Why is it even important to study all this ancient stuff? Who cares whether these monuments were made 3000 years ago or 30 000 years ago. Does it have any impact on anything we are doing now? In a Brave New World all ancient history is repressed in order to make the society more pure. Why am I obsessed with this poppycock? And moreover, why am I constantly compelled to ejaculate my thoughts and the record of my experiences all over this virtual medium? In a Brave New World the society has been specifically engineered to produce a perfectly content consumerist population in order to generate perpetual stability. In a world of stability there is no room nor need for heroes. Is there an alternative? Rumour has it that there is another goal for life other than stability or contentment. Rather the evolution of the soul through gradual refinement of consiousness. Maybe this is where the study of ancient civilization gains importance. Maybe we should figure out if there is an alternative to the way our current civilization is headed based on an accurate knowledge of what our predecessors were doing. Allow me to get back to the narrative;
We left Isla del Sol and the ruins there to return to Puno across the border in Peru. There are several ancient sacred sights Id heard about in this region that we decided to check out. Just off the highway is this thing called the Muru Doorway. Id seen pictures and read on numourous obscure websites about strange goings on at this sight. Space aliens, intergalactic doorway, etc. So we decided to spend the night. Basically its this really odd carving in the rock amongst this odd rocky formation that boarders the lake. The overall formation was strange enough that you can tell peoples living here would automatically consider it as sacred. The carving though is very very weird. I dont really know why anyone would go to the trouble of carving something out of the rock like this and I pondered it a long time. This local kid came out from behind a rock selling unusual pebbles. His name was hilariously Socrates. He told me that the portal opens in the night but I didnt buy his bobbles. My companion and I set up our tent within view of the gateway. The night was clear and I made a long observation of the stars. When It got really dark I heard some noises in the hills and thought that there were bandits. For an eternity I listented, thinking I would need to pull out some korean moves in defence of my guitar and my sleeping companion. Eventually, resigned to my fate I curled up in a ball in the tent. Next morning I felt like a baby. Next time, you guys will come with me and maybe we ll have the courage to pass through that goshdarnd portal. I feel like the cowardly lion. Anyways, next day all the locals were asking me if I went through the portal and I had to admit that I was too woosy. I have a feeling that the portal is the real deal. Also I was high on San Pedro cactus powder that I bought from the witches in La PAz. It makes all your senses really strong and everything is really intense. Dont judge me for manipulating and experimenting with my state of consiousness unless you want to also judge all of the ancient preists and kings and seekers of this area too. (San Pedro is so great. I wish I could bring a bag of the powder back to canada. It just charges your whole body and mind up and you can feel it in your jaw. Also your voice feels like its coming from a different place and gets deeper)
So next day we took a long day trip to the ruins of Tihuanaco. Here is another site where there's all these crazy stories and no one knows what the truth is. Apparently this place is the oldest known ruin in the world. It was a ruin even when the Incas were here. And yet, it seems the most modern. Incredibly straight and smooth MASSIVE stones fit perfectly and carved with exact angles. Made me think of the Winnipeg Art gallery. Modern Style. They say that the stones came from a quarry across the lake which boggles the mind. How did these people do this crazy shit? Who in god's name where they? Apparently, the stones were also carved perfectly into pipes in order to having running water in the place. The museum says that these people were contemporary with the Greeks but sources on the internet put it back way farther. I guess the idea is that this place held really old civilization because its so high and was sort of an island during the great flood. Everyone here is talking about the great flood and this whole area as being the last refuge for whowever was living back then. Noah? Everyone is talking about this dude Viracocha who was a white guys with a beard. He survived the flood and replanted society. Then he hopped back on his boat in the pacific ocean and said he'd be back later. Standard history doesnt even acknowledge a great flood as far as I know. The other really weird thing is in the ajacent museum they had like 20 cone headed skulls. Even little tiny child cone headed skulls. The standard veiw about that is that these people used splints to form the skulls at a houng age. Nobody knows why. To my mind, wouldnt these oddly shaped skulls have an effect on the size, shape and function of the brain? Also very strange is that these types of skulls have been found on the oposite side of the planet in ancient europe dating from roughly the same time period.
All in all, I don't know what the heck is going on on this planet and I dont think anyone else knows for sure either.
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Keep at it, you'll find your truth.
And I judge you harshly, and overall, you're doing well.
Love you dude!
i'm not sure there's a "standard history" per se-- most historians would reject that notion, and see history as a created document, just like any document/story.
i think once someone's ideas are out there in the world, they become as "standard" or dogmatic as any others. i remember reading graham hancock a while back, the guy who wrote "chariots of the gods" and lots of those very interesting but not necessarily "accurate" histories of atlantis, the pyramids, etc.
pretty much every chapter, hancock concluded with something along the lines of "so, here it is, i've now shown you the absolute 100% truth, and any other (i.e. official) version is 100% bunk."
so, even the "alternative" histories very quickly set themselves up as "standard."
that's just my not-too-related rant about history.
as far as the flood goes, most antropologists and cultural historians note that just about every culture on earth has a nearly identical story about a "great flood", and it's generally agreed that those eerily similar stories preserved the oral record of the last ice age until the story was recorded in some form.
so, i don't think science/history would acknowledge a "great flood" per se, but pretty much any scientist or historian worth their salt would recognize the "flood myth" as being a reflection of the ice ages.
crazy, eh?, that those stories survived for something like 6-10,000 years in ORAL form, and probably virtually unchanged, since the similarities from culture to culture are fairly minor, until they were finally written down around 3000 B.C. or so.
happy travels.
I don't know either!
=P
I thought the point of this was to buy a precious artifact from Socrates, haha!
I thought about that iceage thing but it doesnt fit perfectly. You d think the ancients would have told stories about a time when the earth was filled with ICE as oposed to WATER. The stories of Titicaca being a last refuge only makes sense in terms of water because they say it turned into an island. Similar about the stories of Tibet and Shambala. An epic flood would occur in a time of the planet being Hotter than it is now so that the poles would be more melted. This is why they say that water used to come up to the level of the Sphinx which is another suposed antidiluvian monument. Hancock bases sopme of his ideas that in the past the planet was hotter and thuse water levels were much higher on ancient maps that have been found that suposedly show in accurate detail parts of the planet that have been under snow and ice for as far as we know thousands of years.
yeah-- that "map of antarctica" thing is CRAZY, if in fact it's true. a detailed map of the coastline of antarctica, copied from an ancient source sometime around 1100 or so, i think?
often, though, i think anthropologists talk about how the arrival of an ice age would have produced all kinds of global catacylsm, including floods, huge global changes in climate and weather, and even a massive increase in volcanic activity.
it also sort of fits that, after 10,000 years of a story being passed along, it might change forms to some degree. i dunno.
it's weird, though, how universal the flood myth is, even in certain details.
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