Yuga Cycles and Lucy in the sky.
My horoscope for today: "Oh Deiss, you are the wind beneath my wings." Someone's telling you that you rock. Expect chocolate-dipped turnips for lunch.
I was klatsching with Kalea yesterday, and she mentioned a documentary that she owns that she thinks I might be interested in. It's called "The Great Year."
The Great Year is basically a cycle, like the changing seasons. The idea is that human intellect is affected by cosmic forces as the sun moves around the solar system carrying us with it. The lowest point is the Iron Age. Half of it is descending from Enlightenment, and half is ascending. 2400 years in total. Our last Iron Age spanned from 600 BC to 1700 AD. The middle point was the fall of the Roman Empire, with things like the barbarian invasions, the crusades, and the Dark Ages surrounding it.
There is one Bronze Age on either side of the Iron Age. The one before our last Iron Age saw the building of the pyramids of Giza, which align perfectly with Orion's belt. Stonehenge was built in stages from 2800-1800 BC. Our current Bronze Age began with the age of enlightenment. It will end in something like 4100 AD. You can kind of see the swoop upward of human intellect. During the enlightenment, everyone was learning things. Making art. Creativity, beauty, luxury, music, everything was just thriving. This from a society who was recovering from hundreds of years of bloodshed.
After the Bronze Age is over, we enter into the Silver Age. This is a time of mental expansion, of things like telepathy and perfect memory. Writing becomes superfluous, as we remember and know all. This one lasts for 3600 years.
The Golden Age is the longest, lasting 9600 years: 4800 ascending and 4800 descending. It is the age of Truth and Enlightenment, a period where human intellect can comprehend everything. Although we can't quite grasp what our consciousness in the Golden Age is going to be like (in 7699 AD), but it's thought that we'll live in perfect harmony with nature. A sort of "Garden of Eden" kind of existence.
After the Golden Age is another Silver and then another Bronze, descending back into the Iron Age.
The entire cycle takes 24 000 years. 12 000 on the way up, 12 000 on the way down.
If you think about it in terms of the number of cycles we've had: the first "human being" is said to have lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago. Her name was Lucy.
Early humans, "homo erectus," left Africa bound for Asia over 500 000 years ago. That alone means that we've had at least 25 of these cycles. If you think 3.2 million years back... So with our knowledge of ancient humans, what could early Golden Ages have been like?
homo erectus/ergaster
Virtually every ancient culture throughout the globe has a name for this cycle. "Folklore is the scientific language of ancient times, and they were trying tell us of the dark days to come, and trying desparetly to preserve knowledge in the pyramids and megaliths and temples so carefully aligned to the heavens incorporating sophisticated mathematical principles." Did you know that the pyramids of Giza mirror Orion's belt perfectly? So ancient civilizations were trying to tell us when we're going to fall next. Which, if my math is right, should be in about 23 300 AD.
So, this may be a shot in the dark, and I'm probably going to get crap for this, but is that, then, what the Bible is? I haven't read it of course, maybe I should, but the whole idea about the world ending, Judgement Day and all that? What if we've just created Religion to try and protect ourselves, to avoid slipping into darkness again like we know we will someday? Not that it helps at all, but we need that kind of reassurance that everything's going to be okay. And we get that from a million different places. [Devin, comment with your distraction thing, please.]
I'm getting really excited about this whole thing. I can't wait to actually watch the documentary with Kalea. I'm probably going to come back to this entry and change things once I do.
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Pictures taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/
Information on the Great Year taken from http://thegreatyear.com/
I talked to the olive tree about this and he started getting excited about it with me.
I talked to my tiger and she thought it was neat.
I talked to the long-time internet boy and he couldn't shoot me down, even though I don't think he believes it.
But the only thing Sunset Boy said to me was "Sure, if you believe in that stuff." I stopped for a minute. "Ah, yes," was my answer. I remember this about you. In the whirlwind that was our breakup, I'd forgotten just how different our beliefs are. Some think that belief isn't important in a relationship, or that it isn't as important and shouldn't be an issue.. but when I feel shot down by this boy who suddenly seems a lot more closed-minded than I thought, it was almost like a reminder. I want to talk about this, Sunset Boy.
