Ancient Southeast Asians in Scandinavia? Is There Nothing Left In History That Is Sacred?

Just to pick up from my last post, I’ll say that the creation of man in Genesis 1 speaks of the creation of the Cro magnon humans–and in Genesis 2 we have the later (many thousands of years later) creation of Adam and Eve.

Now, it appears that–way before the arrival of Odin and his people (the inhabitants of the Black Sea coastal city of Asgard) in Scandinavia–people from Southeast Asia arrived in lands that one day would become known as Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

The most compelling piece of evidence to support this argument is that some ancient Scandinavian buildings are virtually identical–in terms of architectural style–to temples in Southeast Asia: specifically, structures in Thailand. 

There was contact between Northern Europe and South Asia long ago.  People were moving back and forth between Scandinavia, Persia (today Iran), India, Burma, Thailand, and other areas of Southeast Asia.

It appears that Southeast Asians arrived at and settled in Scandinavia.  They constructed some buildings that share the same architectural style as the buildings back home in South Asia.  When Odin and the Asgardians–the ancestors of the Swedes–arrived in Scandinavia much later, they most likely adopted these Asian buildings for their own use.

I’ve heard that there are similarities between the Lithuanian language and Hindi.  There was a lot of movin’ goin’ on.

Ancient Astronauts and the Origin of Man

I have a fundamental question concerning the origin of humans, I think.  I understand that the ancient Sumerian tablets (Cuneiform) say that mankind was genetically engineered–from hominoids–by ancient astronauts called the Anunaki.  I believe that the Anunaki were and are planetary angels.  The Anunaki–beginning some 200,000 years ago–came to the earth to mine for gold in Havilah or Southern Africa.  At first, they undertook the intensive, manual labor themselves.  Then, after a while, they came up with a "better" idea: looking around them, they saw hominoids (Neanderthals) wandering around & decided to "tamper" with their DNA, thus creating the first humans.  So goes the story.

My question is this: why did the Anunaki make man the way they did?  I mean, look at us–in comparison with the apes (gorillas & chimpanzees).  We’re a lot weaker, physically.  We’re a lot less agile.  And I’m sure that we have a lot less lung capacity compared with the hominoids of today: the Sasquatch, Yeti, etc.  If we were designed as slaves to take over a job from the Anunaki–that involved heavy, physical exertion–then why did they make us so physically weak.  Yes, we are much more intelligent than all the other hominoids and apes, but you would think that physical strength would be more of a prerequisite for this kind of labor: working in a mine.

Your typical Neanderthal was much stronger, physically, than your typical early human (Cro-Magnon).  The Anunaki should have taken the Neanderthals–who were probably organized into primitive societies–and increased their intelligence, while simultaneously not tampering with physical abilities.  This new hominoid would’ve been the ideal slave for them.

So, it doesn’t make sense that the Anunaki created humans.  Unless, there’s something I’m not seeing.

Humans and “Hominoids”

Lloyd Pye says that hominids or "hominoids" (human-like creatures) have existed for millions of years.  He says that man is a creature with a more recent arrival on the scene.  Mankind did not appear until about 200,000 years ago–with something happening around 40,000 years ago that ushered in modern man.

This scenario basically gels with the idea that Adam and Eve were created some 50,000 years ago. 

Pye says that man’s DNA shows signs that we’ve been tampered with–by an extra-terrestrial intelligence that is very advanced.  We’re the product of alien tinkering–is the argument.  Not only that, but these aliens also tinkered with a number of animals, besides us. 

All the domesticated animals today are also the product of alien intervention: cats, dogs, sheep, cows, horses, etc.  A fascinating example of a "domesticated" animal is the cheetah.  Cheetahs are a hybrid of cats and dogs.  They have traits of both kinds of household pets.  They are easily domesticated after being caught in the wild.  They can be trained to hunt for man.

Pye says that these "gods" that created man also created the domesticated animals so that they could have some comfort during their stay here.

I believe that it was God who ushered in modern man with the creation of Adam and Eve.  And it was God who created the domesticated animals as companions for man.

