Many Factual Myths Type Data Acquired From Google.com

1. This blog is to encorporate discussions
on Lost Continents, Catastrophism, The
origin of Modern Humans and the Out of
Africa theory, Genetics and Human
Diversity, The Origin and Spread of
Civilization and Cultural Diffusion
across the face of the Globe.
Deluge of Atlantis
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Animal Stories By Migration

2. After introducing the topic of symbolic
animals and animal stories, it seems to
me that the animal stories in general
come in different sets originating in
different areas.
The oldest identifiable set is the one
which includes the Lion, linked to the
King and the major hero character who
is a Lion Man or Were-Lion (Hercules or
Heracles) but also identified with the
sun god. In the distant past, this
mythology suggests there was a
tradition of ritual Lion-killing or
Lion-Sacrifice.
The Lion-King had a Jester-Monkey who
always seemed to be smarter than the
Lion-King was himself.

3. Since the Lion is definitely associated
with the sun, the Monkey could be
associated with Mercury and the other
animals associated with them could
represent other planets, the mythology
derived from the Adam's Calendar
Zodiac. The other animals seem to
include the Ostrich and the Elephant.
The ostrich seems to have been replaced
by the Crane in several later
developments: the Lion remains
legendary in several parts of the
Orient where Lions never did live.
There are also hints of social satire
in these stories with the Elephant
representing the Will of the People,
not always willing to go along with the
Lion's commands. There is some
indication this mythology was in
circulation from the beginnings of the
post-Toba Out of Africa movements and
definitely by 60000 years ago (see
longer article at bottom ) See
Also http://www.michaeltellinger.com/ad
ams-calendar.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster
Modern African American literary
criticism has turned the trickster
figure into one example of how it is
possible to overcome a system of
oppression from within. For

4. years, African American literature was
discounted by the greater community of
American literary criticism while its
authors were still obligated to use the
language and the rhetoric of the very
system that relegated African Americans
and other minorities to the ostracized
position of the cultural "other." The
central question became one of how to
overcome this system when the only
words available were created and
defined by the oppressors. As Audre
Lordeexplained, the problem was that
"the master’s tools [would] never
dismantle the master’s house."[5]
In his writings of the late
1980s, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents
the concept of Signifyin(g). Wound up
in this theory is the idea that the
"master’s house" can be "dismantled"
using his "tools" if the tools are used
in a new or unconventional way. To
demonstrate this process, Gates cites
the interactions found in African
American narrative poetry between the
trickster, the Signifying Monkey, and
his oppressor, the Lion.[6] According to
Gates, the "Signifying Monkey" is the
"New World figuration" and "functional
equivalent" of the Eshu trickster
figure of African Yoruba

5. mythology.[7] The Lion functions as the
authoritative figure in his classical
role of "King of the Jungle."[8] He is
the one who commands the Signifying
Monkey’s movements. Yet the Monkey is
able to outwit the Lion continually in
these narratives through his usage of
figurative language. According to
Gates, "[T]he Signifying Monkey is able
to signify upon the Lion because the
Lion does not understand the Monkey’s
discourse…The monkey speaks
figuratively, in a symbolic code; the
lion interprets or reads literally and
suffers the consequences of his
folly…"[8] In this way, the Monkey uses
the same language as the Lion, but he
uses it on a level that the Lion cannot
comprehend. This usually leads to the
Lion’s "trounc[ing]" at the hands of a
third-party, the Elephant.[9] The net
effect of all of this is "the reversal
of [the Lion’s] status as the King of
the Jungle."[8] In this way, the
"master’s house" is dismantled when his
own tools are turned against him by the
trickster Monkey.
The symbolic representation of The
Green Man seems to include some
reference to the human representation

6. of The Lion King (The temporal human
ruler in the sacred and sacrificial
aspect. Possibly the human ruler wore a
mask woven of green plants and
leaves ) This very old mythology does
seem to have a direct bearing on Sir
James Frasier's Golden Bough and The
Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph
Campbell, and was originally based on a
Vegetative Neolithic focused on yams
and root-crops more than seed crops.
Once again, this traces
archaeologically to Africa's Middle
Stone Age, simultaneous to the
Neanderthal age in Europe.

7. The tradition of the Lion-King
associated with the Sun and The Green
Man imagery continue on into
but however there is a
different emphasis on other animals. As
noted in a series of essays previously
posted on the internet, the
Sundalanders seem to have been the
originals to the "Dragon and Bird clan"
which had a tradition including
the Crocodylus porosis as the dragon of
chaos and flooding, and including a
theme of repeated deluges and
recreations of the world. Somewhere
along in here came a recognitition of
the Precession of the equinoxes.
Magical deer, especially Reindeer and
elk (Moose)
And the important mythological
characters of both wolves and dogs
The original language family Out of
Africa would have been Nostratic
but this particular branch of languages
would have been Eurasian instead

8. And then the Atlantean and American
Animal tales are defined as the set
where the Coyote is Trickster (later
replaced largely by the Fox in Europe
and Asia) featuring the presence
of sheep and goats, white headed
eagles and brants (including Canadian
geese and Barnacle Geese)
Together with some specific myths about
Swans (Swan maidens) and other
waterfowl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_maide
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9. Vipers and pit-vipers, and the
importance of Hares as secondary
trickster characters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare
The hare in African folk tales is
a trickster; some of the stories about
the hare were retold among
African slavesin America, and are the
basis of the Brer Rabbit stories. In
Britain, the hare was associated with
the Anglo-Saxongoddess Eostre and whose

10. pagan attributes were appropriated into
the Christian tradition as the Easter
Bunny. The hare also appears in English
folklore in the saying "as mad as
a March hare" and in the legend of the
White Hare that alternatively tells of
a witch who takes the form of a white
hare and goes out looking for prey at
night or of the spirit of a broken-
hearted maiden who cannot rest and who
haunts her unfaithful
lover.[18][19] In Irishfolklore, the hare
is often associated with Sidh (Fairy)
or other pagan elements. In these
stories, characters who harm hares
often suffer dreadful consequences.
Many cultures, including
the Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican, see
a hare in the pattern of dark
patches in themoon (see Moon rabbit);
this tradition forms the basis of
the Angelo Branduardi song "The Hare in
the Moon".[20]The
constellation Lepus represents a hare.
One of Aesop's fables tells the story
of The Tortoise and the Hare. The hare
was regarded as an animal sacred to
Aphrodite and Eros because of its high
libido. Live hares were often presented
as a gift of