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Oh yeah, right. Let's make sure this works. Okay, here we go. Alright. Good. Okay, well
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we've got 45,000 years of history to get through, so we better get on I think. But, I mean,
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look, you know, we've heard a lot of great lectures today, and it's all about the megalithic
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culture and their achievements over the last 5,500 years. But, in all honesty, that's not when it
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begins. It begins much, much earlier than that. In fact, I can show you that it almost certainly
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begins in the Paleolithic Age, and the evidence is mounting for this, not just with Quebec-Lutepais,
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but other places and other sites and other discoveries, which I'm going to show you today.
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But the other big question is, you know, what is civilisation? Where does civilisation come
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from? You know, and what about cosmology? All these different ideas that we find in connection with
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stone circles and other types of megalithic sites, where do they come from originally? You know,
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who contrived, who brought together these ideas for the first time? And I think I have an answer.
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To do this, we're going to have to start by going to Egypt, and look at some of the most
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iconic monuments of the world. And, of course, we're talking about the three main pyramids
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of Giza. Now, who built them, why and when are questions that we need to answer before we can
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go any further? Now, call me old-fashioned, if you like, but I think that they were actually
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constructed by the pharaohs, Khufu, Khafre and Menkara. And that almost certainly, sorry to
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flick that too quickly, they were constructed in what's known as the Old Kingdom period of
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ancient Egyptian history, in the so-called Fulf dynasty, approximately around 2550 to 2500 BC.
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But what were they? Now, I mean, obviously, there are all sorts of theories on what the
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pyramids represent, but I, again, you know, a bit of a traditionalist here, consider that they are
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tombs of pharaohs. However, the term tomb, I think, is absolutely inadequate, because when we think
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of tombs, we think of something in a churchyard. You know, it would be more accurate to refer to
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the structures as ascension machines, basically, because the whole idea was to project the soul
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or spirit of the pharaoh to the stars itself. And that's what all of the internal architecture,
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all of the cosmology, all the different ideas about them were focused on this one idea. So I
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think this is actually a good term. Now, what about the cosmology? Well, obviously, there are
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different theories and ideas, many of which you already know. But let's go back to the basics
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here, because the fourth dynasty pyramids, like those at Giza, do not have any inscriptions
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inside them. So simply from going inside and looking around, you cannot get an absolute
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accurate idea of what the death journey was of the ancient Egyptians. Plus, also, it may well be
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that there was a different death journey for the pharaoh than what there was for the common people.
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But shortly after the pyramids were constructed, the so-called pyramid texts started to appear
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inside later pyramids. And these start from around 2350 BC. And there are various pyramids,
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particularly at Saqqara and Abu Seir, which are part of the Memphis necropolis, of which
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Giza is a part, that tell us what the pharaoh had to say and the magic spells that he had to do
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in order to reach the afterlife. That's what they were basically about. And the pyramid
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texts make it clear that the soul or spirit of the pharaoh on death becomes the god Osiris.
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Okay, now Osiris was the god of death, but he wasn't just, you know, looking out over the
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dead. He was the dead god. He was the god that is dead because of the fact that his evil brother
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set, tricked him into a box and threw it into the Nile and he died. And so he represents death
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in many ways. But basically, in addition to this identification, the pharaoh had to go through a
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specific cosmic geography to reach the afterlife. And this begins with him or her going to the
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horizon, the western horizon, and then going underneath the earth in something that was
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known as the Duat. And what they would then do is go through various trials and tribulations,
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which is why they would need all these magic spells and sayings to deal with all of the
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monsters and demons and creatures that they would encounter. And he would then appear
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just before dawn on the eastern horizon and would then rise up into the sky
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to be greeted by a god named Saar and also Saar's sister, Sopdat. Now these are stars and almost
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certainly they are represented in the sky by Orion and by Sirius. Now these are constellations
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of the southern sky, essentially eastern stroke southern sky. And there doesn't seem to be any
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doubt about this. Our KO astronomers are quite happy to accept this. However, and this is the
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big, big however, the journey does not end there. Because what is quite clear from the pyramid text
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is that they're directional. They start with the sarcophagus on the western end of the chambers
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which is where they're found in various of the pyramids, in fact nearly all of them.
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And they're then directional because they tell the journey, they tell us that the journey to the
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pharaoh as he's traveling from west towards east, which obviously represents his movement through
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the duat. But then at the end, instead of it ending in the east, they then change and go
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towards the north. And the final sayings within the pyramid texts relate to, you know, that the
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pharaoh being pushed into the northern part of the sky. And here, so I'll come back to that
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second, but here is the afterlife to be found. But people will say, well, hold on, you know,
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this is obviously relating to later pyramids. What about the Great Pyramid and its neighbors? Well,
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the layout of the Great Pyramid and its neighbors is essentially the same as those from the later
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period, the fifth and sixth densities. The sarcophagus is north-south orientated, it's in
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the western side, and the directionality is exactly the same. You go to the east and then
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you turn to the north and go towards the place of the afterlife. And this is something which is quite
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obviously seen by the fact that the entrances to all of the main pyramids in the Memphis
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necropolis are towards the north. Here's the ones, for instance, behind me at Giza,
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and they all have their entrances facing towards the north. And these entrances are connected with
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these long passages, which although we call them descending passages, because obviously we're going
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into them and descending down, are like gun barrels pointing the soul or spirit of the pharaoh
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towards the north. So where do they go in the north? Well, the last two main translators of
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the pyramid texts, who is Aro Falkner and James P. Allen, both make it clear in their commentaries
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that the pharaoh is going towards what are known as the indestructible or the imperishable stars.
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In other words, the stars that revolve around the center of the sky in the north, and possibly
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even some of the stars that set just a little bit and then rise again, the so-called grazing stars.
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So this is the destination of the soul of the pharaoh, not Orion. Orion is a stepping stone
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towards the final place of the afterlife, the final land of the dead in ancient Egyptian tradition.
