1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:47,600 I think we should be reconsidering Baalbek. 2 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,600 I wish we were going, but none of us want to have our heads cut off on YouTube. 3 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,400 And this is not perhaps the moment to go to Baalbek. 4 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:01,399 We have made provisional plans to go back on the 28th of December or thereabouts. 5 00:01:01,399 --> 00:01:03,399 Hopefully things will be a bit easier then. 6 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:08,400 We just don't know what's going on with these gigantic megaliths from Baalbek, 7 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,400 which underlie the Roman temple of Jupiter. 8 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,400 I think it's a bit arbitrary of archaeology to give this whole temple to the Romans. 9 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,400 And I would suggest that there's a strong possibility that it is a two-phase... 10 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:27,400 and that the Romans simply appropriated a much earlier megalithic site and built the... 11 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,400 And again, if we go back to Gobekli Tepe, 12 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,400 and look at the generally circular pattern and the whole look of the thing, 13 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,400 I think it calls into question the dating of the temples of Malta as well, 14 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,400 which are really quite similar in many ways, 15 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,400 and which are attributed to the period between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago. 16 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,400 This is Mnaydra, by the way. 17 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:53,400 And again, Maltese temples have been trapped over by so many later cultures, 18 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,400 that the whole carbon dating record is a complete mess. 19 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,400 And I think that what we're seeing is the reference frame of archaeology, 20 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,400 the paradigm of the past being imposed upon the evidence. 21 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,400 I think Gobekli Tepe puts all of that evidence into question. 22 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,400 This is the Hypogeum in Malta. 23 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,400 It should be on everybody's bucket list. 24 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,400 It is one of the most amazing sites in the world. 25 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,400 It's an incredible underground realm, 26 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,400 a place I'm sure for experiences in altered states of consciousness. 27 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,400 I was struck by some similarities between the Hypogeum and Dankiu, 28 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,400 where we went just now. 29 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,400 Andy and I were discussing this quite a bit. 30 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,400 I don't think either of us feel that Dankiu was ever an underground city. 31 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,400 It was an underground place for experiences, 32 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,400 which would affect human consciousness. 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 And undoubtedly, this is what the Hypogeum is. 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,400 It's a cutout underground, deep underground in Malta. 35 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,400 At the Hypogeum and around the Maltese temples 36 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,400 have been found many examples of these goddess figures, 37 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,400 so-called goddess figures, 38 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,400 which again mainstream archaeology gives to the period between 5000 and 6000 BC, 39 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,400 because that is when they are prepared to accept megalithic structures were built. 40 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,400 However, goddess figures we do know go back much earlier than 5000 to 6000 BC. 41 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,400 The Venus of Willendorf is 26,000 years old. 42 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,400 The Venus of Hohelfels almost 40,000 years old. 43 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Vestalnici 20,000 years old. 44 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,400 La Salle 25,000 years old. 45 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,400 Why should the Maltese Venus' date to just 5000 or 6000 years, 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,400 just because that happens to fit the picture that archaeologists are comfortable with 47 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,400 about the story of our history? 48 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Maybe the Maltese monuments are much, much older than that. 49 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,400 I think that again Gobekli Tepe raises that question. 50 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,400 Inside the Hypogeum you find red ochre marks on the ceiling. 51 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:46,400 It's interesting because of the use of red ochre in the Upper Paleolithic in the cave... 52 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,400 where frequently you find animal figures painted in red ochre. 53 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,400 A good friend of ours, Dr. Anton Mifsud, 54 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,400 who is the chief pediatrician at the main hospital in Valletta, 55 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,400 and a very gifted amateur archaeologist, 56 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,400 is an absolute thorn in the flesh of mainstream archaeology in Malta. 57 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,400 He just keeps digging and finding new stuff. 58 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,399 He's exposed a horrific scandal at the Hypogeum. 59 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:21,399 It turns out that there was an animal figure painted on the walls of the Hypogeum. 60 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:25,399 It was the figure of a hybrid bison bull. 61 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,399 It was the cause of some arguments between Donald Trump, 62 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:33,399 who was open to the notion that it might suggest the Hypogeum dated back to the Upp... 63 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:39,399 and a certain F.S. Malier, who was the director of the museums of Malta at that... 64 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:45,399 F.S. Malier was absolutely determined that the Hypogeum did not belong to the Upper... 65 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:49,399 and was not prepared to accept any evidence that might suggest it did belong to the Up... 66 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:55,399 So when the argument got hot, he simply had the bison bull scrubbed off the wall, and... 67 00:04:55,399 --> 00:05:00,399 Fortunately, there is some documentation of it, and Anton exposed this scandal, 68 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:07,399 and I put it formally to the National Museums in Malta with very heavy backup from Chann... 69 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:10,399 and they just absolutely refused to speak to us. 70 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:13,399 They just would not answer the question. They would not deny it or affirm it, 71 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:17,399 which to me is very suspicious behavior. 72 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:24,399 So I'm sitting in the Maltese so-called cart ruts with Anton Mifsud here, 73 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:31,399 and I have to say, some cart, some ruts, they are thought to date roughly to the period ... 