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There are 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,079 many competing narratives and theories about the function and purpose 28 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:54,599 of the pyramids in America and whether some of them 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,400 could even be considered pyramids at all or just mounds. 30 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:02,239 In the present day United States, many Native American cultures 31 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:06,719 built monumental earthworks that function as pyramids. What distinguishes them 32 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:09,759 as mounds rather than official pyramids is that they were 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,520 not built of stone. The structures were built by successive 34 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,319 cultures collectively known as the mound Builders. These cultures are 35 00:02:16,439 --> 00:02:20,560 known as the Archaic Period, which is responsible for the 36 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:25,360 Watson Break in Louisiana circa like thirty five hundred BCE. 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,560 The Watson Break is an ancient archaeological site near Monroe, Louisiana, 38 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:33,680 and is actually older than the Great Pyramid of Giza. 39 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,280 It's the oldest known mound complex in North America. The 40 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:41,639 next culture period included the Edena and Hopewell cultures in 41 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,680 the Ohio River Valley circa seven hundred BCE to four 42 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,159 fifty CE. These cultures built burial mounds and complex geometric earthworks. 43 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,680 The Mississippian culture thrived in the Midwest, Eastern, and southeastern 44 00:02:54,759 --> 00:02:59,439 United States. They built large, flat top platform mounds for temples, 45 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,039 elite residences, and ceremonial duties. Monks Mound is the largest 46 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:09,280 prehistoric earthwork in the Americas, consisting of four terraces and 47 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:13,520 covering over fourteen acres at its base, so it's huge. 48 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: It was this. 49 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: Massive, flat topped pyramid that supported a large temple or 50 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,319 chief's residence. The mounds serve various purposes, including burial sites 51 00:03:23,319 --> 00:03:26,919 for high ranking individuals and ceremonial places, platforms for temples 52 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,759 and residences of chiefs or priests, and civic centers for large, 53 00:03:30,759 --> 00:03:35,240 complex urban settlements. The meso America's stone pyramids are located 54 00:03:35,319 --> 00:03:37,199 south of the United States in what is called meso 55 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,159 America so modern day Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. These ancient 56 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:46,240 civilizations built the iconic stepped stone pyramids that often come 57 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,520 to mind when you think of like American pyramids. These 58 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,960 structures are noted to be constructed by the great civilizations 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 that include the Olmechs, one of the earliest civilizations circa 60 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,560 one thousand BCE. The Mayans known for building magnificent cities 61 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,719 and pyramids across the Yuccatim Peninsula and Central America. 62 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,159 Speaker 3: The Aztecs credited for. 63 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,639 Speaker 2: Building the Great Pyramid of to nose Tilon, the site 64 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,439 of modern day Mexico City, and the Teotiocon culture credited 65 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:15,439 for building the immense Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid 66 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,519 of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun at Teo Tucon, Mexico, 67 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,120 rivals the Great Pyramids of Egypt in scale and placement. 68 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,839 The El Castillo, or Temple of Kukulkin at chichen Itza 69 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:35,480 is known for its astronomical alignments. The Great Pyramid of 70 00:04:35,639 --> 00:04:39,160 Chilulu is the largest pyramid in the world by volume. 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,959 These pyramids were central to public life. Typically, they had 72 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,680 flat top temples where religious ceremonies, including rituals and sacrifices 73 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,079 were performed. Some pyramids served as tombs for rulers and 74 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,399 other elite individuals. Many were aligned with celestial events such 75 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:58,439 as equinoxes and solstices, which we know is also the 76 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:01,519 case for the Pyramid and Giza, but also the case 77 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,000 for a lot of these structures like the Georgia guidestones 78 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:09,160 and stone hinge and different things like that. The archaeological 79 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,160 view on the origins of these pyramids is that knowledge 80 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:17,040 and architectural techniques did not arrive fully formed, but evolved slowly, 81 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,439 building on earlier traditions in North and meso America. The 82 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:27,240 meso American civilizations Ulmec, Mayan, Aztech and ted Tubcans were complex, 83 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,519 centralized societies with highly developed systems of mathematics, astronomy, and 84 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,680 political organization. The concept of a stepped platform mound for 85 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:40,480 a temple seems to have developed locally with the Olmec 86 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,519 civilizations as early as one thousand BCE. The theory is 87 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,720 that the tradition was passed down and perfected by later cultures, 88 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:51,639 which makes perfect sense everybody's kind of in the same region. 89 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,120 The societies developed the necessary engineering skills, such as quarrying 90 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,639 massive stone blocks with harder stone tools, calculating angles, and 91 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,920 mobilezing enormous labor forces without the wheel for transportation or 92 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:08,319 metal tools for cutting. The pyramids served as astronomical observatories 93 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:12,920 and ritual centers. Their precise alignments, such as the Pyramid 94 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,199 of Coolkolcin at chichen Itza, proved that the builders had 95 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,480 highly sophisticated kellendric and astronomical knowledge that guided the design 96 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:23,600 of these structures. As for the North American mounds, the 97 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,279 archaeological view is that the knowledge of earthwork construction evolved 98 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,319 over millennia. In the Mississippian and preceding cultures, the practice 99 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,279 would have dated back at least