The Mystery of Rh-Negative Blood
Genetic mapping helps to show that a mutation from RH positive to RH negative occurred somewhere in the Basque area of Europe maybe as much as 40,000 years ago. So what happened then? Ice Age Polarity Reversal Was a Global Event: Extremely Brief Reversal of Geomagnetic Field, Climate Variability,
and Super Volcano.
Such a global event greatly increases the possibilities of mutations and turning off of genes -- gene conversion and gene deletion, normal genetic processes -- a change in molecular structure. A repressed gene is turned off. This process is not externally "introduced"; it is a natural molecular process. Pseudo-scientific confabulation about Rh- produce no credible sources, but merely repeat internet memes or Belief Systems (BS).
Most mammals only have one RH gene, whose position corresponds to the human RHCE gene. The RHD gene arose from the duplication of an ancestral RH gene during mammalian evolution. An RHD deletion occurred9 during the evolution of hominids, so that many modern humans completely lack the RHD gene. This haplotype (glossary) is the leading cause of the D negative phenotype worldwide.
The human genome—our complete set of genetic information—includes thousands of genes. Some of the very first human genes to be identified were those that control blood type.
ABO blood groups and the Rh blood groups.
The Rh blood group is determined by a single gene with two alleles—positive and negative.
The positive (Rh+) allele is dominant, so person with Rh+/Rh+ or Rh+/Rh− are Rh- positive.
Individuals with two Rh− alleles are Rh-negative.
The ABO blood group has three alleles IA, IB, and i. Alleles IA and IB are codominant.
These alleles produce molecules known as antigens on the surface of red blood cells.
The RH alleles can be grouped according to their molecular structure. For the most part, these groups show point mutations (SNP, single nucleotide polymorphisms) which cause missense, nonsense, frame shift or splice site mutations (glossary).
Let’s discuss the Rhesus blood group system first. This system has multiple antigens, but the most important is encoded by the RHD locus, and is called RhD or simply Rh factor. The phenotypes associated with the RHD locus are either the presence of Rh factor (Rh positive) or the absence of the Rh factor (Rh negative).
RHD-CE-D hybrid alleles are often formed by gene conversion. http://www.nature.com/scitable/popular-students-page/68
Active genes can turn other genes on or off, including themselves.
Human traits are not always controlled by a single gene; sometimes the environment [epigenetics] may “create” a trait.
The examples of molecular changes and their effects on the D antigen (Table I) show how the D antigen phenotype correlates with the molecular structure.
NO MONKEYS, NO ALIENS, NO ENKI
The genes for bloodtype and Rh factor are not even on the same chromosomes.
Rh factor has NOTHING to do with "monkey genes". but comes from the animals used to test the process.
Humans, chimpanzees and monkeys share DNA but not gene regulatory mechanisms. Up to 40 percent of the differences in the expression or activity patterns of genes between humans, chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys can be explained by regulatory mechanisms that determine whether and how a gene's recipe for a protein is transcribed to the RNA molecule that carries the recipe instructions to the sites in cells where proteins are manufactured.
A given gene, in almost all cases, codes for a protein. When that gene is present and unmutated, the protein is present and effective. In the case of Rh factor, the protein is present ("Rh-positive") or not ("Rh-negative"). If you have one copy of the gene, you've got the protein, so it doesn't matter if you have one or two -- that's dominance. Only if you have NO copies of the gene can you be Rh-negative. Recessive traits are those that require the absence of a certain protein (or mutation) to show up; blue eyes, for instance, are recessive because it's only possible to have blue eyes in the (near-total) absence of melanin, so if you have any genes for producing melanin, your eyes won't be blue.
The clinically essential difference between Rhesus positive and Rhesus negative hinges on the presence or absence of the RhD protein in the erythrocyte membrane (D positive resp. D negative).
It is unusual for erythrocyte or other cell proteins to be lacking entirely in many humans. This particular genetic feature contributes to the strong antigenicity of the RhD protein. During duplication of the ancestral RH gene, two DNA segments were formed, known as the Rhesus box (Figure 1)9. The RHD deletion resulted from an unequal crossover (figure 3), which occurs when two DNA segments are highly homologous, such as those of the Rhesus box. The RHD negative haplotype commonest among Europeans is characterized by a hybrid Rhesus box. Subtle molecular differences between the various forms of the Rhesus box are used for genetic testing.
Aside from lack of the RhD protein, the D negative phenotype is caused mainly by a series of changes in the RhD protein, which in turn change the phenotype of the D antigen.
The RhD protein traverses the erythrocyte membrane several times, leaving only part of the protein exposed at the surface (Figure 2). If an amino acid is substituted in a portion of the RhD protein which is located at the outer surface of the erythrocyte membrane, single epitopes of the D antigen can be lost or new antigens can be formed.
The structure of the RH gene site facilitates gene conversions (figure 4)10. In the RHD gene some homologous exons of the RHCE gene will be inserted, forming a hybrid Rhesus allele which expresses a corresponding hybrid protein. This is how the D categories III to VI arose. The changes usually affect a long string of amino acids, which is always located on the erythrocyte surface.
If an amino acid substitution is located within the erythrocyte membrane or the cytoplasm, this will result in a weak D phenotype (figure 2)11. Integration of the RhD protein into the membrane will be hindered, leading to quantitative weakening of the D antigen. There is usually no qualitative change, and hence no anti-D immunization. The weak D type 1 is the commonest in Europe. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2535884/
TARGET GENES CAN BE TURNED OFF BY RADIATION AND EPIGENETICS
Lowered Field Strength > Geomagnetic Excursion > Increased Cosmic Ray & Solar Bombardment > Genetic Mutation
ScienceDaily — Some 41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occurred. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during this period, during the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north. Moreover, data obtained by the research team formed around GFZ researchers Dr. Norbert Nowaczyk and Prof. Helge Arz, together with additional data from other studies in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific and Hawaii, prove that this polarity reversal was a global event. Their results are published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. What is remarkable is the speed of the reversal: "The field geometry of reversed polarity, with field lines pointing into the opposite direction when compared to today's configuration, lasted for only about 440 years, and it was associated with a field strength that was only one quarter of today's field," explains Norbert Nowaczyk. "The actual polarity changes lasted only 250 years. In terms of geological time scales, that is very fast." During this period, the field was even weaker, with only 5% of today's field strength. As a consequence, Earth nearly completely lost its protection shield against hard cosmic rays, leading to a significantly increased radiation exposure.
The human RH locus appears to consist of two structural genes, D and CE, which map on the short arm p34-36 of chromosome 1 and specify a most complex system of blood-group genetic polymorphisms. Here we describe a family study of the Evans (also known as "D..") phenotype, a codominant trait associated with both qualitative and quantitative changes in D-antigen expression. A cataract-causing mutation was also inherited in this family and was apparently cotransmitted with Evans, suggesting a chromosomal linkage of these two otherwise unrelated traits. Southern blot analysis and allele-specific PCR showed the linkage of Evans with a SphI RFLP marker and the presence of a hybrid gene in the RH locus.
To delineate the pattern of gene expression, the composition and structure of Rh-polypeptide transcripts were characterized by reverse transcriptase-PCR and nucleotide sequencing. This resulted in the identification of a novel Rh transcript expressed only in the Evans-positive erythroid cells. Sequence analysis showed that the transcript maintained a normal open reading frame but occurred as a CE-D-CE composite in which exons 2-6 of the CE gene were replaced by the homologous counterpart of the D gene. This hybrid gene was predicted to encode a CE-D-CE fusion protein whose surface expression correlates with the Evans phenotype. The mode and consequence of such a recombination event suggest the occurrence, in the RH locus, of a segmental DNA transfer via the mechanism of g
Genetic mapping helps to show that a mutation from RH positive to RH negative occurred somewhere in the Basque area of Europe maybe as much as 40,000 years ago. So what happened then? Ice Age Polarity Reversal Was a Global Event: Extremely Brief Reversal of Geomagnetic Field, Climate Variability,
and Super Volcano.
Such a global event greatly increases the possibilities of mutations and turning off of genes -- gene conversion and gene deletion, normal genetic processes -- a change in molecular structure. A repressed gene is turned off. This process is not externally "introduced"; it is a natural molecular process. Pseudo-scientific confabulation about Rh- produce no credible sources, but merely repeat internet memes or Belief Systems (BS).
Most mammals only have one RH gene, whose position corresponds to the human RHCE gene. The RHD gene arose from the duplication of an ancestral RH gene during mammalian evolution. An RHD deletion occurred9 during the evolution of hominids, so that many modern humans completely lack the RHD gene. This haplotype (glossary) is the leading cause of the D negative phenotype worldwide.
The human genome—our complete set of genetic information—includes thousands of genes. Some of the very first human genes to be identified were those that control blood type.
ABO blood groups and the Rh blood groups.
