Well, after a month and a half, we finally moved most of the pages to Spells Street. We had already moved most of them over, but hadn't edited them to cross link in their new home. We had to design the new logo and change the addressing of the images and local links, which we had included more of the address than necessary in the linkage. We still have many images to upload for some of the link listings, where we will make local copies of site banners. The banners loaded much slower when we linked them to the original sites.

The purpose of this new site is to specialize in an area that was taking up much of the menu and detracting from other unrelated items at the old site. There were some items in the site that didn't mix well, and now we can devote the old site to family matters, genealogy, family photos, etc. The old site is still there and we haven't yet removed either the pages or the menu links to the Thelema and Kabala and Esoteric pages. - - - One thing at a time.

Meanwhile, we had gotten side-tracked and joined another group where we set up a few pages on Assyriology, or Sumerology, or actually, pre- Sumerology. On that site, we have taken on the identity of the major god of one of the earliest known recorded myths in existence. The story line source is taken from salvaged clay tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish which have only recently been fully translated. The location is at Ancient Sites where everyone has the ability to have two home pages, one of which consists of a four or five room cyber residence in the city of choice. (They also give you walls, furniture, and a choice of character images, with the option of uploading your own.) Here is a link to Anu's heavenly home page which also links to the cyber residence in Babylon.

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Spells Street is gone

In the last few months of the year 2000, the Web Page Server at Fortune City has undergone some changes. One of these changes has to do with the file structure of the server. The user pages are no longer listed under a cyber town (subdivision) and a cyber street, as they were when I moved in. Although I moved in as willnet1, I was assigned the address of #11 Spells Street in Roswell and a URL of http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/spells/11. And now the address is as you see it.

In two years, a lot has changed. The internet has grown. And many webmasters have moved their sites as often as they have changed ISP's. A lot of my links have gone dead, and I have a hard time finding the new locations. Instead of linking to a relevant page, it is sometimes better to make a temporary "mirror" of the relevant linked page, with credits to the original author or researcher. But authors want to update their sites, and a "mirror" doesn't usually get updated. I had one link where the author completely changed his mind about a major premise. I guess it isn't quite fair to continue to quote him in an old context with which he no longer agrees.

Take Machiavelli, for instance. In The Prince, he promoted the theory of "might makes right" and of forcing a political situation on the population. Later in life, he recants that theory, saying that it did not apply to populations with a higher level of learning and sophistication. In other words, the Spaniards were right in destroying the "uncivilized" Mayan/Aztec culture and imposing their own religious and political standards


I have to move this thought to a different thread . . .


To be continued.

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