1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,480 Humans spent hundreds of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers. Then suddenly around 2 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:29,100 8,000 BC we discovered civilization. This anomaly was the subject of an investigation 3 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:35,260 commissioned by NASA which pointed to a disturbing trend in evolved civilizations... 4 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:42,380 completely developed, and to technology, agriculture, science, mathematics and... 5 00:00:42,380 --> 00:00:51,659 manifesting in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Yucatan, China and Peru. 6 00:00:51,659 --> 00:00:57,700 Did humans experience a collective inspiration? Or was civilization inherited... 7 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:04,379 else? Because around the same time there emerged stories of unusual people, gods by 8 00:01:04,379 --> 00:01:09,579 any other name, appearing out of nowhere, each possessing great skills far and beyond 9 00:01:09,579 --> 00:01:18,219 the capability of hunter-gatherers. If so, who were these gods? Were they connected? 10 00:01:18,219 --> 00:01:22,060 And more importantly, where did they come from? 11 00:01:22,060 --> 00:01:27,060 There are close to 200 accounts from indigenous people around the world describ... 12 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:33,579 flood 11,000 years ago and how it wiped out most of the human race, as well as a parallel 13 00:01:33,579 --> 00:01:39,820 race of unusual people. Human light, but not quite like us. It also submerged the 14 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:44,820 island nations where these gods lived, which is why it's been very difficult to locate 15 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:50,620 them up until now. But if you read the stories together and observe the... 16 00:01:50,620 --> 00:01:56,540 get the impression they are more like eyewitness accounts. And two homelands of ... 17 00:01:56,540 --> 00:02:02,219 very familiar, Atlantis and Lemuria. But have we been so obsessed with these two that 18 00:02:02,219 --> 00:02:07,940 we've ignored other equally important locations where a lost civilization of... 19 00:02:07,940 --> 00:02:09,420 gods once dwelt? 20 00:02:26,539 --> 00:02:44,699 The first question to ask is, how do land masses just disappear? Historians writing 21 00:02:44,699 --> 00:02:49,780 about this topic 2000 years ago were much closer to events, and they believe the earth 22 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:58,500 can change dramatically in the blink of an eye. 23 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:03,699 We don't even have to look so far back to find missing lands. Take the case of the 24 00:03:03,699 --> 00:03:11,060 St Vincent Islands, still located on naval charts in 1789, roughly between Baja and... 25 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:15,300 A ship's log gives an account of 12 days spent there and how the islands were about 26 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:22,700 circumference, wooded and moderately elevated. The next ship to sail there 30... 27 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:28,740 spent 46 days surveying the area, yet found nothing except this colored water to a depth 28 00:03:28,740 --> 00:03:32,020 of 720 feet. 29 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:37,300 Then there's the case of Davis Island, 500 miles southwest of South America, a land 30 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:43,860 mass so large it stretched beyond the horizon and was added to naval charts in 1687. Now 31 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:48,700 35 years later a Dutch captain en route to Australia went looking for it, but the 32 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:53,980 island was no longer above sea level. The captain continued his journey and stumbled 33 00:03:53,980 --> 00:03:59,540 upon Easter Island by accident, so his trip wasn't a complete loss. In fact, two other 34 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:05,100 islands existed near Easter Island as late as 1912, but were no longer there 20 years 35 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:12,180 later despite a failed three-week search by the US Navy. 36 00:04:12,180 --> 00:04:18,379 The point is that Earth isn't unstable, unpredictable, evolving planet. And so is 37 00:04:18,379 --> 00:04:23,740 the solar system. Expert astronomers like the Chaldeans and the Chinese were under 38 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:29,220 no illusion that the orbits and velocities of planets are absolute, but subject to change 39 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:35,060 and variation. And they forewarned future citizens of the chaos such changes... 40 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:41,379 bring upon the Earth, one of them being the obliteration of old traces of former... 41 00:04:41,579 --> 00:04:44,500 by meteorites. 42 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:50,500 One event was recorded by the Hopi, the Egyptians and the Tamil of southern India.... 43 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:55,959 a displacement of the poles, a time when the Earth was upside down. And the story appears 44 00:04:55,959 --> 00:05:03,699 to take place around 13,000 BC when a catastrophe generated what is called the... 45 00:05:03,699 --> 00:05:09,219 the first of three ice ages. And the myths are remarkably consistent with geologic and 46 00:05:09,220 --> 00:05:12,560 climatic data. 47 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:18,620 In a similar event in 10,800 BC the Earth was hit by a fragmented meteor which led to 48 00:05:18,620 --> 00:05:24,820 the third ice age called the Younger Dryus. And ancient cultures claim this event... 49 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:30,300 the Earth's rotation. An Egyptian priest explained this to a visiting Greek scholar 50 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:35,700 by the name of Solon. And he said to this man, there was a change in the rising and 51 00:05:35,699 --> 00:05:41,180 the setting of the sun and the other heavenly bodies. And those times they used to set 52 00:05:41,180 --> 00:05:48,019 in the quarter where they now rise and used to rise where they now set. At certain... 53 00:05:48,019 --> 00:05:53,379 the Earth revolves in the reverse direction. And of all the changes which take place in 54 00:05:53,379 --> 00:05:59,779 the heavens this reversal is the greatest and the most complete. 55 00:05:59,779 --> 00:06:05,060 Solon would take back to Greece another Egyptian account, that of a sunken contine... 56 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:13,100 the gods once lived, which became the foundation for Plato's now famous story of... 57 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:18,579 The Younger Dryus Cold Spout continued for 900 years before Earth was again subjected 58 00:06:18,579 --> 00:06:30,000 to a barrage of meteorites around 9,700 BC. This event generated a global flood. 59 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:37,620 The tsunami penetrated Asia, breaching the Himalaya and into Tibet. In the Pacific... 60 00:06:37,620 --> 00:06:43,839 tribes experienced waves crossing the Cascades, Olympic and Rocky Mountains. At... 61 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:49,279 tribes described their canoes being dumped on the summit of Mount Jefferson, an elevation 62 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,160 of 10,000 feet. 63 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,399 Evidence of the flood is in the Great Salt Lake in North America. It is claimed that 64 00:06:56,399 --> 00:07:01,479 its saltiness was acquired from mineral salts accumulating from rivers over long periods 65 00:07:01,479 --> 00:07:06,479 of time. But there's a problem with this theory. The Great Salt Lake is full of sea 66 00:07:06,479 --> 00:07:12,379 salt and the change in salinity occurred around the same time that giant waves over... 67 00:07:12,379 --> 00:07:19,039 Rocky Mountains and Central Plains of North America. 68 00:07:19,039 --> 00:07:25,679 Survivors were few. Along with world flood myths are descriptions of a pre-flood... 69 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:31,199 whose architects were magicians, builders of impressive temples and cities far beyond 70 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:37,160 the capability of cave dwellers. Even they were not spared. 71 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:43,840 Nevertheless, groups of gods appeared after the flood at strategic locations, each... 72 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:50,360 by seven sages or craftspeople to rebuild the former world of the gods, as ancient... 73 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,879 wrote. 