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News Briefs 11-12-2006

By Rick MGon

The news isn’t sorted by theme today, it’s random madness.

Thanks Kat, Pam and Neil G.

Quote of the Day:

What shakes the eye but the invisible?

Theodore Roethke

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14 Comments

  1. Coffee
    Obviously there’s no hope for me ending up anything but a cot-case, I drink about 10 cups of brewed coffee a day. However, to date it hasn’t seemed to have harmed me – ba dha, ba dha, ba dha!!

    Regards, Kathrinn

  2. How Far We Have Fallen
    Re. the upcoming Jupiter-Mercury-Mars (whoops, not Venus, Rick) conjunction, Ed Krupp (Dr. anti-OCT) said this: “In ancient times, people thought the close groupings of planets had deep meaning,” said Krupp. Now, he said, “it’s absolutely something fun to look for.”

    So now the skies are just entertainment–no meaning there at all!

    Gary David
    http://www.theorionzone.com

    1. Imagination
      You’re right Gary, it’s Mars not Venus. Maybe I’m subconciously hoping for Venus in the love angle of my horoscope.

      I disagree with Krupp, but at least he still marvels at the stars. The majority of people on this planet don’t give them a second of thought. How many people these days (pun not intended) look up at the night sky and wonder? Not many thanks to artificial lighting. Even on a clear night in a major city, only a few stars are visible, and no one looks up at them, they’re too absorbed in the trivial aspects of their lives.

      When I visited New Mexico in October 2000, I was left speechless when I saw the night sky for the first time in the northern hemisphere. It was a beautiful clear night, every star was visible, and Orion strode across the horizon (in Australia he stands on his head). I felt both humbled and infinite. The spiral arm of our galaxy was so clear I felt like I could reach out and touch that river of stars, curving across the sky and around the Earth like the protective arm of a parent. It literally blew my mind, and I was acutely aware that I was standing on a sphere floating in space. 99% of people these days don’t get to experience that anymore, and even those who do no longer wonder about it.

      Imagination is more important than knowledge, said Albert Einstein. People like Krupp would do well to remember that.

      1. Krupp versus the arms of Orion
        Thank you for such an eloquent description of your experience. I had a similar one when I first traveled to the West from Cleveland, Ohio, where I, sadly, grew up.

        I’ve read most of Krupp’s books, and at least he seems to be interested in archaeoastronmy. That why his comment seemed so off the mark. The ancients saw meaning in the sky; we see fun.

        By the way, my book The Orion Zone postulates why both the Giza Orion Correlation and the Arizona one are facing south. (This is one factor that Krupp says invalidates the OCT.) Orion is on his head, so to speak, in both places because the template was imported from the southern hemisphere.

        Gary David
        http://www.theorionzone.com

  3. Mojave rock art as doodling?
    I guess I’m on my high horse today. But really, folks, Mojave petroglyphs as “a giant doodle pad.”?! (This is not Rick’s fault– it’s the headline. BTW, thanks, Rick, for mentioning my book in the next link!)

    To the article-author’s credit, she does ponder a little deeper: “Was it ritualistic or magical? A way to bring rain or good luck to the hunt or record in stone sacred vision quests, as some books theorize?”

    In our temporal chauvinism, how many times can we sophisticated moderns denigrate the “primitive” mentality of ancient people? I suppose as many times as we want, since those people are all dead.

    Gary David
    http://www.theorionzone.com

    1. Who’s doing the doodling?
      >> guess I’m on my high horse today. But really, folks, Mojave petroglyphs as “a giant doodle pad.”?!

      Every time I find a headline that’s out of sync with the article, a fuzzy semi-memory begins to whisper in a corner of my brain, saying something to the effect that the authors of articles don’t write the headlines. I suppose they may bother to title their articles, but the headlines are written by the guys who piece together the publications (newspapers, magazines, etc.). Frequently headlines are more determined by how much space is available, rather than the content of the article, although, of course, they try to write headlines that both fit the space and the nature of the article. At least, that’s how I think it works (based on a very old, tattered memory).

      Kat

      1. Giant doodles
        I quoted the “giant’s doodle pad” line so I could make my Cernes Abbas giant pun. 😉

        And luckily for Sub Rosa, Greg writes the news headlines instead of hiring subeditors (because I’m too lazy to write them myself!).

