GeoAstroNews
Focus:
Hisatsinom (ancestral Pueblo people of the American Southwest, i.e., the Anasazi,
the Sinagua, the Hohokam, etc.), the Hopi, the Maya and other Mesoamerican
tribes, rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs, especially from the Four Corners
region of the US), archaeology of the forenamed peoples, archaeoastronomy,
astronomy pertaining to Orion.
The following links are by no means comprehensive, and are added as time and
energy permit.
"Wukoki's
Guardian," oil painting by Jim
Thomas
|
Plan
to pave dirt route to ancient Chaco canyon draws mixed reviews
Deborah Baker, Associated Press, Sept. 9, 2005
Hundreds of years ago, Southwest Indian tribes came by
foot to this ceremonial site in the high desert for solstice rituals, feasts
and trading.
Scholars
swim in choppy waters
Barry Bergman, Public Affairs, UC Berkeley News, August 3, 2005
Did Polynesians visit Southern California
many centuries ago? The evidence — some fishhooks, a boat design, and a
few words in common — is limited. But to some those clues are tantalizing,
even persuasive.
Ancient
prophecy is modern reality
Indian
Country Today, July 28, 2005
Many tribal nations, significantly the
Hopi and the Haudenosaunee... have prophecies within their spiritual traditions
that describe an ''end of times,'' an era very similar to our present times
and depicting or describing prophetic signs apparent to those who watch
for such things.
Footprints
of 'first Americans'
Paul Rincon, BBC News, July 5, 2005
A team of scientists came to this controversial
conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned
quarry in Mexico.
Did
ancient Polynesians visit California? Maybe so.
San
Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2005
Scholars revive idea using linguistic
ties, Indian headdress.
Hopi
warnings to the world
Brenda Norrell, Indian Country Today, March 29, 2005
From Hopiland, a spiritual vortex for
Native people, spiritual leaders Dan Evehema and Thomas Banyacya became
the voice of the voiceless: the birds and animals. Warning of the impending
apocalypse, they urged all people of good hearts to join them.
Camera
scoops amazing Orion snaps
BBC News, December 23, 2004
Astronomers have produced some amazing pictures using
a remarkable new instrument on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in
Hawaii.
Utah
Canyon Holds Secrets of Ancient Civilization
KSL
TV, Sept. 18, 2004
The newly discovered ruins of an ancient
civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about
the Fremont people.
Thornborough
Orion Correlaion Threatened!
Heritage
Action: Preserving Ancient Sites in Britain and Ireland
Thornborough may
well be Britain's most important henge monument. Sign the petition!
Unearthing
canyon's clues
Jim
Erickson, Rocky Mountain News, May 15, 2004
Mysteries of Anasazi
revealed in Chaco's centuries-old corn
Mystery
of sacred site shaped by stars
Yorkshire
Post Today, March 8, 2004
A recent theory is
that the Thornborough henges' alignment may follow that of Orion's Belt.
Satellite
Imagery Measures of the Astronomically Aligned Megaliths at Nabta Playa
T.G.
Brophy (EMCS Consulting), P.A. Rosen (California Institute of Technology)
The American Astronomical Society, oral meeting January 5, 2004
New
star emerges from dust cocoon
Dr David
Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor, February 12, 2004
A
star is born in the M78 reflection nebula of Orion. See NASA's Astronomy
Picture of the Day.
(Also
check out the cool blue "Reflecting
Dust Clouds of Orion" at the same site.)
Science
wins ancient bones battle
BBC,
February 5, 2004
Is the Kennewick
Man actually Capt. Picard back from the future?
Riddles
of the Anasazi
David
Roberts, Smithsonian, July 2003 (PDF file, must have Adobe
Reader. Download for free.)
Toward the end of the 13th century, something
when terribly wrong among the Anasazi. What awful event forced the people
to flee their homeland, never to return?
