I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
hmmph...well, this is an 'on the fly' post...I'm not sure where it's going!...I read some of the gesta romanorum stories after doing yesterday's post, and was taken aback right away by the first...the first tale is called The Eight Pennies, and it starts out by explaining that the Emperor declares a special holiday for his first born son's birthday, and everyone must honor it, and to ensure this he asks Virgil, his court magician it seems, to fashion a Statue that stands in the City square, and this Statue can see and report everything the citizens are doing, and when they break the Emperor's rules, like honoring his son, they are put to death...well, I thought, on reading that, that is my favorite cbs tv show, Person of Interest...in that show, computers, first The Machine, and then a rival called Samaritan, observe everyone, and report potential threats, much like the Statue in this ancient tale!...the Statue appears to even have a text screen...a message appears on its forehead...
"“Friends, look up; what see ye written upon my forehead?” They looked, and beheld three sentences which ran thus: “TIMES ARE ALTERED. MEN GROW WORSE. HE WHO SPEAKS TRUTH HAS HIS HEAD BROKEN.” “GO,” said the statue, “declare to his majesty what you have seen and read.” The messengers obeyed, and detailed the circumstances as they had happened. "
a common thing ufologists do is go through old medieval paintings and find things that look like aliens and ufos!...pretty simple...and I wondered if they had gone through the old medieval tales looking for examples of modern technology...what comes to mind here is the robots depicted in ancient greek stories...
ancient greek robots
Many ancient mythologies included artificial people, such as the talking mechanical handmaidens built by the Greek god Hephaestus (Vulcan to the Romans) out of gold,[1] the clay golems of Jewish legend and clay giants of Norse legend. Chinese legend relates that in the 10th century BC, Yan Shi made an automaton resembling a human in an account from the Lie Zi text.
History of robots
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and, thinking on this, I thought to web search for modern technologies found in ancient stories, and that wasn't going well, and then I remembered the Altar of Pergamon...I've been wanting to do a post about it...it's another ancient Temple with a story...decorating it were all the Greek gods and goddesses with their various attributes and weapons...they remind me very much of modern comic book heroes...and that is what my Pergamon Altar post would be about, a comparison of the ancient heroes and modern ones...and I was on youtube looking for clip of Pergamon, and found a fringe one...this I didn't know, but apparently the altar is well known among the Armageddon Revelation Doomsday set...a Christian saint named Antipas was martyred there...and in curious fashion, as it is the same way Palcidus/Eustace and his family are martyred...inside a furnace inside a brazen bull....
antipas saint
According to Christian tradition, John the Apostle ordained Antipas as bishop of Pergamon during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian. The traditional account goes on to say Antipas was martyred in ca. 92 AD by burning in a brazen bull-shaped altar for casting out demons worshiped by the local population.
Antipas of Pergamum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
placidus furnace
The emperor then has a large bronze furnace constructed in the shape of a bull in which Eustace and his family are burnt to death. When the furnace is opened it is discovered that their bodies have been miraculously unharmed by the flames.
Plácidus saga, edited by John Tucker.
The gesta romanorum stories are all broken up and disjointed, and the author of Placidus must have thought of the furnace bull of Antipas, and that, is just that, a curio...but the Greek Altar of Pergamon was in Turkey, and today the news is about Turkey, Turkey shot down one of the Russian's frog feet jet fighters over the Syrian Turkey border...so, so, I am standing with one foot on the shore, and one in the row boat...what in the world is afoot in Turkey?
news turkey
Russia deploys missile cruiser off Syria coast, ordered to destroy any target posing danger
news turkey pergamon
Is this the Gate of Hell
Speaking to Discovery TV channel he gave a fascinating description of what life might have been like around the cave in ancient times.
He said: 'People could watch the sacred rites from these steps, but they could not get to the area near the opening. Only the priests could stand in front of the portal.
According to the archaeologist, pilgrims arriving at the site were given small birds to test the deadly effects of the cave, while priests sacrificed bulls to Pluto hallucinating madly from the toxic fumes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302755/Gate-Hell-Turkey-Hierapolis-temple-doorway-matches-mythical-portal-underworld.html#ixzz3sRrBeqzs
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
He said: 'People could watch the sacred rites from these steps, but they could not get to the area near the opening. Only the priests could stand in front of the portal.
According to the archaeologist, pilgrims arriving at the site were given small birds to test the deadly effects of the cave, while priests sacrificed bulls to Pluto hallucinating madly from the toxic fumes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302755/Gate-Hell-Turkey-Hierapolis-temple-doorway-matches-mythical-portal-underworld.html#ixzz3sRrBeqzs
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Story has mention of another site...
Darvasa gas crater in Derweze, Turkmenistan
The Derweze area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas.[1] The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of 70 metres (230 ft) at
WikiMiniAtlas
40°15′10″N 58°26′22″E / 40.25264°N 58.43941°E. To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided the best solution was to burn it off.[2] Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas is still burning today. Locals have dubbed the cavern "The Door to Hell".[3]
Derweze
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While Biblical alarmists might point to the “Door of Hell” as yet another sign of a coming apocalypse, the phenomenon apparently has a scientific explanation.
No comments:
Post a Comment