Subject: Re: |SKML| Timeline
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:48:28 +0000
From: zcecr57@ucl.ac.uk
Reply-To: swatkats@PEAK.ORG
To: swatkats@PEAK.ORG

At 21:58 05/11/98 -0700, Strike wrote:

>>Re-arrange/add to this as nessessary:
>>3)  Legend of the Dragon Sword is made
>>4)  Queen Callista rules etc.
>>5)  city of Katupichu established
>
>
>I would have to say that I think #5 should come before #3. Katupichu is
>roughly equivalent to ancient Mayans- who were around long before the
>equivalent medieval times. They may have been living when Columbus landed
in
>1492 (dark ages were around 900ad), but their culture kind of stayed the
>same for about a thousand years.
>

<pokes his head out from under the pile of dryer fresh laundry where he's
been sleeping, then follows with the rest of his body>

I'd have to disagree there (though not with the dating). At least to name
'Katchu Picchu' was based on the deserted Andean city of Macchu Picchu (I'm
not sure how it's spelt, but it's something like this). This city has been
attributed to the Incas (circa 1500)(not the Mayans, they were based around
the Yucatan pennninsula of what is now Mexico - you're a couple of thousand
miles off there, Strike) by most historians, though certain astronomical
and engineering considerations point to it being many thousands of years
older that the time of the Incas; it could theoretically be ~5000-8000 BC.
In fact, I'd say the lost city and the Dragon Sword were created around the
same time (and probably by the same culture - both the sword and the
head-dress are artefacts of incredible magical power used in a
quasi-religious/ ceremonial sense) but many thousands of years before the
time of Queen Callista as it would that long for the city to become buried
and the history of such a place to fade into legend then into myth.

<ducks to avoid the socks being thrown at him by the Listmom for mentioning
a kinda non-SK topic, then dives back under his pile of laundry>

Yours sincerely etc. etc.

Alias the Brookster
AKA Leo9 ^o.o^
garg/ leo-morph

PS Shouldn't the first event listed be the birth of Prof Hackle? ^-.o^

~ ^o.o^
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