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Crystal Skulls
It was a good line by Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly after blowing the guy away says: “If you’re going to shoot, shoot; don’t talk.” But it is much the same with talking; if you’re trying to make a point get to it and shoot; don’t wear out your audience. The Phantom in the funny papers was a hit with me as a kid from the start, and there was a good deal of nostalgia for me in the film much like that with The Shadow. However, sometimes I can’t help but wonder what is behind some programs like the History Channel two-hour presentation on crystal skulls. It seemed such a waste of time and perhaps only trading on the new Indiana Jones movie. And as happens too often with too many programs lately the HC show was accompanied by a dreadfully distracting, noisy sound track in several places that rattled your ears. All in all I thought it a noisy and unproductive waste of time with little of any redeeming value. It reminded me of obnoxious boors that drone on and on but simply cannot tell a story properly, and if they have a point it seems to be lost in self-important verbosity without any consideration for their listeners. As to archeology here is an interesting note from K. Kris Hirst, May 19, 2008: Well, I must admit that the fever pitch in the United States over the new Indiana Jones movie to be released the end of this week has certainly infected me, but I'll try to restrain myself for a sedate weekly newsletter. They probably won't let you into the movie theater with a trowel in your back pocket, even if it's properly sharpened… Harrison Ford Joins the AIA: This is really great news: the American movie industry's best known archaeologist (sorry Lara Croft) has been elected to the governing board of the best known archaeological community in the US: the Archaeological Institute of America… In a move that might have something to do with the release of the upcoming movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, this week actor Harrison Ford joined the board of the AIA, which has 8,500 worldwide members in 104 chapters, and reaches nearly a quarter million people through its publication Archaeology magazine. In a press release, Ford is quoted: "Knowledge is power, and understanding the past can only help us in dealing with the present and the future…" The star power of Harrison Ford added to the AIA is certainly welcome by me and many others, and I don’t doubt his sincerity and genuine interest in archeology. As to skulls crystal or otherwise they have had a prominent role in cultures throughout human history. But the recent attention being paid to crystal skulls does emphasize how curious we humans are about such things. Much in the way of Fox Mulder’s “I Want To Believe” many of us would like to know if some of the things the ancients did far beyond what we would otherwise think impossible we imagine there may be something to fabulous stories about Atlantis, extraterrestrials, UFOs, etc. But when it comes to crystals they seem always to have a place in both history and mythology that continues today. Some of you may recall putting together your first crystal radio receiver as I did as a boy many years ago. Talk about something “magical,” that was a great wonder to me! That something so simple could actually bring in radio signals using a “rock” was nothing short of miraculous to me at the time. So it isn’t any wonder kids like me back then were easily persuaded to believe in the mystical properties of crystals. But the wonder of such a thing shouldn’t give way to science altogether, and I haven’t argued the mysteries of crystals with those that want to hold on to their beliefs. And I add there are many well-educated, even prominent people who believe in things like the mystical properties of crystals and crystal skulls. One of the dustier among my books is the 1981 Reader’s Digest “Into the Unknown.” It would amaze some people to discover how little we knew about things like crystal skulls that this publication, though scorned by some thinking they are above such an unscientific source, would call to attention back then before home computers and search engines became commonplace. And while I don’t credit the claimed antiquity of crystal skulls many of the mysteries in the Reader’s Digest volume continue to remain mysteries, and suppose the Mayan Doomsday Calendar should prove to be true and God pulls the plug on December 21, 2012? Will anyone believing in the mystical properties of crystal skulls fare any worse than those that don’t? I would never want to abandon an imagination and I continue to consider some of the many possibilities I recall from childhood.
