Ep. 138 - The Rising

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Voodoo is a religious practice that grew up in Haiti after the Spanish imported tens of thousands of African slaves to the island, bringing their beliefs and religion with them. One of the core beliefs in the religion is that some powerful voodoo practitioners have the ability to resurrect the dead, bringing them back to life in a form Hollywood has made well known to all of us. In this episode I tell you all about the secret history of zombies. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Merchandise Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-conspirators-podcast?ref_id=13696&utm_campaign=13696&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=The%2BConspirators%2BPodcast Notes: https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/people-politics/papa-doc-duvalier-the-voodoo-president-who-killed-kennedy/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876967,00.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/how-america-erased-the-tragic-history-of-the-zombie/412264/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043RSJ5O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD7I7IE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Music: Dexter Britain, The Tea Party https://dexterbritain.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world is filled with many questions such as did giants exist?
0:04.0	What is junk DNA? Does it mean that you're trash?
0:07.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:12.2	UFOs sightings off the coast of
0:14.0	violence all over the world. How serious even is climate change and when should we
0:19.1	start building our rafts? Hello everyone you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything
0:24.0	podcast and my name is Brenna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:28.6	Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in our new
0:33.6	podcast, Mystery of Everything, available everywhere you get your podcasts. In October 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean island we know today is Haiti.
0:51.0	There he was met by the native Taino-Arawak tribe. The tribe was friendly and
0:57.5	engaging to Columbus and his men, exchanging gifts with the Spaniards and volunteering
1:02.4	their help.
1:05.0	Columbus' first reaction was to pen a letter to Queen Isabella of Spain announcing to her
1:09.3	that these natives were tractable and easily led, and that they could be made to grow crops and build
1:15.8	cities.
1:17.8	Columbus named this new island, Laila Espaiola, which literally translates to the Spanish island.
1:25.0	Years later the Spanish missionary Barilome de la Casas
1:28.0	would shorten the name to just Espaiola.
1:31.0	Further revisions over the years would change it even further to Hispagnola.
1:36.8	The earliest documented map of the island created by Andre de Morales referred to the mountainous regions
1:41.4	as Monte de Heade.
1:43.0	Eventually, de la Casas would simply begin referring to the entire island by the name Haiti,
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