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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That's a pretty cool, badass name, huh? Yeah. Nobody messes with Penis Jaguar. That is pretty fucking cool. Or Jaguar Penis.
Something I think that we should highlight, if you go back to where you're zooming in really quickly, just segueing for just half a second, taking a side trip from talking about psychedelics. Negative relief? Yeah, yeah. At that site, it's these very basic, you know, animals and human beings. But this is exactly the same thing in exactly the same kind of stone.
And it's really some of the most intricately detailed reliefs in all of the ancient world. And that's on top of having probably the most complicated language in the ancient world as well. Right.
The background is deeper than the characters that are carved. It's called bas-relief. And it is much harder to do than carving into a stone. You can just keep carving and fix your mistakes. This one, your mistakes are pedestal mistakes.
That's her husband, Shield Jagbar, and he's holding a torch above her. So this is a scene that's happening at night. The interesting thing that we know from hieroglyphs like the one that are above him that's naming him.
No, that's her husband, Shield Jaguar, whose name is in the elbow of that thing. But he's not of the bloodline. She is. So she has to do the bloodletting because only her blood is going to make it to Penis Jaguar. If he did the bloodletting, it would just be his nobody grandfather. Right. So she's the one who's doing it for him. And then there's a number of scenes like this one.
This one, I think, is in the British Museum, but the other ones are in the Mexico City Museum. It's a whole building. This is a lentil. So it's above your head as you walk in the temple. And there are four of them that create a narrative of what's happening here. She lets her blood, and then she contacts her ancestors. Yeah, Yashilan Lentil 33? Yeah.
That's wild, man. So there's 33. That's – These are all part of the same ritual. Let's see. There was one I just saw. How about fourth from the top? I think that's another one in the sequence. I think that's where she's handing him the helmet. That one. That one. So that's the end. There's his Jaguar helmet she's handing him.
And that's a soccer game. That's not it. That's not it. Oh, there it is. There it is. The one with the big snake. Scroll down. That one. Click on that one. Just zoom in on it, Steve. There you go. See that guy coming out with the spear and the shield? He's Yat Balam. It says it in the hieroglyphs above him. He's the lineage founder of Yashilan.
And if you follow... See, he's getting burped out of the mouth of a snake. Follow its undulating body down. And it starts at the bowl. The bowl's smoke is turning into the snake. That's amazing.
You barely noticed that. She's holding another bowl in her hand. Yep. Also with the stuff in the... the smokes combining to become what they call the boots Chan, the smoke serpent. And that's the conduit between this world and the other where shamans can ride it up into the other world and ancestors can write it down to talk to us.
Isn't it amazing how intricate this is? You have to really look at it for a minute to understand what it is you're looking at. I've got a question for you, Dr. Barnhart. We were talking about things that a minute ago, you know, that people do all around the world that they feel compelled to do.
I thought about this while I was in Egypt and there's statues of Alexander there, all kinds of depictions of Alexander.
one of the things that the greeks did which i always i always talk about how uh you know when i try to break down because you know introducing people to the americas it's so much less in the pop culture you kind of have to you know that's why i like constantly will refer back to ancient greece or egypt or something that's more in the pop culture to help people understand right
Well, I always talk about how the Maya are, you know, a scientifically oriented civilization that's very interested in intellectual pursuits. But that probably causes them to be warring city states that can't really get along and they never become, you know, I'm sure you've heard people say Aztec Empire, Inca Empire, Maya Empire, whatever. Well, there was never a Maya Empire.
It's just kind of a misnomer because they couldn't all get along. There was this gigantic civilization of these- No more so than the Greeks. Exactly. Exactly. So they're exactly like the Greeks that later get conquered by a unified empire that comes in from the West. Like the Greeks get conquered by the Roman Empire from the West. Right.
The Maya get conquered by, in part, by the Teotihuacan Empire from the West and then conquered by the Aztec Empire that comes from the West. Mm-hmm. All that together, that's just one similarity. When we go back to that Stella and you see the queen, that she is the one that's the successor of Penis Jaguar or Progenitor Jaguar. I guess that's like another PC name you could give them.
I should name her too. Her name is Lady Earthshark.
Lady Earthshark.
Lady Earthshark, okay.
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