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Scott Wolter: Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods" Are "Ancestors of the Venus Families"

8/11/2016

Let’s start today with a fascinating new discovery in Greece, where the old myth of human sacrifice to Zeus on Mt. Lykaion seems to have been confirmed by the first-ever discovery of human remains in an ancient altar dating back to the end of the Mycenaean period. According to Apollodorus (Library 3.8.1) and Hesiod, the mountain’s namesake King Lycaon tricked Zeus into eating human flesh and was turned into a wolf. Pausanias (8.38.7) records that on an altar on the mountain secret sacrifices occurred, hoary with age, and that Lycaon became a wolf because he had sacrificed a child on the mountain’s altar (8.2.3). Now for the first time there is some archaeological evidence, if it is confirmed that the adolescent male found on the mountain had been sacrificed, that these stories describe memories of Mycenaean religious rituals.

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Discovering the Origin of Transatlantic Templars and Their Mexican Vacation

8/10/2016

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Yesterday I discussed the French writers whose speculations led to the belief that the Knights Templar had intercourse with the New World. The story, according to (incorrect) French sources, originates in a 1948 short story written by Jean de la Varende, who claimed that “The property of the Temple was of silver. The Templars had discovered America—Mexico and its silver mines” (my trans.). This, in turn, led to a number of Francophone authors speculating about Templar invasions of the Americas, along with Spanish authors like including Alejandre Vignati, writing in El Enigma de los Templarios (1975). In researching this, I discovered a particularly bizarre effort to try to justify the claim, but one that dates back to a 1902 book about the Templars that I learned of in a roundabout way.

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Where Did the Myth of the Lost Templar Fleet and Its Transoceanic Voyage Come From?

8/9/2016

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In discussing Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett’s The Templar Revelation (1997) yesterday, I noted that the two authors had no real interest in primary sources, and I mentioned that they gained all they knew about the “lost” Templar fleet from The Temple and the Lodge, a 1989 book by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, two of the three authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982). I wondered what they had based their claim upon, and, to be honest, I had expected to find actual references to the only testimony of a surviving Templar to allege that any knights of the Order had escaped France by ship with the Order’s treasure. Instead, I found a giant wall of speculation, based on little to nothing.

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Is Hermes Trismegistus the Secret Connection between Nephilim, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Holy Bloodline?

8/8/2016

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Most of you will remember Richard Nielsen as the former writing partner of Scott F. Wolter, as well as one of the most consistent critics of his expansive claims for hidden codes in the Kensington Rune Stone. When Nielsen died, he left behind a very large research library. Through generous donation, and in a somewhat roundabout way, that portion of it dealing with the Knights Templar and Holy Bloodline conspiracies has fallen into my hands, amounting to 35 pounds of fringe history books covering the past 35 years in Holy Bloodline conspiracies. I’ve had a bit of time to look through these tomes, and I was frankly shocked at the boring sameness of them, and the repetitive nature of their trashy claims.

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A 1917 Argument for Atlantis in Bronze Age Crete

8/7/2016

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For those of you interested in such things, Carl Feagans has a new breakdown of the report about the so-called “Roman Sword” recently reissued in condensed form. It goes without saying that his analysis has nothing good to say about efforts to “prove” that the sword is of Roman manufacture.

Today, however, I would like to talk a bit about Edwin Swift Balch (1856-1927), a Harvard-trained American lawyer who was one of the early explorers of Antarctica. He is credited with naming the continent’s two regions, which he bestowed with the creative names of “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica.” I am interested right now in his opinions on the lost continent of Atlantis.

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L. A. Marzulli and Richard Shaw Deliver Bizarre 30-Minute Attack on Mike Heiser's Six-Paragraph Blog Post

8/6/2016

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I’m not sure where to begin in discussing the bizarre and defensive series of statements that Nephilim theorist L. A. Marzulli and his business partner Richard Shaw made about Mike Heiser, a Christian scholar who has repeatedly challenged pseudoscientific claims about Biblical and Near Eastern mysteries. In a pair of audio releases yesterday, the pair attacked Heiser for criticizing their claims in the for-profit Watchers X DVD that they had obtained genetic proof that ancient Peruvians came from the Middle East, and that they had genetically examined the remains of a fairy.

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Governments Continue to "Suppress the Truth" by Giving Buckets of Cash to Fringe History Producers

8/5/2016

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Thanks to the Summer Olympics, we don’t have to worry about a new episode of Ancient Aliens this week. But I thought it might be a good idea to check in on the cable ratings to see how the series is doing after it posted near-record low ratings a couple weeks back. Last week’s episode offered a bit of a comeback for the series, returning to a series-average 1.28 million viewers, making it cable’s ninth most watched show last Friday night in the advertiser coveted 18-49 demographic. However, the series was handily beaten in its timeslot in the demographic by the night’s most popular offering, Alaskan Bush People, on the rival Discovery Channel. That series brought in more than two million viewers. In total viewers, The Kelly File beat both shows, but its audience skews old, meaning that it can’t compete in more desirable demographics.

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TEDx Issues Warning about Graham Hancock, Calling His Speech "Outdated" and "Counterfactual"

8/4/2016

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As regular readers know, the Viceland TV channel recycles the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens by having rapper Action Bronson and his friends get high and talk about reruns of the program. In an interview yesterday with corporate cousin Vice (the website), executive producer Jordan Kinley described how the program came to be, and why Ancient Aliens allegedly serves an important function. According to Kinley, even though hypotheses presented on the program are likely untrue, they demonstrate why we (as the public) should distrust official narratives because our history is “manufactured.”

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Have You Seen the "History Trippers" Show Proposal?

8/3/2016

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On his blog late last week, Graham Hancock announced that the paperback edition of his recent book Magicians of the Gods will be released in Britain in two weeks’ time. Hancock said that the new edition will contain an additional two chapters of material as well as an appendix covering what he says is new scientific material related to a possible Ice Age asteroid impact and an alleged lost civilization. I’m not sure what the new material is, but it apparently wasn’t persuasive enough even to tease.

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Historical Revisionism and Occult Mysticism in the Port City of Trieste

8/2/2016

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A great deal of fringe history centers on glorifying one’s own city, region, or country as the most important in the world. For believers, world-historical events conspired to occur right in the spot that he or she loves most. So, for many American fringe historians the U.S. is the center of the universe. In Britain, it is the U.K. where all roads converge. The pattern repeats wherever you go. It’s not universal of course—Atlantis, ancient Egypt, and whatever is trending in the news have their share of adherents around the world—but it is a consistent pattern. Today I’d like to look at an offbeat and minor key version of this pattern, coming to us courtesy of a Slate magazine and Roads & Kingdoms article by Tara Isabella Burton about the Adriatic port city of Trieste.

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Scott Wolter: Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods" Are "Ancestors of the Venus Families"

Discovering the Origin of Transatlantic Templars and Their Mexican Vacation

Where Did the Myth of the Lost Templar Fleet and Its Transoceanic Voyage Come From?

Is Hermes Trismegistus the Secret Connection between Nephilim, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Holy Bloodline?

A 1917 Argument for Atlantis in Bronze Age Crete

L. A. Marzulli and Richard Shaw Deliver Bizarre 30-Minute Attack on Mike Heiser's Six-Paragraph Blog Post

Governments Continue to "Suppress the Truth" by Giving Buckets of Cash to Fringe History Producers

TEDx Issues Warning about Graham Hancock, Calling His Speech "Outdated" and "Counterfactual"

Have You Seen the "History Trippers" Show Proposal?

Historical Revisionism and Occult Mysticism in the Port City of Trieste

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