Wait, what? We have our ancient Indigenous DNA still inside, with little Euro contribution?
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Los Maya y Azteca tenian mucha sabiduria
(Now it) Scientists reveal shocking genetic origin of Mexicans: Maternal line almost entirely Indigenous, paternal line mostly European. Why? Mass rape, forced blending, "survival mating" with invaders, occupiers, and Spanish and other European colonial masters
Mestizo
Maya
Aztec (Mexicas, Mexicanos)
Toltec
Zapotec
Olmec
African Americans
Edward P. Vining: An Inglorious Columbus
Rick Fields: How the Swans Came to the Lake
Down with rapist colonizers of Roman Catholic Church and the Spanish Crown! St. Junipero?
Mexico? How big is the "United States of Mexico" (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)?
The Khuddaka Nikaya, or "Collection of Little Texts" (Pali khudda = "smaller," "lesser"), the fifth division of the Sutta Pitaka ("Discourse Collection"), is a wide-ranging collection of 15 books (18 in the Burmese Tipitaka), containing complete sutras, verses, and smaller fragments of Dhamma (Teachings). While many of these have been treasured and memorized by devoted Buddhists around the world for centuries, others have never left the private domain of Pali language scholars; some have yet to be translated into English. More: accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka
14. Buddhavamsa — "History of the Buddhas": Biographical accounts of Gotama (Gautama) Buddha and of the 24 [of 27 he mentioned] supremely awakened buddhas who preceded him. Availability of English translations: Print: Minor Anthologies (Vol. III) — Buddhavamsa: Chronicles of Buddhas and Cariyapitaka: "Basket of Conduct," I.B. Horner (trans., Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1975). On-line: None known.
The Mexica (pronounced /meh-hee-kuh/ or /meh-chee-kuh/) tribe of the Valley of Mexico gave "Mexico" (a country the official name of which is the "United Mexican States" or Estados Unidos Mexicanos) its modern name, not as a place that ever spoke Spanish but rather the indigenous languageNahuatl (/naw-wah/), "Mexican" of the Nahua people and Chichimeca (/chee-chee-mee-kuh/) people. Let's ask early indigenous chronicler Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl.
(Beyond the Altar) Israel kept worshipping Baal, and the Bible admits it. [Judaism has never been monotheistic; it has always been henotheistic, which is why it changes Gods and claims to only ever have one. Kill more children and send them My way, Israel, and I shall rewardeth y'all in the afterlife, I mean, in the here-and-now with lots of money and land, and as far as the eye can see for "Greater Israel." Join the Movement! Keep worshipping Me. And Moloch, too. All the Canaanites of the Levant love their true gods and wouldn't dream of stopping the blood sacrifices, tribute, and worship...or else.]
(History But Fast) Originating from ancient cultures and societies, prostitution [trading sex for consideration, usually monetary] has been documented as a defined thing as far back as 2400 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia, where sacred edicts legitimatized this practice.
Deeply rooted in tradition, culture, and socio-economic dynamics, it grew with civilization, oftentimes blurring lines between religious acceptance and societal norms.
Commerce, slavery, segregation -- various factors intertwined, shaping its complex history. With changing times, the perception and status of prostitution has also metamorphosed, sparking a spectrum of laws, debates, and attitudes around the world.
Let's journey back in time, unraveling the enigmatic roots of sacred prostitution in Sumer as reported in the oldest written work we have, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Archeologist finds tomb of Gilgamesh in Euphrates
Get Real: Pimps 'n Hoes
On the Block with Pimps and Prostitutes
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Would it be the worst thing to bring back sacred prostitution?
Girls Gone Bible (not Wild)
There is a fascinating little book out there in the world somewhere (and lost in the stacks of the Wisdom Quarterly Library), a pamphlet really, called something like An Experience of Enlightenment. Fascinating title but misleading. First of all, no one gets enlightened.
What happens is that the author recounts the true story of an incident that happened to affluent Westerners, friends dabbling in the occult by having a seance to "communicate with the other side." Sounds ominous, but who wouldn't want to connect to the Other Side, the Twilight Zone, the Shadow World? Sounds scary, but it ended well, not with actual enlightenment but with an experience that was eye opening.