The Rh blood group is determined by a single gene with two alleles—positive and negative.
The positive (Rh+) allele is dominant, so person with Rh+/Rh+ or Rh+/Rh− are Rh- positive.
Individuals with two Rh− alleles are Rh-negative.
The ABO blood group has three alleles IA, IB, and i. Alleles IA and IB are codominant.
These alleles produce molecules known as antigens on the surface of red blood cells.
The RH alleles can be grouped according to their molecular structure. For the most part, these groups show point mutations (SNP, single nucleotide polymorphisms) which cause missense, nonsense, frame shift or splice site mutations (glossary).
Let’s discuss the Rhesus blood group system first. This system has multiple antigens, but the most important is encoded by the RHD locus, and is called RhD or simply Rh factor. The phenotypes associated with the RHD locus are either the presence of Rh factor (Rh positive) or the absence of the Rh factor (Rh negative).
RHD-CE-D hybrid alleles are often formed by gene conversion. http://www.nature.com/scitable/popular-students-page/68
Active genes can turn other genes on or off, including themselves.
Human traits are not always controlled by a single gene; sometimes the environment [epigenetics] may “create” a trait.
The examples of molecular changes and their effects on the D antigen (Table I) show how the D antigen phenotype correlates with the molecular structure.
NO MONKEYS, NO ALIENS, NO ENKI
The genes for bloodtype and Rh factor are not even on the same chromosomes.
Rh factor has NOTHING to do with "monkey genes". but comes from the animals used to test the process.
Humans, chimpanzees and monkeys share DNA but not gene regulatory mechanisms. Up to 40 percent of the differences in the expression or activity patterns of genes between humans, chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys can be explained by regulatory mechanisms that determine whether and how a gene's recipe for a protein is transcribed to the RNA molecule that carries the recipe instructions to the sites in cells where proteins are manufactured.
A given gene, in almost all cases, codes for a protein. When that gene is present and unmutated, the protein is present and effective. In the case of Rh factor, the protein is present ("Rh-positive") or not ("Rh-negative"). If you have one copy of the gene, you've got the protein, so it doesn't matter if you have one or two -- that's dominance. Only if you have NO copies of the gene can you be Rh-negative. Recessive traits are those that require the absence of a certain protein (or mutation) to show up; blue eyes, for instance, are recessive because it's only possible to have blue eyes in the (near-total) absence of melanin, so if you have any genes for producing melanin, your eyes won't be blue.
The clinically essential difference between Rhesus positive and Rhesus negative hinges on the presence or absence of the RhD protein in the erythrocyte membrane (D positive resp. D negative).
It is unusual for erythrocyte or other cell proteins to be lacking entirely in many humans. This particular genetic feature contributes to the strong antigenicity of the RhD protein. During duplication of the ancestral RH gene, two DNA segments were formed, known as the Rhesus box (Figure 1)9. The RHD deletion resulted from an unequal crossover (figure 3), which occurs when two DNA segments are highly homologous, such as those of the Rhesus box. The RHD negative haplotype commonest among Europeans is characterized by a hybrid Rhesus box. Subtle molecular differences between the various forms of the Rhesus box are used for genetic testing.
Aside from lack of the RhD protein, the D negative phenotype is caused mainly by a series of changes in the RhD protein, which in turn change the phenotype of the D antigen.
The RhD protein traverses the erythrocyte membrane several times, leaving only part of the protein exposed at the surface (Figure 2). If an amino acid is substituted in a portion of the RhD protein which is located at the outer surface of the erythrocyte membrane, single epitopes of the D antigen can be lost or new antigens can be formed.
The structure of the RH gene site facilitates gene conversions (figure 4)10. In the RHD gene some homologous exons of the RHCE gene will be inserted, forming a hybrid Rhesus allele which expresses a corresponding hybrid protein. This is how the D categories III to VI arose. The changes usually affect a long string of amino acids, which is always located on the erythrocyte surface.
If an amino acid substitution is located within the erythrocyte membrane or the cytoplasm, this will result in a weak D phenotype (figure 2)11. Integration of the RhD protein into the membrane will be hindered, leading to quantitative weakening of the D antigen. There is usually no qualitative change, and hence no anti-D immunization. The weak D type 1 is the commonest in Europe. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2535884/
TARGET GENES CAN BE TURNED OFF BY RADIATION AND EPIGENETICS
Lowered Field Strength > Geomagnetic Excursion > Increased Cosmic Ray & Solar Bombardment > Genetic Mutation
ScienceDaily — Some 41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occurred. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during this period, during the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north. Moreover, data obtained by the research team formed around GFZ researchers Dr. Norbert Nowaczyk and Prof. Helge Arz, together with additional data from other studies in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific and Hawaii, prove that this polarity reversal was a global event. Their results are published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. What is remarkable is the speed of the reversal: "The field geometry of reversed polarity, with field lines pointing into the opposite direction when compared to today's configuration, lasted for only about 440 years, and it was associated with a field strength that was only one quarter of today's field," explains Norbert Nowaczyk. "The actual polarity changes lasted only 250 years. In terms of geological time scales, that is very fast." During this period, the field was even weaker, with only 5% of today's field strength. As a consequence, Earth nearly completely lost its protection shield against hard cosmic rays, leading to a significantly increased radiation exposure.
The human RH locus appears to consist of two structural genes, D and CE, which map on the short arm p34-36 of chromosome 1 and specify a most complex system of blood-group genetic polymorphisms. Here we describe a family study of the Evans (also known as "D..") phenotype, a codominant trait associated with both qualitative and quantitative changes in D-antigen expression. A cataract-causing mutation was also inherited in this family and was apparently cotransmitted with Evans, suggesting a chromosomal linkage of these two otherwise unrelated traits. Southern blot analysis and allele-specific PCR showed the linkage of Evans with a SphI RFLP marker and the presence of a hybrid gene in the RH locus.
To delineate the pattern of gene expression, the composition and structure of Rh-polypeptide transcripts were characterized by reverse transcriptase-PCR and nucleotide sequencing. This resulted in the identification of a novel Rh transcript expressed only in the Evans-positive erythroid cells. Sequence analysis showed that the transcript maintained a normal open reading frame but occurred as a CE-D-CE composite in which exons 2-6 of the CE gene were replaced by the homologous counterpart of the D gene. This hybrid gene was predicted to encode a CE-D-CE fusion protein whose surface expression correlates with the Evans phenotype. The mode and consequence of such a recombination event suggest the occurrence, in the RH locus, of a segmental DNA transfer via the mechanism of g
THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD
Primordial Dragon homelands; Altai Mountains
Primordial Dragon homelands; Altai Mountains
Tired Memes
Interest in bloodlines is generally accompanied by a theory like ancient aliens or hybridization, like Zecharia Sitchin's Sumerian story, despite the fact that Sumerian bilingual dictionaries translate words in ways that totally contradict Sitchin. Take the meaning of Anunnaki. It is more like First Born, "those who unite heaven and earth," the living embodiment of “as above, so below,” much like The Magus in the Tarot. The source family is self-arising First Family, a fount of self-generation and self-knowledge.
Political viewpoints range from monarchist to anarchist theories about ruling elites who have a stranglehold on social control and bloodline. David Icke aggressively promotes his theory that elites are shape-shifting Reptilians, even accusing his ex-wife of being the same. His hysteria has earned him big money. Salacious stories may sell, but they are simply demonization and projection.
It is the effects, not the content, that tell the tale. Ongoing human oppression doesn't need aliens in order to exist, nor do ‘aliens’ absolve government and industry sociopaths. Highly placed scions of dynastic houses mostly deny alien influence anyway, though some are seduced by the notion. Icke himself is a pot calling the kettle black, given that he himself exploits the public. If he really cared about humanity, would he be charging for his so-called wisdom in the spiritual supermarket like other duplicitous, charismatic tricksters do?
Linking aliens, UFOs, and gov-crime with catastrophobia conveniently expands the potential audience, the irony being that such appeals probably do ignite the reptilian brainstem's deer-in- the-headlights primal fears.
Different memes (popular disinformation, viral ideas) capture our attention, sometimes to the point of obsession when symbolism mobilizes into a fugue that overwhelms the ego. Many claim they are the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene, Jesus, Crowley, the Antichrist, the "Men Who Would Be King," or various archetypal characters; others bury themselves in deciphering hidden codes or taking endless pilgrimages to search for treasure, relics, etc.
Tired memes are repeated over and over again as if mere repetition validates them. They cluster around wild tales of the Anunnaki and mythic beings, Rh negative blood, and allegations of racial difference, etc. Such notions originate from those unfamiliar with genealogy, their historical descent, or the basics of biology.
Rational facts are unlikely to dissuade anyone in a mystic marriage with mythic and emotional appeals. They don't want to hear evidence to the contrary because they are highly invested in their own identities and narratives, right or wrong. Those who are ego-invested have an even higher stake in being somehow "special."
