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(423) Homo naledi: Leti proves belief in the God of Darkness
This is a reconstruction of the Leti skull found in the Rising Star cave system outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Portions of the following article were copied from CNN
First ancient fossil of Homo naledi child found in the Cradle of Humankind
Updated 2124 GMT (0524 HKT) November 4, 2021
(CNN)For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa's Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of death, is the first known to belong to an ancient human relative called Homo naledi. The child likely lived between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago, which is when other remains from the cave have been dated. There is no trace of the rest of Leti's body.
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It's unknown if the child was male or female, but researchers have nicknamed the fossil "Leti" and often refer to Leti as female. The name is short for "letimela," which means "the lost one" in the Setswana language, one of South Africa's 11 official languages.
It's unknown how Leti died, and her age is based on her teeth. "But at present we have not established exactly how fast Homo naledi children grew, so it is possible she was younger," the researchers said.
Leti was found in 2017 in what is described as an incredibly remote passage of the Rising Star Cave System, about 39 feet (12 meters) from where Berger's team discovered the first Homo naledi remains in the Dinaledi Chamber. The cave system is located in the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa's Gauteng province.
But how did Leti's skull come to be in the cave? The fragments of her cranium were retrieved from a limestone shelf in an extremely narrow passage only 5.9 inches (15 centimeters) wide by 31.4 inches (80 centimeters) in length. The shelf was about 31 inches above the current cave floor. It's possible that her skull was placed there on purpose. Researchers are still investigating if the cave system is truly a burial ground for Homo naledi. Previously, it was believed only modern humans buried their dead.
Leti's discovery is similar to how Neo, the remains of an adult male Homo naledi from another chamber, were discovered in a narrow passage.
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Leti's skull showed no signs of damage made by a carnivore or scavenging, and there is no evidence that water may have carried the skull into the passage.
"The discovery of a single skull of a child, in such a remote location within the cave system adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system," said Berger, director of the Centre for Exploration at Wits University and an explorer at large for the National Geographic Society, in a statement. "It is just another riddle among many that surround this fascinating extinct human relative."
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Based on their analysis, Leti's brain case would have supported a brain that was around 177 to 240 cubic inches (450 to 610 cubic centimeters), or about 90% to 95% of the size her brain would be had she reached adulthood.
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HOW THIS ANALYSIS IS ORGANIZED:
On the sidelines of science, much thought has been given on this blog to Homo naledi (3-2 Mya; 550cc). Homo naledi is seen as a representative of the first bipedal primates, Australopithecus (4.3 Mya; 400cc), but with more brain capacity: 550cc:
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Because of his limited brain capacity, Homo naledi is seen as one of the last logical thinkers, who rejected the soul as magical thinking. Homo erectus, on the other hand, is seen as more or less psychotic with magical ideas about things that clearly don't exist. From him and naledi stems crazy Homo sapiens:
Assumption 648:Homo sapiens makes the mistake of thinking that only humanoids with enlarged skulls began to ritually bury their dead for religious purposes. This is because their premise is wrong that an afterlife expectation is based on the assumption of the soul.And magical thinking requires a larger prefrontal cortex. And Homo naledi had no enlarged prefrontal cortex. So he had no religion. This is circular reasoning based on a wrong premise. All animals have religion. Magical thinking is by the way an enlarged prefrontal cortex disorder leading to psychosis in DSM-V.It means that what you want to be true is also true. So, God exists because you want it to be true. And if you don't get it, then remember that God can lift mountains, so it can. God lives in a parallel universe, because he could not have created himself, although in magical thinking of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens anything is possible, if you just believe in it. That was not the view of Homo naledi. He was not the crazy species to believe in the soul.So, the soul is not conditional for the belief in an afterlife. The soul is an inadmissible auxiliary hypothesis to perpetuate personal identity after death, which is based on no evidence. Homo naledi was a logical thinker with a small brain and averse to magical thinking that led to absurd assumptions as the soul.
He buried his dead in Dinaledi Chamber, because he believed they would be brought back to life by the God of Darkness. Well, that's tricky too. And it is not clear if they were really dead or in hibernation. And the problem was that because they had no soul, they could not choose their tribe of destiny after rebirth. That was a real problem for Homo naledi.Therefore, their entire religion was based on taking care of the fetuses. And that's why the cave entrance was also the exit to keep the fetuses under control. Which entrance should not be closed to fetuses leaving the Rising Star Cave. Closed graves are only possible in reincarnation, because the soul goes through walls.And that is also why no gifts and valuables were given to the dead. Because robbers could walk right through to the dead or sleeping. So, it was not the soul that descended into another body as with reincarnation, but a fetus with renewed telomeres became that other body, made from the deceased or hibernated person, called 'rebirth', more or less as resurrection in desert religions which, by the way, presuppose a soul.
The discovery of Homo naledi enabled this blog to smoothly fill in the transition from genetic immortality to reincarnation. Homo naledi is therefore a transitional figure in bipedal religion.
