Conceptually speaking, it’s the same reason why Jesus’s birthday was the same as Osiris’s, it’s the same reason Easter was during a fertility festival named for Ishtar, it would be an act of blatant dominion by God
I really doubt these numbers serve any purpose whatsoever. I think such similarities if intentional are a direct manifestation of cosmic dominion in it’s entirety to be able to establish dominion over the number 12 or 7 or 72. It’s not like any divine being needed it to equal 72 for efficiency’s sake. It’s more likely that what we perceive as always being 72 is actually an entirely different value, we’re just unaware of factors causing it to be a different number. But even if it’s not the case, it’s further evidence of total dominion of the divine.
You know, nobody really pinpointed a modern genetic origin for becoming white, but they believe blondism originated in the Papua region (island blondism). I can’t say for sure what happened but one day everyone was naked and probably darker and another day people dwelt in caves or houses and were lighter. Africans received the brunt of the environmental changes even from that massive volcano, they were dressed down and hot while exposed to nasty diseases and now they’re Africanized. I’d say it was society and clothing development before, during, and after the Ice Age. Maybe it was in Papua and India we became blond and red headed but nobody outside of Africa was Africanized. Who knows, maybe everyone came from America and left. Genetics being considered regional development is one matter, but to try and pinpoint a spot is impossible because the earth could have had a sideways equator and a West North Pole, we could’ve been chemically created and genetically altered by an extinct race or otherwise no longer present, we could have descended and devolved from immortals or long-lived beings and now we’re all relatively feeble. Man could’ve become white when they had chloroplasts for all we know. Nobody has forced evolution and studied it except maybe God, and it takes multiple trials over thousands and thousands of years to prove it
You seem to have made it farther than I did in retracing humanity’s step predynastic Egypt. I was wondering where the Hebrew came from and I knew there was a link to the Egyptian Habiru. But now I’m asking for your evidence or source, I deduced something a little different than Indian colonization of Egypt and figured it was more Indonesian an Aryan
There’s a few possibilities of how this was achieved. Glass-sun laser cutting and huge amounts of manpower, these could actually exist from an earlier civilization that met a catastrophic end and placed all the Americas into a Dark Age and caused all the schisms, there’s the possibility the stones were already present and carved to interlock when they were already one whole piece and only slightly rearranged, there’s the possibility it’s a hoax set on occupying and entertaining the masses, there’s the possibility that mastodons were once used to move the stones. Occam’s razor is the simplest explanation is often the best one, so how would you most easily achieve that and it’s probably the way. There’s the giants aide theory, there’s really no way to know how they did it but I imagine it wasn’t aliens and it wasn’t cross-atlantic intuition. They could’ve just ground and resmelted giant rocks clump by clump in a very neatly done fashion, making it Inca era dating when it’s actually a lot older.
Let’s say there was a ruling class in the earliest of days. Kings of Sumer, King Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, Kings of Persia, protoLatium, King Minos of the Cretans, pharaohs. Let’s say the earliest ruling class spread far and wide to establish their dominion over lands not yet inhabited by anyone. This would be evident in genetics and linguistics, and it is. Over time Egyptians spoke Khemite, French spoke Gaulish, and the whole time this ruling class continued to expand and eventually didn’t realize their neighbor kings were their kinsmen. So they were practicing political weddings and treaties, campaigns and wars, establishing themselves as god kings with some divine right and birthright, and yet nobody knew they were already somehow related. So every war fought was generally not commonfolk seizing crowns and kingdoms but princes and kings and emporers overthrowing each other. Let’s say this dominion spread long before the R1b gene made manifest in Europe, this ruling class crossed into America and began to establish common dominion there too, multiple times (multiple crossings). This became Mayans jealous of Incan territory, Paracas slaughtered, Nazca assimilation into neighboring organizations. This all became god king rule all identifying some king as their being of idolizations. Such was evident in China and Australia, Easter Islanders and other Polynesians. Which would explain why all these kings even of recent times share a common genetic marker (R1b and a couple others). Wars and revolutions destroyed lineages and birthright claims, all knowledges lost and constantly reestablished since before Dynasty One of Egypt. Let’s say this was brought upon by the end of the Ice Age, every land more accessible by crossing ice sheets and land bridges instead of by the later need for a boat. There’s an interesting theory: oceanic vessels weren’t invented because they weren’t necessary. All these lands were known because people had more easily been there, obviously before glacial melts 11,000 years ago caused all these access points and regions to disappear, isolating everyone and destroying their records.
