1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,480 Thank you very much. 2 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,080 Julian, can we just dim the side lights, please? 3 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,440 If you can hear me. 4 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,760 So thanks very much for coming to our fourth Origins Conference. 5 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,360 We've been doing this for a good few years now. 6 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,920 Obviously, this came from the question conference 7 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,760 combined with the conference I'm organized 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,160 in called Megalithamania, which we're doing glass numbery every May. 9 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,280 Obviously, I'm 100% obsessed by Megaliths, 10 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,960 but I've also realized that I am Ole Mac as well. 11 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,440 Because this is a t-shirt and a hashtag that you should use a lot if you do anything. 12 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Oh, Mac. 13 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,560 A lot of people say I look like an old Mac, which is, 14 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,400 which is I take as a compliment nowadays. 15 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,680 I didn't before, but I do now. 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:13,840 So it's all OK. 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,680 So the old Mac are really interesting culture. 18 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,920 I've been to Mexico three or four times. 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,600 I spent a total of about eight months there 20 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,400 exploring the different cultures there. 21 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,200 But the one that really grabbed my attention from the very early 22 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,600 times back in 2003, even, was this culture. 23 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,440 These were a culture that were there before the Maya, 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,920 long before the Maya. 25 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,200 They go back at least to 1800 BC, 26 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,880 although there's evidence that goes back even further in Guatemala. 27 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,120 Now not many people have even, 28 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,760 to be anyone here, not heard of the old Mac at all. 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,680 You've got absolutely no, you all really 30 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,440 wise that very good, very good, all of you. 31 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,160 But here's just some of the things we're going to get through today. 32 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,360 There's a really early evidence, which is kind of like anomalous, 33 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,200 which we're going to have a look at briefly. 34 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,520 The origins of the old Macs about where they could have come from. 35 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,000 And we have to sort of look at them as the first temple builders 36 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,520 in Mexico, and that part of the world now. 37 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,080 And it certainly wasn't the Mayans. 38 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,800 And even, the famous Mayan calendar, the Long Count, the Zulkin, 39 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,000 and all the other counts that they used, 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 were developed and originated by them, 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,200 Oh Mac, and not by the Maya. 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,880 There's very interesting artifacts with some interesting clues, 43 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,920 there's some epi-omic script that looks like it comes 44 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,880 from other countries around the world. 45 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,960 But the main theory is that they're either African or Chinese, 46 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,320 or potentially even Polynesian. 47 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,440 They don't look native, Native American or Native Mexican, really. 48 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,160 That is the one thing about this culture. 49 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,600 That is caused a lot of controversy. 50 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,880 There's also linked with that, it's the mystery of Ketsul, 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,720 Coattle, or the plume serpent, 52 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,000 who was one of the great gods of ancient Mexico. 53 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,800 And he goes way back, even to the time of the Omec. 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,440 There's also elongated skulls and cranial deformation 55 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,440 throughout Mexico, and many different cultures. 56 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,480 And even giant skeletons, which if we have time, 57 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,240 we'll have a look at a few examples, 58 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,360 but they were probably later than the Omec. 59 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,360 So this is the area we're going to look at here. 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,240 So this is the area here around, oops, it's the daisy. 61 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,240 So this area around here around the Gulf Coast. 62 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,120 Obviously we've got North America up there. 63 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,320 This is the Yucatan, the famous Mayan area, 64 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,680 and obviously got Guatemala and Belize. 65 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,040 But this area here is really where it's all happening 66 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,480 when you're looking at the Omec culture. 67 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,160 L'Aventus San Lorenzo, and Trezzapotas are the three main sites. 68 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,200 But there's evidence that they spread out around Mexico City 69 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,400 to a cycle of Chacuzingo and a few others. 70 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,200 And also down, it's a southern Guatemala. 71 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,040 Oh, God. 72 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,800 And also into Honduras and even possibly down Costa Rica 73 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,800 where the stones fears have been noted. 74 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,440 Here is just some of the, these are all the official Omec heads, 75 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,160 the 17 of these that have been discovered 76 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,560 throughout the Omec world. 77 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,520 Two Trezzapotas, three Alabanta, 10, San Lorenzo, 78 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,880 one at Leca Botan, there's another one, 79 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,600 which has come from a sort of obscure place. 80 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,440 At the earliest date in his 1800 BC, 81 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,600 but it really peaked around 1200 BC 82 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,000 in this part of Mexico at Leventus. 83 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,680 And they came from the Los Tuxlas Mountains, 84 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,120 and there were at least 60 miles away. 85 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,800 And some of these heads are 40 tons. 86 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,400 The heaviest one is 40 tons. 87 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,800 They range from about 18 tons to about 40 tons. 88 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,080 And they're very hard type of volcanic basalt most of them. 89 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,880 They vary in rock style sometimes, 90 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,880 but they're various different forms of basalt. 91 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,200 The interesting thing about them, as well, 92 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,120 which kind of grabs me is that some of them 93 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,640 were used as another monument, then carved into an Omec head, 94 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,520 which will look at more detail about that later. 95 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,720 And there's even examples of Omec heads at 96 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,360 place called Chalula, Nipuebla, Nimexca City, 97 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,320 and even all the way down in got up southern Guatemala, 98 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,480 but probably it was slightly later date. 99 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:10,720 This is the strange head. 100 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,160 This was recorded back in the 1930s, 101 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,840 and this is caused a huge amount of controversy, 102 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:17,280 because apparently, it's been destroyed. 103 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,480 It's no longer, you can no longer witness this. 104 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,600 But they think now it might have been a relatively 105 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,480 modern carving, but you've probably seen images 106 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,640 of this David Hatcher Children's and other researchers 107 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,480 have had this on their books and on their websites. 108 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,040 So this is just one other strange head. 109 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,240 But we're going to look at some other ones 110 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,840 that are probably later Omec or influence by the Omec 111 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,040 in different parts of the country. 112 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,320 Again, so we're going to start really just around, 113 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,080 oh god, I keep doing that. 114 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,600 So that is easy. 115 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,120 So we're going to start again around this area, 116 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,840 around Trasopotes up here. 117 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,040 This isn't the oldest site. 118 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,840 The oldest site really is sandalorens. 119 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:01,760 But the first real discoveries and excavations 120 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,320 took place near or around Trasopotes. 121 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,600 The first Omec head was discovered in 1862, 122 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:09,640 and it was kind of ignored. 123 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:10,520 It was recorded. 124 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:11,880 It was people knew about it. 125 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,000 But everyone thought it was just some myon carving 126 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,440 and left it at that. 127 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,480 It wasn't until 1905 that German archaeologist, 128 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,960 archaeologist Ed Wasseller noted it again 129 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,080 or recorded the same head discovered at Trasopotes. 130 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,320 And this is when the kind of name Omec 131 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,720 really started being used because there was an old Aztec term, 132 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,000 which kind of translates as people of the rubber, 133 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,720 because they created and produced rubber in that area 134 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,400 along the Gulf Coast, from the trees there. 135 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,680 And even in the highlands around Mexico City, 136 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,200 there was talk of a lost culture. 137 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,400 And that was often linked with Kessel Kowattel 138 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,880 and strange race of people who used to rule 139 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,560 different parts of Central America. 140 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,560 So again, here were some of the people involved 141 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,800 in the discoveries. 142 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,920 Joe Zaymelga in 1860, he was the guy of first noted it. 143 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,760 He was astonished and he, I quote, 144 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,480 was astonished of the Ethiopic type represented. 145 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,120 I reflected that they had undoubtedly 146 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,640 been Negroes in this country. 147 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,640 And this has been the first epoch of the world. 148 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,360 So the first person to see the first Omec head 149 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,560 immediately referred to them as not looking like there 150 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,280 from a native Central America. 151 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,840 And then in 1925, Franz Blom and Oliver Lufarge 152 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,280 discovered Laventa and some other sites in the area 153 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,000 and they believed it was just an outpost of the Maya. 154 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:43,000 In 1927, they were Herman Bayer was an anthropologist. 155 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,520 And he believed the Omec of the Tottenack civilization. 156 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,080 And this is where they really got stuck 157 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:48,960 with the name Omec. 158 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,960 And it's kind of unfortunate. 159 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,160 It's like the way that the Druid has got linked 160 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,880 with Stonehenge, the name Omec got stuck with this culture. 161 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,880 Or no one really knows who they were called. 162 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,720 Even though we have one idea which I share with you 163 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,600 a little bit later, Marshall Savel, 164 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,240 he was the head of the American Museum 165 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,160 of the American Indian in New York in 1929. 