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Here is something that's 70,000 years old,
all right?

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That's twice as old, all right, plus then
another 10,000 years.

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70,000 year old ritual site is what we're
looking at in this particular presentation,

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and that is huge.

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I mean, this could have looked very different
70,000 years ago, but what is left over of

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this particular site is a very distinctly
carved stone serpent, okay?

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Very distinctly carved stone serpent.

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What you've got over here is the mouth, the
eye, and carvings over here to make it look

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like snake skin, okay?

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When you put the candles on at night, it
makes it look like the serpent is moving

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if you put candles underneath here because of
the way it flickers against the shadows

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caused by these carvings.

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This is an amazing site.

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In fact, Sedillo Hills is known as the
mountains of the gods, and I'll talk a bit...

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Hills.

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It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site with over
4,500 examples of rock art.

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Some of the oldest art in the world, some of
it has been dated to 20,000 years old,

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okay?

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It's pretty damn old for art.

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Sedillo Hills is located in the northwestern
part of Botswana, and Botswana is surrounded

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by Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and
Zambia, so that's my home turf.

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The Sedillo Hills are the only hills in this
particular part of the Kalahari Desert, and

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you can see them from probably 100 kilometers
in every direction because it's so flat.

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It's interesting when I interviewed the lady
who excavated this particular site, she said

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it's a natural meeting point.

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You can imagine these bushmen who traipse
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They would be able to see these mountains,
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so flat.

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So, you know, if you wanted to meet somebody,
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no distinctive markers anywhere else in the
middle of the desert.

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It would be the natural gathering point,
okay?

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I just want to talk about where the location
of Sedillo Hills is so you have an...

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The Sedillo Hills is over here, next to the
Okavango River, in the country known as...

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and Botswana is situated here, as you can
see, above South Africa.

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Botswana's got Namibia to the west, Zambia
and Angola to the north, and of course, to

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the east, you've got a little bit of South
Africa, Zimbabwe, and you have to go across

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Mozambique, of course, to get to the east
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But that's basically sort of the area we're
going to be having a look at today, and it's

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a very interesting landscape because there's
a lot that most people do not realise about

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what has happened throughout the history of
southern Africa.

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So Sedillo Hills, you're looking at it being
about there, as you can see, nestled into

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this particular corner area of Botswana,
you're looking at it being roughly over...

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Here's some lovely pictures of Sedillo Hills,
so you can get an understanding.

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It really is not a mountain, a big point,
it's really not hills.

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These are more like mountains.

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When they had the name Mountain of the Gods,
you can kind of understand why they had that

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name because they are rock cliff faces and
distinctive rock formations which come out

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of the ground.

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And of course, it's famous worldwide for
being a sacred bushman site, bushman, of...

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being the rather derogatory word I think
South African like to call them by their...

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name, the Khoisan.

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The Khoisan people consider this to be a
sacred site, and of course, here's an exam...

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some of the rock art which you would find
there.

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And of course, this is the lovely lady who
excavated Sedillo Hills, or at least the

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part of Rhino Cave that is of interest.

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Professor Sheila Coulson, she is the
Associate Professor of Archaeology at the...

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of Oslo in Norway.

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I have interviewed her, and her interview is
available on our website, so you're welcome

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to check it out.

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And this is the lady who has basically done
the dating of this area and determined that

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this particular site is the oldest evidence
of ritual behavior, at least 70,000 years

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old.

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Just to again have a look at what the stone
serpent looks like by night, as we said when

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you put candles underneath it, these little
little

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carved bits in the side kind of move, so it
kind of gives the impression that the

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serpent is alive.

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But the part that Sheila actually went and
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the serpent, which turned out some very
interesting things.

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Okay, just here's another drawing of what the
outlines more clearly mark it so you

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see what it looks like and where all these
markings are that have been carved into the

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side of the serpent.

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This is what was found.

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At the layer at around 70,000 years old, we
begin to find what are, Sheila called,

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middle stone age points.

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And I hate using terms like stone age or iron
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These are labels that have been put on
periods of time by academics who actually...

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don't really know the truth about what's
happened and are pretty ignorant about, you

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know, anything that steps outside their
comfort zone.

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But what you're looking at here is a number
of stones which have been carved into points.

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They've been worked and there's a lot of
effort that has gone into making these...

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stones.

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Beautiful colors, absolutely gorgeous to look
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And some of the stones come from thousands of
kilometers away.

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So there's another painting that's gone in
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Someone, people had over a period of time
bought these stones to this cave from...

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of kilometers away, hundreds of kilometers
away for a specific purpose.

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And then in this cave, they carved them into
points because they were left over, which

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is what we see on the right here.

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These are the chips that have been carved off
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carved points.

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Okay.

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Now, what would you use something like this
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This looks like it's been carved for the
purpose of cutting.

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Now, in terms of the context of sacrifice,
you could easily use this to maybe slit...

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throat, plunge it into their heart, although
I would think that you probably need...

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attached to it like a handle.

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This could easily be used for some kind of
act of ritual sacrifice, these stones.

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And it was interesting to note that Sheeta
Coulson said that these were like a voter

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deposit.

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Obviously, they were bought from far away,
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were just left in the cave, discarded.

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Some of them were burned, some of them were
deliberately smashed.

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I imagine if you had used these for the
purposes of ritual, or killing a human or ...

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the purposes of sacrifice or perhaps an
animal, you wouldn't necessarily want to t...

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stone with you that you've committed a ritual
sacrifice with.

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The logical thing would be to discard it or
to burn it or to destroy it.

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And that's what we have evidence of in this
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However, there are no remains.

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And Sheeta did point out that due to the fact
that it is a desert, the conditions and...

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would not preserve any human or organic
remains over a few thousand years.

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And also, animals coming in would have dug up
and eaten bones if there was anything.

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And Sheeta was still very much under the
impression that this whole area was in the...

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a desert.

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And that's why there are no remains, because
it's a very harsh environment.

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But absolutely, this is evidence of
ritualized behavior, the oldest ritualized...

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we have yet seen.

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And these stone points are found underneath
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Now, as I said, Sheila, our dear friend
Sheila Coulson, was under the impression w...

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interviewed her that this entire Sedilla
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which it does.

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At the moment, it's sitting in the middle of
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This is what this area looks like beforehand.

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This is what it looked like beforehand.

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And this is what it actually looks like now
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And it's a very interesting site.

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And I just want to pause here for a moment,
because I'm going to be pointing out a few

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interesting things.

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Just have a look at this area from above.

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Take it in.

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Because when you start to pull back, this of
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excavated obviously in the caves, Rima Cave,
which is in these mountains.

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I'm not sure exactly where it's located here,
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area and believed that this area was in the
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else into account.

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It's only when you start to get above Sedilla
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by the fact that this is the oldest example
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effigy to be found.

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Clearly the oldest evidence of orfeolatry,
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All right.

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Here in Sedilla Hills in the middle of the
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But when you get above Sedilla Hills, you
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You start to notice a few things.

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I do want to point out the various bits of
discoloration in the ground, because this

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is going to start going to interesting
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So now we're going to pull slightly further
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space and looking down.

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Here is Sedilla Hills over here.

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And you start to notice there's some very
interesting lines going across the bottom.

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Very interesting lines.

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In fact, these lines are so perfectly spaced,
if you begin to think, hmm, what on earth

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are these?