It might be a bit far fetched, but when you read the bible and other ancient accounts you’ll find it’s more likely a blood related ruling class evolved to become Mayans with similar knowledge and society structure than fleeing from Cyrus the Great
So, you like many before you have spawned yet another theory linking Egypt with America, and this time it was the Mayans (again). Cocaine mummies, pyramids of stone, polytheism. That being said, let’s expand on your hypothetical scenario.
For starters, all of these indicators listed everywhere should have linked them more to Egypt and not the Middle East. And it did a little, even the origins of Inca civilization stemming from a ruler who’s name phonetically resembled someone who was a ruler in ancient Egypt. Cyrus never made it to Egypt. But you’re talking about Mayans anyway, and the rise of the Mayans is around the same time Cyrus conquered the Middle East. Other than that, it’s very complicated to create a link to anywhere who’s ever used a cubit.
To know of the land beyond the sea was an implausibility because the chances of return would be very slim and a very tedious process in itself. There would have to be several large vessels storing food and grain for resustinance upon arrival, and that alone would take years of premeditated cultivation along with well equipped men and women of exceptional learnings and with society structure. Then you’d have to survive the long trip while maintaining a course often against the winds: you could actually sail that boat and wind up anywhere twice. You’re talking about a secret cubit guild who fled Cyrus: they would actually have to sail through Gibraltar, around the whole of Africa or somewhat Southeast through the Indian and Pacific Oceans bypassing pretty much everywhere ideal just to reach this land that somehow only the cubit guild had come to know about. It’s not an impossibility but it’s highly unlikely there. Moving on....
Now we’re looking at their languages. Mayan did have a syllabic written pictogram representation, indicating a cultural revolution from a previous society with a syllabic representation. It’s not like Chinese or Linear A, but a similar concept to Egypt yet entirely different in every way imaginable. If there were linguistic similarities then someone would’ve said something but the truth is either nobody knows how Mayan actually sounds, or the similarity wasn’t at all evident. This indicates the written and syllabic alphabet concept is older than the oldest ruin ever found and not a copycat unless this cubit guild intentionally changed their belief system and language while traveling years to hide from someone who couldn’t pursue them, leading me to believe they would’ve had no intention of preserving their former way of life in the cubit guild thereby making this endeavor pointless to begin with. Plus these Mayan , eh...refugees made no mention that they were refugees from Cyrus or anywhere distant at all.
Now we look at Mayan DNA. Very variant but somehow (somehow) traced to a crossing at Beringia long long ago. I can accept the fact that Eskimo/Inuit populations DNA are similar to those further south, but nobody entertains that these people might’ve just travelled North after their arrival from some other point on the continent, and nobody liked the Northwest Territory so breeding after that was a little incestuous thereby creating less variance. I won’t completely deny that even the Mayan culture was just as easily influenced by a seafaring immigration of refugees. However these indicative genetic markers found in Europe or Asia Minor were found in the Paracas, who preceded the Nazcas and Incans etc. This actually led me to believe that the Mayans were actually a product of indigenous culture evolution and not a Sumerian descendance. This fleeing band you thought of would have therefore been vastly outnumbered by an already present earlier group of societies and would’ve had no choice but to adopt the language and culture of these peoples. But there’s one fatal flaw in this scenario:
The wheel was not in the Americas, ever. They used a pampoose to drag things over the very rough landscape. This highly advanced warlike sacrificial cubit guild who crossed several oceans successfully multiple times just couldn’t manage to remember how to build a wagon let alone a chariot. You’re actually better off entertaining the Book of Mormon explanation or alien colonization and their extraterrestrial knowledge of the cosmos.
