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Professor Bernard Harris, of Southampton University, said: ‘If you drew a map of people living in the early 19th century, then what you would find is the further north you went, the taller on average the population. Now, it would be the other way round.
His research shows that two centuries ago the average Scot was an inch taller than those living in southern England
Northern European men had lost an average 2.5 inches of height by the 1700s, a loss that was not fully recovered until the first half of the 20th century.
These include the notions of a primeval rivalry or even jealousy between the angels and newly created humanity, a pedagogic embassy endorsed by God whose intent was to instruct humans in the ways of justice and righteousness, the sexual corruption or seduction of the angels via the agency of female beauty, the created order’s spiraling descent into depravity, bloodshed, and idolatry, the impartation of illicit teachings by angels, an unsuccessful appeal by angels to a particularly ‘righteous’ mediator, and the imprisonment of heavenly entities on and beneath the earth.
After He created Adam and his descendants had become corrupted with wickedness, the angels said, ‘O Lord! How horrible are those whom You appointed as caliphs on the earth!’ So God commanded them to select three their most worthy representatives to descend to earth so as to convey to humanity information about proper behavior, and they did so. They say that a woman came to them, and they became so infatuated with her that they began drinking wine, committing murders, and worshiping false gods (with) praise properly due Him. They taught the woman the Name which they used to ascend to heaven, and she ascended until she arrived in heaven (where) she was transformed into a star they say that she became the planet al-Zuhara(Venus). He gave the angels a choice between punishment in this world or final (punishment), and they chose punishment in this world, which consisted of their being suspended by their hair inside a pit in Babylon. Magicians come to them (there) and learn magical arts from them
When the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of man," they could not restrain their inclination. Shemḥazai beheld a girl whose name was Esṭirah . When he beheld her, he said, "Listen to my request." But she replied, "I will not listen to thee until thou teachest me the name by the mention of which thou art enabled to ascend to heaven." He forthwith taught her the Ineffable Name. She then uttered the Ineffable Name and thereby ascended to heaven. God said, "Since she has departed from sin, go and set her among the stars"—it is she who shines brightly in the midst of the seven stars of Pleiades; for that she may always be remembered God fixed her among the Pleiades. When Shemḥazai and ‘Azael saw this they took to them wives, and begat children.
Among the divine viziers Nin-subur is the earliest and most important one, and, unlike the others of her kind, she is related to her masters not as cause and effect but rather as command and execution; in other words, she owes her importance not to the natural phenomena which her masters embody, but to the metaphor of the cosmos as a state, she is the "director" of the heavenly estate and the Anuna gods
...the servant, who is acquainted with the secrets of An, Ninsubura the chief servant, the shining crown of heaven, the messenger of good tidings, the goddess who turns what affects me into something good, who loves the directions of An and with out whom Enlil does not give orders to the great gods
My faithful minister of the E-ana, my Ninšubur of the E-ana, (you said ) "I, the august minister of the universe, I, Ninšubur of the universe, the faithful minister of the Anuna gods
I will soothe hearts, I will soothe spirits. I will appease the Anuna gods, I who am to serve -- I, the tutelary deity, who am to serve, I will make the young lady, Inana, born in the shining mountains, rejoice
originally posted by: primalfractal
a reply to: Byrd
Just said the Scots were big, not giants, the article mentioned Highlanders specifically.
His research shows that two centuries ago the average Scot was an inch taller than those living in southern England www.dailymail.co.uk...
If you go back further they were even bigger.
Northern European men had lost an average 2.5 inches of height by the 1700s, a loss that was not fully recovered until the first half of the 20th century.
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According to Steckel's analysis, heights decreased from an average of 68.27 inches (173.4 centimeters) in the early Middle Ages to an average low of roughly 65.75 inches (167 cm) during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records says he is the strongest man who ever lived, tallest non-pathological giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m)and had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (200 cm).
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A giant named Benandonner, otherwise known as the Red Man, was believed to roam Scotland. Mac Cumhaill and the Red Man did not see eye to eye and Fionn challenged his Scottish nemesis to a fight while they shouted and threatened each other from across the water.
