The etymological origin of Santa is the same as Satan and Satyr. Satyr is the goat of Capricorn. All three, Santa, Satan and Satyr actually have their origins in Saturn and Cronos. Saturn is the 6th day of the week and Capricorn is not at the beginning of the year, but rather the 3rd from the last in the Zodiac or Mazzaroth, with Pisces being last. Of course, the Gregorian calendar displays this differently, but speaking on a truthful level, Aries is first and most high.
In this day and age, with the Piscean age gone and the age of Aquarius here. I feel it's long overdue to educate humanity with truth rather than the lies we have been conditioned to bel-i-eve. The world is awakening and this cannot be stopped.
Am just a curious reader and certainly no expert, amateur or otherwise, but I had a thought reading this.
Perhaps the volcano was very active in the months previous to the actual covering of the city and word reached Pliny who then set out to attempt a rescue at the date stated? I image the voyage would have taken some amount of time which might account for the discrepancy of the dates. Does that sound feasible at all?
In the beginning, before science, there were fables and philosophy.
Then observation and logic started, while the religions still controlled society and the new scientists.
Eventually the sciences saw no need for any gods - but religions still try to control society with their known lies!
How and why the bones of nearly 100 infants were deposited in a late Roman-early Byzantine sewer beneath a bathhouse at Ashkelon, on the southern coast of Israel, continue to baffle scholars. An initial examination of the remains by Patricia Smith and Gila Kahila of the Hebrew University revealed that most of the bones, discovered in 1988, were intact and that all parts of the skeletons were represented, suggesting that the infants had probably been thrown into the drain soon after death. All of the bones and teeth (unerupted) are comparable to those of newborn infants. The absence of neonatal lines--prominent marks in the enamel of deciduous teeth and first permanent molars, which are considered evidence of survival for more than three days--indicates the babies died shortly after birth.
The number of infants, all of the same age and with no signs of disease or skeletal malformation, suggested infanticide rather than a catastrophe such as epidemic, war, or famine, in which a range of ages might be expected. Smith and Kahila thought the Ashkelon infants were probably girls because female infanticide was widespread in Roman society. In a letter written in 1 B.C a husband instructs his pregnant wife, "if it is a boy keep it, if a girl discard it," and the Roman poet Juvenal mentions children "abandoned beside cesspools."
Ariella Oppenheim of the Hebrew University and her colleagues have now analyzed DNA from the bones to determine the sex of the infants, for which standard osteological methods are unreliable. They extracted DNA from 43 left femurs, using a single bone to eliminate the possibility of analyzing the same infant's DNA more than once. The extraction was successful in 19 cases, 14 of which were male and five female. They checked their results by making multiple DNA extractions and analyses for each bone, obtaining the same results in 17 of the specimens. The significant number of male victims was unexpected, they say, and raised the intriguing possibility that these infants may have been the unwanted offspring of courtesans working in the bathhouse.
There are problems with this interpretation. If prostitutes were discarding all infants, a ratio closer to 1:1 of males to females would be more likely (about 20 males are born for every 21 females). Either the results of the analysis are somehow biased or some selectivity took place in the abandonment of the infants. Harvard archaeologist Larry Stager, director of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, interprets this as evidence that male infants may have been discarded while females were brought up to work in the brothel.
The link between the contents of the sewer and the bath, built over several houses, is not entirely clear. According to Stager the bath and sewer are both fourth-century constructions. The remains of the babies were found in a gutter in the bottom of the sewer, which filled with debris and went out of use by ca. 500, suggesting the babies may be contemporary with the functioning of the bath. In a 1991 report Stager noted that hundreds of fragments of ceramic oil lamps, some decorated with erotic motifs and others with mythological scenes, were found in a small street-front room of one of the houses. Although the lamps appeared unused, Stager claimed they were "solely for the amusement of the owner" and were not being sold from the house. The possibility that the bath also served as a brothel was considered but dismissed in the same article. But in the DNA report, published in Nature, the lamps are associated with the bath, not the earlier houses, and considered to be evidence that it was also a brothel.
