I've been considering my food sensitivities and how this is genetically inherited via my father and my nanny Eileen, both of whom, in sticking to commonly accepted foods ultimately deteriorated health wise. I've had to eliminate so much of traditional food, to the point of being a fussy eater no-one can entertain. But that seems to be working for me. And, yes, I've said it before, that I tend to think it's the Cheddar caveman's own genes, very primitive and ancient, , which I appear to share to quite some extent, restricting what I can eat and handle. On the other side of my dads family are Pop's long life genes, he being a centenarian, and my having discovered that his Wonastow ancestresses lived even beyond 100. Myself, arriving at the age of 61, I look some ten years younger, which I'm hoping is because I've inherited that same long life gene. Sussing out what foods and substances are as if poisons to me, I free up the path for the long life gene to dominate. I actually watched a documentary about centenarian 'blue spots' around the world, which focused on Okinawa in Japan, Ikaria a Greek island and the ancients of Sardinia. It's so that the ancient Balari of Sardinia shows up in my archeogenetic dna, so has this originated there? Or Greece? Or the Caucasus? But, yes, maybe the Balari. Or maybe Wonastow has its own blue magic going on. I have never yet been to that village, whereas I have experienced a whole month of exploring Sardinia. Looking up about Sardinia I see that the people genetically closest to them are the Basque, which I also have genetic links to.
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Much absorbed in my oracle cards project, I wanted to generate Indian style goddesses via the AI art, as had been so with Harshita and Priyanka's avatars, prompted by the Indian jewellery they had worn at their weddings. So I donned a couple of sari's for photos and draped necklaces over myself, along with bindi and pendant dangling over my third eye. I was not rewarded with any Indian style AI goddess pictures at all, and what's more, my amber beads which I had worn around my head in some of the photos I'd taken, were replicated in nearly every photo. I wasn't so impressed at first, but then realised a few of those amber bead ones, particularly in the galactic and a few other categories, had come out well. And it dawned on me that I was looking at something known to our paleolithic ancestors. Amber was popular item of jewellery for our ancients, empowering, protective, and beautiful. They were considered to be sun ray particles, and even the tears of nymphs, and to have magical potency. Anciently amber was sourced from Sicily, and then from the Baltic, and was as if gold in value. There was a amber trading route down through the rivers of Europe, now being recreated as a cycling track. Our ancients absolutely adored amber and those AI pictures were as if they were reaching out to me to show me this. The AI generated pictures were beautiful really, some of the third eye pendants even being marked with fossilised insects in them, as is often the way with some types of amber. My own chunky amber necklace I had got from the Tibetans in Dharamsala. In understanding how special this was to my ancestors I now appreciated it all the more. Carnelian beads, which I also have, from my friend Akila, given to me by her son after her death, were also loved by the ancients. Green jade, another much liked, was also to be found in Europe. Garnet, another bead necklace I have, was another popular with the ancients. And not to forget seashells, like the cowries I liked as a child, ivory (gifted to me by an uncle living in Africa), tusk and bone, and birds talons. The amber, I was so loving it. AI had revealed something to me there. It was my goddess cards which had urged me with this idea to glam up ethnically for the photos; an intent I could not have forseen. Looking more at amber in antiquity, wow, an amber head of Medusa was one of the engravings these jewels would have, with her snake hair, and anyway did that not speak really of plaits and dreadlocks, for which snake hair has always been a trend. Amber was dedicated to female divinities and amber objects would be buried with women and their children. So it was that amber was special to the divine feminine. Pliny wrote of amber that the French Celtic women wore amber necklaces, not only for adornment, but because of its medicinal properties, healing tonsillitis and other throat ailments. As I have seen it that babies in France are to this day gifted amber amulets, so it was in ancient times too. Christianity tried to put an end to all this, declaring it to be diabolic, due to amber being considered to have magical properties. Sometimes amber beads were tear drop shaped and sometimes crescent shaped. One large amber bead with the head of a gorgon, as in Medusa and her sisters, had around it the heads of humans and wild felines. It was written of old that a mother would bless amber in the sunlight every morning and then hang it around her childs neck, thereby keeping her child safe, healthy and alive. For the magic of amber to be accessed it would be touched, kissed, stroked and rubbed. Of prehistoric caves, amber has been found in the Aurensian and Isturitz caves of the Pyrenees, and interestingly in the Cheddar caves of England it has been found, where was found the Cheddar man whom I share quite some archeogenetic dna with, as well as in other British caves such as Cresswell Crags and Star Carr. In the Isturtz cave not only was amber found as a bead but also as a horses head. The Cheddar caves people also used seashells as ornamentation. In the Isturtz cave, in which Neanderthals had lived prior to more modern humans, there have been discovered to be cave paintings. Flutes made of bone and ivory have also been found, this being the first known prehistoric musical instruments.
