Luke Caverns
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1,858 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
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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So what tomb robbers do, rather than coring all those blocks to get to that hole that leads to that tomb, what they do instead is they go, okay, we're just going to dig a parallel hole in the ground and find our way to that tomb and rob all the goods that are from it.
So they think that the way that the first pyramid was developed was that they had these shafts, these burial shafts under the ground that basically recreates the pharaoh's apartment that he would have had in Memphis. They're decorated in all kinds of different ways. There's hieroglyphs down there and everything.
And they eventually started out as this one by three structure and then they expand it to being basically a large one by one structure or let's say like a 10 by 10 structure in comparison. It's huge to be so big that people can't tunnel underneath it and get to the chambers under there.
The way that we know they did that was I was standing next to this pyramid looking at where the casing stones have fallen off. And you can see the original casing stones from the smaller building that's in there.
So you can look at it with your own eyes and go, oh, they turned this building into this building and then added five more on top to make it this grand structure that arcs up into the sky. Right. So that's the idea. And then all these other pharaohs and high-ranking government people build their tombs and their little temples for the afterlife around it.
And what they're building is a city that they're going to live in in the next life.
That's very weird.
Yeah. Abu Sir is a great example of this. I honestly, I couldn't tell you. I know that Jeffrey, that Jeffrey drum. Not that. Yeah, yeah. Definitely not that. No, it's these huge bowls. You know, it's so specific that you may not be able to find it on Google Images. It's a type in like probably land of chem bowls.
There's probably like some archaeological term.
Sure. Yeah, yeah. And this isn't my area of expertise, but it is something that's very peculiar. You have these little channels that run along the foundation of a lot of these sites, and they lead to these little – They're almost like, I mean, I can't see them being anything other than collection bowls. It's very, very strange. But I honestly couldn't tell you.
sulfur ammonia ammonia yeah yeah the higher you go into the pyramid the more it reeks of ammonia it's either it's either from something that was used inside those chambers or people just peeing in them one of the two I don't know I'm just making a joke some people think it was like bat shit or something yeah yeah guano I don't know.
Yeah. Maybe it's cats. I was in places where there was a lot of bats and it didn't smell like bats. There it is. Yeah. How strange is that, right?
Nice job.
You know, Mesoamerica, we do not have a whole lot of evidence beyond tobacco. There's thoughts that maybe mushrooms were involved, but no real proof. You know, the entire argument is founded around a couple of mushroom stone statues, which really isn't enough. Mm-hmm. But South America, they were using ayahuasca, and they were also using San Pedro cactus.
And there's a couple of other stray things that are involved in drug use, but they're, like, to prepare the body, like, to purge the body so that it can receive the hallucinogenic stuff in a pure way, like – Even manioc is said to be that, you know, manioc, we make tapioca pudding out of it, but it's poison and it's it's it'll it'll poison you in its original form.
So they think they were using manioc to just throw up and then take San Pedro or ayahuasca.
I guess up in northern Mexico, we have the Huichol people who hunt the peyote. And that seems to be a very, very old tradition. Now those poor guys are cordoned off to a little section of mountains in the mainland right across from the Baja Peninsula.
But they have this traditional – they do it to this day where they go out into the desert on this kind of like almost like Australian aboriginal spirit walk. They go out there and they go to a place that's supposed to be the mountain of creation. And there they hunt peyote like they're hunting deer. And they like shoot it with little arrows. But then they take the peyote and they –
See recreations of their creation story and bond, and then they walk back across the desert. So those guys are still doing that. And there are caves on the border of Texas and Mexico, the lower Pecos. There's especially one called White Shaman Cave. Are you ready? White Shaman Cave. Where we can see that same story being played out. People like hunting little buttons on the ground.
And the big mountain. And people obviously, well, they're like turning into ghosts. You see the top one from the... The third from the top. That's like, people interpret that as like that person's spirit coming out of them in trance. This is a big, wide panel. White Shaman Cave is absolutely amazing. It's a wonderful thing to see.
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