Neanderthal - speculations and certainty

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Neanderthal's Language · Creation vs. Evolution : Neanderthal - speculations and certainty · HGL'S F.B. WRITINGS : Neanderthal Pre- or Post-Flood? Me and Roger Pearlman ... · Neanderthal Flute · Neanderthals as Elves and Trolls and as Pre-Flood · Elves, Trolls, Pre-Flood - Continued

Let's put my certainty first : Neanderthal was pre-Flood. The parts of the Neanderthal genome that survive do so via a daughter in law of Noah who, as a woman, had no Neanderthal or other Y chromosome, and as having a mother as Cro-Magnon as Noah had no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA. This explains perfectly why these two parts of El Sidrón genome are missing whereever we find Neanderthal alleles in our times or after carbon dated perhaps 40 000 or perhaps 35 000 BP. As Neanderthals were wiped out, the last of them, by the Flood, there is no reason why any particular fault in their brain tissue should have made them extinct, if there was a fault, it was a moral one, in not sufficiently agreeing with Noah to allow God to withdraw the threat of a Flood. Moral faults come in all classes of talents, except the very untalented. And that, the Neanderthals were not.

Now, for the speculation.

Some people speculate that if Neanderthal spoke, having larynx very high would have put their voice at a high pitch (also leaving little room for modulation of it). Since their larynges have not been found and the conclusion comes from bones like skull floor, this is uncertain, but could well be true.

Some Neanderthals in Belgium had a diet including fellow men and woolly rhino, and some in Spain had one mainly vegetarian one, like pine nuts.

One reconstruction of Neanderthals has them as very, monstruously, muscular. Others have them look a bit more like Finns, except browridges are larger and chins smaller.

What we do not know is whether Neanderthals were real fully human men, all of them, or "giants of old" - none of which found wisdom (a never countered proclivity to debasing themselves into bad behaviour, as noted in Baruch 3) or whether some of them were human and humane, some more like very degraded ex-humans.

I think the truth either is between the latter two, or, if the former, at least some Neanderthals imitated nephelim or giant behaviour. To which cannibalism belongs.

Now, could Neaderthal nephelim really be coherent with a daughter in law of Noah being of that stock? Well, it seems in Welsh lore (real post-Flood in Arthurian, or loosely modelled on pre-Flood times) one giant called Yspaddadden had a very different behaviour and physique from his daughter Olwen. Perhaps gianthood occurred only on the male side. Perhaps that daughter in law was the daughter of a rape victim, raped by a Neanderthal giant.

Or perhaps, Neanderthals were essentially still men, but by morals some approached nephelim. And the daughter in law of Noah who was part Neanderthal was daughter in a marriage where the Neanderthal man did not.

Either way, stories of trolls and of elves could have come from Japheth's family inheriting pre-Flood lore about Neanderthals.

How, you may wonder?

You meet Neanderthals engaging in cannibalism, you see their physique and you survive (perhaps you more observed than actually met them) - and you tell a story of trolls.

You hear Neanderthals singing or playing flute or speaking in high voices which may have sounded like countertenors - and nothing happens to you beyond an aesthetic experience - and you tell a story of elves.

And these stories were known to some on the Ark, naturally Japheth's wife (if she's the Neanderthal half breed one) and probably quite a few more, probably all, but in Japheth's line these stories survive as family history. Especially where Gomer is concerned (Celtic and Germanic peoples would descend from him). By the times going by, the stories are somewhat distorted, but not very much, imagined in closer by times, mingled with other marvellous or really supernatural and so on.

And if I am right in my hope that Neanderthals were not automatically nephelim, there would have been really beneficient "elves" too, even if rarer than the luring and ultimately malevolent ones. Tolkien elves and not just Erlenkönig elves, if you see what I mean by the literary references.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Camillus of Lellis
18.VII.2018

The premiss in the previous that Neanderthals sounded as talking with speech handicaps, I did change my mind on. I am glad I put it as "speculation" since I think Neanderthals may well have sounded fairly normal. They were certainly capable of normal purposeful behaviour.