Meaning of the name Shiluva

I saw a cite with clearly AI or guess work answers.

Šiluva is a place in Lithuania. Now, English doesn't have Š on the keyboard, so girls named for it are spelled Shiluva in the US.

Now, why would a girl be named after a place? Well, what about Lourdes? Or Christian girls named Fatima ?

Exactly, Šiluva is also a place with a Marian apparition, but I think it's pronounced on the first syllable, Sean Hiller pronounces it on the second last (also second) syllable:

The Forgotten Marian Apparition That Shook the Reformation
Sean Hiller | 11 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gT3CUIy3Gs

C'est pas les Musulmans qui se prosternent la face à terre ?

Pas que.

Les prêtres le jour de l'ordination le font aussi, en se préparant./HGL

Found Some on Nachmanides' Debate

Nachmanides’ strange understandings of demons, hell, souls, women’s period, rape, and other subjects
https://booksnthoughts.com/nachmanides-strange-understandings-of-demons-hell-souls-womens-period-rape-and-other-subjects/

Here are two things:

Nachmanides insisted that the midrashic tales are true accounts of past events. His commentaries to Genesis 11:28 and 32 are excellent examples of his manner of thinking ...

and:

Interestingly, Nachmanides’ belief that midrashic legends are recollections of actual historical events brought him trouble in his old age and led to his need to escape from Spain and flee for Israel. In 1263, he was involved in a public religious debate with the apostate Jew, Pablo Christiani, in Barcelona before King James I concerning the validity of Judaism. Pablo contended that some of the midrashic stories that Nachmanides had insisted were true occurrences foreshadowed the birth and mission of Jesus.[4] Nachmanides sidestepped Pablo’s trap by disclaiming his belief in the truthfulness and the authority of midrashim, and said that they are only legends.[5]

So, the convert Christian Pablo Christiani was more literalist than Nachmanides could afford to remain, interesting ...

Is it because Judaism is an apostasy and leads to more apostasy, unless repented?/HGL

Sosa und Hitler

Ich denke, Kirchbücher gabs schon.

Das „Reichserbhofgesetz“ und die NSDAP verlangten den Nachweis der „rein arischen“ Abstammung – auch für den Ehepartner – bis 1800, für Bewerber für die SS (ab Führer und/oder Führeranwärter) sogar bis 1750 zurück („großer Ariernachweis“).

Dies wäre theoretisch möglich gewesen. Wurde es aber ausgeführt?

1) Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) 2) Alois Hitler (1837–1903) 3) Klara Pölzl (1860–1907)
4) ? 5) Maria Anna „Mariana“ Schicklgruber (1796–1847) 6) Johann Baptist Pölzl (1828–1902) 7) Johanna Hiedler (1830–1906)		4) Johann Georg Hiedler (1792–1857) 5) Maria Anna „Mariana“ Schicklgruber (1796–1847) 6) Johann Baptist Pölzl (1828–1902) 7) Johanna Hiedler (1830–1906)
8) ? 9) ? 10) Johannes Schicklgruber (1764–1847) 11) Theresia Pfeisinger (1769–1821) 12) Laurenz Pölzl (1788–1841) 13) Juliana Walli (1797–1831) 14) Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (1807–1888) 15) Eva Maria Decker (1792–1873)		8) Martin Hiedler (1762–1829) 9) Anna Maria Goschl (1760–1854) 10) Johannes Schicklgruber (1764–1847) 11) Theresia Pfeisinger (1769–1821) 12) Laurenz Pölzl (1788–1841) 13) Juliana Walli (1797–1831) 14) Johann Nepomuk Hiedler (1807–1888) 15) Eva Maria Decker (1792–1873)
16) ? 17) ? 18) ? 19) ? 20) ? 21) ? 22) ? 23) ? 24) ? 25) ? 26) ? 27) ? 28) Martin Hiedler (1762–1829) 29) Anna Maria Goschl (1760–1854) 30) ? 31) ?		16) Johann Hiedler (1725–1803) 17) Maria Anna Neugeschwandter (?) 18) ? 19) ? 20) ? 21) ? 22) ? 23) ? 24) ? 25) ? 26) ? 27) ? 28 = 8 29 = 9 30) ? 31) ?

Wenn Alois der Sohn Johann Georg Hiedlers war, geht die Ahnentafel nur in 16 und 17 hinter 1750 zurück. Wenn nicht, geht keine Linie überhaupt hinter 1750 zurück.