The banana hammock is a popular undergarment
A spirit came through telling them an unbelievable story. They're all Judeo-Christian by tradition so, of course, they don't really care about or believe in religion or spirituality. But then this being, entity, ghost comes through a medium with such a stunning story that it makes them all doubt their secularism. The spirit says that thousands of years ago (~3,000) he used to be a priest in charge of a temple in what is now India, at the sacred confluence of some rivers up north (in the IVC, Gandhara, Scythia region under the Himalayas).
One day a prince is traveling through, and as priest he shows him hospitality. He claps for a temple dancing girl to come out and entertain this guest, this youth, as he is given food and drink. The priest has a crush on this dancing girl, possibly a temple prostitute of some kind or just a veiled sacred Kathak dancer, She immediately falls in love with the youth and he with her. The priest notices and sends her away. But it's too late. They elope. And when the priest, the spirit through the medium, notices, he loses control and kills her. He might have killed the youth, too.
In either case, it's in contradiction to his religion and priestly duties, so when he dies and expects to get into Brahma's heaven for his life of religious devotion to protecting the temple to some god or another, he is unable. Kind Brahma tells him he needs to get their forgiveness. That is, it's not enough that he apologize. That would be easy. It's that they must forgive him. Everyone at the seance table is moved by his testimony and glad he contacted them with this story of past lives, heaven, sin, lust, possessiveness, God, and karma, BUT what's it got to do with them?
Westerners horsing around at an American seance table. That's when he lays down the boom, showing how strange the working-out-of-karma is: Those two people he needs to get the forgiveness from at sitting at the table right now. You're one of them, temple dancing girl being ogled by the priest, and that guy's the former youth.
Would sacred temple prostitution have mitigated this situation? Or is emotional love going to always win out, prompting our craving, longing, and attachment? This poor priest, possessive murderer. This poor frustrated couple, gets reborn to find each other anew, in the holy precincts of a temple to the God, but then this jerk's attachment leads him to a jealous rage that gets people killed and him in 3,000 or more years' worth of trouble, trying to track these two down to get them to understand what happened, accept his apology, and grant their forgiveness so he finally move on and up. Do they grant it?
Readers come a way with a dizzying set of questions about what the Buddha was talking about when he warned about craving, lust, attachment, karma (deeds), thoughts, views, words...and forgiveness (khanti). This is a Western author talking to Westerners. There is no Indian, except what we were before rearising here. Even us, why do we care about spiritual India so much?
Why did Paramahamsa Yogananda claim he found his former students now living in the West, reborn white and prosperous? And they recognized him, were attracted to him, found his Kriya Yoga teaching perfectly in line with the Jesusism and Christianity they were now born into, when even today few people realize the "lost years" of Jesus (Issa) were spent in northern India, at that time culturally Tibet, at Hemis Gompa, where he
studied with Buddhist monks,
met Brahmins,
learned Vedic teachings...
He took all of this back to the West with his Zen-like parables for answers and other oddities, totally unJewish but very much in line with what the Essenes suddenly started to practice in Palestine/Israel out of nowhere, with no predecessor in Jewish texts or customs. The Gnostic texts that talk about the way of the Essenes is very Dharmic and much more Buddhistic, Eastern, and mellow as opposed to anything Abrahamic.
And if we go much further back to the Sumerian roots of Judaism (who took those ancient stories and made them about themselves), to a time before the Jewish priests desecrated "God's House" and turned the temple into a usury-bank for moneychangers, a den of iniquity and hypocrisy, so odious that Saint Issa/Jesus Christ flipped those tables over and chased them out, securing the place for godly things again.
Imagine a temple economy based not on the disgusting ritual slaughter of sacrificial animals and black magic rites of scapegoats and blood atonements to some insane tribal war god demanding the scent of burnt offerings (roasted flesh) wafting up to Him but instead the disgusting ritual prostitution of holy orgasm and sex with respect and not possessiveness and clinging. We could be as bonobos rather than chimps and vicious apes!