You’re talking about Masonic foundations made manifest in Mayan cultures. All I can say is if all these indigenous bands were influenced by outsiders, why are there so many tribes and bands with countless dissimilar languages. They were very isolated, they had to be to become so different. Their gods were entirely different, their games were different, their system of calculations were different, their artistic expression was different except in the fact they managed to build step pyramids, but even their technology was different. However: theirs were much smaller and were used entirely different. These builders often hauled stone from nearby places, it’s apparent to me these Mayans actually used stones that were already present.
I won’t deny that all this knowledge and society structure came from like sources, but it was long before Cyrus gave the Jews freedom of religion
I’m a guy who cross researches things like this looking for links and even study the extinct assumed reconstruction of languages. Unfortunately there really isn’t a link here, it’s not uncommon to see a bird wind up on a rock in some old civilizations. The sources weren’t the same unless the belief was actually believed AND is about a hundred thousand years old, even on Easter Island it seems the Birdman cult actually replaced the reverence of the ancestral Maoi. This means they actually believed something else originally anyway but came up with a chief bird man idea, one tradition was a yearly game to be the first to geta certain kind of egg. But the Easter Islanders had no known system of writing that survived, just a later rendition called RongoRongo decidedly created by the later explorers. Also, the latter picture found at Gobleki Tepe has zero linguistic context connected to it, so it appears to be a creation myth involving a bird cult but it could just as easily be an artist depiction of a family portrayed as birds and the father/mother is giving their baby bird the world or just watching his baby egg grow up. This profound idea was carved in stone for the all generations to come to see and likewise idealize. The world today can be terrible, back then it was even moreso unexpected, unprepared, and unpredictable. This to me is a message and not really even a myth. And there being no related writing except assumptions of portraying creationism by a bird exist. But birds do wind up in myths, these appear to be vultures, and maybe they in itself was another message. But then again, I’m no art critic or history major, but the lack of writing yields to being a work of art and not necessarily a globalized common religious belief. Easter Islanders farmed yams, originating from South America and not Gobleki Tepe, they were thought to have come from neighboring islands or South America roughly 1200 AD. It’s fun to piece and tie together similarities in history and religions but these were the facts. But nobody knows about this drawing being a depiction of the creator bird man god laying a man. It looks more to me like a characature of a bird grabbing an egg with a human-like arm, sort of like a joke but more like a random drawing, nothing to be excited about at that depth
Well, the obvious thing happened upon reading more about this. The curse of transliteration has bemuddled even the titles of the chapter. There’s no way to know if Sun Tzu was even his name, those Chinese symbol representations could have meant any number of things in those days and could’ve been pronounced entirely different and transliterated in an improbable manner. They’re looking at a 2000 year old alphabet from a book that was already copied and every now and then having to grab at straws. I’m resting my case and saying now we’ll never know, especially learning Sun Bin could’ve just as easily learned from it and been of Sun Tzus posterity. Nobody knows and mentioning he wasn’t real is a dangerous smear to history and explains why nobody knows anything about the distant past except what’s legends and lores. If this Sun Tzu wasn’t real, the only purpose this book would serve is to present ideas and lend credit to an otherwise ignored or discredited person, in other words this dude’s king or hierarchy, even family wouldn’t listen so he had to make up a name when he wrote the book. Like Sun Bin. But as I said, proving this can’t be done therefore is historically dangerous to applause
You know, I spend a lot of my time researching even using articles on ancient-origins.net and I believe strongly that many archaeologists or historians made their greatest mistakes when they assumed someone didn’t exist or something didn’t really happen just because there’s a gross lack of evidence or the presences of unrealistic embellishments, especially when dealing with things that happened over a thousand years ago. Granted China is accepted as very well developed due to the abundance of records and artifacts, they too were subject to time and wars, renaissance and Dark Ages, natural disasters and even simply forgetting to mention every little detail of anyone’s life. I know I don’t have a degree in history and most of my research was based on availability of online content, but even still I’ve studied countless cases of deemed psuedo-canonical lores containing deemed fictional characters and found both truth and half-truths, rulers or great men and women later regarded as deities, etc...
