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  • Reply to: The Mystery of the Peterborough Petroglyphs   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: CHEN, Lung Chuan

    (by the way)

    In the picture of this article, the guy raising his hand indicates "提手旁 (Hand-Raising Side)". If you can read Chinese characters, 搬 / 拔 / 技 .... such Chinese characters are categorized in the Leading Component of "提手旁 (Hand-Raising Side)". (以提手旁作為部首)

  • Reply to: The Mystery of the Peterborough Petroglyphs   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: CHEN, Lung Chuan

    (In English and Traditinoal Chinese)

    I can tell you what I have found from the petroglyphs of provincial park in Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA. It is a huge "textbook" or "dictionary" for teaching people to understand the formation of ancient Chinese characters. (這是一本以「部首(Leading Components)」為中心的中文教科書或字典)

    The First Nations - 姬國 (河洛語/閩南語的讀音「一」Chi-Na, 「一國」or 「第一國」).

    This textbook is arranged based on Leading Components (部首) of Chinese characters, with several logic combination. If you can read Chinese, you download my explanation here

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7unpowixznt33v/%E5%85%A8%E7%90%83%E7%9F%B3%E5...

    (Download and open it in Read-Only mode. So far it is in Traditional Chinese)

    Indigenous American were from ancient Chi-Na.

  • Reply to: Caractacus: The Powerful Celtic King Who Defied Rome   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Joe Stitzel

    So where is he buried ? anyone find him ? Hope man that character just blend in with, So Many other, ordinary graves.

  • Reply to: A Golden Age of Ancient DNA Science Begins   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Liath MacTire

    Thank you. That clears that up for me. I think it was most unsportsmanlike of them to choose to live where their DNA would degrade so quickly. humph

  • Reply to: A Golden Age of Ancient DNA Science Begins   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: marioR

    The estimated age range of 20-40k years is misleading for the "Hobbit" lineage since researchers have associated Hobbits with Homo erectus: the found specimens share primitive traits commonly found on Homo erectus, leading some to call them a late surviving Homo erectus population.

    Yes, they died out recently, relatively speaking when compared to other hominids like Denisovans. But, unlike Denisovans, which lived in near artic conditions, the Hobbits lived in a tropical environment that's destructive to DNA. Higher temperatures and humidity degrade DNA badly.

    Recovering and comparing DNA from the Hobbit to other hominids, including ourselves, would have helped us answer basic questions about ourselves in relation to other animals.

    In other words, unraveling DNA closer to our base will help us unravel what separated us from other animals.

    I doubt geneticists will use this unraveled information to create the Man-beast in my lifetime, but the unraveled information can certainly help us understand common disorders like sociopathy and apathy.

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: dorothy

    a lot of people don't realize that Christmas and Easter are both mentioned in the Bible....read Jerimiah 10:3 ( Christmas tree) It speaks about the heathen, that they cut a tree out of the forest and nail it so it stands upright and moves not and they deck it with silver and gold....it says that we should not be as the heathen and do these things...but we do. Easter was mentioned in the new testament Acts 12:1-4 (KJV) on this day (Easter) King Herrod beheaded James the brother of john with a sword and when he saw the Jews liked it he went after peter too. Galatians 4:8-10 talks about when we knew not God we did as others but now that we know God or are known by God how can we turn to the weak and beggarly elements of observing days, months, times, and years. I (and this is what I believe) believe that we follow suit we are worldly and do as others do even when we know God and are known by Him. All so-called Holidays have pagan roots, they are traditions and people follow, adding bunnies and eggs and trees, santa and presents and candy are all commercial things to get kids hooked. just remember switch a few words around in santa and what do you have? santa= satan only God knows when you been sleeping or awake....wake up.

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cole to the Man

    Isn't that convenient? You can dismiss any and all conversation because others must be "in darkness." It's got to be pretty dark with your head buried.

  • Reply to: Why Christmas is Held on December 25th   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Tom Callanan

    >The Saturnalia festival began on 17 th December and later expanded with festivities through to the 25 th December. It paid tribute to Saturn, the agricultural God of Sowing and Husbandry, and was associated with the renewal of light and the coming of the new year. -<

    Doubtful since most cultures celebrated the New Year at the Spring equinox.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, quoted twice in this article, also states that Saturnalia was almost certainly NOT the reason for the selection of Dec 25. The claim that it has to do with Mithra is more sound

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Lowell

    In a thousand years, there'll be another name invoked when mother earth springs from winter. Be of good cheer.

