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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, what I have another really cool addition to
Speaker 1: the Ancient Architecture series today. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: times I've tried to record this, which means it's either
Speaker 1: a really good episode or a really shit one. But
Speaker 1: the other day I showed up to work at seven am,
Speaker 1: like I always do, but we had a really bad
Speaker 1: storm and it knocked out all the power in our
Speaker 1: building and like in a five mile radius, and all
Speaker 1: the traffic lights were out and everything. So they sent
Speaker 1: us home for the day and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I know what I'm going to do. I'm
Speaker 1: going to record that episode for Ancient Architecture.
Speaker 2: Tell me why.
Speaker 1: At eight o'clock in the morning, everybody in my fucking
Speaker 1: neighborhood started firing up their lawnmowers and all I could
Speaker 1: hear in the background was people edging up their fucking driveway.
Speaker 1: Bit to really, every time I try to record this,
Speaker 1: it's just chaos. But today I'm feeling good about it,
Speaker 1: so let's try it again. Welcome back, to another installment
Speaker 1: of ancient architecture. I got a really cool one for
Speaker 1: you today. I really was inspired by my last episode's
Speaker 1: research to look further into the idea of mythical cities
Speaker 1: and kingdoms that were written about and documented, but somehow
Speaker 1: seem to have just vanished off the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: If you all know me at all, which by this
Speaker 1: time you probably do, you'll know that I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: believe in myths, quote unquote, but consider them more as memories,
Speaker 1: memories that were either spoken or written and then passed
Speaker 1: down by generations until someone goes to look for it,
Speaker 1: can't find it and declares that it's a myth. And
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Shambala from the last episode is not
Speaker 1: the only case of this happening. Turns out, there are
Speaker 1: numerous ancient cities lost for centuries that actually dozens of
Speaker 1: people have risked their entire freaking lives in pursuit of
Speaker 1: and we're going to be talking about a couple of
Speaker 1: those today, the City of Gold, for example, Pietti and
Speaker 1: another location that is just so freaking interesting, but we'll
Speaker 1: get into that in a minute. So it is believed
Speaker 1: that treasures may still be hidden deep underwater at one
Speaker 1: of these locations where locals claim to this day mysterious
Speaker 1: lights can be seen in the sky and going in
Speaker 1: and out of the water at these locations. So what
Speaker 1: may that imply. That's some freaky shit going on for
Speaker 1: a city that's supposedly.
Speaker 2: Just a myth.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you think about it, talking about cities
Speaker 1: of gold, gold was supposed to be the flesh of
Speaker 1: the god's lowercase. It's still idolized to this day. In
Speaker 1: every civilization you will find gold. Egypt is known to
Speaker 1: have had the biggest supply of gold. But take it
Speaker 1: even further back, the Innachi were supposed to be the
Speaker 1: gods that created humans just for the sake of mining gold, right.
Speaker 1: I mean that is if you believe the Zachariah Sitch
Speaker 1: and bull. That's another episode though, But since the dawn
Speaker 1: of time, humans have been upset best with the legends
Speaker 1: of hidden gold. I mean, I'll be the first one
Speaker 1: to say I wanted to live in the goonies when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, literally, And then we have movies
Speaker 1: like National Treasure, Indiana Jones, and deep down we all
Speaker 1: kind of connect with those stories. But why I wanted
Speaker 1: to find one eyed Willie's sunken ship at the bottom
Speaker 1: of an Italian restaurant with my friends. That is a
Speaker 1: forever memory in my mind, watching that and then like
Speaker 1: meeting up with my friends on the weekends and just
Speaker 1: digging in the backyard and shit. So why do we
Speaker 1: connect with those kind of stories. It's almost as if
Speaker 1: it's been programmed into our subconscious to desire and lust
Speaker 1: for gold, and think of the ultimate symbolism of love
Speaker 1: giving someone a gold band. Even before the whole diamond craze,
Speaker 1: Marilyn and Row, men and women simply wore and adored
Speaker 1: their gold bands. So that's why we're going to take
Speaker 1: a deeper look into this whole Seven Cities of Sibyla,
Speaker 1: which is mentioned in National Treasure Part two. The Seven
Speaker 1: Cities of Sibyla were all made completely of gold. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna start by taking a little journey all the
Speaker 1: way to a little place called Lake Guadavida in Colombia.
Speaker 1: It's believed to be the site of an ancient meteor crater,
Speaker 1: which is, in my opinion, what they call things found
Speaker 1: in nature that they can't disclose what it really is
Speaker 1: or say, or like it's covered up by saying it's
Speaker 1: a meteor crater, like.
Speaker 2: Oh, just say.