Granted I’ve never read The Art of War, nor researched Sun Tzu, I can accept just as easily that he wrote it moreso than deny he ever lived just because he wasn’t mentioned in a record. But he might have been made up, a popularized pseudonym used as a means to justify an end. Like that “depiction” of Sun Tzu above: if he wasn’t real then who drew it or when? That information would’ve been helpful, it would help point out his obscurity by mentioning whether or not that was really his portrait. And maybe he wasn’t even a general or professor or anyone ever important enough to mention, just some guy who said he was, like a marketing ploy. To say Sun Tzu didn’t exist, it’s extremely difficult to prove than to disprove that he did exist. Even if you dig forever and find nothing, there’s that possibility a meteorite could have crushed his already unidentifiable remains into confetti assuming he wasn’t eaten by bugs and worms.
There’s nothing wrong with speculating details of a false history. I’ve read and enjoyed many of your articles, you clearly knew more about many of the subjects than I did, but one would gain a false positive grabbing at those kinds of straws, even in China. I can’t prove Beidou didn’t exist, either. Or maybe the insight is there and it’s just ignored and disregarded due to this lack of evidence.
Understand your point of view about statues, there's certainly bigger problems in the world. But this statue is a real issue. Cromwell committed genocide comparable to to Hitler and Stalin. Over a ten year period he almost wiped out the population of Irish Catholics. The only thing that saved them as a race was his death. When he dies there was just approximately 600,000 Irish catholic's alive in Ireland.
Bottom line he killed 50% of the Irish Catholic population, ten percent of the English population, all because he was a Taliban like puritan doing God's work.
This statue will come down, The British know it, its just how you do it and when.
The Cromwell association is a registered charity claiming tax breaks to promote a heavily politicised version of British Republicanism. To the Cromwell Association we must repeat and forever repeat Cromwell stand accused of war crimes, fanatical religiously motivated genocide and profiteer of mass white slavery to the Caribbean.
It's a stain on our history that such a pro-fascist is allowed to be celebrated. The Cromwell statue will come down, it's a matter of time, I hope Mr. Goldsmith of the Cromwell Association lives long enough to see it and understand war crimes can never be covered up.
It is interesting that though only 10% of sculptures are 'erotic', 90% of books and articles are written on this topic only!
Khajuraho is a beautiful place and its isolation has allowed it to preserve the temples almost intact. Icons in the inner sanctum were taken away and either buried, hidden or transferred to other temples. So we don't know what the main icons looked like. But looking at the sculptures on the outside of the temple, we can imagine how wonderful they must have been!
Ancestor reverence is a BIG part of Pagan religions. If someone who was not of that particular bloodline wanted to respect their ancestors, they should do it in a way that makes sense to them. Which means drinking from your own well. I would be proud if someone asked me about my religion.l, but I would suggest they look into their own heroes, legends, Gods, and customs. I believe they wouldn get deeper spiritual connections that way. And we could all share stories and tales.
The Greeks added significant elements to astrology, such as the importance of the four elements - Fire, Earth, Air, and Water - and the discovery of the procession of the equinoxes.
It should be PRECESSION of the equinoxes. Otherwise an EXCELLENT article!
Actually, these geological features aren't the least bit rare. You can see Pele in the main Hawaiian island, Prometheus in.....well, Age of Disclosure found it, and I can't remember where, and the video has been deleted by YouTube. He's an excellent source for so much hidden history, though.
The best authority on mudfossils is the discoverer, Roger Shurr of Mudfossil University on YouTube, and he has a website, too. For a taste, see - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUdAb5Wyy6w
There are dragons, elephants, trolls, ogres, frogs, cats, mushrooms, and giants, etc. scattered all over the world on every continent, except maybe, Antarctica, but it's covered with ice, so we can't know for sure. Mountainous regions and islands are the most common places for them to be located.
