Ways of the Warrior

[Lucas]

So I have always been a big fan of reading up on the various warrior castes through out the world.

Of course I am not the only one to do this.

There, obviously, are many similarities shared between cultures that have been spawned or are closely related to the traditions of the warriors that grew and developed out of each culture.

Simply because I often have nothing better to do than to research this kind of stuff, I have recorded a lot of these things into my own logs.

Right now I am at work and I decided, partially to help give this section of the forum a little traffic, and partially because I want to put a lot of these ideas in a place other than my own computer, I will put some of my thoughts in this thread.

I'll have to wait till I get home to copy and paste some junk here from my plethora of un ordered, jumbled notes.

I'll mainly be putting forth simliarities I have noticed between the east and the west. As the east and west have always been seen as so seperate and different, it is interesting to note many of the similarities that exist between cultures that never shared knowledge during the times when these martial warriors put their ideas, ideals, faiths, and beliefs into practice through the ways of the warrior.

It has been my conclusion (though I am far from the first) that the mindsets and beliefs people develop out of living the life of a warrior, within a war like culture, and developing traditions based on the necessity for many of these developments, are quite similar. Sometimes astonishingly so.

Though I do not have any of my notes with me, I when I get the time to put some of my thoughts here, I will likely start with mine own ancestors in the west. Those being of Germanic origin.

I will also at some point bring into the "new world" natives, as well as Africans into this thread as well. Though to begin I will focus on east and west.

I invite any and all discussion here regarding, simply, ways of the warrior.

For my part, I will be putting forth these types of similarities/coincidences, found between cultures that have always been seen as so distant and seperate during these formulative years of man kind. Most likely I will leave out much of the modern day, as with our state of communication, similarities in cultures today would not be so unheard of.

We are all the same species after all.