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Descendants of Legendary Atlantis

2008-10-04T13:19:16Z

Are Northern Europeans more pure descendants of the Atlanteans than their Mediterranean counterparts? by
Constantin Benetatos

Plato was one of the first to discuss Atlantis history. Since that time, scholars have debated whom the descendants of the legendary lost continent of Atlantis might be. This research paper discusses Atlantean lineage, tracing Atlantis history from its beginning through the possibility that descendants may still be found among present day Mediterraneans and Northern Europeans.

A. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTED ANSWERS
B. ICE AGE AND SOUTHERN MIGRATION
C. LAND EXPOSURE DUE TO GLACIATION
D. LOWERING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA LEVEL
E. EARLY CIVILIZATION
F. COMMON EUROPEAN LANGUAGE
G. THE CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS
H. END OF GLACIATION
I. FORCED MIGRATION
J. FLOOD AND FINAL DESTRUCTION
K. PLATO'S ATLANTIS
L. TODAY'S ATLANTEANS
M. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Atlantis History

2008-10-04T12:39:49Z

INTRODUCTION

PLATO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO DISCUSS ATLANTIS HISTORY. SINCE THAT TIME, SCHOLARS HAVE DEBATED WHOM THE DESCENDANTS OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS MIGHT BE. THIS RESEARCH PAPER DISCUSSES ATLANTEAN LINEAGE, TRACING ATLANTIS HISTORY FROM ITS BEGINNING THROUGH THE POSSIBILITY THAT DESCENDANTS MAY STILL BE FOUND AMONG PRESENT DAY MEDITERRANEANS AND NORTHERN EUROPEANS.

A. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTED ANSWERS

1.WHERE WAS THE LOST ISLAND OF ATLANTIS LOCATED?
ACCORDING TO PLATO, THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS, WHICH WAS LARGER THAN LYBIA AND ASIA COMBINED, WAS LOCATED BEYOND THE PILLARS OF HERACLES.
A) AN ISLAND OF THIS SIZE CERTAINLY WOULD NOT FIT ANY PLACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
B) AN ISLAND OF THIS SIZE WOULD FIT IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WEST AND BEYOND THE PILLARS OF HERACLES. HOWEVER, THE OCEAN FLOOR THERE IS TOO DEEP AND ACCORDING TO BATHYMETRIC MEASUREMENTS, THERE ARE NO TRACES THAT SUCH AN ISLAND EVER EXISTED. (EXCEPT IF THE ATLANTEANS HAD DISCOVERED THE SECRETS OF GRAVITY AS SOME DREAMERS LIKE TO IMAGINE, AND DURING SOME FAILED EXPERIMENT THE WHOLE ISLAND WAS FLUNG OUT INTO SPACE).
C) ANOTHER POSSIBLE LOCATION, AS SOME SCHOLARS SUGGEST, IS THE CELTIC SHELF. THE AREA IS LARGE ENOUGH, BUT IT IS VERY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WOULD BE AGREEABLE FOR SUCH A GREAT CIVILIZATION TO FLOURISH. ONE MUST CONSIDER THE PREVAILING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE ICE SHEET.
D) THE WATERS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN ARE DEEP, AS ARE THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS WEST TO THE ISLAND OF CRETE.
E) PROVIDED WE DISREGARD THE GIVEN SIZE OF ATLANTIS THE ONLY VIABLE POSSIBILITY COULD BE IN THE SOUTHERN AEGEAN AS SOME SCHOLARS SUGGEST. SPECIFICALLY, A REGION NORTH OF THE ISLAND OF CRETE IN AN AREA A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THE SIZE OF PELOPONESSUS (THE SO CALLED "CYCLADES PLATEAU) WHICH IS NOW COVERED BY THE SEA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW PRESENT DAY ISLANDS JUTTING OVER THE WATER LEVEL.

2. ARE THERE OTHER PLACES IN THE WORLD THAT MET THE SAME FATE AS ATLANTIS?
A) THERE ARE MANY FOLK LEGENDS THAT REFER TO ANCIENT CATACLYSMS. THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE AS THE ICE SHEETS RETREATED THE WATER LEVEL OF THE OCEANS ROSE A FEW HUNDRED FEET, FLOODING THE LOW COASTAL AREAS.

3. WHAT RELIGION DID THE ATLANTEANS PRACTICE AND WHAT LANGUAGE DID THEY SPEAK?
A) THE ATLANTEANS WORSHIPED POSEIDON AND, OF COURSE, CLEITO WHOSE SEED THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE FROM.
B) THE LANGUAGE THEY SPOKE MUST HAVE BEEN THE ANCIENT COMMON EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PROBABLY SPOKEN AND UNDERSTOOD THROUGHOUT THE ATLANTEAN DOMAIN.

4. WHAT KIND AND WHAT RACE OF PEOPLE WERE THE ATLANTEANS?
A) THE ATLANTEANS WERE OF THE CAUCASIAN RACE. SOMEDAY THE RUINS AND STATUES WHICH THEY LEFT BEHIND, WHICH ARE NOW COVERED BY WATER AND SILT, WILL BE UNCOVERED AND RAISED TO BECOME TESTIMONY FOR THE KIND OF PEOPLE THEY WERE.
B) THE ATLANTEANS WERE CIVILIZED , KIND, AND OBEDIENT TO THEIR LAWS FOR A VERY LONG PERIOD OF TIME. SOME DAY WE MAY KNOW IF THEY USED OTHER HUMANS AS SLAVES . WE CAN ONLY GUESS WHAT MADE THEM CHANGE THEIR ATTITUDE AT THE END.

5. ARE THERE ANY DESCENDANTS OF THE LEGENDARY ATLANTEANS TODAY?
A) OF COURSE THERE ARE. THIS SUBJECT WILL BE ADDRESSED AT THE END.

6. WHEN DID ATLANTIS VANISH?
A) SOME 11,500 TO 15,000 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT.

7. WHAT WAS THE LEVEL OF ATLANTEAN TECHNOLOGY?
A) CONSIDERING PLATO'S DESCRIPTION , PROBABLY MUCH HIGHER THAN THE ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN TECHNOLOGY.

8. WHAT CAN THE PRESENT DAY EUROPEAN LANGUAGES TELL US ABOUT ATLANTIS?
A) PEOPLE WHO SPEAK TWO OR MORE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES EASILY RECOGNIZE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE SIMILARITIES. GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION, THE PASSING OF THE EONS, AND THE MAN-MADE BORDERS (FOR PERSONAL GAINS) HAD A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THE SPOKEN WORD. WITH THIS IN MIND, WE CAN EASILY CONCLUDE THAT AT LEAST ALL THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HAVE AN ATLANTEAN ORIGIN.

B. ICE AGE AND SOUTHERN MIGRATION.
SCIENTISTS AND OTHER EXPERTS INDICATE THAT THE LAST ICE AGE STARTED ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND ENDED SOME TEN TO TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE PRESENT. THE ICE AGE MAY HAVE STARTED SLOWLY OR ABRUPTLY. IF THE START WAS GRADUAL, BOTH THE HUMANS AND ANIMALS OF NORTHERN EUROPE MAY HAVE HAD A GOOD CHANCE TO MIGRATE SOUTHWARD TO WARMER CLIMATES. THE ONES WHO DID NOT OR COULD NOT JUST PERISHED. IN SOME AREAS THE SNOW ACCUMULATION MUST HAVE BEEN VERY RAPID AND SEVERE. FROZEN WOOLLY MAMMOTHS WERE DISCOVERED IN SIBERIA STILL STANDING ON THEIR FEET. THE ICE SHEET EVENTUALLY COVERED MOST OF NORTHEASTERN EUROPE. THE GULF STREAM MUST HAVE INFLUENCED THE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE AT THE TIME AND PROBABLY KEPT PORTIONS OF THE CELTIC SHELF FREE FROM ICE.
THE EARLY HUMAN POPULATION IN EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ICE AGE, CONSISTED OF MOSTLY HUNTER-GATHERERS, AND VARIED FROM A FEW THOUSAND TO NO MORE THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND SOULS. FOOD SUPPLY, NATURAL DISASTERS, AND DISEASE WERE ALL INFLUENTIAL IN KEEPING THE HUMAN POPULATION IN CHECK.
WE CAN ONLY GUESS WHAT THEIR SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATIONAL SKILLS WERE. APPARENTLY THEY LIVED IN GROUPS CONSISTING OF SEVERAL FAMILIES MOVING WITHIN THEIR OWN BORDERS AND OVERLAPPING OTHER TERRITORIES MARKED BY NATURAL BOUNDARIES SUCH AS RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS. SLOW MIGRATION WAS AN ONGOING PROCESS THAT WAS INFLUENCED MAINLY BY WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FOOD SUPPLY. WE MIGHT IMAGINE OF THESE NOMADIC PEOPLE TO BE BRUTES READY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AND ATTACK OTHERS WHO CROSSED THEIR PATH , OR WE MAY THINK OF THEM AS MORE GENTLE WITH A MORE PEACEFUL ATTITUDE TOWARDS COEXISTENCE WITH THE OTHER GROUPS LIVING IN THE NEXT VALLEY OR OVER THE MOUNTAIN. SIMILARITIES MAY BE DRAWN FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA, THE PYGMIES OF AFRICA AND THE IRIAN JAYA OF INDONESIA. SOME OF THE AFORESAID GROUPS PRACTICED HUMAN SACRIFICE AND OR CANNIBALISM. NO ONE REALLY KNOWS IF THE EARLY EUROPEANS DID THE SAME. INBREEDING MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE (PROBABLY BARTERING TOOLS AND HUNTING IMPLEMENTS).
THEIR EVERYDAY LANGUAGE, ALTHOUGH LIMITED, WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO COMMUNICATE DURING HUNTING EXPEDITIONS AND TO PERFORM THEIR SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONS. THIS PROTO-LANGUAGE MUST HAVE BEEN USED AND MUST HAVE BEEN UNDERSTOOD BY ALL PROTO-EUROPEANS AS THEY MOVED AROUND MINGLING WITH EACH OTHER AND THEN SEPARATING AGAIN. THERE WERE CERTAINLY PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS, ESPECIALLY IN ALPINE AREAS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE, THAT WERE MOSTLY COVERED BY TREES. SOME ARCHAEOLOGISTS SUGGEST THAT THESE PROTO-EUROPEANS REVERED AND BURIED THEIR DEAD.
AS THE ICE AGE PROGRESSED AND THEY WERE HARD PRESSED BY THE COLD AND LACK OF GAME, MANY GROUPS WERE FORCED TO SEEK NEW TERRITORIES TO THE SOUTH WHERE THEY COULD HUNT AND LIVE. THEIR CONTACT WITH THE LOCAL INHABITANTS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS, MAY HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL OR VIOLENT. THERE WERE CERTAINLY WINNERS AND LOSERS.
WAS THEIR EXPERIENCE / INTELLIGENCE HIGHER, THE SAME, OR LOWER COMPARED TO THOSE FROM THE SOUTH, ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN THE PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS? WERE THERE ANY PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTHERNERS AND THE ONES FROM THE SOUTH?
AT THE TIME, THE NEANDERTHALS AND HOMO SAPIENS OCCUPIED THE SAME TERRITORIES. DID THE HOMO SAPIENS PREVAIL DUE TO THEIR HIGHER INTELLIGENCE? BECAUSE THEIR NOMADIC WAY OF LIFE BROUGHT ALL THESE GROUPS IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER, THEIR PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS MUST HAVE BEEN SIMILAR.

