Space Weather

[Agent0013]

And I think he never learned not to stick his finger in a live light socket!

[sidherose]

I am going to show how daft I am and say that a "high skyward firestone" would be either a meteor breaking in the atmosphere or a comet streaking across the night sky

probably a comet

like I said we can be daft on occasions

Tis a far better guess than HE made! Which is like 

He says it's an alien rocket ship.

It's a star - the stars in the sky. Fire was those peoples' source of heat. If it gave off heat like the sun then it had to be on fire. Fire is one of the very first 'high' gods to be worshiped in man's history.

There's also a bit in The Book of Isaiah about Helel walking amongst the burning fire-stones in the sky. Helel is a reference to Venus who DOES 'walk' amongst the stars. Venus was particularly troublesome for all the religions of the book to get rid of. She didn't want to go away. She didn't either. She just had an operation. 

[sidherose]

I can barely do it twice

Oh, then there's the ones that are the same gods with different names, like EN.KI and EA and his brother(s) Enlil and Ellil.

What really gets fun is you've looked at other mythologies too that actually come later - like India, say. And something you read rings a bell. The Mesopotamian is the older stuff. This is where things come from in large part. So if you connect two very similar stories from two different cultures, then you get into another side rabbit hole. Which sometimes takes you into another side rabbit hole. And....another. And then you find something that clicks with something else you know and pretty soon, you're like

[Jherrith]

Indeed I clicked one link and talk about a rabbit hole, 16 links bookmarked later for review,

go figure

[sidherose]

OK, so I did a quick search, and found out for myself who Zecharia Sitchin is/was.


Yeah, that guy on Ancient Aliens, Georgio Tsoukolos is a real kook! Can't stop contradicting himself on a lot of subjects! He seems to think no humans have any imagination or ability to invent in and of themselves. Such an idiot IMO!

While I'm open-minded to the fact there may have been an older culture than the lot they're looking at, who actually built all this stuff in the first place. Are they Aliens? That is 'gods' Are they just the remnants of a better race we may have descended from? No one knows the answer to any of those things. All you can do is keep an open mind and assess what you know about it. That is, not what some kookoo like Georgio tells you is the gospel.

I'm with you in some great part, Cleve - it's kind of insulting to Humans that we believe we require help from someone smarter. It's like either we recognize our own arrogance at thinking we're the greatest thing since sliced bread in the Universe since Time began, or we're not recognizing the fact we can't do some of this stuff even today.

Then again, the way in which the large number of them act....

Actually, Tsouklos stands in front of a mirror and does that to his hair on purpose. He's admitted he does. It's his 'trademark'.

Rolls eyes.

[Jherrith]

Actually, Tsouklos stands in front of a mirror and does that to his hair on purpose. He's admitted he does. It's his 'trademark'.

Rolls eyes.

And here I thought I was odd for grooming and maintaining a handlebar mustache

Sounds like I could take lessons ... if I was that which no I am not .... yet

[sidherose]

Indeed I clicked one link and talk about a rabbit hole, 16 links bookmarked later for review,

go figure

Don't say I didn't warn you my friend. Keep in mind too that all of those stories, you can read on at least two different levels or viewpoints - that is 'middle earth' and 'the heaven'. Some of them can also be read as something in the underworld (the Cthonic). It's the old shamanic view of things - the Three Worlds. Some are like morality stories - "see, even the gods are punished...sometimes". Watch Inanna, 'the young maid' become Ishtar the Holy Courtesan, and Goddess of Love, Sex and War, and then, then she worms her way into Ellil's heart or somewhere and becomes the Queen of Heaven deposing the original Lady of the Mountain - Ninhursag.

Could it be she was part of the Dead Gods?     

[sidherose]

And here I thought I was odd for grooming and maintaining a handlebar mustache

Sounds like I could take lessons ... if I was that which no I am not .... yet

At least that WAS a fashion statement once. I don't recall that his hair-do ever was. Not even in Disco!

[Agent0013]

While I'm open-minded to the fact there may have been an older culture than the lot they're looking at, who actually built all this stuff in the first place. Are they Aliens? That is 'gods' Are they just the remnants of a better race we may have descended from? No one knows the answer to any of those things. All you can do is keep an open mind and assess what you know about it. That is, not what some kookoo like Georgio tells you is the gospel.

I'm with you in some great part, Cleve - it's kind of insulting to Humans that we believe we require help from someone smarter. It's like either we recognize our own arrogance at thinking we're the greatest thing since sliced bread in the Universe since Time began, or we're not recognizing the fact we can't do some of this stuff even today.

Then again, the way in which the large number of them act....

Actually, Tsouklos stands in front of a mirror and does that to his hair on purpose. He's admitted he does. It's his 'trademark'.

Rolls eyes.

He has his preferences of which theories he supposedly believes, and cannot stick with one or another of them if it is not convenient to what he is talking about at any given time. I on the other hand have my theory about him, and I choose to believe the Light Socket Theory! Yeah! It explains more than just his hair!
 

[Agent0013]

At least that WAS a fashion statement once. I don't recall that his hair-do ever was. Not even in Disco!

Mayhaps he's an Einstein wannabe!