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  • Reply to: Reclaiming Iberia: The Epic Tale of the Reconquista in Spain   5 months 5 days ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    "Al-Andalus witnessed the harmonious coexistence of Muslims, Jews and Christians..."

    This is overstated wokeness, which is probably a tautology. However, it is true that seemingly disparate religious groups can have coinciding aims, however temporarily. Or even permanently.

    The destruction of the Visigoths by Islam opened the door for Vatican Catholicism to later conquer the Iberian Peninsula in full, something that may not have been achieved otherwise.

    It is worth remembering that the Visigoths were of an entirely different brand of Christianity.

    In fact, it has been suggested that Vatican Catholicism was a willing bystander, if not silent partner, to the Islamic conquest, in the knowledge that it took out a rival.

    Catholicism could then claim to have been reconquering when, in fact, it was not reconquest but a very patient conquest, according to this view.

    It is also worth remembering that history is often dumbed-down to simplistic stories, when the truth is far more nuanced and often diabolical.

    Moslems, Jews and Christians should come together. But when their supposed leaders do, well, that may not be for the benefit of the ordinary folk at all. In fact, I know that this century it won't be, for such is already planned.

  • Reply to: Uncovering the Truth Behind Matriarchal Societies in the Ancient World   5 months 5 days ago
    Comment Author: AlexPsico

    I agree with you Elicia but from a different angle let's travel in time to an era where we were not much different from apes but with some improvements and prevalence of instincts in our acts over our early primitive thinking. No matriarchy, no patriarchy, no moral, no oppression, no preferences, no language structured mind, no politics, no nothing from our actual time, mental structure, culture, lies, political ideas, indoctrination, chaos or nonsense. Just the crucial need of a pack leader, female or male didn’t matter, a leader needed for the pack’s survival and improvement. A detail that is usually missed, women were considered as magical beings related to the moon, they were who generate life from nothing (magic based and structured minds) and admired for that power. Eventually mind and intelligence evolves, new data added to the moon relation, sex correlation to the life generating power, men were related to that power too, so power sharing, magic gone (procreation is still an outstanding capacity that women have). This direct relation between sex and procreation generated a new problem of fatherhood roles. Women have certitude on being a mother, beyond who’s the father, that child is her child, she gave birth to him, it came out from her after 9 months. But who’s the father, no certitude on the men, so how do men enter the fatherhood? That place is assigned or provided by a mother that affirms “this is your kid” and embraced by a blind trust on that mother's words. Then, evolution kept going and a new bunch of problems appeared. Population kept growing, moral values and responsibilities too (providing, caring, feeding, protection) in a world still lacking on resources access and food a daily concern. Hard work to do, farming (both have to do) didn’t grant survival, famine was a day to day reality, so male needed a job that eases survival probabilities. Soldier it will be, if he dies his wife and children will do too or maybe she could sell one of the kids to feed her and the others increasing their survival probabilities. Sometimes she manages to feed them by less drastic measures, this lucky man managed to survive after 2 years away he gets home and finds he has a new child, 18 months exactly, and another mouth to feed. Self preservation and procreation (basic on every animal) those who live in packs you can add the protection of the pack. Males spread their seeds mostly when they become Alpha or in sneaky ways if there’s a chance. His pack, his seed, his genes (the strongest) and his descendants without any certitude looks some kind of assurance on descendants to be his, those with the best genes survival, The right gained, after having hard times, many wounds and risking his pack permanency and maybe his life, by challenging the alpha and winning that place. You got me, any adaptation or evolution pushes us one step up, solving many problems we had on the previous step, and adding many new ones on the actual one. Under many layers of improvements that we got by evolution and time, we are still animals, basic and elemental instincts remain, they don’t prevail over our thinking but they still conserve the power to influence them. All my respect ma’am.

  • Reply to: Uncovering the Truth Behind Matriarchal Societies in the Ancient World   5 months 5 days ago
    Comment Author: AlexPsico

