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Mick Harper
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THE HYPERBOREANS: HUMAN ORIGINS PART VII - Continued.... The simple Hyperborean model would have us classify the Australian Aborigines, like the marsupials that share their island, as the last remaining "southerly types" of their kind, and classify all other humans as "hybrid northerly types" who have both slowly and (more recently) rapidly invaded the southern hemisphere over the thousands of years since the beginning of this last glacial/cold period (ice age). |
OK
I say that this simple model is both true and inaccurate. It is true in the broad strokes but inaccurate for failing to account for the wide variety of traits evident among many peoples, particularly those native to our post-glacial southern hemisphere. |
So OK-ish.
Given that Australia's Aborigines represent the typical "southerly" human, we can conclude that northerly humans exclusively developed and adopted machinery (indeed; our aim is to attribute to "northern exposure," the need to develop machinery). The use of the bow, which requires the design and manufacture of two independent components (bow plus arrow) and also twine (useful also for textile making), thus immediately marks a human as a northerly type. Thus, every human being that presently lives in the global south, excepting the Australian Aborigines, is a northerly type. |
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It can be no coincidence then that the Wallace and Webber lines separate not just marsupials and placentals but also southerly and northerly types of humans. North of the lines, all humans have the bow; south of the lines, no humans have the bow. Clearly; there is something about this region of Indonesia that slows the progress of all invasive species (though what that is remains elusive to me). |
This is not a small confession. If it is just one bunch of people, any you're hanging you whole hat on it, why can't it be they found boomerangs better than bow-and-arrows for their particular (and unique) brand of fauna? (Or whatever.)
The Wallace and Webber lines are indeed a "front" (in keeping with my initial insight), marking the current limit of the southward progress of northerly species, but the region of these lines clearly functions also as an insulator, if not an impregnable barrier. We may yet discover the nature of this insulator but I've not yet gotten that far. |
You better had because there is no earthly reason why the Wallace/Webber lines (which can at a push hold back placental mammals) could hold back human beings.
Nevertheless; the human beings that are present on Planet Earth appear to be of more complex composition than the mere binary division my hypothetical equatorial barrier facilitates. "Northerly" types, which are infinitely more numerous than the remaining southerly types, come in many varieties. |
Perhaps I missed something but these 'varieties' which seem to me much more similar one to another than they do to us 'northerly types', have not been subject to the Wallace/Webber limitation ordinance, have they?
Some of that variety I account for with interbreeding between Hyperboreans and the local robust humans, which were originally stratified at various northern latitudes. But, given this origin, how did those northerly types that spearheaded the invasion of the global south---and which are now native to those lands immediately north of the Wallace and Webber Lines (but range as far and wide as Brazil and Paupa New Guinea)---come to inherit at least some Hyperborean genetics and technology and yet so few of the other characteristics we generally associate with civilization? |
I'd dearly like at least one striking characteristic.
One characteristic in particular is strikingly absent among them. An aversion to cannibalism. |
I didn't see that coming.
An uncomfortable truth about the Aborigines, not yet mentioned, is that they were not only given to nakedness when discovered, they were also partial to eating each other. Strangely, despite sharing little else culturally or genetically with those humans to their immediate north, they did share with the Indonesians this same propensity. The natives of the southwestern Pacific were known man-eaters into the 20th century. And this trait they shared with the far-away natives of Brazil who, to this day, are still not so finicky as to refuse a morsel of man-flesh. |
Cannibalism got through but not the bow and arrow.
All of those peoples are known also for their extreme hostility to outsiders. The hate they have for one another is what enabled tribes sharing the same hunting acreages to develop not only divergent costuming but also mutually indecipherable languages. That would be impossible except they went millennia without cause or desire even to speak with one another! I doubt they differentiate between outsiders and beasts, hunting and consuming everything but family members. |
This is indeed a striking characteristic.
These are not northerly traits. Canibalism, in particular, is known only in the global south. It doesn't exist in the north, except perhaps as ritual and then only among the most southerly peoples. We seem to have then a second type of human, in addition to Aborigine, which is not fully "modern." This second type of non-modern man, however, is also not truly Southerly. |
OK
I am unaware of any name for these peoples---one that encompasses their types all the way from Brazil to Cambodia (and possibly Southern Africa)---so I will have to invent one. I propose we call them "bowmen." Men with bows---and little else but loincloths. The question is: What is the origin of these bowmen? |
My guess is that bow and arrows, being weapons of war as well as hunting implements, were used by visitors with evil intent. And eagerly embraced by the natives for when they came next time.
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Ishmael

