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Book 2

Tibet: An 18th Century anatomical dictionary offers evidence of the legendary Yeti

Micah Hanks
Mysterious Universe
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Himalaya Mts Yeti
© FREEYORK/Tibetan Anatomica Dictionary
It is well known that among Native Americans, long legendary traditions exist which document the existence of the creature known today as Sasquatch. Although many different names have been attributed to the creature, mostly throughout parts of the Pacific Northwest, similarities remain present throughout the various cultural traditions pertaining to the creature.

The indigenous peoples of the American Northwest aren't the only representation of cultural beliefs pertaining to large, mysterious hominids that have existed for centuries. In fact, an unusual discovery made in 1959 provides a glimpse at similar traditions that have long existed elsewhere in the world, in relation to the alleged existence of large, manlike beasts; more specifically, the famous Yeti of Tibet and Nepal.

The discovery in question was made in 1959 by Emanuel Vlcek, a Czech paleoanthropologist, and professor at the Anatomical Institute of the First Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Vlcek had been part of an anthropological expedition sent by what was then still the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences to Mongolia to study the memorial of Prince Kulteghine, and in a more general sense, to "establish conditions for anthropological research in Mongolia."
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Archaeology

Stone Age calendar knowledge revealed on mammoth bone bracelet?

Ingvar nord
Ancient Origins
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:26 UTC
mammoth bone bracelet
© Encyclopedia of UkraineBracelet from Mizyn
In Sivershchina, close to the village of Mizyn in Ukraine is one of the oldest and most unique settlements of humans - and it was discovered in a parking lot. The now well-known archaeological site, known plainly as the Mizyn parking lot, dates back 18-20 thousand years. In this spot two intricately carved bracelets made from mammoth bone were found, which led to the unraveling of a fantastic Stone Age discovery.

Investigating the settlement

The beginning of the research at this site dates back to the early twentieth century, in the summer of 1908, in the neighboring village of Psarivka (today about Desniansk). Archaeologist Fedir Vovk with his disciple Sergii Rudenko hired a farmstead for a summer holiday. In the nearby forest he found a small flint of obviously deliberate splitting. It prompted the scientist to investigate the situation on the spot and he was able to identify the find as from "the Paleolithic station of the late Paleolithic of the Madeline era".

Vovk presented a report of the findings during the congress of archaeologists later that year. In addition, as part of the exhibit he displayed 72 animal bones and several small showcases of flint tools. With these clues pointing towards ancient activity in the area, the excavations that he had begun in 1908 were continued under the direction of Vovk, and in 1909, his students P. Efimenko and V. Sakharov.
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Archaeology

2,000yo mummies discovered at major Egyptian tombs is "just the beginning" (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:28 UTC
2,000yo mummies discovered at major Egyptian tombs is
© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
Ancient tombs filled with coffins, mummies, and artifacts have been discovered in Egypt. Archaeologists say this is just the beginning of the discovery, as the site is expected to take five years to excavate.

The large necropolis (or cemetery) was uncovered south of Cairo, near the Tuna al-Gabal archaeological site that's home to a range of tombs. It's believed to be from the late Pharaonic to the early Ptolemaic period.

"It's only the beginning of new discovery," Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said on Saturday. "I think we will need at least five years to work on the necropolis."

Archaeologists began excavating the area last year. They have since found tombs of the priests of Thoth, the god of moon and wisdom.

Comment: Comment: Reuters reports:
Minya, Egypt - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis containing 40 stone sarcophagi, about 1,000 small statues and a necklace charm bearing the hieroglyphic inscription "happy new year".

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the scarab charm with the new year greeting had been unearthed last New Year's Eve in a "wonderful coincidence". "This is a message sent to us from the afterlife," he said.
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John Dee painting originally had circle of human skulls x-ray imaging reveals

Mark Brown
The Guardian
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:52 UTC
Dr. Dee Queen Elizapeth
© Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913)“John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I”
Hidden beneath a painting of the enigmatic Tudor polymath John Dee performing an experiment for Elizabeth I is a dark and slightly terrifying secret, research has discovered.

