Earth history is controversial and subject to wide speculation. Without critical thinking and its application of intellectual honesty, virtually all history is an agreed upon set of lies. However, there have been people who have provided various sorts of records for us to determine what is true.
Was the Earth once a Pangaea? There is a great deal of evidence to claim that this was true. When I was studying about the Bushmen, now relegated to the Kalahari, I was enthralled by their genetic comparisons to the Aborigines of Australia. How is this possible, since they ruled most of Africa before the darker-skinned denizens of today migrated from the area known today as the Middle East?
Then there is DNA linking a former place called, Beringia to the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans. Regardless of many folks’ opinions of the Bible, it is a history book and an enigma. Superficial readers need not apply. The Bible heavily suggests that there was a Pangaea. There are different schools of thought as to how the continents of today came into being. The Great Flood would seem to be logical. However, we have: “To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.” (Genesis 10: 25) Now, this may not mean what we might think it to mean.
Let us come to a simpler subject. Three great civilizations were based in modern-day Latin America. These civilizations, like many around the earth, worshipped the sun and winged serpents/dragons. The name, Amaruca, appeared in the region. It literally means Land of the [Great] Plumed/Winged Serpents. The Mayans chief god was Quetzalcoatl /Kukulkan (Plumed/Feathered Serpent). In the area of modern-day Peru, it was Amaru and the territory, Amaruca.
The only known surviving copy of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world wall map was purchased, in 2003, by the Library of Congress for $10 million. In 2005, this treasured map was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, and is the first document in the United States to be so honored. In 2007, the House of Representatives honored it in a resolution (see floor consideration in House) to celebrate the quincentenary of the name.
https://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/map_note.html
The name America (applied to present-day Brazil) appeared for what is believed the first time on Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map, known as the Baptismal Certificate of the New World, and also America's Birth Certificate.
This first article in the series is to whet your appetite for the rest of the story.
@littlescribe Thank you, thank you, thank you; my uneducated mother taught me to read by phonics when I was three-years-old. Around age five or six, I was standing in the doorway to the living room. My dad was in his soft chair reading a book. I observed him. He looked at me with his smirky grin and told me that there were plenty books around (an understatement) and to help myself. because of my dad's example, reading seemed like the thing to do.
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I'm always thirsty to learn more about our origins, looking forward...with my whetted appetite...to your next instalments.
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@lyndsaybowes I hope that I will not disappoint you.
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Highly unlikely my friend!
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This is really interesting stuff! You remind me of a guy I knew in Alaska when I worked as a tour guide there. He used to read and read and read, then tell us all about what he read. History mostly. Interesting guy.
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Hi, @marcovanhassel I was a bit confused, at first. Over the years, I learned about different segments. For example, when watching an over six-hour video by Ralph Epperson, is how I had the first alert about Americu. I proceeded, as is my habit, to vet it. The citation of the Waldseemüller map and its insert, while not in quotation marks, nevertheless lists the University source. Yes, I am quite original in how I phrase things, to the point I often have to explain myself. Snick! Snick! I utilize Grammarly Premium, which has a plagiarize feature, as it is easy for one's unconscious mind to regurgitate information exactly how it was obtained. Thanks for your vote of confidence.
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Don't worry. I like the way you put it all together👍. It was meant as a compliment😉
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America history worth knowing.......
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Sightly off topic, but from my perspective, the bible's creation stories are a retelling of stories that we first run into in Sumeria, circa 3000 BC. These include Adam, the Garden of Eden, and the Great Flood.
The kingdom of Sumeria slowly became irrelevant as their soil became salinated from excessive irrigation and crop failures made them weak enough that the nearby civilization of the Akkadians took control of the region, but the Sumerian civilization was not so much conquered as it was assimilated, such that the Sumerian history and stories remained sacred and important. The Akkadians were followed by several periods of churning Assyrian empires, which involved various groups of Assyrians and a shifting array of regional allies gaining power. During this time Babylonia became an important regional power, and was sometimes part of the power structure and sometimes conquered.
Eventually, Babylonia achieved the upper hand once again during the Neo-Babylonian empire, and this empire very consciously attempted to link itself to its Akkadian and Sumerian roots, going so far as to re-introduce Akkadian as the language of the elite -- if they could have spoken Sumerian they would have, but it was a language that hadn't been spoken for several thousand years. But they re-introduced written Sumerian. And, of course, the ancient Sumerian stories about the Garden of Eden and The Great Flood were revived.
How this pertains to the bible is that it was during this Neo-Babylonian period that Nebuchadnezzar II sacked the Kingdom of Judah, destroyed the first Temple of Solomon, and took a large portion of the Judean elite into exile in Babylon. It was during this period that Hebrew scholars were exposed to the stories that they would later turn into the Pentateuch.