    I agree with you Elicia but from a different angle let's travel in time to an era where we were not much different from apes but with some improvements and prevalence of instincts in our acts over our early primitive thinking.
    No matriarchy, no patriarchy, no moral, no oppression, no preferences, no language structured mind, no politics, no nothing from our actual time, mental structure, culture, lies, political ideas, indoctrination, chaos or nonsense. Just the crucial need of a pack leader, female or male didn’t matter, a leader needed for the pack’s survival and improvement.
    A detail that is usually missed, women were considered as magical beings related to the moon, they were who generate life from nothing (magic based and structured minds) and admired for that power. Eventually mind and intelligence evolves, new data added to the moon relation, sex correlation to the life generating power, men were related to that power too, so power sharing, magic gone (procreation is still an outstanding capacity that women have). This direct relation between sex and procreation generated a new problem of fatherhood roles. Women have certitude on being a mother, beyond who’s the father, that child is her child, she gave birth to him, it came out from her after 9 months.
    But who’s the father, no certitude on the men, so how do men enter the fatherhood? That place is assigned or provided by a mother that affirms “this is your kid” and embraced by a blind trust on that mother's words.
    Then, evolution kept going and a new bunch of problems appeared.
    Population kept growing, moral values and responsibilities too (providing, caring, feeding, protection) in a world still lacking on resources access and food a daily concern. Hard work to do, farming (both have to do) didn’t grant survival, famine was a day to day reality, so male needed a job that eases survival probabilities.
    Soldier it will be, if he dies his wife and children will do too or maybe she could sell one of the kids to feed her and the others increasing their survival probabilities. Sometimes she manages to feed them by less drastic measures, this lucky man managed to survive after 2 years away he gets home and finds he has a new child, 18 months exactly, and another mouth to feed.
    Self preservation and procreation (basic on every animal) those who live in packs you can add the protection of the pack.
    Males spread their seeds mostly when they become Alpha or in sneaky ways if there’s a chance. His pack, his seed, his genes (the strongest) and his descendants without any certitude looks some kind of assurance on descendants to be his, those with the best genes survival, The right gained, after having hard times, many wounds and risking his pack permanency and maybe his life, by challenging the alpha and winning that place.
    You got me, any adaptation or evolution pushes us one step up, solving many problems we had on the previous step, and adding many new ones on the actual one.
    Under many layers of improvements that we got by evolution and time, we are still animals, basic and elemental instincts remain, they don’t prevail over our thinking but they still conserve the power to influence them.
    All my respect ma’am.

  • Reply to: Uncovering the Truth Behind Matriarchal Societies in the Ancient World   5 months 5 days ago
    Comment Author: AlexPsico

    I agree with you Elicia but from a different angle let's travel in time to an era where we were not much different from apes but with some improvements and prevalence of instincts in our acts over our early primitive thinking.
    No matriarchy, no patriarchy, no moral, no oppression, no preferences, no language structured mind, no politics, no nothing from our actual time, mental structure, culture, lies, political ideas, indoctrination, chaos or nonsense. Just the crucial need of a pack leader, female or male didn’t matter, a leader needed for the pack’s survival and improvement.
    A detail that is usually missed, women were considered as magical beings related to the moon, they were who generate life from nothing (magic based and structured minds) and admired for that power. Eventually mind and intelligence evolves, new data added to the moon relation, sex correlation to the life generating power, men were related to that power too, so power sharing, magic gone (procreation is still an outstanding capacity that women have). This direct relation between sex and procreation generated a new problem of fatherhood roles. Women have certitude on being a mother, beyond who’s the father, that child is her child, she gave birth to him, it came out from her after 9 months.
    But who’s the father, no certitude on the men, so how do men enter the fatherhood? That place is assigned or provided by a mother that affirms “this is your kid” and embraced by a blind trust on that mother's words.
    Then, evolution kept going and a new bunch of problems appeared.
    Population kept growing, moral values and responsibilities too (providing, caring, feeding, protection) in a world still lacking on resources access and food a daily concern. Hard work to do, farming (both have to do) didn’t grant survival, famine was a day to day reality, so male needed a job that eases survival probabilities.
    Soldier it will be, if he dies his wife and children will do too or maybe she could sell one of the kids to feed her and the others increasing their survival probabilities. Sometimes she manages to feed them by less drastic measures, this lucky man managed to survive after 2 years away he gets home and finds he has a new child, 18 months exactly, and another mouth to feed.
    Self preservation and procreation (basic on every animal) those who live in packs you can add the protection of the pack.
    Males spread their seeds mostly when they become Alpha or in sneaky ways if there’s a chance. His pack, his seed, his genes (the strongest) and his descendants without any certitude looks some kind of assurance on descendants to be his, those with the best genes survival, The right gained, after having hard times, many wounds and risking his pack permanency and maybe his life, by challenging the alpha and winning that place.
    You got me, any adaptation or evolution pushes us one step up, solving many problems we had on the previous step, and adding many new ones on the actual one.
    Under many layers of improvements that we got by evolution and time, we are still animals, basic and elemental instincts remain, they don’t prevail over our thinking but they still conserve the power to influence them.
    All my respect ma’am.