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They can't be natural formations.

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So you pull out a little bit further back and
go back further into space, looking through

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Google it.

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This is the Okavango Panhandle coming down
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And I do recommend, if anybody wants a
magnificent safari, this is really a...

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the world to truly experience the flavor of
deep Africa.

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I did a safari through here when I was a kid.

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It was truly amazing.

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Lots of mosquito bites.

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But here we've got Sedilla Hills.

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And you will notice these lines we were
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They're everywhere.

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They go all the way underneath.

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And in fact, they go over to the other side.

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You'll see it when I pull further back.

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They actually end up going through at that
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So at one time, whatever these lines were,
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That's interesting.

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Getting closer to the ground again, just
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You can see again, very clear distinctive
patterns and stripes in the ground.

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Very, very, very clear.

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This is now supposedly all desert.

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Where you start seeing it getting green is
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And the darker bits in between is where the
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It's like a swamp.

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What you have in the Okavango River is you
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It doesn't empty into the sea.

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It just sort of dumps into a swamp and
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The water is not pouring into the ocean.

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It just makes a very lush, green, tropical
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Now, this is a NASA satellite image of the
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Again, we were looking at Sedilla Hills,
which is over here.

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It's this little patch or area over here.

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Now, this is a satellite image, a NASA
satellite image.

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And we can see these lines from space.

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We can see these lines from a NASA satellite
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Now, I do want to impress the importance of
this because this is freaking huge.

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We can see these lines from out of space.

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That is very unique.

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And when you look at the NASA satellite
images, they've got various parts of this...

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But they've got the lines marketed as linear
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In other words, these are dunes that were
formed in perfectly straight lines by wind...

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or whatever condition makes perfectly
straight dunes perfectly spaced from each...

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As we know, the wind does not make dunes
perfectly spaced from each other.

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In fact, they are so irregular and all over
the show.

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These are not naturally occurring structures.

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They were not made by wind.

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They were not made by water, erosion.

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These are artificial structures.

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They are not structures made by nature.

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These are not linear dunes.

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NASA has told us, and lied to us, not
surprisingly, about what these structures...

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There is no way in hell.

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These are linear dunes.

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We'll talk a little bit more about what these
particular structures are.

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But just getting a bit closer down in the
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So we went out.

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Now we're coming right back in onto the
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We're going to go into some of the very
interesting features here because it does ...

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You might notice over here a little biker.

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We've got the Dutch Rally Press logo over
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Because you have a lot of these rallies that
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It is flat as can be.

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There are parts which have mountains, for
example, Sedino Hills.

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But the majority of it is a pretty flat
landscape.

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And what you've got is a double dirt track.

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One which goes one way, one which comes
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With a little biker going on here.

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But what I want you to notice is the
difference in the color of the landscape.

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How you've got what seems to be a panel of
darker grass.

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Another sort of panel of lighter grass.

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And then you've got another stripe of dark
grass, stripe of light grass.

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And if you look, you can see the light grass,
the dark grass, the light grass, the dark...

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And so it goes all the way into the distance.

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Where you have these distinctive lines of
lightly colored grass and dark colored grass.

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And there's a reason for that.

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There's a distinct reason for that.

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Because the consistency of the earth
underneath the grass is different.

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So it grows different types of grass.

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Okay.

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Now what could be so consistently different
that it creates these panels and perfectly...

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Where it's very clear to see that you've got
something over here.

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And then something different over here.

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And yeah, we've got a panel of light green
grass.

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And again, going to another panel of darker
grass.

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Different textures of soil underneath will
create different flora which grows up.

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All right.

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So getting to the meat and juice of this
particular presentation.

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What we are looking at when we are looking at
this particular set of lines on the floor ...

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Is we are looking at a massive agricultural
landscape.

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Okay.

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This is, this entire complex is about, as it
says over here, 300 by 350 miles in area.

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Or about the size of the state of Arizona and
the US.

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In fact, the country of Holland can fit into
this entire space.

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Having a look at the measurements.

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I've actually looked at these measurements
again.

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And I'm not in agreement with what they've
written here.

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But for me, we're looking at something that's
potentially a mile to an mile away.

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A mile to an a mile and a half wide.

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So an agricultural band or piece of land
that's about a mile and a half wide.

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Which then is separated by canals.

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Which is what these are.

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And living in Holland, this is a very common
thing for me.

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Is these canals in between agricultural
belts.

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I've got them all over the show here.

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So, you know, it's amazing to see them here
as well.

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This is the remains of an ancient
agricultural system.

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As we go further out, you can see again.

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This is clearly something that's been going
on here.

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Read this over here.

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This image is viewed at approximately seven
miles above the earth.

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And it shows uniform width of canal spacing.

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It says about one mile distance.

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These actual bands are about a mile wide.

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And you can see the erosion patterns from
where the canals were.

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And of course, they were inundated at some
point.

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So they no longer have the actual burrow type
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They've been filled.

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But there was clearly something there at some
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Now we're going further back.

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Having a look at what they look like.

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So here's the one before where we were
slightly closer.

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And going further back, you'll notice that
these canals, again,

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when you look at this, there are two evenly
spaced for this to be a natural formation.

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And again, further back, 42 miles above the
ground.

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Again, you start to see that this is a very
distinctive pattern of straight lines.

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Perfectly spaced from each other.

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Clearly not a natural formation.

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And when you look at these particular lines
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it reveals some very interesting things.

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The lines in the ground that surround Sedilla
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clearly show agricultural irrigation canals

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which are separating what would have been
agricultural belts

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which are evenly spaced at roughly a mile
wide.

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And separated by water canals about 100
meters wide.

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They could have been wider.

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It's difficult to tell, to be honest with
you, because it's been so eroded.

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What was even more interesting to notice,

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just how these lines, which are the remains
of ancient agricultural belts

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and water canals, totally surround Sedilla
Hills.

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Which up till now was thought to have been
completely isolated in the desert.

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But clearly, it was once the center of a
massive thriving

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ancient advanced agricultural community.

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Sedilla Hills seems to have been right in the
middle of this entire thing.

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Now what's interesting to notice is that this
is the largest wide array man-made

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or at least it's not a natural structure.

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It's man-made structure.

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So it's the largest man-made structure in the
world.

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Which is an ancient terraformed structure of
agricultural irrigation canals

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which exists in the northwest of Botswana and
in northeastern Namibia.

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And what's interesting is that the canal
system no longer provides free-flowing water

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but it's about a total of 105 miles in total.

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If you had to add up the mile length of these
canal sections.

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And it shows definite intent to provide
cross-sectional irrigation

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to these agricultural belts.

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These canals are far too evenly spaced over a
large area

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to be any kind of natural formation.

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Its age is defined by the overgrown nature of
the canals

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as well as some of the areas that are covered
with drift and sand erosion.

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This system represents roughly 67 million
acres of sustainable agriculture.

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Given the sophistication of the design,

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it is entirely plausible to assume an above
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I.e. this is feeding well over 90 to 100
people per acre on an annual basis.

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In fact the entire agricultural system could
have supported over 6 billion people.

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That is huge.

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So we've got the oldest and largest ancient
civilization now marked

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and also the biggest man-made structure to
have been discovered.

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And guess what?

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NASA satellite images show the ancient
irrigation and agricultural system

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stretched across the Aguivanga River.

