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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Artifact: The Corleck Head

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses a fascinating Celtic artifact...

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0:00.0

I'm Munga Shatekler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want

0:06.6

to believe.

0:07.6

You can find it in major league baseball, international banks, kpop groups, even the White House.

0:12.9

But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable

0:17.0

happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed.

0:20.6

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas

0:24.5

are about to change too.

0:26.0

Listen to Skyline Drive on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

0:30.8

podcasts.

0:36.6

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:41.8

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Art Effect, a short form series from Stuff to

0:46.8

Blow Your Mind focusing on particular objects, ideas, and moments in time.

0:55.7

As we discussed in our recent episodes on brain and head theft, many ancient peoples found

1:00.5

supernatural significance in the human head.

1:03.8

Myths and legends told of heads that still retained life, and could perhaps be used

1:08.8

as instruments of communication with realms beyond.

1:13.0

One such people were the ancient keltz, an early Indo-European people who spread over

1:18.0

much of Europe between the second millennium BCE and the first century BCE.

1:23.7

Their ideas concerning the human head were long interpreted as a quote, cult of the head,

1:29.0

and tales of Celtic head hunting were long noted by historians.

1:34.0

But as Ian Armit points out in the book head hunting and the body and Iron Age Europe,

1:39.0

modern archaeologists have pushed back against this interpretation.

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