July 13, 2008

Chesstories

The Legend of Dalukah by Don McLean, has received a significant footnote upgrade. (July 16. 2008)

Chessquest

The Sacred Bone by Brian Stross pdf file 3.1 M instant download While Goddesschess is on vacation during the next two weeks, this article oughta hold ya! Formally titled "The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone; Doorway to the Other World", here you will find 54 pages of excellent research on the subject of dice and related traditions. Thanks Brian! See also: html link - a good portal but lacking important graphic content. (July 13, 2008)

The Sacred Game by J.C. Hallman Goddesschess "enthusiastically" presents this informed thoughtspiece from the pen of J.C. Hallman. (July 6. 2008)

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It is not generally known ... (but maybe it is now!)

Salome Alexandra
BAR 34:04, Jul/Aug 2008 - The Salome No One Knows by Kenneth Atkinson Long-time Ruler of a Prosperous and Peaceful Judea Mentioned in Dead Sea Scrolls

"When people hear the name Salome, they immediately think of the infamous dancing girl of the Gospels. ... In antiquity there was a considerably more famous Salome, however, who was revered for centuries."

The Sirius Lore
To the earliest Egyptians, Sirius/Sothis was the home of departed souls. Assem Deif shows how the triad Osiris-Isis-Nephthys affected other cultures.

The Papyrus Path
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg "There were once two Jewish temples in ancient Egypt. Both were found in the last century, but one was strangely lost again."

The Lost World
Armed with a map depicting a 10,000-year-old landscape submerged beneath the North Sea and fresh evidence from nearby sites, archaeologists are realizing that early humans were more territorial than was previously thought. Laura Spinney reports.

Oops! 
Famed statue of the She-Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus isn't 2,500 years old after all... A statue symbolising the mythical origins and power of Rome, long thought to have been made around 500BC, has been found to date from the 1200s.

Ring of Brodgar in Orkney,
the third-largest stone circle in the British Isles and thought to date back to 3000-2000BC, to be excavated ""Because so little is known about the Ring of Brodgar, a series of assumptions have taken the place of archaeological data. The interpretation of what is arguably the most spectacular stone circle in Scotland is therefore incomplete and unclear."