74 00:07:52,879 --> 00:07:59,040 Echoes of this civilization are everywhere. In 1966, a row of stone columns with... 75 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:05,759 was found 55 miles off the coast of Peru, 6,000 feet below the present sea level. Then 76 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:10,279 there are the examples on land, such as megaliths that are out of proportion on ti... 77 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:15,639 islands. Oddly enough, in the 16th century, the notion that these islands are the remains 78 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:21,560 of a now submerged continent was a widely accepted idea. Based on evidence gained by 79 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:27,240 the Portuguese navigator Pedro de Queiroz from islanders he met on his travels. 80 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:32,559 And the lesson is this. If we examine the traditions of indigenous people whose... 81 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:38,039 were closer to the events than we are, we gain a better understanding of what our... 82 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:45,240 cousins were up to and how their genius survives as a reminder that civilization i... 83 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:51,399 but an ongoing cyclical experiment. 84 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:56,120 You have heard of Easter Island's folklore as recorded by its relatively unknown early 85 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:03,840 inhabitants, the Waitaha, who describe Easter Island as an archipelago. This was many... 86 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,840 of years ago, before the rise in sea level, when, they say, the stars shone in a... 87 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,639 sky and a different pattern. 88 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:19,120 Every year the Waitaha said they welcomed the appearance of the double hull canoe of 89 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:25,500 the gods, and they called them Uruqueu. Now the Uruqueu are described as star walkers 90 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:31,919 and long-distance voyagers who travelled across the Pacific to and from a place cal... 91 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:37,919 Nui Nui, which means the enormous land. And then one year the canoe failed to return 92 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:43,440 when, I quote, angry stars gathered close to the moon to give birth to the tides of 93 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:51,600 the dreaded deluge. So this alone places them on Easter Island before 9,700 BC, which 94 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,920 is the geological date of the Great Flood. 95 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:05,120 The Uruqueu survived titanic waves in the Pacific and reached New Zealand. Two... 96 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,680 after the world turned by water, a female descendant called Hotu Matua arrived back 97 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,199 on Easter Island with seven sages. 98 00:10:14,199 --> 00:10:19,159 Hotu Matua was given charge of mapping the Pacific and its missing lands, many of which 99 00:10:19,159 --> 00:10:25,000 had become islands due to rapidly rising sea levels, including her own homeland. And 100 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,239 then other descendants of the Uruqueu arrived from a continent to the east, where they'd 101 00:10:30,239 --> 00:10:36,759 lived for a long period of time. And these Uruqueu are described as tall, fair-skinned, 102 00:10:36,759 --> 00:10:41,879 red-haired with green eyes and blonde with blue eyes. And their image is said to be 103 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:48,439 depicted in the oldest moai of Easter Island, whose extended chins portray beards, while 104 00:10:48,439 --> 00:10:54,519 the cylinders carved from red scoria and balanced on their heads depict their unusu... 105 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:58,179 color, at least to people of the Pacific. 106 00:10:58,179 --> 00:11:02,879 And even though the White Heart account is over 11,000 years old, there is no mention 107 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:08,960 of carving the moai. The statues are already an accepted presence on the island, a... 108 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:14,439 to their extreme antiquity. And this is proved by the location of the quarry which... 109 00:11:14,439 --> 00:11:24,080 80 feet below sea level, submerged by the rising ocean at the end of the Angadrias. 110 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:29,639 After the world turned by water, the grandchildren of the Uruqueu set sail from... 111 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:37,919 to locate the birthplace of the gods, a remote mountain region on New Zealand's So... 112 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:45,360 The three sacred sites stand in a place of unparalleled beauty. Te Kohanga, also known 113 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:52,480 as the Sacred Nest, was once surrounded by a lake and resembled a primordial island. 114 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:59,319 The second, Kura Tauhiti, means distant school. It was the academy of the Uruqueu,... 115 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,960 stone set to hold the wisdom of the gods. Among the hundreds of weathered limestone 116 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:12,200 outcrops stand other monoliths, one shaped by human hands, by the Keepers of Stone, a 117 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:18,960 group of stonemasons whom the White Heart described as able to shape stone without... 118 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:27,200 Oh, I recall the first time I saw these monoliths, and remarking how many of them... 119 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:32,400 natural, they seem to be shaped by human hands but obviously very weathered. And it 120 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,640 was impossible to prove until I read the White Heart tradition in which they descri... 121 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:44,200 carving of the stones, particularly that of their tutelary goddess Marotini. And their 122 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:50,879 story goes like this. Huge are the monuments we carved at Te Kohanga. A towering column 123 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:56,879 of the purest stone was shaped to place Marotini in the land. We asked so much of ... 124 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:03,639 shapers when they carved her to stand against the stars. Tall timbers and thick ropes... 125 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:09,039 them high above the land to carve Marotini. Ever higher they climbed to cut away the 126 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:14,120 curving charcoal lines to reveal the beauty of our ancestor. 127 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:22,000 When might the birthplace of the gods have been established? If the Uruqueu were already 128 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,360 navigating the Pacific long before the flood, ostensibly they could have been in New... 129 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:35,600 before 10,000 BC. The Waitaha narrative describes a calendar stone somewhere amid ... 130 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,399 of the gods. Since ancient temples memorialised the date of their creation by... 131 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:47,080 specific stars or constellations, if the calendar stone could be located it would... 132 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:53,040 date reference. This worldwide practice is called archaeoastronomy. 133 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:58,520 I spent a few years hiking the ridges of the birthplace of the gods but nothing resembling 134 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:04,500 a calendar stone really stood out so I took my search to a third bridge. As if the views 135 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:09,600 of the valley aren't enough of a distraction there are also hundreds of limestone outcrops 136 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,100 to choose from. And many have clearly been shaped by water, undoubtedly. But as I... 137 00:14:15,100 --> 00:14:21,740 an escarpment the main sacred site at Kurtauhe came into view in the distance. A... 138 00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:27,220 moment one monolith stood out from the rest. It didn't look like an active erosion, 139 00:14:27,220 --> 00:14:34,340 it looked like a kind of sundial with a protrusion resembling a head and a faint... 