fifty four hundred years, 100 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,279 as in the case at Watson Break, Louisiana, which predates 101 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,279 the Egyptian pyramids. This view theorizes that the earliest mounds 102 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,639 were built by hunter gatherer societies, showing that complex construction 103 00:06:45,879 --> 00:06:51,199 was an early marker of social organization. The later massive 104 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,199 platform mounds, like the Monk Mound at Kahokia, were constructed 105 00:06:55,399 --> 00:07:00,240 in basket loads, requiring immense centralized labor over generations. This 106 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:04,399 demonstrates a sophisticated level of political and religious authority, capable 107 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:09,160 of organizing thousands of workers and coordinating logistics which they 108 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,360 think their hunter gather societies don't really have all that 109 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:12,839 going on. 110 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: Obviously that's not true. 111 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,319 Speaker 2: The engineering knowledge was based on understanding local soil composition 112 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:23,319 and construction methods for creating durable structures from packed clay 113 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:28,600 and earth, often in multiple construction phases. The mainstream archaeological 114 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,279 view says there is definitive evidence that the knowledge and 115 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:35,800 skills both types of structures originated and developed within the 116 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,079 Americas as part of a continuous culture and intellectual tradition 117 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,639 spanning thousands of years. The mound builder theory claims that 118 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,439 a lost ancient race of highly civilized people often theorized 119 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:50,199 to be Europeans like the Welsh or Danes, the Hindus, 120 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:53,920 and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, built the mounds 121 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,759 and were subsequently wiped out by the savage Native Americans. 122 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,120 In reality, this was found to be a politically and 123 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:04,000 racially motivated myth used to justify the removal of Native 124 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,600 Americans from their lands. The accusation that Native Americans could 125 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,399 not have built these structures was used to prove that 126 00:08:10,439 --> 00:08:12,600 they did not belong to the continent or deserve the 127 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,680 land's history. The next theory is super interesting The idea 128 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,680 is that, just like with the Egyptian pyramids, ancient astronauts 129 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:25,600 or extraterrestrial intervention are responsible for the precision, size and 130 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,600 complexity of structures like the Pyramid of the Sun or 131 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:31,680 the Maya Temples, which could not have been achieved by 132 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,879 primitive civilizations only using stone tools, which is the same 133 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,000 argument that we have for the Egyptian pyramids. Therefore, extraterrestrial 134 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:43,519 beings must have visited Earth in the past and imparted 135 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:48,720 superior building technology or engineering knowledge to the builders. But 136 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:51,840 also along these same lines, they could have built the 137 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,879 pyramids and then the people living there could have just 138 00:08:54,919 --> 00:08:57,519 inhabited them and then used them for whatever purposes. 139 00:08:57,799 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 3: This is kind of where the. 140 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:03,919 Speaker 2: Onanaki come in some times the Atlanteans as well. Finally, 141 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:09,039 there is the Transatlantic trans ocean contact theory. This theory, 142 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,799 given the presence of pyramids in Egypt and Mesopotamia, claim 143 00:09:13,159 --> 00:09:17,080 that a pre Columbian civilization from Africa, the Middle East, 144 00:09:17,159 --> 00:09:20,000 or even the mythical Atlantis, taught the Americans how to 145 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,639 build these pyramid structures. This coincides with the idea that 146 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,200 the Atlanteans taught the Egyptians how to build their pyramids 147 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,039 as well. The biggest thing about this theory is that 148 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,720 the pyramids look different. But if the Atlanteans were a 149 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:37,919 global civilization like us today, different regions would likely do 150 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,799 things differently. Either way, the basic idea is the same 151 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:48,360 Atlanteans taught the Egyptians Atlanteans taught the Americans. However, they 152 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:51,639 were constructed using a variety of different materials. The Egyptian 153 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,279 pyramids are made of massive limestone blocks, with finer white 154 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,759 limestone used for the polish outer casting, granted for burial 155 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,399 chambers and structural elements, and mortar mud, bricks and basalt. 156 00:10:03,879 --> 00:10:08,440 The American pyramids are made of earth, clay, ash, sometimes 157 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,440 animal bones, mica, stucco which is like a lime plaster, rubble, 158 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:17,320 and cut limestone. The most obvious similarity among pyramids worldwide 159 00:10:17,799 --> 00:10:20,759 is the use of limestone, so maybe the other things 160 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:25,399 don't really matter. Limestone is used for a multitude of 161 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:29,399 purposes in construction infrastructure. It is the main ingredient for 162 00:10:29,639 --> 00:10:33,720 Portland cement, which is vital for modern buildings. Crushed limestone 163 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,320 provides a strong base for roads, driveways and foundations, supporting 164 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:41,879 and draining. It is used for durable anesthetic facades, flooring, 165 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,879 and decorative elements in history and in modern buildings today, 166 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,279 so it's very well used. 167 00:10:47,519 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 3: In industrial applications. 168 00:10:49,039 --> 00:10:52,919 Speaker 2: It acts as a flux to remove impurities during smelting. 