XPost: sci.archaeology, alt.archaeology   
   From: dweller@ramtops.removethis.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:42:16 +1300, in sci.archaeology, Eric Stevens   
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   You are obviously reading different books than I am.  What evidence do you   
   have that something went so wrong that a 'fresh start' was required?  The   
   evidence that I know about shows a natural, gradual development into a   
   united Egypt.   
      
   >   
   >  "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?   
   >   
      
   I wouldn't know.  I'm writing from sci.archaeology, not alt.mythology.   
      
   Doug   
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