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  • Reply to: Dazzling Temple to Cult God Mithras Uncovered in Italy   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    The marble carving is a depiction of the Age of Aries killing off or superseding the previous Age of Taurus, It does not show Mithras

    Mars the planet naturally associated with Aries rules knives, sharp points, blood and war etc. Aries holds a knife stabbed into the neck of Taurus the bull.
    The rich and sumptuous Egyptian civilisation was during the age of Taurus. Mythical Moses moved out of Egypt signifying the end of the Age of Taurus and the end of the Egyptian civilisation then came the Age of Aries and the rise of the Roman Empire which is ruled by Mars, the ruler of war.

    Mithras was not considered a god. The use of the term god was used by the early Christians to denigrate the beliefs of those that came before the Christian system however we still cling to the use of the word 'gods'.

  • Reply to: Pelasgos and The Mysterious Pelasgians of the Aegean   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: TomS

    Hookfish, I like your thinking on this.

  • Reply to: Mystery People of the Sea— Who were the Ancient Danites & Danaan? Part I   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Hookfish

    For accuracy of history there were 13 tribes of Israel.  12 Tribes were given a land by Jacob/Israel in their inheritance.  One tribe Benjamin was not give territory.  Joseph was give a double measure resulting in two individual tribes.  I know I am picky about this but there is so much written about history that treats the facts a bit carelessly leading to misunderstandings.   

     

     

  • Reply to: Bearded Gods of the Americas Were Jesus Resurrected?! Maybe. But Why is the Plumed Serpent Ubiquitous?   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: nsheedy

    I thought the article was mediocre up till the part where he claimed that evidence of only 10 sacrifices have been found among the Incan Empire. I don't think author knows much about what he's talking about.

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-...

    And the insinuation that the Book of Mormon account might explain bearded white Gods appearing in both Mexico and Polynesian Traditions is laughably absurd. The Mormons don't need any more apologists to try to support the stories that Joe Smith made up.

  • Reply to: Only 11 Tribes of Israel? Controversial Findings Reveal Danites Might Not Be Sons of Israel But Sons Of Greece   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Hookfish

    This comment began correct.  However the difinition of who are Jews depends also on when in time and history one is discussing.   The word Jew came into prominant use during the Roman occupation.  It seems to have referred to everyone living in that area regardless of their DNA.   By the year 0 AD the population referred to as Jews consisted of more non-Israelites than Israelites.   By this time it included many Hebrew cousins as well plus any other population that was willing to circumsize and join the rest.   Idumean’s for example were 40% of the Rebellion soldiers against Rome.   

    I have often maintained that the word or term Jew is a confusing word when used in discussions as it really has many meanings depending on time and place and has been used somewhat carelessly in history.  When using the word Jew or Jewish I think an adjective or two should be place in front of the word to define it better.   When I have written this in the past some have incorrectly assumed this is an anti-semetic approach.  To the contrary it is simply defining accurately people in a discussion.  

  • Reply to: Only 11 Tribes of Israel? Controversial Findings Reveal Danites Might Not Be Sons of Israel But Sons Of Greece   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Hookfish

    Spartan Greeks clearly maintained they were Hebrew.  Remember HBR means Eber son of PLG or Pelag.   Spartan Pelasgians wrote to Israel saying "Arius, king of the Spartans, sends greetings to Onias, the chief priest. It has been found in a writing concerning the Spartans and Jews, that they are a kinsmen, and that they are descended from Abraham. Now since we have learned this, please write us about your welfare. We for our part write you that your cattle and property are ours and ours are yours. So we command them to report to you to this effect."  This understanding is confused by moderns.   Today we blend the meaning of the term Jewish with Israel with Hebrew.  Historians misunderstand the root beginnings of HBR or Hebrew.  This is why Greek letters, old Hebrew letters are virtually identical.   We know that Spartans are not Mycean Greeks but the original occupants.  No one knows for sure why ancient history states that the earth was divided during the time of PLG or Pelag.   If one interprets the earth physically dividing then and then the history use of the term Pele/Peleg which includes the term for Volcano god/goddess in the Pacific Islands one begins to understand these facts differently.  Obviously there is much we do not know but when studying mythology and religion we all look through a glass of time that distorts facts.   Yet somewhere there is a connection to the facts as understood by early civilization which is colored by their particular religion and myths.  The memory of mankind seems to go way back to a time well beyond recorded history.   So much in history does not seem to fit well with our science of timelines.   We see this over and over again.  