169 00:10:53,279 --> 00:10:56,759 In its raw form, calcium oxide could be used in 170 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,840 water treatment, paper making, and soil improvement, which also makes 171 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:05,000 sense that they're using the limestone in areas where the soil. 172 00:11:04,799 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 3: Is really rich. 173 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,039 Speaker 2: The environmental and geological significance is that limestone helps neutralize 174 00:11:10,039 --> 00:11:15,360 acidity and purify water. Agg Lime neutralizes acidic soils, improving 175 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:20,399 crop yields. It is rich in fossils, providing insights into 176 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:25,879 pass marine and terrestrial life and habitats. Limestone is primarily 177 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:30,919 calcium carbonate. It is strong, adaptable to various materials, and 178 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:35,200 long lasting. Its natural porous material helps regulate moisture in 179 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,600 building applications. Limestone is common in pyramids, but one pyramid 180 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:42,799 has a very rare element beneath it in a tunnel. 181 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,200 The excavation of the tunnel beneath the temple of Ketzelcouatal 182 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:51,399 or the feathered Serpent in Teatiicon, Mexico, revealed a remarkable 183 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,879 variety of objects, including thousands of sacrificial and ritual items, 184 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:59,639 and even clay balls completely covered in gold flakes. Yet 185 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,519 the fire finding that confounds traditional interpretation is the presence 186 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,120 of pure liquid. 187 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 3: Mercury, which is very odd. 188 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,279 Speaker 2: Mercury was known and used by ancient civilizations for millennia. However, 189 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,879 the deposits were historically located in Spain, Italy, and Peru, 190 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,879 not in meso America. The ancient Egyptians had it around 191 00:12:21,039 --> 00:12:25,919 fifteen hundred BCE. Chinese alchemists saw mortality with it, and 192 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,279 it was used as a pigment in caves and tombs worldwide. 193 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:33,480 What makes the discovery under the feathered serpent so interesting 194 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,240 is that the mercury is rarely found as a pure 195 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,840 liquid metal, actually almost never. The ancient peoples who use 196 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:47,799 mercury heated cinabar mercury sulfide in crucibles, releasing mercury vapor 197 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:51,120 that was then condensed into liquid metal, which is a 198 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,919 tedious process, making the discovery of pure liquid mercury in 199 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,960 the sealed tunnel a very mysterious phenomenon. The most acceptable 200 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:06,000 theory is that the mercury's reflective shimmering surface symbolize a 201 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:10,600 mythical underworld river or lake, a sacred portal to a 202 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,840 realm of the gods or the realm of the deceased. However, 203 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:16,440 the problem with this is that mercury is highly toxic 204 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,600 and very difficult to mine and process into a liquid form. 205 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:23,200 To make a pool of it just because it's esthetically 206 00:13:23,279 --> 00:13:27,600 pleasing doesn't seem like it's really worth the effort, especially 207 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,679 given how dangerous it is. Like, it just doesn't make 208 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,120 a whole lot of sense for them to do this. 209 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:35,440 That doesn't mean that they didn't, it just seems really unlikely. 210 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,960 Another thing to consider is the context of other materials involved. 211 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,720 The mercury was found alongside other materials with unique electrical properties, 212 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,559 like mica, a dielectric insulator that lines specific structures within 213 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,840 the city, and large amounts of pyrite, which is a semiconductor. 214 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,879 This trio of materials is considered too deliberate to be 215 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,799 a mere coincidence, and as we all know, say it 216 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,279 with me, we don't believe in coincidences around here. This 217 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,080 brings us to the energy capacitor hypothesis. This theory suggests 218 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,879 that the entire pyramid and tunnel system functioned as a 219 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,159 massive resonant energy of device or a form of ancient capacitor, 220 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,840 which mirrors the theory about the Egyptian pyramids as well. 221 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,840 Mercury would have been used as the conductor in this case. 222 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,039 The metallic liquid is an excellent electrical conductor. Its placement 223 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,960 at the deepest, most inaccessible point of the pyramid suggests 224 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,080 it was not just an offering, but a crucial component. 225 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,360 It is suggested that it was intended to serve as 226 00:14:37,399 --> 00:14:42,320 a low resistance contact or a stabilizing element within a circuit. 227 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,399 Mica could have been used as an insulator. Mica is 228 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,399 an excellent insulator found in sheets large enough to line 229 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:55,480 entire temples, indicating knowledge of electrical separation and energy storage. 230 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,840 The placement of this material seems designed to isolate or 231 00:15:00,879 --> 00:15:05,279 direct an energy field. The pyramid would have been the 232 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,440 antenna basically, especially because all this was found in the 233 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,200 tunnel underneath the pyramid. Some theories proposed that the pyramids 234 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,279 shape and stone composition were designed to capture and amplify 235 00:15:17,399 --> 00:15:23,320 natural earth or atmospheric energy, essentially acting as an enormous 236 00:15:23,399 --> 00:15:28,679 passive receiver or antenna. The mercury and mica would then regulate, store, 237 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,360 or transmit this energy. If the Tata Tibicon complex was 238 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:36,919 an energy machine. What was it actually used for the question, 239 00:15:37,039 --> 00:15:40,960 that's like the million dollar question right. Theories about this vary, 240 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:43,919 but ultimately it leads to several conclusions. It could have 241 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,080 been a long distance communication system, acting as a device 242 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:52,919 to enhance spiritual or shamanic communication with other dimensional realms. 243 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,240 It also could have been a manufacturing plant. The energy 244 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,679 could have been used to power a forgotten advanced manufacturing 245 00:15:59,679 --> 00:16:03,320 process us like cutting and shaping the extremely hard materials 246 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,159 found at the site. And also it could have been 247 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,799 a stargate concept. Basically, this theory suggests that the shimmering 248 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,840 mercury served as the endpoint of a massive energy concentration system. 