Brothers of the Serpent

We speak with Sheldon from the C-Word podcast and mine his brain for valuable nuggets of geological data. He has a degree in geology and has experience in using his degree in the field for oil, gas and mining industries. We talk about uniformitarianism, catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, plate tectonics, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, vulcanism, rock formation and dating technologies, and pirates at strip clubs. Thanks very much to The C Word for letting us borrow their geologist for one show! Check them out on Twitter @cwordpod and on iTunes. Enjoy!  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 088 Exposed mantle material at Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland "Ultramafic" rock, Gros MorneSubduction of oceanic crust Back-arc Basin and volcanic result of subductionThe Mid-Atlantic RidgeStanding on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge exposed in IcelandOceanic Gyre currents

We focus on mysterious ancient codices and untranslated written languages and texts from around the world, leading to all manner of discussion on a wide range of subjects. We also deliver the weekly SpaceWeatherNews update, a few interesting news articles, and some listener correspondence.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 087  Dragon Aurora Fire Falls Humpback whale in Amazon Cretan Hieroglyphs on Phaistos Disc Wadi el-Hol script Sitovo inscriptionOlmec writing Singapore Stone Rongorongo Proto-Elamite Indus Valley script, with Unicorn Mohenjo-daro

After reading the entirety of the Upuaut Project info from Gantenbrink's website in episode 85, we follow up on the topic of the "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid by reading articles and info on the more recent explorations of the shafts, finishing up with the ScanPyramids data about the "voids" discovered above the Great Gallery. We discuss the possible ways that Gantenbrink's data may coincide with the ScanPyramids data, and much more.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 086  Mercury after sunset, spaceweather.com ScanPyramids Big Void

In this episode we do a deep-dive into German Engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink's exploration of the mysterious "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid, reading at length from his website where he meticulously records every detail of the project to use a robotic crawler to drive a camera up the shafts and inspect them up close, block by block, culminating in the discovery of the now infamous "secret door". So many interesting features were discovered by Gantenbrink and his "Upuaut" robot, most of which were so overshadowed by the "door" that these other details are rarely reported. We remedy that with this show.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 085 (All the pictures below come from Gantenbrink's website, www.cheops.org) Settling of the shaft blocks "Dixon's Rod" An illustration showing the partially completed shaft block, which the robot could not pass Block assembly where one of the King's Chamber shaft ends on the exterior of the pyramid Entering the "Mankiller" tunnel Cleaning the access to exterior shaft point The 100 year old wheeled "battering ram" Installing the protective cover over an exterior shaft exit Recessed niches in King's Chamber shaft. You can see the laser dots on the wall, inside the niches Ventilator blower Upuaut 2 entering a shaft Lateral displacement of a shaft block Static forces damaged the floor block of the shaft, making a giant "tank trap" step up to the next block The infamous "door" Close-up of the copper rods, with circular "seals" discoloration Graphic showing shaft block arrangement Shaft block assembly Shaft block assembly, showing how the builders changed block sizes to keep the assembly from sliding down into the chambers Strange vertical shaft seam(it looks tilted from the robot's perspective) Dixon's "hook" Black mark on the shaft wall, with horizontal chisel marks across it Double vertical black mark with chisel marks Object with two holes in it, beneath Dixon's Rod Wooden square rod trapped beneath Dixon's Rod Dixon's Rod curving to the right where it is jammed against the wall. To the left is the square rod, with a mysterious boxy shape barely visible at the far end of it Very rough block surfaces Horizontal "Scratch lines" along the block wall, just above floor level Remnants of mortar glue stuck to shaft wall More glue in a different area Floor groove A second floor groove Graphic depicting saw being used to clean the sides of casing stones Groove beneath casing stone seam Broken piece of copper rod from the "door" Fine Limestone natural veins visible in cieling Remnants of gypsum on copper rod Bottom right corner of the "door"

This week we had a very special guest(our dad) on the show to regale us with stories about moving and lifting very heavy loads in massive construction projects, the associated headaches and difficulties and, sometimes, outright disasters that can occur when trying to lift object A and place it on point B. His decades of experience allows him to explain very well how complex such operations are, and how much engineering and technology is required to complete them. We compare some of the modern world's most powerful lifting machinery to what would have been required to complete some of the ancient megalithic structures still standing today, and even do some basic math to get the specs for a crane for building the Great Pyramid. Spoiler alert: it would have to have been way bigger than anything we have today.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 084  Pink AuroraSteel Counterweight Boxes being lowered into the bridge towersBridge span being constructed on land 1400-ton completed bridge span being slowly rolled towards the barge 18-20 axle bridge span transports Bridge rolling onto the barge Ballast pump keeping barge level as bridge weight is added Two ballast pumps working Bridge span almost completely on the barge The next day, 90-ft wide barge carrying 300-ft bridge span to the channel Barge with bridge approaching the bridge towers Completed bridge in the down position for railroad crossing Completed bridge in the up position for channel trafficJapan Imperial Palace walls coming out of canal Parabolic curve of the Imperial walls Relative Size image of Imperial Palace wall corner ashlar blocks Crane sliding a concrete table out of the side of the building UPS docking bay doors, pre-poured, rigged for lifting Lifting a door--note the crane getting "light" on the back track A lifted door