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So there are other things that are stated about what happens, not just after the mummy is interred
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within the sarcophagus, but where it goes after that. Because the sarcophagus, the coffin,
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even the sarcophagus chamber itself, all represent the womb of a goddess, and her name is Nuit,
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just N-U-T. Now she is the sky goddess, and we're going to be encountering her shortly,
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but basically it is suggested that the sarcophagus, and let's say the coffin and
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the chamber itself, are like a representation, like a material form of the cosmic womb of the
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goddess Nuit. So basically where in the sky is Nuit, if she's supposedly amongst the northern stars,
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well, an American astronomer by the name of Ronald Wells looked into this and has written
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various academic papers, and he is pretty certain that it was in the vicinity of the constellation
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of Cygnus. Cygnus means swan in Latin. It's a constellation of the swan or the celestial bird.
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It's seen as a different type of bird in many different countries around the world.
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And he noticed the fact that Nuit, in her role as the arched sky goddess, naked, right over the
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sky itself, bore a great similarity to the Milky Way, as it appears in the northern hemisphere.
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And he and various other Egyptologists have all concluded therefore that Nuit wasn't simply a,
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you know, a personification of the sky in general, but she was a personification of the Milky Way,
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and that the Milky Way represented the road or river along which that the spirit of the pharaoh
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reached the afterlife. In other words, there was a cosmic journey involved with Nuit herself,
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but that final rebirth would take place in the vicinity of the Cygnus constellation,
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which is located where this particular star group, sorry, sorry, where the Milky Way splits into two
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to create what's known as the dark rift, and you can see that here. And there's Cygnus there,
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and it goes all the way down to the area of the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpius.
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And yeah, that's essentially that, but I mean, the idea of seeing the Milky Way as a goddess might
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seem a little strange at first, but most of us have probably never seen the Milky Way stretching
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from horizon to horizon, because you cannot see it in this country. I mean, I've only ever seen it
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once in my life, and it was in a desert in Texas where there was no light pollution, and it's
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extraordinary. And when I looked at that, I thought, yeah, I now understand why the ancient
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Egyptians may have seen the Milky Way as this goddess arched over the earth. It makes absolute
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sense. And in later times, beyond the pyramid texts into the Middle Kingdom, it would seem that
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Nuit herself actually became a personification of the Cygnus constellation, because Cygnus,
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being connected with the swan, which is very much to do with birth and cosmic origins in
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many countries around the world, was very often seen as female and a goddess. I mean, for instance,
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in Siberia, it's associated with the goddess Umayya, who's one of the key goddesses of cosmic
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birth. In India, the goddess is Sarasvati. Her vehicle is also the swan. She also relates to
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cosmic birth, et cetera, et cetera. It's found all the way around the world. It's part of the same
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universal tradition. So if that's the case, is there some kind of geography on the ground that
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relates to this interest in this particular constellation? Well, for that, we just have to
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go back to Giza and look at a few very basic things to do with landscape geometry. Now,
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if you have three things, it doesn't matter where they are placed. They will create an arc
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of a circle. And indeed, that's the case with the three main pyramids of Giza, which you can see
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here. They form an arc. Well, if you try and trace the center of that arc, it comes to a spot just
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over two kilometers to the southeast of the pyramid field. And if you continue that line
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to just under three kilometers, in fact, it's about 2,900 kilometers along the exact line,
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something incredible can be seen. And that's the fact that the three so-called wing stars of Cygnus
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can be seen to set down into the three pyramids and extinguish into each of the three peaks,
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the three Pyramidians as they would have been originally, even though they're not there today.
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And this was work done by my colleague, Rodney Hale, who's been connected with the Earth
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mysteries since the 1970s. I worked very closely with him in a lot of this work. And what you see
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here is not just some drawing with a few lines on. This was done with a digital program that
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he created with all of the geographical coordinates of everything on the plateau,
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with all of the stars programmed into this and their movements to show how accurate this was.
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And this is what you would have seen. You'd have seen that the three wing stars, which you can see
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here, the third pyramid is on the left, and the stars would have set down one after the other
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into the three pyramids. Now there's a brighter star here, here it is again, called Deneb,
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and we'll talk about that in a second. This is the view that you see now from that location
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towards the pyramid. Myself, Hugh and JJ were there earlier on this year, and we took these
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photographs from this old factory there, but quite clearly it's a view that is probably going
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to be blocked very soon, because of all this urban development that's going up there, which is a shame,
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obviously. But not only do you have this relationship on the horizontal plane to do with
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the stars of Cygnus and the three pyramids, but it's also there in the vertical plane. Because if
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you were to go overhead those three pyramids, each one is in the exact same geographical
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positions as the three stars, as they are above. In other words, this connection with those three
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Cygnus stars works on two planes, the horizontal and the vertical, and that is very, very special
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and I think very unique. Because that's the best match of those stars against the three pyramids.
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But there's even more. Obviously this is the Sphinx, as you can see here, but I'm not focusing
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on that. I'm focusing on that rocky knoll behind it, which is known as Jebel Ghibli.
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And it's also known as Tafaya, which means the beginning, the place of the beginning,
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the place where it starts basically. And that's very interesting because I am certain that this
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was the original survey point for the plateau. In other words, at the beginning of the pyramid age,
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a surveyor went up there and measured from that point outwards and created some kind of grand
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design, which ended up with the positioning of the three pyramids. But also it's very interesting
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because from this exact point, you can see the other star in Cygnus, the big bright one, Deneb,
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set perfectly down into the peak of the second pyramid. So again, this just seems beyond
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coincidence, and this is the tracking of that star that's digitally done by Rodney Hale to show how
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accurate it is. And that's for a date of around 2550 to 2500 BC. So where did all these ideas
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come from? If there is this connection with Cygnus, where did this cosmology come from?
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Well, I think the answer is a place called Helwan, somewhere that you probably have not
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come across before. But let me explain to you why it's important. Because going back to the
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pyramid field, if you extend those lines out a little bit more, up here you've got the second
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pyramid, Jebel Ghibli, the center of the arc circle, the convergence point, as we call it,
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which is where you see the three stars of Cygnus set down into position. If you carry along that
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exact line, which some people might call a ley line, if you continue it on about 20 miles,
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you come to the center of what's today a thriving city, but was once a small village called Helwan.
