This RSS 2.0 feed is customized for Old News podcasts appearing on Apple's iTunes Music Store. http://www.onter.net/index.html MMV TransVision Corp. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:04:00 -0600 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:00:00 -0600 FeedForAll Mac v2.0 (2.0.0.3) unlicensed version; http://www.FeedForAll.com/ the oldest motion pictures in the world, DISCOVERED! At the heart of America, in some of her most remote sandstone canyons, suspected consonantal Ogham inscriptions survive alongside constellation maps and precision sundials marking the equinoxes, the summer solstice and summertime cross quarters Beltaine and Lughnasad. Native Americans knew their skies, too. But this rock art seems to have been left by Celtic sailors who may have had contact with Indians at least a thousand years before Columbus. The early, weekly set of podcasts were excerpts from the DVD documentary Old News. Since the 2006 Celtic New Year, Samhain (Hallowe'en), a new podcast has appeared every 6½ weeks, to herald each of the cross-quarters, solstices and equinoxes (missing episodes for the last half of 2008 are coming in January 2009). See onter.net for more info or access my.onter.net for iPhone and iPod touch video clips. Archaeologists don't dig it. archaeoastronomy, documentary, ancient, astronomy, equinox, solstice, history, trans-Atlantic, linguistics, science, explore, rock art, New, World, Old, diffusion, petroglyph, Celt, Ogham, Irish, solar, alignment, sun, Beltaine, Lughnasad, Samhain, Imbolc TransVision tv@anten.net Scott Monahan no http://www.onter.net/art/on_rss.gif http://www.onter.net/index.html reduced scale title graphic for documentary website ONter.net 88 31 Unorthodox examples of archaeoastronomy with Celtic Ogham captions known in Colorado and Oklahoma for over 25 years apparently are NOT isolated. New matching, finds in central Kansas are bolstering the body of evidence favoring this radical idea that Celtic peoples were in mid-America, perhaps a thousand years before Columbus. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/ks_eq_lugh.m4v Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:00:00 -0600 KS equinox and lughnasadh sites mirror CO/OK finds Unorthodox examples of archaeoastronomy with Celtic Ogham captions known in Colorado and Oklahoma for over 25 years apparently are NOT isolated. New matching, finds in central Kansas are bolstering the body of evidence favoring this radical idea that Celtic peoples were in mid-America, perhaps a thousand years before Columbus. 3:00 archaeoastronomy, Kansas, equinox, lughnasadh, sundials, Celtic, Ogham, mid-America, unorthodox, pre-Columbian, history TransVision no Pyramidology, an obsession in Great Britain in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, helped usher in the hybrid science of archaeoastronomy, though you won't read about this in the Wikipedia article. Judging past practices as pseudoscience using modern sensitivities, the collaborative authors have banished this, nonetheless, formative genesis reported here. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/pyramidology.m4v Sun, 04 May 2008 20:55:00 -0600 part of its history invisible on the Wikipedia article Pyramidology, an obsession in Great Britain in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, helped usher in the hybrid science of archaeoastronomy, though you won't read about this in the Wikipedia article. Judging past practices as pseudoscience using modern sensitivities, the collaborative authors have banished this, nonetheless, formative genesis reported here. 3:00 archaeoastronomy, Great Pyramid, Egypt, pyramidology, metrology, British identity, Reisenauer, Wikipedia, Giza, Khufu, ancient, astronomy, alignments, celestial, stars, sun, sanitize, history, Ra TransVision no FAIR USE in a scholarly context is claimed for this network news report that indepedently and historically verified two archaeoastronomical solar alignments with petroglyphic carvings on equinox first filmed in Scott Monahan's KRMA-TV documentary 2 years earlier. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/cbsnews.m4v Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:48:00 -0600 Dan Rather/Bob McNamara 21st anniversary report Fair Use rationale: the closing 3 minutes of the March 23, 1987, CBS Evening News is reproduced free of charge in the context of a collection of associated video podcasts under provisions of the "Fair Use" doctrine in U.S. Copyright Law (copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html). This one is preserved for its historical value as an independent illustration of suspected ancient Celtic archaeoastronomical alignments and petroglyphic writing in southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle, a news story first enterprised two years earlier by this podcaster, Scott Monahan. CBS News' awareness of these finds apparently either derived directly from Monahan's one hour KRMA TV documentary "History on the Rocks" which premiered in Denver on May 7, 1985, or derived indirectly from subsequent print media stories (onter.net/scripts.html) which