Building the Causeway so he could reach his biggest enemy, Fionn moves rocks from Antrim into the sea, and completes his new pathway only to find that Benandonner is his biggest enemy in more than one way. Benandonner was, in fact, much larger than him. Instantly regretting his trash talk, Mac Cumhaill hopes to run back to Ireland and go unnoticed by the Scottish giant. Unfortunately for Fionn, it isn’t long until he is spotted and Benandonner gives chase to the Irish hero’s home in Fort-of-Allen in Co. Kildare.
originally posted by: primalfractal
a reply to: Byrd
Seeing as how you seem keen for a Scottish giant...
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Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records says he is the strongest man who ever lived, tallest non-pathological giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m)and had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (200 cm).
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A giant named Benandonner, otherwise known as the Red Man, was believed to roam Scotland. Mac Cumhaill and the Red Man did not see eye to eye and Fionn challenged his Scottish nemesis to a fight while they shouted and threatened each other from across the water.
Building the Causeway so he could reach his biggest enemy, Fionn moves rocks from Antrim into the sea, and completes his new pathway only to find that Benandonner is his biggest enemy in more than one way. Benandonner was, in fact, much larger than him. Instantly regretting his trash talk, Mac Cumhaill hopes to run back to Ireland and go unnoticed by the Scottish giant. Unfortunately for Fionn, it isn’t long until he is spotted and Benandonner gives chase to the Irish hero’s home in Fort-of-Allen in Co. Kildare.
Broadly speaking, Shakti is considered to be the cosmos itself – she is the embodiment of energy and dynamism, and the motivating force behind all action and existence in the material universe. Shiva is her transcendent masculine aspect, providing the divine ground of all being. “There is no Shiva without Shakti, or Shakti without Shiva. The two […] in themselves are One”.
However, both are deemed to be inactive in the absence of Shakti. As set out in the first line of Adi Shankara’s renowned Shakta hymn, Saundaryalahari (c. 800 CE): “If Shiva is united with Shakti, he is able to create. If he is not, he is incapable even of stirring.”
originally posted by: Byrd
The balkanshambala blog that you linked also indicates that a lot of what's there was "channeled"... not by Tibetans or anyone from the area but from English spiritualists from 1800 onward.
originally posted by: Byrd
The claim that Scots were the tallest people is countered by published reports
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The tallest major tribe in the world is the Tutsi (also known as the Watussi) of Rwanda and Burundi, Central Africa whose young adult males average 1.83 m (6 ft).
According to a report by Roberts and Bain Bridge, in 1953–1954, the average height of men in a sample of about 52 is 182.6 cm (5ft 11.9 inch) and 181.3cm (5ft 11.4 inch) in 227 Dinka women.
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A giant people : the Watussi of Africa
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Covered with ash, the Dinka, who are up to 7'6' tall were referred to as "gentle giants" or the " ghostly giants" by early explorers.
originally posted by: Byrd
For a "race of giants" you would have to show archaeological evidence that everyone in the area qualified as a giant and that there are entire villages and cities full of these unusually tall people.
A few mummies don't make your case. Hundreds would, but a few don't.
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Graveyard of “Giants” Found in China
Many of the 5,000 year-old skeletons measured 5’ 9” or longer, making the Neolithic humans exceptionally tall for that period.
Last year, archaeologists began excavating a late Neolithic settlement in Jiaojia, a village in China’s Shandong province. They have unearthed a trove of fascinating finds there—including the ruins of 104 houses, 205 graves, and 20 sacrificial pits.
The Yueshi culture was an archaeological culture in the Shandong region of eastern China
(in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious
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Nonlocal realism is closely related to the view espoused by Erwin Schrödinger that the overall number of minds within the universe is just one. He went further by suggesting that mind has erected the physical outside world out of its own mental stuff. The interconnected universal consciousness implied by the concept of one mind constitutes the nonlocal, singular implicit reality of a universal consciousness that has embedded within itself the local and explicit conscious mind of each individual.
The wave-function is real but nonphysical: A view from counterfactual quantum cryptography
originally posted by: primalfractal
a reply to: Byrd
originally posted by: Byrd
The balkanshambala blog that you linked also indicates that a lot of what's there was "channeled"... not by Tibetans or anyone from the area but from English spiritualists from 1800 onward.
You just make things up, disappointingly low standard really, was hoping for a decent debate. The info on the balkanshambala blog page isn't channelled, it's from proffesional Bonpo researchers, a fair amount of them Tibetans involved with the tradition. Can you indicate which part of the page I linked is channelled (by early English spiritualists no less), and how it constitutes "a lot of what's there"?
