Episode #184: Legends of the Shamir

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Taking a break this week in the swapcast series we've been doing with Ben from UnchartedX, We take the time to respond to emails, which sparks some great discussion on the Serapeum and the pyramids and ancient, lost technology.

We then turn to the legends of a particular lost object which we have spoken of before, the legendary Shamir, which was said to have been able to cut and shape stone with ease. In some cases the Shamir itself was said to be a stone, but also maybe a living creature, a worm of some kind, or perhaps an herb or some other plant.

Whatever the Shamir was, it seems clear that some ancient people could work stone in ways that we do not understand in modern times.

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0:00.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Angel and Demons and the Serpents
0:23.8	to Brothers of the Serpent podcast, coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent
0:28.0	of science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards
0:32.9	Plateau.
0:34.9	And so, uh, we've had an eventful couple of weeks.
0:39.2	Yep.
0:40.9	And this week, we decided to take a break with Ben.
0:46.1	He wanted this week off.
0:48.3	So we're just doing a normal Snake Bros. episode this week.
0:51.3	But I think we are going to be resuming those episodes with him next week, at least one more, maybe more than that, don't know. We're just kind of
0:59.6	playing it by year. Playing it by year, taking it one episode at a time. So yeah, other stuff that
1:06.1	happened, our server went down. Yes. And was down pretty much almost 24 hours before I was able to get it fixed.
1:14.2	So we had to migrate everything to a new server and then make sure that was all working and then transfer the domain.
1:24.8	So we did that.
1:26.3	And now it looks like we're going to have to do it again because
1:28.8	the, yeah, basically we have to do it again. What happened that day didn't turn out to be the
1:36.1	right thing to do. So probably going to have to do it one more time. But hopefully it won't be
1:40.2	down for long. Yeah. I don't think it's going to be down for long. Yeah. Next time it'll just be however long it takes the domain to retarget.
1:47.5	Switch over, yeah.
1:48.3	Yeah.
1:50.1	And then the other thing that happened was Laura had the baby.
1:53.7	That's right.
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