Megalithic Marvels - Graham Hancock just said 4 things that are Driving Archaeologists Mad

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Graham Hancock recently joined Randall Carlson for a discussion where he made four statements that I found very very interesting, which of course, are causing mainstream archaeologists to collectively lose their minds! Graham states that the story we’ve been told about our past does not explain a vast number of anomalies that need explanation. Therefore, I share a couple examples of such ancient anomalies that the mainstream history narrative ignores. Graham goes on to say that beneath the politically correct veneer of the academics, that they actually despise indigenous traditions. Therefore, I share two fascinating legends of local native cultures that may point to some larger shocking truths.Graham then explains how the mainstream academics dislike Plato’s Atlantis tale, not only because it throws a monkey wrench into their proposed history timeline, but because Plato ties Atlantis to the idea of a world wide cataclysmic flood. Therefore, I share several of these flood legends from around the world that all include many of the same striking details. JOIN ME ON A TOUR

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And I'm going to play each of these clips for you in this episode. But first, a quick reminder to subscribe to my podcast from wherever you are watching. And if you are on Spotify, please leave me that five-star review. and also consider joining me on one of my upcoming tours. I'm going to Peru and Bolivia this September. I am going to Egypt this December, and we just launched a Cambodia-anchor-Wat tour for January of 2007.

We've got some incredible deals to lock in on these tours. Also go to megalithic marvels.com slash tours to get all the info or click the link in the show notes below. Now we have a lot of new people following my show, so I don't want to assume that everybody watching knows exactly who Graham Hancock is. So just to let you know, Graham Hancock started out as a British journalist, and then he became an author of many groundbreaking books, such as fingerprints of the gods. The last several years, he's become the star of the Netflix hit documentary series called Ancient Apocalypse, and many consider him to be the father or you could say the leader of the modern day alternative history movement. So Graham recently joined Randall Carlson, as I said, for a discussion that was hosted by the Quest for the Ancient Civilizations Conference,

which I was just at this past weekend in Sedona, Arizona. I got to speak there at this conference with some other great speakers such as Randall Carlson himself got to meet him. He was just a really cool, personable guy, and I look forward to sharing some of my insights that I learned from him and these other speakers in a future episode. But back to this talk that Graham was having with Randall just a few weeks ago, where Graham made several interesting, revealing comments, starting with Randall, just a few weeks ago, where Graham made several interesting, revealing comments, starting with this one. Check it out. There is an old guard, particularly in archaeology, that vehemently defend what in many ways is a completely discredited paradigm.

And we'll continue to do so clinging on by the skin of their teeth for as long as possible and doing as much harm and damage as they can to anybody who suggests alternative points of view. But the writing is on ball. and the new evidence keeps on coming in. And, you know, I don't know what that evidence proves except one thing. It proves that the structure of history and prehistory that we've been given, the further back you go, the less reliable that structure is.

That we've been given a story about our deep past, which does not explain a vast number of anomalies that need explanation. And that's why people are so uncomfortable, with the mainstream archaeological narrative. It's not because archaeologists are bad people. They're doing important work, great work. They're the tools that they use and the mindset, the professionalism that they bring to the investigation of the past

are incredibly important. Their mistake is thinking that they have a monopoly on this, that those are the only tools and the only mindset that works. And I think what we're saying is that we need to break that monopoly, that other voices need to be allowed in. our collective past as a species cannot be owned, the keys to it cannot be owned by a small group of academics. That's exactly right.

So in this clip, Graham's basically talking about the academics versus the rest of us. And Graham says here that our collective past as a species cannot be owned by just this small group of academics that we need to break up their monopoly and that the story that we've been told about our past from them does not explain a vast number of anomalies that need explanation. And Graham goes on to say that that's why people are so uncomfortable with the mainstream archaeological narrative. So just what Graham said here in this first clip has got to have archaeologists losing their collective minds when Graham is throwing bombs such as saying that we need to break up their monopoly. So let's consider some of these.