  • Reply to: Uncovering the Truth Behind Matriarchal Societies in the Ancient World   5 months 5 days ago
    Comment Author: AlexPsico

    I agree with you Elicia but from a different angle let's travel in time to an era where we were not much different from apes but with some improvements and prevalence of instincts in our acts over our early primitive thinking.

    No matriarchy, no patriarchy, no moral, no oppression, no preferences, no language structured mind, no politics, no nothing from our actual time, mental structure, culture, lies, political ideas, indoctrination, chaos or nonsense.  Just the crucial need of a pack leader, female or male didn’t matter, a leader needed for the pack’s survival and improvement.

    A detail that is usually missed, women were considered as magical beings related to the moon, they were who generate life from nothing (magic based and structured minds) and admired for that power. Eventually mind and intelligence evolves, new data added to the moon relation, sex correlation to the life generating power, men were related to that power too, so power sharing, magic gone (procreation is still an outstanding capacity that women have). This direct relation between sex and procreation generated a new problem of fatherhood roles. Women have certitude on being a mother, beyond who’s the father, that child is her child, she gave birth to him, it came out from her after 9 months.

    But who’s the father, no certitude on the men, so how do men enter the fatherhood? That place is assigned or provided by a mother that affirms “this is your kid” and embraced by a blind trust on that  mother's words. 

    Then, evolution kept going and a new bunch of problems appeared. 

    Population kept growing, moral values and responsibilities too (providing, caring, feeding, protection) in a world still lacking on resources access and food a daily concern. Hard work to do, farming (both have to do) didn’t grant survival, famine was a day to day reality, so male needed a job that eases survival probabilities. 

    Soldier it will be, if he dies his wife and children will do too or maybe she could sell one of the kids to feed her and the others increasing their survival probabilities. Sometimes she manages to feed them by less drastic measures, this lucky man managed to survive after 2 years away he gets home and finds he has a new child, 18 months exactly, and another mouth to feed. 

    Self preservation and procreation (basic on every animal) those who live in packs you can add the protection of the pack. 

    Males spread their seeds mostly when they become Alpha or in sneaky ways if there’s a chance. His pack, his seed, his genes (the strongest) and his descendants without any certitude looks some kind of assurance on descendants to be his, those with the best genes survival, The right gained, after having hard times, many wounds and risking his pack permanency and maybe his life, by challenging the alpha and winning that place. 

    You got me, any adaptation or evolution pushes us one step up, solving many problems we had on the previous step, and adding many new ones on the actual one.

    Under many layers of improvements that we got by evolution and time, we are still animals, basic and elemental instincts remain, they don’t prevail over our thinking but they still conserve the power to influence them.

    All my respect ma’am.

     

  • Reply to: The Relic of Bir Hooker - Proof of a Race of Giants? - Part 1   5 months 6 days ago
    Comment Author: Novosedoff

    There is nothing to discuss or investigate because on the above video it is said between 1:25-1:32 that the old guy (the owner of the finger) had vanished, so the whole story must have been cooked up with no consequence to follow.. 

  • Reply to: What Made Alexandria the Intellectual Capital of the Ancient World?   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: rstay

    I was really enjoying the informative article until you felt you had to add the biases of modern academia, by having to add a coment on a historic depiction of an event and mention it had racist overtones.  Really?!  How do you feel this will play out over time?  This pablum you felt necessary for us to understand or to protect feelings is childish and ridiculous when looking at the arc of history.  Keep your bumpers meant to “protect” peoples feelings out of your publiciations please.  Your work is so enjoyed and welcomed but this drivel demeans it.

  • Reply to: What Made Alexandria the Intellectual Capital of the Ancient World?   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: rstay
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  • Reply to: Spells, Invocations and Divination: The Ancient History of Magical Grimoires   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    There is very little difference between a grimoire and a modern magazine aimed at teenage girls promoting abortions as Satanic rituals.

    A grimoire is not about "human intellectual development". It is about the rise of the Devil and the worship thereof.

    This website and the Occult are on very familiar terms, it would seem.

    One needs to filter everything through a proper understanding of the motives behind what is said. However, one first needs to understand that this world is run by the Church of Satan.

  • Reply to: The Real Culprit of an Ancient Egyptian Plague Was... Bread? (Video)   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    "...attributing the inexplicable to the divine."

    More evidence of what appears to be an anti-Christian bias on this website, proving, once again, that there is no separation of history and religion, namely, the religion of he who wishes to be divine.

