John McHugh | Maps of Human Consciousness: Southwest American Rock Art Through the Ages

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The brilliant archeoastronomy analyst John McHugh returns to InnerVerse to share his field work and research on the ancient cultures of the American Southwest. In this video presentation John presents a comprehensive catalogue of petroglyphs and rock art through the ages and a crash course in the academic understanding of their cultural chronology. Dancing with live snakes? Check. Symbolic signatures of the universal monomyth and its archetypes? Got that too! Tune in for a shamanic synthesis of John's many years of investigation.

In the Plus+ Extension, we continue John's presentation, with artifacts and evidence of thunder rattles, face scalping, decapitated maize gods, kachina spirits, and a summary roundup of what all these strange and fascinating relics might mean about human nature and our deep past.

ChaptersInside the full 2h 26m episode27 chapters

0:00Is history a circle or a line

4:40The archaeologist who lives in two worlds

10:21Why Utah might really mean Judah

17:16The pueblos everyone abandoned by 1300

27:24Did rock faces teach us the constellations

32:09How desert varnish reveals the age

37:06What it took to kill a mammoth

46:16The wobble that ended the ice age

53:01Ghost figures and doorways in the rock

1:02:29Why the snakes are really flash floods

1:10:29The half human bighorn sheep deity

1:12:30The sipapu, a doorway from a past world

1:14:37Horn priests and the horned initiate

1:19:51A thunder rattle hidden in the rock art

1:21:52Why duck headed figures signal a shaman

1:23:56Facial scalps and ritual warfare

1:25:48The maize god in the Dresden Codex

1:33:00Why shield figures appear with farming

1:36:29Becoming the spirit behind a kachina mask

1:40:52The Hopi roots of Princess Leia's hair

1:43:14The Warrior Twins as morning and evening Venus

1:46:10Flood myths and an Aztec Noah

1:51:40Ghostly eyes that mirror Sumerian eye idols

1:57:31White bearded teachers from across the sea

2:00:12Sacred directions and the Pole Star

2:02:56Kachinas are angels by another name

2:18:27The butterfly that landed on our faces

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Archaeoastronomer and author

John McHugh is a scholar of Middle Eastern and Native American archaeoastronomy and author of The Celestial Code of Scripture, which traces celestial and linguistic origins of biblical miracle stories; he has appeared on InnerVerse multiple times (Star of Bethlehem, Rock Art, Pegasus/Ark, Celestial Code).

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