Sumerian Cuneiform Scripts
 

What do you think of this.

According to history Uranus was first recorded in 1690, but thought to be a star. William Herschel discovered it as a planet in 1781.

Neptune was discovered in 1846....by James Challis (who recorded it first, but did not realize what it was) and Johann Galle (who knew exactly what he was observing).

Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930

But the Sumerian Cuneiform scripts not only pointed out all of these planets in their writings but correctly depicted the size, position & color of these planets thousands of years before we "discovered" them. Probes that are moving to the outer planets are verifying that the colors and other descriptive information written by the Sumerians was correct.

The Sumerians also list one other planet that we have yet to discover.

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Wow, I hadn't heard this before. Got a link or a ref?

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Timmy... I will find some info... This is from wiki... (I know how folks feel about wiki but I am VERY busy today)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astrology

More later.

Read on Zecharia Sitchin as well

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D4T, you know what I love about you?

I love the fact that you can always be counted on to share information that is completely different from the usual fare.

Not to mention that I happen to find most of what you bring utterly fascinating.

It's good to know that life on the farm hasn't changed you!

As for the topic at hand? I think that many ancient cultures were actually a lot more advanced then we tend to think.

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I think that ancient cultures knew more than we do about a variety of topics, like herbs, astrology, and procreation.

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Apologies again for not being able to contribute more to this thread... I am still working but will take a second to interject a little more.

These writings can only be translated by a few people and most of what I have heard were from Zechariah Sitchin.

These are from the Seven Tablets Of Creation.

They are Sumerian texts which predate the Genesis writings of Moses but the 2 writings are very similar in many ways.

They tell why Uranus is on its side.

They tell how earth came to be and where we got our moon.

They tell where the asteroid belt came from.

And they call earth the 7th planet... not the 3rd as we do. That is because they count from the outside of our galaxy towards the sun rather than from the sun out as we do.

They tell of another planet which is on a 3600 year elliptical orbit.

It is all very interesting. I don't have to receive something as gospel to find it interesting but I am intrigued that their writings so correctly described things that we have only had the technology to verify in the last few decades.

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dumb thread

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Indeed.

There are places built of megalithic stones that we still do not have the technology to move today. These stones are so large that we don't even know their weight yet they were cut from the mountain in one piece, lifted up and carried miles and placed together so closely that you can't put a razor blade between them.

And now, some 6000 years later, we do not have the ability to move them a few inches.

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Why do you say that?

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The Chinese used to be able to strike their arms with swords and never draw blood.

It doesn't work for bullets, but still, isn't that insane?!

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Rather lengthy (47:27) but fairly interesting talk on Ancient Technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ON13a5OwD8

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I appreciate the kind words.[

Learning is the love of my life. I like to study a vast array of things and I also do my best to hold to the quote I once heard that said "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (Not that I have a first rate intelligence... )

I tell my kids that most parents strive to raise kids that think like they do. I do not. I simply desire to raise kids that think.

Having done that they can do the rest on their own.

We live within too many walls and we don't walk our brains enough.

I will reiterate my appreciation for your post as it speaks to the very things that I hold most dear and desire to achieve the most. When I read words as you have posted here it gives me a moment in time to pause and think that, possibly, by some some measure I am being successful in my quest to never stop widening my horizons and my realm of thought.

And to think that this great journey began several decades ago when I became a Sunday School teacher and I decided, when the kids brought up those questions for which there was no easy answer, that I would utter the 3 hardest words there are to utter... "I don't know".

The simple utterance of those 3 words is a ticket for admission into a world of study. By admitting that we don't know we give ourselves permission to find out and by doing that we allow ourselves to grow.

"I don't know"... 3 of the most powerful words anyone will ever utter.

Thanks again.