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This agricultural system of canals in fact is
the largest non-natural

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ancient structural artifact to have yet been
discovered on Earth.

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It can be clearly viewed unaided from the
International Space Station

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about 230 miles up,

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which cannot be said for any other
non-natural feature on Earth.

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So up until now it could be said that the
only man-made feature on Earth

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seen from space was the Great Wall of China.

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Uh-uh, not anymore.

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This can also be seen from space.

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So that's pretty big.

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And it's interesting to notice that you've
got the Aguivanga River coming down

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and just dumps into a swamp over here.

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What the ancient cultures did was instead of
allowing all this water

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just to dump into a swamp,

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they took this water and channeled it into
these irrigation canals.

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So this whole area here was actually a
vegetated,

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well-watered, looked after, terraformed area.

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Massive space, useful growing.

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Can you imagine the infrastructure it took to
build something like that?

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Never mind maintain something like that.

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The amount of labor force you'd need to farm
an area like that.

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And okay, so maybe they weren't six billion
people living in Africa.

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Maybe this was food going all over the world.

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So this could be potential evidence of
large-scale industry and transportation.

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This opens up huge possibilities.

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But it definitely indicates,

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unless they had massive food wastage,

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that we had a massive, massive population
living on planet Earth at one stage.

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You don't go and just put all that effort
into building such a large landscape

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for farming purposes,

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unless you have the intention to produce
food.

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And when you look at the scale of this,

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you go, well, there's a lot of people being
fed here.

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We potentially, at some stage,

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prior to our current, you know, what, we're
at 7 million now,

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probably more people on this planet,

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you're looking at an area that could feed 6
billion people.

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Which is interesting if you look at today's
context,

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because all we have to do is terraform a
desert

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to take care of the hunger on this planet.

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It's been done before in the past.

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The evidence is there.

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And I just want to share an example of what
we've got in modern day times.

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Here in Holland, as I say, I live in Holland,

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and this is a very common sight,

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these canals and agriculture,

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these terraformed areas which are
interspersed with canals.

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And again, here's what they look like from
the air in Holland.

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And it's a very common sight.

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And this is what we consider to be part of
our modern technology.

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I mean, Holland and their canal builders

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only really started maybe a thousand years
ago

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with some of the earliest canals that I've
seen.

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But this is considered to be pretty much more

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what you'd find in advanced cultures,

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advanced technology to maintain landscapes
like this.

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So to have a culture which could maintain
this kind of landscape,

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they would have had to have been very, very
advanced.

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Potentially even have mechanized vehicles

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that could drive up and down these 300 mile
long stretches of canals

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to do whatever, to pick or whatever.

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There must have been something.

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It's difficult to believe that this was a
labor force

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that worked purely by hand.

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There must have been some kind of advice

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that was given to the government

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that said, you know, purely by hand.

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There must have been some kind of advanced
technology

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involved in maintaining this landscape.

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Because here in Holland nowadays,

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it's almost impossible to maintain something
like this

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without, you know, little, some boats,
tractors.

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There's a whole bunch of stuff that we need
now

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to maintain a landscape like this.

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And of course, the building of these canals

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and the maintaining of the canals

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is in and of themselves

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a very, very technically complex process.

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And I've sat and watched these canals being
built.

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It's not an easy thing to do.

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It's not a simple case of just digging the
ground out.

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You know, it's reinforcing the sides of the
canal walls

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and all sorts that comes with it.

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All right.

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The important question, of course,

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many people are probably wondering,

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what happened to a population of 6 billion
people?

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There is so much evidence

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that points to a massive flooding

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or a tsunami having engulfed the southwestern
coast

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and interior of southern Africa.

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It really is, wow.

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You just have to look at it, okay?

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This is the Sentinel mosaic of South Africa.

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Topographic view of what Africa would look
like

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from up in space.

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And one of the first things you notice,

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it had kind of hitched bang out.

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And most people, when they looked at this,

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probably didn't even think

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that this was of any significance

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to the people who were there.

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And so, you know,

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this was of any significance,

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but it's of huge significance to notice

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how almost two-thirds of Africa are brown

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compared to the east coast,

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which is a lot more green.

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It's a lot more green along the coastline
here.

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This is very brown.

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This is what you've got over here

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is the Skeleton Coast, Namibia,

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the Namib Desert,

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which backs up along the Skeleton Coast.

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And of course, you've got the Kalahari
Desert,

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which is this area here.

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So that is all the brown area

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that we're talking about.

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And I'm going to show you a bit closer

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what has happened here.

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This is Lampok Sumatra.

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This is a picture before

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the Boxer Day tsunami in 2004,

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which killed over 250,000 people.

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And this is what it looked like

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after the tsunami.

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You'll notice the area is brown.

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That is what happens

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when a massive tsunami comes along

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and takes out an entire

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civilization of these houses,

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these villages,

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and that is what is left.

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Tsunamis are devastating.

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They literally clear the land of everything.

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Structures,

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vegetation,

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and particularly,

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it's salt water.

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It poisons the earth because

473
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,400
the trees and stuff are land.

474
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,400
They can't handle the salt.

475
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,400
They're used to freshwater irrigation.

476
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,400
You can actually do salt water irrigation.

477
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,400
Now, there are plants that thrive

478
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,400
in salt water irrigation.

479
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,400
But what you have is when you have

480
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,400
a massive tsunami coming over the land like
that

481
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,400
and it leaves a massive amount of water,

482
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,400
it does poison the land,

483
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,400
and you have a real struggle to get things

484
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,400
to grow again because of that.

485
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,400
So I want to have a little bit of a look

486
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,400
at Africa in general.

487
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,400
Southern Africa has

488
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,400
Indian Ocean on the side,

489
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,400
Atlantic Ocean on the west coast.

490
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,400
And Atlantis was supposedly

491
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,400
over here. We spoke about that earlier

492
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,400
in the North Atlantic Ocean.

493
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,400
If you look at the topography,

494
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,400
the geographical information available

495
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,400
suggests that at some point,

496
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,400
a cataclysmic deluge coming out of the

497
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,400
Atlantic Ocean, remember we had

498
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,400
that Atlantic region of volcanoes

499
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,400
which sort of comes along there,

500
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,400
separates North and South America from
Africa.

501
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,400
A deluge came out

502
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,400
of the Atlantic Ocean, destroyed

503
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,400
large parts of the African continent,

504
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,400
creating the Kalahari and the Sahara

505
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,400
Desert. So this area here

506
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,400
where you've got Egypt and Syria,

507
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,400
that as well was

508
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,400
destroyed in a deluge.

509
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,400
Although it is a desert,

510
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,400
the Kalahari does receive rainfall,

511
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,400
so why is it so brown?

512
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,400
It's not like a typical desert where there's
no rain.

513
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,400
In fact, there is

514
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,400
much evidence to suggest that the

515
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,400
Sahara was once a huge

516
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,400
tropical landscape that

517
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,400
was destroyed by deluge that came out of the
Atlantic.

518
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,400
And you can see

519
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,400
this when you start looking at things like

520
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,400
the Sphinx. This is what the Sphinx

521
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,400
looked like when you sort of had

522
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,400
the Western world coming in with cameras.

523
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,400
It was pretty much covered up by

524
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,400
sand. When they started

525
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,400
clearing it away, they noticed some
interesting things.

