How much of our history do we really know is factual? We seem to know very little and yet act as though we do. first we believed Marco Polo went to China, then we thought he made it up, now we're back to believing he did. For centuries, we did not question Josephus's story of Masada but now believe it is a fiction.

After all, who wrote the anceient histories? Generally priests of some sort--the chroniclers, the time-keepers, the calendar-makers. They knew the old celestial myths and believed that the sovereigns were the sons of heaven and so intertwined the star-lore with the actual lives of the sovereigns so that they matched up.

But then Western history appears to have borrowed its histories from the bible. For example, both the early Church Father, Arius, and William the Conqueror both died of their bowels gushing out the same as Judas in Acts. The gospels had a Virgin Queen of Heaven named Mary and her cousin Elizabeth while England was ruled by a queen named Mary and was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth, who was known as the Virgin Queen.

What can we really be sure of? If the link below is correct, we can be sure of very little.

http://www.new-tradition.org/