The Origin of the First Man and the Mysteries of History E-Book

Agatino Mezzatesta

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• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

SYNOPSIS The modern age has generated a huge number of different opinions, creating great wealth of ideas but also great confusion and uncertainty. It becomes more and more difficult to discover the truth in a sea of possibilities. For example, there is still a clear contrast between the claims of science, now supported by molecular biology and genetics, and those of theology, which currently accepts also theistic evolutionary theory in human development. The aim of this essay is to seek truth from man's origin, in an attempt to recognize the Spirit of Truth amid the chaos caused today by a continuous proliferation of groundless information. To do this it is necessary to understand the historical, philosophical and as much as possible also scientific context of the specific civilizations of the period being examined, in order to give the right value to certain events, especially if of a spiritual nature. On the other hand, it will be important not to insist yet on what some modern historians now call the history of short duration, that which has prevailed until now (made of battles, dates, wars and events that have had little importance in the long time, also putting above all their own nation always at the center of events). This is the history of successive civilizations, with its moments of splendor and decline: it is in the name of the authenticity of events therefore that, although Science and Faith have at their base different motivations and methods of investigation, both must contribute to the search for truth, hoping for a reconciliation that allows us to reconstruct better and better not only the true history of humanity, but also a meditated gospel and incarnate in the modern world.

Leseprobe

Contents

Titolo

Diritto d'autore

Index

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The origin of man

1.1 Place of man's birth

1.2 The true origin of man

Main mammals after asteroid fall

1.3 Main characteristics of early hominids

Chapter 2 - Hybridization of men

2.1 Revelations by maria valtorta

2.2 Revelations by don guido bortoluzzi

Adam's family tree

2.3 Magisterium of the catholic church

Chapter 3 - The main human species

3.1 Homo habilis

3.2 Homo erectus

3.3 Neanderthal homo

3.4 Homo sapiens

3.5 Homo sapiens-sapiens

3.6 Extraterrestrials and paleoastronautics

Chapter 4 - The golden age

Chapter 5 - The silver age

Chapter 6 - The bronze age

Chapter 7 - The iron age

7.1 The great flood

Historical era

Chapter 8 - Protohistory

Chapter 9 - The ancient age: the birth of monotheism

Civilization (the age of heroes)

9.2 Mesoamerican civilizations

9.3 Eastern civilizations

9.4 Mediterranean civilizations

Chapter 10 - The medieval age

10.1 Eastern civilizations

Chapter 11 - The modern age

11.1 Eastern civilizations

Chapter 12 - The contemporary age

12.1 Prophecies

Appendix

Guide

Copertina

Indice

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THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND THE MYSTERIES OF HISTORY

BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Agatino Mezzatesta

TITOLO | The Origin of Man and The Mysteries of History

AUTORE | Agatino Mezzatesta

ISBN | 9791222771601

Prima edizione digitale: 2024

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INDEX

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - THE ORIGIN OF MAN

1.1 PLACE OF MAN'S BIRTH

1.2 THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN

MAIN MAMMALS AFTER ASTEROID FALL

1.3 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY HOMINIDS

CHAPTER 2 - HYBRIDIZATION OF MEN

2.1 REVELATIONS BY MARIA VALTORTA

2.2 REVELATIONS BY DON GUIDO BORTOLUZZI

ADAM'S FAMILY TREE

2.3 MAGISTERIUM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHAPTER 3 - THE MAIN HUMAN SPECIES

3.1 HOMO HABILIS

3.2 HOMO ERECTUS

3.3 NEANDERTHAL HOMO

3.4 HOMO SAPIENS

3.5 HOMO SAPIENS-SAPIENS

3.6 EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND PALEOASTRONAUTICS

CHAPTER 4 - THE GOLDEN AGE

CHAPTER 5 - THE SILVER AGE

CHAPTER 6 - THE BRONZE AGE

CHAPTER 7 - THE IRON AGE

7.1 THE GREAT FLOOD

HISTORICAL ERA

CHAPTER 8 - PROTOHISTORY

CHAPTER 9 - THE ANCIENT AGE: THE BIRTH OF MONOTHEISM

CIVILIZATION (THE AGE OF HEROES)

