1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,475 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:02,475 --> 00:00:31,200 3 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,670 >> The idea that there have been ages where women once ruled is 4 00:00:35,670 --> 00:00:37,320 not new. 5 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,150 Archaeologists have found evidence 6 00:00:39,150 --> 00:00:42,090 pointing to several examples of societies 7 00:00:42,090 --> 00:00:43,350 that were matriarchal. 8 00:00:43,350 --> 00:00:46,590 And yet for many mainstream historians, 9 00:00:46,590 --> 00:00:49,800 this concept is still unsettling. 10 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,610 In a 2017 study, a team of scientists 11 00:00:53,610 --> 00:00:57,150 led by Archaeologist Douglas Kennet of Pennsylvania State 12 00:00:57,150 --> 00:01:01,230 University found evidence of a matrilineal society 13 00:01:01,230 --> 00:01:03,780 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. 14 00:01:03,780 --> 00:01:06,750 The remains of 14 women were discovered 15 00:01:06,750 --> 00:01:12,660 beneath a dazzling cache of more than 15,000 turquoise necklaces 16 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:15,240 and pieces of shell jewelry. 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,220 The remnants of these women were found 18 00:01:17,220 --> 00:01:20,700 in an elite series of burial chambers 19 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:24,960 that marked them as among the most noble members of Chacoan 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,160 society. 21 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,580 And astoundingly, under closer examination 22 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:33,660 it was revealed that no fewer than nine of the individuals 23 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:36,270 shared the exact same matrilineal 24 00:01:36,270 --> 00:01:39,960 DNA, which is passed only from mother to child, 25 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,590 concluding that power and influence was passed down 26 00:01:43,590 --> 00:01:44,820 through the female line. 27 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:47,420 28 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:49,460 Archaeologists are now finding that there 29 00:01:49,460 --> 00:01:51,440 have been many ancient cultures that 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,930 once worshiped female deities. 31 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:58,430 >> There clearly was a time in remote antiquity when 32 00:01:58,430 --> 00:02:01,910 the feminine, the female was regarded as the single most 33 00:02:01,910 --> 00:02:03,990 important aspect of humanity. 34 00:02:03,990 --> 00:02:08,960 And you have going back at least 30,000 years deep 35 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,710 into the Upper Paleolithic these that are 36 00:02:12,710 --> 00:02:14,690 referred to as goddess figures. 37 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:19,850 These are large-breasted, large-hipped female figures. 38 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:22,820 They're the dominant iconography of that period. 39 00:02:22,820 --> 00:02:26,240 And that iconography continues all the way down 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,230 through the Upper Paleolithic and into the Neolithic. 41 00:02:30,230 --> 00:02:35,990 There was a time when our ancestors venerated 42 00:02:35,990 --> 00:02:41,200 the goddess, not the male god. 43 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,660 >> In places like Central Asia and Siberia where the female 44 00:02:46,660 --> 00:02:49,960 shaman or shamaness, if you wish, 45 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,170 was one of the great power sources. 46 00:02:53,170 --> 00:02:55,180 And obviously, to different saints 47 00:02:55,180 --> 00:03:01,360 and holy women of places like China and India 48 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,480 and within other societies like Norse 49 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,110 tradition, where there were very fierce 50 00:03:07,110 --> 00:03:08,950 shield maiden and things like this 51 00:03:08,950 --> 00:03:10,780 that would go out in battle and be more 52 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:13,270 powerful than the many men. 53 00:03:13,270 --> 00:03:20,380 But probably the last vestige of this female role 54 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:22,670 came down to us through Greek tradition 55 00:03:22,670 --> 00:03:29,500 as the Amazon, these incredible warriors, this warrior 56 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:34,240 caste that supposedly only contained females. 57 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,470 The Amazons weren't a single tribe, though. 58 00:03:38,470 --> 00:03:42,820 They seemed to be a buzz word for a number 59 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:47,140 of different female societies that 60 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:50,840 survived in various parts of the ancient world. 61 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,640 For instance, there were Amazons in the Sahara. 62 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,400 There's lots of stories to do with their great deeds there. 63 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,970 There were Amazons in the area of the Caucasus, 64 00:04:00,970 --> 00:04:04,240 what today is Georgia and the Russian steppes. 65 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,850 There were others in the Urals and the Altai Mountains. 66 00:04:09,850 --> 00:04:12,520 So they weren't necessarily all one tribe. 67 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,800 But what they seemed to represent 68 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:21,880 was the last vestige of this female caste that 69 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:28,580 were the rulers, if you like, of their domain, of their world. 