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World's Oldest Ritual Discovered

eurekalert.org — Humans [***** sapiens] have performed advanced rituals in Africa for 70,000 years....

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  • QGYH2, on 12/03/2007, -63/+1hey Đårå congrats on the telsa story. Please consider adding me as a friend? ;)
    • MikeOSX, on 12/03/2007, -3/+33WTF?
    • KargeOfTylenol, on 12/03/2007, -0/+6I think they were trying to setup a Myspace bulletin.
    • DarkSamus, on 12/03/2007, -4/+3that was a purely ***** request, especially for that reddit avatar
  • geekchic, on 12/03/2007, -25/+77Has to be innacurate - surely everyone knows the world was created a mere 6,000 odd years ago.
    • nepawoods, on 12/03/2007, -24/+15yawn
    • wbeavis, on 12/03/2007, -10/+46,000 is even, dude. And it wasn't "created", it was Intelligently Designed.
    • knightblade2oo4, on 12/03/2007, -8/+3thanks for the brackets in the description, i had no idea what a human was.
    • Ajenthavoc, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2Oh, don't worry. This has been planned out all along as a test of our faith!
      • SanTe, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2I think God put you here to test *my* faith dude.
  • hansk, on 12/03/2007, -5/+26So, sandpeople worshipped pythons, plus elephants and giraffes, interesting. perhaps they were just lovable characters from a puppet show?
    • chrismgtis, on 12/03/2007, -6/+2Yea you're so not funny.
    • STKD, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5Just remember, sand people always ride single file to hide their numbers...
  • DuffyDirect, on 12/03/2007, -30/+3abiwa! Kajukanokoriwababa!!! Heeeeyyyyyyy maaacccaarrraaaannnaaaaaa
    • DuffyDirect, on 12/03/2007, -16/+6hey come on it was funny, dont digg me down. digg me up......... ................ i've got cannddyyyyy....
      • DuffyDirect, on 12/03/2007, -12/+1ur digging up the wrong comment, dont digg up the candy one digg up the macarana one or ill fall into obscurrittyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy nnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  • daxsymbiont, on 12/03/2007, -12/+3***** with candles on?
  • EserVerx, on 12/03/2007, -4/+18SAND PEOPLE!
  • EvilDr.X, on 12/03/2007, -5/+16Haven't read it yet. Is the world's oldest ritual someone paying someone else for sex?
    • Nougat, on 12/03/2007, -0/+7No, it's masturbation.
    • graemee, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3IMHO it would be begging the wife for sex, then going to see the local, ah, business woman when the wife says "I haz a headache"
    • Big_Poppa_K, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1No, that's the world's oldest economic exchange.
  • turbopro, on 12/03/2007, -21/+7but but but....the Earth is only 6,000 years old!.....right?
    j/k
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/03/2007, -8/+4Always remember. Christians buried you.
      • insertAliasHere, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8No, maybe just some people who don't laugh at the same joke twice in a row...
        • Ndiggnation, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3Or in every thread about anything remotely ancient on every forum type of site on the internet..

          Seeing everything turn into some creation/evolution thing is growing old.
  • Berkana, on 12/03/2007, -14/+20Quote: "The python is one of the San’s most important animals. According to their creation myth, mankind descended from the python and the ancient, arid streambeds around the hills are said to have been created by the python as it circled the hills in its ceaseless search for water."

    Hmmm. Nephilim?
    (digg if you know what I'm talking about.)
    • NYC10004, on 12/03/2007, -1/+4it seems to fit.
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/03/2007, -6/+2I think you guys are dumbasses. Nephilim does not exist. Aliens are a distraction to keep otherwise intelligent individuals occupied investigating a false enemy rather than investigating the real threat: Your Government. And don't get me wrong, I want aliens to exist more than any other person on the planet. I just did REAL research into it, and its a complete lie. Think about it. Don't we have more problems going on in our government that need to be investigated and aren't the minute pieces of "evidence" 'proving' the existence of aliens circumstantial and easily discredited? On the other hand, you can't deny that Bush has tripled the size of government, enacted tyrannical legislation, sold out our country to foreign nations and done even other more heinous activities in collusion with other non governmental agencies.

      Moving on. This is an interesting article. Proving not only did Europeans LIE about history of the world, mostly AFRICA, but they were completely WRONG about everything. Why don't tey talk about the giant ancient machinery still standing in China that produced electricity!?? Humans are much older and much more capable than previously believed.
      • DuffyDirect, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1whoa whoa wait. what? what energy generators?!?! i want to know more, im not doubting you
        • Berkana, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1I think he means things like this: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dendera+li ...