140 00:14:34,340 --> 00:14:39,580 nose and a mouth. But best of all the only bird in the entire valley was perched on this 141 00:14:39,580 --> 00:14:44,980 stone. A falcon, of all things. And had I been an ancient Egyptian I would have said 142 00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:51,139 Horus is nodding in agreement. And these coincidences happen all the time when... 143 00:14:51,139 --> 00:14:57,660 mysteries so I figured this was a good omen and began taking measurements of the sky. 144 00:14:57,660 --> 00:15:03,600 So I stood in front of the disk with the head aligned at the top ridge and I took a compass 145 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:10,120 bearing an altitude. But what was I supposed to be aligning it to? Well there are two 146 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:16,040 principal constellations in mythology of the White Aha. One being the Southern Cross. 147 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,639 So if we roll back the sky to the time of the flood this constellation only begins to 148 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:28,680 appear above the stone on the spring equinox of 14,800 BC with the Milky Way, the... 149 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:35,679 river flowing vertically as though pouring out of the stone. The effect must have been 150 00:15:35,679 --> 00:15:41,839 magical. And this is correct, then the Yorukehu would have had to have been there... 151 00:15:41,839 --> 00:15:48,079 the start of the oldest dryus. But there's another possibility. And that's the second 152 00:15:48,079 --> 00:15:54,359 constellation of note which is Orion. Specifically its belt stars. Now Orion doe... 153 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:59,800 the background mountain range for another 4,000 years until the spring equinox of... 154 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:06,240 BC when its belt aligns perfectly with the calendar stone. And the date happens to... 155 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:12,000 with a period of meteorite impacts that triggered the younger dryus. But to see th... 156 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:19,159 constellation one has to wait until the equinox in 10,400 BC. And I got goosebumps... 157 00:16:19,159 --> 00:16:24,000 date popped up because it is commemorated at several prominent monuments around the 158 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,959 world, the most well known being the Pyramids of Giza which mirror the Belt of Orion... 159 00:16:29,959 --> 00:16:34,879 on the same occasion. Well it turns out that there are a number of overlapping... 160 00:16:34,879 --> 00:16:43,199 between the gods of Egypt and the Yorukehu. At the same time that Orion appears fully 161 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:49,120 above the calendar stone, across the valley at Kura Taohiti the goddess Marutini stares 162 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:55,879 at the rising Sutton Cross. This dual reference offers a high probability that t... 163 00:16:55,879 --> 00:17:02,040 were commemorating this date at the birthplace of the gods. 164 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,880 The Waitaha narrative describes that whenever the Yorukehu returned from New Zealand they 165 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:12,720 would bypass East Ireland due to the behaviour of the ocean current. Visiting... 166 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:19,880 place of ancestors in the great land in the east. Whenever they undertook this long... 167 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:26,400 they took two totem birds with them, Titikaka and Kakaa. Together they give the name to 168 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:35,920 another homeland of the gods, Titikaka, the location of the temple city of Tiwanaku. 169 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,839 In order to understand ancient places it is useful to turn to etymology, particularly 170 00:17:40,839 --> 00:17:47,039 the earliest iterations of a name, because it often reveals a true meaning, a purpose 171 00:17:47,039 --> 00:17:54,399 or an event. And in the Altiplano of Bolivia the oldest languages are Pukina and Ayamara. 172 00:17:54,399 --> 00:18:01,799 And the syllables Tiwanaku mean my people. Except that the syllable Aku is not Ayamara, 173 00:18:01,799 --> 00:18:08,480 it is Egyptian and it means shining being. So Tiwanaku becomes the place of my shining 174 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,480 people. 175 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,079 We'll return to them in a moment. 176 00:18:13,079 --> 00:18:20,000 Tiwanaku is composed of six known temples covering 2000 acres. Its adjacent temple, 177 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,960 Pumapunku, is packed with advanced masonry, each stone above and beyond the skill of 178 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:31,000 cavemen, even latter-day stonemasons. But how can we tell if these temples were built 179 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,200 before the flood? 180 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:39,360 The focus of excavations by the archaeologist Arthur Poznanski was a quadrangle of... 181 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:45,279 standing stones called the Kala-Sasaya. And he noted how the alignment was off by 18 182 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:51,079 degrees relative to the sun along the horizon. And this is due to the effects of... 183 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:56,519 rotation and tilt, which causes the stars to appear in a different part of the sky over 184 00:18:56,519 --> 00:19:03,159 the course of millennia. It's a phenomenon called precession. So Poznanski recalculated 185 00:19:03,159 --> 00:19:08,439 the correlation between the stones and the solstices. And his figures were peer-reviewed 186 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:15,000 by a group of mathematicians and deemed to be correct. This massive quadrangle was built 187 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 according to Poznanski in 15,000 BC. 188 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,200 But there's something else. Relative to its adjacent temples, the Kala-Sasaya appears 189 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:32,120 to have been forced to fit a pre-existing plan. Because the three adjacent sites, the 190 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:37,839 The Acapana Mound, the Semi-Subterranean Temple, as well as Pumupunku, are all offset 191 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:44,599 by a further 3 degrees. They reference a very different sky. And given the greater 192 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:50,679 depth of sedimentation, it is likely these three sites are even older. 193 00:19:50,679 --> 00:19:57,119 It takes the earth 21,600 years to tilt 3 degrees on its axis. If this correlation 194 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:03,199 is correct, then these three sites could be as old as 36,000 BC. And as extreme as 195 00:20:03,199 --> 00:20:08,559 this date may sound, there is another link with Egypt here. The Egyptian king list... 196 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:15,219 in the Turin Papyrus begins around 36,000 BC, a fact that was shared with Greek historians 197 00:20:15,219 --> 00:20:18,219 when they visited Egypt over 3,000 years ago. 198 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:25,879 And Poznanski himself was also of the opinion that Tewanaka was built and rebuilt over 199 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:31,560 three different stages, with the Acapana, the Semi-Subterranean Temple and Pumupunku 200 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:38,000 referencing a truly remote era, followed by the Kala-Sasaya, and then a rebuilding 201 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,960 of the site after it was destroyed by a colossal wall of water that came from the... 202 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:49,280 over of Lake Titicaca. The only catastrophe we know that was capable of such destruction 203 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,200 was the great flood at the end of the Younger Dryas. 204 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,860 So who were the gods who built the temple complex of Tewanaka? And more to the point, 205 00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:06,240 who was responsible for its rebuilding? The local Pukina still teach their oral tradition 206 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:12,279 of having fled to the Andes after a flood sank their island continent in the Pacific, 207 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:19,680 and they call it Lupakeeche, also known as Mu'ul or as it became known Lemuria. And 208 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:26,320 their story says that the temples were rebuilt after the flood by the godman... 