Ancient anomalies that Graham is kind of referring to here that the mainstream history narrative collectively ignores. Now hidden in a dark, dusty corner of Cairo's Egyptian Museum is an artifact. But this isn't just any artifact. This artifact is not protected behind glass. It's not roped off like the museum's most valued artifacts. There's no light illuminating down on this artifact. there's no plaque describing this artifact. The museum is basically saying there's nothing to see here, move on already. Therefore, I would argue that this artifact that I'm about to show you is one of

the most valuable artifacts in this entire museum, if not all, of Egypt. And this artifact I'm referring to is this rose granite block that must have weighed upwards of 20, plus tons in its unfinished state. It was quarried in Aswan over 500 miles away from Cairo. That's the equivalent of a 10-hour car ride if you're going about 50 miles an hour. Okay, so we don't even have time to talk about that anomaly of the story. Now, at first glance, this artifact may not appear all that exciting, but it's when you get up close to it that you realize what you are looking at.

On the far left side is a cut, or you could say slice, that runs from the top of this box all the way down, deep inside, towards the bottom. Now, from the top, you can clearly see here how the cut tapers to a point as if someone literally took a lightsaber and began slicing down. Now, when I peered close into the crack from the top and the bottom, I could literally look at a light saber, I could literally take. literally see two different cuts, one coming down from the top, but also one coming up from the bottom, and these two cuts met in the middle and left a piece of material in the center. So it's literally as if this box was suspended in the air or elevated or placed onto something where two giant circular blades then simultaneously cut into it, one coming down from the top, one coming up from the bottom.

And when you really look close at the edge of the cut here about halfway down, you can clearly see where the ancient tool or blades had deviated off course making a mistake, which may be why the box was left unfinished. Now when you look at the right set of the box, you see that it has been precision hollowed out. Now this box is almost identical. to the giant serapium boxes of Sakara. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive.

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So 100 tons on average. And the lids were cut from the bottom of each box. So it was all one piece of the same material. So that's what I think was going on here with this box in the Cairo Museum. This box when you look at it is actually flipped on. its side. The hollowed out side on the right side is actually the top and the slices on the left side is actually the bottom way they were shearing off the lid to place on top until they made a mistake and abandoned the project. Now this box was fashioned again from one solid

piece of rose granite which ranks a seven to eight on the most scale of hardness with diamond being a ten. My friends, no copper chisel and hammer on earth could shape this box, let alone precision shape it, and make that precision slice that tapers at the corner. No pounding dollarite stones could make this kind of precision. To me, in my humble opinion, this is one of the smoking gun evidences of lost ancient technology hidden in plain sight at this museum. And this is also one of the artifacts that mainstream Egyptology, archaeology, history debunkers don't want to talk about. Now let's consider one more ancient anomaly that mainstream history collectively ignores.

And I'm talking about the Puma Punku site in Bolivia, which we're going to visit this September. By the way, I hope you will join me. You can go to megalithic marvels.com slash tours to learn all about it and lock in a massive discount through the end of this month. Now, as I've stated previously, approaching the site of Puma Punku and the remote vastness of Bolivia is like walking up to a buried time capsule

where you are greeted with these precision diorite H blocks featuring almost microscopic drill holes and the tips of giant megalis emerging from the earth. And rumor has it that what we see here on the surface at Pumapunku is just the tip of the ice, compared with what still lies buried beneath. And that could be an entire another full episode to ask the question,

why is this stuff still 90 plus percent buried? Why with all of our supposed greatest modern technology are we not unnerthing these incredible megalis to find out what is still down there if what we're seeing on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg? Now, the mainstream narrative pretty much states that the Tijuana culture, as they call it, built this site around 500 AD, using just their primitive stone hammers and bronze chisels, a for at best, on the Moes scale of hardness.

