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Lather, Rinse, and Repeat: Recycled Claims about Star Myths, King Arthur, and More!

3/4/2016

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Are we running out of fringe ideas? I wonder sometimes since it seems that each new claim is just a boring variation on something written 50, 100, or a 1,000 years ago. It starts to get boring after a while. Over on Graham Hancock’s website, guest writer David Warner Mathisen discusses why he thinks myths and legends are really based on constellations and their movements, but even he freely concedes that he is borrowing the claim from Hamlet’s Mill half a century ago and Robert Taylor 150 years before that. Over at Ancient Origins, Ralph Ellis, inveterate fringe fabricator, makes the same claim in more overwrought format. In both cases, the authors assume that the constellations were known and recognized in their modern forms worldwide and before the Bronze Age, which of course can’t be proved. 
Mathisen adds, illogically:
Let us now briefly ask “Why” the ancient myths of the world, all around the globe, would be built upon celestial allegories. I believe that whoever imparted the ancient wisdom in the sacred myths were consciously using the stars as a sophisticated metaphor to impart profound knowledge of the Invisible Realm and our connection to it. The celestial players in the heavenly realm above our heads – the sun, moon, stars, and visible planets, along with their intricate cycles – were used to convey truths about the infinite realm, which is in fact real, and of vital importance to each of our lives, and to the collective survival of all life on earth, even though it cannot be seen.
Even if we were to assume that there is a genuine stellar tradition behind all world mythology, this implies nothing about the creators of that tradition having any connection to a mystical spirit realm, or that such a realm exists, or that it has any relevance to human life. At best, it implies that Stone Age people liked to tell stories, and some people remembered them later on. The illogic of it is quite boring, and it bothers me that Mathisen’s peroration is predicated on, essentially, asserting the reality of a spirit realm he wants to exist and then back-forming “proof” of it from a slightly tweaked version of the old solar hero lie.
 
Mathisen’s argument is essentially what one would get if Victorian mythologists suddenly became neo-pagans.
 
Similarly, I just read a review by Nick Redfern of an upcoming book promising (again) to reveal the real and historical King Arthur. So frequent are these Arthurian claims that I just finished reviewing a book claiming to have found the historical Arthur! The latest version, by British journalist Simon Keegan, claims that Arthur is actually Arthwys ap Mar, also called Arthur of the Pennines (c. 460-520 CE), who appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain as Archgallo. This claim is not particularly new, and Mike Ashley suggested that Arthwys, along with several other warlords of the same name, contributed to the development of the Arthur myth in his Mammoth Book of King Arthur (2005). According to Redfern’s review, Keegan’s book is a much blunter version of the claim, and seeks to tie most of the Arthurian retinue to Arthwys’ court. If you squint, some names might seem similar. Arthwys’ brother was named Morydd, which compares favorably to Arthur’s nephew Mordred, for example.
 
Keegan then identifies Camelot as the northern English Roman fort at Slack, which he says was named Camulod. The Slack fort’s actual Roman name is unknown. Many scholars suggest it is identical with the Cambodunum of the Antonine Itinerary, but this has not been proved. Nonetheless, Keegan’s claim isn’t even original. It’s point for point identical to Berham Saklatvala’s Arthur: Roman Britain’s Last Champion (1967). Saklatvala concluded that Slack’s “British” name was “Camulodun,” which he derives from assigning the Latin name of Camulodunum to the site, based on names appearing in Ptolemy’s Geography and the seventh-century Ravenna Cosmography. Even if true, it was hardly the only Camulodunum in Britain; a site with a very similar name could be found in Essex.
 
Finally, I have to give notice to Judd F. Allen’s The Royal Seed: Why the Genealogy of Jesus is Important to You Today (WestBow, 2015). The publicist for the publisher marketed the book to me as an exploration of the sacred bloodline of holy Judeo-Christian kings and their survival today, and on that strength I asked for a review copy. It turns out that WestBow Press, which I knew as a division of HarperCollins, is actually a Christian self-publishing company operating from within HarperCollins’s Thomas Nelson division.
 
I expected Jesus Bloodline lunacy. Instead, Allen, a very earnest Biblical literalist, simply rewrote the Bible chronologically, explaining all of the various family relationships down to Jesus. He then negated any reason to care about the genealogies by promising that believers in Christ are adopted into his family and therefore, by adoption, share in his kingdom. I don’t want to speak ill of someone who seems very earnest in his belief that the Holy Spirit inspired him to write a long list of genealogical material despite what he describes as his lack of education in theology or biblical studies, but suffice it to say that there is no reason to read this book.
40 Comments
Time Machine
3/4/2016 12:58:33 pm

>>>believers in Christ are adopted into his family<<<

That's it, use a variant of Holy Blood, Holy Grail for evangelism

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 08:08:24 pm

And remember - one mystery hides another mystery
The mystification process is eternal and never-ending.

