China, Greece & the Zulus of Africa

Searching for information on the Blue Crane, I stumbled across something quite intriguing: a theory that links these three ancient and seemingly so very different cultures. Here it is:

http://www.greecetravel.com/archaeology/mitsopoulou/zulu/index.htm

I offer it as something a little different to what we're used to reading in here. Might even provoke a thought or two!

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Searching for information on the Blue Crane, I stumbled across something quite intriguing: a theory that links these three ancient and seemingly so very different cultures. Here it is:

http://www.greecetravel.com/archaeology/mitsopoulou/zulu/index.htm

I offer it as something a little different to what we're used to reading in here. Might even provoke a thought or two!

Originally posted by kmax87
At last a woman after my own heart. For years I have tried to strip the external "dressing" from social dynamics and tried to learn from the naked model of interaction so to speak, and it is true that if you are willing to suspend your disbelief for a few moments when looking at systems and peoples there is so much similarity that you have to wonder why so few people manage to "see" the emperors new clothes.

off-topic, check out the featured page on wikipedia today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroonoko

"Oroonoko is a short novel by Aphra Behn published in 1688, concerning the tragic love of its hero, an enslaved African in Suriname in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences with the new American colony. It is generally claimed (most famously by Virginia Woolf) that Aphra Behn was the first professional female author in English. While this is not entirely true, it is true that Behn was the first professional female dramatist and novelist, as well as one of the first novelists in English. Although she had written at least one novel previously, Oroonoko is both one of the earliest English novels and one of the earliest by a woman. Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War, working to solicit a double agent. However, Charles either failed to pay her for her services or failed to pay her all that he owed her, and Behn, upon returning to England needed money. She was widowed and destitute and even spent some time in debtor's prison before scoring a number of successes as an author. In the 1670s, only John Dryden had plays staged more often than Behn. She turned her hand to long prose toward the end of her dramatic career, and Oroonoko was published in the same year as her death at the age of 48."

Originally posted by zeeblebot
hullo BdN ...

what do you think about it? being closer to the ground ....

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I'm just taking it in at the moment...haven't formed a considered opinion yet...I like it though, it has, how you say, resonance...(The information about the Zulu culture is correct as far as I know). Why did you search for DNA?

Aphra Behn was quite something, wasn't she? Not that I've read her or anything.