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Lowell

    Period.

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Lowell

    "His" instructions are a man-made set of fables designed by power hungry politicians in church garb to control the dim-witted, the insane and the lazy. Those four categories cover pretty much every Christian I've ever met, heard of or read about. Which are you?

  • Reply to: Unexpected and Gruesome Battle of 1250 BC Involved 4,000 Men from Across Northern Europe   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: peter bridge

    This might be the site of the real 'Trojan' war. Area and age are right. Let's see what develops.

  • Reply to: The Guilt of the Gnostic Knights Templar: The Chinon Parchment   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Colin Berry

    Splendid comment Old Git Tom. I wish you'd written the history books they dished out at school (Dark Ages, London O-Level).

  • Reply to: Ruins of a Legendary Medieval Castle Uncovered in Scotland   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: sharon seasor

    I love old history and am excited to learn more

  • Reply to: Ruins of a Legendary Medieval Castle Uncovered in Scotland   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: sharon seasor

    verification

  • Reply to: Evidence of Origin of Light Skin   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cindee

    Who knows how light skin came about, but I don’t think Vikings just popped up out of nowhere. I am new to this site and saw a story about the Mary the Moon Goddess and the Story of the 7 dwarves. I should have saved it but was too busy signing up. I think this site is awesome. Anyone know what it falls under. Gratitude.

  • Reply to: The Guilt of the Gnostic Knights Templar: The Chinon Parchment   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Old Git Tom

    I suspect the Templars were trapped by the 'plea bargain' snare so popular in today's US legal system. The prosecutors' pitch: "Just confess to this & that, & you'll get off with a light sentence. If you fight us, you could get a much heavier one".
    For the vulnerable accused, such 'merciful' offers can prove very dangerous. They effectively entail an irreversible guilty plea, since they cede vital evidence & confession to the prosecutors. For the Templars, this was seemingly lethal.
    In addition, I find most historical accounts naive & ignorant. King Francis was surely far less interested in Templar heresy, than vast Templar wealth. Lacking effective modern tax systems, medieval sovereigns perennially ran out of money, so regularly robbed the rich but weak. So with Jacques Coeur (merchant), the Fugger dynasty, the monastic system of England, & affluent Jewish merchant communities at regular intervals. I doubt very much The Inquisition was interested by poor heretics. How else was this travelling legal circus funded?
    King Francis was the black villain here, not Pius V, who was his powerless political hostage. Silly talk of Templar black magic is a poor substitute for history. It obscures the most interesting facet. Ie., the source of Templar wealth was international finance, not a chest of jewels from Jerusalem.
    Switzerland is the Euro home of banking, & the Red Cross, still under the Templar emblem.

  • Reply to: The Forgotten Celtic History of Ancient Poland   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Karon A. Hartshorn

    Ummm, no. Etymology of the word salt from dictionary.com: before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English; Old English sealt; cognate with German Salz, Old Norse, Gothic salt; akin to Latin sāl, Greek háls (see halo- ); (v.) Middle English salten, Old English s (e) altan; compare Old High German salzan, Old Norse salta, Dutch zouten; see salary.

    Etymology of the word Celt: Via Latin Celtae (singular Celta) from Ancient Greek Κελτοί ‎(Keltoí).

    English Celts is from the 17th century. Until the mid 19th century, /sɛlt/ is the only recorded pronunciation. A consciously archaizing pronunciation /kɛlt/ is advocated in Irish and Welsh nationalism beginning in the 1850s.

  • Reply to: The Forgotten Celtic History of Ancient Poland   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Karon A. Hartshorn

    Ummm - there is no Celtic practice of killing the wife at the husband's funeral. Check the Brehon laws. With that statement, the whole article is suspect.

  • Reply to: Is There Archaeological Evidence of Bigfoot? (Part II)   8 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Dawn Littlefield

    My tribe has known about Bigfoot-people of the forests- for thousands of years. If you walk through a field and do not see rabbits or deer do you say they do not exist?

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