Fun Bible fact: King David was a longhead. If you look at the earlier translations and the Hebrew, he was said to be the "tallest from the shoulders up". Interestingly, this locks in with a couple of other facts.
It stems from the idea that these longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time. And it's not that Elites are considered beautiful, it's that they define what comes to be considered beautiful. How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along? Anyway....
The Bible says that David was the most beautiful man in the land. Here I would contend that it was precisely because his long head resembled that Elite standard of beauty.
Also, monkey-see monkey-do, so since people want to be beautiful, they end up always trying to emulate the Elite. And that's precisely why people would dream up the extremely bizarre practices of head-binding and cradle-boarding,
Yeah, that's a good example of one of the highly forced and ludicrous explanations given for these passages.
... “he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.” Saul’s physical appearance was accentuated when he stood. Could it be any clearer, friends? Is it so difficult to see? Israel’s King Saul was a very tall man!
So we're supposed to believe this is how the Israelites would describe a tall person? One may compare to Deuteronomy 9:2, describing giants:
A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
I encourage everyone to look at the various translations of 1 Samuel 9:2 that contain the word "head", and note that that word is not in the original Hebrew.
That was only one source who agrees with the summation that the term denotes height, not the slightly forced assertion that he was a rogue holdover example of skull elongation amongst his peers who didn't practice it at the time.
I'll say I can consider the plausibility of your thesis and give it some to be more diplomatic, but I find the argument to be lesser than the one that he was taller than most as that was the norm for leaders of the day.
I find many uses of words in the bible to have several meanings as ancient languages associated words differently than today due to shared consonants with missing vowels as well as words having intertwined or even 'inter-dimensional' meanings shared in one word, such as the word head. It can mean several things.
In this way Sitchin misled by purposeful mis-transliteration btw.
Yeah, I've found that everyone ends up believing what they want to believe. The true manipulation lies in getting people to want to believe certain things, and they will themselves fill in everything after that as required. Few can escape this technique.
In burial grounds containing longheads, they are often segregated, with finer clothing and better grave goods. I have no information on how thicc they were.
Interestingly, at that time in Israel there had been no Elites at all until shortly before David. He was only the third king. The first, Saul, only became king after the Israelites insisted Yahweh appoint one.
In between the two was a mysterious character named Eshbaal (<-- whaaaat?).
Turns out it's specifically Satan, but that's a long story.
Here's one part of the story, though, where people get thrown off the trail: Baal (or Ba'al or Bel or Beel, etc) is usually translated as "lord". It also has the connotation of ownership, so a fuller translation might be something like "lord and master".
While this is just a title or descriptor and could apply to anyone--or any deity--in all my research I've only only come across one or two instances where I thought it might not be referring to Satan. But then, I also suspect that with deeper research I would have been able to make the connection.
So a "faraway" connection would be something like "Beelzebub" is really "Baal zevuv", usually translated "Lord of the Flies". This probably should be "Lord of the Flyers", and refers to Satan being the head of a faction who possessed flying vehicles.
I think the fact that humans are still using mechanisms to shape the head suggests it is possible that the idea came from somewhere. Many locations in the world have produced a range of what could be evidence to the suggestion.
To think that there was a more advanced being with no physical evidence is tough, but I would not rule it out.
Given that 99.99% (surely a made up stat) of all things that were produced on the planet are dead and gone forever, it is hard to propose a hard no.
These elongated skulls are found all over the planet and they seemed to usually be higher class within their own civilizations. Found near Stonehenge. Found in Ancient Egypt. Found near the Incan ruins and in Chile and Peru.
Just because jews erased them from history books doesn't mean there's no evidence.
That's like jews claiming there's no evidence of election fraud and no evidence their jew jabs are poisonous.
He provides evidence of humans born naturally with enlarged skulls
The baby skeleton with large also had one less pair of ribs. The ancient large skull mummy from Chile predates Egyptians estimated 6000 years old
Not sure about ancient aliens but it does seem there were other species or unique tribes of peoples with genetics we don't observe anymore.
I'm not convinced humans today are necessarily the smartest most advanced. Humans have devolved quite a bit and technology or else abundance may make softer weaker dumber human beings.
Could different shape of skull have effects on brain and brainpower? Evidence of large volume brain?
I definitely think there is correlation between brainsize and brain power. there every where too, Iran, africa, egypt, malta, south america, hell even that mayan king Pacal the great is depicted with a elongated skull.
Fun Bible fact: King David was a longhead. If you look at the earlier translations and the Hebrew, he was said to be the "tallest from the shoulders up". Interestingly, this locks in with a couple of other facts.
It stems from the idea that these longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time. And it's not that Elites are considered beautiful, it's that they define what comes to be considered beautiful. How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along? Anyway....