  • Reply to: Pelasgos and The Mysterious Pelasgians of the Aegean   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Hookfish

    Try connecting the dots of old religions rather than adhearing to the current understandings.  Spartan Greeks were Pelasgians.   Spartan Greeks were cousins of the Isralites based on historic documents.   Historians often miss the connection.   Israelites are Hebrew.  Hebrew comes from the word Eber who was the biblical father of Peleg.  All Hebrews spoke like H-Eber  or HBR in Hebrew with no vowles.   Peleg lived with the world was divided.   Pele is the world for Volcano god in much of the world.   Pelasgians believe they were nearly wiped out by a flood.   The Biblical Flood came after HBR and Peleg.  Ancient Hebrews were genetically different from modern Israelites and most Jewish people – this I learned from new articles here so I won’t try to support the thesis.   The theory goes that ancient Pelasgians which included Spartans were the early Greeks and spoke a different language [probably like HBR]   Ancient Spartan Greeks [Pelasgians] were from Peleg a name from the word Pele/Peleg comes from the earth tearing apart.   Today we tend to use the word Hebrew to mean Jewish population.  Ancient Greek religions, Pelasgians religion and ancient Biblical recordings may be referring to the same eventsd and the same people nearly wiped out by flood.   Bible believers have some issue with this as they tend to infer that all of mankind was killed in the flood.  The bible often uses terms that are believed to me the whole earth when the real translation is more local in origin.   This was true in Revelations Revelation 8:10-11 with the Chernobyl – Wormwood reference which most Christians believe is a whole earth distruction event when it is not.   

    The information recorded in the old religous myths needs to be both distilled and correlated with a little bit of understanding that while partly factual they were understood in light of ancient knowledge and transmitted through thousands of years with fuzzy transmission.  

  • Reply to: Pelasgos and The Mysterious Pelasgians of the Aegean   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Hookfish

    Try connecting the dots of old religions rather than adhearing to the current understandings.  Spartan Greeks were Pelasgians.   Spartan Greeks were cousins of the Isralites based on historic documents.   Historians often miss the connection.   Israelites are Hebrew.  Hebrew comes from the word Eber who was the biblical father of Peleg.  All Hebrews spoke like H-Eber  or HBR in Hebrew with no vowles.   Peleg lived with the world was divided.   Pele is the world for Volcano god in much of the world.   Pelasgians believe they were nearly wiped out by a flood.   The Biblical Flood came after HBR and Peleg.  Ancient Hebrews were genetically different from modern Israelites and most Jewish people – this I learned from new articles here so I won’t try to support the thesis.   The theory goes that ancient Pelasgians which included Spartans were the early Greeks and spoke a different language [probably like HBR]   Ancient Spartan Greeks [Pelasgians] were from Peleg a name from the word Pele/Peleg comes from the earth tearing apart.   Today we tend to use the word Hebrew to mean Jewish population.  Ancient Greek religions, Pelasgians religion and ancient Biblical recordings may be referring to the same eventsd and the same people nearly wiped out by flood.   Bible believers have some issue with this as they tend to infer that all of mankind was killed in the flood.  The bible often uses terms that are believed to me the whole earth when the real translation is more local in origin.   This was true in Revelations Revelation 8:10-11 with the Chernobyl – Wormwood reference which most Christians believe is a whole earth distruction event when it is not.   

    The information recorded in the old religous myths needs to be both distilled and correlated with a little bit of understanding that while partly factual they were understood in light of ancient knowledge and transmitted through thousands of years with fuzzy transmission.  

  • Reply to: Have Scientists Really Discovered A New 3.67 Million-Year-Old Species of Upright Hominid?   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: sanjayrsinghal@...

    Thank you for this article; it is a topic of great interest to me.

  • Reply to: How Anglo-Saxon England Made the Radical Change to Christianity   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: TomS

    Yea, in some parts. Also the fact that if the king was Christian, you were too. I'm also sure many of them just instinctively realized it was true.

  • Reply to: Mathematics of the Pharaohs: The Rhind Papyrus and Ancient Egyptian Math   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: iandoug

    @Toms
    Reply-to-comment function seems a little broken.

    Our ease at doing sums with Arabic notation lets us assume that other cultures had the same approach. The ancients didn't ... they did sums on a counting table, and wrote down the answer, rather than our current approach of doing it with pen and paper. So the actual numeric notation didn't get in the way of doing the sums. Well. at least for basic arithmetic operations.