249 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,799 It was intended to stabilize a powerful energy field, possibly 250 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:25,720 creating a temporary portal or stargate for transport or interdimensional travel, 251 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,759 much like the show Stargate or like the CIA Project Stargate. 252 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,840 Although pure liquid mercury has been found only in large 253 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:39,440 quantities under the feather serpent pyramid, the source material for 254 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:43,159 mercury is found at other American sites. Cinebar, the ore 255 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,240 used to create liquid mercury, was highly valued in many 256 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,840 meso American cultures such as the Mayans and Olmes. For 257 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:53,600 its red color, which symbolized blood and life. Mica is 258 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:57,919 the most significant link. Mica, a powerful insulator found in large, 259 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,440 non local sheets under Tattu Bcon's pyramid of the Sun, 260 00:17:02,679 --> 00:17:06,279 is also present at other ancient sites across the Americas. 261 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,119 Theorists claim that if micah were only decoration, it would 262 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,720 be used superficially and not in a way that's actually functioning. 263 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 3: However, since it was. 264 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 2: Used in thick layers inside core structures at Tatuocon, the 265 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,000 theory holds that wherever mica is similarly buried or intentionally integrated, 266 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,160 that structure must also have been an energy machine or capacitor, 267 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,960 which makes a lot of sense. Also, as a side note, 268 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:36,759 it is hilarious to me how they tried to pass 269 00:17:36,839 --> 00:17:39,839 all of this off as decoration, the mica, the mercury, 270 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,359 like all of it, and how many people probably believe that, like, yeah, 271 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,039 there's all this mercury under this pyramid in this tunnel 272 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:51,839 just because it looked fun Like that makes no sense anyway. 273 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,079 The energy theories heavily rely on the idea of lay 274 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:58,480 lines or the alignments of ancient sites. This is extremely 275 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:04,680 important lay lines are hypothetical lines that connect geographically distinct 276 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:10,000 ancient structures, sacred sites, and landmarks, such as stone circles, mounds, 277 00:18:10,279 --> 00:18:12,880 ancient churches, megaliths, or, in this. 278 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 3: Case, pyramids. 279 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:19,319 Speaker 2: The Teatiwakan itself is laid out on a precise geometric 280 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,000 grid that is slightly misaligned from true north, leading to 281 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:26,440 theories that it was aligned to specific celestial events or 282 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:31,079 to harness a particular earth energy field. The connecting line 283 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,279 theory suggests that the pyramids of the Maya such as 284 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,839 chichen Itza and Tychole, as well as those of the 285 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,839 Olmec and others, were intentionally positioned along these same unseen 286 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,720 global energy pathways. The mercury in the Tatiwakan tunnel therefore, 287 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,119 wasn't a local ritual offering, but a terminal point or 288 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:56,400 stabilizer for an energy current flowing through these worldwide lines. 289 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:01,000 The North American mounds concept extends to the earthworks and 290 00:19:01,079 --> 00:19:05,240 mounds in North America, like Cohokia and the Serpent mount 291 00:19:05,839 --> 00:19:09,359 Theorists argue that the geometric precision and massive scale of 292 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:13,039 these sites, though not stone pyramids, served a similar function 293 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,119 in the network, possibly using the underground water or unique 294 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,279 minerals to interact with the Earth's resonant frequency, which that's 295 00:19:21,319 --> 00:19:24,079 what all of these pyramids are doing. They are aligning 296 00:19:24,319 --> 00:19:27,519 with outer space, They're aligning with the Earth, They're aligning 297 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,359 with each. 298 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 3: Other to create this energy field. 299 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 2: The main thing tying the pyramids together is the presence 300 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,240 of mercury and mica and the sheer impossibility of their construction, 301 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:41,799 which points to a superior los civilizations like the Atlanteans, 302 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,200 an extraterrestrial intervention like the Autanaki, or to an ancient 303 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:49,839 advanced global culture that built these structures across all continents 304 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,960 using a unified energy based design. The Pyramid of the 305 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:58,440 Sun also has an extensive ancient tunnel system beneath it. 306 00:19:58,759 --> 00:20:01,240 The idea is that if if one pyramid has a 307 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,680 mercury field energy channel, the others, like the Sun and 308 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,240 the Moon, must also have similar power cores. 309 00:20:08,319 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 3: Awaiting discovery. 310 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 2: There is a theory that the builders of the pyramids 311 00:20:12,759 --> 00:20:16,599 were ordinary and had no rulership over them. There is 312 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,799 difficulty proving whether this is true of Tea Tuacon because 313 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,680 it left no clear royal lineage like the Mayans Diad. 314 00:20:24,839 --> 00:20:28,359 The mystery of Tatuacon has led many theorists to suggest 315 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,519 that the city was a temporary outpost or a scientific 316 00:20:31,559 --> 00:20:36,279 complex operated by mysterious Atlantean or pre flood engineers who 317 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:40,839 created the entire planetary grid. Whatever those pre flood engineers were, 318 00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:45,519 it's unknown. The Mercury Tunnel discovery is considered the smoking 319 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:48,839 gun that confirms the existence of a high tech, global 320 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,720 spanning ancient electrical grid, and some will say that this 321 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:55,559 is impossible, But Tesla was also working on a way 322 00:20:55,599 --> 00:20:59,319 to send energy through space. What if ancient civilizations had 323 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,640 the technology way before Tesla. That's kind of what Tesla 324 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:05,039 was basing all of his theories off of, and all 325 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:08,240 of his inventions off of. We're gonna get into that 326 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,880 just a little bit more in a minute, but I 327 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,640 just thought i'd mention it. The Mayan Pyramids are a 328 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,160 prime example of the energy grid theory, but the connection 329 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:19,680 focuses less on the internal wiring and more on the 330 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,920 alignment and resonance. 