Episode #160: Megalithic America with Glenn Kreisberg

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Glenn Kreisberg, author of Spirits in Stone, about the many megaliths, dolmens, standing stones, and stone effigy sites in the northeastern U.S.

Although there are undoubtedly many colonial artifacts like stone piles and stone border walls throughout the northeastern United States, Glenn describes how some of these sites display celestial and internal alignments that make them unlikely to be the constructions of farmers clearing land and marking borders. He also gives several ways of trying to determine if one is looking at a "colonial" construction, or something much more ancient and interesting.

We also briefly discuss some of his work on Malta, and the seemingly anomalous acoustical properties of the Hypogeum.

You can find Glenn's book at the link above, and follow his work at his website, overlookmountain.org.

This episode's show art was made by Henry Hablak. Check out his website and follow him on instagram.

Art by Henry Hablak

Transcript

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0:00.0	Spirits in Stone with Glenn Christberg.
0:08.8	You're listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:19.2	And welcome back.
0:20.7	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demonsens amongst us of servants to Brothers of the Serpent podcast, coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10.
0:28.4	Tangent Cube of Science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau.
0:36.1	Deep in the Perseid's meteor shower.
0:38.2	Yes.
0:40.3	I got a picture of one.
0:41.9	Oh, good.
0:43.0	Yeah?
0:43.6	I was out at night, taking long exposures, and I got one in an hour.
0:48.7	One.
0:51.2	Can you set that camera to, like, just stay stay open for an hour or is it 30 minutes?
0:56.5	No, it's, 30 seconds is the limit.
0:57.8	No, I pick a setting that has the, like I'm using a shorter exposure.
1:04.1	It's 15 seconds.
1:06.0	But I have some of the other settings set to like grab a lot of light.
1:09.7	So there is the wide Wide aperture and all that.
1:12.0	The atmosphere is kind of bright, but if I didn't do that, then a shooting star wouldn't
1:18.8	really show up.
1:19.6	It'd be really dim because it's so fast.
1:21.6	Okay.
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