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Braden is quite wrong when he says the initiations to this
knowledge began about two thousand years ago. I think that is
when some people emboldened by the earlier Pythagorean partial
inclusion of the knowledge into Therapeutae systems like the
Essenes, started to study it and write something about it.
However, the prohibition on sharing this information which is
said to have still been a matter of summary execution in the
time of Plato, probably started ten thousand years earlier.
Pre-Neolithic Calendars:
The Ishango or other aboriginal message sticks from places like
Australia and Africa are not easily comprehended by us in the
present. The tools of forensics and hard sciences are not always
possible for each author or scholar to fully comprehend but they
are great evidences, and I thank god we have them. The megaliths
and stelae or other Neolithic Libraries are the subject of
serious investigation again. The list of proofs for
trans-oceanic travel in the pre-Christian era would take a full
book (at least) if only four lines were devoted to each point.
The great seafarers of Atlantis or these early colonizers from
the Brotherhood deserve to be studied and we can learn a great
deal from how they ran their government or society. Unless you
wish to take the alien intervention route of ?easy answers? to
explain the various things we are discussing, you will have to
keep working to understand why Empire and women-hating was so
important to those wishing domination and control, as the
appropriate means of governance.
I will quote Alexander Marshack shortly, his great work on an
ancient lunar calendar is just another item that fits my long
held perception, that we know so little and assume far too much
stupidity for or about our forbears. Frank Parise wrote a
reference book on all known calendrical systems a couple of
decades ago. It is totally unbiased and lists the facts as they
are known. In it he says the Mayan calendar starts at 3114 BC.
In any event he lists it various parts from that time forward. I
have heard it was prepared in 3564 BC. It certainly is very old
and would have taken someone or a culture a long time to get to
the point of this highly complex prophetic calendar that was as
astronomically correct as early 20th Century calendars.
When Marshack wrote about the Le Placard baton in 1991 he was
erring on the side of conservatism by saying it was from at
least 15,000 BC. I have seen it dated as old as 35,000 years and
the ?norm? for its provenance seems to be 30,000 years old. It
is an accurate lunar calendar once thought to be mere ?notation?
and it took twenty years of detailed analysis for Marshack to
prove what it really was. In this quote he seems not to know
about other things such as the origin of agriculture and
language that we have covered. I guess it is hard for ?experts?
to keep up to date on all the different fields or disciplines.
One other real possibility is that he didn?t wish to go against
conventional scholarship and the Sumerian or Bible Narrative
origin of language and agriculture. Maybe it was his publisher
or some other agency that convinced him not to rock the boat. It
is hard to imagine he did not know the work done at the
Franchithi Caves that shows HYBRID grains before the Fertile
Crescent ordinary grain harvests. Here we have the quote from
his book The Roots of Civilization.
?? the unravelling occurred at precisely the moment that young
archaeologists in Europe and the United States had begun to
publish arguments that notations could not possibly have existed
in the Ice Age and that the microscopic method could not be used
to ascertain notation. I summarize the ?decoding? since it was
not dependent on microscopic cross-sectional analysis of single
marks but on a determination of the changing strategies involved
in a complex sequence of visual, symbolic, problem-solving?.
Remember also that this baton was engraved some 5,000 years
before agriculture formally ?began? in the Fertile Crescent of
the Middle East and some 10,000 years before the formal
?beginning? of writing? ?(2)
It is not easy to go against the forces of intellectual
lethargy and worse that are backed by tenured professors. We see
Marshack putting quotes around ?began? and ?beginning? and
wonder if he knew better. Often the funding for research dries
up when something threatening to the paradigm is being
discovered. He also wisely addresses the mental processes of
Neanderthal and we open another debate.
?By the Mousterian period, Neanderthal man, for instance, was
not only engaged in complex adaptation to his environment, but
was also engaged in complex ceremony and rite. By the Upper
Paleolithic, modern ?Homo Sapiens? was capable of
representational art and notation. This combined late evidence
{He avoids the Berekhat Ram figurine dated to 400,000 years ago
which we have covered. In 2004 they have found beaded art at
least one fourth that old and claim it is 30,000 years older
than the previously thought to be oldest art.} would seem to
indicate that quite early the evolving hominid must have had
some means of communication or ?language?, a capacity and skill
that evolved as part of the increasingly complex way of life and
culture he was structuring. But how much language, and to say
what at each stage, has not yet begun to be investigated. It was
certainly more complex than can be deduced by analogy and from
studies of the primates. In our efforts to understand the
notations we must make the effort.? (3)
I say the notations were the forerunner of Ogham which
incorporated the ritual and spiritual chant as well as the
obvious sign languages that must have come first. Ogham is a
sign language of the hands and knuckles; it is evident by
looking at the simple diagrams of it. It also had healing and
divinatory roots that make up at least 64 different tracts not
to mention the 5 dialects. Modern scholars do not know how the
quipas of Peru kept poetry on ropes with knots that are
reminiscent of Ogham and knuckles. But, when one considers the
?me-too think? that is evident in schooling it is no wonder.
