Luke Caverns
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1,858 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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Yeah, I mean, just this alone is astonishing.
You know, I'm not a geneticist, and that's not stuff. Unless that's... when I was just talking about the mapache stuff. You know, I mean, the truth is that... I feel like these DNA scientists are like our priests of today.
I have no way of determining by myself whether these people are telling me the truth, not that they're, you know, purposely lying to me, but how they went about collecting that information and how they boiled it down into a 10-page paper that I wrote and then decide is truth. The whole thing just gives me an ick. I hate that I have no way of determining the validity of what they're saying to me.
I can say even without knowing those names, My response is ick.
By the jade head? Is he talking about the crystal skull?
I've seen this jade head. No, no. It's a big, thick jade head that they found in Altuha. Is there a picture, Steve? Now it's in a vault in Belmopan, the capital. I've seen it. I think that's it. Oh, yeah. That's wild. It's a really cool head.
Now, I don't know the archaeological context of this particular thing, whether they were mercury or not, but I have personally been involved in finding mercury more than once. So mercury was something that they were depositing. And mercury is interesting. It's actually cinnabar, which is just burned down. It becomes mercury. Wow.
this liquid silvery metal um i think that they loved it because it was um it was a red powdery substance the same thing that they put all over bodies cinnabar uh they they they paint maya king's bodies with it all the time is this the same stuff they would paint on the side of the walls that like last for that for that they'd use like ochre okay or uh or hematite got it uh
And cinnabar is much harder to come by. The only real source I know of any plenty is in the Belize Mountains. And what is cinnabar? What is the origin of that? It's interesting. I mean, again, I'm not a geologist, but it's actually a metal. And when you burn it, it turns into liquid mercury. Why? I was in an excavation in Copan.
I was lucky enough to be in the excavations of the tomb of the founder, Yash Kukmo, the first of 18 kings. Him and his wife were buried in the same building. But the wife was on top, and then there was a staircase going down, and then we excavated and found Yash Kukmo buried. underneath her. But in that staircase area, there was a and both these bodies, by the way, were covered in red cinnabar.
They like dusty red cinnabar. They painted it all over there. But in the staircase, there was a pot and And it had mercury in it. And it kind of freaked us out because this is a heavy metal. You die if you ingest heavy metals. So everybody had to wear these. We got these stupid painter masks from the hardware store like they were going to do anything to save us. It was stupid. It was just all...
There was no point to them, but we all wore them in this hot tunnel as we extracted this thing. But it was kind of a bulb-shaped vessel, and it had nine layers of mercury separated by something that was like cheesecloth. So we excavated it first. On the top layer, noticed, oh, shit, that's mercury. And we're in an enclosed space. Yeah. Well, I don't know how liquid it was.
I wasn't the one who looked at it. And then we whisked it off to the lab, and the lab carefully took it apart and saw that there were nine layers, which is interesting because there's supposed to be nine levels of the Maya heavens. But that liquid and reflection is kind of a symbol of the other world for them. They...
The mirror is often said the smoking mirror is the place that the reflection into the other world or the still body of water. When you see your reflection on that, that's supposed to be looking into the other world. So I imagine in one way or another, the mercury and its liquid and reflective quality meant it was a vision into the other world. Is there any utility for mercury?
Like, what does it do? Do we know? Well, now we put it in in thermometers. That old school thermometer that tells us what the temperature is, that's mercury in there.
Oh, the Atacama Desert. We touched on that a little bit, but that would be South America. I'm not exactly sure how geologically you explain it. Acids.
The Atacama Desert is... It's the ingredient in nitroglycerin. So it's basically nitroglycerin. Like the reason that Chile stole the Atacama Desert from Bolivia is because they discovered this huge cache of what we need to make nitroglycerin. And all of a sudden- A worthless desert had a precious mineral that we could blow ourselves up with. Oh, wow.
And Chile stole it from Bolivia because of that.
But you have these ancient Inca roads that just descend into the desert. And, you know, why do the Inca need to be out there? And, you know. Potential possibility is that they're, you know, harvesting these acids and using them on the stone to soften the stone. You push the stone together rather than creating a perfect seam and joint between the stones.
And acids help you dissolve the rock away from the gold and the silver. That's an essential part. In fact, an environmental disaster in Peru today is that all of these old and new mines are leaking sulfuric acid out of them. That is not natural. It's a byproduct of the mining that's gone on.
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