Was wurde verschwiegen? Ahnen die viel später als am achten Lebenstag getauft wurden? Oder Ahnen dessen Ehepaar heiratete als dia Braut under 15 Jahre alt war? Übrigens, ich sehe Lebensjahre aber keine Heiratsjahre oder Daten. Und für Maria Anna Neugeschwandter nicht einmal Lebensdaten. War sie so nahe an 1750, daß sie etwa 12—13 bei der Geburt Martins war? Jedenfalls, ich hätte für beide Sachen mich nicht geschämt. Ein Mann der lieber Künzler hätte bleiben sollen, vielleicht schon.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
der hl. Anton von Padua
13.VI.2026

Patavii sancti Antonii Lusitani, Sacerdotis ex Ordine Minorum et Confessoris, atque Ecclesiae Doctoris, vita, et miraculis, ac praedicatione illustris, quem, uno post illius obitum anno nondum expleto, Gregorius Papa Nonus in Sanctorum canonem retulit.

PS, wenn Alois nicht der Sohn Johann Georg Hiedlers war geht die Ahnentafel freilich schon hinter 1750 zurück, aber nur in den 32 Ahnen: 32 bis 55 unbekannt, 56 Johann Hiedler (1725–1803) und 57 Maria Anna Neugeschwandter (?), dann 58 bis 63 wieder unbekannt. Wenn er es war, dann sind in den 32 Ahnen 56 = 16 und 57 = 17./HGL

Fort Mc Henry and Moscow, What's the Connection?

Castelnuovo (Bosnia) and Lexington (Massachusetts) · Fort Mc Henry and Moscow, What's the Connection?

They were respectively defended against the English and against Napoleon Bonaparte.

And they were so around 14th of September, Feast of the Holy Cross, two years apart.

The fire of Moscow was a catastrophic urban fire that destroyed almost all of Moscow in September 1812 during the French occupation of the city following the French invasion of Russia. The Russian troops and most of the remaining civilians had abandoned the city on 14 September 1812 just ahead of French Emperor Napoleon's troops entering the city after the Battle of Borodino.

And:

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry",[2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort after the battle.

I never knew this story until one young woman, hired to sing it in English, sang "El pendón estrellado" in Spanish. Then I looked it up. On youtube.

Now, defending Fort McHenry and defending Moscow, if at all, was two very different operations. Here is Moscow, and, as mentioned, the Russians left, but what happened next is disputed:

There is disagreement among historians over the cause of the fire. One theory holds that the fire was deliberately ordered or organized by Russian authorities, particularly Governor-General Fyodor Rostopchin, as part of a scorched-earth strategy intended to deny the occupying French army shelter and supplies.

This man was father of the children's author Countess de Ségur and grandfather of the Catholic clergyman Louis-Gaston de Ségur.

Here is Fort McHenry:

The Battle of Baltimore took place between British and American forces on September 12–14, 1814, during the War of 1812. Defending American forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the busy major port city of Baltimore, Maryland, by British forces preventing the United States' third largest city at the time from falling to British forces and ending the British Chesapeake campaign.

The British and Americans first met at the Battle of North Point.[10] Though the Americans were tactically defeated and forced to retreat, the battle was a successful delaying action that inflicted significant casualties on the British including the commanding general Robert Ross, halted their advance, and allowed the defenders at Baltimore to prepare for an attack.

The resistance of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during bombardment by the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which later became the lyrics for "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.

At Fort McHenry, some 1,000 soldiers under the command of Major George Armistead awaited the British naval bombardment. Their defense was augmented by the sinking of a line of American merchant ships at the adjacent entrance to Baltimore Harbor in order to further thwart the passage of British ships.

...

On the morning of September 14, the 30 ft × 42 ft (9.1 m × 12.8 m) oversized American flag, which had been made a year earlier by local flagmaker Mary Pickersgill and her 13-year-old daughter, was raised over Fort McHenry, replacing the tattered storm flag which had flown during battle. It was responded to by a small encampment of British riflemen on the right flank, who fired a round each at the sky and taunted the Americans just before they too returned to the shore line. Originally, historians said that the oversized Star Spangled Banner Flag was raised to taunt the British, but that is not the case. The oversized flag was used every morning for reveille, as was the case on the morning of September 14.

Taunt the British, it did, though. The description given elsewhere is, the flag (the storm-flag, not the oversized one) had been put back and back and back in place while Brits shot at those upholding it. Letting the flag sink would have been a sign, and that sign was not given. I'm reminded of a man who has used his blogs as a kind of flag, and who has been shot at, if not with bullets, at least with scorched earth tactics, false friendliness, denial of basic needs, like hygiene and sleep, by men who resent that blog. To whom they are what a red flag is to a bull.

