1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,600 But we end up with the history that we have these civilizations that came out of nowhere. 2 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,800 And in order to have a city and a state, there have to be rules, there has to be... 3 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:32,799 about trade and commerce in order to sustain that society. 4 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:38,799 And when you look at that information, it seems like we have this giant puzzle. 5 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,799 And we have all of these pieces thrown into a box. 6 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:47,799 And when we try to put it together, we're trying to make the picture that's on the... 7 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:51,799 but the pieces don't quite fit right. 8 00:00:51,799 --> 00:00:56,799 You know, when you hear about sites like Obekli Tempe or the Bosnian Pyramids, 9 00:00:56,799 --> 00:00:59,799 it's like they don't match that picture. 10 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:05,799 And so no matter how hard we try to stick it in the 4004 BC or the 6000 BC, 11 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:10,799 whatever date they try to stick out for the beginning, quote unquote, 12 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:14,799 it still just doesn't really work. 13 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:19,799 Yeah, it doesn't match the picture on the box at all. 14 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:26,799 The question that we have to start off with is who or what is God? 15 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:32,799 And we're going to concede from our opinion, I mean an atheist might say there is no God. 16 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:39,799 From our positioning, we believe that there is a God, and this God is the creator of... 17 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:45,799 the known, the unknown, infinite, and we're not disputing that God. 18 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:49,799 But when you look at mythology, that's not necessarily the God they're talking about. 19 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:56,799 And ancient cultures are very clear in their understanding that they have a belief in t... 20 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:02,799 and they also have a belief in the gods that we're going to be talking about. 21 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:07,799 When you look at God in the Western world, 22 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:13,800 and I'm just going to be extremely politically incorrect here, so if I offend... 23 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:20,800 But when we think of God, you know, God's this white guy with long white hair and th... 24 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,800 You know, how could we not recognize the image by Michelangelo on the 16th chapel? 25 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,800 But when we look at this image here, actually this is a representation of Zeus. 26 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,800 And so the imagery that we have is virtually the same. 27 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,800 Now, since they are geographically associated, 28 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:47,800 it kind of makes sense that there would be a certain amount of rub off of information a... 29 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,800 That would happen between the two groups. But it gets weird from there. 30 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,800 When you look at the representation of God in the Americas, 31 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,800 God is also identified as being this white guy with a big white beard and these long... 32 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,800 But how can that be in the Americas? 33 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,800 They don't want, you know, their Native Americans, you know, or from South America. 34 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,800 So they don't have classically white skin, and they also are not genetically, 35 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,800 they don't necessarily grow facial hair. 36 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,800 And so to have somebody being represented of having this full beard 37 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,800 just doesn't fit in with what they know as far as who they interact with. 38 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,800 But it also explains their belief in this God coming back to them, 39 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:48,800 this white God coming back to them. And so when Cortez showed up in the Americas, 40 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,800 the Natives opened their arms to him and saw him as being their God returned, 41 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,800 much to his demise. But nevertheless, that was their belief. 42 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,800 But the image that we have of God, even in those two groups, is not all that we find. 43 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,800 In India, we find God, this is Indira, and he's represented with four arms. 44 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,800 Sometimes he's identified as having a thousand eyes, 45 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,800 which I'm really glad they don't have pictures of that, 46 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,800 because I can't imagine what that would really look like. 47 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,800 We have gods that are represented as being half man, half fish, half man, half reptile, 48 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,800 half man, half snake, you know, some kind of amorphous character. 49 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,800 Some of these gods are identified as being hermaphroditic in nature, 50 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,800 because they're identified as being male-female pairs. 51 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,800 There's question as to whether they're talking about two separate individuals, 52 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:56,800 or if they're talking about a single individual with both male and female aspects. 53 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,800 And you find a parallel to that coming out of China when they talk about the origin of life 54 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,800 in something like the yin-yang, which is both male and female in the circle of life. 55 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,800 But that's not all. We also have gods that are identified as being giants. 56 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,800 We have the cyclopses, which were giants in relationship to mankind. 57 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,800 I mean, there's a man, that's the cyclops. 58 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,800 And we have gods that are identified as being, 59 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,800 and I would just say this kind of in a very generic way, monsters in character. 60 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,800 They have horns or fangs, they're identified as being hairy all over. 61 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:40,800 And so this is yet another classification, another group of gods that you might find. 62 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,800 Yeah, not that thing, this thing. 63 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,800 Okay, we heard a bell. 64 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,800 A weapon. 65 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,800 An apple core, an energetic device. 66 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,800 An energetic device. 67 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,800 A Chinese thumb torture item, I don't know what they're called. 68 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,800 That's a good one. A nose ring. 69 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,800 A scepter. 70 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,800 Okay, I mean I've heard curtain rod, I thought that one was pretty good. 71 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,800 I've heard rattle, that was pretty good. 72 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:33,800 What this thing is, and it's called, let me just, it is called a Vahara. 73 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,800 And actually it is the staff that Endera carried. 74 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:46,800 And it is said to emanate a beam of lightning that was brighter than, yeah. 75 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,800 You know, that could, it was his weapon, you know, but it was said to emit lightning. 