Nathan Katz: Annele Balthasar

I confess that my favorite among Gunnar Heinsohn's books has always been Die Vernichtung der Weisen Frauen, on the witch-hunts of the Renaissance, which he wrote together with Otto Steiger. It remains one of my regrets that the book has never been translated. I had Gunnar's book in mind last fall, when I translated from Alsatian into English and standard German the play by the Jewish-Alsatian poet Nathan Katz (1892-1981) S'Annele Balthasar, on the 1589 trial of a young peasant girl accused of witchcraft . I was in the middle of translating when Gunnar informed me of his illness. I sent him the finished translation in German and he appreciated it. He deemed it "liebevoll." We talked about it at some length when I last visited him in Gdansk in January, one month before his death. He was much interested in the original Alsatian language, and in its translation. There was a bold literary streak to Gunnar, not well known. As a young man, when Al de Grazia and I first knew him, he was, together with Chris Marx, an ardent fan of Arno Schmidt. 

I am bringing here Nathan Katz and my translation of his 1924 masterpiece, Annele Balthazar, to the English speaking public, wishing them godspeed!

Anne-Marie de Grazia

Read: Nathan Katz: Annele Balthasar (in English) 

also available in German (Deutsch).

Nathan Katz by Henry Solveen

Hermann Burchard: The unknown and unknowable 365 AD comet impact

On 21 July AD 365 a quake of magnitude ∼ 8 struck near Crete.  It destroyed every
city on the island, with widespread devastation in a large region from the Balkans to N
Africa, from the Nile to NE Libya.  The extreme W Coast of Crete was lifted up by 10 m
& the quake generated a tsunami, that carried ships 3 km inland at Alexandria, Egypt.

Here, in this note we announce that a large cosmic object, a meteorite or asteroid,
impacted planet Earth on that day, most likely a comet. 

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New research supports Gunnar Heinsohn's thesis on the origins of the Polish people 

Gunnar Heinsohn dies in Gdansk, Feb. 16, 2023

Gunnar Heinsohn dies Gdansk 2023

Rome and Jerusalem - a stratigraphy-based chronology of the ancient world - by Gunnar Heinsohn

"...Historians are not aware that they have duplicated and extended history by employing two different dating schemes. The period from the 9th to the 6th century BC follows the chronology used in the Hebrew Bible. Dates from the 6th to 3rd/2nd centuries are mostly derived from Greek (Herodotus etc.) or Latin texts. Livius, however, already employed the same historical narratives several times to show ‘evidence’ back to 753 BC (Maier 1989). In reality, pre-Hellenistic Hebrew writers (supposedly active from the 9th to the 6th c. BC) and Greeks/Romans (writing 6th-4th c. BC) dealt with the same time-span of the first millennium BC. It is the period of the Akhaemenids (see already Heinsohn 1996; 2006a; 2006b). These Persian rulers are currently dated – after the fall of the Medish empire – from the 6th to the 4th century BC..."

Gunnar Heinsohn: Jerusalem in the First Millennium AD - Stratigraphy and the scholarly belief in Anno Domini chronology 

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The 124 page article wrapping-up Gunnar Heinsohn's Jerusalem First Millennium chronology.
(with Aug. 2021 update:  Arab Coinage Hiatus)

Neanderthal News 2020 - Part VI: "Travel"

altai neanderthal (hybrid of denisovan?)

Researchers found that the Eurasian populations could trace some genetic material back to two different Neanderthal lineages: one represented by a Neanderthal whose remains were discovered in the Vindija cave in Croatia, and another represented by a Neanderthal whose remains were discovered in the Altai mountains. They also discovered that the modern-day populations they studied also share genetic deletions — areas of DNA that are missing — with both the Vindija and Altai Neanderthal lineages.