It might taunt some Brits and Canadians that Mary Pickersgill's 13-year-old daughter didn't go to school but participated in sewing a flag. Just as it taunts some that Our Lady at 12 or 13 or 14 or sth was pregnant with Our Lord.

So, perhaps the connection is, Our Lord who Reigned from the Cross, didn't support fully Freemasons (a leopard head) against a Bear that had some piety, but did support their allies against a Lion that was losing its piety, quickly.

Just How Many Young-Earth Creationists Are There in the U.S.? says, c. 40 % of Americans are Young Earth Creationists. They are far fewer in the UK: After carrying out detailed face-to-face interviews with over a hundred Christians and Muslims, Unsworth designed her own survey. Of 2,116 people in Britain, she found that only 3% reject the idea that plants and animals have evolved from earlier life forms, whilst 6.8% reject the idea that humans have evolved from non-human life forms. Only 4% would qualify as young earth creationists.

Meanwhile, in France Young Earth Creationism is actively opposed, as per Antoine Bret: I became a Christian in France, without ever encountering young-earth creationism. I’d say that most Evangelicals in France (about half a million) feel uneasy about evolution, but not so much with the age of the universe. Faith and Science in France and Spain: An Interview with Antoine Bret Meanwhile, if Russians want schoolbooks that are Young Earth Creationist they don't need to resort to Harun Yahya, they have better stuff from inside. Or had, not sure how much Putin has since then discouraged it. Or Kirill.

There is also the difference that in France, Freemasons were recent usurpers of power. In the US, they were founding fathers. The only people in place to oppose England. The difference is a bit like the difference of Romulus worshipping Jupiter and of Julian the Apostate doing so. However, even in Russia, on Holy Cross day, the French were temporarily victorious, the Russian garrison withdrew from Moscow. Perhaps so that a certain Storopchyn could show Tatar cruelty in action.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Margaret of Scotland
10.VI.2026

[16 Novembris] Edimburgi, in Scotia, natalis sanctae Margaritae Viduae, Scotorum Reginae, amore in pauperes et voluntaria paupertate celebris. Ipsius tamen festivitas quarto Idus Junii celebratur.
[10 Junii] Sanctae Margaritae Viduae, Scotorum Reginae, quae sextodecimo Kalendas Decembris obdormivit in Domino.

Ancient Anatolian Farmers: Arrival, Preseli Blue Stones, Stone Henge, and End

In the French edition* of National Geographic, August 2022, I find that the Early European Farmers arrived in 4000 BC, the stone circle in Preseli or Carn Menyn was built in 3300 BC and Stone Henge raised in 2500 BC. A space of 1500 years. Longer than Sweden has been unified (since c. 1000 AD) or Spain (since c. 1492). About the time from Clovis and St. Clotilda to ourselves.

Let's take this in my recalibration, shall we. I'll cite my tables, but because of a probably deliberate misunderstanding, but possibly shared by some without deliberation, first I'll clear something up. The format of my tables.

Real year BC

carbon 14 level (usually theoretic) back in that year in the atmosphere —> carbon date.

I say "usually theoretic" because for the years I have labelled nodes and numbered in Roman numerals, I base that on carbon dated archaeology and on (usually Biblical) historical real dates. Those nodes, I'm not giving the currently measured level of carbon 14, I'm giving the lower than 100 pmC level that it must have had back in the day in order to account for the discrepancy between the real date and the carbon date.

Example. En Geddi is excavated, and one of the habitations ended in the carbon date 3500 BC. That would be a carbon age of 5450 BP, calibrated, I presume. Now, if 5450 BP had been obtained as the raw date with the currently accepted halflife, the Cambridge halflife, it would mean the reed mats in the cave with the temple treasures have 0.5^(5450/5730) = 51.723 pmC. However, I hold that they are younger than 3500 BC, namely the date of Genesis 14 (Asason Tamar being mentioned as attacked and identified in Chronicles as En Geddi). In my Biblical chronology, that being the one of the Christmas day reading from the Martyrologium Romanum, the date would be 2015 BC - c. 80 years = c. 1935 BC. Why c. 80 years? It was after Abraham's vocation (chapter 12) at age 75 and before the birth of Ishmael (chapter 16) when he was 86.

The discrepancy is 1565 years. My proposal is, the reed mats were 1565 years old in carbon dating, given the then atmosphere and if carbon daters had been brought back in a time machine, because the then current atmosphere was 1565 years old. In other words, it had a carbon level of 82.753 pmC. Now, Genesis 14 is my node IV, and for years between nodes, I do a mathematically somewhat advanced interpolation.