9.2 MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS

9.3 EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS

9.4 MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER 10 - THE MEDIEVAL AGE

10.1 EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER 11 - THE MODERN AGE

11.1 EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER 12 - THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

12.1 PROPHECIES

INTRODUCTION

The modern age has generated a huge number of different opinions, creating a great wealth of ideas, but also great confusion and uncertainty. It is becoming increasingly difficult to discover the truth in a sea of possibilities. For example, even today there is still a contrast between the claims of science (though supported by molecular biology and genetics) and those of theology (which nowadays also accepts the theistic evolutionary theory of human development). The purpose of this essay is the search for truth from the origin of man, in an attempt to recognize the Spirit of Truth in the midst of the chaos caused today by a continuous proliferation of often baseless information. To achieve this, it is necessary to understand the historical, philosophical and as far as possible also the scientific context of the specific civilizations of the period being examined. That’s necessary to give the right value to certain events, especially those of a spiritual nature. On the other hand, it will be important not to insist any longer on what some modern historians now call the traditional history of the short term, the one that has prevailed so far (made up of battles, dates, wars and events that had little importance in the long run, also putting one's own nation always at the centre of events). This is an attempt instead to speak briefly about the history of the most important civilizations that have followed one another, with its moments of spledour and decline: it is in the name of the authenticity of these events therefore that (even if Science and Religion have different motivations and methods of investigation at their basis) both must contribute to the search for truth, hoping for a reconciliation that will allow us to reconstruct always better not only the true history of mankind, but also a meditated gospel incarnated in the modern world.

CHAPTER 1

THE ORIGIN OF MAN

1.1 PLACE OF MAN'S BIRTH

If we try to make an initial comparison between science and theology regarding the place and date of Adam's birth written in Genesis, we immediately realize that even though theology can be considered also a science, the two disciplines have two different methods and functions1. It would therefore be a mistake to consider the Bible literally as if it were a text based on an experimental scientific method rather than on moral, spiritual and sapiential teaching. However, it is essential that both compare and follow the search for truth, without making the past mistake of considering the methods of the two disciplines as exclusive.

In fact, if we consider the place of origin of the first man, we must immediately say that today it is located by many scholars differently from the past. Effectively, there were already inhabitants around 10,000 years ago in the area of the Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq2, where according to Sumerian mythology the sky gods have descended and in the Middle East (in the so-called Fertile Crescent) agriculture was born. It gradually replaced hunting and breeding, marking the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. Moreover, it’s also well known that around 4000 B.C., part of the Sumerians moved from northern Mesopotamia to the south. In fact, Christians, Jews and Muslims have always regarded the Earthly Paradise as a wonderful garden, called Eden, located south of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers3.

But, if we consider that Sumerian mythology usually indicates northern Mesopotamia as the place where the gods manifested themselves, perhaps this myth (as often happens with myths) could actually hide the truth transmitted over time relating to the place where God manifested himself to create Adam, who only later was placed in the biblical Eden (i.e. a protected garden, which as we know was located in the southern area of Mesopotamia, now called Iraq, between the Tigris and the Euphrates).

However, we also know from Genesis itself that Eden was irrigated by four rivers: the Tigris, the Euphrates and two other not well identified rivers, whose names were then the Ghicon and the Pison. According to the historian Hiranya Mriga4, the two rivers could have respectively been the Nile (since the Bible itself reports that the Ghicon bathed the entire area of Ethiopia) and the Ganges, thus actually indicating the three largest areas of civilization of the past after the Great Flood (i.e. Mesopotamia, Egypt and India), but probably also a long time before the flood.

Instead, the idea deriving from the ancient Greco-Roman and Indo-European tradition, was to identify the North Pole5 as an ancient centre of the Earth and consequently Eden as the area surrounding the North Pole (more precisely, the Greeks and Romans as the Hyperborean Land and the Indo-Europeans as the Hyperborean Atlantis). Thus, on the basis of these traditions, the area of the Arctic Circle could have been considered in a very ancient time as a possible centre of the Earth, i.e. a sort of Eden, inhabited by the so-called Hyperboreans in indefinite primordial times, not only because many people still thought the Earth to be flat, but especially because it then enjoyed a mild climate, suitable for both humans and the cultivation of the land.