166 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,800 And it was again, the name was again used 167 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,440 by George C. Valley in the late 1920s 168 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,040 because he did explorations in the area. 169 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,440 And again, that name got used once more. 170 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,720 So these are just some of the people involved here. 171 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,240 This is George Valley in here. 172 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:22,840 This is the rather dashing fellow. 173 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,120 And Trace Apotes. 174 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,960 So this is one site I've been to twice. 175 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,200 I've had a good look around in the last time we went there. 176 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,680 We managed to actually go to the site itself, 177 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,600 which is now a series of mounds, a couple of miles south 178 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,760 of the small town. 179 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,200 Now you really got to know what you're doing 180 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,200 to get to places in the Omec world 181 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,120 because it's often raining. 182 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,440 And there's often mud everywhere and swamps 183 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,280 and things like this. 184 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:48,840 So you've got to take the right road 185 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,480 at the right time of year or you'll get stuck quite easily. 186 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,400 This is Matthew Sterling, who died in 1975. 187 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,200 He was one of the head archaeologists 188 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,720 at the Smithsonian. 189 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,480 But only was he involved in actual some giant reports, 190 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,280 which we feature in our book. 191 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,400 But he was the man who really popularized 192 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,440 and uncovered much of the Omec world we see today. 193 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,240 Even in back in 1918, he had suspicions 194 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,480 that there was some culture there. 195 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,560 He'd seen various photos from Trace Apotes, 196 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,240 artifacts and the strange script 197 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,040 that came from the Gulf Coast area. 198 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,920 And literally on his first two days 199 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,640 of excavating at Trace Apotes in 1939, 200 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,520 he uncovered this. 201 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,560 Now this is what's called Stellar C. 202 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,720 And this is actually him investigating it 203 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,880 when it was still buried in the ground. 204 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,840 And this is really interesting because this actually 205 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,600 has some Mayan glyphs that represent the calendar, 206 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,040 the Long County calendar. 207 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:51,840 And eventually, when they found the top part, 208 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,960 they eventually realized it dated to 31 BC. 209 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,080 And it's not that old, it's a very, very latest part 210 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:58,920 of the Omec. 211 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,720 This is when they were probably dying out completely. 212 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,600 But it is relevant because it's much earlier 213 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,040 than any Mayan calendar. 214 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,400 It was carved from Bachel, and on the other side, 215 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,200 we have this strange looking figure, 216 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,600 which is some kind of weird jaguar face here, 217 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,360 which is a motif they used throughout the Omec world. 218 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,080 And also this guy looks like sort of he-man thing, 219 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,720 going on his chest here quite excited. 220 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,720 Look on his face. 221 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,920 This is the oldest Mesoamerican Long County calendar 222 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,200 on Earth at the time. 223 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,080 And they think it was September the third, 31 BC, 224 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,200 or 32 BC, they're not too sure, 225 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,400 because it all depends on a couple of factors. 226 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,640 It's just a close-up of what it looks like. 227 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,840 This is actually in the Mexico National Museum now. 228 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,200 And this is what it looks like in the museum now. 229 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,280 It wasn't until 1969. 230 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,240 I mean, they contended it was 31 BC back in 1930. 231 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,040 But it wasn't until 1969, 232 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,560 they actually found the second part, 233 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:02,160 and actually confirmed that day, 234 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,320 and they were correct, and there were assumptions 235 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,320 leading up to that. 236 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,160 And this is just a very important aspect, 237 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,400 because this discovery suddenly 238 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,160 rewrote the history of the Americas completely, 239 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,120 because the Omecs weren't known about. 240 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,560 They'd been rumoured about, but they weren't not known about. 241 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,800 And all the Mayanists, all the academics, were very upset, 242 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,680 because they dedicated their careers 243 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:25,840 to the Maya being the mother civilization. 244 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,720 But other calendar systems had been carved on other sites. 245 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,440 This is the place called Chapadicoso, 246 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,280 and several years later, this one was discovered. 247 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,520 And it was 36 BC, is the date they found it. 248 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,200 I'm not going to get into all the numbers here. 249 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,960 I did a whole research with the brilliant Jeff Stray, 250 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,720 who's really looked into the calendars 251 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,680 and number systems of the ancient Maya. 252 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,160 But we found other evidence as well 253 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,760 that could date these even older, 254 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,000 but we're not going to get into that right now. 255 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,520 And this is just when they first discovered it, 256 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,760 they were all rather happy. 257 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,120 And this, and what they did, 258 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,720 did some dating at Tresse of Pote, 259 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,560 and they got a date of around 1,000 BC. 260 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:12,360 And this was like after Sandler Enzo was in decline, 261 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,000 and Tresse of Pote is kind of rose up around that time 262 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,320 and Leventa rose up around that time as well. 263 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,000 But the dating is not being fully investigated, 264 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,280 and there could be much earlier dates, 265 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:24,680 because they really haven't dug that much 266 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,040 of the Alma World even today. 267 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,560 This is actually in 1913. 268 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,320 And this photo was taken on my birthday. 269 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,280 I wasn't alive in 1913, but on my birthday in 1939. 270 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,600 And this is Matthew Sterling, and his team actually 271 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,320 just hanging out at Tresse of Pote, 272 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,600 so obviously having a tea break. 273 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:41,920 This is what it looks like now. 274 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,120 It's just the sign outside. 275 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,160 They've got big murals and things like this. 276 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,600 And you don't actually go to the site. 277 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,680 Officially, you only go to the little site museum, 278 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:51,240 where some of the artifacts were on display, 279 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,400 but we persuaded, sort of, harassed really, 280 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,880 their museum curator, and gave him some cash 281 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,120 to take us to the actual mountains and pyramids 282 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,800 that you can go into it and no one goes there. 283 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,960 And we went there, we got photos. 284 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,520 Next time, I'm going back there in December, 285 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,520 I'm going to take my drone and get some aerial shots of it. 286 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:10,520 It's a very interesting piece. 287 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,640 I'm just going to show you some lots and lots of stone artifacts. 288 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:15,880 This is a massive, bass out piece of rock. 289 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,760 It's probably about five foot wide. 290 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:18,760 Very strange. 291 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,920 And you tap it, it's got acoustic qualities. 292 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,680 It looks like these bits here. 293 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:23,520 Oh, it's crazy. 294 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,160 Look at that, these bits here on the end. 295 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:28,160 They're kind of, there's so much like they're 296 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,640 knocked together to create like a bell sound. 297 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,040 How they did this, how they even carved this 298 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,360 and bought it 60 kilometers from the Tuxla Mountains 299 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,640 is a mystery. 300 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,960 This is one of the old Mac heads, this is the first one. 301 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,040 That was discovered there that we saw images of. 302 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,880 It's on display actually at Tresse of Pote's. 303 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,200 The other one is on display a nearby town, San Diego, 304 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:48,920 Tuxla. 305 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,840 This is a map of the site. 306 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,520 You can't really see two, can't really work out what's going on there, 307 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:54,720 really. 308 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,120 But here's a better image of it. 309 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,040 This just shows you aerial shot borrowed from credit 310 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,920 to Ken Garrett who took this shot. 311 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,600 And as us exploring it, we were highly excited 312 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,480 being, you know, because you know, I am all Mac. 313 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,040 And all the megallithamani axons there 314 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,840 were Brian Forestern and a 15 other people. 315 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,440 And you know, we didn't even know you could allow 316 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,600 to get into the site, but we got permission and we did it. 317 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,400 And this just so photos and some of the mouths, 318 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,280 there's not too much to look at. 319 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,600 But we were discovering bits of pottery and other such things 320 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,600 in the ground as we walked around. 321 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,320 It has not been fully excavated. 322 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,160 Here's one of the more elongated structures, 323 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,440 which is just one part of the site. 324 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,000 Here's who lives there now. 325 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,520 These guys, they kind of protect the site. 326 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,880 And again, you can see the sort of step pyramid shape. 327 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,840 And they really were the first people apparently 328 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,520 in the central America to build these kind of structures. 329 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,360 Even though there is North America, 330 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,360 we have the Mount Colby site of poverty point 331 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,320 and what's in Drake and other such places in the southern part. 332 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,720 Just on the other side of the Gulf Coast 333 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,360 which was due date much earlier, 334 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,360 but they strangely are very familiar, very similar design. 335 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,160 We found this while we were there. 336 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,080 This is just a part of a pop probably. 337 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,000 But I found this interesting, 338 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,280 because it's very similar to what we saw in the museum. 