Up early, today the woodsmen come to take down a damaged boxwood setting too close to the deck and house and do some heavy trimming of other trees. So far, though, no phone call as to when they will arrive. -- They will arrive at thirteen hundred hours. – Amorella
In the first chapter of the first book, Braided Dreams, “Grandma’s Story” says:
“I will work in this block of ice and let you know how it is. I will tap out my message from in here as people caught in a cave do. As long as I have icy cold fingers, the living Dead move me. I have all the time in the world. That is how it is in my cold dawn of almost eighteen thousand years ago. I am stuck frozen and flat across the cold circle of stone that surrounds our pond of stars in the heavens. I am here and they are both at once. I am a shaman dancing on the board between mind and spirit. Where are you?
The old shaman [Takis], pointed to a not so bright star in the night sky and said, “We are from there,” then he pointed to the soil beneath their feet, “to here.” That is all he said. Nobody in the group slept that night.
One of the listeners [Mother Eve] tossed and turned and suddenly unexpectedly, she thought, ‘How can we be here and there at the same time?’”
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The human story thus begins 18,000 years ago, approximately 16,000 BCE. I have consolidated the information of early human population. Here it is:
Population of Antiquity
A dramatic population bottleneck is theorized for the period around 70,000 BC (see Toba catastrophe theory). After this time and until the development of agriculture, it is estimated that the world population stabilized at about one million people whose subsistence entailed hunting and foraging, a lifestyle that by its nature ensured a low population density. The total world population probably never exceeded 15 million inhabitants before the invention of agriculture. . .
To deal with the second factor, the demographers placed the very beginning - with just two people at 50,000 years ago. This Adam and Eve starting point is referred to as a "minimalist approach" by researchers. A second benchmark of 5 million people at 8,000 BC, and a third at 300,000,000 at the time of Christ were also used to complete the study.
This projection yields a total of about 110 billion persons that have ever lived on the planet Earth.
The period 8000 BC to 1 AD is the key to the magnitude of the number, but little is known about that era. Some scientists may disagree with the results of the study because the starting point 50,000 BC is in serious question. Humans may have appeared much earlier.
From: www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Ecology/The%20Number%20of%20People%20That%20Have%20Ever%20Lived.htm
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Fixing a time when the human race actually came into existence is not a straightforward matter. Various ancestors of Homo sapiens seem to have appeared at least as early as 700,000 B.C. Hominids walked the Earth as early as several million years ago. According to the United Nations' Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends, modern Homo sapiens may have appeared about 50,000 B.C. This long period of 50,000 years holds the key to the question of how many people have ever been born.
At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was somewhere on the order of 5 million. (Very rough figures are given in the table; these are averages of an estimate of ranges given by the United Nations and other sources.) The slow growth of population over the 8,000-year period, from an estimated 5 million to 300 million in 1 A.D., results in a very low growth rate — only 0.0512 percent per year. It is difficult to come up with an average world population size over this period. In all likelihood, human populations in different regions grew or declined in response to famines, the vagaries of animal herds, hostilities, and changing weather and climatic conditions. . . .
This semi-scientific approach yields an estimate of about 106 billion births since the dawn of the human race. Clearly, the period 8000 B.C. to 1 A.D. is key to the magnitude of our number, but, unfortunately, little is known about that era. Some readers may disagree with some aspects — or perhaps nearly all aspects — of the table, but at least it offers one approach to this elusive issue. If we were to make any guess at all, it might be that our method underestimates the number of births to some degree. The assumption of constant population growth in the earlier period may underestimate the average population size at the time. And, of course, pushing the date of humanity's arrival on the planet before 50,000 B.C. would also raise the number, although perhaps not by terribly much.
From: www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx
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We can work with this information. Post. – Amorella.
Let’s use the one million people existed between 16,000 BCE and 8,000 BCE. Supposedly, in AD 1 there were 300.000.000 million people. At 1,000 BCE how many people? Three hundred million into eight equals 37,500,000 people per one thousand years. Take this times seven for a rough estimate at 1000 BCE equals 262,500,000 plus the 1,000,000 equals 263,500,000 dead. Let’s round it down to 240,000,000 dead heartansoulanminds in the total of HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither at the time of the first rebellion: two hundred and forty million. The rest of the Dead are in Limbo, that is they are not conscious. This does not mean they do not have an unconsciousness at work, they do. They wait in Limbo. – Amorella.
