Megalithic Marvels - In Search of Cyclops: Cyclopean Architecture (Part 1)

Episode Date: July 19, 2022

Derek Olson of Megalithic Marvels takes you on an audible journey back in time in search of the legendary Cyclops. Was Cyclops a literal one-eyed ancient hybrid giant or a symbol of the lost knowledge the megalithic builders once possessed in ages past? Greek writers like Pausanias mention that the megalithic walls of Europe were erected by a one-eyed giant race who worked in the god’s forges under Mount Etna near Sicily. This legend is still preserved today with a term archaeologists use to describe this architecture: cyclopean, from the word cyclops. Cyclopean construction consists of massive polygonal blocks that interlock together without mortar, designed to be earth quake proof. In Greek mythology, the Cyclopes were the giant one eyed sons of the gods & considered the master masons of the golden age. Homer’s “Odyssey” features the cyclops Polyphemus who is described as “godlike & towering over all the Cyclops’ clans in power”. Polyphemus was the offspring of Poseidon & a woman named Thoosa, thus making him a demi-god. This mirrors the Gen 6:4 account of the Watchers breeding with earth women to produce the giant Nephilim. SHOW NOTES Video: "Cover-Up" Previous Podcast Episode "Giant's of Lovelock Cave & Mt Shasta Mysteries" Follow Megalithic Marvels on the following platforms: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/megalithicm... Blog - https://megalithicmarvels.com/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpiP... Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/megalithicma... TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@megalithicmarvels Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/10186... Twitter - https://twitter.com/MegMarvels

Hello everyone. Derek Olson here to reconstruct the prehistoric past with you. In this episode, we're going to take a journey deep into Greek mythology to investigate the legendary Cyclops and the supposed cyclopean walls built by these giant hybrids or supposed giant hybrids. But before we do, I want to let you know that I just uploaded a new video across all of our Megalific Marvel's video platforms on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc. It's called cover-up. And in this one-minute video, I believe I destroy the mainstream narrative that says that the further we look back in time, the more archaic the ancients were. I provide some video evidence I collected from Egypt. So find this video on those platforms or click the first link below in the show notes to see it and share it.

Lastly, please subscribe to this podcast. And if you like it, give it a five-star rating, and I will do my best to read your review. you on a future episode as a way of saying thanks. Okay, so let's get into our topic today. I'm titling this in search of Cyclops Part 1. And this is going to be a two-part series. So let's start out talking about the origins of Cyclopean architecture. So the ancients believed that the megalithic architecture they beheld in their day was constructed by these hybrid, giant demigods. This myth is preserved to this day in the term used by archaeologists to describe these megaliths as cyclopean. This comes from the word cyclops. And a cyclopean architecture

consists of massive, what I call megaton, polygonal blocks that interlocked together without using mortar. They were designed essentially to be earthquake proof to flex and sworex and sworex. during cataclysms or cataclysmic events. While megalithic locations around the world, such as Soxay-Wamon in Peru or Giza and Abidos in Egypt, get most of the attention, the ruined megalithic constructions scattered across Europe, like places in Italy, especially Greece, are equally impressive in their own right, and they feature incredible cyclopean architecture. And if you were a tourist visiting these sites, at first glance, you might not even,

even notice the megalithic foundations and ruins that are still left there because they've all been repurposed by later civilizations, especially the Greeks that came along and built columns and amphitheaters and really other inferior constructions around and on top of the earlier megaliths. But as you look closer, you can begin to see and differentiate between kind of the man-made mortar construction and then the megalis that are mortarless. And these megalis are built out of softer stone usually like limestone, which can deteriorate much quicker than say megalis in Peru made of granite. And the stone especially in places like Greece is much softer.