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Gunnar Heinsohn: ANNO DOMINI and the distortion of scientific dating

anno domini

"The origin of AD dating is not verifiable before the 11th century AD (with the exception of some manuscripts that have never been analyzed scientifically). Thus, there is no place in the 1st millennium AD where historians or chronologists would have kept a complete record of the years AD 1-1000..."

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Neanderthal News 2020 - Part V: Lifestyles

neanderthal lissoirs of pech de l'azé and abri peyrony in France

One day in 2011, undergraduate student Naomi Martisius was sorting through tiny bone remnants in the UC Davis paleoanthropology lab when she stumbled across a peculiar piece. The bone fragment, from a French archaeological site, turned out to be a part of an early specialized bone tool used by a Neandertal before the first modern humans appeared in Europe. Used to smooth tough animal hides, the tools were made about 50,000 years ago by Neandertals. The specialized tools are still used today, in similar form, to smooth and refine leather made into high-end purses and jackets.

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Neanderthal News 2020 - Part IV: Women and children

neanderthal family Field Museum

A hormone called progesterone is important for preparing the uterine lining for egg implantation and in maintaining the early stages of pregnancy. Almost one in three women with European descent inherited a genetic variant of the progesterone receptor called V660L from Neanderthals. According to a new study, its carriers have higher fertility, more siblings, fewer miscarriages, and less bleeding during early pregnancy.

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DO NOT MISS: December 21, super-close conjunction Jupiter-Saturn

On the 21st of December, Jupiter and Saturn will be in a Great Conjunction, close enough to appear as a single bright ‘star. The last time the two planets appeared this close was on July 16, 1623... This close alignment will appear in the southwest, just after sunset. The planets will be visually only 1/10 of a degree apart. Otherwise, Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions occur approx. every 20 years...

Gunnar Heinsohn: Did Comet Heinrich-Swift-Tuttle terminate Roman and global civilization?

comet (heinrich) swift-tuttle
"It was that Atlantis-like 930s cataclysm that caused the FALL OF ROME. Invasions of Huns, Goths, and Arabs [“Migration Period”] preceded this disaster by some 70 years...."
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Neanderthal News 2020 - Part III: Health - theirs and ours

Neanderthal reconstruction by Entressangles, Daynes

Scientists have claimed that a strand of DNA that triples the risk of developing severe Covid-19 was passed on from Neanderthals to modern humans. The genetic endowment, a legacy from more than 50,000 years ago, has left about 16% of Europeans and half of south Asians today carrying these genes. They also had heightened sensitivity to pain, could tolerate smoke emanations better than was thought, and would have found it easier to use a hammer than pick up a coin.

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Neanderthal News 2020 - Part II: the Denisovans

Denisovan girl

We know much better now what de Denisovans, an extinct sister group of the Neanderthals, looked like, their mitochondrial DNA (inherited from their mothers) and their Y chromosomes (inherited from the fathers) have been sequenced and evaluated...

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Neanderthal News 2020 - Part I: the Superarchaics

homo erectus credit yale university

In a little bit over a year, our knowledge of Neanderthals and of their ancestors, the Superarchaics and the Denisovans, has greatly expanded. 

"Genes from fossils have shown that the ancestors of many living people mated with Neanderthals and with Denisovans, a mysterious group of extinct humans who lived in Asia. Now, a flurry of papers suggests the ancestors of all three groups mixed at least twice with even older “ghost” lineages of unknown extinct hominins..."

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The Unification of the Globe by disease - 14th-17th centuries - I. & II.

French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

By French Annales historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

I. The voyage of the Plague by flea-hop along the Silk Road...

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II. The cataclysmic integration of the Americas and Oceania into the Eurasian disease-world. 

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Gunnar Heinsohn: St Paul - did he live once, thrice or not at all?

Saint Paul - portrait by State Criminal Department of North-Rhine - Westphalia, Germany (2008).

"It might come as a surprise, but outside our New Testament records we have very little additional historical information about Paul other than the valuable [although 300 years later; GH] tradition that Jerome [347-420 AD] preserves for us that he was born in the Galilee..."

