Mary, You asked, "Does anyone know about the Delphic Oracle and the healing grotto ascribed to asclepias, .......some electrochemical peculiarities ..... . . ....
You are quite right. Monasticism in the west and middle east is either Christian or Jewish (and that is if you count the Essenes as monastic.) Shalom...
well, perennial water and maybe some now defunct natural phenomenon of use, would fit the Delphi profile. And Delphi would be a non Yahwehist precedent IF in...
I am not suggesting there was a pagan monasticism. Nor that religious centers were the start of settled life in all cases. Rather that since it HAS happened,...
I think Delphi is a good example that it CAN happen. But when I was in Egypt studying the founding of The Old Kingdom it was obvious that a change in the...
I tend to view these monastic orders as military units which were (for the most part) placed upon well established trails / roads, etc. These orders were for...
Yep, but I'll be back Friday. BTW, I've ordered Bernard Newgrosh's new book, Chronology at the Crossroads. It looks like it's going to be good. You can get...
5. Life in the Mesolithic Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell wrote some excellent little books on various epochs of history. In their first 1921 edition of Every Day...
. Mesolithic Europe. In a recent book, Mesolithic Europe, several scholars discuss the Mesolithic stage in European prehistory. (See, eds., Geoff Bailey & ...
Hi all, I've been reading several books lately. Peter James's *Sunken Kingdom* which is about the legendary Atlantis. As always, James offers some valuable...
Plato's account specifiically addrsses/discounts that because he says that it was convenient that it was not just a fictional ideal model (operative fiction)...
Hi Sean, I have to admit I don't really understand what it is your are asking in your post. However, I've continued to read Peter James' book *The Sunken ...
The fact that Plato's "9000 years" works if you consider it to be 900 years (a'la scribal error) and Atlantis to be Minoan Create is very compelling. 900 years...
Only my first bloc/paragraph was about Atlantis, the other was asking for more info about James/Newgrosh & similar scholars. My article/posts that I gave links...
... 900 years (a'la scribal error) and Atlantis to be Minoan Create is very compelling. 900 years and Minoan Crete fits like a glove. 9000years and "The middle...
Gene: I would read the books myself if I didn't have (personal) problems accessing them. Vern/Gene: Mavor's 9000 years as 900 years, and Spanuth's 9000yrs = ...
I wonder if Peter James is influenced by Lyndon LaRouche, this supposed conflict between the heirs of Plato and of Aristotle, with Plato the good guy and...
... Hah! I doubt it. Not unless he believes the Queen of England is head of the International Drug Cartel! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche ...
In 1967, an expedition led by Professor Henk J. Franken of the University of Leiden, found some 'traces of lettering on fragments of plaster that littered the...
Vern, Yes my suggestion (not a "claim") is a preconceived notion but I am only saying that it fits the evidence given the 9000-come-900 year stipulation. I...
Sean, Is there something I can do to get the book to you? I am well aware of the mid-Atlantic seamound and the potential for it to have been the source of...
... Hello, Toby -- By what means is the earthquake in the days of Uzziah located to his 15th year in particular? With interest, David Rice ************** Gas...
Greetings David, ... fifteenth year of Uzziah (Amos 1:1; Zech 14:5) >> ... located to his 15th year in particular? With interest, David Rice Consider 3...
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