Raul Bilecky
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I mean, honestly, I wonder if it's built on some sort of, I don't know, like the sacred energy or Delphi with the gases or something like that.
All I know is that when you go in— Show me that totem again, that monolith.
What they found is they found evidence of rituals happening there, like plates with hallucinogenic plants or substances.
So people were going down there to do these rituals and do this space.
I mean, if you're going to go on a trip.
That's the place to do it.
It's just, you're in an enclosed space.
The acoustics are so weird.
What is that image on that thing?
There's a whole bunch of imagery here.
That's like the fanged... So for a while they thought...
They thought this culture, the Chavin culture, was responsible for the onset of religion in Peru.
They called it the mother culture for decades.
And you see this fanged deity.
Dr. Barnhart talks about it a lot, this jaguar-looking deity.