Trivia by any other name (11)

I do read a lot...probably too much but there is so much to learn.

I am currently reading some "I can make money from this crap" book (mainly because I do need something to do) and came across some far-fetched stuff. So I did a bit of Internet searching to see about the relevance/truthfulness/whatif stuff about what the book was saying.

Ummm...some of these guys do some research before publishing their crap adventure stories. Mostly, we have read or seen Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Codes" and other books. Logic is very good, explanations seem very good. Okay, the Masons or the Knights Templars have a lot to explain, it they really exist as suggested.

But what about a lot of the stuff suggested by Van Donegar (mucked upped that spelling). How does someone really explain the staues of Easter Island? Okay, how can anyone really exlain a lot of the legends we have in Aust that have similar legends in other places.

The Seven Sisters is one to really consdier as it is bother northern and southern hemishere. Although for some reason the only Aust Aborignal version seems to be the only one that has a direct correlation to "7" while other "dead" myths can only visualise/see/document "6" while referring to "7." The Suburu Symbol is the classic example of showing 6 while refering to 7.

I got to this stage reading a very fictional book and getting to the stage of "What do they really know and why do these people keep referring to some crap that nobody will really look at.

So I did. What did I find? Was it all make believe or is Dan Brown ( and maybe a few others) on some track? For the novel, fiction I was reading, it has taken 3/4 of the book to get to this tage where I have had enough. This is not Aesops Fables where I am looking for a meaning but rather something to keep me interested.

Ruins of Nan Madol

Nan Madol is the only known ancient city ever built on top of a coral reef. Construction is thought to have started 1,500 years ago and the Saudeleur people built 92 islands in the water next to Pohnpei, which is today part of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Off the shores of a tiny island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean are the ruins of an ancient civilization. The remains of Nan Madol are the only standing monument of a civilization built entirely over open water, on a coral reef.

Nan Madol was once home to the Saudeleur, who ruled the island of Pohnpei for more than a millennium, reported Smithsonian Magazine. The 92 artificial islands of Nan Madol are thought to have been constructed over the course of several centuries, and then eventually abandoned after 1,000 years of habitation.

Rufino Mauricio, Pohnpei’s only archaeologist, has dedicated his life to studying and preserving the ruins, which are built of 750,000 tons of black basaltic rock.

“We don’t know how they brought the columns here and we don’t know how they lifted them up to build the walls. Most Pohnpeians are content to believe they used magic to fly them,” Mauricio told Smithsonian.
He added that given the size of Pohnpei’s population at the time — fewer than 30,000 people — the construction of Nan Madol is an even larger and more remarkable effort than the Great Pyramids were for the ancient Egyptians.

Although Mauricio would like to clear out all the brush that now covers the small islands, preservation has become a complicated issue because of the ownership of Nan Madol. Although it belongs to the state of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, the traditional leader of the municipality where Nan Madol is located doesn’t want to relinquish control, making protection from UNESCO difficult to achieve.

For now, the ruins remain isolated from the rest of the island, avoided by the locals who fear that disturbing the site will bring bad luck.

When I was dating a lovely aboriginal lady from CS .
I was lucky enough to meet many of her friends and co workers .
One night they were telling ghost stories.
One they were explaining about this bad spirit evil creature .
Some had seen it said it was an old aboriginal thing . Main thing was a cat can turn into a man . And a few swore they had seen it !!!
I thought for a few seconds so this has only been around since white man came to australia
It then changed from cats and dogs into men
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Apologies to my very own aboriginal ancestors for bringing this up