So, Early European Farmers arise in Anatolia 7000 BC, leave Anatolia in 6000 BC, arrive in Britain in 4000 BC, build Carn Menyn in Preseli in 3300 BC and then Stone Henge in 2500 BC. Carbon dated.

III—IV

2442 BC

57.683 pmC, dated as 6990 BC

2327 BC (!)

63.519 pmC, dated as 6079 BC

2304 BC

64.676 pmC, dated as 5906 BC

2028 BC

78.316 pmC, dated as 4048 BC

2005 BC

79.432 pmC, dated as 3909 BC

Ancient Anatolian farmers are archeologically identifiable since some time before 2442 BC, which is when Shem died. They went into Europe between 2327 and 2304 BC, before Serug was born. They arrived in Britain between 2028 and 2005 BC, around when Abraham was born.

IV—V

1877 BC

83.97 pmC, dated as 3321 BC

1857 BC

84.371 pmC, dated as 3262 BC

The stone circle in Preseli was built between 1877 and 1857 BC. Terah had died, Jacob and Esau were soon to be born.

V—VI

1678 BC

89.449 pmC, dated as 2600 BC

1656 BC

91.353 pmC, dated as 2404 BC

So, the main stone circle of Stone Henge is from between 1678 and 1656 BC, somewhat after Joseph died in Egypt and somewhat longer before Moses was born.

Let's resume.

Ancient Anatolian Farmers are a thing in 2442 BC, get into Europe in 2327 / 2304 BC (a bit more than a century later) and arrive in Britain between 2028 and 2005 BC, c. 300 years after they got into the Balkans, a bit more than 400 years after they are a big thing in Anatolia.

They arrive in Britain in 2028 / 2005 BC, they build Preseli stone circle in 1877 / 1857 BC, c. 150 years later, and they relocate it to Stone Henge in 1678 / 1656 BC, c. 200 years after Preseli and c. 350 years after they arrived.

According to the paper in National Geographic, the Yamnaya invaders replaced them. Some others would disagree:

The modern English inherited around 50% of their genes from early European farmers, 36% from western European hunter-gatherers, and 14% from the ancient north Eurasians. According to the study, published in Nature, modern Scots can trace 40% of their DNA to the early European farmers and 43% to hunter-gatherers, though David Reich, a senior author on the study at Harvard University, said the differences were not significant.

Perhaps Y-chromosomes were more replaced than the genome overall, but there are Y-chromosome lineages going back to Western Hunter Gatherers, who lived in Britain before the Ancient Anatolian Farmers arrived. Like I2. Also, did R1b arrive only with Yamnaya wave, or with Early European Farmers?**

The modern English inherited around 50% of their genes from early European farmers, 36% from western European hunter-gatherers, and 14% from the ancient north Eurasians. According to the study, published in Nature, modern Scots can trace 40% of their DNA to the early European farmers and 43% to hunter-gatherers, though David Reich, a senior author on the study at Harvard University, said the differences were not significant.

DNA study reveals third group of ancient ancestors of modern Europeans
Ian Sample, science editor | Thu 18 Sep 2014 09.50 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/18/ancient-ancestors-europeans-dna-study

Meanwhile, it is nearly certain that the society that built Stonehenge fell. National Geographic speculates on plague, a milder but still not innocuous strain of Yersinia pestis. If they were indeed menaced by plague, it was not the best move to cluster in high density around huge cult places, of which Stonehenge wasn't even the biggest. Just as in 2020, a certain cluster of Pentecostals in Alsatia counted 5000 people in a single huge tent meeting. I noted that Catholic mass, not being a question of the priest's personal charisma, and Catholic society having usually many priests, isn't as likely to get 5000 people in one place. Also a Catholic mass (at least of the Latin rite) is c. 45 min. while a tent meeting lasts longer.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Clotildis
3/VI.2026

Lutetiae Parisiorum sanctae Clotildis Reginae, cujus precibus vir ejus Clodoveus, Rex Francorum, Christi fidem suscepit.

* See: Sommaire du magazine National Geographic du mois d'Août 2022 : Les mystères de Stonehenge
De National Geographic | Publication 28 juil. 2022, 21:36 CEST
https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/2022/07/sommaire-du-magazine-national-geographic-du-mois-daout-2022-les-mysteres-de-stonehenge

** I can't access the newspaper, but I do access the online article of these two:

A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for European Paternal Lineages
Patricia Balaresque et al. | PLoS Biol. 2010 Jan 19;8(1):e1000285.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2799514/

= 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000285

The Times: First farmers in Britain were horsemen from the Steppes
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/first-farmers-in-britain-were-horsemen-from-the-steppes-pb2b6txfc

Two Things About the Sawley Map

First, if you will look at the picture from wikimedia commons:

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You will note that there are four angels.