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This is an incredibly important place for various reasons. Firstly, you have an incredible view
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from here of all the main pyramid fields, including Giza. This is from Baydekar's guide to Egypt,
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dating to 1884, and you can see the various pyramid fields. So there's a perfect view
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of the Giza pyramids from this point. But Helwan is important to us because in the
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late 19th century it became a spa resort because of the high elevation of the land there. It was
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the beginning also of the Arabian desert. A lot of Europeans went over there and they obviously
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started walking around. What they noticed was that around the springs, there were three different
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types of springs there. They were finding hundreds and thousands of stone tools.
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Some of them looked like this, and some of them were so beautiful, so with such perfection,
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that the Egyptologists of the period refused to accept that they were old and said,
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oh, these must be medieval, or the best to do with the ancient Egyptians.
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People like August Maria Colepsius, really famous Egyptologist of the time,
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refused to accept anything that was going on at Helwan. This is one of the reasons why we're
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only rediscovering all of this today. Because some of these tools we now know date to about 18,000 to
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19,000 BC, and continue on towards the end of the Paleolithic Age, and pick up again around 8,000 BC,
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and then carry on through the end of what's known as the pre-pottery Neolithic,
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about 6,000 BC. After that, further settlements in the area continued to tradition right the
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way down to the time of the pharaohs and the time of the pyramid age. What's also interesting
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is that there seems to be accounts, so-called building texts or creation accounts, that make
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reference to what is Helwan. At Edfu in southern Egypt, there is an incredible temple complex,
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which was constructed quite late, but replaced at an older Old Kingdom structure.
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On its walls are what's known as the building texts. Now, these talk about the creation
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of the world from the primeval waters, the first island, which is known as the island of the Egg,
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and about these primeval beings that existed there, that end up creating the first structure,
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the first enclosure. Then it talks about a cataclysm that destroyed everything and made these
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primeval beings into ghosts. Quite clearly, they were now dead, but they still were hanging around.
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And then a new set of beings turn up, who are quite clearly associated with the bird. In fact,
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the first lot were connected with the falcon as well. But the second lot are commanded by a
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leader called the falcon, and they're known as the Sheptu. And they continue the tradition after
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this cataclysm, which I'm pretty certain was this comet impact that we now know took place around
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10,800 BC, and rocked the world for several hundred years afterwards. And I think that
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almost certainly, that's what it refers to. My colleague Graham Hancock accepts this as well.
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And I think that this is something that's now pretty well established that there was something
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terrible that took place in the world around this time, and that we are only now not just
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understanding it, but accepting the fact that it did take place in such recent history.
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But these Edfrew texts talk very specifically about the area where these begin. And they
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talk about the construction of the first enclosure, where there was this structure that
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surrounds a spring or well, a primeval spring or well. And a woman by the name of A.E. Raymond,
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who was a Polish-born Egyptologist that wrote the definitive book on the Edfrew building text,
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was pretty certain that this primeval structure, the first enclosure, first temple in Egypt,
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was located somewhere in the vicinity of Memphis. Now, Memphis is on the same latitude as Helwan,
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and for various reasons which I outline in the book, I am certain that this is where she was
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referring to. And it talks about this falcon actually coming out of what appears to be the
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north and landing on this perch and establishing this second phase of activity at this place,
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and the island of the egg, which is also known as the homeland of the primeval ones.
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And what's interesting is that at Edfrew itself, not only are all these texts on the walls,
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and this is unique because it's the only place that we've got the complete text. I mean,
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they're mentioned here and there, and quite clearly they go back to the foundations
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of pharaonic history. But in the Holy of Holies, which is at the northern end, very important here,
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northern end of the Edfrew temple, which is dedicated to Horus, by the way, the falcon,
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there is this weird structure that looks like a granite sentry box, which actually represents
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what's known as the Benben stone. This is the stone of first creation, and the cult center
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at a place called Heliopolis had a similar idea of this bird coming and perching on this stone,
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known as the Benben stone, at the beginning of time, the beginning of creation, and creating
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the first day and everything else began from that position outwards, the first island, the first
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land, et cetera, et cetera. And the Heliopolitan, sorry, let me just show you that boat. Now,
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that boat is a stone boat at Edfrew, and it represents the boat down which this falcon
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descended from heaven. And look, it's facing towards the south. It came out of the north,
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and I think that this is a memory of this same tradition that the ancient Egyptians had, that
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the cosmic origins related to the north, the same place where the soul goes at death. So that's
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really, really interesting. Now, the bird of creation in Heliopolis, which is a cult center
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just to the northeast of modern-day Cairo, was this bird here. You can see it's known as the
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Benu bird. It's probably some kind of heron, but it's exactly the same story as what you find in
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connection with the Edfrew building texts, and you can see it perched on the Benben stone there.
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But what's so interesting is that Helwan was known in the past as Benu. In other words,
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the place of the Benu bird. And I argue that, and other people have suggested, Egyptologists,
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that Heliopolis itself was originally at Helwan, and that the current cult center of Heliopolis,
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which was the center of the god Ra or Re, which was very much associated with the cosmology of
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the pyramid fields at Giza, was essentially, they stole their creation myths and their
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traditions from Helwan and just basically wiped it clean and just forgot about it, basically.
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Other names of Helwan is Ann or Anu, which basically means sky or heaven, and also Ein or
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iron, which basically is the Hebrew word for spring, which again refers to the fact that
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its first settlements were formed around springs. And this was the original place of first creation
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in my opinion, and it refers to activity that was going on there, not just before the younger dry
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comet impact event, which is what they call it, the one that happened around 10,800 BC,
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but also activity that continued there afterwards, from about 8,000 BC onwards.
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And my friend, the artist Russell Hussein, created this image of what we think the original temple
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looked like at Helwan, based on everything that's given in the Edfu text and also what we know of
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the most earliest cult structures in that region from this period, which you can see here. So it's
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quite a striking image and that's in the Signs Key book. But this is where it starts getting
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interesting, because it was Professor Klaus Schmidt, a man who we know in connection with
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Gebekli Tepe, he was the rediscoverer of Gebekli Tepe in 1994, that first realised the significance
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of Helwan. And not only did he review the earliest tools that were discovered there during the 19th
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century, which there are thousands and thousands, I mean big things were going on there, no question,
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but he focused in on a particular type of projectile point, which is known as the Helwan point,
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clearly because it was first discovered at Helwan. And it was realised a long time ago that this point
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also was found at various sites in the Levant, including Jericho for instance, and it was suggested
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that its origin may have been somewhere on the middle Euphrates or whatever. But what
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Professor Klaus Schmidt realised was that examples of these were being found at Gebekli Tepe
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in South East Turkey, dating at least 11,000 years old. And that they were being found at other sites
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in the region, like Nevali Çori and another pre-Piratari Neolithic site, actually in
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Shanlöf, which is a city very close to Gebekli Tepe, and that there was clearly some relationship.
