The fact is that it was only called a sphinx by later Greeks, however it lacks the wings and female features to be a true sphinx. Why archaeologists were able to reasonably date it is due to an unfinished temple complex in front of the Sphinx that cuts into the foundations of the funerey temple of the second pyramid. And also have found fragments of an attached beard, and ancient Egyptian illustrations indicate that it also had a crown attached. The erosion is also quite unspectacular, the sandstone the Sphinx is carved from isn't the hardest material, and wind borne sand has done the damage to mainly the upper body and neck area where there were softer layers. Why people seem to think the Sphinx is a mysterious object is probably the bigger mystery, as scientific, factual evidence has been publically presented. In fact, a quick Wikipedia search easily answers all the questions posed in this article!
First of all, the ancient Egyptians did not consider the god Set to be evil (the demonization of this deity began during the Late Kingdom, as more and more pharaohs of foreign ethnicities came to power, bringing different ideologies into mainstream practice). Secondly, the belief that iron was associated with Him is due to the fact that the majority of iron they used was meteoric in origin. Set is known, among many other things, as the Great Lord of the Seven Stars (the constellation most people in today's society know as the Big Dipper). They understood that meteorites containing iron blazed down out of the sky, appearing to come directly from the stars; the correlation, then, between Set and iron becomes obvious. Accordingly, iron was seen as a sacred metal, not an impure substance associated with evil.
Just as ghillie suit hides one in plain sight, there are various degrees of Occultism which hide deeper meanings. The Occult gains acceptability in the form of art, art which worships human sacrifice, art which acts as propaganda and art which normalises matters which should never be normal. All this is done in the name of tolerance. The modern goal of encouraging tolerance by virtue-signalling has largely been the tolerance of the intolerable.
'Chan eil cleith air an olc, ach gun a' dheanamh' is an old Highland saying, meaning one cannot conceal evil except by not doing it. Those deep into the Occult have somewhat flipped that on its head and many watch and applaud while they do it.
There are a couple of typographical mistakes in that comment (I have had trouble editing comments in the past, so won't bother trying here). But I will say that those who ignore what is truly going on are making an unforgivable mistake. I was in the Australian Labor Party late past century when Australia signed up, like the UK, to mass depopulation by 2030. Since that time every one of us has been exposed to constant scientific propaganda to reinforce the necessity of that. Yet people believe the real is fake and the fake is real.
Lately, Occultism has bern in the news somewhat. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation accidentally broadcast part of a black mass. I am accidentally writing to Mr Cowie in the hope that he understands the full extent of Occultism in society.
Some Occultists think one may be a devotee of Lucifer, the shining one, or Satan or Baal or whoever one wants to call him, and an Atheist. That's like being a Christian without Jesus. The Nazi SS were seriously into the occult. Modern Nazis also are occultists, holed up in a non-German European country 1940s Nazis were heavily involved in. We are supposed to stand by that country, a country known by the UN to be a hotbed of child trafficking. The ABC won't tell us that. Nor will the BBC. That is more than they could bear.
In Satanism, deceit is prayer and child sacrifice is communion. People believe the deceit and turn away from shining a light on these practices. Some professions are full of deceit and Satanism. Some religions and organisations were hijacked for the purposes of hiding Satanism. Some families with high-level links to religions other than Satanism are Satanists. After all, deceit is prayer. Sometimes, they will even tell the truth knowing that it won't be believed. That is another form or deception or more prayer.
Atheists and Theists of the non-Satanic kind should be bothered by this. One does not need to believe that Satan exists to stand against Satanism. The evidence is all around us, but the masses prefer to live in blissful ignorance. But ignorance can not bring true bliss when Nazis rule, Nazis who poke the bear and cause atrocities, then blame it all on others.
Those who do not understand why I write cryptically here, do not understand the laws of the country from which I write and the history of state named after a monarch who was a devotee of the occult linked to a castle in Scotland. Links, links, links. The World is full of links and those who refuse to see them shall end up in chains, as will those who do see them but cannot destroy those chains by themselves.
My forbears link me to the people of the cat, just as Mr Cowie is linked. Understanding can link me to the people of the bear of late. Seek the truth and ye shall find answers. Don't believe me. Do your own research and do it well. I'm no Q con believer. I am an old-time leftist who is no doubt regarded now as a far right extremist for hating Nazis. That makes me a real anti-Fascist in a World where fake anti-Fascism is all the rage. Deceit is prayer. Evil is good. When the old--time leftist, Eric Arthur Blair, sat down on the Isle of Jura and wrote his famous novel under the pen name of George Orwell, did he know that he was writing an instruction manual for the following century?
Most of this article reads like ridiculous, made-up propanda with no substantiation. Even medieval sources were likely Norman and they had every reason to exalt Danes/Vikings over the previous Saxon dynasties. Especially since Normans’ descended from such peoples. It sounds like pseudo-history read through a 21st century, fetishized lens.
Don't forget the amount of seafood they at, and the fact that they preferred that seafood half rotten, or cured. Gravelax is reminiscent of a good Viking seafood dish!
