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Circling back a little to the immemorial Jack & The Beanstalk story....
I stumbled on something the other day that really got my attention, and reminded me again of my 'beanstalk dilemma'. It's my Rapa Nui, my Stonehenge or Gobekli Tepe.
How a giant in the world's oldest tale could have climbed a beanstalk in a time & place when it's said to have not existed...
Enter Lucy Thompson, 1856 -1932. Lucy wrote a book called 'To the American Indian' in 1916, and it is fascinating. I've read a few portions of the book and am enthralled with it. Chapter 4 is about the Wa-gas people, whom she says inhabited the entire continent when they, the Yurok, arrived. This reminded me of something a friend told me years ago, which she had learned from a history professor at the university; the ancient story of the Dorset people of Canada. The Inuit also had described a people as the Yurok did, calling them the Tuniit. These Tuniit preceded even the Thule, the ancestors of the Inuit Given that no Inuit committed to paper things as Lucy had, the details are far less available than Lucy's account, but there is certainly distinct overlap in what is there.
Personally, I'm inclined to believe that the ancient mysteries of the modern world are just a teeny piece of a much larger missing picture, and maybe point to the pre Tower of Babel era. Given the prevalence of pyramids on every continent (and the work of Graham Hancock) I think it's likely there was a time when knowledge was more globally collective, some kind of universal language even, and the isolation between enclaves of peoples across the globe is modern, not ancient. So, Lucy may have solved the mystery of Jack & The Beanstalk after all.
Horticulturally of course this would have some really interesting impacts on modern classification!
Amazingly I was able to find a link to Lucy's book for anyone interested!
I stumbled on something the other day that really got my attention, and reminded me again of my 'beanstalk dilemma'. It's my Rapa Nui, my Stonehenge or Gobekli Tepe.
How a giant in the world's oldest tale could have climbed a beanstalk in a time & place when it's said to have not existed...Enter Lucy Thompson, 1856 -1932. Lucy wrote a book called 'To the American Indian' in 1916, and it is fascinating. I've read a few portions of the book and am enthralled with it. Chapter 4 is about the Wa-gas people, whom she says inhabited the entire continent when they, the Yurok, arrived. This reminded me of something a friend told me years ago, which she had learned from a history professor at the university; the ancient story of the Dorset people of Canada. The Inuit also had described a people as the Yurok did, calling them the Tuniit. These Tuniit preceded even the Thule, the ancestors of the Inuit Given that no Inuit committed to paper things as Lucy had, the details are far less available than Lucy's account, but there is certainly distinct overlap in what is there.
Personally, I'm inclined to believe that the ancient mysteries of the modern world are just a teeny piece of a much larger missing picture, and maybe point to the pre Tower of Babel era. Given the prevalence of pyramids on every continent (and the work of Graham Hancock) I think it's likely there was a time when knowledge was more globally collective, some kind of universal language even, and the isolation between enclaves of peoples across the globe is modern, not ancient. So, Lucy may have solved the mystery of Jack & The Beanstalk after all.
Horticulturally of course this would have some really interesting impacts on modern classification!Amazingly I was able to find a link to Lucy's book for anyone interested!
