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Thread #135442   Message #3090006
Posted By: josepp
06-Feb-11 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Philology
Subject: RE: BS: Philology
I don't give sources anymore because they are never accepted, it never changes anyone's minds, people go off on ad hominem attacks on the authors--it's a waste of time. You should be old enough to know by now that people believe whatever they want to believe and nothing you have to say about it is going to convince them otherwise. so why waste your time? I'm giving you the info, I could care less whether you accept it.

The intenet is ok for research but it is also a cesspool. Go the libraries and bookstores and get books. Anyone can start an internet site and say whatever they want.

With that said, I saw nothing wrong in those links you listed except the Meerwing article and the last one which I did not understand. It seems you posted it because it had the name Oannes in it. I did not make Oannes up and he is not an invention of New Age internet weirdos. I first read about him in college which is where I first learned the story of the fish-man or reptile-man that impregnated the woman that started the Meerwing lineage. No one made that up but the Meerwings themselves. The other articles seemed to me to be perfectly good.

As for Hyperborea, it is often used to mean the races that inhabited the Northern and Arctic regions. It generally excludes modern Scandinavian culture except that Scandinavians themselves often think of themselves as Hyperboreans. References to Atlanteans makes me wince. Hyperboreans not so much.