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Review of "The Lost Continent of Pan" by Susan B. Martinez

10/21/2016

65 Comments

 
It’s always nice to know that I’ve made a difference in the world. I got confirmation yesterday from an author that New Page Books / Career Press will not send me review copies of any release—even at the author’s request—because they don’t like my reviews. Since their books tend to get few or no reviews, one might think that they would take the view that any publicity is good publicity, especially if they could then use my criticism to market their volumes as the books that “skeptics” don’t want you to read. But instead, they have taken the line that I am an enemy, which probably speaks more about their mentality—and their understanding of how crappy the books they publish must be—than it does me. But so long as they continue to publish new books by former Nazi party leader Frank Joseph (as they will do again next week—with the endorsement of Brad Steiger!), it is impossible for them to argue the moral high ground. 
But good for them. They have proven beyond doubt that when fringe writers say that they want to engage with the mainstream and that they are putting forward arguments to open up new possibilities and which can withstand scrutiny through the force of their genius, they are lying. If fringe publishers don’t think their books are strong enough to withstand my reading of them, then they would be wise to reconsider what they publish.
 
Fortunately, one does not need the permission of the publisher to review a book. Tomorrow I think I will select a New Page / Career book to review. Today I will review an upcoming release from Bear & Co., a fringe publisher that at least recognizes that there is no good to come from trying to hide its books from skeptics.
 
Do you remember the lost continent of Mu? Of course you do. Invented in 1926 by “Col.” James Churchward, the lost continent of Mu supposedly spanned the Pacific and served as the mother culture for humanity, ruled over by a benevolent white race. Well, Mu had a lot in common with an earlier lost Pacific continent from the Faithist movement, and that continent is back. An anthropologist named Susan B. Martinez has revived the lost Pacific continent claim, under the name of “Pan,” and is making all of the same claims in a new book called The Lost Continent of Pan (Bear & Co., 2016), which goes on sale at the end of next month. Unsurprisingly, her evidence is not very good.
 
Martinez holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and says that she specializes in ethnolinguistics. (Her dissertation 1972 is under the name Susan Ehrman.) Nevertheless, in 1981 she discovered the Oahspe Bible, a bizarre Victorian fantasia of religious, ethical, and pseudohistorical material drawn from Christian and Sanskrit esoterica. Martinez believes that this book, written in 1882 and supposedly channeled from the spirit world, is a real revelation, and therefore she has sought in her own book to “prove” that Oahspe is correct about the existence of the Faithists’ Pacific continent of Pan. According to the “Synopsis of the Sixteen Cycles” within the Oahspe Bible, Pan was an ancient continent that sunk in the Pacific around 24,000 years B.C., and Martinez adopts this as her timeline as well.
 
In Oashpe, the fall of Pan is cast as a riff on the Nephilim-Flood myth of Genesis, and indeed the author of the book, John Ballou Newbrough, specifically identifies the sinking of Pan with Noah’s Flood. But he offers disturbing ideas about racial hierarchy, in which the “good” people called the I’hin, who are white or yellow and slender, have become corrupted through interaction with brown and fat people, the children of Cain. Thus, in Synopsis 1:27 “the brown people burnt with desires, and they laid hold of the I’hin women when they went into the fields, and forced them,” creating a “copper” colored race of half-breeds. God, angry at the degeneration “of breed and blood,” destroyed Pan to save heaven from the “festering sores” of mixed-race souls (2:8), who had become cannibals:
And now the council deliberated, and after a while caused the records of the earth and her atmospherea to be examined, and they discovered that the heaven of the land of Whaga (Pan) was beyond redemption because of the great numbers of the spirits of the cannibals and of the multitude of fetals. It was as if a disease in the flesh be healed over externally, leaving the root of the disease within. So was Whaga and her heaven; the redemption of the cycles remained not with her, but evil broke out forever in a new way. (3:16)
So, as a result, God says “And I will send rains and winds and thundering; and the waters of the great deep shall come upon the lands; and the great cities shall go down and be swallowed in the sea” (3:26). And then he does it, causing the event remembered as Noah’s Flood or the sinking of Atlantis.
 
Anyway, it’s not a very promising starting point for a “scientific” investigation. Worse, Martinez starts her own book by identifying “race” as one of the “clues” and “smoking gun” for the existence of Pan.
 