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Now he doesn't push the subject, but others have come since that, having read the paper
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that Schmidt did on this subject in 1996, which I quote indeed, because I think this is an incredibly
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important paper, because what it shows is there was a relationship between everything that was
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going on at Helwan and what was happening at Gebekli Tepe. And almost certainly what this means
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is that there may well have been a settlement with either direct or indirect links with Gebekli Tepe
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in Egypt on the edge of the Nile Valley as early as 8,000 BC. And I mean arguably earlier, but
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we'll call it that because that's what the evidence shows us at this time. So that of course brings
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us into Gebekli itself. Now many of you will obviously have seen many images of it and know
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quite a bit about it, but it was constructed initially around 9,600 BC at the very end of the
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so-called Younger Dryas event, which was this cold spell or mini ice age that lasted for 1,200 years
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after the impact event. And it consists of a series of stone enclosures with T-shaped pillars,
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many of them carved. They're like spokes of a wheel. There's a few images here. And building
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went on between about 9,600 BC to about 8,000 BC when the site was abandoned finally. By the way,
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it was not all abandoned at the same time. I mean they were gradually covering up enclosures and
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then building another one on top, or building another one to the side or whatever. I mean
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you're reading some books that they just upped and left all in one go. That's not what happened.
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They closed shop around 8,000 BC, but it wasn't necessarily because of anything dramatic,
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just that things were now changing. And the Neolithic revolution had started by the way as
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well. This is roughly what these enclosures would have looked like in the past. And this is the
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centre of enclosure D, the oldest and most accomplished and most sophisticated of all of
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the enclosures. Because that's very interesting. The best and the most sophisticated enclosures
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are the oldest ones. And they date to about 9,600 BC like this one. But what I discovered working
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with my colleague Rodney Hale, the engineer, is that the mean azimuth of the central pillars,
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these two huge great pillars that you see here, not only in enclosure D but enclosure C and
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enclosure B and enclosure H, all point towards the setting of the bright star Deneb in the
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constellation of Cygnus for the exact time frame that would have been constructed based on carbon
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14 dating and other stratigraphy and evidence that's come out to do with points and stuff like this.
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And now this I put as early as 2006 in a previous book I did called the Cygnus Mystery,
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right, which has nothing to do with this current book by the way. And so these people would seem
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to have had an interest in Cygnus exactly the same as the people at Giza. And enhancing this
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even further is the fact that at the back of three of the enclosures,
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are these hold stones, these strange pothole stones, is the correct term that you'd use for them.
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There you go, there. That one's there, right behind it. Now it's absolutely precisely behind
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it and it's the only stone that is actually side on to the centre of the enclosure. All the
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rest of them are like spokes of a wheel. So it obviously had a significance and I believe it was
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almost like an original altar. These holes are like exits from this world and entries into
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otherworldly environments for shamans doing their ceremonies and rituals inside these structures.
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And obviously the idea of holes being the points of connection with the otherworld is something
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that's very strong and known in many shamanic traditions around the world. So in other words,
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these pothole stones further enhance this connection with the setting of Deneb in Cygnus
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because in theory you'd have been able to stand in the centre of these enclosures and actually
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look through these pothole stones at the star setting during the epoch of construction.
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Now whether this was actual or symbolic or whatever, we don't know, but you know it's there
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and I think that's important. So that's that. Oops, wrong going backwards, sorry, pressed the wrong
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buttons. But probably the most important and most famous of all the stones at Gebekli Tepe is
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pillar 43. Now that's in enclosure D. It's right next to the pothole stone. There's the
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pothole stone there. Right next to it is the vulture stone in the north-northwest. And
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this is something I've looked at a lot and I would not be the first person that said that
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I'm pretty certain that there's a vulture on there, a big weird looking flappy winged vulture there,
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and that this represents a constellation of Cygnus. The vulture was one of the symbols of
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Cygnus on the Euphrates in Greek tradition, but also in Armenia, which is the neighbouring country
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to what is today Turkey, there was a constellation of the vulture known as Angelk, which, you know,
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was important. Also means angel, interestingly enough. But in the knowledge that Armenia
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originally included the area of Gebekli Tepe, I think that this is something that's important
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and can't be ignored. And now some of my colleagues think that the vulture represents Sagittarius.
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I don't accept that at all. And the strange bull on the shoulder of the thing I'll show you
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in the next picture represents the sun going through Sagittarius. I don't think it's that
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at all. The bull represents two things. Firstly, it's the soul of either the deceased or the
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shaman in the otherworldly environment going into the afterlife, because the soul was seen to
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inhabit the skull, you know, the head, basically. And that became a symbol of the soul, not just
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in Near Eastern tradition, where they would actually remove the skulls and decorate them
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and communicate with the ancestors through them. But again, it's a universal thing. I mean,
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you find it in Native American tradition as well, where the actual symbol of the soul or spirit
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is actually a little skull. Well, at Gebekli Tepe and in Southeast Turkey, this circle becomes
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a representative of that soul. And I've got academic references for this, so that's pretty
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well established. But it also, I think, represents this hole between this world and the other world.
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Because my colleague, Rodney Hale, looked at the imagery of the vulture stone and was able to
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accurately align it so that if the bull is superimposed with the northern celestial pole,
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the center of the sky, which you can see here, right, that Cygnus is in its perfect place.