      2. Kat,
        I found the line within
        Kat,

        I found the line within the text too, so the author was basically being a tourist sans any real deep interest in rock art. On the other hand, these types of articles are what drawn people into the subject in the first place. I suppose they are a better use of print than an article about Paris Hilton or something like that.

        Gary David
        http://www.theorionzone.com

  4. artificial eyeball of “hybrid woman”
    In the story about the artificial eyeball found at Burnt City, they describe is as belonging to the skeleton of a “hybrid woman.” What on Earth could they possibly mean by that? Nephilim chick? A half-Hobbit freak?

    1. Hybrid woman
      A little-known fact, but most women are in fact hybrid. Allow me to explain.

      As you probably know, men are from Mars, and women are from Venus (you MUST have read the book!?) OK – so this book explains the ancient tribe of Amazonian women, who first inhabited this world in the Amazon basin when their planet (Venus) became ravaged by run-away global warming. To this day, Venus is a hell-hole of crushing atmospheric pressure, intense surface temperatures (hot enough to turn lead molten) and concentrated sulphuric acid rain.

      Meanwhile, on Mars, the men were forced to abandon their planet when two rogue planetoids collided in the immediate vicinity of the planet (the remains of this inter-planetary crash remain to this day as the shattered debris of the planetoids orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Asteroid Belt). The relatively local cataclysm proved catastrophic for Mars, the explosion and resulting shock wave stripping Mars of 90% of its atmosphere, boiling the seas off into space, and sterilising the planet of all life as a result of over-exposure to UV radiation. A lucky few men managed to escape in the planetary life boats which eventually found their way to earth.

      The relatively cool, wet, damp conditions on Earth did not suit the Amazon (Venusian) women, and they turned from being a fiersome female warrior race, into a tribe of moaning and complaining miseries. They left their Amazonian paradise in search of warmer climes, and trekked off northwards, complaining all the way, until they reached the ancient land of Beeyartch (now known as Mexico), where they cultivated chillies and cacti and raised herds of enchilladas which they used for food, fur and lighting. Here they settled – being the ancient fore-mothers of the Olmecs, Maya, Aztec and later the Inca peoples. Their advanced knowledge of needle-point, cake-baking and dish-washing honed into a fine art form that graced the temples of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan.

      Meanwhile, in the lands of the middle-east which became known as Mesopotamia, the life-boats from Mars were dismantled by the men and used to create dwellings, furnishings, communications devices and refrigeration units; the men would hold regular forums sat in their furnishings and drink the fermented juice from wild fruits (kept cool in the refrigeration units). Much laughter and flatulence abounded in these meetings during which some of the best ideas, inventions and contrivances of man were created. Unfortunately, many of these ideas were lost forever hours after these meetings, since no one could remember what had been decided.

      Eventually, after many millennia, simple straw boats were put to sea on the Atlantic coasts of the Americas. Months later, Mesopotamia was ravaged by the fearsome might of the moaning, complaining Amazonian women who put to death the lazy, good-for-nothing men. The ranks of women, mounted upon the backs of their military armoured enchilladas and bearing polished hard-wood rolling pins were no match for the drunken, farting lay-abouts from Mars.

      Vanquished, the men had no option but to allow the Amazonian women to rule them and have their wicked ways with them. All offspring from these unions were therefore hybrids between Venusians and Martians. In effect, therefore, it is not merely the women but the men too who are hybrid. This article is obviously referring to an early “first generation” hybrid with the dodgy eye.

      I would hypothesise that the woman who had the gammy eye probably lost it during the war against the men. This may have occurred from a well-placed right hook from the fists of one of the drunken males, or may have been accidentally self-inflicted when a misplaced rolling pin strike missed its target and the follow through took out the eye. Another likely alternative is that during the initial charge on the back of her trusty enchillada, her group leader called “Break right”. This unfortunate woman, confusing her left from her right, instead broke left and poked her eye out on a tree.

      I hope this helps.

      yer ol’ pal,

      Xibalba
      (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

      1. History by Xibalba
        I wish you’d written history books Xibabla – they’d have made for much more interesting reading than the boring tomes I was forced to read at school! Loved your take on things – thanks.

        Regards, Kathrinn

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