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Wile E. Coyote
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The Elephant Castle is surrounded by myth. The "original" appears to be sent by Harun-Al-Rashid (he is the Caliph from 1001 Nights) to Charlemagne as a gift in 802. Charlemagne had his own menagerie. Members of his court often called themselves by fictional nicknames of animals.
After that in 1255: Louis IX of France gifts his elephant to Henry III, who subsequently installs it in the Tower menagerie. Alas in 1257 the Tower elephant dies, reportedly from drinking too much red wine, it seems the elephant had acquired too much of a taste for Burgundy.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Edingburgh castle has a similar story. The 78th Highlanders returned from a post in Ceylon, in 1838, along with an elephant. He was, it is said a sort of mascot, head of the marching band, during regimental parades. Unfortunately this elephant like its handler had a penchant for beer.
After its early death its toes were kept and exhibited as a memento.
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Wile E. Coyote
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The Dumbarton Elephant and Castle dates back to 1673. (Aha)
The elephant is said to have been chosen because in shape it is thought to resemble Dumbarton Rock; the castle on its back is Dumbarton Castle. |
Sweet.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Ever wondered why William the Conqueror largely kept the Anglo Saxon system of coinage largely intact?
Probably not, it surely paid him to do so, so important folks could carry on trading in the coins along a wide trading network, just as his empire was expanding.
Ever wondered how William kept the coinage intact, as it featured portraits of AS nobility who were no longer able to enforce the store of value?
Probably not... as a story developed, along the trading network that the Anglo-Saxons were now in command of the mysterious Varangian guard, and you wouldn't want to mess with them. So folks traded as per normal happy in the value of the currency, and future generations never needed to think.
BTW there is actually no origin to this story. William is irrelevant. It had happened before when Harold defeated Harold Hadrada, it was Hardrada who led the guard. The networks create the kings, the commanders and the histories. The face is Heracles.
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Wile E. Coyote
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The story and the networks are much older
"...by contemporaries, he (Alexander) was believed to be lion-like in appearance and often in temper, and for a young man of streaming hair and penetrating gaze the comparison was apt, the more so as he had been born under the sign of Leo and was best known from the portraits on his coins, which showed him in the lionskin cap of his ancestor Heracles, a headdress he may have worn in his everyday life". |
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Can we have a bit of a timeline? I'm getting chronologically lost.
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Wile E. Coyote
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I am afraid Wiley is not going to be of much help to christian timelines.
We are going from gods, to god, the room created by clearing out the pantheon allows us to create angels, heroes, saints and kings.
Everything else being equal we assume that the finds underneath are always older than the finds on top.
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Wile E. Coyote
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In terms of coinage whereas orthodoxy sees novelty and invention Wiley invariably sees boring replicas. One common replica is Heracles, there is way too much decoding of symbols on coins and way too much matching of coins to events that simply did not take place. Any messaging on ancient coins is simple and obvious.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Aye, lad, it's a labour of Heracles.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Mick Harper wrote: | Aye, lad, it's a labour of Heracles. |
Well spotted.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Still, it was nice of Caitlin to do some work for me.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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She's a good kid. Fallen into bad company. Banned Hatty a long time ago. So it wasn't her.
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Wile E. Coyote
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Mick Harper wrote: | Can we have a bit of a timeline? I'm getting chronologically lost. |
The Common era calendar is a modern attempt to update/obscure the origin of what was the Christian calendar. The Christian calendar was created to update/obscure the origin of what was was the Augustan calendar.
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Wile E. Coyote
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A big mistake for future historians will be starting with a common era chronology. A big mistake made for many past historians was accepting the christian chronology as given.
There is no advantage or improvement gained by adding or subtracting say 300 years to the christian chronology. This is not radical, it just reinforces the belief that the current calendar is a good starting point.
The point is to understand the functionality of each calendar. The christian calendar is tied to the notion of political linear progress, whilst spirituality becomes more circular.
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Wile E. Coyote
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The chances of two "sons of a god", Jesus totally unknown in his lifetime, but destined to become a great spiritual leader later on, and the other the known leader of the Roman empire, Augustus Filius Dei son of Divine Julius, both being born basically at the same time is pretty remote.
The Jesus calendar has replaced the Augustan one, as a new history was required.
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