C. LAND EXPOSURE DUE TO GLACIATION
AS THE ICE AGE REACHED ITS MAXIMUM, THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN POLAR ICE CAPS BECAME LARGER AND THICKER. IN SOME AREAS THE ICE MIGHT HAVE MEASURED SEVERAL MILES THICK. THIS ACCUMULATION OF ICE CAUSED THE OCEAN LEVELS WORLDWIDE TO DROP ONE HUNDRED TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY METERS OR MORE, EXPOSING NEW LAND AREAS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COVERED BY WATER. IN OTHER AREAS, LAND-BRIDGES WERE EXPOSED BETWEEN CONTINENTS AND LOW LYING LAND MASSES. ONE SUCH LAND-BRIDGE WAS EXPOSED AT THE PILLARS OF HERACLES BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE. THIS LAND BRIDGE STOPPED THE FLOW OF ATLANTIC OCEAN WATER INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN. EVEN THE WATERS OF THE NILE AND OTHER RIVERS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO REPLENISH THE WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN LOST TO EVAPORATION.
THIS EVENT HAD A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THE WATER LEVEL CAUSING IT TO DROP EVEN FURTHER. ANOTHER LAND BRIDGE MIGHT HAVE FORMED BETWEEN THE PRESENT DAY TUNIS AND SICILY, THUS CREATING TWO INLAND SEAS. NOW WE HAVE TWO EVENTS THAT WERE TAKING PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY: THE ICE SHEET IN NORTHERN EUROPE WAS COMPRESSING THE LAND UNDERNEATH IT, AND NEW LAND WAS EXPOSED TO THE SOUTH DUE TO THE REDUCTION OF THE WATER LEVEL AND THE DIMINISHING PRESSURE ON THE UNDERLYING FLOOR. MOST OF THE LAND EXPOSED IN SOUTHERN EUROPE WOULD BE IN THE ADRIATIC BASIN, IN THE AEGEAN AND ALSO IN THE BLACK SEA AROUND CRIMEA. THE LAND TO THE SOUTH WAS NOT ONLY EXPOSED DUE TO GLACIATION AS PREVIOUSLY STATED, BUT ALSO ROSE TENS OF FEET DUE TO THE COMPRESSIVE FORCES OF THE ICE SHEET TO THE NORTH, AND THE DECREASED VOLUME OF WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN , WHICH MEANT LESS PRESSURE ON THE SEA FLOOR.

D. LOWERING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA LEVEL.
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA LEVEL MUST HAVE DROPPED FROM ONE HUNDRED FIFTY TO THREE HUNDRED METERS OR MORE. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BY CHANCE DIVERS FOUND SUBMERGED ENTRANCES (BELOW SEA LEVEL) IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, WHICH SUBSEQUENTLY LED THEM TO DISCOVER THE NOW FAMOUS PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTINGS THERE. THERE ARE MANY MAN-MADE STONE STRUCTURES AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN THAT ARE NOW UNDER WATER AS WELL.

E. EARLY CIVILIZATION.
THOUSANDS OF YEARS WENT BY AFTER THE LAST ICE AGE REACHED ITS MAXIMUM. THOUSANDS OF YEARS ALSO WENT BY AFTER THE DUST HAD SETTLED IN SOUTHERN EUROPE WHEN A NEW AMALGAMATED SOCIETY EMERGED. THIS DYNAMIC SOCIETY WAS NOT ONLY WELL VERSED IN AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, BUT ALSO WAS AT THE THRESHOLD OF ADVANCEMENT IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THESE PEOPLE WERE WORK-MOTIVATED , EAGER TO ADAPT, INVENT AND APPLY THEIR ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE. THEY WERE INFLUENCED SOMEWHAT BY THE CLIMATE OF THE TIME WHICH WAS A LITTLE COOLER, RAINIER AND MORE HUMID IN THE SUMMER. THESE PEOPLE WERE SPREAD ALONG SOUTHERN EUROPE FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA TO ASIA MINOR, HAVING THEIR HUB IN THE AEGEAN REGION. THE LAND IN THE AEGEAN WAS FERTILE, GOOD FOR AGRICULTURE, AND ABLE TO SUPPORT A LARGE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS (AS "PLATO" IN CRITIAS INDICATES). THE MORE INHABITANTS AN AREA IS ABLE TO SUPPORT, THE MORE SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONS PEOPLE WILL ACQUIRE, THUS FORMING AN ADVANCED SOCIETY, WHICH IN TURN NEEDS A MORE SOPHISTICATED FORM OF COMMUNICATION, LAWS AND GOVERNMENT.

F. COMMON EUROPEAN LANGUAGE.
AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE, THE PROTO-EUROPEANS SPOKE A LIMITED FORM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE DUE TO THEIR GROUP INTERACTIONS. AS THEY SETTLED DOWN, THIS PROTO-LANGUAGE ADVANCED RAPIDLY IN THE SPOKEN AND THEN IN THE WRITTEN WORD IN ORDER TO FULFILL THEIR COMMUNICATION NEEDS. HOW MUCH TIME ELAPSED IS HARD TO ESTIMATE WHEN A COMPLEX EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION OF HIGH ORDER EMERGED TOGETHER WITH AN ADVANCED EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IN THE LEGENDARY "KINGDOM OF ATLANTIS".
SINCE WE PRESENTLY HAVE ONLY FRAGMENTARY INFORMATION AT OUR DISPOSAL AND LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THESE LOST CIVILIZATIONS OF THE PAST, WE GREATLY AND UNJUSTLY UNDERESTIMATE THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AND THEIR MANY DISCIPLINES. EVENTUALLY, PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH WILL FILL IN SOME OF THE BLANKS OF OUR PROTO-EUROPEAN TIMES.

G. THE CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS.
IT WOULD BE AN UNJUST AND FUTILE ATTEMPT TO TRY TO DESCRIBE THE LOST CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS WHEN THE PHILOSOPHER PLATO HIMSELF DESCRIBED IT FOR US IN HIS DIALOGUES "TIMEUS AND CRITIAS". CRITIAS TELLS US HOW THIS INFORMATION CAME TO HIM FROM HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER " DROPIDES". "DROPIDES" RECEIVED THIS MANUSCRIPT FROM THE ATHENIAN STATESMAN AND LAWGIVER "SOLON". SOLON IN TURN OBTAINED THIS INFORMATION FROM THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS OF SAIS WHEN HE TRAVELED THERE. THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS SCOLDED HIM ABOUT THE IGNORANCE OF THE HELLENES REGARDING THEIR PAST. "YOUR CIVILIZATION IS OLDER THAN OURS" SOLON WAS TOLD, "BUT YOU ARE JUST CHILDREN WHEN KNOWING YOUR PAST". THE PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION OF THE ATHENIANS IN ALL PROBABILITY WAS PART OF AND FORMED OUT OF THE LEGENDARY ATLANTIS. THE POPULATION OF ATLANTIS, BASED ON THE (SOMEWHAT EXAGGERATED) SIZE OF THEIR ARMED FORCES AS DESCRIBED BY CRITIAS, WAS BETWEEN SIX TO TEN MILLION PEOPLE - A VERY LARGE NUMBER INDEED. IN A POPULATION OF THIS SIZE, ONE WILL FIND A RULING CLASS, (PROBABLY INCLUDING THE RELIGIOUS SECTOR), CRAFTSMEN, ARTISANS, LABORERS, AND OF COURSE, THE ONES WHO CULTIVATE THE EARTH.

