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  • Reply to: The Secrets of the Kabbalists Garden   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: ElynAviva

    Hi Nick—thank you for your interesting comments. Thanks for mentioning the importance of considering the celestial bodies and their movements. So much knowledge has been lost, and some of it is now being rediscovered. We live in exciting times!

  • Reply to: Jewelry from Outer Space: Hopewell Culture Made Beads from Meteoritic Iron   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Actually, have you come across any evidence for the ancients deliberately, putting meteorite iron at peaks to create magnetite?
    There seem to be some artefacts that imply they were using bowls to reference magnetic north, but the chances of finding magnetite are so rare (and it will lose its magnetism), I just wonder if they placing naturally occurring iron at peaks and tried to magnitise it when lightning struck.

  • Reply to: 11,000-year-old Spiritualized Deer Masks Whisper Tales Of A Forgotten World   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Mark Sorensen

    This was not a mask. The holes that were bored into the skull were for a strap so the man could wear this atop their head. They feature this in "A History of Ancient Britain" by Neil Oliver. On that show the experts specifically discount this exact theory.

  • Reply to: Jewelry from Outer Space: Hopewell Culture Made Beads from Meteoritic Iron   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    That's the way to do it! The only way anyone is going to work out this tech, is to have a go at reproducing it. This is interesting. Iron was believed to be first be processed in Crete and Troy around this time, 1200BCE. There was a reason for it, no tin was coming in from Iberia, they needed something to replace bronze. To process Iron you need much higher furnace temp though, forcing air into the coals using bellows. It would be interesting to see what you need to do to get the temp up to process?
    Best of luck with the experiment!

  • Reply to: The Rage of Horemheb: Hurried End of Akhenaten, Aye and Atenism – Part I   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Interesting fresco. The chair has similar feet as the Thera tripod chair, https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/49/91/fa/an-ancient-t... The Egyptians seem to like the idea of sitting on an animal, as in the master/mistress of animals. All the rulers around this region and period seem to want to convey their mastery of domesticated and wild animals. The quality of the furniture is amazing, it's as fine as Chippendale. Amazing.

  • Reply to: The Secrets of the Kabbalists Garden   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Interesting article. A lot of the belief systems can be traced back to very ancient sources. These were initially focused on the celestial bodies. You can see how this evoluted through the astronomical ages. I'm not sure what the level applies too. However, the tree of life is a very old concept indeed. I'm not suggesting they are all the same, rather they evolved from very similar root to better understand the world and its natural cycles. The very early systems are less a religion more a science to better understand those that organise. E.g. the moon drives the tides and months, the Earth orbit the Sun determining the seasons to plant, grow, harvest and store. These then become more sophisticated and do diverge into the religions of the world.
    I always thought it interesting that the ancient elements perfectly describe the states of matter for example: Solid (earth), Liquid (Water), Gas (air) and Fire (Plasma). There will have been many genius minds throughout the ages and I suspect some made some truly insightful theories. We often subscribe these to Greek philosophers, however, they may have simply been practitioners of an early school of thought (not to say they didn't articular or invent or discover or develop these ideas).

  • Reply to: From Hunters to Settlers: How the Neolithic Revolution Changed the World   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Opps, misposted, I thought I was posting to the article about yorkshire neolithic farmers!

  • Reply to: 11,000-year-old Spiritualized Deer Masks Whisper Tales Of A Forgotten World   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Frances

    A very interesting and equally well-written article, thank you!

  • Reply to: From Hunters to Settlers: How the Neolithic Revolution Changed the World   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    There is an easy way to determine the way of life of Yorkshire Farmers, speak to them, they haven't changed very much in millennia. Go on their land, they have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later (stones, arrows or shot, whatever is available).
    People consider the potters wheel leading to a wheeled vehicle, but I wonder if a mill for grain came first.

  • Reply to: A Bull-Headed Lyre: Reconstructing the Sound and Style of Ancient Mesopotamia   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Makes you wonder what tunes they played. The reference to the Bull, may be a reference to the astronomical age (Taurus) due to the precession of the equinox and the rulers in this region being an embodiment of light.

  • Reply to: Goddess Ninkharsag—Ancient Powerful Mother who Faded into The Holy Ghost   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Barry Sears

    I believe the physical relationship has been lost. When you make the simple connection of the Holy Spirit to Mother Earth text becomes logical and meaningful. When you understand the Father image relates to our surrounding Celestial energy system, referred to biblically as a heavenly surrounding as a macrocosmic projection of the Earthly connections, messages take on new meanings. 
    God is only confused with the Father figure. Traditionally God is the Universal figure a oneness hard to imagine. The Father who art in Heaven is a microcosmic structure of a God figure. These figures have become confusingly merged but they are totally different, they can be read separately and they reside in differently defined realms. 
    This connection was detailed and defined by the Egyptians and broken down into the twelve anatomical parts for each structure. Here is a simple diagram showing the simple relationship.
    http://www.alkhemi.co.uk/Nut-and-Geb-Chart(2872486).htm  (You may need to paste this into a search to see it)
    This shows how the Earth represented as the body of Geb, connects to the Celestial cycle, represented by the body of Nut. It also indicates how this cycle connects to the human body. From here you can then connect the twelve zones around the equator to the twelve zones of the zodiac belt. The best place to start is Leo of Egypt to the constellation of Leo and Israel the land of Virgo to the constellation of Virgo. It was by studying the Earth that our ancient ones could interpret the creative energies of our surrounding Celestial structure.   
     