Based on ancient sources, historian John M. Riddle of North Carolina State University raises additional questions about the new interpretation. "The literary evidence--classical, medieval, and early modern--is virtually united in claiming that prostitutes knew what to do to prevent full-term pregnancies," he notes. "Why would prostitutes at Ashkelon be different?" A variety of contraceptive methods and abortifacients was used in the classical world (see ARCHAEOLOGY, March/April 1994). Among the church fathers, Jerome (348-420) condemned the use of potions that cause "sterility and murder those not yet conceived," while Augustine of Hippo (354-430) held that as long as the fetus was no more than "some sort of living, shapeless thing" homicide laws did not apply because it had no senses and no soul. Riddle also says that after the first century A.D. the value of slaves increased to the point that unwanted babies could be and were sold to dealers. Neither of the proposed explanations--female infanticide or discarding of unwanted children by prostitutes--seems to match the evidence.
I wonder about this part:
"The literary evidence--classical, medieval, and early modern--is virtually united in claiming that prostitutes knew what to do to prevent full-term pregnancies," he notes. "Why would prostitutes at Ashkelon be different?"
What were these methods the literary 'evidence' mentions then? My great grandmother would have loved to know.
Prostitutes in ancient Rome were almost all slaves. The demand for prostitution is always larger than the (voluntary) supply. In modern times there is women trafficking to meet demand, but ancient Rome was a slave holding society, so slaves did the job. Archeologists recognize Roman brothels, not (as you may imagine) by titillating fresco's a la the Pompeii excavations, but by the pits with baby carcasses next to them. All male carcasses, as the girls were allowed to live, to serve the next generation of Johns. “Career choice”? Really?
"The current stigma of prostitution has damaged the reputation of what many consider the oldest occupation in history."
Something more demeaning can hardly be said of women, who were earning their own food as hunter gatherers first, and later became the world's main food suppliers as farmers. (In traditional societies, the vast majority of food is still produced by women: 90% in Africa, 60% in Asia.) Please girl, inform yourself better.
This certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. Quite frankly, what does it matter how dark this man’s skin was. This debate over shades of beige is ridiculous and headlines are meant to grab attention. The only comment which makes any sense is that of Jet, who commented on missing alleles. It is physiology which makes us human, we are all the same under the skin. No one seems upset over the blue eyes comment.
Why do so many leap to sex as an explanation. There are so many ways these young men could have died and with just skeletons we cannot even tell if they died at the same time. Perhaps they were annoying and their mother poisoned them. Maybe they got lost in a snow storm and froze to death and when found were brought back and their bodies buried when frozen in certain positions. There needs to be some logical reason to form the basis of a hypothesis without immediately pointing to sexual motivations.
Yeah, so first it's like "We've found this monument, and it's so old that we don't know how anyone made it!", to being a little more like "Yeah, and it's astronomically aligned perfectly!", and then asking ourselves a little more like "How could cave men move such giant stones such vast distances??"
Now, researches are all like "Yeah, no big deal, they actually built it once, then they moved it over 100 miles to this location. But go ahead and carbon date THIS location as to get the age of the monument, as well as the age of it's conception." Yeah right. I'm done listening to these pseudo-science people telling us how old humanity is, and how primitive and simple the people who built them were. NO. They were highly advanced, clearly. Extremely advanced as to build such monuments, and then decide willy nilly that they would look better in another spot, so just up and move the hundreds of tons and carry it over 100 miles just for fun, because it's easy for them. Not because they are cave men with pelt skin clothes and crappy arrowheads as their high technology, who just also happen to love stone so much that they learned how to perfectly carve it, fit them, move them wherever they want, and then somehow also know a butt load of astronomy so they can align the structure and give it more meaning and a practical purpose.
It's no wonder why nobody trusts historians and archaeologists when they claim stuff like this is so easy that they can erect a monument, and then just decide to up and move it somewhere else, for no reason. This is easy for them to claim, but when it comes time to explain how, they just scoff and act like it's common sense, when in reality they have zero clue. Yet they still act as if there is very little mystery left to these monuments. Please. We need people with real passion to replace these incompetent fools being touted as authorities.
I find it interesting in this day and age where so many languages are dying, that someone is trying to revive an ancient one. We may never speak exactly like a Babylonian, but who cares. Certainly not the Babylonians
When people hear the word “alchemy” their thoughts immediately turn to changing base metals into gold. There was (is?) do much more to this science. Thank you for this article.
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An excellent article. There is a muesum in Green River, Utah that possesses Hopi and ancient Egyptian artifacts.
The etymological origin of Santa is the same as Satan and Satyr. Satyr is the goat of Capricorn. All three, Santa, Satan and Satyr actually have their origins in Saturn and Cronos. Saturn is the 6th day of the week and Capricorn is not at the beginning of the year, but rather the 3rd from the last in the Zodiac or Mazzaroth, with Pisces being last. Of course, the Gregorian calendar displays this differently, but speaking on a truthful level, Aries is first and most high.