H. END OF GLACIATION.
WHEN THE ICE AGE FINALLY CAME TO AN END, THE ICE SHEETS COVERING THE POLAR AREAS STARTED TO RETREAT. IT MAY HAVE TAKEN TENS, HUNDREDS OR EVEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR THE RISING WATER OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO SPILL OVER AT THE PILLARS OF HERACLES AND INTO THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AT AN EVER INCREASING RATE. IT ALSO MUST HAVE TAKEN SEVERAL YEARS FOR THE WATER LEVEL IN THE WESTERN BASIN TO RISE ENOUGH TO START SPILLING OVER AND INTO THE EASTERN PART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. AS THE ICE STARTED RETREATING, THE BARREN LANDSCAPE OF NORTHERN EUROPE STARTED TO BE COLONIZED ONCE MORE, FIRST BY PLANTS THEN INSECTS AND BIRDS, AND LATER BY OTHER ANIMALS

I. FORCED MIGRATION.
THE RISING WATER LEVEL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FORCED THE INHABITANTS TO HIGHER GROUNDS. THE ATLANTEANS, WHO WERE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH, DID NOT TAKE LONG TO REALIZE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND THEM. THEY MAY HAVE ATTRIBUTED THIS CALAMITY TO ACTS OF DEITIES OR TO NATURAL PHENOMENA, BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE IT WAS VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND. A MASS MIGRATION MAY HAVE STARTED FROM THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. THE MAJORITY WENT TOWARDS NORTHERN EUROPE WHICH WAS UNINHABITED AND NOW FREE FROM ICE. MANY MAY HAVE BEEN WELCOMED IN THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN BUT OTHERS MAY HAVE MET HOSTILITY. THE ATLANTEANS, HEADING TOWARDS NORTHERN EUROPE ,WERE OF A CIVILIZED AND TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY. THEY WERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR HUNTER-GATHERER ANCESTORS OF MILLENNIUMS PAST.
THE NORTHWARD MIGRATION CONTINUED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. AS THE ATLANTEANS WERE SPREADING APART, THEY BECAME MORE ISOLATED FROM OTHER GROUPS HEADING NORTH. THIS ISOLATION HAD A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THESE MIGRANTS. THE VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE THEY POSSESSED NEEDED APPLICATION AND APPLICATION IS VERY DIFFICULT WHEN PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING, TRYING TO SURVIVE AND CARRYING WITH THEM FEW OR NO TOOLS. A FEW TRACES OF THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE SEEN TODAY. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE STONEHENGE WHICH WAS PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED IN THAT DISTANT ERA. AFTER A FEW GENERATIONS, THEIR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WAS LOST, FORCING THEIR DESCENDANTS TO RETROGRESS TO NEOLITHIC CONDITIONS. THEIR RICH LANGUAGE BECAME SIMPLER WITH THE PASSING OF TIME, BUT IT WAS NOT LOST. FROM WHAT CAN BE SEEN TODAY AND BY ANALYZING THE RACES OF MAN, THEIRS WAS A NORTH, WEST, EAST MIGRATION WITH SMALL GROUPS SETTLING AND COLONIZING THE HIGHER GROUNDS AROUND THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN.

J. FLOOD, EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ERUPTION AND FINAL DESTRUCTION.
ANCIENT MYTHS TALK ABOUT CATACLYSMS WITH CATASTROPHIC RESULTS. THE STORY MAY HAVE BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD THROUGH COUNTLESS GENERATIONS. THE WAY IN WHICH IT IS TOLD MAY CHANGE, BUT THE GENERAL MEANING USUALLY REMAINS THE SAME. WE MAY NEVER KNOW WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED.
THE CLIMATE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE WAS CHANGING DUE TO THE RETREATING OF THE ICE SHEETS TO THE NORTH. THE WATER LEVEL WAS INCREASING IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN FORCING DOWN THE SEABED BELOW. THE EARTH CRUST FAULT THAT RUNS EAST-WEST THROUGH THE MEDITERRANEAN AND WHICH IS CREATED BY THE COLLISION AND SUBDUCTION OF THE AFRICAN UNDER THE EUROPEAN TECTONIC PLATE WAS CREATING EARTHQUAKES.
THE FORCE OF THE LITHOSPHERE ON THE MAGNA BELOW CAUSED THE MAGNA TO MOVE UPWARD THROUGH THE WEAKENED FAULT AREAS OF EXISTING OR NEWLY CREATED VOLCANOES. . THE NOW DORMANT VOLCANO ON THE PRESENT DAY HELLENIC ISLAND OF THERA (SANTORINI) ERUPTED WITH FAR GREATER FORCE THAN THAT OF KRAKATOA IN 1883 (WHOSE EXPLOSION WAS PRACTICALLY HEARD AROUND THE WORLD). KRAKATOA CREATED A FORTY METER HIGH TIDAL WAVE (TSUNAMI). . THE TIDAL WAVE THAT WAS CREATED BY THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION OF THERA MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST AS HIGH OR EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT OF KRAKATOA. THIS TIDAL WAVE NOT ONLY HAD AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT NEAR THE COASTAL AREAS, BUT ALSO DESTROYED ANY ATLANTEAN SETTLEMENTS CAUSING GREAT LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE. . "PLATO" TELLS US THAT BESIDES THE FLOOD AND EARTHQUAKES THERE WERE LANDSLIDES ALSO. LAND SLIDES OCCUR NOT ONLY DURING EARTH TREMORS BUT ALSO WHEN THE SOFT-SLOPED GROUND IS SATURATED WITH WATER DUE TO HEAVY, CONTINUOUS RAIN.

K. PLATO'S ATLANTIS.
NOW LET US EXAMINE AND COMPARE A FEW FACTS AND TRY TO FIND OUT PLATO'S VIEWS ABOUT THE INFORMATION HE SUPPLIED TO US.

HE TALKS ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN THE ATHENIANS AGAINST THE ATLANTEANS AND THEIR MUTUAL DESTRUCTION FROM EARTHQUAKES AND FLOODS.

. IF THE ATLANTEANS HAD DWELT BEYOND THE PILLARS OF HERACLES THEY WOULD NOT HAVE AN INGRESS THROUGH THE STRAIGHTS WITH THEIR FLEET TO ENGAGE IN WAR WITH THE ATHENIANS DUE TO THE EXISTING LAND-BRIDGE. OF COURSE, WE MAY NEVER KNOW THE REASON FOR THEIR CONFLICT.

CRITIAS FURTHER EXPLAINS THAT THE SURVIVING GENERATIONS ON THE MOUNTAINS REMAINED MOUNTAINOUS AND UNEDUCATED (OREION KAI AGRAMMATON) . THE SURVIVORS HAD SOME OBSCURE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NAMES OF THE LEADERS OF THE LAND, BUT THEY HAD HEARD LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT THEIR DEEDS. THEY WERE HAPPY TO GIVE THE NAMES OF THEIR ANCESTORS TO THEIR CHILDREN, BUT THEY WERE UNAWARE OF THE VIRTUES AND LAWS OF THE PAST.

IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THE CONCERN OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE WAR, FLOOD AND EARTHQUAKES BY REACHING HIGH GROUND, WAS SURVIVAL. THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THE ONES MIGRATING TOWARDS NORTHERN EUROPE. IT TOOK PROBABLY ONLY A FEW GENERATIONS FOR SMALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE, SPREAD APART IN VAST EXPANSES OF LAND, TO RETROGRESS TO NEOLITHIC CONDITIONS.

SOLON, ACCORDING TO CRITIAS, INDICATES THAT CONTEMPORARY TO THE ATLANTEAN WOMEN, THEIR ATHENIAN COUNTERPARTS DID WHATEVER THEIR NATURE AND ABILITY DICTATED. IN OTHER WORDS THEY HAD THE SAME RIGHTS AS MEN, DOING WHATEVER THEY WERE ABLE AND WANTED TO DO.

IT MUST BE NOTED THAT FREE LADIES OF HOMERIC TIMES HAD MORE RIGHTS AND FREEDOM THAN THE LADIES HAVE IN SOME OF THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF OUR TIMES.

CRITIAS INDICATES THAT THE ANCIENT ATHENIAN GUARDIANS NUMBERED TWENTY THOUSAND.

IN ORDER TO SUPPORT TWENTY THOUSAND GUARDIANS WITH FOOD, (THAT WAS THE ONLY REQUIREMENT), A POPULATION OF THREE TO FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND INHABITANTS IS NECESSARY. THE LAND AREA BEFORE THE FLOOD WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SUCH A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO IN TURN SUPPLIED THE NECESSARY FOOD FOR THE GUARDIANS.

CRITIAS, AS HE DESCRIBES THE LAND, LAMENTS OF WHAT WAS THEN AND WHAT IS NOW. "ONLY A FEW ISLANDS AND MOUNTAINS REMAIN LIKE THE BONES OF A DECEASED AND DECAYED BODY". FURTHER HE POINTS TO THE REMAINING RUINS OF THE TEMPLES DEDICATED TO WATER NYMPHS AND OTHER DEITIES, TO PROVE THAT WATER ONCE WAS ABUNDANT. CRITIAS ALSO EXPLAINS HOW THE HEAVY RAINS AND EARTHQUAKES CAUSED LANDSLIDES BEFORE THE GREAT DESTRUCTION OF DEUCALION'S CATACLYSM.

ONE CAN ONLY AGREE WITH CRITIAS' STATEMENTS ABOUT THE LAND- SCAPE WHICH WAS ALTERED BY LAND SLIDES, EROSION, EARTHQUAKES AND FINALLY FLOOD.

CRITIAS DESCRIBES ATLANTIS NEARLY IN THE SAME WORDS AS SOLON, HIS ANCESTOR. CRITIAS ALSO INDICATES THE SIZE AND LOCATION OF ATLANTIS.

AS IT WAS STATED PREVIOUSLY, THE SIZE AND LOCATION OF ATLANTIS IS STILL QUESTIONABLE. THEREFORE, WE SHOULD NOT COMPARE OUR PRESENT DAY SURVEYING TECHNOLOGY TO THAT OF THE PAST AND JUDGE UNJUSTLY.

CRITIAS NARRATES THE ROYAL ATLANTEAN FAMILY OF THE GOD POSEIDON AND THE MORTAL WOMAN CLEITO.

IT MUST BE NOTED HERE THAT IN THE HELLENIC HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY, THERE ARE COUNTLESS INDICATIONS OF SUCH ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN GODS AND MORTAL WOMEN, GODDESSES AND MORTAL MEN.

CRITIAS POINTS TO THE GREAT ATLANTEAN ACHIEVEMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING AND ADMINISTRATION.