526
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,400
And this is an artist's representation of

527
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,400
perhaps a great biblical flood,

528
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,400
because you start to notice that there are
these

529
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,400
incredible water erosion marks

530
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,400
down the side of the area

531
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,400
surrounding the Sphinx. Of course, this would
be

532
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,400
one of the parts of the Sphinx, and this

533
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,400
is the area surrounding it. Look at

534
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,400
the water erosion marks. It shows over

535
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,400
here just how they would have been

536
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,400
formed. Okay?

537
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Clearly showing that there was a vast amount
of water

538
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,400
that came through this area at one time.

539
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,400
But if you were to go there,

540
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400
if you'd been to that part of the world,
you'd notice how

541
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,400
dry it is. The Sphinx is like

542
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,400
Cairo. It sits on the edge of the desert.

543
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,400
And the part where the Sphinx

544
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,400
and the pyramids are is clearly in the

545
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,400
dry desert part. So

546
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
there's nowhere near anything like this

547
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,400
in terms of water

548
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,400
coming down nowadays. Okay?

549
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,400
So what was

550
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,400
going on here?

551
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,400
Alright. Now,

552
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,400
very much what you see going on here, which
is

553
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,400
the fact that we've had a massive deluge come
in and

554
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,400
create the Sahara Desert, is what you've got

555
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,400
going on on the skeleton coast.

556
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,400
Which is, of course,

557
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,400
this part, the east coast

558
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,400
of southern Africa.

559
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,400
This is Namibia,

560
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,400
Atlantic Ocean over here.

561
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,400
Kalahari Desert, Akavanga Swamp,

562
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,400
Sedino Hills is over there.

563
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,400
This whole area, the skeleton coast

564
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,400
is barren.

565
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,400
This here, desert, desert, it just

566
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,400
says desert. This whole area, it's just

567
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,400
desert, okay?

568
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,400
A plain, simple desert. And it is

569
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,400
so

570
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,400
just absolutely stark. You just

571
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,400
can't believe. I'll show you some examples.

572
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,400
The skeleton coast of Namibia,

573
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,400
so what you're looking at is this area over
here.

574
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,400
Okay? Have a look at this.

575
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,400
There is nothing. It is just sand.

576
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,400
Not even a freaking palm tree.

577
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,400
Alright, this is tropical

578
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,400
southern Africa. This area

579
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,400
is on the same sort of line of latitude

580
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,400
as the town that I grew up in, Durban.

581
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,400
Which, if you've been to Durban, it is so

582
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,400
lush and green and it has very

583
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,400
ancient forests there.

584
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,400
But somehow on the west coast, you just don't

585
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,400
have this. It's just barren.

586
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,400
This is about the only interesting

587
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,400
town in Namibia. It's called Swakopmunt.

588
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,400
And you can just see

589
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,400
there is nothingness behind it.

590
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,400
It's barren, okay?

591
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,400
It's sand and that is it. Not even a freaking

592
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,400
tree or an oasis. Nothing.

593
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,400
Then you go into the

594
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,400
Kalahari Desert. Of course you're moving

595
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,400
inland now. The Namib

596
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,400
Desert and the Kalahari Desert

597
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,400
kind of look like this.

598
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,400
It's barren. Not much

599
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,400
grows there. You've got the odd tuft of

600
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,400
this and that and some animals and

601
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400
of course some koi sand which managed

602
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,400
to make their way across the desert

603
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,400
very skillfully.

604
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,400
But this is where

605
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,400
you start to see the evidence

606
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,400
of, once upon a time,

607
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,400
there was a mass tsunami that

608
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,400
wiped through this desert because it sure

609
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,400
has left the evidence behind.

610
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,400
This is a salt pan

611
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,400
which has formed in the middle of the

612
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,400
desert. What's a salt pan

613
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,400
doing in the middle of the desert? Well, this
is what happened.

614
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,400
Once the tsunami came over the desert

615
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,400
and maybe some of the water flowed back out

616
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,400
and some of it got trapped

617
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,400
in this flat landscape and some of the

618
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,400
burrows or

619
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,400
undulations in the ground.

620
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,400
Once the

621
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,400
water starts to evaporate

622
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,400
the puddle gets smaller and smaller

623
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,400
and smaller until eventually you left with

624
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,400
a salt pan.

625
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,400
For me, the appearance of

626
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,400
there are two major salt pans,

627
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,400
massive ones in the Kalahari Desert.

628
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,400
The appearance of these two massive salt pans

629
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,400
is, for me, the clearest evidence

630
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,400
that there was once

631
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,400
a massive tsunami that swept

632
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,400
over the Kalahari Desert.

633
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,400
What happens once

634
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,400
water evaporates? It leaves behind

635
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,400
the salt. You can clearly see

636
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,400
it's located to a

637
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,400
specific area

638
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,400
which looks very much like the water
evaporated

639
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,400
out of here. Just let the salt behind.

640
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,400
To give you an idea how big the scale of

641
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,400
this area is, here are some trees

642
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,400
which are maybe 40 feet high.

643
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,400
So you can see that

644
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,400
it's a pretty big area of salt

645
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,400
that you got there. Another clue

646
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,400
regarding the fact that

647
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,400
there was in fact once a giant

648
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,400
deluge which came in over this area.

649
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,400
The clue is

650
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,400
the giant current ripples which

651
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,400
we find on the floor of the Kalahari Desert.

652
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,400
You just have to look at other areas

653
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,400
in the world which have been subjected to

654
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,400
mass flooding. For example,

655
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,400
the Kure Basin in Russia,

656
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,400
this is the black and white. You can see

657
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,400
very clearly giant flood ripples

658
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,400
on the ground when you look at it from above.

659
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,400
Here as well, you can see

660
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,400
a river here.

661
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,400
This is the start

662
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,400
of a salt pad it looks like.

663
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,400
But what you've got is

664
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,400
giant flood ripples.

665
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,400
Giant flood ripples in the ground.

666
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,400
And this

667
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,400
is kind of what they look like.

668
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,400
For those people who live in Washington,

669
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,400
you might know of the Scablands which

670
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,400
was formed by a massive

671
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,400
flooding event. And they

672
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,400
very much look like this. They've got these
giant current ripples

673
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,400
in the ground. Which

674
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,400
is what would happen when you have vast

675
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,400
volumes of water

676
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,400
moving at a great pace over an

677
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,400
area. And you see examples of

678
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400
this just on the beach, you know, where
you've got

679
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400
smaller ones from less quantities of

680
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,400
water moving over an area. But you can see

681
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,400
it's the same sort of formations.

682
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,400
It's ripples that are caused by currents.

683
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,400
And this is the other

684
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,400
indication regarding the fact that

685
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,400
there was once a flood. And it's called

686
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,400
the fairy circles. And

687
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,400
these are amazing because

688
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,400
these have baffled scientists

689
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,400
for a very long time. Again, you can see

690
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,400
the landscape very, very flat.

691
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,400
The fairy circles occur only

692
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,400
on the flat part of the landscape.

693
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,400
And scientists have been like,

694
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,400
what are these things? Why

695
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,400
is it that you have nothing

696
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,400
growing in just certain

697
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,400
areas? And I'll show you some more pictures

698
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,400
of it. You can see a track

699
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,400
going through the

700
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,400
fairy circles here. You've got

701
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,400
to, just to show you the scale, ostriches,

702
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400
these four little ostriches wandering through
the

703
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,400
desert. And here are the fairy circles.

