There are two things the study does not take into consideratuion. the first is Jewish law regarding marriages. A Cohen is not allowed to marry a convert. The law originated in Biblical times when Cohens had a lot of power and prestige. There was a fear that if converts could marry cohens, some women would convert to acquire power and not out of religious conviction. The law still holds, though, and if a Cohen breaks this rule his children do not have teh status of a Cohen. The existence of Cohens among Ashkenaz Jews is proof that at least in those families, the original immigrants married women who were born Jewish and no one in their patrilineal line ever married a woman who was not born Jewish. The other factor the study ignores is the Holocaust. Those Jews in Europe who had enough European DNA to pass a s Aryan had a much higher survival rate. They could obtain false papers and then live in occupied Europe under a false identity or cross into Switzerland posing as non-Jewish immigrants. If that didn’t work out, they had a better chance of being hidden. People were more likely to take in Jews who looked like they were only half-Jewish. Those who looked Aryan also had a better chance of being accepted by Polish partisans, who sometimes murdered Jews they found hiding in the forests. Allof this adds up to a drastic change in the genetic makeup of post Holocaust Ashkenaz communities. Those with the highest perecentage of Middle Eastern DNA were simply more likely to be sent to concentration camps and killed. Any study conducted on Ashkenaz Jews today has to take his into consideration. It is not a study of the historic Ashkenaz community but rather of the 1/3 of that comunity who surviived a genocide as well as their descendants. If a similar Holocaust had happened to African Americans, and those who could pass as white had a higher survival rate than those who could not, today’s African Americans would all look slightly more European than African, and DNA tests would show a lot of European ancestry. No one would use that fact to rewrite African American history, and with good reason. Using a community’s tragedy to deny them their heritage is immoral.
Gary. There have been analysis and studies done in Europe showing copper ox hide ingots made from Lake Superior copper. The last one I saw was done on a recently found ship wreck near Greece. Just google search it and you’ll see what you’re looking for.
With the recent discovery of Homo Floriensis, little people are now a historical reality. Perhaps that is the origin of the little people in the Phillipines. Maybe the ancients were ALL little people, and thought that someone at 5’ 6” was a giant.
So many stories and legends exist that I think it they must have been driven by some reality.
I am impressed with the huge amounts of copper estimated to have been removed from Isle Royal area. Several copper artifacts have been found in North American burials, but no where near enouch to account for the many thousands of tons removed from those mines. However, I am not aware of chemical analyses of copper or bronze items in Europe to determine whether their source could have been those famous mines.
There are many more examples of pre-columbus contact on the American side, but confirmation on the European side seems pretty vague. Romans kept lots of written records. Could documentation of excursions to the Americas be held in the Vatican? Surely the Church would have been interested.
It's also very likely the Chinese made it to the Americas. It's always so hard for us to believe the ancients were as modern in their era as we are in ours. There's a lesson to be learned from this.
This is disgraceful! You said: "An obscure passage tells of a ‘gift’ that Abraham gave to the sons of his concubines." There is nothing obscure about his passage at all. 'Gifts' here (Hebrew: mattanah) is translated most often as gifts and a couple of times as bribe/bribes. There is nothing obscure about this. It is quite clear that Abraham designated Isaac his heir and gave his other sons gifts or bribes to send them away. Most likely he gave them some of his livestock and/or money as they wouldn't receive an inheritance. The clue is given in the phrase “while he was still living” as Isaac couldn’t receive the inheritance until Abraham had died. While he was still living, he gave some of what he owned to his other sons, once he died, Isaac became his sole heir. This is very straighforward. There is no mention of abilities, familiar spirits or demons in the verse you quoted.
Nothing in this passage suggests that they "were given the ability to speak with demons and have relations with familiar spirits." This is pure speculation on your part and you provide no evidence to support your wild assertion. Shame on you!
Which all makes for confusing nonsense...... unless one has the key to unlock the meaning of the story. Currently academics do not but some do have the key and the story makes sense.