New
theories on the Anasazi
Scripps
Howard News Service, Lee Bowman, February 18, 2003
New evidence presented indicates that
occupation of many of the ancient pueblos was an on-again, off-again thing
over the centuries.
'Oldest
star chart' found
BBC
News, January 21, 2003
Mammoth tusk sliver
found in German cave depicts Orion. Carbondated between 32,500 and 38,000
years ago.
Was
Maya Pyramid Designed to Chirp Like a Bird?
National
Geographic Today, Bijal P. Trivedi, December 6, 2002
Researchers investigate acoustical phenomena
in Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan.
Pre-Mayan
written language found in Mexico
Globe and Mail Update, Oliver Moore, December 5, 2002
"The connection between writing, the calendar
and kingship within the Olmecs is indicated in these
communications, dating to 650 B.C...."
Does
skull prove that the first Americans came from Europe?
Independent, Steve Connor, Science Editor, December
3, 2002
Skull of the 26 year-old Peñon woman found
among the suburbs of Mexico City was dated at "...13,000 years old, making
it 2,000 years older than the previous record for the continent's oldest human
remains."
Eclipse
brings claim of
medieval African observatory
New Scientist, December 2, 2002
On the morning of the winter solstice three bright
stars in Orion rise over three of the monoliths in the Great Zimbabwe.
Muddy Mayan Mystery Made Clearer By Researchers Working in the 'Bajos'
University of Cincinnati, July 22, 2002
Mysterious
Object Might be First Extrasolar Planet Photographed
Robert Roy Britt, May 22, 2002, Space.com
1,150 light-years away, SOri70 may be either
a Jupiter-like planet or a brown dwarf.
A
Mayan find, Indiana Jones-style
The Christian Science Moniter, March 14, 2002
One of the
most significant finds in the past 20 years involving the ancient civilization
of the Maya.
Ancient
city may predate the Mayas
The Miami Herald, March 3, 2002
CARAL, Peru - In a barren landscape that
now looks like the moon, a mysterious culture built pyramids nearly 5,000
years ago.
Star-Crossed
Ideas of How Pyramids Came to Point North
The New York Times, August 28, 2001
Challenge to Dr. Kate Spence's theory. (See
Nov. 15, 2000 article below.)
Among
the Mayas, Writers For Defeated Kings Met a Cruel Fate
Ohio State Research News, August 20, 2001
Politics
of the ancient Maya rested on the written word
San
Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2001
The
Earliest Americans
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 15, 2001
9,500-year-old skeleton forces scientists to consider whether Polynesians
helped to populate America
Ancient
culture discovered
Canoe: Canada's Internet Network, June 4, 2001
New distinct ancient culture found in Arizona.
he
Americas
BBC
News, April 26, 2001
Birthplace of civilization in the Americas?
Barren
world of stars
BBC News, April 27, 2001
The Quick and the Dead: Planetary formation
in the "hostile environment" of the Orion Nebula
Evolutionists
Battle New Theory on Creation
(Science Section)
Evolutionists
Battle New Theory on Creation (National Section)
April 8, 2001
New York Times
Intelligent
Designer Genes?
[Nota bene: As New York resident scholar Zecharia
Sitchin (author of The 12th Planet and many other volumes) pointed
out on the Art Bell Coast-to-Coast radio program on the evening of April 19,
the New York Times is engaged in blatant censorship. In the sixth paragraph
of an April
8th article on the so-called "intelligent
design theory," the phrase "...possibly involving
extraterrestrial intelligence..." that appeared in an earlier
edition was deleted in a later edition. On the newspaper's web site, this
phrase appears in the article found in the Science section, but in basically
the same article found in the National section this phrase is missing. Why
should E.T. intelligence suddenly become outré?]
Inside
the City of the Black Tiger
BBC News, January 25, 2001
Ek Balam: The Tallest Mayan Pyramid, the
"Gate of Hell," and an equinox alignment.
Pyramids
lined up with the stars
BBC News, November 15, 2000
A theory on how the Egyptian pyramids were
aligned to true north, and when.