          Whether the dendera relief images depict light bulbs powered by electricity or not is uncertain, but the "Baghdad Battery" suggests that the ancients knew a little about electricity, perhaps in an alchemical way.
        • Berkana, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1BTW, re: the Baghdad Battery:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_battery
        • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1No, i'm talking about the giant founderies and water wheels in China powering huge pumping vats that in turn converted that kinetic energy into compressed oxygen for fire and metal molding. ETc. It gets deep . Also, in africa, hundreds/thousands of years before the European 'inventor' of the telescope or bifocals, Africans were plotting out the stars and super novas in galaxies that until the 1960's when NASA discovered the said supernova, the world didn't know existed. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima brought out that tidbit of information and it can not be disputed... Although a lot of his other claims can.
      • NYC10004, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1i hear what your saying... However you need to know that they werent "wrong", they didn't make a "mistake" The world has been mislead on purpose.
        • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1"I" know that, but its important to lead the faint of heart into that room 'slowly'
      • Berkana, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Excuse me, moron. Did I say a damn thing about aliens? You clearly don't even know what I'm referring to.
        • pistonhonda, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Are you talking about biblical Nephilim, the offspring of 'the sons of god' and 'the daughters of man'?
        • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1I apologize. I shouldn't have started with "dumbasses". This is what I've become traversing through digg!!!!
      • kuzotz, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1How can one deny that sentient beings exist outside of our star system... Us humans haven't even seen 1% of the stars that exist out there let along leave our solar system. Hell we haven't even start colonializing our solar system..
    • kuzotz, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1The Anunnaki where snakes.
  • Voldon, on 12/03/2007, -21/+3but but but the bible says the worlds 6000 years old!!!
    • Shawn4168, on 12/03/2007, -0/+21Holy crap, you're so funny! This same comment has only been posted twice already!!!!
      • capiCrimm, on 12/03/2007, -3/+7I wonder if they took into consideration the bible says the worlds only 6000 years old?
  • Shaman760, on 12/03/2007, -8/+6I thought "Hey good lookin', can I buy you a drink" was the oldest ritual.
    • Cwicseolfor, on 12/03/2007, -1/+0Something like this?
      Hey darlin', can I buy you a couple of drinks, hmmm? Lookin' for Mr. Goodbar? Well, here he is. Wait a minute, I've got it, you're an Italian. What? You're Jewish? Love your nails. You must be a Libra. Your place or mine. ---- "Dancing Fool" by Frank Zappa
  • kaelyiesta, on 12/03/2007, -7/+7Why can't prominent western religions be this cool? I mean, with a python, at least you could play with it. Who wants to celebrate some guy that died under torture? I think I'm gunna start a hamster religion, and the only rule is you have to play with fuzzy animals.
    • kc0re, on 12/03/2007, -1/+8There is a butt joke there. But i won't make it.
    • ninjacob, on 12/03/2007, -3/+8Why don't you start by ritualistically killing yourself?
  • halobender, on 12/03/2007, -2/+20Masturbation?
    • kc0re, on 12/03/2007, -2/+3I was going to suggest sex. After all... without it, um, we wouldn't be here!
      • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/03/2007, -2/+2It's not a ritual... It's a rite...

        OH!
        Gig- Gi- Deee
  • EserVerx, on 12/03/2007, -6/+1http://astromechbuilder.com/mechloader/d/3168-1/1- ...

    THE INFIDELS HAVE SEEN OUR RITUALS!
  • DuffyDirect, on 12/03/2007, -6/+1me doo lika da chacha
  • pcpimpster, on 12/03/2007, -3/+5Glad I wasnt living 70,000 years ago.
    Ajax commenting beats bashing a rock into the shape of an animal anyday.
  • FriskDown, on 12/03/2007, -2/+7Does this remind anyone else of the snake cult from Conan the Barbarian?
    • hansk, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1DDooOOoooomMmmm.....DDdooOOooomMmm....DDoooooOOommm...
  • VeritasAequitas, on 12/03/2007, -2/+16the san people scare easily but they will be back and in greater numbers.
  • UrinalPooper, on 12/03/2007, -2/+2Considering that other advanced hominids had some pretty elaborate burials, I'm thinking "ritual" is a poor translation.
  • Pilot85, on 12/03/2007, -2/+2Until they find an ancient human buried by an avalanche or mudslide who was fappin it when he died.
  • subterfuge, on 12/03/2007, -8/+1i can think of some rituals that are older:
    1. photosynthesis shutting down at night
    2. aquatic and aerial migration
    3. mating seasons
  • martoq, on 12/03/2007, -3/+3Am I the only one who read that quick and thought they were studying Sandpeople?
    • T8erT0T, on 12/03/2007, -1/+6Yes but these tracks are side by side and Sandpeople travel single file to hide their numbers.
      • Toshibi, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1And it wasn't pythons, it was worms.
      • halobender, on 12/03/2007, -2/+1Made me laugh especially because he didn't read the 10 other comments about sand people.
  • woohhaa, on 12/03/2007, -10/+1Impossible. The bible says the world is 6,000 years old.
    • BinaryFragger, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3How original.
      You're only, what, the third or fourth person to post that?
    • insertAliasHere, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Did you just skip over all three of the other people who posted the exact same joke?
    • woohhaa, on 12/03/2007, -2/+1Yea I was hoping to beat everyone to the punch.