    The target is not Judaism, for that is more captured than even Christianity is.

  • Reply to: What Made Alexandria the Intellectual Capital of the Ancient World?   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    Another brilliant piece of what appears to be anti-Christian propaganda masquerading as history...

    Religion and intellectualism don't always clash. The Devil uses intellectualism, for example, to promote his own religion by undermining the real competition, which is Christianity. As such, some intellectualism is very definitely religiously motivated.

  • Reply to: Hidden Connection Between 9,000-Year-Old Bad Dürrenberg Shaman and Infant Exposed   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Archaeologist

    A fascinating article.  Thank you for the in-depth analysis.

  • Reply to: What Do You Think About Atlantis?   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: StephenHunt

    Solon was actually a greek law maker and poet who was a decendant of Plato , it was he who had been told the story of Atlantis ( What the Greeks called it ) by the priests in Egypt , referring to the edfu text's.They spoke of the primeval ones who lived in prosperity on an island until there demise.

  • Reply to: Cemetery Reveals Medieval Equivalent of Social Benefits System   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    "Inmates were required to pray for the souls of those who funded the hospital, as a way to speed the latter’s post-life entrance into heaven."

    I have no doubt this was so. However, I genuinely doubt it actually works that way, always. If one was to become obscenely rich through ripping people off, for example, giving a fraction of the proceeds to a hospital charity may have made one seem philanthropic, but the love was not of people, rather of Mammon and self, which is still sinful.

    Heavenly judgement is not as easily fooled as some people are. This applies today, as it did in Medieval times.

  • Reply to: The Volvelle: The Medieval Equivalent of a Smartphone App?   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    Well, if it was Occultic and useful for control, then it would have something in common with a large number of smart-phone apps...

  • Reply to: Australian Aboriginals Have Been Baking Bread for 34,000+ Years!   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    Aboriginal agriculture was not "sophisticated". What is sophisticated is the rewriting of history. One doesn't even need a single real Aboriginal ancestor to claim Aboriginal descent as an historian. One doesn't even need to be an historian either, just a good yarn-teller. Nobody much seems to check the sources are correct and the appointed fact-checkers are part of the same propaganda exercise anyway.

    Australian anthropology is all about the never-ending apology. I would be reticent to trust anything about it these days. Anyone who trusts it explicitly is a fool. But not a lone fool. There are plenty of such fools for company.

  • Reply to: How Neanderthals Survived the Ice Age (Video)   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: mcdaib

    It’s news to me that Neanderthals ate Home Sapiens...where did you find this information?

  • Reply to: The Nine Unknown Men: An Ancient Indian Secret Society   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: jk2024

    There is a book called “History of Free Smiths” available in Internet Archive. It explains the secret of crucible (wootz) steel how it was leaked by the Nine Unknown into Europe in the Viking Ages. It gives a lot of evidence to support the Nine Unknown having been a secretive organization that was not just effectual in Asia but controlled the distribution of technology into the rest of the world. The argument is put forth that the Free Smiths possess some or all of the Books and are the same Secret Society that used to be known as the Nine Unknown. The Free Smiths were a German Secret Society but I couldn’t find anything about whether they still exist. I asked on Reddit but no answers were forthcoming.

  • Reply to: Behind Ancient Gates: Revealing the Secrets of the Mausoleum of Augustus   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Robert105

    It’s hard to understand how anyone could use the mausoleum as a residence; there is a massive round center column surrounded by limited open space where the ossuaries laid between the column and the wall. Possibly the double-wall enclosure surrounding the mausoleum could have been used as the residence of the Colonnas.

    For those who like exploring with Google streetview, you have a short look inside by dropping the ‘yellow man’ on the center section. The marker stones on the wall show where the ossuaries of Germanicus, Nero, and Tiberius laid, beside each other.

    Poppea: you can also check out her villa about 7 miles east of Pompeii. Very posh, and a collection of jewellery, likely Poppea’s, was found there during excavation. As someone commented: ‘It probably didn’t belong to her maid’. 

  • Reply to: How Neanderthals Survived the Ice Age (Video)   5 months 1 week ago
    Comment Author: Archaeologist

    “and possibly a form of language”  I take issue with this assumption.  Of course they had languare capabilities and a spoken language.  How dare we make the assumption that they didn’t.  Our egocentric and ethnocentric prejudices are still evident today.

    It wouldn’t be possible for them to make these technological advances, and for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, without language capabilities.

    It’s time we admitted that Neanderthals were just as advanced as we Homo Sapiens were.

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