Most views about bloodlines miss the point. Rather than an outside theory or opinion, the bloodline is a deeply integrative experience. Because it is experiential, it appears as a "calling" or mission unfolding like Joseph Campbell’s hero motif. The deep context of our global heritage is a mythic perspective suited to our age, culture, and sensibilities, symbols being the currency of consciousness. The highest symbol and value of our era is the Grail because it carries a different meaning for each individual in their quest for self-knowledge. So the reference to the Rose Line in The Da Vinci Code points to royal genealogies, and the Grail to the source of life or generativity.
It's All Relative
All of humanity is related many times over. Ancestors are the people you directly descend from, i.e. a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, etc.--not extended family members. The more generations that people are separated by, the more their genetic relatedness exponentially plummets. With 25 years per generation, you had around 3 billion ancestors at the signing of the Magna Carta, 100 billion during the Norman invasion, and 2 quintillion (1018) when the Roman Empire fell. Earth did not contain a fraction of that population then, so we must be related to everyone on Earth many times over.
In fact, after only a few generations, a personal genealogy links to the World Tree, or as Dr. Carl Jung calls it the deeper collective unconscious in which the personal unconscious is embedded. This is the genetic matrix that holds a complete set of instincts and response patterns responsible for the survival of your two genetic streams.
Knowing your genealogy brings that invisible information into consciousness. Sometimes the knowledge is shocking, destabilizing, or permanently alters one's sense of self. Relatively speaking, there is something about knowing exactly who you are and where you come from.
Later monarchs descend many times over from earlier ones. Research suggests that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne, the entire world from the Ancient Egyptian royal house, and almost everyone from Confucius and Genghis Khan. Probably 60 percent or more Americans are descended from kings. Anthropologists claim that everyone on earth is a 40th cousin, and that any two people can find at least one common ancestor from about 800CE.
These findings do not necessarily bear any implications for our DNA. Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy and involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals and archaic tribes. It provides evidence of tribal migrations, but none about the actual people in genealogical lines, much less their names or history.
Thus descent from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Descending from the Pharaohs does not mean it will be detected in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of genealogical findings in humanity's DNA, and yet the findings can still be true.
Genetics, Not Genealogy
Genome sequencing indicates that modern humans interbred with other now-extinct species, including Neanderthal, Denisovian, and an unknown Asian species, possibly Homo heidelbergensis. Neanderthal relative Homo heidelbergensis were found in Spain and are over 500,000 years old. The relic biology of other hominids remains part of our genome (Nature). Western European DNA has shown up in Siberians and Native Americans.
Our early ancestors had only Type O blood. Around 40,000 years ago, mutations likely occurred and created A and B blood types, including a mutation from Rh positive to Rh negative in the Basque area of Europe—a mutation that probably ended in Types A and B from dominant genes that rapidly spread through the population.
What could cause such mutations in the Upper Paleolithic era? The Laschamp event was a short reversal of the Earth’s geomagnetic field 41,000 years ago with our magnetic shield decreasing to 5% and exposing humanity to unusual amounts of cosmic radiation. (During the last Ice Age ending 11,700 years ago, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed south instead of north.) The transition lasted 250 years. Greater radiation meant a warm spell followed by a population explosion.
Genes mutate all the time; sometimes, a gene is "turned off." In large populations, even helpful mutations tend to get “swamped” by non-mutant genes and vanish over time. We determine genetic relationships among people by comparing sequences of nucleotides in their DNA.
DNA tells the stories of our forebears, from the first human who walked on the earth to YOU—whether our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals or took migratory paths. It all depends on what you want to know and your ability to interpret the genetic code. For example, the University of Arizona geneticists discovered that the oldest known branch of the human Y (male) chromosome is 300,000 years old, and yet scientific definitions of genetic ethnicity are not universally accepted. Even with both a pedigree and genetic genealogy tests, the results still need interpretation, given that different members of the same family can display different features: Scythians, Saxons, Gauls, Picts, Franks, Nordics, Iberians, and Celts tend to merge in the melding pot.
Two Y chromosomes that carry the same mutation share a common paternal ancestor at some point in the past. The more mutations that differ between two Y chromosomes, the further back in time that common ancestor lived. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria are a symbiotic organism, a separate life form from ourselves that can live 15 generations. The living cells of your 15th great-grandparents are alive in you.
Even siblings may or may not inherit the slightest bit of any given ancestor or line. Thus, there is no single haplotype for the royal lines, nor any single identifying gene of that inheritance. Those with a royal genealogy may not have a single royal gene in their genome, making any claims of extraordinary inheritance moot.
From 15,000-7,500 years ago, most British ancestors were hunter-gatherers. Basque STRs (genetic markers used to identify a DNA sequence) reveal 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived directly from Basque country, given that their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
A single DNA change led to the blue, green, hazel, and other "mood eye" colors. While the “red gene” is significant, it may or may not distinguish noble ancestors. Neanderthals also had red hair, but studies show that the mutation responsible differs from the cause of red hair in modern humans. Genetic drift favors the fair skinned because they can absorb more Vitamin D in less-sunny northern climes, and it helps to retain heat.
Genetics demonstrates that traits are not preferentially inherited from the ancestral matrix. While you may have a demonstrable royal line, you inherit far more genetics from commoners whose lines were not recorded. While it is true that the Y-haplotype is passed directly from father to son, generation after generation, we all also inherit the even more persistent mitochondrial DNA from our maternal ancestors—up to 400 generations or so.
With mtDNA, the surname changes each generation. Every once in a while a mutation—a random, natural (and usually harmless) change—occurs in that sequence like a spelling mistake. After one of these mutations occurs, a woman passes it on to her daughters, and her daughters' daughters, and so on. Sons also inherit mtDNA, but the sons do not pass it on. Geneticists use these markers to construct one global mitochondrial family tree.
No one knows where Rhesus negative blood (Rh-) originates. It simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. Absence of a protein does not have to originate from anywhere. Rh+ has the antigen; Rh- does not. The gene quit working.
There is nothing alien here. Actually the absence of our own genes produces the RhD antigen. Transport of CO2 is the ancestral function of Rh proteins; it potentially helped breathing in northern climes. The role of RhD is to help maintain the flexible, flattened shape of the red cell.
Plausibly, a mutation on the first chromosome rendered Rh- individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. Few have it because it is a recessive trait. Five percent of the global population is currently Rh-. It rises to 15% in the UK and USA, and 50% in the Basques descending from indigenous Paleolithic inhabitants.
Conceivably, only one sibling in a dozen might be Rh-, descended from Rh+ parents. Even siblings get varied genetic packages and may not have genes from all the ethnicities or ancestors of their genealogical lines. There are different ethnic signatures. Some siblings might carry the signature of Native ancestry, others not.
As a recessive trait, Rh- blood may or may not express in a family. It could be ten or more generations since anyone had Rh negative blood in his/her family. To express it, both parents must carry the recessive gene. Two parents who have O+ blood could easily have an O- child. Most O- children have parents who are positive. Some or perhaps none of a couple's children will inherit the trait. Siblings can be mixed Rh- with other blood types that are dominant.
Some people wrongly believe that O- blood is "pure" or "alien” when the truth is that every group genetically overlaps with every other. There is no singular gene, mutation, allele, STR or SNP that tells the whole story. Clusters of mutations show deep relationship patterns of regional origin in some individuals. No DNA report is 100% conclusive; it is a statistical “educated guess,” and many families conduct their own DNA research projects.
Interest in bloodlines is generally accompanied by a theory like ancient aliens or hybridization, like Zecharia Sitchin's Sumerian story, despite the fact that Sumerian bilingual dictionaries translate words in ways that totally contradict Sitchin. Take the meaning of Anunnaki. It is more like First Born, "those who unite heaven and earth," the living embodiment of “as above, so below,” much like The Magus in the Tarot. The source family is self-arising First Family, a fount of self-generation and self-knowledge.
Political viewpoints range from monarchist to anarchist theories about ruling elites who have a stranglehold on social control and bloodline. David Icke aggressively promotes his theory that elites are shape-shifting Reptilians, even accusing his ex-wife of being the same. His hysteria has earned him big money. Salacious stories may sell, but they are simply demonization and projection.
It is the effects, not the content, that tell the tale. Ongoing human oppression doesn't need aliens in order to exist, nor do ‘aliens’ absolve government and industry sociopaths. Highly placed scions of dynastic houses mostly deny alien influence anyway, though some are seduced by the notion. Icke himself is a pot calling the kettle black, given that he himself exploits the public. If he really cared about humanity, would he be charging for his so-called wisdom in the spiritual supermarket like other duplicitous, charismatic tricksters do?
Linking aliens, UFOs, and gov-crime with catastrophobia conveniently expands the potential audience, the irony being that such appeals probably do ignite the reptilian brainstem's deer-in- the-headlights primal fears.
