Miles just published part 1 of a 4-part piece on “Ancient Spooks” up at his site. I am starting a new post devoted to discussion of this series of papers, as it seems they will be important and spark lots of discussion. I’d rather have the discussion here rather than on the main ‘Defending Miles Mathis’ thread. I might do this as new important papers or topics come up.
Here is the link to part 1.
Here is the link to part 2.
Here is the link to part 3.
Here is the link to part 4.
Here is the link to part 5.
And here is a link to Miles’ work on the issue, Where Did All the Phoenicians Go?
Update 4/23/20: Here is a link to Gerry’s new website devoted mainly to the puns and double entendres of Ancient Spooks.
Quick comment: A while back I had found a site with translated Sumerian writings, because I thought well maybe the oldest stuff has the best wisdom. I thought to look it up again because in one article there was a line about the ancient spooks building a city and then using it and then disusing it and then building it again.
So I found the story that reminded me of, called The Debate Between The Hoe and The Plough. It reads in this context like Sumerian-era pro-city propaganda because you’d have to convince agrarian farmers to build a bigger city, and to do that you’d have to convince them there was something better about cities. That’s what The Debate is about. The hoe represents a more modern tool because it can build bricks and other stuff while the plough has very few uses. Except, I guess, letting your people remain self-sustaining. And it ends with
“The Hoe having engaged in a dispute with the Plough, the Hoe triumphed over the Plough — praise be to Nisaba!”
I was surprised by that part, they mention Nisaba a lot (at least in that story), which sounds a lot like the later Nasir, Nazir, etc. Nisa Nasi…pretty close.
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr531.htm
This is the link to the story at the electronic text corpus of Sumerian Literature and I wonder if someone with a better eye than me might be able to find some other puns.
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