Instead, as to the Bible's traditional data about the birth of the first man reported in the Bible (i. e. of Adam), it’s obvious they depend on the situation after the Great Flood and the emergence of the Sumerian cuneiform script only about 5,000 years ago. Then, although the Bible is a God-inspired book about moral and spiritual values, it can only show the historical and scientific knowledge of the time in which it was written, unless oral tradition or the Word of God himself have preserved a more ancient knowledge through revelations given to Patriarchs and Prophets who lived before the Great Flood.

But we can consider, as a first example of scientific research, the genetic study by Joshua Akey 6 of the University of Washington in Seattle, which reports an astonishing fact: about 75 per cent of the variants in the genetic material of a DNA base have emerged only in the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

But this cannot point to the creation of the first man and the first woman (which only according to traditional biblical dating took place around 6,000/7,000 years ago). Indeed, the creation of man from a scientific point of view is considered to be far earlier, given that for science the first fossils elonging to the species Homo date back to millions of years ago. Consequently, this enormous population growth probably occurred after the Great Flood, to repopulate the Earth.

1.2 THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN

The origins of mankind, on the other hand, could be date back, from a scientific point of view, to a very distant past, which was precede around 66 million years ago, when, according to researchers at the University of Michigan, a mass extinction occurred following three volcanic eruptions7 in the Deccan region (India), which caused a rise in temperature that made life impossible for many living species. But according to more recent discveries, it was a subsequent catastrophe that because of an asteroid8, destroyed off the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico) most of the configuration of the earth and 3/4 of the life then existing on our planet, in particular the enormous dinosaurs. The accumulation of considerable amounts of iridium at the impact site, the Chicxulub crater,9 about 150 kilometres in diameter, according to the latest research, would confirm the fall of this asteroid. Effectively, iridium is an element that is rarely found on Earth, whereas it is abundant in meteorites and asteroids, thus contributing even more to the global warming from volcanic eruption that had already occurred.

However, we have to emphasize that this destruction gave a reverse impetus to the development of primates, since they more easily adapted to living on Earth after this catastrophe. Climate changes, fire masses, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions changed the face of our planet. So this upheaval helped the development of animals which were more likely to live on after this destruction. For example, not only did the ancestors of small mammals develop, such as the 'Purgatorius', a kind of squirrel/mouse that lived on trees, but also many small mammals such as the topiary, the 'Egyptian Monkey' and a lot of proto-monkeys which lived mainly in Africa.

But it was only after these necessary and providential changes, and a following continuous volcanic activity, which caused both astronomical and geographical effects, that there were the appropriate conditions for the birth of the first human being. This hypothesis developed in particular only after the studies by molecular biologists and geneticists who have proposed an important backdating compared to the traditional Linnaean classification on the birth of the Homo species (dating back as far as 1758). Only after this backdating, these molecular biologists and genetists could change the dating of Homo species from a few million years ago to some tens of millions of years ago, with the presence of a lot of hominids we don’t know well whether they belong to the Homo species or to the Ape species. Indeed, some mystics of the last century also gave indications of this kind, which confirm the hypothesis of this backdating, but of their revelations we will discuss in the second chapter.

Figure 1 - Chicxulub asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, but helped the development and proliferation of mammals

MAIN MAMMALS AFTER ASTEROID FALL

Figure 2 - Purgatorius

Figure 3 - Topiary

Figure 4 – Egyptian monkey

Figure 5 – African protomonkeys

1.3 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY HOMINIDS

Figure 6 Bacchus Oreopithecus

1.3.1 Bacchus Oreopithecus10

It was the palaeontologist Hurzeler who found the remains of the first important fossil of oreopithecus of Baccinello, in Tuscany. From an analysis of the fossil, the hominid showed some features typical of anthropomorphic apes, thanks to a study of bipedal walking as well as adaptations to an arboreal life. But if we base on the study of premolars, short jaws and short length of the canines (suggesting a continuous use of the arms), the oreopithecus was later considered to possibly belong to the human family. It dates back around 12 million years ago.

