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1,200-year-old pagan temple to Thor and Odin unearthed in Norway

Tom Metcalfe
Live Science
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:32 UTC
pagan temple norway
© University Museum of Bergen
The god house (shown here in a digital reconstruction) was strongly built of beams and walls of wood; some lasted for hundreds of years. It included a central tower, patterned on Christian churches seen in lands further south.
The remains of a 1,200-year-old pagan temple to the Old Norse gods such as Thor and Odin have been discovered in Norway — a rare relic of the Viking religion built a few centuries before Christianity became dominant there.

Archaeologists say the large wooden building — about 45 feet (14 meters) long, 26 feet (8 m) wide, and up to 40 feet (12 m) high — is thought to date from the end of the eighth century and was used for worship and sacrifices to gods during the midsummer and midwinter solstices.

Old Norse culture was famous and feared by some a century later, after bands of Norse sailors and warriors known as the Vikings started trading, raiding and colonizing throughout Europe and into Iceland, Greenland and Canada.

Comment: Recent research is showing that the real history of the Vikings is quite different to what was previously thought:

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Roses

John Lennon at 80: One man against the Deep State 'monster'

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
John Lennon
"You gotta remember, establishment, it's just a name for evil. The monster doesn't care whether it kills all the students or whether there's a revolution. It's not thinking logically, it's out of control." — John Lennon (1969)
John Lennon, born 80 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon.

He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist, and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.

Long before Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were being castigated for blowing the whistle on the government's war crimes and the National Security Agency's abuse of its surveillance powers, it was Lennon who was being singled out for daring to speak truth to power about the government's warmongering, his phone calls monitored and data files illegally collected on his activities and associations.

For a while, at least, Lennon became enemy number one in the eyes of the U.S. government.

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Alarm Clock

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: How quickly we forget our past - Reality check


Adapt 2030
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:46 UTC
Tulip craze graph
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Looking back at the beginning of the Maunder Minimum around 1635-1640, the Tulip craze collapsed, food & grain prices spiked in Asia & Europe, land prices declined. Silver vs currency trade also hit a 6X against metals in the same period. What caused the 1650's reset in society? The same event that is here again in 2020, a Grand Solar Minimum.


Comment: Related articles include: David DuByne of Adapt 2030 recently had a two part discussion with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron, editors at SOTT.net and authors of Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World.

See here for Part 1 and Part 2.

Review of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. The book is available to purchase here.

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Sherlock

King Canute and his lost burial clothes

Birgitte Svennevig
Southern Denmark University
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
king canute

Illustration of St. Canute the Holy
Danish King got enshrined in his own clothes - but appeared with his brothers' Scientific analysis solve puzzle about the age and destiny of precious silk textiles from AD 1100.

The cathedral in Odense, Denmark, has for nine centuries held the relics of the Danish King St. Canute the Holy and his brother Benedikt. They were both murdered here in AD 1086, and just a few years later, in AD 1100, King Canute was sanctified.

The history of the relics has been that of turmoil at times, varying from initial worship of the Catholic believers to being walled up and hidden after the protestant reformation in AD 1536.

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Blue Planet

China's 4,000 year old desert mummies with Caucasian features and boat burials


Archaeology World
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:26 UTC
china mummies mummy desert
Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary graveyard in the midst of the terrifying desert north of Tibet. Its people died almost 4,000 years ago, and their remains were well preserved by dry air.

The cemetery lies in what is now China's northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, yet the people have European features, with brown hair and long noses. Their remains, though lying in one of the world's largest deserts, are buried in upside-down boats. And where tombstones might stand, declaring pious hope for some god's mercy in the afterlife, their cemetery sports instead of a vigorous forest of phallic symbols, signaling an intense interest in the pleasures or utility of procreation.

The long-vanished people have no name because their origin and identity are still unknown. But many clues are now emerging about their ancestry, their way of life, and even the language they spoke.

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Microscope 2

A tale of two cesspits: DNA reveals intestinal health in Medieval Europe and Middle East

University of Cambridge
Eureka Alert
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:23 UTC
latrine medieval
© Uldis Kalejs
Wooden latrine from medieval Riga, Latvia.
A new study published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B demonstrates a first attempt at using the methods of ancient bacterial detection, pioneered in studies of past epidemics, to characterise the microbial diversity of ancient gut contents from two medieval latrines. The findings provide insights into the microbiomes of pre-industrial agricultural populations, which may provide much-needed context for interpreting the health of modern microbiomes.

