From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Thu 04 Dec 2003 - 20:59:27 GMT
Introduction,
" Man was probably generated on the earth at various places roughly
the same time. Different climates produced different types of people,
but all men shared the same basic characteristics or essential na-
ture. " ( Konosuke Matsushita 1982)
The emergence of man is thus in some way tied to the natural
conditions of the earth, so the saying goes. Certainly that is one
reason why we differ but are the same in handling our affairs. We
rely on tradition, on abstract theory and concepts, and some rely
on a national character, on nations things like religion and ethics.
1_ We accept the fact that inter- breeding between races is in
the benefit of man himself, that genes are able to prevent us
from injuries, that understanding will turn into our advantage.
History claims that Columbus discovered the America' s.
Spain has put large armies in the fields to punish those who
disobey its, religious, dictates.
2_ The ancient peoples of South- America ( Azteks, Maya's),
in search for historical information and official glorification of
their past, don 't accept this kind of identification and expand
their view.
3_ There is another meaning why they are dressed like they
are, why their eyes are shaped like they are, there is in their
describing of historical reality a tendency to proclaim that their
genetic ancestory don 't lies in the particular notion of ' the sa-
vage peoples of the America ', but that their genetic lineages go
way back up to China.
4_ We have here a fundamental question of how those ' Chinese'
ancestors managed to sail as far East as to South- America.
Given the time- index problematic.
And if, further, so, did they inter- breed with the locals, or does
this suggests that the ancient peoples of South- America has
to find their origins in China !?
_ I have made up this little treatise to ask a fundamental question.
Talking to someone of Ecuador he told me that investigations
are under way to provide, in terms of a model, a better under-
standing of to how the peoples of South- America came about.
The claim is being made, as I understand it, that the genetic an-
cestory of the territory lies in China and thus is not due to the
massive movement of peoples coming from the North, trying
to escape some Ice Age or in search for food and shelter.
If this might be true, in what ways does this concerns our own
history !?
Many elements leads to the conclusion that yes indeed there
was a massive migration from the North to the South, but what
if the continent, at least in the South, was already occupied !?
I don 't recall that any kind of info about this subject has been
made, moreover, as far as I known, there isn 't any anthropolo-
gical or fossil record that tells it otherwise.
Are we chasing ghosts here, is he pulling my leg...or does
have anyone more information about the investigations probably
being done !?
If this is true, we have to rewrite man's history......
This intrigues me,
Kenneth
PS, and what, in memetic terms, about the fact we did ' believe '
what history or better historians told us....if proove can be found
that reflects the above written claim !?
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