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Welcome back everybody. We're now on the final leg of our mega-lythic marathon today.

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And we now have our keynote speaker for Saturday Graham Hancock, who's going to be discussing

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themes from some of his earlier books. The title of the talk is a species with amnesia.

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Many of you know Graham's work through his documentaries, through his incredible historical

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investigations and the numerous books that he's written. And also recently he's got into

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novel writing as well. And today he's going to be exploring the loss of civilization from pre-history.

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So please give a warm welcome to Graham Hancock.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you all for being here. This is indeed a

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marathon exhausting day. And I'll do my best not to just sort of fall over on stage and I'll

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show you guys, I'll do your best to stay awake back there. One of the good things about being

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lost is I can go on a little bit longer. I've got an hour, but you know I think maybe two or three

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hours might do it. I'll do my best to keep it tight. I've been involved in these

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mysteries for more than 20 years. I've had the incredible privilege and opportunity to

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explore and experience some of the most majestic monuments left for us to puzzle over by

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our ancestors. In all my travels and all my adventures, I've been a company

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and boyed up by the presence of my wonderful wonderful wife, Santa, who is

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as far as I'm concerned, the best human being on the planet and I am so lucky to have her as my partner.

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She's been with me every step of the way, taken every risk with me, including some very extreme

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scuba diving as we got on to underworld. And the talk I'm going to give tonight

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will range across material that is in all three of these books. And so if you want further

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information on them, that's the place to look. Unfortunately none of my books are available here,

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but they can be obtained of course. This is our beautiful garden of a planet as we are familiar with

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it today. This majestic work given to us as a theatre of experience to learn and to grow and to

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develop within how incredibly privileged we are to be born in human bodies and to live on such a

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garden floating in the universe. It hasn't always looked the way it looks today. If you go back to

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the last Ice Age, which reached its maximum about 21,000 years ago, not so long ago, really,

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just a blink of an eye. You'll find that Ice Caps that are two miles deep, sit on top of North America

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and also on top of Northern Europe. Now, all the water that's frozen into ice in those Ice Caps

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had to come from somewhere and where it came from was the world's oceans. So as a result, during the

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Ice Age, the levels of the world ocean were 400 feet lower than they are today. All that water

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had come out of the ocean, it had been frozen into those giant ice caps and when they melted,

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it went back into the ocean and sea level rose. So there's our familiar map of the world with its

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familiar contours. But if you go back to the last glacial maximum, 21,000 odd years ago,

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the world really does look quite different. For example, there was no red sea.

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It was all dry land. Nor was there any Arabian Gulf. It was all dry land as well. Australia was a

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much vaster continent than it is today and southeast Asia, now in our Capellegov of islands

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and the Malaysian Peninsula was at that time a giant continent-sized landmass. All of the coastlines

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of the world were extended much further than they are today. And altogether, 27 million square kilometers.

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That's about 10 million square miles of land went under the ocean when the sea levels rose.

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That's roughly the equivalent of the size of Europe and China added together. Now, although the

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meltdown did take place over 10,000 years, there were within it three or four major major

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episodes of flooding. When you could, in some cases, get as much as a 30 foot rise in sea level

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pretty much overnight. Now, you have to consider what a 30 foot overnight rise in sea level

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would do to our civilization today if it were to happen. I'm sure we've all seen the horrific

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and troubling images of the tsunami in Japan. And we can see the catastrophe that is unleashed by

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nature just by a temporary rise in sea level. So we have to imagine something like that, but on a

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global scale and permanent and consider what it did to our ancestors and what effects it may

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have had upon them. I don't believe it's an accident that there are more than 2,000 flood myths

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pretty much all around the world. Memories of a gigantic global flood that almost wiped out

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mankind. Most archaeologists and historians are not very impressed with flood myths and they take the view

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that these were little local events, perhaps a river flooded its banks, a little local events,

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which were then elaborated out by our superstitious ancestors who imagined it was a global flood.

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But I find that a completely unnecessary explanation since we know that there was gigantic global

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flooding during the 10,000 years at the end of the Ice Age and it seems to me highly probable

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that the world's legacy of flood myths are a memory of what happened at the end of the Ice Age.

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One of those flood myths was preserved by Plato and that's the myth of Atlantis.

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He said he got it through his family line from the Greek lawmaker Solon who had visited Egypt

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and had been told in Egypt of the existence of high civilization in deep antiquity that had been

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destroyed in a global flood accompanied by tremendous earthquakes and volcanic activities.

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And this civilization Plato said was globally distributed, although focused on an island

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which he appeared to locate in the Atlantic and he said that in a single terrible day and night

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it was utterly obliterated and that mankind was forced to begin again like children with no memory

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of what went before that we were indeed a species with amnesia.

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The flood myth is found in India where we have the Indian nulla figure Manu who is preserved

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by the God Vishnu to repopulate the planet much in the way that the Noah does in our

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western flood story and in Greece it's the story of Jukalyon and Pirra who right out the flood in a

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huge box and again they their role is to repopulate the earth and to reestablish civilization.

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Similar stories have come down from the ancient Maya who spoke of cyclical

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distractions and rebirths of the earth and indeed the Aztec civilization as well and of course we all

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know the Noah story from the Bible. Now it's well accepted by scholars that the Noah story is

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simply a later resension of an earlier story that came from Sumo, from Mesopotamia, the land that we

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now call Iraq and that story is the epic of Gilgamesh and therefore it's interesting I think to look

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at what happened in the Arabian Gulf the region from which the epic of Gilgamesh comes to look at

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what happened in the Arabian Gulf at the end of the Ice Age. This of course is the the Gulf today

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and this is how it looked during the last Ice Age. That is not an inlet of the sea there.

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That is a large river system combining the streams of the Tigris and the Urefrates which had a

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series of very fertile lakes running along its length all of which was flooded in one gigantic incident

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approximately 12,000 years ago. So I'm not at all surprised that a powerful memory of a

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cataclysmic flood is preserved in the epic of Gilgamesh. Same is true with the aborigines of Australia.

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We can see Australia today and Australia as it looked during the last Ice Age clearly a huge amount

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of land has been swallowed up by the sea and aborigine myths. Remember this time and speak of a

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great flood serpent that ate up the land. As I say I'm not surprised that we have these myths.

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I do believe we are a species with amnesia and the myths are part of our memory of a huge part of our

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story that we've lost but they're not the only part. There's much more controversial material.

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And that controversial material some of it is contained in ancient maps.

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And these maps suggest a level of technology and science that was far beyond the period in which

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they were derived. And before I go in more detail into the maps I want to make clear that very often

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what we're looking at here are maps that were copied in the 15th, 14th, 15th, 16th centuries from

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earlier source maps. And those earlier source maps have now been lost to us. We have the latest copies

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of them. And often those copies were adulterated by the copiists based on what they were learning

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about the world during the era of exploration. Sometimes they would impose what they thought was

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new knowledge on the old map and mixed things up a little bit. Now if you go back to the dark ages,

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seven century and so on, this represents the standard of map making technology at that time. These

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are called TO maps because of the T shape in the middle and the O shape around the outside.

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There are actually quite beautiful maps but you would never wish to use them for navigation

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because they're completely useless for that purpose. So they're very nice for hanging on the wall.

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In these maps east is oriented up. So this is the east side here. This is west. This is actually

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the Mediterranean sea. This is Spain and here's the Holy Land at the center of the world as it were.

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So these are the TO maps and that was the standard of maps that were being used 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th,

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century. But then during the Crusades something happened. It seems that a whole archive of other

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maps were released into general circulation and began to be copied. At the same time the maps

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of Claudia's Tollemy who taught at the library of Alexandria which had been preserved in monasteries

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were rediscovered and became the basis for the Tollumac Categoric Tradition Reawaken in the year

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1295. The other category of maps that appeared at that time are the so-called Portalan maps.

