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Tarxien ||||Hypogeum || Ggantija ||Marija ||Hagar Qim Mnajdra||Tas-Silg ||Ghar Dalam ||Temple of Juno |
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Who Are the Neolithic People |
| The Neolithic, (Greek
neos=new, lithos=stone, or "New Stone Age") is
traditionally the last part of the
stone age.
Thus "Neolithic" does not describe
a chronological term, but refers instead to the earliest phases of
sedentary communities and farming in any given region. The name "Neolithic" is associated with a suite of specific behavioural and cultural characteristics including the growing of crops and the use of tame animals. From about 10000 to 8000 BC this was limited to simple crops (both wild and domestic) and the keeping of sheep and goats, but by about 7000 BC it included domestic cows, pigs, permanently or semi-permanently inhabited settlements and the use of pottery. With very small exceptions (a few
copper
hatchets and
spear
heads in the
Great Lakes region) the peoples of the
Americas and the
Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of
technology up until the time of the European contacts. However,
it is important to note that technological complexity does not
correlate with social complexity |
| Carnaval.com last visited these topics in 2001 as part of the examining the mythical meaning of the Voyage of Columbus when we pointed out the most popular date used for the shift to the age of Aquarius is Winter Solstice 2012 |
| It's good to remember
these rites of passage that mark the end of who we were and the
beginning of who we will become, and the images that supported
us in our crossing.
Marion Woodman-- The Ravages Bridegrrom |
| The spectacle of old age
would be unendurable if we did not know that our psyche reaches
into a region held captive neither by change in time nor by
limitation of place. In that form of being our birth is a death
and our death a birth. The scales of the whole hang balanced.
C.G. Jung Letter, 23 DEC-1950 |
MALTA: CROSSROADS
of
the CULTURES
has also kept time with the ages
Prehistory for us begins following the last ICE AGE in 10,000 BC to 3000BC and is most noteworthy for agriculture and ship building. The Great Sphinx in Egypt references this age (Temple_of_Esneh) and it has not been disproved that the incredible monument was actually built during this time. Evidence of the first cities does not begin till 7500BC in today's Turkey (Cancer) Little is known about the first civilization which began on the nearby island of Crete but their goddess and bull symbols from later times are well known to us through the Greek myths. Their palace culture indicates their place as the first traders of the Mediterranean and the need to use knowledge of the stars to navigate.
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CRETE: The star constellations Taurus & Perseus show prehistory's ability to speak across the millenniums through the symbology of the spheres |
The Sumerians written language explained a system of
astrological observation which was many millennium in the making. Based
upon the how the night sky of stars shifts over generations it
understood humanity as a reflection of the planets, the earth and a
cycle that repeats itself every 26,000 years divided by 12.
According to this system known as the Precession of the Equinoxes, the
planet is
shifting from the age of Pisces (opposing fish) to the
age of Aquarius ( water carrier, water, siren, and increasingly as a
space ship)
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| IRAQ: Zodiac wheel first originated in ancient Babylonia [Iraq today] . The question of other civilizations knowledge before this time is one of the most popular debates in the lively on-line discussions about prehistory. more |
The Maltese archipelago was permanently settled for the first time during the closing centuries of the 6th millennium BCE and was inhabited by communities from 5000 - 2300 BCE. The highly sophisticated temple architecture of this period were repositories of some of the most compelling art produced in the Mediterranean world during this time. Over 40 temple sites have been discovered from these times on the two small islands leading many to speculate whether Malta might have been a sacred island in those early days, where people living in the Mediterranean's first cities would travel to their excellent natural harbors on a pilgrimage to worship and give thanks. Others say Malta today was the top of a sacred mountain and that there are other temples underneath the sea.
Both the great pyramids and Stonehenge are best understood as mathematical illustrations of the universe. Astrologists and scientists can find knowledge in the planetary alignments and mathematical proportions expressed in the designs of these structures. Some of the Maltese Temples, constructed 1000 years earlier are aligned with the the equinox and solstices of the year. The altar above references zodiac symbols but its message is not clear. Planetary alignment has also not yet been demonstrated in this field dominated by intrepid amateurs.
Precession of the Equinoxes
illustrated
It takes 72 years for the precession to move 1 degree, 2,160 years for
one Age, and 25,920 for the entire cycle to repeat. According to this
cycle we are now at the opposite pole of the age Leo when the ice age or
the last great cataclysm on earth occurred around 11,000 BC. We
have been experiencing the shift of the Ages since the Italian
Renaissance which recovered the knowledge from prior ages reflected in
the Greek myths. Visit our short history of the Ages of Aquarius, Pisces
and Aries here
