Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? | Archaeology | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed
Men and women might have had their fingers deliberately chopped off during religious rituals in prehistoric times, according to a new interpretation of palaeolithic cave art.
In a paper presented at a recent meeting of the European Society for Human Evolution, researchers point to 25,000-year-old paintings in France and Spain that depict silhouettes of hands. On more than 200 of these prints, the hands lack at least one digit. In some cases, only a single upper segment is missing; in others, several fingers are gone.
In the past, this absence of digits was attributed to artistic licence by the cave-painting creators or to ancient people’s real-life medical problems, including frostbite.
But scientists led by archaeologist Prof Mark Collard of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver say the truth may be far more gruesome. “There is compelling evidence that these people may have had their fingers amputated deliberately in rituals intended to elicit help from supernatural entities,” said Collard.
Nor was the habit unique to one time or place, he added. “Quite a few societies encourage fingers to be cut off today and have done so throughout history.”
Collard cited the Dani people from the New Guinea Highlands. “Women there sometimes have one or more fingers cut off following the death of loved ones, including sons or daughters. We believe that Europeans were doing the same sort of thing in palaeolithic times, though the precise belief systems involved may have been different. This is a practice that was not necessarily routine but has occurred at various times through history, we believe.”
Collard and colleagues first published their finger amputation thesis a few years ago but were criticised by other scientists, who argued that the amputation of fingers would have been catastrophic for the people involved. Men and women without fully functioning hands would be unable to cope with the harsh conditions that prevailed millennia ago.
Since then, Collard, working with PhD student Brea McCauley, has gathered more data to back the amputation thesis. In a paper presented at the European Society conference, they said their latest research provided even more convincing evidence that the removal of digits to appease deities explains the hand images in the caves in France and Spain.
These paintings fall into two types: prints and stencils. In the former, a person placed his or her hand in pigment then pressed it on to a wall, creating a handprint. Stencils were created by placing a hand on a wall and then painting pigment over it to create a silhouette. In both cases, hands with missing digits were found among the wall art at four main sites; Maltravieso and Fuente del Trucho caves in Spain, and Gargas and Cosquer caves in France. The Cosquer caves, near Marseille, were the most recently discovered in 1985 by scuba diver Henri Cosquer.
The team looked elsewhere for evidence of finger amputation in other societies and found more than 100 instances where it had been practised. “This practice was clearly invented independently multiple times,” they state. “And it was engaged in by some recent hunter-gatherer societies, so it is entirely possible that the groups at Gargas and the other caves engaged in the practice.”
Nor were the examples confined to Europe, they add. Four sites in Africa, three in Australia, nine in North America, five in south Asia and one in south-east Asia contain evidence of finger amputation. “This form of self-mutilation has been practised by groups from all inhabited continents,” said Collard. “More to the point, it is still carried out today, as we can see in the behaviour of people like the Dani.”
Collard pointed to rituals still carried out in Mauritius and other places, such as fire-walking, face-piercing with skewers and putting hooks through skin so a person can haul heavy chains behind them. “People become more likely to cooperate with other group members after going through such rituals. Amputating fingers may simply have been a more extreme version of this type of ritual.”
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]]> De Charybde en Scylla : Pierre Haski remplace Bernard Guetta pour enfumage quotidien renforcé sur France Inter * Maxime VIVAS - 21 Aout 2018 - LGS
▻https://www.legrandsoir.info/pierre-haski-remplace-bernard-guetta-pour-enfumage-quotidien-renforce-
Pierre Haski va intégrer le « 7/9 » de France Inter. « Tous les jours c’est à lui que reviendra désormais la mission d’analyser la marche du monde et de nous faire comprendre que nous en sommes les gardiens, ce que Bernard Guetta nous a inlassablement transmis », a déclaré Laurence Bloch, directrice de France Inter.
Qui est Pierre Haski ?