So what you're seeing is a very more ruinous glimpse of what once was the precision original construction. Again, megalis made out of granite or andesite like we see in Peru. They're made out of a much harder stone on the most scale of hardness. And so still today, you can get a much clearer picture of what they once were. But again, the cyclopean ruins in Europe, even on places like Malta, Sardinia, they're much more eroded. So in Greek mythology, the Cyclopees were the giant one-eyed sons of the gods. They were considered like master masons, blacksmiths, metalworkers, and they were the craftsmen

of the golden age. Europe's tradition of the Cyclops are that they were the serious artisans who lived under the earth. Again, master masons and metallurgists who retained the knowledge of the early gods. And they are thought to be the builders of all the cyclopean structures we see in Greece and Italy. Timothy Albarino has a newer book called Birthright, and in chapter seven or eight, I believe, of his book, he kind of hits on Greek mythology in the golden age and this cyclopean architecture. So I wanted to read this paragraph verbatim, quote, The elites of the prehistoric world possessed and shared knowledge that enabled them to construct

the megaliths. The megaliths alone. own bear witness to the knowledge that was lost in the great cataclysm. Megalithic ruins displaying the trademark techniques of cyclopean masons have been discovered in all four hemispheres of the planet. The simplest explanation for the universality of the megalithic phenomenon is to assume that an advanced global civilization once populated the earth until it was utterly destroyed in a worldwide cataclysm.

the general narrative relating to the commingling of God and man, the subsequent procreation of hybrid offspring, and sudden obliteration of a ruinous cataclysm can be detected in their written records and oral traditions of every primary culture on earth. There are so many parallels in the pre-flood legends of Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Mesoamerican, Andean, Polynesian, and Asians. It is therefore logical to conclude that these stories originate from the same source, end quote.

So that's kind of an overview of the origins of Cyclopean architecture. Okay, now let's talk about some deeper Greek mythology and legends of Cyclops. So Titus Flavius Josephus was a first century Roman Jewish scholar. he lived about 37 BC to 100 AD. And in his writings, Josephus references ancient giants in several places. Here is a quote from his greatest work called The Antiquities of the Jews. Quote, there were till then left the race of giants who had bodies so large and countenance is so entirely different from other men

that they were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men, end quote. Notice in this quote how Josephus remarks about the countenances of these, what he calls giants, this race of giants, that their countenances were entirely different from other men, so much so that they were surprising to the sight. Does this kind of point towards this idea of a cyclops?

It looks so different and freakish. Josephus also notes in another quote that the fallen angels had children with women and produced these giants with superhuman strength and he linked these creatures to Greek mythology for he says right here quote the tradition is that these men

did what resembled the acts of those men the Grecians called the giants end quote So there's a little history from a non-biblical source there, Josephus. The Greeks, we know, worshipped Zeus and the Pantheon. And the Pantheon was this superhuman group, right, that reflected the situation really that we see in Genesis 6, as far as I can tell, where these giant hybrids are ruling the earth

because they have superhuman abilities that really can't be matched by human beings. So another clue is that the Greek gods are said to regularly mate with human women to produce offspring. And when you start studying all the offspring in the pantheon, these guys are all basically giants, including Cyclops or the Cyclopes, plural, who were the offspring from the union of a god. Uranus, for example, who represented the sky and Gaia who represented the earth. So are the Greek myths and the Roman myths based on them really greatly modified events that trace their root to the fallen angels breeding with earth women to create the Nephilim as giants that we read about in Genesis 6-4 that talks about the giants that were on the earth in those days? Many classical writers and historians, including Homer, Hesiod, Plutarch, mentioned in their writings the idea that the cyclopean ruins of Italy and of Europe in general were erected by this now extinct cyclopean race. The Odyssey is one of the oldest narratives to withstand time, accredited to Homer, and it was written approximately 800 BC.

