Snake-Bird Gods Fascinated Both Aztecs And Pharaohs

Reuters ^ | 9-24-2007 | Robin Emmott

[BOBTHENAILER]

And America HAD to hold its national nose yesterday

Whilst were on the pyramid subject...too bad we couldn't have collectively watched the NUTJOB's sacrifice with an obsidian blade.

[capt. norm]

I’ll bet they traded homing snakes with each other.

I love the concept of homing snakes, but where do you attach the message?

[capt. norm]

Addendum:

I think there's a business opportunity in "Snake-O-Grams".

[AndyTheBear]

Pyramids are kind of an obvious shape to build a large stable structure. And note style of the pyramids is different. So it seems plausible this was simple coincidence.

[AndyTheBear]

There is no evidence the Olmecs and Egyptians ever met.

LOL, this is mentioned right after a list of similarities between the cultures.

[evets]

Satan

[TexGuy]

Use Sea Snakes ...

Science Daily

[Safetgiver]

Ya write it on his tail. Just behind his eyeball.

[capt. norm]

Thanx for the link. They truly are "homing snakes". The water birds, anhingas, I referred to in an earlier reply, are very snake-like.

For one thing, they don't float like ducks...they sink, which is good for them as they fish underwater and have to be able to stay down, and a duck's buoyancy would work against them.

Unlike most other water birds, they don't grab fish with their beak, they spear them.

Seems to be a thin line between reptile and bird.

[arthurus]

the most popular diety

Is that the god of eating habits, the diet deity?

[DBrow]

A great article, thanks.

I have believed that there was much more intercontinental travel in the past than the historians can account for. Odd stuff turns up all over.

What bothers me with the nicotine-cocaine mummy issue is that there was no evidence of Egyptians cultivating the plants, or any record of their use or sale. No pictures on the wall of either plant. The Olmecs, on the other hand, had pictures of both plants plus mushrooms, olliloqui, caapi vine, and a number of other entheogens, making it clear that these plants were known and used.

Another oddity is economic- say that they went over to America in reed boats or whatever. If they brought back tobacco and coca, why not corn, potato, tomato, capsicum?

[Thudd]

You got me ther. I cleerly mispelled the werd "deity". I spelled it "diety", when I shood have spelled it "deity".
: )

[Dumpster Baby]

[arthurus]

Clearly.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Probably a ‘race memory’ dating back to when dinosaurs started growing feathers and turning into birds. :-)

[dan1123]

Sounds like a “tower of Babel” story.

[Fred Nerks]

...and developed a 365-day calendar...

http://www.highdown.reading.sch.uk/highdown/pupil/time/calendars/360.html

“This 360 day calendar, like so many others, was changed during the 8th century B.C. to one of 365 days. The extra five days was simply added to the end of the year.”

Plutarch: “Hermes playing at draughts with the moon, won from her the seventieth part of each of her periods of illumination, and from all the winnings he composed five days, and intercalated them as an addition to the 360 days.”

[ken21]

thanks blam!