Apech

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  1. The 1100 ton Unfinished Obelisk

    ....delete
  2. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    You might find this helpful:
  3. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    I found the Dao Bums training manual:
  4. Ancestry DNA

    My brother had his DNA analysed and it seems my family are ridiculously British: 57% English 17% Scottish 11% Irish 7% Wales 6% Norway 2% Sweden and Denmark ... I am a living example of the last 1500 years of British history ...
  5. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    Perhaps it will be helpful to compare the USA to a blue whale to get an idea of proportion:
  6. Ancestry DNA

    There’s a lot of ethno jealously in this world - I can’t help being an indo aryan aristocrat!
  7. Ancestry DNA

    pure blood
  8. Solar power in ancient Egypt

    i think you may be thinking of Hathor or Bat (a related goddess). Hathor means Hwt-hr which is the Temple of Horus - or more strictly the temple enclosure of Horus. She is also known as the eye of Horus and relates to a very ancient form of Egyptian Religion (possibly the original form) where Horus was the sky and the sun and moon his two eyes. The Djed pillar on the other hand is related to Osiris and means 'stability' ... it is related to his spine and the uprightness with his 'resurrection' - the four cross pieces are four vertibrae which relate in turn to the Four Sons of Horus which were precursors to the Four Elements of the western tradition. That they are brought together and unified is rather like the philosophers stone in alchemy - a perfect balance of the four in one. The thing on top of the djed which is an oval with a snake inside is the foetus of the sun god which is cucooned at this stage (often shown but not here in the coiled body of the serpent Mehen).
  9. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    A handy map showing the true relative size of Texas:
  10. Solar power in ancient Egypt

    the djed pillar is an interesting symbol - but I feel I would bore everybody by talking at length about it. I've been studying the papyrus of Khonsu-mes for a while now - and its a nice representation of the basic cycle of the BoD - I understand nearly all of it apart from a couple of obscure symbols here and there. And it is indeed odd that in the midst of their religious literature they should place an electricity pylon - though of course they were heavily into solar power
  11. Solar power in ancient Egypt

    Papyrus of Khonshu-mes 21st Dyn. Thebes, Vienna. http://globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=4574
  12. Native Tibetan shamanistic Bonpo

    @Nungali fantastic stuff! great research. I don't know much about it but this part of the world seems to be significant time and time again. I wondered vaguely if there was any connection to Oddiyana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddiyana - and also I recall from somewhere a tradition that Garab Dorje came from somewhere west of Tibet but I can't find any reference on google.
  13. Cos we all love Gobekli Tepe

    OK well then ... bo jo ... no I am not going to use the British PM as a weapon, broken ... I would like my weapon to be fixed please! hiwa ... this I assume is a cheap transistor radio from the 1970's made in taiwan, so no! tanto ... and/or the Lone Ranger? sai? ... deep sai gamma ... yes! we will use Greek letters ... good plan. I shall ask Michael von Schicklgruber to be my second ... and to bring his grandad Adolf with him.
  14. Cos we all love Gobekli Tepe

    we should settle this like gentlemen, dawn, feather dusters at 50 paces, venue of your choosing.
  15. Cos we all love Gobekli Tepe

    yeah but it is perfectly possible that the same asterisms were significant across broad periods of time and different cultures.
  16. Cos we all love Gobekli Tepe

    He's already replied to this http://maajournal.com/Issues/2017/Vol17-2/Matters arising 17(2).pdf page 7. I'm not here to defend Sweatman by the way but the articles are from 2017! I'm guessing things have moved on since then - or maybe Covid prevented this. Just on Point 3. this is typical academic high mindedness - it is perfectly possible that more or less the same asterisms were used from very ancient times (although some changes in nomenclature and iconography would be inevitable) in the Northern hemisphere.
  17. What are you listening to?

    Come, come, come nuclear war ....
  18. simplify

    Babies
  19. simplify

    Mystery
  20. simplify

    Prison