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Accounts of Tonpa Shenrab's life are to be found in three principal sources, the Dodü (Wylie: mdo 'dus), Zermik (Wylie: gzer mig), and Ziji (Wylie: gzi brjid). The first and second of the accounts are held to be terma discovered by tertön in the 10th or 11th century; the third is part of the oral lineage (Wylie: snyan brgyud) transmitted from teacher to disciple.
Although the “gZi-brjid” specifically identifies Olmoling and Shambhala, neither in the “gZi-brjid” nor the “gZer-mig” is there any mention of Armaggedon or the climactic battle between the forces of the Mlechas from the West and the forces of Shambhala led by
the Kulika Rudrachakrin, as is found in the Buddhist recension of the “Kalachakra Tantra”. The Bonpo canon also possesses a variant recension of this “Kalachakra Tantra”, but it is said to be incomplete and it is classified as Kriya Tantra rather than Anuttara Tantra, as is the case in the Buddhist system.
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By appearance, Tuyuhun and Yuezhi were most likely not that different. The appearance of the Xianbei tribes was commented by the learned Yan Shigu, who worked at the court of the first Tang ruler, Li Shimi. He wrote in a commentary in Sima Qin's historical work Shi Ji: "Nowadays, these "Hu" people have green eyes, red beards, their appearance is like bearded monkeys, and they are originally of this kind." Since Xianbei, in Yan Shigu's time, was the dominant steppe barbarians, it must have been those he talked about.
Sinologist John E. Hill believes that Tuyuhun was identical to the tribe, Zilu - mentioned in the document, Weilu. He writes: "They gradually grew into a powerful state centered around Koko Nor. They were later known by the Chinese as Tuyuhun, and by the Tibetans as' A-zha. After many years of war, they were finally defeated by the Tibetans in 663 AC and never regained their independence. Some of them fled to the Chinese, others remained and were gradually absorbed among the Tibetans."
This is partially confirmed by Alex Mcay in his book "The History of Tibet" (page 46) where he writes that it was the royal family who called themselves "A-chai", (found in Tibetan Literature as "A-sha" ) while the people were called "Tu-Yu-Hun", Tibetan "Thogon" or "Tho-Yu-Gon".
Even the size of the Caucasians is mysterious. Yingpan man who dates to about the 5th century AD is about 1.8 meters tall (a little more than 6 feet). This is unusually tall because it is thought that ancient people were generally short. The other Caucasian corpses such as more ancient Cherchen Man are also unusually big. Why were they so big? Did they have an unusually good diet? There is an ancient Chinese document that described “giants” living in the area of Xinjiang.
(Hadingham, Ivan; "The Mummies of Xinjiang," Discover, 15:68, April 1994.)
The new finds are also forcing a reexamination of old Chinese books that describe historical or legendary figures of great height, with deep-set blue or green eyes, long noses, full beards, and red or blond hair. Scholars have traditionally scoffed at these accounts, but it now seems that they may be accurate
^ Mair, Victor H., "Mummies of the Tarim Basin," Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 2, pages
28-35 (March/April 1995); the quote appears on page 30 of this article.
Pliny the Elder (, Chap XXIV "Taprobane") reports a curious description of the Seres (in the territories of northwestern China) made by an embassy from Taprobane (Ceylon) to Emperor Claudius, saying that they "exceeded the ordinary human height, had flaxen hair, and blue eyes, and made an uncouth sort of noise by way of talking", suggesting they may be referring to the ancient Caucasian populations of the Tarim Basin:
The study looks at mummies found at a single site, and it's unclear whether sequencing a wider range of sites in the Tarim Basin might result in the discovery of different genetic ties, Narasimhan said.
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DNA sequence data[8] shows that the mummies had a Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) characteristic of western Eurasia in the area of East-Central Europe, Central Asia and Indus Valley.[9]
A team of Chinese and American researchers working in Sweden tested DNA from 52 separate mummies, including the mummy denoted "Beauty of Loulan." By genetically mapping the mummies' origins, the researchers confirmed the theory that these mummies were of West Eurasian descent. Victor Mair, a University of Pennsylvania professor and project leader for the team that did the genetic mapping, commented that these studies were:
...extremely important because they link up eastern and western Eurasia at a formative stage of civilization (Bronze Age and early Iron Age) in a much closer way than has ever been done before.[10]
An earlier study by Jilin University had found an mtDNA haplotype characteristic of Western Eurasian populations with Europoid genes.[11]