Trebha got the time travel pictures treatment. He did look marvellous down through the ages. He was so happy with what I showed him. As with all creativity it is time consuming, finding photos and cropping other people out of them, and when the pictures arrive going through every one, selecting only the ones that bear the best resemblance, as certainly many do not. With Trebha, it's as if he is a time traveller already, as portrayed.
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My developing of a goddess inspired psychic ability is for me hopefully a doorway by which to connect to my ancestors. That's my greatest wish in all this. Many things are there to be felt and known. For long my dreams have been a portal to such worlds, even my Caucasus ancestresses visiting me in this way. Jeremy now got my focus for creating historical photos, my gift for him. It was another thrill to see him in all different era's, rugged looking, fromn Vikings to the Wild West; so many good pictures there. A couple of other friends, Nitai and Stephen Marcus, have been experimenting with AI created pictures of themselves. Nitai made mention of their being much disapproval of this new trend. And then I got a comment online from a French woman, an emoji of crying, and an outright statement that this new technology is killing the artists. So it's a thing apparently to dish on this new technology. Likely artists were up in arms about the development of photography too. But what these technologies have done is to open up possibilities for the masses who never before had such priviledge. Only the rich and powerful had their portraits painted, their family memories to retain, until photography reached out to the masses. And could I ever have afforded artists to create such lovely portraits of my daughters - a definite no. There will always be a place for art. Everything changes, evolves. The new can become a tool of creativity, adding to the arts. The door has already opened; it's done. I really don't want to get lured into reactionary debates. There are still many around me who refuse to have televisions in their homes, for regarding them as bad, what to speak of constant issue with the internet and social media. This is the Age of Aquarius and technological innovations are very much a part of that. Rather than judging such inventions I am embracing them in my own creative ways. But so it is, always the will in others to argue and censor every step that is taken in life. It's exhausting, the constant noise of human minds and attitudes.
Diving into my son George's archeo-genetics I saw he was of the European tribes, markedly of the Visigoths, but also the Illyrians, Gauls, Franks and Thuringii. His actual closest modern connections were to France and Spain, before even his Italian. It was interesting how his Italian father, Francesco, had been so drawn to this area in which we now lived, especially to the Visigoths, who had sacked Rome, and with him having been so anti-Rome, and of his pro-piracy, which was the past-time of the Illyrians. And, then again, how apt that George had French nationality. George's closest archeo-genetic match was to a Gaul in Lombardy. His second was to a Scythian Moldovan (ah, like his sister Rosina), this being a woman who again had Gaul dna, so being a woman who had married into the Scythians. Thirdly there was a match to a woman of the Thuringii tribe found in Bavaria, her head having been fashioned during her youth into an unnatural state, according to a noble's ideas of beauty at the time, and who was buried with her jewellery. Fourthly there was another Lombard burial, this time the dna being of the Franks. Then there was a bronze age Gaul, then a mixed Gaul Illlyrian found in Germany, then a bronze age mixed Frank Illyrian found in Prague, then a mixed Frank Ostrogoth found in Hungary; and lastly a bronze age burial in Serbia of a mixed Gaul Etruscan. Interestingly, Serbia was listed as one of George's modern populations. And like me he had a genetic connection to King Louis XVI of France. The dna of King Louis XVI was mainly Illyrian mixed with Roman, Gallo-Roman, Thracian and Roman-Hispanian. So George was, through his father, very much of the tribes of Europe. From me he had Roman gladiators, massacred Vikings and Merovingian nobles. And amazingly he had a Greek connection to one of the people who had perished in the Himalayas at Roopkind lake, this being another match to Rosina's own ancestors. Really interesting to see was that George had a match to crusader from Tuscany who had gone to the Holy Land, found there in Lebanon where he had been slain by either the Moslems or the Mongols. A connection to plague victims was made mention of as well. I now turned to looking at my Aunty Lolly's archeo-genetic dna, she being my fathers sister. Her ancient dna was pretty much like mine really, of Celts, Saxons, Franks, Danish Vikings and Vandals. And of modern populations she was mostly Irish and Welsh. Her closest archaic match was to the Bell Beaker peoples. Many individuals of Britain and Europe had good matches to Lolly. Lastly I was looking at my mothers archeo-genetics, aha, so very Viking. Her largest influence was of Icelandic Vikings, after which were Saxons, Celts, Vandals and Danish Vikings. Iceland appeared to be part of the wider domain of her Shetland seafarers, her father being of a Shetland family. One Viking, a victim of the Saint Brice massacre at Oxford, was close in genetics to my mother. Even this connection was classed as very unique, for which all research categories were freely opened up for this individual, which others would have to pay for. Although this young man was a Viking his dna was very mixed, there being primarily Celt and secondly Icelandic viking. This would be attributed to the Viking pioneers having taken native celtic girls for their wives. Other less dominant dna types in this individual were Saxon, Vandal and Pict. Likely then this Viking individual was linked to our Shetlanders and maybe even was a direct ancestor. I'd already come to understand by now that our Shetland ancestors were not exclusively Viking, as had been previously presumed. As it could be seen by the example of early settlers of Iceland, regardless that those pioneers were Viking men, they took along with them many Irish slaves, the most alluring women of which they made wives of. These women were Celts and Picts, and though their men folk had the fate of being enslaved and massacred, as was generally the way of the more attractive women throughout ancient history, their beauty saved them. Another match to my mother was of a Celt in bronze age Scotland, discovered during landscaping work in the garden of Evergreen House on the East Lothian coast. Those remans formed part of a larger bronze age burial ground. Other matches to Icelandic Vikings came up, one being a Gaelic Viking mix and this person being one of the last Vikings to still practise the Norse religion before all would embrace Christianity. All I was discovering was so interesting to me, and yet it was late and sleep was overwhelming me, for which I had to suspend all for now. |
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