Figure 7 Ardipithecus Ramidus

1.3.2 Ardipithecus Ramidus11

It is one of many varieties of the Ardipithecus. After a brief analysis, it was established that this fossil was the oldest and most complete hominid skeleton, commonly known by the name 'Ardi'. It was found in Ethiopia around 4 million years ago, with features belonging to both non-human and human primates. But it was later considered belonging to the human species, thanks to a study about the remarkable strength of its leg muscles.

Figure 8 Austrolopithecus Lucy

1.3.312

The first fossils of the Australopithecus were found in Ethiopia. Of these, the best known specimen is the famous 'Lucy' (Australopithecus Apharensis), which dates back 3.2 million years ago. Researchers Australopithecus Lucy hoped it was a possible 'Eve', representative of human origins. Having reconstructed the skeleton almost entirely, thanks to 52 scattered bones, it showed very long arms similar to those of apes, but also an upright posture.

Figure 9 Anthropomorphic apes

1.3.4 Chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orang-utans and other anthropoid apes

Only a specific genetic study of anthropoid apes has paradoxically revealed a clearer division between the two main evolutionary lines: one is that of anthropoid apes, in particular the chimpanzee, the most similar ape to man in terms of its DNA. In the past, studies on the differences between the DNA of humans and chimpanzees had even shown that the two species were approximately equal (98.5%). The other line is that of humans, but a recent research published in 'Genome Research'13 has shown that 'the differences between human and non-human primates, such as chimpanzees in particular and all anthropoid apes in general, consist of genomic rearrangements and not individual changes in DNA'. We must therefore consider these structural genomic differences to be very important and an excellent starting point for improving our knowledge of what makes humans unique (apart, of course, from the specific number of chromosomes of the two species: 46 for humans and 48 for apes).

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1 Benedetto XVI e Piero Benvenuti, Anche la teologia è una scienza, uucronline.it, 06/05/2014.

2 Johannes Gutemberg University, the first farmers of the fertile crescent, il fatto storico 2016.

3 Genesi, 2: 8-15, Jerusalem Bible, EDB,1980.

4 Hiranya Mriga, discovering the origins of humanity, lost image, 12/11/2017.

5 Giuseppe Di Re, Hyperborea, the lost continent of the Arctic Circle, Lost Image 17/03/2013.

6 Joshua Akey, Analysis of 6515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants, Nature 2012.

7 Andrea Spinola, Deccan traps among dinosaur extinction culprits, tech.everyeye 16/12/2019

8 Alvarez, L. W. Alvarez et Al. , Extraterrestrial causes for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, Science 208: 10951108.

9 Sean Gulick, Iridium in the Gulf of Mexico: evidence of the asteroid that exterminated the dinosaurs, Tg 24/Sky.it 27/Feb./2021.

10 J. Hurzeler, A prize for the orepithecus in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Florence, 06/07/2023.

11 White, T.D., et al. , Neither Chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both, Proceedings of the Nationa Academy of Science 112:16: 4877-4884.

12 Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey, Lucy: the beginning of humankind, Simon & Schuster 1981.

13 David Cox et al. , Genomic Dna Insertions and Deletions Occur Frequently Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates, Genome Reserch, February 2003.

CAPITOLO 2

HYBRIDIZATION OF MEN

In this chapter, an attempt will be made firstly to respond to the hypothesis proposed by evolutionists, who have also tried to find a point of convergence between science and theology. According to the theistic evolutionary theory, Adam's birth would be the result of a long morphological, biological and even intellectual evolution, completed only by the life-breath of the Spirit, through the direct intervention of God. But there are other kinds of evolutionism, the traditional Darwinian one, based on natural selection and adaptation to the environment. According to evolutionism, many people still think the first man derived from a monkey, although Darwin did not indeed apply this kind of evolution also to man. Finally, in more recent times, it is neo-evolutionism that prevails, where instead it is chance that decides the fate of living beings. All that makes it essential to make a full comparison between the biblical Adam and the first modern evolved man, before drawing definitive conclusions as to who Adam really was.

Just for this reason, I think it’s always important to follow the recommendation given by St Paul to make a good choice: that of not despising prophecies, examining everything and keeping what is good. It was therefore decided to consider, in addition of course to 'Genesis', aso the latest scientific discoveries, the statements of the most recent Popes, the doctrine and Catechism of the Catholic Church, and above all the latest important revelations.