Speaker 1: It's another one of those meteor craters, Like fuck off,
Speaker 1: really nobody's buying it. But anyways, Lake Guadavida meteor crater.
Speaker 1: It's perfectly circular too. By the way, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: just have to say it's perfectly circular, which is definitely
Speaker 1: something meteors are right, completely symmetrical and shit. Anyways, it
Speaker 1: happens to be right in the middle of one of
Speaker 1: mankind's greatest searches, that is the search for El Dorado,
Speaker 1: the Lost City of Gold. Since the sixteenth century, El
Speaker 1: Dorado has been the holy grail of treasures for treasure hunters.
Speaker 1: The legends abound about a city filled with untold riches
Speaker 1: somewhere in South America. Yet to this day it remains undiscovered,
Speaker 1: or so they say. But let's just say it's eluded
Speaker 1: treasure seekers across time. What are some of the theories. Wow,
Speaker 1: some believe that the answers may lie within Lake Gudavida.
Speaker 1: And here's why. Okay, So there was a Native American
Speaker 1: population around this area called the Chicha, and I guess.
Speaker 2: They were loaded with gold for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And the ruler of this territory was known as the Zippa,
Speaker 1: but the Spanish conquistadors who arrived to give all the
Speaker 1: Chicha people nice little mums and bombs and big stores
Speaker 1: all over their body, called the Zippa el Dorado, which
Speaker 1: is Spanish for the golden one, and they gave him
Speaker 1: this name after observing their most sacred ritual, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, it's just crazy to me, like, thanks for
Speaker 1: the gold and letting us be a part of your
Speaker 1: most sacred rituals, and shit, here's the mumps. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: In a couple hundred years there will be a Pfizer
Speaker 1: shot for this that will make your dig fall off
Speaker 1: back to the grind like really, but whatever, the Spanish
Speaker 1: conquista doors get to observe their most sacred ritual. But
Speaker 1: what was the ritual, you may ask. Well, the Zippa
Speaker 1: covered in gold dust and his crew would get on
Speaker 1: this huge barge and float out into Lake Guadavida, and
Speaker 1: they would make offerings of gold to the god they
Speaker 1: believed lived at the bottom of this so called meteor crater,
Speaker 1: and then the Zippa covered in gold dust would the
Speaker 1: jump into the lake.
Speaker 2: Swim down to the bottom and over time.
Speaker 1: This gold dust would accumulate in the lake. This would
Speaker 1: also be an offering to that so called god at
Speaker 1: the bottom of this meteor crater. And so we're born
Speaker 1: all the miss around El Dorado, the City of Gold.
Speaker 2: But so flash forward.
Speaker 1: In nineteen twelve, an excavation of Lake Guadavida led by
Speaker 1: British engineer Harley Knowles recovered around twenty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 1: of gold from the bottom of the lake. But what's
Speaker 1: interesting is he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I found
Speaker 1: all this gold right. The real treasure, though, is that
Speaker 1: he thought there was something hiding under the hardened lake bed,
Speaker 1: a city perhaps. I mean, gold is a perfect conductor
Speaker 1: of electricity. It's used for so many things, going back
Speaker 1: to the whole ancient technology being way more advanced than
Speaker 1: we could ever understand. Idea, this makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense to me. Could he have actually discovered a hidden
Speaker 1: city under the so called meteor cre I mean, there
Speaker 1: are numerous ancient texts that speak of entire cities made
Speaker 1: of gold. I believe they were older than we could
Speaker 1: even imagine, older than the Chicha people, older than the Inca.
Speaker 1: But they were discovered by the Native Americans and then
Speaker 1: rediscovered by the conquistadors who took over and pillaged pretty
Speaker 1: much everything. It's like, here's a perfect example. It's like
Speaker 1: the so called Indian burial mounds, like the Serpent Mound
Speaker 1: in Ohio. They say, oh, it's Native Americans who belt it. Right.
Speaker 1: Then you ask the Native Americans and they're like, uh, no,
Speaker 1: the mounds were here when we got here, and we
Speaker 1: just kind of maintained them and plant some flowers and
Speaker 1: shit around them. Why are we not taking it straight
Speaker 1: from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 2: They said they didn't.
Speaker 1: Do it, but then they still put in the history
Speaker 1: books these are Native American burial mounds. But don't ask
Speaker 1: them about it because they'll just lie and say they
Speaker 1: didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Like what sense does that make?