Pye says that the sasquatch, the Yeti, the "Hobbits" (small hominoids who hide in the jungles of South Pacific islands close to the equator), and the Australian Yowie(!) are currently living hominoids that go back millions of years.  They are natural to this world.  (The Neanderthals were also hominoids, who were wiped out.)  The hominoids are "natural" to this world.  The basic argument goes like this: hominoids have 48 chromosomes.  Man has 46 chromosomes.  Actually (says Pye), we have 48, but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chromosomes in our DNA have been fused together.  Thus the tampering.  This fusing was done, Pye believes, to make our DNA compatible with the DNA of the aliens who created us–so that they could reproduce with us. 

We humans are not natural to this world–this would include the domesticated animals who serve us.  Scripture tells us that we should see ourselves as pilgrims who are undergoing a journey on this earth.  We are strangers on a strange world.  We were placed here by (I would say divine) intervention–from outside the earth.

Sanctified

I’ve heard that there are some Christians who can eat anything (heavily processed junk food included) and not be affected by the junk food.  This has to do with a passage from 1 Timothy 4:3-4.  There would be those who would command the brethren to "abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which know the truth.  For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."

These particular Christians give thanks for and pray over any food that they are about to eat.  And their faith is strong enough to where they trust that the Lord (after they have given thanks and prayed over the meal about to be eaten) has turned all the bad, junky ingredients in the food into healthful, nutritious stuff.  There is a passage elsewhere in scripture where it says that the saints will consume poison, and it won’t harm them.  Hmmm.

Obama is now president elect.  I’ve heard that he may become one of the greatest presidents in American history so far.  I heard (on the radio) a prophecy expert–knlowledgeable about Nostradamus–say that Obama can become one of the greats–right up their with Lincoln and John Kennedy.  I would hope so.  It may be that he will become more enlightened while he occupies the Oval Office.

I heard a female voter who was questioned about which presidential candidate she cast her ballot for.  She said that she was in the $250,000 and above category, and that she had cast her vote for Obama.  She added that she was thinking about the poor and downtrodden in America and that she was willing to pay higher taxes so that the poor could be given more help.  I also heard a report that said that the majority of Americans making $200,000/yr or more gave their votes to Obama. 

I would say that for these particular Americans, it would not be socialism in action since they are willing to give more of their money for those who have much less than them.  But what about those Americans who did not vote for Obama?  One thing I know is that today too much of taxpayers’ money goes into the industrial/military complex that Pres. Eisenhower warned us about.    

Next, I would like to discuss the historical evidence for Jesus having been an actual man in Palestine some 2,000 years ago.  There are those who continue to say that no proof exists for Jesus having been a real man. 

Well, I say that there is evidence.  First of all, the documentary proof for the existence for Julius Caesar, as far as I can tell, is less than that for Jesus.  Only a few copies of Caesar’s writings (from around his time) have come down to us today.  Whereas, many more copies (much more) of all four Gospels (that go back to within a few decades of Jesus’ time) are available to us today.  Further more, we have translations of the Old Testament, which has been effectively corroborated by a historic and fantastic event (of 1948): the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  For the Old Testament also speaks of Jesus–the pre-incarnate era of the Messiah.

Also, evidence for the existence of Pontius Pilate has been found in Europe (specifically Switzerland).  A stone or marble slab has been unearthed, which bares the former governor’s name.  It is believed that Pilate committed suicide after returning to Europe from his tour of duty in Palestine.

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Debating the Rapture Above the Beirut Cityscape

The Thurston MacDougall built Lebanese Army chopper was steadily closing in on the shiny, dark blue aircar.  The aircar was a four-door sedan.  The chopper pulled up alongside the aircar as it sped over the skyrise buildings of Beirut with their large, dark, reflective windows.  (The Lebanese capital had been rebuilt after decades of laying in ruins from constant warfare.)

