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This one is a bridge built for Australian clinicians, and it starts from the credentials on the table. Ammon Hillman is a classical philologist with training in bacteriology, and he reads the edge of ancient medicine most classicists never touch: Galen, the physician of Marcus Aurelius and the most prolific medical writer of antiquity. The exhibit is Lemnian earth, Lēmnia gē (Λημνία γῆ), a stamped clay tablet called a sphragis (σφραγίς), purchased from a priestess on Lemnos in batches of twenty thousand and prized as an antidote to poison and a general cure. The 2008 Archaeometry paper is read alongside the Greek, and the point it lands on is that the rite and the geology cannot be separated.
The episode shows what the texts actually say the priests treated. In the twelfth-century commentary on Homer, the priests of Hephaestus heal the ophiodēktoi (ὀφιοδήκτοι), the serpent-bitten, and the verb is therapeuein (θεραπεύειν), the root of therapy itself. Hephaestus is invoked as akamaton pyr (ἀκάματον πῦρ), the fire that never fades, and as Phosphoros (Φωσφόρος), the light-bringer, and iōs (ἰός) means both arrow and serpent poison. Hillman’s reading is that the medicine is a compound, not a single active ingredient, and that the priestess holds the preparation knowledge Galen himself did not.
From there the talk opens the wider model. Greek medicine worked by balancing an individual’s particular makeup against the plants, animals, clays, and body fluids in the environment; the doctors tasted urine to diagnose, used sweat scraped from wrestlers, and wrote of milk from the developing breast of a parthenos (παρθένος). The example of depression runs through the pages, treated once by breaking the mind down and bringing it back in the cave of Trophonius, and once by Galen with drugs and intercourse. The closing frame is the same contrast the channel keeps returning to: a poly-pharmacy built on balance, lost when the priestly guilds were broken and the one-drug model took over.
Full Video Transcript
Welcome Australia.
Ursus, with the giggling smile
Produce the flowers with the pow
I give you my blood
Do you have the blood of the dying god?
Sell fire, put the stars in your eyes
Rub it in, the man who’s laughing
I am being, drink hallelujah
From Aphrodite’s lips
Epos, purple juice coat
Gorgeous, make your face melt
Terror cards dealt
Ancient songs are cosmic spells
Wave the magic wand from overhead
Simon says
Hello, hello to everybody tonight.
This is a special Lady Babylon.
What am I doing tonight?
Tonight I am addressing the good people of Australia
who are also devotees of the gods of medicine.
Yeah, what I’m going to do is I’m going to try to create a bridge tonight for you.
I’d like to be able to bring you to the place where the medicine was happening in the ancient world.
And I’m going to try to sink you into that matrix so that you can see how different what it is that we do today.
How that’s so strange compared to what it is they did then.
Are there advantages on either side? I want you to be able to skip across time just to look at
the medicine. And what I’m going to do is, look, I’m going to introduce myself so that you can
feel a little bit more comfortable. I’m not just the guy in the park with the trench coat.
I am Dr. Amon Hillman, and my PhD is in classical philology. That is Greek and Latin. Yes, so
philologists use those tools that allow us to access those written sources from the ancient
world. My specialty was Galen, the medicine, right? I did, oh, for my master’s, I did a
translation of Galen’s Black Bile. It was about the plague that was going on. Oh, God, it was
gorgeous. Anywho, then I worked on Roman Pharmacy. And in writing a dissertation on Roman Pharmacy,
I was told by my committee, we won’t pass you unless you take out the chapter on recreational
drugs and any references to those drugs anywhere else in the text. So I said, fine, and took it out
and then turned it into a book, blew it up and sent it to St. Martin’s Press and they took it.
and so that’s kind of how um i started off in my career um and what i bring to the table is
you know classics should be a thing for scientists um not for the keepers of humanities
i like to keep one foot on either side of the fence so i want us to look at
at something a little bit scientific and kind of follow these texts. I think you’re going to be
very pleased with this portrait of medicine. I’m going to take 45 minutes and then I’m going to
give you a chance, whoever is here from down under, I want to give you a chance to ask questions
and we can have a short session here where I can take your questions and post them up and
give any kind of answers that i can give or if i can i could say i don’t know um should be fun
so i appreciate you joining to me joining me tonight at lady babylon and we’re gonna go ahead
and jump in chewy and jump into the fight are you guys ready for this what am i bringing you
before you bring it up just to give you the background we’re talking about galen second
century, Anno Domini. He is a personal body physician to the emperor, the current Roman
emperor, Marcus Aurelius. And he’s the most prolific writer of antiquity by far, by far.
