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John Rhodes, a researcher investigating underground bases and ancient civilizations, presents his theory of a genetic and historical connection between humans and an ancient reptilian species. Rhodes traces evidence through religious texts, Sumerian writings, and neuroanatomy, pointing to the R-complex at the base of the human brain, which scientists named for its shared structure with reptiles, as physical evidence of this deep biological link.
Rhodes explores Hopi legends of snake people and ant people living underground, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl as cultural echoes of reptilian contact spanning thousands of years. He describes his own explorations of cave systems near Las Vegas, where he encountered anomalous photographic phenomena, and discusses a 1909 Arizona Gazette report of a massive underground city discovered in the Grand Canyon capable of housing 50,000 people.
A wide-ranging journey through ancient mythology, underground military installations, the National Cave Resources Act, and the provocative question of whether an intelligent species predating humanity still inhabits vast tunnel networks beneath the Earth's surface.
Rhodes explores Hopi legends of snake people and ant people living underground, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl as cultural echoes of reptilian contact spanning thousands of years. He describes his own explorations of cave systems near Las Vegas, where he encountered anomalous photographic phenomena, and discusses a 1909 Arizona Gazette report of a massive underground city discovered in the Grand Canyon capable of housing 50,000 people.
A wide-ranging journey through ancient mythology, underground military installations, the National Cave Resources Act, and the provocative question of whether an intelligent species predating humanity still inhabits vast tunnel networks beneath the Earth's surface.
Key Moments
Sumerian Enlil and Eden traced to a reptilian creator: Rhodes ties the biblical Eden serpent and the Sumerian Enlil at Snake Marsh to a reptilian being credited with the genetic manipulation of early humans.
Carl Sagan's R-complex: the reptilian core of the human brain: Rhodes cites Carl Sagan's Dragons of Eden and neuroanatomist Paul MacLean to argue the most ancient part of the human brain is the R-complex, the reptilian-shared structure resting above the spinal cord.
R-complex governs hierarchy, territoriality, ritualism, and aggression: Rhodes summarizes MacLean's lab work showing that excising the R-complex changes social behaviors, with the structure dominating hierarchy, territoriality, ritualism and aggressive behavior.