70 00:04:28,580 --> 00:04:30,160 And it was something that they did 71 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,970 without the necessity of men other than for reproduction 72 00:04:33,970 --> 00:04:35,830 purposes. 73 00:04:35,830 --> 00:04:38,620 I think that they key to understanding 74 00:04:38,620 --> 00:04:42,160 this is that the role of the female in the past 75 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,240 was much, much more powerful, much more stronger 76 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,040 than we give it credit for. 77 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,070 And it could well be that when we 78 00:04:51,070 --> 00:04:56,800 look at the builders of Gobekli Tepe or the Anunnaki 79 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:02,850 or those who built Stonehenge were mainly female priesthoods. 80 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:06,100 And it's difficult to even conceive of it in a way, 81 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:10,330 but it is strongly possible so we should never roll out 82 00:05:10,330 --> 00:05:13,450 and we should always be genderless as far 83 00:05:13,450 --> 00:05:17,470 as those ancestors who gave us this legacy 84 00:05:17,470 --> 00:05:19,930 of the ancient wisdom. 85 00:05:19,930 --> 00:05:23,400 >> Could it be possible that references in ancient texts 86 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,435 allude to a mother goddess before the first civilization? 87 00:05:27,435 --> 00:05:30,084 88 00:05:30,084 --> 00:05:32,500 >> When we take a look at the first chapters from the Book 89 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:36,610 of Genesis about the creation, the garden, et cetera, 90 00:05:36,610 --> 00:05:39,490 many events are not in the biblical texts. 91 00:05:39,490 --> 00:05:43,390 Sumerian texts give incredible additional information, 92 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:47,260 whether it is in gnostic ones or in the "Enuma Elish," which 93 00:05:47,260 --> 00:05:50,530 is the Babylon text about the creation. 94 00:05:50,530 --> 00:05:52,000 What's interesting is that they all 95 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,780 mention a mother goddess that comes from the depths. 96 00:05:55,780 --> 00:05:57,550 Sophia is the mother of the abyss 97 00:05:57,550 --> 00:06:00,100 because, as the story goes, she went 98 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:02,350 to the deepest point of the abyss 99 00:06:02,350 --> 00:06:05,480 in order to create the world as we know it. 100 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,190 In gnostic, Sumerian, even Egyptian texts, 101 00:06:09,190 --> 00:06:12,660 the abyss is always linked to the process of creation-- 102 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:13,810 all mother goddesses were. 103 00:06:13,810 --> 00:06:16,520 104 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,250 >> Sophia really comes from a Greek term, sophis, 105 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:20,270 which means wisdom. 106 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:22,240 In the beginning before there was even 107 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,840 a god or a creative force, everything was dark, 108 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:27,250 nothing existed. 109 00:06:27,250 --> 00:06:30,160 And because gods and wisdom and knowledge 110 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,080 are simultaneous with each other, 111 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,430 they figured, well, if that's the case, 112 00:06:34,430 --> 00:06:37,510 then wisdom must have existed in the dark. 113 00:06:37,510 --> 00:06:39,190 And in order for it to be procreative, 114 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:40,990 it has to be feminine. 115 00:06:40,990 --> 00:06:43,810 So they created this concept of a divine feminine person, 116 00:06:43,810 --> 00:06:46,987 the woman, who embodied the whole perfection of the wisdom 117 00:06:46,987 --> 00:06:48,820 and all the sum knowledge of everything that 118 00:06:48,820 --> 00:06:50,150 exists in the universe. 119 00:06:50,150 --> 00:06:52,390 So the Greeks show up and they called her Sophia, 120 00:06:52,390 --> 00:06:57,730 based on sophis, the term for wisdom. 121 00:06:57,730 --> 00:07:01,420 >> If wisdom emerged from the darkness and its procreative 122 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:04,570 nature was feminine by some early accounts, 123 00:07:04,570 --> 00:07:09,010 then why at some point was it forgotten or switched? 124 00:07:09,010 --> 00:07:12,400 In the biblical stories of the Garden of Eden, Yahweh-- 125 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,460 or God-- for bids to humans in the garden 126 00:07:15,460 --> 00:07:18,700 to partake from the forbidden tree of knowledge. 127 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:22,750 When a serpent seduces Eve to eat an apple from this tree, 128 00:07:22,750 --> 00:07:25,960 it leads to mankind's expulsion from the garden 129 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,870 and thereby from eternal life. 130 00:07:28,870 --> 00:07:32,350 But according to Anton Parks, the Sumerian texts 131 00:07:32,350 --> 00:07:34,780 interpret this story differently. 132 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:38,110 They suggest that the serpent approaches the woman 133 00:07:38,110 --> 00:07:39,670 as if she is the teacher. 134 00:07:39,670 --> 00:07:44,680 135 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,710 >> In the Book of Genesis, we know that before patriarchy 136 00:07:47,710 --> 00:07:52,210 came about, there was a matriarchy. 