Thousands upon thousands of pages, many of them just about drugs. I’ve got three volumes sitting
here they’re all can you hand me with chewy one of those chewy’s my pilot um here’s volume 12.
here’s volume 12. this is uh i purchased this from johns hopkins uh when i was a grad student
this is 22 volume set complete set of all of galen published in 1826 there so um it’s greek
right it’s Greek just for people to see it’s Greek okay what is it it’s
basically of physicians medical texts from you know Civil War fish now here in
the States yeah um anywho I’m gonna be bringing you works from those texts and
let me tell you something nobody does this kind of work in the last 10 years I
did find a dissertation somebody’s translating Galen and I know there’s
another I’m aware of another scholar out there who’s an MD who also did a PhD
with emphasis in Galen in classics so I know that there’s a potential out there
but when I was in the field as a graduate student it was not acceptable
my Bryn Mawr I wrote the book called the chemical muse and my Bryn Mawr classical
reviewer said this is a dangerous book um it shouldn’t be read at a university right um yeah
um now that same person is writing um a book about shamanism which will inevitably have drug use in
it and they asked what do you think about is dr hillman’s work now well yeah no it looks like
they’re you know drugs oh nice nice job people right what happened to me in my career was i was
about 10 years ahead of uh the the curve and the frontier as the london times said about the work
that i do the front it’s really the last wild frontier they call it of classics i study the
medicine and again that whole volume that i just held up to you that’s all drugs it’s all drugs
i have forgotten more ancient drugs than most people know of total drugs how is that it’s
because of the language it’s because of the language the language of ancient greek is
powerful all languages are not created equal ancient greek is powerful and has a just a crazy
high, crazy high number of independent words. Yeah. And it does that by word building and
giving people who used it the ability to be able to coin words as they lived, right? On a daily
basis. It’s why we have so much, so many hop, hocks, legomena, not because these words only
appear in one place and we didn’t find it anywhere else, but because those are the individual
authors’ creations. Some authors create more than others. And to watch the artistry of ancient
Greek, it’s humbling. It’s humbling. Makes you want to burst out into tears. Oh God, it’s gorgeous.
Okay, here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to give you an article. This article is about Galen
when he decided, hey, I’m going to go over to Lemnos and I am going to purchase 20,000
dismuria 20 000 pills from the lemnian priestess who makes the lemnian earth oh my god listen to
how many different layers okay so i’m going to give you an article and i had people look at it
before and i put the link there so i know you’ve seen it i want to oh fan we’ll look at that yeah
um i i know that you’ve seen it but let’s uh let’s run through it hit the hit hit the first
star system. Yeah, this is from Archaeometry, right? Archaeometry, fantastic, 2008. Accessing
past beliefs and practices, the case of limni and earth. Limni and earth is a drug very well known
in antiquity, just a great reputation as a panacea. This thing does so much, it wards off
poisons. It takes the negative side effects of those poisons that you’ve been using
and it turns it into a positivity wait what yeah they’re talking about capacitating drugs
oh my god the the tech here the the pharmacological tech is off the charts watch this um uh yep give
me the next one chewy boom i just want to read this to you limnian earth the medicine and the
shape of a stamped clay tablet, or sphragis, from Limnos. Northeastern Greece was much valued in
antiquity and in the post-medieval period as an antidote to poison and a treatment for other
ailments. Although it was among the first archaeological materials to be subjected to
chemical analysis in 1807, well that was yesterday, there is still no clear understanding as to what
made limni and earth an effective medicine we argue that limni and earth the artifact was not
the same as limni and earth the raw material we suggest a composition for the artifact by
scrutinizing the documentary evidence for its properties and by considering the geochemical
processes that led to the formation of the raw material and the ritual relating to its extraction
Wait, what? You’re going to talk about the ritual? Why? The study of the latter highlights the need for archaeological material scientists to recognize, wait, what are these nerds going to have to reckon with?
to recognize ritual as a possible manifestation of physical and chemical processes
carried out within the framework of past beliefs and practices.