209 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:32,759 along with his seven Haihuaypanti, which means sages, craftspeople, one of whom was 210 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:38,600 both his wife and sister. Interestingly, this is a shared observation all around the world 211 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,920 wherever the gods alighted after the flood. 212 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:49,440 Haihuaypanti translates as Shining Ones, the people for whom Tewanaka was named. These 213 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,840 seafaring gods appeared from the Pacific. They were described as very tall,... 214 00:21:54,840 --> 00:22:02,400 bearded, red-haired, and were associated with the symbol of the serpent. They were also 215 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,200 defined by their elongated skulls. 216 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:11,000 Oh, a treasure trove of skulls was found at Paracas on the coast of Peru. And compared 217 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:17,880 to human skulls, these elongated heads have a 25% larger cranial capacity. And although 218 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,640 human skulls are known to have been artificially shaped by parents wishing the... 219 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:28,360 to grow up looking like the gods, artificially shaping a skull cannot increa... 220 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:33,680 capacity. And furthermore, the origins of their DNA leads to the region of the Black 221 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:40,360 Sea, the Middle East, and Egypt. So, might Virakosha and his seven Shining Ones have 222 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,080 been of Egyptian provenance? 223 00:22:47,880 --> 00:23:17,280 Hedfu, a temple dedicated to the falcon god Horus. Written on its walls are the building 224 00:23:17,279 --> 00:23:23,839 texts. They describe how a group of gods called Akushemsu Hor began arriving along 225 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:30,480 the Nile after a catastrophe partially sank their homeland, Tarneteru, an island... 226 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:36,240 in the region of the Indian Ocean. The event coincides with the incident that caused the 227 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:46,899 Younger Dryas around 10,800 BC. They also had another base, Iutiti, a possible reference 228 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:55,040 to Lake Titicaca and its island of the sun. The Akushemsu Hor established a series of 229 00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:00,940 sacred mounds along the Nile that became the foundations of future temples. The timing 230 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:06,280 coincides with an anomaly in this region, an agricultural revolution that appeared out 231 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:15,480 of nowhere in the Nile valley around 10,500 BC. The texts say that within 800 years a 232 00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:20,740 second disaster sank the primeval island of the gods for good, whereupon one group 233 00:24:20,740 --> 00:24:27,059 of survivors returned to Egypt. Seven sages led by an Aethe, a charismatic leader called 234 00:24:27,059 --> 00:24:36,640 Hor. These were the Akushemsu Hor, which means Shining Ones, followers of Horus. 235 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:42,480 Like in other parts of the world, they too are described as between 8.5 to 10 feet tall, 236 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,900 white skinned with elongated skulls. And just as Viracocha in South America, their stated 237 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:55,420 task was to rebuild the former mansions of the gods. What mansions might they have come 238 00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:57,700 to rebuild in Egypt? 239 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:03,559 Oh, I love the building texts. They describe the first appearance of the Shining Ones, 240 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:08,920 the followers of Horus, as the first occasion. And the date is memorialised in ... 241 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:15,860 of the Pyramids of Giza, the spring equinox of 10,400 BC. But there is at least one site 242 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:19,560 that may be contemporary. 243 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:25,120 The Osirian at Abydos has always been regarded as an underground temple. But it ... 244 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:31,100 encased in 40 feet of silt, deposited inch by inch by the Nile when the river reached 245 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:37,440 the temple's doorstep, and the regional climate was wetter, the period between 10,500 246 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,059 and 7,000 BC. 247 00:25:42,059 --> 00:25:49,080 By 3,500 BC, the Nile had moved over a mile east of Abydos. Pharaohs were still building 248 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,759 temples around the Osirian, yet none related to it, as though the building was no longer 249 00:25:53,759 --> 00:26:00,160 visible, covered by sand and silt. All that remained was the memory of why the location 250 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,039 was important. 251 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:09,519 Even in 1300 BC, Seti I built his own temple, aligned to the same axis as the Osirian, 252 00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:14,339 yet his masterpiece stopped short of the underground structure and bent to the left... 253 00:26:14,339 --> 00:26:19,759 contradiction to temple protocol, leaving its most important room, the Holy of Holies, 254 00:26:19,759 --> 00:26:25,720 decapitated from the body. The only reasonable explanation is that the weight ... 255 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,639 temple broke through the ceiling of the now underground structure. 256 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:37,080 Could it be that Seti rediscovered the Osirian and wished to revive its importance? 257 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:44,120 A clue lies in a room built by Seti featuring a revealing panel about the Osirian's... 258 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,280 the godman Osaris. 259 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,040 Osaris is the hero who is dismembered before he ascends the Milky Way towards the origin 260 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:57,820 of souls, typically the Pole Star, and he returns resurrected as Horus in the form of 261 00:26:58,819 --> 00:27:04,980 An Osaris is also the earthly embodiment of Orion. Now, curiously, Seti's own temple 262 00:27:04,980 --> 00:27:10,379 does not reference the rising of Orion, nor any other star for that matter, another... 263 00:27:10,379 --> 00:27:16,460 of protocol. It seems to me that this pharaoh wished the Osirian to be the focal point, 264 00:27:16,460 --> 00:27:22,339 and yet the Osirian does not reference Orion either, as one would expect for a temple... 265 00:27:22,339 --> 00:27:28,699 presiding god is the earthly embodiment of this constellation. However, Egyptian texts 266 00:27:28,699 --> 00:27:35,059 refer to Osaris' consort Isis as the Hawk of Osiris. And on this panel she is depicted 267 00:27:35,059 --> 00:27:41,459 as a kite hawk with outstretched wings, demonstrating her ability to fan the breat... 268 00:27:41,459 --> 00:27:44,259 into those she oversaw. 269 00:27:44,259 --> 00:27:49,119 For this to occur, the soul of the hero must reside in the region of regeneration, which 270 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:56,559 is the Pole Star, which is protected by seven circumpolar stars called the indestructibles. 271 00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:02,359 Indestructible is also a metaphor of the regeneration of the soul, as exemplified b... 272 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:08,559 taken by Osaris and performed at the Osirian. So, perhaps we should be looking for a hawk 273 00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:15,319 in the night sky in connection with this temple. 274 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:21,839 In ancient Egypt, the star Deneb was one of the seven indestructibles. Its host... 275 00:28:21,839 --> 00:28:28,319 is Cygnus. Back in the day, Cygnus was not regarded as a swan as it is today, but as 276 00:28:28,319 --> 00:28:34,599 a hawk. And therein lies the connection with Osaris, the wife who resurrects his soul, 277 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:38,639 and the date when their temple might have been built. 