I have no idea how to review a book whose entire foundation is predicated on a belief that Oahspe is a genuine record of prehistoric life and can be used to reconstruct the hilariously named language of the first humans, Panic. Martinez believes this, and as a result she then uses Panic as a guide to linguistics, comparing ancient languages to one another based on her feeling that words in those languages resemble the ancient words of Panic as recorded in various names given in Oahspe, thus “proving” that the languages derive from Panic and that Pan really existed. The argument is circular, but if you do not believe in Oahspe, it is also worthless. Of course the names in Oahspe resemble words from ancient languages. Where do you think Newbough got them from? He borrowed syllables from old mythologies and recombined them at will to give historical flavor to his phantasmagoria.
 
The quality of her other evidence is hardly better: She claims that the art of weaving proves that all ancient peoples are connected, for how could anyone learn to make cloth independently? She cites the infamous “Mayan” Atlantis relief (actually a modern painting) as a genuine record of the Great Flood! And of course “cyclopean” architecture is for her proof of a lost race, for who else could stack stone on stone? Oh, and the lost race of Pan also practiced skull elongation, because Oahspe says it could shape personality!
 
But Martinez descends into some of the worst instincts of the fringe. She actively goes in search of white people. She claims that the Jomon of Japan are “yes, a white race” (her words!) and thus descendants of God’s chosen people, the people of Pan. The book is littered with references to “white-skinned” people, “fair-skinned” people, the “white race,” “Caucasoid” people, “proto-Caucasoids,” etc. She finds them in all the usual places: The “white” Indians of Darien (actually albinos), the “white” gods of Mexico and South America, the occasional Caucasian traveler to Asia, etc. She identifies the Toltecs as a separate white race from Native Americans, remarkable, she says, in their genius, knowledge, and humility. She happily cites writers like James Churchward, Erich von Däniken, Andrew Collins, and David Childress to support her views, which only underscores the degree to which most fringe history is infested at some level with racial panic, so to speak.
 
Martinez got her race theory from Oahspe, but Newbrough got it from Victorian racism, which had long declared Native Americans the destroyers of the genius of ancient whites. She thinks she is doing scientific work by cherry picking the historical record to find evidence that supports Oahspe, but from the perspective of anyone who doubts that Oahspe is anything but a Victorian fever-dream, she is doing nothing more than recycling the same “evidence” Newbrough used to make Oahspe in service of proving its reality. Her book, in other words, is that most ancient of symbols, the ourobouros, the snake eating its own tail, a circular argument that can only make her world view smaller and smaller.
65 Comments
A Buddhist
10/21/2016 11:06:44 am

Jason, do you mean Christian and Hindu? Because Sanskrit is a language, and Christianity is a religion, so it is an odd comparison.

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Jason Colavito link
10/21/2016 11:44:22 am

Since the Sanskrit is mostly Vedic, I don't think "Hindu" would be the right word either, but there's a mix and match of Vedic, Hindu, and other Eastern sources.

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A Buddhist
10/21/2016 05:50:52 pm

As a Buddhist, I conflate Vedic and Hindu religions as one.

As a pedant, perhaps a better term would be Dharmic religions: http://hum300.tolearn.net/religions/dharmic-religions/.

Denise
10/22/2016 02:00:04 pm

"As a Buddhist, I conflate Vedic and Hindu religions as one.
As a pedant, perhaps a better term would be Dharmic religions:"

@ a Buddhist: I always thought Buddhism was a dharmic religion, in fact your own website states that it is. So maybe this term is too inclusive? just a question no judgement.

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Ph
10/21/2016 12:40:23 pm

"They have proven beyond doubt that when fringe writers say that they want to engage with the mainstream and that they are putting forward arguments to open up new possibilities and which can withstand scrutiny through the force of their genius, they are lying."

they as in "The publishing company" or they as in "The fringe writers"

The first they (are putting forward) seems to reflect to fringe writers, since they are putting stuff forward
But the second they (are lying) can't reflect back to fringe writers because 1 publishing company cannot make all fringe writers to liars.

What do you exactly mean with that sentence?