Different memes (popular disinformation, viral ideas) capture our attention, sometimes to the point of obsession when symbolism mobilizes into a fugue that overwhelms the ego. Many claim they are the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene, Jesus, Crowley, the Antichrist, the "Men Who Would Be King," or various archetypal characters; others bury themselves in deciphering hidden codes or taking endless pilgrimages to search for treasure, relics, etc.
Tired memes are repeated over and over again as if mere repetition validates them. They cluster around wild tales of the Anunnaki and mythic beings, Rh negative blood, and allegations of racial difference, etc. Such notions originate from those unfamiliar with genealogy, their historical descent, or the basics of biology.
Rational facts are unlikely to dissuade anyone in a mystic marriage with mythic and emotional appeals. They don't want to hear evidence to the contrary because they are highly invested in their own identities and narratives, right or wrong. Those who are ego-invested have an even higher stake in being somehow "special."
Most views about bloodlines miss the point. Rather than an outside theory or opinion, the bloodline is a deeply integrative experience. Because it is experiential, it appears as a "calling" or mission unfolding like Joseph Campbell’s hero motif. The deep context of our global heritage is a mythic perspective suited to our age, culture, and sensibilities, symbols being the currency of consciousness. The highest symbol and value of our era is the Grail because it carries a different meaning for each individual in their quest for self-knowledge. So the reference to the Rose Line in The Da Vinci Code points to royal genealogies, and the Grail to the source of life or generativity.
It's All Relative
All of humanity is related many times over. Ancestors are the people you directly descend from, i.e. a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, etc.--not extended family members. The more generations that people are separated by, the more their genetic relatedness exponentially plummets. With 25 years per generation, you had around 3 billion ancestors at the signing of the Magna Carta, 100 billion during the Norman invasion, and 2 quintillion (1018) when the Roman Empire fell. Earth did not contain a fraction of that population then, so we must be related to everyone on Earth many times over.
In fact, after only a few generations, a personal genealogy links to the World Tree, or as Dr. Carl Jung calls it the deeper collective unconscious in which the personal unconscious is embedded. This is the genetic matrix that holds a complete set of instincts and response patterns responsible for the survival of your two genetic streams.
Knowing your genealogy brings that invisible information into consciousness. Sometimes the knowledge is shocking, destabilizing, or permanently alters one's sense of self. Relatively speaking, there is something about knowing exactly who you are and where you come from.
Later monarchs descend many times over from earlier ones. Research suggests that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne, the entire world from the Ancient Egyptian royal house, and almost everyone from Confucius and Genghis Khan. Probably 60 percent or more Americans are descended from kings. Anthropologists claim that everyone on earth is a 40th cousin, and that any two people can find at least one common ancestor from about 800CE.
These findings do not necessarily bear any implications for our DNA. Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy and involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals and archaic tribes. It provides evidence of tribal migrations, but none about the actual people in genealogical lines, much less their names or history.
Thus descent from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Descending from the Pharaohs does not mean it will be detected in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of genealogical findings in humanity's DNA, and yet the findings can still be true.
Genetics, Not Genealogy
Genome sequencing indicates that modern humans interbred with other now-extinct species, including Neanderthal, Denisovian, and an unknown Asian species, possibly Homo heidelbergensis. Neanderthal relative Homo heidelbergensis were found in Spain and are over 500,000 years old. The relic biology of other hominids remains part of our genome (Nature). Western European DNA has shown up in Siberians and Native Americans.
Our early ancestors had only Type O blood. Around 40,000 years ago, mutations likely occurred and created A and B blood types, including a mutation from Rh positive to Rh negative in the Basque area of Europe—a mutation that probably ended in Types A and B from dominant genes that rapidly spread through the population.
What could cause such mutations in the Upper Paleolithic era? The Laschamp event was a short reversal of the Earth’s geomagnetic field 41,000 years ago with our magnetic shield decreasing to 5% and exposing humanity to unusual amounts of cosmic radiation. (During the last Ice Age ending 11,700 years ago, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed south instead of north.) The transition lasted 250 years. Greater radiation meant a warm spell followed by a population explosion.
Genes mutate all the time; sometimes, a gene is "turned off." In large populations, even helpful mutations tend to get “swamped” by non-mutant genes and vanish over time. We determine genetic relationships among people by comparing sequences of nucleotides in their DNA.
DNA tells the stories of our forebears, from the first human who walked on the earth to YOU—whether our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals or took migratory paths. It all depends on what you want to know and your ability to interpret the genetic code. For example, the University of Arizona geneticists discovered that the oldest known branch of the human Y (male) chromosome is 300,000 years old, and yet scientific definitions of genetic ethnicity are not universally accepted. Even with both a pedigree and genetic genealogy tests, the results still need interpretation, given that different members of the same family can display different features: Scythians, Saxons, Gauls, Picts, Franks, Nordics, Iberians, and Celts tend to merge in the melding pot.
Two Y chromosomes that carry the same mutation share a common paternal ancestor at some point in the past. The more mutations that differ between two Y chromosomes, the further back in time that common ancestor lived. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria are a symbiotic organism, a separate life form from ourselves that can live 15 generations. The living cells of your 15th great-grandparents are alive in you.
Even siblings may or may not inherit the slightest bit of any given ancestor or line. Thus, there is no single haplotype for the royal lines, nor any single identifying gene of that inheritance. Those with a royal genealogy may not have a single royal gene in their genome, making any claims of extraordinary inheritance moot.
From 15,000-7,500 years ago, most British ancestors were hunter-gatherers. Basque STRs (genetic markers used to identify a DNA sequence) reveal 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived directly from Basque country, given that their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
A single DNA change led to the blue, green, hazel, and other "mood eye" colors. While the “red gene” is significant, it may or may not distinguish noble ancestors. Neanderthals also had red hair, but studies show that the mutation responsible differs from the cause of red hair in modern humans. Genetic drift favors the fair skinned because they can absorb more Vitamin D in less-sunny northern climes, and it helps to retain heat.
Genetics demonstrates that traits are not preferentially inherited from the ancestral matrix. While you may have a demonstrable royal line, you inherit far more genetics from commoners whose lines were not recorded. While it is true that the Y-haplotype is passed directly from father to son, generation after generation, we all also inherit the even more persistent mitochondrial DNA from our maternal ancestors—up to 400 generations or so.
With mtDNA, the surname changes each generation. Every once in a while a mutation—a random, natural (and usually harmless) change—occurs in that sequence like a spelling mistake. After one of these mutations occurs, a woman passes it on to her daughters, and her daughters' daughters, and so on. Sons also inherit mtDNA, but the sons do not pass it on. Geneticists use these markers to construct one global mitochondrial family tree.
No one knows where Rhesus negative blood (Rh-) originates. It simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. Absence of a protein does not have to originate from anywhere. Rh+ has the antigen; Rh- does not. The gene quit working.
There is nothing alien here. Actually the absence of our own genes produces the RhD antigen. Transport of CO2 is the ancestral function of Rh proteins; it potentially helped breathing in northern climes. The role of RhD is to help maintain the flexible, flattened shape of the red cell.
Plausibly, a mutation on the first chromosome rendered Rh- individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. Few have it because it is a recessive trait. Five percent of the global population is currently Rh-. It rises to 15% in the UK and USA, and 50% in the Basques descending from indigenous Paleolithic inhabitants.
Conceivably, only one sibling in a dozen might be Rh-, descended from Rh+ parents. Even siblings get varied genetic packages and may not have genes from all the ethnicities or ancestors of their genealogical lines. There are different ethnic signatures. Some siblings might carry the signature of Native ancestry, others not.
As a recessive trait, Rh- blood may or may not express in a family. It could be ten or more generations since anyone had Rh negative blood in his/her family. To express it, both parents must carry the recessive gene. Two parents who have O+ blood could easily have an O- child. Most O- children have parents who are positive. Some or perhaps none of a couple's children will inherit the trait. Siblings can be mixed Rh- with other blood types that are dominant.
Some people wrongly believe that O- blood is "pure" or "alien” when the truth is that every group genetically overlaps with every other. There is no singular gene, mutation, allele, STR or SNP that tells the whole story. Clusters of mutations show deep relationship patterns of regional origin in some individuals. No DNA report is 100% conclusive; it is a statistical “educated guess,” and many families conduct their own DNA research projects.
ATAVISMS
BONES WITH NAMES
BONES WITH NAMES
As you can see, in the last 1,000 years you have a bit more than one and a half trillion ancestors. There is only one problem with this: that number far exceeds the total number of people who have ever lived on the face of the earth!
In fact, there are duplicates in your family tree. If you were able to identify every single person in your family tree, you would find that many ancestors of a few hundred years ago would show up time and time again. This is inbreeding, and we all have it in our family trees. There are no exceptions; the mathematics involved makes it obvious that we are all the products of inbreeding.