Like a circle in a spiral, a wheel within a wheel...

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Uncle Ron
3/4/2016 01:18:54 pm

"Are we running out of fringe ideas?"

Your job is getting easier! Remember the old joke about the prisoner who was put in a cell with a dozen other men? Randomly someone shouted out a number, "37" or "15", etc. and everybody laughed. The newcomer puzzled, asked what it all meant. One old timer explained, "When we first got here we used to tell each other jokes to pass the time. After a while we ran out of new jokes and got tired of hearing the same old ones, so now when one of us wants to tell a joke he just says the number."

You can assign numbers to all you blogs and voilà, debunked! :)

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Jonathan Feinstein
3/4/2016 07:10:46 pm

I recall that the punchline to that joke came after one inmate called out a series of numbers and no one laughed... "Some guys just don't know how to tell a joke."

So far as the fringe is concerned, though, I doubt any numbers will deter them.

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Colin Hunt
3/4/2016 01:43:01 pm

Jason, stop chasing dragons! You are incredibly knowledgeably about history, and your research is probably un-paralleled, but where does it lead? Debunking ‘crazies’ is interesting, but how does that promote the truth? How about presenting some fundamental, “truth”, and asking others to debunk it, to destroy myths. Start with a fundamental document so many quote - biblical stories; explain how Adam lived to 903 years old ( in the bible), and his children fornicated with each other to create the human race; how belief that Eve ate an apple (no mention in the Bible, only the tree of fruit of knowledge); where the infamous “three” kings came from, no mention in the bible of number or time – could have been a dozen, as believed in the middle ages. The list goes on!! All are corruptions of old stories, and mis-interruptions that influence millions of people today. That’s their belief, uneducated as it may be. Criticizing it will never change belief, as debunking alien astronaut stories will never change believers belief. There has to be another tactic. I repeat, rather than contradict crap theories, on the defensive, present categorical facts and challenge others. I.E stop being the sceptic, make others the sceptics. No easy, but the only way.

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Paul S.
3/4/2016 10:57:10 pm

Re: the "Three Kings" - I thought the legend of three of them probably grew up because the Bible mentions three gifts - gold, frankincense (or just incense), and myrrh. It seemed like a nice arrangement to have one king for each gift.

I always assumed that Eve was portrayed as eating an apple simply because that was the most common type of fruit in Europe, so when people heard of a tree with a fruit they immediately thought "apple".

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V
3/4/2016 11:57:23 pm

Re: Adam's purported lifespan: I can come up with several explanations off the top of my head, easy. 1. The length of time is purely mythical and has grown over time, like the size of the fish that got away or the height of the hero of many a story. It doesn't even have to have ever been a real person, it just has to be a story that was told over and over again. 2. Did you know that if you divide 903 by 12 or 13--ie, the number of lunar cycles in one year--you get around 69-75 years? Therefore, the oldest stories could have said "moon" instead of "year," and it changed to "year" as people shifted how they counted ages. Possibility 3, it is a combination of the two. Possibility 4, something got lost in translation somewhere along the way and in the earliest stories it was a much more reasonable number, but somewhere after writing was invented, somebody made an early "typo" that got passed down in later copies.

Also, I prefer Jason's blog the way it is, because you're absolutely wrong. I actually believed some of the fringe crap when I first came here, because it was presented in a way that sounded very reasonable, if you skated over the surface quickly and didn't have the background knowledge. I learned better very quickly, from Jason. So yes, he is in fact promoting the truth by debunking fringe theories, and saving people from falling into crazytown in the first place.

Besides, first you tell him not to bother with challenging established beliefs, then you tell him to take on CHRISTIANITY! Have you had your logic circuits checked lately, sir? Not to mention that Jason HAS in fact written articles that talk about the apple and the three kings--the apple is a Latin pun, since the word for "apple" and the word for "evil" are the same in Latin, and the "three" magi came from the three gifts (frankincense, gold, and myrrh). So you get a "fail" on your fact-checking, too.

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herm
3/4/2016 01:43:18 pm

Jason job easy. He copy and paste expert. Nothing new. Copy paste copy paste.

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David Bradbury
3/4/2016 03:08:07 pm

herm job easy. He copy and paste expert. Nothing new. Copy paste copy paste.