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Jason Colavito link
10/21/2016 01:13:12 pm

In this case, the publishers are also explicitly dedicated to the fringe (unlike, say, one of the major publishing houses), so there is no difference.

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Ph
10/21/2016 04:04:09 pm

Ok, so the publishing house and their fringe writers are proven lying beyond doubt due to the rejection of offer of review.

Usually you employ the scientific method, making a clear nice rational story, but you have lost me here.

Please don't use the same fallacies as them.
argumentum ad hominem

Jason Colavito link
10/21/2016 04:37:51 pm

Oh, for fuck's sake. How literal did you expect to take that sentence? I said they were lying about their puffery about bravely putting forth ideas to change the world. If they're afraid of me, or think I can damage said ideas, then they are conceding that they don't have the confidence in them they pretend to. I said their MARKETING is a lie, not necessarily the facts within the books.

Ph
10/21/2016 05:44:00 pm

I apologise if i upset you (your reply seems to indicate that.)
To answer your question "How literal did you expect to take that sentence?" : Very literal. (neurochemical reasons)

These kind of ambiguities and fallacies is just not what i was used to reading from you, that's why i loved reading your blog.
Alas, time for me to move on.

Good fortune and tidings to you, i have enjoyed your blog en learned quite a bit from you, and my apologies for any inconvenience i caused with my opinion.

Mark L
10/22/2016 01:41:35 am

If you're aware you take things too literally and misunderstand things in written form on the internet, perhaps blogs aren't the best thing for you?

Americanegro
10/28/2016 08:49:02 pm

Ph,

Are you very subtly trying to play the Asspie card? Publishers generally furnish review copies to recognized reviewers. They recognized Jason so decided NOT to furnish him with a review copy. On the internet "Time for me to move on" usually turns out to mean "Be on the lookout for my next post."

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Tom
10/21/2016 12:57:54 pm

When choosing the name Pan perhaps the lady had the real super continent of Pangaea in mind having learned of it in college geology.

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Shane Sullivan
10/21/2016 01:07:42 pm

Martinez didn't choose the name, but lifted it directly from Oahspe. The book actually predates the word "Pangaea".

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Tom
10/21/2016 01:33:25 pm

Apologies, getting senile.

Titus pullo
10/21/2016 04:44:19 pm

So the evidence is in total from spirit readings? I hate to ask but foes the author even touch on geology of the pacif basin? I'd like to see where she explains where this continent lies given our mapping of the sea floor. Honestly I think u can say almost and sh&t in fringe world and make a living. I'm going to write up how proto Vikings came to America at he time of the Roman republic and created the first democracy on our shores and later became the Iraqois nation.

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Time Machine
10/21/2016 04:55:57 pm

Why all this technical stuff over something that is simple minded spam

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Americanegro
10/28/2016 08:51:02 pm

When has anyone ever responded to your posts with "all this technical stuff"?

Jason Colavito link
10/21/2016 05:43:06 pm

She does have a chapter on where the continent went, but it's based on James Churchward, David Childress, myths, the occult, and some vague idea that unnamed "scientists" say there was a Pacific continent once. (Yes, in the Tertiary period!) She rejects modern geology in favor of what she calls the "New Orthodoxy," which dates the "universal flood" of Noah to 10,500 BCE. There is no science in her discussion, only an uncritical acceptance of myths, legends, and fringe literature.

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MW
1/6/2017 08:13:44 pm

Actually, she and Oahspe teach that Pan sank 24,000 years ago, which probably doesn't make anymore difference to you, or anyone else than 10,500 BCE.

#Blacklivesmatter
10/21/2016 07:29:06 pm

The white guy writing this unimportant drivel is trying to use his pseudo antiracial stance to tell us what to believe about history. This is all about white privilege.

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Only Me
10/21/2016 08:48:22 pm

Sorry, friend. The author's name is Susan B. Martinez. You need to use the right pronouns.




Yes, I know you were referring to Jason, but, I thought I'd correct you in a way that keeps your comment relevant to the discussion.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/21/2016 09:48:33 pm

And you are white. A racist who pretends.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/21/2016 10:07:01 pm

As if Time Machine weren't enough of a troll…

Only Me
10/21/2016 11:56:26 pm

"And you are white."

What if I am?

"A racist who pretends."