278 00:28:38,639 --> 00:28:44,379 If we roll back the sky, Cygnus the hawk finally appears at the entrance of the... 279 00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:50,260 perfect ascent, riding up the Milky Way, the celestial river, towards the location 280 00:28:50,260 --> 00:28:56,440 of the souls, with its brightest star Deneb aligning with the axis of the temple. This 281 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:05,340 astonishing event took place on the winter solstice and spring equinox of 10,500 BC. 282 00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:10,260 We now have the shining ones present before and after the flood in both Egypt and the 283 00:29:10,259 --> 00:29:17,740 Andes. Both groups are described as master seafarers and astronomers. Both sites feature 284 00:29:17,740 --> 00:29:24,299 shared megalithic construction methods, even anomalies. And in turn, Vidokosha and his 285 00:29:24,299 --> 00:29:30,140 seven shining ones resemble the Urukayu gods of New Zealand and Easter Island, the same 286 00:29:30,140 --> 00:29:35,379 red-haired seafaring astronomers who employed identical building methods throughout the 287 00:29:35,380 --> 00:29:41,640 Pacific. As for the Urukayu, they may be the same followers of Horus, because both 288 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:48,580 their leaders were navigators and astronomers, and both held the title Net o... 289 00:29:48,580 --> 00:29:53,740 for their ability to map the rearranged lands after the flood. And they are depicted as 290 00:29:53,740 --> 00:30:01,740 such in the Temple of Edfu. And furthermore, all the above were associated with Orion. 291 00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:06,220 There are too many overlapping criteria linking the flood gods in different corner... 292 00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:12,220 world, making it highly probable that they are one and the same group of people. 293 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:20,740 Could they also have been present in the Mediterranean? 294 00:30:20,740 --> 00:30:28,259 11,000 years ago, a stonemason living between Tunisia and Sicily cut a 39-foot monolith, 295 00:30:28,259 --> 00:30:34,859 built parallel holes, transported it a quarter of a mile and placed it upright. N... 296 00:30:34,859 --> 00:30:42,900 130 feet below the Mediterranean Sea. The attached shells are dated to 9,300 BC,... 297 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:48,859 that the mania was placed on dry land before the catastrophic rise in sea level after t... 298 00:30:51,339 --> 00:30:56,900 The rising Mediterranean radically affected nearby Malta, cutting it off from Sicily 299 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:02,540 and turning it into an island. And Malta is home to miles of parallel grooves resembling 300 00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:08,300 cart ruts, except that some show signs of having been artificially carved rather than 301 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:14,259 created by repetitive use of wheels. On the south side of the island, they reach the edge 302 00:31:14,259 --> 00:31:20,580 of a cliff, they drop 600 feet, continue under the Mediterranean, then reappear on ... 303 00:31:20,580 --> 00:31:26,500 of an island three miles away. The land bridge that once connected the two islands... 304 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:31,980 when great pressure was placed upon it. Now if early Roman historians are correct, this 305 00:31:31,980 --> 00:31:38,059 pressure was the result of titanic waves travelling from the west, from the directi... 306 00:31:38,059 --> 00:31:45,700 Atlantic, before smashing into Malta. Perhaps. What is certain is that by 7,600 ... 307 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:47,420 were submerged. 308 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:55,339 Could the same tidal waves have been responsible for dumping 7,000 people, anim... 309 00:31:55,379 --> 00:32:00,980 into the hypergeum of Hal Safliani, including hundreds of long-haired people? 310 00:32:02,539 --> 00:32:07,019 By this point I had developed a theory based on accumulated evidence that the flood gods 311 00:32:07,019 --> 00:32:13,539 lived in seclusion on islands, including Tewanaku which was designed like an... 312 00:32:13,539 --> 00:32:20,579 on Lake Titicaca. And only through necessity brought about by severe climatic changes were 313 00:32:20,579 --> 00:32:26,379 they forced to move to continental areas and interact with ordinary people. This... 314 00:32:26,379 --> 00:32:31,500 fits in well with the hundreds of flood stories which mention the surviving gods... 315 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:34,419 by boat from their drowned lands. 316 00:32:36,779 --> 00:32:42,379 Was Malta home to such a reclusive society? The archipelago features a disproportionate 317 00:32:42,379 --> 00:32:48,939 concentration of temples resembling no other, as though belonging to an isolated culture. 318 00:32:48,940 --> 00:32:52,940 Examples like Gantija, the Tower of the Giantess. 319 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:59,900 Gantija appears out of nowhere, fully developed, without precedence, without a... 320 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:06,340 stage. It's all the stones are megalithic but on top we find inferior stones, sloppy 321 00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:12,779 of construction, as though rehabbed after a major conflagration. The thing is, all 322 00:33:12,779 --> 00:33:17,940 Maltese temples demonstrate the kind of erosion only made possible by prolonged... 323 00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:25,380 to wet weather, which in this region occurred in the epoch of 10,000 to 8,000 BC. Now,... 324 00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:30,380 shares the same climatic footprint as the Giza Plateau, and the temples adjacent to 325 00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:36,940 the pyramids show exactly the same pattern of erosion by enormous volumes of water. 326 00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:45,340 Might the Maltese temples share the same era as the underwater monolith? To test this... 327 00:33:45,539 --> 00:33:52,539 let's look at the Archaeoastronomy of Gantija. The temple features two misaligne... 328 00:33:52,539 --> 00:33:59,179 as though tracking two related yet separate objects simultaneously. The view of the... 329 00:33:59,179 --> 00:34:05,459 is of a hill that has been deliberately flattened, as though serving some... 330 00:34:05,459 --> 00:34:11,099 As the sky rolls backwards through time, no alignments are obvious until the era of... 331 00:34:11,099 --> 00:34:17,219 BC, when on the spring equinox, the first axis marks the positions of major lunar... 332 00:34:17,219 --> 00:34:20,380 while the second axis marks the sunrise. 333 00:34:33,380 --> 00:34:40,019 Another place where unusual parallel grooves are found is the Azores, and they too run ... 334 00:34:40,019 --> 00:34:45,860 of cliffs and into the ocean. The Azores archipelago is of course the favourite... 335 00:34:45,860 --> 00:34:52,179 for Atlantis, and even discounting a major subsidence in the mid-Atlantic ridge due to 336 00:34:52,179 --> 00:34:57,380 damage from meteorite impacts and writing sea levels, the Azores were still a formidable 337 00:34:57,380 --> 00:35:03,940 island chain 11,000 years ago. If you take the baphometric maps of the region, they e... 338 00:35:03,940 --> 00:35:08,820 a resemblance to the continents once described and depicted on ancient maps. 339 00:35:10,659 --> 00:35:16,500 It is said Atlantis sank in three stages, each following a natural catastrophe, whic... 340 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:22,500 uncannily like a description of the three catastrophes that generated each of the... 341 00:35:23,699 --> 00:35:29,940 If so, we should find evidence of dry land along the mid-Atlantic ridge from before t... 342 00:35:31,619 --> 00:35:36,179 At the beginning we asked, could the landmass sink in the blink of a geological eye? 343 00:35:37,139 --> 00:35:42,179 As history shows all too often, yes it can, but an island the size of a continent? 344 00:35:43,139 --> 00:35:49,699 Well, a local dredging operation in the Azores in the 1970s recovered rocks at a... 345 00:35:50,419 --> 00:35:55,940 showing signs of exposure to oxygen, while sediment taken from the mid-Atlantic ridge 346 00:35:55,940 --> 00:36:01,619 revealed the remains of freshwater plants and beach sand created along an ancient... 347 00:36:02,259 --> 00:36:06,579 indicating the Azores were still above sea level in 15,000 BC. 348 00:36:07,460 --> 00:36:11,460 So now the question is, what happened to its civilization? 349 00:36:12,339 --> 00:36:16,259 Well, a funny thing happened when I landed in the Azores on the way to Lisbon. 350 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:21,779 A headline in the morning newspaper said, Silver discovers underwater pyramid. 351 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:25,699 It's amazing how much work one can do while sleeping on an airplane. 352 00:36:26,419 --> 00:36:31,939 Well, it turns out it wasn't me, it was another local man by the same name who... 353 00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:38,419 180-foot-tall steppe pyramid, perfectly aligned to the compass points, as most... 354 00:36:38,419 --> 00:36:41,379 and 120 feet below sea level. 