What do we have to do? You can take it down.
What do we have to do?
We have to consider that these drugs are being used and they’re being prepped.
They’re being made in environments that are cult.
we have to understand there’s history here there’s context right we can have lists of all the drugs
that they’re using and their rights we can have those we do but what we don’t have is that
environment that authentic antique environment this is late bronze age i want you to be thinking
where’s all this tech coming from it’s coming from women with arrow poisons um and it’s they’re
dangerous you know what i mean um and we’ve got a technology that’s developed of dote and antidote
this is a late bronze age oh god like 1200 1200 bc right forget the 1200 bc and what happens
what happens uh the drug knowledge goes through the roof and we even have particular individuals
historically they’re noted as the craftsman that pioneered the field and a lot of them are called
witches right the most famous of which is medea and she was known for having just a phenomenal
amazing pharmacological knowledge and she developed rights rights where she would christ
herself and then turn an entire community into a psychedelic dance. Oh my God, it was Bacchic
reality. This Lemnian earth that Galen is looking for, this Lemnian earth is part of this tradition.
There’s a priestess there, right? There’s a priestess there. And it’s only through her
that we get this once in a year um supply of drugs they only do it she only does it once a year
yeah and they make the drug it’s got her seal on it it puts her seal on it because for those of you
don’t know if i’m living in the second century and i need to go buy some drugs because i just
went to see my doctor and my doctor said hey you need some drugs um why are they always throwing
drugs at me it’s just like today isn’t it no not quite not quite because back then it’s the balance
of the individual that you’re looking to maintain right so everything in my environment that i use
in these compound drugs and when i say compound i’m talking 20 30 40 50. the mithridatix have 50
to 65 somewhere in that range right um ingredients different ingredients and these are all plants
animal products i’ve seen things used oh my god today we’re going to look at the grime that you
can scrape off a boy wrestler’s skin do you know that stuff’s a drug wow fantastic let’s go oh is
it babies that’s somebody from the satanic congregation yes because they they want me
to note i think that baby blood was used as well um as uh medicine yeah fantastic yeah interesting
um let’s go to the next one boom so this is the introduction limni and earth from limnos to the
northern aegean was a medicine fame from classical antiquity post-modern evil time hit the next one
we already got that go chewy we’re off one star assistant behind here we go are you ready you stay
In his 12th century, his commentary on Homer’s Iliad, he notes that the priests of the metalsmith god Hephaestus were healing those who had been bitten by snakes.
Now he gives the Greek here.
Thank you.
Thank you for this very much, Jeb.
I guess this is.
um hoi to have feist to hear ace those are those priestesses or those priests
of Hephaestus and who are these other one F that up Pellon do you see the verb
the verbs right there on the fourth on the third line down if that up Pellon
from Fed up hello that’s where we get our word therapy in anglo-saxon
barbarism right we had to steal it from them because we’re stupid to thank it up
for ourselves thank you mother greek thank you very much yes yes all languages are not
created equal you know it’s a shame it turns out you are who you are because of the language that
you speak can you believe that is there are we capacitating people yeah with with the greek this
is wonderful um let’s go to the next one please yeah no wait did we do that yeah yeah yeah okay
here i want to keep pointing out that we need still need that one take that rediscovering
medicine down for a second i want everybody to see what is it what is it that they treat these
priests of hephestus what is it literally i don’t want any theories i don’t want any ideas i want
to see what is it they’re actually trading and it’s that last word ophiodectus those who are
ophiodactic bring it up you know how this works ladies and gentlemen this is from this what you’re
seeing below you below me is a uh oxford is the oxford um lexicon for greek ancient greek so
what we have here is a word and then a whole bunch of different sources that use the word and what
you can do with this type of lexicon is you can track the history of the word, because word
meaning drifts over time. Your context determines what that word is going to mean, and if you don’t
know different styles and different periods and different lexica, you’re in trouble. That’s what
reading these ancient texts does for you. It creates in your mind a history of where the
Greek was. Well, look at this word office. What are these people who are in need of treatment?
