Nice article, but you make it sound like Mannanan and Lir/Llyr are the same mythological character when traditionnally Mannanan is the son of Lir and they are not the same individual.
The scottish "Mac" and the welsh "Fab" both means "son of", and the old texts present Lir as a god of the sea, with his son Manannan following his path and taking progressively proeminence over him in the people's minds.
I am Nubian, and I find the name "Kush" weired and derogative. In modern Nubian language "Kush" is from Kushad which means "bad".
I guess that this insulting name "Kush" was given the the great old Nubian state, land, people and empire by unfriendly foreign nation!
My question here, is there any Nubian archeological eveidence to prove that the Nubian made and used the term "Kush" to describe themselves?
The debate about Solutrean point was actually debunked as a result of recent DNA testing. Everyone from Naia of Hoyo Negro, Yucatan to the Clovis child at Anzick, MT to Kennewick man in Washington has the same basic DNA, which matches that of the Native Americans that were here at the time when Europeans started arriving here and even Native Americans of today. The pattern seems to point to a migration from Berengia, more likely by boat down the west coast, and then northward. The oldest remains, 14 - 16 thousand years old, seem to be in the south, Mexico down to Monte Verde. As you go north the remains get more recent, Anzick, the last of the Clovis point times, is about as old as this site, around 12,000 years ago. Until a set of remains is found for those that made this "solutrean point" and came from Spain or France, because it should have different DNA that the people that originated from SE Asia, then there is no evidence the theory is even plausible. Of course, lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean it isn't there. It just hasn't been found. But from what I've seen, it seems the migration came from SE Asia, to Beringia, then down the coast the the farthest south, then northward from there (and at some point along the way, Clovis technology gets invented and eventually abandoned). At some point after 13,000 years ago a subsequent waves also start coming from Berengia via the ice-free corridor. Thanks to research on the ancient bison fossils, we now know that was the earliest time the corridor was open. But we still need to find evidence of actual boat use, not so easy since they were made of perishable material, and they would have landed in areas now under water. There is a four year study underway to conduct underwater archaeology in the Channel Island area that will hopefully find evidence. Having said that, if some sort of evidence that boats could sail from Europe then that could add another wave of people coming here. But so far, the DNA evidence says otherwise.
I'm reminded of Fahrenheit every time I look at a thermometer or start a batch of wine. Unfortunately, his system of measuring temperature is silly. America really should switch to the metric system, but the incredible whining and crying it would create, would probably split the sky. At least when it is -40F outside, it is also -40C as the two scales coincide at that temperature, although it is a very small solace at that temp.
^^^Yeah....except that doesn't line up with scientific evidence. There being chambers does not "indicate strongly about tombs", because there is nothing present which would indicate a tomb. It seems that smooth sided pyramids are not used for tombs,...mostly because we never find tombs in them. Step pyramids seem to be more commonly used for tombs. And the normal, accepted story where (if you do the math), one granite block was quarried, transported, and placed every 6 seconds (yes, only six seconds a block) doesn't make much sense to me. Even regardless of the time taken.....id like you to show me how to shape granite with copper tools. it's ok, I'll wait.
No, the name Teotihuacan is nahuatl, not greek. The greeks were an entirely different civilization on a completely different continent that had nothing to do with mesoamerican civilizations, cultures or language. The nahuatl and greek words teo do not share similar meanings or concepts. Just because two cultures have similar sounding words does not mean one culture had anything to do with the other. I am so sick of people thinking indigenous cultures were incapable of shaping their own worlds, and must have been influenced by aliens or Europeans
The legend also says that Cu Chulainn lay with Scathach and that they had a son. Cu Chulainn never knew his son had been born because Scathach never told him. When his son was 14 years old, he went to find his father. He came across a big fortress and challenged a warrior there. Because of his armour, no one noticed he was just a boy. Cu Chulainn ended up killing his son and realising the boy was his son only after he died, as he had a ring he had previously given to Scathach.
This article seems to not know much about the fact that Cleopatra was chiefly instrumental in developing a new synthesis as relgion, a mix of Greek hermeticism and Egyptian magic, which she and her hubby Julius Caesar, and the Mark Anthony, spread to Octavian, a new cult for the high aristocracy, called ChrEstianity. See the full delineation of this at John Bartram's site https://sites.google.com/site/originsofchristianity/
This later morphed into ChrIstianty, with a synthesize god man called "Jesus." Another ploy to manipulate the masses.
I don't think its much older, just seems that way, if it was much older, then that papyrus would not have survived time at all, especially since it was not in some box or whatever to protect it. the log book was meant to be temporary, if not, it would have been buried with care..
Also: where there are chambers, does indicate strongly about tombs.. I think some out there just want it to be something more, being so fascinating, it does seem to be more, but it is not really. Move on..