The Bible says that David was the most beautiful man in the land. Here I would contend that it was precisely because his long head resembled that Elite standard of beauty.
Also, monkey-see monkey-do, so since people want to be beautiful, they end up always trying to emulate the Elite. And that's precisely why people would dream up the extremely bizarre practices of head-binding and cradle-boarding,
https://forwhatsaiththescriptures.org/2017/06/03/from-his-shoulders-and-upward-he-was-higher/
Yeah, that's a good example of one of the highly forced and ludicrous explanations given for these passages.
So we're supposed to believe this is how the Israelites would describe a tall person? One may compare to Deuteronomy 9:2, describing giants:
I encourage everyone to look at the various translations of 1 Samuel 9:2 that contain the word "head", and note that that word is not in the original Hebrew.
That was only one source who agrees with the summation that the term denotes height, not the slightly forced assertion that he was a rogue holdover example of skull elongation amongst his peers who didn't practice it at the time.
I'll say I can consider the plausibility of your thesis and give it some to be more diplomatic, but I find the argument to be lesser than the one that he was taller than most as that was the norm for leaders of the day.
I find many uses of words in the bible to have several meanings as ancient languages associated words differently than today due to shared consonants with missing vowels as well as words having intertwined or even 'inter-dimensional' meanings shared in one word, such as the word head. It can mean several things.
In this way Sitchin misled by purposeful mis-transliteration btw.
There are no god-men. That is the End Game meme.
Yeah, I've found that everyone ends up believing what they want to believe. The true manipulation lies in getting people to want to believe certain things, and they will themselves fill in everything after that as required. Few can escape this technique.
> longheads seemed to be the Elites of their time
wasn't David originally a sheepherder?
> How many men really liked fat butts before the Kardashians came along?
Oh. My. Gawd.
In burial grounds containing longheads, they are often segregated, with finer clothing and better grave goods. I have no information on how thicc they were.
Interestingly, at that time in Israel there had been no Elites at all until shortly before David. He was only the third king. The first, Saul, only became king after the Israelites insisted Yahweh appoint one.
In between the two was a mysterious character named Eshbaal (<-- whaaaat?).
Turns out it's specifically Satan, but that's a long story.
Here's one part of the story, though, where people get thrown off the trail: Baal (or Ba'al or Bel or Beel, etc) is usually translated as "lord". It also has the connotation of ownership, so a fuller translation might be something like "lord and master".
While this is just a title or descriptor and could apply to anyone--or any deity--in all my research I've only only come across one or two instances where I thought it might not be referring to Satan. But then, I also suspect that with deeper research I would have been able to make the connection.
So a "faraway" connection would be something like "Beelzebub" is really "Baal zevuv", usually translated "Lord of the Flies". This probably should be "Lord of the Flyers", and refers to Satan being the head of a faction who possessed flying vehicles.
An interesting hypothesis.
I think the fact that humans are still using mechanisms to shape the head suggests it is possible that the idea came from somewhere. Many locations in the world have produced a range of what could be evidence to the suggestion.
To think that there was a more advanced being with no physical evidence is tough, but I would not rule it out.
Given that 99.99% (surely a made up stat) of all things that were produced on the planet are dead and gone forever, it is hard to propose a hard no.
No physical evidence?
These elongated skulls are found all over the planet and they seemed to usually be higher class within their own civilizations. Found near Stonehenge. Found in Ancient Egypt. Found near the Incan ruins and in Chile and Peru.
Just because jews erased them from history books doesn't mean there's no evidence.
That's like jews claiming there's no evidence of election fraud and no evidence their jew jabs are poisonous.
I hear you, But I have been told so many lies I cannot just accept anything.
If they say they have evidence of this, maybe it is the jews claiming as much?
I have not held these skulls to determine the authenticity, so I reserve judgment till then.
I can never tell which it is, the lies to and fro all over the place, most everything is bullshit.
I won't discount it, reserve this spot in my head for dragons and giants and other fun shit.
Dragons and giants and other fun shit would be an excellent book title
this guy does some good work, its too bad this subject gets affiliated with horse shit like ancient aliens
He provides evidence of humans born naturally with enlarged skulls
The baby skeleton with large also had one less pair of ribs. The ancient large skull mummy from Chile predates Egyptians estimated 6000 years old
Not sure about ancient aliens but it does seem there were other species or unique tribes of peoples with genetics we don't observe anymore.
I'm not convinced humans today are necessarily the smartest most advanced. Humans have devolved quite a bit and technology or else abundance may make softer weaker dumber human beings.
Could different shape of skull have effects on brain and brainpower? Evidence of large volume brain?
I definitely think there is correlation between brainsize and brain power. there every where too, Iran, africa, egypt, malta, south america, hell even that mayan king Pacal the great is depicted with a elongated skull.
I posted something about brain size shrank after the last ice age ended. Could explain a lot!