      Sorry to have wasted your precious time with my redundant post. And again I apologize for wasting more of your time with this apology.
  • flammenwurfer, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3I'm not seein a Python in that picture from the article. Anyone else?
    • Spartan225, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2No, but maybe I don't have the imagination that others do.
      • michael43, on 12/03/2007, -1/+0I see a rock.
        • hansk, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1on the left side there is a small snake head thing from the rock, its tiny and the photo is awful.
  • rickdigger, on 12/03/2007, -2/+1picking your nose?
  • daxsymbiont, on 12/03/2007, -3/+1wha, ***** with eyes closed?
  • nitefallz, on 12/03/2007, -2/+6Welcome to 2006!
    • kambiz, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2I was just going to comment on the date of this 'news'. It is an older article, from 2006. Good thing someone else caught it, gives me some faith that the Digg community can self moderate. Anyways good job nitefall.

      As for me, I will bury this story. It is old news.
  • theutopian, on 12/03/2007, -6/+3So, humans have been stupid for 70,000 longer than expected?
  • emfields, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Hey, has anyone else noticed that the girl in the picture looks like a garden gnome?
  • UrbanVoyeur, on 12/03/2007, -2/+1This to me implies, if not requires language. Coupled with another series of articles that place the divergence of the southern African click languages (Xhosa, et al) at 50,000+ years ago, it appears to indicate that man had a spoken language 10's of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
  • trer, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3"...and it involved 'chugging' copious amounts of alcohol..."
  • frostbyt, on 12/03/2007, -2/+1click click.....CLICK!
  • KargeOfTylenol, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1was this before or after Xenu dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?
  • frostbyt, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1Rituals and traditions handed down because they preserved life in some way (Or thought it did). People today don't even know why they preform some rituals. So the whole "ritual" thing seems very silly to me.

    We live in todays times. So why do we preform rituals of the past. They have no place.
  • michael43, on 12/03/2007, -3/+0Seems like they are reading an awful lot into a rock and some arrow heads. I'm surprised they don't claim it's real. A giant petrified snake, 70,000 years old. Now that's a theory an atheist could really get behind.
  • kpeatt, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Public release date: 30-Nov-2006

    World's Oldest Ritual Discovered! (More than a year ago)
  • lust, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2I think what he was saying with the bracket is that he was refering to ***** sapians not ***** erectus, ***** atlanthropus, ***** ergaster, ***** rudolfensis, ***** habilis, ***** njarasensis, or ***** helmei
  • Kelly23, on 12/03/2007, -6/+0For me sex is ritual :)

    Kiss, Kelly

    PS: be my friend... i am lonely..
  • Mortikhi, on 12/03/2007, -1/+270,000 years of white flight
  • funkytaco, on 12/03/2007, -3/+2I thought the world's oldest ritual was masturbating?
  • crossmr, on 12/03/2007, -2/+2"Advanced" if its 70,000 years ago, its not exactly advanced..
  • theMaxx, on 12/04/2007, -1/+1Was this while God waited for us to civilize? For later scrap that part of history and LIE to us? So that we could go on and wage wars on to others that civilized the wrong way?

  • TheWindBlows, on 12/04/2007, -1/+2... in Africa for 70,000 years.

    So it involved AIDS?
  • kd1s, on 12/04/2007, -1/+1But according to the Intelligent Design crowd, the earth is only 6,000 years old. It always amuses me that they can totally disregard empirical observation over the past few hundred years and say that an ancient musty book knows all. Kind of like the Magic 8 Ball of Christianity.
    That's the other thing, friends and I were talking about our various medical issues and I said if we were truly intelligently designed don't you think we wouldn't suffer from such things?
  • mhmdkhamis, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0Why can't prominent western religions be this cool? I mean, with a python, at least you could play with it. Who wants to celebrate some guy that died under torture? I think I'm gunna start a hamster religion, and the only rule is you have to play with fuzzy animals.
    http://download.paramegsoft.com/
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