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Date Posted: 11:25:28 05/25/02 Sat
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer
Subject: Re: Unoriginality in Conan
In reply to: Adilbrand 's message, "Unoriginality in Conan" on 19:59:00 05/23/02 Thu

I was unaware of Howard's creation of this previous Hyborian Age (it is not mentioned in Anderson's book) so my complaint about its lack of originality goes to the wayside, since this is an original concept, esp. the idea that our age has copied the customs and ideas of that age, after some gigantic disaster of Atlantian proportions, I suppose.

There is a Discovery Channel/TLC documentary that I've seen twice that proposes a similar idea. The narrator proposes that there was a previous culture that traveled the world and spread certain concepts such as literacy and religious ideas. His proof is almost entirely circumstantial, including a lot of "Did you ever notice...?" with things like the similarity of religious pantheons around the world. Some is a little more concrete, like the presence of a winged serpant motif in Egypt, Meso-America and Southeast Asia on ancient archeological sites. Usually, this motiff is associated with knowledge.

His other proof is the fact that almost all ancient arch. sites are built around the stars, incl. the Great Pyramids (they are a little model of Orion's belt, if you view them from above)and of course Stonehenge and the giant Nazca Lines in South America. A set of temples in Cambodia is modeled on another grouping of stars. He asserts that some of the Buddhist statues there portraying the balance of good and evil making the universe go around are also mathematical equations put into stone that explain the slight wobble the earth has as it spins. This wobble would have been immensely important to stargazing cultures over time.

The only major culture that he could not find a star grouping to match was Meso-America. The oldest major site there is Teotihuacan outside of Mexico City (the only one he mentioned that I've personally been to - very cool place to go). It turns out that if you measure out this entire site, it is exactly 1/100,000 of the distance around the earth. Coincidence? maybe.

I find this type of thing fascinating, as you can tell.

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I've seen that documentary -- Adilbrand, 22:53:38 05/25/02 Sat