In this day and age, with the Piscean age gone and the age of Aquarius here. I feel it's long overdue to educate humanity with truth rather than the lies we have been conditioned to bel-i-eve. The world is awakening and this cannot be stopped.
Please indulge the interested. How can I get more information about your prospected theory?
Am just a curious reader and certainly no expert, amateur or otherwise, but I had a thought reading this.
Perhaps the volcano was very active in the months previous to the actual covering of the city and word reached Pliny who then set out to attempt a rescue at the date stated? I image the voyage would have taken some amount of time which might account for the discrepancy of the dates. Does that sound feasible at all?
SKAL!!!!this is a beautiful and worthy honoring of the old ways
In the beginning, before science, there were fables and philosophy.
Then observation and logic started, while the religions still controlled society and the new scientists.
Eventually the sciences saw no need for any gods - but religions still try to control society with their known lies!
More info:
How and why the bones of nearly 100 infants were deposited in a late Roman-early Byzantine sewer beneath a bathhouse at Ashkelon, on the southern coast of Israel, continue to baffle scholars. An initial examination of the remains by Patricia Smith and Gila Kahila of the Hebrew University revealed that most of the bones, discovered in 1988, were intact and that all parts of the skeletons were represented, suggesting that the infants had probably been thrown into the drain soon after death. All of the bones and teeth (unerupted) are comparable to those of newborn infants. The absence of neonatal lines--prominent marks in the enamel of deciduous teeth and first permanent molars, which are considered evidence of survival for more than three days--indicates the babies died shortly after birth.
The number of infants, all of the same age and with no signs of disease or skeletal malformation, suggested infanticide rather than a catastrophe such as epidemic, war, or famine, in which a range of ages might be expected. Smith and Kahila thought the Ashkelon infants were probably girls because female infanticide was widespread in Roman society. In a letter written in 1 B.C a husband instructs his pregnant wife, "if it is a boy keep it, if a girl discard it," and the Roman poet Juvenal mentions children "abandoned beside cesspools."
Ariella Oppenheim of the Hebrew University and her colleagues have now analyzed DNA from the bones to determine the sex of the infants, for which standard osteological methods are unreliable. They extracted DNA from 43 left femurs, using a single bone to eliminate the possibility of analyzing the same infant's DNA more than once. The extraction was successful in 19 cases, 14 of which were male and five female. They checked their results by making multiple DNA extractions and analyses for each bone, obtaining the same results in 17 of the specimens. The significant number of male victims was unexpected, they say, and raised the intriguing possibility that these infants may have been the unwanted offspring of courtesans working in the bathhouse.
There are problems with this interpretation. If prostitutes were discarding all infants, a ratio closer to 1:1 of males to females would be more likely (about 20 males are born for every 21 females). Either the results of the analysis are somehow biased or some selectivity took place in the abandonment of the infants. Harvard archaeologist Larry Stager, director of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, interprets this as evidence that male infants may have been discarded while females were brought up to work in the brothel.
The link between the contents of the sewer and the bath, built over several houses, is not entirely clear. According to Stager the bath and sewer are both fourth-century constructions. The remains of the babies were found in a gutter in the bottom of the sewer, which filled with debris and went out of use by ca. 500, suggesting the babies may be contemporary with the functioning of the bath. In a 1991 report Stager noted that hundreds of fragments of ceramic oil lamps, some decorated with erotic motifs and others with mythological scenes, were found in a small street-front room of one of the houses. Although the lamps appeared unused, Stager claimed they were "solely for the amusement of the owner" and were not being sold from the house. The possibility that the bath also served as a brothel was considered but dismissed in the same article. But in the DNA report, published in Nature, the lamps are associated with the bath, not the earlier houses, and considered to be evidence that it was also a brothel.
Based on ancient sources, historian John M. Riddle of North Carolina State University raises additional questions about the new interpretation. "The literary evidence--classical, medieval, and early modern--is virtually united in claiming that prostitutes knew what to do to prevent full-term pregnancies," he notes. "Why would prostitutes at Ashkelon be different?" A variety of contraceptive methods and abortifacients was used in the classical world (see ARCHAEOLOGY, March/April 1994). Among the church fathers, Jerome (348-420) condemned the use of potions that cause "sterility and murder those not yet conceived," while Augustine of Hippo (354-430) held that as long as the fetus was no more than "some sort of living, shapeless thing" homicide laws did not apply because it had no senses and no soul. Riddle also says that after the first century A.D. the value of slaves increased to the point that unwanted babies could be and were sold to dealers. Neither of the proposed explanations--female infanticide or discarding of unwanted children by prostitutes--seems to match the evidence.
