Reverse engineering

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Hattie makes a good point. It should be a ground rule of "Reverse Engineering" with all our fables, myths, legends etc. Whenever the story mentions anything like "casting out of snakes" or "killing dragons", we can be certain it's a cover for pagan/megalithic practices being usurped. Like St.Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. Which was the Druids that didn't want to convert to Christianity.

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The word rabbit, of unknown etymology, seems to be the same word as leveret or young hare (by the l = r rule). The official history of rabbits claims they were introduced into the UK from Spain by the Romans, then disappeared (probably because Spanish rabbits couldn't cope with British weather), only to be re-introduced by the Normans even though rabbits are prodigious breeders. [The Spanish for rabbit, conejo, is similar to the English coney, and both are used informally for genitalia.. male in Spanish, female in English]

To some extent rabbits have an island connection. If Wiki is to be believed, offshore islands tended to be chosen for warrens, the explanation being that it was easier to protect the rabbits from predators. Not aerial predators presumably. In fact, it could be the reverse, i.e. warrened islands as food stores for specialist birds (or specialist humans?). Rats are good swimmers but mice, like rabbits, are useless at swimming. Also like rabbits, mice breed fast and are a food source for many birds and mammals. One man blogged about how he was going to feed a baby rat to his python (live) but took pity and kept it as a pet. Perhaps he gave his python a grown-up rat instead, he didn't say.

Interestingly, scientists are now claiming that mice are as intelligent as rats and perform the same tasks in the lab. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/ ... 00173/full

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There is also the strong possibility that mention of "crows" in many old stories is really saying "old woman/women dressed in black".

Just as the priestesses who tended the sacred oak at Dodona were known as Peleiades, or ‘wild doves’.

The winged creatures of the wind who lived in the hollows of the ancient oak were its indigenous spirits. These all-knowing doves were birds of the chthonic realm, universally regarded as “prophetic birds, omens of death, and spirits of the dead.” (14) And it was they, themselves, who interpreted the eerie sounds of the incessantly murmuring leaves stirred by the unceasing winds in this desolate and deathly place at the furthest reaches of the known Greek world.

http://www.sacredthreads.net/www.sacred ... odona.html

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That SacredThreads web page also provides a clue about another one of the Ancient Centres of the World

In Egypt, a major revision to their whole system of viewing the cosmos was precipitated by this astronomical occurrence. The decoded message of the myth, then, reveals that when the new ram-worshipping dynasty “moved the capital and the geodetic center of Egypt to a more central position,” the astronomer-priests needed to ascertain accurate measurements with respect to their own new center. Their universe was now to be centered at Karnak, called in Greek “Thebes”; and Dodona, an ancient and established center of the world, was the very place from which to take those measures.

In performing astronomical observations it is necessary to express differences of longitude in terms of units of time. . . . The ancients calculated by sidereal time, which they could measure by observing the apparent movement of the vault of heaven. . . . In order to obtain the right length of the second and minute of sidereal time, one must take as reference a degree of latitude further north than Egypt. The degrees at the latitudes of Dodona and Delphi provided the correct values.

These facts, together with the evidence so innocently revealed in Herodotus’s report, document that the prehistoric site at Dodona, believed to have been in existence since about 2000 B.C.E., is much older than we had thought. The absolute beginning of the holy site of the earth goddess can only be guessed at, but we do know that in 1991 B.C.E., or thereabouts, when the priests of Amon zeroed in on it for their coordinates, they not only knew it well, but acknowledged it as a center of esteemed reverence at the furthest reaches of the sacred universe.

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Putting the roof back on Stonehenge.

Here's an excellent example of reverse engineering, by Geoff Carter, on one of our favourite locations. As usual, it will confound the Ortho' Archeo's.

Twelve reasons why Stonehenge was a building.



http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.c ... e-was.html

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