Never quite heard that take on the Egyptian (Kemetic) version. Osiris wasn't a Green Man, although He was green to indicate His link with the annual rebirth of light, life and all things growing beneath Re's sunlight. His Son, Horus, was the one linked with a 'virgin birth', although again, that's not exactly what happened. Isis wasn't a virgin, but She did conceive Her child after Osiris' death. The idea that Set crystallized the physical life force in the form of the Pharaoh? I gotta say, I've never heard that. I'd be interested in finding out where that idea came from. My only other comment is that I am forever sick to death of seeing Set called "evil". He is not, was not, and should not ever be regarded as the "Egyptian Satan" or related to anything evil. There is absolutely evil in Kemetic belief, in the form of the Serpent Foe, Apep, but again he is not connected to Set in any way (except when Set rides the Night Barque with Re and kills the evil one to protect the Universal Lord every night).
Young Americans can't imagine how to live without electricity, much less water. Bless these brave warriors who have never forgotten how to build and use things to their benefit. My heart is with you.
The hypothesis that some have come up with are preposterous and I wonder what they are smoking.
“The academic consensus since the late 19th century sees the cones as slow-melting incense diffusers, helping the wearer achieve a state of ritual purity before the gods and the dead. It is believed the cones, with their heady aromas, would have helped blur the line between the living and the dead.”
How in heavens name did they come up with this. Explain the mechanism of blurring the line between the living and the dead and for what purpose?
according to “The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu”, most of those manuscripts were held by individual families. Not only did they smuggle them, they had to convince individual owners that they would be protected and returned. Now in the U S, we have political parties and churches that want to burn books. They fear the written word and it’s truths.
We a will learn little until we embrace the fact that the site is Astrological and we view the site through the eyes of an Astrologer. Even though the western world has been inculacated the depsise Astrology, we can stiil see through the eyes of the builders.
Obviously hunter gatherers did not build this but sophisticated people from an advanced civilisation of which there has been many in the past, evolution is cyclical and not linear as we are still today taught.
Caltrops are just one effective stationary weapon ment to deter cavalry. And yes they were made in every conceivable configuration. To deter the Parthians and later Mongols, placement of the them were in mounted archers range. As they would dash into range wheel about launching an arrow and escape to re-noch another arrow. This is the place caltrops were very effective. Trip ropes and chains connected to bent trees for a spring, were also used and effective to trip charging riders. So were long lances buried at a low angle. Infantry would stand in front of these and solicit and taunt cavalry to charge. When they did, infantry would quickly reteat behind the planted lances. But back to caltrops. They were used from the beginning of the iron age on. Even during the civil war and WW1. WW2 had little horse cavalry warfare. Clearly this article wasn't really about caltrops. It was about sympathy for Ukraine. Since Ukraine historically has been the breadbasket of Eurasia, blacksmithing there is as old as the iron age itself. The iron implements of farmers and warriors are endless in need. You would think that at least one brand of farm tractor would have been developed there. One almost was in Kharkiv, but at the end communism, it was moved (like the nuclear missiles) back to Russia. I have no sympathy for Ukraine because they were already a free nation after the end of the USSR. With a lawfully elected president, whom they pulled a coup on, and installed a fascist dictator. Who went about killing civilians for the last 8years. American Obama CIA and Victoria Nuland and a host of neo-con politicians dumping tons of American's tax dollars has caused this disaster. I have no love for Putin or Russia, but America is responsible for this fascist disaster. Don't use a ancient history site to push more current propaganda.
Never thought of it like that Pete. They'll still only show what they want. But nevertheless whatever finds they release that contradicts the current theory, should be good enough for a 'total recall'.
I read some time ago a german discovered the gold mining in S. America created some chemical sludge that was carried in a basket woven from a plant that mixed and set on lower courses of stone allowed an upper stone to “settle” into place by some chemical melting at Sacsahauman (bad spelling) but then how the higher stones wer lifted into place was still a mystery. But we have made progress in levitation today though only in pebble sized items lol
As is the case with a great many historical sites, you can do a Google Streetview and save much discomfort, trouble, and expense. No tourist mobs and lineups, and no hustlers.
Try also Pompeii, Herculaneum, the pyramids, ancient Rome, etc.
“Nevertheless, some experts argue that settlers may have arrived from South America due to agricultural evidence of the sweet potato on the island which was a staple crop in Polynesia.”