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Conceptually speaking, it’s the same reason why Jesus’s birthday was the same as Osiris’s, it’s the same reason Easter was during a fertility festival named for Ishtar, it would be an act of blatant dominion by God
I really doubt these numbers serve any purpose whatsoever. I think such similarities if intentional are a direct manifestation of cosmic dominion in it’s entirety to be able to establish dominion over the number 12 or 7 or 72. It’s not like any divine being needed it to equal 72 for efficiency’s sake. It’s more likely that what we perceive as always being 72 is actually an entirely different value, we’re just unaware of factors causing it to be a different number. But even if it’s not the case, it’s further evidence of total dominion of the divine.
You know, nobody really pinpointed a modern genetic origin for becoming white, but they believe blondism originated in the Papua region (island blondism). I can’t say for sure what happened but one day everyone was naked and probably darker and another day people dwelt in caves or houses and were lighter. Africans received the brunt of the environmental changes even from that massive volcano, they were dressed down and hot while exposed to nasty diseases and now they’re Africanized. I’d say it was society and clothing development before, during, and after the Ice Age. Maybe it was in Papua and India we became blond and red headed but nobody outside of Africa was Africanized. Who knows, maybe everyone came from America and left. Genetics being considered regional development is one matter, but to try and pinpoint a spot is impossible because the earth could have had a sideways equator and a West North Pole, we could’ve been chemically created and genetically altered by an extinct race or otherwise no longer present, we could have descended and devolved from immortals or long-lived beings and now we’re all relatively feeble. Man could’ve become white when they had chloroplasts for all we know. Nobody has forced evolution and studied it except maybe God, and it takes multiple trials over thousands and thousands of years to prove it
well i figured a lot of things really, I just want your source
You seem to have made it farther than I did in retracing humanity’s step predynastic Egypt. I was wondering where the Hebrew came from and I knew there was a link to the Egyptian Habiru. But now I’m asking for your evidence or source, I deduced something a little different than Indian colonization of Egypt and figured it was more Indonesian an Aryan
There’s a few possibilities of how this was achieved. Glass-sun laser cutting and huge amounts of manpower, these could actually exist from an earlier civilization that met a catastrophic end and placed all the Americas into a Dark Age and caused all the schisms, there’s the possibility the stones were already present and carved to interlock when they were already one whole piece and only slightly rearranged, there’s the possibility it’s a hoax set on occupying and entertaining the masses, there’s the possibility that mastodons were once used to move the stones. Occam’s razor is the simplest explanation is often the best one, so how would you most easily achieve that and it’s probably the way. There’s the giants aide theory, there’s really no way to know how they did it but I imagine it wasn’t aliens and it wasn’t cross-atlantic intuition. They could’ve just ground and resmelted giant rocks clump by clump in a very neatly done fashion, making it Inca era dating when it’s actually a lot older.
Let’s say there was a ruling class in the earliest of days. Kings of Sumer, King Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, Kings of Persia, protoLatium, King Minos of the Cretans, pharaohs. Let’s say the earliest ruling class spread far and wide to establish their dominion over lands not yet inhabited by anyone. This would be evident in genetics and linguistics, and it is. Over time Egyptians spoke Khemite, French spoke Gaulish, and the whole time this ruling class continued to expand and eventually didn’t realize their neighbor kings were their kinsmen. So they were practicing political weddings and treaties, campaigns and wars, establishing themselves as god kings with some divine right and birthright, and yet nobody knew they were already somehow related. So every war fought was generally not commonfolk seizing crowns and kingdoms but princes and kings and emporers overthrowing each other. Let’s say this dominion spread long before the R1b gene made manifest in Europe, this ruling class crossed into America and began to establish common dominion there too, multiple times (multiple crossings). This became Mayans jealous of Incan territory, Paracas slaughtered, Nazca assimilation into neighboring organizations. This all became god king rule all identifying some king as their being of idolizations. Such was evident in China and Australia, Easter Islanders and other Polynesians. Which would explain why all these kings even of recent times share a common genetic marker (R1b and a couple others). Wars and revolutions destroyed lineages and birthright claims, all knowledges lost and constantly reestablished since before Dynasty One of Egypt. Let’s say this was brought upon by the end of the Ice Age, every land more accessible by crossing ice sheets and land bridges instead of by the later need for a boat. There’s an interesting theory: oceanic vessels weren’t invented because they weren’t necessary. All these lands were known because people had more easily been there, obviously before glacial melts 11,000 years ago caused all these access points and regions to disappear, isolating everyone and destroying their records.
