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GH finishes this small section by talking about the legends of the Viracocha people. Among those legends are that the Viracochas leave "after the deluge", traveling by sea.Minimalist wrote:Good point.
As I recall, 10,500 BC (or so) marked the lowest point in the sky for the constellation of Orion. Beginning a 26,000 year precessional cycle from that point ( The First Time? The time of the gods??) It rises for 13,000 years relative to the horizon before beginning the slow descent. Bauval wants us to believe that the Egyptians knew this because they were watching the skies as far back as the eleventh millenia BC... even though they didn't start building the pyramids until the 3'd millenia bc.)
Hancock theorizes some sort of secret society which maintained the knowledge for all those years but it is hard to envision any human enterprise succeeding for that long. We don't seem to have the stick-to-it-ivness for such long term projects.
Besides, in addition to the world wide flood myths there are other myths which were widespread. Many cultures had a notion of a time when the gods lived among men ( a Golden Age, if you will) and, as Von Daniken pointed out, the notion of a war in the heavens shows up in a lot of places, too.
Forgetting the war in the heavens for the moment, the idea of the gods living among men is somewhat novel. Only christians ever came up with a corporeal god...I think as a marketing technique, but that's just me. Most other religions are content to have their invisible man in the sky with just an occasional prophet (or huckster) showing up to pass the word along to the rubes.
Yet, supposedly primitive men in random places looked back to a time when lots of gods walked the earth. Interesting.
So, it seems that from 20,000 BC down to 7,900 there was plenty of time for Posnansky's Tiahuanaco to have developed along the banks of this large lake.discharges into Lake Poopo in the more arid central Altiplano. During the late Quatern-ary the Rio Desaguadero valley was the site of several generations of palaeolakes and wetlands thatformed during periods of increased precipitation and local runoff, augmented by increased overflowfrom Lake Titicaca. Sediments recovered by drilling in eight localities along the 390-km long valley ofthe Rio Desaguadero yield a regional history of lacustrine sedimentation and effective precipitation.Lacustrine strata in the drill cores record 12 distinct wet periods in the past 50 000 years. Four of thesewet periods resulted in the formation of major palaeolakes in the Rio Desaguadero valley: duringthe last glacial maximum from before 20 000 to 16 000 cal. yr BP, during the late glacial fromabout 14 000 to 12 000 cal. yr BP, in the early Holocene from about 10 000 to 7900cal. yr BP, andin the late Holocene from 4500cal. yr BP to present. The period that appears to have beenmost arid was between 7900 and 4500 cal. yr BP.
so until then you'll accept anything Hancock says because hes making money form saying soAnd when experts improve their record I'll start believing everything they tell me simply because they say so.
so your surgery was done by the local vegetable seller then was itHi Monk. That is of course the view point I was trying to impress on Marduk. In some cases the greater the support the greater the amount of egg on ones face.
Roy this discussion is not about Hobbits or Global warmingPlease explain to a mere mortal how to decide which group is correct
what made you decide on surgery ?If you are tying your banner to either group in my examples please explain how you arrive at the decision.
Head or tales perhaps?
