The FLU pandemic of 1918 - 1919 is something that we have to remember when we compare the power of war machines designed for massive destruction or a simple disease that can kill much more in a less period of time than a war-conflict that last years or decades before it is resolved.
The FLU that we are talking about, erupted during the final stages of World War I. Nations were in the process of dealing with the effects and cost of the war itself. All of a sudden the FLU circled the globe. Almost everyone felt the effects. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, India, Brazil, and the South Pacific.
The FLU killed more people than the World War I, at somewhere between 20 and 40 millions. It is remembered as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. In India the mortality rate was extremely high. In Spain the FLU killed 8 million.
In United States of America, in general, one quarter of its population was affected. It was so severe that the average life span was depressed by 10 years.
People were struck with FLU on the street and died rapid deaths. One doctor testified that patients with seemingly ordinary FLU rapidly developed the most viscous type of pneumonia that had ever been seen and then a struggling for air were developed in the individuals until they suffocated. Other FLU patients died struggling to clear their airways clogged with blood that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth. Doctors were helpless against the powerful agent of this FLU.
The death rate for 15 to 34-years-olds suffering FLU and pneumonia (1918) were 20 times higher than in previous years. It was impossible to escape from the illness. Gauze masks were distributed. Stores could not hold sales, funerals were limited to 15 minutes. Some towns required a signed health certificate to get in and railroads would not accept passengers without them.
Besides, the shortage in health care workers (many were dead) and medical supplies made the situation worse. Bodies pilled up as the massive deaths ensued. Coffins weren't enough, neither morticians, nor gravediggers.
People were confused about what to celebrate. On one hand the World War I ended. On the other, the effects of the disease over them and the public health response to such a great menace was a complete disaster.
The FLU enter everywhere because of the GREAT WAR. It went into the entire globe infecting millions and just as War affected the course of the FLU, the FLU affected the course of the Great War.
FLU killed more men than their own weapons did.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
AR ATTA, an exquisite wealthy place.
The land of AR-ATTA is described as a fabulously wealthy place full of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and other precious materials, as well as the artisans to craft them. It was situated in a very remote area and was very difficult to reach. Messengers had to ascend and descend mystical mountains and towns before reaching the place.
In the Biblical records the principal means of identifying its location is the description of the river issuing out of Eden, which thereafter divided into 4 heads producing the rivers named as: the EU-PH-RATES (Hebrew: PE-RATH), HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS), PISH-ON, and GIH-ON. (Genesis 2; Daniel 10).
The land of AR-ATTA appears to be somewhere near the Head of the Persian Gulf in lower Mesopotamia at the place where the HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS) and the EU-PH-RATES draw near together.
Supporting a location of AR-ATTA in the mountainous region of the Mesopotamian plains, is the fact that the Noah's Ark with its crew came to rest on "The Mountains of Ar- Arat." (Gen.8).
Ar-atta was the home of IN-ANNA (Queen of heaven), goddess of Love, War, Fertility, and Lust. Along the Tigris and Euphrates there were many shrines and temples or "Houses of Heaven" dedicated to her and various deities. Sacred prostitution were performed at these temples. Every woman in the land had to go inside the temple once in her entire life and have sexual intercourse with a complete stranger that pick her at random. The women were obliged to lose their virginity for the sake of the goddess. For some of them the waiting period remained for three to four years before being picked because they weren't fair.
The symbolism of this ritual was a form of "sacred marriage" between the king and the high priestess of IN-ANNA (ISHT-AR, for Sumerians, Aphrodite, for Greeks). The words pronounced by the male representative were as follows: "I invite you in the name of In-anna to my dominion and I will please the goddess in everything she wants regardless the sum of money that is involved." Then the goddess as a protector of the king will help the kingdom to increase its power by conquering and subduing other kingdoms making it a dominant force in the whole world.
It is said that the region in the southern part of Mesopotamia on the Head of the Persian Gulf, went through gradual and eventual domestication of grains. From the mountains foothills an extensive irrigation techniques developed, and the area supported a vast variety of edible vegetation. This domestication of grain and its proximity to rivers enabled the region's growth into a vast settlement in both population and land, with relative ease. The power pass from hand to the other symbolizing the meaning of the goddess's name : In-anna, the goddess of war, lust, love and fertility. It is still on and will be until the end of times.
In the Biblical records the principal means of identifying its location is the description of the river issuing out of Eden, which thereafter divided into 4 heads producing the rivers named as: the EU-PH-RATES (Hebrew: PE-RATH), HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS), PISH-ON, and GIH-ON. (Genesis 2; Daniel 10).
The land of AR-ATTA appears to be somewhere near the Head of the Persian Gulf in lower Mesopotamia at the place where the HIDD-EK-EL (TIGRIS) and the EU-PH-RATES draw near together.
Supporting a location of AR-ATTA in the mountainous region of the Mesopotamian plains, is the fact that the Noah's Ark with its crew came to rest on "The Mountains of Ar- Arat." (Gen.8).
Ar-atta was the home of IN-ANNA (Queen of heaven), goddess of Love, War, Fertility, and Lust. Along the Tigris and Euphrates there were many shrines and temples or "Houses of Heaven" dedicated to her and various deities. Sacred prostitution were performed at these temples. Every woman in the land had to go inside the temple once in her entire life and have sexual intercourse with a complete stranger that pick her at random. The women were obliged to lose their virginity for the sake of the goddess. For some of them the waiting period remained for three to four years before being picked because they weren't fair.
The symbolism of this ritual was a form of "sacred marriage" between the king and the high priestess of IN-ANNA (ISHT-AR, for Sumerians, Aphrodite, for Greeks). The words pronounced by the male representative were as follows: "I invite you in the name of In-anna to my dominion and I will please the goddess in everything she wants regardless the sum of money that is involved." Then the goddess as a protector of the king will help the kingdom to increase its power by conquering and subduing other kingdoms making it a dominant force in the whole world.
It is said that the region in the southern part of Mesopotamia on the Head of the Persian Gulf, went through gradual and eventual domestication of grains. From the mountains foothills an extensive irrigation techniques developed, and the area supported a vast variety of edible vegetation. This domestication of grain and its proximity to rivers enabled the region's growth into a vast settlement in both population and land, with relative ease. The power pass from hand to the other symbolizing the meaning of the goddess's name : In-anna, the goddess of war, lust, love and fertility. It is still on and will be until the end of times.
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