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

--- In cybalist@..., Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:

> Torsten wrote -
>

[snip]

> "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.

It was supposed to be a model of a landscape. It doesn't take many
liters of mercury to make model-railway size river or lake.

>

> "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

You don't have to tell me anything. You could also choose to comment
only things you know something about. Or read up on the neurological
effects of exposure to mercury vapor or compounds.

Torsten