Ancient Civilizations

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Rajaah said:
While I'm at it, the Egyptian Eye of Horus symbol really does resemble the Eye of the Sahara with a mountain north of it and a river flowing out of it to the south before curving eastward (which is what existed at the Eye of the Sahara once upon a time, probably pre-Sahara).

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Yeah circles look like circles.

Eye of the Sahara never had a river on it since it's on a fucking hill, you get a small stream at best.

If the Egyptians were there then there would be Egyptian archeology there. There isn't. There is neolithic art on some of the rocks nearby and simple pastoral enclosures, so you can't say a magic tsunami swept up the evidence.
 
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Vampires/werewolves/zombies all originated from the rabies virus.
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Zombie was a Hatian thing I thought when they poisoned people with the blowfish poison making them seem dead when they really were not.
 
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The modern hoodoo voodoo zombie yes but the original concept of a ravenous unstoppable undead cannibal like creature that cannot be reasoned with coming after you, attacking you , trying to eat you, and infecting you and turning you into the same kind of monster is rabies. It predates people living in Haiti or the new world in general. Its deeply embedded in the human psyche from the long before recorded history began.

It being a curse from wolves/creatures of the night, slobbering jowls, foaming at the mouth howling at the moon? Again infecting you if you are bitten and converting you on the next full moon? Rabies.

Rabies also causes photophobia causing victims to hide during the day and only come out at night, biting victims and converting them into vampires? Rabies.

Topic came up recently in the antivaxxer thread with the chemtrails crew downplaying it but for the vast majority of human history rabies has been this truly terrifying thing that has a 100% fatality rate and was universally treated with abject horror and humanity's natural response has been to kill every living thing even suspected of being infected, killing it with fire.
 
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Sylas said:
The modern hoodoo voodoo zombie yes but the original concept of a ravenous unstoppable undead cannibal like creature that cannot be reasoned with coming after you, attacking you , trying to eat you, and infecting you and turning you into the same kind of monster is rabies. It predates people living in Haiti or the new world in general. Its deeply embedded in the human psyche from the long before recorded history began.

It being a curse from wolves/creatures of the night, slobbering jowls, foaming at the mouth howling at the moon? Again infecting you if you are bitten and converting you on the next full moon? Rabies.

Rabies also causes photophobia causing victims to hide during the day and only come out at night, biting victims and converting them into vampires? Rabies.

Topic came up recently in the antivaxxer thread with the chemtrails crew downplaying it but for the vast majority of human history rabies has been this truly terrifying thing that has a 100% fatality rate and was universally treated with abject horror and humanity's natural response has been to kill every living thing even suspected of being infected, killing it with fire.
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Rabies is also responsible for House of the Dragon not being book accurate, the death of Kurt Cobain and the sinking of Atlantis.
 
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Chris said:
Yeah circles look like circles.

Eye of the Sahara never had a river on it since it's on a fucking hill, you get a small stream at best.

If the Egyptians were there then there would be Egyptian archeology there. There isn't. There is neolithic art on some of the rocks nearby and simple pastoral enclosures, so you can't say a magic tsunami swept up the evidence.
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It's a water-collecting basin with evidence that rivers flowed from it at some point. I guess when the area was lush, 12000 years ago, but you can see it on maps as recently as 500 BC showing rivers leading to that general area.

What's interesting to me is the fact that it's on a hill combined with the fact that a large amount of that area was very low in elevation (to the point that there are plenty of theories that a lot of western Africa was actually submerged in the past). So there might have been a situation where the Richat Structure and its hill actually existed as an island (ala Plato's version) with the Atlantic significantly further inland.

Who knows, though. The main issue with the Atlantis theory is, indeed, where the hell the pieces of it went. My best guess is the Flood either dragged all of it back into the ocean, or scattered all of it across what's now the Sahara, to be buried forever by the onset of the sand. Probably a whole lot of settlements under that desert, considering rivers and lakes used to flow right through all of it for tens of thousands of years before the sand arrived.
 
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It's a water-collecting basin with evidence that rivers flowed from it at some point. I guess when the area was lush, 12000 years ago, but you can see it on maps as recently as 500 BC showing rivers leading to that general area.

What's interesting to me is the fact that it's on a hill combined with the fact that a large amount of that area was very low in elevation (to the point that there are plenty of theories that a lot of western Africa was actually submerged in the past). So there might have been a situation where the Richat Structure and its hill actually existed as an island (ala Plato's version) with the Atlantic significantly further inland.

Who knows, though. The main issue with the Atlantis theory is, indeed, where the hell the pieces of it went. My best guess is the Flood either dragged all of it back into the ocean, or scattered all of it across what's now the Sahara, to be buried forever by the onset of the sand. Probably a whole lot of settlements under that desert, considering rivers and lakes used to flow right through all of it for tens of thousands of years before the sand arrived.
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Except you imagined all of your claims about rivers and elevation. Show an elevation map and point out the rivers and island basin. There were rivers in the Sahara but specifically there and in the way Plato described?

Where is the archeology? The location DOES have archeology but it's cave man and shepherd stuff, not civilisation stuff.
 
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Is Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix worth watching? Two seasons now. I've only seen the very first episode and while it was good, it wasn't anything I wasn't familiar with and seemed more like it was for normie consumption. Then again a first episode probably should be like that.
 
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Rajaah said:
Is Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix worth watching? Two seasons now. I've only seen the very first episode and while it was good, it wasn't anything I wasn't familiar with and seemed more like it was for normie consumption. Then again a first episode probably should be like that.
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Some interesting points:



For example Sphinx enclosure rain erosion would date it to a time when the Nile was higher, making it be in the water and therefore would be way more eroded.
 
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the sphinx, and the Nile River:

The sphinx enclosure is about 60-90 Feet higher than the surface of the Nile. which imo means that i do not think the nile was that high. considering back some people goto ~12k years ago was the end of the iceage so a signficant portion of the earth's water was tied up in Glaciers and the overall ocean level was -lower-, thus imo the nile most likely was not significantly different than it is now., thus the rain erosion theory/hypothesis has a higher chance of being right than the entire sphinx enclosure being under water. in my opinion.

yes the nile has MOVED due to the natural processes that rivers do- meander and the alvulsion/accretion of soils on the curves- but the elevation of the nile has most likely not gone DOWN that much in all those years.
 
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One thing you are missing is glaciers would have also influenced climate in various areas. The Sahara was green towards the end of the ice age and for a few thousand years after that. This suggests there was increased precipitation in the region, which in turn could have resulted in more water entering the rivers and tributaries
 
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Last ten minutes of this are musing over the Richat Structure and it's really good stuff.
 
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True it could have been higher....but 60 FEET? say the nile is 5000 feet wide(it Is wider ~1.7 miles ave.).. 60 x 5000=300,000 x 7.5( gallons per cubic foot) 2.2 MILLION gallons per second flow rate at 1cfs(cubic foot per second) that is a HUGE amount of water.

Now erosion could account for a significant amount of the elevation difference, but that is maybe half or so of the amount needed.
 
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