74 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:36,399 perhaps a little bit younger, and nobody knows exactly what they are, 75 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:40,399 but they're supposed to be less than 5,000 years old, according to mainstream... 76 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:44,399 So it's inconvenient for mainstream archaeology that if you go diving off Malta, 77 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:47,399 you find cart ruts down to 100 feet underwater. 78 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:52,399 And therefore, bearing in mind the story of sea level rise, 79 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:56,399 these cart ruts are certainly more than 12,000 years old. 80 00:05:56,399 --> 00:06:04,399 And I want to go now from Malta and jump over to the Balearic Islands, 81 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:09,399 particularly to Menorca, which has its own extraordinary megalithic culture, 82 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:14,399 largely given to the Bronze Age about 3,000, 3.5 thousand years ago by our friends, the... 83 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:19,399 but I can't help noticing the distinct similarity between the T-shaped megaliths ... 84 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:22,399 and the T-shaped megaliths of Gobekli Tepe. 85 00:06:22,399 --> 00:06:26,399 There is a difference. These upper parts are separate. They're separate stones. 86 00:06:26,399 --> 00:06:33,399 But the overall appearance is incredibly similar to the appearance of the megaliths... 87 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,399 And again, I think Gobekli Tepe is a game changer, 88 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:42,399 and I think it's going to require us to reconsider the dating of all megalithic... 89 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:47,399 some perhaps not. And then you have the megaliths of Morocco, 90 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:50,399 which I think we need to be taking a hold of the whole story of the Sahara. 91 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:55,399 You know, the Sahara is like an ocean, and it's hiding things as a result of climate... 92 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:59,399 Sea level rise hides things. The Sahara, the drying out of the Sahara hides things, 93 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:05,399 particularly when we find ancient maps which show huge lake systems in the northern... 94 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:07,399 This is the Mediterranean Sea. Here is Spain. 95 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:10,399 And what are these gigantic lakes doing in the Sahara? 96 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:13,399 Well, you have to go back 12,000 years, the end of the last ice age, 97 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:16,399 to find lakes like that in the Sahara, where the Sahara was green. 98 00:07:16,399 --> 00:07:24,399 This is our planet, beautiful planet from a Russian satellite as it looks today. 99 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:29,399 But it hasn't always looked like that. There were during the last ice age. 100 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:33,399 The last ice age reached its maximum about 21,000 years ago, 101 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:36,399 and it was mostly gone by 10,000 years ago. 102 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:39,399 And at the peak of the ice age, the last glacial maximum, 103 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:42,399 you had ice caps that were actually two miles deep, 104 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:46,399 sitting on top of North America and on top of northern Europe, 105 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:51,399 and creating a very different world from the world in which we live today in lots of ways. 106 00:07:51,399 --> 00:07:56,399 But one of those ways just concerns the outlines of the continents. 107 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:59,399 This is how they look today. This is how they look during the ice age. 108 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:04,399 There was no Red Sea, for example. There was no Arabian Gulf. 109 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:10,399 Southeast Asia was a gigantic continent, not a series of islands and peninsulas called... 110 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:15,399 The geologists call it Sundaland, which extended far off into the Pacific. 111 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:19,399 Papua New Guinea was joined to Australia. 112 00:08:19,399 --> 00:08:24,399 Everywhere, coastlines were greatly expanded. 113 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:30,399 And actually, what happened with the meltdown of the ice age is that 10 million square... 114 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:33,399 which is roughly the size of Europe and China added together, 115 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:36,399 was submerged by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. 116 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:44,399 How can we possibly get to grips with our past if we don't take account of the fact... 117 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:49,399 And why is the main resources of marine archaeology devoted on looking for... 118 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:54,399 you know, when we really should be exploring the lost lands at the end of the last ice... 119 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:59,399 A famous period, Rees Map, famous because of the argument that it shows Antarctica. 120 00:08:59,399 --> 00:09:04,399 Okay, Piri Rees map relevant to our trip. It was found in the Topkapi Palace. 121 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:10,399 It was drawn by Admiral Piri Rees, who wrote a big book of navigation, the Bahria. 122 00:09:10,399 --> 00:09:15,399 And he tells us in his own handwriting, this is only a fragment of a world map that he... 123 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:17,399 The rest of the map has been lost. 124 00:09:17,399 --> 00:09:26,399 He tells us in his own handwriting on the map that the Piri Rees map, his map, was based... 125 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:31,399 And he tells us that he, those source maps were in such a fragile, disintegrating state 126 00:09:31,399 --> 00:09:37,399 that he decided to preserve the information on them by creating a copy, a new map, 127 00:09:37,399 --> 00:09:41,399 which was a composite derived from 100 older source maps. 128 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:46,399 And we see amongst other things the west coast of Africa here, the east coast of So... 129 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:49,399 And down here, we'll come to the issue of Antarctica. 130 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:52,399 But I'd just like to draw attention to this thing here, 131 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:56,399 which is this island off the coast of North America, which does not exist today, 132 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:00,399 but which is in the place of the Grand Bahama Banks. 133 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:06,399 And the Grand Bahama Banks were a large exposed landmass at the end of the last ic... 134 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:14,399 And it's really interesting that running up the middle of this island is a row of... 135 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:21,399 exactly like the controversial Bimini Road, which lies underwater on the Grand Bahama... 136 00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:25,399 In preserving the information on those older source maps, 137 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:32,399 Piri Rees seems to have preserved a time when the Bimini Road was above water on an island. 138 00:10:32,399 --> 00:10:35,399 That is really, really fascinating if you stop to think about it. 139 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:41,399 The other issue is Antarctica. It's long, long, and it's been a subject of great... 140 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,399 But it does seem to show a greatly extended South American coastline 141 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:50,399 butting into an enlarged Antarctica as it looked during the last ice age. 142 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:58,399 Now here's Antarctica as it looks today, and here is Antarctica as it looked on honest... 