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Howard West | Locked Gates: Technological Advancements of the Ancient Past | Part 1 of 2

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The Enemies of the storytellers of the past have always been a cynical People. These gatekeepers of knowledge have relegated the spinners of silk stories such as: The Labors of Hercules, Osiris and Isis, and Noah's Flood to the status of Fairytales. The same was true about Homer's works, and his great poems that described a civilization of chariots, fleets of ships, warriors, and palaces, which once flourished on the Greek mainland. For years the gatekeepers have discounted Homer's story of the expedition to Troy. All these stories have thought to have been colossal and compelling pieces of fictions, on the same lines as today's writers of fiction as Dean Koontz, Dan Brown, and Ann Rice. Even so, the wiser sort of Greek knew perfectly well that those myths and legends contained deeper meanings. Aristotle (in his Metaphysics, x8) admits, with regard to Greek mythology, that much wisdom had been lost, and much "added after the mythical style," while some knowledge, "may have been preserved to our times as the