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Mick Harper wrote: | My guess is that bow and arrows, being weapons of war as well as hunting implements, were used by visitors with evil intent. And eagerly embraced by the natives for when they came next time. |
If so, the Aborigines could have used them. They hunted one another for food.
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Ishmael

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THE HYPERBOREANS: HUMAN ORIGINS PART VII - Continued....
As previously mentioned, this community is rather keen on the concept of pole shifts. I will therefore skip over any need to convince my audience of that phenomenon. Nevertheless; I have strong evidence from my own research that pole shifts do happen and that they have happened within the timeline of human civilization (however long that might actually be).
An underappreciated aspect of pole shifts, however, is that it isn't just the poles that change position geographically. The equator also moves. This is of massive significance; for oceanic depth also alters the entire world over, due the the oceanic bulge produced by centrifugal force around Earth's equator. Locations formerly under water emerge from the depths in areas moving toward the poles and locations formerly above water sink below as they move toward the equator.
But if such a pole shift occurs during a warm, inter-glacial period, when the equator functions as a barrier---a Torrid Zone, hostile to many forms of life---then that barrier also shifts location.
Now; let us imagine a group of northerly humans living in latitudes just above the torrid zone. For some ages of time they have been living in the northern hemisphere and, as a result, they have been exposed to some northerly genetics (drifted down from latitudes nearer the poles) and, perhaps most importantly, they have been exposed to rudimentary northerly technology.
Let us also imagine that we are at a particular moment in time still early into the warm, inter-glacial period. This population of near-equatorial northerly humans are in possession of the very latest in northerly technology, which, due to insufficient time having passed, amounts only to the bow and arrow. This population of near-equatorial humans are also on the cutting-edge of cultural developments, which means they've picked up the habit of wearing some clothing over their privates. Unfortunately, due to insufficient time having passed, it also means they still like to eat people.
Now; let's shift the poles by tipping the Earth, and watch what happens to the equator and our people living near it.
As equatorial regions on one side of the Earth move southward, and equatorial regions on the opposite side of the Earth move northward, our near-equatorial northerly population, depending on the side of the Earth on which they reside, may find themselves now in the southern hemisphere. And, on the wrong side of the torrid zone barrier. Returning to the north is now impossible for them.
The southern hemisphere, as a consequence of this shift in the equator, is now home to two types of non-modern human: An original group that was always living in the southern hemisphere, and a new group that has been shifted from the northern hemisphere to the southern.
That second group now has a massive technological (and potentially genetic) advantage over the original inhabitants of the south, and they have no comparable competitors. Immediately, their conquest of the south begins. Everywhere they go, they exterminate (and consume) the original peoples of the south.
That extermination continued, apparently, up until the 18th century, when it was stopped still in-progress---at the Wallace and Webber lines---by the arrival, from the north, of an even more advanced people: Truly modern humans.
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Ishmael

