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20 May 2020

Vikings Reached South America

Academic historians generally do not admit to the presence of European visitors to South America until after the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Not many people have heard of this possibility because the archaeological research supporting it was conducted around the time of the second world war and went against the post-WW2 political narrative.

Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norwegian Viking, remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland. His son, Leif Erikson was credited as the first known European to have discovered North America.

The Maritime Archaic is a North American cultural complex along the coast of Newfoundland and surrounding area, with at least three settlement episodes by distinct cultural groups, that began in approximately 7000 BC, also known as the Red Paint People because of the use of red ochre on their elaborate burials. More from Robert Sepehr, author and archaeologist.

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09 May 2020

Legendary Race Of The Cyclops

A cyclops is a one-eyed giant first appearing in the mythology of ancient Greece and then in Rome. They believed that there was an entire ancient race of cyclops who lived in a faraway land without law and order. More from Robert Sepehr, anthropologist and author.

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02 May 2020

Goddess And The Black Cube

In Theosophy, the Earth goddess is called the “Planetary Logos of Earth”. She is sometimes identified as a Triple Goddess, who takes the form of Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes. She is described as Mother Earth, Mother Nature, associated with the full Moon, Venus, the Earth, and the Sea. Cult of Saturn and the Star of the Sun

Sometimes called Gaia, Carl Jung suggested that the archetypal mother was a part of the collective unconscious of all humans, and a doorway to the unseen. The Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines have been sometimes explained as depictions of an Earth Goddess and in Norse mythology, Frigg or Freya is described as the wife of the god Odin, and where we get the name for Friday from.

The Kaaba, or the Big Muslim Cube, is a building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque, Great Mosque of Mecca. The Black Stone of Mecca, or Kaaba Stone, is a Muslim relic, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve, and that the Stone was allegedly found by Abraham and his son Ishmael. More from Robert Sepehr, anthropologist and author.

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19 Apr 2020

The Cult Of Saturn

In Greek mythology, Cronus (Saturn) was the leader the first generation of Titans, that ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus (Jupiter). One common theme in Indo-European mythology is the presence of a powerful sky god or sky father in the role of a supreme deity and ruler over the gods. This can be found among the myths of the Vedic Indo-Aryans, Latins, Greeks, Phrygians, Thracians, Illyrians, Nordics, Albanians and Hittites. More from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.

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01 Mar 2020

Ancient Origins Of Fairy Tales

In a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, a folklorist and anthropologist say that popular stories and fairy tales are much older than originally thought. Instead of dating from the 1500s, the researchers say that some of these classic stories date back many millennia. The findings seem to confirm the long-disregarded theory of fairy tale writer Wilhelm Grimm, who thought that all Indo-European cultures shared common tales, older than the earliest literary records, going back into the Bronze Age, back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split, more than 5,000 years ago. More from author and anthropologist Robert Sepehr.

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20 Jan 2020

When Hobbits Were Real

We already know about small-bodied, small-brained hominins in our human-fossil record. That’s why it was so shocking in 2004 when anthropologists discovered a tiny unknown hominin on the Indonesian island of Flores. Although only a meter tall and appearing to  be not very old, it had features of an older hominin. The specimen–Homo Floresiensis–became commonly called “The Hobbit,” because of its short stature and oddly proportioned feet. Tune in to learn more about The Hobbit from PBS Eons.

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11 Jan 2020

Norse Vikings In Greenland

Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norwegian Viking, remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland. His son, Leif Erikson was credited as the first known European to have discovered North America. Studies have found that almost all ivory traded throughout Europe in Medieval times came from Greenland walruses, which became extinct due to over hunting, contributing to the abandonment of Viking settlements. More from Robert Sepehr, anthropologist and author.

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24 Dec 2019

Hidden History Of The Holocene

Anthropologically speaking, human pre-history is divided up into certain segments, some minor and some major, but none more important than the division between the Pleistocene, which includes the time most popularly known as the Ice Age, and the Holocene, which is our current age for the past 10-12,00 years or so, a time following some major global cataclysms, upheavals, and mass extinctions. https://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com…

That said, we can further dissect the current Holocene into the neolithic, or stone age, when agriculture appears, or possibly re-appears, when the tools and weapons archeologists find are made from polished stone, starting at around 11 or 12 thousand years ago. This period is followed by the copper age at around 3500 BC – 2500 BC, an era of transition between the stone tool-using farmers of the Neolithic, and the metal-obsessed civilizations of the Bronze Age.

Could there have been a trans-Atlantic copper trade in ancient times, and if so, who could have done it? Phoenician comes from the Greek word ‘phoinos’, meaning ‘red’. Robert Sepehr is an anthropologist and author

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27 Sep 2019

Beyond the Ends of the Earth

The idea that our planet consists of a hollow, or honeycombed, interior is not new. Some of the oldest cultures speak of civilizations inside of vast cavern-cities, within the bowels of the earth. According to certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, secret tunnels connect Tibet with a subterranean paradise, and they call this legendary underworld Agartha. In India, this underground oasis is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, thought to mean ‘place of tranquility.’

Mythologies throughout the world, from South America to the Arctic, describe numerous entrances to these fabled inner kingdoms. Many occult organizations, esoteric authors, and secret societies concur with these myths and legends of subterranean inhabitants, who are the remnants of antediluvian civilizations, which sought refuge in hollow caverns inside the earth. Where are the entrances to inner earth, and which races live there?

Robert Sepehr is an anthropologist and author.

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27 Apr 2019

When Humans Were Prey

Our early ancestors were rightfully celebrated as efficient hunter-gatherers, but further research in the 1960s and 1970s revealed that they might have been prey, too. After uncovering mangled fossils with gouges and punctures in their skulls, anthropologists realized that hominids were not only successful hunters, but also were hunted by carnivores of the period. PBS Eons takes a closer look at the discovery.

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