339 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,840 It's Santiago Tuxler, which is the nearby town. 340 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:23,120 Also at the nearby town, this is the small museum, 341 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,840 which is on the way to transport has really. 342 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,720 This is the 40-ton, this is the biggest head, 343 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,400 this is the latest one, probably dates to around 400 BC. 344 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,480 And it's huge, it's got size are closed. 345 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:35,800 It's a slightly different design. 346 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,560 He does not look really that happy. 347 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,400 And this shows the size of it here. 348 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,600 But also in this museum, this wasn't found at Treasuppot. 349 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,160 This is a place called Lacoboto, 350 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,080 which is like up on the mountains, where some of the stone came from. 351 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,600 So they think this was carved, 352 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,120 and it wasn't moved back into place 353 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,080 and never actually ended up at Treasuppot. 354 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,280 It was whatever site it was destined for. 355 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,280 And here we have these unusual chaps. 356 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:03,280 Look at these, very almost like West African looking features, 357 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,440 almost like with an Afro hair cut as well, 358 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,000 which has been commented on by various research, 359 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,880 including the brilliant Ivan Vanser to me. 360 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,720 And other people, and again, we can see that here. 361 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,520 And this is cause a lot of controversy. 362 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,520 This is huge controversy in Central America, 363 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:22,800 because it does suggest that it was not entirely built 364 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:23,680 by native people. 365 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,160 There was a sort of cosmopolitan culture. 366 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,400 And we'll see, it wasn't only potentially Africans. 367 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,640 It was also the Chinese and even Europeans 368 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,160 or people from the Middle East. 369 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:35,360 It gets crazy when you get into it. 370 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,080 This is another angle on the largest OMAC head. 371 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,880 It was kind of unfinished, but it looks pretty good to me. 372 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:44,240 But strangely as the eyes are closed, 373 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,880 this could represent the end of the OMAC era. 374 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,480 This is what some people say. 375 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,440 There was actually the end of the era. 376 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:51,600 And this is why they represent it. 377 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,200 It's closing down that culture and integrating into the Maya. 378 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,800 This one was found at Treasuppot, 379 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,480 although it's on display at Santiago, 380 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,560 Tuxla and he's got even got a picture of the mounds 381 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,040 in the background. 382 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,560 It has these seven braids on the back, 383 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,480 which is one of the strongest arguments for African origins, 384 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,800 because this is one of the traditions 385 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,720 that's found at Ethiopia for instance, 386 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,920 and in other parts of West Africa, 387 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,000 this braided here with seven of them, 388 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,160 which is like a symbolic number for them. 389 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:25,320 So this is what I've advanced to, 390 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,720 kind of really sort of jumped on when you realized, 391 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,600 you have obvious things like this. 392 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,200 And this is when you show this, 393 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,480 this is the an illustration of the, 394 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,080 the Kabote, how the huge one. 395 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:38,920 I just like this. 396 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,160 I think this dude is awesome, 397 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,400 whoever these people were, they were awesome. 398 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,240 Look at them. 399 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,480 And then we have these things. 400 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,120 We have like shells, relief carbings of shells, 401 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:51,440 I'm really hard bits of andresight and granites, 402 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,440 it's incredible. 403 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,000 This is just a photo as I took when I was there. 404 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,600 And this is like kind of thing that sort of slides into 405 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,120 the base of the temple, the base of the pyramid, 406 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,080 with the face coming out kind of in your face like that. 407 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,840 And this is, we find this other places like in Peru 408 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,360 and different cultures, but there were certainly mounds 409 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,280 and they were built in a certain way with certain materials. 410 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,480 They had these stone things around the base of them. 411 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:17,760 There's another one here. 412 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,680 And this is really where Ivan Vansar had to 413 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,520 really did his thing. 414 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,480 And he wrote the classic book, 415 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,000 they came before Columbus back in the mid 70s. 416 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,800 And even in the Populvou, 417 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,120 which is the sacred book of the Kishae Maya, 418 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:39,280 they claim that this unusual culture, 419 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,000 and unusual culture came on ships of bark. 420 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,960 And it almost means that black African 421 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,240 sailed across the Atlantic ocean long before Columbus 422 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,040 and integrated and developed and worked with the local people there. 423 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,640 And he's just some examples comparing it to a new 424 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,560 but chief in Kenya. 425 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:58,880 And this is all from his book, 426 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,320 and this is obviously an Egyptian thing here. 427 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,120 And this was found, essentially, 428 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:06,280 was on display at the New York Museum. 429 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,360 And again, it just shows you the features 430 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:10,960 that he used in his case. 431 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,160 And that Ivan Vansar, he's a legendary gentleman, really. 432 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,760 During 2000 to nine, he's a guy in Eastborn, 433 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,640 professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University 434 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,200 of the United States. 435 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,440 And he really became famous when he started talking about the Ole Miss, 436 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,560 but he quoted a study of the Ole Miss civilization 437 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,680 reveals elements that so closely parallel, 438 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,960 ritual traits and techniques in the Egyptian, 439 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,680 new-be-and-world of the same period 440 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,000 that is difficult to maintain 441 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,920 that all these are due to mere coincidence. 442 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:40,800 And this is certainly the case. 443 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,920 We'll look at more examples later, 444 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,360 but I just wanted to get to San Lorenza 445 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,200 and get to some of these sites. 446 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,760 Now officially, the earliest date in the San Lorenzo 1500 BC. 447 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,880 However, there is dating up on this high plateau, 448 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,200 which is a couple of miles from the river, 449 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,280 which comes in from the sea up at Coachel Coccus. 450 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,720 They have got dating going to 1800 BC, 451 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,360 which is why they see earliest date of the album, 452 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:09,680 but they got dating also goes to about 5000 BC. 453 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,040 So there was settlements there, 454 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,320 but no mega-lethic construction going back that far. 455 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,200 He just shows you Matthew Sterling, again, 456 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,640 he was the main discoverer of San Lorenzo. 457 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,640 And he actually got a tip off from a local 458 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,880 but up river when he was working at Leventa, 459 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,880 up river, there was this site 460 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,680 that they found some massive mega-leths 461 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,480 similar to the ones being found at Leventa 462 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,440 and Trezza Poeters and others. 463 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,120 And you can see here, this is, 464 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:37,760 what's it how they got, they didn't have cars 465 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,760 and rode, no roads or anything. 466 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,520 They had to go through swamps and rivers 467 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,520 or horseback with mosquitoes and bugs 468 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,400 and horrible things, snakes, chase and after. 469 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,960 Then they had to camp there, 470 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,520 but so either locals to feed them 471 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,520 and all this kind of stuff, so it was a hell of a job. 472 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,520 And this is, quickly, they found this. 473 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,000 This is one of the first heads they found. 474 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,640 This is Matthew Sterling, one of these guys. 475 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,880 And this is just one of the 10 Ole McHeds 476 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,760 colossal heads found at San Lorenzo. 477 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,520 While he was there, he found 15 monuments in total 478 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,200 and these are all on display in our Helape Museum. 479 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,520 In 1964, famous archeologist Michael Coe 480 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,200 continue the excavation. 481 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,560 This is where the 1200 BC dates carbon dates came from. 482 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,040 The 10th head, there was nine heads 483 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,040 discovered up until 1994, but this one was discovered then. 484 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,000 Thanks to a magnetometer survey of San Lorenzo, 485 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,840 it's found by Anne Cyphus. 486 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,320 And it's a beautiful head, it's a really precision carb 487 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,440 and it somehow maintained its shape 488 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:38,920 and without any chips or damage. 489 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 A lot of them got deliberately damaged 490 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,320 and they were buried in the ground. 491 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,960 This is how most of them were found. 492 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,360 This one didn't get damaged somehow. 493 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:47,600 All the other ones seemed to did slightly get damaged. 494 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,560 So this is quite an interesting discovery 495 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,400 in itself. 496 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,760 It could have been placed in barrier before the vandons 497 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,120 whoever they were at the end of the Ole McHeds area. 498 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,480 Era, actually did that. 499 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,440 I think it's just some interesting, 500 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,760 this is just some of the dating I was looking up a couple of years ago. 501 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,040 And you get some strange dates popping out 502 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:07,960 of the San Lorenzo. 503 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,200 Obviously this could be natural things they're finding as well. 504 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,280 We've got, we've seen this number two, two, six, O, BC. 505 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,400 So we're looking at before, 1800 or 1500 BC. 506 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,080 And these are the more standard dates 507 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,600 we're finding all over San Lorenzo here. 508 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,840 But this one really stood out to me. 509 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,080 Too old, perhaps some asphalt lumps present. 