Alice through the looking glass is total nonsense unless one has the key and the key in this case is Amanita Muscaria. If you should want the key then contact me at guillaume icon.co.za
I do have the key to the story of Hercules but I cannot reveal it as the times are not right for acceptance but the time will come, soon
No, most women did NOT die at 30. When you say 'the average age' you lump in the better than 50 percent death rate of infants and small children, and then you need to consider the 'average' person from the dark or middle ages actually lived to 50 years or better. There was a freaking reason people considered '3 score and 10' [70 for those number impaired] was the proper lifespan. There were even old age outliers of people known to live into their 80s and 90s ... [Men could have a horrible short lifespan, but men tended to march off to war and get killed off young ...but that is a horse of an entirely different color.]
I’m sure there have been very real instances of collective mass hysteria, mob mentality and such occuring, too much historical proof to deny that, but I have to put ‘demons” in the same category as the tooth fairy, Easter bunny., and the boogey man under the bed. They only seem to exist in the mind, and are only there in one’s imagination..
The irony is after all that hypocritical politisized demonization about nazis calling him a viking to suit a political agenda the article then acknowledges that this man "may have thought of himself as a red blooded viking".
So does that mean the Nazis were actually historically correct ?? But that would not suit the authors political agenda to acknowledge that ?? I am confused.
Maybe he was a transgender African with autistic spectrum disorder ??
Actually the Ark was a ship, and you can zoom in on Google earth on the remains near “Uzengili, Agri, Turkey”. A 515 ft long (300 Royal Egyptian Cubits) ancient petrified wooden boat, 6300 feet above sea level and 100 miles from the nearest large body of water. Sub-Surface radar gave a complete 3D image of the structure underground, showing the decks, two parallell passages between animal pens, the water tanks in the bow, etc.
The Box idea is nonsensical. There is NO WAY a box could survive the trubulent waters and waves of a massive flood.
Gilgamesh epicis from clay objects that are older than earliest Biblical Manuscripts. The Biblical account of Noah is older still, as the exhaustive record and number of identical manuscripts supports the Biblical account as unchanging over the centuries. To deny the veracity of the Bible just because the clay cylinders are themselves older is very weak.
Fascinating that despite ALL the evidence throughout history, the “modern” world still tries to avoid the simplest explanation – demons are real! This should at least be considered. As for Salem, it is still the centre of Witchcraft in the US.
In that time period travelling pipers dressed in colourful outfits and playing musical instruments to get the attention of a crowd to gather were popular. Often they told of far away lands where young folk could travel with them and start a better more prosperous life in a new starting settlement. It is believed the pied piper tale talks of such an incident where Hamelins youth resettled somewhere and never returned never to be seen again. The story seems to be based on truth however as its earliest known recording is 100 years after the event it has been passed down through verbal stories that can and do easily change over generations. There seems to be nothing mysterious about the tale at all except a longing to explain what happened to a whole lost generation from Hamelin to a new beginning as was popular in those days and the story being added to for story telling. I doubt the children were young children at all but a younger generation and doubt any rats or caves existed in early tellings at all. Plus like all good stories a lesson has been written and included into the tale.
You are really off base here. First, Egypt already has a history of moving large archeological sites. The Temple at Abu Simbel was moved 65 metre up to save it from being flooded when a dam was built in the 60’s. The Temple of Dendur was gifted to the USA by Egypt and is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moving an archeological site is not a new thing. Second, not everyone who would like to see this is either physically or financially able to travel to a remote site. And third, vandals are capable of that travel. For some reason there are people in this world who take pleasure in defacing archeological sites, witness the recent carving of swastikas on prehistoric sites in England or the destruction of monuments by ISIS. As long as the site can be moved safely, and as long as it remains in Egypt, I see no reason why it should not be moved if that is what Egypt wishes to do. It is, after all, their site and their decision to make.