Notably absent from all these considerations is the fate of all the thousands of Mycenaean Greeks returning from the war at Troy...not blessed with Homer's overview...they are surely candidates for piratical assaults along the coast of Asia Minor and Levant and to be candidates, along with seafarers from random areas like Sardinia and coastal North Africa should be candidates for a constituent of the Sea Peoples.
I must have missed a lot of "new" research. When did there become any connections between the 2 groups? In years of seminary & archeology, I have never seen that put forth (maybe in a cartoon?) Philistines were arch-enemies of Israel. Phoenicians allies "kin".
The persecution of these ‘pagans’ comes about due to their truths and knowledge as to how they perceived the world around them and how they interacted with their gods and goddess’s.
Their truths where deemed a threat to the power that the Church was exerting. Not that their truths where a ‘lie’ but that they where truths. They perceived; all that was to be alive. Full of spirit. Everything was significant in how they interacted with their physical environment their spiritual way of life. The Church wanted absolute control over the spirit/souls world and the physical world.
This ‘collapse’ of the pagan world’s way of live comes by the Church having killed off all those with knowledge of this world.
The ‘nobles’ those of wealth and power where ‘bribed’ with more power, more land to accept the Christian faith as truth.
The peasants, the serfs, the slaves, the general population where threatened with death, starvation, torture, confinement and persecution etc to become Christians. In other words, ‘accept the teaching of the church or die’.
The Church both suppressed their beliefs and took control.
The pagan beliefs meet their needs as a people but was destroyed by the Church. Hence the Christian faith did not so much as ‘offer the masses a chance at a better after life’, but rather accept the ‘new teaching’ and you just might have a ‘life’.
Occam's Razor... I would be very curious how many feet it is from the beginning of the Ramp to the bottom. To dig a Straight ramp this long down to the seep would take much more Resources and Material removed or even a tunnel to reach the depth needed to actually reach the water in a loose Sand Environment like this. They walled it and "Handled it" Quite well for working in loose sand.
I have done this personally...You take out one bucket full of Sand and two fall into it's place.
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Nice article, but you make it sound like Mannanan and Lir/Llyr are the same mythological character when traditionnally Mannanan is the son of Lir and they are not the same individual.
The scottish "Mac" and the welsh "Fab" both means "son of", and the old texts present Lir as a god of the sea, with his son Manannan following his path and taking progressively proeminence over him in the people's minds.
I am Nubian, and I find the name "Kush" weired and derogative. In modern Nubian language "Kush" is from Kushad which means "bad".
I guess that this insulting name "Kush" was given the the great old Nubian state, land, people and empire by unfriendly foreign nation!
My question here, is there any Nubian archeological eveidence to prove that the Nubian made and used the term "Kush" to describe themselves?
That papyrus looks so fake, its not even funny.
The debate about Solutrean point was actually debunked as a result of recent DNA testing. Everyone from Naia of Hoyo Negro, Yucatan to the Clovis child at Anzick, MT to Kennewick man in Washington has the same basic DNA, which matches that of the Native Americans that were here at the time when Europeans started arriving here and even Native Americans of today. The pattern seems to point to a migration from Berengia, more likely by boat down the west coast, and then northward. The oldest remains, 14 - 16 thousand years old, seem to be in the south, Mexico down to Monte Verde. As you go north the remains get more recent, Anzick, the last of the Clovis point times, is about as old as this site, around 12,000 years ago. Until a set of remains is found for those that made this "solutrean point" and came from Spain or France, because it should have different DNA that the people that originated from SE Asia, then there is no evidence the theory is even plausible. Of course, lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean it isn't there. It just hasn't been found. But from what I've seen, it seems the migration came from SE Asia, to Beringia, then down the coast the the farthest south, then northward from there (and at some point along the way, Clovis technology gets invented and eventually abandoned). At some point after 13,000 years ago a subsequent waves also start coming from Berengia via the ice-free corridor. Thanks to research on the ancient bison fossils, we now know that was the earliest time the corridor was open. But we still need to find evidence of actual boat use, not so easy since they were made of perishable material, and they would have landed in areas now under water. There is a four year study underway to conduct underwater archaeology in the Channel Island area that will hopefully find evidence. Having said that, if some sort of evidence that boats could sail from Europe then that could add another wave of people coming here. But so far, the DNA evidence says otherwise.
I'm reminded of Fahrenheit every time I look at a thermometer or start a batch of wine. Unfortunately, his system of measuring temperature is silly. America really should switch to the metric system, but the incredible whining and crying it would create, would probably split the sky. At least when it is -40F outside, it is also -40C as the two scales coincide at that temperature, although it is a very small solace at that temp.
