We know that is only about 2000 years old
But the ruins of puma-punko are over 10,000 years old.
we could not move this stone today:
Posted on 10/28/2015 10:41:05 AM PDT by Trumpinator
I can’t disagree with what you wrote.
The theory of course is that the coastal people were the advanced ones and those inland pretty much primitives. The end comes and wipes out the coastal civilization that rose up and all that survive are a few refugees from the coast and the move in with the primitives and the primitives memorialize this in our mythology of their ancestors meeting gods or heroes. When put that way it's a plausible scenario.
And I suggest you re-watch that same NOVA show about the statues on Easter Island- it was filmed BEFORE they realized that the statues are not just the heads, but are full-body statues buried up to the neck.
And the large stones on puma-punku could not be moved with a few dozen cranes. And they are dated to be over 10,000 years old.
You can choose to believe that they were able to cut and move them by banging it with rocks if you like.
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-—The theory of course is that the coastal people were the advanced ones and those inland pretty much primitives-—
that concept is primary today except the interior people are known to dwell in flyover country
Why would everyday life have been transmitted in myth? The ice ages lasted thousands of years - it was all those people had ever experienced. Had it been summer one day, followed the next with mile-thick glaciers then that probably would have been remarked upon; but, as far as we know, the ice advanced and retreated over the course of centuries.
Good point. So the dramatic thaw = flood myth? And that legend survived memory transmission down through the ages?
I know that just about every culture seems to have legends of a huge flood, but I don't know if they're memories of the same flood, or that bad floods are pretty common and these memories/legends are just local events for each culture.
If there was some global event that occurred that was capable of raising temperatures rapidly enough to melt glacial ice around the world and cause catastrophic flooding then surviving the flood would probably have been the least of the survivors' concerns.
Over time the religions doing this forgot the details but kept doing this alignment of 'as above so below'. So that is his big contention - again going by memory of what I read years ago.
So The Bible says both “Sons of God” and “Only begotten son”
so which is it? Did God have more than one son or not?
We know that is only about 2000 years old
But the ruins of puma-punko are over 10,000 years old.
we could not move this stone today:
Compelling Evidence
of a
Cosmic Catastrophe
in 9500 B.C.
by D. S. Allan
and J. B. Delair
there's also LaViolette's claim that a galactic core explosion destroyed an advanced civilization which tried to pass down a warning via astrology and megaliths. Y'know, because just carving a giant inscription or illustration with caption on every available cliff face is so jejune.
Humanity's Survival
of the Apocalypse
by Paul A. LaViolette
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Perhaps the ruling class discovered early on, that if you keep them occupied and tuckered out, the peasants are less revolting.
The more things change, the more they stay the same: my mother's cousin was a 3-D printer in the 40s & 50s: ran a linotype machine.
Well that’s the thing. Gobekli Tepe was constructed before there were supposed to be peasants - hunter / gatherer societies don’t have peasants.
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