Q-17 as part of the de Vaux excavation 1953 (anthropological diagnosed by Kurth) remained undiagnosed, ad hoc as well as in situ - the hortative paraffin block, as mute as Kubrick' fallen monolith, and who actually wants to make a remote diagnosis some two generations thereafter, here and now; so it's perhaps indeed 'clear as day' - clear as spring day in the rainforests of Ruanda.
Concerning Mr. Feather's excursus on 'Milik's thoughts' I recall any romanticizing idealization of the own claimed religious past and its already idealized mystic leaders without historicity as easily leading to a total loss of credibility, not only in the world of the historians, but multidisciplinary as well. While one ought to respect and know the history of the ancient peoples - one ought to understand it in its proper historical context in order to draw true value from history. Dreamland had always been the last hideaway of the shaman in us, but in fact, we are no chosen day-dreamers, at least hopefully not. _Dierk RU Nijmegen, NL ------------------------------------------- kullu nafsin dsa 'iqatu l-mawt (surah 3.185) *all living is pervaded by the taste of death* [Momentum of Shiite al-Mahdi Messianism]
