Joe Rogan | The Mysteries of Serpent Mound w/Graham Hancock

the Joe Rogan experience this I guess this is kind of my pet phrase we are a species with amnesia it's my favorite phrase which we have forgotten so much more about ourselves than we remember and what the process of history and archaeology should really be about is a process of remembering we shouldn't be imposing our ideas of what we should have been on the past we should allow the past to speak for itself and when it does so it speaks eloquently one of the sites that we visited and explored for America before was Serpent Mound in Ohio I don't know if you've ever been there you know I've heard of it though it is an amazing Jaimee's from ohio you ever be there there separate map there's that there's an aerial view that is crazy here's the thing you see the head end of Serpent Mound there so Santa and I went there at the summer solstice in 2017 we were there on June 21st 2017 and my wife Santa is a photographer and we acquired a drone for this specific purpose and she flew the drone up 400 feet above Serpent Mound and we sat it up there watching the sunset and what happens on the summer solstice and you can only see it perfectly with a drone there's pictures of it in the in the book here what happens on the summer solstice you can see it from ground level but you get up 400 feet you really get it the head of that serpent is pointing directly at a niche in the distant Hills through which the Sun sets on the summer solstice on the longest day of the year so it's a it's a sky ground alignment perfection that is that is taking place there it's a beautiful it's a beautiful thing to see to watch that Sun majestically sinking down into the horizon and see this awesome figure of the serpent gazing directly of at it with its jaws open almost as though it's about to about to swallow the Sun and then we remember that there are other sites around the world which are also aligned to key moments of the of the solar year aligned to the winter solstice for it the Temple of Karnak in Upper Egypt that kilometer long axis targets exactly the rising point of the Sun on the winter solstice one of the interesting things about serpent mound and I urge anybody listening to this go visit Serpent Mound and especially go there on the summer solstice because that's the moment that's the marriage of heaven and earth that's when sky and ground unite in in majesty at that place but one of the the mysteries of serpent mound concerns how old is this mound really how far back does it go and there have been arguments that that there are as a group of archaeologists who would like it to be just a thousand years old and they attributed to a culture called the fort ancient culture there's another group of archaeologists in my view who've done much more thorough thorough work who attributed to the Idina culture the thing about which goes back to 2,300 years ago or so there's evidence for an earlier construction enterprise it looks like the site has been continuously reconstructed and remodeled as we would do with any sacred site if it begins to wear down you remodel it and then you get later organic material being introduced to the site that may give you the impression that the site is only that old what's intriguing about Serpent Mound is it stands on a natural ridge and that natural ridge and this is entirely an accident of heaven and earth that natural ridge the head end of it if you like is naturally oriented to the summer solstice sunset somebody a long time ago noticed that natural orientation and they decided to monumental eyes it here was a place where earth whispered to sky the earth in her own nature looked directly at the place on the horizon where the Sun was setting this was a highly significant place this place matted so they then created serpent mound on top of it they memorialized it they turned it into a into a special special place that human beings had had a hand in making to honor the marriage of heaven and earth and what I found researching this book is that Serpent Mound is not alone in that respect a lot of people are puzzled by Stonehenge in England Stonehenge is built on Salisbury Plain and there are two kinds of big megaliths at Stonehenge one of them are called sarsens and the other are called the blue stones the blue stones we know for sure were brought a long way they were brought from Wales to Stonehenge a distance of about a hundred and fifty miles the sarsens are found in abundance on a place called the Marlborough downs which is about 20 miles from Stonehenge but until very recently it was thought there were no sarsens on Salisbury Plain at all an archaeologists couldn't understand why Stonehenge wasn't built on the Marlborough Downs whether weathers big sarsen stones the 20 to 30 tonne megaliths were available locally and didn't have to be brought there very recent research 2018 research has provided the answer that two of those sarsens were naturally in position all the time at Stonehenge and they are sarsen stone 16 and the heel stone and if you stand behind sarsen stone 16 and look at the heel stone at dawn on the summer solstice you see the Sun rising in direct alignment with the view and the heel stone is like the site on the barrel of a rifle targeting the Sun and that was there naturally earth was speaking to sky the ancients saw that they decided this was sacred they went to huge lengths to bring the sarsens the rest of the sarsens from the Marlborough downs to create the big stone circle at Stonehenge and then to put the blue stones inside it but initially what they were celebrating was a natural union of heaven and earth and that brings us to the notion of as above so below that we are connected to the cosmos that it is that it is part of our heritage we in modern cities forget the cosmos exists we have all kinds of tech that can look at the astronomy astronomy programs we can we'd all do that I'm actually looking at the Stars is something that's very difficult for people who live in cities to do where we're cut off from the cosmos we're cut off from the notion that it is sacred that it matters to the human creature and what what the ancients seem to have done is to realize how vital that connection is and to memorialize it and to celebrate and to draw our attention to the intimate connection between ground and sky yeah light pollution sort of fuels our infantile existence in a lot of ways right because it doesn't constantly remind us that we're a part of this great thing [Applause]

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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Gronkalicious]

That dude was tedious to listen to. He just oozes used-car-salesman bullshit.

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t get me wrong. Im not saying that Hancock’s ideas are correct. I haven’t looked at the same evidence that he and others have. I’m just basing my opinion on this podcast. I can’t make an empirically based judgement either way.

What I do appreciate about Hancock is that he doesn’t just look at the current evidence and decide that he doesn’t have to keep looking for evidence of older cultures.

[u/Nushaga]

Why is this posted in Cincinnati?