137 00:07:52,210 --> 00:07:56,170 When these gods arrive on Earth and settle in Eden on Karzek 138 00:07:56,170 --> 00:07:59,950 Mountain, they were all under a matriarchal system 139 00:07:59,950 --> 00:08:01,990 and Enlil was their queen. 140 00:08:01,990 --> 00:08:05,920 The very interesting tablets of Eden express that. 141 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,470 The woman is collecting fruits for the colony, 142 00:08:08,470 --> 00:08:13,000 and we understand that the man who was doing more manual work. 143 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,270 The text states that the secret was given by the serpent. 144 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:20,620 The serpent tells the woman and then she goes to tell the man. 145 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:22,330 The so-called secret that the serpent 146 00:08:22,330 --> 00:08:25,810 is going to tell the woman, found in Sumerian tablets, 147 00:08:25,810 --> 00:08:29,320 is the secret of toolmaking, quite simply 148 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,190 the tool which is expressed as niche in Sumerian 149 00:08:33,190 --> 00:08:36,370 means tree and tool. 150 00:08:36,370 --> 00:08:38,440 One could wonder why Enki insists 151 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,830 on getting this particular secret through to the humans. 152 00:08:41,830 --> 00:08:45,100 Well, he has a desire to set them free. 153 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:48,220 It is very clear, you can see it well. 154 00:08:48,220 --> 00:08:50,110 He wants to liberate them. 155 00:08:50,110 --> 00:08:52,840 I think that he didn't enjoy watching slaves working 156 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,750 in the fields serving Enlil. 157 00:08:55,750 --> 00:08:57,640 The woman's intelligence is often 158 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,640 mentioned in gnostic texts about the garden. 159 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,400 The woman is generally wise, intelligent. 160 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,550 She is enlightened from motherhood, from the origins, 161 00:09:06,550 --> 00:09:10,430 and has the intelligence and wisdom of the serpent. 162 00:09:10,430 --> 00:09:12,700 If we read the original Sumerian texts, 163 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:14,740 the woman only passes on the information 164 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:18,010 that was given to her by the serpent. 165 00:09:18,010 --> 00:09:20,350 The civilizing tool for mankind is 166 00:09:20,350 --> 00:09:24,280 to become self-sufficient and free itself from slavery. 167 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,670 What's more, in Sumerian tablets of Eden, when the woman 168 00:09:27,670 --> 00:09:30,280 messenger is mentioned, she is very often 169 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,650 called the wise woman. 170 00:09:33,650 --> 00:09:38,570 >> If there was a wise woman, where did she disappear to? 171 00:09:38,570 --> 00:09:40,610 Researchers like Freddy Silva had 172 00:09:40,610 --> 00:09:42,440 discovered that other stories that 173 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,200 empower women in ancient evolution 174 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,570 have been omitted from the Bible. 175 00:09:47,570 --> 00:09:51,230 >> One of the greatest examples of the shift from matriarchal 176 00:09:51,230 --> 00:09:53,630 to patriarchal society really revolves around the story 177 00:09:53,630 --> 00:09:55,520 of Jesus, believe it or not. 178 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,200 It's a huge construct. 179 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,200 And we know this because two of the most important pieces 180 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,100 of evidence, which were the Gospels of Philip and Thomas, 181 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:07,430 were banned by the church until they were inconveniently 182 00:10:07,430 --> 00:10:12,020 found by two goat herders in the desert at Nag Hammadi. 183 00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:15,320 And the idea was that when you joined a secret mysticism 184 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,770 school, you joined as a son of a woman. 185 00:10:18,770 --> 00:10:20,710 When you graduated from that, you 186 00:10:20,710 --> 00:10:22,460 went up to another level of understanding, 187 00:10:22,460 --> 00:10:25,100 you graduated as the son of a man. 188 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:28,770 If got to the next stage, you became some of the gods. 189 00:10:28,770 --> 00:10:31,280 And then, and this is the most interesting part, 190 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,120 when you actually went into the final initiation process-- 191 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,190 and initiation means to become conscious, 192 00:10:37,190 --> 00:10:38,810 that's what the word means-- 193 00:10:38,810 --> 00:10:42,060 you undertook an out-of-body experience. 194 00:10:42,060 --> 00:10:44,270 It was an induced near-death experience 195 00:10:44,270 --> 00:10:46,910 where you took a narcotic, almost like a poison which 196 00:10:46,910 --> 00:10:49,100 lowers your heartbeat down to a point where 197 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:50,780 you are virtually comatose. 198 00:10:50,780 --> 00:10:53,870 Back in those days, those sects held 199 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:56,360 that the women had the highest level of initiation. 200 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,970 They actually were responsible for the initiate 201 00:10:58,970 --> 00:11:02,870 while he or she undertook this out-of-body experience. 202 00:11:02,870 --> 00:11:05,360 They were called the bees or the watchtower, the flock, 203 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,530 which is actually Mary Magdalene's name, Magdel Ebet, 204 00:11:09,530 --> 00:11:11,390 the watchtower of the flock. 