Spécialiste des articles obsessionnels contre la Chine (où il a été correspondant de presse), il est un des fondateurs du site Rue89 après avoir été directeur-adjoint de la rédaction de Libération où il couvrit obstinément quelques fake news, comme nous allons le voir. Il est aussi le président de la fausse ONG pro-US : Reporters sans frontières.
Pour « analyser la marche du Monde » , on ne pouvait trouver esprit plus moral et impartial dans le vivier des médias.
Qu’est-ce que #Rue89.
C’est un site d’information fondé le 6 mai 2007 par des anciens de Libération, dont Pierre Haski. En 2009, Rue 89 a perçu une aide de 249 000 euros du gouvernement. Les sommes reçues par la suite ne sont pas connues de nous à ce jour. Le 31 décembre 2011, Rue89 a été vendu pour 7,5 millions d’euros au #Nouvel-Observateur ( #xavier_niel, #matthieu_pigasse), avec promesse que les fondateurs resteraient aux manettes (et Pierre Haski président).
Un exploit de Pierre Haski à #libération.
Le 9 janvier 2006, le journaliste Jean-Hébert Armengaud publie dans Libération, sous le titre :
- « Le credo antisémite de Hugo Chavez » un article où il affirme qu’Hugo Chavez a évoqué la minorité qui a tué le Christ pour s’emparer des richesses du monde.
Chacun comprend que le journaliste de Libération met en avant le stéréotype qui supporte l’antisémitisme en France. Parler de minorité qui tua le Christ et possède les richesses mondiales renvoie malheureusement une partie de nos concitoyens à la communauté juive et c’est une croyance qu’#armengaud va réactiver. Insidieusement. Dangereusement.
Le journalisme de #divination.
L’information donnée par Libération de Pierre Haski est parfaitement exacte à ceci près que :
– Le seul « credo » de Chavez est catholique (on sait qu’il était croyant et pratiquant).
- Chavez a parlé des minorités
- Il n’a pas dénoncé une minorité juive (il ne prononce pas ce mot, Armengaud a des dons divinatoires).
Il a dit : _ « Le monde dispose d’assez de richesse pour tous, donc, mais dans les faits des minorités, les descendants de ceux qui crucifièrent le Christ, les descendants de ceux qui jetèrent Bolivar hors d’ici et le crucifièrent aussi à leur manière à Santa Marta en Colombie » (= les impérialistes, romains, espagnols N. de MV). Il ajoute alors : « Une minorité s’est appropriée les richesses du monde [...] » mais nullement, comme le dit Armengaud : « la minorité qui a tué le Christ pour s’emparer des richesses du monde ». _ Voir aussi Acrimed ▻https://www.acrimed.org/-2005-Chavez-antisemite- .
C’est beaucoup d’erreurs de détail pour enrober une troncature perverse.
Ceux qui ont écouté Chavez leur parler ont bien compris ce qu’il disait (d’autant plus qu’ils avaient sa phrase en entier, avec en plus ce qui précédait et ce qui suivait).
Armengaud va pousser l’impudence jusqu’à proposer à ses lecteurs de vérifier ses sources via un lien du site du gouvernement bolivarien. Il sait bien que peu le feront, que le site est en espagnol et qu’il faudra y lire 15 pages sur 26 pour y découvrir quoi ? Qu’Armengaud a menti.
Depuis Caracas, un journaliste français découvre la supercherie.
Un journaliste français, Romain Migus, ami et collaborateur du GS est en poste à Caracas (Voir sa série d’articles sur le Venezuela, actuellement en ligne). ▻https://www.legrandsoir.info/penurie-organisee-de-medicaments-chroniques-d-en-bas-no-6.html
Quelques semaines plus tôt, le 9 novembre 2005, Romain Migus a lu une déclaration de David Bachenheimer, secrétaire général de la communauté juive, qui déclarait à l’un des principaux quotidiens d’opposition de Caracas, El Nacional, qu’il n’y pas d’antisémitisme au Venezuela.