704
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,400
Which you can see,

705
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,400
the structure of it is, you've got

706
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,400
absolutely nothing growing here. And then

707
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,400
around the edge you've got a thickened

708
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,400
circle of

709
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,400
grass and then slightly

710
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,400
thinned out. You can see it more clearly
here.

711
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,400
Thickened circles of grass and then slightly

712
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,400
more thinned out. Scientists

713
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,400
have not been able to figure out

714
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,400
what this is. But here's

715
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,400
my proposal. Of course,

716
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,400
I cannot prove this, but I'm wanting to bet
that

717
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,400
if you go and test

718
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,400
the soil over here

719
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,400
and the soil over here, you'll find

720
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,400
more salt in these areas. In fact,

721
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,400
my belief is that this was most likely

722
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,400
probably

723
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,400
a whole bunch of

724
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,400
puddles that formed

725
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,400
after

726
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,400
the water had moved back out

727
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400
to land or whatever else. Puddles that formed

728
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400
on the ground of

729
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,400
seawater, which of course

730
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,400
left behind areas

731
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,400
which were poisoned by salt where

732
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,400
these plants cannot

733
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,400
grow. Which is why

734
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,400
you have these fairy circles all over the

735
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,400
desert floor. They're absolutely

736
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,400
amazing. I'll just go back and show you.

737
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,400
Look at that, the vast scale, thousands

738
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,400
of them.

739
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,400
Most likely formed because of puddles

740
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,400
of salt water resulting

741
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,400
from a deluge.

742
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,400
Nothing will grow in these circles.

743
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,400
People have said, it's all some kind

744
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,400
of termite.

745
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,400
But no one's been able to

746
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,400
come up with a reasonable explanation.

747
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,400
Until you take into account

748
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400
the scenario of a deluge,

749
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,400
suddenly this makes

750
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,400
a lot more sense.

751
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,400
Next interesting bit about the Kalahari.

752
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,400
Of course, no ancient

753
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,400
site would be complete without some glyphs.

754
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,400
These ones

755
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,400
I think are going to be

756
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,400
in the near future

757
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,400
rivaling the

758
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,400
Nazca lines because these

759
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,400
are a phenomenal set of glyphs

760
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,400
which you found in the Kalahari

761
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,400
desert. And in fact, these glyphs

762
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,400
you can see a little bit of white around
here.

763
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,400
They were once covered by salt.

764
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,400
So this is obviously

765
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,400
an area where a whole bunch of water
accumulates

766
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,400
and then dried up and left a salt pan behind.

767
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,400
And underneath

768
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,400
the salt pan were these

769
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,400
spirals, like just

770
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,400
hundreds of these spirals next

771
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,400
to each other.

772
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,400
And no one really knows what they were.

773
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,400
They've kind of been

774
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,400
put into a marketed area

775
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,400
which again seems to be part of this glyph

776
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,400
formation stretching over

777
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,400
a wide area. But you've got

778
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,400
these really odd spirals.

779
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,400
Here's some more pictures.

780
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,400
This is very interesting over here because

781
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,400
part of the spiral complex that goes on

782
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,400
on the desert floor, you'll notice we've

783
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400
got this over here which to me looks like it
could

784
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,400
be a giant stadium or

785
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,400
temple area or perhaps

786
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,400
in the giant swimming pool.

787
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400
You never know.

788
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,400
But yeah,

789
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,400
here are these spirals all over the ground.

790
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,400
And this is just 10 years

791
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,400
ago. They were almost completely covered in

792
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,400
salt. And it looks like the salt has been
cleared away

793
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,400
and revealed

794
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,400
underneath an amazing, amazing

795
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,400
ancient glyph structure.

796
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,400
But you can see this line

797
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,400
that goes down here that keeps these spirals
in one

798
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,400
particular. Here is that line going

799
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,400
down underneath the salt.

800
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,400
Which you can kind of see there's something
going

801
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,400
on underneath the salt, even from

802
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,400
the sky, but not

803
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,400
really. You can see a little bit

804
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,400
of these structures over here

805
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,400
coming through. But

806
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,400
it's only really, and you can see

807
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,400
the salt's been cleared away on the side
here.

808
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,400
It's not completely cleared away. This is the
star material

809
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,400
red process. But this is what it looks

810
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,400
like once they eventually got rid of it all

811
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,400
and revealed. You can see bits of

812
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,400
salt still there. And it reveals

813
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,400
this amazing, amazing

814
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,400
spiral glyph structure that's

815
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,400
in the ground in the Kalahari desert.

816
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,400
Truly remarkable. Of course

817
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,400
spirals turn up

818
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,400
in many different cultures. It's

819
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,400
a very interesting symbol

820
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,400
of the dragon as well because the word

821
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,400
spiral actually comes from the word

822
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,400
pyro, which is another word

823
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,400
for dragon, which you also get the root

824
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,400
word spy, spell,

825
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,400
speak from.

826
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,400
Interesting. Okay.

827
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,400
So when you get down to the ground, this is

828
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,400
the view of the Kalahari

829
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,400
desert spirals that you have. And

830
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,400
what you have is, if you actually

831
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,400
start to notice that these are slightly

832
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,400
cambered, in other words, is a slight

833
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,400
tilt downwards, the central

834
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,400
part of the spiral is slightly higher

835
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,400
and it kind of goes lower as the spiral

836
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,400
goes down, indicating that perhaps

837
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,400
there was some kind of vortex

838
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,400
energy, perhaps they were moving water around

839
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,400
the vortex or whatever, water

840
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,400
to, I don't know,

841
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,400
energize it for feeding

842
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,400
the massive agricultural

843
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400
landscape.

844
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,400
But to be honest with you, who really knows

845
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,400
what these things were?

846
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,400
If you have a look at the ground, it's the
same

847
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,400
sort of layout as the Nazca lines where
you've got

848
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,400
areas that are clear

849
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,400
and then areas of distinctive rock that

850
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,400
have been put there

851
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,400
in a specific

852
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,400
space

853
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,400
but nowhere else, okay,

854
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,400
making these glitz. Similar layout

855
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,400
to the Nazca lines, which are made by

856
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,400
formation of rocks in the clearing of other

857
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,400
spaces. But, as I say,

858
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,400
this is what they look like from the ground

859
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,400
and they're utterly, utterly fascinating. I'd
love

860
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,400
to get out there and actually document

861
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,400
these properly.

862
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,400
Now, this

863
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,400
is getting to some interesting territory
because

864
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,400
one of the things people don't realize is
that

865
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,400
there actually was the discovery

866
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,400
of some form of lost city in the

867
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,400
Kalahari. Now, when you talk about South

868
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,400
Africa and the lost city, most people think
of the

869
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,400
gambling casino resort called Sun City,

870
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,400
which is actually not too far

871
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,400
away. It's also not so far.

872
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,400
But this is where

873
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,400
they got the idea for the lost city, the

874
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,400
Palace of the Lost City, which is a beautiful
hotel

875
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,400
in Sun City. The Palace

876
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,400
of the Lost City was based upon the fact that
there

877
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,400
is or was the ruins

878
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,400
of lost cities that have been found all

879
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,400
over Africa, which is not very well
documented

880
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,400
for some reason.

