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An ancient seafaring people driven both by a desire for wealth and pow ...
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If you're having trouble with any of the terminology here, try the free encyclopedia Wikipedia / ...
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If you have perused the articles in the link I provided in my last post, you many be either ready for more or a bit confused. If the ...
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Solheim writes about the northern expansions: "I hypothesize that any time that maritime people in their explorations would come acro ...
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The Nusantao lived around shell mounds and sand dunes. Often they lived right on top of them. Later as they moved into colder regio ...
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Think of a people living on boats or on houses built on piles in bays and estuaries. The type of people that still exist today all ov ...
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Since I will be discussing some long-range contacts more frequently I'm linking a map showing wide distribution of cultural items: br ...
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As alluded to earlier, Solheim equated the Dawenkou culture of Shandong with Nusantao who ha ...
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The following translation of a Kapampangan legend by Michael Panglinan will help us unravel the socio-political situation of the Nusa ...
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I have noted that rising sea levels and natural disasters played a big role in the Nusantao and previous Sundaland migrations. Also c ...
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During the migrations mentioned by Oppenheimer that took place between about 8000 and 6000 years ago, shell mound cultures appear in ...
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Shun-Sheng Ling wrote: "During ancient times the majority of the inhabitants of the Pacific coast of China belonged to the East Yi. ...
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The battle between deities of the volcanoes Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. Arayat, I submit, tells of a real simultaneous or near-simultaneous ...
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In China, the legendary emperor Fu Hsi is said to have founded the phoenix clan of the Dong Yi people of Shandong.Fu Hsi ...
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Around 5,000 BC, we see the rise of Proto-Sumerian Ubaid sites in southern Iraq and at other Persian Gulf coast sites particularly on ...
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The union of the dragon/serpent and bird clans appears to have been sealed by an actual marriage between two leading families in thes ...
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And he knew that the Garden of Eden is the holy of holies, and the dwelling of the Lord...Book of Jubilee ...
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The Chinese legendary histories tell of us warfare between totemic clans that preceded the formation of the dynastic Chinese state. b ...
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The Sumerians knew of amphibious sages that came from the East. In Greek renditions of the early "Chaldean" works these sages are sai ...
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Possibly next to their role as messengers, the angels were seen as soldiers in the camps of God (Hebrew mahanaim). The apoc ...
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Now to review the clan situation in the traditional camp, we first have the union of the dragon/serpent and bird clans resulting in a ...
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In the Philippines, amulets known as anting-anting and mutya (literally "pearls") are used to provide the warrior w ...
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In Eden in the East, Oppenheimer uses techniques practiced by geneticists to arrive at a most likely origin location for a large body ...
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If modern humans have been around for about 150,000 years as anthropologists suspect, then for less that 4 percent of that time has t ...
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In addition to the spice trade, Southeast Asia became associated with precious metals especially gold at an early date.In ...
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The concept of the King of the East is intimately linked with that of the King of the Underworld.In Sumerian literature, ...
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In Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery, the author explores widespread testimony of ancient water beings that were usually pa ...
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The medieval descriptions of Shambhala, Prester John's kingdom, Sanfotsi and Zabag all allude to local volcano-like activity, and in ...
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The earliest shell mound people did not apparently have any special usage for the mounds they built. As time goes by, we see they ev ...
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Sumerian tradition states that Enki sent seven abgal to Sumer to instruct humanity. The number seven matches the number of archangels ...
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We have already discussed the evidence of Austronesian linguistic influence along China's coast northward to Japan.My fri ...
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Many cultures think of the universe as consisting of seven heavens or layers. The concept may relate to some ancient Paleolithic thin ...
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The pyramid as a model of the World Mountain is found in far corners of the Earth. Whether this is due to diffusion of ideas or indep ...
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The deity Apung Iru was often visualized as a gigantic crocodile that supported the earth on its back. The crocodile was located und ...
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The spiritual clan wars were fought on two planes -- the earthly and the shamanic. Where ever the clan confederacies went they almost ...
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Hebrew tradition calls the leader of the fallen angels by the name Lucifer. He is also known as the Morning Star. The same term is ...
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People choose sacred sites for different reasons. Among some of the reasons are special events that occur at those sites, or geograp ...
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The word "paradise" in most cultures refers to a tropical paradise not by accident. In the same sense, the scents associated with par ...
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When Marco Polo visited India he said that the locals considered the banana as "Adam's apple." Muslims and medieval Chris ...
