DEATH OF THE GODS

“Barleycorn, of course, eventually became a unit of linear measurement, rather than time, as any dictionary reveals. One barleycorn was equal to 1/3 of an inch. But it seems abundantly clear that it started out as a measure of time.... “It will be recalled that Osiris was a god of the harvest and was said to have taught early man when and how to cultivate the grain from which the early Egyptians made their beer. “Early man built his worldview upon time; his universe was derived from the apparent revolutions of the stars, and as de Santillana wrote: “‘...for those forebears did not only build up time into a structure , ‘cyclic time’: along with it came their creative idea of Number as the secret of things . When they said ‘things are numbers’, they swept in an immense arc over the whole field of ideas, astronomical and mathematical, from which real science was going to be born.’ “To reiterate, it is hard to believe that the division of the celestial circle into 360 parts was not done very early . Since the Egyptians divided up the circle of the heavens into parts of 10, leading to 36 parts and 36 decans, and also devised a civil calendar with 360 days (with 5 added), it must have originally been hoped that the circle and the calendar would have the same measurement.” P. 212-214, “The Discovery of Barleycorn, The Framework of Time,” THE DEATH OF THE GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT (1992) by Jane B. Sellers.

SCARY!

THIS IS WORST THAN SCARY This is worst than a scary movie. This global lockdown. I have never been a fan of scary movies, horror movies; nor the “Twilight Zone.” With the very real Coronavirus Covid-19 pall overspreading the earth from a viral virus outbreak, from a script that no one knows, in a script none can read ; for a purpose that none can discern, this is a divine wake up call; a dreaded “fireball in the night” of our confusion. Were there any doubt, before, certainly there can be no doubt now that forces beyond our ken are very much acting in the goriest horror movie ever. Why? Because our earthly extinction as a civilization is raised up as a vision, viral specter, before our eyes, as we watch! Scared to death ! Buying toilet paper by the boatload . Social distancing! Shutting down gatherings over 15 people! Hunkering at home; hoping, praying, as we search the scriptures for the meaning.

TRUMP RESPECT: ART OF WAR

As though winning the United States presidency, without ever having held an elective office anywhere, was not spectacular enough, in addition to having survived a number of federal & state investigations, prosecutions, civil suits, and impeachment “trial” in the Senate; with the imprisonments of staff, associates and subordinates and besting a Coronavirus test, Donald Trump must be respected, at least. THE ART OF WAR counsels against mocking an enemy, much less underestimating adept adversaries.

COVID-19 AND "RACE"

Coronavirus (Covid-19) needs to be compared to prior global pandemics for us to gain a better, contextual appreciation of its potency, urgency, lethality, virility in our history. "Race," like coronavirus, is as pernicious as any ever to befall mankind. Race is real, but race is not genetic, though race is also a global pandemic, like Covid-19. Rather than being intrinsically biological, "race" is a vexatiously evil, sociopolitical, pseudo-scientific, quasi-forensic mythology, as is superbly explained by this article. “As a professor of biological anthropology, I teach and advise college undergraduates. While my students are aware of inequalities in the life experiences of different socially delineated racial groups, most of them also think that biological “races” are real things. Indeed, more than half of Americans still believe that their racial identity is “determined by information contained in their DNA.” For the longest time, Europeans thought that the sun revolved around the Earth. Their culturally attuned eyes saw this as obvious and unquestionably true. Just as astronomers now know that’s not true, nearly all population geneticists know that dividing people into races neither explains nor describes human genetic variation. Yet this idea of race-as-genetics will not die. For decades, it has been exposed to the sunlight of facts, but, like a vampire, it continues to suck blood—not only surviving but causing harm in how it can twist science to support racist ideologies. With apologies for the grisly metaphor, it is time to put a wooden stake through the heart of race-as-genetics. Doing so will make for better science and a fairer society.” https://www.sapiens.org/body/is-race-real/?fbclid=IwAR3yIdaIubtZ8gM9WyzoKsuyN4Heyy39ZMsEcZ8yK-hiHq46fuHErVVah0s

ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT

Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., who was born in Liverpool , England migrated to America in 1867, after the Civil War, after attending law school in England. Robert Elliott Brown was one of our greatest politicians ever . He wrote the great Civil Rights Act of 1875 that the United States Supreme Court overturned in 1883’s regressive “Civil Rights Cases” decision that legally legitimated racial segregation in public transportation, accommodations, theaters, long before Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., was also a sponsor of the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871. It is now known as 42 U.S. C. 1983, the strongest piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted; since it enabled the eradication of the Klu Klux Klan in South Carolina, attorney Elliott’s home state from 1870’s to 1915, when it resurfaced during Woodrow Wilson’s terms.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Elliott?fbclid=IwAR1GGICzcsiIGHGU_hpqHX-oFZY3rSmwK4TXr_lhJ1sYRJ5X1_u6s3r3k5k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Cases