This doesn’t make any sense. South America is not in Polynesia.
Anyway, this marshalling of labour to make statues looks like a make-work program, typical of ancient (and ‘modern’!) societies, to organize large numbers of workers, to control them, and keep the people having less initiative (usually the highest percentage of any population) dependant by having them work for pay. Especially in ancient societies, the work was usually dedicated to building religious monuments and monuments glorifying the leaders. In modern societies the work is dedicated to building bridges to nowhere and government buildings to house bureaucrats.
Thanks for the article – really interesting. I learned a lot, particularly the fact that these kings had six fingers! I’m hoping to travel to Mexico this spring, so thanks for inspring me.
Great piece – I had no idea about such amazing botanical work going on. Who would have thought seeds thousands of years old would germinate?!? This opens the door to thousands of potential experiments. I am reminded of the prophecy of Israel returning to its homeland before the End of Days, and this resurrected tree, past symbol of Israel seen on shekel coins, seems to best epitomize that ancient prediction. Now I need to buy some and try them! Thanks Jo.
Fairy rings are circular patterns of grass that grow around trees. They can form from several mechanisms including fungal root decay, water movement, and even the movement of animals.
What fascinates me is the cause of the Atlantean diasporah suggested by the fact that Japanese and Basque people can understand each other without translators and both have a history of being highly skilled seafaring navigators. Plato places Atlantis as being some 7000 years before him; a review of the history of massive solar flares finds one documented to be hundreds of times more powerful than the Carrington event of 1859 hitting the planet 9125 years ago. With the cisterns of Gobekli Tepe being dated to 12,000 years ago, the idea of a massive pre-history civilization meeting a sudden end isn’t far fetched.
in the Book of Enoch, he is taken to an ancient observatory by the Watchers. While there he explained the progression of the seasons by observing where the sun rose and set between archways/doorway. The ancients of his time used an 18 hour day. I converted this into our modern 24 hour day and then using the longest day found which lattitude it would be. He was on the same lattitude as Stonehenge. Coincidence?
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Never quite heard that take on the Egyptian (Kemetic) version. Osiris wasn't a Green Man, although He was green to indicate His link with the annual rebirth of light, life and all things growing beneath Re's sunlight. His Son, Horus, was the one linked with a 'virgin birth', although again, that's not exactly what happened. Isis wasn't a virgin, but She did conceive Her child after Osiris' death. The idea that Set crystallized the physical life force in the form of the Pharaoh? I gotta say, I've never heard that. I'd be interested in finding out where that idea came from. My only other comment is that I am forever sick to death of seeing Set called "evil". He is not, was not, and should not ever be regarded as the "Egyptian Satan" or related to anything evil. There is absolutely evil in Kemetic belief, in the form of the Serpent Foe, Apep, but again he is not connected to Set in any way (except when Set rides the Night Barque with Re and kills the evil one to protect the Universal Lord every night).
Young Americans can't imagine how to live without electricity, much less water. Bless these brave warriors who have never forgotten how to build and use things to their benefit. My heart is with you.
I stopped reading this article because:
I have never seen these cones before
The hypothesis that some have come up with are preposterous and I wonder what they are smoking.
“The academic consensus since the late 19th century sees the cones as slow-melting incense diffusers, helping the wearer achieve a state of ritual purity before the gods and the dead. It is believed the cones, with their heady aromas, would have helped blur the line between the living and the dead.”
How in heavens name did they come up with this. Explain the mechanism of blurring the line between the living and the dead and for what purpose?
Saffron has probably been used since the arrival of man but we can’t trace back that far, hey!
according to “The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu”, most of those manuscripts were held by individual families. Not only did they smuggle them, they had to convince individual owners that they would be protected and returned. Now in the U S, we have political parties and churches that want to burn books. They fear the written word and it’s truths.
Don’t push propaganda, huh?
We a will learn little until we embrace the fact that the site is Astrological and we view the site through the eyes of an Astrologer. Even though the western world has been inculacated the depsise Astrology, we can stiil see through the eyes of the builders.
Obviously hunter gatherers did not build this but sophisticated people from an advanced civilisation of which there has been many in the past, evolution is cyclical and not linear as we are still today taught.