The list of shamans and their cultural regions are:
1. Assyria: Ishtar – Woman Shaman > [star]
2. Babylonia: Enki – Shaman [Lord of Earth, High Priest]
3. China: Jun – Shaman [Truth]
4. Egypt: Amenhotep – Shaman [Pharaoh]
5. Greece: Panagiotakis – Mother’s Shaman ** [Holy]
6. India: Amrita – Woman Shaman > [immortality]
7. Indo-European: Teja – Shaman [luster, glow, sharpness]
8. Israel: Meir – Shaman [Light]
9. Japan: Kagami – Woman Shaman > [Mirror]
10. Olmecs: B'alam – Shaman [Jaguar]
11. Peru: Tiwanaku Shaman [Stone in the Center]
12. Phoenician: Dido – Woman Shaman > [Virgin]
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Let’s divide the two hundred and forty million people by twelve even though it would not be equal I am making it so for simplicity. – Let’s say, twenty million, 20,000,000, dead in each culture. – Amorella.
That would make the total Dead in the Merlyn’s Mind series HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither at two hundred and forty million people.
Close enough, don’t you think?
This is resolved as a plausibility for the fiction. Obviously, this is more of an intellectual exercise than anything else, but in its own way, a fun project. Twenty million Greek Dead – Mother, a descendent of the original DNA Mother from one hundred and fifty thousand years ago was the first base of modern consciousness as far as the Living and the Dead are concerned in these novels.
total Dead in the Rebellion: 240,000,000 pop.
To put this in perspective in terms of modern world population centers:
World Atlas – Top Thirteen Cities:
1. Tokyo, Japan - 32,450,000
2. Seóul, South Korea - 20,550,000
3. Mexico City, Mexico - 20,450,000
4. New York City, USA - 19,750,000
5. Mumbai, India - 19,200,000
6. Jakarta, Indonesia - 18,900,000
7. Sáo Paulo, Brazil - 18,850,000
8. Delhi, India - 18,680,000
9. Õsaka/Kobe, Japan - 17,350,000
10. Shanghai, China - 16,650,000
11. Manila, Philippines - 16,300,000
12. Los Angeles, USA - 15,250,000
total: 234,380,000 pop.
13. Calcutta, India - 15,100,000
total: 249,480,000 pop.
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According to World Atlas the top twelve world cities population totals is 234,380,000 people, add number thirteen, Calcutta, and it is 249,480,000 people, one of the approximates used in the total number of people Dead by 700 BCE. Brings an interesting perspective as far as the First Rebellion is concerned.
Post. - Amorella.
Late afternoon. The trees are radically trimmed. The back deck still gets shade but it is not until now, 1630 hours. The trees on the north separating you from the Lewis’ have been cut back. The big oak on the northwest, ten feet from the upstairs bathroom windows has no more branches almost touching the windows and roof. The small oak on the southwest corner were trimmed so it might grow straighter (and lean slightly westward rather than towards the back of the house) into the clearing where the new red maple was placed last fall. The wild male Osage orange on the northeast front (in the wild grove of sixty foot tall ashes and walnut) was trimmed up to fifteen feet or so from the ground, no lower limbs. In a week, the stump grinder will take out the remains of a maple lost in the front center in a windstorm two years ago.
You are thinking about the population of each culture, and rather than mention a variety of cities, use New York City as the approximate population size of each. Wikipedia says NYC exists in 6724 square miles. HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither exists without time or space, as well it should. Looking out, it is large enough for comfort, looking in, nothing, not even a quantum fragment appears to exist. A singular heartansoulanmind may touch the end of a rainbow as it passes through the cross, the interlacing of the Styx.
The matchstick is with the Greeks. Merlyn did not play a part in that he did not exist when the first rebellion took place even if he can appear to observe it at present.
Here are two more paragraphs to add to Merlyn’s place of setting – soul alone near the touch of the Primordial Dry-tobe-Wet.
I see it as near madness, Amorella. This is a senseless monologue unheard even by Merlyn’s own passion and reason.
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Continuation of Scene Ten:
This is Anaximander’s apeiron, the First Principle, thought Merlyn. I sense a stirring, a cascading Dry in a rush to be Wet. Cold and Hot do not yet exist – a matter unresolved. How is this Dry comes forth first when it has an opposing element in the universe? Could it be this ‘thing’ is not bound by Nature’s Rule? Even Plato’s “Forms” are bound by Reason, these patterned colors is a single structure I observe, and though it is bound in itself has no boundary in my soul’s eyeless sockets foreseen. Two shuffling dots. Top to bottom and a pass from bottom to top, it is as if time exists within the soul’s framework, were it my own, Merlyn’s soul, to believe or to deny. No Angel. No place this. One impossible interlacing with another impossible. An imprint in my soul where none can be.
The heart is self-fashion’s robust center. Passion would wet a whistle through the dry soul would it could. Dry Heartless Bone. Ezekiel. Passion and Will have not yet cloaked this soul, eyeless to blink, yet observe the silent trumpet raised to shout for any loose ears to hear. I exist only as a pronoun and cannot reconcile myself as one in three. The center only – soul – without heart and mind. There is no absolute Nature for any Consciousness of Being. Were I anything but I.
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Where does this go, Amorella?
Into the River Styx, boy. Post. – Amorella.
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