With a theoretical (although impractical) one and a half trillion ancestors in the past 1,000 years, what are the odds that you have royal ancestry? About 99.9999% per cent. Many of the royals had large families with children, grandchildren, and further descendants who were sent far and wide to marry other nobility. In turn, their descendants married minor nobility and wealthy merchants and their children... so on and so forth. Once you can document one royal ancestor, you will probably find hundreds more, thanks to the excellent records kept of nobility marriages.
Your ancestor of 750 years ago had more than a sextillion descendants! Again, this will be true of each king and peasant alike. While this may be claimed as a mathematical “fact,” it is obviously impossible. Again, there have not been that many people in the world.
The challenge is to find your royal ancestors. Documentation of the royal families is plentiful, but finding your link back through many generations of commoners may be a challenge. While not every one of us will ever be able to prove descent from royalty, the odds are overwhelming that we all have such connections, documented or not. You just need to spend some time to find them!"
In fact, there are duplicates in your family tree. If you were able to identify every single person in your family tree, you would find that many ancestors of a few hundred years ago would show up time and time again. This is inbreeding, and we all have it in our family trees. There are no exceptions; the mathematics involved makes it obvious that we are all the products of inbreeding.
With a theoretical (although impractical) one and a half trillion ancestors in the past 1,000 years, what are the odds that you have royal ancestry? About 99.9999% per cent. Many of the royals had large families with children, grandchildren, and further descendants who were sent far and wide to marry other nobility. In turn, their descendants married minor nobility and wealthy merchants and their children... so on and so forth. Once you can document one royal ancestor, you will probably find hundreds more, thanks to the excellent records kept of nobility marriages.
Your ancestor of 750 years ago had more than a sextillion descendants! Again, this will be true of each king and peasant alike. While this may be claimed as a mathematical “fact,” it is obviously impossible. Again, there have not been that many people in the world.
The challenge is to find your royal ancestors. Documentation of the royal families is plentiful, but finding your link back through many generations of commoners may be a challenge. While not every one of us will ever be able to prove descent from royalty, the odds are overwhelming that we all have such connections, documented or not. You just need to spend some time to find them!"
Ancestors
They are the ancient mothers
in the distance not buried
lord of days and enigmas
guardians of the fires
invoked deities
regenerate moons
trees of life
pomegranates blood beans
and seeds of heroes
soothsayers and warriors
invoked deities
they live with us
mothers of mothers
eagles eagles
master of alphabets
oracle narrators
keepers of dreams
and secrets seers titled
invoke deities.
--Carla Collesei Billi, cit. In Mara Forghieri, Dark Mothers, Vivarium Library.
They are the ancient mothers
in the distance not buried
lord of days and enigmas
guardians of the fires
invoked deities
regenerate moons
trees of life
pomegranates blood beans
and seeds of heroes
soothsayers and warriors
invoked deities
they live with us
mothers of mothers
eagles eagles
master of alphabets
oracle narrators
keepers of dreams
and secrets seers titled
invoke deities.
--Carla Collesei Billi, cit. In Mara Forghieri, Dark Mothers, Vivarium Library.
Here is the Book of thy Descent,
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the miracles.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170612155443/http://herebedragons.weebly.com/ancestors.html
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I COME FROM
WISDOM THE ANCESTORS LEFT BEHIND
PASSED LIVES
ANCESTRAL ROOTS
THE WAY OF THE ANCESTORS
Because You're Mine,
I Walk the Lines
Here Be Dragons
Relative Autonomy * Genealogical Memoirs
It is as though consciousness were aware that the dragon is the lower half of man,
which indeed and in truth is the case. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 489.
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
– Seneca, Epistulae Morales 102
"Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. Reflect in good heart upon evil, this is the way to the ascent. But before the ascent, everything is night and Hell."
~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 244.
Our passion usually only sees what is ahead,
but there is plenty to explore in our personal past if we delve deeply enough.
Genealogy is a passionate process of self-discovery. - Iona Miller
Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.
~Carl Jung, J.E.T., Page 95.
COMMON ROOT; DIFFERENT BRANCHES
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the miracles.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170612155443/http://herebedragons.weebly.com/ancestors.html
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I COME FROM
WISDOM THE ANCESTORS LEFT BEHIND
PASSED LIVES
ANCESTRAL ROOTS
THE WAY OF THE ANCESTORS
Because You're Mine,
I Walk the Lines
Here Be Dragons
Relative Autonomy * Genealogical Memoirs
It is as though consciousness were aware that the dragon is the lower half of man,
which indeed and in truth is the case. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 489.
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
– Seneca, Epistulae Morales 102
"Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. Reflect in good heart upon evil, this is the way to the ascent. But before the ascent, everything is night and Hell."
~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 244.
Our passion usually only sees what is ahead,
but there is plenty to explore in our personal past if we delve deeply enough.
Genealogy is a passionate process of self-discovery. - Iona Miller
Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.
~Carl Jung, J.E.T., Page 95.
COMMON ROOT; DIFFERENT BRANCHES
here be dragons
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ANCESTORS & ARCHETYPES
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
OUR INVISIBLE FAMILY
The Last Leaf On The Tree
PREMIS
It's All Relative
Together the patient and I address ourselves to the 2,000,000-year-old man that is in all of us. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored up in us. ~Carl Jung, NY Times, Oct. 4, 1936.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature."
--Marcus Aurelius [my 61st great grandfather]
"It is only possible to live as we should
if we live according to our own nature."
~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture, 7 June 1935.
The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth, that one that does not simply speak, but that rises out of the depths of the self as a word of power and great need and places itself unexpectedly on the tongue. It is an astonishing and perhaps seemingly irrational word, but one recognizes it as a symbol since it is alien to the conscious mind.
If one accepts the symbol, it is as if a door opens leading into a new room whose existence one previously did not know.
But if one does not accept the symbol, it is as if one carelessly went past this door; and since this was the only door leading to the inner chambers, one must pass outside into the streets again, exposed to everything external. But the soul suffers great need, since outer freedom is of no use to it.
Salvation is a long road that leads through many gates.
These gates are symbols. Each new gate is at first invisible; indeed it seems at first that it must be created, for it exists only if one has dug up the spring’s root, the symbol. ~Jung, Red Book, Page 311.
I wait, secretly anxious.
I see a tree arise from the sea.
Its crown reaches to Heaven and its roots reach down into Hell. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 300.
We cannot slay death, as we have already taken all life from it. If we still want to overcome death, then we must enliven it. Therefore on your journey be sure to take golden cups full of the sweet drink of life,
red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can win life back.
~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Liber Primus; Page 244.
ANCESTORS & ARCHETYPES
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
OUR INVISIBLE FAMILY
The Last Leaf On The Tree
PREMIS
It's All Relative
Together the patient and I address ourselves to the 2,000,000-year-old man that is in all of us. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored up in us. ~Carl Jung, NY Times, Oct. 4, 1936.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature."
--Marcus Aurelius [my 61st great grandfather]
"It is only possible to live as we should
if we live according to our own nature."
~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture, 7 June 1935.
The symbol is the word that goes out of the mouth, that one that does not simply speak, but that rises out of the depths of the self as a word of power and great need and places itself unexpectedly on the tongue. It is an astonishing and perhaps seemingly irrational word, but one recognizes it as a symbol since it is alien to the conscious mind.
If one accepts the symbol, it is as if a door opens leading into a new room whose existence one previously did not know.
But if one does not accept the symbol, it is as if one carelessly went past this door; and since this was the only door leading to the inner chambers, one must pass outside into the streets again, exposed to everything external. But the soul suffers great need, since outer freedom is of no use to it.
Salvation is a long road that leads through many gates.
These gates are symbols. Each new gate is at first invisible; indeed it seems at first that it must be created, for it exists only if one has dug up the spring’s root, the symbol. ~Jung, Red Book, Page 311.
I wait, secretly anxious.
I see a tree arise from the sea.
Its crown reaches to Heaven and its roots reach down into Hell. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 300.
We cannot slay death, as we have already taken all life from it. If we still want to overcome death, then we must enliven it. Therefore on your journey be sure to take golden cups full of the sweet drink of life,
red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can win life back.
~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Liber Primus; Page 244.
Original Awareness
Our antic biophysical background has been easier to ascertain than the physics of the soul, though many have tried in transpersonal psychologies and the field of Consciousness Studies. Some suggest quantum and even subquantal descriptions of primordial consciousness, which could be described as identical with or inherent in matter.
Consciousness does not mean individual awareness. The larger concept includes the personal unconscious and collective mind, conscious and unconscious -- the union of the serpent (subconscious) with the eagle (super conscious). Consciousness is the bottomless pit of the indivisible whole. It means the world. In the most inclusive sense it is cosmic consciousness. The mind's nature is primordial awareness, practiced by mystics and sages from time immemorial.
