Fly Among the Wilds

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[interdimensional-starqueen]

A small lightening strike I caught last night ⛈⚡️🧝🏻‍♀️

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery​:

i don’t actually know when you left. not that i didn’t notice. i did. i noticed a lot of people left. ): i just am bad with keeping track of time, since it doesn’t really matter a whole lot to me ever. although i guess it kind of does more now, because kids grow up on a really short timeline, and if you look away, you’ll miss it. i’m not even sure how important that will be when he gets older. we think moro might actually be a real live dhampir! which might mean he will live a very long time. or he will just live like a human, which would be pretty sad, but it was what i was expecting anyway, so… i think most everything else is pretty much the same. we even rebuilt the manor, which burnt down. why it burnt down sucks a lot, but there is so much space again now that it’s back up. bringing summer is great. i love summer! i really appreciate it showing up.

i do not know, uh, when i left, because time is confusing and easy to lose, but it was like falling asleep, falling into the flow and ebb of life and settling, 

but it is empty around here now, which is sad,

i have seen, er, quite a few people grow up, though, and those first few years pass in the blink of an eye, and are so special, even if they forget when they are older, 

i did not know that your manor burned down, but i am glad, it is rebuilt, possibly even better than before,  is it better than before? 

[mizar113]

[galenburow]

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery​:

quiet’s good! i’ve been doing pretty much the same. jake and i are just hanging out on the farm mostly, though i do visit paolo and the family and some friends sometimes. it’s almost the solstice, so we’re getting ready for the traditional seasonal party. i’m pretty excited about that, but i’m always excited about that, so it’s not even news. and moro is so big now! and apparently the biggest rock fiend, which is pretty weird since no one else is like that in the family. wow. i just info dumped all over you. whoopsie.

info dump is fine, it has been so long that i barely, remember what went on before i left, so you can continue to, uh, info dump, 

i would like to catch up, }:D

  i have been bringing summer, travelling, and existing, quietly,  not much to say, 

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery replied to your post: pfft

hi!

hi, }:)

[kindredconfectionery]

(: how have you been?

[inaemehkiwak]

been doing okay, staying, uhh, quiet, 

how about you?

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery replied to your post: pfft

hi!

hi, }:)

[inaemehkiwak]

pfft

[unexplained-events]

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

[smileforthehigh-deactivated2017]

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[pearlsnapbutton]

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

[kiwianaroha]

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

[theopensea]

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

[thegirlthewolfate]

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

[archaeologistforhire]

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

[crazythingsfromhistory]

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

[fluffmugger]

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

[ironbite4]

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

[gluklixhe]

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

[pre-party]

[inaemehkiwak]

angelicgeneticist replied to your post: evening, 

:D Hey!

evening, friend! how have you been?

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery:

i mean an infant, actually. so he’s both very short and very child. good luck with your hunt and the world! the sort of stories where if they were in any language his adoptive mother spoke, they would get me booted hard, curse or no. i can’t help it if bawdy tales are the most animated. :)

ha ha!  good good, that is beautiful, even more so that he enjoys it,  unless he tells them to his mother, then you may be in trouble, 

well the hunt was easy enough,  the world, not so much, 

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery replied to your post: evening, 

hi!

hi!  how are you, tonight? 

[kindredconfectionery]

i’m pretty good. i’m reading highly inappropriate stories to a very small person who seems to be enjoying the faces i’m making more than anything i say. how about you?

[inaemehkiwak]

that sounds adorable, even if you mean a short person, over a child,  i am just being around, enjoying the world,  hunting a meal, 

what sort of stories? 

[inaemehkiwak]

kindredconfectionery replied to your post: evening, 

hi!

hi!  how are you, tonight? 

[inaemehkiwak]

evening, 

[lebornaciar]

gods for the modern age: zeus

lord over all, stride forward proudly with the lightning raised in your hand. all rise when you enter—for yours is the respect and love of thousands. rule wisely, keep the law, mediate oaths, and set all the people of the world into their places. thunderer, king above, your might is without question: for it was you alone who overthrew corruption and put the heavens on their proper course.

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.