SATURDAY MORNING

Grandpa’s Saturday morning Rising this Saturday morning with a reasonable portion of health and strength; smells of breakfast permeating; sounds of two grand babies laughing playing watching television in the front of the house; feeling warm secure happiness amid a frightening national, and an international novel Covid-19 immunological pandemic ; yet, through it all I am still here alive, awake aware : seeing at bedside my piles of books stacked majestically with tales of others’ challenges; beside esoteric of 69-year old men like: an old lamp, assorts of medicine, candy, tissues, glasses, water bottle, papers, ink pen; breathing gushes of gratitude & praises to God the Father , to Jesus the Son, and to Mother, the Holy Ghost, for letting me, abetting me, for begetting me divine blessings to continue to participate peacefully, joyfully, lovingly, contentedly in our domestic panoply of irreplaceable family pleasures. Amen.

"EUCLID'S ELEMENTS"

EUCLID’S ELEMENTS Deriving proof in mathematics is the function of geometry. It is very ancient; predating our Arabic-Hindu numerals; far predating Roman numerals. One would hardly think such were possible, given our natal dependence,culturally,on the ubiquity of social numerosity. “Euclid’s Elements”, is a learned book that is still in circulation. It consists of thirteen chapters. It is a mathematical marvel, is a philosophical marvel, is a cultural marvel. “Euclid’s Elements’” direct, unassuming, elegance of redundant stylized: graphics presentations, logic, simplicity, rigorous proofs, rhetorical beauty, brevity, lifts its sublime value far beyond the mere realm of books into multi-variegated mystique. It is small wonder that geometry manifests itself prominently in music, the learned disciplines, Sphinxes, temples, pyramids, in stone megaliths, navigation, irrigation, surveying, engineering , quarrying, crafts, agriculture, architecture, law, given the richness of African astronomy/geometry. Nor is there any wonder that the science of Egyptology exists, persists, insists upon finding solutions to the amazing mysteries of the sacred Nile River’s annual deposits of civilizations, science, writings, readings, medicine, culture, calendars, religions, time, along its divine banks and cataracts. The true sources of the Nile are precisely the same as the divine sources of African civilizations, so-called, that she nourishes. Nothing but Almighty God is capable of so arraying the heavens above, earth below. It is no small wonder that over a thousand centuries that the predecessor Ethiopians, invading Asiatics, Hittites, Sea People’s; Thales, Pythagorus, Homer, Solon, Plato , Aristotle, Archimedes, Greeks, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Vandals, British, French, Germans, too many others to name, had journeyed to Egypt (Kemet), as merchants, mendicants, scholars, soldiers, sailors, priests, settlers, colonies, and today as tourists, enchanted persons. “Euclid’s Element” was not just one man, but is a guild-cognomen for a stringent cult of sage-astronomers/priests, dating back tens of thousands of years as stated by Manetho, the last hieroglyphics reading priests alive, who recorded a king’s list for the interpolator-Pharaoh named Ptolemy; who followed the “Great Greek”, usurper, Alexander of Macedonia. Manetho’s list was disputed by Ptolemy VII, because his fabulous chronology of ancient Egyptians’ kings was so amazingly long; dating back thirty thousand years to sacred demigods. The Greeks renamed the Egyptians gods with their own names. So “Osiris” became Zeus, and later Jupiter under the Romans. And so it was and is with the rest of what we call Greek Civilization, “Euclid” as well. None need believe me. Please investigate, please prove what is true for yourself. I myself came to the study of “Euclid’s Elements” after seeing many repeated references to it in the works of Sir Isaac Newton, Benedict Spinoza, Albert Einstein, that I had read in part. This had to be a bad brother! A super bad man, I surmised. Here was “Stolen Legacy” type of African brothers written of by Dr. George G. M. James, of Arkansas A & M college in the1950s. But after beginning my reading of it—I am only in Chapter 7, so far—I now know that this sacred work is a geometric merely in form and format. This work is an ancient generational gift from the forbears telling mankind how to live in harmony with nature, God, and each other, in truth. If you do no more than to buy, to read, to study, “Euclid’s Elements”, itself, you will have done a very big favor to yourself, to your family’s posterity, toward correcting modern civilization’s unaligned axial orbit.