It is simply wrong interpretation of the ancient language. The word meant a day and not a year. Assuming that their year consisted of 360 days we get the following result.
After the kingdom descended from heaven the kingship was in eridug. In Eridug , Alulim became king; he ruled for 80 years. Alaljar ruled for 100 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 1809 years.
The early list names eight kings with a total of 241,200 (bout 726) years from the time when kingship “descended from heaven” to the time when "the Flood" swept over the land and once more "the kingship was lowered from heaven" after the Flood.
So ancient Corinth's harbour town Lechaion was partially submerged by sea level rise. And so, how can we blame our modern human era for the climate change that caused that? Oh wait, nature has been changing for eons without our help.
I don't believe before any flood people lived many hundreds of years. I think early societies which hadn't yet learned to accurately measure the length of the year to within a day used the cycle of the moon as a visual counter of a person's age. Thus if somebody said to be nine hundred years old was actually nine hundred moons old he would be near-as-damn-it seventy-five. For some reason the scribes never grasped this but hey!, when God's involved it does makes it a better yarn if they leave in the unlikely.
The meaning is All Gifts, or All Giving. PAN = All, every, whole, all-inclusive DORA = Gifts, giving. from Dorothea (Dorothy), Theodora, gift from God, gift of the Gods.
The myth is a bitter one, hostile to women, parodying older myths where female images of divinity hold jars or containers of abundant foods and other delights. The container itself is a symbol of femaleness, the necked womb.
Curiosity is the fount of intelligence and wisdom. Many or most of the early human technologies were invented by women. The very first tool was probably a carrier bag, made of grasses, for carrying gathered food (vegetables, roots, nuts, fruits). Lined with clay, used for fire carrying, this created the first pots. Cooking employed containers. Water and food needed containers for porterage, and fire also was carried in clay lined baskets. Water and fire is usually traditionally carried by women. Many societies believe that women are stronger at carrying things, perhaps by analogy with pregnancy. Certainly female stamina is greater, as male strength is designed for high energy short bursts.
A repressive ideology which aims to keep people subservient and slavish typically trains fear of sex, women, and curiosity. Showing the beauty of a woman as treacherous is a typical slavemaster trick. It divides men from women so each are weakened. It removes the joy of sex which strengthens mind and body and spirit. A similar tale is told in old Wales, of Blodeuedd, the Lady made of Flowers. Like Pandora, she is constructed to be a delight to her husband because of her beauty. But given no choice in her fate, she feels no loyalty to her husband, and betrays him with a lover, and helps her lover kill the husband. The tale metes out vengeance but the (magically resurrected) husband is left bleakly alone and infertile. The moral is that making women into dolls is dangerous, and backfires on the wannabe masters.
Prometheus was a blazing pioneer of rebellion and freedom, later reframed as Lucifer. Again the master class attempt to make him a dire warning of agonising penalty if we dare attempt to win power and technology for ourselves. That may mean a new message now as we face global warming. But note also how the people's hero Heracles rescues Prometheus. Note also the key reason Epimetheus brings Pandora's terrible gifts into the world is because he is simply stupid, and ignores his brother's warning. He does not look at what he is doing.
A profound question presented by Pandora's legend is what is the nature of Hope? A simple reading is that Hope is the beautiful balancing power which offsets disease, poverty, war. There is always Hope. Yet hope is cruel and forces us to go on suffering and feeling what we suffer. To switch off, to go unfeeling, to give up hope, is far less painful and can be a way to survive. yet again if we lose hope, we eventually die, as they knew in WWII camps. Whether we feel Pandora's gift Hope is her greatest kindness or the final and greatest cruelty by Hermes, depends on the person, and on the moment. It can be either, and no fixed answer can hold for long.
The US secretary of state under Bill Clinton, Madeline “It was worth it” Albright, admitted on 60 Minutes to Lesley Stahl that the USA killed over 500,000 Iraqi children with sanctions, long before the 2003 war. Go to youtube and watch her say it.
As to US prisons, having practice criminal defense law for decades and having visited prisions in the US and in other countries, I can say that even many third world countries have better and more decent prisons that the USA.
Alone among all western countries, the US does not allow conjugal visits, resulting in massive amounts of homosexual rape. Alone among all western countries, the US has life without parole. Along among all western countries, the US has the death penalty. Alone among all the western countries, the US has solitary confinement, and uses its super frequently with tens of thousands in solitary.
And most important, alone among all countries in the whole world, the US makes all prisoners into slaves and makes them work for corporations for nothing. If they don’t work, they get punished.
Oh please, I do not see the USA going out killing millions of Muslim kids- I do however hear of Muslims killing their own kids and calling it honor killings. I do hear of certain religions that kill unfaithful spouses (usually just the women though), and even certain groups killing other people who don't believe their version of some fairly tale story passed down from a time when people thought the earth was flat. Please save your anti-USA rants for the less intelligent masses, because if you asked pretty much any single criminal in the world where they would prefer to serve their time I'm betting 99% would choose the USA prisons over any other prison in the world.
