Re: A question about Deities

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:56:58 +0200, Bob Thomson <niet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Neolithic a écrit :
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +0200, Bob Thomson <niet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>> Gemeral Sam a écrit :
>>>>>>>> (...)
>>>> Bob, they say here in Ireland among the old folk in the Rinn
>>>> Gaeltacht, native Irish speaking, that the old Druidfs spoke and
wrote
>>>> in Greek, and that there was great contact between Greece and Ireland
>>>> during ancient Druidic times. The Olympic Games and the Taliteann
>>>> Games of Druidic Ireland have  massive similarities, and they were
>>>> both suppressed by a triumphalist Roman Church.
>>>
>>> First, I'm adding alt.religion.asatru to this thread, because it's 
>>> becoming more and more directly related to Nordic traditions.
>>>
>>> So I salute the persons on a.r.a discovering this thread, and if ever 
>>> they are interested about a few more related details, I want to add
that 
>>> it was started on alt.religion.shamanism, alt.religion.druid and
alt.pagan.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's indeed very interesting to know that Ancient Ireland and Greece 
>>> have been heavily communicating, 
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>> A significant part of the the people who became the Irish passed
>> through Greece...indeed they sacked the Oracle in Delphi...
>> 
>> Old Irish is similar to Phoenician...
>> 
>> Neolithic
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>Good to know, thanks. At this point, let's say that there is plenty of 
>already found clues about a relatively high level of communication in 
>the IE world between what were mostly wrongly seen as isolated cultures.

I suspect that there was some human contact across the Atlantic prior
to the arrival of the Norsemen. I suspect that Basque fishermen and
maybe some Irish monks also travelled to the Americas before 1000
AD...I suspect, I don't know. I'd be interested to know the truth. I'm
fascinated 

>The people of our times had to get rid of at least two obstacles, the 
>monotheist systems wanting to abolish up to the memory of anything that 
>was different (or demonizing it when it couldn't), and later on, closer 
>to us, the nationalisms based on a modern idea of state that tried to 
>get more interested in a remote past, like the idea of Gaul becoming 
>fa****onable again in France's third republic in the late 19th and early 
>20th centuries, to mention something familiar, but in a superficial way 
>and with a selfish and bloody agenda in mind.

Could you be more specific about this agenda please?

>I reckon I could profitably spend countless hours in learning about what 
>is known from the links between all these ancient cultures, but for now, 
>knowing that these links were proved to quite some extent is already a 
>true source of satisfaction.

Right. I've visited a number of stone age sites in Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. The
commonality of humanity is fascinating. 

For instance the words for mind in modern Icelandic is almost
identical for the Sanskrit word for mind 5000 years ago in the Indus
Valley.

Do you see that my name becomes more intelligible now?

I want to look back to stone age understandings foisted on our
ancestors by their conditions.

Neolithic