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A rambling missive...
I have watched a bunch of stuff on various shows about the various Mythical Beasts and monsters that are depicted on walls and such all over the world. They are also and written about and a part of every oral tradition worldwide. The ancient Alien Theorists offer that they were based on either actual Aliens that were running all over the place in ancient times OR They were actual bizarre creation of the same aliens as they did all sorts of genetic experiments.
Then you have the people that try to explain them by saying that they represent racial memories of now-extinct beasts OR misunderstood fossil finds. The fossil remains of a protoceratops the predecessor of the Triceratops that was smaller and lacked the horns would look a lot like a lions body with a big head with an eagle beak on it. Similar finds might have been the source of the dragons.
All of this is a possible beginning but the fascination with these mythical creatures were not because of a few fossil finds or of a memory of aliens. The fascination is from the environment that they lived in and the necessary part that these creatures played in their life.
The world that these people lived in is massively misrepresented by TV and movies. The Vikings for example… When we think of them we think of them sailing off to places all over the place and having adventures as they explored and raped and pillaged their neighbor lands waterside villages. The truth is that most of the tie they were farmers and homebodies. Some of the young men did do all the things that make for entertaining stories but then as young men do they settle down and take care of their families. You actually don’t do a lot of raiding, raping, and pillaging in the winters.
Their winters were something unimaginable to people now. It was COL and they didn’t live in huge castles. Even the people that did live in big castles huddled in a tiny place through the winters. The amount of effort that it would take to keep a big place warm with wood fires is massive. People would gather together in small places and there they would sit. IN THE DARK because the nights up in those northern places in the winters can run to 20 hours. The fire was kept small to save on the fuel and because a big fire in a small area will smother you unless you have a lot of ventilation. When it is arctic cold outside you don’t want any more drafts than you must have.
Imagine if you will, being in a tiny cabin or in a single room in a larger place for up to 20 hours a day with 10 to 15 of your closest friends and family!!! There is no TV, radio, books to read even if you could read and not enough light to read anyway. How long do you think modern people would last like this?
What kept these people sane and the thing that made the old people so important was that in these dark long nights the most important person in your group was the one that could tell stories endlessly about things that would hold your attention and entertain you. These “Story Tellers” could offer up endless stories about the many adventures of their ancestors and all of the amazing things and creatures that they saw and did battle with. They recited and embellished the stories that they had been told when they were young and made the Gods, Goddesses alive in the minds of their people.
Just as today when we watch a TV show about the Vikings they didn’t talk about the boring things or the long hours rowing when the wind laid. Their stories were alive with adventure, intrigue, and romance.
In a society where literacy is either minimal or nonexistent these people and their stories are what keeps and makes a culture have cohesion down through the generations. When the summer comes the nights are shorter but still longer than most people sleep so they would sit outside and the same storyteller would look into the night sky and make the stories live in the shapes and arrangements of the stars.
No matter where you go, people, need entertainment. They all look at the night skies and wonder what they are seeing and where ever you go the old people will tell the stories that their culture had built up and told over and over for generations.
I suspect that these long quiet nights that for us would be so long and tedious were not nearly so for them. The abilities of their “storytellers” were probably more than just the ability to talk for a long time. I suspect that their voices reached into their listeners in ways that we now would have a hard time understanding except in children. It is a form of hypnotism or even a paranormal ability to hold someone's attention so tightly that they are taken away from their bodies.
People now can hardly even imagine things like this. Just as we can hardly see the stars because of our bright lights. The quiet subtle things of the past are blasted away with our ENDLESS machine-based entertainment industry. People seldom even talk now. People Twitter even when they are sitting across the table from other people in restaurants.
A lot of what we call paranormal here was not nearly so odd when people were more tightly connected to each other and we didn’t spend all of our time looking deeply into the eyes of a machine.
The primitive cultures lacked many things but there is a lot that we have given up with our advancements. I have had some experiences that most never have in part at least because I have offered my mind the quiet that it needs to see things that others never looked for. If you are in a room full of screaming talking people you can’t hear the quiet whisper. Most of the paranormal things are whispers. Bigfoot isn’t going to show up twerking on the courthouse square. He isn’t going to be places where they are a lot of people.
Most of my various clairvoyant experiences were more of a whisper than a shout. Even when people are alone they pollute the quiet with something loud and distracting. The stories are dying. We as a culture have failed to connect our future to our past by spending time with our kids and allowing them to spend time with the older members of their family.
The old ways are being lost and with that, we are also losing abilities that were in the past developed in the quiet times. There ARE no quiet times anymore for most people and young people don’t know how to deal with it.
Back to the bug-eyed monsters. Along with the entertainment the stories were cultural guidance about what is good and what is bad in that culture and it offered everyone a common ground for understanding each other. Even into my Generation, we were offered these stories both at home and in school is the form of stories about the great people of our past like George Washington and the various Greek, Roman and Norse Mythologies. If I refer to something being a Pandora’s box you know what that means.
The various monsters, Gods and Mythological critters are all devices for offering people an understanding of their cultural biases and rules. They were also a way for people to deal with the often harsh realities of life. The good things are your hope for the future and the bad things you can blame for the bad things that happen and excuse your failings at times.
Now, these stories gods and mythological creatures have been replaced in the minds of our kids with the rules of video games, reality TV shows, and movies. Holy Crap!!! The Kardashians are going to be my Grandkids role models!!!!!!! Various musicians, actors, and athletes are the models for our kid's beliefs these days. Somehow I see the monsters as more understandable in some ways.