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THE HYPERBOREANS: HUMAN ORIGINS PART VIII
We can now account for the two types of truly non-modern human still found on planet Earth: The Aborigines and the Bowmen.
The Aborigines, our first group of non-moderns, are living fossils of humanity as it was prior to the last warm, inter-glacial period. During that long, long-ago ice age, human beings had spread over the globe. Given that Aborigines are are our only example of those humans, we shall assume that they represent what we looked like and how we behaved.
We spoke with language. We hunted with throwing weapons. We wore no clothes. We didn't get along with outsiders. We ate people.
Upon the arrival of the warm, inter-glacial that followed, this mass of original humanity was divided in two at the equator. The humans in each hemisphere could no longer communicate or interact with one another (not that they were ever very good at either activity). They were separated from each other geographically, genetically, and culturally.
By the quirks of geography, only those humans in the northern hemisphere would gain access to a polar region as the glaciers slowly retreated. Only those humans in the northern hemisphere had land into which to move that was truly virginal and alien.
This "northern exposure" produced changes over time. Changes that trickled down from northerly latitudes to regions nearer the equator (initially, ice caps were larger and the exposed northerly regions were farther south than the arctic circle, keeping humanity compressed in fewer latitudes). Initial changes included the development of simple clothing and sexual shame, as well as the invention of simple machinery.
It is at this time that our second group of non-modern humans emerges: The Bowmen.
The Bowmen emerged when a pole shift effected a second division of humanity: The torrid zone shifted northward by some degrees, cutting off a portion of these early northerly types. These humans, by a shift in geography, were removed from the northern hemisphere and sent to the southern hemisphere.
A very important question now arises. Where from and where to did the poles shift at this time?
The answer tells us where the Bowman first entered the south. Was it Brazil? Was it Indonesia? Was it Southern Africa?
This question is no mere matter of anthropological curiosity. Depending on how the poles shifted, and where the equator moved north (and where, opposite, it moved south), there is a very real possibility that the Bowmen were not the only humans to switch hemispheres.
This early shift in the equator may have moved some southerly types suddenly into the north.
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Mick Harper
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THE HYPERBOREANS: HUMAN ORIGINS PART VII - Continued.... As previously mentioned, this community is rather keen on the concept of pole shifts. I will therefore skip over any need to convince my audience of that phenomenon. Nevertheless; I have strong evidence from my own research that pole shifts do happen and that they have happened within the timeline of human civilization (however long that might actually be). |
OK
An underappreciated aspect of pole shifts, however, is that it isn't just the poles that change position geographically. The equator also moves. |
This must be true and, I agree, it is not much utilised in SLOP.
This is of massive significance; for oceanic depth also alters the entire world over, due the the oceanic bulge produced by centrifugal force around Earth's equator. |
I can see this might well be the case--though as I understand it the 'bulge' is not very great.
Locations formerly under water emerge from the depths in areas moving toward the poles and locations formerly above water sink below as they move toward the equator. |
OK
But if such a pole shift occurs during a warm, inter-glacial period, when the equator functions as a barrier---a Torrid Zone, hostile to many forms of life---then that barrier also shifts location. |
OK. I can't entirely work it out in my head but I think a SLOP event has to take place in an interglacial. Not that SLOP recognises 'interglacials', of course. Only differential glaciated areas.
Now; let us imagine a group of northerly humans living in latitudes just above the torrid zone. For some ages of time they have been living in the northern hemisphere and, as a result, they have been exposed to some northerly genetics (drifted down from latitudes nearer the poles) and, perhaps most importantly, they have been exposed to rudimentary northerly technology. |
OK
Let us also imagine that we are at a particular moment in time still early into the warm, inter-glacial period. This population of near-equatorial northerly humans are in possession of the very latest in northerly technology, which, due to insufficient time having passed, amounts only to the bow and arrow. |
OK. Though my imagination is beginning to work overtime.
This population of near-equatorial humans are also on the cutting-edge of cultural developments, which means they've picked up the habit of wearing some clothing over their privates. Unfortunately, due to insufficient time having passed, it also means they still like to eat people. |
Bows, arrows, loincloths, cannibalism... got it.
Now; let's shift the poles by tipping the Earth, and watch what happens to the equator and our people living near it. |
Tippsy-uppy!
As equatorial regions on one side of the Earth move southward, and equatorial regions on the opposite side of the Earth move northward, our near-equatorial northerly population, depending on the side of the Earth on which they reside, may find themselves now in the southern hemisphere. And, on the wrong side of the torrid zone barrier. Returning to the north is now impossible for them. |
Don't forget everyone has just survived a worldwide catastrophe of epic proportions as well.
The southern hemisphere, as a consequence of this shift in the equator, is now home to two types of non-modern human: An original group that was always living in the southern hemisphere, and a new group that has been shifted from the northern hemisphere to the southern. |
I can see what's coming. For the southern/southerns.
That second group now has a massive technological (and potentially genetic) advantage over the original inhabitants of the south, and they have no comparable competitors. Immediately, their conquest of the south begins. Everywhere they go, they exterminate (and consume) the original peoples of the south. |
OK
That extermination continued, apparently, up until the 18th century, when it was stopped still in-progress---at the Wallace and Webber lines---by the arrival, from the north, of an even more advanced people: Truly modern humans. |
The northern/northern/northerners?
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Ishmael

