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They Weren’t Fully Human... · Sky Signal

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  Since time immemorial, humanity has been haunted by the image of
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  the hybrid creatures of myth and memory, fusions of man and
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  beast, of God and mortal, of one world and the next.
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  Some say they were symbols, others say they were real.
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  The Nephilim, the Anunnaki, half breeds born of divine rebellion,
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  giants, monsters, kings in every ancient culture they appear.
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  The Sumerians spoke of fishmen and sky serpents.
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  The Egyptians carved Jackal headed guardians, Falcon gods
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  and hybrid beasts into stone. The Greeks told of centaurs,
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  chimeras and monsters created in secret chambers beneath the
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  earth. In Hindu texts we find lion
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  headed avatars and Venara, the monkey people of the forest.
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  In the Book of Enoch, we're warned about giants born from
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  the union of angels and human women.
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  Warnings, DNA restructured, repurposed, reimagined across
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  time. Every attempt to create
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  something stronger, smarter, more divine ends the same way.
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  The lines blur, the balance breaks, and the hybrid turns on
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  its maker. Were they real, these impossible
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  creatures with the wings of birds, the heads of lions, the
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  torsos of men? Were they living beings created
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  by some forgotten science? Or were they symbols, signs
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  meant to represent power, knowledge, fear?
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  Chimeras, hybrids posted at the entrances to tombs, temples and
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  sacred cities, carved into walls, towering over gates as if
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  standing watch. Did the gods of old control
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  monsters? Did they create them?
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  Were these creatures protectors of something deeper, or to guard
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  something the gods feared? Because if these creatures once
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  walked the earth, then someone or something put them here.
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  Hybrid creatures straight out of a fantasy film.
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  Welcome to the Anunnaki connection.
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  The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving story in the
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  world, written in ancient summer, one of the first
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  civilizations. We have records from the opening
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  lines. In those ancient days, in those
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  distant days, in those nights, in those far off nights.
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  A reminder that even the Sumerians were looking back,
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  writing about a time considered ancient even to them.
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  One of the characters we meet is Enkidu.
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  Not a normal man, he's wild, hairy, running with animals,
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  drinking from rivers. Human, but not fully.
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  He wasn't born, he was made by the gods.
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  Enkidu is a hybrid. In the epic, Enkidu is created
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  by the goddess Aruru, the sister of Enlil.
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  The gods command her to make a being strong enough to confront
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  Gilgamesh, someone equal in power.
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  She begins with clay, the same substance used to create the
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  first humans in Sumerian tradition.
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  But this isn't dirt. In Sumerian myth, clay refers to
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  a mixture of earthly material and divine essence, a way of
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  describing the fusion of biology between God and man.
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  The text says Nkidu was knitted of Nenurta's essence.
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  Nenerto was a warrior God often associated with lions and bulls.
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  He was also a son of Enlil. Nkadu is imbued with the essence
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  of wild animals, the strength of a bull, the mane of a lion, the
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  speed of the gazelle. Strip away the mythic language
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  and this starts to sound less like magic and more like
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  selective design, built from raw material, infused with divine
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  genetics, shaped to be physically superior.
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  Anunnaki tradition says the gods once created humans as workers,
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  mixing their own blood with the clay of the earth, and kedu was
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  a continuation of that, a targeted experiment, a
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  specialized hybrid. And he wasn't alone.
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  The Sumerian world was filled with creatures that didn't fit
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  into natural categories, beings with mixed features, part
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  animal, part human, part God, part something else.
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  The lamasu, body of a bull or lion, wings of an eagle, human
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  face. Guardians placed at the
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  entrances of palaces and temples.
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  Massive stone statues carved with detail, always in pairs,
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  watching, protecting, blocking whatever wasn't meant to enter.
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  The Bull of Heaven, sent by the goddess Inanna after Gilgamesh
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  rejects her. It descends from the sky, causes
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  earthquakes, kills hundreds. It's so powerful it takes both
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  Gilgamesh and Nkadu working together to stop it.
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  The Ugalu. Big weather beast, A lion headed
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  demon, sometimes winged, sometimes holding a Mace or
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  dagger, painted on walls, carved into amulets, called on to drive
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  out disease and evil spirits. Despite being labeled a demon,
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  Ugalu wasn't evil. He was a tool of order, summoned
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  to protect homes and temples. The Urmalulu Lion Man, a
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  creature with a lion's lower body and a human upper torso,
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  armed with a dagger or sword, wearing a horned crown, the
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  symbol of divinity, also used in protective magic.
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  Statues of him were buried at gateways and thresholds, like
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  the lama Sioux, a guardian. The same pattern again mixed
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  features. Animal strength, human
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  awareness, divine origin, specific purpose, physical,
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  dangerous, sacred, and all hybrids.