Ella May was messaging me to try the latest Myheritage gimmick which fashions from ones face ancient and historical images. Ella had some beautiful results in this. But try as I might the app wouldn't work for me, a statement coming up that I have used the full quota of photographs already, this being on my family tree which I have with them, for which I am required therefore to upgrade, but to do so costs over 200 euros! So, whereas it cost Ella a tenner, I don't even get that same option. Kind of a glitch I would say. Well a week later, due to Myheritage offering to resolve this by giving me free photo storage, I could at last access the wonder of time travel pictures. And most of those photos were ridiculous, but enough gems were there to make the £10 worth while. As with Ella May's pictures it was the royal ones that came out as the most stunning. I was having such fun with this. On tiktok a guy who loves ethnic ancestry was doing a 'live'. Actually I only caught the tail end of it, but when I commented that I've seen through archeogentics that I have Balari ethnic ancestry from Sardinia, he got excited about them being the original Neolithic farmers, the highest amount to be found in the whole of Europe. I got creative, making a couple of tiktoks, one of my AI time travel pictures, and a rehash animation of my ancient relative the Cheddar Gorge man. I would love to tune into my hunter gatherer family from those times, in that place, to connect maybe through the dna from them that remains in me. My vast ancestral variety, tuning in somehow, psychically; how interesting that would be. I got offered such a good deal to renew my lapsed Myheritage membership, 80% off. They wanted me back, so I did it.
Ancient dna comparison was blowing my mind and I was both totally focused on and excited about this. I'd been on my terrace looking at some genealogy tiktoks, when I came across one which was so very interesting. An English girl, Bobbie, was showing how to upload ethnic dna to an archeo-genetic site 'myancestry.com' which compared ones dna to dna extracted from ancient bodies.
Oh wow; of course I had to get into this. And I messaged about it to Ella May, who did likewise. She was more speedy about getting her transfer done than I was. And some patience was requuired till all was processed. What emerged was so exciting for me. And as the information was only freely available for a couple of days I had to totally immerse myself in discovering all that was of relevance. By this I arrived at who were my closest ancient peoples, dominant of whom were the Celts; the other close groups being Saxons, Franks, Danish Vikings and Vandals. Vandals - Ho! They were barbarian Central European peoples.
And apart from those there was a link to the Balari tribe of Sardinia.
And to the Vascones of the Basque lands.
Of ancient remains which I specifically genetically matched, they were varied, and one particularly excellent match was to the Cheddar Man of Cheddar Gorge, Britians oldest discovered skeleton, dna having been extracted from one of his teeth. He had lived about 10,000 years ago, had dark skin, black hair and green eyes, wavy hair, was lactose intolerant and was of a hunter gatherer type (acccording to the analysis of his dna).
And I was matched to ancient bodies found at Stonehenge, it now being understood, from looking at the conditions of these remains and from how far some came, that Stonehenge was an ancient pilgrimage place where pilgrims would come for healing, much like Lourdes is today.
And I had matched to Roman Gladiators, to Vikings wounded in battle, to the Beaker culture, to Bronze Age peoples in Britain and France, to Merovingian nobles, to someone around at the time of the French revolution, to Viking men and their Irish women who had settled Iceland, and to the royals of Europe, there even being a genetic connection to Louis XVI.
As far as my nearest modern genetics were concerned, this was mostly Irish, although on one map of links I could see Welsh was closely there too.
I just had to make a tiktok of this fascinating new subject.:
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