XPost: sci.archaeology, alt.archaeology
From: eric.stevens@sum.co.nz
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:27:47 GMT, Doug Weller
wrote:
>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.
I'm not talking about a fresh start from nothing. Nor am I an
Egyptologist, but there seem to have been a number of discontinuities.
Lets see:
c3000BC was the end of the Late Predynastic period and the beginning
of the Dynastic.
c2600BC was the end of the Predynastic period and the beginning of the
Old Kingdom
2135-2040BC there was a hiccup with First Intermediate Period
2040 BC is the beginning of the Middle Kingdom
1550 BC is the New Kingdom ... and so on.
Its possible to explain all these changes in terms of the normal wear
and tear of history but many of these dates seem to line up with
evidence for what may have been major catastrophes. That's why I think
the very old priest may not be a work of fiction.
>
>>
>> "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
Eric Stevens
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