331 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:22,839 Speaker 3: El Castillo, or. 332 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:26,079 Speaker 2: The Pyramid of Kukolkin, is famous for its nearly perfect 333 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:31,119 astronomical alignments. Theorists suggests this alignment wasn't just for calendars, 334 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,240 but also for maximizing the structure's interaction with Earth's magnetic 335 00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:40,079 field at precise moments such as solstices and equinoxes. The 336 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:43,200 theory argues that the pyramid acts as a resonant antenna, 337 00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:46,279 capturing energy from the heavens and the Earth. Many Mayan 338 00:21:46,319 --> 00:21:51,200 and Aztec pyramids, including El Castillo, had famous acoustic anomalies, 339 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,960 such as the sound of footsteps at the base echoing 340 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,400 back as a churb of a ketzel. Theorists claim these 341 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,960 acoustics were not accidental, but a deliberate design feature to 342 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,480 create sonic vibrations, which we talked about again with the 343 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:09,039 Egyptian pyramids. In the energy theory, sound waves are a 344 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:13,359 form of mechanical energy that can be converted into electricity 345 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,480 through the Pieesel electric effect, a phenomenon also theorized for 346 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:20,799 the quartz content of the Egyptian Giza stones. 347 00:22:21,759 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 3: The Olmec, which is. 348 00:22:23,079 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 2: Considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica, is linked to the 349 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,920 theory through their use of specific materials. Mica, as we've 350 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,960 gone over, was found in large sheets there as well. 351 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,319 The theory suggests that wherever advanced cultures use mica in construction, 352 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,119 not just as reflective coating might have had a shared 353 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,960 technological blueprint for building large scale electrical capacitors to store 354 00:22:47,079 --> 00:22:52,160 or channel energy. The Olmecs also incorporated iron ore mirrors. 355 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,960 They were master sculptors of iron ore into highly polished 356 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,519 concave mirrors. Mainstream archaeology classifies these as ritual objects, but 357 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:07,279 other theorists suggest they were used as magnetic components or 358 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,839 energy focusing devices due to their unique properties. The next 359 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:17,119 theory expands to view the entire geographical distribution of sites 360 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,240 across North, Central and South America as an international network. 361 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:24,720 The global grid theory originated in the concept of the 362 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:28,680 Giza Pyramids, which suggests that all ancient megalith sites are 363 00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:32,440 part of a worldwide grid. From the Peruvian structures like 364 00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:37,759 Majupchu to North American Khokia mounds, they are internationally placed 365 00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:41,640 on lay lines. The American pyramids are therefore seen as 366 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,240 nodes in the planetary energy network, and the Tiocon Mercury 367 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:51,559 discovery serving as a regulatory mechanism for this specific node. 368 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,839 There's also the Tesla connection, which I alluded to a 369 00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:59,319 little bit earlier. The theory is woven into Nikola Tesla's work, 370 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,640 who famous experimented with wireless energy transmission from his Wardencliffe 371 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,680 Tower on Long Island. Theorists claim Tesla was merely rediscovering 372 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,519 the knowledge of the ancients, and that the pyramids served 373 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,519 as his model for global wireless power system that harnessed 374 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:20,440 the Earth's natural residence. Tesla's idea was to transmit electrical 375 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:24,759 energy through the natural medium, using the Earth's surface and 376 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:30,640 ionosphere as a conductor, which mirrors what the pyramids may 377 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,599 or may not have been doing. This means that Ta 378 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,599 Tiwa Kan mercury is the oldest and most tangible piece 379 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,319 of evidence for the American electrical grid theory. The system 380 00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:42,720 itself is theorized to extend to any pyramid or significant 381 00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:47,720 ancient structure that exhibits precise alignment, unusual internal structures, or 382 00:24:47,759 --> 00:24:51,119 the use of materials with conductive or insulating properties. 383 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 3: So, who were these. 384 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,759 Speaker 2: Master mariners or forgotten civilizations capable of crossing oceans and 385 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:04,519 implanting a unified technological blueprint. We have a couple leading candidates, 386 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,759 the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and even the mysterious Nine Travelers. First, 387 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:14,519 let's go over who the Phoenicians are. They are the 388 00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:19,200 undisputed masters of ancient navigation. They didn't just sail the Mediterranean, 389 00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:25,279 they dominated the Mediterranean. They were based in city states 390 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,039 like Tier and Sidan in modern day Lebanon. They invented 391 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:32,519 the alphabet and were the most sophisticated shipbuilders of their time. 392 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,240 Historical accounts, including those of the Greek historian Herodotus, confirmed 393 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,039 that the Phoenicians were capable of voyages far beyond the Mediterranean, 394 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:46,359 even circumnavigating Africa. Their ships were designed for open ocean travel, 395 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,400 which makes it possible that they could have gone anywhere. 