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And these Portalan maps are a real mystery. They are incredibly accurate in terms of

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not only latitude which really any culture can figure out but longitude as well which our civilization

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didn't crack the problem of longitude until the end of the 18th century. That's why before that

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ships were constantly sailing into coastlines unexpectedly because they didn't know how far

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east or west of a particular point they were. But these maps which began to enter circulation

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in the 1300s probably from Constantinople which in turn had probably received them from the library

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of Alexandria containing credibly accurate, latitudes and longitudes. Spot on accurate as

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accurate as today's maps. It's quite difficult to see on this ancient map but this is Italy here.

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We're looking at the Mediterranean. Very often you find that these maps do focus on the Mediterranean

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because that was an area of great interest to mariners at that time but it's clear that they were

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copies of there were fragments of much larger world maps and Charles Happgood who's

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work I'd like to pay tribute to here and his fantastic book maps of the ancient sea kings.

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Traces the Portalan cartographic tradition through a predecessor of Tollamese and through

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the Library of Alexandria into Constantinople released during the Crusades and then out to European

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mariners. As I mentioned the the source maps were often world maps and one of them is this

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map the famous Perry Rees map. The bit that survived of this map is only the bit that shows the

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east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa was originally a world map the other

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bits are lost and in his own handwriting on the map the map maker Admiral Perry Rees who was a

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Turkish admiral tells us that he had based his map on more than 100 older maps,

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none of which have come down to us. Now of course the Perry Rees map is a very controversial

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map but what is striking about it is the way that the continent of South America

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seems to join on to a landmass at its tip and this landmass I would suggest is Antarctica as it looked

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during the last ice age when it was much more extensive than it is today. Now this is Antarctica

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as we know it on our modern maps and this is Antarctica as it was known on maps at the beginning of the

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19th century as you can see it isn't there and it isn't there because our civilization didn't

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discover Antarctica until the year 1818 so naturally if you drew a map in 1805 it would not have

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Antarctica on it but the really puzzling thing is that maps much older than this one do have Antarctica

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on them and these are the maps that are copied from older source maps often by quite well-known

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map makers like Arantius Finis here with his extensive continent of Antarctica joining on to

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South America and also the great Mercator with his giant Antarctic continent joining on to South

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America it's larger than Antarctica today but in broad outline the shape is the shape is correct and we

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have to ask ourselves how did Mercator and Arantius Finis know that and the answer is they copied it

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from older maps. You can go into many details on these maps for example a telemake

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map from 1513 shows a little island lying off the west coast of Ireland and this island is labelled

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in the high Brazil and I know a couple of expeditions that were sent out from Bristol which is quite

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near where I live in Bath in the UK to look for high Brazil but they couldn't find it not in 1513

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or in 1613 or today what you actually need to find that island is a time machine and we can do that

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with geological studies of sea level rise which show us that approximately until approximately

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12,000 years ago and island of exactly the right size in exactly the right place did indeed

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exist where it's shown to exist on that telemake map. The Walsib Muller map shows a vastly extended

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Southeast Asia and if we look at the details I think it looks a whole lot more like this than it

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looks like Southeast Asia today or in 1507 and it's not confined to western maps this Chinese

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map of the Gulf of Korea is carved on a stone stellar in C.M and here we see a much narrowed

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Gulf of Korea with a little inlet marked at the top of it and again the latest geological evidence

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indicates that such an inlet did exist 12,400 years ago before rising sea levels gave us the

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modern appearance of the Gulf of Korea. These two islands on this portal and map from 1424 are

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really interesting they're positioned by the map maker in the Atlantic Ocean and they've given rise

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to many suggestions that these must have been the islands of Atlantis. There's Spain by the way there

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and we know that over here is North America but in 1424 all knowledge of North America had been lost

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long long before and people thought that if you sailed west from Europe you would come eventually to China

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that there was nothing in the way that was the belief at the time that's what Columbus believed

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when he sailed west from Europe he believed that he was going to come to Japan and China

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and Professor Robert Fuson of the University of Florida has demonstrated really beyond the shadow

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of a doubt that actually these two islands are the missed-placed islands of Japan and Taiwan

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located west of Spain where at that time the prejudice was that they would find the coast of Asia

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over here so actually what the map maker has done is he's mixed up information from what he thought was

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true and what he found on the ancient map and he's placed Japan and Taiwan in the Atlantic Ocean

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but the really interesting thing is when are these maps of Japan and Taiwan are they maps of Japan

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and Taiwan in the 16th century or are they something else altogether and again we need to resort to

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geology to solve this problem and we can see here the what happened to the island of Taiwan

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during the meltdown of the ice age here it is today and and here it is deep in the last ice age

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when it was physically joined to the mainland of of China as indeed the government of China

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would know that wish it's still to be today and then we gradually see it separating off from the

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mainlander sea level rises and 12,400 years ago we find that a little island which no longer exists

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was placed here between Taiwan and China so if we look at the map on the Pizigano chart the map

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of Antilia and compare it we can see that it also has a little island lying to the west of it called

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Yamana and if you overlay the two you can see the similarities quite strong but particularly the

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existence of that little island to the west which is only known to us today because of the latest

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geological work on sea level rise what's it doing on a map from the 15th century

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the other island satanazae is Japan but not Japan as we know it today

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haunchu and shikoku are shikoku and haunchu shikoku and kishu are all separate islands today

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but during the last ice age they were all one island because sea level was much lower and what's

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intriguing on this map of satanazae is that an inlet is depicted exactly where an inlet existed 12,400

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years ago and up here this bay is also depicted exactly as it existed 12,400 years ago another

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two or three thousand years and that would become the island of shikoku but as it's depicted on this

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map it's showing us Japan as it looked 12,400 years ago so here's a general summary of the situation

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in in East Asia during the the ice age the greatly extended coastlines and we've been through

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the story of Taiwan so that's why santer and i were really intrigued when we we were approached

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by people in Taiwan who told us that they'd discovered a huge structure underwater between Taiwan and

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China in exactly the area where that lost island once existed and this is the diver who found it

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Steve Shea we went out and joined him on a series of dives on this enormous underwater wall

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complete with battlements that lies beneath the sea between Taiwan and China with a curious patio

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in front of it and when you get up close you can rule out any possibility that we're dealing with a

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some kind of freak of nature here because you can actually see the construction blocks that we use to

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put this wall together very very finely fitted together so quite a mystery if we now jump over

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from from Taiwan to the most southwestern of the Japanese islands to yonaguni we will find a whole

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complex of further structures underwater santer and i over the years have put in somewhere between

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200 and 300 dives at yonaguni and what i want to do now is to just take you around the main areas

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where the monuments are starting here and going up the coast here and just show you what we saw there

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starting at the west side of the of the system of monuments we have this curved roadway between

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two parallel walls another view of it here you can see that there's some rather interesting

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blocks off to the side it's a beautiful curved roadway and two parallel walls let's now swim over

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in this direction swimming to the east and i'm coming here to a tunnel and i'm going to swim

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through that tunnel and i want to show you what the inside of that tunnel looks like that's what it

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looks like with two giant megalithic blocks on each side placed on top of each other when you get to the

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end of the tunnel you find yourself looking at these parallel megaliths which are slotted into the

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side of a rocky out crop here and if you were to believe the geologists who can't dive and who've

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never been to yonaguni you would be asked to believe that these had fallen from a cliff above

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perfectly into a position there the fact that there is no cliff above that point doesn't seem to

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deter the geologists in this explanation it's an awesome place to dive i've been to a great many