143 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:03,399 When I say honest maps, I mean maps based on the navigational knowledge of that time. 144 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:08,399 This Russian map from the early 1800s shows nothing where Antarctica is. 145 00:11:08,399 --> 00:11:13,399 And that's honest because in 1800 we hadn't discovered Antarctica. 146 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:16,399 It was discovered in 1818. 147 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:20,399 So when you draw a map in 1800, how can you show Antarctica? 148 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:24,399 The anomaly is that Antarctica appears on many maps from earlier periods, 149 00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:32,399 from the 1500s, 1600s, maps like the Piri Rees map that were based on older source m... 150 00:11:32,399 --> 00:11:37,399 like the Orontius-Finius map, which shows a greatly enlarged Antarctica in exactly the... 151 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:44,399 Or several of the Mercator maps, which again show us Antarctica in the right place. 152 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:49,399 Well, the scholars don't like this either, and they say, look, you know, those... 153 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:51,399 they just wanted to balance the world. 154 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:54,399 They felt that there should be something heavy at the bottom that would balance it. 155 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:59,399 So they put an imaginary Antarctica there, and by chance it just happens to look real... 156 00:11:59,399 --> 00:12:02,399 as it looked during the last ice age. 157 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:08,399 This Ptolemaic map is interesting for a tiny detail, and that is the island of High Brazil 158 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:11,399 depicted off the coast of Ireland. 159 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:16,399 You couldn't find High Brazil in 1513 because it wasn't there, 160 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:19,399 and the ship was an inappropriate vehicle to find it in. 161 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:21,399 What you would have needed was a time machine. 162 00:12:21,399 --> 00:12:26,399 If you went back between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, you would have found an island 163 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:31,399 in exactly the right place, of exactly the right size, exactly where this map says it... 164 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:37,399 Again, a suggestion that maps based on older source maps incorporate knowledge of the... 165 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:41,399 that is anachronistic, that should not be there according to the prevailing model of... 166 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:46,399 It looks like somebody was mapping the world very accurately during the last ice age. 167 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:49,399 How do we explain that? 168 00:12:49,399 --> 00:12:54,399 This map, the Walsey-Bullock map, shows a greatly extended Southeast Asia, 169 00:12:54,399 --> 00:13:03,399 much more, I would say, like the Southeast Asia of the ice age than like the Southeas... 170 00:13:04,399 --> 00:13:11,399 While we're on the subject of Southeast Asia, let us go and visit the island of Java, 171 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:17,399 where something very interesting has recently rocked the world of archaeology. 172 00:13:17,399 --> 00:13:22,399 That something very interesting is Gunung Padang in West Java. 173 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:24,399 The site has been known for a long time. 174 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:31,399 It's been known actually since about 1914, and it has been attributed to the period... 175 00:13:31,399 --> 00:13:33,399 It's old, they accepted it was old. 176 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:36,399 They attributed it to the period between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, 177 00:13:36,399 --> 00:13:39,399 which does not disturb the mainstream model of history. 178 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:43,399 That is the period when people are allowed to have built megaliths. 179 00:13:43,399 --> 00:13:50,399 Until along comes Danny Hillman, the senior geologist at Indonesia's Geotechnology... 180 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:57,399 who has been conducting an extensive survey of Gunung Padang for the last five years. 181 00:13:57,399 --> 00:14:03,399 He has now published, and he says that on his evidence, he's sorry that he's upsetting a... 182 00:14:03,399 --> 00:14:10,399 but Gunung Padang is definitely older than 9,000 years, and it could be up to 20,000... 183 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:13,399 It's another gobekli tepi, if you like. 184 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:18,399 It is a piece of hard evidence that is rewriting history. 185 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:21,399 He says it's a strong case, but not an easy case. 186 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:24,399 We're up against the world's belief. 187 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:31,399 And this is views of Gunung Padang, and Samtanae will be going there in May, 188 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:36,399 when we're making an extensive trip to Indonesia and also to Australia. 189 00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:44,399 It's built out of basalt, which forms these hexagonal patterns. 190 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:51,399 And bearing in mind that architectural style, it's interesting to hop over here to Ponepe, 191 00:14:51,399 --> 00:15:01,399 which also happens to be on the processional grid, which lies 54 degrees of longitude e... 192 00:15:01,399 --> 00:15:06,399 Remember, 54 is half of 108. 108 is 72 plus 36. 193 00:15:06,399 --> 00:15:16,399 And on Ponepe, we find hills rather like Gunung Padang, which turns out to be an... 194 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:24,399 And we find megalithic architecture based on hexagonal basalt, same construction material. 195 00:15:24,399 --> 00:15:30,399 And this is Nanduwas, which is the most prominent structure of Nan Madol. 196 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:37,399 And again, you can see the similarities with Gunung Padang in the construction. 197 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:42,399 And it's making me wonder about the whole dating sequence at Nan Madol, 198 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:47,399 especially when we remember that Nan Madol stands on the edge of the sea, 199 00:15:47,399 --> 00:15:50,399 a sea that was once much lower. 200 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:55,399 Sea level rose actually by 400 feet at the end of the last ice age. 201 00:15:55,399 --> 00:16:04,399 And if you go down, down here, if you go diving, you find that the ruins continue... 202 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:07,399 And they continue down and down and down. 203 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:12,399 And as you get deeper, you find huge pillars rising up out of the seabed. 204 00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:15,399 This is a very spooky place to dive, I have to say. 205 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:17,399 The visibility is poor. 206 00:16:17,399 --> 00:16:25,399 The local legend is that there's an underwater city there, which is guarded by... 207 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:31,399 And when you're in that murk, you might not help playing on the prospect of gigantic... 208 00:16:31,399 --> 00:16:35,399 Just come along and swallow you up. 209 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:41,399 And again, more of these pillars and columns that are found underwater, some of them... 210 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:48,399 Very interested in this one in particular, because of its similarity to these fallen... 