IN A WAY, IT IS UNFAIR AND UNJUST TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE INFLUENCED BY NEARSIGHTED SHORTCOMINGS AND BIAS, AND NOT BE IN A POSITION TO RECOGNIZE, APPRECIATE AND GIVE CREDIT TO THE ANCIENTS FOR THEIR GREAT SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS.
DEPENDING ON MATERIALS, MOST MANMADE OBJECTS DECAY AND VANISH WITH THE PASSING OF TIME. ONLY THE ONES CARVED OUT OF STONE TEND TO LAST. THE SPHINX AT GIZA IN EGYPT IS PROBABLY A REMNANT OF ATLANTEAN INFLUENCE IN THAT REGION AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN BUILT BY ATLANTEANS WHO EVENTUALLY SETTLED THERE. THIS MONUMENT MUST BE OVER TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS OLD. THE ATLANTEANS WERE ABLE TO PRODUCE ORICHALCUM (OREICHALKOS). USING A COMPLICATED PROCESS PROBABLY KNOWN BUT NOT EXERCISED DURING THE TIME OF PLATO BUT DUPLICATED LATER BY THE ROMANS. CRITIAS SAYS "THE MARINAS WERE FULLY EQUIPPED". THIS TELLS US THAT A CONTINUOUS FLOW OF GOODS FROM THE ATLANTEAN DOMAIN WAS TAKING PLACE DAY AND NIGHT. CRITIAS ALSO INDICATES THAT THE GUARD WAS PLACED ON THE SMALLEST WHEEL AND THE ROYAL GUARD WAS HOUSED WITHIN THE ACROPOLIS. THE ATLANTEAN ADMINISTRATION MUST HAVE BEEN WELL ORGANIZED AND THE ROYAL POWER ABSOLUTE. ALTHOUGH THE KINGS HAD TO OBEY POSEIDON'S LAWS INSCRIBED ON THE PILLAR WITHIN THE TEMPLE, EACH KING HAD ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OVER HIS SUBJECTS. HE COULD PENALIZE OR EXECUTE ANYONE EXCEPT HIS OWN RELATIVES. IN THIS CASE HE HAD TO HAVE THE MAJORITY'S APPROVAL. ONE MIGHT CALL THIS ATLANTEAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT AN OLIGARCHY.
AFTER OUR BRIEF EXAMINATION OF THE FEW FACTS DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY ONE MIGHT CONCLUDE THAT PLATO DESCRIBES THE FACTS AND PRESENTS THEM TO US FROM HIS OWN PLATONIAN PERSPECTIVE. UNFORTUNATELY, A ROSETA STONE ABOUT ATLANTIS HAS NOT BEEN DISCOVERED YET.
SOLON, THE ATHENIAN LAWGIVER, WROTE DOWN EXACTLY WHAT THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS HAD TRANSLATED TO HIM, FROM THE SACRED RECORDS. SOLON, BEING WHO HE WAS, HAD NO REASON TO INVENT STORIES EITHER.

L. TODAY'S ATLANTEANS.
- WHO MIGHT BE TODAY'S MOST PURE DESCENDANTS OF THE ATLANTEANS?
ALTHOUGH ANYONE AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN, NEAR EAST AND EUROPE MAY CLAIM ATLANTEAN ANCESTRY, WE MAY POSITIVELY IDENTIFY SOME GROUPS OF PEOPLE AS MORE PURE DUE TO NATURAL BOUNDARY ISOLATION WHICH LASTED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. SINCE THE DEMISE OF ATLANTIS, MANY MIGRATIONS OF PEOPLES TOOK PLACE. CIVILIZATIONS FLOURISHED AND VANISHED LEAVING BEHIND ONLY A FEW HEWN STONES AS TESTIMONY OF THEIR EXISTENCE. ONLY A FEW FRAGMENTED HISTORICAL RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE TO US TODAY BUT SOME DAY THEY MAY SHED SOME LIGHT AS TO WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED IN EONS PAST.
IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE MOST PURE DESCENDANTS OF THE ATLANTEANS, WE FIRST MUST EXAMINE THE AREAS WHERE THE ATLANTEANS EVENTUALLY FOUND REFUGE, AND SETTLED DOWN. THEN DETERMINE HOW MUCH THESE AREAS HAVE BEEN EFFECTED BY SUBSEQUENT MIGRATIONS OF PEOPLES OF NON-ATLANTEAN ORIGIN. (IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED AND BIASED TO STATE THAT OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE AROUND ATLANTIS WERE PHYSICALLY OR INTELLECTUALLY INFERIOR).
IN THE PAST, BORDERS WERE USUALLY DETERMINED BY NATURAL BOUNDARIES SUCH AS RIVERS, MOUNTAIN RANGES, AND OCEANS. A MOUNTAIN PASS CAN BE DEFENDED BY ONLY A FEW DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO HAVE A REASON TO PREVENT OTHERS FROM CROSSING OR ENCROACHING ON THEIR TERRITORY. A SEA SUCH AS THE MEDITERRANEAN CANNOT BE CONSIDERED A GOOD NATURAL BOUNDARY, BUT RATHER MEANS FOR EASY ACCESS TO MIGRATIONS. PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE SEA DID NOT ALWAYS SUCCEED IN DEFENDING THEIR TERRITORY AGAINST INVADERS. EVEN LARGE ISLANDS THAT COULD AFFORD A SIZABLE ARMY AND NAVY EVENTUALLY WERE SUBDUED AND OCCUPIED BY INVADERS. AND, AS IN OUR OWN "MODERN CIVILIZATION" , MOST OF THE ORIGINAL POPULATION WAS EITHER EXTERMINATED, ASSIMILATED, OR REPLACED BY THE NEWCOMERS.
THE SAME THING CANNOT BE SAID FOR THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. ONLY A FEW MARINERS VENTURED OUT IN THE ATLANTIC THROUGH THE PILLARS OF HERACLES AND ONLY FAR ENOUGH AS TO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF LAND. THEREFORE ONE MAY SAY FOR SURE THAT NORTHERN EUROPE DID NOT EXPERIENCE ANY INVADERS FROM THE WEST WHATSOEVER.
OTHER NATURAL BOUNDARIES OF NORTHERN EUROPE ARE THE VAST EXPANSES OF THE STEPPES, THE SIBERIAN COLD AND THE FEW MOUNTAIN RANGES TO THE SOUTHEAST. AGAIN ONE MIGHT SAY THAT NORTHERN EUROPE DID NOT EXPERIENCE ANY MIGRATIONS FROM THE EAST AS WELL. THE FEW ISOLATED ESKIMO GROUPS, LIVING TO THE NORTH HAD NO MEANS OR ANY REASON TO BE IN CONTACT WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH. ANY LATER MIGRATIONS FROM THE SOUTHEAST MUST HAVE BEEN REPELLED BY THE NORTHERN EUROPEANS WHO THUS SUCCEEDED IN DEFENDING THEIR TERRITORIES.
APPARENTLY THEY PROTECTED EACH OF THEIR TERRITORIES LIKE THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES DID JUST BEFORE THE WHITE MAN OVERTURNED THEIR WORLD WITH HIS ARRIVAL ON THE NEW CONTINENT. THE ROMANS TRIED BUT DID NOT SUCCEED IN OCCUPYING ALL OF NORTHERN EUROPE DURING HISTORIC TIMES. SOME AREAS OF NORTHERN EUROPE REMAINED ISOLATED TO SOME EXTENT UNTIL RECENTLY.
BEING ISOLATED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT A PEOPLE'S WAY OF LIFE , NEEDS, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND INTELLECT CHANGES MUCH THROUGH THE EONS.
WRITING WAS PROBABLY LIMITED AND USED BY A FEW PRIVILEGED PEOPLE. THE SPOKEN WORD WAS MODIFIED AND ALTERED OVER TIME.
AS IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY STATED, THERE ARE MANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES POINTING TO A COMMON AND ATLANTEAN ORIGIN. OTHER NON-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES BEAR SIMILARITIES AS WELL WHICH INDICATES THAT BEFORE ATLANTIS VANISHED, MANY ATLANTEANS MAY HAVE SETTLED ELSEWHERE.
ONE HAS TO CAREFULLY EXAMINE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANCIENT WORDS WITH ROOTS TO THE ATLANTEAN POINT OF ORIGIN AND THE ONES SPOKEN BY THE NORTHERN EUROPEANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE NOT INFLUENCED BY THE ARRIVAL OF THE ROMANS.
ONE SHOULD ALSO EXAMINE THE SIMILARITIES OF DEEDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE NORTHERN EUROPEANS TO THE ONES OF THE ATLANTEANS DESCRIBED BY CRITIAS.

"ALTHOUGH THROUGH THE EONS THEIR DIVINE PORTION HAS BEEN DILUTED TOO MANY TIMES" AS CRITIAS STOICALLY INDICATES, THE NORTHERN EUROPEANS OF TODAY ARE THE MOST PURE DESCENDANTS OF POSEIDON'S CHILDREN.

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ROULA PAPAGEORGIOU-HASKA
COSMOGONY THEOGONY. 06/05/96

GRAVITY

2008-10-02T03:08:33Z

A HYPOTHESIS

BY CONSTANTIN BENETATOS

THERE SEEMS TO BE A DENSE FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER TOWARDS THE CENTERS OF ALL HEAVENLY BODDIES INCLUDING OUR PLANET EARTH. THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER, ENGAGES, INTERFERES, AND ALTERS, SUB-PARTICLES, ATOMS, AND MOLECULES. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION THAT EMANATES AND RADIATES OUTWARDS, SUCH AS A BLACK HOLE IS PROBABLY NEUTRALIZED OR PUSHED BACK. THIS PHENOMENONOF FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER, APPEARS TO BE ALL AROUND US. WE FEEL AND SEE THE RESULTS BUT WE ARE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN IT.

A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE FULL AND SOMETIMES THE NEW MOON THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER APARENTLY IS PARTIALLY DIVERTED AND ITS FLOW ALTERED IN OUR EARTH’S VICINITY DUE TO THE POSITIONOF THE THREE HEAVENLY BODIES: SUN, EARTH AND MOON. THIS PARTIAL DIVERTION OF ENERGY/MATTER AND QUANTATIVE FLOW, HAS SOME DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON THE EARTHS ELEMENTS. IN GENERAL IT INFLUENCES ALL ELEMENTS, PLANTS, ANIMALS AND HUMANS ALIKE. IT HAS BEEN OBERVED BY THE AUTHOR THAT MATERIALS THAT ARE CLOSE TO FAILURE, SUCH AS A FASTENER FOR EXAMPLE,TEND TO FAIL DURING THE NEW AND MORE OFTEN THE FULL MOON. ELECTRIC NETWORK POWER FAILURES MAY ALSO BE ATTRIBUTED TO THIS UNEVEN FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER. ANOTHER OBSERVATION BY THE AUTHOR, AND PROBABLY A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT, IS THAT HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, DEVIATES FROM THE NORM DURING THE TRIADS POSITION, THAT IS THE SUN, MOON AND EARTH. THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER APARENTLY VARIES AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES, FROM OUR PLANET’S SEA LEVEL. THEREFORE ONE WILL NOT FAIL TO NOTICE THAT MANY INFANTS TRAVELING IN AIRPLANES ARE UNCOMFOTABLE AND HAVE A TENDENCY TO CRY.