Native Americas came from north east asia hence why they share the same dna as them. There is no cultural and linguistic connections that the Polynesians share with the Native Americas. If you look at the native Americas they are short brown skinny with orientatal eyes. Sweet Potatoes came from Africa and it was said that it was through trade as to why it got there. Polynesian settlement was not stayed in South America as they probably came there and returned back to Polynesia as the Native Americas were very adamant when they saw new people being that Polynesians were bigger too. Polynesians, Micronesians and Melasians share cultural and linguistic similarities between South East Asian Islands that's evident as there are some similar words. Native Americas do not share any cultural and linguistic similarities with Polynesia Micronesia and Melanesia. Why else would a chicken end up in Oceania that can't be found anywhere else. There are some Filipinos who look Polynesians but it's just they're smaller build as Polynesians ate potatoes and coconut which what makes a person big and through time that's why Polynesians are big and mostly fat. Times have changed in Polynesia where there isn't no seafarers and less work to do. Polynesians can thank their Austronesian ancestors like Aboriginal Taiwan Philippines and Indonesia as they were excellent seafarers going from island to island in South East Asian Islands.
In India, every province has a calendar which is basically lunar in nature and does have a mammoth history. New year signifies the starting of a new season and unlike dec 31 and jan 1st, which does not show any transition of season. Even now, all religious festival and important dates are taken from these calendars, which run parallel to the Gregorian calendar.
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Very informative as always. But why is it that most of the times you claim that everything originates from ancient India and Asia in general. Is this some kind of a new trend? You did the same with swastika which originates from Ancient Greece and it is a symbol from goddess Athena it is called "kinitonion", it indicates the movements of the electrons. The deluge of Noah is clearly copied from the deluge of Deucallion. Please share with us more articles which are based on information from ancient texts.
Some people (Steve Quayle is one) use the existence of very tall human beings who were seven and eight feet tall as proof of the existence of giants who were very much taller. This is dishonest. Very tall people do not prove there were once giants of twenty or thirty or fifty feet tall.
There are historians who suggest the myth of giants arose from the construction of large monuments like Stonehenge, and from very large rocks weighing many tons which were transported many miles by glaciers, then being deposited great distances from their source when the glaciers melted.
The Norse name Thorr derives from germanic Thunar, a cognate of English thunder. It bears no relationship to the Semitic name of the bull, thor (Hebrew shor).
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It is simply wrong interpretation of the ancient language. The word meant a day and not a year. Assuming that their year consisted of 360 days we get the following result.
After the kingdom descended from heaven the kingship was in eridug. In Eridug , Alulim became king; he ruled for 80 years. Alaljar ruled for 100 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 1809 years.
The early list names eight kings with a total of 241,200 (bout 726) years from the time when kingship “descended from heaven” to the time when "the Flood" swept over the land and once more "the kingship was lowered from heaven" after the Flood.
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Thanks...that was irking me also!
pedant.. absolutely pathetic.
So ancient Corinth's harbour town Lechaion was partially submerged by sea level rise. And so, how can we blame our modern human era for the climate change that caused that? Oh wait, nature has been changing for eons without our help.
He fell in love with a Polish girl. Been there, done that.
I don't believe before any flood people lived many hundreds of years. I think early societies which hadn't yet learned to accurately measure the length of the year to within a day used the cycle of the moon as a visual counter of a person's age. Thus if somebody said to be nine hundred years old was actually nine hundred moons old he would be near-as-damn-it seventy-five. For some reason the scribes never grasped this but hey!, when God's involved it does makes it a better yarn if they leave in the unlikely.
The meaning is All Gifts, or All Giving.
PAN = All, every, whole, all-inclusive
DORA = Gifts, giving. from Dorothea (Dorothy), Theodora, gift from God, gift of the Gods.
The myth is a bitter one, hostile to women, parodying older myths where female images of divinity hold jars or containers of abundant foods and other delights. The container itself is a symbol of femaleness, the necked womb.
Curiosity is the fount of intelligence and wisdom. Many or most of the early human technologies were invented by women. The very first tool was probably a carrier bag, made of grasses, for carrying gathered food (vegetables, roots, nuts, fruits). Lined with clay, used for fire carrying, this created the first pots. Cooking employed containers. Water and food needed containers for porterage, and fire also was carried in clay lined baskets. Water and fire is usually traditionally carried by women. Many societies believe that women are stronger at carrying things, perhaps by analogy with pregnancy. Certainly female stamina is greater, as male strength is designed for high energy short bursts.
A repressive ideology which aims to keep people subservient and slavish typically trains fear of sex, women, and curiosity. Showing the beauty of a woman as treacherous is a typical slavemaster trick. It divides men from women so each are weakened. It removes the joy of sex which strengthens mind and body and spirit.
A similar tale is told in old Wales, of Blodeuedd, the Lady made of Flowers. Like Pandora, she is constructed to be a delight to her husband because of her beauty. But given no choice in her fate, she feels no loyalty to her husband, and betrays him with a lover, and helps her lover kill the husband. The tale metes out vengeance but the (magically resurrected) husband is left bleakly alone and infertile. The moral is that making women into dolls is dangerous, and backfires on the wannabe masters.
