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I suspect these may have been filled with a liquid that could reflect and catch the starlight as in a mirror
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Could this be the mysterious purpose of cup stones?
Myths can be examined through a metaphoric microscope, which reveal the thousands of glittering, unique manifestations of a particular story in a particular culture, or they can be examined through a telescope, where the personalities, codes of dress and foodstuffs fade from view, to be replaced by a wider vision of unifying themes across humanity.
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Over the last century, a new power narrative has emerged that warps archaeological data into a specific shape the way a magnet affects iron filings. It is the unspoken belief that humanity is on a journey from worse to better, from primitive to complex, uncivilised to civilised. Our civilisation of perpetual war, total surveillance, obesity,
... See moreGordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
"The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”
– Marc Andreessen
– Marc Andreessen
Most writing is bad because it’s missing a motive. It feels dead because it hasn’t found its reason to live. You can’t accomplish a goal without having one in the first place—writing without a motive is like declaring war on no one in particular
you will also not find a single hunter gatherer society lacking in taboo areas, that is, spaces demarcated as belonging to the spirits rather than the tribe
Gordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
Every five years a citizen had to register himself there. He also had to declare the name of his wife, the number of his children, his property and his possessions, from his slaves and ready cash to his wife’s jewels and clothes. The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even ‘personal tastes and appetites should be
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The brain and nervous system constitute a marvelous and complex “goal-striving mechanism,” a sort of built-in automatic guidance system that works for you as a “success mechanism,” or against you as a “failure mechanism,” depending on how “YOU,” the operator, operate it and the goals you set for it. – Maxwell Maltz
The bluestones of Stonehenge ‘sing’ when hit with rocks. In Western European tombs and mounds, resonances tend to cluster around the 110–122 Hertz range, the same as a baritone voice