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  • Reply to: The Origins of Human Beings According to Ancient Sumerian Texts   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Kakatal Khan

    Every flood story takes place well after the creation story has ended. This is true in every mythos. How many books separate the two in the bible?

  • Reply to: The Adena Giant Revealed: Profile of Prehistoric Mound Builders   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: chill

    The only thing i agree with on this depiction, is the dark copper skin tone.

  • Reply to: Why Christmas is Held on December 25th   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Pat Foster

    JC's birthday
    IF you and Edersheim had bothered to read the Talmud, it clearly states that JC was born on SEPTEMBER 15th.

    It also gives his "real" name. There is NO "J" in Hebrew.

    This would have saved everyone reading so much dribble.

    The "orthodox church" celebrated JC's birthday on the 7th JANUARY.

    The 25th DECEMBER is the day that the END of the winter equinox was celebrated as anyone who has studied history should be able to tell you.

    And this following extract is a complete load of bollocks. You have obviously NOT lived in "Israel" and BTW it was called ISRAEL back in those days as well, NOT palestine.

    "Winters can be cold in Palestine, but they vary greatly, and some Decembers are rather mild."

    Throwing in ALL of the rest of the garbage references that you have included in this scrambled mess is just an arrogant waste of time as everything you have stated is speculative and based on cloud formations.

    Quoting sources from 347-407 A.D is not very bright as the "church" had included many pagan rituals into its system and thus any information from the time after the formation of the "church" must be deemed as suspect.

    HERE ARE 2 EXAMPLES of where the church got it wrong.

    1. Satan

    Most people think that Satan means the devil, yet for the few who have studied Hebrew, I ask you to look up (in Hebrew) the “Book of Job” 1:6.

    Exact translation is: “And there was a day and they came Beni Elohim to present (themselves) upon the Lord, and came ALSO HaSatan amongst them”. It is worth to note that in Biblical Hebrew the future tense and past tense are reversed compared to modern Hebrew so the word “And There Was” in modern Hebrew would actually mean “And there WILL BE”. The same applies to the “And They Came”.

    Basically, it says that the “Satan” came before the “Lord” with the Beni Elohim (Sons of the Elohim). This passage is often mis-translated by ignorant ministers as a bad thing when in fact, the name Ha-Satan actually means “DECEIVER” (which is why Iran called the USA the Great Satan - circa Iran/Contra affair – and the ignorant laughed).

    Satan (in actual fact) does not mean devil, it means deceiver so that if a man or woman thinks that they are righteous, it is Satan’s job to test people to see if they truly are righteous. Same as when you sit for exams at the end of the year.

    Google (Search Keywords: Satan means deceiver -wiki)

    2. Lucifer

    Here is a twist for you. Again proving that most people do not know what they are actually saying.

    Lucifer actually means light bringer, from the Latin lux “light” and ferre “to bear or bring.”

    The word Lucifer it is a name given by the ancients to the (star) planet VENUS and it is the star which rises (Northern Hemisphere) and sets just before the Sun arose. The ancients thought that Venus ushered in the sun, hence the name Light Bringer. People thought it was a star before they knew it was a planet.

    Interesting to note is that many ancient religions seemed to have an affinity to Venus for some strange reason especially the Mayans, the Aztecs, Greeks, Romans, Sumerians, Babylonians, Celts and even some Australian aboriginal cultures observed and often had intricate time tables of the planet Venus. Why you ask? I do not know.

    How the word Lucifer came to be associated with “The Devil” is completely beyond my small brain. But it does go to show how we mindlessly repeat absolute BS without ever checking the validity of what we are repeating.

    Google (Search Keywords: Lucifer means light bringer venus -wiki) put minus –wiki for best results.
    Google (Search Keywords: Kolbrin bible)

    Further reading from www.Amazon.com
    (Immanuel Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision)
    (Immanuel Velikovsky: Cultural Amnesia)
    (Lana Cantrell: The Greatest Story Never Told)

    By the way, for those familiar with Velikovsky’s works, it will make much more sense if you first read the KOLBRIN BIBLE. Some of his “outlandish” idea’s will suddenly make sense.

  • Reply to: Elizabeth Bathory: Was the ‘Blood Countess’ Serial Killer Misjudged?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Eliza Körmendi

    I'm a hungarian and I read the hungarian wiki and it says those where just false charges against her, while she was a normal woman who loved her family and her servants and gave home for the victims of the Turkish attacks. It says those legends are clearly fake, while the english wikipedia shouts into your face that she was a serial killer and such, as a fact, while its not. She was innocent and it's a fact. The english wikipedia about her should be deleted, and read the hungarian version about her.

  • Reply to: Whiskers still bristling after more than 10,000 years in the Siberian cold   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Tom Carberry

    Why the estimate of 10,000 years old? Because of theory, which makes these cats go extinct around then. Frozen tissues deteriorates, and does so real fast if not flash frozen at super low temperatures, like modern frozen turkeys.

    Same with the mammoth carcasses found frozen, some with edible meat.

