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Originally posted by Shane
From my seating in this discussion, I believe ogham is at least 3000-4000 Years Old, from reviewing items. I have found some indications this date could extend to 7000 years old, but from a Prime Language or Root Language. Today, we understand Ogham as a 'Celtic' language, but it has changed along with time.
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by NJE777
Druids: the Gauls had been enemies of Rome for 3 centuries - the word Druid is omitted from narratives and yet Diviciacus was certainly a Druid known to Cicero.
Possibly because the Gauls didn't call their priests "druids."
There wasn't a single, unified religion of the Celts. They held many gods in common, but they didn't worship the same gods in different areas. Caesar does describe Druids, as does Cicero. But the druids would not be of that much importance to the soldier or statesman, because they were the equivalent of our modern localministers. Soldiers and historians seldom dealt with religious leaders. They weren't the group around which resistance formed (that was the chiefs and war leaders) and few of them seemed to seek public power or contact with the Romans and other cultures.
As to Ogham being a global ancient script, this really isn't so. Yes, I've seen the "evidence" produced and it's not convincing (actually, it's pretty lame and if you look at the rock surface and compare to actual ancient rock art, the "Ogham" is clearly modern rather than ancient.)
Originally posted by mojo4sale
Hey Nat, an article which i had read and am now having difficulty finding again states,
the description of Atlantean Government resembles Celtic rule in Gaul and Britain
I am desperately trying to find the source again.
I am trying to find some more information on Pierre Termier. The Smithsonian annual report this lecture was in isnt available on line unfortunately. It does date from 1915. Though there is this article that argues against his hypothesis.
Hope ive not covered something thats already been discussed.
The science of anthroposophia is among a few that sincerely believes in the existence of Atlantis, which used to occupy a gigantic territory—from Americas to modern Near East. Tectonic movements, earthquakes and volcano eruptions have split the continent. The major portion of it has sunken. Modern-day British Isles (Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland), Iceland, Canaries, Cabo-Verde (islands of the Green cape) as well as several islands of the Caribbean are considered to be Atlantis' remains.
Approximately 10 000 years ago the entire bottom of the Northern sea had been a blossoming valley, inhabited by ancestors of modern-day Europeans.
There are presently three Indo-European languages families in western Europe -- Italic, Germanic, and Celtic. Most of the region is dominated by Italic languages in the south (including Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese) and by Germanic languages in the north (including English, Dutch, German, and the Scandinavian languages.) The Celtic languages are confined to a marginal position out on the Atlantic fringe, -- in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany -- and even there they are threatened with extinction.
However, two thousand years ago -- back when Julius Caesar wrote that "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" -- things were very different. A thriving array of Celtic tribes and kingdoms then dominated not only Gaul but much of Europe. There were Celtic-speakers in Ireland and in England, in France and central Spain, in northern Italy and southern Germany, in Austria and the Czech Republic, in Romania, and even on the far side of the Black Sea in Anatolia. At this time, Latin -- the ancestor of all the modern Italic languages -- was still native only to Italy, while the Germanic languages were restricted to northern Germany and Scandinavia.
However, the relevant issue here is not the dynamics of Celtic dominance but its source -- exactly where had all those Celtic-speakers originally come from?
A century ago, when the Indo-Europeans were regarded as Bronze Age chariot-warriors from the steppes, it seemed obvious that the Celts must have originated near the eastern end of their historic range and spread westward, probably reaching England well after the era of Stonehenge and the other megalithic monuments. The Neolithic hypothesis modified this scenario slightly by starting the expansion a few centuries earlier and bringing the Celts to England late in the megalithic period, but it maintained the idea of a relatively recent eastern origin. This had the undesirable result of leaving the Celts kicking their heels aimlessly in some unidentified corner of central Europe for thousands of years, but there seemed to be no better alternative.
