So, one of my politics classes is hosting a potluck reception

[LtPage1]

And I volunteered to bring yellow cake.




I was quite pleased with myself.

 

[WildHorse]

ha ha

Well when you're with those guys, would you please ask them a question (most respectfully) for me?

I'd like to hear their idea of why Navajo sand painting ritual is a close mirror of Tibetan sand painting tradition. Their pictures are the same. The Navajo ?pollen path? ? the Tibetan ?shushumna / kundalini energy channel in the astral spine.? * , and that ? the inner path St. John of the Bible traveled along where he perceived the 7 golden candlesticks & stars (chakras), Revelation 1:12.

How could that be? Two peoples, opposite ends of earth, same ritual? Boggle! boggle!
I've wondered about that for years, but never yet delved.

A speculation, maybe wild:
Somewhere I heard Navajo moved, or maybe got forcibly moved, to their present location, where Navajo & Hopi could better irritate each other, from an original home somewhere like British Columbia or Alaska. Did Tibetans cross over from Asia to Alaska & migrate down, their descendants then becoming the Navajo?

Maybe someday I?ll run across one of those articles about mitochondrial DNA tracebacks for a factual answer. Meantime, I?d really like to hear what a Navajo person says about that, if you could please ask.


*Ref: Joseph Campbell, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

 

[WildHorse]

LtPage1,

So did you have a chance to ask them?

Any reply?

 

[FoBoT]

:thumbsup:

yellow cake :laugh:

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:thumbsup:

yellow cake :laugh:

Clearly I'm not alone in not getting that joke? Anyone care to expound?

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:thumbsup:

yellow cake :laugh:

Clearly I'm not alone in not getting that joke? Anyone care to expound?

It's the nickname for uranium oxide

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:thumbsup:

yellow cake :laugh:

Clearly I'm not alone in not getting that joke? Anyone care to expound?

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

 

[FoBoT]

Among the compounds identified in yellowcakes include: uranyl hydroxide, uranyl sulfate, sodium para-uranate, and uranyl peroxide, along with various uranium oxides. Modern yellowcake typically contains 70 to 90 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8) by weight. (Other uranium oxides, such as uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3), exist)

Yellowcake is used in the preparation of fuel for nuclear reactors, where it is processed into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for PHWR and other systems using unenriched uranium. It may also be enriched, by being converted to uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), by isotope separation though gaseous diffusion or in a gas centrifuge to produce enriched uranium suitable for use in weapons and reactors.

Yellowcake is produced by all countries in which uranium is mined.

 

[phisrow]

Ooh. Punny snark. I like it.

 

[imported_jowilson]

Hey Scott,

I am an anthropologist and a religion scholar specializing in this very subject (Navajo-Tibetan cultural parallels.) Last year I published an article on this subject in a scholarly journal. I suggest (along with others) that historical connections between Central Asia and NW N America are plausible on the basis of cultural, religious, linguistic, and genetic evidence.

The full text is available in PDF format at the following address:

http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/90432/wilson.pdf

Read it if you have time and let me know what you think.

Best,

Joe Wilson

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: jowilson
Hey Scott,

I am an anthropologist and a religion scholar specializing in this very subject (Navajo-Tibetan cultural parallels.) Last year I published an article on this subject in a scholarly journal. I suggest (along with others) that historical connections between Central Asia and NW N America are plausible on the basis of cultural, religious, linguistic, and genetic evidence.

The full text is available in PDF format at the following address:

http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/90432/wilson.pdf

Read it if you have time and let me know what you think.

Best,

Joe Wilson

i think this is the most informative first post by someone ever.

please stick around. we don't bite. except mosh.

 

[WildHorse]

Joe Wilson,

Thank you VERY MUCH for your reply. I'm surprised to get a reply on such a relatively old forum post, and am also surprised that you even saw the old post in the first place.

I've just downloaded your paper and will be reading it with great interest. After reading it & thinking about it, I'll get back to you with the comments of a curious layman, no scholar.

Welcome to this forum!

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:thumbsup:

yellow cake :laugh:

Clearly I'm not alone in not getting that joke? Anyone care to expound?

I think you need some pound cake.

 

[imported_jowilson]

Scott,

To explain.

I periodically like to Google keywords such as Navajo, Tibetan, and Sandpainting, etc. to see what's out there. This time I just happened to stumble onto your post.

Cheers,

Joe

 

[tfinch2]

<blackbush>I didn't want to say this. The motherfvcker bought yellow cake.</blackbush>

 

[FoBoT]

interesting juxtaposition

thread about yellow cake and a guy named "joe wilson"

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
interesting juxtaposition

thread about yellow cake and a guy named "joe wilson"

I did a double take too. That's just too big a coincidence :shocked:

 

[imported_jowilson]

Just as long as Dick Cheney doesn't use his clout to get me fired. That would be one step too far.

JOE