76 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,800 Now the reason that I'm showing you this image, I mean I have a very specific purpose, 77 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:03,800 is because think about all of these stories, you know, all of these ideas that we have. 78 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,800 About just this one image. 79 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,800 And so when you talk about mythology from around the world, 80 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:17,800 each cultural group should have different images as to who or what the gods is. 81 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,800 Wouldn't that make sense to you? 82 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,800 You know, if we're just sitting around the story telling, campfire telling stories. 83 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,800 And so, alright, I'm back. 84 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,800 How do we know that that's what that was? 85 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:40,800 How do you know that, that is the mythology and the tradition that has come down to us? 86 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,800 Yeah, because it must have been kind of short. 87 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Actually in China, a weapon that fits that description, 88 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,800 it says that it's seven and a half inches in length. 89 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,800 And they carried it around in a silk casing, because if it touched anything, 90 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 it could like explode or overload. 91 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,800 And so that comes out of Chinese tradition. 92 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,800 And what I'm going to present to you is what we have concluded, 93 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,800 or we have observed when comparing mythology from around the world. 94 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:18,800 And the way that we did that, click, was based on iconography. 95 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,800 And so iconography is the concept that there are symbols or representations 96 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,800 that let us know that a character is a character. 97 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,799 And so in art, for example, in this image, this is a picture of Moses. 98 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:37,799 And so Moses is very often represented with horns on the top of his head, 99 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:42,799 which in Semitic culture is a symbol of leadership. 100 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:47,799 And so if you see an image, I mean, it doesn't have to be this specific depiction, 101 00:08:47,799 --> 00:08:52,799 but if you see an image that looks like that, very often you're seeing a picture of Moses. 102 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:56,799 And so it gives you kind of that quick handy guide. 103 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:02,799 This image is an image of Hercules, and Hercules is always shown 104 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:07,799 wearing or carrying a lion skin with a club. 105 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:12,799 And so if you ever see a statue of a guy with a lion skin and a club, 106 00:09:12,799 --> 00:09:15,799 you'll know automatically it's Hercules, or you should, 107 00:09:15,799 --> 00:09:19,799 or if you were in the ancient cultures, you would automatically know. 108 00:09:19,799 --> 00:09:22,799 He's got an arm in that photo. 109 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:27,799 The lion got him. The lion got him. 110 00:09:27,799 --> 00:09:31,799 And so when we see an image like this, I don't think I need to say to you 111 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:34,799 what would be the first thing that would come to your mind 112 00:09:34,799 --> 00:09:37,799 as to what the iconography of this picture represents. 113 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:40,799 The Last Supper. 114 00:09:40,799 --> 00:09:43,799 I love the red picnic table. 115 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:48,799 And so when we're talking about the gods, one of the things that we found 116 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:53,799 was that there was what seemed like, if we're talking in corporate America, 117 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:58,799 a CEO and then his four department heads. 118 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:02,799 And so the CEO, we called him the sky father. 119 00:10:02,799 --> 00:10:07,799 In mythology, it is said that he had walked the earth at one point in time 120 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:13,799 in the far distant history, but no one had seen him for a very, very long time. 121 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:18,799 And it was said that this is the guy who would be coming back one day. 122 00:10:18,799 --> 00:10:26,799 He is the one who sets up the rules and pretty much runs the show. 123 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:30,799 So in this image, this is the sky father. 124 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:34,799 I think it's interesting because it looks like he's in his little ship flying around. 125 00:10:34,799 --> 00:10:39,799 And so this is a Sumerian image which is showing Enki in the Tree of Life. 126 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:44,799 And so the Tree of Life is often tied to genetic manipulation, 127 00:10:44,799 --> 00:10:50,799 to creation of organic life with birth. 128 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:54,799 Now this image actually comes out of one of the Mayan codexes. 129 00:10:54,799 --> 00:10:59,799 The part that kind of floored me was we have this symbol up here, 130 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:05,799 which looks, in my opinion, remarkably similar to that one over there. 131 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,799 But then you take the rest of the image into account and we have these two gods 132 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:15,799 facing each other as well as a new life in between them. 133 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:19,799 So are they trying to tell the same story? 134 00:11:19,799 --> 00:11:24,799 And so his chief commander was the god of war, sometimes called the sky god. 135 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:27,799 I like to refer to him as the sky god. 136 00:11:27,799 --> 00:11:33,799 And so that Beharah thing that I showed you before, so this is an image of Zeus. 137 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:37,799 And look at his little lightning thrower device. 138 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:39,799 You know, it's not real big. 139 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:44,799 I mean, this is a different representation of a god, another sky god. 140 00:11:44,799 --> 00:11:50,799 And he has this kind of lightning weapon thing, but they're kind of the same size. 141 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:56,799 Now this god is always associated weapon-wise or associated with, 142 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:03,799 his iconography is associated with lightning, with the hammer, the axe, and the club. 143 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:09,799 And I thought it was interesting because in this one he has lightning and he has the axe. 144 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:13,799 He's often associated with birds, primarily the eagle. 145 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:21,799 He was the dispenser of justice and would carry out the rules handed down to him by ... 146 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:25,799 And so he was kind of like the first in-line guy. 147 00:12:25,799 --> 00:12:31,799 And he's always associated with the sky, so somewhere out there. 148 00:12:31,799 --> 00:12:34,799 The next god that we find is the god of fertility. 149 00:12:34,799 --> 00:12:40,799 The god of fertility is always associated with water, whether his abode is in the... 150 00:12:41,799 --> 00:12:46,799 He was, in many cultures, is seen as being the creator of mankind. 151 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:52,799 He had a very strong relationship with mankind and is viewed as being their... 152 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:57,799 In some cultures he's seen as also being the trickster. 153 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:03,799 My feeling toward this character is that he really acted on his conscience. 154 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:08,799 You know, so if the gods came down with this decision of this is what we're going to do, 155 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:15,799 if it didn't jive with what felt right to him, he would act as conscious and kind of... 156 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:22,799 you know, the sky father would say or the god of war would try to pass down as law. 157 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:27,799 The next group of gods that we find are the gods of the underworld. 