Again, the reoccurring issue here often is that these blocks at Pumapunku are made mostly of either andesite or gray diorite, both about a seven on the Moes scale. There's just no way to precision shape these with softer manual hand tools. Now, some will say that these are made with a mold. However, you still have to account for the precision drill-like holes that you see all over. Obviously, those were made with something, some kind of tool. Now, aside from the precision problem is the transportation problem. And you're going to love this because one of the mainstream theories is that these four,

40 plus ton blocks were transported over 50 miles away across Lake Titicaca on reed boats. That's right, reed boats. And then once they got them to shore, they were dragged another six miles to the city. Now, 40 tons is the equivalent of more than 25 automobiles, just to put this into perspective. and they want us to believe that they were transported on reed boats. Now, Arthur Posnoski, he was an early 1900s engineer and archaeologist who is kind of considered the Tsar of Tewanaku and Pumapunku archaeology in Bolivia. And he states that Tijuanau and Pumapunku had an inception date of, get this,

15,000 years ago based on the celestial alignments that he made. measured. Paznowski saw Tijuana and Pumapunku as the origin points of civilization throughout the Americas. And it's interesting that the Incan legends and the old oral traditions of Veracocha state that he emerged near Lake Tidikaka. So Paznowski

unearthed elongated skulls in the strata here that he dated, get this, to the Pleistocene period, circa 11,000. 700 years ago. Also a group of German astronomers came to these sites to study his work and they dated the site to circa 9,600 BC. Now Graham Hancock would point out that there is evidence that would suggest that Pumapunku was once a port complete with extensive docks positioned right on the lake. Now the problem is that these ruins are now marooned south of the lake in more than a hundred feet higher than the present shoreline of Lake Titicaca. But in his book, Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham, states the following,

quote, in the period since the city was built, it therefore follows that one of two things must have happened, either the level of the lake has fallen greatly, or the land on which a Tijuanaq stands has risen comparably, end quote. Now, Pedro Cezzo de Leone, an early Spanish chronicler who visited Tijuana, wrote the following. Quote, I asked the natives whether these edifices were built in the time of the Inca. They laughed at the question, affirming that they were made long before the Inca reign, end quote. Now, at the nearby site of Tijuana, archaeologists found channels that run 100 feet underground, where they found, guess what, mercury and radon gas passing through.

Author Dave Truman, who wrote a book called Lost Cities of the Andes, he writes that these ancient engineers were engineering toleric currents by using natural faults in the earth to divert water channels to focus natural electric currents in specific areas, likely toward their pyramids, such as the pyramid they're at Tijuana. So these are just a few of the ancient anomalies, that mainstream history ignore is just at this one site.

But I would like to know what you guys think. Do these anomalies that I just showed you prove the existence of lost civilizations who possessed lost ancient technology? Please leave me a comment below and let me know. Now, Graham was just getting warmed up because listen to what he says next. We need to remember and we need to remind

the quackademics, that members of the general public also have important insights to bring to this party. That it is not simply the quote-unquote qualified archaeologist who has a right to speak about the past or to have insights. That we should be open to the insights of all and everyone because the past is a deep mystery. I mean, we keep as a species, we keep somehow pretending to ourselves that it isn't. But it is really a deep mystery. Who are we? Where do we come from? Is there a purpose to life? Is there a meaning to life? The ancients devoted their best minds to considering such matters.

Whereas today we paid way too much attention to trivia and to passing fats and fancies. You know, we need to learn. We need to learn from the past. This is the message. And to do so to do so with a sense of respect and a sense of humility. And it's that disrespect for Plato that I come across in academics. Whenever he says something that doesn't fit with their narrow and limited picture of the past, they immediately disrespect him. These same quacademics present themselves as being champions of indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples in places like the Amazon rainforests.

But believe in spirits. They have encounters with entities. in altered states of consciousness. And if you put that to an academic, they'll say, oh, that's just rubbish. That has no meaning at all. So beneath their politically correct veneer, the experts in these fields actually despise indigenous traditions and the word of the past that has come down to us. Wow.