510 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,400 I'm not sure exactly what that meant. 511 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,560 But this is maybe there wasn't asphalt lumps present 512 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,600 and it could be that old indeed because a couple of sites 513 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,920 and got a mile and we do find that exact date 514 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,880 in some of the sites there. 515 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,200 It's just some of the massive blocks we find at San Lorenzo. 516 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,960 And you can see like these little strations 517 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,200 of scoops out of this massive bit of bass out here. 518 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,560 This is a technique we see in other cultures around the world. 519 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,280 And these just are kind of my holiday snaps 520 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,840 of San Lorenzo. 521 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,400 We have sort of relief carvings. 522 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,000 We have even close to spears, bird motifs. 523 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,320 We have this kind of mutilated babies head 524 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,320 on the left here. 525 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,880 This huge black volcanic piece of rock, 526 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,480 which was actually in the middle of the San Lorenzo site. 527 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,800 And also these strains, kind of scoops and carvings 528 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:16,320 throughout. 529 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,080 We have this chap here. 530 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,200 It doesn't look happy. 531 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,640 It's not really an old-met-chead, but yes, 532 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,000 got a beard, which is unusual, 533 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,560 which could represent kettle-coatolos always depicted 534 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,680 with a beard. 535 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,920 And this is just one of the mounts that there's nothing 536 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,160 you can go to the San Lorenzo site. 537 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,320 Again, it's like trecephoters. 538 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,320 You're not supposed to go there. 539 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:36,560 No one goes there. 540 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,120 But we bribe the guy again. 541 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,520 And we went there with our little group. 542 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:42,520 And there's not much to see, 543 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,800 but it's just interesting to sort of get into the land 544 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,640 of where these Ole Miss were living, 545 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,480 because I am Ole Miss. 546 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,120 So there was water coursing throughout this site. 547 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,320 This is one of the sort of technologies 548 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,880 that they worked with. 549 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,360 They 21 man-made lakes were up on the hill 550 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,640 where the main plateau where San Lorenzo was based. 551 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,520 And they were lined with repellent, bent-and-ite rocks. 552 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:10,760 It's water repellent rock. 553 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,600 So to keep the water flowing quickly. 554 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,400 There's also 14 natural springs at the base, 555 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,720 all around the base of San Lorenzo. 556 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,440 And when they discovered these, 557 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,040 it really kind of made the archeologist realize 558 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,320 this was an advanced culture. 559 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,960 And they moved literally hundreds of tons of basalt. 560 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,560 And they carved it into these pieces here. 561 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,320 It's like a flat stone on top 562 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,200 with a shape like this underneath it. 563 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,360 So the water would move through. 564 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,760 They were lined with bent-and-ite clays. 565 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,160 So this was a technology. 566 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,120 And they were pushing the water down. 567 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,520 And this will create electric charge. 568 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,000 Now this is a classic thing. 569 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,320 But people at John Burke and Phil McKellahan 570 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,160 and other researchers have put this together 571 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,240 and realized they could have been doing this 572 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,640 to create electric charge. 573 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,000 And then when you look at the layering of the types 574 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,040 of clay and rock and pebbles they were using, 575 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,400 they were all either magnetic or electrically conductive. 576 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,080 And so they were working with these energies. 577 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,480 And there's a lot of evidence to kind of suggest that now. 578 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,160 And also the rock they used often 579 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,880 at a high metal content, which we make it electrically 580 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,800 inductive as a hat there, just to show you the side. 581 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,880 It just shows you one of the side channels 582 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,560 during the excavation. 583 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,760 And the charge, according to John Burke, 584 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,040 who did scientific tests at this site, 585 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,400 he said it would gather at the top of the hill. 586 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,400 And this is where you place all your seeds and grains. 587 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,200 And it would guarantee that they were strong. 588 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:29,880 And they were abundant. 589 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,960 And you would get higher yields and a better quality crop. 590 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,760 And this is something that other cultures 591 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,920 around the world have used as well. 592 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,640 Also linked with this energy is this was discovered then. 593 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,280 But this is an iron ore magnet, which worked as a compass. 594 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,960 And this is potentially the earliest one in the entire world 595 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,360 before probably 500 to 800 years before the Chinese 596 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:54,760 even invented it. 597 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,120 We'll come on to them later, because they may have been here 598 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,440 as well. 599 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,360 They also had concave circular mirrors made 600 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,840 of certain types of rock, certain types of iron ore. 601 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,600 We said often where around here, 602 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,000 it's almost like as like reflectors. 603 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,920 And also what they found with this particular compass 604 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,960 is that it always, when you were working with it, 605 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,080 always oriented, eight degrees off north. 606 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,960 Now this is quite interesting, because this is obviously, 607 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,640 this is taking from the ground when that was where 608 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,840 the magnetic pole was, because it moves, obviously, 609 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,280 over millennia and so forth. 610 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,320 And a lot of their sites are relied eight degrees off north. 611 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,920 So they were using these to align their sites. 612 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,280 And so that was their north. 613 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,120 They kind of worked with that as their north. 614 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,320 There's astronomical elements that even matched that as well, 615 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,360 which actually Andrew goes into in his book, 616 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,080 the Cygnus Mystery. 617 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,040 So this is quite interesting, because if this is the case, 618 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,600 and there's evidence that the Chinese came 619 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,920 and later, they may have nicked the idea from the Old Mac, 620 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,320 taking it back to China. 621 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,040 And they're the ones who've got in the history books, 622 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,440 which is a little bit annoying for them. 623 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,600 I would imagine. 624 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,160 But also interesting is that this is from a place 625 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,120 in Southern Guatemala. 626 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,800 These are like the sort of Buddha figures. 627 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,520 But these are potentially the later, 628 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,840 oh, my, because they were my great-ing south looking for Jade, 629 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,600 which was their prized material. 630 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,520 It wasn't gold, it was Jade. 631 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,680 And these, on the right hand side here, the temples, 632 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,640 the magnetic north orientation is actually right in their temple. 633 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,720 And it's almost like the rock was carved 634 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,360 around the most magnetic hotspot 635 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,040 and placed in the temple here. 636 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,760 And like, so they knew what was going on. 637 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,800 They knew how to find it in the rock, 638 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,680 and they knew how to find the magnetism 639 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,880 and this could have been part of their kind of whole process. 640 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,240 And they could also be the same in the O'Mac heads as well. 641 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,680 Four of these heads here, 642 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,640 which were found at a site called Monty Alto, 643 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,280 which is now in the central plaza of the town, 644 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,360 the Dermacrasia, I went there in 2004, 645 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,320 have this effect with them. 646 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,520 So it's very intriguing, you'll find it very interesting. 647 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,000 And there are other examples, 648 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,720 like this, and they're certainly not to by chance. 649 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,880 You would not have the magnetic pole in the same place 650 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,120 of four statues by chance. 651 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,640 And so they were working with the magnetism 652 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,600 a long before anyone else was. 653 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,120 So this is some of the O'Mac heads, 654 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,080 the colossal heads from Sandler-Ns. 655 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,600 So this is Montyamont 1. 656 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,880 This is about 1200 BC, it's one of the oldest ones. 657 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,560 This is head 2, this is what they call it. 658 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,400 This is again, this is in the National Museum 659 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,000 of Anthropology in Mexico City. 660 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,800 It's not actually in Halapam Museum where most of them are. 661 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,920 This one is in the Halapam Museum, this is Monument 3. 662 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,400 I'm not gonna go into too much detail, 663 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,160 but you can actually see these cut marks. 664 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,160 This is where they were probably deliberately damaged 665 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,960 at the end of their life. 666 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,080 And then they were buried, 667 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,160 because these were all on display, 668 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,680 they were all on display at the site, 669 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,960 originally, and then they were buried at the end. 670 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,400 And what are some researchers are now thinking? 671 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,040 Is that in fact, they were buried 672 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,000 because they, the elite people who are sort of guaranteed 673 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,040 them good agriculture, healthy crops and things like this, 674 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,840 had probably disappeared or migrated or died off. 675 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,480 And they were like in a desperate situation 676 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:16,960 to try and kind of bring that back 677 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,480 because they were losing all their wealth. 678 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,480 And they were a very, very wealthy civilization, 679 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,160 probably because they knew how to grow food 680 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,880 with these secret techniques that they were using. 