and this text has preserved memories from an Aragon by, an age of heroes. And Polyphemus is the Cyclops found in Homer's Odyssey. And this one-eyed beast is arguably the most famous of his kind. And he's presented really as like a man-eating monster. And he's an obstacle to Odysseus' journey home, who's the hero of the story. and Polyphemus is described as follows in the Odyssey, quote, Godlike Polyphemus,

towering over all thy cyclopee's clans in power, end quote. So according to the poet, Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon and the nymph, the nymphthusa, thus making him a demigod. and the hero of the odyssey again odysseus reaches the island of the cyclopees during his journey home after the Trojan war and he goes to explore the cave of polyphemus so polyphemus this giant cyclops is living in this cave and odesias sneaks in and in the layer of the cyclops odesius and his men encounter polyphalops Phaeamus. And the Cyclops kills and eats some of Odysseus' men. The rest of them escape,

but Odysseus later returns while the giant is sleeping, and he plunges a stake into its eye, blinding it before he escapes the island. In the works of the earliest Greek writers, again, Hesiod and Homer, there's really two types of cyclopees that can be identified. There's the man-eating monster type, as we just mentioned in the Odyssey. And then there's another type that seems to be more represented as a highly skilled architect type. In Hephaeod's work Theogony, three Cyclopes are mentioned. And it was these Cyclopees who are said to have forged the thunderbolts for Zeus. In addition, they created the Trident for Poseidon

and the cap of invisibility for Hades. In later tradition, the Cyclopees are said to be the smith of the gods and that they worked in the gods forges under Mount Etna, which is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily. So unlike Hesiod's Cyclopees, later Cyclopes are said to have come from Thrace and were named after Cyclope. Cyclops, their one-eyed king.

And these cyclopies are credited with construction of the so-called cyclopean walls, again, a term that was derived from Posenius' description of the walls at ancient Misennais and turns in Greece. And in his description of Greece, Posenius remarks that the stones used to construct these walls were so huge that only the cyclopees could have moved them. So that's coming straight from a pretty famous Greek writer there. Homer's cyclopees, on the other hand, again, they're quite different from Hesiodes, and they're presented as more of the brutish, uncivilized creatures.

And they appear in the Odyssey and are described as creatures who practice neither agriculture nor governance. Here's a pretty cool quote from, Homer, quote, they never plant with her own hands or plow in the soil. They have no meeting place for counsel, no laws either, for the Cyclops have no ships. These creatures are even isolated from each other. Up on the mountain peaks, they live in arching caverns, each allah unto himself, ruling his wives and children, not a care in the world for any other neighbor. End quote. So that gives us a little bit more of an idea of what these supposed hybrids were like.

Therefore, the way of the life of the Cyclopees, perhaps even more than their physical differences, distinguishes them from human beings. They're living in caves. They're really isolated. Now, while the Odyssey is the best known story about Polyphemus, other tales about the Cyclops were written by later Greek and Roman writers, the best known one being Ovid's. And during the Renaissance, Ovid's tale about Polyphemus

became really popular theme and art, including paintings and literature and music. And incidentally, the word Cyclops, again, plural is cyclopees, it translates as round eye or circle eye. And though there are scholars who believe, believe that this name is derived from an older word. Basically, it means sheep thief. Now, I've got to point out in this whole discussion of Cyclops. Again, there's many scholars and people who have the opinion that this myth all just boils down to the discovery of

prehistoric mammoth skulls that the ancients found. you know, where there's just what would look like a big one-eyed indentation in the center of the forehead where the trunk would come out. So people just kind of use that as, hey, that's all the cyclops was. And maybe it was, but maybe it wasn't. Because in part two, we're going to talk about some possible Cyclops discoveries of bones that were found. So to conclude part one of this two-part series, I ask this question. Was Cyclops a literal one-eyed hybrid giant of the prehistoric past, or was he symbolic of the lost knowledge that the megalithic builders possessed in ages past?

Again, stay tuned for part two. soon. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Hey, before you go, be sure to check out my last podcast episode where I was interviewed by the guys from the blurry creatures podcast on the fascinating topic of the red-haired giants of Lovela Cave and the many Mount Shasta mysteries. I'll link that one below in the show notes as well and I'll see you over there. Until next time, keep exploring.