So Graham here states that it is not simply just the qualified archaeologist who has a right to speak about the past, that we should be open to the insights of all and everyone because the past is a deep mystery. Well said. And I think almost everyone I know would agree with this common sense approach. Now, Graham goes on to say that, quote, these academics present themselves as being champions of indigenous peoples in places like the Amazon rainforest, where they believe in spirits and where they have encounters with entities and, altered states of consciousness. But if you ask the academics, they'll say that this is just rubbish. So beneath their politically correct veneer, the experts actually despise indigenous

traditions, end quote. I mean, this is quite the statement, because he's saying these mainstream high-browed academics act like they're the champions of the indigenous people, yet they actually despise these indigenous traditions. Well, let's consider some of these indigenous legends that modern-day academics ignore. I'm going to read you about two of them, and then I want to know what you think if these might point to some truth in the prehistoric past. Now, let me set up this first legend by sharing that located north of Guam are these two tiny islands known as Rota and Tinian where several massive coral limestone megaliths lie in an unfinished state. And some of these blocks weigh upwards of 30 tons. You can see how huge they are in these photos. Now what's interesting

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Again, if you talk to the locals, if you get into the lore of these islands, it's so interesting that there are these oral traditions that guess what? credit the creation of these megaliths to a 10 plus foot tall chief named Taga, who is said to have possessed incredible strength and who ruled on this island, or one of the islands. And according to the legends, Taga is said to have single-handedly carved and transported these megaliths himself in order to construct his dwelling and an entire village for the ancient inhabitants. So there you have the legend of Taga of this 10 plus foot tall giant that is linked to these megalis. This is the kind of history you're not going to find on Wikipedia. Let me recount

for you one other fascinating ancient legend and this comes from the Paiutes of northwest Nevada. And they have an ancient oral tradition that states that they went to war against a ferocious enemy tribe of red-haired cannibalistic giants known as the citica. Now the chronicle states that after a long period of war with these giants, the Paiutes came together with a coalition of other tribes who unified to exterminate this cannibalistic enemy. And they somehow trapped these giants back into a large cave. And then they set it ablaze and shot any would-beats. and shot any would-be escaping giants with a fury of fire-piercing arrows.

Now, this all may have sounded just like fancy tales until 1883, when Sarah Winamucka, who was the daughter of the Paiute chief, Winamaka at that time, wrote the first known autobiography by a Native American woman called Life Among the Paiutes. And in this book, Sarah wrote about the red-haired people eaters that her true, tribe exterminated, as well as her family's most treasured garment passed down from generation to generation, a dress trimmed with the red hair of this giant enemy tribe. So the legend of the citica went from that, just legend to written account in this autobiography. And then fast forward to 1911.

A group of miners began digging out 250 tons of bat guano and what is now known. as Lovelock Cave. This is located about 93 miles northeast of Reno. And these miners discovered countless artifacts, burnt aero shafts, a cave ceiling charred black by fire, and skeletons and skulls of giant proportion. Now, one of these miners was named James H. Hart, and he was quoted as saying that some of the best specimens had been destroyed by the miners, and that in the south end of the cave about 20 feet deep, they unearthed skeletons. And then in the north-central part of the cave about four feet deep, they found the striking-looking body of a man who was six-foot, six inches tall. His body was mummified and his hair was distinctly red. So these miners find so

many artifacts that in 1912, the University of California sent out archaeologists to conduct excavations. And the archaeologists estimated that the earliest inhabitants visited this cave around 4,000 BC. They obtained over 10,000 artifacts and specimens, which included a donut-shaped, notched stone calendar, elaborate duck decoys, and very large weapon shafts and weapons. And in reading the archaeologist reports, I found it very interesting what they state here. Quote, Tending to confirm the northern piute legend of the assault on the cave are the fire arrow foreshafs. A very large number of arrow fragments were found in the crevices of the rock fall blocking the mouth of the cave, as if they had been shot into it. As if fired by the flaming arrow was mentioned in the legend.

Now again, these archaeologists named Loudoun Harrington are writing this in 1912, really before the takeover of the Smithsonian and political correctness. So these guys are writing freely about the legends of Lovelock and how what they found during their excavation seemed to confirm the legends. Now guess what was found under the mouth of Lovelock Cave? a gigantic pestle about this long. And Dr. Jean Hittori, who is the curator of anthropology at the Nevada State Museum, he made this following shocking statement about this pestle that was found. Quote, we recently received a donation of a pestle that was found below the mouth of Lovelot Cave, and it is extraordinarily large and very heavy.