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Mick Harper wrote: | I can see this might well be the case--though as I understand it the 'bulge' is not very great. |
Then allow me to correct you.
If the Earth did not spin in relation to the Sun, if its rotation were synchronous with its orbit, it would be possible to walk on dry land completely around the middle of the Earth.
That's how massive the bulge is.
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Ishmael

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Dont forget "HUMAN ORIGINS PART VIII"
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Mick Harper
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I had just forgotten it. Good thing you reminded me.
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Ishmael

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I await your commentary.
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Mick Harper
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It is lucky I don't await your commentary on my current project.
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Mick Harper
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THE HYPERBOREANS: HUMAN ORIGINS PART VIII We can now account for the two types of truly non-modern human still found on planet Earth: The Aborigines and the Bowmen. |
OK.
The Aborigines, our first group of non-moderns, are living fossils of humanity as it was prior to the last warm, inter-glacial period. During that long, long-ago ice age, human beings had spread over the globe. Given that Aborigines are are our only example of those humans, we shall assume that they represent what we looked like and how we behaved. |
I still thinking you're putting the divide in the wrong place--the other aboriginal remnants seem to me much closer to the Australian aborigines than to ourselves--but I'll go along with it.
We spoke with language. We hunted with throwing weapons. We wore no clothes. We didn't get along with outsiders. We ate people. |
All right, don't lay it on. We were a bunch of nogoodniks.
Upon the arrival of the warm, inter-glacial that followed, this mass of original humanity was divided in two at the equator. The humans in each hemisphere could no longer communicate or interact with one another (not that they were ever very good at either activity). They were separated from each other geographically, genetically, and culturally. |
OK, ex hypothesi.
By the quirks of geography, only those humans in the northern hemisphere would gain access to a polar region as the glaciers slowly retreated. Only those humans in the northern hemisphere had land into which to move that was truly virginal and alien. |
I hope you've got some maps in your mind's eye. This is going to need some creative arrow-work. On a diagram, I mean, not as in 'bow-and-arrow people'.
This "northern exposure" produced changes over time. Changes that trickled down from northerly latitudes to regions nearer the equator (initially, ice caps were larger and the exposed northerly regions were farther south than the arctic circle, keeping humanity compressed in fewer latitudes). Initial changes included the development of simple clothing and sexual shame, as well as the invention of simple machinery. |
It seems to me these opportunities must have been present during earlier epochs but I will bow to your arrow work. (That's what we call an eye-pun.)
It is at this time that our second group of non-modern humans emerges: The Bowmen. |
Da-dah!
The Bowmen emerged when a pole shift effected a second division of humanity: The torrid zone shifted northward by some degrees, cutting off a portion of these early northerly types. These humans, by a shift in geography, were removed from the northern hemisphere and sent to the southern hemisphere. |
I'm a bit lost but I'm putting my trust in you.
A very important question now arises. Where from and where to did the poles shift at this time? |
As you know, I'm committed to a very specific shift. Baffin Bay to the present position. I hope this works for you.
The answer tells us where the Bowman first entered the south. Was it Brazil? Was it Indonesia? Was it Southern Africa? |
You may be constrained by palaeo-anthropology here.
This question is no mere matter of anthropological curiosity. Depending on how the poles shifted, and where the equator moved north (and where, opposite, it moved south), there is a very real possibility that the Bowmen were not the only humans to switch hemispheres. This early shift in the equator may have moved some southerly types suddenly into the north. |
Why are you referring to 'this early shift'? Isn't it the last one?
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Ishmael