355 00:36:42,899 --> 00:36:46,419 The Portuguese Navy investigated the claim and said, 356 00:36:46,419 --> 00:36:50,899 Silver was mistaken, his sonar images captured nothing more than a seamount. 357 00:36:51,860 --> 00:36:55,619 Perfectly aligned to grid north and in the shape of a steppe pyramid, 358 00:36:55,619 --> 00:36:57,860 it's astonishing what nature erosion can do. 359 00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:03,300 Later it transpires that the Navy did not follow Silver's GPS coordinates, 360 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,579 but searched the wrong area, to which they replied, 361 00:37:06,579 --> 00:37:10,180 Silver had the wrong coordinates because his equipment was faulty. 362 00:37:11,220 --> 00:37:17,460 Isn't it amazing how for 20 years this fisherman managed to sail in the middle of... 363 00:37:17,460 --> 00:37:21,780 out of sight of land, yet managed to return safely home each time? 364 00:37:23,059 --> 00:37:26,099 You'd think that the bunkers would learn to make up better stories. 365 00:37:29,139 --> 00:37:31,300 Who might the Atlantean gods have been? 366 00:37:32,659 --> 00:37:35,860 The first landmass to the east of the Azores is Portugal. 367 00:37:36,740 --> 00:37:42,099 The oldest myths of the region describe a great inundation and the sinking of a grea... 368 00:37:42,099 --> 00:37:47,460 from which emerged a group of unusual people called Orfusa, the people of the serpent. 369 00:37:50,179 --> 00:37:55,380 Meanwhile to the west, several groups of wise people arrived in boats on the coast of... 370 00:37:56,579 --> 00:38:01,940 The local tradition states they migrated from stepping stone to stepping stone from the... 371 00:38:02,659 --> 00:38:05,619 In other words, they hopped from island to island, 372 00:38:05,619 --> 00:38:08,980 all that remained of their drowned homeland called Atal. 373 00:38:09,619 --> 00:38:15,539 The sacred book Chilambalam puts the date to their arrival at 9600 BC, 374 00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:20,579 the same date given by the Egyptians for the sinking of Atlantis. 375 00:38:21,860 --> 00:38:27,300 The collective name of these gods was the Ets, meaning sorcerer, magician. 376 00:38:28,179 --> 00:38:33,139 And their title of sacred office was the Karnool, which means the people of the... 377 00:38:33,139 --> 00:38:35,139 And it has nothing to do with snakes. 378 00:38:35,139 --> 00:38:39,619 The symbolism implies people who understood and controlled the forces of... 379 00:38:39,619 --> 00:38:44,099 what science called telluric forces or telluric currents. 380 00:38:45,299 --> 00:38:51,779 And they referred to the land where they disembarked, Yucatan, as Mayab, the land o... 381 00:38:51,779 --> 00:38:54,259 in recognition of the survivors of the flood. 382 00:38:55,059 --> 00:38:58,819 And in time, their progeny would be called Maya, which means water. 383 00:38:59,779 --> 00:39:03,699 The Ets are described by the Maya teachers as architects of the land. 384 00:39:03,699 --> 00:39:09,619 Maya teachers as architects of the sky, who spoke Hesuethau, the language of light. 385 00:39:10,179 --> 00:39:11,539 Paints quite a picture, doesn't it? 386 00:39:12,099 --> 00:39:15,139 And they said to have arrived in three groups of seven, 387 00:39:15,139 --> 00:39:20,179 each led by an eighth, a charismatic leader, one of whom was called Itsamne. 388 00:39:20,179 --> 00:39:25,219 He was tall, light skinned with Caucasian features and a long beard. 389 00:39:25,939 --> 00:39:30,259 As were the other two leaders, Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl. 390 00:39:33,779 --> 00:39:39,059 The Ets moved across Yucatan, establishing temple cities like Chichen Itza, 391 00:39:39,059 --> 00:39:46,019 which bears their name, and Tikal and Ushmal, whose temples reflect the architecture of ... 392 00:39:47,859 --> 00:39:53,539 These were astral academies, each building encoded with their knowledge of mathematics, 393 00:39:53,539 --> 00:39:54,739 science and astronomy. 394 00:39:55,379 --> 00:40:00,099 Information brought from a submerged homeland and hardwired into huge monuments 395 00:40:00,099 --> 00:40:02,899 to ensure its survival in future cataclysms. 396 00:40:04,339 --> 00:40:07,859 In time, the buildings expanded into the temples we see today. 397 00:40:11,699 --> 00:40:17,619 The Ets continued inland and into the mountains of Guatemala, understandably far... 398 00:40:19,219 --> 00:40:24,259 Eventually they settled on a lake called Atitlan, named for their sunken island home, 399 00:40:24,259 --> 00:40:28,500 where they built a city called Utatlan as a replica of the one they'd lost. 400 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:33,699 Their other main center of activity was on Lake Petén Itza on the island Nortpetén, 401 00:40:33,699 --> 00:40:38,900 and it means great island, although a much larger island exists nearby. 402 00:40:39,699 --> 00:40:43,780 What made this island great was that it was their main spiritual center, 403 00:40:43,780 --> 00:40:50,500 a scaled down version of their last atl or atitlan, featuring 21 temples and a step... 404 00:40:51,460 --> 00:40:55,539 There's no trace of any temple on Nortpeyan today, all destroyed by the Spanish 405 00:40:55,539 --> 00:41:01,699 who used the temples as a quarry for their own houses. 406 00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:05,139 And even the name was changed to Flores. 407 00:41:05,699 --> 00:41:09,139 But why not use the bigger island next door, I wondered. 408 00:41:09,139 --> 00:41:14,659 Well, perhaps the smaller island's strategic view of the horizon down the neck of the lake 409 00:41:14,659 --> 00:41:16,900 had something to do with their decision. 410 00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:18,900 So I decided to find out. 411 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:26,740 I reasoned that the Great Pyramid must have stood where the main church does today, 412 00:41:27,619 --> 00:41:29,700 standard Catholic practice back in the day. 413 00:41:30,260 --> 00:41:32,579 But how do you find out? 414 00:41:32,579 --> 00:41:36,820 Well, first, the standard practice for the church was to align its buildings east to... 415 00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:40,900 to commemorate Christ's death around the equinox. 416 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:45,300 Now, when they don't follow this protocol, it is proven again and again 417 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,860 that an original temple lies beneath. 418 00:41:47,860 --> 00:41:53,620 And in this case the Church of Flores is not aligned due east, but towards the southeast, 419 00:41:54,340 --> 00:41:57,300 clearly superimposed upon something much older. 420 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:03,140 Secondly, when I asked the priest to see the stones of the pyramid which formed the... 421 00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:08,099 of the building, he booted me out in no uncertain terms out of the church. 422 00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:11,140 That's a sure sign you're close to the honeypot. 423 00:42:12,260 --> 00:42:14,260 Now, the rest was purely academic. 424 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:19,620 From the church's vantage point you get an unobstructed view of the horizon 425 00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:21,220 down the neck of the lake. 426 00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:28,420 And in 7600 BC the winter solstice would have been aligned to the nine-tier pyramid 427 00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:30,900 that once stood on this location. 428 00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:38,500 According to the Maya, Central American temple tradition is the continuation of... 429 00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:41,700 the rebuilding of the former world of the gods. 430 00:42:41,699 --> 00:42:46,500 One clue lies in the Maya Serpent Dynasty, which covers 16,000 years, 431 00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:52,259 and most likely originated in Atitlan before continuing in Yucatan after the flood. 432 00:42:53,859 --> 00:42:56,259 Another is the age of the original temples. 433 00:42:56,899 --> 00:43:02,099 They are built like layers of an onion, growing organically and adapting to the... 434 00:43:02,099 --> 00:43:04,500 movements of the planets and stars they track. 435 00:43:06,019 --> 00:43:10,339 A recent excavation on the corner of the pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza 436 00:43:10,340 --> 00:43:15,380 reveals an older layer, which tradition's claim was originally built by a serpent... 437 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,460 Is the Maya dynasty so old? 438 00:43:20,180 --> 00:43:26,980 358 cave systems were recently found near the Temple of Tulum, a submerged world filled 439 00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:34,019 with the remains of enormous sloths, proto-elephants, extinct fauna and Maya... 440 00:43:34,019 --> 00:43:37,539 all trapped by rising seas by 8000 BC. 441 00:43:37,619 --> 00:43:42,179 Validation of the Maya were already established in the Yucatan in remote times 442 00:43:42,179 --> 00:43:45,619 and witnessed the arrival of the Itz from their sunken homeland. 