Romain Migus s’étonne donc que Chavez ait pu faire brusquement preuve d’antisémitisme. Il vérifie, il lit le vrai discours, il ameute la blogosphère.
Que fait, alors le coupable pris la main dans le sac ?
Il persiste. Que fait Pierre Haski, alors directeur-adjoint de la rédaction de Libération ? Il soutient son journaliste manipulateur. Il se plaint que « Les accusations les plus violentes pleuvent depuis que Libération s’est fait l’écho, le 9 janvier, d’une déclaration du président vénézuélien Hugo Chavez, datant du 24 décembre, interprétée dans nos colonnes comme un dérapage antisémite... ».
Admirez les astuces puisqu’en vérité Libération ne s’est pas fait l’écho d’une déclaration, mais il l’a traficotée et son titre ne parlait pas de dérapage (d’un accident) mais il fabriquait un credo. C’est très différent.
La polémique se poursuivant, Pierre Haski clôt le débat ainsi :
« Aurions-nous inventé des mots que Chavez n’aurait pas prononcés ? Il suffit de se référer au texte du discours en espagnol pour constater que pas un mot n’a été mis dans sa bouche qu’il n’aurait pas prononcé, en particulier la référence aux « descendants de ceux qui ont crucifié le Christ ». »
Bolivar ? A nouveau disparu. Vous prouvez à Haski qu’ils ont tronqué, il récidive et il vous répond qu’ils n’ont rien ajouté !
Les faux rouges-bruns, ou le journalisme d’imputation.
Le 30 mai 2012, Rue89 de Pierre Haski désigne comme « brun » René Balme, le maire PG de Grigny dans le Rhône. Brun ? Cf. les Chemises brunes des SA qui s’illustrèrent dans la « Nuit de cristal », pogrom et point culminant de la vague antisémite en Allemagne. Les « bruns » sont des nazis. Au passage (et hors-sujet), l’auteur de l’article écrit : « … comment s’étonner de ce que René Balme ait invité, à la dernière édition du salon du livre alternatif qu’il a organisé dans sa commune, un des animateurs du site rouge-brun LeGrandSoir.info, Maxime Vivas ? ». Mon nom ouvre sur le lien d’un site lyonnais, Rebellyion qui s’oppose à ma venue dans ce salon : « Halte au confusionnisme politique !
A Lyon, à Grigny ou ailleurs : les fachos hors de nos quartiers, pas de quartier pour les fachos ! ».
Le mépris du métier de journaliste et le mensonge récompensés.
Jean-Hebert Armengaud est aujourd’hui rédacteur en Chef de #Courrier_International et Pierre Haski nous est imposé tous les matins sur une radio publique.
Tout serait pour le mieux dans le domaine de l’information honnête sous l’œil vigilant du #DECODEX du Monde, si l’éditorialiste choisi par France Inter ne s’asseyait pas obstinément sur la plupart des devoirs imposé aux journalistes par la Charte du journaliste, dite Charte de Munich (1971).
Attendons-nous à souffrir le matin ou à renoncer à écouter France Inter.
Remplacer Bernard Guetta par Pierre Haski à l’analyse de la marche du monde, c’est tomber de Charybde en Scylla.
C’est le #naufrage plus que jamais assuré d’une information matinale neutre, impartiale, non militante, qui s’en tienne aux faits, c’est-à-dire respectueuse des auditeurs qui épousent des opinions différentes et ne paient pas leur redevance pour qu’en soient promues certaines et fustigées d’autres.