158 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:32,799 Now the gods of the underworld weren't sang about, they weren't venerated. 159 00:13:32,799 --> 00:13:37,799 No one really wanted to talk about them, but everybody knew them. 160 00:13:38,799 --> 00:13:44,799 They lived in the underworld. They're associated obviously with death and dying. 161 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:52,799 In really deep antiquity, this realm was more associated as the place where souls would ... 162 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:56,799 and wasn't really about if you're wicked. 163 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:01,799 That is actually a much more recent association with the god of the underworld. 164 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:08,799 And so if you read the Egyptian book of the dead, anybody? I have. 165 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:11,799 Anyway, huh? 166 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:13,799 I'm waiting for the movie. 167 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:17,799 It would be a sleeper, I'm telling you. 168 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:22,799 And so the final group of gods that we have is the god of treasure. 169 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:25,799 This group of gods is always associated with the mountains. 170 00:14:25,799 --> 00:14:28,799 They are associated with caves in the mountains. 171 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:33,799 They are tied to precious things, gold, silver, gems. 172 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:37,799 They are viewed often as being hoarders of riches. 173 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:43,799 In some cultures they kind of fall off the god map. 174 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:46,799 In other cultures they're considered gods. 175 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:53,799 This group are always associated, I was talking about the gods that were portrayed... 176 00:14:53,799 --> 00:14:58,799 This group are always portrayed as being monsters in character. 177 00:14:58,799 --> 00:15:02,799 However, these were also the master builders. 178 00:15:02,799 --> 00:15:06,799 And so when Olympus was built, they're the ones that built that. 179 00:15:06,799 --> 00:15:09,799 They're the ones that built the fiery chariots of the gods. 180 00:15:09,799 --> 00:15:14,799 They're the ones that built or engineered all of their weaponry. 181 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:17,799 And so that was their major role. 182 00:15:17,799 --> 00:15:19,799 What are their names? 183 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:24,799 I mean the ones that we were able to identify, this is Hephaestus. 184 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:29,799 So he's Greek and even though he doesn't look like a monster per se, 185 00:15:29,799 --> 00:15:33,799 and it doesn't really show real good in the slide, he has a deformed foot. 186 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:39,799 And so he was considered not perfect, not pure. 187 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:42,799 But if you, you know, Clash of the Titans, the movie, 188 00:15:42,799 --> 00:15:50,799 and you know, he has the little mechanical bird that kind of follows him around that ... 189 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:55,799 You know, so he's always identified with technology, that slide. 190 00:15:55,799 --> 00:16:01,799 And so one of the groups of myths that we looked at, and I'm going to start with Nor... 191 00:16:01,799 --> 00:16:07,799 So in Norse mythology we have the god Thor, and his weapon is the hammer. 192 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,799 And so I'm sure everyone's seen the movie, Thor, recently, you know who Thor is. 193 00:16:11,799 --> 00:16:16,799 And so one of the characteristics of his hammer is that if he threw the hammer, 194 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:21,799 other than destroying whatever he aimed at, I like smote. 195 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:23,799 I think smote's like a really cool word. 196 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:26,799 The hammer would return to him. 197 00:16:26,799 --> 00:16:29,799 And that was just a characteristic of this weapon. 198 00:16:29,799 --> 00:16:32,799 Okay, so keep that characteristic in mind. 199 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:37,799 So now we are traveling across the world, and we're going to Australia. 200 00:16:38,799 --> 00:16:40,799 What? 201 00:16:42,799 --> 00:16:45,799 Boom! Get the head of that one. 202 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:47,799 Yes, ooh, you're ahead of me. 203 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:52,799 Okay, and so there it's actually called the boomerang, but we call it the boomerang. 204 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:55,799 Okay, so there's the weapon part, which is one thing, 205 00:16:55,799 --> 00:16:59,799 but there's a really interesting myth that comes out of that culture. 206 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:04,799 And so in that culture they talk about the two Wakakiri brothers, 207 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:10,799 and they were these half-man, half-lizard, think of that other slide, 208 00:17:10,799 --> 00:17:15,799 they were saying those fishy people, half-man, half-lizard gods that walk the... 209 00:17:15,799 --> 00:17:19,799 And so there was this other god named Kadele, 210 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:23,799 and Kadele wanted to have relations with women on the earth. 211 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:28,799 Well, these brothers didn't like that idea, and so using their boomerang, 212 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:31,799 they castrated Kadele. 213 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:33,799 Ouch. 214 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:35,799 Whoa, that hurt. 215 00:17:35,799 --> 00:17:38,799 Okay, so, okay, but now we have this tie, 216 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:40,799 and a weapon that you can throw and it comes back. 217 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:43,799 Now we have this mythic story. 218 00:17:43,799 --> 00:17:47,799 Now, come back to Greek mythology, 219 00:17:47,799 --> 00:17:50,799 and we have the story of Uranus and Cronos. 220 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:53,799 Uranus was one of the progenitor gods, 221 00:17:53,799 --> 00:17:57,799 but his reign was usurped by his son Cronos. 222 00:17:57,799 --> 00:18:03,799 Cronos used a sickle, an alimantium sickle, to castrate his father. 223 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,799 Now, in order to get him in a position that was compromising, 224 00:18:07,799 --> 00:18:13,799 Uranus went, they waited for Uranus to want to have relations with Gaia. 225 00:18:13,799 --> 00:18:18,799 Uranus is associated with the sky, Gaia, earth. 226 00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:23,799 And so now we have yet another tie to a storyline, you know, 227 00:18:23,799 --> 00:18:29,799 and a sickle, to me, looks remarkably like a boomerang. 228 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:32,799 Okay, and I'm going to put in one other myth, 229 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:37,799 because this is one of the stories that really got us wanting to investigate 230 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:39,799 this whole topic in the first place. 231 00:18:39,799 --> 00:18:44,799 So I'm sure everyone in the room is familiar with the story of Noah and the flood, 232 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:50,799 and Noah gets warned about the flood, he builds the ark, and blah, blah, blah, blah... 233 00:18:50,799 --> 00:18:57,799 I had heard over the years that there were, you know, multiple flood stories on the... 234 00:18:57,799 --> 00:19:01,799 and, you know, 500 or more flood stories on the earth. 235 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:07,799 Now, my general assumption of this fact was, my hot water heater explodes. 236 00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:12,799 You have your sink overflows, and so now you have this flood in your kitchen. 237 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:16,799 They have the storm in New York, and, you know, New Jersey is flooded out, 238 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:21,799 the beaches are flooded out, and they have the tsunami in Southeast Asia. 239 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:24,799 Now, these are all flood events. 240 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:31,799 So if I wrote down my flood story, and you wrote down your flood story, 241 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:36,799 and on the East Coast they wrote down their flood story, 242 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:43,799 the stories, like our talking about that weapon, would all inherently have to be... 243 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:48,799 They'd have to be, because the people involved would be different, the situation, 244 00:19:49,799 --> 00:19:54,799 you know, it's my hot water heater, it's his sink, this is natural forces. 