211 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,399 which are found on the island of Tinian, not so far away, 212 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:58,399 which happened to be the island that America launched the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima an... 213 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:01,399 I think we're looking at something very similar here, 214 00:17:01,399 --> 00:17:07,400 and it again raises questions over the age of the Tinian megaliths. 215 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,400 And let's just pop into Japan briefly. 216 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Here is Japan today. 217 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:18,400 Here is Japan as it looked 12,400 years ago. 218 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,400 10,400 BC, give or take a few hundred years. 219 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Hokkaido is a separate island, but Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu are all joined into on... 220 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,400 And that landmass has a deep inlet here and here. 221 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Interestingly, an ancient map from 1424 that shows Japan where it's called Satanase, 222 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:48,400 a Pisigano shot, shows it with these two inlets in exactly the right places, 223 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,400 and shows it as one landmass. 224 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,400 In other words, this map of Japan made in 1424 from an earlier source map 225 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,400 actually shows Japan as it looked 12,400 years ago. 226 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,400 How do we explain that? 227 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,400 Well, we go diving in Japan. 228 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,400 And Satha and I put in hundreds and hundreds of dives around Japan, 229 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,400 200 of them off the island of Yonaguni, 230 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:17,400 which mainstream archaeology insists is entirely natural phenomenon. 231 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,400 Strange natural phenomenon, but natural nonetheless. 232 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,400 Like these two megaliths, for example. 233 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:30,400 Well, these two megaliths, they fell into place there from a cliff overhead. 234 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,400 And luckily they didn't break when they fell from the cliff. 235 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,400 They perfectly slotted into that gap, and that's the explanation for them. 236 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:44,400 The fact that the cliff is actually 500 feet back from the place where these megaliths ... 237 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:49,400 does not deter that explanation at all, but that is the official explanation. 238 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,400 There are the two megaliths side by side, 239 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,400 and here's this huge outcrop of definitely natural rock. 240 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,400 I don't dispute that. 241 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,400 But let's swim around here now, going east, and let's see what we find. 242 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,400 And what we find are the famous terraces of Yonaguni, 243 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:12,400 and with these beautifully cut stairs and steps in them on a very large scale. 244 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,400 I'm not sure what Yonaguni was, but I am sure it's man-made, 245 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:25,400 and I believe having put in 200-plus dives there, that I can say so with some authority. 246 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,400 There are many visiting firemen who've gone into Yonaguni, 247 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,400 many of whom don't really even know how to dive, 248 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,400 who've been taken down fighting for their lives by Japanese divers, 249 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,400 who've showed them a few minutes of the site, who've left and said, 250 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,400 it's completely natural. 251 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,400 But if you really work the site and you work it over a period of four or five years, as... 252 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,400 and you repeatedly dive on it and you study all its details and aspects, 253 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,400 then you begin to be absolutely persuaded that this is a man-made site. 254 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:59,400 There's just too much going on there to allow for it to be entirely the work of nature. 255 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:05,400 If it was the work of nature, the argument goes that there are soft and hard layers o... 256 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:10,400 and that the sea beating against this cliff face as it was, 257 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:16,400 as the sea level rose, selectively removed the softer layers and left the harder laye... 258 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,400 It's not as an absurd idea as it sounds. This is sedimentary rock. 259 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,400 But then my question is, where is the debris that the sea swept away? 260 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,400 And where I want to see the debris is at the bottom of this drop-off here. 261 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,400 There's the steps. I want to see the debris down here. 262 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:43,400 But I don't see the debris down there. What I see is a clear pathway with all the debris... 263 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:51,400 which I would say is a sure handiwork of man, not of nature, particularly since there is... 264 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:58,400 And let's go to the face now, the gigantic face that's underwater at Yonaguni. 265 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:06,400 Two eyes, a nose, a mouth. Again, the mainstream says, oh, you just recognize fa... 266 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:13,400 You know, it can't be a face. It's just a natural thing. It can't be a face at all. 267 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:20,400 I'm in there for scale. It's huge. There are pupils in the eyes. 268 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:27,400 Interestingly, if it's natural, interesting how nature chose to separate the head off... 269 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:36,400 And interesting how there's a headdress. Just the remnants of a headdress here. You can... 270 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:43,400 And as we pull back away from it, we find that it's situated in a context. 271 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:51,400 This large, flat area in front of it. And again, gutters, two gutters down the side ... 272 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,400 I'm absolutely certain that this is a man-made structure. And I'm certain this i... 273 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,400 To me, this is the one that they can never refute. And nobody has refuted it. 274 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,400 And this is the Kerama Stone Circle, some hundreds of miles north of Yonaguni, off t... 275 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:15,400 Of a group of islands called the Keramas, about 40 miles west of Okinawa, of the... 276 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:21,400 And there we find small river stones cemented to the seabed. 277 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:28,400 And we find this gigantic stone circle, which is not built. It is cut out of the bedrock. 278 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,400 Cut out of the bedrock the way the Sphinx is cut out of the bedrock. 279 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:38,400 And you can see again the scale here of this thing, the central upright, the surroundin... 