and the name of the Armenian separatist movement). So along came the spider (the British Empire with its reach all over the world) to first prop up the Sultan and then overthrow him.
And here I was expecting this thread to have something to do with Wisconsin and Cheese.
Oh. My. God.
The people of Wisconsin are Hittites. I see it now! That explains the cheese!
You know who else was a Hittite?
You’re just an anti-Hittite!
I can’t reasonably believe there are still Hittites, not because the anthropologists say so but because of the absence of anti-Egyptain terrorist acts by people who still have a hardon over the Battle of Kadesh.
His original name was “Hittitler”.
Not Muslims?! Then what is your religion?
Wait, what solution? What was the problem?
And why is “Aram” in your username? That’s an old name for Syria. Never Kurdish country at all, save the northeastern bit.
It is. You just need to be more creative.
“Well, Steve, the Milwaukee Hittites trounced the Chicago Mitanni in the opening game of the NFL season with their bold and innovative use of scythe-hubbed chariots in the third quarter . . .”