681 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,120 This is Monument 4, again, this is in Halapam Museum. 682 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,920 This one is Monument 5, we're gonna keep doing this 683 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,400 until we get to number 10, like countdown really isn't it? 684 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,560 This isn't Halapam. 685 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,920 This one here is in, this is in the Mexico Anthropology Museum. 686 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,280 This is one of the finest ones actually. 687 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,560 It's very, you see the beautiful carving here. 688 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,680 It's incredible. 689 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,760 Again, this one is in the Halapam Museum. 690 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,160 This is in Halapam Museum. 691 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,320 This is number seven. 692 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,640 And this one is the only smiling one of them all. 693 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:03,160 Yeah. 694 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,880 It makes me happy. 695 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,960 And this is the final one that was discovered back in 1994. 696 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,880 Thanks to the Magna Toma to survey. 697 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,600 And this is really quite beautiful this one. 698 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,880 But this is actually at the San Lorenzo Museum site. 699 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,280 You have to go there yourself. 700 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,080 And these are all 17 olmer heads. 701 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:22,840 There you go. 702 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,160 But as other stone work in San Lorenzo, 703 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,640 which is absolutely fascinating still, 704 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,640 we have these crouched figures. 705 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,640 We're like Egyptian headdresses. 706 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,480 We have these very unusual kind of animal carvings here. 707 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,680 We have these ulcers which we find in most of the old 708 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,360 mech site huge ulcers, 709 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,800 with like this emerging kind of shame and priest figure coming out 710 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,280 from the earth into reality. 711 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,120 And then we have these, this is more from San Lorenzo. 712 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,560 I should have shown you that one already. 713 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,480 This one really intrigue me because this is kind of like 714 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,240 two kind of dwarf ulmek figures holding up the sky. 715 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,760 We find this motif is like the Atlantean motif in Egypt 716 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,520 and other places. 717 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,520 This is from a cycle, patrera and wherever. 718 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,080 So it's much smaller site but still the carvings. 719 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:14,920 I'm very interested. 720 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,440 This is on display at Helape Museum as well. 721 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,880 But I wanted to show you this, 722 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,520 because this is one of Ivan Bands' certimus comparisons here. 723 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:28,440 And we do find, we'll just check what's there we're going to do. 724 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,360 So we're going to go to Leventa next but first, 725 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,960 I wanted to show you which is here. 726 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,520 You can see all these other sites, 727 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,440 these yellow sites are all sites. 728 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,080 The red ones, there's nothing left of them really. 729 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,680 But that's where the big ol' mech head, 730 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,280 the 40-ton one came from. 731 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,120 And this is Tris the Poeters. 732 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,800 Why is it doing that? 733 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,160 Okay. 734 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:49,880 Yeah, and this was found. 735 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,320 This is a very interesting piece. 736 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,040 This was found not actually in an ol' mech site. 737 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,840 This was found in the Tux Lamountins near Majora, on the horror. 738 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,440 It's Nefraite Jade discovered in 1902. 739 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,560 And the state of Vera Cruz has 75 lifts of Epi Olmech. 740 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,920 Or if the Smith and the Script, which is the whole area, 741 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,760 has a long count date on it again. 742 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,440 We're going to 162 AD. 743 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,840 But the type of writing on it is not a tall central American. 744 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:17,640 It's very strange. 745 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,760 It's been compared to the Shang dynasty Chinese, 746 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,120 which will look at in more detail shortly. 747 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,880 This was also found near Leventa, as a site called San Andreas. 748 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,480 This is one of the earliest forms of writing again. 749 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,280 And this is when this was discovered in 2002. 750 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,840 This really surpassed Tris the Poeters. 751 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,840 And this has got a date going back to 650 BC. 752 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160 It also has a three-a-hour, which is a recognizable day 753 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,680 and the Zulking calendar. 754 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,920 So there's suggestions that this may have been, you know, 755 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,000 almost like the Smoking Gun, 756 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 that most certainly the Olmech developed the calendar. 757 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,840 Because this is the date when the Olmech 758 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,240 were in the late late part of their time, 759 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,240 but they were still around in this area. 760 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,760 In the area as well, there's been some very early discoveries. 761 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,640 They were growing maze or corn back in 3,100 BC. 762 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,320 And also there's pollen evidence from 2,600 BC. 763 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,600 And they were domesticated, sunflower seeds, and 650 BC. 764 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,160 So we know that they were working with agriculture. 765 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,960 And therefore probably a calendar, which is linked with agriculture, 766 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,800 way back at that time. 767 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,640 And we know that the Long Count calendar, 768 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:33,640 which ended on December 21, 2012, began in August 3,113 BC, 769 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,400 or 114 BC, depending on which version you look at. 770 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,880 And so this is the time when we knew they were growing, 771 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,680 that had agriculture in place back then. 772 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,520 So there could be a reason they dated. 773 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,840 Back to that time, there's a lot of speculation about that. 774 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,320 So the event, this is really the kind of my favorite. 775 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,160 This is pretty amazing this site. 776 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,960 This is not only is it the only surviving site you can allow to visit, 777 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,280 and if the biotech year has gone on site, music. 778 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,800 It's been thoroughly excavated quite badly destroyed, 779 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,600 actually by Matthew Sterling and his team, unfortunately. 780 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,760 And they kind of rebuilt it for the tourists. 781 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,160 And all the statues here in art, 782 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,480 in fact were taken to a place in Villa Hamosa, 783 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,320 the nearby city in Leventa Park, which you can go and visit. 784 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,920 And they're all the original, as about 80 pieces on display there. 785 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,120 You can see there's a huge mountain. 786 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,080 It's like a seven potentially a seven-flooted 787 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,680 sighted pyramid here. 788 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,520 This whole complex here were all these layers of serpentine, 789 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,360 with multiple layers buried in the ground. 790 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,080 It was over a thousand tons of serpentine pieces buried in layers as well. 791 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,560 Now I know what this was for, but remember, 792 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,800 serpentine is electrically conductive and has magnetic properties. 793 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,360 It's just a wheel figure that was found at Leventa, 794 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,680 suggesting they had knowledge of the wheel back in at least 1200 BC, 795 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,320 although they only used it for toys. 796 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,880 And obviously we have these kind of features again. 797 00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,960 So this is an absolutely amazing place. 798 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,000 It's in the island, in the middle of the Tanala River. 799 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:11,560 And this is kind of raised up on a plateau with very slow moving river either side of it. 800 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,800 And this is actually part of the coastal coast of Cocos River. 801 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,200 Cocos is called Cocos means serpent sanctuary, 802 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,440 which is quite an interesting name in itself. 803 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,600 This is probably the earliest pyramid in Mesoamerica, 804 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:23,880 but one we're going to look at, 805 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,040 at Leventa, was could prove that isn't the case. 806 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,280 So a hundred thousand cubic meters of earth, 807 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,280 slightly conical. 808 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,040 They think it could have been more, 809 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,680 it could have been a step pyramid, some recent research has been carried out 810 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,240 by the archaeologists Rebecca Gonzales. 811 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,880 It's never been excavated in the pyramid itself, 812 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,880 so there could be stuff in there still. 813 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,280 But a magnetometer survey in 1967 found in the normally, 814 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,280 higher on the south side of the pyramid. 815 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,880 So there could be something in there that could literally be a magnetic anomaly. 816 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,040 Because this is actually built upon a magnetic hotspot, 817 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,520 a zone of magnetism, also. 818 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,120 This is one of the things John Burke discovered. 819 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,160 It's a gravitational hotspot, so there's fluctuations. 820 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,680 The ground because of potentially a meteorite hit in the area. 821 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,840 Here's just so as you some of the, this is the pyramid from the other side. 822 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,040 And here's just what, these are all replicas. 823 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,640 All of these are, fortunately, but they've all been protected in the saved in Villa Hamosa. 824 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,840 And this just shows you, so this area here is the most interesting. 825 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,920 These have been lots of basalt columns. 826 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:32,760 These ones here, oh god. 827 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,520 And this is the all-mic head, they have been facing into the complex, 828 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,720 but actually they were facing out, they're facing north originally, 829 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,240 so they've got them in a wrong way around. 830 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,680 But the thousands of these basalt columns all over the old-mic world, 831 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,480 and these must have been brought up from the river or the sea, 832 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,000 because this is the only workplace this kind of volcanic basalt would form 833 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,360 into these shapes, like we see at the Giant's Causeway and 834 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:01,160 it even going to Padang and Namodol in Micronesia. 835 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,720 You should show you some ones that I want to explain that local museum with an amazing 836 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,600 stelle here with brilliant carvings on them. 837 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:15,160 Again, we have the water features, against they were working with the water, potentially, 838 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:21,640 not just for, to have good water available, but for the energy that this can help produce. 839 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,200 This is Levenza Monument 1. 840 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:31,080 It was first described by Franz Blument Oliver Lefards back in 1925. 841 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,200 These are all on display now, the original, remember, at Levenza Park in Villa Hamosa. 