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Rise of Man in the Gardens of Sumeria - A Biography of L A Waddell (Hardcover, New)
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In the Medieval Ages, there existed an oral tradition that already
circulated in the British Isles and Scandinavia before the
Christian era. It was the origin of the Arthurian legends as the
latter was re-written in the 12th century. Many parchments existed
after it was put in writing but they were destroyed by Christian
missionaries between the 6th and 8th centuries AD. One that
belonged to people who journeyed to Iceland was rediscovered in
1643. It is called "Codex Regius" and scholars have named it the
"Elder Edda," to distinguish it from Snorri Sturluson's prose Edda.
L. A. Waddell theorised that the sibyls who recited this tradition
in the Medieval Ages had forgotten that the stories of this
tradition were about the creation of civilization in Cappadocia,
and had originated from the land that is now suspected to have been
the cradle of the Sumerian civilization and the "Garden of Eden" of
Genesis, as it is where the oldest temple in the world (that is
presently excavated at Gobekli Tepe, near Urfa in Turkey) has been
discovered. Waddell contended that the fort at Boghazkoy (Hattusha)
had been built by Aryan architects of the first civilization who
eradicated a Serpent-Dragon cult in this region c. 3,000 BC, and
that King Arthur (who, on the basis of the Arthurian legends, is
associated with idealist concepts of civilization) was the Her-Thor
of the Codex and Scandinavian mythology. The tradition could have
been brought to Europe by Phoenicians in 2,400 BC or Trojan Greeks
of Hittite origin in 1,000 BC on the basis of Geoffrey of Monmouth
records about the kings of Britain. Chapter 5 of Waddell's
biography discusses his discovery of geographical place-names in
the Codex. They support the view that the Scenes of the Edda are
about events taking place in Cappadocia. ...Lieut.-Col. Laurence
Austine Waddell (1854-1938) was a British Army officer with an
established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of
Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which
included records of the 1903-4 military expedition to Lhasa (Lhasa
and its Mysteries). Waddell was also in the limelight due to his
acquisition of Tibetan manuscripts which he donated to the British
Museum. His overriding interest was in 'Aryan origins'. After
learning Sanskrit and Tibetan, and in between military expeditions
together with Col. Younghusband, and gathering intelligence from
the borders of Tibet in the Great Game, Waddell researched Lamaism.
He extended his activities to Archaeology, Philology and Ethnology,
and was credited with discoveries in relation to Buddha. His
personal ambition was to locate records of ancient civilization in
Tibetan lamaseries. ... Waddell is little known as an archaeologist
and scholar, in contrast with his fame in the Oriental field, due
to the controversial nature of his published works dealing with
'Aryan themes'. Waddell studied Sumerian and presented evidence
that an Aryan migration flee- ing Sargon II carried Sumerian
records to India. He interrupted his comparative studies of
Sumerian and Indian king-lists to publish a work on Phoenician
origins and decipherment of Indus Valley seals, the inscriptions of
which he claimed were similar to Sumerian pictogram signs cited
from G. A. Barton's plates, which are reproduced in this volume.
... Waddell's life is reconstructed from primary sources, such as
letters from Marc Aurel Stein at the British Museum and Theophilus
G. Pinches, held in the Special Collections at the University of
Glasgow Library. Special attention is paid to the contemporary
reception of his theories, with the objective of re-evaluating his
contribution; they are contrasted to past and present academic
views, in addition to an overview of relevant discoveries in
Archaeology.
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