396 00:25:50,599 --> 00:25:53,359 Theorists point out that if a ship sailed west from 397 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,720 their famous colony of Carthage in North Africa, it would 398 00:25:56,839 --> 00:26:00,599 enter the Atlantic currents that flow directly towards the Caribbean 399 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:05,000 and meso America. The theory also argues that these master 400 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,799 mariners and their descendants and Carthage either deliberately planted colonies 401 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:13,240 or were shipwrecked in the Americas. They could have taken 402 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,960 and used their advanced knowledge of geometry, astronomy, and large 403 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,240 scale engineering, the very expertise needed to design the functioning 404 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:27,599 energy antenna like the Pyramid of Kukulkin. Egyptians also have 405 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,920 a place in this theory. This one is easy for 406 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,759 many people because of the visual similarities between the pyramids. 407 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 3: However, it goes a lot. 408 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 2: Deeper than just the shape because they're not precisely the same. 409 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:41,119 While American pyramids are stepped and capped with temples and 410 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,559 Egyptian pyramids are smooth sided, theorists argue that the fundamental 411 00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:50,200 shared architectural choice, the limestone pyramid, is actually the key 412 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,680 to this one. As mentioned before, limestone is mostly calcium carbonate, 413 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,759 and in the Egyptian power plant theory, the structure uses 414 00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:02,559 the pyramids shape in line stone's electrical properties to resonate 415 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,000 with the earth. Theorists also linked the Egyptian pyramids courts 416 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:12,160 content used to generate a piezoelectric effect, which converts mechanical 417 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,519 pressure into electrical energy, to the acoustic anomalies found in 418 00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:17,960 Mayan temples such. 419 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 3: As l Castio. 420 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: This suggests a unified acoustic to electric power generation concept 421 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:28,319 shared between Egypt and Meso America. Other claims find Egyptian 422 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,359 style mummies and symbols in South American cultures, attempting to 423 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,680 prove direct cultural transmission not just of architecture, but also 424 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,440 of burial rights and scientific knowledge. Somehow Atlantis always comes 425 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,319 into play. We're talking about ancient conspiracies, but this one 426 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,160 actually makes a lot of sense, so hang with me. 427 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,759 This theory suggests that the source of technology did not 428 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:54,480 come from any currently known culture, but a forgotten, highly 429 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,200 advancivilization like Atlantis and the Nine Travelers. The Atlantean blueprint 430 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,000 is the ultimate lost technology theory right because they were 431 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,759 so far advanced. As the theory goes, theorists suggests that 432 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:10,119 Atlantis or a similar power pre flood civilization was the 433 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,880 originator of the entire global energy grid, which also makes 434 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,519 sense if they're a global civilization that they would want 435 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,920 a global energy grid. When Atlantis was destroyed, surviving Atlantean 436 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,119 scientists or engineers were scattered across the globe, bringing their 437 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,880 advanced technology blueprint for pyramids and energy nodes to both 438 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,319 Egypt and the Americas simultaneously. 439 00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 3: This would explain. 440 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 2: Why they were rebuilding the planetary grid. Since the builders 441 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,960 of Tan Tubcon left no clear royal lineage or identifiable names, 442 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,160 they are easily slotted into the role of temporary outposts 443 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,400 or scientific commune established by these mysterious Atlantean survivors. With 444 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:54,079 their mission being to build a city's power core, culminating 445 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:58,519 in the Mercury Tunnel, the ultimate proof of this advanced science. 446 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,279 Whether it was the Phoenician sailors spreading the knowledge of 447 00:29:02,519 --> 00:29:06,119 geometry or Atlantean refugees rebuilding a massive power grid, the 448 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:09,480 core of the Transoceanic contact theory is that the builders 449 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,839 of the American Pyramids were not acting alone, but as 450 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:18,200 part of this global, technologically sophisticated system. If the Phoenicians, Egyptians, 451 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,759 Atlantans or others reached the Americas, they must have left 452 00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:25,279 something behind, and, according to some believers in this theory, 453 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:32,920 they did. Mainstream archeology classifies these finds as either forgeries, misinterpretations, 454 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,839 or coincidental similarities. Again, no coincidence is here, but for 455 00:29:38,039 --> 00:29:43,000 conspiracy theorists, these are smoking guns proving that the American 456 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,079 Pyramids were built by outsiders, or at least with their help. 457 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,519 The most direct way to prove contact is through writing 458 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,920 and the real alleged inscriptions that have driven the debate 459 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,440 for decades, which brings us to the Para Eva inscription 460 00:29:58,519 --> 00:30:02,559 in Brazil. This is probably the most famous alleged Phoenician inscription, 461 00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:06,240 discovered in eighteen seventy two in Brazil. It supposedly detailed 462 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,519 a Phoenician ship separated from its fleet, landing on the 463 00:30:09,559 --> 00:30:13,680 coast in the sixth century BCE. The claim is that 464 00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:17,759 it is definitive proof that Phoenician mariners, the greatest sailors 465 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,519 of antiquity, made a successful transatlantic voyage. Of course, nobody 466 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:25,200 wants to believe that, but this could be proof. However, 467 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,839 they want you to believe the inscription was a forgery 468 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,160 by scholars shortly before its discovery. Like they went in there, 469 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:34,079 they wrote some things on the thing. They were like, look, 470 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:35,200 we discovered this. 471 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,359 Speaker 3: That doesn't even make any sense. 