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Originally posted by billy565
I'm staying skinny.
No more junk food 4 me. If they come after me I'll just point out the first fat person I see, which shouldn't take long.
I don't want to be food!!!! Now I know how farm animals feel.
Maybe I'll become a vegetarian.
Originally posted by Spider879
This is strictly for intellectual exercise on my part as my participation in this thread but I think many who believe in the ancient alien theory and for the purpose of this thread may find this interesting, the below is part of the orgiastic rites of the Pyramid text:
The Cannibal Hymn to Pharaoh Unis (ca.2378 - 2348 BCE)
Pharaoh is the Bull of the Sky, who shatters at will, who lives on the being of every god, who eats their entrails, even of those who come with their bodies full of magic from the Island of Flame . Pharaoh is one equipped, who assembles his Akhs. Pharaoh appears as this Great One, Lord of those with (helping) hands. He sits with his back to Geb, for it is Pharaoh who weighs what he says, together with Him-whose-name-is-hidden (5), on this day of slaying the oldest ones. Pharaoh is Lord of Offerings, who knots the cord, and who himself prepares his meal. Pharaoh is he who eats men and lives on gods, Lord of Porters, who dispatches written messages. It is 'Grasper-of-the-top-knot', who is Kehau, who lassoes them for Pharaoh. It is 'Serpent Raised-head' who guards them for him and restrains them for him. It is 'He-upon-the-willows' who binds them for him. It is Courser, slayer of Lords, who will cut their throats for Pharaoh, and will extract for him what is in their bodies, for he is the messenger whom Pharaoh sends to restrain. It is Shezmu ( who will cut them up for Pharaoh, and cooks meals of them in his dinner-pots.
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edit on 14-5-2013 by Spider879 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by karen61560
reply to post by Blue Shift
Good point. Perhaps that explains why they dont harvest regularly. We are really a special occasion meal and are quite expensive. Like Chateaubriand. (With tiny porcini mushrooms in a nice red wine sauce mmmmmmm.)
Originally posted by karen61560
reply to post by sulaw
Why would there be mass graves? Was there a mass die off ? There are plenty of old cemetaries around and before then the bodies were either burned, cast out to sea or buried or were eaten by animals. Why would you expect a mass grave?
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by TheLieWeLive
No. Sorry, but no. We humans aren't the best food source, unless the aliens who want to eat us are interested in eating all sorts of toxic GMO and pharmaceutical and pesticide-laden meat.
The thought is ridiculous.
Much more likely is the gold mine slave race idea. Absentee owners, privileged managers... yeah, I can see things coming to this by that means. Not by the means of being a meat farm.
Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age
In ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in the Tartarus, so that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus.Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, semen)[who?] that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which the goddess Aphrodite emerged.[2] For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons Titenes (Τιτῆνες; according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed) for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act.[2]
Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born, to preempt the prophecy. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. Another child Cronus is reputed to have fathered is Chiron, by Philyra.
Once he had grown up, Zeus used an emetic given to him by Gaia to force Cronus to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Mount Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the goat, and then his two brothers and three sisters. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. After freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes, who with the help of Hephaestus, forged for him his thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident and Hades' helmet of darkness.
In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, with the help of the Gigantes, Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus. Some Titans were not banished to Tartarus. Atlas, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus are examples of Titans who were not imprisoned in Tartarus following the Titanomachy. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans, though Zeus was victorious.
Originally posted by karen61560
reply to post by sulaw
Why would there be mass graves? Was there a mass die off ?
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by TheLieWeLive
No. Sorry, but no. We humans aren't the best food source, unless the aliens who want to eat us are interested in eating all sorts of toxic GMO and pharmaceutical and pesticide-laden meat.
The thought is ridiculous.
Much more likely is the gold mine slave race idea. Absentee owners, privileged managers... yeah, I can see things coming to this by that means. Not by the means of being a meat farm.
Ok let's go with just the Gold mining theory for a moment.
What could explain the widespread prevalence of ritual sacrifice and cannibalism?
Would it have to be a completely unrelated development or do you think they are connected in some way? Obviously this is going to be all speculation but what the hell, let's speculate to our hearts content. It's a fun topic after all.