

Brothers of the Serpent
Russ & Kyle Allen
Two brothers explore the mysteries of the ages, the ancients, and the modern day.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 2h 21min
Episode #303: Listener Communications - Live
We read and respond to listener emails in this episode, which was live streamed to YouTube. Thank you all so much for the great emails, and the support for the show! Executive Producers: LalaC Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Associate Executive Producers: Edfu_TextYa_Later Jim Niggles Captain River Rat Chris James Daniel Gandy Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks

Oct 20, 2023 • 2h 27min
Episode #302: Tales of the Little People - Part 4
Drew joins us for the final episode on his collection of tales about little people, fae folk, and pygmies, this time from the Americas. It is amazing to hear the striking similarities with stories from the other side of the world. Thanks to Troy for the episode art!

Oct 16, 2023 • 2h 40min
Episode #301: The 300th Episode
We discuss some recent scientific discoveries in detail, reading from articles and the source papers about ancient solar storms that caused a massive increase in Carbon 14 in the atmosphere, and fossil prints at White Sands that definitively breaks the "Clovis First" model of the peopling of the Americas. In the final segment we discuss a bit about where our minds are at regarding all these mysteries, as well as future plans for exploration on the podcast and in the field. Hard to believe we've published 300 2+ hour episodes! Thanks for sticking with us, there's more to come! Solar Superstorm article: https://earthsky.org/human-world/solar-superstorm-tree-rings-14300-years-carrington-miyake/ Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206 Footprints article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-footprints-affirm-people-lived-in-the-americas-more-than-20-000-years-ago/ Executive Producer: Clueless Krees

Oct 9, 2023 • 2h 25min
Episode #300: Akashic Records and Ancestral Magic
Our guest this week, Heather Shy, has degrees in business and finance, but her true calling is in spiritual and physical healing using meditation and hypnosis visualization techniques to access the "Akashic Records" and ancestral knowledge. Heather is also an accomplished astrologer. We discuss the connections between these different techniques, and the philosophical implications of the existence this kind of access to information. Thanks to Troy for the episode art!

Oct 2, 2023 • 2h 15min
Episode #299: Tales of the Little People - Part 3
This week Drew takes us through the Arthur Conan Doyle saga with the fairies, and how he fell for hoaxed photographs....but we also read some of Doyle's writings on the subject of fae encounters, and they seem entirely rational. We then spend some time reading and discussing the topic of Homo Floresiensis, also known as the "hobbits" of the island of Flores. There are tales of encounters with "little people" that persist on this island to this day, despite the fact that the fossil evidence of these "hobbit" people is at least 12,000 years old, and perhaps as old as 50,000 years. We then move on to tales from Japan, with very similar themes, trickster beings that can be beneficial as long as the humans interacting with them abide by their word. We will be performing at Howl at the Holler for the annular Eclipse on October the 14th, see the link for details: https://howlattheholler.com/ The Lebanon extension for our upcoming Egypt trip in February has a pre-extension, see the link for details: https://unchartedx.com/site/2023/09/28/feb-24-lebanon-tour-baalbek-still-available-now-with-8-day-jordan-option/ Thanks to all of you who support the show with donations and through Patreon. If you want to add your support, go to https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Executive Producers: Anne who Knits Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Associate Executive Producers: Captain River Rat Chris James Daniel Gandy Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks

Sep 15, 2023 • 2h 24min
Episode #298: The Spookiest Story Never Told - Part 3
Marty Garza joins us again for the 12th part in his series on the strange history of UFOs, aliens, magic, demons, spirituality, consciousness, psychic abilities, dark government agencies, wars, and weapons development. This time we dive deep into some strange connections in myth from ancient biblical and Hebrew texts, shamanism, contact with the spirit world, angels and demons, the Book of Enoch, and CIA projects researching psychic abilities. As always, Marty brings the goods with his detailed approach. We hope you enjoy this latest installment in the UFO series. Thanks to Troy Hoover for the amazing episode art!

Sep 10, 2023 • 2h 16min
Episode #297: Tales of the Little People - Part 2
Drew returns for Part 2 of Tales of the Little People, an in depth look at the high strangeness contained in the stories of people's encounters with the supernatural in the form of the Fae Folk. We discuss similarities with UFO and cryptid sightings in modern times, as well as ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists. The discussion then spills over into a Patreon extension. Join our Patreon, support the show, and get access to continued discussions and bumper tunes! http://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent --Episode art by Troy Hoover--

Sep 4, 2023 • 2h 25min
Episode #296: Tales of the Little People
Long time listener and friend of the show Drew(LP McQuack in the Discord) joins us this episode to discuss one of our favorite SnakeBros topics - the Little People. Fairies, the Fae, the Good Folk, the Sidhe....they are known by many names and come in many forms. In this episode, the first of a series on this topic, Drew takes us through a collection of tales of the Little People, with weird common elements and high strangeness. Executive Producers: Jess Redmon Andrea Johnson

Sep 4, 2023 • 2h 6min
Episode #295: Back from Harvest - Listener Communications - Live
Harvest was crazy this year, over 30 tons of grapes, but it's all fermented and in barrels or tanks at this point. Hopefully we are almost back to a regular podcasting schedule. We returned with a live show, talking about the winemaking process and showing some videos, then reading and responding to listener emails. Executive Producer: Luke Miller Associate Executive Producer: Edfu_TextYa_Later

Jul 28, 2023 • 2h 8min
Episode #294: Drilling for Ashes - with Dr. Joanne Ballard
We met Dr. Ballard at the Cosmic Summit, and decided we'd love to have her on the podcast to discuss her work. She is a Geologist and Biogeographist, and a member of the Comet Research Group. She became interested in the YDIH and started drilling lake cores looking for evidence of biomass burning. She joins us this episode to discuss her background, her interest in the YDIH, and her related field and lab work, as well as some of her current interests and possible future projects. You can find out more about her here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research Links to her thesis as discussed in the episode: A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463 Joanne Ballard PhD Dissertation, https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/ Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A. She also sent us a lot of interesting links to articles and papers after the episode, listed below: Sergei Leshchinskiy study on bony malformation of late Pleistocene mammoths of Siberia and Poland, acidification of the landscape https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0081-new-theory-on-why-the-woolly-mammoth-became-extinct/?comm_order=best https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/616417 Did inbreeding doom the mammoths - fossils from the North Sea, Jelle Reumer https://www.science.org/content/article/did-inbreeding-doom-mammoth Pygmy mammoths of the Channel Island of California https://www.amazon.com/Pygmy-Mammoths-Channel-Islands-California/dp/0962475084 Other late occurring relict populations of mammoths occurred on Wrangei Island (Siberia), Pribolof Island, St Paul Island. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040618070946.htm#:~:text=Using%20accelerator%20mass%20spectrometer%20(AMS,after%20the%20last%20glacial%20maximum. Hartnagel and Bishop 1921. Online book, read about Mastodons, Mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York state, buried in the peat. 161 pages. https://books.google.com/books?id=9rxRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Blue Babe, bison carcass 50,000 years old, Professor Dale Guthrie https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska A North American permafrost study. For reference regarding the shaken--not stirred cocktail of mammals/trees/sediments/ice. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.12036


