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  • Reply to: Like a Virgin? The Controversial Account of Mary, Mother of Jesus   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Aliya Osho

    Christianity is a continuation of the first human religion - The Sun Religion of Ancient Bulgarians first human beings on earth. Jesus became e symbol and replacement of God Sun (BalAz) of Ancient BALgarians. It does not mean Jesus did not existed as a enlightened sage. Still the story of his life was later on decorated and elaborated by his followers. The same way Sun stays in its lowest position on the sky during the Winter Solstice before being "reborn"as per Ancient Bulgarian spiritual traditions, the same way Jesus was burried for 3 days in the stone tomb and later on ressurected. Jesus itself was a follower of Sun religion of his predecessors as he was Aramean by origin. That is the reason for his ennemies the judas to christ him on the cross - cross had been the symbol of Sun God BalAz. As per Ancient Bulgarian spiritual tradition Sun God BalAz was the Son of Godess Mother whom they named BaL (meaning Godess of Light), MaRa meaning Godess of Matter and Creation, etc. Therefore Mara Ancient Bulgarian Godess Mother was renamed into Maria the Virgin Mother. This religious replacement was all done for one only reason - to abolish people's original belief system with an organized and empowered religious institution to rule over them. All organized religions in the world were created in the same way and for the same purpose - ruling human minds.

  • Reply to: Like a Virgin? The Controversial Account of Mary, Mother of Jesus   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Carol Chang

    No matter what happened, I am absolutely certain that was not the way it went. Maybe G-d had tried before to rescue humanity, hence all the previous recorded virgin births fathered by a G-d. Perhaps he tried over and over until the right people for this message came along. There are no subsequent virgin birth of a son fathered by G-d since this one. Don't believe...ok. Don't make fun of or bully those who do. They are not hurting you, why do you want to hurt them.

  • Reply to: The Legendary Origins of Merlin the Magician   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Twizted

    You must not forget before there was a Gandalf (pulled from the Elder Edda); or a Merlin there was The All Father, Odin (Woden) whom himself a wanderer and magician and yes a shape changer as well - there is no doubt in my mind the wizard origins come to us through the Mighty Odin.

    btw a single captcha is enough you don't need two different types of verification that I'm a human this is preposterously annoying.

  • Reply to: The Legendary Origins of Merlin the Magician   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Gabbi

    I have to say, that from what I have read, and been taught, the very term 'Merlin' was not an actual name of a man, but a title in the practice of Druidism. It is worthwhile noting that there have been a few 'Merlins' throughout myths and legends, who have been described as older, sagely men, just like in the legends of Camelot and King Arthur - but at the same time, these men have been different people.

  • Reply to: Like a Virgin? The Controversial Account of Mary, Mother of Jesus   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Carol Chang

    There is nothing remotely noble about the Koran. If you have read this book in a language you understand you would know this. Even though both Jewish and Christian concepts and stories were appropriated by the madman who came up with the Koran the versions of those stories are faulty.

  • Reply to: Like a Virgin? The Controversial Account of Mary, Mother of Jesus   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Carol Chang

    Your comment is the first I have read saying that Jesus had a Roman Lover. Some believe that Mary's child was the result of a rape by a roman soldier. The rather wholesale rape of Jewish women by the ruling Romans is at least part of the reason that Jewishness (probably not the word I need) is passed through matriarchal lineage.

  • Reply to: Philip’s Fountain: The Oldest Still-In-Use Hydraulic Work in the World   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Meldreth

    I don't think the Grand Canal would qualify under the meaning of the term "hydraulics" as it is used in this article.
    Before your post, I had never heard of the Grand Canal - I had to go look it up in Wikipedia. Fascinating reading.