443 00:43:47,380 --> 00:43:52,420 And yet the people of the Serpent were present on the other side of the world too. 444 00:43:53,139 --> 00:43:59,380 It's a strange coincidence that Itzamna is a compound name of Itsanami and Itsunagi, 445 00:43:59,380 --> 00:44:05,139 who were the builders of civilization after the flood in Japan around 8000 BC. 446 00:44:05,139 --> 00:44:09,299 And here they are known as Nagi, the people of the Serpent. 447 00:44:10,579 --> 00:44:17,299 Two such flood heroes, Nuhua and Fuhi founded the Chinese Dragon Bloodline. 448 00:44:17,299 --> 00:44:23,779 And this same dynasty encompasses Indochina, Polynesia and particularly Fiji and India 449 00:44:23,779 --> 00:44:27,059 where they are called Naga, the Serpent people. 450 00:44:36,019 --> 00:44:38,819 No matter where you travel in this part of the world, 451 00:44:38,819 --> 00:44:44,179 traditions describe heroes emerging from a flood accompanied by seven rishi, 452 00:44:44,179 --> 00:44:48,980 sages who instructed humans on civilization, built megalithic structures 453 00:44:48,980 --> 00:44:52,259 and to all intent and purpose behaved like magicians. 454 00:44:53,299 --> 00:45:00,019 Always very tall, light skinned, with blonde or red hair and long beards. 455 00:45:05,139 --> 00:45:21,059 The region where all of these stories, people, names and attributes converge is... 456 00:45:21,059 --> 00:45:25,699 where we find another kind of missing land, the lost hill of Gobekli Tepe. 457 00:45:26,659 --> 00:45:30,179 Gobekli Tepe was rediscovered in the 1990s. 458 00:45:30,259 --> 00:45:35,460 It is an artificial mountain containing at least 50 elliptical enclosures 459 00:45:35,460 --> 00:45:38,739 featuring standing stones as tall as 19 feet. 460 00:45:39,779 --> 00:45:47,619 The average carbon 14 dating of the site is 9984 BC, placing much of it before the flood. 461 00:45:48,419 --> 00:45:54,099 However, the samples were taken from the walls which obscure important carvings on ... 462 00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:57,859 Therefore, they were not integral to the site. 463 00:45:57,860 --> 00:46:01,860 The walls were added later after the temple ceased to function. 464 00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:06,740 To get a sense of when it might have been built, we turn again to the stars. 465 00:46:12,340 --> 00:46:17,220 Enclosure D is the most studied, perhaps because its pillars are the most decorated. 466 00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:22,660 It has been suggested that its alignment is to the northern setting of Cygnus. 467 00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:25,700 But there's a small problem with this theory. 468 00:46:25,699 --> 00:46:31,539 This enclosure sits 30 feet below the summit which obscures one's line of vision. 469 00:46:32,419 --> 00:46:38,659 And secondly, the ancients rarely if ever celebrated the descent of a celestial object. 470 00:46:38,659 --> 00:46:42,259 Only its rising or mid-heaven elevation was celebrated. 471 00:46:42,819 --> 00:46:45,699 So perhaps a re-evaluation is in order. 472 00:46:46,980 --> 00:46:54,819 If we take the era of the earliest carbon 14 dating which is 10290 BC, 473 00:46:54,820 --> 00:46:56,820 a number of things begin to emerge. 474 00:46:57,860 --> 00:47:02,420 In the northern sky at this time, Vega was still considered the pole star. 475 00:47:03,460 --> 00:47:09,700 A view from Enclosure D on the winter solstice of 10,400 BC would have seen Vega 476 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:12,980 in elliptical rotation around the celestial pole. 477 00:47:14,019 --> 00:47:17,380 And its movement is framed by the two central pillars. 478 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:23,300 Now Vega's appearance after sunset is actually marked by pillar 43, 479 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:26,980 the one carved with vultures moving around the circle. 480 00:47:29,140 --> 00:47:34,260 Vega's name derives from waki, meaning falling or swooping, 481 00:47:34,260 --> 00:47:37,940 referring to a time when the movement of its host constellation, 482 00:47:37,940 --> 00:47:40,660 Lyra, resembled a swooping vulture. 483 00:47:41,539 --> 00:47:47,140 So the pillar accurately depicts the behaviour of this star around the celestia... 484 00:47:48,420 --> 00:47:50,100 But we're missing the best part. 485 00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:54,500 In Enclosure D's clear line of vision is to the southeast. 486 00:47:55,460 --> 00:48:02,659 With Vega visible to the north, to the south the belt of Orion rises briefly above the... 487 00:48:02,659 --> 00:48:04,099 on the winter solstice. 488 00:48:04,099 --> 00:48:08,819 Its narrow arcs framed by pillars 19 and 33, 489 00:48:08,819 --> 00:48:15,860 with pillar 32 marking its highest ascension in the era of 10,400 BC. 490 00:48:15,860 --> 00:48:23,059 So this reference to Orion in 10,400 BC raises very important issues, 491 00:48:23,059 --> 00:48:28,180 specifically with regard to Giza, where the same relationship takes place on the same... 492 00:48:29,059 --> 00:48:32,740 This is where the understanding of place names comes in very useful. 493 00:48:34,660 --> 00:48:37,539 The original name of Gobekli Tepe is Portasar, 494 00:48:38,260 --> 00:48:41,220 an Armenian word that breaks into two syllables. 495 00:48:41,220 --> 00:48:44,019 Port is an umbilical cord or navel 496 00:48:44,019 --> 00:48:47,539 and Asar is the original name of Osiris. 497 00:48:48,340 --> 00:48:52,019 Therefore the hill is the umbilical cord of Osiris. 498 00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:59,300 As we said earlier, Osiris is the earthly embodiment of Orion and his dwelling place... 499 00:49:00,019 --> 00:49:04,579 So we have a name association and a date connecting two locations. 500 00:49:05,139 --> 00:49:08,340 But what could this umbilical cord be referring to? 501 00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:13,539 Well, if you take a line from the corner of the pyramid attributed to Menkaure 502 00:49:13,539 --> 00:49:17,380 and draw it through the corner of the one attributed to Khufu, 503 00:49:17,380 --> 00:49:21,779 you arrive at Portasar, the second dwelling place of Osiris. 504 00:49:22,420 --> 00:49:27,460 So the name is giving us a geotactic clue suggesting that the two sites are linked. 505 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:32,420 Now what does this tell us about the architects of Portasar? 506 00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:41,139 The hill's deliberate south-eastern exposure offers a sightline to an ancient astronomi... 507 00:49:41,139 --> 00:49:47,539 in the town of Haran. There has been human activity here since at least 8000 BC. 508 00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:54,819 Back then it was called Har-Anu which translates roughly as the enclosure of Anu. 509 00:49:56,259 --> 00:50:02,819 But who was Anu? In Mesopotamian tradition, a scribe by the name 510 00:50:02,819 --> 00:50:08,980 Ahmed-Ur-Anu wrote down his encounters with the people of his lineage, the lords of Anu. 511 00:50:09,380 --> 00:50:12,659 The accounts took place hundreds of years before the flood. 512 00:50:13,699 --> 00:50:19,059 These antediluvian gods were known as Anu-Naki, the people of Anu. 513 00:50:20,019 --> 00:50:25,460 In India they were also known as Anu-Nagi, the people of the serpent. 514 00:50:27,539 --> 00:50:31,059 The scribe's name was later changed by the Hebrews to Enoch. 515 00:50:31,699 --> 00:50:37,300 He describes the Anunnaki as having unusually white skin which seems to have been sensitive 516 00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:43,300 to sunlight because they are often applying oil to it, giving their skin a shining... 517 00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:50,180 Hence the nickname, Shining Ones. But the nickname also defines their status as... 518 00:50:50,980 --> 00:50:56,980 So essentially the Anunnaki are the same gods as Virakosha and his Shining Ones in the... 519 00:50:56,980 --> 00:51:03,300 the same as the Karnool of Central America, the Ophiusa of Portugal, the Urukayu of... 520 00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:09,860 Island and New Zealand, and of course the Egyptian Shining Ones, the followers of... 521 00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:16,740 And this incredible string of dots continues with the gods who assisted the Hopi escape 522 00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:22,180 their sinking land in the Pacific during the flood. And they call them the Red Ant People. 523 00:51:22,820 --> 00:51:30,260 And the phrase comes from the two Hopi words for ant and reddish sand, Anu-Naki. 524 00:51:30,260 --> 00:51:37,540 We are looking at one international group of sages, human-like and yet not entirely human, 525 00:51:37,540 --> 00:51:43,140 whose seafaring skills enable them to move from home to home across the oceans 526 00:51:43,140 --> 00:51:46,260 as easily as you and I go to the supermarket. 