It is much larger than we usually find. It was found below Lovela Cave and well within the Sitika territory. So this could have been one of the pestles used by the red-headed giants and might account for its large size because of the large people that were using it, end quote. Now back to these archaeologists in their 1929 field guide called Lovelot Cave. Out and Herring can validate the oral tradition of the Paiutes again, and the testimony of the miners regarding, the red-haired giants by documenting their findings of skeletons with red hair and by providing photographs of a very large-looking skull as well as something else. These archaeologists feature a photo in their book of a humanoid-looking skeleton that was unearthed in the cave that looks very

similar to the humanoid specimens found in Peru, especially Paracas, Peru. Consider the size of the skull in comparison to the body. Also look at the placement of the large eye sockets along with the smallish face and jaw. I just find it very interesting that not only are giant skeletons associated with this cave

but we're also finding these smallish dwarf-like humanoids. Now again these archaeologists make another fascinating claim in their book Lovelock Cave when they say this, quote, it is quite likely that the members of the crew

excavating the guano took away the bones, especially the skulls. The best specimen of the adult mummies was boiled and destroyed by a local fraternal lodge, which wanted the skeleton for initiation purposes. Several human mummies and parts of mummies were obtained by the guano crew and the rider. Much of the hair found in the mummies in the cave is reddish. Now to end this legend, and let me share a few more interesting factoids. Mining engineer and amateur anthropologist John T. Reed from Lovelock, Nevada, claims to have examined and measured several giant skeletons that were either from Lovelace Cave or the surrounding area.

I've come across a handful of newspaper articles from that time about Lovela Cave that mentioned seven, eight, nine plus foot giants from this region. One is from the Nevada State Journal dated April 17, 1932. It mentions Reed and a 7-7-inch giant skeleton. There's another newspaper I found that mentions a 9-4-inch skeleton that was found near Lovelock. Now, here's where it gets really interesting. There's a handful of people who have testified to seeing giant skulls from Lovelot Cave in a storage room at the Humboldt Museum in Winamucka, Nevada. Two of these people were named Don Monroe and M.K. Davis. In this photo you're seeing here, was taken by Don Monroe back in the 70s and was recently discovered among his things that were boxed up. Notice how large their red skull in the middle is that appears to be quite a bit larger than the other skulls. Some say that they even notice what might be a double row of teeth on it. Now recently it has been confirmed that four of the ancient

skulls unearthed at Lovelot Cave are in fact or were recently in the possession of this Humboldt museum in Winamuck, Nevada. And according to Barbara Powell, who was the director of the collection at the time that I took this quote, she said the museum is prohibited by the state of Nevada from putting the skulls on public display because, quote, the state does not recognize their legitimacy. Now these are just two of countless indigenous legends that the mainstream history academics ignored today. I shared with you the legend of Taga, and I shared with you the legend of the sitica here of the piutes from northwest Nevada. But I brought you the receipts.

I didn't just tell you the legend. I showed you the miners reports and claims. I showed you the archaeologists excavations. I shared with you what these museum directors said themselves about the giant pestle and the skulls. I don't know what more proof we could ask for to say there is a cover-up, especially about the Paiute legend. So again, those are just two of countless indigenous legends that the mainstream history academics seem to ignore today. Now let's continue because next Graham and Randall talk a bit about Plato and the Legend of Atlantis. Check this out. One of the intriguing aspects of Plato, which of course

causes a great deal of controversy, is the statement he passes down to us that the submergence of Atlantis happened 9,000 years before Plato's, before Solon's visit to the Temple of Neith at Sice in the Delta. That's drawing from the quoted words of the of the Egyptian priest, which coincides 9,000 years before Solon is 9,600 BC, which coincides perfectly with meltwater pulse 1B, which Plato could not possibly have known about, and nevertheless, he gives us a date, which coincides with what is recognized as a catastrophic era. But at the same time, we have all these desperate attempts by those who want everything to be young to say, oh, Plato didn't mean years.

he meant months. And, you know, I'm sadden to see that people who style themselves as alternative thinkers are also grasping onto this hopeless straw that Plato was somehow referring to lunar months when the reference was to 9,000 instead of to solar years. And if anybody knew their solar years, it was the ancient Egyptians. Again, it's an effort to castrate Atlantis, to turn it into something safe that nobody has to worry about, which doesn't rewrite the entire historical timeline. Tell me your views on this.