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Josef Karpinovic
3/4/2016 04:15:14 pm

*grunt*
Me Herm. Herm leave comment on blog. Herm learn to make fire.
*grunt*

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Kal
3/4/2016 02:07:17 pm

The numbers game reminds me of a sketch in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which the answer to life in the universe was merely 42. Ha.

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DaveR
3/4/2016 03:28:47 pm

Ah yes, but you do not know the answer.

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V
3/4/2016 11:58:28 pm

No, no, no. 42 was the answer to the question, "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?" Everybody misquotes it...

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Rob
8/22/2016 12:16:41 pm

@V: No, no, no. It was not. If you're going to correct misquotes you need to be sure to get it right yourself...

Deep Thought (O, Great Computer) took 7.5 million years to calculate that 42 was, in fact definitely, the answer to 'The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything'.

It was not the answer to the Meaning of life etc.

Deep Thought even tells the white mice on 'The Day of The Answer' that the problem was that they didn't properly specify what the actual Question was.

The white mice then proceed to commission an even greater computer (based on Deep Thought's design) to work out what the Question is.

David Bradbury
3/4/2016 03:16:34 pm

"In both cases, the authors assume that the constellations were known and recognized in their modern forms worldwide and before the Bronze Age"

Whereas in reality, of course, the civilisation with the longest continuous astronomical tradition, China, uses significantly different
star groupings (with notable exceptions such as Orion / 参) and names for its constellations:
http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/astronomy_researchers/index.a4d

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orang
3/4/2016 03:45:53 pm

here's a new lunatic fringe theory that i have never seen: from Kevin Randle's blog of 3/2/16--He states that Kerry Cassidy had been on a talk show a few days earlier. It was her premise that “Soldiers who are alleged to be going to Iraq or Afghanistan are actually being sent off planet to places like Mars to fight battles alongside other alien races. Those men and women will have their minds wiped when they come back. This is why we’re having a lot of suicides with ex-soldiers. In some cases their minds have been wiped so many times they become unbalanced as a result. When they return, they don’t know where they’ve been. They think they’ve been to the Middle East, but they’ve actually been elsewhere.”

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Shane Sullivan
3/4/2016 06:12:20 pm

An acquaintance of mine is a field medic, and he recalls treating his own friends after their legs were blown off. The government wipes his memory of fighting alongside Wookies and Vulcans on Darwin IV, and instead of replacing it with memories of a nice trip to Cancun, they inject *that* into his brain?

What a cruel sense of humor the New World Order must have.

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Emp
3/4/2016 11:56:47 pm

It's not really a new theory and presumably goes back 10-15 years at least (they have their roots in Sitchin, even if they think he is mistaken) with the idea that we went into Iraq to secure a Stargate, which has presumably since been used to send off-world missions to other worlds. Hmmm I'm sure I saw something similar in a movie once, and a number of spin-off TV series of diminishing quality too (take a look at the photograph on the second link for further "clues"):
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/esp_exopolitics_R_1_07.htm
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-719922
http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper2.htm

Although any resemblance to earlier media can just be put down to "soft disclosure" (and I don't think Wormhole X-treme! is very helpful in this regard):
http://exopolitics.org/stargate-sg-1-soft-disclosure-according-to-secret-space-program-whistleblower/

And The Expanse is soft disclosure for the Secret Space Program:
http://humansarefree.com/2015/12/secret-space-program-is-amazingly.html

Those two links draw on claims from Corey Goode and Jason looked at some of them here:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/are-prehistoric-giants-waiting-in-a-stasis-chamber-in-iran

The rabbit hole is a deep one and, unlike the Ancient Alien talking heads (but quite a lot like the Montauk Project claims), this is all largely presented as a true first person narrative which is almost completely unfalsifiable (although you could ask how, if it is so secret and the penalties for speaking-out are so dire, then how is he able to talk so freely about this), so you are left with only a few choices - fact, fiction, disinformaton or madness (and none of those options are very... palatable):
http://spherebeingalliance.com/blog/ancient-earth-break-away-civilization-subterranean-council-meeting-ssp-alliance-debrief-part-1.html

So there is plenty of newish conspiracies out there, but in cases like Corey Goode's there is no real evidence to get your teeth into and it could be argued it isn't that new (ish), as it is a variation on the tales Contactees told and the channelings of our Space Brothers before them (and time hasn't really treated those claims well).

