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Tuesday Roundup 04-09-2007

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

Enjoy!

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  1. Faces of Ancient Astronauts… WTF??????
    When I was young…ER I was a faithful ascriber of the Ancient Astronaut theory. Now with age has come a little more of skepticism, brought in part by such biased articles as the one linked in today’s roundup.

    Allow me to write a few objections about what the article proposes:

    1) Xipe Totec.- the aztec god depicted in one of the images, was in no way an Ancient Astronaut. He was the God of spring, an agrarian deity that symbolizes the death and rebirth of nature. One of the young man or wamn was chosen to become the representation of the god for the yearly festivities, and when the time came, the priests would kill him or her, and then cam the brutal part of the ceremony: the priest would SKIN the victim and then WEAR the skin to complete the re-enactment of the Spring revival (!!). Which makes me think that perhaps Hannibal Lecter was of mexican origin… and of course there are strong simmilarities with the myths of Dionisios, Osiris and Jesus.

    2) Knights of the Eagle.- The aztecs were a warrior race. Remember Leonidas’ spartans in 300? Well, the aztecs had many strong resemblances to them, in the sense that the greatest glory an aztec could have would be to die in battle. So the elite warriors among them were divided into 2 groups, I suppose I could even compare them to medieval orders like the Knight Templars. But anyway the two groups were the Eagle Knights and the Jaguar Knights. So the fact that a person sees a man wearing a helmet that reseembles an eagle’s head and immediately makes the wild speculation that it must symbolize a man that could FLY, hence an ancient astronaut, it’s the very same resaon orthodox archeology gets so pissed off with this theory.

    3) Cat Men: I know that in recent years there have arisen a number of theories about some alien races apart from our gray macrocephalic friends, among them the infamous reptilians and also the Cat people. But those theories have absolutely nothing to do with the depiction of men with jaguar-like features. We have to understand here that the very first organized culture that we have record here in this part of the world were the OLMECS, who inhabited a region of deep jungles and tropical forests; which is interesting, considering that until not very recently it was common canon among anthropologists that only on template climates and valleys with seasonal rains could a major civilization arise, like the egyptians and sumerians; but now we’re seeing it is very possible for advanced cultures to settle in such inhospitable regions as jungles. But anyway, in those jungles the top predator was the jaguar, so undoubtedly it would be the dominant part of the olmecs’ belief system; OLMECA is a nahuatl name that means “people of the rubber”, mainly because in this region is where the precious rubber used to manufacture the balls used on the famous game that was so important for the cultures of this regions. But in reality we know next to nothing of the olmecs, to the point that we don’t even know what their REAL name was, but it wouldn’t be so speculative to think they would consider themselves to be the Jaguar People. So this cat-men were actually ancient shamans who would use psychotropic mushrooms in their ancient rituals, so they could attain the power of the jaguars (either they could actually TURN themselves into jaguars, or it was all a halucination I leave the decission to you). Archeologists have managed to recover ancient skulls of shamans who went so fa as to replace their canine teeth for jaguar fangs (unsurprisingly they found these men died of dental infection), to help them make their transformation much more convincing.

    Well, I’ll stop here. I only want to add that it saddens me how childish and immature these articles are when they want to use as evidence for their theories such preposterous notions. I do believe there are a lot of misteries that we haven’t solved about our ancient past, and there are a lot of interesting things about the cultures of Ancient Mexico that need to be studied with an open mind. But people who like to read Von Daniken’s book have also the obligation to read scientific journals and archeological magazines to help them mantain an unbiased and serious approach.
    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. Ancient Astronauts
      Hi Red,
      I’ve researched ancient astronauts for years, and whilst most are a load of rubbish, I can categorically prove that one ancient astronaut story is true.
      John Glenn. 1998. Into space at age 77.

      !fGtn*0n

      Sorry Greg, couldn’t get out of the habit.

      1. LOL!
        Yeah! there’s a lot of bull crap lying around the Ancient Astronaut theory. But ocasionally you really can find worthy misteries. Take for example the story about the enigmatic Costa Rican stone spheres. It still remains quite the mistery.

        And it also serves to point that biased viewpoints act bothways. If an academic finds an acncient ruin or devise and can rapicly grasp its use, he quickly concludes it must be religious or ceremonial!

        PS: Ever since I saw “The Right Stuff” I have been forever in admiration towards the Mercury 7 astronauts. My favorite is of course Gordon Cooper.

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. Ah
          Yes, there are many mysteries worthy of study that are put down to ancient astronauts. I have even argued that von Daniken has worth, in that he has inspired some archaeologists to new areas of study in disproving him and his ilk. But ‘ancient astronauts’ do not fit.
          To believe in them would require, for me, as much endurance as Gordon had on Mercury 7.

          Reality, like time, is relative to the observer

          Anthony North

          1. Yeah!
            Eventually, if you believed ALL Von Daniken wrote, you would end up PEEING on yourself like Alan Sheppard did 🙂

            But I agree, Daniken did have some positive inffluence in the sense of sparking an interest to revisit our ancient past, and not taking everything as settled.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

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