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"The Olmec - Ancient Mexico"
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(Wikipedia)
The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical
lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of
Veracruz and Tabasco.
The Olmec flourished during Mesoamerica's Formative period, dating roughly from
1200 BCE to about 400 BCE. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and
laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed. Among other
"firsts", there is evidence that the Olmec practiced ritual bloodletting and
played the Mesoamerican ballgame, hallmarks of nearly all subsequent
Mesoamerican societies.
The most familiar aspect of the Olmecs is their artwork, particularly the
aptly-named colossal heads. In fact, the Olmec civilization was first defined
through artifacts purchased on the pre-Columbian art market in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. Olmec artworks are considered among ancient America's
most striking and beautiful, and among the world's masterpieces.
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(Crystalinks)
The Olmec heartland is an area on the south coast of the Gulf of Mexico coastal
plain of southern Veracruz and Tabasco, is thus called because of the
concentration of a large number of Olmec monuments as well as the greatest
Olmec sites.
The area is about 125 miles long and 50 miles wide (200 by 80 km), with the
Coatzalcoalcos River system running through the middle. These sites include San
Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, Laguna de los Cerros, Tres Zapotes, and La Venta is one
of the greatest of the Olmec sites.
La Venta is dated to between 1200 BCE through 400 BCE which places the major
development of the city in the Middle Formative Period. Located on an island in
a coastal swamp overlooking the then-active Río Palma river, the city of La
Venta probably controlled a region between the Mezcalapa and Coatzacoalcos
rivers.
The site itself is about 18 miles inland with the island consisting of slightly
more than 2 square miles of dry land. The main part of the site is a complex of
clay constructions stretched out for 12 miles in a North-South direction,
although the site is 8° West of true North.
The entire southern end of the site is covered by a petroleum refinery, and has
been largely demolished, making excavations difficult or impossible. Many of
the site's monuments are now on display in the archaeological museum and park
in the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco.
The Olmec heartland is characterized by swampy lowlands punctuated by low hill
ridges and volcanoes. The Tuxtla Mountains rise sharply in the north, along the
Bay of Campeche. Here the Olmecs constructed permanent city-temple complexes at
several locations, among them San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, La Venta, Tres Zapotes,
Laguna de los Cerros, and La Mojarra.
They also had great influence beyond the heartland: from Chalcatzingo, far to
the west in the highlands of Mexico, to Izapa, on the Pacific coast near what
is now Guatemala, Olmec goods have been found throughout Mesoamerica during
this period.
The Olmec domain extended from the Tuxtlas mountains in the west to the
lowlands of the Chontalpa in the east, a region with significant variations in
geology and ecology. Over 170 Olmec monuments have been found within the area,
and eighty percent of those occur at the three largest Olmec centers, La Venta,
Tabasco (38%), San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Veracruz (30%), and Laguna de los
Cerros, Veracruz (12%).
Those three major Olmec centers are spaced from east to west across the domain
so that each center could exploit, control, and provide a distinct set of
natural resources valuable to the overall Olmec economy. La Venta, the eastern
center, is near the rich estuaries of the coast, and also could have provided
cacao, rubber, and salt. San Lorenzo, at the center of the Olmec domain,
controlled the vast flood plain area of Coatzacoalcos basin and riverline trade
routes.
Laguna de los Cerros, adjacent to the Tuxtlas mountains, is positioned near
important sources of basalt, a stone needed to manufacture manos, metates, and
monuments. Perhaps marriage alliances between Olmec centers helped maintain
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Olmec Writing
The Decipherment of the Olmec Writing System
This Paper was presented at the 1997 Central States Anthropological Society
Meeting. It provides a good summary of the decipherment of the Olmec Writing
System Adapted from: www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/decip1.html Abstract We summarize the decipherment of the Olmec writing. It explains that Olmec is a
syllabic writing system used in the Olmec heartland from 900 BC- AD 450. The
decipherment of the Olmec writing of ancient Mexico provides us with keen
insight into the world of the Olmec. These earliest text written in America,
helps us to understand the culture religion and politics of the Olmec. The Decipherment of Olmec
The Olmec people introduced writing to the New World. Many Meso-American accept
the possibility that the Olmecs were the first to 1) invent a complex system of
chronology; 2) a method of calculating time; and 3) a hieroglphic script which
was later adopted by the Izapan and Mayan civilizations (Soustelle, 1984). As a
result, the Olmec people left numerous inscriptions on monuments, celts and
portable artifacts that give us keen insight into the Olmec culture, religion
and politics. Over a decade ago Winters (1979, 1997) deciphered the Olmec writing and
discovered that you could read the Olmec inscriptions using the sound value of
the Vai signs. The Olmecs spoke and aspect of the Manding (Malinke-Bambara)
language spoken in West Africa (Winters, 1979, 1980, 1981,1984). Scholars have long recognized that the Olmecs engraved many sysmbols or signs
on pottery, statuettes, batons/scepters, stelas and bas reliefs that have been
recognized as a possible form of writing (Coe, 1965; Gay ,1973; Popenoe and
Hatch , 1971 ; Soustelle, 1984). These experts recognized that the system of
dots and bars whether associated with gyphs or not, found on Olmec artifacts
probably indicated their possession of a system of chronology (Soustelle,
1984). As a result, we find that the Olmec monuments: Altar 7, of LaVenta;
Stela no.7 of LaVenta; Monument E at Tres Zapotes; Stela C of Tres Zapotes; and
the Tutla statuette are engraved with calendrical information (Morell, 1991;
Soustelle, 1984). Although many Meso-Americanists accept the view that the Olmecs possessed
calendrical symbols controversey surrounds the presence of writing among the
Olmecs. Wiener (1922) and Lawrence (1961) have maintained that the Olmec
writing was identical to the Manding writing used in Africa. Michael Coe and
John Justeson on the otherhand beleive that the Olmecs possessed a form of
iconography but not writing (Morell, 1991). Coe Has agrued that the Olmec people used a sign system he calls "pars pro
toto, where a part stands for the whole--which transmitted information of a
religious-poltical nature but it was not writing" (Morell, 1991, 269). Justeson
observed that "the symbols on the celts differ from normal iconography because
you could segment out the significant parts" (Morell, 1991, 269). These epigraphers believe that this alleged Olmec iconography did not evolve