Speaker 1: These are huge, Like anyone with an ego would just say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we did it, but they know they didn't. They just
Speaker 1: discovered it and then moved in. Like the Incan city
Speaker 1: of Pi Titi that I mentioned at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this episode, So the Incan resided there, but it probably
Speaker 1: existed way before they moved in. It's thought to be
Speaker 1: located somewhere near Peru, where they found a bunch of
Speaker 1: red haired, elongated skulls, but that's again another episode. Anyways,
Speaker 1: the conquistadors pop up in pie Titi as well. Imagine
Speaker 1: that they were a assessing over finding this incan city.
Speaker 1: And just by the way, El Dorado and Pietiti are
Speaker 1: frequently confused, but we're two very, very separate places. So
Speaker 1: in this documentary I watched to explore's named Gregory and
Speaker 1: Paulino have spent twenty five years of their precious lives
Speaker 1: exploring the Amazon Jungle, among other places, to find clues
Speaker 1: to the location of Pietit. Now I could have saved
Speaker 1: them a lot of time if he would have just
Speaker 1: listens in my podcast, Greg Paul Brothers.
Speaker 2: You are never gonna find that bitch, period. Okay.
Speaker 1: This ain't some Nicholas Cage shit. This is real life.
Speaker 1: And even if he did find it, you're as good
Speaker 1: as dead.
Speaker 2: You'll get a.
Speaker 1: Half assed suicide job or one of those super fast
Speaker 1: acting anus cancers or something. I mean, they do not
Speaker 1: want people finding these places they talked about in the documentary,
Speaker 1: all these clues and shit that they've found, And I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here like, yeah, okay, you have some clues, So
Speaker 1: what look around. The second you find something like that
Speaker 1: to that grand of a level, you're dead. Anyways, back
Speaker 1: to the point, the Inca themselves are kind of mysterious.
Speaker 1: It's said they had temples covered in gold sheets according
Speaker 1: to the gun Keystadors, and they also claim to be
Speaker 1: into a communication with Detis who gave them this gold
Speaker 1: and golden artifacts. Doesn't anyone ever wonder about that, like
Speaker 1: when they see all these golden artifacts and shit from
Speaker 1: the Native Americans that are like truly magnificent, like who
Speaker 1: gave it to them?
Speaker 2: Who gave it to them?
Speaker 1: The conquistadors didn't give a shit though, They just wanted
Speaker 1: to take it. They took over the city of Cusco
Speaker 1: and went through all the temples looking for gold. But
Speaker 1: the Incas, as this story goes, had already stashed this shit.
Speaker 1: They knew the conquistadors were coming, and sunk all their
Speaker 1: shit to the bottom of Lake Peree, twenty miles away
Speaker 1: from Cusco, and none of it has been found to
Speaker 1: this day. So how much gold did they sink to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the lake? Thank you for asking. It's
Speaker 1: estimated that they sunk billions of dollars of gold to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the lake, and you know why it's
Speaker 1: never been found, the same reason the cities have never
Speaker 1: been found. It's not that they don't exist. I'm a believer, okay,
Speaker 1: it's just people in high places know about this shit
Speaker 1: and it's covered up or confiscated.
Speaker 2: In my.
Speaker 1: Someone out there knows the real history, not the crap
Speaker 1: we're given in a history book. They know the truth
Speaker 1: behind the mud floods in all ancient civilizations and architecture
Speaker 1: and buried treasure and cities of gold. But we will
Speaker 1: probably never know what that is. All we can do
Speaker 1: is put some breadcrumbs together. Like I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I'm even convinced that Inca had a way of transporting
Speaker 1: practically overnight by foot or horse, billions of dollars of
Speaker 1: gold twenty miles away into Lake Parae. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. I don't know if they had some way
Speaker 1: of doing that practically overnight. Billions of dollars of gold
Speaker 1: sounds fucking heavy to me, Okay, But what I do
Speaker 1: know is over both Lake Parree and Lake Guadavida, for
Speaker 1: hundreds of years, there have been documented sightings of unidentified
Speaker 1: lights in the sky and craft.
Speaker 2: Not only hovering.
Speaker 1: Over the lakes but submerging into them. And please don't
Speaker 1: jump straight to aliens. It may be far more complex
Speaker 1: than that, but I will say this is how the
Speaker 1: locals describe the sightings.
Speaker 2: Okay, they say they see.
Speaker 1: Little windows or portals, vortexes, tomato tomato whatever opening up
Speaker 1: in the sky.
Speaker 2: The craft comes through.