After the customary SpaceWeatherNews update, we read the story of the three year old boy who was lost in the woods for 48 hours and, when he was found, said he "hung out with a bear". People seem to think he was actually hanging out with sasquatch. So we get our resident three year old to look at a picture of sasquatch, and he says "Inuno its a gorilla" so, he, at least, would not have called sasquatch a bear. The rest of the show is about spacetime gravity waves, time dilation, red shift, relativity, string theory, and other similarly simple cosmological concepts. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 083

In this episode we try to give an overview of the topic of ancient mysteries and why we explore alternative views of ancient history. We try to cover as much ground as possible with as broad a brush as possible. For long term listeners or people who are already versed in this subject, this show gives a good outline of our current thinking. For those who are new to the topic, we hope this will initiate you into this most fascinating of subjects.    Brothers of the Serpent Episode 082

GMA of LateNite fame joins us in the Tangent Cube for the 2019 inaugural episode, bringing his engineering expertise to the subject of impossiblocks, and also recounts a snake expedition he took into the mountainous wilderness of New York State to look for an ancient serpent effigy aligned to the constellation of Draco.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 080 LOTS of pics for this show! Click to enlarge, as always: Aurora Borealis by Alexander Kuznetsov via spaceweather.com "Serpent Effigy" boulders and dry-laid walls on Overlook Mountain, NY           Museum of the American Indian. Obsidian Mirror is the black circle on the upper right Demonstrating the reflectivity of the mirrorGranite-carved object, said to be a "yoke" of some kind Note the difference in quality between the sculpture and the "yoke"'Em'r ducks From Lovelock Cave Overhead map of the Serapeum, with Serapeum Box locations marked and numbered Serapeum Entrance One of the Serapeum boxes Serapeum box with "relative size people" Rough hewn box still in the tunnel. Not much room to get hundreds of slaves and ropes around that thing Christopher Dunn, measuring precision inside one of the boxes Precision between box and lid The infamous "Core #7", note the feed rate lines circling the core Feed rate lines inside a core bore Another core bore with visible feed marks Zoom in on this image to see the incredibly thin core drill width that is being pointed out More evidence of advanced Computer Numerical Control(CNC) machining on Giza ...and still more evidence   "Ramses II"(if that's who this really is) colossal statue facial symmetry   Facial symmetry evidence of tool diameter symmetry   Tool diameter symmetry in the z axis   Giza plateau basalt sheathing slabs   Flat basalt slabs cut to fit eroded limestone below Basalt sheathing Ba'albek Trilithon - The three blocks marked in red. Note relative size people on the ground below Ba'albek Trilithon - the weights listed are way on the low end of possibility. These blocks are probably closer to 1100-1200 tons More impossiblocks at Ba'albek "Stone of the Pregnant Woman" in the Ba'albek quarry, 1 kilometer from the site. Until recently was the largest known cut stone ever made Stone of the Pregnant Woman, relative size people Another perspective on the Stone of the Pregnant Woman The EVEN LARGER blocks found below the Stone of the Pregnant Woman Another enormous cut stone, partway between the quarry and the site Someone was MOVING this block through the mountains, when they suddenly dropped it, left, and never returned. It has not moved since

We take some time in the beginning of this episode to give a shout out and a farewell to a friend of ours who passed away recently. He was a great friend and a SnakeBro. Rest in peace, brother. After a spaceweathernews update and some other interesting and funny headlines and stories, we move to our main topic for this show, which is the island of Malta and its mysterious and incredibly ancient megalithic structures and subsurface hypogea, the anomalous skeletons and skulls found there, the "Venus Statues" found in some of the above ground structures, and the fact that no one really knows who made these places, why they seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere, and vanish just as quickly. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 081

Just a quick shout out to all our listeners and friends from the whole SnakeBros family. We love you, merry christmas/happy holidays to you all!!  Brothers of the Serpent Merry Xmas