 The chopper pilot was careful to keep a little distance between himself and the aircar, so as to keep his rotor from hitting the latter. A tall, slender woman in a superhero uniform was standing in the open bay of the chopper, holding on to the support beam with one arm.  Her pants appeared to be made of black leather.  She had orange boots and gloves.  She wore an open orange jacket that also appeared to be made of leather, and which revealed a leather orange shirt underneath.  Her orange mask covered her nose and had eye holes and left the mouth and chin uncovered.  The mask ended at her forehead, above which her long, wavy, golden hair fluttered with the air that was being stirred by the chopper’s blades.

The masked woman stretched out her right arm towards the aircar, with her palm facing the aircar’s driver.  (She was signalling for the aircar to come to a halt.) 

"It’s all-right Alfy.  Go ahead and come to a stop," said Ed Badmitten, the owner/CEO of Robo-Mitten Technologies, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the aircar.  He wore a crisp, dark business suit with a red tie.  He had slickly combed grey hair and a severe face–which said to his rivals that he was a man that nearly always got his way.

The Lebanese chopper pilot halted when he saw the flying car come to a halt. He then carefully maneuvered the helicopter closer to the aircar. Both the aircar and the military chopper now hovered side by side–nearly touching each other–the chopper’s blades rotating safely above the aircar.  As the hot, late morning Mediterranean sun poured down its heat, the masked woman stepped out onto the short wing of the chopper.  She walked to the end of the wing and stopped in front of the left, rear door of the aircar.  Each flying machine swayed slightly, as if they were floating on an ocean of air.  After a moment, the rear door hatch opened upward.  The woman leaned forward and looked in.

"Come on in, Miss–?," said Badmitten, moving over to make some more space.

"Martial.  As in ‘martial artist,’" replied Ms. Martial, as she stepped across the chasm (that spanned inches, ending with the city streets  far below) and into the rear of the aircar and sat down. 

"Well, Ms. Martial.  It’s nice to meet you."

"I want to have a word or two with you, Mr. Badmitten."

"Okay.  What do you want to talk about?"

"There are two robotic rabbits running around loose in the city of Beirut.  They’re your robots, and I guess you’re having them surveille the city."

"What does OSS stand for?  That guy in the helicopter with you had ‘OSS’ on his back.  Are you guys part of the Office of Strategic Services?"

"No.  The Order of the Sunsaints."

"I was going to say, the other OSS doesn’t exist any longer–at least it’s not known by that name any more.  But yeah, I’ve heard of this "Order of the Sunsaints."

"Let’s get back to the subject, Mr. Badmitten."

"By all means, Ms. Martial."

"Why are you here in Lebanon?"

"I’m a businessman, as you can see.  I like to make sure that the robots I sell to my clients are functioning properly."

"Wait a minute!  Aren’t you a member of that mega-church–it’s called Lakecrest Church?"

"Why yes.  I’m impressed you know that, Ms. Martial."

"Timmy Barnum is the pastor there.  And he believes in this rapture/Great Tribulation/endtimes apocalypse."

"Yes, that’s what he teaches."

"And you believe the same thing."

"Well, yes.  I won’t deny it."

"So you believe that a war must take place in the Middle East before you can get raptured out of here."

"It’s going to happen sooner or later. Yes."

"And you’re here to make it happen."

"Now that’s quite a charge there, Miss."

"Let me tell you this, Mr. Badmitten. The rapture is a theory. It is not in the Bible. That passage in the fourth chapter of 1st Thessalonians is speaking of the return of Christ. It says nothing about being taken up into heaven."

"It clearly says that all of us Christians will be caught up to be with the Lord."

"It says that all the Christians will be caught up into the air to welcome their Lord back to the earth. I’m sure you know that further down in the fifth chapter it speaks of the ‘day of the lord.’ That ‘day’ refers to the final return of Jesus, in which he destroys all his enemies and establishes his reign on earth."

"We’re not going to come to an agreement on this issue, Miss Martial. Frankly, I’m appalled that this teaching–which says there will be no rapture–is gaining a foothold in the church. It was started by a bunch of rabble-rousers who have too much time on their hands. They need to get a life. Anyway, I’ve got some place to be if you don’t mind. That is, if you’re finished with your questions."