For the author, stop waving with your bachelor degree, when it's obvious that you research and write only one side of the story.
The circumcision came to be when Ethiopians regained their rule over Kemet and upon EXPELLING the evil Hyksos (Semitic tribe that came in Kemet across Sinai desert and lived there approx 400 years, from which ruled for about 200 years) as to mark them and everyone to know that these people are pure evil.
When Ron Wyatt discovered the Red Sea Crossing at Nuweiba in the late 80s, he laid out this explanation, based on the details provided by the Dept of Antiquities in Egypt. The key missing from the article above is that in the 18th dynasty, the title “Tuthmosis” was the Crown Prince title (like ‘Prince of Wales’), whereeas the Pharoah was mostly known by “Amenhotep”. So the SAME person could have royal monuments under different titles – the invested crown prince rules the North in the name of the Pharoah. Remember Pharoah means “Great House” not King!
So Senemnut (Moses) assists his adopted mother as the Pharoah’s ruling representative in the North (Hatshepsut as Pharoah). She was the only remaining child of her father. He is then invested as Crown Prince and takes the Tuthmosis title (Tuthmosis 2). After a number of years and successful military campaigns he sides with his Hebrew heritage and has to flee. The common people cannot be told that the God-Emperor-in-training was a traitor, so they find a cousin of the Pharoah, dress him in the outfit, and life goes on with Tuthmosis 3, who then became Amenhotep 2. Except….
Fake statues are exposed because they are mirror-image faces, whereas Egyptians of the day valued life-real faces. So… all the statues of Hatshepsut and Senemnut in public places had to be destroyed, or someon would expose the con. So Tut 3 destroyed all the statues, and put around the story that Hatshepsut had offended the Gods by ruling….
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There are two things the study does not take into consideratuion. the first is Jewish law regarding marriages. A Cohen is not allowed to marry a convert. The law originated in Biblical times when Cohens had a lot of power and prestige. There was a fear that if converts could marry cohens, some women would convert to acquire power and not out of religious conviction. The law still holds, though, and if a Cohen breaks this rule his children do not have teh status of a Cohen. The existence of Cohens among Ashkenaz Jews is proof that at least in those families, the original immigrants married women who were born Jewish and no one in their patrilineal line ever married a woman who was not born Jewish. The other factor the study ignores is the Holocaust. Those Jews in Europe who had enough European DNA to pass a s Aryan had a much higher survival rate. They could obtain false papers and then live in occupied Europe under a false identity or cross into Switzerland posing as non-Jewish immigrants. If that didn’t work out, they had a better chance of being hidden. People were more likely to take in Jews who looked like they were only half-Jewish. Those who looked Aryan also had a better chance of being accepted by Polish partisans, who sometimes murdered Jews they found hiding in the forests. Allof this adds up to a drastic change in the genetic makeup of post Holocaust Ashkenaz communities. Those with the highest perecentage of Middle Eastern DNA were simply more likely to be sent to concentration camps and killed. Any study conducted on Ashkenaz Jews today has to take his into consideration. It is not a study of the historic Ashkenaz community but rather of the 1/3 of that comunity who surviived a genocide as well as their descendants. If a similar Holocaust had happened to African Americans, and those who could pass as white had a higher survival rate than those who could not, today’s African Americans would all look slightly more European than African, and DNA tests would show a lot of European ancestry. No one would use that fact to rewrite African American history, and with good reason. Using a community’s tragedy to deny them their heritage is immoral.
Gary. There have been analysis and studies done in Europe showing copper ox hide ingots made from Lake Superior copper. The last one I saw was done on a recently found ship wreck near Greece. Just google search it and you’ll see what you’re looking for.
With the recent discovery of Homo Floriensis, little people are now a historical reality. Perhaps that is the origin of the little people in the Phillipines. Maybe the ancients were ALL little people, and thought that someone at 5’ 6” was a giant.
So many stories and legends exist that I think it they must have been driven by some reality.