881
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,400
Mainstream historians don't very much

882
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,400
like this story.

883
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,400
But the first person to

884
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,400
document the lost city of the Kalahari was a

885
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,400
gentleman. His real name was William

886
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,400
Hunt, known as Gullami Farini.

887
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,400
And Farini, basically

888
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,400
him and his son went traveling through

889
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Africa and they found

890
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,400
this supposed lost city. And

891
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,400
it's interesting because Farini

892
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,400
described the city as one of colossal

893
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,400
proportions made from massive stones

894
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,400
stacked on top of each other.

895
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,400
And he said that the city

896
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,400
resembled a giant ark, which is

897
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,400
laid out in an ark shape

898
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,400
and looked like the Great Wall of

899
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,400
China would have looked after an earthquake.
In other

900
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,400
words, it was destroyed.

901
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,400
Parts of the city was exposed

902
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,400
and parts were hidden under the sand.

903
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,400
And yeah,

904
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,400
there were no descriptions

905
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,400
or markings to be found. But

906
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,400
the interesting thing is that this is

907
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,400
estimated to be thousands of years old.

908
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,400
In other words, a city that existed

909
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,400
in Southern Africa before

910
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,400
European colonialization,

911
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,400
before official discovery

912
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,400
of Southern Africa.

913
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,400
There have

914
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,400
been books written on this. Professor

915
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,400
Clements wrote a book called The Kalahari

916
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,400
and its Lost City in 1967,

917
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,400
which details this

918
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,400
particular lost city. You'll notice one

919
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,400
of the key things

920
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,400
when you're talking about this Kalahari lost
city

921
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,400
is this particular stone that looks to be
resting

922
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,400
on a very thin neck. You'll notice it, you go

923
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,400
back to these pictures here, it turns up here

924
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,400
again in these sketches.

925
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,400
Is this particular

926
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,400
stone on a thin neck

927
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,400
something that apparently

928
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,400
is part of this

929
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,400
ancient lost city.

930
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,400
Now, here are some of these

931
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,400
megalithic, absolutely

932
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,400
huge megalithic stones

933
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,400
which are stacked on top of

934
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,400
each other. Of course, the stones, this

935
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,400
big and heavy don't get stacked like that

936
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,400
one stone jumps on top of another.

937
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,400
No, they are deliberately put there.

938
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,400
They don't naturally occur like that.

939
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,400
But also what's interesting to notice

940
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,400
in these old photos, and I do apologize for
the

941
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,400
quality, the pictures are old.

942
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,400
You'll notice these markings along here,
again

943
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,400
perfectly spaced, right, evenly

944
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,400
spaced from each other.

945
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,400
These lines actually

946
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,400
look like they were machine

947
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,400
worked into this stone, okay.

948
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,400
Again, these are not naturally occurring

949
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,400
markings on stone.

950
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,400
These have been artificially

951
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,400
placed here, okay.

952
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,400
However that was done,

953
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,400
it's not naturally occurring, indicating

954
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,400
these stones were masoned.

955
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,400
They were put there.

956
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,400
They were used for a specific purpose.

957
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,400
A building, a temple, a home.

958
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400
Part of a city, okay.

959
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,400
Again, here we've got more of these stacked

960
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,400
stones, one on top of the other.

961
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,400
Here's some more of them, precariously

962
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,400
balancing, but yes, stacked, nonetheless.

963
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,400
This is what's left of an ancient city.

964
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,400
Massive stacked stones

965
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,400
on top of each other.

966
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,400
This is kind of what they look like today.

967
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,400
If you go looking for them through the
Kalahari, you'll know

968
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,400
this is a massive amount

969
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,400
of breaking down of these

970
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,400
stones into much smaller pieces, showing you

971
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,400
the huge amounts of force and

972
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,400
time that has destroyed

973
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,400
this ancient city. But you

974
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,400
can see it must have at one point been

975
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,400
pretty mighty by the size of these

976
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,400
colossal stones that have been used.

977
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,400
Whether they were using free energy

978
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,400
technology or sound technology

979
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,400
to levitate the stones into position, or

980
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,400
whether it was done by

981
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,400
sheer labor and

982
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,400
force, there was a huge amount

983
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,400
of infrastructure that's gone in here, and
that

984
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,400
is now laying in ruins.

985
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,400
Here again, there's another aspect of this.
You can see in proportion

986
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,400
to the little camel over here.

987
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,400
More stacked stones at various

988
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,400
points in the Kalahari desert,

989
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,400
indicating, once again,

990
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,400
that there was once an amazingly huge

991
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,400
thriving city that was

992
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,400
here.

993
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,400
And of course, it's not the only

994
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,400
such ruins you find in Southern Africa.

995
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,400
These pictures

996
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,400
have been made famous by people like

997
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,400
Johan Heiner, the helicopter pilot

998
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,400
who found what is now known as

999
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,400
Adam's calendar in

1000
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Mpumalanga in Southern Africa.

1001
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,400
People like Michael Tellinger have obviously

1002
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,400
made these famous

1003
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,400
through his various lectures, but they were
discovered

1004
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,400
by Johan Heiner.

1005
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,400
And these particular structures,

1006
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,400
if you start counting them

1007
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,400
through Google Earth, there was over a
million

1008
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,400
of these semi-circle

1009
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,400
circular structures

1010
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,400
with roads leaving in between them

1011
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,400
and all sorts of infrastructure

1012
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,400
that was once there, that

1013
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,400
is now gone.

1014
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,400
Again, once again, this is more

1015
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,400
indication of a massive advanced

1016
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,400
civilization, because if you've got a

1017
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,400
structure like this and over a million

1018
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,400
of them in ruins, that shows

1019
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,400
that there must have been a civilization

1020
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,400
perhaps. This is a home

1021
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,400
with maybe one, two, maybe more people

1022
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,400
living in it.

1023
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,400
To give an idea of the scale we're

1024
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,400
looking at in terms of the population that
was

1025
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,400
once there, that was

1026
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,400
wiped out by a tsunami.

1027
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,400
Again, here's

1028
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,400
some of the pictures of the ruins that you
find

1029
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,400
all over Southern Africa.

1030
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,400
They were been

1031
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,400
destroyed by the tsunami.

1032
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,400
But mainstream historians describe

1033
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,400
as crawls, animal crawls,

1034
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,400
which is another word for animal

1035
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,400
enclosures. But

1036
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,400
to be honest with you, if you

1037
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,400
actually speak to the

1038
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,400
local Zulus and Bantu,

1039
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,400
they've never been stonemasons.

1040
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,400
They normally built from sticks and mud

1041
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,400
and used

1042
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,400
skins and stuff.

1043
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,400
They were never

1044
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,400
the type of people who went and

1045
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,400
built massive structures, simply never had
that

1046
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,400
kind of labor force.

1047
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,400
Now the graves in Bobby Ruins are

1048
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,400
a good example of just how advanced

1049
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,400
this ancient

1050
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,400
culture was. Because when you start

1051
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,400
looking at the structure,

1052
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,400
my word, even by today's

1053
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,400
standards, it's an

1054
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,400
amazingly built structure. These walls are

1055
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,400
very, very high.

