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Lost World
Musings on the Oera Linda Book
I spent a sunny day laying on the grass in my back yard listening to a reading of the Oera Linda Book. In 1867 Cornelius Over Linden brought to light a manuscript he inherited from his grandfather. The book is in 6 sections and 53 chapters. The foreword was written AD 1256 and covers about 2000 years.
The Oera Linda Book was written in original Frisian by a succession of family members. Each generation being told they must keep the story going; that the events of the times were of great importance for the people of the future.
It speaks of the customs, mythology, and religious practices of this Nordic civilization. It speaks of a cataclysmic event that may line up with the great biblical flood time-wise and speaks of their lost land, Atland. Which of course, sounds like Atlantis.
As my legs got sunburned, I listened to the depiction of a civilization long ago in remote Antiquity, ruled by folk mothers, who praised the Goddess Frya (Freya) and who referenced the ultimate supreme power as Wr-alda which sounds a lot like our word, world.
Sections of the Oera Linda Book detail a complex and well-organized society with specific and detailed rules for the moral conduct of the people.