New archaeological finds have helped us discover human hybrid interbreeding among the archaic and extinct hominins. Genome analysis suggests there was cross-species interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and additional unknown archaic populations, perhaps as far back as Homo Erectus.
We are in no way separate from Nature and our nature is archetypal. We discover how to orient ourselves in the tidal pathways of the unconscious. We see that our shadows and strengths fall into archetypal patterns -- the timeless parts of ourselves we act out unconsciously. Our genealogical maps help us find our way into the deep unconscious and our greatest possible treasure -- our inner gold.
Self-Awareness
We are always telling and remembering and forgetting our stories and those of our near and distant families. Primary in that telling is the tale of from whom we descend through archetypal process and relationship. The primary issues are ‘to be or not be’ and ‘to belong or not to belong.' Our inherent way of expressing is our flow state, our gift, and fulfillment of our personal myth.
We need to both identify and integrate our ancestral legacy in our trials of descent. Without it we may remain stuck in the wasteland of alienation, dissociation, and existential crisis rather than integrating our unconscious heritage and history. We can find our missing qualities in our genealogy.
To figure out what is happening in the present, we need to figure out something of the past. However, we imagine so many things to be true and so many to be false, we simply don't know what is 'real' or not. Life comes from your imagination and what you imagine to be real.
Raising Cain
Those who have not done their own genealogies think some of the claims about conventional genealogical results are utterly fallacious. But if you draw your own lines past a certain era, you find the rumors are indeed 'true,' no matter what that means in terms of symbolic and psychological realities. Naturally, such fabled lines are not literally so.
Though you or I can "raise Cain" in our drop lines, there is no way to document such mythic descent. Yet, these are the ancestors of our souls, of our psyche, including Sumerian KIngs, Egyptian Pharaohs, Trojan Lords, Jewish Kings, Viking Warriors, Merovingian Kings, Russian Tsars, Scottish Royalty, British Royalty, Moors, Habsburgs, etc.
Our society is oriented primarily around father and mother, patriarch and matriarch --the King or Queen archetype and basis of unconscious tensions and hidden value judgments. They give life to the archetypal Child, the new consciousness, creativity, and archetypal Seeker. When two people really unite, their inner and outer worlds merge, whether in gnosis or shared folly. Gnosis is a Mystery because its revealed truth can only emerge from direct experience. Therefore, it remains a secret that cannot be told, because it is a numinous experience -- a naked encounter with the divine.
We come upon our ancestors unawares as we 'dig up' our connections with them. If we aren't forewarned we may be shocked to find royals in our lines. The King or Queen can bless us, knight us, and make us feel special and a valuable part of the whole as no other archetype can. This may change our sense of self-identity forever. It can bring new insight, understanding, and comprehension, but may also lead to emotional flooding and an invasion of the unconscious as ego inflation.
We proceed along quite normally, logging commoner and noble spouses and their ancestors, then suddenly the atmosphere changes. Geography moves to imaginal landscapes.
Genealogy is a place of exchange not only with ancestors, but between humans and a variety of supernatural creatures of mixed human and legendary lineage. Such creatures inherit different nature's from their parents, but they still draw their identity from the family unit.
BEST ROYAL DESCENT
The idea is that the "best" Royal descent is the descent from
the most recent Monarch. In other words, a descent from a younget son of Edward III of England (d. 1377) is considered "better" than a descent from a daughter of Edward I of England (d. 1307).
One wrinkle in the idea of "best" is when the person is descended from
Monarchs of two different countries. In the past, several researchers would hold that a descent from any English king (such as Edward I, d. 1307) was "better" than a descent from any Scottish king (such as Robert III, d. 1406), but from what I can tell, all of the major researchers in this field have switched over to the strictly chronological definition.
Atavisms
The whole of evolution is within us and recapitulates in uterine life. Development of an organism (ontogeny) expresses all the intermediate forms of its ancestors throughout evolution (phylogeny). Atavism is the regressive tendency to revert to ancestral type -- an evolutionary throwback or reversal. The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus -- a great-grandfather's grandfather -- or generally, an ancestor. An anatomical atavism is a vestigial structure, or morphological anomaly.
Atavism is the reappearance of a lost character specific to a remote evolutionary ancestor and not observed in the parents or recent ancestors. Left-over traits from a distant evolutionary ancestor can reappear long after they disappeared generations before. Perhaps inherited genetic mutations, deformities, and birth defects were confounded with mythic beings.
Supernatural tales have their liminal settings, mythical characters, inter-species romances, and close family connections. The otherworld and the ordinary intermingle. This is the gloss of imaginal vision that co-exists with ordinary reality -- our desires, phantasms, and projections.
But it is not the family ties nor the romantic fairy tale appeal of such inclusions but their psychic necessity that makes them a legitimate part of our pedigree -- even if disowned, repressed, or 'fictionalized' by modern genealogical corrective trends. We enter the underworld when we cross the threshold dividing the rational and historical from the irrational and legendary.
We find curious hybrids, from fairies to godforms with supernatural romances, curses, and royal marriages in liminal spaces beyond mortal ken. Sometimes such creatures with their disturbing transformations enter a lineage as the result of a familial curse.
It is transmitted to descendants in repeating cycles of suffering, heartbreak, betrayals, separation, mourning, and death. This raises the specter that such demonic behavior is related to medieval descriptions of mental illness and mood disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar, narcissism, or borderline issues.
Some genealogists want to expunge supernatural characters and liminal settings from the World Tree, but we do so at our peril -- cutting of psyche from its own imaginal roots. Naturally, to claim we literally descend from pixies, elves, fairies, dragons, serpents, gods or goddesses sounds preposterous, and must be contextualized as imaginal.
The irreconcilable dual nature of human and bestial ancestry demands we work that out for ourselves, so it not turn monstrous. Ours is a very complicated and nuanced family full of by-gone cultural dreams that still inhabit and inform our films and literature.
http://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=honors_theses
Family Wisdom
Our original awareness of ourselves is that of a family member, born of our ancestors through our parents into the House of our descent. We carry the First-Person perspective (self, body, self-reference) even though we may be the last of our line. But we can hardly claim self-knowledge if we remain unconscious of our unseen forebears from both a genealogical and symbolic approach. Along with our strengths we pass on our human weaknesses.
We may have different intentions as we begin our genealogical work, but despite our approach transgenerational EFFECTS will begin emerging spontaneously as a natural consequence of stirring the unconscious. Real time effects, seen and unforeseen always trump original intentions or will which has nothing to do with it.
Unconscious forces may amplify or draw attention to dynamics already in action -- chaotic relationships, addictive patterns, psychophysical symptoms, etc. as well as unconscious determinism and mythic dynamics. We may or may not notice similar patterns in our close ancestors, such as star-crossed lovers or maternal fusion/absent father.
How could we have something so life-changing, so valuable within and not even realize we have it? The persistent state of unconsciousness keeps them secret, keeps them hidden from us. These spontaneous effects contain elements of transgenerational family problems and its inherent wisdom and healing potential. They remain an integral part of our lives through their effects on our psychophysical being -- avoidance, repression, denial, stress, blame, discomfort. Are we stuck or just ancestrally challenged?
How You Came To Be
We each have a way we put together the fragments that make up our lives — their flotsam and jetsam, highs and lows, meaningful and slight details, shrieking and weeping, big and small news, reminders of the family's past, with events and how they impact us. Who welcomed death when it came? But linear time is a persistent illusion -- a cultural artifact.
We could imagine switching off the default mode network so the brain itself receives a denser spectrum of consciousness. The unconscious or ancestral field is actually just such a vast spectrum of information that we’re just not seeing, but it is always there. Each and every ancestor is there if we but tune into their essence, their nature, and their relationships -- not in a supernatural but an informational way.
The inner forms the outer, pulsating out in manifestation. Primordial awareness is an externalization of our existing internal patterns. The ancient Greeks perceived immersive time and linear perspective somewhat differently, seeing the past before them and the future behind. The past was ahead of them -- already manifested -- where they had eyes to see, not a by-gone event buried in the past. In symbol and myth the past is not the past.
So, through genealogy we can see and face the past head on. Without knowing who we are, we remain somewhat blind looking either forward or back. The ancients moved into the future facing the past, not the unknown future which cannot be seen. The future was behind, enveloping them, manifesting through them, stalking them relentlessly like death.
The anxieties of heredity mirror the fears and conflicts of society at any given time. Stains from the past raise questions about intergenerational or collective responsibility. Are we somehow marked by ancient violence, deprivation, or abundance? How does each generation shape and alter that story, hereditary character, and moral inheritance?
