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Originally posted by AnotherYOU
the ship itself is quite useless without the power sources
hitler found a couple
the americans are now moving through babylon and sumeria trying to capture the remaining
but will the muslims ever give up the one they keep in mecca
plus theres at least two more
one in antartica, another in the moon.
oh nevermind me guys, im pretending this is like a hollywood script
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Originally posted by TheNewKid
There's several "Emerald Tablets." The Emerald Tablets of Hermes seem to be an alchemical text. Best guess is that it's a fraud done for money sometime around 1100 AD. It has all the earmarks of the literature of the time with vague statements that could be reworked to be just about anything.
...basically what byrd told me about these is that they are fake
Originally posted by zorgon
The University of Wisconsin/Madison doesn't consider them frauds...
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by TheNewKid
There's several "Emerald Tablets." The Emerald Tablets of Hermes seem to be an alchemical text. Best guess is that it's a fraud done for money sometime around 1100 AD. It has all the earmarks of the literature of the time with vague statements that could be reworked to be just about anything.
The University of Wisconsin/Madison doesn't consider them frauds...
Originally posted by zorgon
...basically what byrd told me about these is that they are fake
Ah! Well then if Byrd said it... it must be so eh?
:shk:
originally posted by: dr_strangecraft
Here are some things I am waiting to learn. I cannot prove the tablets DONT exist. But it doesn't sound like they fit in well with many things we know about the world. So, the burden of proof isn't really on MY shoulders; it's on the person who wants to seriously entertain the whole yarn.
1. No photos. So I cannot compare them with other known artefacts. too bad
2. We don't have the text in the original Atlantean. Drat!! Missed a golden opportunity to see a new language for the first time!
3. I am way more interested in the Atlantean language than I am in the tablets. Is Atlantean some kind of proto-Indo-European? Does it have affinities with Sanskrit? or does it favor the morphologies of Mayan, which is heiroglyphic? It's either one or the other. You cannot be alphebetic AND ideogrammatic at the same time. Just a hint from the translator would help linguistics immensely.
4. If these tablets are made from some totally impervious, incredibly hard substance, then how were they cut in the first place? I bet NASA (and the Pentagon) would be real interested in this.
5. What's this about the language being related to Mayan, anyway? Mayan culture arose in central Mexico after 700 AD. So what did this culture do from 36000 BC until the Mayans showed up? It didn't influence the other cultures that occupied the Yucatan before the maya did. So the olmecs, toltecs, and everyone else sharing that real estate, none of them have a link with Atlantis? Only the Maya? Hmmmm.
6. Egyptian heiroglyphic prose, like Greek and Semitic languages such as Hebrew, Arabic and Ethiopian, don't use the First person declarative in extended narratives. (In other words, the Hebrew Bible, the Odyssey, the Hymn to Osirus, as well as other ancient texts before about 200 BC, rarely say "I did . .", "I saw this and that" or other 1st person narrative literary devices.)
For that matter, I haven't seen any Mayan that does, either. Which makes me think the narrative style of this document is a lot closer stylistically to the modern novel than to, say, the Gilgamesh Epic, or "Emerging by Day" (the Egyptian book of the Dead), or the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan book of the dead). Huge coincidence, in't it? We get a book from an ancient Egyptian God, and he sounds like one of us!
7. Funny how much this sounds like the "Tabula Smaragdina" of "Hermes Trismegistus," (Emerald Tablet of Hermes [Thoth] the thrice-great), one of the founding documents of Alchemy. The historical "emerald tablet" only exists in manuscript form, although there are examples copied into latin, greek, and every major language group since classical times. Too bad someone had to go ripping off a historical drocument in order to try and prop up their own sorry new-age manifesto with a veneer of historicity. They steal gold, and try to pass it off as lead.
edited by adding explanatory comment.
[edit on 23-12-2004 by dr_strangecraft]