RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| Chinese meteor 'may explain historic mystery' of Nine Dragons |
I can think of no better example of why you don't take anything written prior to 1459 literally.
In 1626 Francis Bacon, philosopher and statesman, caught a chill and died after apparently trying to stuff a chicken with snow as a method of preservation. Admittedly a Lou way to go out but after 1459 you are expected to document the facts, regardless of how embarrassing they are despite the urge to tell the world that God killed Francis Bacon with a "chicken curse" because Bacon was a "no good blasphemous heathen".
Prior to the modern age people just didn't see the point in trying to find empirical evidence to explain things. They didn't pay attention to little details like exact dates, times, who was there and who wasn't. Hell, no two disciples of Jesus can even agree on a single Jesus quote when they were all there together and talking about the same exact events. Just getting the gist of it was more than enough for even the most scholarly of people back them.
This little problem of lacking empirical evidence to explain events is even more compounded when situations occur that are truly beyond their ability to comprehend. I mean, if you get your ass handed to you while trying to take over a neighboring village, when the boys come back you can just say, "I guess you weren't praying hard enough".
That works in those circumstances but what do you say when you have a daughter that dies suddenly after complaining of chest pains only to open up her chest and find a fully developed human jaw was pressing against her heart?
We still freak out when we see that shit today but at least we have a name for it and a half way believable explanation.
Huandgi one of China's founding fathers is said to have been taken away by dragons when nine dragons came down and destroyed the ancient town of Huangling.
Well that is one way of putting it.
In fact that is probably the best explanation they could come up with at the time.
It served its purpose. The town was burned to the ground. He and everyone in it were either, partially melted, completely incinerated or ended up completely unsightly and making crunching noises under their clothes whenever they walked. Either way if some motherfucker with half his body melted off says that the persons responsible are nine dragons that came down from the sky and burnt up the village I guess you have to just take his word for it.
However, with the discovery of a 5,000-year-old meteorite, large enough to have caused widespread destruction when it plummeted to the earth it appears as though we may have found our nine dragons.
Apparently it crashed into Yintai Mountain and was recently discovered near a mausoleum. Li Yanjun who has been researching the subject for 20 years says most of the asteroid remains buried but the small part which has been uncovered is pitted with bumps and holes and traces of burned material.
The Mausoleum of Huangdi is a sacred place for Chinese people and an annual ceremony is held there to honor Huangdi, known as the Yellow Emperor. Ironically the mausoleum built to honor the yellow emperor was built practically at ground zero. |