This temple economy based on killing animals is exposed in Christspiracy and is just like the ancient Greeks' obsession with dead offerings to their pantheon in Homer's The Odyssey and which even the good Vedas talk about having Brahmin priests do for Brahma or other more sinister spirits, godlings, demigods/titans, ogres, reptilians/Draconians, and interlopers (superiors, devas, asuras, yakkhas, nagas, brahmas)
Who knows how the great Sumerians set up a system of sex at church, sex at temple, sex in the holy precincts of houses of worship, devotion, and morality-learning, but it would be great to bring it back.
Whether prostitution is ultimately good or bad, no one can question how bad it is in current practice -- full of condemnation, shame, drug abuse, exploitation, pimps, madams, abusive boyfriends, lack of agency and advancement. Sex work could be a positive thing. It's going to be a thing anyway.
Look at the bonobos, chimps, gorillas, monkey, macaques, orangutans, and other primates, they use sex the way humans do. And to say we don't is willful ignorance, foolishly dismissing what anyone can see.
History But Fast, March 9, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, orig. 3/27/24
Mysterious Old World: Sumerians, did they invent everything? They claim to have invented nothing. It was all given to them by the Anunnaki, those who came from the sky. Ask Zecharia Sitchin. But 6,000 years ago and longer, in a place called Sumer (reminiscent of Mt. Sumeru in Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cosmology), there lived a people in Mesopotamia doing miraculous things they should not have been able to do.
(Voyager) June 7, 2025: CALIFORNIA. What’s hiding beneath California? This Ice Age deep-dive reveals fossils, lost megafauna (large animals), ancient humans (Natives), and the land before cities.
Today, we journey back to a California few ever imagine, an ancient landscape buried beneath our cities, beaches, and freeways. Long before San Diego’s skyline rose or La Jolla’s cliffs drew surfers, this land was ruled by Columbian mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and early humans (pre-Clovis) who braved a world still shaped by ice. From submerged Kumeyaay village sites to fossil-filled tar pits and coastal cliffs hiding prehistoric secrets, this is the untold story of Ice Age California.
🔹 What San Diego, Los Angeles, and the Channel Islands such as Catalina looked like 20,000 years ago
🔹 The giants that once roamed the coast: mammoths, dire wolves, and saber-toothed cats
🔹 Human footprints on ancient shores — early seafarers, hunters, and toolmakers
🔹 How fossils found during construction projects and cliffside erosion are rewriting history
🔹 Why understanding the deep past matters in today’s changing world
Timecodes
0:00 Hidden beneath California
1:32 What California looked like 20,000 years ago
5:15 Giants of the Ice Age: mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and more
9:15 Clues in unexpected places
12:24 Pioneers of the Ice Age: California’s first people
16:05 When the giants disappeared
19:36 Traces in today’s world
21:11 Outro and what comes next
Land of the Tongva became modern Los Angeles
ABOUT: In this episode, Armando from Voyager takes viewers deep beneath the surface of California — into a forgotten world shaped during the last Ice Age. From saber-toothed cats and Columbian mammoths to early human seafarers and ancient submerged villages, we uncover the astonishing history hidden under modern-day San Diego and beyond. This journey blends science, storytelling, and Indigenous memory to reveal a California most people never imagined. Whether into fossils, archeology, or just want to see California in a whole new light, this is a story that redefines the land beneath our feet.
YouTube: @voyagerhq • Instagram: voyagerclips • TikTok: voyagerhq • Website: voyagertraveltips.com. QUESTIONS: Have a question about Southern California or video topic requests? Drop it in the comments. #IceAgeCalifornia #PrehistoricCalifornia #CaliforniaHistory #AncientCalifornia #HiddenHistory.
What? Middle Eastern North Africans? No, we were always white. We're from Heaven.
The Bible's been changed WAY more than most people realize!
(Holy Koolaid) Since the many books of the Bible were first written, just how much has the Bible been changed? After the New Testament was compiled, how much was it edited, tweaked, and altered to fit the agendas of scribes, copyists, and early Church fathers?
Are there other versions of the Bible? Did significant copying mistakes and translations errors (to say nothing of the purposeful changes and "corrections" to improve on God's word] find their way into our modern copies of the Bible?
If the Bible is the word of God and was divinely inspired, shouldn't it also have been divinely preserved? But has it been?
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women.
For centuries, men have been writing histories (his story) of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors, and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women, aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones.
While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins.
In The Missing Thread, researcher Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the center of the narrative. These pages present Enheduanna, the earliest named author, Telesilla, who defended her city from attack, and the gay poet Sappho.
Here is Artemisia I of Caria, sole female commander in the Graeco-Persian Wars, and Locusta, Rome’s premier toxicologist. Cleopatra may be the more famous, but Fulvia, Mark Antony’s wife in Rome, fought a war on his behalf.
Many other women remain nameless but integral. Through new examination of the sources combined with vivid storytelling, Daisy Dunn shows us the ancient world through fresh eyes and introduces us to an incredible cast of ancient women, weavers of an entire world.
Around 4,000 years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over 1,000 years later, Sappho wrote great poems of gay longing and desire.
For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women — whether they were simply sitting at their looms knitting at home or participating in the highest echelons of power — were up to something much more interesting than most histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.
In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines. It is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and Agrippina, as well as the likes of Achaemenid consort Atossa and Olympias, a force in Macedon.
Spanning 3,000 years, the story moves from Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece, from Lesbos to Asia Minor (Anatolia, Turkiye), from the Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire) to the royal court of Macedonia, and concludes with Rome and its growing empire.
The women of antiquity are undeniably woven throughout the fabric of history (her story), and in The Missing Thread they finally take center stage. More
(History But Fast) 9/6/24: Explore the fascinating history of pornography, tracing its roots from ancient civilizations to the digital age. Delve into how early cultures like the ancient Greeks and Romans depicted erotic art and literature, reflecting societal norms and taboos. Discover the impact of the printing press in the 15th century, which revolutionized the dissemination of explicit and obscene material, making it more accessible than ever before.
Journey through the Victorian Age, when the tension between moral conservatism and hidden desires led to a clandestine market for erotic novels and photographs. Learn about the role of early cinema in the 20th century, which brought moving images into the realm of adult entertainment, pushing boundaries and challenging censorship laws.
Examine the pivotal moments in the 1960s and 70s, when the sexual revolution and the rise of counterculture movements led to a more open discussion and acceptance of pornography. Understand the legal battles and landmark court cases that shaped the industry, defining what could be produced and consumed.
Witness the transformation brought by the internet, which democratized access to adult content, creating a global market and giving rise to new genres and platforms. Analyze the ongoing debates about the ethical implications, societal impact, and future of pornography in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
This video offers a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of pornography, providing historical context and critical insights into one of the most controversial yet enduring aspects of human culture.
Whether one is a history enthusiast, a sociology student, or simply curious about the subject, this exploration promises to be both enlightening and thought-provoking.
#HistoryOfPornography #EroticArt #AncientCivilizations #PrintingPress #VictorianEra #EarlyCinema #SexualRevolution #Censorship #InternetPorn #DigitalAge #AdultEntertainment #CulturalImpact #EthicalDebates #Sociology #HumanCulture
The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 E5
(The British Museum) Premiered Aug. 1, 2024: The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. [In space they have older ones.] Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.
However, scholar Irving Finkel and a particularly gifted student of his, Edith Horsley, managed to locate a missing piece of the map, slot it back into the cuneiform tablet, and from there set us all on journey through the somewhat mythical landscape of Mesopotamia to find the final resting place of the ark.
And, yes, we mean that ark, as in the stolen story of Noah [appropriated from older cultures and flood myths, namely, the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and Akkadian Atra-Hasis].
00:00 Intro
00:52 Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablets
01:48 The oldest map of the world, in the world
02:07 What is the Babylonian Map of the World?
02:34 The Babylonian Map of the World explained
04:13 What are the triangles on the Babylonian Map of the World?
06:17 Missing triangle on the Babylonian Map of the World
06:52 Edith Horsley - Cuneiform LEGEND
07:20 Channel 4 News report on Babylonian Map of the World September 1995
Although in the earlier Mesopotamian version of the flood story, the ark is built by Ziusudra. CONTENT WARNING: Contains a baby Irving F., when his beard was not yet white. #curatorscorner#babylon#mesopotamia
Irving Finkel, British Museum, Aug. 1, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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