"Where are you headed?"

"Tel Aviv."

"So, you deny my charge against you?"

"Look, you have no proof. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must be moving along."  Just then, a cell phone ringtone went off–the tune was that of Barry Manilow’s "Copacabana." Badmitten reached inside his business jacket and pulled out his cellular. "One moment, please." He turned his face away, looking down at the floor of the aircar. "What is it?…What!? What’s going on!?…Are you sure!?…" Still holding the phone to his ear, Badmitten looked up at Ms. Martial, who had a slight grin on her face.

"Is something wrong, Mr. Badmitten?"

Badmitten turned away from her again and looked out the window at the city below. "Get out of there. I’ll talk to you later." He closed his cell phone and returned it to the pocket inside his jacket.

"I said, is there a problem?"

"No problem. Nothing really serious," he said, facing forward (so she could not look him in the eyes) and loosening his shirt collar and tie with one hand.

"I may as well tell you, Mr. Badmitten. Two of my colleagues, the Spokesman and Sun Samurai (along with a team of Sunsaint operatives), should now be intercepting, even as we speak, a rogue group’s attempt to covertly set explosive charges in the Parliamentary Building of the National Government of Lebanon."

[That's it for today's installment. What I'd like to talk about next is a passage from Paul the Apostle's 2nd letter to the Corinthian Christians. Specifically, I want to discuss verses 16-23 in the eleventh chapter. It is quoted from the King James Version as follows (with thanks to Bartleby.com):

"I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft."

You see, Paul was a brilliant scholar: I believe the most brilliant scholar and thinker of his day. He had a better understanding of the Torah and the other books of the Old Testament than any of his contemporaries. The man had to have been a consummate researcher: in one of his letters (in the New Testament) he requests--if memory serves--that some parchments (documents), that he had left behind, be brought to him. These parchments most likely contained texts that were extra-biblical--that is other than the Old Testament.

There is a comic book writer/artist, named Dave Sim, who believes that Paul was crazy. Having read Paul's letters in the New Testament--especially his letter to the Roman Christians--Sim concluded that Paul was writing gibberish.

This is the conclusion of someone who has not read Paul's letters carefully--and who hasn't read the whole Bible carefully (as is the case for Sim, who has a rather bizarre view of the God of the Bible). Let me note here that Sim is a Muslim.

Paul is saying, in the above quoted passage, that the Corinthians were actually foolish when they thought they were wise in themselves. Relying on their own wisdom--and not the wisdom of God--they opened themselves to false prophets and false teachers. In doing so, they have then opened themselves to oppression. (I see this happening today in the church to varying degrees. And some of these teachers are sincere in their false beliefs, not intentionally trying to deceive their followers. Paul did say something like this in one of his letters: "Be you followers of me." Because he was teaching the truth.)

In verse 21 Paul brilliantly says that he speaks, "as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak." As if they had been weak in the ways of God, he is saying of himself and his fellow workers in the truth. And thus, if they were not speaking the truth but were rather false teachers, then they were bringing upon themselves "reproach" for boasting--or glorying--in their own sufficiency and abilities and not glorying in Christ--in the spiritual things of God.

So, if many of the Corinthians were going to go goo-goo gai-pan over carnal things, instead of spiritual things--Paul would speak "foolishly" also, by bringing up his pedigree. He was a Hebrew. An Israelite. A descendant of Abraham through Isaac, the promised son. He had suffered more than those (the false teachers) who boasted in themselves.

Earlier in the 11th chapter of the 2nd letter to the Corinthians (in verse 2), Paul says, "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." If you read the Book of Hosea the Prophet, you'll see that God spoke of Israel as being his bride--his wife. He divorced Israel when he had the Assyrian Empire come in and deport en masse the Northern Kingdom of Israel and most of the Southern Kingdom of Judah--except for Jerusalem (from 732 to 721 BC and a few decades after that).