I am impressed with the huge amounts of copper estimated to have been removed from Isle Royal area. Several copper artifacts have been found in North American burials, but no where near enouch to account for the many thousands of tons removed from those mines. However, I am not aware of chemical analyses of copper or bronze items in Europe to determine whether their source could have been those famous mines.
There are many more examples of pre-columbus contact on the American side, but confirmation on the European side seems pretty vague. Romans kept lots of written records. Could documentation of excursions to the Americas be held in the Vatican? Surely the Church would have been interested.
It's also very likely the Chinese made it to the Americas. It's always so hard for us to believe the ancients were as modern in their era as we are in ours. There's a lesson to be learned from this.
The Author mentions nothing about the Native American origins of the Jersey Devil.
The Lenni Lenape tribes called the area of the Pines where the Devil frequented in New Jersey "Popuessing". meaning "place of the dragon"
You're comment has no point. If you think hot dogs existed in all cultures, so what? Or homosex, so? Are you immoral?
This is disgraceful! You said: "An obscure passage tells of a ‘gift’ that Abraham gave to the sons of his concubines." There is nothing obscure about his passage at all. 'Gifts' here (Hebrew: mattanah) is translated most often as gifts and a couple of times as bribe/bribes. There is nothing obscure about this. It is quite clear that Abraham designated Isaac his heir and gave his other sons gifts or bribes to send them away. Most likely he gave them some of his livestock and/or money as they wouldn't receive an inheritance. The clue is given in the phrase “while he was still living” as Isaac couldn’t receive the inheritance until Abraham had died. While he was still living, he gave some of what he owned to his other sons, once he died, Isaac became his sole heir. This is very straighforward. There is no mention of abilities, familiar spirits or demons in the verse you quoted.
Nothing in this passage suggests that they "were given the ability to speak with demons and have relations with familiar spirits." This is pure speculation on your part and you provide no evidence to support your wild assertion. Shame on you!
Which all makes for confusing nonsense...... unless one has the key to unlock the meaning of the story. Currently academics do not but some do have the key and the story makes sense.
Alice through the looking glass is total nonsense unless one has the key and the key in this case is Amanita Muscaria. If you should want the key then contact me at guillaume icon.co.za
I do have the key to the story of Hercules but I cannot reveal it as the times are not right for acceptance but the time will come, soon
No, most women did NOT die at 30. When you say 'the average age' you lump in the better than 50 percent death rate of infants and small children, and then you need to consider the 'average' person from the dark or middle ages actually lived to 50 years or better. There was a freaking reason people considered '3 score and 10' [70 for those number impaired] was the proper lifespan. There were even old age outliers of people known to live into their 80s and 90s ... [Men could have a horrible short lifespan, but men tended to march off to war and get killed off young ...but that is a horse of an entirely different color.]
I’m sure there have been very real instances of collective mass hysteria, mob mentality and such occuring, too much historical proof to deny that, but I have to put ‘demons” in the same category as the tooth fairy, Easter bunny., and the boogey man under the bed. They only seem to exist in the mind, and are only there in one’s imagination..
The irony is after all that hypocritical politisized demonization about nazis calling him a viking to suit a political agenda the article then acknowledges that this man "may have thought of himself as a red blooded viking".
So does that mean the Nazis were actually historically correct ?? But that would not suit the authors political agenda to acknowledge that ?? I am confused.
Maybe he was a transgender African with autistic spectrum disorder ??
Actually the Ark was a ship, and you can zoom in on Google earth on the remains near “Uzengili, Agri, Turkey”. A 515 ft long (300 Royal Egyptian Cubits) ancient petrified wooden boat, 6300 feet above sea level and 100 miles from the nearest large body of water. Sub-Surface radar gave a complete 3D image of the structure underground, showing the decks, two parallell passages between animal pens, the water tanks in the bow, etc.
The Box idea is nonsensical. There is NO WAY a box could survive the trubulent waters and waves of a massive flood.