842 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,360 Hey, here's the smiling one. Another. 843 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,120 And we have this, this is Monument 3 from Levenza. 844 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,880 And you can see the air spools here, they're quite amazing, 845 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,880 and these strange helmets that they were. 846 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,840 This is Matthew Sterling, Monument 4 from Levenza, and this is again, 847 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,440 it's on display there, and you can see some of the beautiful stone work here. 848 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,160 Almost looks like the Sphinx face, doesn't that, it's incredible. 849 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,040 And this is a very unfinished, oh my God, and you can do this, 850 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,040 this is sort of the way they were working with the stone. 851 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,560 This is volcanic basalt, remember, this is extremely hard stone. 852 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:22,360 But it kind of gives a clue as to how they did it, which is a very difficult job in itself. 853 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,200 Here's some other discoveries that were made at Levenza just in the last 10 years, 854 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680 that these are potentially two more omic heads, 855 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,400 but these are being so badly weathered and damaged, 856 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,800 people are unsure if these are even that. 857 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,720 This is Matthew Sterling, 858 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,560 who, and when he went to the site in 1940, it was kind of protected 859 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:49,080 by Don Sebastian Torres, who was an 80-year-old native Indian at the area, 860 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:54,520 and he kind of grew his food on the site and allowed Matthew Sterling and his group to say. 861 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,720 And there was a very strange story, there was an old story that the ghost of the Aztec 862 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,760 Emperor Montezuma would sing and dance in the ruins. 863 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,000 What that means, I don't know, but that was one of the stories and legends. 864 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,960 He's one of the amazing altars and they're kind of holding rope down here, 865 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,480 and it goes round to the side and joins up with the arm of a woman. 866 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,720 It just shows you, you sort of see these serpents here, 867 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,760 there's four serpents coming in, different angles. 868 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,560 There's also, you get that here as way kind of get the weird jaguar head there, 869 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,960 the crowned figure emerging and holding a rope or serpent against the ground. 870 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,200 The meaning of this just no one really has a clue. 871 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,000 There's no evidence of what they're up to. 872 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,760 This is a goddess or female figure. 873 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:42,760 It's about eight foot high. 874 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,800 Then we have these images of these kind of clats skulls here. 875 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,320 This is a sign potentially a cranial deformation, which is something they were actually doing in the 876 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,120 Ommack world. 877 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,920 This is kind of like a figure with the least flying gentleman all around here. 878 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,640 We can't really see it clearly holding some kind of mace. 879 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,760 This is a tradition we find in China as well, holding maces as sort of sign 880 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,640 of prestige. 881 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,880 These are the tombs that were found in the higher levels of Leventa. 882 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,200 These weren't really found so much too deep. 883 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:22,840 These were the probably the later part of the site probably around 600 to 400 BC. 884 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,520 These were a little like in the Leventa Park. 885 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,480 And this is the flying figure with the kind of helmet on. 886 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:34,600 This is very strange. 887 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:35,880 No one quite sure what this is. 888 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,160 He's a bearded figure. 889 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,400 We also have this guy who's bearded with the kind of hook nose. 890 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,120 Clearly, you know, he looks very different. 891 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,320 Doesn't look old Mac of course. 892 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,440 He looks so much like he's from the Middle East or somewhere of Phoenician. 893 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:55,480 And also we have this very strange image here. 894 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:56,920 This really gets me. 895 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,160 This is a little confused a lot of people with this gentleman holding this bag. 896 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,320 He's got some kind of apparatus or a beard. 897 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,320 He's surrounded by a serpent with plumes. 898 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,760 So this is potentially the first ever depiction of Castle Corattel or the plumes serpent. 899 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,000 And this bag thing has come up over and over again, 900 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,840 something like the Graham Hankock, it's called man bags. 901 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,560 And he's found examples that could beckly tapy in Sumeria. 902 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,440 Obviously Leventa. 903 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,760 This is actually from Western Africa this one. 904 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,160 So this is interesting because this links with potentially where these people 905 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,280 may have come from. 906 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,560 This is what I've been concerned to my suggests is certainly the case. 907 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,920 Also this chap, this is a monument number 13. 908 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,840 This is what they think they call them. 909 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,320 Some of these, they call them the ambassador or the traveler. 910 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,480 Because he's like, he's got Phoenician footwear. 911 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,000 Headgear is coming in some kind of side of flag. 912 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:51,880 And it's got these symbols. 913 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:52,760 No one knows. 914 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,160 No one has deciphered what these mean whatsoever. 915 00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,120 But it's certainly very strange. 916 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,040 There's some people suggest this is the type of clothing 917 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,400 of footwear that a trust gun's hit-eye or Phoenicians would wear 918 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,400 around 1200 BC. 919 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,160 These are some of the serpentine pavements which are in the, 920 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,040 they have a kind of figure of the face of a weird jaguar. 921 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,640 He just shows you some of the serpentine. 922 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,520 There was like over a thousand tons of this at Leventa. 923 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,800 This is sort of how a nice depiction of how they were doing it. 924 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,640 And the one they would do, they would make these, 925 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,640 they would fill it up with different types of clay. 926 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,440 Also they would fill it up with different types of clay. 927 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,000 And then put another layer on, they'd fill it over the clay. 928 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,120 And then another layer, they would do multiple layers of these 929 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,000 and cover them up. 930 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,840 So they were offering to the sort of earth goddess or something like this. 931 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,440 Or they had an energetic purpose. 932 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,080 Serpentine and Jade, these are the two prized sort of possessions 933 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,000 of the omec. 934 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,840 There's where some of this Jade come from, is still unclear. 935 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,480 There's potentially some found in Guatemala. 936 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,320 There's others found further south past El Salvador, 937 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,320 going into Costa Rica and Panama. 938 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,720 There's another source potentially near Mexico City, 939 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:16,280 which is why they think they spread in these directions, 940 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:17,560 as we'll see later. 941 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,120 Serpentine is magnetic and this was, 942 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,440 the qualities of that were noted by Explorer, Humbau in 1794. 943 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,680 And this is sort of the layers we're talking about here. 944 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,400 It's very strange because these are completely buried. 945 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400 No one, you can't see these from the ground. 946 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,800 And this would have been like this during the time of the omec. 947 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,720 All these different clays, then layers of Serpentine, 948 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,680 28 courses of stone blocks in olive and blue clay. 949 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,280 With these sort of jaguar, weird jaguar faces, 950 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:47,720 the mosaic pavement. 951 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,080 There was mirrors placed there, 952 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,520 kelts, kelts offerings, Jade kelts, 953 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,520 clay fillers, pink clay. 954 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:55,960 It just went on and on and on. 955 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,360 This is what it kind of looked like. 956 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,760 These are the layers of Serpentine here. 957 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,240 And then we have the layers of Jade, sorry, 958 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,280 the mosaic's here and here. 959 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,280 But this is a thousand tons of Serpentine buried and covered up 960 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:10,920 and forgotten about. 961 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,080 So this must have had some use. 962 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,840 There's no way they would do that for fun. 963 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,960 And bring that amount of rock such so far away. 964 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,440 There's other piece of the Jade here, 965 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,880 really beautifully carved. 966 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,880 This has got some strange glyphos on it. 967 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,560 These have not been deciphered. 968 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,520 Then we have these kind of elongated skull figures 969 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,880 and these kind of cleft skull figures. 970 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,520 These are the famous sort of, you know, 971 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:41,880 that we really have a name. 972 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,480 But these were like found deep, 973 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,480 where we just looked, deep within the ground. 974 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,480 This is a several feet below the surface. 975 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,920 These were found in situ in this orientation of this position. 976 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,800 With these, and these all have elongated skulls. 977 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,840 These date to 1200 BC. 978 00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:58,360 And they were strangely when they excavated, 979 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,920 they realized someone had dug back down to this. 980 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,080 A few years later, to check they were still there 981 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,400 and then covered it back up again, back in old Mac times. 982 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,800 There's very strange where they would do that. 983 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,040 He just shows you some of the types of skull. 984 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,800 So you see the elongation here. 985 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,240 And these are the kind of calts behind them. 986 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:19,160 But these gentlemen here, they do not look, 987 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:20,760 they kind of look oriental. 988 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,240 There's a sort of suggestion by Ivan Vansert, 989 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,120 but another research that they were even Chinese shang dynasty, 990 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,880 which I find particularly interesting. 991 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,640 Because these kind of cleft skulls, 992 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:32,840 and this kind of elongation, 993 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:37,240 was found in the shang dynasty, which is about 1000 BC in a bit older. 994 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:41,080 And even anthropologists Betty Meggers, 995 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,320 noted that the features that distinguished the old Mac 996 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,000 are present in earlier shang dynasty civilizations in China. 997 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,160 So they may have come over and actually influenced 998 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,560 the part of the old Mac culture. 999 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:56,600 There's some other similar arches such as the writing style, 1000 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:57,960 often carved on Jade. 1001 00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:58,840 They use a batons. 