Make Today, Day 61 the day!
Posted on 03/02/2014 9:13:24 AM PST by ckilmer
Edited on 03/02/2014 3:00:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
The scene, discovered by archaeologists in Illinois more than 40 years ago, depicts one of the most extravagant acts of violence ever documented in ancient America: A thousand-year-old pit found under a tall earthen mound, lined from corner to corner with skeletons — 53 in all — neatly arranged two bodies deep, each layer separated by woven fiber mats.
(Excerpt) Read more at westerndigs.org ...
:^)
Looks like they were much less tolerant of nagging back then.
I wouldn’t expect scientists to grasp the issue. It’s pretty clear where they stand on these matters.
In our everyday cultural nomenclature, it has been BC and AD.
Now that is bring striped from us.
I don’t think we should take this lightly. God is being stripped from our society, as thorough as it can be handled.
We’re turning into the old Soviet block in many ways.
Ooooooo, you’re a brave one. LOL
“... What the hell is CE? ...”
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“Clinton Era”?
So I must ask:
Has anyone surveyed around the site for a charcoal layer which might indicate a wildfire like prairie fires which destroyed entire towns in the 1800s?
Did they have the equivalent of Mrs. O'Leary's cow like the Chicago fire, or an earthquake event on the New Madrid Fault sufficient to start a conflagration which was uncontrollable (think San Francisco, 1906)?
Was there any distinct evidence of an attack?
Have any burials been checked for viral RNA which might indicate a plague?
All are possibilities, or a simple household accident which started a fire which spread uncontrollably.
Destruction on that scale would hamper recovery, especially if there were numerous fatalities, and people might (for religious or other reasons) decide to move on rather than rebuild.
There are at least between 3000 and 5000 unmarked graves in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, that were buried here between 1862-1863 A.D.. Political correctness keeps them from being identified. Some were battlefield casualties and some were do to disease.
The two major events now known about Cahokia is that there was a large human sacrifice event and that after 100 years of prosperity Cahokia was burned to the ground.
There is one other example of this in the New World. That was the Aztecs. They would typically go to war to take prisoners to be sacrificed to their gods. (Their priests were homosexuals) They made mortal enemies of their neighbors. So Cortez had no problem gathering Indian allies around him for the march on the Aztec homeland. He burned Tenochtitlan to the ground.
So a likely explanation for what happened at Cahokia is that they used their neighbors captured in battle for human sacrifice. This made their neighbors into mortal enemies. The Cahokians were successful for 100 years but in their later years success made them weak and careless. So their neighbors found an opportunity to gang up on them and destroy them.
I like to say “Christian Era.”
There is little support for your scenario in the archeological record. The massive fire to which you refer affected part of the city, but not most of its core, which would of course be the main target of attackers.
There is also no evidence of long-term or ongoing human sacrifice at Cahokia. There are a number of sites indicating mass murder, but not nearly enough of them to indicate a regular practice over the long life of the city.
The most widely-accepted explanation for the fire and later erection of the palisade is some sort of internal conflict, with little evidence to indicate what it might have been about.
BTW, I had not previously seen statements that Aztec states were homosexual. Do you have a reference?
The Aztecs were not at all unique in their practice of human sacrifice. Pretty much all the locals did this. The Aztecs were just the most powerful and successful in warfare, so they had the most prisoners to sacrifice.
The locals joined the Spanish simply because they saw them as good allies against the Aztecs. They probably hated the Aztecs more for their heavy taxation than for the human sacrifice, which they took for granted as normal practice.
At the Salmon Ruins in Bloomfield NM, there is evidence of a major fire burning that pueblo down. It appears that lots of children were killed in that blaze.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Ruins
The article mentions tooth size. But I imagine there are other criteria, particularly in the pelvic area?
Purely in the interests of Science, when I watch a female walk from behind, there is a noticeable "swinging" motion. I don't know what causes that.
Injunism is a Religion of Peace.
It’s a Peaceful Religion.
Population control.
What could be produced plus what could be acquired, equals only so much with which to survive.
Human sacrifice thru conducting warfare and/or in peace, has long been relied upon to control the number of empty stomachs.
All the rest of that formula, is the business of applying labels (pro-, con-, neutral-) to the various parties all jockeying for position, such that, they are the survivors.
The 1960’s story of bias against women, eclipsed the fact, that non-white people were killing each other en masse, in addition to eradicating the losing party’s culture ... save some relics.
Speaking of which, those relics preserved at least something, but NOT NOW, as again, the same politically correct who focused on the aforementioned *bias against women* would now eradicate those relics ... never minding the fact that THE INDIANS were major relic collectors.
Clan A would wipe out (in the language, it actually means “rubbed out”) Clan B, but maintain various relics as tributes to some spirit of some warriors from Clan B.
So on the “wall” of Clan A’s abode, the progressive and most-politically correct editors of *The Washington Post* would find a lacrosse jersey with the head of a member of former Clan B’s team champion.
To wit: You are forbidden by the politically correct thought police at the *Post,* to have a jersey that says “Washington Redskins” ... but the same thought police are silent when they go back in time to find Clan B’s dead lacrosse team champion’s head sew’n to the lodge barroom “wall” in Clan A Town.
And so it goes, as the desktop “warriors” of the politically correct, seek to rub out “the white man” -— we are told, that’s for the purpose of (now read off the list of leftist/progressive arguments):
- to end all war
- to end people killing people
- for the children
- saving the planet
- saving the color “green”
... all of which problems, remain in the headlines when the last white woman is tossed into the burial pit of progressives’ slaughtering of history.
That is why, I could care less about, what is your race. What I care about, are the principles by which we maintain limited government and limit the powers of government agents, in addition to seeking God’s blessings and his forgiveness. Which I hope, last, regardless of what the language is and your color of skin, is.
Because, if your aim is not such, then you’re just one of the slaughterers about whom you complain so much. If “the white man” is no longer in the picture, you’re going to be bitching about “the ______ man” and so on.
And I am going to come back and point out to you, that, to your chagrin, it was never about “the man.” Instead, so many politicians’ motivations were greed, and they used the simple method of supplying to you, the paint for you to paint your way into your corner of false pride.
Where you got hung up on your race, or on your sex; neither of which matter in the presence of politicians who manipulate and whip up a crowd for the gain of the politicians.
Even if / when there is only one race remaining, you still have that problem.
Sounds like a reasoned theory.
Works for me. All these Liberals making out how peaceful tribal Indians were so peaceful, enjoyed their lives until the White man came and spoiled it all. The Indians I know prefer to be called by their tribal names, not this Native American nonsense. What group of people would want to be named after their conquerors? On in America are peoples designated by their ethnicity. Anyone hear of Turkish-Germans? Or Algerian-French?
wait... you mean native Americans weren’t all peaceful and lived in harmony with nature and each other?
My people call it maize.
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