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bunny

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Dec 13, 2009, 3:20:05 PM12/13/09
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hello. I am trying to find about something I read in a magazine years
ago but googling isn't helping. I was about a lake somewhere in eastern
europe where people came from all over to throw their valuables. This
went on for many centuries and it stopped happening and no one seems to
know why this happened to begin with. Can you help me with the name or
more info?/

thank you
leif

JTEM

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Dec 13, 2009, 3:55:24 PM12/13/09
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bunny <rel...@nospam.com> wrote:

> hello. I am trying to find about something I read
> in a magazine years ago but googling isn't helping.
> I was about a lake somewhere in eastern europe
> where people came from all over to throw their
> valuables.

It's impossible to answer your question without more
information.

Note: The Celts where known for throwing offerings
into water. This may be what you're thinking of, but,
on the other hand, other cultures had similar customs
(I recall some Roman trinkets explained as such), and
there's plenty of stories where, as recently as WWII,
treasures were hidden in lakes.

Suffice it to say that Pagan cultures often associated
gods or spirits with waters, and so it was natural for
them to make such offerings.

bunny

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Dec 13, 2009, 4:01:24 PM12/13/09
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I THINK it was a national geographic article, but searching their
records is hard since I don't know what I'm looking for.

This one seemed special because people came from very far away to make
their offerings, and the articles found spanned from prehistory to
medieval...

Larry Caldwell

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:50:18 PM12/13/09
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In article <hg3i9o$js2$1...@news.albasani.net>, rel...@nospam.com (bunny)
says...

Google Fu.

Europe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture
> http://books.google.com/books?id=5D2RVNM0TAQC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=prehistoric+gold+lake+offerings&source=bl&ots=F144st6ZSw&sig=NnVQhZWTWyG5uf0j_IgU7UsCGsE&hl=en&ei=nYclS8y0PISflAeOpfGICg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=prehistoric%20gold%20lake%20offerings&f=false

Aztec:

http://www.jjkent.com/articles/history-gemstones-aztecs.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18867416/

Andes:

> http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9404E1D91F3CE633A25754C2A9669D946396D6CF
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bunny

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Dec 14, 2009, 2:12:27 PM12/14/09
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Thank you for these links. The La Tene culture is very interesting, but
not the one I was thinking of... the difference is that the one of which
I was thinking was different cultures over a longer period. I will go to
the library and find it the old fashioned way. They have all the nat geos...

Does anyone think throwing things into lakes developed separately in
different cultures? Or did come from way, way back when we were one?

Werewolfy

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Dec 16, 2009, 9:06:00 PM12/16/09
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On 14 Dec, 19:12, bunny <rel...@nospam.com> wrote:

> Does anyone think throwing things into lakes developed separately in
> different cultures? Or did come from way, way back when we were one?

Yes. When people as nauseous and as pretentious as JTEM appear, that
is often the signal for throwing it into a lake. A deep lake. A very
very deep lake.

All Societies found throwing JTEM's into very, very deep lakes to be
of great help. In fact, all of the many forums in Usenet like to throw
the cross-dressing Fairy into Lakes.

Be careful though; the 'man' is a mystic, and chats daily to long dead
people, then sells his 'information' to the gullible.

I suggest he be bound, gagged and taken to the lake immediately.

Werewolfy

igor

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Dec 17, 2009, 4:24:19 AM12/17/09
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what a wonderful idea, do you need his address??

Werewolfy

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Dec 17, 2009, 5:54:00 PM12/17/09
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On 17 Dec, 09:24, igor <inbellt...@gmail.com> wrote:

"what a wonderful idea, do you need his address?"

An even more wonderful idea, Igor. If I knew his address, there is no
doubt I should 'visit' him, in order that certain matters stretching
over a long period could be....settled.

If only I knew. If only werewolfy999 @aol.com knew.

The missing letters are 999

Werewolfy

igor

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Dec 17, 2009, 11:24:07 PM12/17/09
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Sure, its:
John TEM
1 Rectal Prolapse Way,
Buttsville, MA USA

Werewolfy

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Dec 18, 2009, 11:40:12 AM12/18/09
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That's great, Igor!! I can think of no finer address for the little
creep....;) Many Thanks....very appropriate..;)

Werewolfy

jerry warner

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Dec 18, 2009, 11:48:51 PM12/18/09
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Larry Caldwell wrote:

> In article <hg3i9o$js2$1...@news.albasani.net>, rel...@nospam.com (bunny)
> says...
> > hello. I am trying to find about something I read in a magazine years
> > ago but googling isn't helping. I was about a lake somewhere in eastern
> > europe where people came from all over to throw their valuables. This
> > went on for many centuries and it stopped happening and no one seems to
> > know why this happened to begin with. Can you help me with the name or
> > more info?/
> >
> > thank you
> > leif
>

It was precognition of global warming.
That's what Davidnostra said in his rvelation from
YHWV?


Martin

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Dec 30, 2009, 9:36:13 AM12/30/09
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"bunny" <rel...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Not specifically. Throughout early Europe, the practice of throwing 'votive
offerings' inro lakes and wells was a religious rite. By Celtic beliefs,
still, reflective water was often seen as an entrance to 'the next world' or
underworld, and such items (frequently swords, written prayers, jewellery
and sometimes decapitated enemy heads) were thrown in as offerings to the
gods/spirits WHY.

If you are seeking some special 'treasure trove', forget it. You may, after
many years of dedicated research, expert dowsing and archaeological
investigation, find such a place even so... good luck!


bunny

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Dec 30, 2009, 2:27:24 PM12/30/09
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>
> If you are seeking some special 'treasure trove', forget it. You may, after
> many years of dedicated research, expert dowsing and archaeological
> investigation, find such a place even so... good luck!
>
>

I wouldn't take peoples treasure that they threw into a lake, I think
it's disrespectful. Even though they don't need it anymore, and I don't
believe in the supernatural. I think other people do it, and I'm glad
that there are archaeologists digging things up.

I suppose if I were starving I would go to the local mall where people
throw their coins into a fountain, but unless I'm starving it's just wrong.

Martin

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Jan 18, 2010, 2:02:21 PM1/18/10
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"bunny" <rel...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I admire your attitude!


95 Thesen

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Jan 20, 2010, 4:06:40 AM1/20/10
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~~~~~~~~~~
Bunny,

There is such a lake. It is called the Black Sea. It is full of
historical
relics and sunken ships loaded with gold and precious gems,
Trouble is, nobody can survive underwater exploration in the Black
Sea. Too much toxic waste and garbage runoff from the littoral
powers.

David H
~~~~~~

Gordon Johnson

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Jan 24, 2010, 11:06:17 AM1/24/10
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** To add to this, the practice was happening so long ago - over
thousands of years - that many of these "lakes" - they were more often
ponds - have filled up with silt or peat and don't exist as stretches of
water any more. You are just as likely to find such votive offerings in
a peat bog as anywhere else. It was not a continuous practice, so the
deposits will not be found all in one place.
Just don't expect such items to be easily found.
Many more hoards were deposited in holes in the ground, to hide them
from raiders,and lost when the secreter was killed or taken away and
enslaved. They turn up from time to time, almost always by accident.
Gordon.
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