Anyway, Randle served in Iraq, so pours suitable quantities of scorn on the suggestion:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/project-camelot-and-my-life-on-mars.html

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Ken
3/4/2016 03:55:27 pm

If we are running out of fringe ideas, then try making up new ones from scratch. It's harder than you think, since you must know something about which you write.

I'll bet it pays a lot better than blogging.

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 04:03:14 pm

The job is easy because there are different categories of Arthur as has been demonstrated in countless books. The echoes of a historical Arthur who fought against the Saxons, the demi-god Arthur who went in search of the Cauldron, and the Arthur of Medieval Romance. The likes of Simon Keegan however will never disappear because a good bibliography can be compiled about such writers.

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JaredMithrandir link
3/4/2016 04:11:19 pm

For people who are opposed to Trump

http://jaredmithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2016/03/fear-is-path-to-dark-side.html

http://solascripturachristianliberty.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-position-this-election.html

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 04:18:41 pm

No jobs and no housing to immigrants and refugees

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 04:21:07 pm

Or, to put it another way, kick out all the politicians out of their mansions and fill them with immigrants and refugees,

Time Machine
3/4/2016 04:42:52 pm

Get things like this sorted out before thinking about anything else.

The 'growing issue' of homeless people sleeping in bins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35686743


Pop Goes the Reason
3/4/2016 05:13:59 pm

King Arthur at Slack? Impossible. It's in Yorkshire- that's the clincher. Tykes' heads are big enough already, and Hebden Bridge is far too hippy. Other reasons, the fort there was deserted by 250AD making Camelot a collectiion of humps and bumps in a very wet field by the Dark Ages. Sir Gawain would have had to go about 30 miles south to meet the Green Knight, which makes it a bit less of an epic.

ON THE OTHER HAND, Arthur == ar dwr, over by the water, which would fit for a site not far from Hebden Beck, which has no parallel in the northern hemishire or the Wet Riding. And it's VERY wet there.

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 05:34:37 pm

You are of course conflating historical figures with mythical figures.

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Pop Goes the Reason
3/4/2016 06:00:11 pm

Mytholmroydical? Don't be daft, no one's suggested that hole as Calemot. And conflating? Ooh, the erudition. Just listen to the volcabulary.

Time Machine
3/4/2016 07:35:00 pm

Not as funny as Stanley Unwin...
Keep trying

Clete
3/4/2016 06:34:01 pm

The Green Knight...interesting...he must have ate lunch at Arby's.

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Jonathan Feinstein
3/5/2016 12:54:42 pm

Gives a whole new meaning to their slogan, "We have the meats."

Weatherwax
3/4/2016 09:05:48 pm

I read years ago that the Arthurian legends were an import from the Ukraine, brought by Germanic mercenaries working for Rome.

According to the story, there are very similar legends there, including a character named Lancelot.



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V
3/5/2016 12:02:02 am

Except that Lancelot is a very LATE addition to the Arthurian cycle, coming in from France, so likely the "similar legends" actually made it to the Ukraine from France and England by way of troubadors and bards and minstrels, not the other way around.

Time Machine
3/5/2016 02:18:51 am

England and France were once both the same country.

Time Machine
3/5/2016 02:25:28 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angevin_Empire

Early Modern English – the language used by Shakespeare – is dated from around 1500

Weatherwax
3/5/2016 12:08:03 pm

V, the Ukrainians have their own heroic traditions and stories. See the Bogatyrs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogatyr

But there was probably sharing and influence back and forth.

Time Machine, your statement is nothing more than your usual disruptive, trolling drivel.

Pop Goes the Reason
3/4/2016 05:25:57 pm

oops wrong Slack, it's the one near 'Uddersfield not the one near 'Alifax. That saves our Gawain a bit of a trek though, it's five or six miles nearer the Green Chapel. And it's just as wet, but ArDwr has to put up with a couple of mill reservoirs instead of the Amazon of the North.

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Jonathan Feinstein
3/5/2016 12:56:35 pm

Then again, it is possible Gawain had such a trek because he refused to stop and ask directions.

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Ph
3/4/2016 06:12:15 pm

Dionysian imitatio anyone?
I sincerely doubt it's on purpose though, or if the copy/pasters even are familiar with classical methods.

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Time Machine
3/4/2016 06:51:53 pm

I forgot to mention the mystic versions of Arthur by Gareth Knight, Wendy Berg and Dione Fortune. Fits in with the Medieval Romances.

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Gary
3/6/2016 10:10:43 am

All the explanation you need for universally seeing images in the stars are:
1. people like to look at the stars.
2. people see patterns in randomness.

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