Hoofdstuk — The break
Hoofdstuk — The break Part I — Hoofdstuk The church is emptying and society follows. That is not a private matter for pastors. The church was one of the last places where people from different layers heard the same…
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Hoofdstuk — The break Part I — Hoofdstuk The church is emptying and society follows. That is not a private matter for pastors. The church was one of the last places where people from different layers heard the same…
Subject — Ranks, colours, cloak Part I — subject under Bring the guilds back Everyone starts as a beginner. After a set time you rise one level. The order is simple and old: Beginner. Apprentice. Journeyman. Master.…
Subject — The week of the guild Part I — subject under Bring the guilds back Minimum three days. Only Sunday is obligatory. Sunday is family day and is run as fully as possible. Everyone is invited. Christian morning:…
Subject — Closedness forbidden, defence, 50/50, how to start Part I — subject under Bring the guilds back A guild that locks the door is not a guild. It is a club. Masters go out. Guests come in. Plus-one sits at…
Hoofdstuk — We descend from survivors Part II — Hoofdstuk The guild’s awareness must be: we do not descend from a century, but from a millennia-long line of survivors. Survivors of the worst a society can meet, micro…
Subject — Younger Dryas, isostasy, rebound Part II — subject under Survivors Ice is heavy. Land sinks under it. If ice melts slowly, land rises slowly. That is classical isostasy. The claim in this book is harder. A…
Subject — Orbis Terrae — the Frozen Age Part II — subject: working names on a lower sea If the sea stands one to two hundred metres lower, the world map changes. Doggerland is not a speck. It is Dogger Terra. The…
Hoofdstuk — The island realm, the ridge, the pool of mud Part II — Hoofdstuk Not one mountain chain. A realm of islands. The school print of Atlantis is a rectangle that sinks in one night. That print is too coarse.…
Subject — Sais, Solon, Neith, Sonchis Part II — subject under the island realm Plato does not invent the ocean at an Athenian table. He sets down a chain. Solon, lawgiver of Athens, travels to Sais in the western…
Subject — The Shipwrecked Sailor, Edfu’s island, Diodorus Part II — subject: Egypt’s own vanishing island The priests of Sais tell the Greek a war and a downfall. In their own language a vanishing island already lies.…
Hoofdstuk — Horus at Edfu — where the ancient evil comes from Part II — Hoofdstuk The temple of Horus at Edfu is not a guidebook to Atlantis. It is a machine that kills the same enemy every morning. Who only plucks the…
Subject — Nun, Esna, Apep — evil from the water that was already there Part II — subject under Horus at Edfu Before the first hill is Nun. No land, no name, no two banks. From Nun comes the benben — Heliopolis says…
Subject — The Edfu origin text — Shebtiu, reed, harpoon Part II — subject under Horus at Edfu This is not a photocopy of Kurth and not a reprint of Seyfzadeh. It is a Dutch reading-translation in the handbook of the…
Hoofdstuk — Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe Part II — Hoofdstuk Pillar 43, the Vulture Stone. Sweatman reads stars. Schmidt dug the site. Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia is older than the agriculture catechism allowed. Klaus…
Subject — Maps, reed boats, Lascaux, seven sages — no recipes Part II — subject under Göbekli Indus: Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Kailasa at Ellora: a mountain that became a temple, cut from the top down. That is not a…
Hoofdstuk — Sacred numbers and geodesy Part II — Hoofdstuk Geodesy is measuring. Sacred numbers are rhythm. The guild splits them. 72, 2160, 25920, 43200 belong in the language guild beside the real ellipsoid of the…
Subject — Van Kerkwyk — the vase, the micron, the public scans Part II — subject under sacred numbers Geodesy is measuring. Who speaks of Giza or of a predynastic granite vase without a number is preaching. Ben van…
Subject — Ezekiel’s wheel — geometry yes, 1974 VTOL no Part II — subject under sacred numbers Ezekiel 1. The Kebar, the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s exile. A storm wind from the north, a cloud, fire unfolding. Four…
Hoofdstuk — Civic service Part III — Hoofdstuk Food, roof, care, land. Not a slave year. Sunday stays family. In the author’s other writing stand the pieces of a better country: society, good business, civic service,…
Hoofdstuk — Enoch — why this book is here Part II — Hoofdstuk (Watchers) Enoch — Ḥănōḵ — is not a church father and not a guild saint. He is the dossier of a memory that wants to be older than the flood: a man who…
Subject — Enoch — astronomical gates Part II — subject under Enoch The Astronomical Book (chapters 72–82) counts gates of the sun, six months of growth, six months of shrink, wind directions, and a year of twelve…
Hoofdstuk — King lists — all of them, the sacred numbers out of them Part II — Hoofdstuk The king list is not a pedigree to save a crown. It is a clock dressed as biography. Sumer counts in sar, ner and soss — 3600,…
Hoofdstuk — Almanac — the same book every year Part IV — Hoofdstuk This is not a tear-off calendar. No moon phase of 2026. No tide atlas that lies next year. This is the machine under the calendar: the sun per date of…
Hoofdstuk — Sargasso, seabed samples, Carlson, Sahara Part II — Hoofdstuk This chapter was added later. The old book remains. Here the answer to the question: are there samples in the Atlantic on which the hypothesis…
Hoofdstuk — General tutoring and the diploma Part I — Hoofdstuk A guild without a common floor becomes an island of specialists who no longer understand each other. Therefore general tutoring is obligatory for every…
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