Oh so you thought your life was dull?
This is awesome, and I hope reams of translations are soon published. I have no idea how many of these old clay tablets are still around, but it would be so cool to think of reading something written so long ago that there were only 3 recipes for chicken in all the world.
Most likely recipes for neighboring tribes. All kidding aside, I think this is incredibly significant. I have read the epic of Gilgamesh, which has many stories similar to those in the Bible. The stories contained in these translations are probably very close to the original oral histories passed down prior to the invention of writing and will likely shed more light on a previously unknown period of time for men.
Posted by Steve_in_CA
06/08/2011 at 09:01 AM
In reference to the oral histories, here is something this work would be useful for:
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Did_A_Massive_Solar_Proton_Event_Fry_The_Earth_999.html
I refer to the last few paragraphs. Facinating.Posted by Steve_in_CA
06/08/2011 at 10:31 AM
Steve, that’s an awesome link, worthy of it’s own post! Thanks!
I looked into it a bit, and Dr. LaViolette extends the data written about there to a galactic superwave dust theory as the actual cause. There are YouTube videos and a number of web pages, and he has a book called Earth Under Fire. While this is NOT AGW alarmist stuff, it does get a bit, um, Atlantean, because he ties in ancient myths and legends, the Sphinx, the Zodiac, lost civilizations that had higher knowledge than we do now, etc. But just because he has notoriety in New Age circles does not mean he is wrong.
And once again, he provides a thesis that IT ALL WENT TO HELL about 11,000BC, which is when the last ice age ended. His thesis says galactic dust wave caused by the galactic core blowing up, though others think maybe the Vela X supernova was the cause. The dates are pretty close, and you have to allow a couple thousand years leeway because none of these things can be dated precisely.
ca 13,000 years ago was also the perfect moment when the Sphinx saw Osiris in the Horizon, which means that the Milky Way Galaxy when viewed from Giza rose up from the Nile River. That’s why the Sphinx was built, and why many thousands of years later the main Egyptian pyramids were built to form the constellation Osiris (Giza is the belt) and why the ones in Cambodia form the constellation Draco ... all of this commemorates the terrible galactic event, when the Breath of God destroyed the world. Not that it all happened in an instant; the floods, fires, and species dying out took a couple hundred years. And yeah, huge and fast global warming from solar flare impact could have melted the Antarctic ice cap, allowing some ancient traveler to make that famous bit of map, while at the same time flash freezing mammoths up north while they were grazing. It’s all connected. It’s just very hard to prove, which is why Atlantean types tend to simply believe.
The good news is that he is not predicting another wave if we don’t all go green and start worshiping Gaia. Phew!!
http://www.etheric.com/LaViolette/LaViolette.html
http://www.etheric.com/LaVioletteBooks/Book-EUF.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIMYlKzYTig&NR=1 (interview, part 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIMYlKzYTig&NR=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_RemnantDr. LaViolette is a big Tesla fan and has ideas about electrogravitic propulsion -
http://oilismastery.blogspot.com/2009/10/paul-laviolette-on-electrogravitic.htmland has found that some of his research is being blocked by The Man, man, because his work is out on the Fringe and the Powers That Be don’t like their apple carts tipped over.
http://etheric.com/physarchive/history2.html#11So there you go, a mini-post, right in the comments.
Hi Drew, not so much the paper, I saw a History Channel program on the Clovis people and the extinction was different from the solar flare theory. I am really interested in how oral tradition (folklore) may have developed from actual events: the flood, Adam & Eve, Exodus and how these stories became morality plays, ie lesssons from the Bible. That is why I think the Akkadian translations are important (not really relavent to Exodus).
Posted by Steve_in_CA
06/08/2011 at 02:34 PM