Caltrops are just one effective stationary weapon ment to deter cavalry. And yes they were made in every conceivable configuration. To deter the Parthians and later Mongols, placement of the them were in mounted archers range. As they would dash into range wheel about launching an arrow and escape to re-noch another arrow. This is the place caltrops were very effective. Trip ropes and chains connected to bent trees for a spring, were also used and effective to trip charging riders. So were long lances buried at a low angle. Infantry would stand in front of these and solicit and taunt cavalry to charge. When they did, infantry would quickly reteat behind the planted lances. But back to caltrops. They were used from the beginning of the iron age on. Even during the civil war and WW1. WW2 had little horse cavalry warfare. Clearly this article wasn't really about caltrops. It was about sympathy for Ukraine. Since Ukraine historically has been the breadbasket of Eurasia, blacksmithing there is as old as the iron age itself. The iron implements of farmers and warriors are endless in need. You would think that at least one brand of farm tractor would have been developed there. One almost was in Kharkiv, but at the end communism, it was moved (like the nuclear missiles) back to Russia. I have no sympathy for Ukraine because they were already a free nation after the end of the USSR. With a lawfully elected president, whom they pulled a coup on, and installed a fascist dictator. Who went about killing civilians for the last 8years. American Obama CIA and Victoria Nuland and a host of neo-con politicians dumping tons of American's tax dollars has caused this disaster. I have no love for Putin or Russia, but America is responsible for this fascist disaster. Don't use a ancient history site to push more current propaganda.
Never thought of it like that Pete. They'll still only show what they want. But nevertheless whatever finds they release that contradicts the current theory, should be good enough for a 'total recall'.
I read some time ago a german discovered the gold mining in S. America created some chemical sludge that was carried in a basket woven from a plant that mixed and set on lower courses of stone allowed an upper stone to “settle” into place by some chemical melting at Sacsahauman (bad spelling) but then how the higher stones wer lifted into place was still a mystery. But we have made progress in levitation today though only in pebble sized items lol
As is the case with a great many historical sites, you can do a Google Streetview and save much discomfort, trouble, and expense. No tourist mobs and lineups, and no hustlers.
Try also Pompeii, Herculaneum, the pyramids, ancient Rome, etc.
The top part looks like a Japanese makaque to me.
I’d love to see lidar scans and Randall Carlson’s take on this.
Possible? Sure Likely? Not so much.
“Nevertheless, some experts argue that settlers may have arrived from South America due to agricultural evidence of the sweet potato on the island which was a staple crop in Polynesia.”
This doesn’t make any sense. South America is not in Polynesia.
Anyway, this marshalling of labour to make statues looks like a make-work program, typical of ancient (and ‘modern’!) societies, to organize large numbers of workers, to control them, and keep the people having less initiative (usually the highest percentage of any population) dependant by having them work for pay. Especially in ancient societies, the work was usually dedicated to building religious monuments and monuments glorifying the leaders. In modern societies the work is dedicated to building bridges to nowhere and government buildings to house bureaucrats.
Thanks for the article – really interesting. I learned a lot, particularly the fact that these kings had six fingers! I’m hoping to travel to Mexico this spring, so thanks for inspring me.
Great piece – I had no idea about such amazing botanical work going on. Who would have thought seeds thousands of years old would germinate?!? This opens the door to thousands of potential experiments. I am reminded of the prophecy of Israel returning to its homeland before the End of Days, and this resurrected tree, past symbol of Israel seen on shekel coins, seems to best epitomize that ancient prediction. Now I need to buy some and try them! Thanks Jo.
Fairy rings are circular patterns of grass that grow around trees. They can form from several mechanisms including fungal root decay, water movement, and even the movement of animals.
I read the article hoping that it would tell me how, why, who and when. If we don't know now, we probably will never know.
What fascinates me is the cause of the Atlantean diasporah suggested by the fact that Japanese and Basque people can understand each other without translators and both have a history of being highly skilled seafaring navigators. Plato places Atlantis as being some 7000 years before him; a review of the history of massive solar flares finds one documented to be hundreds of times more powerful than the Carrington event of 1859 hitting the planet 9125 years ago. With the cisterns of Gobekli Tepe being dated to 12,000 years ago, the idea of a massive pre-history civilization meeting a sudden end isn’t far fetched.
in the Book of Enoch, he is taken to an ancient observatory by the Watchers. While there he explained the progression of the seasons by observing where the sun rose and set between archways/doorway. The ancients of his time used an 18 hour day. I converted this into our modern 24 hour day and then using the longest day found which lattitude it would be. He was on the same lattitude as Stonehenge. Coincidence?
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