I wonder about this part:
"The literary evidence--classical, medieval, and early modern--is virtually united in claiming that prostitutes knew what to do to prevent full-term pregnancies," he notes. "Why would prostitutes at Ashkelon be different?"
What were these methods the literary 'evidence' mentions then? My great grandmother would have loved to know.
Prostitutes in ancient Rome were almost all slaves. The demand for prostitution is always larger than the (voluntary) supply. In modern times there is women trafficking to meet demand, but ancient Rome was a slave holding society, so slaves did the job. Archeologists recognize Roman brothels, not (as you may imagine) by titillating fresco's a la the Pompeii excavations, but by the pits with baby carcasses next to them. All male carcasses, as the girls were allowed to live, to serve the next generation of Johns. “Career choice”? Really?
"The current stigma of prostitution has damaged the reputation of what many consider the oldest occupation in history."
Something more demeaning can hardly be said of women, who were earning their own food as hunter gatherers first, and later became the world's main food suppliers as farmers. (In traditional societies, the vast majority of food is still produced by women: 90% in Africa, 60% in Asia.) Please girl, inform yourself better.
This certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. Quite frankly, what does it matter how dark this man’s skin was. This debate over shades of beige is ridiculous and headlines are meant to grab attention. The only comment which makes any sense is that of Jet, who commented on missing alleles. It is physiology which makes us human, we are all the same under the skin. No one seems upset over the blue eyes comment.
Why do so many leap to sex as an explanation. There are so many ways these young men could have died and with just skeletons we cannot even tell if they died at the same time. Perhaps they were annoying and their mother poisoned them. Maybe they got lost in a snow storm and froze to death and when found were brought back and their bodies buried when frozen in certain positions. There needs to be some logical reason to form the basis of a hypothesis without immediately pointing to sexual motivations.
She was not a poor peasant. That's the image Paul wanted to hang on her.
He made quite an effort to degrade her.
Yup. Josephus, aka Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul, the apostle wannabe.
Give me a break. The bone probably bends around the archaeologists ass too...does that mean...?
(And by the way....nine captcha puzzles to complete just to post! NINE!)
Many Chinese were used in the construction of train lines in America. One could have concealed it till it was lost there.
Yeah, so first it's like "We've found this monument, and it's so old that we don't know how anyone made it!", to being a little more like "Yeah, and it's astronomically aligned perfectly!", and then asking ourselves a little more like "How could cave men move such giant stones such vast distances??"
Now, researches are all like "Yeah, no big deal, they actually built it once, then they moved it over 100 miles to this location. But go ahead and carbon date THIS location as to get the age of the monument, as well as the age of it's conception." Yeah right. I'm done listening to these pseudo-science people telling us how old humanity is, and how primitive and simple the people who built them were. NO. They were highly advanced, clearly. Extremely advanced as to build such monuments, and then decide willy nilly that they would look better in another spot, so just up and move the hundreds of tons and carry it over 100 miles just for fun, because it's easy for them. Not because they are cave men with pelt skin clothes and crappy arrowheads as their high technology, who just also happen to love stone so much that they learned how to perfectly carve it, fit them, move them wherever they want, and then somehow also know a butt load of astronomy so they can align the structure and give it more meaning and a practical purpose.
It's no wonder why nobody trusts historians and archaeologists when they claim stuff like this is so easy that they can erect a monument, and then just decide to up and move it somewhere else, for no reason. This is easy for them to claim, but when it comes time to explain how, they just scoff and act like it's common sense, when in reality they have zero clue. Yet they still act as if there is very little mystery left to these monuments. Please. We need people with real passion to replace these incompetent fools being touted as authorities.
I find it interesting in this day and age where so many languages are dying, that someone is trying to revive an ancient one. We may never speak exactly like a Babylonian, but who cares. Certainly not the Babylonians
When people hear the word “alchemy” their thoughts immediately turn to changing base metals into gold. There was (is?) do much more to this science. Thank you for this article.
Since I’ve heard that all myths are rooted in reality, I find myself wondering what the original story was. Scary
I believe the Romans called the Picts “dark” because of the blue dye they painted on their bodies before battle
If paintings on the walls and ceilings of tombs are characteristic, where are any paintings in the pyramids?
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