205 00:11:11,390 --> 00:11:13,820 Your soul leaves the body anywhere between three to seven 206 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:14,620 days. 207 00:11:14,620 --> 00:11:16,790 When you come back, in your body, 208 00:11:16,790 --> 00:11:20,810 a little bit groggy, and you are taken out by the priestesses 209 00:11:20,810 --> 00:11:21,742 onto a mound. 210 00:11:21,742 --> 00:11:23,450 And the first thing you see is the rising 211 00:11:23,450 --> 00:11:27,270 of Venus, the morning star, at the spring equinox. 212 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:30,290 That's why Jesus compares himself to the morning star. 213 00:11:30,290 --> 00:11:34,670 So did Osiris in Egypt, who was also a disembodied man who 214 00:11:34,670 --> 00:11:37,700 gets chopped up by 72 people. 215 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,440 Of course, he reconstitutes himself 216 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,460 which is the symbol of the resurrected human being. 217 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:44,469 The shift from matriarchal the patriarchal 218 00:11:44,469 --> 00:11:46,760 really happens around the time that the Catholic Church 219 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,010 is beginning to find its roots, when fundamental Christianity 220 00:11:50,010 --> 00:11:53,480 splits from gnostic Christianity and the fundamentalists 221 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,400 were killing all the gnostic Christians. 222 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,760 >> Could it really be true that details about the ages 223 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,730 of matriarchal rule were censored from some ancient 224 00:12:03,730 --> 00:12:05,080 texts? 225 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,720 Freddy Silva has discovered a similar text 226 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,420 to the gnostic story about Mary Magdalene that 227 00:12:10,420 --> 00:12:12,399 is written in the Quran. 228 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:14,690 >> Two most important people, John the Baptist and Mary 229 00:12:14,690 --> 00:12:18,410 Magdalene, are basically given very minor roles in the Bible. 230 00:12:18,410 --> 00:12:21,520 And now we know why, because we have the patriarchal system 231 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,280 that takes away the concept of the matriarchal 232 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,250 being the most important part of initiation and then 233 00:12:27,250 --> 00:12:30,280 they went off and killed everybody around the Middle 234 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,090 East that could say otherwise. 235 00:12:32,090 --> 00:12:34,970 That's the one thing that all the sects have in common-- 236 00:12:34,970 --> 00:12:36,880 including early Islam, by the way, 237 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,540 it says exactly the same thing, that the actual crucifixion 238 00:12:40,540 --> 00:12:42,370 didn't really take place and the person 239 00:12:42,370 --> 00:12:44,950 that actually was crucified in the real event 240 00:12:44,950 --> 00:12:48,320 was actually not Jesus, it was a guy called Simon or Simeon. 241 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,010 This is the Quran saying this. 242 00:12:51,010 --> 00:12:53,417 So, the church annihilates everybody else 243 00:12:53,417 --> 00:12:55,000 that was saying the complete opposite, 244 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,490 and that's why we have a patriarchal system instead 245 00:12:57,490 --> 00:12:59,050 of the matriarchal system. 246 00:12:59,050 --> 00:13:01,990 So that's how easily this concept gets taken apart. 247 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:07,450 >> I think in the past, female cultures have been given a bad 248 00:13:07,450 --> 00:13:09,370 press. 249 00:13:09,370 --> 00:13:13,990 We know about kingship, we know about great battles fought 250 00:13:13,990 --> 00:13:18,870 by men, and we know that whole civilizations 251 00:13:18,870 --> 00:13:23,380 seemed to be focused around patriarchal societies. 252 00:13:23,380 --> 00:13:28,210 But clearly, that was not the case in prehistoric times. 253 00:13:28,210 --> 00:13:33,550 It would seem as if the female had a much stronger role 254 00:13:33,550 --> 00:13:37,880 in society and may even have been the controlling 255 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:43,480 influences governing the places of power, which would have been 256 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,050 seen as the axis mundi, the axis of the Earth, 257 00:13:48,050 --> 00:13:52,930 possibly having a seat of power, the origin of what 258 00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:55,310 we call the throne today. 259 00:13:55,310 --> 00:13:58,420 So in many ways, they was the first kings. 260 00:13:58,420 --> 00:14:00,550 They were the embodiment of life itself. 261 00:14:00,550 --> 00:14:03,610 From them, all life came, of course, 262 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:07,400 as it's only women that can bear children. 263 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:13,200 And this was understood by men; recognized and honored 264 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,770 by men, who had a different role in life. 265 00:14:17,770 --> 00:14:19,450 As to exactly what that was, we don't 266 00:14:19,450 --> 00:14:24,060 want to stereotype any of these images. 267 00:14:24,060 --> 00:14:29,470 But something changed over time. 268 00:14:29,470 --> 00:14:32,680 >> If this is, indeed, true, what has changed since 269 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,920 the early ages where a matriarchal society governed 270 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,870 our planet peacefully? 