What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”
Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it
Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.
Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/
Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄
Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.
“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.
In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.
“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”
“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”
Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.
“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”
Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.
Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.
it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.
Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago
These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least
Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?
I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.
So Civil War takes place over like one weekend and then Black Panther takes place over the following 5 days or so which means all in all it was a hell of a fucking week for T’Challa
Prince T’Challa and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Week
Bucky: How long was I out? Years? Decades? Is Steve still alive? 😦
Shuri: More like…a week.
Bucky: You fixed me in a week?!
Shuri: Yeah, it took me a while. We had this family thing last week and I was kinda busy.
Listen, after the whole debacle with Ultron settles, Tony actually goes and sees the satellite footage of however many combat missions Rhodey had flown by now as War Machine.
He then pays a top-notch editor a ton of money to produce a video montage of the War Machine story, including never before seen footage of Rhodey from Tony’s personal archives.
The next morning, he makes a rare appearance on Good Morning America and just says, “I came here because it’s gonna be the fourth of July soon and I wanted to honor one of America’s finest. A true hero in every sense of the word, who has gone above and beyond the line of duty for his country and his friends. I’ve brought some footage with me.”
By this point everyone is expecting a cheesy video montage honoring Captain America but instead, boom, the 5 minute 32 seconds clip about Rhodey airs instead – including an aerial shot of him dropping the tank in front of the General’s palace with an underlying soundtrack from Die Hard.
And later, Rhodey is sitting his dumb ass in a conference room full of senior air force and army personnel, all of whom are watching the video because it’s become a viral hit already. Everyone is talking about War Machine – America’s newest hero. Meanwhile, Rhodey is doing his best to keep his composure and to blink back tears, when his phone goes off. It’s a text that reads: Got room for a gold titanium alloy sidekick, Honeybear?
the best videogame feeling of overwatch is picking reaper within 1 second of the game beginning and saying something really stupid and bad ass to the people in chat and then doing extremely well at the game
So I made a post about a headcanon that I had about Tenno coming up with gestures to replace facial expressions. I decided to draw some of those expressions!
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