#Maxime_VIVAS
(Pour une partie, ces lignes sont extraites d’une conférence que j’ai donnée en novembre 2012 à La Baume-lès-Aix (13) sur les médias alternatifs (Les médias électroniques ne sont pas, de facto, des médias plus honnêtes, plus libres, plus informatifs que les autres.) ▻https://www.legrandsoir.info/rue89-article-11-lgs-et-les-autres-conference-sur-les-medias-alternati
#france_inter #pierre_haski #bernard_guetta #enfumage #médias #cléricature_médiatique #hégémonie_idéologique #mensonges, #abus #servilité #caste_politique #médiacrates #oligarchie
]]>Ou s’intéresser aux #dieux_antiques – mais pas seulement – à travers leurs #réseaux de relations. Hommage respectueux mais non dogmatique à Jean-Pierre #Vernant
►http://sms.hypotheses.org/10846
#dieu, #dieux, #mythe, #antiquité, #antique, #Vernant, #réseau, #relations, #grec, #grèce, #mythologie, #hellène, #panthéon, #religion, #puissance, #divin, #pratique, #rituel, #olympe
]]>How can the Lord be ‘God of gods’?
▻http://randalmatheny.com/god-of-gods
Deuteronomy 10.17: How should we understand and use this phrase?
#Daily_Bible_Devotional #divine_sovereignty #God #God_of_gods
]]>Generations come and go
▻http://randalmatheny.com/generations-come-and-go
Ecclesiastes 1.4: The writer’s statement is more comforting than he could ever imagine.
#Daily_Bible_Devotional #continuity #divine_sovereignty #Ecclesiastes
]]>Glory for #uniqueness
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-uniqueness
God is not created. He is eternal. He was and is and always will be. No one else is like #God. Angels and demons are created beings. No one deserves worship besides God. Only God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit deserve our submission and obedience. Glory to God for his...
]]>For Such a Time
▻http://randalmatheny.com/such-time
Three stanzas, with a different kind of rhyme, about the Persian queen.
]]>Glory for exercise
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-exercise
God exercises his power and authority at every moment. He commands his angels to serve his people. His Spirit moves according to his will to produce the fruit of the kingdom. His Son continues to send and to bless his messengers. God deserves our praise and thanks for his ceaseless activity on behalf of his […]
]]>Glory for timing
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-timing
God sees all. His eyes watch the good and bad. Nothing escapes his notice. Man cannot hide from him. The night cannot conceal anything from him. He took evil into account when he created his plan. He has not forgotten all the wrong the world contains. At the right time, we will see how #God […]
]]>Glory for shaming
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-shaming
The Sovereign withholds and sends the rain, He frustrates kings with famine and need, In the fullness of time he reveals his will, He shows himself and shames the powers That rule the world with ruthless evil. To #God, the great and good, be glory!
]]>Glory for speaking a blessing
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-speak-blessing
God’s first word to man was a blessing. #God is good! He desires to do good. He is merciful and patient. He brings freedom, deliverance, and opportunity to all. Praise his name and exalt him in the highest terms!
]]>Glory for #intolerance
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-intolerance
God is too just to tolerate evil; he is unable to condone wrongdoing. So why does he put up with treacherous people? Why does he apparently say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are? Because he is following his plan and in his own time will punish evil and recompense those who do good....
]]>Glory for sameness
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-sameness
God is always the same. He is eternal. He does not change. He does not move like the shifting shadows. He is faithful. His holiness does not waver, nor does his justice give way. He is no respecter of persons. He treats everyone the same. This is his glory and his greatness.
]]>Glory for seeing
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-seeing
Glory to God, for nothing is hidden from his sight, not the world of the dead, not the depth of the seas, nor the secrets of outer (to us) space. He sees all, he knows all, even the thoughts and intents of our hearts, the struggles of the will, the convoluted reasonings of the human...
]]>Glory for nearness
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-nearness
Glory to God for coming near to his creature — he who sits enthroned above all powers and authorities, but loves and aids his fallen mankind, who still pursues a fellowship most unlikely, Creator with his creation, Spirit with flesh and blood, the Almighty with the helpless and powerless, the Exalted with the meek and...
]]>Glory for everything necessary
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-necessary
Glory to God, for his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness! Praise him for the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence! Praise him for bestowing on us his precious and most magnificent promises! Blessed be the Lord who makes us partakers...