We think Homo naledi believed that all life came from the ground, the soil and that the God of Darkness placed the fetus in the womb after intercourse. Homo naledi developed elaborate theories about this and avoided the existence of the soul:
So the religion of Homo naledi was indeed a function of breeding, but no soul was involved because the God of Darkness created fetuses from corpses for renewed individuals and Homo naledi caught them in the wombs.
Rebirth from Homo naledi is a mixture of reincarnation and resurrection:
In reincarnation a soul is needed to be able to choose the tribe of reincarnation after death. Homo naledi believed that he had to fill this role himself with the piling of corpses in caves, where the entrance was also the exit. So they believed they could direct the fetuses to their wives' wombs. That's why they didn't need a soul.
Entrance is exit to be able to collect the reborn in the wombs:
In resurrection, the same individual is rebuilt in a parallel universe. But unlike rebirth of Homo naledi, this does not involve a birth process. Resurrection presupposes no breeding. And that is why resurrection never led to a Sexual Instinct (SI), but rebirth of Homo naledi did:
Since this blog already has an extensive theory about conflicts between Homo naledi and Homo erectus, Leti's find is also interpreted in the same framework.
Now a number of starting hypotheses follows, of which it is immediately indicated whether they are rejected or accepted:
BD: Starting hypothesis 1 (accepted):
Placing a child's skull in an absurd place with an insane difficulty has the meaning of communication, because it cannot be seen as a random act. Only the skull was placed on a ledge of 80cm height. In case of communication, the God of Darkness is a logical option.
BD: Starting hypothesis 2 (accepted):
A funeral can be a tribute to the deceased. But this partial burial doesn't seem very respectful. Did the child die in an accident or was it beheaded? The conclusion must therefore be that the deceased was not honored herself, but was used as a means of communication with an external entity, e.g. the God of Darkness.
BD: Starting hypothesis 3 (accepted):
By placing only the skull they possibly tried to display the person in his or her human entity, e.g. male or female, handsome or beautiful or whatever. In doing so, they concluded the body as irrelevant, which by the way, would indicate an already decent abstraction capacity of Homo naledi (2.3 Mya - 236 Ka; 550cc). Possibly, they were communicating to the God of Darkness about this specific person.
But the 'girl' could also be intended as a specimen of the species. Then we have a double abstraction here, the skull for the whole body and the specimen for the species. But then, Homo naledi was not as stupid as we thought.
BD: Starting hypothesis 4 (accepted):
If it was going so crescendo with Homo naledi, there was no reason to invoke God with a skull so conspicuously placed outside the group. So there likely was cause for concern. This may be due to the specific circumstances of this child. But the child may also be intended as a specimen. In that case, the skull might have been used to communicate an urgent request to God.
BD: Starting hypothesis 5 (accepted):
Homo naledi probably suffered from fertility stress, too few offspring. Therefore, the girl may have been sacrificed to the God of Darkness, for perpetual orgasm (from pedophilia). Of course not a boy and then we immediately deduce the God of Darkness as male. Kind of circular reasoning.
Like plants, God just needed some DNA to reconstruct the girl from the skull for private use. So they gave the skull so he could see what he got. That she would become attractive. That's just a hypothesis. Well, they would have killed the kid first.
BD: Starting hypothesis 6 (accepted):
If they took the skull for the body, they could think symbolically. That is their first abstraction. The second is to take the specimen for the species. And the third is brilliant. All life comes from the soil, including bipedal primates. The God of Darkness just had to activate the telomeres of DNA to create a rebirth that would be placed in the womb after intercourse. So, they weren't as stupid as we think. Then, the skull may indicate Rebirth from DNA by the God of Darkness, as well as communication with this God about fertility stress. And, by the way, Homo naledi needed no soul and no reincarnation, because he was not as psychotic as Homo sapiens.
BD: Starting hypothesis 7 (rejected):
The God of Darkness lived underground and didn't know what was going on up there. Perhaps they wanted to ask God for help because Homo erectus, in addition to robbing their wives to create Homo sapiens, had now also killed a child.
BD: Starting hypothesis 8 (accepted):
Placing the skull so far out of the group is a negative choice. Evidently the group did not meet its stated goal. The piling up of so many corpses may have led to distraction from the God of Darkness. That is the second negative conclusion. Therefore, Leti was placed before God very visible and recognizablein the hope that her mother would have such a girl again. So Leti meant doubt of Rebirth by the God of Darkness.
DINALEDI CHAMBER:
Leti's location UW 110:
BD: Starting hypothesis 9 (accepted):
The Leti site is at the same elevation as Dinaledi Chamber after the Chute's lowering of 12 meters. So it's not that people looked for a deeper place to get closer to the God of Darkness. Then it is clear is that Leti was removed from the group for some other reason.
BD: Starting hypothesis 10 (accepted):
Did they stray from Dinaledi Chamber with Leti or was this a deliberate act? In the latter case, they must have regularly been to Dinaledi Chamber themselves to deliver corpses after 12 meters of descent - again with a rope. And that means bodies weren't always thrown through the Chute.
