Donald Traxler's Poetry

Thursday, October 5, 2023

The Names of God

In the illustrations above (which are from tanakh.info), we see Gen 1:26,27 in several related texts and languages. The translation of these verses in my JPS Tanakh is as follows:

"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.'" 27And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Many have asked who God was talking to in Gen 1:26, since He had not yet created humankind. Were there other "gods" with him, who were to be co-creators? This suspicion is increased in the next verse, where "God" is literally "the gods." This is explained by invoking an "honorific plural," which apparently did become a feature of Biblical Hebrew, but seems not to exist in Hebrew's most closely related sister languages, Aramaic and Arabic.

In the illustrations for 1:26, we see that only the two Hebrew texts. the Samaritan and the Masoretic, have the Elohim (plural) form, the Aramaic texts have YeYa, Elah, or Alaha. In the illustration for 1:27

we see the same pattern. And yet all of the texts of 1:26 say, "our image," and "our likeness." In the texts for 1:27, all say "his image," and either "the image of Elohim," or "the image of Elah," or "the image of Alaha."

(to be continued)

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Aging Project LIX

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Channeling - II

I was told "Write," and I wrote, in the dark:

There is no reason to fear the coming

changes. We are here to help, not hurt.

When you regain your true identity,

you will then be complete. It is very

simple, and you shall be at

peace. Now allow yourself to sleep.

Who is this from? I don't know--no name was given. I disagreed with the use of the form "shall" rather than "will," and still do, which may be an indication that the text is not from me.

After this, I "allowed" myself to sleep, but it was a while before I was able to.

Friday, September 29, 2023

Gecko

This is a gecko, of which there are many here in Florida. I'm glad that they are harmless, and not as big as alligators, because you can't venture outside without seeing them everywhere. They can move like lightning, and our dog, Betty, stopped chasing them years ago, knowing that she had no hope of catching them.

This is a young specimen, perhaps an adolescent or young adult. He or she is obviously adequately fed, and the many fragments of insect debris on the screen show that she/he is a good hunter.

These reptiles have five fingers and toes on their extremities. They should thus be contrasted with the repto-avian "Bird People," the desiccated bodies of which were discovered in late 2015 near Nazca, Peru (and about which I have recently written). I'm a poet, not a scientist, but I'm guessing that we humans are more closely related to geckos, with their five fingers, than we are to the Bird People, with their three.

It should be noted, by the way, with regard to the Bird People, that their fingers have five joints, instead of the three that we have, thus eliminating the need for an opposable thumb.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Bird People - II

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Notes on the Public Hearing in the Congress of Mexico on 12 Sept 2023 - Part VI

The final speaker on the panel was Ricardo Rangel Martínez, who is an expert on immunogenetics and histocompatibility. This was the most difficult portion of the hearing for me to translate, because it was very detailed and very technical. Please forgive any errors or omissions.

Mr. Rangel Martínez mentioned the possibility of contamination of DNA samples by terrestrial organisms, insects, and pollen. Also, persons who manipulated these tissues might not have done so with the necessary precautions. He said that the process of sequencing used for ancient DNA is that of "next-generation massive sequencing. This was done in a sequencer of the Ilumina brand, which permits sequencing of millions of fragments at the same time. The results of this sequencing were the following: Sample 0002, basically from a neck bone, 561,665,320 reading sequences; another sample, 704, which was muscle tissue from the hip, 501,700,245 reading sequences. Each reading sequence has a length of 150 nucleotides. Later, these were loaded into the Reading Sequences Archive or SRA, according to its initials in English, the use of this analysis tool being free through the National Center for Biological Information of the National Library of Medicine (?) of the USA. This tool compares a sample with all known genomes in the database. Neck bone sample: 72.0% known, including 70% contaminants from Homo Sapiens, the rest being known viruses and bacteria. 28.0% did not coincide with any of the genomes known so far. Sample from the hip: 36.2% of reading sequences coincided with identifiable genomes. 63.8% did not coincide with the genomes of any beings known at present. This sample gives a 90% probability of non-relation to humans, and a 50% probability of non-relation to any beings of our planet.

These studies are freely accessible at the links shown below:

(This is the sixth of six parts of this series of transcriptions of my notes on this public hearing. The series is now complete.)

Monday, September 25, 2023

Notes on the Public Hearing in the Mexican Congress on 12 Sept 2023 - Part V

The next to speak was Joseé de Jesús Zalce Benítez, a specialist in forensic science who works for the Mexican Navy and is Director of the Scientific Institute for Health. He spoke about the studies derived from the analysis of these non-human bodies.

He also said that these bodies have retractable necks, like those of tortoises. He also said that their fingerprints were straight lines, running horizontally. Several of the bodies have metallic implants within them, containing Osmium and Cadmium, which are substances that we use for satellite communications.

These very striking images were obtained by digital tomography.

Here, a human skeleton (on the left) is contrasted with the skeletons of these non-human bodies.

With regard to the genetic material, Dr. Zalce Benítez said that 70% of it is in agreement withe what is known, but 30% is unknown. The significance of this can be gaged by the genetic difference between humans and primates, which is less than 5%; the genetic difference between a human and a bacterium is less than 15%.

Dr. Zalce said that these were biological entities, they had life at one time. They are completely outside the Darwinian evolutionary tree known to us. He concluded his speech by saying "now we can accept their existence among and with us."

(to be continued)