They’re office something. What is an office? Oh, serpent. And stop. It’s not exactly what you think
of a serpent, right? Serpents, just a snake, right? Look at Roman numeral number two. It’s like a
dracon. There’s another word for snake. Yeah, there’s another word for snake. Different kinds
of snakes the office what is the best example of the office the office was in the garden the
office is the one who opens the eyes yeah gives access to that fruit look here also constellation
that’s nice nice we’ve got a lot of whenever we get old Bronze Age religion and remember there’s
no distinction between religion and medicine there’s no distinction all right okay good good
i want and you have to understand the connection to the natural you have to understand the
connection to the you know these are polytheistic nature lovers yeah and they’re taking all their
resources and galen is traveling to lemnos just so he can pick up a whole giant batch of these things
yeah it’s got to have the seal of the priestess of lemnos or this stuff doesn’t work and it’s
expensive brah as you can imagine it’s a cure-all it’s cure-all you start taking this stuff oh god
people at work they’re gonna notice they’re gonna notice they’re gonna be whoa look at that marcus
aurelius didn’t know that other people were like oh wow wow look at him he looks 10 years younger
whoa oh i love it give me the next one these are the details you get in the medical side
what are the now where are we mentally i just told you the priests of hephestus they treat people
who are ophiodectes right and we know we saw the office from that that is the first part of the
word is a serpent like a dracon we get our word dracula from that one i like that one
dracon those are the dragons what are the dragons dragons are temple guardians just like medusa
the medusa right they’re temple guardians they guard things medusa usually guard individuals
right and they have more of a governing role whereas the dracontes those dragons they’re
just there for the security of that relic you know in the case of the people who were researching
the drugs it was a song that was written on a golden fleece by a woman named medea and we get
medicine from her name isn’t that awesome oh god i love it okay we got to keep the track here um
what what is that um deictos what does it come from it comes from this verb doc no right and
it really means to bite if you look through this to chomp down to bite um but look how the the
meaning of it is um is gaseous look at number two roman numeral number two it’s a pungent you know
what happens when you get the smoke in your eyes you got that bite you got that sting and what do
the greeks do they did what they always do and they take the concrete and immediately turn it
into an abstraction and then they can play with it mentally and that’s what they did look of the mind
it means to bite or sting yeah and what is it used of can be used of love right that sting do you know
where the love of eros comes from it comes from a bow it comes from a bow yeah it’s a
toxin on the end of the bow we have one that’s called soterion that i can shoot you with
i can shoot you with and then apply it to a medicated dildo a leather the ones that i’ve
seen leather right but um apply it to a leather dildo and then give you the medicine right apply
the medicine to you rectally um you can see how the lines between sexuality and medicine and cult
are totally blurred what is the symbol by the way we’re on the island of lemnos we’re on the island
of lemnos and what what do you find there on the island of lemnos who it’s the god priapus baby
it’s the god priapus this old pelasgian god he’s the god of the erection he’s the god of the
erection yeah the romans rub his statues phallus for the sake of luck for the sake of luck right
and when i say luck i mean marital luck now is this medicine that we’re talking about yes if you
want to treat depression like they did in antiquity and you say were they using a whole
bunch of drugs yeah they did but they did it in a very very strange way um you can induce states of
mania for the well-being of the patient you know remember ecstasy ecstasis is a great concept and
what is the idea based on the word? It’s a yanking out of yourself from your location.
It’s literally what it is. It’s a transfer of your consciousness to a place that’s outside of
yourself so that you can look at the person who is you. That’s what it says on the top of the
temple of Apollo. He’s the oracular divinity. It says, know yourself, know yourself. And how can
you do that? You do that with oracular mirror magic. And yes, it involved a whole bunch of
drugs and a whole bunch of rites. The drug that Galen is purchasing to the tune of 20,000 of
these things, he’s doing it specifically via the priestess because it’s her line that preserves
the scientific knowledge of how to prep the drug. It’s pretty complex. Let’s go on. By the way,
for those of you who think everybody who lived before you did was a dummy,
you got another thing coming. Let’s go to the next one. Look at this. What is it we’re all
looking for? We’re all looking for oysters. Oysters. Notice the Sigma Tau Rho root or STR
are in english sigma tau rho you’re gonna see this gadfly it’s a gadfly oh okay a gadfly look
at number definition number two under roman numeral number two any vehement desire insane
passion you see what we’re doing we’re taking the concrete and we’re creating the abstract
and then the abstract has its own vocabulary if you keep reading you’re going to find it means
madness and frenzy. Madness and frenzy. Madness and frenzy. Let’s go up. Go ahead. Flash that up.