280 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,400 And let's just get in a bit closer and take a look at it. 281 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,400 The surrounding megaliths make a kind of spiral around the central upright. 282 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:55,400 And I'm impressed by the way the outer curve of the central upright is matched by the... 283 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:02,400 And I see no way that nature could have made this. 284 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:09,400 I think it's absolutely convincing. It's 110 feet underwater. It's been underwater for... 285 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,400 It therefore doesn't fit in to the conventional view of history. 286 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,400 We will pop over now to Easter Island. 287 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:23,400 Easter Island is the exception that proves the rule, because Easter Island today is n... 288 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:30,400 It's about 60 or 70 miles off the grid, about a degree of longitude off the grid. 289 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:38,400 And what's interesting is that during the last glacial maximum, Easter Island was mu... 290 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:43,400 And Shock again was making this point in the talk that we heard on the bus. 291 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:53,400 That Easter Island was a much larger place, and that the largest of the archipelago th... 292 00:23:53,400 --> 00:24:00,400 And this begins to raise the question, which I thought Shock did very well in the talk ... 293 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:08,400 of the age of the Easter Island monuments, which has traditionally been given very... 294 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,400 They're supposed to be these famous moai and the ahu on which they stand. 295 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:21,400 But if we go around behind this moai, we can see that the ahu is rather poorly made ahu, 296 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,400 and that constructed into it indeed is an ancient Easter Island head. 297 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:33,400 And this is the key piece of new evidence that Shock has brought forward, 298 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:40,400 which concerns the issue of the age of these structures in the Ranauraraku crater. 299 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,400 Because, as he pointed out, these heads go far beneath the ground, 300 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:52,400 and they have been covered not by some sort of landslide, not by some sort of tidal wa... 301 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:59,400 By not seven or eight hundred years of sedimentation, but by thousands of years o... 302 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:06,400 And Tor Haedal showed us how deep these structures go. 303 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,400 And Shock's view is that we may be looking at 10,000 plus years of sedimentation, 304 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:19,400 10 to 12,000 years of sedimentation, covering the gigantic buried figures of Easter Island. 305 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:28,400 And anybody who's been to Gobekli Tepe and to Easter Island cannot fail to note the simi... 306 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,400 and the megaliths of Easter Island, particularly the hands on this figure, 307 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:39,400 which cross above its waist, just as the hands on the Easter Island figure do. 308 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:50,400 Rather extended figures, that crooked elbow and the hands joining at the waist, above ... 309 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,400 Very, very similar. 310 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,400 And again, we find that similarity. You'll see this in the museum at Urfa, in this... 311 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,400 which is roughly of the same age as Gobekli Tepe, which was found in Sanl'Urfa. 312 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:10,400 And again, the hands joining at the waist like that. 313 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,400 Again, I'm covering material that Shock covered in his talk. It was played on the... 314 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:24,400 But it was Thor Haedal who first drew attention to the astonishing similarity... 315 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:33,400 with its huge and perfectly constructed megaliths in jigsaw puzzle patterns and th... 316 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,400 That it seems to be the same style of architecture. 317 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:41,400 And I'm actually not sure whether it's, Shock was saying maybe it was Easter Island... 318 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:46,400 maybe it was Peru influencing Easter Island, which was Haedal's idea, 319 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,400 or maybe it's a remote common source influencing both of them. 320 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,400 But there's definitely something in common with these patterns. 321 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,400 And there is no historical source that tells us the Incas built these walls. 322 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,400 The Incas, I believe, found these walls. 323 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:08,400 The only document we have which speaks of the Incas trying to move a stone on this scale 324 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:15,400 describes them as miserably failing and 3,000 of them being killed in the attempt to dra... 325 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,400 We don't have any account that tells of them successfully moving stones on this scale. 326 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:27,400 And a group of local researchers, Jesus Gamara and his deceased father before him, 327 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:35,400 are making a strong case that the rock-cut features of Saxehuaman and the Andes in... 328 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,400 date from a much earlier period. 329 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,400 And that the megalithic walls from a period slightly after that, 330 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:50,400 and the Inca stuff is relatively poor, and recent there are vitrified stone and... 331 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,400 You have this amazing site of Olantitambo. 332 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:01,400 And interestingly, on the walls, the megalithic walls of Olantitambo are carved... 333 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,400 And if we pop over to Tiwanaku in Bolivia, not so far away, 334 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:14,400 we find a step pyramid, very ruined, the Acapana pyramid in Tiwanaku, and here the... 335 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:24,400 And again, I made the case in Fingerprints of the Gods that Tiwanaku may be much, much... 336 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,400 And part of that again is astronomy. 337 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:32,400 It's too detailed to go into at this time of night to do with changing position of sunr... 338 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:38,400 and it puts it at about 10,000 BC, the gateway of the sun being involved in that... 339 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:44,400 On the reverse of the gateway of the sun, annoyingly for Egyptologists, we have a... 340 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,400 Not Egyptologists, I mean archaeologists in general. 341 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,400 See, the problem is that mammoths went extinct in South America more than 12,000... 342 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:00,400 So to have those two big ears, the two eyes, and the two tusks of a mammoth on the gate... 343 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,400 suggests that the gateway of the sun might be 12,000 plus years old. 344 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,400 They say it's birds, actually. They say it's two birds. 