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sacred sites and i feel very strongly when i'm diving at yonaguni that i am witnessing an amazing

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sacred site that was submerged more than 12,000 years ago now here we have a huge rocky out crop

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running away from these two parallel blocks and i want to bring you around here to the most famous

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parts of yonaguni which is the terrace step pyramid like area which faces juosouth and you can

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see that there are very regular angles and and cuts into this it is cut out of solid rock

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much in the way that the great sphinx is cut out of solid rock and again the archaeological

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community is virtually unanimous in saying no nonsense this this is just a natural feature

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this is because couldn't possibly have been made by human beings there was no culture in japan

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12,000 plus years ago that was capable of making something on this scale again and again when

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i hear people saying this there are people either who are very poor divers who've put in one or two

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dives at yonaguni or there people who've never dive there at all anybody who really works

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extensively on these sites begins to get a different opinion so the the theory of geologists as to

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how this could be natural is reasonable in itself the suggestion is that there are different layers

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of sedimentary rock here and some of them are softer and some of them are harder than others

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so when the but before i i go there i just wanted to compare this with these structures from

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Peru from kuzko which are cut out of solid rock and show the same sort of step pyramid

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terracing effect nobody argues that these are natural but very similar structures under water at yonaguni

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i said to be natural because they disturb the picture of history so the suggestion is that the

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sea beating against this natural rock face selectively removed the softer layers of rock

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and left the harder layers of rock those steps there giving the step to fact and

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i don't i mean i i understand where they're coming from but if they're right then i want to find

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all the rubble that the sea removed from here i want to find it down here at the bottom of the

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monument directly underneath this area but i don't because when you look down from the terest area

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straight down below to a depth of 110 feet what you see down at the bottom is a beautiful clear

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pathway and i do not believe that nature was capable of clearing that rubble away and indeed

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clearing it to the side as we can see here whereas the pathways left clear and there are in fact

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gutters running alongside the pathway so moving further west and north we come to a huge

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underwater face i've placed here one of the all-meck heads from mexico just to show the effects of

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a long weathering on a large stone carved human head here at yonaguni facing south again two eyes

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a nose a mouth and i'll just take you around this very eerie and spooky place to dive

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i'm in the shot for scale you can see that it's a very it's a very large structure in fact the two eyes

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have got pupils carved into them which you can get a hold of when you swim up close to it

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something almost terrifying about it particularly in stormy conditions

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and if it's made by nature nature took care to separate off the head completely from the bedrock

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so that we have the back of the head and indeed to carve a headdress onto the top of this human face

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and if we pull back further we can see that it's set on top of a platform and back again that

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the platform itself is part of a large open ceremonial area with another one of those beautiful

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straight pathways again with gutters down either side now it's not well known but japan in fact is

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is a country littered with megalithic monuments and indeed stone stone circles some of which are

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rightly attributed to the jomon period of japan but some of which we really know nothing about and this one

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called msa dano iwa fune the upside down boat stone is found in the asuka area of japan

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beautifully cut on the top halfway up the side of the mountain nobody knows its origin

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nobody knows where it's came from it's just always been there as far as people can remember if we

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go around to the other side of it we can see the technique that was used to cut this very hard rock

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and what they did was they cut these aged shaped sections out of it and had they finished the

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job which apparently they didn't do they would have removed the areas that stand proud and left

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a smooth face so it's interesting since we do not know the antiquity of this megalith that exactly

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the same technique of stone cutting is found underwater at jonaguni at a depth which means that it's

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been underwater for at least 12 and a half thousand years and this to my mind suggests we need to

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re-evaluate some of the monuments above water in japan going north from jonaguni we come to

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okinawa and just west of the main island of okinawa a group of islands called the keremas

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and off one of them off acagema at a depth of 110 feet is an amazing complex of stone circles

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some of the stones are very small purposefully laid in spirals there's an in fact river stones

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that are lying there on the bottom of the sea and others are cut down into the bedrock at the

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bottom of the sea and are on a very large scale and these are there it's really on an epic scale

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it's a very difficult place to dive the currents are ferocious and sometimes we had to wait

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five or six days above it in order to be able to actually dive on it because the current

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resource of here that we just got swept away and we couldn't work on the monument at all but as you

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closer look at it you can see the central upright and you can see the surrounding uprights all cut

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out of the solid bedrock there is no no and geological process that that can create this effect

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beautiful symmetry of the structure and again the way the the outer curve the inner curve here

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matches the outer curve of the central upright strikes me as particularly interesting let's go back

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to the Perry Reef map now I'm sure everybody's heard of the famous bimini road it's another one

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of those mysterious underwater structures that most archaeologists would like to be totally natural

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they say it's just a bit rock but here's an interesting thing on the Perry Reef map

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is depicted a large island in the place where bimini is now bimini's just a tiny island today

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but of course it was a much larger land mass during the ice age and although it's difficult to

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see here I think you probably can see that something that looks exactly like the bimini road

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is depicted running right up the middle of this lost island

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so the next question I want to ask is it seems that somebody mapped the world

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during the meltdown of the last ice age did these people also have a religion

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and interestingly enough the Perry Reef map turns out to be centered on geza it's quite a sophisticated

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as a methyl equidistant projection and it's centered on geza in Egypt where we find the majestic

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great sphinx and the pyramids of geza of all the places that I've been that I've been privileged

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to travel I would say that geza has most touched my heart and had the most long lasting effect

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upon me and upon my state of consciousness these are truly magical monuments and if you allow

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them to speak to you they have so much to say it's one of the few places actually that you can

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get a real sense that we live on a planet you know because if you place yourself at the base

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of one of the pyramids and adjusting so the star is directly overhead and just stand there for 10 minutes

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you'll just sense the earth rolling and that star will shift away from the apex of the

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pyramid there's a tremendous sense of connection between sky and ground at geza and it is indeed

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as though three stars have been brought down to earth and speaking of stars we shouldn't then

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be surprised to find that the great pyramid of geza is aligned to true north-south eastern west

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with stunning stunning accuracy the error of true north is just one three sixtieths of a single

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degree this astonishing precision in a prehistoric monument on this gigantic scale it is a

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precision that we could achieve today but any architect would ask the client okay you want to build a

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six million ton monument but really do you are you sure you want it aligned to within three

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sixtieths of a degree of true north because if you want that then it's just going to cost you a whole

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lot more to make it very very difficult thing to do we can make you a big fantastic monument but

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please don't make us align it perfectly to true north in fact the the alignment is is so precise

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that we can be sure that the people who made it were familiar with navigation that these are navigational

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levels of precision in the alignment and also there are hints of much greater antiquity at geza

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then is allowed to the site by orthodox Egyptologists now as Antoine rightly said Egyptologists

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prefer not to believe anything that the ancient Egyptians said it's a strange thing they they

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almost seem to despise the culture they're studying and and if ancient Egyptians ever say anything

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which conflicts with Egyptological dogma the Egyptologists say the ancient Egyptians were wrong about

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that we're the ones who are right so the Egyptologists dismiss this scene for example in the

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temple of seti the first in Abidus where seti the first shows his young son the famous ramassies the

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second a list of all the theros who'd ruled in Egypt before their time now the interesting thing is that

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that list doesn't stop at around 3,000 BC when Egyptologists say that the first dynasty began

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it continues back beyond that tens of thousands of years actually goes back more than 30,000 years

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before the time of ramassies the second right back to what the ancient Egyptians call Zeptepe the first time

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the time of the gods when Osiris ruled in Egypt and here from the tomb of seti the first we see

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Osiris on his boat of stars showing the way forward to the horrors to the followers of Horace

