Topic: Sunstone

Greg Carlwood reads a disturbing ritual from the *Liber Vaccae* (The Book of the Cow), a 9th-century Arabic grimoire falsely attributed to Plato. The ritual describes the creation of a skinless, human-faced creature through the insemination of a cow with human semen and "sunstone." Metzger reacts to the biological impossibility of the ritual, suggesting it may have been a "con man" test or a psychological operation to see what depravities people would commit.

Scientist Alexander von Humboldt, a friend of Thomas Jefferson, is noted for his early study of the Aztec Sunstone and his speculation regarding hollows at the Earth's poles. Humboldt believed the behavior of the magnetosphere necessitated large cavernous features at the poles, a theory that fueled 19th-century expeditions like the Sims Expedition. His influence remains visible in American geography and Masonic scientific circles.