[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.]
We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. The history of these Original Americans is just now being written.
In research at Watson Break and Poverty Point, the archaeologists have not found burial sites. Burial is a sacred tradition to most civilizations. Ziggurats around the world are commonly locations of burials, even some are memorial tombs like the Pyramids.
In a recent article, we looked at cultural traditions which could be explanations. There is another that depends on understanding history in the context of science and mathematics.
The year is circa 4,000 BCE. Many cultures around the world have a history of longevity about this time-frame. Presumptuously, many present-day observers have dismissed these as myths.
Last week, we saw the predominant method of writing history arises from feelings, philosophy, and a subtle arrogance. The assumption is that now is the epitome of human development. If the story does not comport with what we perceive is reality, then the old story is a myth.
When a similar historical narrative repeats across cultures, there undoubtedly is some basis. We will only relate a few of the more common histories. Among these, five very significant characteristics appear.
Because of translation difficulties across multiple languages, we cannot reasonably compare the length of years. Whether 10,000 years in Sumerian time is one thousand in Persian of the era, I have not been able to validate.
However, we can see the patterns. Patterns are what puzzle solvers, scientific analysts, and mathematicians implement.
- Eight early patriarchs or “immortals” live about the same length of time.
- A cataclysmic event causes length of life to progressively decrease.
- A somewhat stable, but decreasing length of years occurs about 1500 BCE with 120 years.
- By 1000 BCE, a somewhat stable life expectancy of 70 years has settled in.
- A cyclic variation in years occurs around the ages, e.g. 80 or 60 years.
The Chinese have a longevity tradition of “Eight Immortals.” Pen Zu lived over 800 years, Zuo Ci and the Seres people lived 300 years, and Fu Xi lived for 197. Numerous Emperors lived progressively shorter periods.
The Egyptians had their long periods with Hephaestus for 9,000 years.
The Greek gods were heroes who flourished about 4000 BCE and died out by 2,500 BCE and succeeded by not-as-long lived seers. Tiresias lived 600 years with Nestor at 300 years.
The Japanese do not have as long a history but circa 700 BCE had emperors living 125 years.
The Persian epic poem “Shahnameh” has shahs living 1000, 700, 500, 200, 150, 120, 120 and 120 years.
The Sumerians have perhaps the second most known longevity history. The first eight kings have a period of about 250,000 years. Their time was in measured in “shar”, and the proper translation of the value at-that-time is in dispute.
In Western culture, the most known ancient history is the Jewish tradition recorded in the “Tanakh”. The first eight patriarchs lived about 900 years each, except Enoch who was deified. The last of the eight and the oldest, Methuselah, has veneration in an adage for age, “older than Methuselah.” The oldest star in the universe, HD140283, is commonly known as Methuselah.
Then the cataclysm. According to the record, Methuselah’s grandson, Noah, is the patriarch survivor of the Great Flood. Again, a Great Flood tradition survives in numerous histories. After the cataclysm, life spans began to decay in a pattern like the Persian epic poem.
How does this era relate to the Original Americans?
What is the time-period of Noah in the “Tanakh” tradition? His great grandson, Nimrod, was the ruler of Ba’Bel. The brutal emperor Nimrod has many monikers in different cultures, histories, and interpretations. Some include Marduk, Gilgamesh, Tammuz, Baal, Orion, and multiple Greek deities.
It was the era of Nimrod, when the great civilization of Original Americans left wherever was home to settle Watson Break, without a hierarchal ruler.
In each culture, the long-lived people take on many names and characteristics. Not all were paragons of virtue. They may receive the appellation of gods, heroes, kings, or immortals. Because of their tenure and experience, they received respect and influence and religious leadership. They knew the “secrets” of nature, because they had lived through them.
The five characteristics of ages listed above subscribe to a Natural Law: a flat, steady value (called a step) collapsing into an exponential decay. For the physical sciences and mathematicians, that is well-recognized as the natural-response of a “second-order” ordinary system.
As noted in previous articles, history must evaluate the events in congruence with Natural Law. Scientists in some fields recognize that there is a pattern to all natural events, and equations describe the process. If the history does not comport to the known Natural Law, then simply it is unscientific and likely in error.
The longevity histories we noted, very nicely fit the Law of Nature. That fact alone is sufficient to accept the longevity hypothesis as a historical account as much as any other artifact. The data is there, but if no one knows how to translate it, the validity remains hidden.
Unfortunately, in our world of specialists, society has lost sight or how things really work. Historians do not do math, politics does not do history, and mathematicians do not relate.
Again, Watson Break and Poverty Point lend credence to many ancient somewhat contemporaneous histories, which too often become labelled as myths.
Think about the year is 4000 BCE: How long do histories around the world affirm that people lived? Does a little math (which you may not fully understand) confirm or change your understanding?