AT PRESENT NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER ORIGINATES, FROM, OR WHAT THE STRENGTH AND FLOW CHARACTERISTICS ARE, ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS TO BE ALL AROUND US. THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER INTERACTS WITH MOST, IF NOT ALL, ELEMENTS AND ALTERS THEM. HOW IT INTERACTS AND BREAKS THE BONDS THAT HOLD THE ELEMENTS TOGETHER NO ONE PRESENTLY KNOWS. THE RESULTS OF THIS INTERACTION ARE ALL AROUND US, OBSERVABLE AND VISIBLE. FOR EXAMBLE: IF SOMEONE ENTERS A ROOM THAT HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR MONTHS OR YEARS, WILL NOT FAIL TO OBSERVE THE DUST AND PARTICLES THAT ACCUMULATED ON THE FLAT SURFACES. THIS MUST BE THE RESULT OF ENERGY/MATTER INTERACTION WITH THE SUROUNDING ELEMENTS IN THIS ROOM, SUCH AS THE WALLS, CEILING AND FURNITURE. THIS TYPE OF ALTERATION AND DEGRADATION OF THE ELEMENTS, GOES ON CEASESSLY ALL AROUND AND WITHIN US.

THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER, ALTHOUGH NOT EASILY DETECTABLE WITH OUR PRESENT DAY INSTRUMENTS, HAS A TENDENCY TO FLOW FROM ALL DIRECTIONS TOWARDS THE CENTER, IT IS SUN EARTH MOON ETC. ONE CAN COMPARE THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER TO THAT OF A DRY SPONGE IMMERSED IN WATER. ALTHOUGH THE SPONGE WILL EVENTUALLY BE SATURATED WITH WATER, LUCKILLY FOR US, THIS CONDITION OF SATURATION DOES NOT HAPPEN TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND PARTICULARLY TO OUR PLANET EARTH (IN THIS TINY NICH OF OUR UNIVERSE) OTHERWISE WE WOULD NOT EXIST.

ONE MAY ASK: DOES THIS ENERGY/MATTER PERMIATE THE COSMOS? DOES THIS PHENOMENON HAVE THE SAME FORCE AND FLOW CHARACTERISTICS EVERYWHERE? DOES IT VARY FROM PLACE TO PLACE? CAN SOMEONE COMPARE (SOMEWHAT) THESE CHARACTERISTICS TO THOSE OF OUR EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE THAT IS ENDOWED WITH HIGH AND LOW PRESSURES; FAST AND SLOW WIND VELOCITIES? SOMEDAY WE MIGHT HAVE THE ANSWERS.

WE MUST INITIALLY UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM BEFORE ATTEMTING TO SOLVE IT. ACCORDING TO OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF “GRAVITY” (AS WE HUMANS CALL AND UNDERSTAND THIS PHENOMENON) EVERY PARTICLE IN THE UNIVERSE NEAR OR FAR, ATTRACTS AND IS ATTRACTED BY EVERY OTHER PARTICLE IN OUR COSMOS. NOW, IF A PARTICLE , SAY A HYDROGEN ATOM, IS TO SEND OUT MESSENGERS OF A SHORT, IN ALL DIRECTIONS IN ORDER TO INFORM ALL OTHER PARTICLES IN THE COSMOS, AND SAY: “HEY I AM HERE PLEASE PULL ME”, WE MIGHT ASK, WHAT WILL REMAIN FROM THIS HYDROGEN ATOM AFTER ALL THEESE MESSENGERS LEAVE? ARE THE INCOMING ONES REPLACED BY THE ONES LEFT? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE INCOMING ONES FLY BY AND MISS IT COMPLETELY? WE MIGHT CONCLUDE THAT THIS “PULL FORCE” WOULD VARY AND SHOULD BE EASILY DETECTED AND MEASURED WITH OUR PRESENT DAY INSTUMENTS. IN ADDITION, FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, WE MIGHT SAY THAT: IF THERE ARE MECHANICAL BONDS OF A SHORT, BETWEEN ALL THESE PARTICLES IN OUR UNIVERSE, THEN THESE BONDS ARE TO CONNECT AND DISCONNECT CONTINUOUSLY AND BE IN CONSTANT TENSION AND PULL.

IN THIS SITUATION OF CONTINUOUS PULL OF ALL MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE, AND AS PHYSISISTS AND SCIENTISTS INDICATE, THE UNIVERSE THAT WE OBSERVE AND SOMEWHAT UNDERSTAND WITH OUR LIMITED KNOWLEDGE, WILL SOMEDAY EVENTUALLY COLLAPSE. MAY BE YES MAY BE NOT. IT SEEMS TO BE A GOOD LOGICAL EXPLANATION THAT EVERYTHING ATTRACTS AND IS ATTRACTED BY EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD AS WE HUMANS PRESENTLY COMPREHEND IT.

THE EXPERTS ALSO SAY THAT IT TAKES 30,000 YEARS OR SO FOR LIGHT TO TRAVEL FROM THE CENTER OF OUR GALAXY TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, BUT IT TAKES ONLY 8 MINUTES FOR LIGHT TO TRAVEL FROM OUR SUN TO EARTH. IF IT IS SO THEN AT SUNRISE, BEFORE WE SEE THE DISK OF THE RISING SUN, THE SUN ITSELF IS ALREADY ONE TO TWO SUN-DISKS OVER THE EASTERN HORIZON BUT NOT VISIBLE TO OUR EYES YET.

NOW LET US EXAMINE AND OBSERVE THIS “GRAVITY” PHAENOMENON FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE AND A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW. EXPERIMENTS WERE PERFORMED BY THE AUTHOR DURING THE MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY AND JUNE, 2006. HE WANTED TO PROVE TO HIMSELF AND SATISFY HIS CURIOSITY, THAT THE FORCE OF “GRAVITY” (THAT GOES THRU EVERYTHING) AND PULL FROM THE SUN WERE ALREADY PRESENT, PARTICULARLY DURING THE VERY MOMENT, WHEN THE SUN WAS RISING OVER THE EASTERN HORIZON AND APPROXIMATELY TWO SUN-DISKS HIGH, BUT NOT VISIBLE TO ONE’S EYES YET; PROVED TO BE NEGATIVE. THE POINTER OF THE APPARATUS USED BY THE AUTHOR DID NOT INDICATE ANY ADDITIONAL PULL FROM THE SUN AT THIS VERY MOMENT.

THE RESULTS OF THIS EXPERIMENT WERE PUZZLING AT THE BEGINNING. IS THERE A GRAVITY PULL FROM THE SUN AS WE PRESENTLY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND IT OR THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE KNOW VERY LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT? THE APPARATUS USED FOR THIS EXPERIMENT, HOWEVER DID SHOW THAT A FORCE TOWARDS THE SUN INCREASED GRADUALLY AS THE SUN MOVED EVER HIGHER OVER THE EASTERN HORIZON. A DESCRIPTION AND A DRAWING OF THE APPARATUS USED BY THE AUTHOR FOR THIS EXPERIMENT IS AVAILABLE.

READINGS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR:
30-MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE
8-MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE
AT SUNRISE WHEN THE SUN BECAME VISIBLE
5-MINUTES AFTER SUNRISE
15-MINUTES AFTER SUNRISE
30-MINUTES AFTER SUNRISE
60-MINUTES AFTERSUNRISE

RESULTS WHAT THE AUTHOR WAS SET OUT TO PROVE TO HIMSELF WAS THIS: IF GRAVITY WAS THERE, COMING FROM THE SUN, PRESENT AND CONTINUOUS, BUT PORTION OF IT BLOCKED BY THE EARTH’S SURFACE AREA BETWEEN THE APPARATUS USED AND THE SUN, THEN 8-MINUTES BEFORE THE SUN DISK BECAME VISIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HORIZON THE GRAVITY AND PULL FROM THE SUN ON THE WEIGHT OF THE APPARATUS USED SHOULD HAD MATERIALIZE. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. HOWEVER AS THE SUN MOVED HIGHER OVER THE EASTERN HORIZON, GRADUALLY THE POINTER INDICATED THAT THE CONCRETE BLOCK MOVED TOWARDS THE SUN.

FROM THE DAY WE UNDERSTAND OURSELVES WE REALIZE THAT WE ARE CONSTANTLY PULLED BY A FORCE UNDER OUR FEET. THIS INVISIBLE FORCE “GRAVITY” THE WEAK FORCE AS PHYSISISTS CALL IT, PULLS EVERYTHING TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. ONE WOULD ASK: WERE DOES A BODY WEIGH MORE?
a) ONE EARTH RADIUS FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH?
b) TWO EARTH RADDI FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
c) OR NOTHING AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
NEVERTHELESS GRAVITY PULLS AS WE UNDERSTAND IT AND HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS.

NOW LET US USE A DIFFERENT APPROACH AND TRY TO EXAMINE THIS PHENOMENON OF PULL FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. WHAT ABOUT IF THERE IS NOT A PULL BUT A PUSH FROM A CONTINUOUS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER TOWARDS ALL BODIES LARGE OR SMALL? WHAT ABOUT IF THIS FLOW OF ENERGY/MATTER AS IT FLOWS, LET US SAY TOWARDS THE CENTER OF OUR EARTH, IS INFLUENCED, ALTERED AND DIVERTED IN QUANTITY AND DIRECTION BY OUR OWN MOON? IS THIS ENERGY/MATTER ABSORBED AND INCORPORATED BY THE ELEMENTS ? DOES THIS ENERGY/MATTER BREAKS THE BONDS OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES AND FORCE THE ELEMENTS TO DECAY? DOES THIS ENERGY/MATTER, AS IT FLOWS TOWARDS ANY BLACK HOLE, BECOMES SO DENSE AS IT GETS CLOSER AND CLOSER, THAT PUSHES BACK ANY FORM OF RADIATION THAT IS EMMITED BY THE BLACK HOLE?