So Graham here is describing how the mainstream academics or quackademics as he refers to them, they don't really like talking about this legend of Atlantis. And they certainly don't like how Plato wrote about Atlantis because it throws a bit of a monkey wrench into their proposed history of timeline that they want us to believe. So the mainstream history timeline tells us basically that the further we look back into history, the less interesting it was, the more inferior the ancients were and the more primitive their methods of construction, which I believe the opposite is true. The further we look back, the more ancient civilizations were, the lost civilizations before the great floods, who had sacred knowledge that we've lost,

who had incredible technologies that we've lost, that were only now beginning to start. scratch the surface of in this day. So about 400 BC is when Plato penned his works of Tamaus and Critias, where he is recounting this conversation between Solon of Athens and an old Egyptian priest. And Solon of Athens lived about 600 BC. So about 200 years before Plato is penning this. And in the story of Solon and the Egyptian priest, this ancient, Egyptian priest is explaining to Solon that advanced civilizations once ruled on earth before they were wiped out by a great flood. And then in his writing, Plato then relates the tale of Atlantis that mentions that the gods distributed the whole earth into portions and how Poseidon was given the

islands of Atlantis and he begot children by a mortal woman and that the gods artificially shaped the island. They made canals. They quarried even underneath the island. They built megalithic temples, stadiums, and racetracks. They instituted sacrifices and they basically ruled over humans. And when you take a closer look at these legends, the ancients, even in the time of the Greeks, believed that the megalists were engineered by the sons of the gods. A legend preserved to this day by the word archaeology uses to describe this architecture, which is cyclopian. Now in Greek mythology, you have Cyclops, or the Cyclopees, which I believe is for the plural. And these were the giant one-eyed sons of the gods. They were considered the master

masons who constructed the megaliths scattered all over Italy and Greece. Now, was Cyclops a literal one-eyed? giant hybrid of the prehistoric past or more symbolic of the lost knowledge the megalithic builders possessed in ages past. Now every ancient civilization has these legends regarding a worldwide flood, which I'm going to get into in just a few minutes. And Graham Hancock would argue that the evidence is piling up that a global cataclysm hit the earth some 12,500 years ago, which he refers to as the Younger Dryas event. Now what's interesting is around this time is when we have the first stones that would have been laid at Gobeckley-Tepi approximately 11,500 years ago at the end of this Younger

Dryas event. But now let's circle back to Plato because this is also the approximate date Plato gives us for the submergence of Atlantis. As he wrote that it was submerged 9,000 years before Solon visited Egypt. Well, that visit took place around 500 BC. So Plato is telling us, Atlantis was submerged about 9,500 BC. That's right, 11,500 years ago. And again, it is this dating by Plato that the mainstream history narrative can't stand because it throws this monkey wrench into the timeline that they want us to believe. When Plato is saying that Atlantis goes back to 11,500 years ago, that goes way further back than their timelines tell us.

So that is the issue here. Now, in this last soundbite, Graham goes even deeper into Atlantis and specifically the ancient flood myths and legends. You've got to check this out. It's just another one of those ways of distracting, from the core issue. Another one being the tendency of those who criticize the whole notion of Atlantis to separate Plato's story of Atlantis,

to separate that from the global flood tradition, the fact that we have more than 200, 300 flood myths all around the world, which speak of a global Catholicism, which speak of a time before the flood, often described as a golden age, which speak of humanity somehow angering the gods. and the universe striking us down. This is not a story that's limited to Plato. This is a story that's found all around the world.

