25:50 the myths of the world use the heavenly realms as kind of a proxy or as a way of understanding the invisible world. That is really basic to my understanding of what's going on Right on and I also checked out a recent video that you had put out that you sent me where you talk about theories of guys like Graham Hancock about a unified source of ancient knowledge, a lost civilization or you know like a cedar culture. And You say that you see this very clearly in the work that you've been doing Can you talk to us about the best evidence of that? That you're finding in your wheelhouse of looking at star myths and mythology Yeah sure so
26:37 Just to kind of lay out in a couple sentences what my central hypothesis is and what I'm arguing, is that all the world's myths, scriptures and sacred stories ancient scriptures, ancient myths and you know traditions that have been handed down are built on a system of celestial metaphor where it's a very specific system like The same patterns will emerge over and over to where it's quite clear to me I'm convinced. It's the same system around the world in other words, the myths of Ancient Greece are built on the exact same system that the stories in the Bible are built on the same Constellation for instance The Northern Crown is this beautiful little constellation that you can see? It's pretty far north
27:35 In the sky it's a beautiful little arch of stars and. It appears in different myths sometimes as a necklace like the necklace of frayer that gets stolen by loki in the north smiths. It also appears as a necklace in, the ancient Mesopotamian mythologies of Sumer and Babylon. It also appears as a necklace in stories of ancient Japan, okay? But we could look at that little arc of stars and say you know that does look like a necklace it's really not that surprising that somebody in Japan somebody in modern-day Scandinavia or northern Europe and somebody
28:19 Mesopotamia might see that as a necklace, but that same little arc of stars appears as an infant in a lot of myths and if you've ever had a baby and you know been in the business of changing diapers and Trying to put a baby to bed when when an infant gets really agitated, sometimes it'll arch vigorously. Like really arch and scream and just pitch a fit. I don't know why but the ancient myths analogize that little arc or analogized that arc as an arching baby in a lot of myths in the Maui myths
28:59 A baby that's either held up, like grabbed out of the fire by his grandfather Maui is hung up in the rafters to dry. Well, his grandfather is the constellation Hercules that's right next to this arch of stars he hangs a baby up in the rafters to dry Well, that pattern is found in other myths around the world. And like we know Achilles remember he was dipped in either the river Styx or in some magical fire in order to become invulnerable? It's the same when he was a baby it's the same constellation that's at the root of that story even in the myth or the story of Solomon in the Old Testament there's this judgment of Solomon where these two
29:43 Two women, actually described as two prostitutes have had children and one of them has died and one of them is alive. And one of the women switches the babies or the other woman claims hey she switched my baby on me and they both go to King Solomon he's supposed to figure out which baby belongs to which mother this famous judgment of Solomon it's a really important story But it's not a literal story. It has all kinds of deep messages for us we could talk about, but anyway in that story Solomon says to the swordsman hey I know we'll just divide the baby up The living baby will give one half to one mom and one half to another mom solve the problem. Swordsmen grab the baby so the swordsman grabs the baby
30:30 And if you look at paintings down through the centuries, the baby is always arching vigorously as it's being held by the heel. By this swordsman who is about to cut in half that's because the constellation Hercules has a huge sword he's kind of giant menacing figure right next to the crown well somehow all these cultures around the world are using as a metaphor this arc of stars as a baby and When we look at some of these constellations, we do not naturally say that looks like a baby or that looks like a beautiful woman but around the world it shows up in the myth as a baby and almost the exact same pattern always getting hung up in the rafters are hanging over the fire so what I'm saying is
31:17 This kind of example and I could cite lots and lots of examples. That's just one that's a very Common pattern around the world that is not really something you would expect people to just kind of hit on independently So what? I'm arguing, I said I was going to give you a brief A brief explanation but I started going down some stories What I'm arguing is that all the stories around the world are using This same ancient system it's a very amazing system it's a very profound and beautiful system but its worldwide you can find in australia you can find it in africa you can find it in scandinavia norway, you can find it in the americas in the maya across all every inhabited continent on our planet and across all the islands of the pacific and you know these different cultures so.
32:11 The question is where did it come from and I believe that this, it's evidence that there are some... It's probably evidence for some common very ancient source, a source that's so ancient that it predates Ancient Egypt because they're using the same system. That can be shown and I could talk about that It predates The Gilgamesh epic which is one of also one of the first things that we have written down on these clay tablets going back to at least 2000 to even earlier BC So it predates the earliest civilizations that conventional history knows about
32:51 And now that we found Gobekli Tepe, in addition to all the other evidence that people like Graham Hancock or Robert Shock or John Anthony West were talking about even before they found Gobekli Tepe. You had all these people arguing even before Gobekli Tepe hey it looks like there's something far more ancient than Ancient Egypt. Look at the Sphinx, look at this weathering etc., etc." And they were completely dismissed by the historians and conventional archaeologists who said no that's ridiculous show me some pottery from you know from this supposed civilization that you're always talking about well then Gobekli Tepe gets unearthed and it's been found to be
33:29 at least 10,000 BC not 10,000 years ago 12 thousand years ago. Ten thousand B C and completely covered in dirt no later than 8,000 BC deliberately probably because of some sort of cataclysm or the people were trying to protect it or preserve it you know we don't know for sure why but its clear evidence for an extremely ancient civilization Well, that's one good explanation. There are other possible explanations but that is one good explanation for why we find around the world this common system everywhere. Another explanation could be oh well maybe the Egyptians sailed around and told everybody about it but the problem with that explanation is like the Maori of New Zealand or the myths of Hawaii were not really
34:23 from a culture that was at the same time as ancient Egypt. So it's more probable to me that they all came from some original ancient source and then the people from maybe this, you know, that survived this ancient cataclysm spread out around the world over their different millennia and the myths started to take on kind of different cultural aspects and the gods and goddesses and heroes and characters started wearing different clothes or having different names, but it's all the same ancient system. Long answer to a good question! No worries no worries I mean you're right The idea of a cedar culture lost civilization we do see these things all over the world And another thing i want to ask you about is The East because you know You've looked at cultures All over We talked about Greece Talked About the Bible