345 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,400 I don't see birds there somehow, but that's what it's... 346 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,400 These are birds, but I don't see this as birds. 347 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:25,400 Interestingly, there's H-shaped blocks at Tiwanaku, and they remind me of the H-shap... 348 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,400 Let's hop over to... Let's just take a look at these monoliths at Tiwanaku, 349 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,400 which again have got their hands crossed in rather the Gobekli Tepe way. 350 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,400 No, I don't think they're holding alien ray guns. 351 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,400 What I think they're holding are snuff trays, actually. 352 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:52,400 And this has been argued by ethnobotanist Manuel Torres that these are snuff trays a... 353 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,400 They're powdered seeds of anadenanthra colibrina and anadenanthra peregrina, 354 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,400 and that they do resemble snuff trays still found in the Amazon today. 355 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:12,400 Interestingly, Francisco de Orellana made a long and unexpected trip down the Amazon i... 356 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,400 He actually thought he was going off on a half-day hunting expedition, 357 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,400 but the Amazon carried him all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. 358 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:26,400 And on the way, he observed many large and sophisticated cities along the banks of th... 359 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,400 which he reported in his adventure, 360 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,400 and he spoke about the tribes and their skill and what he saw, highly civilized peoples ... 361 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,400 Later on, it was considered to have made all this up, 362 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,400 because of course the Amazon is pristine jungle, 363 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,400 the idea that there could be human civilizations in the Amazon is completely... 364 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,400 and obviously, Orellana was just making it up to glorify himself. 365 00:30:52,400 --> 00:31:00,400 Well, so it was believed, until the relatively recent and horrendous and... 366 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:05,400 which have revealed the remains of gigantic cities in the Amazon. 367 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:11,400 And those cities were depopulated soon after Orellana's time, 368 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:17,400 and they were depopulated by smallpox, which the Spanish introduced to the Americans, 369 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,400 and which, by the way, the smallpox was deliberately introduced in Tenochtitlan by... 370 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,400 by the time Desaro got to Peru, smallpox had already reached Peru. 371 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,400 It had traveled faster than the Spanish could, 372 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:36,400 and it devastated the populations of the lost garden cities of the Amazon, 373 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,400 and it's now clear that the Amazon is a human-engineered zone, 374 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,400 that people have been working the Amazon for thousands and thousands of years, 375 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,400 and that it's not pristine rainforest. 376 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,400 It is a habitat that has been effectively created by human beings, 377 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,400 and one of the most interesting aspects of that habitat is terra preta, the black soi... 378 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,400 which is an amazing, miraculous, self-replicating soil filled with bacteria, 379 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,400 constantly replenishes its own fertility. 380 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,400 And the scientific studies show that it goes back. 381 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:12,400 Somebody created this soil. It's a man-made product, at least 11,000 years ago. 382 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,400 So is the Amazon like a desert, like the sea, like the ocean? 383 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,400 Is it covering many secrets of the past underneath that jungle? 384 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,400 And that's what the clearances are showing. 385 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:30,400 Huge earthworks are emerging from the Amazon, as it is being sadly cleared for cattle... 386 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,400 and even megalithic circles are being found in the Amazon. 387 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,400 I think there's a whole lost civilization story to tell in the Amazon, 388 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,400 and I intend to do so in my forthcoming book. 389 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,400 I've already spoken about the remarkable feat of ethnopharmacology 390 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,400 that's involved in the ayahuasca brew, 391 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,400 selecting these two plants out of 150,000 different species of plants and trees 392 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,400 to produce the psychoactive ayahuasca brew. 393 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,400 That is a work of science. 394 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,400 We are looking at an incredible scientific achievement that is vastly ancient in the... 395 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,400 Trial and error would be most difficult. 396 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,400 I've spoken of acacia, nalotica, dimethyltryptamine, 397 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,400 and the whole story of alkempt and chemistry and alchemy that we get from ancient Egypt. 398 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,400 And I think we need to reconsider scenes like this from ancient Egypt, 399 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,400 particularly since these stars are connected to the initiate through the pineal gland, 400 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:27,400 and the pineal gland is the place that our endogenous DMT is produced. 401 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,400 So I'm going to get very near the end of the talk now. 402 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,400 You'll be relieved to hear. 403 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,400 And I want to go back to this whole issue of the sky and the ground, 404 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,400 and that an enormous effort seems to have been made to draw our attention 405 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:45,400 to the period between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago. 406 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,400 Are we being told that something of great significance for the world happened in thi... 407 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,400 Something perhaps that led to the destruction of a great global civilization, 408 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,400 something on a scale that would justify the initiation of gigantic 409 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,400 of gigantic astro-architectural projects around the globe by the survivors of that... 410 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,400 I would suggest, something to mark and commemorate it. 411 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:16,400 Well, this is where I want to talk about comets, and everybody remembers... 