It might be a bit far fetched, but when you read the bible and other ancient accounts you’ll find it’s more likely a blood related ruling class evolved to become Mayans with similar knowledge and society structure than fleeing from Cyrus the Great
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So, you like many before you have spawned yet another theory linking Egypt with America, and this time it was the Mayans (again). Cocaine mummies, pyramids of stone, polytheism. That being said, let’s expand on your hypothetical scenario.
For starters, all of these indicators listed everywhere should have linked them more to Egypt and not the Middle East. And it did a little, even the origins of Inca civilization stemming from a ruler who’s name phonetically resembled someone who was a ruler in ancient Egypt. Cyrus never made it to Egypt. But you’re talking about Mayans anyway, and the rise of the Mayans is around the same time Cyrus conquered the Middle East. Other than that, it’s very complicated to create a link to anywhere who’s ever used a cubit.
To know of the land beyond the sea was an implausibility because the chances of return would be very slim and a very tedious process in itself. There would have to be several large vessels storing food and grain for resustinance upon arrival, and that alone would take years of premeditated cultivation along with well equipped men and women of exceptional learnings and with society structure. Then you’d have to survive the long trip while maintaining a course often against the winds: you could actually sail that boat and wind up anywhere twice. You’re talking about a secret cubit guild who fled Cyrus: they would actually have to sail through Gibraltar, around the whole of Africa or somewhat Southeast through the Indian and Pacific Oceans bypassing pretty much everywhere ideal just to reach this land that somehow only the cubit guild had come to know about. It’s not an impossibility but it’s highly unlikely there. Moving on....
Now we’re looking at their languages. Mayan did have a syllabic written pictogram representation, indicating a cultural revolution from a previous society with a syllabic representation. It’s not like Chinese or Linear A, but a similar concept to Egypt yet entirely different in every way imaginable. If there were linguistic similarities then someone would’ve said something but the truth is either nobody knows how Mayan actually sounds, or the similarity wasn’t at all evident. This indicates the written and syllabic alphabet concept is older than the oldest ruin ever found and not a copycat unless this cubit guild intentionally changed their belief system and language while traveling years to hide from someone who couldn’t pursue them, leading me to believe they would’ve had no intention of preserving their former way of life in the cubit guild thereby making this endeavor pointless to begin with. Plus these Mayan , eh...refugees made no mention that they were refugees from Cyrus or anywhere distant at all.
Now we look at Mayan DNA. Very variant but somehow (somehow) traced to a crossing at Beringia long long ago. I can accept the fact that Eskimo/Inuit populations DNA are similar to those further south, but nobody entertains that these people might’ve just travelled North after their arrival from some other point on the continent, and nobody liked the Northwest Territory so breeding after that was a little incestuous thereby creating less variance. I won’t completely deny that even the Mayan culture was just as easily influenced by a seafaring immigration of refugees. However these indicative genetic markers found in Europe or Asia Minor were found in the Paracas, who preceded the Nazcas and Incans etc. This actually led me to believe that the Mayans were actually a product of indigenous culture evolution and not a Sumerian descendance. This fleeing band you thought of would have therefore been vastly outnumbered by an already present earlier group of societies and would’ve had no choice but to adopt the language and culture of these peoples. But there’s one fatal flaw in this scenario:
The wheel was not in the Americas, ever. They used a pampoose to drag things over the very rough landscape. This highly advanced warlike sacrificial cubit guild who crossed several oceans successfully multiple times just couldn’t manage to remember how to build a wagon let alone a chariot. You’re actually better off entertaining the Book of Mormon explanation or alien colonization and their extraterrestrial knowledge of the cosmos.
