Oddbean

i dunno, it was odd because as someone suggested "maybe the black ones were just killed off" but on the other hand, it occurred to me that maybe there has been a lot of white ones here a very long time supposedly lol... humans have only been here 600 years, according to portuguese government but there is definitely a pyramid on the canaries, at least one, and i'm rather wearied of seeing in person these antiquities and then someone tells me "but the government banned them from digging any deeper". In bulgaria, under plovdiv, they found 6500 years worth of antiquities and halted it. there is 7 hills in that town, that could well be either pyramids or at least artificial, i've been on top of two of them, one has this epic 100m tall statue on it, made by communists i suppose, some general The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya starts right in early at this story about a 400 light year away star going supernova, it refers to it as Geminga, about 40,000 years ago... it says that the radiation that came from that blast, full of x-gamma-cosmic rays, sterilised much of the pacific/indian ocean region (ie australia and antarctica) and the survivors on the edges of the blast zone had mutations, and two important mutations, which it refers to repeatedly as relating to genetic "haplogroups" that had the lactose switch disabled and the white skin/blonde/red hair mutation it later on mentions the idea that the ancient greeks talked about a place called "tartarus" the lake of fire, ie "hell"... and it speculates that this may actually be the volcano on tenerife, in the canaries, the main, biggest island (which also has a pyramid or two, well, of course very decayed to be difficult to recognise. Tartarus is the word for "hell" in the new testament. it also talks about the center of atlantis being possibly the geological formation today known as the Richat Sructure, because it has the concentric rings of different kinds of rock that lend themselves to being turned into the concentric canal system described in Plato's Critias... which I've read, because of this, and i concur this seems plausible, and it talks about how there was an event that burned out most of north africa forming the desert, but used to be a massive river flowing west out towards modern Mauritania and through the area of the Richat Structure... so i'm of the opinion that probably the mutation of white hair blue eyes possibly was coincident between the animals and the humans of this region and for the humans it conferred some kind of benefit, like, maybe a lot more energy because they were in this temperate zone with white skin and a lot more UV and such and other light colours increasing various enzymes and whatnot and they became.... well, "godlike" so, the white cats seem to me like a remant of this somehow, and i really don't believe that there is any way that if humans were sailing across to south america in the times when the maya and inca and aztecs talked about their "gods" visiting them and how when Cortez showed up they thought the gods had returned... there is a natural sailing route across through the island chain of which Madeira and Porto Santo are the first two, and there is ancient greek accounts of these islands referring to them as the "Blessed Isles" i'm sure you will find even more to back this up but my point here is that these cats have very little transit to the rest of the world and they probably arrived here long ago, there is also rabbits here too and unless they originated here (could be, since also blackbirds and canaries also originated here) then the only way they could have got here is by humans bringing them in any case, it could just be that the portuguese 600 years ago who came here liked white cats, but i like to think they are a sign of something deeper... and it's not just the cats, up the road from me is a full white dog (with blue eyes also), and i have seen quite a number of those too, this whole island chain was originally named after the presence of dogs and then consider the tartarus story and the "charon" ferryman to "hell" ie tartarus and the three headed dog Pluto/Hades... if you dig into the myths about hell in ancient greek and roman i bet you can find more than a few more correspondences