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Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by purplemer
www.theplasmaverse.com...
Maybe sometime in the past an event took place that lit the skies up.
Peratt surmised that a surge of power in the currents driving the auroras had set off the sequence of instabilities. The entire pre-historical sky around the globe would have appeared to come alive with a shimmering, shining “enhanced aurora” that stretched from pole to pole. It would have featured exactly those abstract figures and stick men and strange animal-like shapes that appear only in rock art and in high-energy plasma discharges. He contends that the ancient artists were witnesses to this “enhanced aurora
If this event took place I wonder what the effect would have been on mankind.. The event is believed to have taken place between 4000-12000 years ago.
(headdesk)
He has no idea what he's talking about. Yes, he's a marvelous physicist, but his idea that he can sort of intuit cultural anthropology by simply looking at rock art images is... as bad as thinking that I could look at images of high energy discharges and announce a theory of plasma.
One of those images is of a woman giving birth. Several of the images are women (genital identification) and the dots are representational breasts. Some of them are men... but not all of them are.
This is something he'd know if he studied cultural anthropology.
To assume the images all have the same meaning and were created at the same time is an error in research.
edit on 17-6-2013 by Byrd because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by olaru12
It's a dance maneuver....
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Totally obvious to me, that a person had to get naked and squat to use the stargates.
Originally posted by flice
Out of curiosity....... the people who conducted the studies on these rock images...... why was it that enough people agreed that what they said was the truth... that it was the correct assumption?
To be honest.... I think a lot of antropologists are so full of # and the majority of them are back padders just aching to get acknowledged in what they do even though they don't have a clue.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Byrd
The Rock Art it well out of remit for me. Could you explain to me how such similar depictions have found themselves in different parts of the earth. The two points under the arms is distinctive. Did they all share the same god or something.
Originally posted by Byrd
You might enjoy going on one of the public paleontology or field archaeology schools and talking to real anthropologists and paleontologists who are doing the research. Find out how it's done and how they come to those conclusions.
It's a lot different than websites lead you to believe.
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originally posted by: Byrd
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Byrd
The Rock Art it well out of remit for me. Could you explain to me how such similar depictions have found themselves in different parts of the earth. The two points under the arms is distinctive. Did they all share the same god or something.
There are several things going on there.
A number of the images are actually female (genitalia shown as a loop or two short marks descending from the juncture of hips and body) and the dots may represent breasts. In one image, the circle is actually a cropped part of a bigger design element (you're not seeing the whole piece of art.)
And in another couple of pieces, frankly, I don't know. I would have to see where it came from and what the other symbols were around there.
In the case of Trans-Pecos culture, those circles would actually be "medicine pouches" (we have rock art of the rabbit eared shaman and cougar shamans) and yes, they are shown with a medicine pouch made of cactus leaf (de-spined, of course) under each arm. The panther shaman here has one under the left (your right) arm: www.next1000.com... (I realize you may not recognize those figures as human/shamans but it's well established that this is what they are.)
More on the styles of the Lower-Pecos/Trans-Pecos art here:
www.texasbeyondhistory.net...
(sorry that this is my only and best example, but it's the one I studied most.)
Great topic and I would like to point out that the squatting man glyphs are but one of many petroglyphs identified as plasma discharges.
originally posted by: purplemer
Wanted to share the Squatting Man...
The link below shows several examples.
Eighty-four distinct high-energy-density Z-pinch categories have been identified in petroglyphs, nearly all of which belong to the archaic [50] class. Only a small percentage of these petroglyphs, or parts of petroglyph patterns, do not fall into any of these categories.
How do you think a theory for plasma discharges came about? I don't mean you looking up but perhaps someone like Kristian Birkeland.
originally posted by: Byrd
He has no idea what he's talking about. Yes, he's a marvelous physicist, but his idea that he can sort of intuit cultural anthropology by simply looking at rock art images is... as bad as thinking that I could look at images of high energy discharges and announce a theory of plasma.
Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source
Orientation and field-of-view data are given as surveyed and contributed from 139 countries, from sites and fields containing several millions of these objects
Anthropologists see anthropomorphic images and plasma physicists see plasma discharges. Who is correct? Keep in mind we are talking about millions of glyphs from around the world, not just a couple, and more than one type of plasma discharge shape.
originally posted by: Byrd
One of those images is of a woman giving birth. Several of the images are women (genital identification) and the dots are representational breasts. Some of them are men... but not all of them are.
Part 1 is linked in the post above.
Part I focused primarily, but not exclusively, on petroglyphs of some 84 different morphologies: pictures found in laboratory experiments and carved on rock.
I think the error would be to comment on material one has not yet read. I don’t know if you are at all interested in this topic or if you have read Anthony Peratt’s linked PDF’s but, if you have, I would love to ‘hear your thoughts’.
originally posted by: Byrd
To assume the images all have the same meaning and were created at the same time is an error in research.
