Thursday, September 29, 2011

Book Review

     I just read a book called ‘When Rocks Cry Out ‘by Horace Butler.  I could start by tossing around a bunch of overused adjectives and superlatives but I hate that. When I ‘m reading a book review, I want to know about the book.  Spoiler Alert!
     This book will challenge your ability to think for yourself. You see there are no endorsements from academic celebrities. There is not a title of authority preceding the author’s name. What he presents are well organized, verifiable facts that challenge the long accepted location of biblical Jerusalem, Israel, and Egypt as we know it. Get a World map, a Bible and a chronological timeline of historical events and follow him step by step, page by page to the continent of South America.
 It’s on you, the reader to determine if these calculations are feasible. This information is not brought to you by McDonald’s, AT&T or Disney. No conglomerates. Read it. Challenge it. I dare you.
    Before my beloved Neo-Semi-Pan Africans start getting nervous that Mr. Butler is attempting to take our beloved Egypt ‘away’ by relocating it, take a deep breath and continue reading the book. Egypt does not change hands.
     So what Does this mean? Can the Middle-East stop fighting over the Holy Land, because it’s not the Holy Land? Does it mean that Egypt was once a world power rather than a stationary African anomaly? Doesn’t it make sense that a culture we recognize as mathematical, philosophical, metaphysical forefathers would have the wherewithal to navigate the oceans and seas?  Did not the Pharaohs and Moses demonstrate a mastery of the element of water? Is it really a stretch of the imagination to consider that the currents were used (much as we use land highways and roads) to travel to and fro?
    There is a piece of the puzzle that baffles me still. Where did the knowledge of a civilization, functioning on such a high level, go? I understand, books were destroyed and monuments were leveled etc., but what of oral history. Have we been told but ethnocentricity prevents our understanding and blinds us to the (picture) writing on the walls?
  
    Read it and tell me what you think.