Oh! I get it! I'm racist BECAUSE I'm white.

You do realize what you just said IS racist, right? Because you're judging me based on skin color?

Take your time. I hear it isn't easy to accept being a hypocrite.

Mark L
10/22/2016 01:42:47 am

Only Me, you realise the guy is a troll, right?

Time Machine
10/22/2016 06:48:01 am

Every Christian on this blog is a troll

And that includes those that do not fess up

Let's debunk Graham Hancock
Let's worship the Nicene Creed while we are at it

ERGO - When we are debunking Graham Hancock we are on kneepads to Christian fundamentalism

Trolls ???
The Bible bashers are the trolls.

Time Machine
10/22/2016 02:56:50 pm

You keep acting like everybody you disagree with is a Christian, Time Machine, even though I've repeatedly said that I'm not a Christian and I still think you're full of bilge.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/22/2016 03:29:58 pm

Blast it, I meant to write the comment immediately above under my own pseudonym. To be clear, I am not the Comte de Saint Germain, I am not a Christian, and I think Time Machine is full of bilge. He's one of those obnoxious people who think they're geniuses just because they've seen through Christian dogma.

Jim
10/22/2016 07:10:32 pm

Wait a minute,, now I am confused. Are you not the Comte de Saint Germain ? Or are you not not the Comte de Saint Germain ?
I'm a double knot spy and I'm still not not sure.

Americanegro
10/28/2016 08:52:24 pm

#Blacklivesmatter is a racist.

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Lorin Cutts link
10/21/2016 07:33:07 pm

Jason, I have just completed an essay for a New Page Books publication next year and when the book is out I'll personally send you a copy for you to review.

All the very best,

Lorin

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Jim
10/21/2016 08:23:51 pm

I gotta ask ! With all these continents that were high and dry long ago where did all this extra water that we now have come from ? Aliens seems to be the only answer, so I guess it all ties together.
Unless of course the earth was completely covered by water swollen clouds not allowing any sunlight to penetrate. This might explain why all the folks way back when were pasty faced white people !

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Shane Sullivan
10/21/2016 08:27:23 pm

That, if memory serves, is exactly what JZ Knight claims caused the flooding of Atlantis and Lemuria.

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Jim
10/21/2016 08:45:49 pm

Ok,,, lol, I guess it explains this giant aluminum pull tab.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/experts-believe-mysterious-aluminium-object-9086060

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Maybe Another Kook
10/23/2016 08:53:25 pm

In his groundbreaking book, The Lost Continent of Mu, James Churchward (a racist white guy) wrote that it was volcanic action and the collapse of the Archeon gas belts that caused Mu and Atlantis to sink and raise the mountains about 12,000 years ago.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/21/2016 11:12:15 pm

Whites trying to shape truth to suit themselves. You make fun of us by calling truth Afrocentrism. Racist white history.

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David Bradbury
10/22/2016 09:23:45 am

Don't whine; win.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 10:28:56 am

The first thing written here that's correct. Yes, you are racist because you are all white. You choose to believe a convenient history and try to make others believe it. Second correct statement is you are all white trolls.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/22/2016 11:06:59 am

You don't have to be a troll to fight when wounded; that should be the measure of a man.

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V
10/22/2016 12:25:12 pm

I don't "choose to believe a convenient history," my friend. I choose to believe the history that archeology and science have revealed, one that is decidedly INconvenient and inherently unfair and yes, often racist. I fully acknowledge this racist past and actively reject its ideals as belonging IN the past, not the modern world.

You, however, seem to misunderstand the difference between "privilege" and "racism." Yes, I experience white privilege in my life. It is not something I can control or avoid, since privilege comes from how OTHER PEOPLE treat ME. I flatly refuse to be racist, however, because THAT is all about how *I* treat OTHERS. I work very, very hard to appreciate the cultural and heritage of each person I meet and to view them as human beings with inherent value both from being human and from the unique experiences and knowledge they have that I don't.

People like you make that task so, so much harder. How am I supposed to treat you with value and respect when you are spouting such unintelligent, hate-filled rhetoric? You sound like Donald Trump, man. "You are lesser beings than my pureness, because I say so, and here are my bullshit lies "proving" it!"