did not acknowledge Monahan's antecedent, copyrighted broadcast. Its neutral perspective on the status of research in 1987 justifies this archival record as "Fair Use" in a scholarly context. Otherwise publicly unpreserved, any repurposing of this video may infringe CBS' rights. See also: Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, Center for Social Media (centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf) 3:00 archaeoastronomy, Ogham, Colorado, Oklahoma, discoveries, finds, archaeology, CBS, Evening, News, report, Dan Rather, Bob McNamara, reporter, historical, independent, network, report, History on the Rocks, KRMA, documentary CBS Evening News no Citing articles from The Atlantic Monthly in January 2000 and from the 1925 Kansas Historical Society Collections, anecdotal, archaeological and ethnographic accounts suggest Celtic sailors may have left genetic fingerprints in America before 1200 CE. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/pawnee.m4v Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:49:24 -0600 more signs of Celts in America before Columbus Citing articles from The Atlantic Monthly in January 2000 and from the 1925 Kansas Historical Society Collections, anecdotal, archaeological and ethnographic accounts suggest Celtic sailors may have left genetic fingerprints in America before 1200 CE. 3:00 Indian, Celts, native American, history, ancient, intermarriage, The Atlantic Monthly, diffusion, Skidi, Pawnee, Tallegwi, Mandan, Kansas, pre-Columbian, trans-Atlantic, voyage, exploration, cultural, contact, Kansas, Historical, Society, Robert Meyer TransVision no Colorado archaeologists teamed up against BLM Historian Don Rickey in the late 1970's to thwart any possible endorsement of his belief ancient Celtic Ogham exists in Colorado. Documents reveal official co-ordination to kill the story based on institutional bias. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/genesis.m4v Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:08:24 -0600 archaeologists conspire to damn diffusionism Archaeologists ganged up against BLM Historian Don Rickey, Jr., to condemn his claim of having discovered ancient Celtic Ogham writing in SE Colorado in 1975. Correspondence and documents from the 5LA1115 site file assembled in the late 1970's by the Office of the State Archaeologist Colorado (OSAC) reveal official co-ordination to kill the story before it could gain traction based on systemic, institutional bias. Download the 20 page report (2.9 MB) with Scott Monahan's contexual thread remarks in blue at http://onter.net/biblio/5LA1115.pdf 3:00 Colorado, Ogham, story, beginnings, genesis, Don Rickey, archaeology, discovery, official, rejection, supression, intolerance TransVision no Most people believe the name of the tribes that roamed throughout Europe and the British Isles into the Middle Ages is pronounced with a hard K, but linguistic tradition argues in favor of a soft S instead. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/celtic.m4v Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:09:26 -0600 why uncommon pronunciation is preferred Most people believe the name of the tribes that roamed throughout Europe and the British Isles into the Middle Ages is pronounced with a hard K, but linguistic tradition argues in favor of a soft S instead. 3:00 pronounce, Celt, Celtic, Celts, scholar, linquist, scholarly, linguistic, classic, pronunciation, Barry, Fell, preferred, common, uncommon, Ogham, Ogam, Stonehenge, Scott, Monahan TransVision no Ogham inscriptions were found in June 1984 on the wall of a crevasse in a southeastern Colorado sandstone bluff. Their decipherment led investigators to return for the autumnal equinox to observe the key petroglyph's pinpoint illumination as the sun rose in the east. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/falleq84.m4v Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:51:02 -0600 commemorating 23rd anniversary of find Ogham inscriptions were found in June 1984 on the wall of a crevasse in a southeastern Colorado sandstone bluff. Their decipherment led investigators to return for the autumnal equinox to observe the key petroglyph's pinpoint illumination as the sun rose in the east. 3:00 equinox, dawn, sunrise, alignment, Crack Cave, archaeoastronomy, Springfield, Comanche National Grasslands, Picture Canyon, Irish, Celtic, America, shadow play, light show, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, ecliptic, earth, petroglyph, history, alternate TransVision no Speculation of a rare triple planetary alignment in the Gemini Constellation carved in stone in 471 is all the more intriguing because of the memorial's presence at a unique observatory in southeastern Colorado, home to a dramatic sunrise alignment curiously at the midpoint between summer solstice and fall equinox, one week into August. The Celtic astronomy connection is explained by philosopher Rollin Gillespie in 1986. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/lughna05.m4v Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:25:02 -0600 3 planet cluster hints at Aug 471 engraving Speculation of a rare triple planetary alignment in the Gemini Constellation carved in stone in 471 is all the more intriguing because of the memorial's presence at a unique observatory in southeastern Colorado, home to a dramatic sunrise alignment curiously at the midpoint between summer solstice and fall equinox, one week into August. The Celtic astronomy connection is explained by philosopher Rollin Gillespie in 1986. 3:00 Rollin Gillespie, lughnasad, sunrise, alignment, archaeoastronomy, Colorado, Irish, Celtic, America, Sun Temple, Gemini, Noble Twins, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, shadow play, light show, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, event, ecliptic, earth, petroglyph TransVision no The northernmost cove in Oklahoma's Anubis Cave complex features an enigmatic compass rosette on its floor that portrays the earth's 23.5 degree tilt from the ecliptic either side of due north. On the back wall is a Celtic Ogham inscription that translates as: 'in the month of June reaches the illumination this far out'. Indeed, at sunset on the summer solstice, the shadow of the rock wall reaches its southernmost extremis of the year, just eclipsing the last vertical mark of the description. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/compcave.m4v Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:06:02 -0600 sunset shadows extend across Ogham inscription The northernmost cove in Oklahoma's Anubis Cave complex features an enigmatic compass rosette on its floor that portrays the earth's 23.5 degree tilt from the ecliptic either side of due north. On the back wall is a Celtic Ogham inscription that translates as: 'in the month of June reaches the illumination this far out'. Indeed, at sunset on the summer solstice, the shadow of the rock wall reaches its southernmost extremis of the year, just eclipsing the last vertical mark of the description. 3:00 Rollin Gillespie, summer, solstice, sunset, alignment, archaeoastronomy, Colorado, Irish, megalith, Celtic, America, Compass Cave, cove, shadow play, light show, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, event, ecliptic, earth, axis, compass, rosette, petroglyph TransVision no Authors Martin Brennan and Chas Clifton visit a solar observation site in southeastern Colorado, marking an ancient Celtic cross quarter date, ending spring and beginning summer. A thin ledge in front of a large circle carved on the sandstone cliff is the only place to witness the peculiar May 5 sunrise within a 3-sided notch defined by the horizon and a dramatic rock overhang. This year, clouds obscured first light, but the sun does an encore appearance along the edge of the cliff face minutes later. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/beltan07.m4v Sat, 05 May 2007 15:08:02 -0600 cross quarter ends Celtic spring, starts summer Authors Martin Brennan and Chas Clifton visit a solar observation site in southeastern Colorado, marking an ancient Celtic cross quarter date, ending spring and beginning summer. A thin ledge in front of a large circle carved on the sandstone cliff is the only place to witness the peculiar May 5 sunrise within a 3-sided notch defined by the horizon and a dramatic rock overhang. This year, clouds obscured first light, but the sun does an encore appearance along the edge of the cliff face minutes later. 3:00 Martin Brennan, Chas Clifton, cross quarter, Beltaine, Beltane, archaeoastronomy, Colorado, Irish, megalith, Celtic, America, Sun Temple, cove, shadow play, light show, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, event, cusp, ecliptic, earth, axis, tilt TransVision no The author who discovered the winter solstice sunrise lightshow inside Newgrange and other archaeoastronomical alignments nearby at Dowth and Loughcrew, Ireland, witnessed a remarkable series of ancient equinox shadow plays in Oklahoma on March 20, 2007. Martin Brennan says it was like being in heaven. The especially precise fit this year was due to near cloudlessness and an equinox moment only 15 minutes before lights out, which is a testament to how accurately the ancient artist knew the exact celestial cusp and carved the sophisticated petroglyphs. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/verneq07.m4v Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:07:02 -0600 Irish megalith legend wowwed by Anubis Cave The author who discovered the winter solstice sunrise lightshow inside Newgrange and other archaeoastronomical alignments nearby at Dowth and Loughcrew, Ireland, witnessed a remarkable series of ancient equinox shadow plays in Oklahoma on March 20, 2007. Martin Brennan says it was like being in heaven. The especially precise fit this year was due to near cloudlessness and an equinox moment only 15 minutes before lights out, which is a testament to how accurately the ancient artist knew the exact celestial cusp and carved the sophisticated petroglyphs. 