into writing until Epi-Olmec times (150 BC- 400 AD) (Morell, 1991). This Olmec
writing is called the Southeastern or Isthmian tradition (because it originated
at Olmec sites in the highlands of Guatemala), and probably influenced both the
Izapan and Mayan styles of writing. Wiener (1922) on the otherhand, claimed that the inscriptions on the Tuxtla,
statuette which was made by the Olmec was engraved with writing used by the
Manding speaking people of West Africa. Although, Wiener (1922) did not know anything about the Olmec people, he had
found startling linguistic, religious, and anthroplogical data supporting a
Manding substratum in Mayan and Aztec culture, and believed that the
inscriptions on the Tuxtla statuette was further confirmation of the Manding
influence among the Maya. Meso-Americanists have rejected the findings of Wiener (1922) because they
repudiate any diffusionist influences on the early Mexican cultures. Eventhough
these scholars reject the idea of West African people influencing the Olmecs,
historical , archaeological, and linguistic data may indicate the migration of
Manding speaking people to Meso-America in ancient times (Winters , 1979;
Wuthenau, 1980). [...] [For full article and bibliographic references, please see
www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/decip1.html] | | | | |
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Sciences ... Four Categories of Science By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer
or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised
during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the
essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote
Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science: - [Category-1 Science] Yes, there is a lot of excellent science done by people who set up
an experiment in which they can control all the variables and equipment. They
make measurements and then publish their results, after peer review, and
describe their equipment, instruments, and activity in detail so that others
can duplicate the work and, presumably, come to the same conclusions. Such
science can be very satisfying, and certainly can contribute to the advancement
of knowledge. However, it is not the only kind of science.
- [Category-2 Science] A second kind of science involves situations in which one cannot
control all the variables, but can predict some. For example, I cannot prove
that on occasion the moon comes directly between the sun and the Earth and
casts a shadow of darkness on the Earth, because I cannot control the positions
of the Earth, moon, or sun. What can be done is predicting the times when such
eclipses will happen and being ready to make observations when they occur.
Hopefully the weather where I have my instruments will allow me to make lots of
measurements.
- [Category-3 Science] A third kind of science involves events that can neither be
predicted nor controlled, but one can be ready to make measurements if
something does happen. For example, an array of seismographs can be established
to allow measurements to be made at several locations in the event of an
earthquake. When I was at the University of Chicago, a block of nuclear
emulsion was attached to a large balloon that would be released when a
radiation detector indicated that a solar storm had occurred (something we
could neither produce nor predict). Somebody would rush to Stagg Field and
release the balloon. When the balloon was
retrieved, the emulsion would be carefully examined to measure the number,
direction, velocity, and mass characteristics of particles unleashed by the sun.
- [Category-4 Science] Finally, there is a fourth kind of science, still using the rules
to attack difficult problems. These are the events that involve intelligence,
such as airplane crashes, murders, rapes, and automobile accidents. We do not
know when or where they will occur, but we do know they will. In a typical year
more than 40,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents. We don't
know where or when, so rarely are TV cameras whirling when these events take
place. But we can, after the fact, collect and evaluate evidence. We can
determine if the driver had high levels of alcohol in his or her blood, whether
the brakes failed, whether the visibility was poor, where a skid started, and
so on. Observations of strange phenomena in the sky come under this last
category.
In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses
as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because
of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the
specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative
evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when
there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based
on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA
matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination,
who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead
to the death penalty
for the accused. We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on
testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration
and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits
on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other.
Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal
evidence are complex and detailed. When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most
sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen
under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers.
The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching
the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very
slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that
that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of
observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow
rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three
occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who
described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I
analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were
you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound?
What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an
aspirin held at arm's length)? Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next
hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far
away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what
was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California
Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still
be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in
all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets
down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in
each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were
looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw
as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special
weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times. The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say
that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the
object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as
something conventional. — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes,
and Government Cover-Ups
(Chapter 1 - "The Case for the ET Origin of Flying Saucers")
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prevalent?