Prometheus was a blazing pioneer of rebellion and freedom, later reframed as Lucifer. Again the master class attempt to make him a dire warning of agonising penalty if we dare attempt to win power and technology for ourselves. That may mean a new message now as we face global warming. But note also how the people's hero Heracles rescues Prometheus.
Note also the key reason Epimetheus brings Pandora's terrible gifts into the world is because he is simply stupid, and ignores his brother's warning. He does not look at what he is doing.
A profound question presented by Pandora's legend is what is the nature of Hope?
A simple reading is that Hope is the beautiful balancing power which offsets disease, poverty, war. There is always Hope. Yet hope is cruel and forces us to go on suffering and feeling what we suffer. To switch off, to go unfeeling, to give up hope, is far less painful and can be a way to survive. yet again if we lose hope, we eventually die, as they knew in WWII camps.
Whether we feel Pandora's gift Hope is her greatest kindness or the final and greatest cruelty by Hermes, depends on the person, and on the moment. It can be either, and no fixed answer can hold for long.
Well, it was a quotation. The editors should have inserted "[sic]" after hung.
therelihunter, you must be a zionist
The US secretary of state under Bill Clinton, Madeline “It was worth it” Albright, admitted on 60 Minutes to Lesley Stahl that the USA killed over 500,000 Iraqi children with sanctions, long before the 2003 war. Go to youtube and watch her say it.
As to US prisons, having practice criminal defense law for decades and having visited prisions in the US and in other countries, I can say that even many third world countries have better and more decent prisons that the USA.
Alone among all western countries, the US does not allow conjugal visits, resulting in massive amounts of homosexual rape. Alone among all western countries, the US has life without parole. Along among all western countries, the US has the death penalty. Alone among all the western countries, the US has solitary confinement, and uses its super frequently with tens of thousands in solitary.
And most important, alone among all countries in the whole world, the US makes all prisoners into slaves and makes them work for corporations for nothing. If they don’t work, they get punished.
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Oh please, I do not see the USA going out killing millions of Muslim kids- I do however hear of Muslims killing their own kids and calling it honor killings. I do hear of certain religions that kill unfaithful spouses (usually just the women though), and even certain groups killing other people who don't believe their version of some fairly tale story passed down from a time when people thought the earth was flat. Please save your anti-USA rants for the less intelligent masses, because if you asked pretty much any single criminal in the world where they would prefer to serve their time I'm betting 99% would choose the USA prisons over any other prison in the world.
Native Americas came from north east asia hence why they share the same dna as them. There is no cultural and linguistic connections that the Polynesians share with the Native Americas. If you look at the native Americas they are short brown skinny with orientatal eyes. Sweet Potatoes came from Africa and it was said that it was through trade as to why it got there. Polynesian settlement was not stayed in South America as they probably came there and returned back to Polynesia as the Native Americas were very adamant when they saw new people being that Polynesians were bigger too. Polynesians, Micronesians and Melasians share cultural and linguistic similarities between South East Asian Islands that's evident as there are some similar words. Native Americas do not share any cultural and linguistic similarities with Polynesia Micronesia and Melanesia. Why else would a chicken end up in Oceania that can't be found anywhere else. There are some Filipinos who look Polynesians but it's just they're smaller build as Polynesians ate potatoes and coconut which what makes a person big and through time that's why Polynesians are big and mostly fat. Times have changed in Polynesia where there isn't no seafarers and less work to do. Polynesians can thank their Austronesian ancestors like Aboriginal Taiwan Philippines and Indonesia as they were excellent seafarers going from island to island in South East Asian Islands.
In India, every province has a calendar which is basically lunar in nature and does have a mammoth history. New year signifies the starting of a new season and unlike dec 31 and jan 1st, which does not show any transition of season. Even now, all religious festival and important dates are taken from these calendars, which run parallel to the Gregorian calendar.
vk
Very informative as always. But why is it that most of the times you claim that everything originates from ancient India and Asia in general. Is this some kind of a new trend? You did the same with swastika which originates from Ancient Greece and it is a symbol from goddess Athena it is called "kinitonion", it indicates the movements of the electrons. The deluge of Noah is clearly copied from the deluge of Deucallion. Please share with us more articles which are based on information from ancient texts.
IF it is Unreadable and UN-cypherable, HOW do you know that it is a spell? It could be the local recipe for camel urine and milk?
https://www.google.com/search?q=man+arrested+for+selling+fake+camel+urine
Some people (Steve Quayle is one) use the existence of very tall human beings who were seven and eight feet tall as proof of the existence of giants who were very much taller. This is dishonest. Very tall people do not prove there were once giants of twenty or thirty or fifty feet tall.
There are historians who suggest the myth of giants arose from the construction of large monuments like Stonehenge, and from very large rocks weighing many tons which were transported many miles by glaciers, then being deposited great distances from their source when the glaciers melted.
Any updates on this fascinating subject are more then welcome!
The Norse name Thorr derives from germanic Thunar, a cognate of English thunder. It bears no relationship to the Semitic name of the bull, thor (Hebrew shor).
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