]]>Glory for sovereignty
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-sovereignty
God deserves all glory and honor on the tongues of men, because he rules the universe and makes everything that happens contribute to the fulfillment of his will. Praise him who explodes our negative assessments of the church and of ourselves! Exalt him who transforms dead seed into great growth! Blessed be the God whose...
]]>Glory for judgment
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-judgment
For judging righteous judgment and not according to appearances, to God give glory! For judging according to his own word of truth, and not the whims or opinions of man, exalt his holy name! For bringing justice to all, and that speedily, praise the God of righteousness!
#God_and_faith #Divine_judgment #doxology #giveglory #eternal_judgment
]]>Glory for patience
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-patience
Glory be to the God who holds evil in check, who uses it to accomplish his purposes, who allows mankind to have his way for a time, even though it goes against his will, who patiently endures blasphemy and perfidy, in order to redeem the remnant! Praise to him who hears the whispers of the...
]]>What seeing the #presence_of_God in others will do
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/08/31/see-god
Ephesians 4.6: Seeing where God is will make us also see keenly where he is not.
]]>The #Bible, from there to here
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/06/26/bible
Revelation 1.10-11: The Bible is a message for every age.
#Daily_Bible_Devotional #book_of_Revelation #divine_revelation
]]>The gracious #will_of_God
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/05/29/will-god
Matthew 11.26: God shows himself as good at every turn.
]]>‘Communication in the form of structured truth’
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/05/28/structured-truth
God tailors his revelation to the human mind.
]]>No new vision needed, thanks very much
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/03/11/no-vision
Eph 3.11: Forget those who offer a new vision for a new day.
#Daily_Bible_Devotional #divine_plan #divine_vision #eternal_purpose
]]> L’ordinateur dans la société (1965)
▻http://hyperbate.fr/dernier/?p=30197
Les multiples bras et la manière de se nourrir de la machine rappellent les images de dieux tels que Baal-Moloch, le dévorateur, ou Kālī, la destructrice, deux divinités de mort et de vie à la fois, puisque Baal est une divinité liée aux récoltes1, et que Kālī détruit et crée en même temps.
#Divinité #Histoire_de_l'informatique #Illustration #Informatique #Machine #Ordinateur #Représentation_(art)
]]>George R.R. Martin Has a Detailed Plan For Keeping the Game of Thrones TV Show From Catching Up To Him - Vanity Fair
▻http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/george-r-r-martin-interview
Long entretien avec George RR Martin, en particulier sur sa façon de déjouer les attentes du lecteur (pour le dire poliment).
– You have very strong reversals and you keep the reader off balance. You might think you’re in Sword in the Stone territory early on — you can see the book it might become, with Bran as the hero, but then it’s like a con game between you and the reader.
– I think you write what you want to read. I’ve been a reader, a voracious reader, since I was a kid in Bayonne. “George with his nose in a book,” they always called me. So I’ve read a lot of stories in my life, and some have affected me very deeply; others I forget five minutes after I put ‘em down. One of the things I’ve come to really appreciate is a kind of unpredictability in my fiction. There’s nothing that bores me quicker than a book that just seems, I know exactly where this book is going. You’ve read them, too. You open a new book and you read the first chapter, maybe the first two chapters, and you don’t even have to read the rest of it. You can see exactly where it’s going. I think I got some of that when I was growing up and we were watching TV. My mother would always predict where the plots were going, whether it was I Love Lucy or something like that. “Well, this is going to happen,” she would say. And, sure enough, it would happen! And nothing was more delightful, when something different happened, when it suddenly took a twist. As long as the twist was justified. You can’t just arbitrarily throw in twists and turns that make no sense. Things have to follow. You want the thing in the end where you say, “Oh my God, I didn’t see that coming, but there was foreshadowing; there was a hint of it here, there was a hint of it there. I should have seen it coming.” And that, to me, is very satisfying. I look for that in the fiction that I read and I try to put it into my own fiction.
– Like with Bran getting pushed, you foreshadow that, too, so the reader doesn’t feel cheated. Same with the Red Wedding.