The point of the hashtag #Blacklivesmatter is supposed to be "Black lives matter, TOO," not "ONLY black lives matter." And this is according to the founders and the big movers and shakers of the movement. If you're going to try to turn it into the latter the way you seem to be from YOUR OWN WORDS, get the fuck out and stop ruining it for everyone else. You're a hater, not a helper, and your vitriol is entirely unwarranted on a blog that has REPEATEDLY said, "Look, all this fringe stuff is based on deeply racist bullshit and we need to be aware of it and get rid of it." How is ANY of that "believing a convenient history?" Because it looks to me way more like, "Your convenient history is a lie. Suck it up and deal with the bad shit."

Brush up on your reading comprehension and try again with an open mind, and you might actually find out that you are attacking ALLIES here, buddy.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 12:36:32 pm

And now you have proven my point. You are racist, pure and simple. You like white privilege and pretend. You disguise your white shaping of history as truth.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/22/2016 02:58:51 pm

I wouldn't be at all surprised if #Blacklivesmatter is a right-winger posing as a BLM supporter.

Denise
10/22/2016 03:13:55 pm

Black Lives DO matter. And I get why the anger and all. However, if anything, Jason's blog here has been mostly about the disturbing trend of fringe history to mimic the past Victorian themes of a "superior white race" (even though race doesn't exist scientifically), and to decry that.

Obviously you are a troll who hasn't read but one or two blog entries at best. It's sad....

Titus pullo
10/22/2016 03:42:08 pm

Do black lives matter in Chicago?

An Over-Educated Grunt
10/22/2016 05:07:57 pm

Got news for you, buddy. Black, white, yellow, brown - NO lives matter. They inevitably come to an end. What you do with it matters, and what you're choosing to do with yours is mouth off on a pseudohistory criticism blog about how everyone's mean to your chosen minority. Guess what: people are mean. The world is not a nice place and your subset of humanity is no nicer or more special than any other. You want people to care, shut mouth and get moving; you don't want people to care, you're wasting my time and yours. And I loathe having my time wasted.

#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 05:25:19 pm

None of you get it . You can't get it. Your white. This site makes fun of "Afrocentric" theories. It tells people what to believe. It's all from a white perspective. Look at the picture of Andrew Whites class at South Carolina. It's all white people just like this site. You've had your time. Now it's our time.

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Only Me
10/22/2016 06:13:26 pm

I think one half of Team Xplrr is trolling again.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 06:47:16 pm

This white punk is one of the worse racist trolls of all. White boy defends everything written by the white privilege boy who writes this racist crap. Racist punk bully who helps no one.

Only Me
10/22/2016 07:54:01 pm

Calling someone a racist is Basic Trolling 101. Unfortunately, it demonstrates a lack of imagination and intelligence, since the accusation has been so overused, it no longer has any power.

Of course, I shouldn't expect much imagination or intelligence from you based on your previous comments.

Uncle Ron
10/22/2016 06:46:02 pm

Obviously you do not know what the term "Afrocentric" means within the study of anthropology. Nor do you know what the diffusionist theory known as Afrocentrism is. You also seem to have the idea that history is just somebody's opinion and you can believe whatever you please. History is real things that happened - not always pleasant or fair - full of mistakes and injustices - but it is still what really happened. You can't change it but you can learn from if - if you try.

Instead of walking around with a chip on your shoulder looking for ways to be offended, learn about these things and then come back here and you can contribute intelligent, rational posts to this blog. Or choose to revel in your ignorance.


And stop with this "your time / our time" bullshit. You're talking out of your ass.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 06:56:06 pm

Time to organize a protest in Albany. The college is 1% black. Afrocentrism is that all you white boys came from Africa. Accept it Uncle Tom.

#Blacllivesmatter
10/22/2016 07:36:00 pm

Its our time Uncle Tom. Yours is over. Bein white don't make you right.

An Over-Educated Grunt
10/22/2016 09:31:33 pm

And being black don't mean jack.

Uncle Ron
10/22/2016 10:07:06 pm

Uh . . . all us white boys DID come from Africa. And an Uncle Tom is a BLACK person.

OK Time Machine. It was fun while it lasted, but "your time" is up.

Dennis
10/23/2016 06:26:54 pm

This site makes fun of "Afrocentric" theories.
NO
This site makes fun of hypotheses (not theories) that have little or no evidence to support them.

