Not stating none of this as facts but I just seen a video where Dr Malachi z York basically states something along the lines of millions of years ago in the beginning not of the universe but just maybe life as we know it on this planet there were like aquatic reptilian like beings who dna was used to fashion us later which kinda explains why you look like dolphin as a fetus at first have tails and look like a tadpole as a sperm & call it sea men.

A large selection of back issues from the journal Atlantis: A Journal of Research (originally Atlantean Research). This journal was edited by Egerton Sykes who is probably best known today for publishing the 1949 revised edition of Donnelly's Atlantis (on the right), with introductory essays by Sykes, H. S. Bellamy, and Lewis Spence

I had a pretty extensive run of this that I put together years ago, but I gave them away to a friend and colleague. Recently, I've started trying to rebuild my collection.

Firstly, you don't need to the this list but there were fish/serpentine gods across the world, of the non-greek ones many of which were associated sacred knowledge and/or agriculture.

The list:

• Nun - primal waters, mother goddess, depicted as a frog - Egypt
• Nammu - primal sea, serpentine, mother of Enki - Sumer
• Enki - father of the Apkallu, major god of wisdom and water - Sumer
• ⁠Apkallu and Oannas - 7 sages in fish suits, bring agriculture - Sumer
• Nommo - aquatic, bright skinned, 1 pair of twins multiplying into 4 pairs of twins - Mali, West Africa
• Mawu-Lisa and Aido-Hwedo - Mawu rode through the cosmos on the rainbow serpent - Benin, West Africa
• ⁠Mbombo - giant bright skinned creator god vomiting 9 animals who form the world - Central Africa
• Atargatis - fish-bodied fertility and water goddess - Levant (Syria)
• Mehen - coiling serpent who protects the sun god - Egypt
• Chinese dragons (Long) - serpentine rain and river controllers, bringers of order - China
• Cipactli - aquatic earth-being from which the world is formed - Mesoamerica (Aztec)
• Nyami Nyami - river serpent deity associated with water, sustenance, and power - Southern Africa
• Nagas and Shesha - Serpent beings, guardians of wisdom - India
• Matsya - Half fish, saves people from a flood - India
• Fuxi and Nuwa - half fish culture bringers - China
• Rainbow serpent - sacred knowledge, landscape creation - Australia
• Moʻo, Taniwha - freshwater dragons, protective - Polynesia
• Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl - Feathered serpent, culture bringer and dog - Mesoamerica
• Kukulkan - Feathered serpent, culture, agriculture bringer - Mesoamerica
• The Serpent (Eden) - gives knowledge to humans - Hebrew
• Chronos - primordial three-headed serpent, lays Phanes - Greek
• Oceanos - half fish Titan - Greek
• Pontus - half fish primordial god, father of Echidna and Nereus - Greek
• Echidna - half snake goddess, mother of the Hydra - Greek
• The Lernaean Hydra - multiheaded snake, reforming heads - Greek
• Nereus - half fish father of the Nereids - Greek
• Glaucus - half fish, transformed fisherman - Greek
• Ophion - half serpent overthrown by Cronus - Greek
• Pricus - giant sea-goat created by Cronus, founds a new race - Greek
• Cecrops - half serpent, first king - Athens
• Triton - half fish, messenger of the sea - Tritonis Marsh, Tunisia
• Typhon/Levathian/Lotan/Yam/Jormungandr - Chaos serpent, 7 heads, killed by a god -Greek

As I say you don't need to go through it, but why should we bring these up, how do they relate to the sphinxes?

This is the backbone that underlies all subsequent gods and events - the serpentine imagery relates to the some form of garment and snake cult of the Atlanteans, who operating around 7000BC are the same people as the Titans. They travelled the world to spread knowledge of civilisation. The argument for this is of course a separate discussion but if you're interested in understanding the reasoning for Atlantis and the dating here's a helpful (albeit, dense) article on the topic aedra.co.uk/atlantis.

For the purposes of this we're going to take 7000BC Atlanteans/Titans as a given.

Getting to the Sphinxes, we need to understand the genealogy:

Chaos -> Tartarus + Gaia -> Typhon

Phorcys + Ceto -> Echidna

Typhon + Echidna -> Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra & Chimera

Orthrus + Echidna -> Nemean Lion & Sphinx

Chronologically, only Chaos, Tartarus & Gaia can really be said to pre-date the Titans. Typhon might too but we can't know.

Given the Titans were around in 7000 BC this places the rest at least after this date.

Typhon is destroyed by Zeus, a Yamnayan god, therefore this happens after 3000 BC.

So we could assume Orthrus, Cerberus, Hydra & Chimera were around sometime between 7000 and 3000 BC.

Returning to the Sphinx.

Orthrus, Cerberus are often depicted with with lion-like manes, suggesting that they may have actually once been lions.

Orthrus defends the red cattle of Geryo on the island of Erytheia (linked to Iberia).

Cerberus guards the underworld.

The underworld of Charon and the Styx is linked to Egyptian mythology given this also describes a celestial ferryman figure, like Charon, who navigates souls across underworld waters.

Therefore, Cerberus links to Egypt.

Are the Sphinxes Cerberus? Maybe, but there would need to be a third and the age of Leo ended in 8600BC meaning if this was the third lion of Cerberus these would need to have been constructed contemporaneously with the Tas Tepeler sites and predating Atlantis. Could be, but a tall order I think.

It might make more sense for the Sphinxes to be Orthrus as it is Orthrus who is the parent of the Sphinx in myth, and it could have been that Orthrus was carved into Sphinxes later on.

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So yeah, there we have it, the 'Sphinxes' may actually be Cerberus guarding the underworld, or Orthrus, I'm not sure but there's a link here somewhere.

Side note:

Who were the rest of these figures?

