What are you currently reading?

Holy Jeebus it spoke!

I've read lots about the power plants of Egypt too. But, I like aliens. so I like to read that aliens did it. I dunno why, maybe perhaps because, I feel like if I met aliens, then I'd coerce them to fix some ailments of mine and I'm all about longevity of life. I also think I'd have something to offer them, if only lolz.

 

And the light shoots off into that star cluster the Egyptians speak so highly of. Though that isn't aliens necessarily, it does bring into question just how advanced our ancestors really were. Since it's all skeptical I just enjoy the alien parts.

One day aliens are going to factual evidence, and we'll hear it all, all of it. All the underwater landmarks we haven't found yet, all the lost civilization and we are going to learn how much a part aliens really have in our life.

And I'm going to say "told ya so".

 

The Hapgood referencing has more to do with his interpretation of ancient maps not of the Earth Crust Displacement; although he was credited for his outwardly thinking in regards to ancient civilizations.

It is very interesting but seems repetitive at times referencing his past chapters into the ones currently read so much so that it seems to overtake chapters read later on.

 

Basically talks about the alternate interpretations of ancient sites. About earlier civilizations previous to the iceage; to which where highly advanced.

An example they talk about is a map called the Piri Ries map. Drawn in 1513 and referenced earlier maps to its configuration. It shows the western Africa and eastern S.A and the north tip of Antartica; drawn without Ice. They speculate the map had to be drawn before the iceage in order to show the land without the overlay of Ice; upwards of 10,000bc.

So, who drew it the first time?

Not so much aliens but certainly touches on the reality that history, most certainly could be wrong.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1165572-piri-reis-map-evidence-of-a-very-advanced-prehistoric-civilization/

 

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Check out Marcel Griaules book "Conversations with Ogotemmeli"

Regarding the Dogon of Mali and their belief of the Sirius star system and the people who come from there.

http://www.catalyzingchange.org/dogon-tribe-africa-extraterrestrial-history/

 

Came to earth in a great boat that made lots of wind and noise

Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd suggest that that's a misinterpretation of technology from a civilization who wasn't able to grasp the knowledge or understanding of what they were actually looking at.

 

The Ethical Slut - Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt

 

Recently i finished White Oleander by Janet Fitch, and now i dont have anything to read.

 

To me Aliens is not out of the question although questionable but I look at the Mythological stories and conclude that they are in some way factual; in regards to Zeus and Osiris, Horus, Set etc. Not just in Egypt but Myans, Micronesians (Easter Island, Pohnepei) Africans (Dogons), Aztecs, Olmecs and so on.

There is to much coincidences in Astronomy and mathematical importance to just disregard what we don't know because it is to hard to fathom; that is what draws the interest, the possibility that we are all wrong.

These myths have outlived time and continue to intrigue; so there needs to be some solidity to them

 

I agree. I've read about it a lot and I know most of what I have read is out dated, but I still think it holds strong.

Mythology to me, isn't just heroics and awesome adventurous tales about "gods". I honestly believe that mythology can open up avenues about how and what we can learn from our history. It's becoming evident these days that certain mythological tales have truths behind them. Over exaggerated, sure. But like I said before, if this is just a misunderstanding of technology (god I feel like the ancient aliens guy now) :d then there's a huge importance in mythological tales.

Many will tell you the bible isn't true. Like they've read the thing to disprove a religious doctrine. To me the bible is one of the most important history books out there dating our pre history back thousands of years.

Is the bible true? Well the historical accuracy is. Not sure about the supernatural sides.

Tales like Beowulf too have supernatural sides yet archaeologists believe that there very well could have been a mead hall on Danish lands that match the evidence written into the story. That is awesome.

Also a lot of mythology revolves around real life events and real life people.

There's much to learn from it.

 

Mythology is very interesting.

I'm not really sure though that it's fair to say that the Bible is historically accurate. Some of it may be, other parts, really not accurate at all.

 

He's recently published a follow up volume - 'Magicians of the gods'. I haven't read it, but caught an interview with Graham where he talks about it. Basically, it's more on the theme of an early and now forgotten civilization.

He's also been writing fiction over the last few years - the 'War God' series (2 published, 1 to come) is quite a good read.

 

I loved this book, and the movie was a pretty good book to film adaptation as well.

Have you read The Lovely Bones?

 

Yeah.

See with the Beowulf mythology, what if we pick apart the supernatural. Let's go with the dragon. Now what if the dragon was not a dragon, perceived as a dragon, made up of course. But what if that was a corrupt government at the time? Told into the tale of viscious supernatural.

That tale has actually been told many times in the past, a big scary monster often is depicted from a social element Happening at the time.

Metaphors.

 

Myths are possibly metaphoric truths. Just as the Bible and any religious text may be. Maybe in those days civilizations, as you say, depicted the world of the day without coming right out and revealing the truth.

Or they are telling the history of their times the only way they new how, through story telling. These stories however have gone through time along with similar accounts in other civilizations, that could not have been in contact with one another. That is what is fascinating, how did they achieve similar accounts through time, on par with other civilizations, worlds apart? As well as similar structures, symbology and beliefs.

To add, the flood and sea rise after the melting of the Ice Age, could have wiped away knowledge we will never find. Buried under a sea of coral and wildlife.

Prehistoric history is not what we have come to know.