Mar 15, 2019
We spend some time on listener
comments and correspondence, reading them and responding in kind.
Kyle then reads some fascinating news stories about ancient CMEs,
and advanced mathematics describing why hipsters are the first to
be annoying, anywhere.
After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.
After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.
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| Dragon Aurora |
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| More sky dragons |
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| Definitely a dragon |
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| Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel |
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| Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel |
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| Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed |
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| Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama |
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| Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain |
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| Kuromata Yama |
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| Very ancient Jomon stone circles |
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| Jomon circle |
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| Jomon stone circle |
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| Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions |
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| Examples of Jomon pottery |
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| Jomon "incense burner" |
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| Jomon pottery vessel |
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| Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks |
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| Very ancient Jomon pottery |
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| Highly stylized Jomon vessel |
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| Jomon pottery |
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| Jomon maze pattern vase |
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| Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size |
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| Jomon "Dogu" figurine |
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| Dogu |
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| Another example of strange Dogu figures |
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| Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes |
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| Dogu figure |
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| Very old dogu figurine |
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| Dogu |
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| Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine |