Incredible tidbits. (“Stupid I-phone”!). Cut me off! Always been fascinated with English History during that period; always senced a link to it. Particularly fascinated by Elizabeth I and Mr. Walsingham; her advisor. I seemingly recognize an image of myself in an antique bronze mirror, in him. Wonderful writing! Couldn’t stop! Now I must go mow the bloody yard! Pffffttt! (One of my cats taught me that “expression!” Wonderful reading!
As Nietzsche one said, we climb on the steps laid by others. Hence Civilisation advances. I am a “”Horrid” Classisicist, and believe we’d be colonizing other planets if it hadn’t been for a certain Jewish “reformist” whom no one, in my opinion, understood what he was trying to do… and his supposed followers have destroyed entire civilisations…so, the destruction of The Great Library of Alexandria, the Cathars , Albigensians, “paganism,” , the purposeful destruction of almost everything from the Ancient World… ah! Thank The Infinite that the Muslims were, at the time, more objective. They had copies… and didn’t burn them. A great deal of our Gnosis of the writings of the Ancients is because of them. They didn’t believe the n burning everything, as “Christians” are prone to. Though when they sacked Baghdad in the 12th Century or so, they had already become “ossified” (as with Mediaeval Christianity much earlier) and destroyed everything.
Mayan, Aztec… I remember reading; think it was Diego De Lanza, the “bishop” of Tenochtitlan, now “Ciudad de Mexico”. He lamented and complained that the Mexica, though forcefully compelled to adopt “the new religion” cried when their “books” were burned in the public square of Tenochtitlan. I feel their pain, 500 or more years later. The Mayans, obsessed with Planet Venus (as were several ancient cultures) - had the most accurate record of its phases and orbit until the advent of modern computers. I do wander from subject to subject I know, but, in my mind at least, there is an “Ariadne’s Thread” through them all.
Thanks so much for your witty (Sal Atticum!), enjoyable, and incredibly enjoyable article!
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Incredible tidbits. (“Stupid I-phone”!). Cut me off! Always been fascinated with English History during that period; always senced a link to it. Particularly fascinated by Elizabeth I and Mr. Walsingham; her advisor. I seemingly recognize an image of myself in an antique bronze mirror, in him. Wonderful writing! Couldn’t stop! Now I must go mow the bloody yard! Pffffttt! (One of my cats taught me that “expression!” Wonderful reading!
As Nietzsche one said, we climb on the steps laid by others. Hence Civilisation advances. I am a “”Horrid” Classisicist, and believe we’d be colonizing other planets if it hadn’t been for a certain Jewish “reformist” whom no one, in my opinion, understood what he was trying to do… and his supposed followers have destroyed entire civilisations…so, the destruction of The Great Library of Alexandria, the Cathars , Albigensians, “paganism,” , the purposeful destruction of almost everything from the Ancient World… ah! Thank The Infinite that the Muslims were, at the time, more objective. They had copies… and didn’t burn them. A great deal of our Gnosis of the writings of the Ancients is because of them. They didn’t believe the n burning everything, as “Christians” are prone to. Though when they sacked Baghdad in the 12th Century or so, they had already become “ossified” (as with Mediaeval Christianity much earlier) and destroyed everything.
Mayan, Aztec… I remember reading; think it was Diego De Lanza, the “bishop” of Tenochtitlan, now “Ciudad de Mexico”. He lamented and complained that the Mexica, though forcefully compelled to adopt “the new religion” cried when their “books” were burned in the public square of Tenochtitlan. I feel their pain, 500 or more years later. The Mayans, obsessed with Planet Venus (as were several ancient cultures) - had the most accurate record of its phases and orbit until the advent of modern computers. I do wander from subject to subject I know, but, in my mind at least, there is an “Ariadne’s Thread” through them all.
Thanks so much for your witty (Sal Atticum!), enjoyable, and incredibly enjoyable article!