    I think a more reasonable explanation lies in that some of these creatures survived much longer than theory predicts. Why couldn't creatures survive for a long time in the areas of the world where humans don't go?

  • Reply to: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Empedocles of Acragas - The Pre-Socratic Philosopher with a Sense of Style   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Roland Marquardt

    If you really want to know something about Empedocles and what he meant, you may like to read "Reality" by Peter Kingsley. Empedocles, who lived 2500 years ago, is his teacher and one of the people who conciously created this Western civilisation, which we live in the death throes of...

  • Reply to: Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Arramu

    Buddhis cut their hair becuase they are not spiritual. They are a bunch of weirdos giving up the body and only focusing on the mind. On the kabbalistic tree of life buddhist idea of enlightement of only one of the low sephiros that of mercury. Mercury is also the closes t planet to the sun (the youngest). And if thats not enough buddhism and all their sh** is everywhere on the internet. TRUE traditions are not even mentioned on the internet nowadays but buddhism and meditation is everywhere>??!?!?! think again, the elites do control the internet but they make it seem like they dont, unless you have eyes to see (real knowledge to check upon)

  • Reply to: The Adena Giant Revealed: Profile of Prehistoric Mound Builders   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Tom Carberry

    An elongated cranial vault would allow for much larger brain size without the need for larger pelvic sizes for mothers.

    What if we have all of our ideas of evolution wrong and instead of evolution "up" from some missing link, we in fact devolved from a larger brained ancestor?

    If humans evolved under much more favorable conditions than today and a catastrophe altered the Earth's climate and atmosphere, then the fossil record would show mutations for thousands of years, resulting in our current form.

  • Reply to: Why Christmas is Held on December 25th   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: J A Eidsmoe

    Why, when a Christian festival or practice and a pagan festival or practice coincide, do we assume that Christians took it from the pagans? Why not the other way around.?
    I believe there is good evidence that Jesus was born on or around 25 December, although it is not conclusive and one's faith need not depend on it.

    THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE

    What does the Bible say about the date of Jesus’ birth? Luke 2:6 tells us that “the days were accomplished that she should be delivered,” so we assume Jesus was a full-term baby, born nine months after His conception. Luke 1:26 says the angel Gabriel announced the conception of Jesus to Mary in the sixth month of her cousin Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist. So Jesus was conceived about six months after John the Baptist was conceived.

    So when was John the Baptist conceived? That’s more difficult, but the Scriptures suggest some answers. John’s father was Zacharias, a Levite priest “of the course of Abia [Abijah]” (Luke 1:5). According to I Chronicles 24:7-19, King David had divided the priests into 24 orders, and these orders took turns serving in the temple for a period of eight days twice a year, separated from their wives and children. During their Zacharias and the other priests of the course of Abia served during the 10th and 24th weeks of the Jewish year.

    The angel of the Lord spoke to Zacharias “while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course” (Luke 1:8), that is, while he was performing his service in the temple. After his course was finished he left the temple, returned to his wife, Elizabeth, and John was conceived (Luke 1:23-24). If this was after the second course, that is, the 24th week of the year, John would have been conceived around September or October and born around June or July. Jesus’ conception six months later would have occurred around March or April and His birth around December or January.

    There is no certainty to this theory, especially given that the Jewish calendar (of only 360 days) may have been different from King David’s time to Jesus’ time. But based on the scriptural account of Zacharias’s service in the temple, it is well within the realm of possibility that Jesus was born in December.

    THE EXTRA-BIBLICAL EVIDENCE

    St. John Chrysostom (347-407 A.D.), whose status in eastern Orthodoxy is comparable to that of Augustine in western Roman Catholicism, argued strongly for a Dec. 25 birthdate because of the course of Zacharias’ priestly service. But he also based his conclusion on the findings of Pope Julius. Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem (348-386 A.D.) had asked Pope Julius to ascertain the date of Christ’s birth “from the census documents brought by Titus to Rome” after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Julius then determined the date of Christ’s birth to be Dec. 25.

    Julius, Cyril and Chrysostom were not alone in their reliance upon the census documents. Justin Martyr (100-165 A.D.), in a detailed statement of the Christian faith addressed to Emperor Marcus Aurelius, stated that Jesus was born in Bethlehem “as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing.” (Apology, I, 34). Likewise, Tertullian (160-250 A.D.) wrote of “the census of Augustus – that most faithful witness of the Lord’s nativity, kept in the archives of Rome” Contra Marcion, Book 4, 7).

    Unfortunately, we do not have access to these census records today. But perhaps the better part of wisdom bids us to assume that these church fathers had access to information that we do not possess, and that they knew what they were talking about.

    Some have said that Jesus couldn’t have been born in December because shepherds did not keep their sheep in the fields past late autumn. But Alfred Edersheim, in his classic work “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883) ,” cites ancient Jewish sources to the effect that flocks of sheep “remain in the open alike in the hottest days and in the rainy season – i.e. all the year round” (Book 2, p. 186). There was also a special class of Levitical shepherds who kept sacrificial lambs in the field all year round because they were used for sacrifice every month of the year.

