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San Pedro Mountains Mummy
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Now, I've always been a fan of all things Fortean, but unfortunately as you get older you get a bit disenchanted. Those UFO's turn out to be weather balloons, those ghosts just infrasound, underground water, sea monsters are formidably endowed whales having a threesome, and few of the things you once found mysterious still hold any of their charm.
This one, though, is a curious case from start to finish. It's nice to know we haven't got it all figured out...
A bit of catching up...
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It's seemed that every day there's been a new "discovery" and I've not particularly done a good job of keeping up.
I mean, I'm interested, but I'm not in Europe where most of these discoveries are being made and so I have confined my interests to those more local.
First of all - The Great Canadian Treasure Hunt via The Northern Miner has just had it's second consolation prize found in Cobalt Ontario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKwHoMii2UI
The first was found in Dawson City: https://treasure.northernminer.com/uncategorized-en/first-bonus-prize-in-the-great-canadian-treasure-hunt-discovered-in-dawson-city/
I'm going to start having to pay attention, pretty sure there'll be a treasure someplace on the island...
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In other news, a fisherman digging for worms unearths a copper cauldron stuffed with some 20, 000 silver coins and bits of jewelry from the 12th century: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-fisherman-was-digging-for-worms-in-sweden-when-he-stumbled-upon-a-trove-of-medieval-silver-180987524/
And a German detectorist unearths the Borsum Hoard in 2017; then takes 8 years to tell authorities about it, he was waiting for the statute of limitations to run out: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-silver-hoard-saxony-metal-detectorist-2703890#:~:text=Authorities%20in%20Lower%20Saxony%2C%20northwestern,kept%20the%20haul%20a%20secret.
Meanwhile, a similar game has been playing out in Britain with the Herefordshire Hoard, first unearthed in 2015 and as of yet only partially recovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire_hoard
The BBC has a podcast on it here: https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/p0kvsxcv
Another hoard found in Wales, up to 15, 000 coins: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd67vv66wxxo
Then there's Florida, where there's always a Galleon being dived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2cd20uXnE
While that hardly catches us up, it is inspiring...
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Oh, and I forgot this. The world's largest Buddha statue is made of solid gold, and weighs in at over 12, 000 pounds. Solid gold, varying Karats. It was covered in paper-mache for centuries to hide it's value, and was only "rediscovered" in the 1950's.
A little more than you could ride away on a motorcycle with...
The Flight of the Wild Gander - Joseph Campbell
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This was a bit of a "Ho-Hum", Campbell's theories of Mono-myth and cross-cultural contamination; the great spiritual truths of our age, etc, etc. While he did a formidable amount of scholarship on these things and I no doubt have been brought to it time and time again via other sources, which made this - well, the ideas were not "fresh" to me shall we say.
And while clearly I'm not in a position to anyways criticize or critique him this one will be heading back to the bookstore soon.
If you want to read a great book on Fairy Tales and the symbolism contained therein, try Bruno Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment".
Tomatoes & Chilis
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Checking, today, the tomatoes, it's been a couple of weeks and since I've moved the chilis indoors there's been no real reason.
But the tomatoes, they're doing great, everything else, the Basil, Dill, dead dead dead, but the tomatoes, well, I'll get a full basket for dinner tonight.
And the chilis, since putting the grow light on them (underneath, no place to hang the light above); well, I think they're doing better, getting bigger, and I'm noticing more and more of the little green ones just starting out.
In an ideal world I'd have a full-on greenhouse, get this mastered, lights on 24/7, I mean, I could easily sell these for $5 a pepper. Free if you eat it in front of me. But there's other things on the go and I am kinda wishing they'd all fruit and be done with it...
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