>>10123744

(Please read from the start)

The most important parts are these:

1 – “While other accounts relate that current humans are descended from a small number of survivors”: Well, anons, it does fit extremely well with my little discovery of the Sumerians coming out of Noah’s Ark and navigating down the Euphrates using the Kuphar. When you look at it well, whoever came out of Noah’s Ark are the survivors of the deluge and the established civilizations later on were built by the descendants of those survivors.

2 – “The tale of transgression by fire and subsequent turning into animals of the flood survivors may be of pre-Columbian origin”: we’ve seen this before, in a shallow way anons. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, there was A BLACK CLOUD….. No one noticed that, right? Just ONE cloud was mentioned in the epic. Has anyone seen a storm with just ONE cloud? What can generate ONE BLACK cloud apart something burning? = FIRE. We don’t have the mention of fire in ancient Egypt but we do have it in the Dogon stories. Remember Amma brought the fire along the pyramid filled with animals? The fire came from the SKY, according to the Dogons. And here we have humans discovering “fire” which was the offense towards the gods and it’s the cause or should I say the start of the Flood.

So in very different cultures, just before the Great Flood happened, Fire played a role in the story/myth. This is very interesting anons.

I first checked the Olmec civilization because it’s the oldest in the region. Since I’m not familiar with the civilization, a quick look is in order to get acquainted with it, as well checking out the Flood myths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmecs

“The Olmecs (/ˈɒlmɛks, ˈoʊl-/) were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization. Following a progressive development in Soconusco, they occupied the tropical lowlands of the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. It has been speculated that the Olmecs derived in part from the neighboring Mokaya or Mixe–Zoque cultures.

The Olmecs flourished during Mesoamerica's formative period, dating roughly from as early as 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE. Pre-Olmec cultures had flourished since about 2500 BCE, but by 1600–1500 BCE, early Olmec culture had emerged, centered on the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán site near the coast in southeast Veracruz.[1] They were the first Mesoamerican civilization, and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed.[2] Among other "firsts", the Olmec appeared to practice ritual bloodletting and played the Mesoamerican ballgame, hallmarks of nearly all subsequent Mesoamerican societies. The aspect of the Olmecs most familiar now is their artwork, particularly the aptly named "colossal heads".[3] The Olmec civilization was first defined through artifacts which collectors purchased on the pre-Columbian art market in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Olmec artworks are considered among ancient America's most striking.”

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>>10137036

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“Bloodletting and sacrifice speculation:

Although the archaeological record does not include explicit representation of Olmec bloodletting,[56] researchers have found other evidence that the Olmec ritually practiced it. For example, numerous natural and ceramic stingray spikes and maguey thorns have been found at Olmec sites,[57] and certain artifacts have been identified as bloodletters.

The argument that the Olmec instituted human sacrifice is significantly more speculative. No Olmec or Olmec-influenced sacrificial artifacts have yet been discovered; no Olmec or Olmec-influenced artwork unambiguously shows sacrificial victims (as do the danzante figures of Monte Albán) or scenes of human sacrifice (such as can be seen in the famous ballcourt mural from El Tajin).

At the El Manatí site, disarticulated skulls and femurs, as well as the complete skeletons of newborn or unborn children, have been discovered amidst the other offerings, leading to speculation concerning infant sacrifice. Scholars have not determined how the infants met their deaths.[60] Some authors have associated infant sacrifice with Olmec ritual art showing limp were-jaguar babies, most famously in La Venta's Altar 5 (on the right) or Las Limas figure.[61] Any definitive answer requires further findings.”

>> Cannibalism was mentioned before, but now we have suspicion of human ritual sacrifice and children ritual sacrifice; even though there is no direct evidence.

Anons should start comparing the information we are getting from Central America with Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Dogon people.

“Mesoamerican ballgame

The Olmec are strong candidates for originating the Mesoamerican ballgame so prevalent among later cultures of the region and used for recreational and religious purposes.[72] A dozen rubber balls dating to 1600 BCE or earlier have been found in El Manatí, a bog 10 km (6.2 mi) east of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan.[73] These balls predate the earliest ballcourt yet discovered at Paso de la Amada, circa 1400 BCE, although there is no certainty that they were used in the ballgame.”

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>>10137040

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“Olmec culture was unknown to historians until the mid-19th century. In 1869, the Mexican antiquarian traveller José Melgar y Serrano published a description of the first Olmec monument to have been found in situ. This monument – the colossal head now labelled Tres Zapotes Monument A – had been discovered in the late 1850s by a farm worker clearing forested land on a hacienda in Veracruz. Hearing about the curious find while travelling through the region, Melgar y Serrano first visited the site in 1862 to see for himself and complete the partially exposed sculpture's excavation.”

>> So here again, the first discoveries of the Olmecs took place starting mid 1850s; lasting all the way till recent times.

“Olmec religious activities were performed by a combination of rulers, full-time priests, and shamans. The rulers seem to have been the most important religious figures, with their links to the Olmec deities or supernaturals providing legitimacy for their rule.[80] There is also considerable evidence for shamans in the Olmec archaeological record, particularly in the so-called "transformation figures".

“As Olmec mythology has left no documents comparable to the Popul Vuh from Maya mythology, any exposition of Olmec mythology must be based on interpretations of surviving monumental and portable art (such as the Señor de Las Limas statue at the Xalapa Museum), and comparisons with other Mesoamerican mythologies. Olmec art shows that such deities as the Feathered Serpent and a rain supernatural were already in the Mesoamerican pantheon in Olmec times.”

>> The Snake/Serpent pops up AGAIN.

“Partly because the Olmecs developed the first Mesoamerican civilization, and partly because little is known of them (compared with, for example, the Maya or Aztec), a number of Olmec alternative origin speculations have been put forth. Although several of these speculations, particularly the theory that the Olmecs were of African origin popularized by Ivan van Sertima's book They Came Before Columbus, have become well known within popular culture. They are not considered credible by the vast majority of Mesoamerican researchers and scientists, who discard it as pop-culture pseudo-science.”

>> It’s understandable! Sertima got this idea because of how well the South American continent fits perfectly with the African continent.

“As of 2018, mitochondrial DNA study carried out on Olmec remains, one from San Lorenzo and the other from Loma del Zapote, resulted, in both cases, in the “unequivocal presence of the distinctive mutations of the “A” maternal lineage. That is, the origin of the Olmecs is not in Africa but in America, since they share the most abundant of the five mitochondrial haplogroups characteristic of the indigenous populations of our continent: A, B, C, D and X.”

>> This study sounds interesting. I wonder who is funding it? Wanna have a guess anons?

I want to bring attention to what is believed to be an Olmec throne: it was found in Loma de Zapote-Potrero Nuevo, Veracruz, Mexico. Some believe there are similarities with the concept of the Titan Atlas.

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