I think many of the people who push this aren’t overtly racist, but there is no question that the source of all of this, Madame Blavatsky, was just a racist.
I like to remind people that the heaviest stones for the pyramids were about 400 tons while a few thousand years later in Lebanon the largest stones for the temple complex in Baalbek are about 1250 tons.
yeah, because the only way that brown people could have built anything impressive is if gods/aliens helped them.
Notice how these people never call into question the coliseum or the parthenon? It’s just thinly veiled racism.
I think many of the people who push this aren’t overtly racist, but there is no question that the source of all of this, Madame Blavatsky, was just a racist.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=61440
I like to remind people that the heaviest stones for the pyramids were about 400 tons while a few thousand years later in Lebanon the largest stones for the temple complex in Baalbek are about 1250 tons.
But no one questions that the construction there