    Winters can be cold in Palestine, but they vary greatly, and some Decembers are rather mild. A recent study of stalagmites and stalactites in caves near Jerusalem strongly suggests that the average annual rainfall dropped nearly 50 percent from about 3 feet in 100 A.D. to about 1.6 feet in 700 A.D. Average winter temperatures may have varied as well. If Mary could have given birth to a baby in a Bethlehem stable, then hardy shepherds could have watched their flocks in the fields at the same time.

    Edersheim concludes, “There is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date (Dec. 25). The objections generally made rest on grounds, which seem to me historically untenable.”

    For more information, I suggest you go to the website of The Brothers of John the Steadfast,
    http://steadfastlutherans.org/2014/12/redeeming-holy-days-from-pagan-lie...
    and read a series of articles by Pastor Joseph Abrahamson titled "Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies."

  • Reply to: The Adena Giant Revealed: Profile of Prehistoric Mound Builders   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: luis soto

    Even the very OLD writings as the Bible and the Torah it is stated that there were GIANTS in the world in those days. When the "SONS OF GOD" came down and saw the "DAUGHTERS OF MAN" they found them FAIR and they took them for wives. The babies that were born were "GIANTS".
    Go to the BIBLE and study Genesis 6.

  • Reply to: The Adena Giant Revealed: Profile of Prehistoric Mound Builders   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: JerrySchimmel

    Don't forget the Lovelock, Nevada, giants. They have been mentioned repeatedly. Just check YouTube. Someone found them in a cave, then took them away to where they have never been seen since. There always seems to be this "they have disappeared" in so many accounts of giants or of artifacts for that matter.

  • Reply to: Ancient Vanishings: The mysterious and supernatural disappearance of Romulus   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Native

    This myth is a Story of Creation and not a story of “how the city of Rome was founded”. As “sons of Mars” this of course cannot be “sons of planet Mars” but sons of an archetypical deity of creation.

    Mars and the she-wolff represents the two hemisphere celestial images of the Milky Way where the northern contours shows a huge male-like figure with a weapon in his hand – and where the southern Milky Way figure shows a huge female-like figure, sometimes mentioned as an animal creator and sometimes as a celestial goddess, the roman goddess Venus. This goddess often is depicted with many breasts as a symbol of life-giver and life-sustainer.

    - It is very common for scholars to confuse these ancient tellings and legends, mixing the archetypical myth with geographic locations. This takes part because the interpretator haven´t the cosmological knowledge of connecting the correct myth to the correct cosmological contents. This is a huge problem in all mythical interpretation.

    A Mytho-cosmological link:
    http://www.native-science.net/Forefather.Worship.htm

       
  • Reply to: Female Amazon warrior buried 2,500 years ago in Altai Mountains was... male   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: vcragain

    Also of course, human nature being what it is, if there were female warriors then it is not out of the bounds of possibility that certain young men might want to join that elite group, specially if they were of the effeminate type ! We do not inspect people's genitalia to make sure their gender is 'correct' even now !

  • Reply to: Santa’s Horned Helper: The Fearsome Legend of Krampus, Christmas Punisher   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Native

    “Santa Claus” is the giver of gifts and he must have derived from the archetypical myths where the primary deities are the cause of life itself and everything which is needed in order to sustain the life.

    The prime deities of creation is closely connected to the Milky Way as seen and illustrated here - “God, Man and animal” - http://www.native-science.net/Antropomorph.God.Man.Animal.htm

    The very celestial image of Santa Claus and Krampus are carved in stones and rock surfaces and they can be compared mytho-cosmologically all over the world as the comparisons of an ancient Bronze Age rock carving from Sweden and the mythical image of the Egyptian god, Seth, as seen on my linked personal Mytho-Cosmological website.

     
  • Reply to: Why Christmas is Held on December 25th   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Earl Bush

    Weather in Bethlehem (Israel) is very similar to Seattle Washington, minus the rain. I have been there and yes December is cold. Even snow at times.

  • Reply to: The Legendary Kraken: The Real Animal Behind the Monster   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: BonnieDero

    Does anyone know any Eyewitness Accounts of the Kraken?

  • Reply to: Archaeologists find medieval teenage witch burial in Italian town   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Sue Lyons

    I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.

  • Reply to: Archaeologists find medieval teenage witch burial in Italian town   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Sue Lyons

    I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.

  • Reply to: Ivan Turbinca – The Man Who Belonged in Neither Heaven Nor Hell   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: daehtnulb

    Haha, even back then they were thinking the same as we do now! Always thought the heavens sounded a bit boring myself and hell was too dark.

  • Reply to: The purpose of religion   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Neftana23

    I believe the purpose of religion is to pass down knowledge. Also, we will never understand the past, because their "world" and our "world" are totally different, and no matter how much we think we know of it we kind of don't. Also, I believe religion and myths are all connected. I wish to know the truth of everything including the past. Also, I'm a Christian, but I believe each (old) religion has a grain of truth in it and I believe the bible is incomplete.

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