Ice
Age Star Map Discovered
BBC News, August 20, 2000
Star
map found in the caves at Lascaux suggests that their inhabitants were cognizant
of the zodiac-- 11,000 years before the Sumerians! On one of the maps an exquisite
rendering of a bull was painted adjacent to a representation of the Pleiades.
How
Hopi Chief Lololomai Prays
--for the victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, for their families, for the rescuers and volunteers, but also for the perpetrators and hate mongers, for those of every faith and those of none, in truth, for us all-- "When Lololomai, the chief, prays, how does he pray? Will you tell us?" "He goes to the edge of the cliff and turns his face to the rising sun and scatters the sacred cornmeal. Then he prays for all the people. He asks that we may have rain and corn and melons and that our fields may bring us plenty. But these are not the only things for which he prays. He prays that all the people may have health and long life and be happy and good in their hearts. And the Hopis are not the only people for whom he prays. He prays for everybody in the whole world. Everybody. And not people alone. Lololomai prays for all the animals. And not animals alone. Lololomai prays for all the plants. He prays for everything that has life. That is how Lololomai prays." Adapted from The Indians' Book by Natalie Curtis. Gary A. David, 9/15/01 |
Satan's
Calling Card:-- September 11: A Date to Remember
by Robert Bauval
Graham Hancock Message Boards, February 8,
2002
an article on the Masonic symbology of 9/11
What
Osama Bin Laden Doesn't Want YOU to Know About the Phoenicians and the Jews!
Read this
surprising article at ViewZone
by
Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A.
Who's The Enemy -- Really...?
Read the
Enterprise Mission's analysis
of the terrorist attacks.
by Richard C. Hoagland
No Cipro? Link to an article
on natural antibiotics by medical journalist Bill Sardi.
World Trade Center
September 11, 2001
--a poem by Judy Platz
How
do our dead find us?
Do
they call us by name
remembering
how we said we would signal
if
anything untoward should happen,
but
were still here listening.
Is
a thought emailed by angels
or
do our dead communicate directly
and
we hear them, as they call out
from
a fog bank of a thousand thoughts
raining
down in the accumulating ash and cinder
whose
pieces pummeled the air turning it black
as
it cascaded down and down
this
snow that contained our dead
that
settled at our feet, a hush covering.
How
do we signal to comfort them
because
we know they would wish to be with us
and their going was so swift.
Do
we know what circulates in thought in the last minutes?
What
images stick like an overgrown thistle logged in,
in
the soul; how do we adjust to understand
and
does the soul forget, or does trauma at passage
become
a reel of film that plays over and over.
And
did they have time to recognize in their knowing
they
had to leave us,
that
our missing them would circulate again and again
as
the years go forward.
Do
we hear our dead call
in
the quiet shush of leaves that rustle
behind
our backs,
so,
startled for an instant,
we
have to turn around and look;
or
in the unexpected slant
of
wrens head and clear eye
that
looks directly into ours
as
it pauses on our window sill,
and
then flies on.
Now
we are, all of us,
like
mothers
who
tuck in their children gently
and
with reverence each gathering night.
We
do not hold lightly their sorrows
but
take them up and cradle their grief in dream
and
dream joys for them.
So
too, our dead cradle us in dream
and
dream for us joys
that
passeth all understanding
that
drift over us like soft flakes
of
pure white snow, messages from the sky.
We
pause
we
watch the snow fall
and
listen.
Oct. 20, 2001
Judy
Platz is an adjunct college
teacher of English, lives in the country where she tends the woodstove and
grows food. Poetry books published are: Tending the Dark and The
Silence of Light.
A
Note for Those Who Would Like to Return to Normalcy
by Gary A. David
October 14, 2001
"Now go shopping!"
Edd (Dona's husband)
--on the recent e-mail hoax re. the predicted Halloween mall bombings
'Turning
and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
'Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'