Episode #089: Ancient Japan and the Jomon

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

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.

Dragon Aurora

More sky dragons

Definitely a dragon

Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel

Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel

Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed

Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama

Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain

Kuromata Yama

Very ancient Jomon stone circles

Jomon circle

Jomon stone circle

Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions

Examples of Jomon pottery

Jomon "incense burner"

Jomon pottery vessel

Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks

Very ancient Jomon pottery

Highly stylized Jomon vessel

Jomon pottery

Jomon maze pattern vase

Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size

Jomon "Dogu" figurine

Dogu

Another example of strange Dogu figures

Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes

Dogu figure

Very old dogu figurine

Dogu

Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine

Transcript

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0:00.0	Take a break, Adamu.
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0:27.7	aides and demons and monsters to serpents to Brothers of the Serpent podcast,
0:33.0	coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science,
0:38.3	nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau.
0:45.3	I am laughing because Kyle is imitating me while I'm doing this.
0:57.0	Sadly, we do not have the watcher with us today, so this is a watcherless show. So we are going to be skating on the edge of untruth. We're going to be on the beveled edge of truth.
1:06.3	Right. Just make sure you don't take our word for anything we say.
1:11.4	That's all we're saying.
1:12.6	Basically, when the watcher is not here, all of you become the watcher.
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1:37.9	Go straight to Jason Colavito and find out if we're wrong.
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