3:00 Martin Brennan, spring, equinox, vernal, archaeoastronomy, Oklahoma, Irish, megalith, Celtic, America, Anubis, cave, shadow play, light show, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, event, cusp, ecliptic, earth, axis, tilt, balance day TransVision no Where did we ever get the notion a shadow or no shadow cast by a groundhog at daybreak on February 2nd foretells the severity of weather until the vernal equinox? It's actually an echo from the distant past: the Celtic observance of Imbolc! http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/imbolc07.m4a Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:05:02 -0600 Groundhog Day, vestige of Celtic cross-quarter Where did we ever get the notion a shadow or no shadow cast by a groundhog at daybreak on February 2nd foretells the severity of weather until the vernal equinox? It's actually an echo from the distant past: the Celtic observance of Imbolc! 3:00 Celtic, Imbolc, cross quarter, February 4, 05:05 UT, archaeoastronomy, America, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, fire, spring, festival, Brigid, Saint, Brighid, Brigit, Brid, spirit world TransVision no Dawn broke clear at Newgrange today. A sunbeam penetrated its interior, but in Denver, a fierce blizzard dumped more than 24 inches in 24 hours on the eve of the first day of winter. Old News director Scott Monahan and family greet the holiday, thigh-deep in snow in the backyard. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/wintsols.m4v Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:22:02 -0600 whiteout in Denver, clear sunrise at Newgrange Dawn broke clear at Newgrange today. A sunbeam penetrated its interior, but in Denver, a fierce blizzard dumped more than 24 inches in 24 hours on the eve of the first day of winter. Old News director Scott Monahan and family greet the holiday, thigh-deep in snow in the backyard. 3:00 Winter Solstice, Yule, Celtic, December 22, 00:22 UT, archaeoastronomy, America, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, tradition, Christian, convert, holiday, event, cusp, ecliptic, earth, axis, tilt, shortest day of year TransVision no Documentary producer Scott Monahan explores the links and legends between Hallowe'en and the Samhain cross quarter date which heralds the New Year. Most modern pagans celebrate Samhain on November 1, but astronomy suggests the date floats, as do the dates of the equinoxes and solstices. This year it coincides with Election Day in the USA, Tuesday, November 7. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/samhain.m4a Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:22:02 -0600 USA election day shares cross quarter date Documentary producer Scott Monahan explores the links and legends between Hallowe'en and the Samhain cross quarter date which heralds the New Year. Most modern pagans celebrate Samhain on November 1, but astronomy suggests the date floats, as do the dates of the equinoxes and solstices. This year it coincides with Election Day in the USA, Tuesday, November 7. 3:00 Celtic, New, Year, Samhain, cross quarter, November 7, 13:22 UT, archaeoastronomy, America, pre-Columbian, exploration, pagan, fire, festival, election, day, Hallowe'en, spirit world, pagan TransVision no NASA rocket scientist Rollin Gillespie pinch-hit as a volunteer astronomer in the project to decipher enigmatic rock writings found in southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle, many featuring archaeoastronomical alignments. Truly a renaissance man, Gillespie's interests were wide-ranging and his work, pioneering, especially in the construction of the Saturn V moon rocket engine and the genesis of the Trans-Lunar Injection equation that put astronauts on their precision S-curve trajectory to the moon and back. Here, he offers some philosphical observations on the difficulties that often arise in vetting worthy new ideas which, at the outset, seem radical, even crazy. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/rollin_g.m4v Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:03:02 -0600 commentary on struggle revolutionary ideas face NASA rocket scientist Rollin Gillespie pinch-hit as a volunteer astronomer in the project to decipher enigmatic rock writings found in southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle, many featuring archaeoastronomical aignments. Truly a renaissance man, Gillespie's interests were wide-ranging and his work, pioneering, especially in the construction of the Saturn V moon rocket engine and the genesis of the Trans-Lunar Injection equation that put astronauts on their precision S-curve trajectory to the moon and back. Here, he offers some philosphical observations on the difficulties that often arise in vetting worthy new ideas which, at the outset, seem radical, even crazy. 