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who will be responsible for carrying the Osirian religious tradition down through the future

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if we go to the temple of Horace at Edfou itself a relatively late construction but built on just

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the latest resension of a series of temples that go back into the dawn of time we will find carved on

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its walls a massive body of texts and these are called the Edfou building texts those texts tell us

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themselves that they were copied from an original text that had come down from heaven and was then

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much later copied onto the walls of this temple it's a complete cosmology and the Edfou building texts

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do indeed speak of a gigantic flood that destroyed the homeland of the primeval ones of the gods

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and that the survivors of this flood came to Egypt and made it the place where they would restart

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their civilization and they what the first thing they did was they established mounds called

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primeval mounds all over Egypt which were to be the sites of all future temples and pyramids

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of course Egypt today is we're looking at a culture that has 3,000 years of known history

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from 3,000 BC to around the time of Christ and monuments within that period are all built around and on

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top of one another it's incredible mix up but some of the monuments that are attributed to the historic

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period like this one the Osirian very near that temple of sati the first in Abidus but 50 feet

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lower had to be excavated from under the ground I do strongly feel have been wrongly dated

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and that these gigantic megalithic structures belong to an earlier period of construction in Egypt

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indeed to the time of the gods and here at just another view of this amazing Osirian that we find

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at Abidus and of course I won't go into detail in the work of John Anthony West and Robert

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Shock on the geology of the Sphinx but they really did stir things up back in the early 1990s

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when they showed that precipitation induced weathering rain weathering caused by exposure to

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thousands of years of heavy weathering heavy rainfall is the only thing that can account for this

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very distinctive style of weathering in the trench that surrounds the Sphinx and originally on

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the body of the Sphinx 2 but it's been constantly restored indeed the Sphinx was being restored

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and we have historical records to prove this in the time of Farah Kaffrey who is supposed to have

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built the Sphinx so if he built it how come it was also being restored during his rain

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the suggestion is that the Sphinx stood on the geese plateau during a long period of heavy rainfall

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and such rains have never fallen in Egypt since 3000 BC you have to go back to the neolithic sub

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blue wheel the end of the ice age 10 thousand years ago or more to find the kind of rains in

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Egypt that could have caused this distinctive weathering pattern and there really is something

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to my mind are cake something deeply ancient about the way this particular complex looks

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on the took this photograph from a helicopter hovering over the Sphinx temple and the valley

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temple so the three pyramids of geese dominate the skyline of modern Cairo and as we come closer

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we see the geese plateau we see the village of Nazlet al-Saman which lies around the base of the geese

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plateau we're looking now at the north faces of the three pyramids over here is the Nile valley

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off to the west the desert extends endlessly into the distance let's come closer now to the

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great pyramid this is the entrance complex the original entrance here and the entrance forced by the

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Khalif Mammoon in the 9th century closer still you can see that the great pyramid is not complete that

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there's a flat platform on the top of it with about half a course of masonry on the south side here

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and closer still Graham Hancock a much younger man standing on top of the great pyramid in

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roughly 1996 that was one of one of five climbs of the great pyramid that I was privileged to make

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a three of which were illegal and two of which were legal the the legal climb you have to pull

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a lot of strings then you have to sign a piece of paper at the bottom of the pyramid which says

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that in the event of your death your airs will not hold the government of Egypt responsible

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but actually the illegal climbs are much more fun up here on top of the great pyramid that's the

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second pyramid of the pyramid of kaffrey behind me you can see in these slabs at the top of the

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great pyramid lots of graffiti carved here as a matter of fact that map maker 16th century map

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maker Mercator he carved his graffiti on top of the great pyramid it's still there and there's just

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a whole lot of graffiti and one step down on this side is a piece of graffiti that says the following

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P Hancock 5 April 1916 my grandfather was called Philip Hancock he was a chaplain with British

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forces in Egypt during the first world war so I rang up my dad who was still alive at that time

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and I asked him to check my grandfather's diaries is there anything for the fifth of April 1916

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he leafed through the diary and he said yeah but there's just one line I said what does it say he said

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climbed great pyramid today so in a strange way I met my grandfather on top of the great pyramid of

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geese well it's an amazing thing the statistics are here for all of us to read it's got a foot print

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of 13 acres it's 481 feet high it weighs 6 million tons there were 1, 115,000 shaped casing blocks

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that went all around it each weighing 10 tons each but were knocked off during an earthquake in the early

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14th century and the angle of slope by the way this is the corner to climb the southwest corner

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that's the safest one to go up the angle of slope is 52 52 degrees

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I want to take you around the great pyramid be inside it for a while and we'll start down here in the

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subterranean chamber which in fact lies a hundred feet vertically beneath the base of the great

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pyramid and is approached through this descending corridor somewhat more than 300 feet long which slopes

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down at an angle of 26 degrees to reach the subterranean chamber that is carved out of solid bedrock

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and this is what the subterranean chamber looks like and the Egyptological view is that the

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pharaoh Kufu initially planned to be buried here but for some reason after he'd got his work force

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to create a perfectly straight 300 foot long tunnel removing all of the bedrock from there and bringing

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it outside that somehow when all of that had done and they'd started to cut the subterranean chamber

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the guy just changed his mind and said nah I don't want to be buried there after all I want to be

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buried higher up I think that the subterranean chamber like everything in the great pyramid has a very

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specific purpose it looks exactly the way it looks because that's how the builders wanted it to look

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and I think it's also deeply ancient and prehistoric it's a fact that if you if you stand down

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here and have a colleague with a good singing voice sing in the Kings chamber hundreds of feet above

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you you can hear that person very very clearly quite quite spooky so this is the descending corridor

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that comes down to it cut out of solid bedrock 350 feet long almost perfectly straight hardly any

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deviation at all from top to bottom just fractions of an inch and a sloping at 26 degrees so then

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we'll come up here we'll come up the ascending corridor we'll go along the horizontal corridor

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and we'll find ourselves in the so-called Queens chamber so-called because nobody knows what the

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function of this chamber was now it has two famous little shafts in its south and north walls

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if you'd come here before 1872 you would not have seen a shaft there because the last five

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inches of stone covering the shaft had been left in place by the builders you'd have just seen a

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closed wall but a British free-mason called Wayne Mendix and went around tapping on the walls

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of the Queens chamber found these two hollow points knocked away the five inches of stone

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and found that it led into a shaft ascending up into the body of the pyramid and a similar one

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on the north side of the Queens chamber and my friend and colleague Robert Boval has shown that

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during the pyramid age itself the epoch of 2500 BC this southern shaft of the Queens chamber

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actually pointed at the star serious where it crosses the meridian the north south line that

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divides the sky above your head every night it pointed directly at it the northern shaft of the

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Queens chamber pointed at beta-erciminer in the constellation of the little bear and then there's

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two more shafts in the Kings chamber up above which pointed Alfred Raconis and at one of the three

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stars of the belt of the constellation of Orion the German robotics engineer back in 1993

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explored the southern shaft of the Queens chamber he sent up the little robots with a camera attached

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to it because these shafts are only about that wide and that high no human being is going to get in there

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and 165 feet up the shaft the robot came to this door with two metal handles blocking the shaft

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and at that point Rudolph Ganton Brink's work was abruptly stopped by our friends Ahihawas

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and Rudolph was expelled from Egypt and no further work was done for many years

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Zahi took over the project and he commissioned the University of Singapore to make another robot

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and that robot was designed to drill a hole through the door and find out what was on the other side of it

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I often get the feeling that whoever made the pyramid is inviting us to explore it

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but making that a very difficult thing for us to do we have to use our ingenuity we have to use our intuition

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we have to use our intelligence if we're going to explore and understand this monument