^^^Yeah....except that doesn't line up with scientific evidence. There being chambers does not "indicate strongly about tombs", because there is nothing present which would indicate a tomb. It seems that smooth sided pyramids are not used for tombs,...mostly because we never find tombs in them. Step pyramids seem to be more commonly used for tombs. And the normal, accepted story where (if you do the math), one granite block was quarried, transported, and placed every 6 seconds (yes, only six seconds a block) doesn't make much sense to me. Even regardless of the time taken.....id like you to show me how to shape granite with copper tools. it's ok, I'll wait.
Tuatha De another possible explanation:
Old Albanian language
Tu a tha = the saying
De = God (ancient Greek DEA) = wisdom/knowledge
Thot = says (second person)
...they are just trying to create a new story to fit in with their stories and speculations .....
...most are suffering from identity crisis.....
No, the name Teotihuacan is nahuatl, not greek. The greeks were an entirely different civilization on a completely different continent that had nothing to do with mesoamerican civilizations, cultures or language. The nahuatl and greek words teo do not share similar meanings or concepts. Just because two cultures have similar sounding words does not mean one culture had anything to do with the other. I am so sick of people thinking indigenous cultures were incapable of shaping their own worlds, and must have been influenced by aliens or Europeans
The legend also says that Cu Chulainn lay with Scathach and that they had a son. Cu Chulainn never knew his son had been born because Scathach never told him. When his son was 14 years old, he went to find his father. He came across a big fortress and challenged a warrior there. Because of his armour, no one noticed he was just a boy. Cu Chulainn ended up killing his son and realising the boy was his son only after he died, as he had a ring he had previously given to Scathach.
This article seems to not know much about the fact that Cleopatra was chiefly instrumental in developing a new synthesis as relgion, a mix of Greek hermeticism and Egyptian magic, which she and her hubby Julius Caesar, and the Mark Anthony, spread to Octavian, a new cult for the high aristocracy, called ChrEstianity. See the full delineation of this at John Bartram's site https://sites.google.com/site/originsofchristianity/
This later morphed into ChrIstianty, with a synthesize god man called "Jesus." Another ploy to manipulate the masses.
Kavi meaning Visionary poet is an indication the poems were in Tamil. Even Today the poets are called as KAVI in TAMIL.
I don't think its much older, just seems that way, if it was much older, then that papyrus would not have survived time at all, especially since it was not in some box or whatever to protect it. the log book was meant to be temporary, if not, it would have been buried with care..
Also: where there are chambers, does indicate strongly about tombs.. I think some out there just want it to be something more, being so fascinating, it does seem to be more, but it is not really. Move on..
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Notably absent from all these considerations is the fate of all the thousands of Mycenaean Greeks returning from the war at Troy...not blessed with Homer's overview...they are surely candidates for piratical assaults along the coast of Asia Minor and Levant and to be candidates, along with seafarers from random areas like Sardinia and coastal North Africa should be candidates for a constituent of the Sea Peoples.
I must have missed a lot of "new" research. When did there become any connections between the 2 groups? In years of seminary & archeology, I have never seen that put forth (maybe in a cartoon?) Philistines were arch-enemies of Israel. Phoenicians allies "kin".
The persecution of these ‘pagans’ comes about due to their truths and knowledge as to how they perceived the world around them and how they interacted with their gods and goddess’s.
Their truths where deemed a threat to the power that the Church was exerting. Not that their truths where a ‘lie’ but that they where truths. They perceived; all that was to be alive. Full of spirit. Everything was significant in how they interacted with their physical environment their spiritual way of life. The Church wanted absolute control over the spirit/souls world and the physical world.
This ‘collapse’ of the pagan world’s way of live comes by the Church having killed off all those with knowledge of this world.
The ‘nobles’ those of wealth and power where ‘bribed’ with more power, more land to accept the Christian faith as truth.
The peasants, the serfs, the slaves, the general population where threatened with death, starvation, torture, confinement and persecution etc to become Christians. In other words, ‘accept the teaching of the church or die’.
The Church both suppressed their beliefs and took control.
The pagan beliefs meet their needs as a people but was destroyed by the Church. Hence the Christian faith did not so much as ‘offer the masses a chance at a better after life’, but rather accept the ‘new teaching’ and you just might have a ‘life’.
You seem to be clutching at staws here. But you prove my point... We really do not know where it really started
Occam's Razor... I would be very curious how many feet it is from the beginning of the Ramp to the bottom. To dig a Straight ramp this long down to the seep would take much more Resources and Material removed or even a tunnel to reach the depth needed to actually reach the water in a loose Sand Environment like this. They walled it and "Handled it" Quite well for working in loose sand.
I have done this personally...You take out one bucket full of Sand and two fall into it's place.
I'm just curious how these things are 'lost' or 'forgotten'. Are there endless shelves that may contain other interesting treasures?
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