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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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October 28, 2013: The Lost Cycle of Time - Jason Martell

Oct 28, 2013
3h 10m
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Art Bell sits down with researcher Jason Martell to examine ancient advanced civilizations and the possibility that sophisticated cultures existed long before recorded history. Martell explains how his interest began with structures on Mars and evolved into studying Sumerian cuneiform texts, which he argues contain detailed accounts of human creation, the Great Flood, and cosmological events that predate and parallel biblical narratives.

Martell describes the Sumerian account of the Anunnaki and the creation of the first human worker, complete with cylinder seal depictions he interprets as representations of in vitro fertilization. He discusses a roughly 24,000-year cycle recognized by over 30 ancient cultures, which he believes explains the rise and fall of civilizations from golden ages into dark ages. The conversation touches on astronomical alignments at Giza, Gobekli Tepe, and other megalithic sites that point to dates far older than mainstream archaeology accepts.

The discussion covers vitrification of stone at ancient sites, the Baghdad Battery, the Dendera light bulb reliefs, and the Planet X hypothesis. Martell shares his recreation of ancient technologies for the History Channel and argues that binary star system models may better explain the orbital mechanics behind Nibiru than traditional single-sun theories.

Key Moments

  1. NASA poo-pooed Cydonia, kept returning: Martell describes contacting Mike Malin as a college student about possible Mars structures and being told they were natural; Bell counters that despite NASA's public dismissal, they spent disproportionate time re-imaging Cydonia.

  2. Genetic intervention created humans: Martell argues the gap between Neanderthals and modern humans cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution and requires a genetic intervention, citing our naked, sun-vulnerable bodies vs. the durability of apes.

  3. Ninharsad creates 'the adam': Martell recounts a Sumerian text in which a chief medical officer named Ninharsad produces a working 'adam' after several failed prototypes, with cylinder-seal imagery he reads as a primitive depiction of in vitro fertilization.

  4. Nibiru collision and the asteroid belt: Martell lays out Sitchin's cosmology: a rogue body, Nibiru, entered the early solar system; one of its moons collided with proto-Earth, scattering half the planet into the asteroid belt (the Bible's 'hammered out bracelet').

  5. Vitrification: melted granite: Asked for his strongest piece of evidence for a lost civilization, Martell points to vitrification at Machu Picchu, Teotihuacan, and Pumapunku, arguing the stones were heated to a molten state to be cut and joined.