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so I'm not surprised that what they found on the other side of the door was a gap of about three

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feet and then another door they're now trying to figure out how to get through that one and see perhaps

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if there's a chamber on the other side of that coming back out of the Queens chamber

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we'll go up the grand gallery this amazing and majestic cavity within the great pyramid with a

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corebell vault blocks of stone weighing 50 to 60 tons each perfectly positioned

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slope at an angle of 26 degrees you cannot get a thin sheet of paper into the joints between

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the blocks and up at the top right at the top there is the entrance to the anti chamber

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of the Kings chamber the so-called Kings chambers there's a cross section top of the grand gallery

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the anti chamber and you get through into the Kings chamber here and above it

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are one two three four five other chambers which were rediscovered in the 19th century by a

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tremendous vandal called Howard Vise a British explorer who went around using explosives all over

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the great pyramid he blew a huge gash into the south face of the great pyramid and he also

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opened up here right at the top of the grand gallery a hole which actually turned out to lead into a

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tunnel system and led to these chambers up above the Kings chamber and we'll go and have a look

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at those in a minute here's the Kings chamber itself it's an incredible geometrical construction

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it consists of of granite blocks a hundred granite blocks all of which was brought from Aswan

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500 miles to the south rest of the pyramid is limestone you can see one of those shafts in the northern

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wall there the sarcophagus in it which is the only reason really for anybody to conclude that this

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was a tomb of course it was not a tomb and a sarcophagus may have another functional together

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than that of burying a ferro perhaps a ritual function and it's a it's 17 feet two inches

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from east to west 34 feet sorry 34 feet four inches from east to west 17 feet two from north

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the south perfect two by one rectangle 19.1 feet high and that ceiling has got nine

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50 tonne granite blocks in it there's an interesting similarity between what's called the

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jet pillar a symbol of the resurrection of Asaris and the design of this chamber system

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and if we go into the chamber system go right up to the to the top chamber we can see lots more graffiti

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from 1915 there sister MJ Martin six the February 1915 and over on this wall that's my daughter Lailer

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by the way we were up there filming that's one of those 50 tonne granite blocks that she's sitting on

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up on this wall there's lots more modern graffiti but there's also some ancient graffiti

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and that's the other reason the only basis that Egyptologists have to attribute this monument to

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is that up there in that hidden chamber is this piece of graffiti which more or less says the name

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Kufu in ancient Egyptian higher cliffs there is a really strong case to be made that that graffiti

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is forged and that it was forged by how advise himself it contains a grammatical error that was

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only present in Egyptology textbooks from that period there are however and it's important to stress this

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there is ancient graffiti in that chamber that's genuine which disappears back between the joints

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in joints between the blocks if you shine powerful lights in there you can see that this strange

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writing goes far back to a point where no forge could ever reach but this area in plain view

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I believe it's highly likely that it was forged by how advise who was desperate for a discovery

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and he was able then to declare I have found and proved that this is the pyramid of Kufu

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he got a lot of money for that but this is the only statue of Kufu that's survived it's about that

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high he clearly was not a man with a giant ego he did not inscribe his name anywhere else within the

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great pyramid and obviously this is a problem however if you go to pyramids of the fifth and sixth

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dynasty's at Sakura you will find an enormous amount of texts carved on the wall Santa took this

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deliberately as a double exposure there's the great pyramid of Giza in the background and here's

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the chamber of the pyramid of Unas fifth dynasty pharaoh at Sakura which has the so-called pyramid

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texts carved on its walls and I often think that these texts perhaps should be regarded as the

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software to the hardware that we see back here in the form of the great pyramid of Giza

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and a close up on some of these pyramid texts very very beautiful higher glyphs carved into the

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walls part of a very ancient body of liturgy the pyramid texts are the oldest we have the

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coffin texts so called because they are painted inside the inside the coffins of the dead we have

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the book of what is in the do-at the ancient Egyptian afterlife kingdom for example in the tomb

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of the th-th-moses the third in the valley of the kings a complete version of the book of

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what is in the do-at is painted and the famous book of the dead usually written on papyrus that was

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buried with the deceased actually these are these are all one set of scriptures they're just

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later resensions of the same ideas which go on being explored and explored and explored through

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the whole three thousand years of known Egyptian history. Tomb of Saturday the first shows the

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souls of pay and neck and a mysterious brotherhood that the text tell us was responsible for

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a transmitting and preserving the religion of Osiris and Osiris was the divine king of Egypt who ruled

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in the in the first time in Zephtepi and he was murdered by his rival set and by 72

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conspirators that number 72 is important his body was hacked into pieces and he was reassembled

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and and re-vividified by his consort ISIS through her magic and we can see what's going on here.

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ISIS transformed herself into a bird in some versions swallow in some versions a kite and she

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hoveres over the phallus of Osiris and receives his seed conceiving the divine child Horus and I just

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like to take this opportunity to read a little bit from the ancient Egyptian book of the dead

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concerning this scene from the nomad the Ellis translation of the ancient Egyptian book of the dead

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and here's how it goes. I stand before the masters who witnessed the creation

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who were with Ra that morning the sun rolled into being who were with Osiris in the grave as he

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gathered himself together and burst from the tomb white with heat a light and shining god

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hail thoth architect of truth give me words of power that I may recall my years and weave together my

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history hail thoth architect of truth give me words of power that I may form the characters of my own

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evolution. I stand before the masters who witnessed the generation who were the authors of their own forms

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who rolled into being who walked the dark secuities passageways of their own becoming who saw with

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their own eyes their destinies and the shapes of things to come. I stand before the masters who witnessed

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the working of magic who were with ISIS the evening she became the swallow and her lamentations

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filled the air who were with her as she shook down her black hair and veiled the god's transformation

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in secret who witnessed the conception of the divine child though his coming was yet unrevealed.

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Hail thoth architect of truth give me words of power that when I speak the life of a man

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I may give his story meaning. I stand before the masters who know the histories of the dead

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who decide what tales to hear again who judged the books of lives as either full or empty

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who are themselves authors of truth and they are ISIS and Osiris the divine intelligences

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and when the story is written and the end is good and the soul of a man is perfected with a

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shout they lift him into heaven. Hail thoth architect of truth give me words of power that I may

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complete my story and begin life and new. I stand before the masters who witnessed the transformation

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of the body of a man into the body in spirit who were witnesses to the resurrection when the

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corpse of Osiris entered the mountain and the soul of Osiris walked out shining. He gathered his

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heel and his leg, he gathered his arms and his back bones, he knitted himself together in secret.

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He came forth from death, a shining thing, his face white with heat.

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That's the Normandy Ellis translation of the book of the dead. She's an Egyptologist but

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she's something that most Egyptologists aren't, she's a poet too. So she's captured the spirit

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of the original in a way that no other translation I know does so. So here we see Horace performing

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the rituals in gendering the resurrection of his father Osiris and thus the ferro-satty the

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first because this is in the Temple of Settie the First. Each ferro associated himself during life

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with Horace and in death with Osiris he was the Horace king and he became Osiris on his death.

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And here we have again that scene from the tomb of Settie the First Osiris became Lord of the

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do-out, God of the dead, Master of eternity and immortality and he's showing the way to the

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to the Horace kings to all future ferros of Egypt to maintain the Osirian system.

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From the Dendra Zodiac another image, the Squares Odiac downstairs in Dendra, another image of Osiris

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and there's no dispute amongst Egyptologists that Osiris was identified by the

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Ancient Egyptian with the beautiful constellation of Orion when they saw Orion in the sky what they saw

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was the figure of the God Osiris and he ruled over a kingdom in the sky roughly between the

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constellations of Orion and Leo and divided by the Milky Way which the Ancient Egyptians called

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the Winding Waterway. And my friend Robert Boval the author of the Orion Mystery really I think has

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done probably the single most important service to the understanding of Egyptology in recognizing

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the connection between the three pyramids of Egypt and the Belt Stars of the constellation of Orion.

