Ancient Relics Discovered In Kaesong Industrial Complex (Korea - Bull)

The Chosun Ilbo ^ | 8-16-2004

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Ancient Relics Discovered at Kaesong Industrial Complex

Thousands of historical remains such as figures of bull images were found at the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

Korea Land Corporation has conducted a joint excavation with North Korea since last June in 12 areas of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in which relics were distributed, and discovered a huge amount of historical remains from the Old Stone Age to the Chosun (Joseon) Dynasty.

Iron figure bull image found at Gaesong Industrial Complex./Yonhap

The figures of bull images were found where a Koryo Dynasty building had been, and were probably buried during construction as part of ceremony. An ax from the Old Stone Age, pieces of earthenware of the New Stone Age and coins that were used during China's Northern Song Dynasty were also discovered.

This is the first time in which South and North Korea have joined together to excavate cultural assets. The joint investigation group was formed by 40 archeologists from the two Koreas.

(Yu Ha-ryong, you11@chosun.com )

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GGG Ping.

Bulls were big with some of the ancient Mediterranean groups, weren't they?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

In the headline I thought you meant "more bull from Korea".

[JOAT]

Bulls were big with some of the ancient Mediterranean groups, weren't they?

Yes, symbolized fertility.

[Hank Rearden]

Looks like a fat moose to me. But I'm not Korean.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping. There was a bull cult of some sort or other at Catal Huyuk, which was abandoned for good by circa 5450 BC. But Korea is a long way from Anatolia. :')

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[prion]

In the headline I thought you meant "more bull from Korea".

Me, too.

Wasn't there a lot of bull iconography at Persepolis?

[RightWhale]

Pyongyang was linked to the culture that built Stonehenge. I would say probably, except the geographic coordinates of the ancient holy site follow the same schema as the siting of various stoneage holy sites in Europe. This also links to some ancient sites in South America.

[Cronos]

Mostly the entire cult of the mother cow -- that seems reflected in India, in Crete (where Europa had a little dalliance with a Bull), to the middle east and the worship of the golden calf, to Africa and their reverence for the cow (don't know of any African custom to worship cows though).

Say, as an aside, #3fan seems to have gone the way of LostTribe.

[Cronos]

Pyongyang was linked to the culture that built Stonehenge. I would say probably, except the geographic coordinates of the ancient holy site follow the same schema as the siting of various stoneage holy sites in Europe.

I've never heard that before, that is interesting. So, we have Neolithic structures stretching over northern Eurasia. interesting...

[RightWhale]

Right, although it is of the order of speculation. However, Hapgood and Einstein were interested in something known as the pole shift, and the coordinates would have been appropriate to an earlier location of the north pole. The implication is that the poles last shifted sometime just prior to or at the end of the last ice age. You don't have to buy the idea, but it is interesting and Pyongyang would have been at one of the prime temple sites in the prior coordinate system when the north pole was in Hudson Bay.

[Cronos]

You don't have to buy the idea

I don't really have any opinion on it either way -- I don't have enough information

[RightWhale]

I don't have enough information

Probably none of us do. Pyongyang was an ancient temple site of the order of age of Stonehenge, though, and there the speculation must stay until the 10,000 year old man shows up to explain everything.

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"Say, as an aside, #3fan seems to have gone the way of LostTribe."

Really?

The last I saw of him you two were 'duking-it-out' on that hundreds post thread.

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"Right, although it is of the order of speculation. However, Hapgood and Einstein were interested in something known as the pole shift, and the coordinates would have been appropriate to an earlier location of the north pole. The implication is that the poles last shifted sometime just prior to or at the end of the last ice age. You don't have to buy the idea, but it is interesting and Pyongyang would have been at one of the prime temple sites in the prior coordinate system when the north pole was in Hudson Bay."

I have 'warmed' quite a bit to this idea as compared to the first time you mentioned it to me years ago.

[RightWhale]

Hapgood was quite a character in our town. I found out recently that he died in a car accident, stepped off a curb. I also didn't know until recently that he corresponded with Einstein about this pole shift idea.

[RightWhale]

Look for more on this: LIMA, Peru -- An American-led expedition discovered five new districts in what its leader described as an ancient jungle metropolis on the slopes of the Peruvian Andes.

The complex, which covers more than 25 square miles, was used by the Chachapoyas -- tall, fierce warriors who were defeated in the late 15th century by Inca ruler Tupac Yupanqui just decades before the Spanish conquest of Peru