1002 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,320 We saw that as symbols of rank. 1003 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,080 The archaeological styles, the mounds, even the pyramids, 1004 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,800 which we find in China. 1005 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,720 The feline date is the weird jaggy 1006 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:10,600 and the cranial deformation amongst others. 1007 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,080 And this gentleman is called the wrestler. 1008 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,240 He's from a site in Vera Cruz. 1009 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:23,440 Again, he has potentially Chinese features 1010 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:24,840 with facial hair. 1011 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:28,600 He's a close-up. 1012 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,320 Then we have these very strange kind of babies 1013 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,920 with no kind of parts, if you know what I mean. 1014 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,840 But shang dynasty admirals and ambassadors 1015 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,280 were often unix. 1016 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,280 This is another strange coincidence. 1017 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,800 There's lots of these statues with no parts here. 1018 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,960 And you can see the elongated skull as well. 1019 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,840 Another example here. 1020 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,840 So this was part of the shang dynasty. 1021 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,240 This is what they kind of did. 1022 00:46:57,240 --> 00:46:58,960 Got the ancient to weird on me. 1023 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,680 Why would they do that? 1024 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,800 And again, we just got some comparisons here. 1025 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,680 This is a shang dynasty kind of crouching figure 1026 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,000 with a kind of moheaker. 1027 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,080 We find almost the exact same thing from Leventa 1028 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:14,120 and other crouching. 1029 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,520 They call it the quizzo position. 1030 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,400 Some of David had to children as his focus on it. 1031 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,960 We had the almost Egyptian head dress here. 1032 00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,800 Now this mohawk and the kneeling position 1033 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,800 has been found in other cultures as well. 1034 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,520 Colombians, Africans, the mohawk Indians, 1035 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,000 obviously, the little Lawrence River. 1036 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,680 And in China, this kneeling and mohawk thing 1037 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,560 is associated with magicians or sorcerers. 1038 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,400 So this is another strange connection that we keep finding. 1039 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,680 Again, we have the cleft skull. 1040 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,720 This is something that comes up over and over again, 1041 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:50,880 where this very strange gentleman with some kind of hat 1042 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,440 or helmet. 1043 00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,080 But on the left here, these are almeq figures. 1044 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,040 And on the right, these are shang dynasty figures. 1045 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,280 With that potentially, what looks like the cleft skulls 1046 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,160 on both sides. 1047 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,840 We have this, this is at Leventa. 1048 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:10,960 This is another example of an elongated skull 1049 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,720 with a huge kind of moustache or beard. 1050 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:16,120 And we do get elongated skulls all over Mexico. 1051 00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:21,120 In the Mayan world, this is, unfortunately, hardly any omic bones 1052 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,920 or skulls are still in existence 1053 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,520 because of their humid climate. 1054 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:26,520 They get eaten up. 1055 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,680 But these are actually from the area of the omic, 1056 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,960 but later, this is why they got saved and survived. 1057 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,400 This is actually a giant skull with an elongated skull 1058 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,720 on the next route, which I found quite interesting. 1059 00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:39,680 But the same kind of deformation we find in the Mayan world, 1060 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,400 we find it in the shang dynasty, we find it in Peru and Bolivia. 1061 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,200 We find it all over North America. 1062 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,440 And the omics, they depicted the different types 1063 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,160 of cranial deformation. 1064 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,480 They actually do in their artifacts. 1065 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,040 And so we know what they're up to. 1066 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,520 And there's proof in later cultures who probably copied them. 1067 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,040 These are some examples from different parts of Mexico. 1068 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,840 This is actually on display in Halapam Museum, 1069 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,680 the big one on the right here. 1070 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,680 And on the left, this is an example from Eca in Peru. 1071 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,200 The strange turtle, what's your wife's there? 1072 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,840 But never mind. 1073 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:15,560 This is the place called Coulsa Cocca. 1074 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,040 So now I don't know who happy there 1075 00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,760 because it's windy and cold. 1076 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,240 But this area here is where Castle Cawattel, 1077 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:25,080 the famous winged god, the winged serpent god, 1078 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,840 was said to have arrived on a raft of serpent 1079 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,600 sometime in prehistory. 1080 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,760 He was a tall gentleman with a beard, robes, long hair, 1081 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:34,240 very Jesus style. 1082 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:38,320 Most people, most accounts, especially with the Spanish conicales, 1083 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,240 he was depicted as sort of fairhead and fair, 1084 00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:42,840 with fair beard and all this kind of stuff. 1085 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:47,840 Actually, other accounts from the elders of Mexico. 1086 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,240 Suggest he was actually more of darker beard, darker hair, 1087 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:53,720 and he was even dark skin. 1088 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:56,040 This is how some of the depictions describe him. 1089 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,200 So this could relate to the old mex. 1090 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,440 So it just gets a little bit weird 1091 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:01,600 when you start getting into this. 1092 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,320 This is more like Jesus than Castle Cawattel. 1093 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,320 Whatever. 1094 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:13,320 And there is some chronicles from different elders. 1095 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,280 In the late classic, late pre-classic through to the early classic, 1096 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,680 period 400 to 600 BC. 1097 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,320 There's a link with Teo at the calm, 1098 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,680 which I find really interesting. 1099 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,400 It kind of arose as a new religious centre 1100 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,000 in the Mexican Highland, the rather time of Christ. 1101 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:36,000 And there's links with Castle Cawattel even at this like coming 1102 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000 from the old mech world. 1103 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,000 This is a depiction of from one of the sites. 1104 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000 This is almost like a serpent head with wings, 1105 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000 with a face coming out of it. 1106 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:53,000 And you know, Basil Hendrick in Manacross, a seabook. 1107 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,000 He was always depicted as black beard and according to the ancient traditions. 1108 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,000 And even with this face was painted black as well, 1109 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000 which is again very strange. 1110 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:07,000 And we can see that this is some of the migrations from the old mech world. 1111 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,000 Probably looking for Jade and just exploring different areas. 1112 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,000 Okay, what's happened there, yes. 1113 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:21,000 And there's a tradition going way back that this area was called Tamal Cham. 1114 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,000 It wasn't called Omeckland, it wasn't called Omen or anything like this. 1115 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,000 It was called Tamal Cham. 1116 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,000 So this could be the name of the area of the Omecks. 1117 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,000 They got remembered and passed down through traditions. 1118 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:37,000 And it was father Sagun during the Spanish conquest. 1119 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,000 You collect this from the elders. 1120 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,000 And that they arrived on boats in Veracruz. 1121 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,000 They bought right in books and painting. 1122 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,000 And found in the place called Tamal Cham, 1123 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,000 who's a leak created a book of days, 1124 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,000 which is probably the 260-day sulking calendar. 1125 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,000 And the book of the year, which is a 365-day harp calendar. 1126 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,000 And the book of dreams, which is probably their magical incantations. 1127 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,000 Then they abandoned the area and moved to different places. 1128 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,000 And there is evidence of this because we know they moved to Chatsau-Canzat Chatsau-Canzat-Cazinger. 1129 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,000 They moved down to Southern Guatemala, Zapa. 1130 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,000 Potentially all the way down to Costa Rica, looking for Jade. 1131 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,000 And there's evidence of Omeck type carvings all the way down in these areas. 1132 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000 This is the place called El Bau in Southern Guatemala. 1133 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000 The similar head dresses here. 1134 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,000 The strange bear type figure with strange glyphs. 1135 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,000 This is Bill Bau. 1136 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,000 With some more relief carvings I'm going to whip through these fairly fast. 1137 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,000 This again is Bill Bau. 1138 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,000 I think it's illusions. 1139 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,000 This is again near Bill Bau. 1140 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000 More examples here with the old meck. 1141 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,000 I figured with these kind of sunglasses mushrooms. 1142 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,000 It's going to be just a holiday snaps now. 1143 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,000 Here we go. 1144 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,000 This is very interesting. 1145 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000 This was found at a Michael Monte Alto. 1146 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,000 These are again Omeck type heads with sunglasses on or some kind of, you know. 1147 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,000 And again these are the ones with the magnetism that we saw in the temples. 1148 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000 And it's just a matter of fact. 1149 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:11,000 So with Chap, I met when I was actually at one of the sites in Southern Guatemala in 2004. 1150 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,000 And he had some he collected himself over about 10 year period. 1151 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000 There are 200 artifacts. 1152 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000 More examples here. 1153 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,000 So Omeck sort of features and styles. 1154 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:27,000 And this goes to the site in Guadnaigua, a Marlice, which dates to 2500 BC. 1155 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,000 So this is caused a bit of controversy, especially with the heads and made of mushrooms. 1156 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,000 And again we have these Omeck features even featured there as well from a very early date. 1157 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:43,000 And this site called Abash Tackleck or Tackleck Abash, which is everywhere you want to pronounce it. 1158 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,000 Again has potential Omeck heads. 1159 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,000 These have been pretty badly damaged. 1160 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,000 And they have kind of madeolithic chambers there as well. 1161 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:55,000 And these dates were around about 800 BC. 1162 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,000 And there's a pyramid there. 1163 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000 There's this potential. 1164 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,000 This is another Omeck type head. 1165 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,000 We're crouching figures again. 