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  If these gods had the power to create humans, then creating
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  other beings, more specialized ones, wouldn't have been a
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  stretch. What you are looking at is the
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  largest known feline on earth, a Liger, the hybrid offspring of a
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  male lion and a female tiger. The first records of such
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  hybrids date back to early 19th century colonial India under the
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  British Empire. It was there that naturalists
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  first documented the crossbreeding of lions and
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  tigers. By the mid 1800s, Liger Cubs
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  were being shown in Europe oddities of science and
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  spectacle. Later, in private zoos across
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  Europe and America, ligers became living attractions.
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  What's truly remarkable is its size.
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  Most ligers grow to exceed 900 lbs, and some stretch over 12
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  feet in length when standing. The world's largest known cat, a
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  Liger named Hercules, weighed in at nearly £1000.
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  A gentle giant, yet a true colossus, unmatched by any lion
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  or tiger ever recorded. The science is simple enough.
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  Each parent's growth limiting genes failed to switch on in the
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  hybrid, so the Liger keeps growing far beyond normal
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  limits. A modern example of how mixing
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  species can produce traits that don't exist in nature.
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  The Nephilim giants of the Hebrew Bible, towering beings
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  said to be the offspring of divine and mortal unions.
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  Could ligers be a small, living echo of that same principle?
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  If a simple cross between two big cats can create a creature
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  larger than either parent, what might have happened if ancient
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  genetic engineers combined human DNA with something else?
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  Would we see a similar giant effect, the kind of size and
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  strength that filled the old stories?
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  Ancient Egypt had hybrids too. Anubis the Jackal, headed
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  guardian of the dead. Sobek, crocodile headed.
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  Thoth, Ibis, headed God of writing, wisdom and time.
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  Horus the Falcon headed sky God, protector of the Pharaoh,
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  depicted with fully human bodies and an animal head.
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  Were they shape shifters or fixed beings?
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  And then there's the Sphinx. Human head, lion's body,
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  sometimes wings. Massive, ancient.
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  The Great Sphinx at Giza still stands today.
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  Carved from a single block of limestone, its original purpose
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  is still debated. Some say it was just a symbol of
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  royal power. Others think it's far older than
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  the pyramids, weathered by thousands of years of rain,
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  possibly predating dynastic Egypt entirely.
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  In Greek mythology, the Sphinx still has the body of a lion,
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  but now she has wings and a woman's head, and she isn't a
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  protector. This time, she's a threat.
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  According to legend, the gods sent her to punish the city of
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  Thebes. She sat outside the city and
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  asked a Riddle. The Riddle was simple, but
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  deadly. What has four legs in the
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  morning, 2 at noon, and three in the evening?
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  No one could solve it. Those who tried died.
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  The road near Mount Ficion was littered with their bones.
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  Eventually the king of Thebes offered a deal.
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  Anyone who could solve the Riddle would be given the
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  throne. That's when Oedipus arrived.
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  He was fleeing Corinth, wandering, and when he heard the
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  Riddle, he gave the right answer.
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  Man. As a baby he crawls on all
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  fours. As an adult, he walks on 2 legs,
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  and in old age he uses a cane, his third leg.
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  The sphinx didn't speak. She leapt from the Cliff and
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  killed herself. The curse was broken and Thebes
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  was saved. By the late 1400s, artists in
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  Italy began reimagining her. This version is sometimes called
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  the French Sphinx. Her head is upright, hair
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  carefully styled, often adorned with pearls and earrings, her
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  body a reclining lioness rendered in lifelike detail, a
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  hybrid that had crossed from myth into ornament.
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  Hybrid creatures appear again and again in human history,
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  cultures separated by thousands of miles and in some cases
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  thousands of years, telling the same kind of story.
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  Why? The most conventional
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  explanation is symbolism. Animal traits were chosen to
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  represent specific qualities. But does symbolism explain why
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  the same kinds of hybrids appear in unrelated cultures?
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  Why does the lion man show up in both ancient Mesopotamia and in
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  Ice Age European carvings 10s of thousands of years old?
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  Why do winged guardians appear from Assyria to Central America?
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  Some hybrids match constellations, the lion, the
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  bull, the eagle, and the man. All four appear in Mesopotamian
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  iconography, in the Book of Ezekiel, and in the Zodiac as
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  Leo, Taurus, Aquila, and Aquarius.
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  In many cases, hybrids are placed at boundaries.
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  The Lamassu stood at the gates of Assyrian palaces.
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  The Great Sphinx of Giza sits on the edge of the necropolis.
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  The Greek Sphinx blocked the road to Thebes.
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  In Mesoamerica, Jaguar men guarded temples and ceremonial
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  spaces to protect what lay inside, to keep out the
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  unworthy. Modern architecture still uses
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  symbolic guardians, lions outside government buildings,
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  eagles over doorways, even gargoyles on cathedrals, A
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  tradition that has lasted for millennia.