There were early 20th Century scholars who still promoted
Locke?s ?Tabula Rasa?. Locke said no animal could think or
communicate and that this is what separated man from beast at
some point in his development. This, of course, dovetailed
rather nicely with the Bible and the Babel story. Even Marshack
is not mentioning Koko the gorilla or Kansai the chimp. They
both know more English and grammar than many seven year olds.
The historians who made us believe the human was a cave dweller
who beat women over the head with clubs are still quoted as
having something to offer. Almost all Western academia is still
infected by the Ussher born gradualistic ascendance through a
?god-guided? Christian entity that somehow created ?sins and
demons? and only had one true representative on earth. The
scholars in the Church or the accompanying hegemony who
developed the Scale of Nature needed to provide their
missionaries and mercenaries with justification to destroy all
life and art they found. The Incans and Mayans suffered mightily
to see their culture destroyed and yet knew it was coming before
it happened. It took the Pope until 1524 to decide if the North
American Indian even had a soul as crude as the Hottentot.
Needless to say who they had at the top of this evil Scale or
Chain of Ascended Being; it was that person who was the Lord?s
only representative. The same one that liked Cosmas
Indicopleustas making all the heavens revolve around him in the
Flat Earth theory.
Maybe I am wrong to think there has been an organized and well
thought out conspiracy from the moment of the Treaty of
Tordesillas and Columbus? first invasion. Maybe Manifest Destiny
is not the kind of rationale that the elite have used against
natives and average people throughout history. Probably I do
over-emphasize the Hegelian ?play both ends against the middle?
whenever I see people like Moses being all things to all people.
But it certainly deserves serious consideration if one is to
learn enough from history to stop these things from happening. I
am certain that animals have a soul and the ability to think and
communicate. Yogi Ramacharaka of the Yogic Society of Chicago
wrote some excellent books at the beginning of the 20th Century
in which he said domesticated animals are at a higher spiritual
level than many humans living in poverty. In the end I wonder
about the soul of Churchians who limit the spirit and awareness
of the soul for all their ?flock?! Jesus said, ?We are all the
children of God? and God must have people fulfilling his PURPOSE
of harmonization here on earth. We all must think and choose for
ourselves as we learn from our soul and all the potential of it
and humanity ? we must not be ?fool ? owers?!
?It was the first thought of prehistorians involved in the late
nineteenth-century debate of science against the church that the
newly discovered evidence of prehistoric art and ceremony
revealed an evolution of man?s ?spiritual? and ?religious? side,
as opposed to his developing ?practical? or ?aggressive? side as
indicated by the tools. This philosophic division of man into
two or three parts was an attempt to save his unique ?spiritual?
place at the top of the ladder of creation. Man, the argument
went, may have ascended biologically during his evolution, but
once near the top he had been given, or he had achieved, a
?soul?.? (4)
And you know who the interpreters for this entity that gave us
a soul were, don?t you? Marshack goes on to discuss the
scientific and other contributions of Father Teilhard de
Chardin, which rocked Catholicism. I am very much in agreement
with the ?templates? of Teilhardism and the need for a
?Conspiracy of Love? which he called for, in great earnestness.
His influence can be seen in Jean Houston?s Jumptime. This
qualitative Intelligent Design is at the root of all my
dedication to writing a new history for man to build proper
models of behaviour upon.
So I hope I have established enough of the fundamentals for the
reader to see the ?notation? and symbols on dolmen, menhir,
megalith and stelae or other Neolithic Libraries has a lot to
offer us; in seeing how we developed as spiritual beings in a
long and fruitful growth, we must return to the bosom of. One of
the most important aspects is reflected in the degrees of a
circle or mapping system that Bradley said academics have ?no
apparent reason? for the fact of its existence. It is harmonic
and it was understood by the builders of the Great Pyramid.
About the author:
Activist against deceit and power-mongering in history and
social management.
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