CONCLUSION: THERE MUST BE A KIND OF ENERGY/MATTER UNSEEN AND UKNOWN PRESENTLY TO US, THAT FILLS THE COSMOS AND FLOWS TOWARDS ALL BODIES LARGE OR SMALL, MANIFESTS ITSELF AS THE PUSH WE FEEL, PREVENTS ALL OTHER HEAVENLY BODIES OF DISINTEGRATION KEEPS US AND EVERYTHING HERE ON EARTH OF BEEING FLUNG OUT TO SPACE.

……………A HYPOTHESIS

CONSTANTIN BENETATOS

TEXAS, 15 APRIL 2007

CONSTANTIN2002@BIGPLANET.COM

BIBLIOGRAPHY : NONE.

CAVE PERIOD

2008-10-02T02:59:57Z

HUMANS: THEY VARY IN SIZE, FRAME, NOHOTROPY, POSTURE, KNOWLEDGE, INTELIGENCE, CULTURE, RELIGIOUS AND/OR POLITICAL BELIEFS, ETC. THERE ARE NO TWO HUMANS ALIKE ON THIS EARTH, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS OF SOME TWINS.

SOME GROUPS OF HUMANS CONTRIBUTED MORE TO THE HUMAN RACE THAN OTHERS. SOME GROUPS OF PEOPLE TRIED TO ELEVATE HUMANS TO THEIR HIGHEST POSSIBLE IDEALS, WHILE OTHER GROUPS TRIED AND ARE CONTINUING TO TRY TO LOWER THE HUMAN RACE TO A LEVEL LOWER THAN THAT OF THE OTHER LIVING THINGS ON THIS PLANET WE CALL ANIMALS.

THERE ARE THOSE GROUPS OF HUMANS WHO, FOR WHATEVER REASON (PERSONAL,POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL, OR FINANCIAL) HAVE TRIED AND ARE STILL TRYING TO LOWER THEIR FELLOW HUMANS TO THIS ANIMALISTIC STATE IN ORDER TO SATISFY THEIR OWN VISIONS, WANTS, VANITIES, INTEREST, FANATICISM, ETC. (THE LIST IS VERY LONG). THESE GROUPS NOT ONLY COMMIT A CRIME OF UNMEASURABLE PROPORTIONS TO OTHERS WITHOUT REALIZING THE CONCEQUENCES, BUT ALSO TO THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND DECENTANTS.

FOR SOMEONE TO TRY TO IMPOSE OR FORCE HIS WILL ON SOMEONE ELSE FOR WHATEVER REASON IS A CRIME NOT ONLY OF THE UNWRITTEN NATURAL LAWS BUT OF THE MAN-MADE LAWS AS WELL.

BUT ONE MAY ASK.
"WHERE, HOW AND WHY, AND FOR WHAT REASON, DID THIS HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND IDEAS ORIGINATE"?

THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOUR TRACES ITS ROOTS AND ORIGINS BACK TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AND TO SOME EXTENT, TO THE DARK SIDE OF OUR REPTILIAN BRAIN.

MOREOVER WE SHOULD ATRIBUTE THIS TYPE OF OUR BEHAVIOUR TO OUR EARLY TIMES WHEN OUR NOMADIC ANCESTORS EONS AGO SOUGHT SHELTER IN CAVES TRYING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE NATURAL ELEMENTS AND THE RELENTLESS PREDATORS WHO PREYED ON THEM.

HUMANS DWELLED IN CAVES FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OUT OF NECESSITY.

THAT WAS THE CAVE PERIOD.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN IT STARTED BUT IT IS STILL GOING ON EVEN TODAY IN SOME ISOLATED PLACES ON THIS PLANET.

IN EUROPE THE NUMBER OF HUMANS WHO WERE HUNTER/GATHERERS LIVING IN CAVES AT ANY GIVEN TIME WAS VERY SMALL INDEED. MAY BE A FEW THOUSAND SOULS WERE WIDELY DISPERSED ON THE ENTIRE CONTINENT.

OTHER HUMANS, THE BOLD ONES WHO VENTURED TOO FAR TO THE NORTH AND INTO THE OPEN AREAS WITHOUT SHELTER, EVENTUALLY PERISHED DUE TO PREDATORS AND/OR ADVERSE WEATHER.

AS TIME PROGRESSED AND THE THOUSANDS OF YEARS WENT BY, THE WAY OF LIFE OF OUR CAVE DWELLER ANCESTORS, AND THE ENVIROMENT THEY LIVED IN, SHAPED THEIR BEHAVIOUR AND IN A WAY ECHOES OUR BEHAVIOUR TODAY-ALONG WITH OUR LOOKS, ANATOMY, SPEECH AND CUSTOMS.

ALTHOUGH OTHER GROUPS OF HUMANS BEHAVE MORE OR LESS THE SAME WAY TODAY, THEIR ANCESTRAL WAY OF LIFE WAS TO SOME EXTENT SIMILAR TO THE ONE OF THE CAVE DWELLERS.

SOMEONE MAY ASK, "DO ALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE DECENT FROM CAVE DWELLERS?" THE ANSWER IS, OF COURSE NO. THE TOPIC OF NON-CAVE DWELLERS WILL NOT BE ADDRESSED IN THIS WRITTING.

NOW LET US DISCUSS THE DAILY WAY OF LIFE OF ANY GIVEN GROUP OF CAVE DELLERS IN THOSE EARLY TIMES LONG TIME AGO.

THE LEADER OF ANY GROUP THAT LIVED IN A CAVE WAS MOSTLY A MALE, WHO IMPOSED HIS IRON WILL ON THE OTHER MEMBERS, SOMETIMES BY FORCE, SOMETIMES BY PERSUATION, AND SOMETIMES BY EXAMPLE OR GUIDANCE.

AS SOON AS THESE GROUPS OF HUMANS STARTED LIVING IN CAVES THEY QUICKLY INCORPORATED THE USE OF FIRE, WHICH WAS ALREADY KNOWN TO THEM. FIRE BECAME A NECESSITY AND BECAME A VERY USEFULL TOOL TO THEIR VERY EXISTENCE. THE FIRE INSIDE THE CAVE NOT ONLY KEPT THEM WARM AND GAVE THEM LIGHT WHEN NEEDED, BUT ALSO KEPT UNDESIREABLE CRITTERS AND VARMINTS AT BAY.

WOMEN , CHILDREN AND OLDER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP REMAINED INSIDE OF OR CLOSE TO THE CAVE ALL THE TIME. WOMEN TENDING THEMSELVES , THEIR SMALL CHILDREN, AND OCASSIONALLY THE ELDERLY AND THE SICK. IN ADDITION TO COLLECTING FIREWOOD AND TENDING THE FIRE, WOMEN CARRIED WATER FROM THE NEAREST CREEK, RIVER OR LAKE, PROBABLY IN ANIMAL SKINS. WOMEN ALSO WORKED THE ANIMAL SKINS INTO SUITABLE CLOTHING FOR THEMSELVES, THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR MEN.

ABLE-BODIED MEN VENTURED OUT OF THEIR CAVE EVERY MORNING, WEATHER PERMITTING, TO GO HUNTING AND FOOD GATHERING, TAKING WHATEVER THEY COULD KILL, OR COLLECT. THEY HUNTED SMALL ANIMALS WITH STICKS AND CLUBS IN THE VERY EARLY TIMES, AND LARGER ANIMALS, LATER WHEN THE QUALITY AND TYPE OF THEIR WEAPONS BECAME MORE SOPHISTICATED.

IT IS VERY DIFFICULT YO APPROACH A WILD ANIMAL WITHOUT BEING DETECTED IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE DESISSIVE BLOW AND KILL IT, ESPECIALLY IF THE WILD ANIMAL DEFENDED ITSELF OR STRUCK BACK. HOWEVER IT BECAME MUCH EASIER FOR A HUNTER TO USE A SPEAR OR ARROW FROM A DISTANCE TO KILL HIS QUARRY, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, KEEPING HIMSELF OUT OF HARMS WAY.

IT WAS THE VERY WAY OF LIFE OF OUR ANCESTORS, THE CAVE DWELLERS, WHICH INFLUENCED OUR WAY OF LIFE, OUR BEHAVIOUR AND THE STRUCTURE OF OUR SOCIETIES IN MODERN TIMES.

THEREFORE LET US EXAMINE THE WAY OF LIFE DURING THE CAVE PERIOD FOR MAN AND WOMAN SEPARATELY IN THOSE EARLY TIMES, IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND RELATE TO WHY WE BEHAVE IN A CERTAIN PROGRAMMED FASHION TODAY.
THE GROUP OF MEN THAT WENT OUT OF THE CAVE EVERY DAY FOR A HUNTING EXPEDITION HAD TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE AMONG THEMSELVES.

THIS KIND OF COMMUNICATION CONSISTED MOSTLY OF BODY LANGUAGE SUCH AS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, EYE MOVEMENT, GESTURES, WEAK SOUNDS, ETC. THEY HAD TO BE AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE- NOT TOO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER BUT NOT TOO FAR APART EITHER.

IF THEY WERE VERY CLOSE, THEIR COMBINED NOISE WOULD ALERT THEIR QUARRY, WHICH WOULD RUN AWAY. IF ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY WERE TOO FAR APART OUT OF SIGHT AND/OR SOUND, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE AND WOULD EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO ADDITIONAL DANGER FROM BEING ALONE. THEY ALSO WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COMBINE THEIR EFFORTS IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR QUEST.

THEREFORE ANY GROUP OF CAVEMEN THAT WENT OUT OF THEIR CAVE TO HUNT DEVELOPED CERTAIN BEHAVIOURAL CHARACTERISTICS OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AND THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOUR ECHOES THROUGH THE AGES AND INFLUENCES OUR OWN BEHAVIOUR TODAY.

FIRST, THE MEMBERS OF THE HUNTING EXPEDITION WERE TO FOLLOW THE ORDERS AND DIRECTIONS OF THE GROUP LEADER. SECOND THEY WERE TO BE WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER FOR SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY. THIRD, THEY HAD TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER NOT WITH SOUND BUT RATHER USING SIGN/BODY LANGUAGE.

