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Subject: Re: ABC & racist pseudoscience

 
Edward Leedskalnin's Name As A Clue

>   Bob Tarantino (taranr) wrote:

> > There was a  man who built a type of castle out of corel in I think
> > Florida, around the  turn  of the century in which a rocking chair was
> >  built weighing over a ton.
 
 Jiri Mruzek commented:

      Edward Leedskalnin of the Corral Castle fame.
 
 =============Bob Tarantino, 10/11/96============
 
> Is that his name?  I haven't heard that in quite some time.  I remember that
> people who lived near by said that whenever they would try to sneek by to see
> him working, he would always know they were there and stop.  I also saw
> pictures of various gears, pullies and cable that were scattered about his
> place.  I never had mechanical engineering courses, but it would seem amazing
> to me someone with what I would suppose a limited knowledge on this subject
> could accomplish with simple machines what would barely be possible with a
> multi-thousand dollar crane!

Leedskalnin's work in progress was never caught on film.  There is one photograph I've seen from the scene. A huge boulder is suspended from a flimsy looking tripod. I don't see how the tripod could not fall apart with the slightest swaying of the stone. It's almost like taunting us.
 
> I understand that Egyptologists believe that the sphinx was cut
> from an  existing rock formation but It would seem possible that
> our Edward used the same methods as the Egyptians.

It would even seem quite likely, IMHO. He would then be an inheritor of those Egyptians, rather than a discoverer. I say that, because I think that much experimentation and thought must have gone into developing such technology - much more than what Leedskalnin's resources were. His mysteriousness deepens, as I think about it all. Even his name could be a sort of cryptic clue. 

Ed - ward - Leed - skal - nin

Ed is almost the same in pronounciation as ad -  annoucement - 'news, or,  ed - educational
So, what is the news?

English dictionary's pronunciation key to 'scale'  uses the letters 'skal', where the 'a' is a special character : sk__l

   skal   in some Slavonian languages means of (musical) scales,  of rocks
   skala             =  scale, rock            
   lead scale      =  'sweet' 16 = Phi (1.6)
   ward             =  guard, site
   skalni (in some Slavonian languages)  =  stone, rock (adj.)

Or we can look at only the first and last syllables in Leedskalnin:
    Leed .. in  (sounds equivalent with 'lead in)

     skal  -  nin  =   a scale of 'nin' ?
If we are to complete 'nin' into a word,  'nine' is about the closest.

A scale of nine?

This has connections to the Golden Ratio,  Osiris Numbers, the regular 5-pointed star, and so on.  I am not going to expound on all the possible permutations of meaning in this little play of words,  anyone can do it for themselves.
But, Leedskalnin has "stone" in his name. Considering the above interpretations, the very name of Edward Leedskalnin could hint at the ancient secrets of the Egyptians (builders of the great pyramids) in connection to the above subjects. Or, perhaps, it's just coincidence..

> But, can you imagin that for blocks to  fit so mmmmmm
> perfectly, as can be seen in Egypt as well as Mexico, that blocks could have
> been rubbed together to create such a fit?  The blocks would have to be
> manipulated like paperweights.

I thought that just by restating the idea in its nakedness - its absurdity would become transparent. I can imagine this idea, but then it doesn't work!

> What type of ginding method could have been
> employed by such a people as the Maya who from what I gather may have not yet
> invented the wheel and might possibly moved things as the Hawaiians did... on
> sleds!
 
If you understood what intellectual level is inherent in the design of the Nasca Monkey, you would realize that like in Egypt, there were wardens of the same Ancient Science in Peru, and elsewhere.
Does archaeological record clash with feasibility of Ancient Science? 
It does. It indicates a much lower level of knowledge, and especially of available technology. To reconcile such apparent conflict, we must see the Ancient Science as having a parallel existence, as being available only to a tiny group of initiates. What were the exact reasons for such a state of affairs? Well, that's another question.

Jiri