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Americanegro
10/28/2016 09:00:54 pm

The problem with Afrocentric theories is that they are inherently risible (look that up in your LL Cool J rhyming dictionary). Just describing them is humourous. "Now it's our time"? The Jungle Brothers taught us all time is a black man's time.

My forefather was a king
He wore fat gold chains and fat ruby rings
Nobody believes this to be true
Maybe it's because my eyes ain't blue
You ain't gonna find it in your history book
Come here, young blood, and take a look
Dig down deep inside this hard cover
Don't you know you was bought, brother
All you read about is slavery
Never about the black man's bravery
You look at the pictures and all they show is
Afrikan people with bones in their noses
That ain't true, that's a lie
You didn't get that from my lemon pie

Yeah, I cut class, I got a D
Cause History meant nothing to me
Except a definite nap
That's why I always sat in the back
I'd talk to girls or write a rhyme
Cause I didn't know (all times are black man's times)
When I was young my mama told me stories
Of black peoples' fight to bring us glory
I used to think these were stories to put me to sleep
But now I know mama's talk wasn't cheap
I know Afrika's for Afrikans
And history's the blood of every woman and man

"Now I begin another search, the incredibly involved
The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search
Trying to pull together the history of a people"

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Kal
10/22/2016 09:31:31 pm

And all of this discourse is why Daddy won't let you keep nice things.

The publishers of these books are clearly fringe and paranoid and it's weird they think from using Google to find Mr. Colavito that he seems some kind of paragon of their ire. )Ancient Aliens reviews merely comes up third because 'a' is a first letter, not that it's somehow his blog turning people from their books. That is truly bizarre, more so than blogger bickering. This blog doesn't even have a connected YouTube rating, or not much of one, so it is baffling why any of them even care. They act like this is some kind of scandal sheet by some super conspiracy. It's not. It's just someone's opinion. It would be cool for this blogger if these reviews made some money, but they probably don't.

I know where most of the troll blogs are too, but I don't really care. I just find this site entertaining.

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#Blacklivesmatter
10/22/2016 11:55:30 pm

All any brother needs to do to see how whites try to dictate what we are supposed to believe is search the word "afrocentric" on this website.

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Kathleen
10/23/2016 07:46:36 am

Christian lives matter! Amen, Brother!

(Who's going to show up? TM or BLM?)

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nomuse
10/23/2016 03:26:38 am

This may have been pointed out by OGH, but afrocentrism, for all it's purported boosterism, is terribly dismissive of the fantastic cultural achievements and complex history of any part of Africa South of Egypt. They are as quick as Rhodesia was to throw Great Zimbabwe under the metaphorical bus.

Beside the point. Back to the actual post: I can't help wondering, if someone so thoroughly dislikes any culture but her own, why the hell would she be attracted to anthropology as a field of study? Or is this like those Creationists who somehow manage to mumble their way through a BS in Bio or Geo just so they can "BS" with more authority?

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Americanegro
10/28/2016 09:06:51 pm

"This may have been pointed out by OGH, but afrocentrism, for all it's purported boosterism, is terribly dismissive of the fantastic cultural achievements and complex history of any part of Africa South of Egypt."

Care to name one of those fantastic cultural achievements? Besides the Ghanaians selling slaves to the white man, I mean.

The main achievement seems to be LEAVING sub-Saharan Africa, with its lack of navigable waterways and deep water harbors.

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Ronan Coghlan link
10/24/2016 09:54:35 am

I wrote a book a couple of years ago on the possible existence of fairies. Generally, I feel skeptics would scorn it; but you are perfectly welcome to review it. I'll send you a copy if you can give me a street address, which I guarantee not to publish or disseminate.

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MW
1/6/2017 09:49:59 pm

Corrections and Comments:

• Not sure of James Churchward’s “white” Lemurian’s, but the “white” I’hins of Oahspe are not pink-white, nor pale-white, nor yellow-like as the Japanese, but albino-white and yellow-gold. The first generation of I’hins are the missing link and later, probably became the original Albino’s who carried the original seed of high heavenly beings who erred. This is implied to be from the birthing of early Man—Adam—with white-light ethereal beings.

