I think that's referred to as "Syncronicity" (Karl Jung); simultaneous knowledge passed thru' the unconscious that is "realized" on a universal level across the globe.....................or it could just be space aliens with little pointy heads and bad skin.
I really hope Bill reads this one on the air someday - SO funny! Thanks for the blast of intelligence mixed with humor.
lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists)
Posted: May 01, 2009 - 11:57
xkolibuul wrote:
Joseph Campbell was really good at wild unsubstantiated theoretical leaps. Mexico didn't need the Old World to learn how to build pyramids. Don't believe the hype.
I think that's referred to as "Syncronicity" (Karl Jung); simultaneous knowledge passed thru' the unconscious that is "realized" on a universal level across the globe.....................or it could just be space aliens with little pointy heads and bad skin.
Driver8, would that temple be considered a ziggurat? Cute dog.
isn't that (ziggurat) a candy bar? i keed!
I guess it could be considered a ziggurat. Wiki reports about ziggurats in mesopatamia while this one is in Egypt. Something of note:
Joseph Campbell in his Masks of God books says that there is archaelogical evidence supporting a direct link between Mesopotamian ziggurats and the pyramids of Egypt. Campbell also states that from Egypt, the Mesopotamian culture was passed on almost simultaneously on two separate fronts to Crete and India. From India it reached China and from there it crossed the ocean to the pre-columbian societies of Central and South America, which could explain the similarities between ziggurats and Mayan pyramids.
High lights from research by Joseph Burns :
1) It is the Step Pyramid of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty - who reigned from c2780 to 2720 BC.
2) The Step Pyramid is found at the site of Saqqara in Egypt and pre-dates what we commonly know as the pyramids and is built differently.
3) Historians say it is the 'first' pyramid built with 'steps', while later pyramids are big triangular mountains of rock.
4) Its creator, Imhotep, came to be deified in later Egyptian tradition. He is the first artist whose name has been recorded in history, and deservedly so, since his acheivement is standing still today."
5) Under King Zoser, a set calendar in egypt of 365 days started in 2772. Also this period has the first reports of domesticated dogs in Egypt.
6) The dog that graces the album cover is in fact called Spot, and not Fido as many scholars have suggested.
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