AtDtDA(28): God Didn't Do This?

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:18:02 CDT 2008


Dave Monroe wrote:
> For a long time, there had been tribal feuds between a group of Tungus
> clans in the basin of the Stony Tunguska and clans living along the
> right tributaries of the Lower Tunguska. Eventually, this hostility
> resulted in the shamans sending their evil spirits against each other
> to cause diseases. Then one of the shamans called the Agdy to destroy
> the hated enemies. In the early morning of the 30th June 1908 an
> interminable legion of Agdy came flying down upon the grounds of the
> Shanyagir clan and brought disaster to many families of the Shanyagir

as Monte said: primitive magic != goodness

I read somewhere that the Solar System in its progress
through space is supposedly flying out of a relatively clear region
and entering a more debris-ridden region for the next few
thousand years...at least I remember reading that about
10 years ago...
(if true, how do they know?)
(if true, will there be more Tunguska Evenks?)



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