271 00:14:37,870 --> 00:14:40,720 Anton Parks believes that the rise of patriarchy 272 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,990 began when humans decided to go out on their own 273 00:14:43,990 --> 00:14:46,390 and start building cities. 274 00:14:46,390 --> 00:14:49,270 According to his research, the Sumerian texts 275 00:14:49,270 --> 00:14:52,390 show us how the war between Enki and Enlil 276 00:14:52,390 --> 00:14:55,540 is reflected in the origin of the struggle for power 277 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:56,830 between men and women. 278 00:14:56,830 --> 00:15:00,744 279 00:15:00,744 --> 00:15:03,160 >> If you try to distinguish between the two energies that 280 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,940 drive matriarchy and patriarchy, we can then find it in all 281 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:08,620 the texts that speak of this. 282 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:11,680 It is constantly the fight between Mars and Venus, 283 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,030 war and peace, finding a balance between the two. 284 00:15:16,030 --> 00:15:17,950 With my research on Sumerian Eden, 285 00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:19,690 I found a historical event. 286 00:15:19,690 --> 00:15:21,370 We're not speaking about legends here, 287 00:15:21,370 --> 00:15:23,530 but of the history of Sumer. 288 00:15:23,530 --> 00:15:26,690 It is about the two cities who were fighting each other. 289 00:15:26,690 --> 00:15:30,150 Both of them are part of the realm of Umma. 290 00:15:30,150 --> 00:15:34,480 The two towns were situated in front of the realm of Surulere, 291 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,830 which means the bird of eternal youth. 292 00:15:37,830 --> 00:15:41,080 The Surulere realm is led by Enlil. 293 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,960 If you translate the Sumerian term Uma na, 294 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,140 you get the following definition: the people of Umma 295 00:15:47,140 --> 00:15:50,410 or the people of the wise woman because Uma means 296 00:15:50,410 --> 00:15:52,810 the wise woman in Sumerian. 297 00:15:52,810 --> 00:15:55,750 Here's the idea of wise woman again, 298 00:15:55,750 --> 00:15:58,540 of the woman who passed down the secret. 299 00:15:58,540 --> 00:16:00,910 Thanks to this definition, we understand 300 00:16:00,910 --> 00:16:04,150 that Umma was under the guardianship of some goddesses 301 00:16:04,150 --> 00:16:07,270 that were associated with Enki and with the knowledge 302 00:16:07,270 --> 00:16:11,530 of the gods because in French, a wise woman-- 303 00:16:11,530 --> 00:16:15,310 literally, sage-femme-- is a midwife. 304 00:16:15,310 --> 00:16:17,230 And for Sumerians, it is the woman 305 00:16:17,230 --> 00:16:19,930 in charge of the genetics, the one in charge 306 00:16:19,930 --> 00:16:22,030 of the artificial matrices. 307 00:16:22,030 --> 00:16:26,820 The play on words is between sage-femme, midwife, and femme 308 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:28,760 sage, wise woman. 309 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,040 Therefore, it is the realm led by the mother goddess and Enki. 310 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:37,450 Between the two realms is a stretch of land, a palm grove. 311 00:16:37,450 --> 00:16:40,930 It is a sort of small garden called the [NON-ENGLISH].. 312 00:16:40,930 --> 00:16:44,710 This can be translated as the frontier of the plane. 313 00:16:44,710 --> 00:16:47,890 In this historical battle between the two realms, 314 00:16:47,890 --> 00:16:53,230 we find many elements that can be linked to the Sumerian Eden. 315 00:16:53,230 --> 00:16:55,420 Through this story, we understand 316 00:16:55,420 --> 00:16:57,750 that the dispute between Enki and Enlil 317 00:16:57,750 --> 00:16:59,700 never really had an end. 318 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,340 Even if you study the text very thoroughly, 319 00:17:02,340 --> 00:17:05,819 it is impossible to know what put an end to these conflicts 320 00:17:05,819 --> 00:17:08,280 between Umma and Surulere. 321 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,040 The one thing we know is that one city of Umma 322 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,079 was wiped out quickly. 323 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:15,420 Kings always mentioned the divine protection 324 00:17:15,420 --> 00:17:19,079 given by Enlil and his son and royal text, 325 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:23,520 always reducing the inhabitants of Umma to simple workers. 326 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,150 They were only good to serve the realm of Lagash 327 00:17:26,150 --> 00:17:27,920 and to submit to the patriarchal gods. 328 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,320 329 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,010 >> Could there be more evidence of this throughout history? 330 00:17:35,010 --> 00:17:40,050 >> About 5,000 years ago, when you get the emergence of-- 331 00:17:40,050 --> 00:17:44,070 at least in our timeline-- the first great cities, 332 00:17:44,070 --> 00:17:47,640 that seems to be when this testosterone-driven male 333 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,450 aggression and anger start to take everything over. 334 00:17:52,450 --> 00:17:54,810 We still have goddesses, but they're not 335 00:17:54,810 --> 00:17:56,580 running the world anymore the way 336 00:17:56,580 --> 00:18:01,200 they appear to have done in much, much more ancient times. 337 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:02,760 There's a clear change of emphasis 338 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,680 and we start having male gods. 339 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,260 And they're often very angry and aggressive 340 00:18:08,260 --> 00:18:09,930 and domineering male gods, and they 341 00:18:09,930 --> 00:18:12,150 want to go take other people's stuff. 