Speaker 1: It submerges into the lake, and then the window closes
Speaker 1: right poof. Then all of a sudden boom, the vortex
Speaker 1: opens back up. The craft shoots back up out of
Speaker 1: the water, back up into the vortex, and then it
Speaker 1: closes again and life goes back to normal. For the
Speaker 1: locals to have described this very sighting for hundreds of
Speaker 1: years at both of these locations where there's supposedly hidden
Speaker 1: gold or hidden cities of gold under the lake, it's
Speaker 1: just interesting to me. But that, my friends, is why
Speaker 1: Greg and Paul, who worked part time at Hobby Lobby
Speaker 1: are not finding the fucking city of Gold. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: the inca who claimed they had friends in high places
Speaker 1: got some help transporting the gold. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Seems like it must.
Speaker 1: Have been really important to these lower case gods to
Speaker 1: get this gold out of the city or hide this gold,
Speaker 1: or submerge this gold in some way that others couldn't
Speaker 1: find it, or they could come back for it later.
Speaker 1: Seems like maybe, after all, the INCA did know some
Speaker 1: peeps that were capable of helping them pull this off,
Speaker 1: because this gold must have been really important. So what's
Speaker 1: the deal with the gold story? Time? Now, there was
Speaker 1: a professor in Japan around nineteen twenty four. His name
Speaker 1: was Professor naga Oga. He figured out how to make
Speaker 1: gold literally out of essentially nothing, and he called it
Speaker 1: the Saturnian model of the atom. I'm sure your eyebrows
Speaker 1: popped up on that last statement in congrats. They should have,
Speaker 1: because that right there is one of these sacred sciences,
Speaker 1: like the idea of the Philosopher's Stone. It's very occult,
Speaker 1: the understanding and ability to take inexpensive metals and turn
Speaker 1: them into gold. It's alchemy, its transmutation, and for thousands
Speaker 1: of years king sought out this mythical way of creating gold.
Speaker 1: Scientists and alchemists spent centuries trying to invent a way
Speaker 1: to do this. People like Isaac Newton were obsessed with
Speaker 1: the idea of the Philosopher's Stone. I believe the ancients
Speaker 1: were taught this alchemy by the lower case gods. Case
Speaker 1: in point, the Egyptians were the worst for it. They
Speaker 1: were silly with ancient dark arts and alchemy. The Geza
Speaker 1: Pyramid itself is like a huge energy generator. They had
Speaker 1: limitless energy and power to practice these sacred sciences. Even
Speaker 1: the Babylonians were jealous of the Egyptians. They wrote freaking
Speaker 1: letters to the Egyptians begging them for gold, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: for gold is as dust in the land of my
Speaker 1: brother the Pharaoh end quote. Think of that practically saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're trying to do our dark arts and shit too. Man.
Speaker 1: If you could spot us some gold for.
Speaker 2: Our moloch rituals, brother, we'd sure appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So what is the significance why gold? It seems to
Speaker 1: have cost a lot of people their lives and seems
Speaker 1: to be sacred in multiple capacities. I mean, no one
Speaker 1: is risking their lives for honks of sterling silver, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're still both hunks
Speaker 1: of metal. So what is behind the obsession for gold
Speaker 1: and why was it so important to the lower case gods.
Speaker 1: So let's flush way forward into the future California gold Rush. Now,
Speaker 1: in regards to California's Native people, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: thousand Native Americans died of disease, starvation, and homicide during.
Speaker 2: The gold rush.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about the miners.
Speaker 2: If I've seen.
Speaker 1: One haunted gold mine episode on Ghost Adventures, I've seen
Speaker 1: fuck a thousand, hundreds of thousands of miners dead as
Speaker 1: fuck mining for gold. Want to get biblical? The story
Speaker 1: of the Golden Calf is told in the Bible in
Speaker 1: Exodus thirty two. The story goes that while Moses was
Speaker 1: away on Mount Sinai for forty days and nights receiving
Speaker 1: the Ten Commandments, the Israelites became concerned that he would
Speaker 1: not return because it had been forty days, and they
Speaker 1: asked Aaron, Moses's brother, to make them a god. So
Speaker 1: what did Aaron do? Airing collected gold earrings and gold
Speaker 1: ornaments from the Israelites and fashioned a golden calf idol
Speaker 1: from them, declaring, this is your God, oh Israel, who
Speaker 1: brought you out of the land of Egypt. The Israelites
Speaker 1: then worshiped the golden calf instead of the real God,
Speaker 1: and when Moses returned with the tablets. Boy, he was
Speaker 1: in raged. He ripped some new assholes that night. He
Speaker 1: could not stand to see the Israelites worshiping this golden calf.
Speaker 1: So Moses, in a rage fest, smashed the freaking tablets
Speaker 1: that it took him forty days and nights to get.
Speaker 1: And he ordered the calf to be melted down, ground
Speaker 1: into powder and get this, mix it with water, right,
Speaker 1: and then he forced the Israelites to drink this cocktail.
