In a message dated 8/24/2006 10:04:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Oh come now, Carl, surely you recognize that you are "standing" in a room
full of anthropologists? Of course we are going to have open minds to the
religious beliefs of other people. Funny you should get so hot under the
collar
about the word "hoodoo" and then refer to African religion as nonsense.
Ron May
Hey Ron, I'm not referring to any religion as nonsense (though anyone who
has diffrent beliefs in that regard than me is clearly deluded), but rather to
the assertion of fact in this statement:
"bowls or some other covering marked with a West African symbol for
the cosmos."
This cache of artifacts in Maryland wasn't concealed by a bowl as far as I
can recall, and the symbols he referred to have not been proven to be African
or "cosmological". And the association of Africans with the cache is
completely inferential to begin with....
Carl