342 00:18:12,150 --> 00:18:13,950 It's as though some sort of mental virus 343 00:18:13,950 --> 00:18:18,840 has entered the world and we've become these creatures fizzing 344 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,810 with testosterone making war upon one another. 345 00:18:21,810 --> 00:18:24,120 You'd be hard put to find evidence of warfare 346 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:28,270 in the Upper Paleolithic, when the goddess ruled the world. 347 00:18:28,270 --> 00:18:30,690 There was no warfare. 348 00:18:30,690 --> 00:18:32,190 These people were hunting animals, 349 00:18:32,190 --> 00:18:34,370 but they weren't killing each other-- not in large numbers, 350 00:18:34,370 --> 00:18:35,170 at any rate. 351 00:18:35,170 --> 00:18:38,460 They may have had the odd fight, but they weren't making war 352 00:18:38,460 --> 00:18:39,480 upon one another. 353 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,460 When you come down into the Neolithic, 354 00:18:41,460 --> 00:18:44,460 as we begin to see the goddess cult trailing off 355 00:18:44,460 --> 00:18:48,450 and male gods taking their place, and warfare 356 00:18:48,450 --> 00:18:52,990 becomes a very key element of human behavior. 357 00:18:52,990 --> 00:18:57,580 And so I think that an old ethic and an old way of doing things, 358 00:18:57,580 --> 00:19:00,720 which was harmonious and beautiful 359 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,160 and was sustained for tens of thousands of years, 360 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,000 was overthrown by the upsurge of the male ego. 361 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,960 And I would tie that very much at its worst 362 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,500 to that the time of the emergence of the first cities 363 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:20,300 in our historical timeline-- ancient Sumer, for example. 364 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,730 365 00:19:23,730 --> 00:19:26,460 >> As patriarchy took over matriarchy, 366 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:29,340 women lost their place in society. 367 00:19:29,340 --> 00:19:32,130 Their role as goddesses and spiritual leaders 368 00:19:32,130 --> 00:19:35,160 was undermined by a new perspective. 369 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:39,390 Women were indoctrinated as untrustworthy seductress. 370 00:19:39,390 --> 00:19:42,000 Sean Stone describes how this point of view 371 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,350 marked an era of separation between men and women. 372 00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:49,710 >> In the old tradition, there's really a joint male-female 373 00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:50,910 partnership. 374 00:19:50,910 --> 00:19:53,850 Over the course of Sumerian time, we 375 00:19:53,850 --> 00:19:57,600 recognize that Enki seems to have been considered more 376 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,810 of that trickster character, more of the devil 377 00:20:00,810 --> 00:20:04,830 in the garden who essentially gives humans knowledge 378 00:20:04,830 --> 00:20:09,480 when Enki gives humans the right to procreate with each other 379 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,640 without the permission of the gods. 380 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,460 That's when Enlil and the other gods 381 00:20:14,460 --> 00:20:18,020 feel that their reign is being threatened by the humans. 382 00:20:18,020 --> 00:20:21,790 So, Enki seems to have become the devil, 383 00:20:21,790 --> 00:20:25,590 he's cast in the devil role, and perhaps women as well 384 00:20:25,590 --> 00:20:29,220 as a result, because that whole concept of man and woman, Enki 385 00:20:29,220 --> 00:20:32,640 and Enlil working together to fashion humankind is lost. 386 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,910 So, by the time you come to the Jewish tradition, for example, 387 00:20:35,910 --> 00:20:40,200 you've lost any notion of a female role 388 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,180 in the spirituality of religion. 389 00:20:42,180 --> 00:20:45,120 The god Jehovah is a male god. 390 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:48,780 You see no female rabbis in any Jewish tradition 391 00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:51,840 until about the 16th, 17th centuries. 392 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,360 The same, obviously, within the Catholic Church, 393 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,570 the notion that there really could be no female pope, 394 00:20:57,570 --> 00:21:00,030 no female cardinals or bishops. 395 00:21:00,030 --> 00:21:06,390 It's a very masculine control of the religious inclination. 396 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:11,110 Another important example of the complete takeover 397 00:21:11,110 --> 00:21:14,820 of society by patriarchs has occurred by the time 398 00:21:14,820 --> 00:21:16,830 of the Greek civilization. 399 00:21:16,830 --> 00:21:21,120 Basically, by 500 BC and thereafter all the way 400 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,640 through Rome, women are second-class citizens. 401 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:28,830 They have no right to vote, they have no real voice in anything 402 00:21:28,830 --> 00:21:32,730 beyond the household, they are essentially 403 00:21:32,730 --> 00:21:34,920 outside of the society. 404 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,550 You can see basically step by step 405 00:21:36,550 --> 00:21:38,340 this descent away from the notion 406 00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:42,850 of a man and woman working in conjunction to fashion 407 00:21:42,850 --> 00:21:46,280 humanity, to essentially guide humanity. 