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Mick Harper wrote: | It is lucky I don't await your commentary on my current project. |
I know. I feel bad. I want to be reading it and keep promising myself I'll catch up. I am so overworked though Mick. I ask you to be tolerant of my negligence.
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Ishmael

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Mick Harper wrote: | A very important question now arises. Where from and where to did the poles shift at this time? |
As you know, I'm committed to a very specific shift. Baffin Bay to the present position. I hope this works for you. |
That shift was but one of many.
This early shift in the equator may have moved some southerly types suddenly into the north. |
Why are you referring to 'this early shift'? Isn't it the last one? |
Nope. Not by a long shot. And I do mean a very very long shot.
The answer tells us where the Bowman first entered the south. Was it Brazil? Was it Indonesia? Was it Southern Africa? |
You may be constrained by palaeo-anthropology here. |
I refuse to be constrained.
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Ishmael

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BTW - I'm thinking this entire conversation should be moved to the Reading Room. I now know that I am on to something BIG. In fact, I am planning to make this entire presentation the subject of the first series of videos I create for the YouTube channel I am am planning.
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Ishmael

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LOCATING HYPERBOREA - INTRODUCTION
It was almost 25 years ago when I first encountered Mick Harper. After reading his book, The History of Britain Revealed (THOBR), I was convinced the man was the first true genius I had met in my life (and likely to be the only true genius I would ever meet---a prediction that has held true all these years). I was determined not to let the opportunity to learn from him pass me by.
Intrigued by certain hints in the closing pages of THOBR, I began to pester its author for more information. He refused all queries.
But I kept at it.
Finally, he relented and responded not with an answer or any new information. He responded with a question of his own. Or rather: He responded with a task that would set me off on a kind of "treasure hunt."
Knowing of my interest in locating Graham Hancock's "Lost Civilization," (Atlantis by another name), he instructed me that my search for it should begin in an unlikely location.
He asked me to look at a map of China. Specifically, a relief map or physical map of China.
So that is what I did. And for the very first time, I saw what China truly looked like.
One of the amazing effects of the "tresure hunt" process is that it enables the participant to accomplish feats they would never otherwise be able to do. When normally we ponder mysteries, we do so completely in the dark. We don't know if there is anything thereabouts to be discovered. We reach, we grasp, we find nothing, and conclude there is nothing to be found.
But, in the treasure hunt process, we are imparted with a kind of faith. A faith that the answer exists. We are being challenged by one who claims he knows, to share in that knowledge---in that discovery. And that changes everything.
Suddenly; the simple faith that there is an answer empowers us to find an answer. Now when we grasp and find nothing, we grasp again; for, this time, we know there is something out there to be had.
This is why I was suddenly able see something in that map of China that I had never noted before.
What I saw was that China looked for all the world to be an alluvial fan. Moreover; the nearby Himalayas were broken up by long running valleys that all turned and twisted toward that alluvial fan.
I reported this to Mick and, pleased with my success (probably the only time I ever enjoyed a success with the various challenges Mick set out for me over the next year), he asked me to explain the phenomenon.
I did so. Telling him that it appeared that China was formed as the result of an unfathomable amount of water pouring out and over the Hymalayas, perhaps catastrophically or perhaps over millions of years, or perhaps some combination of both.
But that of course set up a new mystery and a new challenge. This time, Mick asked me a direct question; "Where did all that water in the Himalayas come from?"
In subsequent years, Mick revealed to me his own answer to that question and, for decades, his answer has satisfied me---somewhat. That answer is expressed in Mick Harper's Split Level Ocean Paradigm (SLOP), which I shall have cause to discuss a little in subsequent posts.
Nevertheless; nearly 25 years after Mick put that question to me, I can now answer it for myself.
For the water did not come from where Mick believed. Well....at least not in the manner that he believed.
We are about to learn where that water, that flowed over the Himalayas, actually came from.
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