  • Reply to: The Eternal Kiss of the Hasanlu Lovers Throws Up Questions of Ancient Love: Romance, Bromance or Something More Familial?   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Mary Madeline

    Don't understand why they can't get the sex of neither, very weird , considering the science of today

  • Reply to: How Anglo-Saxon England Made the Radical Change to Christianity   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    The rapid conversion to Christianity was due to the tip of a very sharp sword.

  • Reply to: Piercing the Veil: Uncovering the Secrets of The Holy Lance   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    Institutional religion is a powerful weapon to subjugate.

    "So holy relics began popping up with increased frequency."
    So much money fluidity for icons. I scratch my head.

  • Reply to: Mathematics of the Pharaohs: The Rhind Papyrus and Ancient Egyptian Math   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: TomS

    Hard to understand how they did anything complex with hieroglyph numbers even if it was in base 10. Especially without the zero. I read somewhere about Sumerian numbers being base 60. Maybe our numbers would look like hieroglyphs to them.

    Equally difficult is visualizing the Romans accomplishing their architecture and engineering with their unwieldy numerical system.

  • Reply to: How Anglo-Saxon England Made the Radical Change to Christianity   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: TomS

    I thought the first Christians in England was the Church of the Culdees, established by Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury in the first century. This was, I think, 37AD before Christianity even reached Rome. A quick search will give plenty of references. I do know, however, that most of early Celtic Christianity was Gnostic but this church was supposed to be true, pure, primitive Christianity.

  • Reply to: Mathematics of the Pharaohs: The Rhind Papyrus and Ancient Egyptian Math   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Gary Moran

    The engineering involved in building the pyramids certainly needed more advanced math techniques. The mathematical data encoded into the design cannot be just coincidence. That in itself convinces me that the Egyptians we know could not have built those monuments, regardless of what Lehner and Hawass say.

  • Reply to: Beware the Wandering Wilas of Slavic Mythology   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Ladyorpheus
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    We marry Vila men. We don't all have bright blond hair, we do get highly aggravated when people talk on our behalf and the rumours that we became human if we married a mortal was created as a kind of hunting propaganda. Amusingly the men are even angrier than the women and more beautiful. Society always splits 50/50 between worshiping us and wanting to trap us. My father is "mortal" and my family had forgotten their tribe due to extreme seperation caused by enslavement. I realised that my father coveted me a year ago and he turned into a slave driving monster because I said no just once. He withdrew all security and pushed me toward prostitution which I refused. He forced illness on me as a way to make me admit faelty. He is not Veela, he is just a lord of the rings fanboy who likes to own fairies.
    I've worked in public for over a decade and I never agree and the covetous nature of society gives me a mini heart attack, but it's still preferable to the slavery system my father set up. I've seen more honour in all the dictators of earth than in the man I share DNA from.
    I've been testing my DNA for a year, I orchestrate emotions as people need them. It only works in person. I've been making my own psychology degree out of boredom. If a person tells me they love someone I can tell them their potential feelings and how to woo them and if someone is hating on them I create a little emotional backboard so they can set up deflections so both parties grow up again. No marriage, no blood oath, just good old fashioned logic.
    We've grown up right alongside everyone else, it's just those of us with brown to black hair get absolutely mistreated by people. I'm only 5 foot, so I get a lot of dwarf jokes flung at me. I'm not the one who overfed me and verbally bullied me for years ago that I'd be stunted. I'm still cute but if I try to shine I get beat down by every hussy going. I'm tired. I fell in love with someone last year and I let him go because fairytales were interfering with reality. I protect him from afar though so that part is true. If he decides his true love is elsewhere I completely respect that I'm not the Vila for him. I loved, I lost, I tried, part of me died and life moves on. We re-emerge and others come to romance on the field of battle.
    I've compared Vila love to boring human love and you all have it considerable better. You shouldn't desire us. Not if you want to live longer.

  • Reply to: 7,000-year-old Fortress Found Under the Yumuktepe Mound   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: [email protected]

    i love you anti-semitic Aryan-supremacist types. don’t let the nasty facts get in the way that the Aryans were the major culprits of spreading war and racist around the world.

  • Reply to: 7,000-year-old Fortress Found Under the Yumuktepe Mound   4 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: [email protected]

    There was no need for fortresses 7000 years ago, as there was no war. Why is everyone trying so hard to pretend we have always been fighting wars?  Why do you call it a "fortress" and then say it was a wall for the production of copper ? If you really don't know that copper isn’t hard enough to make weapons, and that there were no weapons before there was bronze, please refrain from writing archaeology.  

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