And one of the ways that those who specialize in so-called debunking try to attack Atlantis is to completely ignore the global flood tradition of which Atlantis is just one small part. It's not even the largest part of it. So Graham is stating here that one of the other reasons that academia seems to despise the idea of, Atlantis is not just because it goes back much further in time than they want us to consider, but because Plato relates it to the idea of a worldwide cataclysmic flood, as mentioned in the Bible,

as well as countless ancient legends found all over the world. Now, in the biblical flood account, God is telling Noah to build this arc for he and his family and for all these animals, basically in order to survive this coming global flood. And in short, Noah does that. He gets on the boat with his family. God brings in all the animals on board by pairs, shuts the door, and the flood engulfs the world. And then Genesis chapter 7, 17 through 24 reads as follows. For 40 days, the flood kept coming on the earth.

and as the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The water rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than 15 cubits.

Every living thing that moved on land died, Every living thing that moved on land, perished, birds, livestock, wild animals, and all the creatures that swarm over the earth and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. People and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with you. him in the ark. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. So again, that right there was the bulk of Genesis chapter seven. And if you keep reading the story, the floodwaters

recede. And Noah basically sends birds out of the ark to fly around and see if they can find dry land. The birds come back telling Noah that the floodwaters hadn't receded yet, but then eventually they don't come back telling them that they found dry ground somewhere. And the boat basically lands on Mount Ararat in modern-day Turkey. Now, a quick side note on the Bible flood story that I've mentioned in other episodes. If you heard this story growing up, let's say in Sunday school class, you would have been led to believe that God sent the flood. Basically, because he got tired of humans.

They were just sitting too bad. And so he just kind of went berserk and decided to mass murder everybody except Noah and his family for some reason. But when you take a deeper look at Genesis 6'4 that talks about the Nephilim and you look into who the Nephilim were, and when you study the book of Enoch that goes in greater depth on the watchers, these fallen angels, that the Bible says bred with women and created this illegal hybrid race known as the Nephilim who were giants, this would be the alternative reason for why God sent the flood and the one which I believe is the more accurate reason. It wasn't that God sent the flood because he wanted to mass murder the entire creation that he had just made. It was that he was trying to save the creation he had just made in his image, these humans and then also the animals.

Because this illegal race had popped up, again, according to Genesis 6-4 and the Book of Enoch, and there's countless verses in the Bible that talk about these Nephleem hybrids who are basically not only devouring mankind, but they were breeding out the genetic pure bloods, until it appears that only Noah and his family were the last pure genetic humans without this Nephilim DNA. And that's why God puts them on a boat, along with the other animals that were not corrupted,

again, wiping out the illegal Nephilim, hybrids and resetting the earth with Noah and his family. And then we have all these ancient flood legends. Graham mentions that there are over 300 flood myths that he is tracked from around the world which speak of a global cataclysm, which speak of a time before the flood and often described as this golden age. And again, when you specifically look into golden age, all of these cultures around the world speak of the golden age. Well, what makes it the golden age? It was the fact that they said

that the gods, the hybrids, were mingling with man. Now, in closing here, let's look at a few more of these ancient flood myths. We've got the Sumerian legend, where the gods decide to destroy humanity with a massive flood because humans have become basically too numerous and noisy, which is interesting. However, the god has E secretly warns Utnapitim, who many believe is the Sumerian version of Noah, and he tells him this, to tear down his house, build a huge boat, seal it and pitch it with tar. Does this sound familiar? Bring his family craftsmen in the seat of all living creatures aboard because a terrifying storm is coming and basically thunder and the blackest clouds cover the sky,

the gods unleash rain and chaos, even the gods become. afraid of their own destruction in this Sumerian legend, and basically all of humanity is wiped out. After the storm, the boat rests on a mountain, and Utnipishdom sends out birds to see if the waters have receded. He sends a dove that returns, a swallow that returns. He sends a raven, which does not return. Sounds almost identical to the Genesis' six, seven, and eight story. And then Utnipishdom, releases all the animals, offers a sacrifice to the gods. Noah also did that, but to the one God. And then the gods gather like flies around the offering, where they basically promise to never destroy humanity this way again. And Utnipishdom and his wife are granted immortality and sent to live