There’s always this tension between fiction and life. Fiction has more structure than life does. But we have to hide the structure. We have to hide the writer, I think, and make a story seem like it was true. Too many stories are too structured and too familiar. The way we read, the way we watch television, the way we go to movies, all give us certain expectations of how a story is going to go. Even for reasons that are totally unconnected with the actual story itself. You go to a movie, who’s the big star? O.K., if Tom Cruise is the star, Tom Cruise is not going to die in the first scene, you know? ‘Cause he’s the star! He’s got to go through. Or you’re watching a TV show and its name is Castle. You know that the character Castle is pretty safe. He’s gonna be there next week, too, and the week after.
You shouldn’t know that, ideally. The emotional involvement would be greater if somehow we could get past that. So that’s what I try to do, you know? Bran is the first of the major characters you meet, after the prologue. So you think, “Oh, O.K., this is Bran’s story, Bran’s gonna be a hero here.” And then: Whoops! What just happened to Bran there? Immediately, you’re changing the rules. And, hopefully, from that point, the reader is a little uncertain. “I don’t know who’s safe in this movie.” And I love that, when people say to me, “I never know who’s safe in the books. I can never relax.” I want that in my books. And I want that in the books I read, too. I want to feel that anything can happen. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the first ones to do that, most famously in Psycho. You start watching Psycho and you think she’s the heroine. Right? You followed her all the way. She can’t die in the shower!
– Were there writers that you read as a kid, or shows that you watched, that did that kind of thing? The Twilight Zone did it.
The Twilight Zone was famous for its twist endings. Twist endings are hard to do. I worked on the revived Twilight Zone in the mid-eighties, and the network was constantly on us, saying, “You have to have more twist endings!” And what we discovered is, it’s a lot harder to do a twist ending in 1987 than it is to do a twist ending in 1959. The audience has seen tens of thousands of more shows, and they’ve gotten far more sophisticated. We tried to remake some of the classic Twilight Zones, like Anne Francis is a mannequin coming into a store in the original, and we tried to remake that. Three minutes into it, they say, “She’s a mannequin.” Ha ha ha ha! Or the one where the woman has an operation. She’s supposedly hideously ugly and she’s having an operation to make her beautiful. But if you notice how they film that, you never see anyone’s face. You just see her with her bandages. And, of course, they take it off, and she’s incredibly beautiful, and everybody reacts with horror – and you see that they’re all idiot pig people! Well, the minute you remake that, the modern audience says, “They’re not showing us anyone’s faces.” So, trick endings are harder to do. The audience is increasingly sophisticated and wary of such things.
]]>Phantom Springs Cave Expedition 2013
Deep in the desert of West Texas lies Phantom Springs cave. Exploration divers have hit a record depth of 462ft/140.8m making it the deepest natural #underwater cave system in the United States! This is a closed site and only those with a scientific permit are permitted to dive. The team set up sediment traps, collected water quality data, surveyed over 8000ft of the cave, and shot hours of high definition video and stills both topside and underwater. The site is a biological preserve set aside for the endangered pup fish that lives in the pools outside of the system.
#cave #diving #Phantom_Springs_Cave #exploration #video #texas #geology #desert #Expedition
]]>I am Divine | The Drone
▻http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/i-am-divine
#divine #cinema
L’ #art face à l #ordre #divin ne trouve aucune #solidarité
►http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1486
Le #pouvoir de la #censure selon les #versets
Mais en #occident, on censure aussi ! Pour atteinte aux #valeurs ! Et les religieuses ! Dans la #république laïque qu’est la #France des précédents qui vont accoucher d’autres. Le débat sur l’ #Islam de France s’est givré. Les #artistes provocateurs par leurs €critiques de l’islam, y sont aussi réduits au silence. #FR #FF
]]>Crazy underwater base jump
►http://kottke.org/10/06/crazy-underwater-base-jump
#via_google_reader #video #nature #youtube #diving #kottke #underwater #water
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