XPost: sci.archaeology, alt.archaeology   
   From: eric.stevens@sum.co.nz   
      
   On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:44:36 GMT, Doug Weller   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12 Nov 2006 08:48:52 -0800, in sci.archaeology, sag_giganospam@yahoo.de   
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>I am more into the theory of a meteore which destroyed old   
   >>civilisations at 3200 BC and made major climate changes.   
   >   
   >Egypt's civilization wasn't destroyed.   
   >   
      
   Certainly it wasn't destroyed but it seems to have made a fresh start   
   about that time. In fact it made several fresh starts.   
      
     "And a very old priest said to him, 'Oh Solon, Solon, you Greeks are   
      all children, and there's no such thing as an old Greek.'   
      
      'What do you mean by that?' inquired Solon.   
      'You are all young in mind,' came the reply: 'you have no belief   
       rooted in old tradition and no knowledge hoary with age. And the   
       reason is this. There have been and will be many different   
       calamities to destroy mankind, the greatest of them by fire and   
       water, lesser ones by countless other means [22c]. Your own story   
       of how Phaethon, child of the sun, harnessed his father's chariot,   
       but was unable to guide it along his lather's course and so burnt   
       up things on the earth and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt,   
       is a mythical version of the truth that there is at long intervals   
       a variation in the course of the heavenly bodies and a consequent   
       widespread destruction by lire of things on the earth [22d]. On   
       such occasions those who live in the mountains or in high and dry   
       places suffer more than those living by rivers or by the sea; as   
       for us, the Nile, our own regular saviour, is freed* to preserve   
       us in this emergency. When on the other hand the gods purge the   
       earth with a deluge, the herdsmen and shepherds in the mountains   
       escape, but those living in the cities in your part of the world   
       are swept into the sea by the rivers; here water never falls on   
       the land from above either then or at any other time, but rises up   
       naturally from below [22eJ. This is the reason why our traditions   
       here are the oldest preserved; ... "   
      
      
   Naah - it's all myth, it's all bullshit. Those old guys weren't in   
   touch with reality. Besides, its fiction. I'nt it?   
      
      
      
   Eric Stevens   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)