472 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: They claimed that the grammatical mistakes prove that it could 473 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,200 not have been written in the sixth century, which, like, 474 00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:47,119 how do they know people in the sixth century could 475 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,000 have made mistakes. The next interesting writing was found at 476 00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:54,440 the Back Creek Stone in Tennessee. In eighteen eighty nine, 477 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:57,599 an inscribed stone was found in an ancient burial Mounta 478 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,440 in Tennessee. Some have interpreted it as bearing Phoenician or 479 00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:05,279 Paleo Hebrew script. The claim here is that it proves 480 00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:10,079 Semitic people, Phoenicians, or an early group of Israelites reached 481 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:13,799 North America and interacted with the mound builders, potentially imparting 482 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:18,440 knowledge that led to the development of the Kahokiah Complex. Officially, 483 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,440 they want you to believe that it's just this misreading 484 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,920 or a fraud that kind of fits their narrative a 485 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,079 little bit better. But writing is not the only evidence 486 00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:32,599 there is. Some architectural and artistic details are too precise 487 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,200 to have evolved independently on two different continents. The Mayans 488 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,920 extensively use the corbel arch, a structure made of successive 489 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,880 layers of stone that project outward until they meet at 490 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,720 the top. True arches were used in the Old World. 491 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,839 The claim is that the corbel arch, a technologically inferior 492 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,119 but unique architectural solution, must have been taught by the 493 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,400 same group in both places, perhaps by a survivor group 494 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:04,519 from a common precursor civilization such as Atlantis. 495 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,319 Speaker 3: The mainstream view. 496 00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 2: Here is that the corbel arch is an intuitive way 497 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,160 to bridge a gap using stone blocks, common in many 498 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,720 cultures across history, and that it simply represents an early 499 00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:20,960 stage of engineering before the invention of the proper keystone arch. 500 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,160 That's what they want you to believe. Of course, they 501 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:29,559 always have some sort of explanation. Next is the bearded 502 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,759 white God. There is a persistent presence of sculptures of 503 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:38,119 a bearded, light skinned deity in various meso American cultures, 504 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,640 often associated with Ketzlkuadal. 505 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,279 Speaker 3: And it is claimed as evidence of an Old World visitor. 506 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,079 Speaker 2: The claim is that this deity must have been a 507 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,920 highly revered Phoenician, Egyptian, or even European visitor who arrived 508 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,480 with advanced knowledge and was mistaken for a god establishing 509 00:32:56,839 --> 00:33:01,599 technological traditions. If writing and art weren't in stray, biology 510 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,319 and botany that crossed oceans far earlier than Columbus may 511 00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:09,920 be the key to this whole theory. A major controversy 512 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,119 arose when traces of nicotine from tobacco and cocaine from 513 00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:17,960 the coca plant were found in Egyptian mummies dating back 514 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,759 over three thousand years. 515 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,519 Speaker 3: Tobacco and coca. 516 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,119 Speaker 2: Were exclusively native to the Americas, they weren't even in 517 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,839 Egypt at the time. This could be irrefutable proof of 518 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,839 pre Columbian trade between the Americas in Egypt or the 519 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,160 Near East, showing that sailors like the Phoenicians or Egyptians 520 00:33:38,279 --> 00:33:42,200 were conducting regular voyages back and forth. Of course, they'll 521 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,599 tell you that these findings resulted from contamination in a 522 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,359 lab or from later treatments. 523 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:51,599 Speaker 3: Of the mummies. But it's just so odd. 524 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,599 Speaker 2: And other odd cross migrations come from the sweet potato, 525 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,000 the sweet potatoes native to the Americas, what was being 526 00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:04,559 cultivated in Polynesia centuries before any known European contact. The 527 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,679 claim is that if the Pacific people's the Polynesians could 528 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,559 cross the Pacific and land in South America, then it 529 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:16,280 is perfectly logical that the superior Phoenician or Egyptian mariners 530 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,519 could cross the narrower Atlantic. It proves that ancient transatlantic 531 00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:26,119 and trans Pacific travel was far more common than history admits, 532 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:31,039 supporting this global grid theory, and also disproving the theory 533 00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:34,360 that they've taught us our entire lives that Columbus discovered 534 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,320 America when they could have been coming to Americas this 535 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,519 whole time. Now, all of this brings us to the 536 00:34:42,519 --> 00:34:46,280 glaring question why did the global energy grid go dark? 537 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,159 What happened to all this technology? So far, we've established 538 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,800 the theory that the American pyramids were nodes in a 539 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,519 massive ancient technological network powered by Earth's residents and possibly 540 00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:03,840 regulated by the liquid beneath Tea Tucon. For theorists, the 541 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,760 collapse of these magnificent civilizations, like the mysterious disappearance of 542 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:13,320 Teotucon's rulers or the sudden abandonment of major Mayan cities, 543 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,559 was not a gradual social or environmental process, but a 544 00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:23,480 single catastrophic technological or military failure. The most visceral theory 545 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,679 holds that the pyramid grid didn't just stop working, It 546 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,480 experienced a catastrophic failure that wiped out the highly advanced 547 00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:35,400 builders and destroyed their knowledge base. If the