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Earth and Moon once had a common atmosphere and magnetic field

earth-moon ancient common magneti -field-NASA

The moon may have kept our planet’s atmosphere safe from a more active sun 4 billion years ago, with a magnetic field that has long since disappeared, says a new NASA-led study

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Gunnar Heinsohn: Hadrian Umayyads in Jerusalem

The Heinsohnian "First Millennium" stratigraphy of Jerusalem...

Reading from Claude Schaeffer's Stratigraphie comparée...

Claude Schaeffer, French archaeologist
Chapters from one of the greatest archaeologists of the 20th century, Claude Schaeffer's, legendary book, Comparative Stratigraphy and Chronology of Western Asia in the III and II Millennia, now to be read here, in a translation by Anne-Marie de Grazia.

An organic origin in space for water on Earth (and some oil, too)?

Prof. Akira Kouchi, Hokkaido University

Prof. Akira Kouchi and University of Hokkaido are looking into the matter...

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Gunnar Heinsohn: Were there really no people in Poland between 300 and 600 AD?

In a conference given at the Polish Naval Museum on July 7, 2020, Gunnar Heinsohn gives an overview of his First Millennium revised chronology from the standpoint of Poland...

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Gunnar Heinsohn: Ravenna and Chronology

Gunnar Heinsohn’s RAVENNA AND CHRONOLOGY is a 100 page, abridged English version of his 550-page German manuscript WIE LANGE WÄHRTE DAS ERSTE JAHRTAUSEND? (How long did the First Millennium last?) Q-MAG.org will present RAVENNA AND CHRONOLOGY in three parts, abundantly illustrated.

I asked Gunnar Heinsohn if we may end up having to go back behind Michael Psellos (ca. 1018-1078 AD) and start A.D. history all over again? His answer was: YES! (...)

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Neanderthal string

neanderthal string discovery abri-du-maras, france

At the Neanderthal excavation site Abri-du-Maras,near the river Ardèche, in France, the discovery of a piece of string definitely establishes the cognitive abilities of the Neanderthals.

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New fine-tuning of radiocarbon dating can "rewrite" ancient events

A single Northern Hemisphere calibration curve has formed the basis of radiocarbon dating in Europe and the Mediterranean for five decades, setting the time frame for prehistory. However, as measurement precision increases, there is mounting evidence for some small but substantive regional (partly growing season) offsets in the same-year radiocarbon levels.

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The new skeleton at the Neanderthal "flower cemetery."

Shanidar Z, burial attitude

Decades ago, the discovery of flower-pollen around the skelettal remains of Neanderthals in the Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan gave rise to an enduring controversy around the question of whether the Neanderthals might have grieved for their dead.

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Tristan Carter: Naxos-Neanderthals - the big paper

the team of Stelida Neanderthal Archaeological Project digging on Alfred de Grazia's land


The evidence for early presence of Neanderthals and earlier hominins on the Greek Aegean island of Naxos, as discovered on the land of Alfred de Grazia, shortly after his death... (See here)

>>>Here, we detail evidence from excavations at the chert source of Stelida on what today is the island of Naxos in the middle of the Aegean Basin, where paleodosimetric dates suggest that hominins were present in the region by 200 ka ago, accessing the chert quarry during a glacial lowstand when exposed land connected Anatolia to continental Southeast Europe, by seafaring, or through some combination of the two. Throughout the remainder of the Pleistocene, this region was occupied and/or traversed at least sporadically, including by early H. sapiens ~40 to 30 ka ago (who may have arrived by boat), and later by indisputably seafaring Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of the Early Holocene...<<<

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Wal Thornhill: The SAFIRE Project


Wal Thornhill presents the SAFIRE Project, a courageous, privately funded scientific experiment designed to test the theory of an electric (as against thermo-nuclear) powered Sun. 
The SAFIRE Project - video One

Now available: Q-ENCY - the Encyclopaedia of Quantavolution and catastrophism

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It was one of Alfred de Grazia's long-cherished projects, first evoked with the publishers of McMillan in the 1980s. (See article "Encyclopaedia of Quantavolution" in the Q-Ency Encyclopaedia). 

