Re: Etruscan and Anatolian (Tanism/Velchans etc.)

Torsten wrote -

"3. Another picture in National Geographic: a diving expedition to a
Spanish galleon: broken clay containers of mercury. Mercury spilling
out on the sea bottom. Spain transported 150 tons of mercury each
year to the New World (from Spain and the Philippines). One broken
container and mercury would spill out in the ship sailing for months
in the tropics. Without a thorough clean-up (which they most likely
didn't do, there's no record of it) anybody sleeping below deck would
become brain-damaged, deranged and stark raving mad. As to the
behavior of the Spanish, I don't think I have to comment on that."

You wrote the same thing a couple of months ago: apparently you believe
that brain damage from mercury fumes was the reason for the ruthless behaviour
of the Spanish invaders in South America. Would any Spanish/Latin American
members of the list like to comment on this?

"6. The "first" emperor Chin, famous for his cruelty, was buried with
a landscape, in which the rivers were mercury."

A landscape with rivers of mercury? Do you really believe this? I guess it must be
close to the landscape with rivers of milk and honey.

"4. There was a massive mercury poisoning (eating treated seed grain)
in Iraq in 1971. Several hundred died. Several thousand were
hospitalized. As to those with only subclinical symptoms (personality
changes, irate and rigid behaviour etc), no further comment."

No further comment? Let me guess: you want us to think that Saddam
Hussein's got too much mercury in his brain, don't you?

Shoko Asahara, the fall of the Roman Empire - it's all because of the mercury, you say.
Do I really have to tell you how absurd this is?

Hakan