Recently, however, the notion of an east-to-west expansion for the Celts has broken down completely in the light of genetic analysis. The primary factor arguing against it is that there turns out to be an extremely sharp dividing line between the Y-chromosome DNA of the Celtic-speakers of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland and that of the English, French, and Germans -- a dividing line that has remained constant ever since northern Europe was resettled at the end of the Ice Age. In fact, the DNA of the insular Celts is so specialized that there seems to be no possibility of any later arrivals, not even to the limited degree that might be found in the case of elite conquest.
These findings have recently inspired archaologists like Professor Barry Cunliffe of Oxford to offer the revisionist view that the spread of the Celtic languages proceeded not from east to west, but from west to east. He believes that this expansion was originally propelled by the enormous prestige of the navigators and astronomer-priests who carried the megalithic culture of Ireland to England, France and southern Germany a couple of thousand years before the Celts' final brief period of military dominance. If this theory is correct, then the Celtic homeland must have been in precisely the areas around the Irish Sea where Celtic languages are still spoken today.
Originally posted by Shane
Hello Again Nat
I know we have seen some difficulties by some, (you know who you are ), who have had been exceeding vocal in dismissing your thoughts claiming lack of evidence, yet, I really can not go a day, without finding something that reflects back on the Celts, even when I am reseaching the Altaic Peoples from the Steppes, who are the forerunners of the Germanic Languages.
And when reviewing this, what is it that is constantly being acknowledged, yet obviously not accepted.
THE CELTS HAVE BEEN IN THE ISLES for Thousands of year more than some of the discouraging peoples wish to admit. Now, we are seeing 10000 BC as a date, and this is due to solely to the all mighty science, that some wish to utilize only for debunking purposes...
...but I do know why the dismissive respond as they do. They fail to understand, that all these things ARE RELATED, and treat them as seperate items to debunk.
Sorry for all the reading material!
Originally posted by Harte
Where here has anyone tried to "debunk" the Celts, or "dismissed" their presence in Northern Europe at some particular time in the past?
After all, we do know that there were people around during the last couple of Ice Ages, do we not? We are aware of Homo Sapiens living all over Europe starting around 175,000 years ago. In what way does this impact the theory previously discussed here?
The big deal you seem to be making about people "dismissing Nat's thoughts," that "some wish to utilize (science) only for debunking purposes," and the many "dismissive" responses in this thread can't possibly be applied to the subject you have here brought up, that of the actual origin of the Celts. That is because this subject hasn't been discussed, much less "debunked" here in this thread, where the subject (or so I took it) was the written (secret) language of the Celts, not their existence.
Also consider this, how is it then that the Celts are related to the Egyptian civilization, if they originated from stone age tribes extant in Ireland circa 10,000 BCE, at least 6,000 years before there even was anything even slightly resembling an Egyptian civilization.
: Also consider this, how is it then that the Celts are related to the Egyptian civilization, if they originated from stone age tribes extant in Ireland circa 10,000 BCE, at least 6,000 years before there even was anything even slightly resembling an Egyptian civilization.
Originally posted by Shane
the people in India are their own peoples, and therefore not part of something that attributes recivilization of the Planet from four people. Much akin to what I can support, both Biblically and through simple common sense, the Races are their own people.
Originally posted by mojo4sale
gday Nat, glad your back, i do know how you feel ive just moved to permanent night shift and have four kids under 10 at home
www.sacred-texts.com...
From a careful consideration of Plato's description of Atlantis it is evident that the story should not be regarded as wholly historical but rather as both allegorical and historical. Origen, Porphyry, Proclus, Iamblichus, and Syrianus realized that the story concealed a profound philosophical mystery, but they disagreed as to the actual interpretation. Plato's Atlantis symbolizes the threefold nature of both the universe and the human body. The ten kings of Atlantis are the tetractys, or numbers, which are born as five pairs of opposites. (Consult Theon of Smyrna for the Pythagorean doctrine of opposites.) The numbers 1 to 10 rule every creature, and the numbers, in turn, are under the control of the Monad, or 1--the Eldest among them.