At best it's difficult to date rock art but this is basically the theory. An event happened in the past that was observed and recorded by ancient humans.
originally posted by: Astyanax
So, are all the figures the same age? If so, then maybe the people who drew them all saw the same thing in the sky.
Petroglyphs, “rock art,” are thought to date back to the Pleistocene and Paleolithic—the earliest markings by man on rock. While the dating of petroglyphs has been a high priority for all who study or record them, there exists no consensus that an absolute age can be attached to any one pre-Colombian petroglyph.
Differing exposures to the elements leads to differing durability, coloration of the rocks patina or desert varnish (a natural coating of manganese, iron oxides, and clay minerals), and lichen overgrowth. The uncovering of the Glorieta Mesa and Rowe Mesa horizontal petroglyph sites from under one meter of earth near Santa Fe, NM might give the best indication of the ages of some petroglyphs. Campfire remnants some centimeters above the petroglyphs suggest that they are at least 4000 years old.
From what I have read it seems that many glyphs were carved and recarved several times which indicates a reoccurring or an ongoing event.
originally posted by: Astyanax
If the figures aren't all the same age, that must mean the same display reappeared in the sky several times over several hundred years. What was it and why isn't it there now?
The known plasma and shockwave instability types, when scaled from experimental to space plasma dimensions, suggests an intense auroral event lasting at least a few centuries. The newer concentrics, especially those with inner patterns (not shown) and the unwinding spirals provide information about the final cessation of intense incoming plasma flux. On the other hand, the ancient concentrics and spirals, the remains of some having been cut and carved 8 cm deep in granite, suggests that intense auroral events were a common occurrence for at least a few centuries if not millennia. The patterns are representative of a long-term period of typically quiescent aurora.
What could have caused the Sun's solar wind to increase to such a degree is a very intriguing question.
It is found that a great many archaic petroglyphs can be classified according to plasma stability and instability data. As the same morphological types are found worldwide, the comparisons suggest the occurrence of an intense aurora, as might be produced if the solar wind had increased between one and two orders of magnitude, millennia ago.
I believe there were but these myths are ambiguous and have never been considered a reliable or usable source of an ancient celestial record.
originally posted by: Astyanax
While primitives were scrawling figures on rocks, were there any civilisations in any part of the world that left records of such displays in the sky?
originally posted by: Devino
How do you think a theory for plasma discharges came about? I don't mean you looking up but perhaps someone like Kristian Birkeland.
originally posted by: Byrd
He has no idea what he's talking about. Yes, he's a marvelous physicist, but his idea that he can sort of intuit cultural anthropology by simply looking at rock art images is... as bad as thinking that I could look at images of high energy discharges and announce a theory of plasma.
Anthropologists see anthropomorphic images and plasma physicists see plasma discharges. Who is correct?
originally posted by: Byrd
One of those images is of a woman giving birth. Several of the images are women (genital identification) and the dots are representational breasts. Some of them are men... but not all of them are.
I think the error would be to comment on material one has not yet read. I don’t know if you are at all interested in this topic or if you have read Anthony Peratt’s linked PDF’s but, if you have, I would love to ‘hear your thoughts’.
originally posted by: Devino
I think the error would be to comment on material one has not yet read.
originally posted by: Devino
Who is correct?
I wouldn’t. My question has to do with the glyphs thought to be 4000+ years old. Who made these? There are massive amounts of glyphs just in the American southwest and I understand that dating of them is a problem. In your study have you found any way of confirming dates? Could the styles be an indication of age or era?
originally posted by: Byrd
The people who made the images. There's a lot of traditional information about what these representations are from the people who made them and their descendants. If they say that these images are people and some were made by their grandparents, why would you think that their grandparents are mistaking plasma for people?
I don’t really have an opinion on this subject since I have only seen a handful of glyphs in person but am following up on Peratt’s paper. The few petroglyphs I have actually visited showed very odd shaped stick figures with bazaar squiggly lines coming out of their hands and odd shaped heads sometimes resembling a duck. I took a few pictures but they did not turn out well.
originally posted by: Byrd
Furthermore, you're seeing these images out of context. Seen in context (grouped with drawings of animals, tools, weapons, magical designs, etc) they look very different.
I surmised as much by reading your posts throughout the years on this site and to be honest I got a little excited to see you participating in this thread.
originally posted by: Byrd
I was involved with the Texas Rock Art Society about a decade ago and did some fairly intense study on petroglyphs and pictographs when getting a Master's in Anthropology a decade ago and documented a California site that interested me.
I agree and one that is fast becoming a hobby of mine, not as if I don’t already have more hobbies than I can shack a stick at.
originally posted by: Byrd
It's a fascinating field and one that is open to researchers willing to take a camera out to sites and document them for posterity.