245 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:57,799 I mean, they'd have to be different. 246 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:01,799 When you start actually looking at the flood stories from around the world, 247 00:20:01,799 --> 00:20:05,799 this is what you find, and I'm being extremely literal here. 248 00:20:05,799 --> 00:20:12,799 There is a righteous slash pious slash virtuous man who is warned about a flood. 249 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:17,799 He builds an ark, he builds a boat, he builds a canoe, he climbs on a leaf, 250 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:21,799 he climbs a tree, or goes to the top of a mountain. 251 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:26,799 He goes with his wife, his sister sometimes, which I think is kind of kinky. 252 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:30,799 Maybe his brother goes with him. 253 00:20:30,799 --> 00:20:34,799 In some stories there might be children that accompany them. 254 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:38,799 In some stories there are animals that are taken either on the boat 255 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:42,799 or actually on the top of the mountain with the group on the top of the mountain. 256 00:20:42,799 --> 00:20:45,799 Some of the stories they talk about a bird being released 257 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:50,799 to let them know that dry land had appeared, period. 258 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:55,799 That is, I mean, I was figuring, I kind of made this little sheet that said 259 00:20:55,799 --> 00:21:00,799 build a boat, you know, climbed a mountain because I found that as another narrative. 260 00:21:00,799 --> 00:21:03,799 And I figured I would have all of these little section headings, 261 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:08,799 and then when I would find a myth I put, you know, Sumerian, this. 262 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:11,799 And that was it. 263 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:19,799 There were no other or very few variations that fell outside of this big picture of... 264 00:21:19,799 --> 00:21:25,799 And so that made us stop and say, well, the flood story in the history of mankind 265 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:28,799 is really kind of late in the story. 266 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:32,799 And so what happened? What happened, quote, unquote, in the beginning? 267 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:35,799 And so that's where we're going to move now. 268 00:21:35,799 --> 00:21:39,799 But one of the things that I really needed to set up was this commonality of stories. 269 00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:45,799 And so what I'm going to be presenting is what we think the story is that they were... 270 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:50,799 You know, in the book we present the mythology so that you can come to your own... 271 00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:55,799 But this was, this is where we ended up. 272 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:04,799 So one of the things that we did was we broke things down into different worlds. 273 00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:10,799 You know, there is this history of, in, you know, with the whole 2012 thing 274 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:13,799 they're talking about, you know, the end of the fifth world. 275 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:16,799 In other cultures they talk about four worlds. 276 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:23,799 And when we started looking at the mythology we did find these patterns of time. 277 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:33,799 But where the times changed, it was more with the change of rulership as opposed to a se... 278 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:40,799 You know, but in some cultures, like in Indian culture, there's a cycle within a... 279 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:43,799 And so we did our best at putting this whole thing together. 280 00:22:43,799 --> 00:22:49,799 And so in the first world there are multiple stories that talk about the cosmic egg. 281 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:54,799 And in some stories they talk about eight beings being in this cosmic egg. 282 00:22:54,799 --> 00:23:01,799 So the Dogon, for example, talk about this ark that contained eight individuals. 283 00:23:01,799 --> 00:23:04,799 And they were these half man, half fish people. 284 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:11,799 In a lot of the other stories they talk about these hermaphroditic creatures being in th... 285 00:23:11,799 --> 00:23:21,799 And so this group, they were on the, you know, they existed in the watery abyss. 286 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:26,799 I mean, if you kind of go biblical, you know, God existed on the watery abyss. 287 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:31,799 And so we believe that they came to the solar system. 288 00:23:31,799 --> 00:23:33,799 And I'm going to put this out here. 289 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:38,799 We talk about this in the book, but we feel like they did not come to the earth first. 290 00:23:38,799 --> 00:23:43,799 We feel like they actually, and where we got pointed to was they went to Mars. 291 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:49,799 And so if you have questions about why we thought Mars, I will answer that in the... 292 00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:52,799 Because it's just kind of a long thing to go into now. 293 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:55,799 But so they started setting up camp there. 294 00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:59,799 They started terraforming the planet, but then disaster struck. 295 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:03,799 But at the same time there was a rebel group of gods. 296 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:08,799 So they set up shop there and they created a race of giants. 297 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:12,799 And so these giants were actually gigantic in size. 298 00:24:12,799 --> 00:24:15,799 And I'm not saying anything about the credibility of that picture, okay. 299 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:17,799 But it just kind of gives you scale, okay. 300 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:21,799 Or that one. And he's just kind of cool. 301 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:26,799 In Greek mythology they're known as the Titans, but these gods are, or the childre... 302 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:33,799 or this created race are often described as being as tall as the trees and as big as t... 303 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:39,799 And so later on we're going to meet another group of giants that are different than th... 304 00:24:39,799 --> 00:24:42,799 And so these were the offspring of the progenitor gods. 305 00:24:42,799 --> 00:24:46,799 And so they went and they were doing the labors of the gods. 306 00:24:46,799 --> 00:24:50,799 They were supposed to do the requirements that the gods gave them. 307 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,799 But apparently they didn't like the management and they revolted. 308 00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:58,799 But we think that it might have been because their world was coming to an end 309 00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:03,799 or there were issues on the planet and they left. 310 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:08,799 But the first world disaster struck and it came to an end. 311 00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:16,799 And it's at this point in time that we believe that this renegade group actually ... 312 00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:21,799 And this group is associated with the god of fertility, the god of water. 313 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:25,799 And they set up camp underneath the earth or inside the earth. 314 00:25:25,799 --> 00:25:28,799 They did not exist on the surface of the planet. 315 00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:39,799 And so while they were here, one of the stories that comes down to us, you know, i... 316 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:45,799 And there really wasn't a whole lot that we could nail into why they came in the first... 317 00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:53,799 But one of the things that we did find out that comes to us from Indian mythology is ... 318 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:58,799 And we feel like it kind of gave us some insights into at least what they did while... 319 00:25:58,799 --> 00:26:05,799 And in this narrative, and I'm just going to kind of cut it really short, is that there... 320 00:26:05,799 --> 00:26:12,799 There were the divas or the good gods and the ashuras, which were the bad gods. 321 00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:18,799 And the divas, OK, so these were the divas and they look pretty normal. 