"other nearby areas such as Chupacigarro, Lurihausi, and Miraya rose to power during Caral’s demise."
Why weren't these areas affected by climate change? It only happened in the one town?
Gilgamesh epicis from clay objects that are older than earliest Biblical Manuscripts. The Biblical account of Noah is older still, as the exhaustive record and number of identical manuscripts supports the Biblical account as unchanging over the centuries. To deny the veracity of the Bible just because the clay cylinders are themselves older is very weak.
Fascinating that despite ALL the evidence throughout history, the “modern” world still tries to avoid the simplest explanation – demons are real! This should at least be considered. As for Salem, it is still the centre of Witchcraft in the US.
In that time period travelling pipers dressed in colourful outfits and playing musical instruments to get the attention of a crowd to gather were popular. Often they told of far away lands where young folk could travel with them and start a better more prosperous life in a new starting settlement. It is believed the pied piper tale talks of such an incident where Hamelins youth resettled somewhere and never returned never to be seen again. The story seems to be based on truth however as its earliest known recording is 100 years after the event it has been passed down through verbal stories that can and do easily change over generations. There seems to be nothing mysterious about the tale at all except a longing to explain what happened to a whole lost generation from Hamelin to a new beginning as was popular in those days and the story being added to for story telling. I doubt the children were young children at all but a younger generation and doubt any rats or caves existed in early tellings at all. Plus like all good stories a lesson has been written and included into the tale.
You are really off base here. First, Egypt already has a history of moving large archeological sites. The Temple at Abu Simbel was moved 65 metre up to save it from being flooded when a dam was built in the 60’s. The Temple of Dendur was gifted to the USA by Egypt and is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moving an archeological site is not a new thing. Second, not everyone who would like to see this is either physically or financially able to travel to a remote site. And third, vandals are capable of that travel. For some reason there are people in this world who take pleasure in defacing archeological sites, witness the recent carving of swastikas on prehistoric sites in England or the destruction of monuments by ISIS. As long as the site can be moved safely, and as long as it remains in Egypt, I see no reason why it should not be moved if that is what Egypt wishes to do. It is, after all, their site and their decision to make.
For the author, stop waving with your bachelor degree, when it's obvious that you research and write only one side of the story.
The circumcision came to be when Ethiopians regained their rule over Kemet and upon EXPELLING the evil Hyksos (Semitic tribe that came in Kemet across Sinai desert and lived there approx 400 years, from which ruled for about 200 years) as to mark them and everyone to know that these people are pure evil.
When Ron Wyatt discovered the Red Sea Crossing at Nuweiba in the late 80s, he laid out this explanation, based on the details provided by the Dept of Antiquities in Egypt. The key missing from the article above is that in the 18th dynasty, the title “Tuthmosis” was the Crown Prince title (like ‘Prince of Wales’), whereeas the Pharoah was mostly known by “Amenhotep”. So the SAME person could have royal monuments under different titles – the invested crown prince rules the North in the name of the Pharoah. Remember Pharoah means “Great House” not King!
So Senemnut (Moses) assists his adopted mother as the Pharoah’s ruling representative in the North (Hatshepsut as Pharoah). She was the only remaining child of her father. He is then invested as Crown Prince and takes the Tuthmosis title (Tuthmosis 2). After a number of years and successful military campaigns he sides with his Hebrew heritage and has to flee. The common people cannot be told that the God-Emperor-in-training was a traitor, so they find a cousin of the Pharoah, dress him in the outfit, and life goes on with Tuthmosis 3, who then became Amenhotep 2. Except….
Fake statues are exposed because they are mirror-image faces, whereas Egyptians of the day valued life-real faces. So… all the statues of Hatshepsut and Senemnut in public places had to be destroyed, or someon would expose the con. So Tut 3 destroyed all the statues, and put around the story that Hatshepsut had offended the Gods by ruling….
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