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And if we go to those same ancient texts we can see that it makes perfect sense within the Ancient

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Egyptian religion to bring down to earth the perfection of the heavens as above so below

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to copy literally what you see in the sky on the ground. For example in the book of what is in the

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doad we read of the hidden circle of the doad in the body of nut the sky. Who so ever shall make

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an exact copy of these forms and shall know it shall be a spirit and well equipped both in heaven

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and earth and that was the objective of of the Ancient Egyptians was to become a well equipped spirit

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and the suggestion here is that we must have some knowledge of the afterlife realm before we venture

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there. In fact the whole scheme looks like a huge device for transforming men into gods companions

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of Orion who navigate the doad with Osiris. It was a region of the sky but it was also a

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parallel universe a kind of underworld through which the soul would travel after death sometimes

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guided by the psychopath a new bis the the guide of souls and where all kinds of monsters would be

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encountered questions would be asked which you needed to know the answers to. Anybody who tells

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you that the Ancient Egyptians made up their ideas of the afterlife to give themselves comfort

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is talking nonsense because the afterlife journey is really a terrifying journey where you must

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account for everything that you've done with your life on earth. It's not an accident that the

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Ancient name of Giza was the land of Sokar or of Rostau because we have here in the fifth division

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of the doad an area that is referred to as Rostau and which clearly features a pyramid aist thinks

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and some suggestion of some kind of chamber there as well. If we look at paintings of the book

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of what is in the doad in the valley of the kings for example we can see that many of the features

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of the great pyramid are replicated there the grand gallery these narrow corridors and

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passageways and of course that boat and boats were indeed used for the navigation of the doad so

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to me this makes a lot of sense as to why we find a large boat buried beside the great pyramid.

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And really there are many, many parallels here and I would suggest that this room

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the kings chamber serve the function of the judgment hall of a Cyrus or also known as the

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Hall of Mart and we can see that scene depicted here a Darrell Medina the deceased Pharaoh

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is ushered into the judgment hall of a Cyrus as I say it's also called the Hall of Mart.

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Mart was the goddess of truth and cosmic justice her symbol is the feather that we see mounted

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here on her head and prominently these scales in which the heart of the deceased is weighed against

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the feather of Mart and the objective really important objective would be that your heart should

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not be heavy with sin to outweigh that feather that there should be balance in the scales

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and that you should have lived your life in such a way that when you come to this moment

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you are able to answer the questions that will be asked of you and justify your life.

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Up here we see the 42 assessors in the judgment hall of a Cyrus each one of them will ask the

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deceased a question all of the 10 commandments are there but in negative form did you kill

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did you steal did you take the names of the gods in vain and so on and so forth they all there

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and 32 others as well and ideally you should be able to answer no to each one of those questions

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of course we're all frail we're all human most of us could not answer no to all of the 42 questions

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but something else is going on here as well it seems that in the judgment scene

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it's necessary to have lived a moral and true life but that's not sufficient on its own there

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has to be something else as well if your heart is heavy with sin if you have spent your life

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infringing on the sovereignty of others if you have spent your life causing misery and pain

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and destruction and disaster then this is the fellow who will await you he's called Amit the

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eater of the dead part hippopotamus part crocodile part lion and he will continue a soul forever

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to oblivion never to live again never to return to earth never to have a further opportunity to grow

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and to develop and Osiris sits in judgment over the whole scene and the god thoth writes the verdict

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it was called the weighing of words and and to cut a long story short the suggestion that I would

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make about this is that the fundamental question beyond living a good life that's being asked of you

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is you were given an incredible opportunity to be born in a human body you could after all

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have been a stone or a cockroach you were born in a human body with this incredible brain this

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incredible ability to learn and to grow and to develop to create to imagine what did you do with

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that gift did you use it well or did you waste it et an arm have wasted it in this in this scene

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and I'm reminded also of a comment on the Tibetan book of the dead which has as much to do with

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the introduction book of the dead and that is that meditation love ethics none of these alone can

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bring about enlightenment without wisdom so very powerful scene and the ultimate objective

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was that the whole of life was preparing for this moment and that the one's ultimate destiny would

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be to become a star in the sky and to live the life of millions of years and to shed light and

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creation throughout the universe so I'm suggesting that the monuments of geese are formed a sacred

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landscape in which a kind of simulator for the afterlife journey in which preparations could be made

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and one would enter this afterlife experience aware prepared ready for the difficulties that one

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would confront and there really are astonishing similarities with the Tibetan book of the dead which

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I will not go into further here so I think we're looking at an ancient spiritual system that

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that celebrated a nurtured the gift of life and that sought immortal life but did not take it

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for granted and what we're looking at here is the gift of life of Ank eternal life

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being given here by ISIS to the ferrocyte of the first. If you ask the interdegyptions where this

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religious system came from they said it came down from the time of the gods from Zeptepty and

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actually clues as to when this Zeptepty was are embedded in the architecture at geese and by the

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way Santa took this photograph at dawn on the spring equinox you can see the second pyramid

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the photo was taken from the top of the great pyramid you can see the second pyramid acting as a

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huge no-man on casting its shadow a due west into the desert as the sun rises juiced on the spring

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equinox. Most Egyptologists will agree that the ancient Egyptians had some knowledge of astronomy

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after all there are stars everywhere on the ceilings of the tombs here from the second shrine of

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Tutun Kamen we see the initiate joined to a star in the sky through the through the third eye

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01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:34,200
it's hard to to think of an image that better sums up the the ancient Egyptian love affair with the stars

584
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:43,080
and then this image. We need to have a knowledge of precession of the equinoxes to understand

585
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:49,320
what is happening next and and of course the Egyptologists don't accept that despite the fact

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that the ancient Egyptians were avid star watches for thousands of years they don't accept that they

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could have known about the precession of the equinoxes which is thought to be caused by the

588
01:11:58,440 --> 01:12:04,360
pull of the sun and the moon on our planet and it causes an actual wobble on the axis of our planet

589
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:09,560
and since our planet is the viewing platform from which we observe the stars naturally changes

590
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:14,440
of its orientation in space change the positions or the rising times of the stars at particular

591
01:12:14,440 --> 01:12:19,480
times of year there are the like a top which you've set spinning and as the spin begins to decay

592
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:26,280
it starts to do something like that so the extended north pole of the earth transcribes a huge

593
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:32,760
circle in the heavens over a vast period of time it's just an accident that our north pole

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01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:37,160
presently points pretty much towards Polaris our pole star but there's been other periods in

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history when it's pointed at empty space or at other stars that have been the pole star of that

596
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:49,880
of that period and this is a very regular phenomenon we can model it precisely with modern

597
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:57,000
computer software and it unfolds at the rate of one degree every 72 years it affects of course

598
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:03,240
the pole star but it also affects the background of stars against which the sun is seen to rise

599
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:10,040
on the spring equinox and how am I doing for time here by the way are we all right

600
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:18,600
I hope so I'm losing track during as a result of the procession the background of the stars

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01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:24,680
against which the sun rises slowly slowly changes back at the time of Christ the sun was rising

602
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:30,520
on the equinox in the constellation of Pisces we've moved almost entirely through Pisces now

603
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:35,000
and within a hundred or so years the sun will be rising in the constellation of Aquarius on the spring

604
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equinox that's why we live in the dawning of the age of Aquarius and this change

605
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:46,120
unfolds at the rate of one degree every 72 years it's a backward motion through the zodiac