322 00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:24,799 And these are the ashuras and they look kind of demon evil people anyway. 323 00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:36,799 And so they set up a truce between the group because they were always fighting with eac... 324 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:42,799 And so they went and they started drilling down into the earth in order to get... 325 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:46,799 Amrita, the nectar of immortality. 326 00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:55,799 And so after thousands of years and a bunch of situations happening with them churning... 327 00:26:55,799 --> 00:27:03,799 And one of the things that happens is that the ashuras, the bad gods, go and they rus... 328 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:10,799 Well, now the good gods, the divas are upset because they don't want those bad gods to ... 329 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:13,799 No. And so what do they do? 330 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:18,799 They call on Vishnu and say, Vishnu, help us out with this situation. 331 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,799 And Vishnu transforms himself into a seductive woman. 332 00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:27,799 And she diverts the ashuras attention onto this woman. 333 00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:33,799 And the divas come in and steal the Amrita and share it amongst themselves. 334 00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:35,799 And so now they're immortal. 335 00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:40,799 And well, needless to say, war broke out. 336 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:46,799 And a conflict happened between these two groups. 337 00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:56,799 In the meantime, as part of this second world, it was decided that a group of,... 338 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:02,799 And so in Greek mythology, this was a group of giants. 339 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:06,799 They were born of the blood of the castrated Uranus. 340 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:10,799 In some cultures, they're identified as being the earthborn. 341 00:28:10,799 --> 00:28:19,799 We believe that this group of gods were actually able to live on the surface of th... 342 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:24,799 One of the things that I didn't share is, and this gets into this whole long thing, 343 00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:31,799 we believe that they were actually looking for things that would protect them from th... 344 00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:35,799 And that would mean life for them on this planet. 345 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:41,799 How many of you guys have read Zacharias Sitchin's material? 346 00:28:41,799 --> 00:28:47,799 I'm just going to talk about this enough of you so I can go here and you'll know what ... 347 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:51,799 And so in Sitchin's work, he says that they came here for the gold. 348 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:59,799 And so I'm thinking, hey, they came here for the gold, except I wanted mythology to... 349 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:05,799 Because if he's saying it, then with the parallels that we found around the world, ... 350 00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:09,799 It would have to be there. Couldn't find it. 351 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:19,799 Could not find it. I literally spent a month, 10 to 12 hours a day, with my eyes in fron... 352 00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:24,799 Could not find it. There are references in some cultures to gold and immortality. 353 00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:29,799 We find a couple of references to it in Norse culture. 354 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:32,799 We find a couple of references to it in Greek. 355 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:42,799 We find actually a peach in China that was that you would it would the tree would blo... 356 00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:46,799 And then another 3000 years would go by and the fruits became available. 357 00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:54,799 And they had the festival of peaches where the gods would come and partake of these... 358 00:29:54,799 --> 00:29:58,799 And so there are connections even in the biblical story. 359 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,799 There is the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. 360 00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:04,799 And so there are ties. 361 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:11,799 However, when you start looking at some other cultures, you find out that the word... 362 00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:18,799 There are more ties to them actually applying it on their skin. 363 00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:24,799 They're in...I'm trying to think of which culture it was, but it was in a Native... 364 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:29,799 They talk about gold being the excrement of the gods. 365 00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:37,799 Or in the story of El Dorado, El Dorado was actually not a place of gold, but it was t... 366 00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:39,799 He was El Dorado. 367 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:49,799 And there up until this was documented, you know, with the Conquistadors, the leader o... 368 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:53,799 And they would take powdered gold and spray it on his body. 369 00:30:53,799 --> 00:30:59,799 And he would go to the center of Lake Titicaca and perform these ceremonies and... 370 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:05,799 And when he was done, he would immerse himself in the water and clean the gold of... 371 00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:08,799 And then the festivities would begin. 372 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:10,799 So that was kind of interesting. 373 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:17,799 But then we kind of took it another step further because I started looking for, oka... 374 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:21,799 but what about if we start looking at mining on the planet? 375 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,799 You know, because maybe they mined for gold. 376 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:30,799 So I started digging for that because, you know, that's supposedly where these ancien... 377 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,799 So I find references to these ancient mines. 378 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:39,799 However, they all were referencing mines that were associated with ochre. 379 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:46,799 Now, many of us recognize ochre when you look at the cave paintings, and they have that... 380 00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:48,799 That's ochre. 381 00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:49,799 Okay? 382 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:57,799 And so like gold, I mean, if you think about gold, it really doesn't have any purpose. 383 00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:01,799 You know, we use it for jewelry in contemporary day and age. 384 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:05,799 We use it for electronics, but I don't think they had cell phones back then. 385 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:07,799 So I kind of eliminated that. 386 00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:13,799 But if you think of that in space technology, it's used for UV shielding. 387 00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:15,799 So that was kind of interesting. 388 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:24,799 But then we have this ochre thing, and I mean, there were thousands of tons of ochr... 389 00:32:24,799 --> 00:32:31,799 We find huge ochre mines in Australia, and we find huge ochre mines in South America. 390 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:32,799 Yeah, bizarre. 391 00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:35,799 It was really weird. 392 00:32:35,799 --> 00:32:46,799 But one of the things we also found with ochre is that there are even today culture... 393 00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:59,799 If you think about the images that come out of the pyramids and out of Egypt, and this... 394 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:11,799 Do any of those people in those pictures, whether they're working in a field or... 395 00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:14,799 They all have those little loin cloth things on. 396 00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:19,799 But they also are all depicted in that ochre color. 