3:00 Rollin, Gillespie, NASA, rocket scientist, mathematician, space, engineer, Saturn V, moon, rocket, trans-lunar, injection, equation, TLI, renaissance man, calendar, ancient, equinox, rock, petroglyph, writing, sundial, solar, alignment TransVision no Oklahoma's Anubis Cave may be one of the world's foremost surviving examples of Mithras worship. Mithras was a ancient pagan sun god, born of rock, and co-ordinator of celestial rhythms. Much more on this fascinating topic, related star maps and archaeoastronomy in the 85 minute DVD documentary, Old News, available for purchase at http://onter.net http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/mitraobs.m4v Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:02:02 -0600 pagan god in equinox shadow play, star charts Oklahoma's Anubis Cave may be one of the world's foremost surviving examples of Mithras worship. Mithras was a ancient pagan sun god, born of rock, and co-ordinator of celestial rhythms. Much more on this fascinating topic, related star maps and archaeoastronomy in the 85 minute DVD documentary, Old News, available for purchase at http://onter.net 3:00 Mithras, Mithraism, worship, sun god, pagan, pre-Christian, Oklahoma, archaeoastronomy, Old World, sailors, petroglyph, rock art, exploration, America, observatory, astronomy, constellation, Perseus, Auriga, Orion, Taurus, Cetus, stars, Mithraic, temple TransVision no The introduction and some key excerpts from Scott Monahan's local PBS documentary that broke the news in 1985 about presumed Celtic inscriptions found some 175 miles southeast of Denver. This clip includes commentary from Dr. Barry Fell, a leading proponent of Old World diffusionism and a controversial epigrapher who ignited controversy in the 1980's with his book "America B.C." http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/hotrrev2.m4v Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:02:04 -0600 highlights of hour 1985 doc, prequel to Old News KRMA TV, Channel 6 in Denver, premiered Scott Monahan's ground-breaking documentary "History on the Rocks" on May 7, 1985. The broadcast led to stories in the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and by the Associated Press, and 1987 television news reports by Bob McNamara on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and by Eve Savory on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Sunday Report. 3:00 History on the Rocks, Denver, television, KRMA, documentary, 1985, southeastern Colorado, equinox sunrise, Crack Cave, Oklahoma Panhandle, equinox sunset, Anubis Cave, ancient, Celtic, archaeoastronomy, Rocky Mountain PBS Scott Monahan no This is an abridged version of a television news report by Eve Savory, science specialist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which aired nearly 2 years following the premiere of Scott Monahan's "History on the Rocks" documentary on KRMA-TV, Denver. Ms. Savory requested and was provided film footage of the linguistic and archaeoastronomical evidence for an ancient Celtic presence in Colorado from the documentary. TransVision founder Scott Monahan believes this reproduction more than 20 years later of the archived broadcast aircheck supplied to him by the CBC qualifies as "fair use" under United States copyright law, given the context of these podcast episodes. This podcast is our first public exhibition of the CBC report, reciprocity for the courtesy we extended to the CBC in 1987 and is in no way intended to infringe on CBC's intellectual property. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/cbcsunrp.m4v Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:12:02 -0600 CBC Sunday Report, nat'l network news, Ap. 19, 1987 Experts dispute which Europeans first explored North America and when they first arrived. With excerpts from Scott Monahan's 1985 Denver PBS documentary "History on the Rocks" Canadian Broadcasting Company science reporter Eve Savory interviews diffusionist proponent Dr. Barry Fell. Fair use doctrine applies, copyrighted materials exchanged. Much of the footage used in the CBC report was provided by this author. 3:00 Celts, Colorado, ancient, explorers, North America, Canada, CBC, news, television, 1987 Eve Savory, CBC no This is the entire stereo soundtrack of the Old News documentary updated in mid-2006 with some minor narrative repairs and modifications. The only exclusions are the baroque oboe interludes of "Windmills Of Your Mind" omitted pending web rights clearance by EMI Music. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/on_audio.m4a Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:13:02 -0600 stereo documentary soundtrack, updated Aug. 2006 If you enjoy listening to this podcast, we know you'll appreciate even more watching the accompanying video, available now for purchase as an NTSC DVD at http://onter.net 1:23:45 Old News, documentary, Celtic, archaeoastronomy, Ogham, America, pre-Columbian, exploration, Colorado, soundtrack, audio, stereo, podcast TransVision no Present day Colorado appears to have had an attraction not just among ancient Celtic explorers. In earlier centuries, perhaps millenia, explorers from the port city of Salalah on the coast of Dhofar in present day Oman at the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, appear to have left their mark in the heart of mid-America, too. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/arabsail.m4v Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:13:02 -0600 Rock writing in Colorado traced to Dhofar in Oman A series of petroglyphic symbols representative of sounds in the ancient Shahri tribal language spoken on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula has turned up on heavily patinated rocks in southeastern Colorado. While their meaning is unknown, there can be no doubt the writing found in the heartland of the United States matches the writing on rocks in Dhofar, Oman. An authority from the port of Salalah, from which frankincense was trafficked in ancient times, vouches for the authenticity of the matching inscriptions, literally halfway around the world. This vignette is a postscript to the hour and a half documentary, Old News. 3:00 TransVision no Within a narrow shelter between two huge boulders of a caprock high above the Purgatory River in southeastern Colorado is a Native American equinox site known as The Pathfinder. From a natural chimney above extends a midday sun dagger much longer than America's most famous archaeoastronomical event authored by the Anasazi atop Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. Besides the dramatic Colorado dawn alignment and shadow play on a leaf petroglyph (which may, indeed, more accurately depict a vulva), there is an equinox sun ray that pierces a set of petroglyphs. Its inspiration seems to be from the Navajo legend of a slumbering Changing Woman impregnated with twins by a blazing sun beam. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/pathfind.m4v Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:05:02 -0600 Equinox sun dagger pierces Changing Woman glyph Accompanied by researcher Carl Lehrburger, Old News cameras capture the timelapse of a dramatic equinox sun dagger crossing a wall of Circle of Life petroglphs, some of which were apparently engraved precisely to honor, perhaps celebrate the equinox at noon. The event is highly suggestive of the Navajo legend of Changing Woman, a powerful force in the creation myths shared or modified to one degree or another by several native cultures in the American southwest. 3:00 Navajo, Anasazi, Changing Woman, myth, legend, Indian, Native American, equinox, Colorado caprock, Purgatory River, petroglyph, rock art, sun dagger, Chaco Canyon, Fajada Butte, archaeoastronomy, solar alignment, sun, worship TransVision no Most professional archaeologists and anthropologists deny the possibility of Europeans having voyaged to America hundreds of years before Columbus, with the lone exception of a temporary Viking presence on the coast of Newfoundland. The theory that ancient Celtic explorers could have navigated across the Atlantic and up the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers to what is today southeastern Colorado often generates professional scorn, ridicule and insults. Academic archaeologists demand cultural, material artifacts as proof, but at the same time are disinclined to authorize, much less organize, any digs to search for such evidence when informed of local sites with presumed Ogham inscriptions and European archaeoastronomy. With such a "head in the sand" attitude on the part of these gatekeepers of knowledge, it is no wonder this story has struggled to gain traction and sustained recognition by the mainstream media. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/dispute.m4v Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:04:02 -0600 Some archaeologists prefer insults over investigation Dogmatic professionals in academia reject outright the theory that Celtic sailors may have voyaged to North America and explored her central plains a thousand years or more before Columbus sailed the Atlantic. In these excerpts from the 85 minute video documentary, Old News, a spirited debate between an archaeologist and advocates of the theory videotaped by the Denver PBS affiliate KRMA, shows how unabated and vitriolic the resistance was more than 20 years ago. Even authoritarian experts are susceptible to being misinformed. Apparently little has changed since the mid-1980s. Just hours before a November 2004 University of Colorado forum to examine evidence favoring the theory, the anthropology department protested in the campus newspaper, declaring the venue unworthy of anyone's time or consideration. Such is the paradox of academic elitists motivated to protect their status quo world at any cost. Rather than exhibit even token intellectual curiosity regarding these finds, a professor and his graduate student chose to demean the discoverers in the student press, a priori. How they can demonstrate such an unscientific attitude is an eye-opening lesson in the intolerance and condescension by those presumably entrusted to tell it like it is. 3:00 science, history, University of Colorado, Boulder, documentary, trans-Atlantic, voyage, explore, America, New, World, Old, diffusion, petroglyph, Celt, Celtic, Ogham, Ogam, Irish, archaological, controversy, dispute, resistance, opposition, academic TransVision no The theory that bold Celtic sailors crossed the Atlantic and navigated up the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers to what is today the high plains of southeastern Colorado seems ludicrous to many people, particularly the academic community. But the evidence of surviving Ogham writing translatable via Old Gaelic and associated astronomical markings that relate to Celtic cosmology is strong. A three minute web video of excerpts from the Old News documentary summarizes some key aspects for why this theory has legs. Featured are animated graphics of the clockwise North Atlantic steering currents and an easy-to-understand lesson on 8 seasonal cusps celebrated by the ancients, the equinoxes and the solstices plus four other divisions, the cross quarters observed by the Celts: Beltaine, Lughnasad, Samhain and Imbolc. These documentary excerpts address many of the arguments dismissive of ancient Celts for lacking the ability to explore beyond Europe or to memorialize their distinctive knowledge of astronomy on North American rock walls and in caves. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/theory.m4v Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:04:02 -0600 Celts explored America 1000 years before Columbus Over the objections skeptics and many in academia, new theories pointing to pre-Columbian Old World voyages to America are emerging. In this 3 minute series of excerpts from the 85 minute video documentary, Old News, several key aspects favoring the possibility of an ancient Celtic expedition to the heartland of America are graphically described. Steering winds and currents led these intrepid adventurers to the mouth of the Mississippi River where they travelled upstream. Afterall, rivers were the common highways of their day in the Old World, many centuries ago. The literate crew left distinctive, vowelless Ogam writings in the caves and shelters on the high plains of southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle. Many inscriptions relate to a clearly European perspective on the celestial constellations. The fact that a cross quarter alignment site survives is further evidence these inscriptions were not made by Native Americans. The full story is on the web at onter.net 3:00 science, history, documentary, archaeoastronomy, ancient, trans-Atlantic, voyage, explore, America, New, World, Old, diffusion, petroglyph, Celt, Celtic, Ogham, Ogam, Irish, equinox, solstice, alignment, sun, Mithras, Beltaine, Lughnasad, Samhain, Imbolc TransVision no A thousand years before Columbus sailed the Atlantic in 1492, Celtic explorers from the Old World followed the same ocean route and penetrated deep into the heartland of America, leaving their mark. Armed with a keen sense of astronomy and inspired by the pagan sun god Mithras, a hardy band followed the Arkansas River to what is now Colorado, memorializing their presence and celestial observations in elaborate rock art including precision sundials for the equinoxes, the summer solstice and Lughnasad. But traditional American archaeologists scoff at the idea and have hoped the story would die away, as have many of its advocates whose discoveries began in 1977 and continue to this day. Highlights from the hour and a half video documentary featuring key commentary. http://www.onter.net/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/transvision/Sites/.Movies/itn/trailer.m4v Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:03:02 -0600 highlights of hour and a half 2005 DVD documentary Rock art discoveries over the past generation demonstrate Christopher Columbus arrived long after other European sailors explored North America. The exciting evidence, dated by nuclear chemistry, is carved on the remote sandstone cliffs and within caves of the rugged Oklahoma panhandle and southeastern Colorado canyon country. Written messages in an ancient Celtic alphabet known as Ogham survive in proximity to the more abundant imagery of the wonderful petroglyphic art of the Plains Indians. "Old News" documents the passion by advocates of pre-Columbian, transatlantic contact and the stunning intolerance of most professional archaeologists to seriously consider the evidence. Particularly compelling are archaeoastronomical links to the Old World. Rock art shadow plays that occur only at equinox sunrises and sunsets, a Lughnasad cross-quarter dawn and a summer solstice sunset are all accompanied by predictive Ogham inscriptions. Additionally, engraved constellation maps tie these remarkable finds to distinctively Indo-European understandings of the Zodiac in ancient times. The "Noble Twins" inscription, for example, memorializes 3 planets traveling through the Gemini Constellation, a rare and noteworthy event for ancient sky watchers, observed just before dawn on Lughnasad, August 8, 471 CE. Woven into some of the star maps are secrets of the initiates in an arcane, astral religion known as Mithraism that pre-dated Christianity. Mithras and his entourage are symbolic participants in a revealing shadow-cast --- a virtual ancient motion picture --- at equinox sunset in Oklahoma's Anubis Cave. The full story is on the web at onter.net 3:00 science, history, documentary, archaeoastronomy, ancient, trans-Atlantic, voyage, explore, America, New, World, Old, diffusion, petroglyph, Celt, Celtic, Ogham, Ogam, Irish, equinox, solstice, alignment, sun, Mithras, Beltaine, Lughnasad, Samhain, Imbolc TransVision no