Luke Caverns
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
Luke Caverns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And how many of these lines exist? It's not really majorly studied, but I think that there's a few of these of these images that are out there and more that are further off into the desert that some people have. One of them was a monkey. How do they even know what monkeys are?
Well, OK, here's that's a great that's a great question there. Were there monkeys in California? No, I doubt it. But an idea of how this could happen is – so at Teotihuacan, like I was talking to you, this is an hour north of Mexico City. There were monkeys that we have found that were in zoos in Teotihuacan, like dead monkeys that are buried.
And this species of monkey is only found in the southern Amazon. So it's all the way up in northern Mexico. So all of these things are connected. Okay, another – Jamie, could we look up, please –
Oh, okay, okay. That makes sense.
Okay. So those monkeys are in Peru. Well, even so, there are Amazonian monkeys that are coming all the way up here.
There's a fence around it. It could be a deer. Yeah, it could be a deer. But are deer out there?
Scroll back up again. Let me see that again. Yeah, they have no idea.
Doesn't look like horse to me. I think you're right.
Oh, yeah. A deer, they've got the little tails.
Okay, do you know about... Have you ever heard of were-jaguars? No. Oh, dude. This is like... This is my shit. Okay, so were-jaguars. It is another piece of evidence of at least... Well, the lower part of North America connecting with the Amazon. Oh, dude. This is badass. All right, so... So the very first some of the first evidence that we have of people in the Americas.
So you think of like, where do you where do you imagine that people migrate into the Americas? Like, where do you think we would find the first evidence? Oh, boy.
Yeah, maybe so. Or, you know, traditionally people think that maybe you would find it in Alaska coming in. You know, people migrating over during or before and after the Ice Age. Sure. Or, I'm sorry, during and before the Ice Age. And then some people might think that, you know, you have Polynesians that are skipping across the Pacific that are coming into Alaska.
But most of the time, it's West Coast. People think you'd find something out there. Some of the oldest evidence that we have are 30,000-year-old caves on the east side of the Amazon, on the east side, the opposite side of the Americas, as far away as you can possibly get from where people would have traditionally arrived in the Americas. Now, that evidence is constantly changing.
There's constantly new things that are being found, like white sands, and there's 150,000-year-old bone tools or chisels that are being found where people were cutting into woolly mammoth bones, crazy stuff. But one of these old evidences is people in the Amazon 20,000 to 30,000 years ago on the East Coast in Brazil, on the Atlantic Coast.
And they have these, I think it may have been Teddy Roosevelt's granddaughter that found this. She was a South American archaeologist. She was inspired to go to the Amazon. It's really interesting. In the Olmec realm, there's what's called a were-jaguar. It's just like a werewolf, spelled sort of the same. But you have these two different dichotomies in the Olmec world.
You have the Olmec heads, which, by the way, I brought you a head.
So this is made... So this is made from basalt by the modern Olmec people.
Yeah, super cool. So these guys – Thank you. These guys, we don't know who they are. We don't know exactly what they represent because they're just guys with normal faces. They have Olmec faces, but they're all wearing this helmet. What the hell does the helmet mean? It could be two different things.
It's a signature of their divine rulership, like we think they might be kings, somebody who can commission a monument this big. This is a testament to his power. Or these are revered ballgame players, the Mesoamerican ballgame. I'm sure you've dove into this a little bit. Or it's both, that the most masculine thing that you can be is a great Mesoamerican ballgame player, and that's the king.
He wants to see himself out of it. It's the same thing as Marcus Aurelius' son. Why am I forgetting his name? The really bad emperor. God, I can't remember his name. But anyways, he wanted to be seen like Hercules fighting in the Colosseum. And, um, so we think this might be a kind of similar thing. There's a whole different type of people that are existing in the Olmec realm.
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