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  But there is another possibility, one that appears in
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  the ancient texts themselves. If the gods could make humans,
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  as the Sumerians claimed, could they also have made other beings
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  beings designed for specific roles?
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  The Anzu, a lion headed eagle that steals the tablets of
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  Destiny, is described more like a weapon than a wild animal.
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  In modern science, we are beginning to explore genetic
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  engineering. CRISPR technology allows
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  researchers to edit the DNA of plants, animals, and even
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  humans. In 2019, scientists in China
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  created human monkey embryo hybrids for research purposes.
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  The technology exists. If we can do this today, could
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  an advanced civilization have done it thousands of years ago?
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  Hollywood in the early 1900s was just a small farming community
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  outside Los Angeles. A century ago, it was all citrus
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  Groves and dirt roads. Then the studios came.
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  The film industry's move West was driven by a need to escape
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  Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company, which
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  controlled almost all of the filmmaking equipment and
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  production on the East Coast. The distance from Edison's base
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  made it harder for him to enforce his patents, and
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  California's climate and consistent sunlight made year
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  round filming possible. In 1915, director DW Griffith
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  released The Birth of a Nation, considered a landmark and
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  cinematic technique, but also highly controversial for its
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  glorification of the Ku Klux Klan.
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  Facing widespread criticism, Griffith began production on a
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  follow up. He wanted to surpass his earlier
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  film and take the heat off. The result was Intolerance,
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  released in 1916, a 3 1/2 hour epic weaving together 4
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  storylines, the fall of Babylon, the Crucifixion of Christ, the
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  Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, and a modern American
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  story about social injustice. For the Babylon scenes, Griffith
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  commissioned what was then the largest and most elaborate film
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  set ever built. It featured massive ceremonial
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  gates, winged human animal figures, and the rosette motif
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  associated with the Tree of Life.
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  The scale was immense, the walls rose more than 100 feet, and the
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  set dominated the Los Angeles skyline for years after filming
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  wrapped. When the Hollywood and Highland
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  complex was built in 2001, its designers deliberately recreated
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  parts of Griffith's Babylon set, including the colossal winged
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  guardians and the rosette above the central archway.
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  Millions pass beneath them each year, often unaware they are
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  walking through a modern reconstruction of Mesopotamian
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  temple imagery. Hollywood is full of ancient
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  symbolism. Lionsgate recalls the monumental
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  Lion Gates of Mycenae in Babylon.
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  The MGM logo frames a roaring lion in a ceremonial arch.
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  Hollywood Pictures uses an Egyptian sphinx.
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  Tristar's Pegasus is the winged horse of Greek myth linked to
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  divine inspiration. Columbia Pictures depicts A
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  robed woman holding a torch, an image tied to the Roman goddess
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  Libertas. And to Isis of Egyptian
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  tradition in the ancient world, these figures marked a
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  threshold. Passing between them meant
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  leaving the human realm behind and entering the domain of the
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  gods. So what is Hollywood telling us?
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  That it, too, is a gate guarding A lineage inherited from the
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  temples of the old World. Hollywood likes to think of
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  itself as the new storyteller, the keeper of the modern myth.
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  But these aren't new ideas. They're echoes, the same half
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  human, half animal forms carved into stone thousands of years
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  ago in Mesopotamia, painted into the walls of Egyptian tombs
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  described in Greek scrolls. And the fact that we still
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  respond to them, that they still resonate, might mean we're not
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  dealing with fiction at all. The cinocephaly dog headed men.
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  They appear in ancient accounts from Greece, Rome, India, China
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  and even medieval Europe always described the same way, the body
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  of a man, the head of a dog or Jackal.
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  The Greek physician Catisius wrote about them in the 5th
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  century BC, placing them in distant India.
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  He claimed they lived in tribes haunted with bows and
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  communicated with barks. Later, Pliny the Elder described
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  them in Natural History, echoing Ketosia's details, even adding
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  that they wore animal skins and traded with nearby kingdoms.
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  Medieval travelers kept the story alive.
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  Marco Polo placed them on islands off the coast of India,
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  while the 9th century writer Ibn Kordadbay claimed they lived in
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  the mountains of the East. In Christian lore, some Saints
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  like Saint Christopher were even depicted as cinocephaly.
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  Were these purely symbolic depictions of foreign peoples or
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  garbled reports of an actual hybrid species?
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  The consistent descriptions over more than 1000 years raised the
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  possibility that the story was rooted in something real.
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  And if hybrids like in Kidu or the Anubis headed gods of Egypt
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  were based on ancient genetic experiments, could the
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  cinocephaly have been another creation built for a purpose
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  we've long since forgotten? When you've all know, A Harare
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  published his first book, Sapiens, in 2014, about the
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  history of the human species. It became a global bestseller
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  and turned the little known Israeli history professor into
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  one of the most popular writers and thinkers on the planet.