I have watched a bunch of stuff on various shows about the various Mythical Beasts and monsters that are depicted on walls and such all over the world. They are also and written about and a part of every oral tradition worldwide. The ancient Alien Theorists offer that they were based on either actual Aliens that were running all over the place in ancient times OR They were actual bizarre creation of the same aliens as they did all sorts of genetic experiments.
Then you have the people that try to explain them by saying that they represent racial memories of now-extinct beasts OR misunderstood fossil finds. The fossil remains of a protoceratops the predecessor of the Triceratops that was smaller and lacked the horns would look a lot like a lions body with a big head with an eagle beak on it. Similar finds might have been the source of the dragons.
All of this is a possible beginning but the fascination with these mythical creatures were not because of a few fossil finds or of a memory of aliens. The fascination is from the environment that they lived in and the necessary part that these creatures played in their life.
The world that these people lived in is massively misrepresented by TV and movies. The Vikings for example… When we think of them we think of them sailing off to places all over the place and having adventures as they explored and raped and pillaged their neighbor lands waterside villages. The truth is that most of the tie they were farmers and homebodies. Some of the young men did do all the things that make for entertaining stories but then as young men do they settle down and take care of their families. You actually don’t do a lot of raiding, raping, and pillaging in the winters.
Their winters were something unimaginable to people now. It was COL and they didn’t live in huge castles. Even the people that did live in big castles huddled in a tiny place through the winters. The amount of effort that it would take to keep a big place warm with wood fires is massive. People would gather together in small places and there they would sit. IN THE DARK because the nights up in those northern places in the winters can run to 20 hours. The fire was kept small to save on the fuel and because a big fire in a small area will smother you unless you have a lot of ventilation. When it is arctic cold outside you don’t want any more drafts than you must have.
Imagine if you will, being in a tiny cabin or in a single room in a larger place for up to 20 hours a day with 10 to 15 of your closest friends and family!!! There is no TV, radio, books to read even if you could read and not enough light to read anyway. How long do you think modern people would last like this?
What kept these people sane and the thing that made the old people so important was that in these dark long nights the most important person in your group was the one that could tell stories endlessly about things that would hold your attention and entertain you. These “Story Tellers” could offer up endless stories about the many adventures of their ancestors and all of the amazing things and creatures that they saw and did battle with. They recited and embellished the stories that they had been told when they were young and made the Gods, Goddesses alive in the minds of their people.
Just as today when we watch a TV show about the Vikings they didn’t talk about the boring things or the long hours rowing when the wind laid. Their stories were alive with adventure, intrigue, and romance.
In a society where literacy is either minimal or nonexistent these people and their stories are what keeps and makes a culture have cohesion down through the generations. When the summer comes the nights are shorter but still longer than most people sleep so they would sit outside and the same storyteller would look into the night sky and make the stories live in the shapes and arrangements of the stars.
No matter where you go, people, need entertainment. They all look at the night skies and wonder what they are seeing and where ever you go the old people will tell the stories that their culture had built up and told over and over for generations.
I suspect that these long quiet nights that for us would be so long and tedious were not nearly so for them. The abilities of their “storytellers” were probably more than just the ability to talk for a long time. I suspect that their voices reached into their listeners in ways that we now would have a hard time understanding except in children. It is a form of hypnotism or even a paranormal ability to hold someone's attention so tightly that they are taken away from their bodies.
People now can hardly even imagine things like this. Just as we can hardly see the stars because of our bright lights. The quiet subtle things of the past are blasted away with our ENDLESS machine-based entertainment industry. People seldom even talk now. People Twitter even when they are sitting across the table from other people in restaurants.
A lot of what we call paranormal here was not nearly so odd when people were more tightly connected to each other and we didn’t spend all of our time looking deeply into the eyes of a machine.
The primitive cultures lacked many things but there is a lot that we have given up with our advancements. I have had some experiences that most never have in part at least because I have offered my mind the quiet that it needs to see things that others never looked for. If you are in a room full of screaming talking people you can’t hear the quiet whisper. Most of the paranormal things are whispers. Bigfoot isn’t going to show up twerking on the courthouse square. He isn’t going to be places where they are a lot of people.
Most of my various clairvoyant experiences were more of a whisper than a shout. Even when people are alone they pollute the quiet with something loud and distracting. The stories are dying. We as a culture have failed to connect our future to our past by spending time with our kids and allowing them to spend time with the older members of their family.
The old ways are being lost and with that, we are also losing abilities that were in the past developed in the quiet times. There ARE no quiet times anymore for most people and young people don’t know how to deal with it.
Back to the bug-eyed monsters. Along with the entertainment the stories were cultural guidance about what is good and what is bad in that culture and it offered everyone a common ground for understanding each other. Even into my Generation, we were offered these stories both at home and in school is the form of stories about the great people of our past like George Washington and the various Greek, Roman and Norse Mythologies. If I refer to something being a Pandora’s box you know what that means.
The various monsters, Gods and Mythological critters are all devices for offering people an understanding of their cultural biases and rules. They were also a way for people to deal with the often harsh realities of life. The good things are your hope for the future and the bad things you can blame for the bad things that happen and excuse your failings at times.
Now, these stories gods and mythological creatures have been replaced in the minds of our kids with the rules of video games, reality TV shows, and movies. Holy Crap!!! The Kardashians are going to be my Grandkids role models!!!!!!! Various musicians, actors, and athletes are the models for our kid's beliefs these days. Somehow I see the monsters as more understandable in some ways.