X-ray imaging of the stately Victorian artwork has revealed that Dee was originally surrounded by human skulls before the ghoulish image was painted over, probably because it was too odd for the buyer. But curators of an exhibition opening on Monday believe it sums up the conundrum of Dee: should we remember him as brilliant pioneering scientist, or as an occultist who thought he could talk to angels?


Comment: If he merits them, why not both?


The question arises at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) headquarters in London, where remarkable books from Dee's personal collection go on public display for the first time.

Comment: Interestingly this isn't the first painting where the original image has been substituted for something altogether different, and Elisabeth I is again featured: Painting of Queen Elizabeth I unveils Royals' Reptilian Secret?

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Archaeology

Sweden's 8,000yo skulls were brutally smashed and mounted on stakes says study


RT
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:20 UTC
Sweden's 8,000yo skulls were brutally smashed and mounted on stakes - study
© FILE PHOTO Henry Romero / Reuters
Archaeologists digging at the bottom of a former lake in Sweden have discovered an ancient burial site containing 8,000-year-old human skulls mounted on wooden stakes.

The gruesome find at the Kanaljorden site in the town of Motala in the central Sweden has left researchers baffled as, according to a study published in the journal Antiquity, it the challenges modern "understanding of the handling of the dead during the European Mesolithicera."

The skulls showed signs of blunt force trauma that was "probably the result of interpersonal violence," the study read. However, some injuries show signs of healing, meaning that blunt force trauma is not necessarily what killed them.

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Research suggests deadly form of salmonella caused 16th century epidemic that killed over 80% of Mexican population

Alicia McDermott
Ancient Origins
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
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© MexicolorePreparation of a corpse. Florentine Codex Book 3.
A pair of recently published studies point the finger at a deadly form of salmonella as the cause of millions of deaths in a 16th century Mexican epidemic outbreak. This cocoliztli (pestilence in Nahuatl) occurred from 1545-1576 and took the lives of between 7 and 18 million people - leading some researchers to draw parallels with the Black Death that struck Eurasia in the 14th century.

The journal Nature reports that the native population of Mexico was around 25 million when Hernando Cortés arrived in 1519, but just a century later there were only 1 million people remaining. The primary cause for this dramatic decrease in population was apparently two major outbreaks of cocoliztli, one in 1545 and the other in 1576. As Dr. Acuna-Soto, a professor of epidemiology on the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) of Mexico wrote "In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague."

Comment: Interesting that both the Cocoliztli epidemics of 1545 and 1576 coincide with cometary observations. Such cometary bombardments have been associated with numerous plagues and civilization collapses:
New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection

Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D., co-authoring researcher with Wickramasinghe in the book Biology Cosmology, Astrobiology, and the Origins and Evolution of Life [3], tells us:
Ancient Chinese astronomers chronicled numerous episodes where comets preceded plague and disaster. Meticulous observations were compiled in 300 B.C. in a textbook known as the "Mawangdui Silk." It details 29 different cometary forms and the various disasters associated with them, dating as far back as 1500 B.C
Joseph points out that medieval Europe and colonial America are areas where comets were observed to coincide with plagues and disease, adding that Comet Encke, the likely origin of the Tunguska impactor and the 1918 Flu epidemic, also coincide. He writes:
... in 2005, scientists from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from bodies that had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska. They soon discovered that a completely new virus had combined with an old virus, exchanging and recombining genes, creating a hybrid that transformed mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more deadly and pathogenic. They also confirmed that the 1918 Spanish flu virus originated in the sky, first infecting birds and then spreading and proliferating in humans.
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Book 2

Eden, an alternative translation tells a different story

Christian O'Brien
Ancient Origins
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:08 UTC
Garden of Eden
© UnknownGarden of Eden
All modern concepts of the Garden of Eden stem from a few verses in the biblical Book of Genesis, none of which is entirely free from ambiguity. The ancient Hebraic documents, from which the early part of the Book was compiled, contained simple and basic writing with very few vowels, and none of the modifying inflections which, later, gave flexibility to the language. The absence of vowels lead to this ambiguity; which is why, even today, after millennia of scholarship, no-one knows how the name of God was pronounced. As a result, our Churches vary in their interpretation of YHWH (Yod He Vov He) between the sounds of Yahweh and those of Jehovah - and these are only two of the possibilities.