  • Reply to: Cascadia: The Other “Lost Continent” – Part I   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Sheila Staples

    my humble thanks, for telling the Stories of OUR Peoples. I care nothing about other lands, my OWN is amazing..:)

    adadoligi ale nvwadohivnv( peace and many blessings)
    Dekanogi Ulogilv

  • Reply to: The Pyramid Complex and the Hopi: Creation Myth Sheds Light on Building Plan   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Thomas O. Mills

    Morning,  The grahic’s were added by the editors at Ancient Origins.   I think Spider-Women was very attractive and in my next article, that tries to explain some of the murals of Egypt, you will see her.   If the Hopi are correct, money won’t matter in the near future.   thanks   tom

  • Reply to: Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: surpeise

    Your Hyperborea, Thule Based religion using the symbol of the “Black Son Cross” and the “Swastika” to advocate the origins of the “ARYAN RACE” aka WHITE RACE, was an invention based on a number of ‘authors’ prior writings that Hitler and his henchmen created to support their cause of the PURE German/white superiority belief/thought pattern. This new religion was used to gather those of like mind placing Hitler into a GOD role allowing many and in particular the SS to go about doing what they did from 1933 to 1945.

  • Reply to: The Pyramid Complex and the Hopi: Creation Myth Sheds Light on Building Plan   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: musivick

    the graphic made to depict a mummified , elderly Hopi Grandmother....

    is specifically designed or configured to appeal to Western European culture...as that group has the greatest amount of readily spendable income... very new-age(ish)

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

    Yes, I did quote the researchers as claiming that “Kennewick Man’s pattern of craniometric affinity falls well within the range of affinity patterns evaluated for individual Native Americans" , but, I was talking about PaleoAmericans, not modern mongoloid Americans. There is no way you can claim that there were no Black Native Americans before 1492, because even the Spanish said the first Indians they met were Black  people like the Africans and people of South Indian. Neither genetic evidence nor craniometrics deny the existence of Black Native Americans. The Native Americans were called Indians because they were Black skinned like the Natives of South India. As I have noted above Quatrafages noted the numerous American tribes that were Negro Native Americans.

     Craniometric quantitative analysis and multivariate methods have determined the Native American populations. This research indicated that the ancient Americans represent two populations, paleoamericans who were phenotypically African, Australian or Melanesian and a mongoloid population that appears to have arrived in the Americas after 6000 BC.

    The determination of the Paleoamericans as members of the Black Variety is not a new phenomena. Howells (1973, 1989, 1995) using multivariate analyses, determined that the Easter Island population was characterized as Australo-Melanesian, while other skeletons from South America were found to be related to Africans and Australians (Coon, 1962; Dixon, 2001; Howell, 1989, 1995; Lahr, 1996). The African-Australo-Melanesian morphology was widespread in North and South America. For example skeletal remains belonging to the Black Variety have been found in Brazil (Neves, Powell, Prous and Ozolins, 1998; Neves et al., 1998), Columbian Highlands (Neves et al., 1995; Powell, 2005), Mexico (Gonza’lez-Jose, 2012), Florida (Howells, 1995), and Southern Patazonia (Neves et al., 1999a, 1999b).

    We don’t have to depend on just paintings to acknowledge the Negro/African presence in America before 1492, we also have the facial reconstructions of paleoAmericans that have resulted from craniometrics that show these people were Blacks. The bioanthropologist Walter Neves’s reconstruction of the first Americans evidenced Negroid features for the Paleoamerican we call Luzia. What made this finding startling was that Neves using the mahalanobis distance and principal component analysis, found that 75 other skulls from Lagos Santa, were also phenotypically African or Australian (Neves et al., 2004).So stop trying to claim there were no Blacks in America before 1492, Blacks had been in America 94,000 years according to Dr. Nieda Guidon   before the mongloid Native Americans found in America today arrived in the United States 6000 years ago.

    References:

    Coon CS (1962). The Origin of Races (New York: Knopf).

    Dixon EJ (2001). Human colonization of the Americas: timing, chronology and process. Quaternary Science Review 20 277–99.

    Gonza´lez-Jose´ R, Hernande´z M, Neves WA, Pucciarelli HM and Correal G (2002). Cra´neos del Pleistoceno tardio-Holoceno tempramo de Me´xico en relacio´n al patro´n morfolo´gico paleoamericano. Paper presented at the 7th Congress of the Latin American Association of Biological Anthropology, Mexico City.

    Howells WW (1973). Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference among Recent Human Populations, Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University) 67.

