It’s asleep now though, and it will never wake up again. In ancient times it would fight alongside Estonians, and devour the enemies who came to their shore in boats. The greatest snake is the Great Frog of the North.
They taught their language, Snakish, to humans, and for many thousands of years humans and snakes lived in harmony in the forest. Snakes are the highest order of being, capable of communicating and commanding all animals. Originally humans were the brothers of snakes. There are some trees where owls have nested for hundreds of years, and yet at some point they leave it empty, don’t return there.” “Life is like that all things come to an end. Leemet, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the last member, and he relates their sad and beautiful story, which is also the story of a fading ancient world forced to make way for progress. They kept the ancient ways and knew the Snakish words, but Christianty was the future and they were doomed to fade away. Only one tiny forest community held out, and only temporarily. They sent more troops, and many battles later the Christian Duchy of Estonia was established. Peaceful methods are slow and both Meinhard and Rome were impatient. In 1193, Pope Celestine III called for a crusade against the pagans in Northern Europe (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) where Saint Meinhard of Segeberg was already actively and peacefully working to change the locals religion.
These were useful as the Estonians eventually evolved into Vikings, and they did their fair share of sacking and getting sacked, but then Christianity arrived.
As time progressed, and the area became covered with forests, people started creating semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer communities (Mesolithic period) which eventually transformed into hill fort settlements (Bronze age). Humans first settled in Estonia around 11,000 years ago when the ice from the last glacier melted.
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