397 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:26,799 Now, even at the time that those things were being painted and built, they had the abil... 398 00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:32,799 They had the ability to paint yellow or some other color, but they were all depicted as... 399 00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:41,799 And even today, if you go to Egypt, people won't run around in just the loin cloth... 400 00:33:41,799 --> 00:33:47,799 And so one of the things that ochre is used for is as a sunscreen. 401 00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:52,799 Okay, now let's take this whole concept one more step. 402 00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:59,799 So you're saying these people were technologically advanced to buying this an... 403 00:33:59,799 --> 00:34:01,799 They're looking for UV protection? 404 00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:05,799 That they were using for UV protection, that they had issues with the sunlight. 405 00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:08,800 For spacecraft? 406 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,800 Not for a spacecraft, for themselves. To put physically on their bodies. 407 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,800 I mean, if you think about the Anunnaki, they're the shining ones. 408 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,800 You know, Indira is always depicted or spoken of as being shimmery and golden in color. 409 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,800 Well, what if his body was covered in gold? 410 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,800 But then you think of funerary items. 411 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,800 In Egypt, we have King Tut and his golden mask. 412 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,800 You know, we find the use of these gold masks around the world. 413 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,800 But why did they wear a golden mask? 414 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,800 What was the symbolism behind that? 415 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,800 The gold mask made them look more like a god. 416 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:55,800 And it would make it so that they could enter into heaven as under the guise of being a... 417 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,800 So could they be using it as, you know? 418 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:04,800 Was the ochre the cheap man's, you know, fake Gucci cover-up? 419 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,800 I don't know. 420 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,800 But that was the closest thing that we could figure out that they were doing. 421 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,800 Because they never really, in mythology, reveal their agenda here. 422 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,800 You know, why they came here, whatever. 423 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,800 In the space program, when they want to create a shield to keep the light on the... 424 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,800 they use anodized glass when they put gold on it. 425 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:40,800 So it's just possible that other visitors use that same thing and came here and they saw... 426 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:47,800 Right. And, you know, we are just theorizing that they used it and coated their bodies... 427 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,800 You know, one of the things with the idea that they went to Mars, 428 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,800 in the mythology that comes out of that first period, is it talks about a dark or a... 429 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,800 You know, a world that is not fully lit in sunlight. 430 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:07,800 And when they came here, it's like they have different UV things going on because they... 431 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,800 And so maybe they picked Mars, and I'm just totally speculating here. 432 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:17,800 Maybe they picked Mars first because they didn't have the UV issues there. 433 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:27,800 Anyway, so all of this stuff is transpiring and a war breaks out between the gods that... 434 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:35,800 And ultimately, the sky gods win and this second world comes to an end. 435 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:42,800 During the third world, we find that terraforming actually started occurring on... 436 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,800 We have two lines of myth that come out of this period. 437 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:56,800 One is where somebody or something went underneath the water and brought some mud ... 438 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:05,800 In the other version of the story, we find that the body of the slain god was used to... 439 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:12,800 So his hair became the trees and his teeth became the mountains and his blood became ... 440 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:20,800 And so these body parts, so whether they're talking about some kind of genetic... 441 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:27,800 But it does seem clear that they were responsible for the terraforming on the... 442 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:39,800 So in this third world, the giants who you just met, the 8 to 12 foot, now that there... 443 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:47,800 they were set about to do a bunch of projects and building structures and doing the bidd... 444 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,800 It seems like they were the low men on the totem pole. 445 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,800 But after a while, they weren't liking it anymore. 446 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:59,800 And the way that I like to express it, and this came out of, and I don't remember whi... 447 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:05,800 but we're the sons and daughters of the gods. 448 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,800 Why do we have to do this work? 449 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,800 They were pretty whiny. 450 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:21,800 Anyway, needless to say, their revolt and another war breaks out, this time with the... 451 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:30,800 Ultimately, the revolt was put down and the sky gods remained in control over the planet. 452 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,800 At the conclusion of this war, of this rebellion, I'll say rebellion. 453 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:40,800 At the conclusion of the rebellion, it was decided to make mankind, to do these labors. 454 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:47,800 So one of the things that is interesting is, you know, if you look at the biblical stor... 455 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,800 we find that chapter one talks about the creation, you know, it's the creation story. 456 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,800 But then in chapter two, we have another version of the creation story, which seeme... 457 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,800 And so we started doing some research around that. 458 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:09,800 And there were two things that we, you know, that just really kind of caught my eye tha... 459 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,800 even though there are a number of different theories as to why. 460 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:21,800 One was that, well, one was that there were multiple creations of man, and that's the... 461 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:29,800 In some myths or in some people's work, I don't really want to say we found a... 462 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,800 was that the first group of men were hermaphroditic in nature. 463 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,800 I didn't find the myths to support it, but I kind of like that one. 464 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,800 Well, because in the first one, it says male and female, we created them. 465 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:49,800 You know, as if they're talking about an individual, as if, you know, they were... 466 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,800 Where in the second version, we have Adam being created and then Eve being created f... 467 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,800 And so they were very clearly two individuals. 468 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:06,800 Anyway, in different mythologies, we find out that there were actually multiple creations. 