    Howells WW (1989). Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo, Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University) 79. Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande 497

    Howells WW (1995). Who’s Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurments, Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Cambridge. MA: Harvard University) 82.

    Neves WA and Hubbe M (2005). Cranial morphology of early Americans from Lagoa Santa, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102(18) 309–18, 314.

    Neves WA and Meyer D (1993). The contribution of the morphology of early South and Northamerican skeletal remains to the understanding of the peopling of the Americas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 16(Suppl) 150–1.

    Neves WA and Pucciarelli HM (1989). Extra-continental biological relationships of early South American human remains: a multivariate analysis. Cieˆncia e Cultura 41 566–75.

    Neves WA and Pucciarelli HM (1990). The origins of the first Americans: an analysis based onthe cranial morphology of early South American human remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81 247.

    Neves WA and Pucciarelli HM (1991). Morphological affinities of the first Americans: an exploratory analysis based on early South American human remains. Journal of Human Evolution 21 261–73.

    Neves WA and Pucciarelli HM (1991). Morphological Affinities of the First Americans: an exploratory analysis based on early South American human remains. Journal of Human Evolution 21 261-273.

    Neves WA, Gonza´ lez-Jose´ R, Hubbe M, Kipnis R, Araujo AGM and Blasi O (2004). Early Holocene Human Skeletal Remains form Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans. World Archaeology 36 479-501.

    Neves WA, Powell JF and Ozolins EG (1999). Extra-continental morphological affinities of Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1: A multivariate analysis with progressive numbers of variables. Homo 50 263-268.

    Neves WA, Powell JF and Ozolins EG (1999). Extra-continental morphological affinities of Palli-Aike, Southern Chile. Interciencia 24 258-263, Available: http://www.interciencia.org/v24_04/neves.pdf

    Neves WA, Powell JF and Ozolins EG (1999a). Extra-continental morphological affinities of Palli Aike, southern Chile. Interciencia 24 258–63.

    Neves WA, Powell JF and Ozolins EG (1999b). Modern human origins as seen from the peripheries. Journal of Human Evolution 37 129–33.

    Neves WA, Powell JF, Prous A and Ozolins EG (1998). Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphologial affinities or the earliest known American. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26(Suppl) 169.

     

  • Reply to: The 9,000-year-old underground megalithic settlement of Atlit Yam   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: 5tar5truck

    I'm surprised that explanations for the abandonment of Atlit Yam have been focused primarily on its current location many meters below the sea.  Since the standing stones appear not to have been disturbed, a truly catastrophic tsunami does not seem likely.  Even if the submerging process occurred gradually, the settlement may already have been abandoned.

    The standing stones indicate that the occupants of Atlit Yam may have been superstitious, as other Neolithic peoples are believed to have been.  With this in mind, it is likely that the settlement was abandoned shortly after the deaths of the mother and child from TB.  The occupants may have believed that the site itself had become ill, or possessed by evil spirits.  If the people of Atlit Yam felt that the land itself was no longer welcoming, they would have left to find another place to settle.
     

  • Reply to: The Pyramid Complex and the Hopi: Creation Myth Sheds Light on Building Plan   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Thomas O. Mills

    Good Morning Mr. Murphy and thank you for your comment.  I appreciate you taking the time to read the article and I hope it encouraged you to take a look at Hopi history and maybe someday visit their villages.   All the best.   tom 