The fact that the artifacts shown in the old photographs which are nothing like what was in the store room is proof enough that either the Vatican or Government of Ecuador are hiding something. Much like how the Smithsonian takes posession of objects, never to be seen again.
It’s the lever, not the handle that would have been an early game changing ‘invention’ in evolutionary history. Even though it’s a found object, it’s how it’s used that makes it a tool. Actually, a handle which amplifies force is a form of lever, and anyway, pre-human monkeys would have ‘invented’ levers to pry things. They still do today. The lever would have come before the handle, in other words, before fabricated purpose-built tools.
Humans have been able to make a much wider range of sounds than grunts and grumbles for a long time. It seems communication works best with a combination of sounds and gestures. Throat singing and whistle languages were used to communicate over distances too great for gestures. I don’t doubt that gestures formed an important part of early language development, but is this study implying that there was a gestural language with grammar before there was a spoken language with grammar? It seems like a pretty big leap.
And while I agree with the point that written language can’t convey nearly as much as direct communication, it certainly is not on the same level as the random grunts this study talks about.
Of all the stupid analogies.. give kids paint or mud or even feces, and you’ll find hand prints and squiggly lines. OK but to call it art, definately BS. it’s like calling fossilized footprints “line dance”
These so called researchers are so stuck in trying to get a paper published, they forget reality and make assumptions that are just plain embarrassing to the reader. too bad they can’t see these same kids doing shadow puppets by the campfire or they’d insist they’d found the birth of stage drama.
Another pile of malarky full of assumptions on ancients were honoring their ansestors when they were merely taking advantage of found previously used stones. because they roamed a lot, there is probably zero relationship between usuers 1 and 2 and 3 or 4.
The study is another attempt to apply current social patterns to the ancient past without any supporting evidence… yes the tools were rechipped but hardly because this tool was their grandfathers! It’s on he par with the current trend to ascribe any scratched rock or surface as “art” or kids having fun hand printing surfaces as conscious art. Next we’ll be looking at fossilized foot prints as evidence of ritual dance.
The ancients involved were roving hunter gatherers existing more by accidental discovery than by premeditated actions.
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So the idea that the Sphinx is something more comes from a 1932 prophet and the rosicrusians and people take this serious? Really?
The fact is that it was only called a sphinx by later Greeks, however it lacks the wings and female features to be a true sphinx. Why archaeologists were able to reasonably date it is due to an unfinished temple complex in front of the Sphinx that cuts into the foundations of the funerey temple of the second pyramid. And also have found fragments of an attached beard, and ancient Egyptian illustrations indicate that it also had a crown attached. The erosion is also quite unspectacular, the sandstone the Sphinx is carved from isn't the hardest material, and wind borne sand has done the damage to mainly the upper body and neck area where there were softer layers. Why people seem to think the Sphinx is a mysterious object is probably the bigger mystery, as scientific, factual evidence has been publically presented. In fact, a quick Wikipedia search easily answers all the questions posed in this article!
First of all, the ancient Egyptians did not consider the god Set to be evil (the demonization of this deity began during the Late Kingdom, as more and more pharaohs of foreign ethnicities came to power, bringing different ideologies into mainstream practice). Secondly, the belief that iron was associated with Him is due to the fact that the majority of iron they used was meteoric in origin. Set is known, among many other things, as the Great Lord of the Seven Stars (the constellation most people in today's society know as the Big Dipper). They understood that meteorites containing iron blazed down out of the sky, appearing to come directly from the stars; the correlation, then, between Set and iron becomes obvious. Accordingly, iron was seen as a sacred metal, not an impure substance associated with evil.
Just as ghillie suit hides one in plain sight, there are various degrees of Occultism which hide deeper meanings. The Occult gains acceptability in the form of art, art which worships human sacrifice, art which acts as propaganda and art which normalises matters which should never be normal. All this is done in the name of tolerance. The modern goal of encouraging tolerance by virtue-signalling has largely been the tolerance of the intolerable.
'Chan eil cleith air an olc, ach gun a' dheanamh' is an old Highland saying, meaning one cannot conceal evil except by not doing it. Those deep into the Occult have somewhat flipped that on its head and many watch and applaud while they do it.
There are a couple of typographical mistakes in that comment (I have had trouble editing comments in the past, so won't bother trying here). But I will say that those who ignore what is truly going on are making an unforgivable mistake. I was in the Australian Labor Party late past century when Australia signed up, like the UK, to mass depopulation by 2030. Since that time every one of us has been exposed to constant scientific propaganda to reinforce the necessity of that. Yet people believe the real is fake and the fake is real.
Lately, Occultism has bern in the news somewhat. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation accidentally broadcast part of a black mass. I am accidentally writing to Mr Cowie in the hope that he understands the full extent of Occultism in society.