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  But when we met with Harare in Tel Aviv this summer, it wasn't
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  our species past that concerned him.
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  It was our future. Harare believes we may be on the
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  brink of creating not just a new enhanced species of human, but
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  an entirely new kind of being, one that's far more intelligent
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  than we are. It sounds like science fiction,
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  but you've all know a, Harare says.
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  It's actually much more dangerous than that.
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  You said we are one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.
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  Within a century or two, Earth will be dominated by entities
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  that are more different from us than we are different from
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  chimpanzees. Yeah.
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  What the hell does that mean? That freaked me out.
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  You know we'll soon have the power to re engineer our bodies
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  and brains, whether it is with genetic engineering or by
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  directly connecting brains to computers or by creating
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  completely non organic entities. Artificial intelligence, which
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  is not based at all on the organic body and the organic
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  brain and these technologies of developing at breakneck speed.
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  If that is true, then it creates a whole other species.
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  This is something which is way beyond just another species.
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  Today, scientists are doing something that not long ago was
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  unthinkable. They can edit the genetic code
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  of living beings. The tool is called CRISPR.
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  It works like a pair of molecular scissors.
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  It can cut DNA at a precise location, remove specific genes
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  or insert entirely new ones. The technology is less than 10
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  years old, yet it has already changed medicine and
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  agriculture. Crops have been made resistant
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  to disease. Mosquitoes altered so they can
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  no longer spread malaria. Human embryos edited to remove
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  inherited disorders In 2019, Chinese researchers injected 25
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  human stem cells capable of forming any cell type, including
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  placenta, into 132 macaque embryos.
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  It seems today scientists are more concerned with whether or
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  not they can do something, and seldom bothered by whether or
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  not they should. Don't you see the danger your
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  scientists were so preoccupied with?
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  Whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think of this.
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  Short and now the frontier is merging biology and technology.
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  Researchers are developing neural implants that can connect
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  the human brain to computers. Robotic limbs controlled
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  directly by thought, artificial organs, synthetic eyes that can
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  see beyond the range of normal vision.
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  Artificial intelligence is being trained to read brain signals,
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  translate them into action, even into speech.
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  The line between human and machine begins to blur.
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  For some, the goal is to repair and restore, but for others it's
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  to enhance, to create a human that is stronger, faster, more
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  intelligent and perhaps more controllable.
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  Scientists predict this will lead to a new kind of human
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  altogether, our own descendants genetically altered and
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  mechanically enhanced. If we can do this now, with
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  tools that didn't exist a decade ago, what might have been
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  possible for a civilization thousands of years ahead of us?
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  Ancient Sumerian tablets describe the gods mixing their
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  essence with the clay of the earth to create humans.
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  Egyptian temples show beings that are part man, part animal.
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  Indian texts describe deities with multiple arms, animal
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  heads, or the ability to change form at will.
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  Was this just symbolic or records of beings who had
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  already crossed the line? In the Bible, the cherubim stood
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  watch over Eden's entrance. In Mesopotamia, Lamassu guarded
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  the palaces of kings. Perhaps these weren't mere
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  symbols carved in stone, but depictions of actual
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  bioengineered Sentinels, intelligent, loyal, and built to
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  deter any threat. But where did they go?
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  Were they wiped out and the cataclysms remembered as the
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  Flood, haunted to extinction by the very gods who made them?
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  Or were they taken back to wherever those gods came from,
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  leaving only fragments behind? Deep beneath the sands of
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  Saqqara, Egypt lies the Serapeum, an underground
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  catacomb carved across centuries, rediscovered in 1850
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  by Auguste Mariette. When he uncovered it, he found
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  several massive granite sarcophagi, each weighed between
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  40 and 62 tons, carved from hard stone like diorite and slid into
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  place. All empty.
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  No mummies inside, just enormous sealed boxes buried in the dark.
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  In the modern age, we found traces that don't fit
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  comfortably into the story we tell ourselves.
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  Elongated skulls scattered from South America to the Caucasus.
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  Bones with proportions that defy human anatomy.
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  And if you go further, much further, could some of the
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  fossils we call dinosaurs actually be the remains of
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  ancient hybrids, skeletons pieced together not from
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  nature's slow evolution, but from deliberate design?
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  The evidence is scattered, the connection's elusive, but the
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  pattern is there, in stone, in bone, and in myth.
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  If the hybrid guardians of the ancient world were erased, it
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  wasn't by accident, and it may not be forever.
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  Some doors are locked for a reason.
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  What happens when we open them again?
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  TuneIn. Next time to the Anunnaki
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  connection. Goodnight.
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  None.