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

    Guess I'll begin at the beginning. No, the Chukchi people are NOT Eskimos. They are in fact closely related to Native Americans, Kennewick Man, Naia and other Native Americans. Native Anericans are NOT closely related to Pacific Islanders, Australoids or Africans. Nor are all of these peoples "Negros" though they are sometimes referred to as "Negroid" i.e. Negro like. This is simply a non scientific term in reference to skin tone and some basic facial features. In point of fact, no two peoples are more distantly related that Africans and Native Americans as their last common ancestor lived 70-120 thousand years ago. As I mentioned before, the ONLY place in the Americas where there is any genetic overlap between these groups is along the western coast of South America and this is only very recently. It seems there was an interchange of women between Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Native Americans. There is absolutely no genetic evidence of admixture between Africa and the Americas prior to 1492. Yes, Kennewick man is a Paleo American i.e. Paleo Indian but, that does not make him a "Negro" in any sense of the word.His genome shows no more affinities with Africans, Australians or Pacific Islanders that Western Europeans do. Once again, Craniometrics do not prove anything about his ancestry. Only genetics can do that and they exclude him from any of those groups.
    Your paragraph on the affinities of Kennewick man to the Colville and SA/CA populations supports none of your arguements and is part of the reason I favor coastal California/Mexico as the major point of radiation for Native Americans.
    Again, Pacific coast Indians show no genetic affinities to Pac Islanders or "Negros" (Africans?). Additionally, The Colville tribes you mentioned were from many Nations and Different Cultures and there simply are no "Black Native Americans" for then to mix with before the arrival of African slaves with the Spanish and French. These slaves were brought in expressly for sugar cultivation and were, before 1619 limited to The Crribean, Central, and South America. North American African slavery begins with the arrival of 20 N'doko men from Angola in VA in 1619. These are the ancestors of the Melungeons. Simply put, you can not rely upon drawings of native peoples to assign racial positioning. Believe it or not, Native Americans styled their hair in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. Curling hair was known to them as well as dying. When the Spanish came to Tenochtitlan they very quickly figured out that the bleach blonds were prostitutes. The paintings are simply not that reliable. And once again, Kennewick man is genetically Native American with no marcers from Melanesia at all and Melanesians are simply not "Negros". Your own post clearly states that the skull of Kennewick man falls well within the norms for Native Americans.

    "Although our individual-based craniometric analyses confirm that Kennewick Man tends to be more similar to Polynesian and Ainu peoples than to Native Americans, Kennewick Man’s pattern of craniometric affinity falls well within the range of affinity patterns evaluated for individual Native Americans"

  • Reply to: Adidas of Ancient Rome: Ancient Fashion Unveiled with Discovery of Roman Shoe Hoard   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Aayush Shastri

    History plays an important part in fashion which includes all the the clothes and shoes we design today. There is so much inspiration that you can derive from different cultures and locations from around the world. Historical art is beautiful and the colors and motifs you will find can be a huge source of inspiration for a design product. These heels show a historical journey that I think proves how history inspires design in the most beautiful way possible. http://www.posherry.com/blog/high-heels-images-historical-journey/

  • Reply to: Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Fuhrer

    Hyperborea is not myth, and was physically-real. It was not located north, geographically, but was found “over the northern regions,” that is, over Earth’s highest mountains. Within Earth’s naval lies the Tamir Basin, which is circumscribed by, and hence over, the northern regions of Altai, Tien Shan, Pamir, Karakoram, and Himalaya. At its center was the White Island, Thule, encircled by the spring-fed River Oceanus, itself emanating many rivers radially into the surrounding lower reaches. That the sun cross, Celtic cross, black sun, sun wheel, and swastika all signify the same thing is correct. But they are all misnomers, for they signify this river system, not anything solar. The ancient Sumerians and Greeks were direct descendants of the Aryan race who originated from Hyperborea, and contrary to popular myth, migrated from east to west. Excluded deliberately from today’s judaized bible story is Jesus’ so-called missing years, during much of which he travelled in and around Hyperborea.

  • Reply to: Philip’s Fountain: The Oldest Still-In-Use Hydraulic Work in the World   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Yi Jiun

    How about the Grand Canal, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was constructed in sections from the 5th century BC onwards?

    http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1443

  • Reply to: Miles-long band of mysterious and unexplained holes in Pisco Valley, Peru   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Ray1234567

    Looks to me like they were built to break up an invading army. If you knew an army was coming this would be a great deterrent. Slow down advancement of your enemy. This would give the defending army an upper hand. Calvary would be slowed down and infantry advancements would be difficult and sloppy. Allowing the defending army to cut the enemy down before they could get the full force deployed. Siege equipment of any kind would be forced to move around and break up the enemy forces. It's actually great battle field tactics.

  • Reply to: The Secret Life of an Ancient Concubine   7 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Gina247

    In Islam a second, third, or fourth wife is not a concubine, she is a wife. These women have the same rights as the first wife. Islam has never permitted sex outside of marriage.

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