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really cause?
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itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of
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the form of textual notes, pictures/stills, and audio and video
clips) — as well as many advertisements, some by me and some
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it does not
mean that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views and/or ads
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As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course. Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe
in. In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak — we have to remove our humongous
ego! — else we will never ever really have gotten started in
our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World. Furthermore, similarly and additionally, as a "Charismatic Christian", there
are lots of stuff presented in this website that I do not believe in ... which
had even led some to label me as "Fundamentalist"! ... Whatever! Matthew 7 1Judge not, that ye be not judged.2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. — Jesus the Christ
(Yahoshua ha Mashiach;
Yeshua/Yesua; Ieosus; Joshua),
"Sermon on the Mount"
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In short, in this website, I present many things that, I am hopeful, would be
of interest to a student, explorer and investigator of the Mysteries of the World ... but this doesn't mean that I believe in any of the stuff presented. ... Got it? ... Right! - Here is a purpose that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]Our purpose ... is to describe the rich variety of anomalous, unexplained,
sometimes totally bizarre phenomena that people have experienced in all times
and places and that are still occurring today. ... the nature of the world and
of our existence are quite different from that which we were taught at school.
The reality is far more interesting, humorous and expansive than any religious
or rational, scientific world-view can possibly accommodate. It is not our intention here to dispute anyone's beliefs or
theories — but we should like to point out their limitations.
There are things that happen in this world - and have occurred throughout the
whole of human experience - for which there has never been a lasting
explanation. Explanations are temporary products, coming and going in response
to fashions. Meanwhile, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as
mysteriously as ever. — John Michell and Bob Rickard
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Rough Guide Reference)
(New York, NY: Rough Guides Ltd, 2007) - Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden." Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe. So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond. [...] — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
Sub-title: Merging East and West
(1994, 1996) - Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge. The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms. This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". [...] — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
(2005) - Here is an observation about UFO-Aliens cover-up or conspiracy that may be of
general interest, although some readers would not agree with the observation
(e.g., they may say that some whistleblowers, such as Bob Lazar on the
Roswell-type flying saucers in secret Area-51 labs, have already come forward)
...
If any long-term coherent cover up of UFO information does exist, however, then
it must operate at all levels of government and the media. It must encompass
all the relevant written materials, from the briefest handwritten note in
government files to entries in squadron log books to letters in the personal
papers of members of the Establishment. Hundreds of politicians, service
personnel, police officers, clerks and officials, over half a century, would be
required to excise any reference to the reality of UFOs from official documents
and the media. The number of people who would have taken part in this cover up
would be vast, yet not one person has broken ranks to 'blow the whistle' on the
greatest story ever told. Meantime, millions of dollars are being spent every
day on space probes and radio telescopes that are searching for evidence of
alien life. Would there be any reason for a conspiracy of silence if that
evidence already existed? — Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows
(2002) - Even though I am a "Charismatic Christian", the views presented herewith, in
this Mysteries of the World Website, will NOT be colored by this fact of being a Charismatic Christian. Rather, where and
when I find it necessary (and usually, I would NOT find it necessary, since I find it tiresome to repeat myself, again and again
and again ..., ad infinitum ..., but if I should find it necessary to repeat myself), I will then state
what my Charismatic Christian beliefs lead me to believe
in — even though I am aware that my own Charismatic Christian
beliefs may or may not be the same as, or in accord with, those beliefs of
others who also may want to regard themselves as Charismatic Christians
(nb/note well: there appears to be so many varieties of Charismatic Christian
beliefs, including from those who are simultaneously of the
traditional-historical denominations — such as the Roman
Catholics, with their purgatories, mortal and venial sins, and their Mother
this and Mother that. Shudder! Shudder! Shudder!).
Thus, for example, I do not necessarily "believe" in "ghosts", even as I (will
later) examine the entire gamut of so-called "paranormal events or phenomena",
especially of those with a psychic bent (truly, these are bent!, as in
less-than-straight, aka "crooked", thinking variety). Many so-called "ghosts"
are probably some form of "fallen angels" or "demons" of the Biblical kind,
masquerading as either gods, demons, spirits, ghosts, or even "angels of light"
(when they are obviously "fallen" and are "angels of darkness", or "sons of
darkness" as used in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness). Anyway, the author of 1 John, gave us a simple test against any "spirit" to see
whether that spirit is of light (God; Christ/Son of God; Holy Spirit of
God/Comforter/Advocate/Paraclete/The One; Jehovah/Yahveh/Yahweh/God the Father)
or of darkness (Satan, Lucifer, the Devil; the Anti-Christ; the False Prophet;
the Beast): 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world. — First Epistle of John
(1 John 4:2-3; New
International Version/NIV)
(Note: many Catholics like NIV
and dislike KJV! Tough!) Whatever the case may be about "ghosts" and other "apparitions", in this
website, I have stated that we will be truth-based and science-based. Despite
this, definitely, I will not be ashamed of being a Charismatic Christian or of
God's Word:If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him
when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy
angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Luke 9:26; NIV)If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's
glory with the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:38; NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the
salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. (Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans; Romans 1:16; NIV)
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