far away. And again, the similarities here with the biblical legend account of the flood are just too strong to ignore. Now, as many of you may know, Greek mythology also contains a major flood legend. And it's the story of Ducalion, Pira, and Zeus. And in the story, Ducalion, this man is worn in advance, and he builds a chest or an arc-like vessel that survives with his wife, Pira. And after the flood, they land on a mountain and they repopulate the world. In one version, they create new humans by throwing stones over their shoulders which transform into people. And as we can see here, the Greek floodmuth shares the familiar pattern of divine anger, destruction by water, chosen survivor, a vessel, and rebirth.

Then we've got the Hindu floodmoths. In Hindu mythology, the floodmuth centers on this character named Manu, the first human who is warned by the god Vishnu in the fourth. form of a fish about an impending flood. Vishnu instructs Manu to build a large boat and gather seeds and animals to repopulate the earth after the flood. The fish then pulls Manu's boat to safety, allowing him to survive and restore life on earth. And this myth, much like the Mesopotamian and the Hebrew stories, again involves a divine

warning, a chosen individual, and the preservation of life through a vessel. And let me give you one more flood myth from ancient America, from one of the ancient Native American tribes known as the Kree. And this particular legend reads literally like a story where this trickster or villain named Wissagatok built a dam across a stream in an attempt to capture the great beaver as it left its lodge. He waited all day until finally at dusk, the huge creature swam toward him. Staples Preferred Business Membership, built for busy business owners, because you've got bigger things to think about. With Staples Preferred, get free delivery, no minimums. Staples Preferred unlocks up to 3% back, plus 10% savings on print and exclusive wireless offers. One

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Now playing only in theaters. Tickets available now. The Great Beaver possessed powerful magic and as Wasagatuk prepared to spear it. The beaver created a spell that caused a muskrat to bite Wusagatak in the rear end, making him miss the target. Those spared the Great Beaver was angry in wanted revenge. So the next morning with Sagatok was dumbfounded. After being bitten, he had dismantled his dam, but the water level had not gunned down even though the stream was now flowing freely through the spot where the dam had been. Even more strange, the water level continued to rise higher and higher. The great beaver had worked powerful magic indeed. The entire world was flooding. For two weeks the great beaver and the little beavers kept busy making all the waters of earth to rise until not one spot of dry land could be found.

So in great haste, Wasagatuk built a raft of logs and took many animals aboard with him. The water continued to rise for yet another two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, the muskrat left the raft to search for land, but even the muskrat who was accustomed to living between earth and the water, drowned. Then a raven left the raft. He flew around the entire world but found no land, only water. Then Wasagatuk made his own magic with the help of a wolf on the raft. During the next two weeks on the raft, moss grew all over its surface. The wolf ran around and around on the raft, causing moss to magically expand on earth until the raft became a vast landmass. So, he was a vast landmass. So, he was a round. even in this ancient Cree flood myth legend, we see the parallels with the biblical flood story

and the Samarian flood story in the Greek and the Hindu and so on. From the famous biblical tale of Noah's Ark to the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, to the ancient Hindu scriptures, to the Greek legends, from these indigenous American oral traditions, to the mythic memories of the Pacific Islanders. Flood stories seem to rise out of nearly every cultural landscape. These flood legends seemed to rise out of every corner of the globe. And this repetition creates a powerful question.

Did all cultures remember the same catastrophe? Did in the ancient past a real global flood occur? Did it leave behind such scars that run so deep in human beings, that we carried it into myth across the four corners of the globe. For me, in my humble opinion, this would be a big fat yes. I believe there was an ancient cataclysmic flood that covered the earth. It's so scarred humanity that every corner of the globe carries it in their legends. But I would love to know what you think.

Do you believe there was an ancient flood? in ages past? Or do you believe there was a massive younger Dryus impact event that hit the earth and so scarred humanity that we carried it into our legends? Please leave me a comment.

I hope you enjoyed this episode and I will see you next time.