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This is the, you know, the horizon, the local horizon, and beneath it is Scorpius, exactly
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where the scorpion is on the vulture stone itself. And it was Juan Belmonte,
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an archaeoastronomer, who first identified that scorpion on pillar 43 as a representation of the
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constellation of Scorpius. So almost certainly, all that you see on pillar 43 is astronomical
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in nature. I mean, we could have a whole debate on what all of the other, you know, different
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animals and birds represent. But in my opinion, the main vulture represents Cygnus, the scorpion
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represents Scorpius, the line dividing the two sides, the two parts of the stone represents
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the local horizon, and the bull, or soul, is at the exact point of the northern celestial pole.
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Quite clearly showing that that's its destination. The vulture of Cygnus is guarding that entrance.
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And as to why those two should be together, it's all to do with the Milky Way. Because
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universally, the Milky Way is a road or river to the stars. It's there, for instance, amongst 30
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to 40 different Native American tribes, where there is a cosmic death journey that's repeated
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again and again and again. You start from the physical world, you make a leap of faith onto
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the Milky Way in the area of Orion, which is obviously the same thing as we get in Egypt,
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and from there you go around the Milky Way to where the Milky Way splits in two. And here you
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meet this bird-headed creature. This is a Native American tradition known as Brainsmasher. I know
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it's a crude term, but it actually all relates to the release of the soul from the skull.
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And from this point onwards, you would enter the afterlife. And as I show you in my books,
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including the new one, this is a universal concept. The idea of using the Milky Way to
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reach the afterlife, the point of entrance into it is somewhere in the vicinity of either Cygnus
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and or the northern celestial pole, and the points of access onto the Milky Way are at two
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sides of the sky. On one side, it's where the sun crosses in the vicinity of Sagittarius and
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Scorpius. On the other side of the sky, it's where the sun crosses the Milky Way in the vicinity of
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Taurus, Gemini, Orion, and the Pleiades. Those are the points of entry onto it. It was necessary to
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make that journey to reach your destination. My colleague Greg Little has been looking at a large
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number of mound complexes in North America and has found that they are repeatedly, again and again,
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aligned to Orion, Cygnus, and particularly at the time of the midwinter, Solstice. And of course,
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it's there in this country. I mean, it's there at Avebury. It's there at Waylon Smithee. It's
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there at many other stone circles around the country. You have this same connection,
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certainly with Cygnus there. This was something that John North, who came up with the first stuff.
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But these ideas, anyway, are not new. They can be found, for instance, at the Lascaux cave
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in southern France, in the De Doine region, where you have this very strange image of a bison,
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this bird man, birds again, and this bird on a pole. And a German archaeoastronomer by the name
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of Michael Rappengluck of Munich University realized that this was actually showing the area
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of the sky in the very north, around 15,000 to 16,000 BC, because the northern celestial pole
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at that time corresponded to the Cygnus constellation. The two were together for
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about 3,000 to 4,000 years. And a lot of the ideas that connect Cygnus as the place of the entry into
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the afterlife are leftovers that continued to remain amongst the human populations through to
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the time of Quebec-Litapé. I mean, for instance, this image here done by my good friend Nick Burton
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shows the interior of this so-called well shaft at Lascaux. And those images of the
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bison, the bird man, and the bird on the pole, which by the way, the bird on the pole is the
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cosmic axis with the bird on top, is Cygnus itself. And it's in the north, exactly where it should
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be placed. It's almost like this is like some kind of, you know, Ice Age observatory, symbolically,
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of course, looking as if you could see through the walls of the well shaft towards those exact
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stars where they would be in the sky. And I believe that even these ideas weren't even
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new at this time, that they go back at much earlier age. Now the Edfrew building text tell
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us a lot more about the first enclosure. Not only do they say that it had to be in the north,
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because obviously of the connections with the northern stars. But it also tells us that specific
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geometry was involved. I mean, Robin Heath was talking about the use of 3-2 and 4-3 triangles.
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Well, that's exactly what the Edfrew building texts talk about, particularly the 3-2.
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And we find this in the grand design at Giza, that the 3-2 and the 4-3 triangles, which is
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something that is here, but unfortunately we haven't got time to go into today. But more
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importantly, and I think this is going to interest you far, far more, is that it's also at Gebeklitepe.
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That is a perfect 4-3 ellipse, and that matches exactly the inner shape of
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enclosure D at Gebeklitepe. And not only that, but the centre line of it goes precisely through
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the pothole stone. It's perfectly aligned, plus the two central pillars are also one-third
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distance using that same 4-3 ellipse. But it's not just on enclosure D, it's there enclosure C as
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well, which has two areas. They put a smaller stone circle inside the bigger one at a later date.
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That also goes straight through the pothole stone. There's a pothole stone there as well,
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though that one's broken and on its side. And this is enclosure H, which is still under
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excavation at the moment, and tentatively that also has the same 4-3 ellipse shape.
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Now, why the archaeologists haven't sussed this, I just don't know. I mean, I'm telling you, this is
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the first time, essentially, I've mentioned this in public, but it's quite extraordinary. And it's
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not just at Gebeklitepe. This is Jurf el-Amar, which is a pre-pottery Neolithic site, goes back
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to at least 9,000 BC in northern Syria, and you have exactly the same 4-3 ellipse shape there.
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Okay, it's because I'm beginning to go, beginning to shout.
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Um, yeah, so I'm getting excited, obviously.
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Right, okay, so why, why, why incorporate 4-3 and 3-2 into structures like this? Well,
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I think the answer, in my opinion, is quite plain. Sound acoustics. Because 4-3 and 3-2 ratios in
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architecture relate to sound acoustics. Because whether this is symbolic or practical, it enhances
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the acoustics of a place, not just simply because of the shape, but because the 4-3
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and the 3-2 relate to what's known as musical intervals, and these are the combinations
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of two notes to create these perfect sounds. So the 4-3 relates to the perfect fourth,
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and the 3-2 ratio, which is simply the inverse form, they're both exactly the same, but they're
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just, one's an inverse form of the other, relates to what's known as the perfect fifth.
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Now, I'm assuming that at some point, Steve Marshall has presented his work on the,
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the, what's it, the Lombaro's, sorry, which one is it, West Kennet Lombaro, and all the work that
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he's done to do with sound acoustics there. He also found that it related to the 4-3 ratio,
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and that this was incredibly important to the sound acoustics of West Kennet Lombaro.