412 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,400 that freight train of a comet that fragmented, that was torn apart by the... 413 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:28,400 and that smashed into Jupiter with dramatic and horrific effects. 414 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:33,400 Let me tell you that if Shoemaker-Levy 9 had hit the Earth, none of us would be here... 415 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,400 Our planet actually would be sterile. There would be nothing left of us. 416 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,400 And this is the moment to say a deep and profound thank you to Jupiter. 417 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,400 Thank you, Jupiter. 418 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,400 Because Jupiter is the giant guardian of the Earth. 419 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,400 Jupiter, circling in the outer solar system with its huge gravity, 420 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:57,400 just sucks in the majority of comets that would long ago have extinguished life on... 421 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:03,400 were it not for the presence of Jupiter. And Jupiter is big enough to take it, whereas ... 422 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,400 But occasionally, occasionally comets get through. 423 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:13,400 And it's been clear since 2007 that there is a smoking gun. 424 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,400 You see, when I wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and published it in 1995, 425 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:23,400 I focused on the period between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, but I could not put my... 426 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:29,400 I was talking about various theories to do with the end of the last Ice Age, includin... 427 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,400 And it was obvious to me that something cataclysmic had happened at that time, but... 428 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,400 What's happened since, and this is one of the other main reasons why I'm writing a seque... 429 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:47,400 is the growing evidence that our planet was hit by a gigantic fragmenting comet 12,900... 430 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,400 There's been a lot of argument about this. The argument has gone back and forward. 431 00:35:52,400 --> 00:36:00,400 A lot of academics have objected to the comet, but the new research that keeps com... 432 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:06,400 And there's really no doubt anymore that a comet did hit the Earth roughly 12,900 yea... 433 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,400 And that it was responsible for what is called the Younger Dryas. 434 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,400 Geologists have been aware of the Younger Dryas for a very long time. 435 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:21,400 But roughly from 12,900 years ago down to about 11,800 or 11,700 years ago, 436 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:26,400 just as the Earth was coming out of the last Ice Age, we had a sudden deep freeze, 437 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,400 an unexpected, anomalous, massive deep freeze of the Earth's climate, 438 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:35,400 which was responsible for the extinction of huge numbers of animal species at that time. 439 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:41,400 And it's called the Younger Dryas, but what caused the Younger Dryas has not been clea... 440 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,400 And what the comet evidence tells us is that the comet was responsible, 441 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:52,400 that it sent up a huge cloud of dust into the upper atmosphere, that the dust reflected... 442 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:58,400 that the Earth froze rapidly for about a thousand years, and it was a horrendous ti... 443 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:06,400 And I believe that it wasn't only hunter-gatherers and large animal species... 444 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,400 I think that's when we lost a whole civilization. 445 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:16,400 Of course, the mainstream view wants it just to be hunter-gatherers that weren't wiped... 446 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:22,400 But I think we need to be reconsidering all of that evidence now. 447 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,400 And this is now very much entering the mainstream, 448 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:33,400 and I think that we cannot consider any questions of the origins of human... 449 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,400 without taking this comet impact into account. 450 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:43,400 Getting very close to the end now, we'll hop over to the Temple of Horus at Edfu, which... 451 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,400 The Temple of Horus at Edfu is a recent place, it's Ptolemaic, 452 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,400 but it contains on its walls the complete text of a much earlier document. 453 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,400 And this document is called the Edfu Building Texts. 454 00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,400 And what they say is that that document, which was inscribed on animal skins, was s... 455 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,400 that they decided to preserve it and copy it onto the walls of a lasting memorial, whic... 456 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:12,400 And here are the Edfu Building Texts, which speak of the homeland of the primeval ones... 457 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:17,400 By the way, that comet, very large fragments of it hit the North American ice cap. 458 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,400 That's why there aren't many impact craters, because they hit two mile deep ice. 459 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,400 They flashed that deep ice into a tremendous heat. 460 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,400 There was a huge flood release from the ice cap at that time. 461 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,400 And just gigantic global cataclysm took place. 462 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:38,400 And they tell how the primeval ones, the gods, I read the survivors of the lost... 463 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,400 came to Egypt and established religion by building primeval mounds up and down the... 464 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:48,400 which would form the place of all future temples and pyramids in Egypt. 465 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,400 In Tiwanaku we have those gods too, they're called the Viracochas. 466 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,400 They're heavily bearded and mustachioed. 467 00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:01,400 They were said to have white skin, they don't fit the pattern of ancient American Indian... 468 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:07,400 And we have the same story in Mexico, where those gods are associated with Quetzalcoatl, 469 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,400 the fennant serpent, also white skinned and bearded, 470 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,400 who came in a time of darkness to bring civilization to a devastated land. 471 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,400 And who we are told was eventually driven out from that land, 472 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,400 promising that he would one day return. 473 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,400 It was that promise that Cortes was later able to take advantage of. 474 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,400 Promising that he was one day returned. 475 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,400 Interestingly, when he was driven out of the land, 476 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,400 he is said to have left Mexico on a raft of serpents. 477 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,400 Very curious idea. 478 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,400 He sailed away on a raft of serpents woven together. 