527 00:51:48,260 --> 00:51:52,820 Which may explain why there is so much Egyptian vocabulary throughout Polynesia. 528 00:51:52,820 --> 00:51:58,740 For example, an island in Fiji called Raiatea, the white-skinned people of Ra. 529 00:52:00,420 --> 00:52:06,820 In the Solomon Islands there is Ise Tabu, the restricted sacred abode of Isis. 530 00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:12,820 And of course why there exist identical megalithic building techniques stretching 531 00:52:12,820 --> 00:52:19,059 like an umbilical cord from Egypt through the central Pacific and all the way to the Andes. 532 00:52:19,059 --> 00:52:22,099 But what of the lords of Anu? 533 00:52:22,739 --> 00:52:26,179 Well, these gods oversaw seven groups of seven lords. 534 00:52:26,659 --> 00:52:32,179 They were referred to as Apkalu, sages. And their nickname was Watchers. 535 00:52:32,980 --> 00:52:37,380 Now the Watchers were demonized in biblical texts purely for political reasons. 536 00:52:37,860 --> 00:52:42,019 But in the original story they are largely seen as helpers of humanity. 537 00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:46,259 A fact that knowledge of the world is not just a political problem. 538 00:52:46,420 --> 00:52:56,820 They are also called Lookers, messengers who were instrumental in helping the Hopi escape 539 00:52:56,820 --> 00:52:59,940 their sunken Pacific islands after the Great Flood. 540 00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:06,660 Back in the days when they were called Hisat Sinom, or as we know them, Anasazi. 541 00:53:10,180 --> 00:53:15,540 Throughout Mesopotamia the Watchers were depicted by figurines called Mezare, 542 00:53:15,539 --> 00:53:19,860 which were placed at the corners of sacred buildings to ward off evil spirits. 543 00:53:21,219 --> 00:53:24,820 The name means Watchers and Awaken Ones, 544 00:53:24,820 --> 00:53:29,779 a metaphor indicating their qualities as guardians as well as enlightened people. 545 00:53:31,380 --> 00:53:37,539 It stands to reason that if the Watchers were even being used as talismans to protect... 546 00:53:37,539 --> 00:53:42,259 from harm, they would hardly have been evil people as the Bible would have us believe. 547 00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:46,420 The Lords of Anu and the Watchers were distinguishable from humans insofar as 548 00:53:46,420 --> 00:53:51,060 they possessed knowledge of the mechanics of nature and how to manipulate it. 549 00:53:51,060 --> 00:53:52,820 Thus they were compared to gods. 550 00:53:53,460 --> 00:53:58,580 And this was also the view of the Egyptians who referred to them both as Urshu, which... 551 00:53:58,580 --> 00:54:02,900 Watchers, and Neter, a force of nature, a god. 552 00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:07,380 And in addition to their shining skin they were also very tall. 553 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:12,900 Mesopotamian tradition hints that the Flood Gods lived in seven secluded locations. 554 00:54:13,619 --> 00:54:20,500 So far in this program we have identified Atitlan, Lapukige, also known as Maul and... 555 00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:27,220 Kainga Nunu'i in the Pacific, the birthplace of the gods in New Zealand, and Titikaka. 556 00:54:29,059 --> 00:54:33,220 The assembly of the Lords of Anu itself is said to have been on a high mass. 557 00:54:33,699 --> 00:54:38,019 The assembly of the Lords of Anu itself is said to have been on a high mountain called 558 00:54:38,019 --> 00:54:43,219 Ardess, speculated to have existed in the region between the Black and Caspian seas. 559 00:54:44,739 --> 00:54:50,980 The Lords of Anu, these people of the serpent, they were said to live in a compo... 560 00:54:50,980 --> 00:54:54,259 Gar Sag, but it's never been properly located. 561 00:54:54,980 --> 00:55:00,659 That is until I met the last wisdom keeper from a hard to find island in the Pacific... 562 00:55:00,659 --> 00:55:03,059 Tongareva, one of the Cook Islands. 563 00:55:03,859 --> 00:55:08,579 And he shared with me his people's tradition that a group of gods arrived from the Middle 564 00:55:08,579 --> 00:55:10,420 East around 3000 BC. 565 00:55:11,299 --> 00:55:15,779 They were said to be great sages, star navigators, and intelligent people. 566 00:55:16,739 --> 00:55:21,859 Red haired, fair skinned, shining people who belonged to a very ancient lineage of 567 00:55:21,859 --> 00:55:26,819 wisdom keepers called Tuanaki, better known to us as Anunnaki. 568 00:55:26,820 --> 00:55:32,260 The wisdom keeper also told me this group were present throughout the Pacific far... 569 00:55:32,260 --> 00:55:38,420 around the time of the global flood, specifically on East Ireland, and one sacr... 570 00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:41,940 still carries their name, Ahu Hanunaku. 571 00:55:43,059 --> 00:55:50,100 Interestingly, Ahu is a variant of the Egyptian Akku, as in Akkushemsuhur, the... 572 00:55:50,100 --> 00:55:51,300 the followers of Horus. 573 00:55:51,539 --> 00:55:55,780 The Tongarevan tradition further states that the original homeland of the Lords of Ahnu 574 00:55:55,780 --> 00:56:00,820 was an island nation in the Indian Ocean by the name Te Pitaka. 575 00:56:01,620 --> 00:56:07,539 It is described as a secluded circular island which sank during a great cataclysm 11,000 576 00:56:07,539 --> 00:56:08,340 years ago. 577 00:56:08,900 --> 00:56:12,580 And the region around it was totally transformed to the point where the island ... 578 00:56:12,580 --> 00:56:17,140 visible because when parts of the Indian Ocean sank, others rose. 579 00:56:17,379 --> 00:56:21,379 So this missing land of the Gods existed in the general region where today stands 580 00:56:21,379 --> 00:56:23,379 the Arabian Peninsula. 581 00:56:29,059 --> 00:56:33,859 Interestingly, this is the same general location of the homeland of the Gods allud... 582 00:56:33,859 --> 00:56:36,579 the Egyptians, an island of fire. 583 00:56:37,379 --> 00:56:42,420 So somewhere in this region is another missing homeland of the shining ones, the... 584 00:56:42,420 --> 00:56:43,379 the serpent. 585 00:56:43,380 --> 00:56:50,980 The people of the serpent, Anunnaki, watchers, virakoshas, and so on. 586 00:56:53,619 --> 00:56:59,140 Two pieces of circumstantial evidence point to these flood gods, these master seafarers 587 00:56:59,140 --> 00:57:05,780 and astronomers who once lived on this island, who set out to hand humanity the a... 588 00:57:05,780 --> 00:57:09,380 after the world was turned upside down 11,000 years ago. 589 00:57:09,380 --> 00:57:11,780 The first is a monument in Abu Dhabi. 590 00:57:12,500 --> 00:57:17,700 It is totally out of character for the region, but a visitor from the Andes would... 591 00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:22,579 its style of construction and believe they were still back home, or Egypt or Easter 592 00:57:22,579 --> 00:57:23,780 Island for that matter. 593 00:57:25,380 --> 00:57:29,380 The other piece of evidence is Papyrus 1115. 594 00:57:31,380 --> 00:57:38,180 Papyrus 1115 describes the voyage of a sailor down the Red Sea and into the Indian Ocean. 595 00:57:38,179 --> 00:57:42,739 And the ship is caught in a storm, all hands perish, except the narrator, of course, who 596 00:57:42,739 --> 00:57:46,179 is shipwrecked on what he believes to be a deserted island. 597 00:57:47,139 --> 00:57:51,779 Eventually he meets the leader of the island, who gives him food and a boat and returns 598 00:57:51,779 --> 00:57:53,059 him home to Egypt. 599 00:57:54,179 --> 00:57:56,500 It is not known when this account took place. 600 00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:59,139 It is extremely old, thousands of years old. 601 00:57:59,619 --> 00:58:05,299 However, as he embarks, the leader tells the sailor this will be the last time he'll 602 00:58:05,300 --> 00:58:11,300 see the island, because soon it will vanish, consumed by a rising of the ocean. 603 00:58:11,300 --> 00:58:16,500 The sailor then offers a description of the unusual person who ruled this island. 604 00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:20,500 A serpent with deep blue eyes and a beard. 605 00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:26,500 It seems this ancient mariner is giving us a glimpse of one of the many floodgods who 606 00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,300 went by the title, People of the Serpent. 607 00:58:29,300 --> 00:58:33,300 Not to mention one of the missing lands where the ancient mariner was buried. 608 00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:39,060 One of the missing lands where these helpers of humanity once held a great and memorable 609 00:58:39,060 --> 00:58:43,300 civilization, before teaching us how to create our own. 610 00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:56,980 Now the idea that we suddenly discovered the accoutrements of civilization around 8,000 611 00:58:56,980 --> 00:59:00,100 B.C. doesn't seem so far-fetched.