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neanderthal stelida naxos exhibition flyer

"Neanderthals on Naxos" exhibition at the Municipal Center, Naxos, 2018 (poster)

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The "Neanderthals in Naxos" exhibition - Summer 2018

neanderthal artefacts discovered at Stelida, Naxos (replica)
If you couldn't make it up the hill of the kastro on the Cycladic Island of Naxos, Greece, in the Aegean Sea, this Summer, we are bringing you the "Neanderthals in Naxos" exhibition home to your favorite screens...

Bonus: A Diego Rivera in Naxos - Summer 2018

Stunning new murals by Indonesian artist WD, on the derelict hotel site in Alyko.
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Alfred de Grazia's seafaring Neanderthals of Stelida, Naxos

neanderthal stelida naxos exhibition flyer

From Science to the American School of Classical Studies, to Archaeology News, to the SIS Review, the archaeological world is abuzz with the implications of the Palaeolithic discoveries at Stelida, on the island of Naxos, Greece. The presently held conceptions about the patterns of settlement of Europe by early Man and proto-humans may well have to be drastically revised. In Alfred de Grazia's garden was discovered the earliest evidence of a human presence in any island in the Mediterranean.

Go to the article by Anne-Marie de Grazia with links to numerous articles in various languages.


The Creation of the Gods - Sacrifice as the Origin of Religion: The Book by Gunnar Heinsohn

Gunnar Heinsohn The Creation of the Gods


What is a god?
How did the priesthood, and cults of bloody sacrifices come into existence?
How did our forebears arrive at fashioning images of gods in animal- human- or mixed shapes?
Were the gods sacrificed to, or did the sacrificed become gods?
How, in short, did humanity reach this first step of higher culture?

Gunnar Heinsohn's groundbreaking work in the history of religion, based on clues from anthropology, archaeology, mythology and ancient history, is made available for the first time in English, in a serialized form, in a translation by Anne-Marie de Grazia.

serialized in Q-mag.org

Go to: The Creation of the Gods


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archive website 

Alfred de Grazia, Naxos, 2009
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With an Introduction by 

Anne-Marie de Grazia

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A word from the editor

Alfred de Grazia, Naxos, 2009
The website of Alfred de Grazia's living ideas and projects

2014 - 30th Anniversary Edition:

Alfred de Grazia: A Cloud Over Bhopal
General Eric P. Wendt, Anne-Marie de Grazia

Alfred de Grazia was made posthumously a Distinguished Member of the Regiment (DMOR) of Psychological Operations, Special Operations Command, in Fort Bragg, NC, on Oct. 31, 2014.
Anne-Marie accepted the honor in his stead from the hands of the commanding General Eric P. Wendt.

Alfred de Grazia's career in Intelligence

Alfred de Grazia, Philippe Richer

Alfred de Grazia receives the medal of the Légion d'Honneur
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The 1st Millenium A.D. Chronology Controversy

Books by
Alfred de Grazia and on quantavolution

Festschrift in honor of Alfred de Grazia's 90th birthday

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Earth and Moon once had common magnetic field and atmosphere

Gunnar Heinsohn: Hadrian Umayyads in Jerusalem

Reading from Claude Schaeffer's "Stratigraphie Comparée..."

An organic origin in space from water on Earth (and some oil, too)?

Gunnar Heinsohn: Were there really no people in Poland between 300 and 600 AD?

Ravenna and Chronology

The new (final) Tunguska theory?

The handsome dead with ram-bones

The (almost) cuddly 18,000y old puppy

Neanderthal string