The Problem with Paronomasia

Another source of ambiguity lies in the fact that early Middle Eastern languages leant heavily on paronomasia to give variety to simple phrases - a form of punning which allowed several different meanings to be given to a single set of symbols. In speech, it is probable that slight inflections of tone differentiated between meanings, but in the written word there is no such indication to help us; and modern students of the Bible, like their predecessors, have to guess at the meanings of many words from the angle of their own preconceived notions of the context.
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Archaeology

Swastika's 12,000 year-old history

John Black
Ancient Origins
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:09 UTC
Swastika symbols
© wikipedia
The swastika is a symbol used by of one of the most hated men on Earth, a symbol that represents the slaughter of millions of people and one of the most destructive wars on Earth. But Adolf Hitler was not the first to use this symbol. In fact, it was used as a powerful symbol thousands of years before him, across many cultures and continents.

For the Hindus and Buddhists in India and other Asian countries, the swastika was an important symbol for many thousands of years and, to this day, the symbol can still be seen in abundance - on temples, buses, taxis, and on the cover of books. It was also used in Ancient Greece and can be found in the remains of the ancient city of Troy, which existed 4,000 years ago. The ancient Druids and the Celts also used the symbol, reflected in many artifacts that have been discovered. It was used by Nordic tribes and even early Christians used the Swastika as one of their symbols, including the Teutonic Knights, a German medieval military order, which became a purely religious Catholic Order. But why is this symbol so important and why did Adolf Hitler decide to use it?

The word 'swastika' is a Sanskrit word ('svasktika') meaning 'It is', 'Well Being', 'Good Existence, and 'Good Luck'. However, it is also known by different names in different countries - like 'Wan' in China, 'Manji' in Japan, 'Fylfot' in England, 'Hakenkreuz' in Germany and 'Tetraskelion' or 'Tetragammadion' in Greece.
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Snow White, the inspiration and evolution of a fable

Marilia Pezzato
Ancient Origins
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:10 UTC
Snow White
© Franz Jüttner/ Public DomainA 1910 illustration of Schneewittchen (Snow White)
One of the most famous fables of all, variations of Snow White appear in more than 400 versions of fairy tales around the world. The most well-known version is actually called "Snowdrop" and comes from Grimms' Children's and Household Tales. It was later tweaked into a more familiar format by the folklorist Andrew Lang and eventually adapted by Walt Disney.

The Fairest Woman

In this version, the queen wished for a child and a baby girl was born; her hair was as dark as ebony and her skin was so fair and pure that her mother named her Snow White. After the queen died, her father married a woman who was vain and wicked, who would stand in front of a magic mirror asking who was the fairest woman in the land. The mirror always replied "My Queen, you are the fairest one of all", until one day an answer came that threw her into a rage - Snow White was now the fairest woman in all the land.
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"As if the Day of Judgement were at hand": The Great Wind of 1362


Medievalists
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:26 UTC
The Great Wind of 1362
Some of the most vivid accounts we have from the Middle Ages are those that detail calamities and natural disasters. Such was the case when a massive winter storm struck northwestern Europe on January 15, 1362. In England this event would be called 'The Great Wind'.

Among those who would record this event was the Chronicle of Anonymous of Canterbury. The person who wrote it lived in the later part of the 14th century and was likely a monk at Canterbury Cathedral. While he was reporting on the news that a joust would be held in London on January 17th, the chronicler switches his focus to explain what then happened on Saturday, January 15th:

Comment: It wouldn't be the first time extreme weather was equated with the state of society, and there's a lot of evidence for periodic climatic upheaval throughout history For more, check out SOTT radio's: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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