1166 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:11,000 And even in Belice, we have what looks like a migration going out of that way. 1167 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000 And there's Jay Pendants that are being found. 1168 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000 There's Omeck type Stucco. 1169 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,000 And these are some of the oldest pyramids in Central America. 1170 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:24,000 This is a guy named Jim who did some exploration in some caves and came across this. 1171 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,000 So Omeck seated figure made of wood, which is one of the rarest pieces. 1172 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,000 There is. 1173 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:35,000 Again at Lamanai and Belice, we have Stucco faces that have Omeck features. 1174 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000 But it goes on and on. 1175 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,000 I mean, I've got just a few minutes left. 1176 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000 The migration's going all directions. 1177 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000 It just gets weird at a weird and more you look into this. 1178 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,000 But it's this area here. 1179 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,000 Our chest, cousin go, cousin go, which completely fascinates me. 1180 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,000 We went here earlier this year with Brian Forrest and our group. 1181 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000 This is basically an outpost of the Omeck. 1182 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,000 It's slightly later. 1183 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,000 They probably worked with the local cultures. 1184 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,000 There's huge kind of mountains here. 1185 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,000 And they built pyramids on the site. 1186 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:10,000 They discovered in 1932 and the date and goes back to 1500 BC. 1187 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:16,000 So it could be one of the first places that Omeck went after they spread out from the Gulf Coast. 1188 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:20,000 And on the walls up in the hills next to it, they have clearly Omeck carvings, 1189 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:25,000 which are very similar to the Leventa carvings we see. 1190 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,000 This was quite a graph of 978 before it got damaged. 1191 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000 And this is called L-Ray, they call it. 1192 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,000 And it just shows you again a seated figure within 1193 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:39,000 some kind of weather system or some kind of machine with all this strange stuff going on around. 1194 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000 It's that they were controlling the weather somehow. 1195 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,000 We have these kind of flight companies see it, but there's like a flying figure here. 1196 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,000 Card up there. 1197 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,000 I think it looks a lot better. 1198 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,000 Again, we have more relief carvings in the Omeck style. 1199 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,000 Absolutely fascinate a place, Chaocasingo. 1200 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,000 I do recommend going there if you can. 1201 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000 I'm going to be heading back there in December. 1202 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,000 Just a bit more research. 1203 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,000 You just show you this is actually on display in the main museum. 1204 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,000 This is from Chaocasingo. 1205 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,000 And this is around 900 BC. 1206 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,000 And it really peaked this area around 700 to 500 BC. 1207 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,000 But by five by then it kind of went into decline. 1208 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,000 This is another from burial three. 1209 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,000 This is actually from a burial they found there, one you've been 17, they call it. 1210 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,000 And there's other sites in the area. 1211 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,000 There's a Cattle 800 to 500 BC. 1212 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:36,000 Again with Omeck artifacts being discovered. 1213 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:45,000 This is a recent photo of some excavations they were doing in this area. 1214 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:50,000 Again, this goes from 1200 to 600 BC. 1215 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:56,000 And we're kind of talking around right over here, sort of in the area around Mexico City. 1216 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,000 But one of the most fascinating places in Mexico is T.O. with Tecan. 1217 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,000 This has all make influences. 1218 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000 People don't realize this. 1219 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:14,000 The name, Tamon Chan actually translates better in the Maya than it does in Aztec. 1220 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:19,000 And it becomes land of the bird snake or land of the feathered serpent. 1221 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,000 So it was a name they were potentially using way back in Omeck times. 1222 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,000 It also can translate in another dialect to land of the rainy sky. 1223 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,000 And it's definitely true. 1224 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,000 It is very rainy in this whole area of the Gulf Coast. 1225 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:44,000 But what I think one of the most fascinating things is the fact that they arrived at T.O. with Tecan at the end of their era on the Gulf Coast. 1226 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,000 And this is one of the traditions that was recorded by the Spanish Chronicles. 1227 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:50,000 And they founded and built T.O with Tecan. 1228 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:57,000 And one of the stories, another story says a race of giants were created to built T.O. with Tecan. 1229 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,000 Which could be the same people as the Omeck. 1230 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,000 This is the temple of the Pyramid of Kessel Coattel. 1231 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,000 At T.O. with Tecan you can see the feathered serpent symbolism here. 1232 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,000 It's the temple of the moon. 1233 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:18,000 And even look, this gentleman up here, this Jade mask, was actually discovered at T.O. with Tecan, 1234 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:22,000 which has extremely Omeck features. 1235 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,000 So there could be an influence there. 1236 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:31,000 This is me hanging out on the Pyramid of the Sun. 1237 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:38,000 And even at sites like Kessel Coattel around which is within the confines of Mexico City. 1238 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:42,000 There's some very ancient data here which goes back to Omeck times or even beyond. 1239 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:47,000 And there are figurines that have been found there, which again have Omeck features. 1240 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,000 Which you can see in the museum there. 1241 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:56,000 And even Chalula which is the largest pyramid in the world, which is an tower called Puebla. 1242 00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:02,000 It's bigger than any other pyramid that anywhere, basically, is absolutely outrageous. 1243 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,000 It's ridiculous. They have tunnels in it. 1244 00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,000 It's dedicated to Kessel Coattel. 1245 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,000 But they have a strange kind of Omeck head here. 1246 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:18,000 What is this doing here? Why is that just sitting there just outside the main steps going up to the pyramid? 1247 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:26,000 And the story is go back to the time of Kessel Coattel that he was the inspiration for building this. 1248 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:31,000 It's absolutely amazing. Very strange carved stones here. 1249 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:37,000 And it just goes on and on. You can look at many, many sites in this area. 1250 00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:42,000 And you can keep finding examples throughout Central America of this. 1251 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,000 It's Monti Alban. This is in Nehwahaka. There's another site called Mittler. 1252 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:51,000 This is again, we see these carvings here. And these are famously thought to be Omeck. 1253 00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,000 Now this is about 500 BC. 1254 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,000 Officially, this would be the end of the Omeck era. 1255 00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00:01,000 It's just a more close-up to this. 1256 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,000 So you can just see some examples. 1257 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,000 I went here back in 2010. Absolutely fascinating place. 1258 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:12,000 Highly recommended. It's got very high level of astronomy built into the site as well. 1259 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:16,000 But it does seem like the Omecks were based in Wahaka at the end of their era. 1260 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:21,000 Now one of the most interesting things we're going to sort of finish up just in a couple of minutes 1261 01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:27,000 is the fact that they migrated south into the south in Central America and even South America. 1262 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:34,000 Some of the archaeologists and anthropologists believe they could have even gone all the way down to Costa Rica 1263 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,000 because we have this stone sphere here from San Lorenza. 1264 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:44,000 But there's some like 300 that have been found in Costa Rica around the area of Golfito, Palmer Sir, Palmer Norte. 1265 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,000 I did go down there myself and take a look. 1266 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:54,000 And this would be, if this was the case, this would explain a lot of what was going on because you had the same story as you had further south of Castle Coattle. 1267 01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:02,000 These are plumes, serpent gods arriving in various parts of Central and South America. 1268 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:07,000 And even, you know, we're looking at the migration routes. This is Africa, Central America. 1269 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,000 And this is where the sea, so you can, you jump on a boat and hit that. 1270 01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:20,000 You're going to end up in the Gulf Coast. This is something that's been researched by various people, thought her idol and others. 1271 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:28,000 And there are traditions as a place where in fair gods are started faces by constant airwins. 1272 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:37,000 She found in some of the skulls she was looking at in Central America, like quote, distinct signs of knee-goid ancestry in many new world skulls. 1273 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:47,000 But even back in 1956, other African type skulls were found, which were very similar to ones we find in West Africa. 1274 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:54,000 And even Fryer, Diego, Delanda, who lived in 1524, 1579. 1275 01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:08,000 And the most important early destroyer and preserve of knowledge of the Yucatan, some old men of Yucatan, so they heard from the ancestor that this country was people by certain race who came from the east, who got delivered by opening for them 12 roads through the sea. 1276 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:19,000 This is back in the mid-1500s, this was quoted as saying. And this from, I forget where this is from. 1277 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:25,000 This is sorry, this is a Zapa, yes of course, and this is down towards the South Coast. 1278 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:31,000 And this depicts a ship, which some people say is the ship that came over from Africa. 1279 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:37,000 And this is a depiction of that, and this is been some serious archaeological and academic research done on this. 1280 01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:43,000 And now it's kind of opened up to the idea that the Olmex were indeed from different parts of the world. 1281 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:50,000 We have ideas that are from China, with the Shang dynasty, with all the Jade and the rituals and other such things. 1282 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:54,000 We have evidence that came from Africa, probably a little bit earlier. 1283 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:59,000 There's evidence now from Europe and the Middle East and some of the carvings and some of the iconography. 1284 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:04,000 So it seems like this was a cosmopolitan culture, this is a very strange culture. 1285 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:11,000 And although the academics claim that all are local and they all just look like that locally, they look like loads of different people from different parts of the world. 1286 01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:16,000 It's really a little bit of a joke nowadays, because people realise diffusion is a reality. 1287 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:22,000 People could travel across the seas. And we really have to take this seriously. 1288 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:28,000 And finally enough, when we were in, when we were in Mexico, me and Brian actually thought we met a descendant of the Olmach. 1289 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:36,000 Not me, this guy, and you can see that the features there are really quite remarkable. 1290 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:41,000 And so, you know, there was probably interbreeding between all the different cultures at that time. 1291 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:48,000 And I think, you know, we have to take this seriously now and, you know, and get over there and take a look for ourselves. 1292 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:54,000 Because there's much more to be discovered. I'm going to be going over there in December and hopefully in February to do more research. 1293 01:03:54,000 --> 01:04:00,000 Maybe take a small group out there. And I think it connects with a lot of the other cultures we're talking about. 1294 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:06,000 And I think the dating could also be a bit earlier than what the academics are claiming as more and more gets discovered. 1295 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,000 So, thank you for listening to me. Now you are all, oh, Mek. Thank you. 1296 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,000 You 1297 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,000 You