469 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,800 In the Pope of Ull, they talk about the first man that they created was made out of mud. 470 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,800 And when it rained, he melted. 471 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,800 Then the second creation, they made him out of sticks. 472 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,800 But he was really stupid, and he didn't listen to anything they said, and he could... 473 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,800 so they were like, we're done with you. 474 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,800 And then they finally came to an iteration I thought this was interesting, 475 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:35,800 and they made him out of corn, red corn, yellow corn, black corn, and white corn. 476 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,800 And they were dispersed over the planet. 477 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,800 That was kind of interesting, a little metaphor there. 478 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:48,800 In Sumerian texts, in Sumerian texts, they talk about multiple creations as well. 479 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,800 And they talk about, well, one of them they made couldn't stand up. 480 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,800 One of them they made couldn't hold his urine. 481 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,800 One of them they made a female. 482 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,800 Hey, I'm just reporting it, okay? 483 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,800 One of them they made was a female, and it couldn't reproduce. 484 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:12,800 And so it took them six or seven times to actually create a creature that was fully... 485 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:20,800 You know, I love this image because this is an image of Tiki, the first man that comes... 486 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:27,800 You know, and you look at it, and it's like, well, is that really a representation of t... 487 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:33,800 And it's interesting, and it's something that, you know, it's in my project list of... 488 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,800 is this imagery with these big round eyes. 489 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,800 How many of you are familiar with Klaus Dona? 490 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:48,800 If you don't know, it's K-L-A-U-S-D-O-N-A. 491 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,800 Look him up online. 492 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:58,800 He has, he's a curator in Austria and has access to these artifacts that are... 493 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:04,800 I mean, just, and on the radio show we did an interview with him, they blow your mind. 494 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:11,800 But a number of the pieces that he has have these individuals with these big round eyes. 495 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:20,800 And so it makes me wonder, is there some association with a very early version of m... 496 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,800 My husband goes, why can't they make them look normal? 497 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,800 Why do they have these big round eyes? 498 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:31,800 And, ah, I'm like, but you see multiple pictures coming from multiple continents, 499 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,800 and you go, maybe they have big round eyes. 500 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,800 I don't know. 501 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,800 All right, okay, so in this presentation there's a slide missing, so I'm just going... 502 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:54,800 So the slide that's supposed to be in here is the whole notion of the sons of God marryi... 503 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,800 and that whole storyline. 504 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:04,800 There are a lot of people, my husband goes, you know, people are going to, you're goin... 505 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:11,800 There are many people, even in the alternative thought area, that make the cl... 506 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,800 were the byproduct of the sons of God and the daughters of men. 507 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:24,800 But in listening to this narrative we have so far, basically, okay, so the line says, 508 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,800 in those days the Nephilim walked the earth, and in the days following. 509 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:35,800 Well, if the Nephilim are the giants, we have the giants a few slides back. 510 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:40,800 So it only makes sense that they were making a statement of fact. 511 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,800 In those days the giants walked the earth. 512 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,800 I mean, I read that after doing this research, and went, okay, duh. 513 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:57,800 There's the biblical acknowledgement of this, the byproduct of this relationship, you know, 514 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,800 and it says that they were the men of renown. 515 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:06,800 Well, in Greek mythology we have Hercules and Perseus and, you know, and these demigods. 516 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:15,800 In India and the Ramayana they talk about the gods coming down and impregnating the apes... 517 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:23,800 And the byproduct of that, they were created in order to help Rama fight this god at th... 518 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:28,800 Anyway, but what's interesting is that if your father was the god of wind, 519 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,800 you had some of his skills and abilities. 520 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:37,800 And if your father was one of the master builders, you know, one of the master... 521 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,800 you had those skills and abilities. 522 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:45,800 And so if you're thinking about this kind of large procreation, we have the good gods, ... 523 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,800 and we got some of these not so good gods. 524 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:53,800 And so some of these, one of the issues that they had with these relationships, 525 00:44:53,800 --> 00:45:00,800 this kind of comes out of the book of Enoch, is that they started giving mankind... 526 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,800 They started teaching mankind stuff. 527 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,800 And so they had issues with what they were doing. 528 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,800 You know, and there were some of these not so good gods, and, you know, anyway. 529 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,800 But in the meantime, God said, be fruitful and multiply. 530 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,800 And we did. 531 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,800 Oh, there's that slide. 532 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,800 Anyway. 533 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:30,800 So inevitably, God gets pissed off, and, you know, he's more in danger, danger. 534 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,800 There's going to be a flood, and I already told you about the flood story, 535 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,800 so I'm not going to reiterate it here. 536 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,800 And then the flood happens. 537 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,800 And this is really where we end our story is with the rise of civilization, 538 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,800 because civilization started to rise right after the flood. 539 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,800 And so, back it up, back it up. 540 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,800 You know, we have, we learned how to do agriculture. 541 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,800 We started creating massive building projects. 542 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,800 All right, that's the original head on the sphinx, just in case you were wondering. 543 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,800 It's the chupacabra. 544 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,800 We started having trade and commerce. 545 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,800 We started having laws. 546 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,800 This is from the Code of Hammurabi. 