pyramids were 548 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,639 truly acting as capacitors or energy transmission devices like Tesla's 549 00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:43,480 wireless power, then a fault in a single central node, 550 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,239 such as the mercury chamber at Tea Tucon could have 551 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:53,079 triggered a massive chain reaction. Theorists suggests an uncontrolled energy 552 00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:58,239 release that led to localized catastrophes, essentially overloading the global 553 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,559 system and making the powerful pyramids basically unusable. This catastrophic 554 00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:06,920 event would explain the sudden, violent collapse of the ruling 555 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,559 elite and the prompt ceiling of key areas such as 556 00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:14,159 the feathered serpent tunnel. This also kind of makes sense 557 00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:16,320 when you think back to the Pyramid's episode which I 558 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,760 will link that in the show notes, and there's evidence 559 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,599 of an explosion in the King's chamber. Could that be 560 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,960 one of these catastrophic events. The darker version suggests the 561 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,519 technology wasn't for power at all, but for weaponry. The 562 00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:37,400 pyramid complexes could have been designed to focus telluric energy 563 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,760 into a weapon, maybe a powerful seismic or atmospheric disruptor. 564 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,360 An accidental firing or misuse of this weapon could have 565 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,320 led to a rapid civilization ending environmental change or destruction, 566 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,880 leaving the builders scattered or dead. The next theory completely 567 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,679 bypasses the need for a physical catastrophe. It just conceals 568 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,119 the true t It suggests that the advanced technological knowledge 569 00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:07,360 didn't disappear, it was intentionally hidden or suppressed by a 570 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:12,360 succeeding or invading power. There may have been a successor culture. 571 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,440 As cultures like the Aztecs rose to prominence, they deliberately 572 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,679 misrepresented the true purpose of older structures, such as those 573 00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:25,840 at Teatiacon. The technological use of the pyramids was marked 574 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:31,039 by turning them into temples for rituals and sacrifices. This 575 00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:35,400 explains why the Mayan Aztecs built temples with flat tops. 576 00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:40,199 They were ritualistically reclaiming the structures and replacing the memory 577 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,760 of the technological core with religious ceremony. There may also 578 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,360 have been intentional sealing. The ceiling of the Mercury tunnel 579 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,280 at Teatiacon becomes the prime evidence. The immense effort to 580 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,199 seal the tunnel of rubble and block access suggests that 581 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,360 the builders were not just abandoning the religious site, but 582 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:05,199 were urgently burying dangerous or sensitive technology that they did 583 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,039 not want others to access or misuse. They didn't lose 584 00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:13,360 the knowledge, they just locked it away. Another probable explanation 585 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:18,480 involves environmental and genetic collapse known as the Atlantean decay. 586 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,480 This theory links back to the concept of the Atlantean 587 00:38:21,639 --> 00:38:26,119 or extraterrestrial builders, who are supposedly superior to the native populations. 588 00:38:26,519 --> 00:38:29,599 If the engineers, like the Atlanteans or the Nine Travelers, 589 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:34,400 were a genetically distinct small group, the theory suggests that 590 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:39,239 they may have succumbed to a localized disease, genetic degradation, 591 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,159 or simply been absorbed and diluted by the surrounding native populations. 592 00:38:44,519 --> 00:38:47,880 Without the original engineers to maintain the complex advanced systems, 593 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,199 the technological secrets of the pyramid were inevitably lost, like 594 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,719 they just didn't know how to work it. Resource depletion 595 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,320 may also have played a role. This theory argues that 596 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,800 while the peers ran on free energy, the construction and 597 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:07,400 maintenance required rare resources, such as labor to extract centabar 598 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,360 from mercury or the quarrying of mica. As resources became 599 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,079 sacred or trade routes collapsed, the engineers could no longer 600 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:17,760 maintain the integrity of the grid, leading to a slow 601 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,880 decay of the power system. The struggling survivors simply forgot 602 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,360 the knowledge. The creepiest part of this entire theory about 603 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,880 the American Pyramids is that we are living on a 604 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,239 planet powered by a dormant technological grid, a grid that 605 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,119 went dark due to either a devastating meltdown, a successful 606 00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:43,199 suppression effort, or the inevitable decay of a superior civilization. 607 00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:47,840 Pyramids stand today not as tombs or temples, but as silent, 608 00:39:48,159 --> 00:39:52,159 enormous monuments to a catastrophe that robbed humanity of its 609 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:53,519 true advanced past. 610 00:39:54,199 --> 00:39:57,320 Speaker 3: But what do you guys all think? Is it all 611 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,079 just a coincidence? I don't think so. 612 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 2: Did these giant pyramids and mounds just rise up by 613 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,480 the power of inferior humans all over the world using 614 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,159 the same materials, artworks, writing, and astrological precision? That just 615 00:40:11,199 --> 00:40:14,239 does not make any sense all around the world. Could 616 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,719 it be the world of our brilliant human ancestors whose 617 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:21,960 advanced technology mysteriously disappeared, Or with all the recent UFO 618 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,039 information coming out, could it have been made with the 619 00:40:25,079 --> 00:40:28,199 help of extraterrestrial beings that may or may not still 620 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,639 be on or visiting our planet. Let me know in 621 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:35,239 the comments. 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