BD: Starting hypothesis 11 (accepted):
In both Neo and this child, it can be tentatively concluded that individuals were separated from the group, because of their status or because the group burial may not have lived up to expectations.
Both deceased are exclusively recommended to a third party. And that can only be the God of Darkness. One possibility is that Homo naledi did indeed have doubts about the system of burial in the Dinaledi chamber. They may have had increasing fertility stress while Dinaledi remained filled with corpses.
BD: Starting hypothesis 12 (accepted):
Neo and this child were separated from the group. Neo may have been an important figure, but Leti likely was not. She belonged to the group but had to remain identifiable. The intent may have been to bring this child forward before the God of Darkness, but not to reveal this preferential treatment to the rest of the tribe.
BD: Starting hypothesis 13 (accepted):
Another possibility is identifiability, because you can never prove from a pile of corpses whether God has made rebirths of them again. If you want to test this hypothesis, you have to keep the corpses separate and identifiable or count them.
Leti's remains:
Something is rotten in this case. We must thoroughly analyze the finds and draw up a model of the possible course of events. Leti's died as a result of murder or of serious injuries from, for example, a falling boulder.
The broken roots could indicate that she was brutally murdered. On the other hand, children's teeth are fragile and teeth at the roots are more likely to break down in severe trauma.
Teeth:
Homo naledi had a poor diet with a lot of grit in it, which caused dental problems. It cannot be ruled out that molars have been forcibly removed from adults, as a result of which the roots have broken off. But it is impossible that the teeth of a child of four have undergone such treatment. That means teeth have been forcibly removed from the jaw, either by accident or after the child died.
Homo naledi: Leti slaughtered in the name of the God of Darkness?
Homo naledi and Homo erectus were archenemies. And because Homo erectus was much stronger, he robbed the wives of Homo naledi and so created Homo sapiens:
Homo naledi was a balanced breed, so inbred that all autosomal recessive disorders were removed. But ultimately this led to fertility stress, the reduced birth rate, exacerbated by the women being taken away by Homo erectus.
Dinaledi Chamber also intended to have the reprocessed fetuses by the God of Darkness received by Homo naledi women right outside the cave.
But after many years dead corpse piled up in Dinaledi Chamber while the number of births fell.
It was thought that the God of Darkness was displeased with Homo naledi and that a human sacrifice should be made. Preferably a young woman because the god was male heterosexual and preferably a very young girl because perpetual orgasm comes from pedophilia (Nonsense).
Doubtful hypothesis:
The child was brutally beheaded with a stone, with the head shattering into pieces. Then some teeth were violently removed from her jaws, causing them to break off at the roots. Hardly anywhere in the annals of Homo naledi are broken roots to be found, and certainly not so many in a single individual (4 out of 6).
(Teeth can also be accidentally broken off by a fallen boulder and then gently removed.)
Then teeth and some remains of the skull were transported to the cave.
If the child's death was an accident due to, for example, a falling boulder, then 4 of the 6 teeth might have broken off. But teeth can also have been broken off by violence after the accident. But grieving parents would never do this. So, there is room for malice. Apparently they thought that the God of Darkness only needed a few teeth and pieces of the skull for rebirth of the fetus.
BD: Starting hypothesis 15 (accepted):
If the child had died in an accident, the parents would not have given permission for the teeth to be pulled. They would also insist on depositing the entire body in Dinaledi Chamber. Unless the child would receive preferential treatment and the teeth were already on the floor.
BD: Starting hypothesis 16 (accepted):
And therefore there is room that the mutilations have been done beyond the parents' will and that the perpetrators first killed the child and then roughly removed the teeth and secured pieces of skull.
BD: Starting hypothesis 17 (accepted):
Therefore, the conclusion is that the burial possibly was not a tribute to this individual child. Possibly this was an offering to the God of Darkness to promote fetus production.
BD: Starting hypothesis 18 (accepted):
The hypothesized murder of the child fits into the line of thinking on this blog where a rising number of corpses in Dinaledi Chamber coincides with a falling number of births. They may have been desperately searching for the truth.
BD: Starting hypothesis 19 (accepted):
Homo naledi was clever and knew that bones and teeth do not digest. It was also assumed that only a small amount of genetic material was needed for Rebirth.
The fact that whole corpses were thrown into Dinaledi Chamber also had to do with respect for the deceased. Conversely, Leti's treatment can be seen as disrespect, which cannot have come from loving relatives, depending on how she died.
BD: Starting hypothesis 20 (accepted):
Leti's find proves belief in the God of Darkness. It also shows the growing distrust in Dinaledi Chamber. Because whoever can deliver Leti can also check the pile of corpses and find that it only grows with a decreasing number of births.
BD: Starting hypothesis 21 (accepted):
Leti was the test of Rebirth. Possibly the final convulsion of a religion that would transfer to Reincarnation.
If this analysis is correct, Leti's death has provided us with a lot of confirmatory information and great insight into the switch from Rebirth to Reincarnation.
