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  • Reply to: The mysterious golden lozenge of Stonehenge   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Harry Sivertsen

    JT is heading in the right direction regarding measures but it is more complex than is initially apparent. John Michell, following on from a number of other researchers made the first realistic assessment of the prevailing 'system' of measures that can be demonstrated were used at Stonehenge and in fact across most of the ancient world.This was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have been involved in a similar study since the late 1980s. This indeed is a very old tried and tested metrological methodology that has stood the test of time emerging before Egypt and its pyramids in India and even then having been developed in a now drowned area of Sundaland [South Malaysia].

    I have written extensively on this subject in the book Measurements of the Gods with numerous references to evidence that can be checked by the individual.

    This work of over 500 pages can be read online or freely downloaded at:- http://independent.academia.edu/HarrySivertsen/

    There are cross references here as well to Biblical evidence seen in Deluge:From Genesis to Atlantis. Again this is on the same web page and also is over 500 pages in length. Indeed there is an abundance of evidence for the arguments put forward.

    As a shorter introduction and with the specific target subject of Stonehenge there is a popular paper which is titled Stonehenge Measures which is found on the same web page as Measurements of the Gods. In this not only are the dimensions of this ancient site verified by the most accurate surveys yet available, but also a refutation of the application of the 'megalithic yard' of Alexander Thom. This argument is based not upon opinion but Thom's own work on other circles.

    The dimensions of Stonehenge and system of measure employed are well described in the texts with cross references and reinforcing evidence from far and wide.

    Regarding the lozenge, This is one of those puzzles where the experts will continue to argue. The shape is not uncommon in the ancient world and may well have astronomical significance. The problem here is that is size precludes the necessary accuracy required for astronomy. It does seem a strong probability that this is a scaled down model of something very much larger and a symbol of position, possibly denoting the wearer as an astronomer which would have much greater import then than now. Again, regarding the dimensions of this I have seen a number of conflicting reports and hence without a definitive set of measures it is impossible to assess whether there is any revealed symbolism via the measures known to have been in use. It remains a fine piece of work which we have yet to completely understand and unfortunately no amount of speculation without further evidence will resolve the questions.Harry Sivertsen

  • Reply to: The Establishment Has Already Acknowledged A Lost Race of Giants - Part 1   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Barry Sears

    What the statistics above show is that every planet orbits the sun and if you are standing on each of the planets, these are the number of days each planet would have in a year or for the time it would take for that planet to circle the sun. The statistics very clearly indicate that the planets farthest from the sun obviously have long years or revolutions around the sun so they logically have much more days. The planets closet to the sun have smaller years or less time to orbit the sun and so have proportionally fewer days per year. The relationship is rather obvious really, but please note the number of rotations or days specified here are what each planet would have if you lived on each planet, not increments of 24 hrs from earths perspective. If you were to sit on Mars and revolve one full revolution around the sun, you would experience 670 days, or rotations. So for Venus a year is 224 Earth days and it rotates 243 days so in a year Venus basically has one day if you sat on it.

    It is therefore logical to conclude that if the Earth had 420 days then yes as you say the rotations would be faster, but this is not the only answer. When considering the evolutionary changes that have occurred on Earth with regards to species size and adaptive changes, then your planetary movement suggestion could be reconsidered. It is perhaps far more logical to consider the possibility that 420 days in a year could be recorded if the distance of the Earth was further from the sun and this also explains the evolutionary changes.

  • Reply to: The Establishment Has Already Acknowledged A Lost Race of Giants - Part 1   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Tsurugi

    Just want to jump in to point out that Venus rotates so slowly because something flipped its axis nearly 180 degrees. This also makes its rotation a retrograde motion, which means there is serious drag on it, so the rotation is slowing down rapidly(cosmically speaking).

    What could have knocked a planet almost completely over?

  • Reply to: Did Paleoamericans Reach South America First?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Willy

    In fact, the Black Death did affect Africa. Egypt in particular. It was recently established that Nile Rat fleas are most likely to have been the original host of plague bacteria and Y. pestis epidemics actually began to show up in Egypt around 1500 BCE (Ebers Papyrus), much earlier that originally thought. While the bug did great damage locally, it did not reach the pandemic event stage due to the smaller, more disbursed population. Seems the Black Death requires dense population centers to become pneumonic and begin to burn through hosts.

  • Reply to: Legends of Mount Shasta: The Abode of the Devil Part 2 – Castle Crags: Fortress of Giants   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: William Bradshaw

    I mention Mount Shasta in my book "Secrets of the Pink Kush" as a known location for Big Foot AKA giants AKA tetraploid humans. It is one of the secret locations for the HIDDEN ONES.

     

    These people are not the Devil as Lucifer is the Devil and she, also a tetraploid human, runs the Hellenistic Western world and is trying to eridicate all patriarchal leaders from our world. She promises peace but only delivers war and deceit.

