A Neanderthal skull, also at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum; - at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago. (This skull, on loan from France, is no longer on view.)
I call this digital photo, also taken in April 2010:
Neanderthals were a subspecies of humans that was either absorbed into, or exterminated by modern-day humans. Although usually portrayed as hulking and primitive cave-men, Neanderthals actually had bigger brains than modern day humans. ...
(March 9, 2010) My intuition is that Neanderthals, or a racial memory of Neanderthals, are what the Maya call "Xibalbans" - the original overlords.
Mayans molded their infants' heads' to slope backwards. This is usually explained as emulating the maize-plant or maize-god; however it could also be an emulation of Neanderthal sloping foreheads; - or a dream image of Neanderthals. A few west African tribes still practise head-molding. King Tut also had his skull molded backwards as an infant; - this probably explains the elongated shape of 18th dynasty pharonic crowns.
Neanderthals were stronger than humans and also had bigger brains - this is probably the source of the large body of mythology of ancient science and technology.
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
enwrought with golden and silver light,
the blue and the dim and the dark cloths
of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats (1899)
[(March 10, 2010) I heard a portion of this poem in the movie "Equilibrium" (2002) which I just saw.]
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