• Actually, Oahspe draws from more than Christian and Sanskrit source, but I won’t belabor the point.

• Not sure where you got the Druks were fat. And they were not of Cain. They predate Cain.

• The issue of color and race is clearly secondary to the story of the I’hins, the Druks and why the Creator decided to destroy Pan or Whaga. It was the Druks sick behavior and the carrying forth of the effects of that behavior into the spirit lands of the Earth that was the root cause and the need to destroy the continent. I think our constant need to focus on race—which can clearly be seen in our society today and on this post—from both sides of the aisle—is what is truly racial, and in this case, is misleading and misses the point.

• In the end, it’s not Oahspe that is riffing the Nephilim, Noah’s flood, Genesis, Cain, Atlantis, etc., it’s the other way around. Oahspe claims to be a record from the heavenly libraries.

• I can understand your skepticism, since to believe in certain spiritual concepts require more faith than others and in some cases, a different type of individual to believe it, but the last two paragraphs of your article came off as somewhat, hostile, accusatory, and sorta biased. Newbrough was not a racist, nor can you find major traces of Victorian racism in his history. Martinez is clearly not racist. She and Newbrough are merely pursuing a course, set by their belief system. You are free to disagree with it, but not to judge from what direction you assume—in this case racism--they are coming from.

The foundational spark from which they proceed is the belief that angelic beings, spirit beings, NOT ancient corporeal beings or astronauts, used their influence and the power of their wills and abilities to kick start a race of earth beings, who happen to be black and brown, to new intellectual and spiritual heights. This is NOT racist since all races, from all color spectrums on our planet are the offspring of this union. It is only racist from the point of view of people too overly sensitive and dependent on race itself, which pretty much describes our society today. Thanks.

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Nino
8/22/2017 07:45:05 am

Spiritual world, new age, channeling....

There was a man who already passed away and who had a very peculiar biography. He had the ability of translate very old simbols and dead lenguages.
Yes, even translating very old symbols, the people of Pa, Ra, Pan or Sun was "everywhere" mentioned. They ruled almost this globe colled for them PAleneta=planet and "came" from south america, antartida area and pacific when the continent had diferent shape and the globe rotate diferent, cause of the mamuts got iced at the north.

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Woodson Payne
11/18/2022 06:43:30 pm

Continent of Pan - Susan Who?

The Oahspe incorporated many of the FAKE NEWS of the day, and Fake Histories.
Your, Moundbuilder Myth ties in exactly with many FAKE HISTORY examples found in Oahspe, as the Mound Builder story in Oahspe attempts to make the forefathers of the Mississippi Mound Builder culture WHITE I'hins, the survivors of the sinking of the continent of Pan.
Here again, Newbrough managed to incorporate early psuedo-scientific writings about the Pacific Ocean, into a great Noah's Arc story, complete with sacred white midgets, who survived Noah's Flood. Newbrough was rather found of the Pygmy Cemetaries found in Tennessee in 1821 and wound that mis-staken psuedo scientific around the I'hin story of Little Sacred people.
Only these stories all predate Oahspe's 1881 publishing and were pop culture in American prior to 1829 Book of Mormon. Except this time all these FAKE HISTORIES, actually resulted in the genocide of thousands of Native Americans in the Indian Removal Act of President Andrew Jackson in 1830.

I have 26 years of research into this one FAKE HISTORY event, namely the Oahspe Hoax. Which I would love to share with anyone who would like to read it.

How do you educate a band of lunitics that their "BIBLE," repeats exactly the FAKE HISTORIES that contributed to a great north American Genocide against Native Americans?

Please advise,
Respectfully,
Woodson Payne
Oahspe Bible UFO Doomsday Cult Survivor
Anti-Cult Activist
Woodson Payne Youtube Channel:

Oahspe History Project
https://www.facebook.com/groups/894101851039182
X-Cult Strong
https://www.facebook.com/groups/199058124646854
woodsonpayne@gmail.com

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          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
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          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
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        • Sanchuniathon
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        • Slavonic Enoch
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        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
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        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
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        • Book of Thousands
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        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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        • Atlantis >
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          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
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          • Termier on Atlantis
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          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
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        • OOPARTs
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        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
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        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
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        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
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        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
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      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
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      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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