Over the years, scientists have noted that those living in industrialised societies have a notably different microbiome compared to hunter-gatherer communities around the world. From this, a growing body of evidence has linked changes in our microbiome to many of the diseases of the modern industrialised world, such as inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, and obesity. The current study helps to characterize the change in gut microbiomes and highlights the value of ancient latrines as sources of bio-molecular information.

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Dig

Curious Bronze Age statuette with 'tattooed' face and bone mask found in Siberia

Svetlana Skarbo, Anna Liesowska
The Siberian Times
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
siberia grave statuette

Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
'Given that the discovery is 5,000 years old, you can imagine how important it is to understand the beliefs of the ancient people populating Siberia', said Vyacheslav Molodin. Picture: Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography

The discovery was made this summer inside the mass burial of people from Odinov culture in Vengerovsky district of Novosibirsk region, Western Siberia.

The small - about a palm size - statuette found in situ by the team of Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography had a mask depicting a bear made of a horse vertebrae.

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Info

The pillars of Gobekli Tepe

Dr. Martin Sweatman
Prehistory Decoded
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:04 UTC
Gobekli Tepe Excavation Plan
© T.Gotzelt/DAI
Significance: Gobekli Tepe (GT) probably represents the origin of civilisation for most of the world today. Most of us are connected to it in some way, through language, genetics, and religion at least.

The Pillars: GT is famous for its anomalous megalithic pillars, and especially the symbols carved on them. Most people think these symbols are telling an important story - they are not just random pictures of animals. Klauss Schmidt, who discovered GT and led its excavation, until his death in 2014, certainly thought so. It follows that the only way we will ever be able to properly understand Gobekli Tepe, and therefore the origin of civilisation, is through reading its pillars.

Deutsche Archaeological Institute: the DAI operates the Gobekli Tepe dig. Despite the immense significance of the site, they continue to sit on the information encoded on its pillars. Over 60 pillars have been uncovered, but only around 20 are documented by the DAI, and their details can normally only be found in journal papers that are not freely available - they are behind a paywall. Images of the pillars are therefore copyrighted. This is wrong. Not only morally, but intellectually, as it limits decoding of the pillars to a handful of supposed archaeological experts.

Aim: my aim here is to circumvent the DAI's contempt, and publish as much information about the symbols on GT's pillars as I can find to create a public resource. Please let me know if I have missed anything.
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Dig

250,000 year old milk tooth found inside Denisova Cave, Siberia

Anna Liesowska, Svetlana Skarbo
The Siberian Times
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
milk tooth siberia
© Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
Two teeth - a milk (TOP LEFT) and a molar (BOTTOM LEFT) - were both found within the layer 22, with the milky tooth discovered at its bottom which would date it to approximately 250,000 years, and the molar found at the top of the layer, with the approximate dating from 170,000 to 190,000 years.
This summer brought the richest harvest of anthropological discoveries to archeologists working at the world-famous Denisova Cave in the south of Siberia.


Comment: Meanwhile much of the West ground to a halt with researchers resorting to searching Google maps: Possible lost henge discovered online as lockdown shuts onsite excavations


The team of Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography worked in the lowest - the oldest - layers of culture-containing soil in the southern gallery of the cave, dating to 300,000 years ago.

Two teeth - a milk and a molar - were both found within that layer, with the milk tooth discovered at its bottom which would date it to approximately 250,000 years, and the molar found at the top of the layer, with the approximate dating from 170,000 to 190,000 years.

Comment: Evidently Siberia was quite the area of activity a great many millennia ago:

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USA

Suicide of the Liberals

Gary Saul Morson
First Things
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Russian postcard suicide
© Unknown
Russian postcard depicting aftermath of a demonstration during 1905 Revolution. c. 1906
Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc. Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and 1910, authorities recorded 19,957 terrorist acts and revolutionary robberies, doubtless omitting many from remote areas. As the foremost historian of Russian terrorism, Anna Geifman, observes, "Robbery, extortion, and murder became more common than traffic accidents."

Anyone wearing a uniform was a candidate for a bullet to the head or sulfuric acid to the face. Country estates were burnt down ("rural illuminations") and businesses were extorted or blown up. Bombs were tossed at random into railroad carriages, restaurants, and theaters. Far from regretting the death and maiming of innocent bystanders, terrorists boasted of killing as many as possible, either because the victims were likely bourgeois or because any murder helped bring down the old order. A group of anarcho-­communists threw bombs laced with nails into a café bustling with two hundred customers in order "to see how the foul bourgeois will squirm in death agony."

Comment: Déjà vu America?

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