606
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:53,880
takes 2,160 years to go through each sign of the zodiac and the whole cycle the great year

607
01:13:53,880 --> 01:14:04,440
takes 25,920 years to unfold perhaps that was what's hinted at in this strange scene from the

608
01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:13,160
shrine of Tudon Common the great sphinx plays a key role in defining this process at Giza

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and a later fairer that most is the third who put this stellar between the pause of the sphinx

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01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:23,160
tells us that the sphinx marks the splendid place of the first time

611
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this photograph is taken from the sphinx's back that's the back of the sphinx's head looking

612
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:36,600
east across the Nile valley perfectly juiced as a matter of fact and we went back at dawn on the

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01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:42,200
spring aquinox for a santa de photographic again and you can see that the great sphinx is indeed

614
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:47,240
perfectly aligned to the rising sun on the spring aquinox that's what it looks at that's what

615
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:52,840
the great sphinx is there to do to bring together heaven and earth at that precise moment

616
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,560
so it's important to be clear that this process and it doesn't change the rising

617
01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:02,360
place of the sun it changes the stellar background behind the sun when it rises

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01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:16,040
it's a long slow process back through the back through the zodiac 72 degrees 72 years for one degree

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if the great sphinx was built in 2500 BC which was the age of tourists the logic is that it

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01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:33,080
should have been in the form of a bull it's very disturbing that it's in the form of a lion

621
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but gazing at the rising sun at the spring aquinox and precessional software tells us that there

622
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was a time when the constellation of Leo housed the sun on the spring aquinox the sphinx's

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celestial counterpart and that time was around 10,500 BC also at that time you get the precise

624
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:59,320
correlation between the three stars of Orion's belt and the three great pyramids of geyser

625
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:03,720
and a perfect match between the Milky Way and the Nile now of course I'm not saying that the

626
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:10,520
ancient Egyptians built the Nile I'm saying that this site was chosen because of the happy

627
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:17,320
relationship of the Nile to the Milky Way at that period of time there's a there's a very clear

628
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:23,080
using the universal language of astronomy there's a very clear reference to a date here and that

629
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date is around 10,500 BC and the idea of using the stars to define dates is something we do today

630
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:34,680
it's been done at the Hoover Dam as a matter of fact where there's a huge piece of sculpture

631
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:41,880
and a star map and the artist responsible for the star map believe that in remote ages to come

632
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:47,400
intelligent people with knowledge of procession would be able to discern the astronomical time

633
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:53,720
of the dam's dedication and I'm suggesting that something very similar is going on at geyser

634
01:16:54,280 --> 01:17:01,240
this mystery of precession is brilliantly explored in this book Hamlet's Mill by Professor Georgio de Santiliana

635
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:08,520
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hethavondeshend who was Professor of History of Science

636
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:15,480
at Frankfurt University and what they have showed is that a sequence of numbers relating to the

637
01:17:15,480 --> 01:17:22,200
precession of the equinoxes is preserved in myths and traditions all over the world going back

638
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:28,760
into remoteist prehistory and actually buried in there highly scholarly academic book I had to

639
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:35,160
read it five times before I understand it is this statement that they trace this knowledge back to

640
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:44,360
some almost unbelievable ancestor civilization of remote antiquity so here are the the the the

641
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:50,120
numbers in the precessional cycle 72 is the heartbeat of that cycle but there's a whole range of

642
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:57,160
of of numbers that you can derive from it if you add if you multiply it divide 72 by 2 you get 36

643
01:17:57,240 --> 01:18:08,760
to 72 you get 108 divide that by 2 you get 54 2160 is 72 times 343222 times 60 and so on and so forth

644
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:15,080
these are what I call precessional numbers and as Santiliana and Vondeshend's show they're found

645
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:23,160
in myths and traditions all around the world a few examples there up on the screen they're found

646
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:32,440
in the famous Mayan calendar which makes great use of precessional numbers and they're found

647
01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:39,000
in the great pyramid of geese as well it's a simple fact no Egyptologist dispute this it is a

648
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:44,840
fact but they think of course it's a coincidence that if you take the height of the great pyramid

649
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:52,280
and multiply it by this number 43200 you get the polar radius of the earth and if you take

650
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:57,640
the equatorial circumference of the sorry the the base perimeter of the great pyramid and multiply

651
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:02,920
by the same number you get the equatorial circumference of the earth so the dimensions of the earth

652
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:11,560
are encoded in the great pyramid on a scale of 1 to 43200 and if that was some random number like

653
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:19,640
57820 I'd be less excited but because it's one of those precessional numbers that are found in myths

654
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:23,880
all around the world I think we have to accept that this is the deliberate intention

655
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:30,920
moving on from there if if at the moment the prime meridian of the earth runs through

656
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:37,240
Greenwich for historical reasons but if you reset the prime meridian at geese a number of

657
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:42,680
relationships that are hidden in the presence set up immediately become clear for example

658
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:49,400
anchor anchor what in Cambodia lies exactly 72 degrees of longitude east of geese a one of those

659
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:56,120
precessional numbers and if we go to anchor which by the way means life to the horrors in ancient

660
01:19:56,120 --> 01:20:02,280
Egyptian we find more pyramidal structures now these structures were definitely built only about a

661
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:09,480
thousand years ago in 1150 AD but they stand on top of much much older structures which stand on top

662
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:15,800
of even older structures and actually how far back into antiquity this site goes is not yet established

663
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:21,320
look at this amazing straight line running here through the through the center of the anchor

664
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complex we're on the eastern side here and we're looking to the west there it actually disappears

665
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:32,680
over the horizon and if you position yourself on the west side of the causeway looking straight

666
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:38,520
at the tip of anchor what you'll find something interesting happening on the spring equinox

667
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as the sun starts to rise it slowly creeps up the central tower and then it sits right on top

668
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:53,160
of the central tower and this is the moment that this whole majestic monument was designed to capture

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to bring together sky and ground on the spring equinox and many other monuments around the world do

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01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:05,960
it in different ways this thinks does it there's anchor here's the pyramid of kukulkana chitchinita

671
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:12,280
you can see the head of a giant serpent carved at the bottom of the step and you can see this shadow

672
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:18,360
effect running up the wall which creates the body of the serpent that shadow effect only occurs at

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01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:24,360
five twenty p.m. on the spring equinox as the sun is setting the pyramid is perfectly positioned

674
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:31,080
so that it will cast this shadow and complete that serpent another equinox your monument there's

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01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:39,880
72 major temples at anchor precessional numbers are all over the site in sculptures and in reliefs

676
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:48,120
we see here the churning of the milky ocean where the serpent vasuki is wrapped around manbandera

677
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:55,960
gods and demons pull on his body to turn the milky ocean generating amreta the elixir of immortality

678
01:21:56,040 --> 01:22:01,800
precisely the same thing that is being looked for at geysa there's a judgment scene in this religious

679
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:08,360
system and there is yama the judge of the dead depicted at anchor fulfilling the role of arsiris

680
01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:16,520
and if we look down on the entire anchor complex something interesting emerges which is that the

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01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:24,040
principal temples appear to map out on the ground the constellation of drako and once again they do so

682
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:32,840
only perfectly in ten thousand five hundred BC exactly the same date that the geysa monuments reflect

683
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:40,120
so we have a curious kind of three-dimensional game going on here where where shafts in the great pyramid

684
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:49,400
point to stars in the northern sky that are mapped on the ground at anchor where where Leo is rising

685
01:22:49,480 --> 01:22:54,600
in the east the queirius is setting in the west constellation of arion is at the lowest point in

686
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:59,080
it will ever reach in its precessional journey constellation of drako is at the highest point