Some Occultists think one may be a devotee of Lucifer, the shining one, or Satan or Baal or whoever one wants to call him, and an Atheist. That's like being a Christian without Jesus. The Nazi SS were seriously into the occult. Modern Nazis also are occultists, holed up in a non-German European country 1940s Nazis were heavily involved in. We are supposed to stand by that country, a country known by the UN to be a hotbed of child trafficking. The ABC won't tell us that. Nor will the BBC. That is more than they could bear.
In Satanism, deceit is prayer and child sacrifice is communion. People believe the deceit and turn away from shining a light on these practices. Some professions are full of deceit and Satanism. Some religions and organisations were hijacked for the purposes of hiding Satanism. Some families with high-level links to religions other than Satanism are Satanists. After all, deceit is prayer. Sometimes, they will even tell the truth knowing that it won't be believed. That is another form or deception or more prayer.
Atheists and Theists of the non-Satanic kind should be bothered by this. One does not need to believe that Satan exists to stand against Satanism. The evidence is all around us, but the masses prefer to live in blissful ignorance. But ignorance can not bring true bliss when Nazis rule, Nazis who poke the bear and cause atrocities, then blame it all on others.
Those who do not understand why I write cryptically here, do not understand the laws of the country from which I write and the history of state named after a monarch who was a devotee of the occult linked to a castle in Scotland. Links, links, links. The World is full of links and those who refuse to see them shall end up in chains, as will those who do see them but cannot destroy those chains by themselves.
My forbears link me to the people of the cat, just as Mr Cowie is linked. Understanding can link me to the people of the bear of late. Seek the truth and ye shall find answers. Don't believe me. Do your own research and do it well. I'm no Q con believer. I am an old-time leftist who is no doubt regarded now as a far right extremist for hating Nazis. That makes me a real anti-Fascist in a World where fake anti-Fascism is all the rage. Deceit is prayer. Evil is good. When the old--time leftist, Eric Arthur Blair, sat down on the Isle of Jura and wrote his famous novel under the pen name of George Orwell, did he know that he was writing an instruction manual for the following century?
Maykop culture was during the Age of Taurus, hence the golden bull.
One thing I would like to understand is how do they diffrentiate between the age of the tool and the age of the raw materials, ie. stones etc.
I see two brassieres, a giraffe, a giant beaver, and a pair of sunglasses.
Most of this article reads like ridiculous, made-up propanda with no substantiation. Even medieval sources were likely Norman and they had every reason to exalt Danes/Vikings over the previous Saxon dynasties. Especially since Normans’ descended from such peoples. It sounds like pseudo-history read through a 21st century, fetishized lens.
The article sounds like an advertisment for a locally (York) manufactured (souvenir) deodorant.
Don't forget the amount of seafood they at, and the fact that they preferred that seafood half rotten, or cured. Gravelax is reminiscent of a good Viking seafood dish!
The fact that the artifacts shown in the old photographs which are nothing like what was in the store room is proof enough that either the Vatican or Government of Ecuador are hiding something. Much like how the Smithsonian takes posession of objects, never to be seen again.
It’s the lever, not the handle that would have been an early game changing ‘invention’ in evolutionary history. Even though it’s a found object, it’s how it’s used that makes it a tool. Actually, a handle which amplifies force is a form of lever, and anyway, pre-human monkeys would have ‘invented’ levers to pry things. They still do today. The lever would have come before the handle, in other words, before fabricated purpose-built tools.
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Surely speech is the best means of communicating? Who says that early man could not speak and how do they know they couldn’t?
Elrotto, I agree.
Good article, always something interesting found everyday
Humans have been able to make a much wider range of sounds than grunts and grumbles for a long time. It seems communication works best with a combination of sounds and gestures. Throat singing and whistle languages were used to communicate over distances too great for gestures. I don’t doubt that gestures formed an important part of early language development, but is this study implying that there was a gestural language with grammar before there was a spoken language with grammar? It seems like a pretty big leap.
And while I agree with the point that written language can’t convey nearly as much as direct communication, it certainly is not on the same level as the random grunts this study talks about.
Of all the stupid analogies.. give kids paint or mud or even feces, and you’ll find hand prints and squiggly lines. OK but to call it art, definately BS. it’s like calling fossilized footprints “line dance”
These so called researchers are so stuck in trying to get a paper published, they forget reality and make assumptions that are just plain embarrassing to the reader. too bad they can’t see these same kids doing shadow puppets by the campfire or they’d insist they’d found the birth of stage drama.
Another pile of malarky full of assumptions on ancients were honoring their ansestors when they were merely taking advantage of found previously used stones. because they roamed a lot, there is probably zero relationship between usuers 1 and 2 and 3 or 4.
The study is another attempt to apply current social patterns to the ancient past without any supporting evidence… yes the tools were rechipped but hardly because this tool was their grandfathers! It’s on he par with the current trend to ascribe any scratched rock or surface as “art” or kids having fun hand printing surfaces as conscious art. Next we’ll be looking at fossilized foot prints as evidence of ritual dance.
The ancients involved were roving hunter gatherers existing more by accidental discovery than by premeditated actions.
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