Tolerance.
I was klatsching with Kalea yesterday, and she mentioned a documentary that she owns that she thinks I might be interested in. It's called "The Great Year."
The Great Year is basically a cycle, like the changing seasons. The idea is that human intellect is affected by cosmic forces as the sun moves around the solar system carrying us with it. The lowest point is the Iron Age. Half of it is descending from Enlightenment, and half is ascending. 2400 years in total. Our last Iron Age spanned from 600 BC to 1700 AD. The middle point was the fall of the Roman Empire, with things like the barbarian invasions, the crusades, and the Dark Ages surrounding it.
There is one Bronze Age on either side of the Iron Age. The one before our last Iron Age saw the building of the pyramids of Giza, which align perfectly with Orion's belt. Stonehenge was built in stages from 2800-1800 BC. Our current Bronze Age began with the age of enlightenment. It will end in something like 4100 AD. You can kind of see the swoop upward of human intellect. During the enlightenment, everyone was learning things. Making art. Creativity, beauty, luxury, music, everything was just thriving. This from a society who was recovering from hundreds of years of bloodshed.
After the Bronze Age is over, we enter into the Silver Age. This is a time of mental expansion, of things like telepathy and perfect memory. Writing becomes superfluous, as we remember and know all. This one lasts for 3600 years.
The Golden Age is the longest, lasting 9600 years: 4800 ascending and 4800 descending. It is the age of Truth and Enlightenment, a period where human intellect can comprehend everything. Although we can't quite grasp what our consciousness in the Golden Age is going to be like (in 7699 AD), but it's thought that we'll live in perfect harmony with nature. A sort of "Garden of Eden" kind of existence.
After the Golden Age is another Silver and then another Bronze, descending back into the Iron Age.
The entire cycle takes 24 000 years. 12 000 on the way up, 12 000 on the way down.
If you think about it in terms of the number of cycles we've had: the first "human being" is said to have lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago. Her name was Lucy.
Early humans, "homo erectus," left Africa bound for Asia over 500 000 years ago. That alone means that we've had at least 25 of these cycles. If you think 3.2 million years back... So with our knowledge of ancient humans, what could early Golden Ages have been like?
homo erectus/ergaster
Virtually every ancient culture throughout the globe has a name for this cycle. "Folklore is the scientific language of ancient times, and they were trying tell us of the dark days to come, and trying desparetly to preserve knowledge in the pyramids and megaliths and temples so carefully aligned to the heavens incorporating sophisticated mathematical principles." Did you know that the pyramids of Giza mirror Orion's belt perfectly? So ancient civilizations were trying to tell us when we're going to fall next. Which, if my math is right, should be in about 23 300 AD.
So, this may be a shot in the dark, and I'm probably going to get crap for this, but is that, then, what the Bible is? I haven't read it of course, maybe I should, but the whole idea about the world ending, Judgement Day and all that? What if we've just created Religion to try and protect ourselves, to avoid slipping into darkness again like we know we will someday? Not that it helps at all, but we need that kind of reassurance that everything's going to be okay. And we get that from a million different places. [Devin, comment with your distraction thing, please.]
I'm getting really excited about this whole thing. I can't wait to actually watch the documentary with Kalea. I'm probably going to come back to this entry and change things once I do.
(Scroll down to see the cut.)
Pictures taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/
Information on the Great Year taken from http://thegreatyear.com/
I talked to the olive tree about this and he started getting excited about it with me.
I talked to my tiger and she thought it was neat.
I talked to the long-time internet boy and he couldn't shoot me down, even though I don't think he believes it.
But the only thing Sunset Boy said to me was "Sure, if you believe in that stuff." I stopped for a minute. "Ah, yes," was my answer. I remember this about you. In the whirlwind that was our breakup, I'd forgotten just how different our beliefs are. Some think that belief isn't important in a relationship, or that it isn't as important and shouldn't be an issue.. but when I feel shot down by this boy who suddenly seems a lot more closed-minded than I thought, it was almost like a reminder. I want to talk about this, Sunset Boy.
Tolerance.