  • Reply to: Were the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Ever Lost?   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Chai_B

    Benjamin - Jamaicans
    Simeon- Dominican Republic
    Reuben - Seminole Indian
    Gad- Native American
    Zebulun- Panama/ Colombia
    Judah- Black American
    Issachar- Mexicans
    Naphtali- Hawaiians/ Samoan
    Levi- Haitians
    Asher- Venezuela/ Brazil
    Manasseh- Cubans

    All praises to The Most High, Yahushua Son of The Most High. Shabbat Shalom Mispacha

  • Reply to: The Calusa People: A Lost Tribe of Florida that Early Explorers Wrote Home About   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Manuel Apodaca

    This article is good but it does not provide any data related to the status of the Calusa people at the first arrival of Spaniards in 1513 leaded by Juan Ponce de Leon, its "discoverer". In his second voyage, Ponce de Leon received a poisoned arrow that hounded his tight and he died in Cuba the same year in 1521.His decease is attributed to Calusa people.

  • Reply to: Please introduce yourself   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Kathy Hughes

    Hello Fellow Explorers!!!...I live in Holywell, North Wales...Over the past decade or so..i  have found some very interesting special places up and down the surrounding areas of the ancient “offas dyke” trail,...i never knew that i was interested in that sort of thing, but ive been drawn to places, and kind of taken on a journey,.. and now everything makes sense to me. i began to study sacred geology, and other interesting subjects. but i feel it has been a spiritual journey of self realisation, and so mostly  i am interested in my own land, history and culture...certain  paths i know ive walked on before, in other times.. in another world..or so it seems!?? ive been here before, this ive always known... so im looking forward to sharing some discoveries and secrets of the past with people who understand my language,..and sharing the things that were not supposed to know about.. ;-)

  • Reply to: Who or what killed Alexander the Great?   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Jamie clemons

    There is a condition that causes pockets to form in the colon these can rupture. A diverticulum can rupture, and the bacteria within the colon can spread into the tissues surrounding the colon. This is then called diverticulitis. ... Infrequently, a diverticulum ruptures freely into the abdominal cavity causing a life threatening infection called bacterial peritonitis. It could take days for the infection to kill him. The infection would result in extreme abdominal pain and sepsis.

  • Reply to: Cancer Deaths Were Far Less Prevalent in Ancient Egypt   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    I wonder what the average age was? It would give a general sense of well being. Some of the medical papyrus are fascinating, you can understand where modern-day surgery and medician come from. One could argue the latter being the right approach, they at least attempted to cure rather than an endless dependency on continuous treatments.

  • Reply to: Were Samson’s Superhuman Abilities Really That Far-fetched?   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    If one cared to research carefully then one would find that the story of Samson is Astrological. He did not exist as a human being.

     

  • Reply to: Could Plastic Bottles Made by Ancient Americans be the Cause of their Health Decline?   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: bethehagens

    The word plastic isl not just a noun. It is also an adjective meaning ""pliable." The study went too far, I thought, in its conclusion, but air pollution settles in the area where the Chumash lived, and burning such substances could have been a contributing factor to declining health.

  • Reply to: Depicting Man or Beast? Can You Solve the Riddle of the Great Sphinx of Giza?   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Maria Hibert

    No one ever reads between the lines. The riddle was "What has four feet in the morning, two in the day, and three at night." Oedipus answered a man. He got the riddle wrong. The answer was a lion. Lions sleep all day but wake up to scavenge in the afternoon and hunt at night and the early morning. He killed the person who asked the riddle and claimed to have gotten it right but a witness saw the whole thing. Creon knew this and set Oedipus up to marry his mother. It's possible Oedipus changed the head of the monument to fit his answer to the riddle. Or someone built it to ridicule the memory the person we call Oedipus. I suspect that type of inside power flexing and ridicule happens amongst the elites more than us little folk realize. I mean look at obelisks!

  • Reply to: The Lost and Coveted Treasures of King Solomon   5 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: YHWH Allah

    My tabernacle (mishkan) containing My ark of My covenant is located 1.2 meter (4 feet) under My stone which My stonehenge builders refused; My heel stone.

    YHWH Allah
    (LORD God)

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