1056
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,400
Incredibly high

1057
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,400
the walls. The cylindrical

1058
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,400
towers, just amazing. But

1059
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,400
there's no mortar used here. All of this

1060
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,400
is stone. So in other words,

1061
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,400
it's stone that has been worked or

1062
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,400
quarried or batted

1063
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,400
into shape. And to do that

1064
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,400
takes a hell of a lot of effort. So each

1065
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,400
individual stone has to be quarried into
shape

1066
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,400
and then stacked in a way that it's going to

1067
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,400
last. And these stone walls have lasted

1068
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,400
for thousands of years.

1069
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,400
My belief again is that this is all
pre-deluge.

1070
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,400
Part of

1071
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,400
this major

1072
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,400
ancient culture that stretched from

1073
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,400
the east coast of southern Africa

1074
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,400
all the way across the west coast, right

1075
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,400
across the Kalahari Desert, right across
Zimbabwe

1076
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,400
and across all those ruins

1077
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,400
which make up Adam's calendar. It's

1078
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,400
not like one set of ruins and

1079
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,400
another. This is all part of one massive

1080
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,400
culture that's been wiped

1081
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,400
out by a tsunami.

1082
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,400
Again here, we

1083
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,400
look at how intricate the design

1084
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,400
and detail was in these walls.

1085
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,400
And you can see these walls, how

1086
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,400
closely put they are together

1087
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,400
and how they kind of curve around with each

1088
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,400
other. Look how high they are. These are

1089
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,400
massive walls. This is clearly

1090
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,400
the work of an advanced

1091
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,400
culture, okay?

1092
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,400
This is not the work

1093
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,400
of people who

1094
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,400
do not have an understanding of

1095
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,400
temple

1096
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,400
building or stone masonry

1097
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,400
or geometry.

1098
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,400
And in comparison to what we have

1099
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,400
today, and I just want to point out, the

1100
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,400
native rural African people who

1101
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,400
live in southern Africa, this is what their

1102
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,400
houses look like today, made of sticks and
mud.

1103
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,400
Okay? It is

1104
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,400
no way that they are not made like this.

1105
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,400
Okay? What you see today

1106
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,400
in our native tribes is something

1107
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,400
more akin to this,

1108
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,400
not that. Okay? This

1109
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,400
comes from a way more advanced culture

1110
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,400
that existed thousands of years

1111
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,400
before we start seeing

1112
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,400
this sort of thing turning up.

1113
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,400
And again, I do want to point out

1114
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,400
this is the sort of

1115
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,400
hut structure that we have

1116
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,400
happening in southern Africa,

1117
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,400
which is, you know, as you can see, put

1118
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,400
together with borrushes and reeds

1119
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,400
and straw and batch

1120
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,400
and sticks.

1121
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,400
Here's some typical enclosures

1122
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,400
with grass huts that you'd find in southern

1123
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,400
Africa. In fact, if you get above

1124
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,400
this area,

1125
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400
along the

1126
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,400
Kalahari, this is

1127
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,400
the Okavango panhandle.

1128
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,400
You'd have Sedilla Hills around about here

1129
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,400
somewhere. This is Tomacha.

1130
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,400
This is an aerial view of Tomacha

1131
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,400
looking down. This is

1132
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,400
a little scattering of huts and

1133
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,400
enclosures, which would look typically like

1134
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,400
this. Okay? This is what it looks like

1135
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,400
from above. Okay?

1136
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,400
Is this sort of thing over here.

1137
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,400
So, this is

1138
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,400
sort of Kalahari, Khoisan,

1139
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,400
Bushman homes

1140
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,400
in the middle of the desert.

1141
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,400
And that's kind of what they look like.

1142
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,400
Nothing like big stone structures

1143
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,400
and monuments and temples.

1144
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,400
Very simple, humble dwellings

1145
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,400
that look like that and could be

1146
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,400
destroyed with, you know, with a breath of
wind

1147
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,400
or a brush fire. Certainly

1148
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,400
not strong standing stone structures

1149
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,400
like this, which had lasted a

1150
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,400
dearly huge and thousands of years.

1151
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,400
Okay? Something like this can

1152
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,400
be destroyed in a day and there will be no

1153
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,400
trace of it whatsoever.

1154
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,400
Okay.

1155
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,400
So,

1156
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,400
what are we looking at here?

1157
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,400
Just to recap quickly,

1158
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,400
70,000 years ago, an ancient

1159
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,400
advanced agrarian serpent

1160
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,400
worshiping culture lived in

1161
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,400
this area. Okay? This

1162
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,400
was the place where

1163
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,400
they cultivated their food.

1164
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,400
Here was most likely

1165
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,400
the place where they worshiped Sedillo

1166
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,400
Hills because

1167
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,400
the fact that there's a giant

1168
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,400
serpent effigy inside Rhino

1169
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,400
Cave and the excavations

1170
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,400
there, which have turned up

1171
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,400
ritual stone cutting implements

1172
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,400
dated back to 70,000

1173
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,400
years old.

1174
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,400
What does that mean for us?

1175
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,400
Well, this is the evidence of the

1176
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,400
oldest and largest advanced

1177
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,400
culture to have yet

1178
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,400
been discovered. We are in

1179
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,400
chats with UNESCO at the moment to try

1180
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,400
and get this discovery registered.

1181
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,400
And perhaps get the entire

1182
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,400
area, not just Sedillo Hills,

1183
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,400
marked as a UNESCO World Heritage

1184
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,400
Site. We have evidence

1185
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,400
of large scale agriculture,

1186
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,400
larger than anything we've currently

1187
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,400
seen on our planet today. There's no

1188
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,400
one area on our planet today quite

1189
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,400
as large as that dedicated to one

1190
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,400
system of agriculture. Okay?

1191
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,400
We have advanced stone

1192
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,400
building techniques as we've already seen

1193
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,400
and examples of

1194
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,400
ritualized behaviors.

1195
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,400
Ritualized behavior happening

1196
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,400
70,000 years ago,

1197
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,400
wow, we weren't even

1198
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,400
thought to have been in possession of

1199
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,400
or behaving in such a way back

1200
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,400
then. That's Middle Stone Age.

1201
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,400
Way before we were thought to

1202
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,400
be involved in that sort of thing. So

1203
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,400
even for a mainstream professor like

1204
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,400
Professor Sheila Coulson, it was a major

1205
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,400
discovery to find

1206
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,400
ritualized behavior 70,000

1207
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,400
years ago. But what

1208
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,400
the mainstream academics such

1209
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,400
as Sheila Coulson will not say,

1210
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,400
she'll say it was ritualized behavior

1211
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,400
happening 70,000 years ago. She will

1212
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,400
admit that it is a carved

1213
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,400
stone serpent effigy in

1214
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,400
the cave where they found

1215
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,400
these stone implements that were

1216
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,400
involved in ritual behavior. But

1217
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,400
the mainstream academics of course

1218
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,400
will not say that this is

1219
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,400
an example of

1220
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,400
or serpent worship. And

1221
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,400
in fact, or serpent worship

1222
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,400
is the oldest religion in the world.

1223
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,400
It is the root religion, as can be

1224
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,400
proven by the fact that we have found

1225
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,400
examples of serpent worship

1226
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,400
in the oldest ritual site

1227
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,400
on the planet. Okay.

1228
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,400
So what does this mean in the

1229
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,400
context of the Greater Here and Now?