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And what's interesting is that in architectural design, even to this day, 4-3 ratios are used
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to enhance sound acoustics. Did you know that? No, it's a fact. Again, I've quoted the references
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in my book. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. In other words, you know, what they're saying
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in connection with architecture today might as well have been written for Quebec-Litapay. Now,
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people have suggested in the past that Quebec-Litapay may have been used for sound
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acoustic reasons, but they have not come up with any kind of specifics to do with geometry or
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the design of the place. So, where did this cosmology come from? And this is where we start
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to move away both from Turkey and from Egypt. You know, where did these ideas come from?
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Okay, well, in my books, again within the latest one, I suggest there are certain cultures that
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introduced these ideas to Quebec-Litapay, and from Quebec-Litapay, they were introduced through the
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Levant into the Nile Valley, one of which is the the Swedearian culture. The Swedearian culture,
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an incredibly advanced culture that existed in what is today Russia and Ukraine, stretching from
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the Ural Mountains in the east, right the way across to the Carpathians and Poland in the east.
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And there are similarities in the toolkit found at Quebec-Litapay, which even Klaus Schmidt
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pointed out at one point, and he even earmarked the Swedearian people as having exactly the same
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hunting techniques as those of the pre-pottery Neolithic people that created places like
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Quebec-Litapay and Nevali Chori, which is to the north of there. It doesn't exist today, but
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so, you know, I think these were very, very important. You can read about them in my book,
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Quebec-Litapay Genesis of the Gods, but what I also point out is that I'm pretty certain
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that a lot of the ideas that came into Quebec-Litapay were originally in the area of the
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Ural Mountains, and I point out something called the Shingar Idol, which dates to about 11,500
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years, and is incredibly sophisticated. It's 20 feet long, incredibly sophisticated carvings,
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and I suggest that there may well be links between the culture that created this
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and the people's at Quebec-Litapay, and very likely that there was communication between the two.
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And this was very fortuitous. This is in, you know, the Cygnus key, because just in the past two weeks,
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archaeologists have come out and said exactly the same thing.
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You know, these words there, what is this? I can't remember, I'm going to be glasses on.
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Oh, the art that comes closest to the Shingar Idol in terms of location, style, and age
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are the anthropomorphic 20-foot tall stone structures in Quebec-Litapay in Turkey. Very
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fortuitous, you know, for what I've written, basically. And I do genuinely believe that the
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main influences for Quebec-Litapay were coming in from the north, from Russia, and from Ukraine.
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You know, some of my colleagues would argue they come from Atlantis or the Space Brothers or
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something, but in my opinion, this makes sense. But is that where they began, the Urals? You know,
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sometime just before the time of Quebec-Litapay? Well, the answer is no, because I think that they
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began even further east in the area of the Altaic Mountains of southern Siberia. And I'm going to
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talk to you about some discoveries now that at first you'll think, well, hold on, isn't this a
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big leap? You'll see where I'm going. Because in the 2000s, a few pieces of fossil remains were
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discovered that were considered to be human. They're at a place called the Denisovkaiv,
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which is very, it's actually in Russia, but it's on the border between Kazakhstan, China,
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and Mongolia. You can see here where it is on the map. And this is the Denisovkaiv.
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And the human occupation there goes back at least 280,000 years. And it's layer 11 that takes our
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interest, because it was in here that they found these human remains, which at first, you know,
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they thought could be human, might be Neanderthal. But when the genome was done on one of these
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bones, a small little pinky bone, a finger bone, in 2012, it was realised that this particular
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human population was not Neanderthal and was not modern human. It came from something else that
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they'd never seen before. And these people started to be referred to as what I call the Denisovans.
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Some people might say Denisovans, but it's just easier to say Denisovans, basically. It's like
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Glastonbury and Glastonbury, isn't it really? And so who are the Denisovans and why are they
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relevant to anything that you're talking about today? Well, firstly, we know that the Denisovans
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mated with modern humans, probably between about 55 and 45,000 years ago, the Denisovans disappear,
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probably around 40,000 years ago. There's no evidence or trace of them after that time. But
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their legacy was continued on by their hybrid descendants who swept eastwards from what I call
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the Denisovan line, which stretches from the Sion Mountains in the north, obviously beyond it
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would have been the Arctic north, down through the Altaic, down through central Asia, down eventually
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either into the area of what is the Indus Valley in what is today Pakistan, or perhaps a little
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bit to the east, to the area of the Bay of Bengal. But this is where our ancestors first
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encountered the Denisovans. But as we swept ever eastwards, we carried their DNA, their genes
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eastwards into everywhere from the Russian Far East to China, to Southeast Asia, into India,
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into Australia, into Melanesia, and into North America and South America. There is no known
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Denisovan DNA west of the area of the Altaic Mountains. Not yet. Not been found, certainly
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in modern populations. The only one possible candidate is the Finnish. They seem to have a
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very small amount of Denisovan DNA and ancestry in them. But what happened when we first met these
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people for the first time? Well, we'll answer that question in a second, but I want to show
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you this. This is so, so, so important. So important that my colleague Graham Hancock shot out
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to Denisova Cave last October. And I must point out at this time that we've been working on this,
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this, the Denisovans and their importance since at least 2013. And I must thank my
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colleague and friend Debbie Cartwright for insisting that I look into the Denisovans
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because they were so, so important to everything. So cheers Debbie. Thank you for that.
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Because this changes everything. What you see in front of you is a stone bracelet, as they call it.
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It's more like a bangle, which is made of a beautiful green stone called chloride. And it
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was part of a larger, you know, item of jewellery, which you can see here,
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which possibly would have had something hanging off of it. But what's so important about this
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is not only is it incredibly finished, but there is a hole through it with a speed drilling rate
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that's so fast that it almost compares to a modern drill. But the age of this is 60 to 70,000
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years ago and the archaeologists now accept that this was made by the Denisovans, not by us.
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This is found in layer 11, the Denisovan layer. And the next time that anything like this
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occurs in the human record is a place called a Şıklı Hoyaq in central Turkey, the same culture
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as Gebekli Tepe. And you can see this beautiful obsidian bracelet here, beautifully finished,
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but this is only about 10,000 years old. The Denisovan bracelet is 60 to 70,000 years. That
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changes everything. But there's so, so much more about the Denisovans that's now coming out.