You’re talking about Masonic foundations made manifest in Mayan cultures. All I can say is if all these indigenous bands were influenced by outsiders, why are there so many tribes and bands with countless dissimilar languages. They were very isolated, they had to be to become so different. Their gods were entirely different, their games were different, their system of calculations were different, their artistic expression was different except in the fact they managed to build step pyramids, but even their technology was different. However: theirs were much smaller and were used entirely different. These builders often hauled stone from nearby places, it’s apparent to me these Mayans actually used stones that were already present.
I won’t deny that all this knowledge and society structure came from like sources, but it was long before Cyrus gave the Jews freedom of religion
I’m a guy who cross researches things like this looking for links and even study the extinct assumed reconstruction of languages. Unfortunately there really isn’t a link here, it’s not uncommon to see a bird wind up on a rock in some old civilizations. The sources weren’t the same unless the belief was actually believed AND is about a hundred thousand years old, even on Easter Island it seems the Birdman cult actually replaced the reverence of the ancestral Maoi. This means they actually believed something else originally anyway but came up with a chief bird man idea, one tradition was a yearly game to be the first to geta certain kind of egg. But the Easter Islanders had no known system of writing that survived, just a later rendition called RongoRongo decidedly created by the later explorers. Also, the latter picture found at Gobleki Tepe has zero linguistic context connected to it, so it appears to be a creation myth involving a bird cult but it could just as easily be an artist depiction of a family portrayed as birds and the father/mother is giving their baby bird the world or just watching his baby egg grow up. This profound idea was carved in stone for the all generations to come to see and likewise idealize. The world today can be terrible, back then it was even moreso unexpected, unprepared, and unpredictable. This to me is a message and not really even a myth. And there being no related writing except assumptions of portraying creationism by a bird exist. But birds do wind up in myths, these appear to be vultures, and maybe they in itself was another message. But then again, I’m no art critic or history major, but the lack of writing yields to being a work of art and not necessarily a globalized common religious belief. Easter Islanders farmed yams, originating from South America and not Gobleki Tepe, they were thought to have come from neighboring islands or South America roughly 1200 AD. It’s fun to piece and tie together similarities in history and religions but these were the facts. But nobody knows about this drawing being a depiction of the creator bird man god laying a man. It looks more to me like a characature of a bird grabbing an egg with a human-like arm, sort of like a joke but more like a random drawing, nothing to be excited about at that depth
Well, the obvious thing happened upon reading more about this. The curse of transliteration has bemuddled even the titles of the chapter. There’s no way to know if Sun Tzu was even his name, those Chinese symbol representations could have meant any number of things in those days and could’ve been pronounced entirely different and transliterated in an improbable manner. They’re looking at a 2000 year old alphabet from a book that was already copied and every now and then having to grab at straws. I’m resting my case and saying now we’ll never know, especially learning Sun Bin could’ve just as easily learned from it and been of Sun Tzus posterity. Nobody knows and mentioning he wasn’t real is a dangerous smear to history and explains why nobody knows anything about the distant past except what’s legends and lores. If this Sun Tzu wasn’t real, the only purpose this book would serve is to present ideas and lend credit to an otherwise ignored or discredited person, in other words this dude’s king or hierarchy, even family wouldn’t listen so he had to make up a name when he wrote the book. Like Sun Bin. But as I said, proving this can’t be done therefore is historically dangerous to applause
You know, I spend a lot of my time researching even using articles on ancient-origins.net and I believe strongly that many archaeologists or historians made their greatest mistakes when they assumed someone didn’t exist or something didn’t really happen just because there’s a gross lack of evidence or the presences of unrealistic embellishments, especially when dealing with things that happened over a thousand years ago. Granted China is accepted as very well developed due to the abundance of records and artifacts, they too were subject to time and wars, renaissance and Dark Ages, natural disasters and even simply forgetting to mention every little detail of anyone’s life. I know I don’t have a degree in history and most of my research was based on availability of online content, but even still I’ve studied countless cases of deemed psuedo-canonical lores containing deemed fictional characters and found both truth and half-truths, rulers or great men and women later regarded as deities, etc...