Transferred Guilt
Ancestral Fault? Original sin? Missing the mark? The concept of inherited guilt and delayed punishment is archaic, appearing in the Torah, Bible, and Greek tragedy. Divine punishment of innocent descendants is an interaction of human action and divine order. Deferred punishment implies its inevitability. The perverted family is doomed to pass on its toxic inheritance until or unless someone takes on the great work of raising the pattern to consciousness.
Are we liable for the personal errors and transgressions of our ancestors? Do the gods hold us accountable? They play a leading role in the sense that Jung mentions, that the gods have become diseases. Doesn't each generation suffer in succession with or without family misfortune? Does our past mean moral debt, culpability, menace, shame, dishonor, grief, and distress? What is the hereditary character of human unhappiness and in what way is it 'divine punishment'? How can we "face it"?
Legacy of Misfortune
How and where do we hold the pain of the old transgressions? That anguish of the past has a remarkable grip on contemporary society as systemic crisis and inherited liability. Are some houses accursed? Any family 'curse' -- originating in a prayer for vengeance -- is more likely to mean inherited guilt, genetic corruption, or persistent unexplained adversity. Disaster, calamity, and ruin can also strike blindly.
"Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception." (Gagne)
Why do we even endorse our belief in ancestral fault?
Probably because it appeals individually and collectively as an explanation for misfortune as punishment. Perhaps it gives meaning to adversity -- vague traces in distant historical records or dramatic tragedies. Besides its social functions, the cultural notion of ancestral fault also has its own coherent and inconsistent poetics -- how the idea is presented and what role it plays as we mine and reconstruct it.
As we write our genealogical story, we turn to the past even as the past returns to us. Facing it squarely, we are in the present, facing the past, while the unseen future, being unknown, is behind us. It depends if we are looking at event time or narrative time -- relative conceptualizations.
Physicist John Wheeler suggested reality grows out of the act of observation, and thus consciousness itself is "participatory." He also considered information the most fundamental building block of reality. He thought the universe should be seen as a self-synthesized information system: a self-excited circuit that is developing through a (closed loop) cycle.
His experiments led to the idea that human observers may not only determine the present, but also may influence the past. According to Wheeler, ultimate mutability is the central feature of physics, and the meaning of reality can only be established if there is a universal knowledge field, that transcends physical past, present and future.
("The Universe as a Cyclic Organized Information System:
John Wheeler’s World Revisited", Dirk K.F. Meijer)
Future Behind, Past In-Front
Time metaphor is a spatial (spatio-temporal) language. Marshall McLuhan said, "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future." He reiterated the ancient Greek perspective. They stood in the present moment with the past receding away from them back toward the Golden Age as their point of reference, rather than the future. So, sequence is a relative position along a path -- a relationship of figure to Ground (the moment of utterance). Ego may play the role of Ground in directionality, but it is the directionless unconscious that is the primordial Ground.
What Is Unconscious Remains Timeless
In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle agreed that the past is eternal. Ancestral fault included inherited guilt and divine punishment. The Greek word for 'revealed' actually means 'reappear,' like rivers and streams that flow underground and spring forth again. The course remains invisible until it reappears to sight.
Only the ideology of progress flipped the magnetic poles of our psyches. The past is no reliable guide to a future that is the main locus of our attention. We need to rethink how we construct our stories of duration and how we conceive our relationship to it. Stories anchor the present and seem to give our preferred futures some substance and pull.
Time doesn't only belong to events, because psychological time is open and all events are real. In the epistemic modality, there is no past or future but possibility, necessity, and evidentiality. Only our expression of past tense creates evidential markers.
Temporality is a modality. What time we are present in depends on which world we are in. That is, in the genealogical domain our world is now as it was in 50 BCE, a product of linguistic relativity and tenseless language. In Kabbalah, “time” is a paradox and an illusion. Both the future and the past are recognized to be simultaneously present.
This purposefully fissured quality opens us to the heights and depths of our being, light and dark, accessible and opaque, concrete and abstract. Such stories may be drizzled in sadness and despair, while others remain profoundly unconscious until we find and walk through the threshold of our genealogy.
Our own family tree and our unique descent from the roots of mankind reveals the instinct, opinion, and knowledge of original thought. Rational comes from 'ratio' - from relationship. The bones of our mother are the stones of the Earth. The body of the Earth and her water is our water, our body, as primordial as it ever was.
Our antic biophysical background has been easier to ascertain than the physics of the soul, though many have tried in transpersonal psychologies and the field of Consciousness Studies. Some suggest quantum and even subquantal descriptions of primordial consciousness, which could be described as identical with or inherent in matter.
Consciousness does not mean individual awareness. The larger concept includes the personal unconscious and collective mind, conscious and unconscious -- the union of the serpent (subconscious) with the eagle (super conscious). Consciousness is the bottomless pit of the indivisible whole. It means the world. In the most inclusive sense it is cosmic consciousness. The mind's nature is primordial awareness, practiced by mystics and sages from time immemorial.
New archaeological finds have helped us discover human hybrid interbreeding among the archaic and extinct hominins. Genome analysis suggests there was cross-species interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and additional unknown archaic populations, perhaps as far back as Homo Erectus.
We are in no way separate from Nature and our nature is archetypal. We discover how to orient ourselves in the tidal pathways of the unconscious. We see that our shadows and strengths fall into archetypal patterns -- the timeless parts of ourselves we act out unconsciously. Our genealogical maps help us find our way into the deep unconscious and our greatest possible treasure -- our inner gold.
Self-Awareness
We are always telling and remembering and forgetting our stories and those of our near and distant families. Primary in that telling is the tale of from whom we descend through archetypal process and relationship. The primary issues are ‘to be or not be’ and ‘to belong or not to belong.' Our inherent way of expressing is our flow state, our gift, and fulfillment of our personal myth.
We need to both identify and integrate our ancestral legacy in our trials of descent. Without it we may remain stuck in the wasteland of alienation, dissociation, and existential crisis rather than integrating our unconscious heritage and history. We can find our missing qualities in our genealogy.
To figure out what is happening in the present, we need to figure out something of the past. However, we imagine so many things to be true and so many to be false, we simply don't know what is 'real' or not. Life comes from your imagination and what you imagine to be real.
Raising Cain
Those who have not done their own genealogies think some of the claims about conventional genealogical results are utterly fallacious. But if you draw your own lines past a certain era, you find the rumors are indeed 'true,' no matter what that means in terms of symbolic and psychological realities. Naturally, such fabled lines are not literally so.
Though you or I can "raise Cain" in our drop lines, there is no way to document such mythic descent. Yet, these are the ancestors of our souls, of our psyche, including Sumerian KIngs, Egyptian Pharaohs, Trojan Lords, Jewish Kings, Viking Warriors, Merovingian Kings, Russian Tsars, Scottish Royalty, British Royalty, Moors, Habsburgs, etc.
Our society is oriented primarily around father and mother, patriarch and matriarch --the King or Queen archetype and basis of unconscious tensions and hidden value judgments. They give life to the archetypal Child, the new consciousness, creativity, and archetypal Seeker. When two people really unite, their inner and outer worlds merge, whether in gnosis or shared folly. Gnosis is a Mystery because its revealed truth can only emerge from direct experience. Therefore, it remains a secret that cannot be told, because it is a numinous experience -- a naked encounter with the divine.
We come upon our ancestors unawares as we 'dig up' our connections with them. If we aren't forewarned we may be shocked to find royals in our lines. The King or Queen can bless us, knight us, and make us feel special and a valuable part of the whole as no other archetype can. This may change our sense of self-identity forever. It can bring new insight, understanding, and comprehension, but may also lead to emotional flooding and an invasion of the unconscious as ego inflation.
We proceed along quite normally, logging commoner and noble spouses and their ancestors, then suddenly the atmosphere changes. Geography moves to imaginal landscapes.
Genealogy is a place of exchange not only with ancestors, but between humans and a variety of supernatural creatures of mixed human and legendary lineage. Such creatures inherit different nature's from their parents, but they still draw their identity from the family unit.
BEST ROYAL DESCENT
The idea is that the "best" Royal descent is the descent from
the most recent Monarch. In other words, a descent from a younget son of Edward III of England (d. 1377) is considered "better" than a descent from a daughter of Edward I of England (d. 1307).
One wrinkle in the idea of "best" is when the person is descended from
Monarchs of two different countries. In the past, several researchers would hold that a descent from any English king (such as Edward I, d. 1307) was "better" than a descent from any Scottish king (such as Robert III, d. 1406), but from what I can tell, all of the major researchers in this field have switched over to the strictly chronological definition.
Atavisms
The whole of evolution is within us and recapitulates in uterine life. Development of an organism (ontogeny) expresses all the intermediate forms of its ancestors throughout evolution (phylogeny). Atavism is the regressive tendency to revert to ancestral type -- an evolutionary throwback or reversal. The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus -- a great-grandfather's grandfather -- or generally, an ancestor. An anatomical atavism is a vestigial structure, or morphological anomaly.