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Firstly, and I'm not even going to go into this because it's just too complicated, but certain
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types of stone tools and stone projectile points begin in the Denisova cave in layer 11, the
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Denisova level, including something called pressure flaking or the pressure technique
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and micro blade technology. It all starts in the Altay Mountains and specifically in the Denisova
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cave around 40, 50,000 years ago. The Denisovans also created the first needles, the first bone
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needles. Two beautiful examples have been found, one of which you can see here. They date to at
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least 40 to 50,000 arguably more, which means they had tailored clothing. And here's where it starts
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getting even weirder because they found animal bones, horse bones, inside the Denisova cave.
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Which have suggested to some that the Denisovans not just domesticated horses, but rode them.
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And this is incredibly significant because officially we didn't start riding horses until
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the early Bronze Age. And what you remember there is where did these Bronze Age ideas come from?
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The Altay Mountains, the very same area where the Denisovans certainly had their last stand and
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certainly were in that area for at least 100, 150,000 years. We know that from the evidence
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that goes even deeper that relates to them. On top of that they created the first musical instruments.
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Evidence of a bone flute or whistle has been found in layer 11, the Denisovan layer,
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and the Denisova cave. I mean it's broken, it may have been a flute, may have been a whistle,
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they're not sure. I don't know what it's even made of. The salt I've got doesn't even say.
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But the other early bone flutes found in that area all made of bird bones, in particular those of the
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swan and the goose. Okay, and that's I don't think just coincidence either. Because what's interesting
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is that in this very area of the Altay in Mongolia there's a traditional instrument known as the
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commis. It's a stringed instrument and what's important about it is that it doesn't matter
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what notes you play on it, what's important as far as the tuning is that it's tuned to the two
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musical intervals, 4-3 and 3-2, which is of course the perfect fourth and the perfect fifth. It
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doesn't matter what notes are played, what octaves, but it has to be attuned to those specific musical
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instruments. But what's interesting is that some of the commises also have their bodies in the
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4-3 as you can see here, exactly the same shape as enclosure D and gabecli tepe. Okay, now all right
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we can't say how old the commis is. It's probably a very ancient musical instrument, but what's
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interesting is firstly is that traditionally its neck and head is shaped into that of a swan
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and secondly is that knowledge of how to create the sounds of the commis was said to have come
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originally from giants. There's a legend about this, I quote it in the book, this is very very
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very important. We'll come back to why that's so important. In other words this came not from us
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but it was given, it was knowledge given to us by these giants. We'll come back to who they are.
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Now in the very same area you have the earliest evidence of animism and bird shamanism. Dates
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to 24,000, sorry, yeah 24,000 years. It's from a site called Malta which is not far from Lake
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Bacow, this huge inland sea in the same area and it's actually at the sites on the river Angora,
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or branch of the river Angora and you find various of these these swan pendants which actually
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resemble the shape of the commis, but what's interesting is that the archaeologists that
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studied these believe that this is the origins of the use of a bird to represent the soul
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and that the use of the swan was important because it relates to the migration of the bird north and
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south to what might be seen as an afterlife where the soul goes in the form of a bird. Not always
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obviously in the form of a swan or goose but sometimes, yeah not sometimes, quite a lot of the
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times to be honest. So in other words we're talking about bird shamanism, bird animism,
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and the origins of the soul being seen as a bird itself and that what's important here of course
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is what is the most obvious bird in the sky that represents a swan. Oh Cygnus, oh of course it is
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and I think that a lot of these ideas to do with Cygnus go back not just to 15-16 000 BC
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when they're found in the Lascow cave where the bird there on the pole represents Cygnus. I believe
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that they go back probably to the time of the Denisovans because there are various other legends
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I'm not even going to go into that connect the giants of this region with swans and geese.
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But what's so interesting is that all around the world there are traditions about what's known as
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swan maidens. A swan maiden flies down with her mates, you know takes her swan shrift off as they
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call it, a swan feather coat, goes swimming in a pool or whatever it is and some guy comes along,
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you know usually a local farmer, nicks the feather coat so that one of these
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these swan maidens can't fly off as the others you know realize what's going on they all fly off,
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leaves one, he marries her and the child that results from it becomes the beginning of these
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you know the clans or tribes or whatever. Now this is universal around the world but academic papers
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suggest that the origins of this tradition come from Siberia in the Paleolithic age and I think
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this is correct and I don't think it relates to just some swan maiden coming down from the stars,
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I reckon it's about the connection with the swan and the stars and the swan being the symbol of
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the cosmic origin of life and the place where the soul is seen to return to in death. Okay and even
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today the peoples of the Aute Mongolia are really really strong into this whole idea of swan
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ancestry, you know the swan people they're there today look there's an article all about them you
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can read about it online. So if all of this is somehow linked with the Denisovans why were they
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so advanced, how did they create that jewellery, why did they create bone needles, why were they
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creating musical instruments, what was going on? Well here's the answer in my opinion and that's
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the fact that they have a different mindset to us or had a different mindset because when the genome
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was sequenced of the Siberian Denisovan it was found that it contains one possibly more genes
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that relate to autism. Now this doesn't necessarily mean that they were autistic in the sense that we
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know today but what it does suggest is that their genes made them think in a different way.
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Now what do we know about the so-called savant mind? You can remember incredible knowledge of
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mathematics and numbers and precision becomes important to the point of you know OCD literally
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and that this allows you deep insights into areas which you wouldn't normally perhaps
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like ourselves if you know we haven't got those type of qualities don't look into.