However, God also said in the Book of Hosea--Hosea lived in the days when the tribes of Israel were deported from Canaan or the Levant--that he would one day make Israel his wife again. Never in all of the New Testament is the church spoken of as being God's wife--the Bride of Christ. Paul, as I've said, had a deep understanding of the Old Testament. So, when he spoke of the Corinthians as being "espoused...to one husband," he knew what he was talking about.

You see, the ancient Greeks of Paul's time were descended from Israelites who had left Canaan. (They were not descended from the Israelites deported by the Assyrians but rather from many members of the Tribe of Dan which had left Canaan--and therefore their fellow Israelite brethren (before the Assyrian deportations)--and ended up in Achaia or the Greek peninsula. {As an aside, the earliest Greeks--the Mycenaean Greeks who fought in the Trojan War--were descended from Israelites who left Egypt before the Great Exodus under Moses.}

One last thing. Paul says in verse 3 in the 11th chapter of the 2nd letter to the Corinthians, "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." Keep the things of Christ simple. When it comes to prophecy, don't complicate what the Bible says by making it more complicated than it really is. All this stuff about "dispensational premillennialism" is really not needed. Many Christians would be shocked to discover where the idea of the rapture and a future seven-year tribulation period came from.

Lastly, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that people should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I for one, seriously question the content of Barak Obama's character. And John McCain's character also, for that matter.]

A Discussion of Elitism or Calvin’s Dilemma

Sun Samurai, wearing a form-fitting uniform that was all white (and with no mask at all), and Spokesman, wearing a uniform with a dark-grey torso and yellow arms and legs and dark-grey boots and gloves and a dark-grey mask (that left his nose, mouth, and chin exposed), had just finished taking down a rogue, terrorist group in their attempt to blow up the Parliamentary Building of Lebanon.  (This building was styled after the Capitol Building in Washington DC.)  Sunsaint agents, dressed in light-blue armor (made from an off-world material) over light-blue jumpsuits, were rounding up the surviving terrorists–who were dressed in black ninja-style outfits.

"You were saying about Calvinism before we got here?" said Sun Samurai aka Ravi Goldstein.

"Well, I was asking if Calvinist predestination can be found in the Old Testament," said Spokesman aka Byron McKean.  The thing is–what you have in the Old Testament is God choosing Israel as his special, servant people."

"Yes, but you did have a number of individuals of the surrounding nations turning to the true God."

"True. Then is that an argument for predestination?" said Spokesman, stroking his chin.

"I say no.  It is not."

"And I would agree.  You can’t speak of irresistable grace without also speaking of irresistable damnation," said Spokesman as he continued stroking his chin.

"Not everybody will be saved–or have been saved," said Sun Samurai, wiping the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand–his dark, medium-length hair a bit disheveled.

"But God did say that he loved the whole world."

"So, what are we to conclude then?" said Sun Samurai.

"John Calvin was perhaps attempting to over-explain the idea of predestination," said Spokesman.

"Calvinists are assured of their salvation. From my own experience, some of them tend to be arrogant. Because they know that once they’re saved they’re always saved, they can start to behave in rather brutish ways. Salvation is by grace. No amount of good works can get you saved."

"From this flows the distasteful aspect of Calvinism. They are saved, and most other people are not."

"We can say then, that Calvin’s approach to the mechanism of salvation is flawed," said Sun Samurai.

"Calvin was attempting to answer some questions posed by deep-thinking Protestants of his day. You make one decision at a point in time, and from then on you’re saved–no matter what you do after you choose to believe," said Spokesman.

"Grace and truth go hand in hand. Enlightenment comes from seeing the truth. And some Calvinists need more enlightenment."

[That's it for this installment. Now, I'd like to further discuss Paul's 2nd letter to the Corinthian Christians. As we move from chapter 11 into chapter 12, Paul moves from boasting "as it were foolishly" to boasting in his weaknesses. This is writing of the most sublime level.

