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more occult history
Anyway, to veer off onto a random topic:
I was reading about Kemet, particularly the scripts it used, and encountered something strange -
https://www.britannica.com/topic/hieratic-script
- the hieroglyph in the right-hand illustration, second from bottom, to the left. Why does that resemble a modern electronic device? And why is it that the oldest hieroglyph best resembles electronics, and then it veers off and mutates, as if they gradually forgot what it originally represented? I don't buy the official explanation for one second, how does that even resemble a scribe's outfit, honestly.
You've written before on occult history and ancient technologies, and the pathetic attempts of rationalists to deny this stuff. I read up on the Baghdad Battery, and watching them do logical pirouettes trying to explain away why a sealed "scroll" would disintegrate (as opposed to insulating paper soaked in acid) was pretty funny, honestly. And then there's the lack of smoke residue in the pyramids, the aluminum belt buckle, and so on.
So my question is, what sort of ancient tech did that hieroglyph represent? I'd assume it was something Atlantean depicted there, but I'm not certain. Was there a particularly strong connection between Ancient Egypt and Atlantis, or some other vanished civilization from the before times?
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2) There's been a claim for quite a while now in occult circles that Egypt was an Atlantean colony that managed to hang on when the rest of the Atlantean world went splat. If, as I suspect, "Atlantis" is a folk memory of advanced human civilizations in the late Ice Age, this may be true.
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Also, if both Egyptians and Celts are descendants of Atlantis, would that have anything to do with the noted similarities between Hebrew and Gaelic? I wonder...
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