Brothers of the Serpent

After a fantastic SpaceWeatherNews update we do some listener maintenance and read some emails and promote our brand new Twitter feed (@SnkBrs), re-re-explain Precession again in another different way, then move on to some serious Missing 411 stuff in the second hour of the show. Clearly, Kyle identifies with the Physicists. Russ, on the other hand, is not even on this graph.

After SpaceWeatherNews and a SunProbe update, we read a story about a mystery boom heard at the Serpent Mound in Ohio, and Brenner (returning as a special guest for this special episode) reads a story about the return of the Skull Asteroid of Certain Death this Halloween. Russ then recounts some personal anecdotes about strange sounds and other "ghostly" phenomena. We then get to the main topic of the show, which is the Precession of the Equinoxes. Of course. Because 72.   Kyle's Precession Diagrams, showing how the axial wobble shifts the seasons around the orbit of the sun, and thus the zodiacal constellations relative to the sun's position in the sky

After our normal SpaceWeatherNews update and some pontificating about quantum mechanics and other things we completely do not understand, we spend the rest of the show going through a selection of fairy folklore tales from the excellent book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, and discussing the many connections to other mythologies, both ancient and modern.

In this episode we have a wide ranging discussion on everything from the philosophy of falsification in science, to the ramifications of being a species with amnesia, to the similarities between the Samaipata Megalith in Bolivia and the Yonaguni Monument in Japan.     Stonehenge Heel Stone   Uluru (Ayers Rock)    Temple of Man, Tiahuanaco. Note the many faces protruding from the lower wall   Faces in the wall   More faces   Closeup of some of the odd faces   Puma Punku   Some of the many intricately carved blocks of Puma Punku         Samaipata Megalith, Bolivia         Model of the megalith

We discuss a wide range of topics on this episode including the mystery of the ever-burning lamps, a new scientific paper proposing that the octopus is an alien species that came to Earth in cometary ice over 200 million years ago, crop circles and stone circles and subtle earth energies, and the role that science fiction has played in the advancement of science.

After a SpaceWeatherNews update we discuss a weekend trip to Big Bend National Park and the observations of the geological mysteries there by Russ and The Watcher. Russ talks about a new Aptronym he discovered, then we move into some follow-up discussion on the Epic of Gilgamesh and how that story may be connected to the mysteries of Viracocha/Quetzalcoatl and the giant basalt heads of the "Olmec". For the second half of the show, we play a brief clip from a lecture given by Dr. Manly P. Hall, where he touches on many of the topics we talk about, essentially proving that he was, in fact, a SnakeBro. Even if he didn't know it at the time.  

In this episode Kyle gives us a detailed and fantastic rendition of the oldest known written tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh. We discuss the possible meanings and symbolism and hidden truths contained in the story, but mostly, we just sit back and enjoy this most epic and ancient tale of Gilgamesh, King in Uruk.

In this episode we take a deep dive beneath the Antarctic ice into a conspiracy-laden rabbit hole of UFOs, ancient aliens, ruins of a lost civilization, WWII era German nationalist breakaway civilizations, geopolitics, the airship sightings mystery, abductions, contactees, Project Blue Book and much more.

In this episode we discuss the Snakebros Glossary terms, which leads to all kinds of different topics ranging from the philosophy of science to ancient megalithic sites. In the second half of the show, we discuss common arguments made by skerptards and by people who aren't skerptards but who are unknowingly regurgitating common skerptardian fallacies.

Subtitle: Giant Stone Lizards and Hands and Eyes and Heads and Belts and Jars and Balls and Ba'albek and Pyramids and Beerpong After some news updates about spaceweather and immortality vitamins, we read some more sections from Graham Hancock's book Underworld, this time focusing on the Yonaguni monument of the coast of Japan. We also discuss the Plain of Jars in Laos, and the correlations to other megalithic monuments around the world.     3D Model of Yonaguni Monument   3D Model   Divers over the monument         The two upright megaliths near the monument   Between the megaliths   A channel or trough in the monument    Plain of Jars, Laos       Drone image of a more dangerous area of the Plain of Jars   One of the largest jars   The large jar   A jar split by a tree   Stone jars in the Bada Valley in Sulawesi   Another Bada Valley jar   Stone lid for jar in Sulawesi   Another lid   Strange stylized monolithic statue in Bada Valley. Note the way the arms are held   Another stylized monolithic statue from Sulawesi             Chullpa towers, Peru       The high relief mark on the tower   Close up of the relief   Bell Cave, Jordan, with oculus in the ceiling   Bell Cave with eroded triangular pockets   Triangular pockets   In the labyrinthine tunnels around the Bell Caves, with pockets in the walls    Auroral arc at the beginning of September   Venus Shadow, in the Atacama desert