Description
On the summit of Mount Nemrut in Türkiye, five colossal seated figures sit on an artificial mountain cone, flanked by a lion and an eagle, and the early archaeologists who studied the site reported no clear ancient quarrying tool marks. Mainstream history credits the Kingdom of Commagene, around 2,100 years ago. Matt LaCroix sees a different story in the mismatched heads and bodies, the guardian figures carved from a separate stone, and terraces that face the winter and summer solstices yet sit 0.6 and 5.1 degrees off alignment. In his reading, the Commagene inherited a far older monument, and the offset points to builders working during the Pleistocene, before the upheavals of the Younger Dryas.
From there Matt follows the lion and the eagle across the ancient world, interpreting the lion as guardian of the underworld and the eagle as guardian of the celestial realm, from the Sphinx at Giza to the gateways of Hattusa. Returning to the Kef relief from the Lake Van region, he shows Haldi passing a cup toward one of five T symbols, which he connects to the five classical elements with ether, or quintessence, at the centre. That thread runs through the giant pinecone at the Vatican, the Emerald Tablet and the Hermetic teaching of life and light, before Matt brings it home to the altar at Ayanis and his view that Mount Nemrut, like the five towers of Angkor Wat, is a model of creation itself.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Trailer
01:30 Welcome to episode 8
05:28 Why Mount Nemrut
07:42 The drone footage that started it
08:22 The seated guardians of Mount Nemrut
09:08 Location and the link to Lake Van
10:27 The east and west terraces
11:17 Excavation history and the artificial summit
14:08 The Kingdom of Commagene narrative
17:31 What the archaeologists reported
18:37 Mismatched heads and bodies
19:31 The eagle and lion guardians
21:26 Solstice alignments and their offset
24:09 The Younger Dryas and a shifted axis
26:56 Dating ancient sites through geodesy
27:25 Pre-Commagene stonework
29:18 The eagle above and the lion below
31:53 The Sphinx as guardian
33:44 The Anunnaki as cosmic administrators
36:53 The pinecone and the mes
38:00 Lion gateways at Hattusa and Kailasa
40:00 The Kef relief revisited
41:11 Ancient alloys and sonic tools
42:43 Haldi passes a cup
44:05 The pinecone at the Vatican
46:26 The Holy Grail and the Templar cross
47:59 Five T’s and five guardians
48:48 A gateway in Jerusalem’s Old City
51:20 The fifth element
54:05 Alchemy and Plato’s ether
56:27 The pentagram
57:59 The seven Hermetic principles
59:01 The Emerald Tablet and The Kybalion
1:00:49 As above, so below
1:04:22 The ancient story of creation
1:05:52 Shiva and Shakti
1:08:12 Gold, silver and the yin yang
1:12:43 Balance in the atom
1:15:53 Mount Nemrut decoded
1:17:38 Hermes and Poimandres
1:20:47 Life and light
1:21:45 The three guardians of Ayanis
1:23:20 Three flowers of the Lake Van region
1:27:49 Five elements in balance
1:29:16 The winged lion and the kneeling Haldi
1:31:35 From life into light
1:34:34 Seven butterflies and the chakras
1:37:01 Squaring the circle
1:39:02 Earth as the great stage
1:42:37 Mount Meru and Angkor Wat
1:43:45 A new golden age
MATTHEW LACROIX
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