408 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,160 It becomes more and more the assertion of the male energy, 409 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,870 the male totem basically. 410 00:21:51,870 --> 00:21:53,290 And that ultimately, I would say, 411 00:21:53,290 --> 00:21:57,220 manifests itself in the overall nature of our society. 412 00:21:57,220 --> 00:22:00,100 If you look at what Tesla was looking, for example, 413 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:03,420 at the nature of energy creation and production, 414 00:22:03,420 --> 00:22:07,950 he was pointing out that what we have is explosive energy, which 415 00:22:07,950 --> 00:22:13,680 is basically a male exertion, whereas the female energy is 416 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,360 considered more vortical. 417 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:19,740 So, only a few of the scientists that 418 00:22:19,740 --> 00:22:23,800 were looking into alternative forms of energy that basically 419 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,100 was more vortical, what people describe by UFO 420 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:29,400 craft for example and the way that their propulsion systems 421 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:34,110 work, that is essentially a female style of energy 422 00:22:34,110 --> 00:22:37,450 where it ideally recycles itself. 423 00:22:37,450 --> 00:22:39,400 >> When you look at the origins of warfare, 424 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,680 and this is organized warfare, you don't actually find any 425 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,040 good evidence for it until somewhere roughly between about 426 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,340 9,000 and 6,000 BCE. 427 00:22:50,340 --> 00:22:53,070 That's when real organized warfare seemed to start. 428 00:22:53,070 --> 00:22:56,970 And of course, that was after the Neolithic Revolution. 429 00:22:56,970 --> 00:23:00,810 Prior to that, you do find occasional skeletons showing 430 00:23:00,810 --> 00:23:03,360 signs of violence, just individual human 431 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:04,400 against human violence. 432 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,540 I mean, it's always been there. 433 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:08,250 But this whole thing about humans 434 00:23:08,250 --> 00:23:11,730 actually organizing into armies and getting together in groups 435 00:23:11,730 --> 00:23:15,300 and then let's go charge against the other group and then 436 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,760 the other group having to then respond in the same way 437 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,700 by forming your own little army, that didn't actually 438 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:24,380 happen until after the Neolithic, it by most accounts. 439 00:23:24,380 --> 00:23:27,900 >> We talked about the gnostic tradition and this issue 440 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:30,240 of precisely who created the reality-- 441 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,690 was it the male god, the male demiurge who 442 00:23:33,690 --> 00:23:38,460 fashioned the world or was it the Sophia spirit, 443 00:23:38,460 --> 00:23:41,530 divine spirit wisdom, who came into the reality? 444 00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:46,530 And I think that the darker interpretations have oftentimes 445 00:23:46,530 --> 00:23:50,170 given onus and power to the male form, 446 00:23:50,170 --> 00:23:54,757 whereas the older traditions might actually 447 00:23:54,757 --> 00:23:56,340 recognize and respect the fact that it 448 00:23:56,340 --> 00:23:58,410 was male and female working in conjunction, 449 00:23:58,410 --> 00:24:02,880 in unison to really create the human existence. 450 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,740 Take, for example, the Anunnaki stories about Enki. 451 00:24:07,740 --> 00:24:10,950 Enki was this chief scientist who 452 00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:16,200 was trying to design the human race on behalf of the sky gods. 453 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,370 But in order to do so, he needed Ninmah, who was basically 454 00:24:20,370 --> 00:24:21,490 his partner and consort. 455 00:24:21,490 --> 00:24:24,630 456 00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:26,970 >> Looking back to Sumerian times, 457 00:24:26,970 --> 00:24:30,810 civilizations of war seemed to be preceded and followed 458 00:24:30,810 --> 00:24:33,630 by civilizations of peace. 459 00:24:33,630 --> 00:24:37,200 Perhaps it's possible that humanity will embrace again 460 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,590 a future cycle of matriarchy, a society where 461 00:24:40,590 --> 00:24:44,730 we become more cooperative and less aggressive. 462 00:24:44,730 --> 00:24:48,180 >> I like to look at statistics and evidence. 463 00:24:48,180 --> 00:24:51,210 And Steven Pinker wrote a very interesting book 464 00:24:51,210 --> 00:24:53,550 called "The Better Angels of Our Nature." 465 00:24:53,550 --> 00:24:58,410 And he did a long-term study showing that contrary 466 00:24:58,410 --> 00:25:01,661 to the images we're getting on TV of the warfare-- 467 00:25:01,661 --> 00:25:03,910 and of course, the images we're getting are very real. 468 00:25:03,910 --> 00:25:06,490 We need to solve that, they're very important issues that we 469 00:25:06,490 --> 00:25:08,110 need to deal with. 470 00:25:08,110 --> 00:25:10,920 But overall statistically, warfare 471 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,190 has been declining over a fairly long period. 472 00:25:14,190 --> 00:25:16,410 So we're seeing this general progression 473 00:25:16,410 --> 00:25:22,950 of a generally less violent, less warlike global society. 