FOR EXAMPLE, IF ONE FROZE, ALL OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT UNTILL MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE GROUP REALIZED WHY THE MAN FROZE AND WHAT HE SAW- PREY OR PREDATOR.
USING BODY LANGUAGE HE QUICKLY INFORMED THE OTHERS IN THE GROUP ABOUT THE SITUATION. "THERE IS PREY AHEAD AND GET READY" OR "BE ALERT, DANGER AHEAD".

NOW LET US COMPARE THESE BEHAVIOURAL CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW THEY ECHO IN OUR PSYCHE OF TODAY:

MEN SQUINT THEIR EYES TO A POINT OF ALMOST CLOSING THEM WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO REVEAL WHAT THEY OBSERVE. THEY MAY SEE AN OPPONENT, A RIVAL, A COMPETITOR, AN ENEMY OR AN ATTRACTIVE LADY. MOVEMENT OF WIDE OPEN EYES ATTRACTS ATTENTION AND CAN BE DETECTED FROM A CERTAIN DISTANCE. MOREOVER MEN'S EYES SEEM TO BE SMALLER THAN THOSE OF A LADY. THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOUR COMES FROM WHEN CAVEMEN HAD TOBE DECEPTIVE AND EVASIVE.

MEN PAY LITTLE ATTENTION TO SOUND, SPEECH OR MOVEMENT CLOSE TO THEIR VICINITY. MEN HAVE A TENDENCY TO LOOK FAR AWAY. THEY ARE ALERT AND OBSERVANT AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING OUT THERE IN THE OPEN AS FAR AS THEIR EYES CAN SEE. THIS BEHAVIOUR COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN MEN WERE OUT THERE IN THE OPEN EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS AND VULNERABLE TO PREDATORS DURING THEIR HUNTING EXPEDITIONS.

MEN HAVE A TENDENCY TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES USING BODY LANGUAGE. THEIR SPEECH IS NOT ALWAYS CONTINUOUS OR SMOOTH, SOMETIMES ALMOST NEAR STUTTERING. THIS COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN THE CAVEMAN'S BRAIN HAD TO WORK FAST AND HARD, DURING HIS DANGEROUS ENGAGEMENT WITH A PREDATOR OR HIS QUARRY. IT IS LOGICAL THAT THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR COMPLETE SENTENSES OR LENGTHY EXPRESSIONS, BUT RATHER SHOUTING OR YELLING A FEW SINGLE WORDS. HIS BRAIN HAD TO WORK HARD RELATING PAST EVENTS TO CONDITIONS AND THE VERY MOMENT'S POSSIBLE FUTURE OUTCOME.

MEN TRY TO IDENTIFY A MEMBER OF A GROUP BY GLANCING AT THE OVERALL SHAPE OF A PERSON AND THE HEAD. THIS COMES FROM THE TIME WHEN THE CAVEMAN WANTED TO KNOW WHO WAS CLOSE TO HIM THAT HE COULD RELY ON FOR SUPPORT DURING A DANGEROUS SITUATION WHILE OUT IN THE OPEN.

MEN ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO TIME. MOST MEN LIKE TO RISE EARLY AND RETURN HOME BEFORE IT GETS DARK. THIS COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD. THE CAVEMAN HAD TO RETURN TO THE SAFETY OF HIS CAVE BEFORE DARK. OTHERWISE HE COULD BE ON THE MENU OF HIS PREDATORS IN THE NIGHTIME. CLIMBING A TREE IF IT WAS AVAILABLE COULD PROTECT HIM FROM DANGER.

TODAY, IS MAN'S FACIAL HAIR A REMNANT FROM THE CAVE PERIOD, DUE EITHER TO EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME OUT IN THE COLD OR FOR CAMUFLAGE? MAYBE WE WILL ONE DAY KNOW THE ANSWER.

MOST MEN WANT TO BECOME LEADERS OR ACQUIRE WEALTH. DURING THE CAVE PERIOD THE LEADER HAD ACCESS TO ALL RECEPTIVE FEMALES NOT RELATED TO HIM. OF COURSE, INBREEDING WAS IN ALL PROBABILITY A QUESTION. THE LEADER'S POSITION WAS ENVIED BY OTHER MALES WHO WANTED TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH THE LEADER OR SUCCEED HIM. THE MEN OF TODAY DO NOT DIFFER MUCH FROM OUR CAVEMAN ANCESTORS DUE TO THE INFLUENCE THAT THEIR REPTILIAN BRAIN HAS ON THEM. LEADERSHIP AND MONEY/POWER BOTH HAVE THE SAME EFFECT. "TRY TO HAVE ACCESS TO AS MANY RECEPTIVE FEMALES AS POSSIBLE"

MEN LIKE TO PLAN. IT MAY BE A FISHING TRIP, A GAME OR AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS DEAL. THIS COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD. THE CAVEMAN HAD TO PLAN FOR HIS EXPEDITIONS.
HIS PLANS INCLUDED THE NUMBER IN THE PARTY THE AREA THE DIRECTION, WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS TO TAKE ALONG AND WHAT PROVISIONS IF ANY.

MEN IN GENERAL LIKE TOOLS, WEAPONS, AND THE MEANS TO FABRICATE AND USE THEM. WHETHER MODERN MAN OR CAVEMAN, ONE CAN ENVISION THE FINAL RESULT, USING A WEAPON OR TOOL. THE ORGANIZED SCIENTIFIC WARFARE OF TODAY AGAINST OUR FELLOW MAN HAS ITS ROOTS BACK TO THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN ONE KLAN TRIED TO EXTERMINATE THE OTHER CLAN'S MEN FOLK IN ORDER TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE CAVE AND GAIN POCESSION OF THE FEMALES. THE MEN OF TODAY DO NOT DIFFER MUCH IN THAT RESPECT FROM OUR PREDECESSORS OF THE CAVE PERIOD WITH ONLY ONE EXCEPTION - ORGANIZED SCIENTIFIC WARFARE AGAINST OUR FELLOW MAN.

A MAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE OR HIS FABRICATED CAVE? ANY UNVITED STRANGER WHO ENTERS A MAN'S CAVE (PARDON, HOUSE) WILL BE MET WITH SUSPICION, HOSTILITY AND ULTIMATE REJECTION.
THERE IS AN UNWRITTEN LAW FROM THE CAVE PERIOD THAT A MAN SHOULD NOT GET ANY CLOSER TO ANOTHER MAN, ESPECIALLY A STRANGER, THAN AN ARM'S LENGTH. (THIS OF COURSE DOES NOT APPLY FOR A LADY). IN TODAYS CROWDED SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY IN BIG CITIES, NO ONE COMPLAINS ABOUT THIS VERY SENSITIVE ISSUE, BUT THESE FEELINGS ARE AND REMAIN WITHIN MEN AND ARE SOMETIMES VERY STRONG.

CAVES MAY HAVE LARGE OR SMALL ENTRANCES. WITH NIGHTTIME APPROACHING, THE CAVEMEN, BARRICADED THE CAVE'S ENTRANCE WITH A FEW WELL-SELECTED THORNY SHRUB BRANCHES TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM UNWELCOME VISITORS. THE THORNY BRANCHES WERE REPLACED LATER WITH CUT-TO- LENGTH LONG STICKS PLACED VERTICALLY INTO THE GROUND, CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND LACED TOGETHER WITH REED ROPES. MUCH LATER THE STICKS WERE REPLACED WITH SMALL TREE-TRUNKS WELL SPACED AND TRENCHED INTO THE GROUND. AN OVERHEAD PROTECTION MAY HAVE BEEN ADDED. THIS WOODEN WALL NOT ONLY PROTECTED THEM FROM WILD ANIMALS BUT FROM ENEMIES AS WELL. THE IDEA OF BUILDING A WALL AROUND THE CAVE ENTRANCE WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP:
A BREAK-THROUGH TOWARDS THE HUMAN EVOLUTION IN GENERAL.

NOW THE CAVEMEN COULD LEAVE THE CAVE AND LIVE IN ANY SUITABLE AREA THEY SELECTED, BY BUILDING A PROTECTIVE WOODEN WALL AROUND THEM.

THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF A FEW SELECTED THORNY SHRUB BRANCHES THAT PROTECTED THE CAVE ENTRANCE LEAD TO THE SKYSCRAPERS OF TODAY.

NOW AS HUMANS BECAME MORE SOPHISTICATED AND CIVILIZED, THE NUMBER OF MAN-MADE SHELTERS (CAVES) INCREASED ALONG WITH THE HUMAN POPULATION.
IN THE LAST FEW CENTURIES, WE HUMANS HAVE INFUENCED OUR ENVIROMENT TO SUCH EXTENT THAT WITHOUT REALIZING IT, AND NOT ON PURPOSE, THE DAMAGE WE INNFLICTED HAS REACHED PROPORTIONS OF NO RETURN.

NOW LET US EXAMINE HOW THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF THE CAVE PERIOD INFLUENCED AND MOLDED THE BEHAVIOURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TODAY'S WOMEN IN GENERAL.

DURING THE CAVE PERIOD IT WAS THE WOMEN WHO HAD THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDING WATER FOR THE CAVE CLAN. THEY PROBABLY CARRIED THE WATER IN ANIMAL SKINS FROM THE NEAREST CREEK, SPRING OR LAKE. THE WATER WAS USED FOR DRINKING AND FOR WASHING THEIR BABIES. THAT IS WHY THAT LADIES OF TODAY WILL USE WATER FOR ALL KINDS OF APPLICATIONS, AND WILL BATHE AT LEAST TWICE AS MANY TIMES AS MEN, IF NOT MORE.

LADIES SELDOM LOOK FAR OUT IN THE DISTANCE. THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING OUT THERE. ONLY SENSING DANGER OR A LOUD NOISE WILL MAKE THEM TURN AND LOOK IN THAT DIRECTION. THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOUR COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN WOMEN SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME INSIDE OR AT THE ENTRANCE OF THEIR CAVE. THE WOMEN HAD NO NEED TO LOOK ANY FURTHER THAN THE CAVE WALLS OR THE GENERAL AREA WHERE THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN WERE PLAYING. THEREFORE LOOKING FURTHER OUT IN THE DISTANCE, WAS NOT NECESSARY.