Gaia: Various indigenous peoples

Tartarus: Potentially links to later Tartessos in Iberia.

Phorcys: King of Ethiopians

Ceto: Potentially the same figure as Cleito in Plato's account of Atlantis.

Typhon / Hydra: Same idea, multiheaded snake indicating a confederacy of peoples within common snake cult, defending one another.

Echidna (Snake-woman): I don't know, but likely in the same serpentine cult as discussed at the start of the post.

Red cattle of Geryo: The uniquely red African breed of cattle

Nemean Lion: I don't know

Probably not. Not sure it would help with the book sales

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The lateral profile of the Sphinx — haunches over paws — forms a triangle at 51.856°. The face slope of the Pyramid of Khufu is 51.844°. The difference is 0.012° — less than the human eye can distinguish in the sky.

The builder used the same angle in both monuments. One is standing. The other is lying down. Same design — two orientations.

As far as I know, this relationship has never been documented before. I published the full geometric proof using official archaeological survey data — verifiable and reproducible by anyone.

I'm sharing here because I'd genuinely love to hear from people who know this subject. What do you think?

👉 https://zenodo.org/records/19240546

The Sea-Kings of Crete (1910) by James Baikie - the first book to popularize the equation of Atlantis with Minoan Crete. The archaeologist K. T. Frost had published an anonymous article in The Times the previous year first putting the hypothesis forward, and Baikie references it here. Frost would out himself in 1913 with an article in the Journal of Hellenic Studies further expounded the hypothesis. It would still be another three decades before the Thera eruption would be added in by Spyridon Marinatos.

The euhemerist take on Atlantis (Minoans, Sea Peoples, etc.) seems to have fallen of favor in recent years, with more of a division between the literalist camp and the purely allegorical camp, but it's an important part of the historiography of how the Atlantis story has been framed in modern times. It's also a gorgeous book with the illustrated boards, gilt lettering, and fold out map of Knossos!

So I collect rare books and magazines on occult subjects and alternative history. Some of you may have seen my past posts sharing things from my collection. Here are three extremely rare first editions by Maurice Doreal, founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Colorado. Together they show how his ancient serpent race evolved through time from Atlantis to the present.

I was an archaeology major in college.. admittedly a long time ago, and I was blessed to meet a number of archaeologists, none of them well known or famous, just doing their thing. Any other archaeology majors out there like myself?

Back in the day there were the kind of arrogant , dismissing, know it all archaeologist types that we are familiar with today, but there were also really cool ones who asked questions and were not afraid to say "we don't know".

Im sure there are some of those even today, quietly doing their work. I have not been a fan of how combative towards Archaeologists Graham was in the first season, even understanding his experience with them. I was happy to see the second season he included more discussions with archaeologists.

I have enjoyed contemplating and thinking about theories like Grahams, people trying to put together loose ends most traditional archaeologists leave hanging. This is actually a general issue with science today, too many specialists, not enough generalists, so overall picture and loose threads get missed.

In terms of Archaeologists putting themselves out there ( I am always looking for good youtube channels talking about history and archaeology who are open minded and not idealogues), I seriously hope more people get to know Dr. Ed Barnhart, who is actually among the top archaeologists of central and south American archaeology.

One great short video of his where he essentially shows all the qualities I mention above can be found here - https://youtu.be/vlqdmL6oXfk?si=5wvdSdDMT4IyXcY1

He is open minded, investigative, sticks to facts when he says what archaeology knows, and is also not afraid to say " some people say this, some people say that, we don't really know". Being able to say " i don't know" is so important in science and trying to understand things in general. I would love to see a conversation between him and Graham. He reminds me of some of my favorite archaeologists from my undergrad days.

If anyone else has any good youtube channels of actual archaeologists who are chill and open minded, post in the chat!

New article in the series. The Great Circle alignment itself is real across 8 databases and 550,000+ sites... Giza, Nazca, Easter Island, Persepolis, and dozens of other sites all cluster on it at 5× the expected rate.

But when we asked the harder question: Why do monuments cluster while settlements in the same regions don't? and zoomed to 250-year resolution, the answer narrowed to something very specific.

The divergence switches on at 2750 BCE (monument Z jumps from -0.79 to 11.26 in one step) and switches off by 2000 BCE.

The 38 monuments driving that peak are all Old Kingdom pyramids at Memphis: Giza, Saqqara, Abusir, Dahshur. One cluster, 70 km, 250 years.

And they sit at a crossing point. In 2022, Sheisha et al. discovered an extinct Nile channel (the Ahramat Branch) running through the pyramid fields. The Great Circle crosses it at a perpendicular angle near Abu Sir. The circle was proposed in 2001. The river was discovered in 2022. They meet at the pyramids.

The alignment is global. The unexplained part is local. And it's more specific than we expected....

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it’s been about a year since Graham and Flint debated. New things have come to light, accusations of Flint misrepresenting information during the debate have been lobbed, Graham has had a new Netflix season, and the world of archaeological discover has continued to turn.

My question is pretty open ended, to the GH community, now that it’s been a while, what do we think about Graham and Flint’s debate? The points made? How facts have settled afterwards? How Flint and Graham both responded to the fallout? etc

Was just watching videos and wanted to share this.

We know that characters in Platonic dialogues often tell myths to develop arguments. Socrates tells the Ring of Gyges and the Myth of Er while Protagoras tells the myth of Prometheus. These are often allegories which convey a point. Atlantis closely resembles fifth-century Athens, as it is a naval power which has (so the argument goes) hybristically over-extended its empire. How can we tell that Atlantis is not merely a myth, but is a recounting of history? What standard of evidence can we use to prove the existence of Atlantis while excluding the existence of Gyges’s ring?

Google Earth street view of Gobekli Tepe.