474 00:25:22,950 --> 00:25:27,330 Corresponding with that is we've seen the role of women increase 475 00:25:27,330 --> 00:25:29,640 during the same period of time. 476 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,910 I believe that there is a relationship between that. 477 00:25:32,910 --> 00:25:36,420 I think the more that women have a role in governance 478 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:40,560 and equality, we're going to see more of that trend happen. 479 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,240 Because back in the days going back much earlier when 480 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,490 we didn't really have organized human warfare, 481 00:25:48,490 --> 00:25:51,060 they were much more matriarchal. 482 00:25:51,060 --> 00:25:55,850 So shifting the power balance to patriarchy, 483 00:25:55,850 --> 00:25:58,530 there are probably all kinds of biological reasons for that. 484 00:25:58,530 --> 00:26:03,180 They were the ones who had to go out and hunt the mastodon 485 00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:06,150 while the woman is giving life. 486 00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:12,030 And so that shift between what we have in our DNA as men 487 00:26:12,030 --> 00:26:16,290 and as women because of that whole role probably 488 00:26:16,290 --> 00:26:20,977 then affects the level of violence in our society. 489 00:26:20,977 --> 00:26:22,560 >> The disappearing wise woman, to me, 490 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,360 refers to our loss of intuition, our heart, intelligence, 491 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,250 which should be our guiding light. 492 00:26:29,250 --> 00:26:31,800 To be whole, we need both intuition and logic, 493 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,380 which is kind of the feminine and the masculine principles. 494 00:26:34,380 --> 00:26:36,590 You need some structure to your intuition, 495 00:26:36,590 --> 00:26:40,534 or else you could get delusional without some structure. 496 00:26:40,534 --> 00:26:42,450 We've been cut off from the heart intelligence 497 00:26:42,450 --> 00:26:45,750 and all we have is this logical, irrational, egoic mind. 498 00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:49,462 And that's when we start really going down the path of error. 499 00:26:49,462 --> 00:26:51,420 And I do believe there are signs now that we're 500 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:54,150 starting to hopefully correct the situation as more 501 00:26:54,150 --> 00:27:00,300 and more people are returning to that kind of inner voice, 502 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:01,720 the light of conscience really. 503 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,900 It's light of conscious I think we'll get back 504 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:07,830 to a state of wholeness. 505 00:27:07,830 --> 00:27:11,460 >> If wholeness is the meaning of joint feminine and masculine 506 00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:14,660 energies in the world ruling by partnership, 507 00:27:14,660 --> 00:27:17,010 then what is our next step? 508 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:20,880 Could ancient history lead us down a new path of thinking? 509 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,040 If we as the current civilization 510 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,970 are, indeed, returning to our inner voice, 511 00:27:25,970 --> 00:27:28,440 then could this inner voice be leading us 512 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,250 to a much older civilization that has now just emerged 513 00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:34,300 from the ice? 514 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:39,270 >> You get reports occasionally of structures emerging out 515 00:27:39,270 --> 00:27:41,280 the ice in Antarctica. 516 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,080 Just recently, there was one which took my attention 517 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,980 to do with what was described as almost like an embanked area 518 00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:53,400 like a hill fort that was found. 519 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,680 And That struck my attention. 520 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,480 It's different to all the other stories. 521 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,730 >> Anybody who is a pure blooded Indian or native person 522 00:28:02,730 --> 00:28:07,290 in the Americas, their whole haplogroup or genetics are A, 523 00:28:07,290 --> 00:28:12,520 B, C, or D. But we've tested three of these so far, 524 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,180 and they are not A, B, C, or D. They show ancestry either from 525 00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:23,490 Europe or the Middle East or the Middle East people who moved 526 00:28:23,490 --> 00:28:24,660 to Europe. 527 00:28:24,660 --> 00:28:27,060 So that completely blows the theory 528 00:28:27,060 --> 00:28:29,550 that there was only one way to get to the Americas 529 00:28:29,550 --> 00:28:31,990 in pre-Colombian times. 530 00:28:31,990 --> 00:28:35,500 >> Could new evidence of a civilization much older than 531 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:39,190 that discovered at Gobekli Tepe be emerging from a desolate 532 00:28:39,190 --> 00:28:40,420 continent? 533 00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:42,970 Up next, the code unravels-- 534 00:28:42,970 --> 00:28:45,040 or should we say melts-- 535 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,030 from Antarctica to reveal a possible new species 536 00:28:49,030 --> 00:28:51,120 on this planet? 537 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:59,819