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Well, I just don't want to be JUDGED for drinking my mead from the skull of my enemy...
Whaaaat? It's normal, don't look at me like that...
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Ancient History
Check out the rate of glacial and polar melting before you dismiss any warnings of impending doom.
The 2012 event is the transition from one world to another. Transition, change... not end.
But change can be painful.
And intimidating.
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Père du Champ
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Apocalypse
Yet another find of sacrifice or cannibalism... these stories are ALWAYS picked up by the press, whereas the research being accomplished into the details of human migrations and origins are relatively ignored... and I'm sure everyone has their pet area of science they wish would make the news...
Or maybe being in the news is a bad thing. Anyway, here we go with the introduction into the p
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
One may embrace science (I do) but not therefore have to ignore all the ancient teachings and wisdoms falling under the rubric of "religion" and "mythology". Much of what we call mytholog is, after all, based on fact. "The Great Flood"... perhaps not a global flood as fundy literatists would have it, but nonetheless the story does relate a real event... just which fl
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Père du Champ
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Apocalypse
If Mel Gibson needs a scenario for prolonged explicit violence and gore, why could he not have made a movie about the history of the Guatemalan town of Nebaj from 1978-1990? He would have had far more reliable facts available to him than about the time and place he chose to portray.
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Paper Lens
Given the Native myths regarding white bison as sacred and rare, it seems doubtful that even when the herds numbered in the millions there were many white calves. Unless calving occurred where the humans did not observe, which I doubt.
Calves are born in the Spring as far as I know, so in recent climatic conditions the snow would be patchy if not gone. That this gene could exist due to prior I
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Coffee Shop
>>However, Crete was probably mostly European, with a component of African populations who >>either settled there or travelled there for trade purposes.
I would have to assert that these categories are not accurate. Cretans would have shown more relationships, no doubt, with other Mediterraneans, such as those in the Levant, coastal Anatolia or the Nile Delta. It would be more accu
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
About Clyde Winters I can only presume he is an intentional fraud. Therefore a con. Not a deluded ideologue, a mistaken academic...a FRAUD.
His spiel is designed to dazzle the sophomores. He can suck them in based on their desire to see an alternative to the historical racism which exists in academia. Winters must, of course, then keep them alienated from mainstream academia by pretending it i
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
Nothing here proves African origin of Dravidians. Nor is the notion of their origin in the Mideast disproven. Back-migration explains M in Africa. This post has all the characteristics of Clyde Winters: circular reasoning and what I have concluded is intentional obfuscation.
However the data works out, Winters, will proclaim that it all "came from Africa". I have backed this academic
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
You completely ignore the fact that Celtic and Indic peoples have the same origin. Their languages illustrate this.
There was a triune Godhead among Celts (as in Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva). There were 33 Gods (same number as in "Hinduism"). Many practices associated with ritual and myth are similar between Druids and Hindus. The caste/class systems of Celts and Hindus are very similar. T
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Humanities
What is verboten is any mention of the Maya NOW. While tongues go a-clicking about the imagined (since there is scarce proof of it) mass sacrifices of the ANCIENT Maya, the mass sacrifice of the modern Maya is not discussed...because it is being accomplished by non-Maya.
This is history, sociology, anthropology, economics...many fields if applied to the study of the Maya must analyze and expli
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Paper Lens
Everything I've read indicates severe persecution of druids by the Romans long before the Empire was Christian. Druidic ideas filtered into Gaelic Christianity. Druidic holy sites became shrines, churches and monasteries. Imagery and myth persisted especially in Ireland but also Cornwall, Brittany, Wales and elsewhere.
The modern academic notion that we "really know nothing about Dru
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Père du Champ
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Humanities
The images we are allowed to see of the Maya are those Gibson presents.
That we cannot have true images of their past and present is pervasive in the USA.
I returned from living among them to find them a taboo subject.
The stultification of USA culture can be studied, as can the Maya, but if one cannot discuss the sociological and historical facts of their existence, nor even the name of
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Père du Champ
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Paper Lens
Yes, this tale is of the "urban legend" sort.
The version I heard, spread by environmentalists, involved a varmint-hating "redneck" I think in Montana, who had caught a coyote in a trap, and for a joke, tied a stick of dynamite to the coyote's tail, lit it and stood back with his buddies to have a good laugh. The coyote, scared by the fire attached to its tail, of cour
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Père du Champ
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Coffee Shop
The Maya continue to be sacrificed but not by any indigenous priests. Their priests (and chimanés) tend to be among the more educated, and are concerned with what the world knows about the Maya as they exist in reality today. One told me, swinging his arm to indicate all that we saw around us, "go back north and tell people what is really going on here."
I wonder where Mel found
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Père du Champ
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Paper Lens
Like many who know a thing or two about the history of the conquest and subsequent enslavement of America, I was eager to see a film which documented some of the truth about this interaction and the changes wrought upon American peoples.
Instead it's the same old myth of Euro-inevitability, all excused with the now hackneyed "oh well, the 'others' were just as bad as the Eu
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
>>It's clear that people are judging it not on its own merits, or lack thereof, but rather on >>how they either feel about Mel Gibson and how that interacts with thier own beliefs, or how >>much it strays from the fantasy of the Peaceful People of the Woods trope they've come to >>believe in.
Frankly this is offensive in its implication that any attempt to pur
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
>>Glad to hear from you Khazar-Khum. I was getting very tired of defending the
>>honor of Western Civilization single handed. winking smiley
Is this what's happening? The "honor of Western Civilization" is being defended? You mean somehow all that the Spanish did has some honor to it? I thought the argument was more about whether anyone should dare criticize the Eur
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History
The big lie is in the use of the term "museum". This is an amusement park. Museums exhibit genuine artefacts, whether of geology, biology or culture.
I hope they have a Jonah in the whale ride...I love waterparks.
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Père du Champ
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Laboratory
It may be funny but something similar did indeed go on in temples, in "civilized" times, so perhaps we would not label it shamanism...but just what was the "Great Whore of Babylon"?
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Père du Champ
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Humanities
The original conversion may not have been forced, but a distinctly Irish brand of Christianity emerged, which gave rise to the specifically Irish monastic tradition. This was altered by the various means of force available to the Roman Church, which pulled the Irish Church into line with the main body.
In most of Europe a chief or king converted (for political expediency, generally) and the su
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Père du Champ
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Humanities
>I would pretty much scorn anyone from the
>western traditions trying to inculcate shamanism into
>their own mindset and attempting to practice it. My
>first question would be, what do you think is wrong
>with your own traditions and practices? The answer of
>course is nothing. All spiritual traditions and paths
>lead to the same place in different ways, and it's a
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Père du Champ
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Humanities
When it comes to Creationists we all know that religion and science don't mix.
I would seem some caution is also appropriate in applying scientific judgments as to validity onto any religious/spiritual system. The validity of such systems cannot be confirmed or denied by science.
I have heard claims that the efficicacy of shamanic treatment for mental disorders is as good as for modern
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Père du Champ
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Humanities
With every destruction of archaeological remains (worldwide, not only in the USA) the urgency increases to protect what remains.
Let's hope this development is put on hold until it is determined whether or not there is a road present, rather than going ahead because the proof isn't available yet. That attitude will lose us what little remains yet undestroyed of the Native patrimony o
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Père du Champ
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Ancient History