    Are you ready for the TRUTH?

    History of Devil Worship

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40GM4ZDBOE

     

  • Reply to: Ten Legendary Swords from the Ancient World   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: corners

    I wonder if the pure metal was from a meteorite.

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: joe stitzel

    their hygene was terrible, their bath houses were filled with fecal matter--germs--bacteria, spit, piss, sweat and whatever else from one another. they thought they were into safe hygene but had No idea of weebeesties !

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: joe stitzel

    these are found all over ancient rome, so many different size holes, pearls dont come in that many sizes, especially large ones.

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: joe stitzel

    Also possible :) can see that too. Then just need to confirm one somehow found with ancient fishing supplies.

  • Reply to: The Establishment Has Already Acknowledged A Lost Race of Giants - Part 1   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: John D.

    Speed of a planet's rotation is not directly relative to the distance from the Sun. Look at Venus' rotation. It is now known that it spins even slower than previously thought. It takes 243 days to rotate once. Much slower than Earth. So your diagram is wrong.

    If you mean the ORBIT of a planet around the Sun, then yes it takes 365 days for the Earth and 670 for Mars etc...but your argument of Earth having had 420 days in a 'year' in the far past was caused by a faster ROTATION around its own axis, not a smaller 'orbit' around the Sun. You are severely mixing facts it seems.

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: joe stitzel

    possible yes, i can see how the yarn or thread would wrap around the rounded points :)
    very good ! Be cool to find one with the thread still around it, even shreds of it would give that sewing reason, clout ! But then why fill center with wax ? how would wax benefit thread, string or linen ?
    May help linen age, not dry out, from getting fragile ?

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: joe stitzel

    This one probably made in france, during ancient rome, perhaps bc. No one has figured out what they were made for. found all over ancient rome, in tombs, loose among buried rubble. They could have been for just home decor. ? Like some of us may have junk decor laying around our homes also these days.
    But more suspected they had a real purpose.

  • Reply to: The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Alanna W.

    Yeah! I have heard of them. They said that’s why God distroyed sodom and gormora. It was an abomination because they had mixed race-daughters of man and sons of God- and God only wanted people who were human to survive. Lot was purly human. 

  • Reply to: Intelligence and Witchcraft – What Caused the Downfall of Anne Boleyn?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Alanna W.

    Naw, It’s modern witches that use crystals, incense, oils, gems, etc. Infact most of this stuff seems to have croped up in the last 50 years or so.

    The stories of witches from norse sagas, compendium maleficarum, mesopotamian myths and just varying accounts/confessions talk about witchcraft being something closer to VooDoo. In the compendium they several accounts of witches picking herbs, seeds and other things, putting them into a bag/bladder and putting the bag under the front step of a neighbors to cause problems. They also talked about them making little dolls and putting pins in them to harm people. They talk about driving nails in an animal’s heart and then wrapping string/ribbon around the nails-this somehow untangled problems-. Some inhaled herbs to put them into an altered state of mind and talk to gods, or they sang songs or played instruments. They talk about necromancy, Onomancy, Oneiromancy and other strange forms of divination, including the reading of entrails. It seems that weather, fertility and divination and talking to the gods were the main things that witches did. But how they went about it, yeah, the accounts read more like modern Voodoo, with all it’s blood, weed and booze, then sanitized modern witchcraft. 

  • Reply to: A Rebel in an Eyepatch and Gown - Ana de Mendoza, the Princess of Eboli   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Alanna W.

    I liked your story so much that I spent a day looking up information on the Lady. I would have never heard of her if it was not for you. Thank you.

  • Reply to: Rediscovering the Story of Egeria, a Remarkable 4th Century Female Pilgrim   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Alanna W.

    She was ptetty. But why was she so well known before the 11th cent.? Was she viewed as a hero for her trip? 

  • Reply to: Face of Man Who Lived 9,500 Years Ago in the Biblical City of Jericho Brought Back to Life   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: vcragain

    This face looks very odd & unreal – notice what a huge area there is between the bottom of the nose & the lips – that nose should likely be much longer for reality – I have never seen anyone with a large area beneath the nose like that !!!!!

  • Reply to: Did Ancient Egyptians Trade Nicotine and Cocaine With the New World?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: tgarner

    A little research could have presented most of the ridiculous arguments and posts criticising this discovery. You reach,..I teach. Simply Google American Drugs Found in Egyptian Mummies-Faculty Support Site

  • Reply to: Did Ancient Egyptians Trade Nicotine and Cocaine With the New World?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: tgarner

    How do you know this? Or how can one verify what you are saying?

  • Reply to: Did Ancient Egyptians Trade Nicotine and Cocaine With the New World?   7 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: tgarner

    Where can I find evidence to support this information?

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