1230
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,400
Well,

1231
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,400
first off, I just want to

1232
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,400
say we can't

1233
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,400
worry too much about

1234
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,400
things which are we can't

1235
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,400
control. There's a lot of, okay, yeah,

1236
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,400
the world's in a very bad space and we're

1237
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,400
about to, we're on the verge of World War III

1238
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,400
if not actively already in it.

1239
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,400
We have to take

1240
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,400
control of the existential dread

1241
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,400
and understand that at any time

1242
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,400
a thousand foot tsunami could come

1243
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,400
out of the ocean and wipe us all out.

1244
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,400
It could happen tomorrow, it could happen the
day after.

1245
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,400
Okay, so we've got to always

1246
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,400
keep life in context

1247
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,400
and that means live each day to the fullest.

1248
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,400
What else this also means

1249
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,400
is that

1250
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,400
the culture we have on our planet today

1251
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,400
which it's all religions

1252
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,400
have evolved from the original

1253
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,400
religion of these of the olatry.

1254
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,400
And all of our past times that we have

1255
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,400
today are nothing more than rituals

1256
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,400
which are masked

1257
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,400
under various symbolic allegories

1258
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,400
that are in fact nothing more than

1259
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,400
elements of serpent or dragon worship.

1260
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,400
And

1261
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,400
the fact that we can trace

1262
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,400
the oldest ritual worship site

1263
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,400
back to 70,000 years ago with

1264
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,400
the appearance of what seems to be a serpent

1265
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,400
effigy proves that this

1266
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,400
religion has been around for so very

1267
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,400
long, okay.

1268
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,400
And the fact that there still remains

1269
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,400
of something like this after a

1270
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,400
massive flood has come into this area

1271
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,400
and taken it all out

1272
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,400
shows that

1273
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,400
that area must have been very sacred and very

1274
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,400
important at some point.

1275
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,400
And I've often thought about

1276
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,400
could this have been the biblical garden of
Eden?

1277
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,400
Could this area have been

1278
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,400
the biblical garden of Eden? Because when you

1279
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,400
talk about a garden, you talk about a
cultivated

1280
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,400
area, it's not a wild like a jungle

1281
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,400
or a swamp. It's a cultivated

1282
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,400
area that's cared for.

1283
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,400
So using the word garden means a cultivated

1284
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,400
area. Garden of Eden

1285
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,400
was clearly a place that was a massive

1286
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,400
space. You could wander

1287
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,400
around in. Lots of

1288
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,400
animals and whatever else in there

1289
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,400
as per the biblical depictions. But

1290
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,400
the other thing that turns up in the garden
of Eden of course

1291
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,400
is the serpent. And what do you have?

1292
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,400
Smack in the middle of this entire
agricultural play

1293
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,400
is

1294
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,400
a sacred area where

1295
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,400
they've got the serpent effigy

1296
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,400
where they have actually excavated

1297
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,400
evidence of ritual behaviour.

1298
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,400
So there's a lot of stuff going

1299
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,400
on here. And again, this is

1300
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,400
an amazing, amazing discovery

1301
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,400
and really is

1302
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,400
proof of a 70,000

1303
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,400
year old ancient advanced agrarian

1304
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,400
culture, potentially as big

1305
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,400
as 6 billion people.

1306
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,400
My belief that this is actually an Atlantean

1307
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,400
culture. This area was part

1308
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,400
of the greater Atlantean

1309
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,400
culture that existed.

1310
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,400
And that this area used to provide

1311
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,400
huge amounts of food

1312
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,400
to Atlantis because of course

1313
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,400
I don't know if there was much farming area
on those

1314
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,400
concentric circles in the middle of the
ocean.

1315
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,400
But this was a

1316
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,400
major food supply area

1317
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,400
to what was back then the Atlantean

1318
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,400
era and Atlantean Empire.

1319
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,400
And this whole area, two thirds

1320
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,400
of southern Africa, was completely

1321
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,400
devastated in a tsunami

1322
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,400
that came out of the

1323
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,400
Atlantic Ocean and swept over

1324
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,400
the east coast. And of course

1325
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,400
it's left behind salt pans

1326
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,400
and flood ripples and various other

1327
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,400
things which point to the fact that there was
once

1328
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,400
a flood coming over this area.

1329
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,400
Okay. So

1330
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,400
again, in the greater context

1331
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,400
of here and now, there are many allegories

1332
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,400
pertaining to how

1333
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,400
our daily reality is very much controlled.

1334
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,400
And we are completely

1335
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,400
trapped in a draconian

1336
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,400
matrix.

1337
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,400
This draconian construct is

1338
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,400
intricately interwoven

1339
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,400
into the very fabric of our reality

1340
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,400
through our language which is

1341
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,400
absolutely encoded with dragon and serpentine

1342
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,400
etymology. And our language

1343
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,400
is the very building blocks

1344
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,400
of the programming upon which

1345
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,400
we work. I mean, they don't teach

1346
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,400
you to spell for no

1347
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,400
reason because we are putting ourselves

1348
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,400
under a spell with every word

1349
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,400
we utter. For those

1350
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,400
of you who want to learn a little bit more
about this stuff,

1351
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,400
please feel free to check out my book

1352
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,400
Spellbreaker. It's the first book

1353
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,400
of the Dragonology series. It's available

1354
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,400
on my website, dragonology.info.

1355
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,400
You can download your copy for 25

1356
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,400
euros. And of course, you

1357
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,400
can catch up with everything I do

1358
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,400
with regards to dragonology

1359
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,400
which is a comprehensive

1360
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,400
study into this whole

1361
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,400
area of mythology, ancient history

1362
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,400
and of course, freeing ourselves from the
draconian

1363
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,400
matrix. I've got

1364
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,400
season one with 13 episodes,

1365
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,400
same with season two and I'm halfway

1366
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,400
big, pardon, almost finished

1367
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,400
with season three.

1368
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,400
We're on to the 11th episode

1369
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,400
next week. So please do tune in

1370
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,400
to check out dragonology if

1371
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,400
you're interested. Otherwise, go help
yourself

1372
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,400
to the book. It is on the website.

1373
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,400
All of these shows are available

1374
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,400
on my network, Conscious Consumer Network.

1375
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,400
And everything we

1376
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,400
do in terms of other shows on Conscious
Consumer

1377
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,400
Network is available on our

1378
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,400
archive website which is

1379
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,400
ccn.media.

1380
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,400
Everything we do at CCN

1381
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,400
is available on our broadcast

1382
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,400
guide which is updated weekly and of course

1383
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,400
which is available on our website, CCN

1384
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,400
ConsciousConsumerNetwork.tv.

1385
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,400
Being South African,

1386
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,400
of course, I'm very dedicated and attached

1387
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,400
to my South African identity and of course

1388
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,400
very dedicated to empowering the people of
South

1389
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,400
Africa with well researched

1390
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,400
information. Please do check out

1391
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,400
some of my other websites,

1392
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,400
stopsouthafricangenocide.org, where you

1393
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,400
can download a free copy

1394
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,400
of my ebook, The South

1395
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,400
African Guide to the Global Conspiracy.

1396
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,400
This book is in fact banned in South

1397
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,400
Africa and I do in fact live here in

1398
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,400
Holland in exile. So guys, please do

1399
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,400
help yourself to that book. Share it far and
wide.

1400
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,400
We put this out there because

1401
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,400
we love you all and believe you all deserve
to know

1402
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,400
the truth.