Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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But to see it as an ever-present reality, we understand that we're affected by the climate on planet Earth. We understand we're affected by the weather, by the oceans, by the winds. They affect us. They affect our personalities. So why shouldn't we be affected by the broader universe that surrounds us?
It's not been a central focus for me. My central focus has more been on the evidence for really precise ancient astronomy. particularly amongst the ancient Egyptians, but also fantastically advanced amongst the Maya in Mexico as well. And we have a big focus on the Maya in season two of Ancient Apocalypse. And I was fortunate, blessed...
to have a brilliant archaeologist, Ed Barnhart, who joined me there in Palenque. And he's not sneering at me. He doesn't agree with everything I say. He's very clear on that. But he's not sneering at me. And he feels that there's something useful being contributed by this approach.
I think that archaeologists are very reluctant to accept the broader idea. They are willing. They can hardly deny that some structures are specifically aligned to the equinoctial rising point of the sun, in other words, due east. And other structures are aligned to the rising or the setting of the sun on the summer or the winter solstice. That cannot be denied.
Serpent Mound in Ohio is a classic example of that, which is oriented precisely to the setting sun on the winter solstice. But the broader idea that, for example, positions of stars in the sky might be replicated on the ground, that's an idea that archaeology completely rejects.
And that's where I would like to pay tribute to my dear friend Robert Boval, who's been very ill for the last many years. But Robert Boval brought us the Orion Correlation. And my God, did archaeology descend upon him like a ton of bricks. for just noticing that the three great pyramids of Giza are laid out on the ground in the pattern of the three stars of Orion's belt.
And then when we work precession into the equation, we find that they're not laid out in the pattern of Orion's belt as it looked in 2500 BC when the pyramids are supposed to have been built. They're laid out in the pattern of Orion's belt in 10,500 BC, 12,500 years ago.
So it's like a marker on the Giza Plateau speaking to that age, just as Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe speaks to that age in the astronomical diagram on that pillar.
Yeah, that's right, because it's a cycle. It goes back.
Yeah, the Sphinx is another one. The... Sphinx aligned with it. It was looking at the rising sun and behind it the constellation of Leo 12,500 years ago. But if you go back 25,000, 26,000 years before that, you'll find the same alignment occurring. It's a cycle. It's not a one-off event. It's a cycle that occurs every 26,000 years. It's a mind blower.
It's a mind-blower, and that's why John Anthony West, who I'm so glad you had him on your show before he passed. He was such a genius and such a funny guy.
I probably watched it 30 times. He was an absolute genius. And John was of the view that the Sphinx is more than 30,000 years old rather than just 12,500 years old.
Yeah. That's the really important matter that Robert Shock has brought to the table, which no other person has dared to do. Now, John Anthony West started that process. He was aware of a problem in the weathering of the Sphinx, but he wasn't quite sure what the problem was. He was following up some writings by
A scholar called Schwaller de Lubix back in the 1920s or 1930s who said something about water weathering on the Sphinx. And so John brought Robert Shock there to Giza. And Robert Shock immediately recognized the weathering patterns on the Sphinx as the result of heavy rainfall, exposure to heavy rainfall for thousands of years.
And you have to go back to the Younger Dryas to get that kind of heavy rainfall back. in Giza, hence the notion that the Sphinx geologically, whatever else we may say about it, is 12,000 plus years old. And it was courageous of Robert to do that. He put his own career in jeopardy, just like anybody who sticks their neck out in this field does.
He put his own career in jeopardy by standing up for a much older Sphinx. And I just hugely respect him for doing that.
That's right. That's right.
Yeah. They circle the wagons at a certain point.
Yeah. Yeah. Most unfortunately.
Can I say a couple of things about the show? Sure.
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