Atavism is the reappearance of a lost character specific to a remote evolutionary ancestor and not observed in the parents or recent ancestors. Left-over traits from a distant evolutionary ancestor can reappear long after they disappeared generations before. Perhaps inherited genetic mutations, deformities, and birth defects were confounded with mythic beings.
Supernatural tales have their liminal settings, mythical characters, inter-species romances, and close family connections. The otherworld and the ordinary intermingle. This is the gloss of imaginal vision that co-exists with ordinary reality -- our desires, phantasms, and projections.
But it is not the family ties nor the romantic fairy tale appeal of such inclusions but their psychic necessity that makes them a legitimate part of our pedigree -- even if disowned, repressed, or 'fictionalized' by modern genealogical corrective trends. We enter the underworld when we cross the threshold dividing the rational and historical from the irrational and legendary.
We find curious hybrids, from fairies to godforms with supernatural romances, curses, and royal marriages in liminal spaces beyond mortal ken. Sometimes such creatures with their disturbing transformations enter a lineage as the result of a familial curse.
It is transmitted to descendants in repeating cycles of suffering, heartbreak, betrayals, separation, mourning, and death. This raises the specter that such demonic behavior is related to medieval descriptions of mental illness and mood disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar, narcissism, or borderline issues.
Some genealogists want to expunge supernatural characters and liminal settings from the World Tree, but we do so at our peril -- cutting of psyche from its own imaginal roots. Naturally, to claim we literally descend from pixies, elves, fairies, dragons, serpents, gods or goddesses sounds preposterous, and must be contextualized as imaginal.
The irreconcilable dual nature of human and bestial ancestry demands we work that out for ourselves, so it not turn monstrous. Ours is a very complicated and nuanced family full of by-gone cultural dreams that still inhabit and inform our films and literature.
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Family Wisdom
Our original awareness of ourselves is that of a family member, born of our ancestors through our parents into the House of our descent. We carry the First-Person perspective (self, body, self-reference) even though we may be the last of our line. But we can hardly claim self-knowledge if we remain unconscious of our unseen forebears from both a genealogical and symbolic approach. Along with our strengths we pass on our human weaknesses.
We may have different intentions as we begin our genealogical work, but despite our approach transgenerational EFFECTS will begin emerging spontaneously as a natural consequence of stirring the unconscious. Real time effects, seen and unforeseen always trump original intentions or will which has nothing to do with it.
Unconscious forces may amplify or draw attention to dynamics already in action -- chaotic relationships, addictive patterns, psychophysical symptoms, etc. as well as unconscious determinism and mythic dynamics. We may or may not notice similar patterns in our close ancestors, such as star-crossed lovers or maternal fusion/absent father.
How could we have something so life-changing, so valuable within and not even realize we have it? The persistent state of unconsciousness keeps them secret, keeps them hidden from us. These spontaneous effects contain elements of transgenerational family problems and its inherent wisdom and healing potential. They remain an integral part of our lives through their effects on our psychophysical being -- avoidance, repression, denial, stress, blame, discomfort. Are we stuck or just ancestrally challenged?
How You Came To Be
We each have a way we put together the fragments that make up our lives — their flotsam and jetsam, highs and lows, meaningful and slight details, shrieking and weeping, big and small news, reminders of the family's past, with events and how they impact us. Who welcomed death when it came? But linear time is a persistent illusion -- a cultural artifact.
We could imagine switching off the default mode network so the brain itself receives a denser spectrum of consciousness. The unconscious or ancestral field is actually just such a vast spectrum of information that we’re just not seeing, but it is always there. Each and every ancestor is there if we but tune into their essence, their nature, and their relationships -- not in a supernatural but an informational way.
The inner forms the outer, pulsating out in manifestation. Primordial awareness is an externalization of our existing internal patterns. The ancient Greeks perceived immersive time and linear perspective somewhat differently, seeing the past before them and the future behind. The past was ahead of them -- already manifested -- where they had eyes to see, not a by-gone event buried in the past. In symbol and myth the past is not the past.
So, through genealogy we can see and face the past head on. Without knowing who we are, we remain somewhat blind looking either forward or back. The ancients moved into the future facing the past, not the unknown future which cannot be seen. The future was behind, enveloping them, manifesting through them, stalking them relentlessly like death.
The anxieties of heredity mirror the fears and conflicts of society at any given time. Stains from the past raise questions about intergenerational or collective responsibility. Are we somehow marked by ancient violence, deprivation, or abundance? How does each generation shape and alter that story, hereditary character, and moral inheritance?
Transferred Guilt
Ancestral Fault? Original sin? Missing the mark? The concept of inherited guilt and delayed punishment is archaic, appearing in the Torah, Bible, and Greek tragedy. Divine punishment of innocent descendants is an interaction of human action and divine order. Deferred punishment implies its inevitability. The perverted family is doomed to pass on its toxic inheritance until or unless someone takes on the great work of raising the pattern to consciousness.
Are we liable for the personal errors and transgressions of our ancestors? Do the gods hold us accountable? They play a leading role in the sense that Jung mentions, that the gods have become diseases. Doesn't each generation suffer in succession with or without family misfortune? Does our past mean moral debt, culpability, menace, shame, dishonor, grief, and distress? What is the hereditary character of human unhappiness and in what way is it 'divine punishment'? How can we "face it"?
Legacy of Misfortune
How and where do we hold the pain of the old transgressions? That anguish of the past has a remarkable grip on contemporary society as systemic crisis and inherited liability. Are some houses accursed? Any family 'curse' -- originating in a prayer for vengeance -- is more likely to mean inherited guilt, genetic corruption, or persistent unexplained adversity. Disaster, calamity, and ruin can also strike blindly.
"Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception." (Gagne)
Why do we even endorse our belief in ancestral fault?
Probably because it appeals individually and collectively as an explanation for misfortune as punishment. Perhaps it gives meaning to adversity -- vague traces in distant historical records or dramatic tragedies. Besides its social functions, the cultural notion of ancestral fault also has its own coherent and inconsistent poetics -- how the idea is presented and what role it plays as we mine and reconstruct it.
As we write our genealogical story, we turn to the past even as the past returns to us. Facing it squarely, we are in the present, facing the past, while the unseen future, being unknown, is behind us. It depends if we are looking at event time or narrative time -- relative conceptualizations.
Physicist John Wheeler suggested reality grows out of the act of observation, and thus consciousness itself is "participatory." He also considered information the most fundamental building block of reality. He thought the universe should be seen as a self-synthesized information system: a self-excited circuit that is developing through a (closed loop) cycle.
His experiments led to the idea that human observers may not only determine the present, but also may influence the past. According to Wheeler, ultimate mutability is the central feature of physics, and the meaning of reality can only be established if there is a universal knowledge field, that transcends physical past, present and future.
("The Universe as a Cyclic Organized Information System:
John Wheeler’s World Revisited", Dirk K.F. Meijer)
Future Behind, Past In-Front
Time metaphor is a spatial (spatio-temporal) language. Marshall McLuhan said, "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future." He reiterated the ancient Greek perspective. They stood in the present moment with the past receding away from them back toward the Golden Age as their point of reference, rather than the future. So, sequence is a relative position along a path -- a relationship of figure to Ground (the moment of utterance). Ego may play the role of Ground in directionality, but it is the directionless unconscious that is the primordial Ground.
What Is Unconscious Remains Timeless
In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle agreed that the past is eternal. Ancestral fault included inherited guilt and divine punishment. The Greek word for 'revealed' actually means 'reappear,' like rivers and streams that flow underground and spring forth again. The course remains invisible until it reappears to sight.
Only the ideology of progress flipped the magnetic poles of our psyches. The past is no reliable guide to a future that is the main locus of our attention. We need to rethink how we construct our stories of duration and how we conceive our relationship to it. Stories anchor the present and seem to give our preferred futures some substance and pull.
Time doesn't only belong to events, because psychological time is open and all events are real. In the epistemic modality, there is no past or future but possibility, necessity, and evidentiality. Only our expression of past tense creates evidential markers.
Temporality is a modality. What time we are present in depends on which world we are in. That is, in the genealogical domain our world is now as it was in 50 BCE, a product of linguistic relativity and tenseless language. In Kabbalah, “time” is a paradox and an illusion. Both the future and the past are recognized to be simultaneously present.
This purposefully fissured quality opens us to the heights and depths of our being, light and dark, accessible and opaque, concrete and abstract. Such stories may be drizzled in sadness and despair, while others remain profoundly unconscious until we find and walk through the threshold of our genealogy.
Our own family tree and our unique descent from the roots of mankind reveals the instinct, opinion, and knowledge of original thought. Rational comes from 'ratio' - from relationship. The bones of our mother are the stones of the Earth. The body of the Earth and her water is our water, our body, as primordial as it ever was.