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