Granted I’ve never read The Art of War, nor researched Sun Tzu, I can accept just as easily that he wrote it moreso than deny he ever lived just because he wasn’t mentioned in a record. But he might have been made up, a popularized pseudonym used as a means to justify an end. Like that “depiction” of Sun Tzu above: if he wasn’t real then who drew it or when? That information would’ve been helpful, it would help point out his obscurity by mentioning whether or not that was really his portrait. And maybe he wasn’t even a general or professor or anyone ever important enough to mention, just some guy who said he was, like a marketing ploy. To say Sun Tzu didn’t exist, it’s extremely difficult to prove than to disprove that he did exist. Even if you dig forever and find nothing, there’s that possibility a meteorite could have crushed his already unidentifiable remains into confetti assuming he wasn’t eaten by bugs and worms.
There’s nothing wrong with speculating details of a false history. I’ve read and enjoyed many of your articles, you clearly knew more about many of the subjects than I did, but one would gain a false positive grabbing at those kinds of straws, even in China. I can’t prove Beidou didn’t exist, either. Or maybe the insight is there and it’s just ignored and disregarded due to this lack of evidence.
Hey John
Understand your point of view about statues, there's certainly bigger problems in the world. But this statue is a real issue. Cromwell committed genocide comparable to to Hitler and Stalin. Over a ten year period he almost wiped out the population of Irish Catholics. The only thing that saved them as a race was his death. When he dies there was just approximately 600,000 Irish catholic's alive in Ireland.
Bottom line he killed 50% of the Irish Catholic population, ten percent of the English population, all because he was a Taliban like puritan doing God's work.
This statue will come down, The British know it, its just how you do it and when.
The Cromwell association is a registered charity claiming tax breaks to promote a heavily politicised version of British Republicanism. To the Cromwell Association we must repeat and forever repeat Cromwell stand accused of war crimes, fanatical religiously motivated genocide and profiteer of mass white slavery to the Caribbean.
It's a stain on our history that such a pro-fascist is allowed to be celebrated. The Cromwell statue will come down, it's a matter of time, I hope Mr. Goldsmith of the Cromwell Association lives long enough to see it and understand war crimes can never be covered up.
It is interesting that though only 10% of sculptures are 'erotic', 90% of books and articles are written on this topic only!
Khajuraho is a beautiful place and its isolation has allowed it to preserve the temples almost intact. Icons in the inner sanctum were taken away and either buried, hidden or transferred to other temples. So we don't know what the main icons looked like. But looking at the sculptures on the outside of the temple, we can imagine how wonderful they must have been!
In defense of the Folkish.
Ancestor reverence is a BIG part of Pagan religions. If someone who was not of that particular bloodline wanted to respect their ancestors, they should do it in a way that makes sense to them. Which means drinking from your own well. I would be proud if someone asked me about my religion.l, but I would suggest they look into their own heroes, legends, Gods, and customs. I believe they wouldn get deeper spiritual connections that way. And we could all share stories and tales.
Ramadurai description of Khajuraho sexual carvings and erotic sculptures is perverted and unauthentic.
A very superficial article lacking not only research but also coherence and scientific argumentation. Disappointing.
The Greeks added significant elements to astrology, such as the importance of the four elements - Fire, Earth, Air, and Water - and the discovery of the procession of the equinoxes.
It should be PRECESSION of the equinoxes. Otherwise an EXCELLENT article!
Bright spots in the night sky beat dark spots on the livers of sacrificial lambs any day...in my humble opinion lol!
Actually, these geological features aren't the least bit rare. You can see Pele in the main Hawaiian island, Prometheus in.....well, Age of Disclosure found it, and I can't remember where, and the video has been deleted by YouTube. He's an excellent source for so much hidden history, though.
The best authority on mudfossils is the discoverer, Roger Shurr of Mudfossil University on YouTube, and he has a website, too. For a taste, see - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUdAb5Wyy6w
There are dragons, elephants, trolls, ogres, frogs, cats, mushrooms, and giants, etc. scattered all over the world on every continent, except maybe, Antarctica, but it's covered with ice, so we can't know for sure. Mountainous regions and islands are the most common places for them to be located.
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