This is a literalistic reference to Apocalypse 7:1. This doesn't mean that the author believed the earth to be flat, it just means the map is concentrating on what is presumed to be the land hemisphere. In actual fact, as discovered later, the Atlantic isn't on the Western edge of the land hemisphere, it's a water wedged inside it (with some of the displaced tectonics showing up around Baffin Bay, I'd say).

So, given this iconographic tradition, I'm certain I'm right to take the four corners as literal. The angels are also placed, as I place the corners, in the roughly NW, NE, SE and SW of the land hemisphere (or the truncated version they knew of it).

This is one item I'd note.

Another one is this. It was a piece of art. A personnalised art work accompanying the book Imago Mundi by Honorius of Autun. This specific map, smaller than an A4, only exists on this page of a copy of this book, i e second page (folio 1v) of manuscript 66 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawley_map

There are no follow up pictures that I know of*. No picture of Brittany or of the Holy Land or of Egypt or of Russia. No, there is no higher resolution than c. 1/2 the actual land hemisphere on 20 cm × 30 cm or 11.8 in × 7.9 in. If you are a general, it may be OK as a way to figure out a general travel route from Scotland to the Holy Land, for a Crusade, for instance, but it's not sth you can use in order to adapt a strategy to the actual terrain of an area.

Such smaller areas shown on maps of higher resolution didn't enter into the ceremonial purpose of viewing the inhabited world between the four angels of Apoc. 7:1. Nor were they needed to figure out a sea route across the Mediterranean or the North Sea.

Also:

Around 1,100 mappae mundi are known to have survived from the Middle Ages. Of these, some 900 are found in illustrated manuscript books and the remainder exist as stand-alone documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mappa_mundi

To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water. Rather, mappae mundi were schematic and were meant to illustrate different principles. The simplest mappae mundi were diagrams meant to preserve and illustrate classical learning easily. The zonal maps should be viewed as a kind of teaching aid – easily reproduced and designed to reinforce the idea of the Earth's sphericity and climate zones. T-O maps were designed to schematically illustrate the three land masses of the world as it was known to the Romans and their medieval European heirs.

As I said. Few and not very useful in the practical sense, apart from being a teaching aid. A very ligne claire or Hergé version of an image d'Épinal.

Even their existence is due to some cultural factors that cannot be presumed for just each and every kind of society with a similar level of technology.

Why do I mention this? The fact is, I gave an answer on why the Witchking of Angmar didn't know where the Shire was, even though it was part of the Northern kingdom, of Arnor, and the Witchking conquered it. Many had stated the Witchking didn't know the hobbits called it The Shire. I stated, the Witchking couldn't have found it on a map, because he didn't have any.

And he didn't have any, because maps were not an everyday object.

If Guderian wants to invade Russia or if Zhukov wants to take Berlin, they have no problems getting maps of enemy territory, because local and regional maps are everyday objects, printed in the millions. This is not how Attila the Hun got into France or even how the Teutonic order (as far as I know) planned their failed attempt at Tannenberg in 1410. Neither of them could trust someone to sneak in as a civilian behind enemy lines and just buy a map in a shop. There were no shops where you could buy maps. They were luxury items.

Now, Third Age 1409 and the previous and ensuing centuries is basically meant to be reminiscent of the Dark Ages or Age of Migrations, but a bit more devastating (mimicking the depopulation of much of Europe prior to the migration from Yamnaya). In Third Age 3018 and 3019 (main setting of Lord of the Rings), it's 1418 / 1419 in the Shire calendar, and that is a pretty good indication of the part of the Middle Ages that Tolkien was thinking of, in part, (like the end involves an alternative ending to the siege of Constantinople, one in which the invader is driven back).

The second best attack** on Tolkien's plotting turns around the equivalent of pretending that King Arthur could have walked into a shop to buy maps for the area around Constantiniple, in Nennius. Monty Python might have done that to the Arthuriad, but Tolkien wouldn't.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Pentecost Thursday
28.V.2026

PS, if for some reason you still don't get it, one influence Tolkien was on me was getting into the real Christian Middle Ages a bit more than the usual Disney slop or worse./HGL

*I'm by far no expert on this manuscript or the whole work, so there might be a surprise in for me. I only know it from wikipedia. ** The first and third best attacks are about getting into Morder, company of the ring versus armies of Gondor.