687
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:06,040
in its precessional journey jump forward from ten thousand five hundred BC to today and we find that

688
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:13,960
everything has turned around the other way now it's Leo that's setting in the west and a queirius

689
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:20,280
that's rising in the east now arion is at the highest point in its precessional journey

690
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:25,320
drako is at the lowest point in its precessional journey it's almost as though they're drawing a

691
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:33,320
deliberate connection between our age today and the age of ten thousand five hundred BC and of course

692
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:38,520
I will not go into the mian calendar here but I think everybody knows that the mian calendar

693
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:48,040
predicts a great change of some sort coming up in after the 21st of December 2012 now

694
01:23:49,480 --> 01:23:56,760
I'm not going around the world with a sandwich board strapped to my body saying that the end of the

695
01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:03,400
world is nigh I do believe by the way we're nearly finished I do believe that

696
01:24:03,480 --> 01:24:13,160
the mian calendar is misrepresented if it's said to tell us that the world will end on the 21st of December

697
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:19,560
2012 that is not what the mian calendar says the mian calendar is a cyclical instrument and each

698
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:25,560
cycle runs for approximately five thousand one hundred years and the end of one cycle is the beginning

699
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:33,080
of another and so I think what's hopeful in the mian calendar is the notion that

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01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:43,800
we can enter a kind of rebirth from this from this time that a new destiny can lie ahead for humanity

701
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:52,920
that we don't have to go down into darkness that we can write our own story and write it in a

702
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:57,400
positive way I'm one of those who who believes very strongly that it's possible for a great

703
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:03,880
change in consciousness to sweep this planet from time to time and I think we're poised on the edge

704
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:09,160
of such a moment when a great change of consciousness occurs we're seeing the beginnings of it

705
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:14,040
in the Arab world today and we're seeing it's all over the West as well in in small groups of

706
01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:20,040
free thinkers who who get together and and refuse to to tow the party line it all seems very

707
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:28,120
small at the moment but bit by bit that that changes is coming nevertheless thank you

708
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:38,600
it would be it would be also a mistake to believe that we will go through such a great change

709
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:47,720
without without some difficulties this is a time of trial that we live in today and I want to

710
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:53,960
just do another reading and then I will be just about finished apart from a few closing remarks and that's from the

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01:25:53,960 --> 01:26:01,640
hermetica which is a group of texts attributed to the god Hermes who was the Greek form of the

712
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:08,360
ancient Egyptian wisdom god Thoth which was set down in Greek and Latin around about the end of the

713
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:13,400
ancient Egyptian story it was taking the ancient Egyptian wisdom and transmitting it forward into the

714
01:26:13,480 --> 01:26:21,400
new world and and there's one particular text called the asclippius which contains a passage called

715
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:26,200
the lament that I'm going to read for you now it's called the asclippius because asclippius is the

716
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:34,200
pupil of Hermes and Hermes is teaching giving this teaching to asclippius and he says do you know

717
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:43,160
asclippius that Egypt is an image of heaven or to speak more precisely in Egypt all the operations of

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01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:49,960
the powers which rule and work in heaven are present in the earth below in fact it should be said

719
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:58,920
that the whole cosmos dwells in this our land as in a sanctuary and yet since it is fitting that

720
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:04,360
wise man should have knowledge of all events before they come to pass you must not be left in

721
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:10,040
ignorance of what I will now tell you there will come a time when it will have been in vain that

722
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:15,720
Egyptians have honored the Godhead with heartfelt piety and service and all our holy worship will be

723
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:23,320
fruitless and ineffectual the gods will return from earth to heaven Egypt will be forsaken

724
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:28,840
and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate bereft of the presence of its

725
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:37,160
deities oh Egypt Egypt of thy religion nothing will remain but an empty tale which thine own children

726
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:43,320
in time to come will not believe nothing will be left but graven words and only the stones will tell

727
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:50,840
of thy piety and in that day men will be weary of life and they will cease to think the universe

728
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:57,000
worthy of reverent wonder and worship they will no longer love this world around us this incomparable

729
01:27:57,000 --> 01:28:03,560
work of God this glorious structure which he has built this some of good made up of many diverse

730
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:09,000
forms this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made

731
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:15,480
ungrudgingly favoring man's welfare this combination and accumulation of all the manifold things

732
01:28:15,480 --> 01:28:23,480
that call forth the veneration praise and love of the beholder darkness will be preferred to light

733
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:30,760
and death will be thought more profitable than life no one will raise his eyes to heaven the pious

734
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:37,240
will be deemed insane the impious wise the madman will be thought a brave man and the wicked

735
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:44,040
will be esteemed as good as for the soul and the belief that it is immortal by nature or may

736
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:49,960
hope to attain to immortality as I have taught you all this they will mock and even persuade

737
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:55,880
themselves that it is false no word of reverence or piety no utterance worthy of heaven will be

738
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:04,120
heard or believed and so the gods will depart from mankind a grievous thing and only evil angels

739
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:11,080
will remain who will mingle with men and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime

740
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:16,280
into wars and robberies and frauds and all things hostile to the nature of the soul

741
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:24,440
then will the earth tremble and the sea bear no ships heaven will not support the stars in their

742
01:29:24,440 --> 01:29:30,440
orbits all voices of the gods will be forced into silence the fruits of the earth will rot

743
01:29:30,440 --> 01:29:36,680
the soil will turn barren and the very air will sicken with saline stagnation all things will

744
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:43,000
be disordered and arrive all good will disappear but when all this has be fallen as cleapious

745
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:48,600
then God the creator of all things will look on that which has come to pass and will stop the

746
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:54,280
disorder by the counterforce of his will which is the good he will call back to the right path

747
01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:59,640
those who have gone astray he will cleanse the world of evil washing it away with floods

748
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:05,000
burning it out with the fiercest fire and expelling it with war and pestilence and thus he will

749
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:10,520
bring back his world to its former aspect so that the cosmos will once more be deemed worthy of

750
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:16,600
worship and wondering reverence and God the maker and maintainer of the mighty fabric will be

751
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:23,080
adored by the man of that day with continuous songs of praise and blessing such is the new birth of

752
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:31,480
the cosmos it is a making again of all things good a holy and awe inspiring restoration of nature

753
01:30:31,480 --> 01:30:40,600
and it is wrought inside the process of time by the eternal will of the creator there isn't a single

754
01:30:41,480 --> 01:30:47,640
ancient flood myth that I'm aware of ancient catechlerism myth that doesn't in some way implicate humanity

755
01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:56,840
this is why I feel the matter is in our hands today we do not have to face destruction and chaos

756
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:04,840
and disaster but if we continue to invite it in by our behavior towards one another and within our

757
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:12,920
own lives then perhaps we will it's up to us to take this choice we stand I do believe at the edge

758
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:18,600
of an abyss right now I don't know of any other civilization that looks more like the next

759
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:25,720
lost civilization than ours today but it doesn't have to be that way we don't have to go on

760
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:33,640
repeating the same negative behavior on an international scale that we are practicing today we can

761
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:42,840
change it is not a shortage of oil or coal or building materials or money that is bringing

762
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:48,520
the human race down it's fundamentally a shortage of love that is what is missing in the world today

763
01:31:55,800 --> 01:32:02,200
and that is what we have to bring back it it's very difficult as an individual to conceive of

764
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:10,760
participating in changing the world but what all of us can do is participating in changing who we are

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01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:18,440
and in changing the immediate environment around us to be more positive and nurturing people this is

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01:32:18,440 --> 01:32:25,000
a choice we can all make it's within our own power nobody can check that choice away from us and if all of

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01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:30,280
us make that choice we will live in the better world thank you ladies and gentlemen