Paul says in verse 7 of chapter 12 that a "thorn in the flesh" was given him, lest he should become high-minded because of the visions and revelations given to him by the Lord. Some people say that this "thorn" was a physical ailment. (This explanation is used in the line of reasoning which says that God causes some Christians to get cancer so that they could witness to unsaved people in a hospital. Let me say that I believe this line of thinking to be totally wrong.)

Others say that this "thorn" was not physical in nature at all. I lean more towards this explanation. Paul could sometimes be a hard person to get along with. The best example being his split with Barnabas during their ministry to the gentiles (These being the Israelites: for Hosea’s prophecy–that said that the people, who were not God’s people, would become his sons and daughters again–was starting to come to pass with the calling of Paul.). Anyway, Paul was hard-headed at times.

Pauls says in chapter 13 of his 2nd letter to the Corinthians, "Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you." And further down he says, "For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth." Paul is saying here in this passage to test what he says–not only what he says, but what anybody says. Is it the truth? Question everything. Question what you’ve been taught. If you’ve been in the church for quite some time, then question the kind of spiritual food you’ve been fed (and sometimes maybe force-fed) by pastors and teachers. Know why you believe what you believe. Can you effectively articulate what you believe in–if it is the truth?

A Conversation About Where to Have Dinner

"So, where are we going to have dinner tonight?  This being our last night in Lebanon," said Sun Samurai (in his all white–maskless–outfit).

"I don’t know.  Ms. Martial mentioned a restaurant called ‘El Casa del Loco Burrito.’  She says they have excellent Teriyaki Chicken and tasty pumpkin pie sweetened with honey. Sounds good to me," said Spokesman (in his yellow and dark-grey outfit).

"I was hoping I could convince her to go for ‘Shaun O’Shaughnessy’s Irish Bar and Grill.’  I hear they’ve got good Fettucini Alfredo.  And they’ve got excellent cerveza."

"You know, I’ve heard that ‘The Crouching Dragon’ has fantastic corned beef and cabbage."

"They serve corned beef and cabbage?" asked Sun Samurai.

"Yeah.  That’s what I’ve been told," said Spokesman.

"The Police are having a reunion tour," said Sun Samurai.

"It’s about time," said Spokesman. "I really dig Sting’s ’solo’ stuff. ‘The Dream of the Blue Turtles’–excellent stuff.

"Yeah, that song–’If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free’–one of the best songs he’s ever written."

"That and ‘Fields of Gold.’ Such a beautiful song."

"It definitely evokes an image," said Sun Samurai, looking up at the lofty dome of the Lebanese Parliamentary Building.

"You know, Andy Summers (the guitarist) is the guy who came up with the riff for ‘Every Breath You Take," said Spokesman as he took off his dark-grey mask that was padded with armor, revealing short black hair that had been combed back.

"Really?"

"I was reading about the multiverse theory the other day," said Spokesman.

"It’s intriguing, but I’m not sure that I buy into it, though," said Sun Samurai.

"The end of time is written down in prophecy. It’s been determined by God. So if we’ve got multiple universes, then they must be converging towards the final fulfillment of what the prophets wrote about."

"Some scientists are saying that the possibility for a multiverse is strong. Perhaps, then, the multiple universes vary in so far that they reflect individual choices–branching off–that don’t affect God’s grand plan for mankind."

"Speaking of timelines branching off–I wonder to what extent a person going back or forward in time can affect the timeline he’s in," said Spokesman. "Of course, not to the extent that he or she will affect the fulfillment of prophecy."

"You’ve heard the account of that guy from the late 1800s going through some portal and ending up in the mid-twentieth century? It has documentation to back it up," said Sun Samurai.

"That’s an interesting case. I wonder happened to that guy afterwards."

"And then there’s the UFO sighting in the late 1800s also, where a fairly large, cigar-shaped object was seen in the sky."

"An Atlantean vessel. ‘Vailixi’–I think that’s what they’re called," said Spokesman.

"Somebody’s found very ancient vailixi hidden in some deep caverns and have learned to fly them," said Sun Samurai.

"Either that or they’ve learned to build modern versions of them."

"Or these are Atlantean ships that have come from the forgotten past."

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