Brothers of the Serpent

--==WARNING==-- This episode contains drunk people  While Kyle and Russ slept the sleep of innocent serpents, the ten by ten by ten Tangent Cube of Science was hijacked by drunk friends who secretly recorded themselves attempting to make a podcast episode in the best SnakeBros tradition. This is the result. Of course, they never thought we would publish it. But once we heard it, we knew we had to. Not only is it hilarious, it also has some really excellent content on ancient mysteries. Enjoy! Brothers of the Serpent LateNite  Hiawatha Crater

We read and discuss articles about recent earthquake mysteries, vanishing quasars, and a very strange standalone doorway in Rome called the Porta Alchemica which has inscribed upon it numerous riddles which we endeavor to solve on the fly. In the final segment, Russ reads from Michael Cremo's book Hidden History of the Human Race, focusing on a few of the anomalous discoveries of human artifacts buried in strata that is normally considered to be hundreds of millions of years old. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 077

Mr. Clint Beckham is back again, joining us in the infamous Tangent Cube of Science to discuss all things arrowheads and ancient Native American cultures and mysteries. It was a fantastic and fun show. clint.beckham@yahoo.com (830) 313-2648 Aoudad Adventures & More Brothers of the Serpent Episode 076

We talk about the Greenland Impact Crater in the first segment and what that means for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the history of the human race in general. We read select sections from Graham Hancock's book Magicians of the Gods regarding unexplained and highly scientific artifacts on the Altiplano around Lake Titicaca including the megalithic sites of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku, anomalous advances in agriculture from thousands of years ago, and the Aymara language itself appearing to have been constructed instead of arising organically. In the final segment we go through some of the really astonishing astronomical, biological, and philosophical correlations contained in ancient metrology, ancient structures, and mythology, respectively. Respect.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 075  Bolivian Corrugated Fields Corrugated Fields Greenland Hiawatha Crater Beneath Giant Tusk courtesy of @CosmicTusk

We spend most of this episode going through cases from David Paulides' book, Missing 411: Western United States and Canada. We discuss each case briefly, then finish up with a more in depth discussion in the final segment.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 074

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.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 073 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.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 072  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.  Brothers of the Serpent Episode 071

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. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 070  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. Brothers of the Serpent Episode 069