547 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,800 One of the things that, after the flood, one of the first identifiers 548 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,800 that comes down to us through legend was that God gave Noah a set of laws, 549 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,800 and they were the Noahide Code. 550 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:42,800 And people have been basically living by that code for thousands of years, 551 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,800 and so by the time we get to Hammurabi and some of these other lawgivers, 552 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,800 that was, that these codes were already in existence. 553 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:56,800 You know, and then comes our ability to write and document our history. 554 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,800 And it's our ability to document our history that we could identify 555 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:06,800 or write down what is happening to us now as we move into the future, 556 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,800 as well as codify where we have been in the past. 557 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,800 And so this is where we felt we were going to make our break, 558 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:19,800 was with the rise of civilization and the advent of society. 559 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,800 And so one of the things, one of the biggest conclusions, 560 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,800 okay, so everything that I've just talked about in this storyline 561 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,800 were kind of conclusions that we came through to looking at myth, 562 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,800 and I had to express it this way, because I'm taking all of these myths 563 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,800 and trying to make one narrative. 564 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,800 And so if you read the book, you might come to a somewhat different conclusion, 565 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,800 because what we do is we present the mythology. 566 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,800 That's what we do. We just put it out there and say this is what they say. 567 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:01,800 But one of the things that we found in doing this research 568 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,800 was that there were some references to where these stories came from 569 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:06,800 in the first place. 570 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,800 And so in the Sumerian culture, we have, oops, 571 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,800 you know that pointer button's in the middle. 572 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:19,800 We have, these are the Onas, and they were these half men, half fish 573 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,800 that came out of the water and taught men, mankind. 574 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,800 Three of them came before the flood, three of them came after the flood. 575 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,800 They would come out of the water, they would teach mankind stuff, 576 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,800 they wouldn't eat any food, and then they would return to the water at night. 577 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,800 And according to Brasulius, a Babylonian priest, 578 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:42,800 he said that it was the Onas who taught mankind their history. 579 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,800 When you cross the world and you talk to the Aztecs, 580 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,800 they say that it was Kozlo Kowotl who taught them their history. 581 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,800 So it's still coming from the gods. 582 00:48:55,800 --> 00:49:01,800 One of the other things that I want to point out when looking at mythology 583 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,800 is the viewpoint, the viewpoint of the stories. 584 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,800 And when you read these stories, they read more like, 585 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,800 hey, me and Jim, we're going down to 7-Eleven, we're going to get a Slurpee, 586 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,800 hey, there's Bob, we hate Bob, wait, let's knock him into them 587 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,800 so you can drop his Slurpee on the ground, you know, and create these conflicts. 588 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,800 But I mean, they read more like we are talking to each other 589 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,800 and interacting with each other on the same level. 590 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,800 And when you find references to man and mankind, 591 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,800 they're over here in Sumerian text. 592 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,800 They're the black-headed people. 593 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,800 They really don't have names. 594 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,800 There might be ones that are in charge of certain things that have names, 595 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,800 but they're over there. 596 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,800 Now, if these were our stories about the gods, 597 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,800 when you read the Vedas, you know, which is a lot of prayers 598 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,800 and incantations to the gods, it's kind of like, 599 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,800 oh, Indira, please look down on us with kindness, 600 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,800 you know, and they just go on and on and on and on with supplication. 601 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,800 And so if they were our stories about the gods, 602 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,800 one, why would we write such really crappy things about them? 603 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,800 Because they weren't very nice. 604 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:17,800 And then two, why, you know, we look up to, we venerate God, you know, 605 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,800 and that comes through in our more recent culture, 606 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,800 but the stories don't come from that narrative. 607 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:30,800 They come from being this more equal position with mankind being down there. 608 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,800 So even from that perspective, 609 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:37,800 it makes more sense that these stories were shared with us. 610 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,800 It also takes care of one other little nagging problem that we had, 611 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,800 was how we could end up with these same stories around the world. 612 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:50,800 Well, if the Onaz came and shared their information with groups after the flood 613 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,800 and were partially responsible for the rise of civilization, 614 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,800 then we already had groups in the Middle East. 615 00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,800 We had groups in Australia. 616 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:04,800 We had groups in the Americas where they could tell their stories 617 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:10,800 and we would have this commonality, and it explains that. 618 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:12,800 And so, but read the myth. 619 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,800 I think you will find they're really interesting, you know, 620 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,800 and the way that we wrote them is, you know, I don't want, they're very readable. 621 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,800 You know, one of the things we decided was that we were not going to do a textbook 622 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:32,800 because it would be boring, boring to read, boring to write, boring to edit. 623 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:37,800 And so they are definitely written with, I'll say, with Dr. Rita Flair. 624 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:42,800 And if you've ever written any of my other work, you would understand what I'm talkin... 625 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,800 And there's the book. 626 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,800 And I'm done with my talking, and I know you have a million questions, 627 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,800 but this lady has been very patiently raising questions.