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posted by
siouxcityranch
on May 19, 2008 at 09:00 PM
i THINK IT SAYS IT COULD BE THE END OR A NEW BEGINNING..THE COMMON THREAD IS THAT EARTH WILL LINE UP WITH THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY AND THAT COULD EFFECT THE EARTHS AXIS CAUSING EARTHQUAKES VOLCANOS ERUPTING TIAL WAVES ETC..THE END RESULT WILL BE MASSIVE DEATHS..DIDNT SAY THE WHOLE OF THE HUMAN RACE JUST A GOODLY MAJORITY..BUT YOU CAN BET IF IT HAPPENS TECHNOLOGY WILL STEP BACK A FEW HUNDED YEARS UNTIL THOSE REMAINING CAN RECOUPE..ALSO SAYS THE CRYSTAL SKULLS DONT HAVE TO BE FOUND TO WORK THEIR MAGIC OF SAVING THE WORLD FROM MASS DESTRUCTION..THE 13 SKULLS CAN WORK FROM THEIR HIDING PLACES IF THEY HAVENT BEEN DESTROYED..THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ENCHANTED AND IF YOU FIND ONE YOU WILL SUFFER ITS CURSE IF YOU DONT KNOW THE RITUAL TO STOP IT.. posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 04:41 AM
That's right sioux; the galactic part has quite a few supporters with some interesting web sites as well as the crystal skulls theories. posted by
sagefever
on May 20, 2008 at 06:32 AM
*racking my brain a bit here* There is a beautiful Olmec(?) skull of crystal,I took an art class many,many moons ago...but I pretty sure it was Olmec. Object of Art for sure.We agree on the HC,I have always called it history light. Reminds me of the all build up no substance "discoveries" of recent times.Recently I have given up all hope for the Human Race,but to see it have "all the lights go out" would be sad,indeed.Sure takes the heat off whoever we elect this time around,eh? posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 06:52 AM
I've given that a lot of thought sagefever about the election. It won't be Superman or Wonder Woman but a mere mortal. Too true about HC as history lite. A shame really, since I believe it has fallen victim to the times. It does seem that for whatever reason we are doomed to be a short lived species. posted by
ChicoEsquela
on May 20, 2008 at 06:57 AM
Crystal Skulls (fulla oatmeal mush) vote Misogynistic Messiah......... posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 07:11 AM
Ok Chico, whatever or whoever they better make themselves known pretty quick or there won't be any leftovers. posted by
ChicoEsquela
on May 20, 2008 at 07:16 AM
Harrison Ford character is to Archeology as New Messiah is to American Sovereignty. posted by
sagefever
on May 20, 2008 at 07:20 AM
*sigh* So much for my art appreciation class back in the 70's. Poking around a bit I find these skulls turn out to be of later construction~ according to the sites I looked over. Elusive,truth. posted by
siouxcityranch
on May 20, 2008 at 07:45 AM
I believe it says that the mayans etc didnt have the skills to produce the skulls..the work was too detailed for stone tools. However they dated one and found it to be i think around 12000 years old. They were also linked to Atlantis where the believers feel that that civilization had the tools.or possibly from another world..The materials used are the same crystals that we are using today in our computer chips. They feel the skulls are a type of recording device and man will be able to retreive the data when he has finally advanced enough to do so...each skull represents another human race out in space that has gone on to populate another world. Earth is the 13th world and its all supposed to tie back together on the last day of the calander..they are relating the skulls to the face seemingly found on mars where they have found suspicious proof of decaying structures from another civilization lived on mars eons ago..they also found or took a picture of a small one on the moons surface..they have the apparent picture but no record of the astronauts retrieving the skull... Im going on an old timers memory here so it could be jumbled a bit... posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 07:48 AM
It's still fascinating to search through the literature about such things sagefever; lots of possibilities for imagination. Hey Chico, I don't think we're in line for a Messiah. posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 07:51 AM
Thanks sioux, as I said a search of the literature is really fascinating. posted by
siouxcityranch
on May 20, 2008 at 07:59 AM
well sitten here thinkin about it ya probably already knew all the trivia I just blew your way...but your right..I really like archeology even if its mixed with a touch of fiction..keeps ot colorful and ya just never know...egyptology also fasinates me but I dont have much faith in Tana leaves posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 08:10 AM
But I love those old movies like the original Mummy, Frankenstein, and Dracula. posted by
catpaw
on May 20, 2008 at 08:22 AM
I've heard "theories" that the pyramids could not have been built by an ancient civilization because they didn't have the "technology" to do it. Therefore, flying saucers helped them. That is an insult to humankind's aspirations and thinking ability. I was lucky to see the Myan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala. Awesome. It is not an exaggeration that a slip of paper cannot be inserted between the stacked stones. These ancients understood engineering math, an accurate calendar, the concept of zero, before Europeans. Space aliens did not show them how to do it. They also had the artistic tools and skills to turn out a Venus De Milo. That they didn't is a commentary on their artistic values, rather than their talent. If the Mayans could build a 600 ft. pyramid temple that stands today, I confident they could carve a crystal skull. Why a skull and not something else is one of those fun things we can speculate. posted by
sagefever
on May 20, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Oh the Mummy ~ when those Tana leaves did work...so scary! Being burried alive,those were good old scary films. OT ~ but I just sent back the Topper films,what a blast they were! posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 08:40 AM
They just don't make the fun movies they used to. And all the special effects today just don't do it for me. posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 08:57 AM
I don't buy it catpaw, and I've written considerable about my reservations concerning such things. Still fun to speculate about though. posted by
siouxcityranch
on May 20, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Mummy, Frankenstein, and Dracula dems my boys..I was born on Halloween so they kinda hold a special place in my heart.. I remember draggin my right foot with my left hand on my chest..the other one stretched out in fromt of me reaching for my younger brothers throat..I never caught him cause everyone could obviously out run the mummy..It was the fear in his 4 year old eyes after watching one of those mummy flicks thinkin his older brother had been transformed by rose leaves (instead of tana leaves) into a walkin corpse covered in gauze. Thats a childhood memory I will always cherish..the power those old movies held over us as kids... posted by
samheath
on May 20, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Nothing does it like those old movies sioux. What memories we share. When I was a kid I thought it was so keen my maternal grandmother was born on Halloween. You can bet we didn't forget her birthday. Still one of my very favorite holidays.
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