Celts in Greek Mythology

[Erisianmonkey]

Yeah, well, Keltos (the Greek spelling) was indeed the son of Heracles and Keltine in Greek mythology, and is indeed the father of the Celts! (Remember, that "kelts" with a hard C, not "Selts" like the Boston basketball team.)

<thread hijack> Every time I hear the word Celtic pronounced with an "s" sound, I see red and start hearing war pipes. I've used that very thing to shoot somebody down in a discussion of most offensive ethnic team name.</thread hijack>

Well, Dreadbelly, the sensationalism surrounding pyramids and other archaeological site may be fun and exciting, but don't forget the known fact about the sites either.

There are a lot of people that'll say stuff to get attention. Saying the pyramids were built in 10,000 BCE may sell newspapers, but any true archaeologist will tell you it is an impossibility, being that it wasn't until at least 6,000 BCE that there was agriculture in the Nile valley.

There's a lot of stuff archaeologists say that later gets proved wrong. Such as one article I read years ago that said that there were no humans in Ireland previous to 1000 BCE. (Apparently that author had never heard of Newgrange.) Until archaeology quits borrowing the notion of "scientific imagination" from sociology, I will continue to take what archaeologists say with a grain of salt.

And the temple structure that exists under the pyramids? The retaining wall that is now visable? The finding of an ancient foundation under the pyramids that predates them and is made from a completely different stone?

All questions, no easy answers. I'm not saying I understand it, but evidence to the contrary is out there, and it is more than just crackpot claims.

Also unusual is the fact that there are some pyramids in South America that because of the realisation that computers can be used to adjust the stars, which are now considered much older because there are now patterns that now fit with certain features that used to baffle the dirt diggers and drive them nuts.

I can't think of the guy's name, but he is the world's leading Egyptologist. He's bald. He is the world's leading authority on ancient Egypt... He posed the question that if the pyramids were only a few thousand years old, then a greater mystery exists on how those ancient people were able to align the pyramids to star patterns that existed thousands of years before their time and take in to account plate drift. No easy answer for that... It is easier to answer that they could be older than previously thought.

As well they could and probably are. Lack of evidence thus far uncovered does not mean that there is no evidence extant, merely that it has not been found. The findings under the pyramids are, in fact (if you will excuse the unintentional pun) a bit more solid than the lack of evidence of agriculture in the Nile Valley.