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Re: Is the Swastika evidence of a common origin?
Julia E Smith (jesst2+@pitt.edu)
8 Jan 1997 16:29:51 GMT
In article <32D3BDB1.3EC1@slackford.norman.ok.us>,
Susan Ford <susanford@slackford.norman.ok.us> wrote:
>> Now, I understand that finding just one such commonality between different
>> cultures is not proof that they had contact with each other, however I
>> don't understand why the idea of a common source is so far fetched. Isn't
>> it a common theory that the native peoples of North, Central and South
>> America at some point in the past crossed either a land or ice bridge
>> probably between Siberia and Alaska? If this is true, then why could the
>> symbol not have been in existence before such a crossing? Shouldn't this
>> common symbol at least be viewed as evidence that such widely separated
>> cultures (such as the Mayans and the Egyptians) MIGHT have a common origin?
There's a big gap between saying that a symbol in was in wide use tens of
thousands of years ago and saying that two civilizations (separated by
thousands of miles and thousands of years) have a common origin. I could
say that all civilizations have a common origin. After all, there was at
least one diaspora out of Africa. Just because it was 1.5 million years
ago doesn't matter, does it?
I hope that we would want some much more detailed kind of contact to talk
about common origins.
Julia Smith
jesst2+@pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
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