479 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,400 I can't help note that at Gobekli Tepe we have a raft of serpents. 480 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,400 They call it a net of serpents, there are their heads. 481 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,400 And there are their bodies, all internested. 482 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,400 They call it a net of serpents, that's what Klaus Schmidt calls it, 483 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,400 but I can't help thinking, raft of serpents, story of Quetzalcoatl. 484 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:01,400 Many of these bearded figures are found throughout Mexico, 485 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,400 and in the oldest archaeological layers. 486 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,400 And I think they may be much older than those layers themselves. 487 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,400 Even the figures on Easter Island, when you look at those huge chins, 488 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,400 turns out they're bearded figures too. 489 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,400 And this brings me finally to another bunch of bearded figures, 490 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,400 who weirdly are carrying man bags. 491 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,400 See their cute little man bags there? 492 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,400 And why is he wearing a fish on his head? 493 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,400 I mean, why is he wearing a fish on his head? 494 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,400 He's called a fish-garbed figure. 495 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:42,400 He is from Babylon, and he is associated with a supposedly mythical creature called Oannis, 496 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,400 who emerged from the waters of the ocean after the great flood, 497 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,400 bringing civilisation to a devastated mankind. 498 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,400 He was a restorer of civilisation, a civilising hero. 499 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,400 He wears the head of the fish because he was able to survive the flood like a fish. 500 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,400 In fact, he's described as a hybrid between a fish and a man. 501 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,400 But I'm interested in these man bags that he's carrying, 502 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:15,400 because we find the same man bag in the hands of the figure from La Venta, 503 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:22,400 up there in Mexico, the feathered serpent, and the same man bag. 504 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,400 Now that's a very odd thing. 505 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,400 It could be a coincidence, of course, but it's odd. 506 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:33,400 And I'm beginning to wonder, are we looking at the symbolism of some kind of cult of... 507 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,400 who spread around the world, and that this bag, I don't know, 508 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,400 maybe it contained their stash of DMT, I'm not sure. 509 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,400 This bag, you know, is their symbol. 510 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,400 And archaeologists say that these are supposed to be tombs, 511 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:52,400 but they look a lot like man bags to me, at Gobekli Tepe. 512 00:41:54,400 --> 00:42:01,400 So, getting closer, I promise, to the end, Osiris, another bearded figure. 513 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:08,400 There's a resonance, 72 conspiracies, there's a resonance between the sky of 10,500 BC a... 514 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,400 Then Orion was at its lowest point, Draco was at its highest point, 515 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,400 Leo was rising in the east, Aquarius was setting in the west. 516 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:22,400 Today it's the opposite, Orion's at its highest point, Draco's at its lowest point... 517 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,400 Leo is setting in the west. 518 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,400 Halfway around the processional cycle, half of 25,920 years. 519 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:37,400 It's interesting that the refined estimates put the comet impact at 12,890 years ago, 520 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:43,400 because just roughly then we find ourselves half a processional cycle away from the... 521 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:48,400 Suppose, I'm asking, I'm not saying that the end of the world is nigh, 522 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,400 but I'm suggesting that there may still be some fragments of that comet in orbit, 523 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,400 that it may have been a long period comet. 524 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,400 Very likely it was, what goes around comes around, 525 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,400 and long period comets can have orbits of 12,000 plus years. 526 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:09,400 And it's just possible that other fragments of the comet that hit the Earth 12,980 yea... 527 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,400 and may be coming back. 528 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,400 Remembering Shoemaker-Levy 9 again, 529 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:21,400 it's interesting that the brightest object in the sky in 21 December 2013, 530 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,400 just one year out, which is not bad calculation when we bear in mind the Mayan... 531 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,400 is going to be a comet, it's Comet Ison, it's going to be brighter than the full moon. 532 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,400 Good news is it's not going to hit us, it's going to miss, 533 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:39,400 but we should keep an alert eye to the sky. 534 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,400 Comets only become visible when they outgas. 535 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:48,400 Outgassing is caused by proximity to the Sun, they're often covered in a thick tarry... 536 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,400 and they can be completely dark to telescopes until they start outgassing. 537 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:58,400 I think that the sense of a warning in the Mayan calendar cannot be completely ignored. 538 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:04,400 There is a growing awareness and recognition that our planet is a sacred realm. 539 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:13,400 And one thing's for sure is that the Mayan calendar in its last cycle measured the... 540 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,400 which is the period from 3114 BC to 2012 AD. 541 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:23,400 And that interestingly is the period of the great cities. 542 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:30,400 That's the historical period of urban life, of the big states, of the big centralized... 543 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,400 of the great corporations. 544 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,400 That is the period that is coming to an end now. 545 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:41,400 I think we all know it's broken. I think we all know a new model needs to be put in... 546 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,400 And the great thing about being human is we do have the power of choice, 547 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:52,400 and we can make a better world if we want to, remembering the lessons of the past with... 548 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,400 So, thank you. 549 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,400 Thank you. 550 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,400 Thank you.