Judah and the Israelite nation were, at best, tiny regional players trapped between large, dominant empires. To these empires, the kingdom of Judah was a small province. Worthy of conquering but not a threat. And certainly not the center of history.
Once the Mede and Persian empire defeated the Neo-Babylonian empire, Cyrus the Great ended the Judean exile, and it was around this time that the first written records of the Hebrew history appear, prior to that it had all been oral tradition.
The Hebrew Scholars weaved together Sumerian stories to make their history, their region, and their kingdom the center of the world.
Without understanding this background, it is very difficult to fit the world and history of the bible into the world and history that historians and archeologists understand.
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@gwiss Having read many legends and myths of how the texts of the Bible came to be, I applied the scientific methodology, logic, and critical thinking when studying the Scriptures. First, Hebrew (children of Eber) as a language is the simplest on Earth. Secondly, the account of creation is woven into the fabric of the language and the other way around. Thirdly, paleontologists understand the fossil inventory to concur with the order of creation in Genesis.
History is written by the victors, and archeologists neither agree nor understand. They seldom merely report their findings. So their embellishments are to their discredit. There was indeed written records of the Torah.
Archeologists unearthed (pardon the pun) a great deal about Babylon. When I studied the raw findings, on my own, it was clear to me that all the world's false religions owed its origins to Babylon.
Many people will thump a Bible, but few have ever looked to understand prophecies and applied learning. Rabbinical Judaism makes its extrabiblical teachings supreme over the Bible. The same applies throughout all of Churchianity. And nobody observes and understands the Quran, but I digress.
When the nation of Israel was in Egypt, they embraced the Egyptian tilt of the Babylonian mysteries. They cried out to YHVH, but He was not dear to their hearts. When they split as a kingdom, Judah so ignored the seventh year Sabbath for 490 years, that the land was due its rest for 70 years. Furthermore, Judah was so enamored with what was Babylon that YHVH sent His servant Nebuchadnezzar to let them taste it firsthand. Thus the Babylonian Talmud would take precedence over older texts.
Therefore, my theory is that when folks look at the Bible from a distance all they see is Babylon (which means confusion). People do not like the Bible because it reveals the behavior and psychology of the human race. The history of the human race has been one of brutal violence and unspeakable perversions. The Bible calls the entire human race liars. All people lie. It takes tremendous effort to speak and report the truth. Honesty, of course, makes one hated.
The massive flaw with the Sumerian legends is that as you point out, it is 3000 B.C. That is a whole 1000 years from the calculations based upon genealogies. Secondly, the Bible centers around YHVH not the multitude of deities. The Hebrews were not a people until after the Great Flood. Abraham had laws and precepts which predated the Hammurabi Code
The science found in the Bible escaped many scientists only to have some confirmed in modern times.
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I certainly agree that there is much about archeology that runs according to groupthink. Science as well.
The bible has long been a conundrum for me, however. I spent my childhood learning it thoroughly due to my upbringing, but only in my later years as I researched did I begin to realize what I believe the bible to actually be.
We have to ask ourselves -- which bible do we mean? Do we include books found with the dead sea scrolls like the book of Enoch? That gives a very different perspective to our history than the books that men decided to include in the official word of God.
I'm a believer in a greater power. However, I'm not convinced that the deity referenced in the bible is that greater power. To me, most of the religions of the world are like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. They all capture a piece but no the essence.
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@gwiss The Bible is a deliberate conundrum. Within the Bible is an appeal to logic and to search for answers.
Years ago, I read The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon. (If you have never read it, there are free copies online.) Previous to reading the work, I viewed myself as anticonsensus. Then I got a bit more clarity on groupthink.
BTW, I am 68. The guess is you are fairly near with your Crosby, Stills, and Nash reference.
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No, 46, but some music is timeless.
That era of awakening was a good one. They didn't quite understand what they were doing, but maybe we can take another crack at it and refine it a little. This iteration of appreciation for organically emergent organization is already further ahead than that one -- we are no longer as concerned about something being natural because of its authenticity, which I feel was the big focus then, but instead this time around the focus seems to be on natural because it functions better, which is a more intellectual and pragmatic approach. Maybe this time it will be a little less reactionary.
I read The Crowd a long time ago, and I suspect it has subtly informed the opinion I have today, which is that when humanity gets too packed, too overcrowded, our society becomes infested with a sort of madness. We all need privacy, which is good for us and in ready supply with a sparse population, but when we are overcrowded we attempt to replace this with the faux privacy we call anonymity, which is not good for us at all.
In some ways I think humanity is like the yeast in wort during the brewing process. It uses up available resources to replicate but creates alcohol as a byproduct, and eventually this alcohol level gets high enough to halt any further growth of the yeast.
Our byproduct of growth is bureaucracy and convention and urban legends. In a sparsely concentrated society individuals can escape this and society thrives. But as our population grows, it becomes impossible to escape it, and societal and individual progress slows to a halt.
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