LADIES EYES ARE ALWAYS WIDE OPEN AND THEREFORE APPEAR BIGGER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL. EVEN THE POET HOMER IN HIS WORKS REFERS TO, ZEUS'S WIFE, HERA AS "VOOPIS" (LARGE WIDE-EYED).
THIS COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN LADIES SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME INSIDE THE CAVE AND THEREFORE IN LIMITED AND POOR LIGHTING CONDITIONS. THEIR EYES WERE TO CATCH EVERY PHOTON COMMING THEIR DIRECTION.

LADIES ARE VERY WELL AWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THEIR IMMEDIATE VICINITY AND WITHIN A SMALL RADIUS. AGAIN THIS BEHAVIOUR HAS ITS ROOTS FROM THE CAVE PERIOD. ONCE INSIDE THE CAVE, THE AREA AND NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WOMEN HAD TO CONCENTRATE ON AND BE AWARE OF WAS VERY LIMITED. NEVERTHELESS, THEY HAD TO BE READY TO PERFORM THEIR DUTIES AND PARTICIPATE IN ALL ACTIVITIES.

IN OUR MODERN TIMES IF A MAN ENTERS AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE CONGREGATE, THE LADIES, (ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG ONES) WILL NOTICE HIM FIRST.
THEY WILL EXAMINE AND CHECK HIM OUT DOWN TO THE SMALLEST DETAIL. THEY WILL EVEN DETERMINE HIS SHOE SIZE - AND ALL THIS IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND.
THEY WILL CHECK HIM OUT LONG BEFORE HE EVEN BECOMES AWARE OF THE LADIES BEING THERE. (OF COURSE HE WILL THINK THAT HE SAW THEM FIRST).
THIS COMES FROM THE TIME WHEN THE WOMEN WERE ALONE IN THE CAVE. THEY HAD TO BE ALERT FOR ANY DANGER. IN THE EVENT THEIR EYES CAUGHT AN UNFAMILIAR SILHOUETTE SUCH AS THAT OF A WILD ANIMAL, IN ALL PROBABILITY THEY BECAME HYSTERICAL AND SPRUNG INTO ACTION. THEY REACTED WITH SCREAMS, GRABBED BURNING STICKS FROM THE FIRE, AND THREW PROJECTILES AT THE INTRUDER, AND MOST OF THE TIMES THEY MANAGED TO EXPELE IT. THEY WERE NOT AS HELPLESS AS SOME MAY THINK, BUT CASUALTIES DID OCCUR OCASSIONALLY.

LADIES OF TODAY ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY. THEY LIKE CLOSENESS, AND THEY DO NOT MIND SITTING CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, SOMETIMES TOUCHING. THIS BEHAVIOUR HAS BEEN INFLUENCED FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN WOMEN WERE SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER NEAR THE LIGHT FROM THE FIRE - TALKING, WORKING TOGETHER ON THE ANIMAL SKINS FOR THEIR CLOTHING, AND SOMETIMES COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER. THIS TYPE OF WORK WAS NOT THAT PLEASANT BUT THEY HAD WAYS OF MAKING IT MORE ENJOYABLE. AFTER ALL, THE CLOTHING WAS FOR THEIR LOVED ONES.

TODAY'S WOMEN ARE VERY EFFICIENT IN THE ART "OF SOUND COMMUNICATION". DURING THE CAVE PERIOD, IN A SEMI-DARK CAVE ENVIROMENT, USING SOUND AS THE MODE OF COMMUNICATION WAS THE MOST LOGICAL CHOICE. BODY LANGUAGE WAS NOT PRACTICAL AT ALL ESPECIALLY IN THE DARK. THAT IS WHY THE LADIES OF TODAY SPEAK VERY CLEARLY, FLUENTLY, WITHOUT STUTTERING AND MUCH FASTER THAN MEN DO. EVEN IF THERE ARE SEVERAL LADIES INVOLVED IN A CONVERSATION SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME, FOR SOME ODD REASON THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT EACH OTHER SAID AND THEY CAN FULLY GRASP THE MEANING OF THE DISCUSSION.

THE WOMAN'S SIXTH SENSE IS FAR MORE ACCUTE THAN OF A MAN. FOR EXAMPLE, IF A MAN WATCHES A LADY SILENTLY, SOMEHOW SHE IS AWARE OF THIS SITUATION AND IF SHE TURNS, SHE WILL NONCHALANTLY LOOK IN THE EXACT DIRECTION WHERE THE MAN IS STANDING. THIS MIGHT HAVE COME FROM WHEN WOMEN WERE DWELLING IN THE CAVE'S LIMELIGHT TRYING TO BE AWARE OF EVERYBODY'S WHEREABOUTS. IT IS LIKE A SIGHTLESS PERSON WHOSE OTHER SENSES COMPENSATE FOR HIS UNFORTUNATE HANDICAP.

LADIES ARE ABLE TO SIT IN A SEAT FOR HOURS - READING WRITTING, PAINTING PICTURES, DOING NEEDLEWORK, LISTENING TO MUSIK OR TALKING ON THE TELEPHONE. THIS KIND OF PATIENCE COMES FROM THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN WOMEN SPENT HOURS WORKING ON SKINS - CLEANING, TANNING AND SOFTENING THEM. AND ALSO THE TIME THEY SPENT WAITING FOR THEIR MEN TO RETURN WITH OR WITHOUT FOOD.

LADIES IN GENERAL ARE MORE LOVING AND ALTUISTIC THAN MEN. LET US NOT FORGET THAT "NOBODY LOVED YOU MORE THAN YOUR MOTHER". UNFORTUNATELY, THE LADIES ARE EXPLOITED FOR THIS VIRTUE ALL TOO OFTEN.

DURING THE CAVE PERIOD WHEN WOMEN STOPPED BEING RECEPTIVE, THEY LOST THEIR STATUS IN THE GROUP AND FELL BACK TO AN UNFAVORABLE POSITION. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SITUATION IS ALSO REFLECTED IN OUR TIMES. WHEN THE LADIES OF TODAY LOOSE THEIR MYSTIQUE, THEIR SPONTANEITY, SOMEONE MAY NOTICE THAT THEY TREATED MORE OR LESS THE SAME WAY, LIKE BEING SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS.

WHEN SOMEONE LOOKS AT AN ELDERLY LADY WHO CAN HARDLY WALK, ONE MAY FEEL BITTER, NOT ONLY FOR FOR HER PRESENT PREDICAMENT, BUT ALSO WITH NOSTALGIA, AS THEY TRY TO IMAGINE THE TIME WHEN THIS VERY LADY WAS YOUNG, VIBRANT, ENERGETIC, ATTRACTIVE, BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY. THEY MAY SECRETLY WISH TO HAVE THE POWER TO TURN BACK THE TIME AND GIVE HER BACK THE YOUTH SHE HAD, AND RESTORE HER HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

IT MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO MANY PEOPLE, BUT IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE HUMAN FEMALE, "THE LADY", THE CIVILIZATION THAT WE KNOW AND ENJOY TODAY MIGHT NEVER HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED OR DEVELOPED.

IT WAS THE WOMAN (NOT THE MAN) OF THE CAVE PERIOD WHO DOMESTICATED ANIMALS.

IT WAS THE WOMAN (NOT THE MAN) OF THE CAVE PERIOD WHO DEVELOPED AGRICULTURE.

IT WAS THE WOMAN OF THE CAVE PERIOD WITH HER ALTRUISM, LOVE TO PROPAGATE LIFE AND LOVE FOR LIFE, THAT ELEVATED THE HUMAN RACE TO ITS HIGHEST IDEALS.

MEN TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL IDELIGENCE, BUT WE MEN FAIL TO COMMUNICATE AND/OR UNDERSTAND OUR LADY.

WE MAY BE AWARE OR WE MAY LIKE TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT OUR BEHAVIOUR TODAY HAS ITS ROOTS AND BEGINNINGS FROM EONS AGO DURING THE TIME OF THE CAVE PERIOD.

NOW LET US GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF OUR DISCUSSION AND TRY TO ANALYZE WHY PERSONS OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE ARE INSISTING ON TRYING TO FORCE THEIR WILL, LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS, ON OTHER PERSONS OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE.

THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF SOMEONE WHO TRIES TO IMPOSE HIS WILL, RULES AND REGULATIONS ON OTHER PEOPLE BY FORCE OR PERSUATION, WITHOUT REALIZING IT, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT THE ECHOES OF THE CAVE PERIOD AND WHAT ONE'S REPTILIAN BRAIN DICTATES:
"TRY TO CLIMB TO THE TOP", AND ONCE AT THE TOP YOU ARE A LEADER., AND ONCE A LEADER YOU ARE EXPOSED TO A MULTITUDE OF RECEPTIVE FEMALES.

THIS STATEMENT MAY SOUND SIMPLE AND ARROGANT OR BLASPHEMOUS. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAN THAT.
OUR CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION MAY TRY TO SOMEWHAT SUPPRESS THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOURAL THINKING, BUT IN THE BACK OF OUR BRAIN THIS DESIRE URGES US ON.

OF COURSE, THIS URGE TO PERPETUATE THE SPECIES IS TRUE IN ALL LIVING THINGS. IN HUMANS THIS NOTION HAS BEEN INSTITUTED, ESTABLISHED AND PERFECTED DURING AND SINCE THE CAVE PERIOD.

SO THE ULTIMATE GOAL AND FINAL ANALYSIS IS THAT ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF MALES WHO TRY TO STAND OUT, AND IMPOSE HIS OR THEIR WILL IS DOING IT FOR THIS PURPOSE ONLY.

THEY USED TO SAY"THAT'S A MAN'S WORLD", AND PROBABLY STILL IS. WHY? BECAUSE MOSTLY MEN WANT TO BE LEADERS AND THEY WANT TO STAND OUT FOR THE REASONS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY. MAY BE IT SOUNDS SIMPLE AND BLUNT, BUT REMEMBER WHAT THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS SAID, AFTER HAVING EXHAUSTED ALL OTHER REASONS, AS TO WHY MAN IS IN THIS WORLD; ------"PERPETUATION OF THE SPECIES".

NOTE:
THIS WRITTING IS OF PURE LITERARY CHARACTER ONLY.

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