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And you think if you're dealing with a human population that not only had this type of mindset
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but also were using hallucinogens right I mean let's just say or certainly entering all states
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of consciousness what type of mind would that create? I mean we might be talking about super
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minds here yeah the insights of nature itself the universe everything and some indication of this
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comes from the fact that at Malta this site near Lake Bacow they found something incredible
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something which we call the Malta plate it's made of mammoth bone and it's on the screen in front
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of you now you can see both sides of it on one side you have these three serpents and it's got
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a hole through it and on the other side you've got all of these these these peck marks now these
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peck marks were found by a guy called Vitaly Larachev a Russian archaeologist to be very
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specific in number and I'm not going to go into them in any huge detail but some of his work is
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sort of on the edge of what I'm showing here but they all relate to time cycles in particular
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to do with eclipses I mean for instance the total amount of peck marks is 486 plus one 487
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in total the total number of of peck marks in the center is 243 very number is also very much
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connected with cycles of eclipses and also a number crops up within it that's very important
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all the way around the world and that's 432 432 is found in connection with cultures from Java
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to Cambodia to India to Mesopotamia to China to Northern Europe and in Egypt as I show in the book
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and I've worked out that I relate that this is all related to the combination not just of long-term
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eclipse cycles called the triple saros but also it's its synchronization with what we call today
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the processional cycle where the sun sorry the stars move of one degree every 72 years against
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the background and that this generates certain key numbers which begin with 216 and then 432
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and all of these numbers 216 432 648 and 864 all appear within Vedic texts as the fractionalization
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of these long-term cycles that go on for millions of years if not billions of years you know the
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day of Brahma the night of Brahma whatever and up to now we've looked at them and thought you know
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why such long numbers well if you think that a savant mind created them in the first place
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we can understand why they exist and why we preserve them in virtually every you know
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continent of the world but there's more than this because I think that the savant mindset
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of the Denisovans created shamanism and I wouldn't be the first person to suggest that there's a
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relationship between shamanism and shamanic rituals and savant or autistic mindsets I mean
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you think of what you know somebody with autistic abilities does I mean what do they do they do
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things repeatedly they repeat things they have rituals and of course that's exactly what shamans
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do exactly what magic spells are all about we do things certain times to to achieve something
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you know why if we want to change reality we don't just think and it happens you know if you
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want to do a spell we have why have we got like nine candles or do this or whatever it's because
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it's the it's clearly a leftover of shamanic activity that's associated with savant qualities
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essentially and it is my opinion that these Denisovans and the Denisovan hybrids that
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followed them and continued their legacy for tens of thousands of years reaching essentially
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every part of the world something which I'm writing about in a new book now with my colleague
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Dr Greg Little was that they took certain cosmological ideas certain ideas in geometry
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certain ideas in mathematics and the the people that followed them their descendants they told
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them you must remember these and the people probably didn't even understand by the time it
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reaches somewhere like Egypt they probably don't even understand where these things came from
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in the first place but amongst this was an importance in the center of the sky which
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was both the northern celestial pole and when it crossed the Milky Way in the area of the
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Cygnus constellation something it does for about 4 000 years or maybe even longer each processional
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cycle so in other words all of these ideas go back at least to the time the Denisovans 40 000
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years ago when they were last around but more than that and I you know I just want to throw this
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in just as that we think we found what could be the nerve center of the Denisovans it's a place
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called Agaki it's in the western Saiyan mountains not far from the Denisovan cave and it's seen to
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be locally not just the center of the world but also the place where the giants or the gods came
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together to do all their stuff basically and there are various reasons paleolithic finds that have
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been found in the area that suggests that this was their epicenter it's this massive elevated
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platform on the top of a mountain with these two enormous horns facing towards the north which
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you can see here which one of which is 250 meters tall the other one's about 150 meters and all the
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indications are that this is not just somewhere that they went to do their rituals and ceremonies
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but this was the earliest lunar observatory anywhere in the world that we've uncovered so
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far but anyway now we're nearly at the end but what we need to just understand for
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finally is what the Denisovans look like well firstly the every piece of fossil remain found
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so far in connection with the Denisovans has been of giant size the teeth when they were first found
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it was seen that they were so large or particularly one that it was dismissed at first
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as that of a cave bear it was so large it has the the you know the chewing area twice the size of
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us modern humans the finger bone was large all the other bits and although we haven't got a skull
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of a Denisovan yet one candidate exists i mean i know hugh's written about this and it's the
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pingu jaw bone that was found off of the coast of taiwan just a few years ago and it's now being
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you know proposed that this is a Denisovan and it's massive it's huge but what's important
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about that is that it matches another jaw bone that was found actually in europe in 1907 just
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outside of heidelberg a place called mawa and it belongs to an earlier type of human known as
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homo heidelbergensis who could be the common ancestor of ourselves the neanderthals and the
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denisovans okay and the significant thing about this is not only is the mawa skull massive huge
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right like the pengal skull and obviously like the the the the teeth of the denisovans which we know
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confirmed but that in south africa when found homo heidelbergensis is regularly seven to seven
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and a half feet tall okay and this is the work of professor lee berger again i know that that
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hugh's looked into this as well for his books on giants and in france sorry in spain that's a place
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called cima de los weos or the priest excuse the pronunciation somebody will correct me later
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human remains date into 430 000 years that were considered to belong to homo heidelbergensis
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when they were examined the dna was found to be closer to that of the denisovans than to
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uh to the neanderthals so there is a very good chance that the denisovans either are the
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descendants the direct descendants of homo heidelbergensis or they are homo heidelbergensis
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we don't know yet because you know it's too early to find out so with all this in mind
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what did the denisovans look like well or at the moment all i can do is show you someone who i think
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looks like them and it's this gentleman
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this is a gentleman named the great carly and he's an indian gentleman who is a wrestler
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and he's still alive today and look how he compares to the lady next to him he's seven feet tall
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built like a brick whatever and it seems very much likely that the denisovans were this this size
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i'm not saying all of them but certainly some of them were this size and that ultimately they are
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the giants of legend and i don't mean that fairy tale giants i mean just people that were bigger
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and taller than us and once you start realizing that you can start covering the whole globe and
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looking for evidence of their presence particularly north america which i'm both myself
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and i know graham hankog is looking at obviously he's been looking looking into this area as well
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but what's more important is that the legends of the giants in the ote state very clearly
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that the modern human populations owe their ancestry to these giants and that there is a
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tradition about these giants as i already mentioned giving us the knowledge of the tones the
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music of the commis which i think is very important so we have to ask the question at the end of all
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of this by saying was civilization gifted to humanity by the denisovans and it is my opinion
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now and i'm you know absolutely certain of this that the legacy of the denisovans
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became the great pyramids and everything that we have been associating with a lost civilization
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and in my opinion they are the lost civilization thank you very much
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so
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so