Posted on 07/26/2005 1:07:44 PM PDT by Little Bill
Site of Western Extension to Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos
In a LM IB context in excavations just to one side of the Royal Road some distance northwest of the Little Palace at Knossos, 327 children's bones were found in a burnt deposit in the basement of a building christened the North House.
Originally attributed to between eight and eleven children provisionally aged between ten and fifteen years old, between 21% and 35% of these bones, which included skull fragments as well as other bones, all found in an unarticulated heap, exhibited "fine knife marks, exactly comparable to butchery marks on animal bones, resulting from the removal of meat.
Cannibalism seems clearly indicated. Among possible interpretations are ritual usage (otherwise unexampled in the open town of Knossos) and lack of all other food because of poisoning or other deleterious effect of gases or fall out from intense activity of the volcano of Thera."
Subsequent analysis has revealed that the bones in fact need belong to no more than four individuals, two of whom can be quite precisely aged by means of their teeth to eight and twelve years. Some phalanges (finger or toe bones) from young humans, a human vertebra with a knife cut, some marine shells, some shells of edible snails, and burnt earth were found filling a pithos in the "Cult Room Basement", a room across a corridor from the "Room of the Children's Bones" in which the cache of 327 children's bones were found
The context within the pithos suggests that some portions of young children were cooked together with a variety of other edible substances. No spices indicated.
Together with the major concentration of children's bones were also found some sheep bones including articulated vertebrae. One of the latter had a cut mark in a position indicating that the beast's throat had been slit, so that sheep sacrifice may have been connected with the death and dismemberment of the children, whom forensic experts have established to have been in perfect health at the time of their deaths.
There is unfortunately no method by which these skeletons can be accurately sexed, so we remain ignorant as to whether they belonged to boys, girls, or both.
Could there be some connection between these butchered children, the youths and maidens who jump bulls in Minoan representational art, and the tribute of Athenian boys and girls paid to the legendary king Minos to which Theseus, the heroic Athenian prince, put a stop with the loving help of Minos' daughter Ariadne by killing the monstrous Minotaur?
And then He came and ascrificed Himself for us.
Well, that's a conversation stopper.
Well, that's a conversation stopper.
The prehistoric site at North Salem New Hampshire has as its main identification feature a sacrificial stone like those found in the Old World. Phoenician, 1000 BC. Human sacrifice? Maybe, the stone is big enough.
Actually the practice of human sacrifice as a religious rite had died out in the Mediterranean long before Christ and was replaced by the ritual sacrifice of animals and certain plants instead.
I have been through the site a couple of times and can see what they mean when they describe it as an alter. The place is strange and I have seen no convincing theories of who built it or why it was built.
Actual human sacrifice had indeed died out in the Greek and Roman worlds (not its remnants) but certainly continued in most other parts of the world.
The carbon dates (from a hearth within the ruins) for Mystery Hill are thousands of years old, which of course dumps on its ass the foolish notion that the megalithic site (which is quite large, and resembles the ancient hilltop mazes found in Europe and elsewhere) was a colonial root cellar. :')
Got a good link for Mystery Hill. Don't think I've heard about it.
III. Neopalatial (or New Palace) MM IIIA - LM IB (ca. 1750/1720-1490/1470 B.C.)
http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/chrono.html
Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?
The Museum of Unnatural Mystery | 1997 | Lee Krystek
Posted on 08/26/2004 10:56:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1200640/posts
just found these in a Google search:
Official website:
http://www.stonehengeusa.com/
Un-museum:
http://www.unmuseum.org/mysthill.htm
photo:
http://www.theskyscrapers.org/gallery/slideshow.php/id/1486/slide_article_id/1494
a few related GGG / FR topics:
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Posted on 07/29/2004 11:43:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Not quite. Followers of Moloch continued on to a lesser extent and are still with us. It is still happening in Iraq, in Israel, and in London, and in various places farther east such as India, Thailand, and Philippines. They don't seem to be in general eating the sacrifices anymore, which is an improvement of sorts.
Cool.
For those unfamiliar with this site, it was a Minoan temple that was destroyed by an earth quake while a human sacrifice was being preformed, I will see if I can find a better link than Dartmouth.
http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/anemospilia.htm
Could be a nice GGG topic... I think there's already one about Kourion (on Cyprus) which was also destroyed by an earthquake. Archaeologists excavated a structure of some kind where remains of three humans killed by its collapse were found.
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The Warriors Of Paros
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