Oral Tradition
The First Burning of the Earth (and Halley’s Comet): The Convergence of an Ancient Anishinabe Cosmic Impact Oral Tradition, the Aftermath and Interpretation of the Fairy Point Rock Art Panel with Modem Science?
By: HERMAN BENDER – Did the distant ancestors of the Anishinabe Witness a catastrophic cosmic impact, the memory preserved in oral tradition as The First Burning of the Earth? Was the object that impacted the earth, according to Ojibwe elders, Halley’s Comet? Did the impact usher in climate collapse and the Younger Dryas 12,900 years…
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Individual Star Names and Traditions: The Dim View Looking Through a Window into the Distant Past
By: HERMAN BENDER – During the past decade, the ability to have one’s personal DNA tested has become readily available. The results usually come back with surprises. My own experience and evaluation has revealed that I am, indeed, descended from German ethnicity and ancestry but, strictly speaking, not from the perceived ‘modem’ German roots. On…