Originally posted by Shane
Well, it's tooo late now.
The science of anthroposophia is among a few that sincerely believes in the existence of Atlantis, which used to occupy a gigantic territory—from Americas to modern Near East. Tectonic movements, earthquakes and volcano eruptions have split the continent. The major portion of it has sunken. Modern-day British Isles (Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland), Iceland, Canaries, Cabo-Verde (islands of the Green cape) as well as several islands of the Caribbean are considered to be Atlantis' remains.
Approximately 10 000 years ago the entire bottom of the Northern sea had been a blossoming valley, inhabited by ancestors of modern-day Europeans.
english.pravda.ru...
Originally posted by Inspiringstar
The Star People are already here and have been since the beginning of time. We are the ones chosen by our orginations to walk this plane with the landwalkers, to help with spiritual understandings and to live as one with the earth. The Old Ones told me it is now time for the unseen to be seen, to call the Star People and have the gathering. They have said that the treaty is broken. That the Warriors of the Scorpion will no longer be silent.
The information you recieved about the starseed quiz, I hope you took it..and I would like to know your score.
I am the one that sits in the center of 12. I know you don't understand this yet.
Your theory of us being tied to Atlantis is true. We are the offspring..the golden city was made for specific reasons and taken for the same.
I can only tell you what the Old Ones share with me..until Feb of this year, I have done no research at all..just simply walked in the faith of the Spirits that teach me.
They have said that our people agreed to walk with the landwalkers..all species and races would come into the same form, which is where your ancient hybrids began. Genetically, it was needed so that interbreeding would come to the same visual form.
I know this sounds basic, but to go deeper into detail of our orginations would mean that I would be writing you a book.
Just know that there are also hidden pyramids in america..one is the sacred spirit mountain of which they have told me to bring the people to at the time of the great changes.
go to my website, read Star People, Silent Warrior, Earth Changes and Magnetic Energy..there are hidden meanings in these which only Star People will heed.
Of course we can communicate our celtic crosses or cabalistic or mathematical theorems in the form of crop circles exactly the way they do it. But that doesn't define our world culture as a whole. So what is our world culture actually doing relating to time?
Above all, I believe we have already assembled the major portions of the prime message ... (1) All life is to be honored ... (2) The prime base for the visitors seems to be the Star of Women, in the Sirius system ... (3) They are signaling an end to an era ... and, (4) Their purpose seems to relate to maintaining law and order, and above all, justice in the universe ... I have come across sufficient Egyptian records etc. to assure myself that the extra , 7th judge in the Pleiades council of judges is Sirius ... One last conclusion from my Crop Symbol translations is that whatever the future brings, the era ending may well be the patriarchies , and the future will not be the best of times for male-chauvinists.
One final event sort of tied all the pieces together . As Fate would have it, I just happened to select Whitley Streiber's book, Transformation for the flight home. The book concluded (Appendix three) with research on discovering the "star language" of our cosmic visitors - the alien's native language. >From their studies they concluded the language was a form of Gaelic - the ancestral language of Ireland. And what was the alphabet the Irish used to write down their Gaelic words ? - Ogham! home.earthlink.net...
Originally posted by Ecidemon
Having said that, I think we as a race know very little about what's "out there", whether it be God, Aliens, et cetera. I think in part due to what people will and won't accept. There are a lot of things I wish people would look into, but more often than not they are concerned about their carreer, or being relentlessly rediculed.
Originally posted by Inspiringstar
The Star People are already here and have been since the beginning of time. We are the ones chosen by our orginations to walk this plane with the landwalkers, to help with spiritual understandings and to live as one with the earth. The Old Ones told me it is now time for the unseen to be seen, to call the Star People and have the gathering. They have said that the treaty is broken. That the Warriors of the Scorpion will no longer be silent.
Originally posted by Byrd
except for his mention that Castleden provides no Robert (1917) reference concerning the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus II.)
Would be interesting to find out what that "robert" refernce was. First name, perhaps?