Re: Annedoti, Anon (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: benlizross (benlizro_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:45:58 +1300

Comm wrote:
>
> "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4224923E.5031@alphalink.com.au...
> > benlizross wrote:
> >
> >> The standard spelling would appear to be "Annedoti". It is said to come
> >> from the history of Babylon by Barossos, who is known to us only through
> >> quotations in Josephus etc. Some people say it means "the repulsive
> >> ones", but in what language? Greek? Can anyone explicate this as Greek?
> >
> > It cannot be Greek, and it cannot be Assyrian. If you try finding it
> > on the Net, you'll get mostly links to pages in Italian, since it is
> > "anedotti" misspelt. If you try it with "Berosus" you'll get links
> > to various theosophist loony bins.
> >
> > Those "An[n]edot[t]i" are like "Anon", an entry in a Spanish
> > dictionary of the occult which Don Lay*** once showed me, and
> > where "Anon" was described as a prolific English writer of
> > occult books.
> >
> > It would be an easy matter for "Prof." Manansala, like the other
> > kook calls him, to provide sources for those An(n)edot(t)i. If
> > they existed. But his ilk does not believe in quoting sources.
> >
> > So let him just go back to demonstrating how Sumerian is an
> > Austronesian language.
>
> They were also called Musarus and Oannes in Greek. Odacon is a name that
> came up for ? a person back then. Sumerians state that "SOMEONE" came to
> them from the sea and taught them what they knew. They didn't claim to
> have invented it. They didn't claim their gods gave it to them. Logic
> dictates that sea faring people taught them. WHO? Austronesians are a very
> good guess since they WERE sea faring people that would be likely to wear
> fish costumes (totems).

Really? Who could deny that the Austronesians were seafarers? But I'm
not familiar with any of them wearing fish costumes. Still, there are a
lot of different cultures, and maybe some of them do or did. I won't ask
you to provide evidence of this, since I know it's against your
principles. But if there is any, I'm sure Paul has dug it up by now.

> Yeah, Greeks talked about this stuff too, some claiming to have met these
> people. Anyone can go read what Berossus had to say. Thales also spoke
> about this.

Again it would be wondeful to know which Greeks claimed to have met the
fish-people, but I know you're not about to name names. You are aware,
aren't you, that Berossus lived a couple of millennia after the
Sumerians, and that his original work is lost? So it might be more
accurate to say that "Anyone who is willing to do the research that Comm
won't do can go read what Josephus said Berossus said about what
tradition in his time said about Sumerian myths of the third millennium
BC."
 
> And so what if these ideas (and a lot of other ideas) are utilized by
> creative sci fi writers? No one is talking sci fi here right now (except
> YOU, as insults). Are you claiming that if Steven King or Ann Rice had an
> idea about this history that he or she could NOT post on here about it?

Not at all. We have no rule against celebrities posting here. And if
they displayed your level of erudition and documentation, we would treat
their ideas just as seriously as we treat yours.

Ross Clark

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