Q: (L) I thought I had checked that pretty deeply. I guess I could read some more. Now, there are those who say that Zurvanism was an attempt to deal with some of the dangling problems that Zoroaster left in terms of his dualism. One of his hymns describes Ahura Mazda and Ahriman as twins, so, they came up with Zurvanism, the ultimate god of space/time as father to the twins to explain this. Is that in fact the case?
A: No. Zurvan was the ancient god of the steppes and the Indo-Aryan peoples.
Tundra: In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word tūndâr "uplands", "treeless mountain tract".[1] There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra,[2] alpine tundra,[2] and Antarctic tundra.[3] In tundra, the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. Scattered trees grow in some tundra regions. The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline.
Ice Age conditions in Europe
A: The position of the polar timberline in present-day Europe
B: The position of the timberline at the most severe stage of the Würm Ice Age.
C: The limits of glacial debris deposited during the Würm Ice Age.
D: The limits of glacial debris deposited during the Riss and Mindel Ice Age.
Photo: Secrets of the Ice Age by Evan Hadingham, 1980
In physical geography, a steppe (Russian: степь, tr. step'; IPA: [sʲtʲepʲ] ( listen)) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes. The prairie (especially the shortgrass and mixed prairie) is an example of a steppe, though it is not usually called such. It may be semi-desert, or covered with grass or shrubs or both, depending on the season and latitude. The term is also used to denote the climate encountered in regions too dry to support a forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. The soil is typically of chernozem type.
Aeneas said:When I think of the steppes, I habitually think of the far east like the inner Mongolia. Yet if one considers the fact that we are talking about 40000 years ago, then it changes this view as pretty much all of Western Europe at that time was tundra with no real forests.
...these texts are divided, according to a certain order, in stanzas intended to be recited each in one breath, the Breath!
This practice is, in fact, an exercise of physical and mental unparalleled, whose
the principle and the observation form the basis of the great philosopher and reformer's doctrine...
bjorn said:lol, I tell you they all look borderline Evil
Here we have David Rockefeller, after 6 hearth transplants, he is assumed to be the Final Boss :
I am willing to bet that they can shoot lightning out of their hands just like their posterboy Emperor from Star Wars. If I could ask them one question, it would be that.
Carl said:As a side thought it also makes me wonder on a Star Wars vibe, surely they are not all psychopaths ('defective' OPs). I wonder if there are ever were souls just like us (including the spiritual implications), who had full knowledge of the STS/STO duality, and consciously chose STS - to be as powerful and bad as possible, like Anakin/Vader.
Approaching Infinity said:aleana said:mkrnhr said:Q: (L) If that's the case, how was that possible?
A: The ancient world was quite "well connected".
E. Cline calls this inter-connectedness the first Globalisation. The empires at that time where so connected, some Egyptian artefacts were found in Scandinavia. But maybe connectedness here refers to connectedness to higher densities?
I was wondering the same thing as they used the quotes both times in the responses.
It reminds me of the Tower of Babel and the spiritual unification of the masses. Perhaps such understandings were more widespread at those times because people were more unifed, thus facilitating similar understandings "at a distance".
DougEE said:Thanks again for an interesting session (as always).
I wonder if crystals had anything to do with this 'connectedness'?Q: (L) And they came up with these ideas of infinite time and space that far back?
A: And so much more. They were "connected".
anarkist said:WeMichał said:"A: Illusion is mostly self-generated; delusion is mostly induced from without."
Anyone (native;) can confirm that isn't mistake? I would bet it is opposite...
Well, I think of it this way.
I can be under the delusion that my government is there to look out for me, and that delusion is reinforced by the media and other deluded people.
An illusion is where I am living in my own illusory world brought about by my ignoring the reality around me.
Illusion:
an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.
Niall said:FWIW, my first take on it was that they meant the world was 'globalized' then too. The notion that today's civilization is the first to be 'globalized' is a myth arising from the fact that Europeans claim they 'discovered' the world from the late 15th century CE onwards. What they actually 'discovered' was a pre-existing, highly developed, integrated global civilization - what author John Hobson describes as 'the Afro-Asian civilization' - which Europeans proceeded, in stages, to claim as theirs and thus was only born thanks to them.
Q: (L) And they came up with these ideas of infinite time and space that far back?
A: And so much more. They were "connected".