Rewriting History depends on a special knowledge of the root facts of any event and the extrapolated views applied post facto. Daily Speculations has a piecce this morning from Nassim Taleb recent book signing in NY. Mr. Taleb has a unique view of history and historians, ( I agree with). A 3rd party offers a synopsis on the Daily Spec blog right here;
dailyspeculations.com
Sometimes the root facts of history are obscured, other times obscurity is cleared away by events later in a continuous time line; one such example is the rare view of an outcome from an impact of one body with another, such as the Comet Shoemaker Levy's (SL9) 1994 rendevous with the planet Jupiter,this seemeingly discordant piece of history is actually wholly connected to our past the proof is in the stories told, images to texts long forgotten...hey; time has a multi media character.....
you can view the real time event images here;
www2.jpl.nasa.gov
SL9....is a long ways in time from the stories told in the ancient writings of many cultures. but time is bigger than space and history is full of mischaracterization leading to fundamental advantage.........lets give some of the original historians thier due, because SL9 and the stories depicted herein just so happen to collide at this time, bringing an end to a history rewritten to purpose.
For Ye of little faith;
The following are oral and written traditions from all over the world.
Popul-Vuh, the sacred book of the Mayas, narrates: "It was ruin and destruction...the sea was piled up...it was a great inundation...people were drowned in a sticky substance raining from the sky...The face of the earth grew dark and the gloomy rain endured days and nights...And then there was a great din of fire above their heads."
The Manuscript Quiche from the people of Mexico: "There descended from the sky a rain of bitumen and of a sticky substance...The earth was obscured and it rained day and night. And men ran hither and thither and were as if seized by madness; they tried to climb to the roofs, and the houses crashed down; they tried to climb the trees, and the trees cast them far away; and when they tried to escape in caves and caverns, these were suddenly closed."
The Annals of Cuauhtitlan speaks of an "age which ended in the rain of fire."
In Siberia, the Voguls record: "God sent a sea of fire upon the earth...The cause of the fire they call 'the fire-water.'"
In the East Indies, the aboriginal tribes state that "water of fire" rained from the sky; "with very few exceptions, all men died."
The Papyrus Ipuwer: "Gates, columns, and walls are consumed by fire. The sky is in confusion." The fire almost "exterminated mankind."
Midrash Tanhuma, Midrash Psikta Raboti, Midrash Wa-Yosha "state that naphtha, together with hot stones, poured down upon Egypt. 'The Egyptians refused to let the Israelites go, and He poured out naphtha over them, burning blains [blisters].' It was a 'stream of hot naphtha.' Naphtha is petroleum in Aramaic and Hebrew.
(Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky) |