Speaker 1: And what was the purpose of that, Well, some say
Speaker 1: this was meant to reduce the idol to the level
Speaker 1: of human waste. I mean, I can just hear Moses now, honestly, truly,
Speaker 1: I'd be like you, impatient ass calf building no better
Speaker 1: than Babylonian ass bitches. What the hell Now, Moses got
Speaker 1: to go back up for another forty days and nights
Speaker 1: and get a noose, set of tabs.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: The point is, though he had them melt it down,
Speaker 1: mix it with water, everybody had to drink it and
Speaker 1: then shit it out or piss it out or whatever
Speaker 1: to symbolize that the gold is the equivalent to human waste.
Speaker 1: But it was so very important to the lower case gods,
Speaker 1: so it just makes me think it's part of these
Speaker 1: sacred sciences. It's part of these dark rituals, the worshiping
Speaker 1: of gold, golden cities, like these golden artifacts that were
Speaker 1: given to the Native Americans. The point is, though, of
Speaker 1: that whole story about Moses, the golden calf represented the
Speaker 1: pagan worship practices of the surrounding people. Hey, yo, the
Speaker 1: Egyptians and the Babylonians. Right. The bull was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a symbol of strength and fertility, and the Israelites
Speaker 1: were already familiar with Egyptian bull gods. Bulls were also
Speaker 1: commonly used for sacrifice, so the image of a bull
Speaker 1: as a god was an abomination and idolatry of false gods.
Speaker 1: So I think that's why in the New Testament, Jesus
Speaker 1: said to Matthew, build up your treasures in heaven, not
Speaker 1: on earth, For where your treasure is there, your heart
Speaker 1: will be also. So what do you think? What is
Speaker 1: the gold connection, the significance and the desire of man
Speaker 1: to have it, to risk their lives for it.
Speaker 2: Are we all just still.
Speaker 1: Looking for one eyed Willie's treasure chest thanks to Spielberg,
Speaker 1: which I think we all know what he was into
Speaker 1: with his one eyed Willie.
Speaker 2: I mean, just something to think about.
Speaker 1: But did these cities of gold actually exist? El Dorado
Speaker 1: Pi td. These are actually just two of what is known,
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, the Seven Cities of Sibyla that
Speaker 1: was mentioned in National Treasure Part two. They claim, by
Speaker 1: the way, in National Treasure Part two that Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: in the Black Hills of South Dakota was nothing more
Speaker 1: than a cover up to hide one of these seven
Speaker 1: Cities of Gold. In the movie, they call it Sibyla,
Speaker 1: But in real life there are seven cities of Sebela.
Speaker 1: One of them is supposed to be located within the
Speaker 1: Black Hills, and they made Mount Rushmore as a cover job.
Speaker 1: There's always some truth in movies, you know. When I
Speaker 1: watched National Treasure Part one and Part two recently, trying
Speaker 1: to kind of decode some of the messages in those movies,
Speaker 1: I thought that was I mean, they might as well,
Speaker 1: especially casting Nicholas Kgeass.
Speaker 2: I mean, there is some truth in those movies.
Speaker 1: But the full list of the seven Cities of Gold
Speaker 1: where Eldorado Pai Titi, city of the Caesars Lake Palm.
Speaker 1: You know, I really just don't know how to pronounce
Speaker 1: this lake perh bah blah blah blah blah, and then
Speaker 1: Antila and Quavera are these cities and people risk their
Speaker 1: lives to find them and are for one point in history,
Speaker 1: our money was supposed to be backed by gold, right
Speaker 1: gold backs. Now our dollar is completely worthless. You might
Speaker 1: as well wipe your ass with it. I just I
Speaker 1: feel like this is intrinsic to what is going on
Speaker 1: in the world now and the idea that the Bible
Speaker 1: tells us in more ways than one, over and over
Speaker 1: again to build up our treasures in heaven and not
Speaker 1: on earth in worldly possessions. And like Jesus was literally
Speaker 1: sold out for seven pieces of silvers thirty pieces of
Speaker 1: silver like that. He didn't even get gold, he got
Speaker 1: freaking silver. So I just, you know, I wonder what
Speaker 1: the significance is sometimes to the obsession with alchemy and
Speaker 1: transmutation in the Philosopher's Stone. They put that shit in
Speaker 1: freaking Harry Potter the Philosopher's Stone, and I just it's
Speaker 1: very very interesting to me. So anyways, thanks for joining
Speaker 1: me for another episode of Ancient Architecture. I hope you
Speaker 1: learned some cool shit today and is always I'll catch
Speaker 1: it on the next time. P