my toothpaste tastes like pepto bismol! i was reading my history book last night and the first farming people in the americas had religions based on corn. it made me giggle. their entire lives revolved around corn. Corn! it makes sense because without the corn they probably wouldn't be alive, or they'd be on the verge of starvation but ... oh great corn goddess! please bless us and then we'll eat you. tee hee hee. there was this really bizarre paragraph i'd like to share. they're talking about the excavated burial mound of a corn-worshippin' chieftain.
"Near the chieftian's bones were the skeletons of 50 women ranging from 18 to 23 years old, likely sacrifices to the gods. Their bones were genetically different from the the Cahokian skeletons, suggesting that the young women were captives in war or tribute sent by vassal states.
In a pit near these skeletons were those of four men whose heads and hands had been cut off; their necks and vertebrae bore multiple cuts indicating torture or mutilation. Another nearby burial pit included a mass grave. Some skeletons had been decapitated or their skulls smashed; a few of the fingers were in a vertical position, suggesting that the people were not dead at the time of burial and attempted to scratch their way out."
Then it moves right along to talk about their building methods. WTF? I was kind of hoping for an explanation of who these people were. Now I'm left with all these loose ends. Why four men? Why were they tortured? And about this huge pit -who were they? Most history books at least have the decency to speculate. I want to know why those four weren't tossed in with the rest. What makes them so special? And I wanna know if all those chicks were put in there all at once like a thank you for this chief's life and here's 50 girls to follow him to the afterlife or if it was a yearly thing and they'd been there for 50 years. and there's no chance that they'll answer these questions in the next chapter. they just moved right along into europe and then the discovery of the new world. but its a pretty good book nevertheless. guess i'll just be doing some supplemental reading.
hey, i made protein bars! they taste like cake. I was watching this show on the food network and the guy told me all about protein bars. he said that the ones they sell in the store are really bad for you cause they have a lot of sugar and preservatives and the protein comes mostly from cow parts. the unsavory cow parts like hooves and skin and ew. then he showed me how to make my own with soy protein. and they're tasty. yay! i was worried they'd taste like brick or dirt. but nope, cake. i have to go to the store today because i'm out of bottled water. i have running water now so i could drink that, but after 6 months without, i kind of got used to the drinking water in jugs. and i still can't make ice, so i like to keep water in the fridge. and i need some yogurt and stuff to make cookies. i'm going to make those double chocolate diet cookies that i luv so much and maybe they will help me stop eating the brownies. maybe i should start a religion based on brownies. oh, great mother brownie! thank you for my life and now i will eat you.
"Near the chieftian's bones were the skeletons of 50 women ranging from 18 to 23 years old, likely sacrifices to the gods. Their bones were genetically different from the the Cahokian skeletons, suggesting that the young women were captives in war or tribute sent by vassal states.
In a pit near these skeletons were those of four men whose heads and hands had been cut off; their necks and vertebrae bore multiple cuts indicating torture or mutilation. Another nearby burial pit included a mass grave. Some skeletons had been decapitated or their skulls smashed; a few of the fingers were in a vertical position, suggesting that the people were not dead at the time of burial and attempted to scratch their way out."
Then it moves right along to talk about their building methods. WTF? I was kind of hoping for an explanation of who these people were. Now I'm left with all these loose ends. Why four men? Why were they tortured? And about this huge pit -who were they? Most history books at least have the decency to speculate. I want to know why those four weren't tossed in with the rest. What makes them so special? And I wanna know if all those chicks were put in there all at once like a thank you for this chief's life and here's 50 girls to follow him to the afterlife or if it was a yearly thing and they'd been there for 50 years. and there's no chance that they'll answer these questions in the next chapter. they just moved right along into europe and then the discovery of the new world. but its a pretty good book nevertheless. guess i'll just be doing some supplemental reading.
hey, i made protein bars! they taste like cake. I was watching this show on the food network and the guy told me all about protein bars. he said that the ones they sell in the store are really bad for you cause they have a lot of sugar and preservatives and the protein comes mostly from cow parts. the unsavory cow parts like hooves and skin and ew. then he showed me how to make my own with soy protein. and they're tasty. yay! i was worried they'd taste like brick or dirt. but nope, cake. i have to go to the store today because i'm out of bottled water. i have running water now so i could drink that, but after 6 months without, i kind of got used to the drinking water in jugs. and i still can't make ice, so i like to keep water in the fridge. and i need some yogurt and stuff to make cookies. i'm going to make those double chocolate diet cookies that i luv so much and maybe they will help me stop eating the brownies. maybe i should start a religion based on brownies. oh, great mother brownie! thank you for my life and now i will eat you.
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