a reply to:
CoffeeInMyHand
well for one, I cant source what took my entire literate life to place together, not entirely.
Also, like there are many body types to any species, neanderthal probably had several body types. We will know once the neanderthal genome is mapped
out and analyzed. I think it is only mapped out 20-30% yet and then the hard part of studying it begins. Biological material like bones that is not
fossilized is hard to find after time since it is just dust eventually. The entire worlds coast lines from the ancient world are deep under water now
as well. With each ice age more land was gained and then lost to the advancing water level at the end of these ice ages. This is undisputed. Most
early cultures would stick to the coast for various survival reasons.
Also, height and other traits are not permanent in a people over time and are not necessarily genetically expressed. They are but only as minor traits
passed on for as much time as they are viable. Mutations come and go. There is a difference between climitological adaptations like developing a
stocky build to preserve body heat during an ice age or developing bigger or smaller lungs depending on the air density and altitude of the
environment a people choose to live in and the permanent defining traits of a persons genetic stock.
These insignificant traits were classified for the longest time as determining factors for race when science still supported such an asinine idea of
race. Climate changes people in even just a single generation. This has been documented in populations in the Andes that moved into the high altitude
mountains to escape conquest. They developed adequate lungs and body type adaptions in just a few generations that were nearly identical to other
populations world wide that lived for centuries in high altitude mountain ranges.
Neanderthal doesnt have to be TALL either. The original wording meant more that these MIGHTY MEN OF OLD were Titanic awesome people that did wondrous
things. Stature could imply strength and ability. I would remind you that neanderthal was MUCH more robust than modern humans. Also, the average
height for humanity has changed. An average corn and beef fed American today would be a giant to ancient people who were not yet even 5"5 as a norm.
Like I said though, they didnt have to be tall at the end to have been tall before. They were coming out of an ice age for the second time that lasted
a LONG time. Their average height could have dropped off to better adapt to the cold and that could have taken a long time. Remember there is no date
to the old testament or the bible really.
The date we think is credited to the bible was placed only a couple hundred years ago and was based off things like meteors or events recorded else
where as well as in the bible so as to reach a correlation between dates and the passage of time in the bible. There is a strong possibility of
several meteors or earthquakes over enough time seeming like the same events to a person in Europe many thousands of years later...There is no way to
know when the ages of genesis or the old testament took place. It could be a thousand years ago or a couple thousand or a couple hundred thousand. The
starting date given for genesis is laughable since it is talking about times immemorial. The flood stories globally all say mostly that these events
happened LONG ago in other ages of man.
Even the Greeks, Maya, Aztec, Pacific tribes and everywhere all over the planet all have a common theme of several "ages" of man. These ages are
always described as decreasing in splendor and greatness. Golden age, to silver age, to bronze age to stone or how ever each culture describes it. It
seems to me that the theme is that the mighty men of old got less mighty as time passed until we mortal men were more or less equal to them /the
former Gods. What a sin and how offensive that must be to gods.... for us to think that, huh? Thats a rotten
apple in the mindset of people you
wish to rule over for the promise of tribute.
Also worth a mention. There was a biblical king whos bed is still preserved in Jerusalem that was made out of Iron. It was custom made for this red
haired giant king. It is about 8-9 feet long. I forget exactly. It is still massive. His royal line was said to come from antediluvian blood lines.
There is too much to summarize informally with no outline to go by. I am working on something I will post on ATS in a year maybe. Possibly less.
I still am working on gathering supporting data for my theory. That and a crash course in genetics over a year running now.
If you are really interested, learn everything you can about world mythology. Read all you can about history and learn to read the bible among other
sacred texts. After a while the truth is self evident.
EDIT TO ADD:
I just remembered the tall red headed king I mentioned.
King Og Defeated
…10all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11(For only Og
king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was
nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)
n the Hebrew Bible, "Rephaim" can describe an ancient race of giants in Iron Age Israel, or the places where these individuals were thought to
have lived.
They were not the oldest tribe of ancient people. It is most likely that they were descendants of the fallen and mankind. Or as I postulate ,diluted
neanderthal /human hybrids that bred with humans further. They were not known as being as mighty as other races of giants....but they were somehow
related to them by blood. SO maybe they were a community of neanderthal that interbred with humanity so as to remain genetically viable and reproduce.
They eventually were bred out of large numbers of distinctive red haired giants. What they became was fringe groups of purists who were eventually
killed off by growing human populations who had now learned things like metallurgy and warfare. The secrets given to the daughters of man by their
fallen husbandmen....Prometheus already placed fire into mankind's hand and mankind in turn burned the sons of the gods who hated mankind for thinking
itself equal to them....those of "purer blood and proximity to the former gods" and so the descendants of the gods, wicked in heart and hunger, saw
themselves as being akin to gods themselves by birth right. You know, the whole paradigm to royalty: Gods, to God kings, to representative of God on
earth.
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