Cosmic Glue

Patagonia Rock Art Reveals Ancient Messages Transmitted Across Generations Read Later   Cave painting in the southern areas of South America may have started 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously thought. The cave art, located in Patagonia, Argentina, was thought to previously be only several thousand years old, but new research shows that some of this cave art was created during the late Holocene epoch (11,700 years ago – present). What’s In A Comb? With nearly 900 human figures , animals, and abstract designs painted, the scientists studied one of the cave’s most puzzling motifs – a comb-like pattern, which has been dated the earliest of them all. While the significance of the comb motif remains obscured by the passage of time, researchers speculate that it may have played a role in preserving the collective memories and oral traditions of the peoples who navigated through this exceptionally hot and dry period. For millennia, cave art...

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 painted white? Craniums and Controversies of the Chachapoya Cloud Warriors Over a thousand years ago, in the mists of the cloud forests of northern Peru, near the source of the mighty Amazon River, the Chachapoya Cloud Warriors reigned supreme. Long before the emergence of the Inca State, these mysterious, shamanic warlords ruled a vast swath of the Andes before being defeated by the Inca, abandoning their great citadel and vanishing into history. In recent decades, additional archaeological evidence has come to light from two primary sources, the fortress city known as Kuelap, and the cliff face necropolis at the Lagoon of the Condors which contains the Chachapoya mummies.  Because these cultures left no written records (that we’re currently aware of), the only sources of information relating to them were native, oral traditions, and documentary accounts written by early European explorers. This has led to centuries of speculation and controversy. Kuelap,...

 Again his-story is written by the conquerors/invaders, THE EMPIRE! The Hidden Story of Poland: What Happened to the Forgotten Kingdom of Lechia?  The history of Poland has been misunderstood for decades. Even now, many official texts say that Poland comes from the tribe called Polanie. And according to the stories written by Christian writers, that was the first kingdom formed in these lands. However, the truth is very different. There is a marble plaquette in the Museo del Lapirdario di Urbino in Italy with an inscription saying “Cavillio Lescho Ti Claudius Buccio Columbiara IIII OLL VIII Se Vivo a Solo Ad Fastigium Mancipio Dedit.”  That means “a dedication from Tiberius Claudius to Avillo Leszko, the ruler of Kingdom of Lechia.”  Tiberius offered the other ruler a grave for funerary urns, which Avillo Leszko received while he was still alive.  It was a very expensive gift, showing the importance of the ruler from the lands of modern day Poland. T...

Roopkund Lake India frozen Wikimedia Commons/Neha iitb     By Richard Milner/Feb. 26, 2024 9:00 am EST At this point in time it's easy to imagine that there's nothing left to explore or discover on our planet. After all, tools like Google Earth let users zoom down from orbit right to their own roof. We've got tours and visitors' guides to the most obscure, remote, and inaccessible places on the globe. Sites like Airbnb offer deluxe mountainside cabin experiences in locations that would have taken people days to hike to in previous centuries. And yet, sometimes it's nice to get a reminder that mysteries still exist, right here on Earth and not out in space. Even our own oceans, which cover 70% of the planet's surface, have only been 5% mapped. This is where sites like Roopkund Lake come into play. Located in the Himalayan mountains in the Indian state of Uttarakhand at a height of 15,700 feet, Roopkund Lake is home to a mystery as macabre as it is bizarre. The 80...

 

 How cool is this? The Fairy Census: End Game August 1, 2023 Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite , trackback In 2014 (inspired by Marjorie Johnson’s Seeing Fairies , which I had just edited) I started the Fairy Census .   The aim was to gather together first-hand encounters with fairies; or unusual supernatural experiences that could be understood in fairy terms.  It took me to 2017 to get to 500 encounters, which were then published freely online . I’m now, in 2023, getting ready to publish the second volume Fairy Census 2 (2018-2023) with another five hundred encounters and Chris and I dedicate this month’s podcast on Boggart and Banshee to the survey. http://www.strangehistory.net/podcast/ What is the end game? When I started my intention was to get to 1000 encounters in a year (how I laughed when I reread this). My ambition was to study not fairies (a hopeless but beautiful endeavour!), but rather the people who saw...

Digging for answers in a cave filled with Neanderthal skeletons The Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo by Graeme Barker/ University of Cambridge by Shayla Love  + BIO When a team of researchers returned to an Iraqi cave believed to be a Neanderthal burial site, here’s what they found The clumps of pollen found in the large cave in northern Iraq contained traces of hyacinth, bachelor’s button and hollyhock. These elements alone would not make your average pollen remarkable, but these clumps were found in the 1950s near 10 Neanderthal skeletal remains at Shanidar cave, in the Zagros Mountains. The US archaeologist Ralph Solecki, along with pollen analysts and palynologists (who study fossilised plant pollen) called the site they excavated the ‘Flower Burial’. In a series of papers and books published in the 1970s detailing their findings, they su...

Synapse Films presents Tombs of the Blind Dead . Directed by Amando de Ossorio. Screenplay by Amando de Ossorio. Starring Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman, Rufino Inglés, Verónica Llimera, Simón Arriaga & Francisco Sanz. Boxset Contents: 2 version of the movie on 2 Blu-ray discs. Rating: Unrated. Release Date: October 24, 2023. Fans of The Curse of Oak Island are familiar with the Knights Templar. The people digging up the Canadian island keep thinking the riches of this Medieval order are buried deep beneath the surface in a secret vault. The Knights were part the Crusades and based themselves in Jerusalem when the Pope’s forces overtook the city. The Templar made a fortune by escorting the rich to the Holy Land and other enterprises such as looting sacred sites. Their rise to power was between 1100 to 1300. They eventually had a major fall from grace as rumors about the order swirled out of control. Many powerful people felt that the Tem...

 WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Earth's Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost Lost Continent of Zealandia Revealed in Detailed New Map Zealandia, considered the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now mapped the entire nearly two million square miles of the underwater land mass. A small international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia using data obtained from dredged rock samples recovered from the ocean floor. They report details in the journal Tectonics. Prior research has suggested that approximately 83 million years ago, the supercontinent Gondwana was pulled apart by geological forces, resulting in the beginnings of the continents that exist today. It also resulted in the creation of another continent that is now submerged. That continent, called Zealandia, is believed to be approximately 94% under the sea—the remaining 6% make up New Zealand and surrounding islands. Because...

So a broken heart is also a heart that is breaking open so that it becomes larger, so that it can hold more of the grief and the love and the joy and the pain of the whole cosmos. That is what it is for. That is what you are for. That is yours to do. - Gordon White Tragedy : Kelly Fraser (August 8, 1993 – December 24, 2019) was a Canadian Inuk pop singer and songwriter, whose second album, Sedna, received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Fraser died at her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 24, 2019, by suicide.  The title of the album, known as ᓄᓕᐊᔪᒃ (Nuliaju) in Inuktitut, refers to the story of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea , which Fraser decided to modernize in this album. (big mistake) She said, "The goal of the album is to help heal those suffering from the effects of colonization, including the damaging effects of residential school and forced relocation.  There is a great need for Inuit artists ...

 Barbie and the dark side of generative artificial intelligence As Barbie-mania grips the world the peppy cultural icon deserves thanks for helping to illustrate a dark side of AI By Paige Collings - Rory Mir   | August 17, 2023 Barbie & Artificial Intelligence (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Many are excited about the ways in which AI might enhance our lives. Any development that gives people the ability to express themselves in a new way is a thrilling one, and the speed at which AI tools are being funded, created, and deployed has propelled these syst...