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The early term for "merchant" in Austronesian is *dagang (Dempwolff) and this word is very similar to one of the terms for "ocean." b ...
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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and b ...
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Many comparative mythologists have seen parallels between the Christ story and a host of ancient regional motifs.In parti ...
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The word "ruler" comes ultimately from Latin regula "a straight piece of wood," one of the rex-derived words.Bam ...
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Early European visitors to Tahiti found that the people were skilled at the art of weather forecasting: ...
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As noted earlier, Solheim believes the Nusantao were instrumental in transmitting Yayoi culture from Shandong to Korea and then from ...
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The movement of southern peoples into Arctic areas like the Bering Sea possibly did not start with the Nusantao. There is a leading t ...
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While it may seem logical to sail directly from one destination to another in a straight line, prevailing winds and currents create a ...
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On Mocha Island off the coast of Chile, chicken bones were found that apparently belong to the pre-Columbian period. Chickens are no ...
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The motifs carried by the Nusantao have persisted thousands of years into modern times. In many cases, these motifs are propagated by ...
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Ainu totem pole collection in Brit ...
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From http://www.seridanmulu.com/. Many l ...
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When Hinduism and Buddhism spread throughout Asia, there was little disruption to the old spice routes. These religions were not str ...
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When Magellan approached the Moluccas during his global navigation, he deliberately turned northward and then headed westward sailing ...
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The "Mongol Atlas" of Chu Ssu-Pen made during the Yuan dynasty is the first map to show Africa with a rather accurate triangular shap ...
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The other interesting medieval map is known as the portalano or portolan map. The portolano first appears in full ...
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Paleobotany, the study of plant diffusion, offers more evidence that cultural contacts were taking place across the Pacific before Co ...
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James Hornell, one of the leading experts on the history of seafaring in the 20th century suggested that a "South Seas" culture had m ...
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Earlier we mentioned the ornamental motif on the end of Old Bering Sea harpoons which may have represented an entrance to the Underwo ...
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In studying the remains of the Old Gokstad ship of Denmark, Hornell comments:In Europe, the type of boa ...
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A widespread belief in Southeast Asia associates the stone axe with the thunderbold or with the teeth of a dragon that causes thunder ...
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The earliest shell mounds of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition period in Europe agree well with the dating of the third and last ra ...
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The reconstructed Proto-Germanic language contains a large body of words that do not belong to other branches of the Indo-European la ...
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Among theories used to explain the non-Indo-European influence on northern European languages is that the people known in archaeologi ...
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The chaining of Prometheus was part of the overall conflict between Zeus and the gods versus the Titans. According to Hes ...
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The Battle Axe folk are also known as the Corded Ware Culture after the cord-marked pottery that suddenly appears around the Neolithi ...
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The worldwide distribution of megaliths has spawned theories of a megalithic culture that spanned the globe at some early epoch. Gra ...
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One can see similarities in architecture and motifs over these vast areas that seems to indicate rather continuous contacts. The inte ...
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The dolmens of the world tend to lack any of the markings of the more established religions. Even the more specific known symbols of ...
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We will leave Europe for now and go back east to India. It was to here, as we have mentioned, that the Nusantao merchants brought the ...
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In eastern Asia and various parts of India, particularly in the East and the South, Buddhism and Hinduism began to fuse through the v ...
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In 1154, the Arab geographer Idrisi states: "The residents of Zabag go to the land of Sofala (near Beira, Mozambique) and export the ...
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Coedes referring to Austronesian practices of burying their dead:"... in jars or dolmens and for which purpose the megali ...
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So when Buddhism spread into Southeast Asia it absorbed previous layers of Hinduism, mostly Siva worship mixed with local beliefs cen ...
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In medieval tradition, Prester John ruled over the Garden of Eden, which was not so much a mythical place as a mythologized one. Euro ...
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The art of war as taught in the Kalacakra Tantra may have been too late for India where Buddhism eventually vanished. The doctrine t ...
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While the historicity of the romances is certainly open to question, a sober look at works like Parzival reveal an easy link t ...
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Many theories have been put forward on the origin of the Grail. Links to Manicheanism, Mandeanism and pre-Christian European religion ...
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The palaces of Prester John and the Rigden of Shambhala share a number of similarities. Although the details differ both palaces were ...
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Marco Polo's confusion of Japan and the easternmost Indies had a lasting effect on European geographers up until the time of Columbus ...
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