Chewy wants to mesmerize. Look at that. Oh, look at that. Now, you know, if you were a horse
and you got bitten by Mr. Gadfly, you know that it’s going to induce a certain response.
this is where we get the word estrous from estrous from yeah estrous do you understand
the impulse now that is the oyster and how do you create this impulse you do i just told you
you do it with arrows and arrow poison give me the next one give me the next one yeah the cup
of babylon indeed right it is technically love it give me the next one um what are we thinking
about when we’re thinking about this oysters and this mania that comes from the arrow poison
here’s the name eos i just want you to notice in greek eos what does it mean it means arrow
it means arrow now give me this next one eos wait what it means another thing yes it means poison
as of serpents one of the no not one of the most leave that out for a second the most
Most unattributed genius to human history is the development of reptilian venoms and the antidotes that will counteract those venoms.
They didn’t look at it as counteracting.
They looked at it as potentiating.
That theriac, that beast, that theriac is a compound formula.
formula, and it holds up the cup of Lady Babylon. What is Eos? It’s poison, poison of serpents. Look,
look, look, look, look. Look at the bottom, the very bottom. Poison, it says in the Latin, is
virus. Eos, look what they did. They put a digamma. It’s probably because the Romans are being
influenced by the Etruscans and the Greeks in the north, and they’re Pulaskian, Chthonian, or
autochthonous ancestors. So they’re getting that digamma. It’s a w sound. It’s an invisible letter
in Greek. Isn’t that awesome? It’s an invisible letter in Greek. Think of this. Think of this.
They understood. They felt where this letter actually was. Wyrus in Latin. Tell me. So that’s
why you see the V looking thing. That’s actually a w sound in classical Latin. Bring up the next
one. Yeah. Bring it to me. What is a virus in Latin? Look, it says it’s from that EOS, right?
But what is it? Some slimy liquid. Yeah. In particular, it’s used in a bad sense of like
a poisonous liquid, a poison, a venom, right? Or a virus synonymous with venenum. What is venenum?
Venenum is drug, baby, right? Poison. You can translate it as poison too. And the funny thing
is is that comes right out of the dawn star right out of the dawn star how do i tell you that venus
do you notice venus is in there yeah the root linguistically venus why do i have venus associated
with the drug give me the next one why do i have venus associated with the drug this is starting
to get kind of strange look people in the paper they told you we have to consider the
the context here, the religious context, the ritual context, because that’s going to be
changing things like the drug. You want to know what the drug really was, right? You have to know
what they did to it, how they prepped it and how they used it. And we have that stuff. In the
absence of the conventional means to start a scientific investigation, we take the unconventional
approach of attempting to arrive at the nature of limni and earth by working backwards. That is
from scrutiny of the existing evidence okay now watch this people we submit that this evidence
should be collectively encoded in the following major areas of study a the relevant texts of
classical authors oh yeah you could have stopped right there and i would have been like oh yeah
baby you’re now we’re there b the understanding of the nature of clays okay you see what’s
happening we’re bringing in an expertise we’re going to do some geology we’re going to figure
out how many angstroms those things are apart and then next thing you know we’ve got a better
understanding i see of what the what was at least in the environment of the drug before it was
changed by the priestess um and see the numerous accounts relating to the ritual oh look at that
they’re acknowledging that the ritual now is of value or is critical to understanding what the
the drug was i’m gonna say something okay you can take it down i’m gonna say something it’s
gonna shock you there is no ancient mystery including christianity including judaism
there is no ancient oracular mystery that does not use drugs yeah yeah they all do and there’s
so many of them i can read galen and just stuff goes in one ear and out the other it’s different
a whole bunch of different types of plants plants that we can’t even identify properly and oh god
you um the polypharmacy is just um it’s an understanding of our environment that we we
just don’t have modern modern health care doesn’t take this into consideration the balance that is
in your environment it doesn’t it doesn’t do that let’s go to the next one chewy this is fantastic
I want to we’ve got to hurry up bring the devil. Are you ready for this? Okay here. Give me that one
What is the cult context here is the cult?
Orphic hymn to Festus. Yeah, and you know what there that first line says to me I’m
leaving Oman
That means we’re gonna end this with the writ with the singing of this hymn
you need to burn as incense a very fine powder of frankincense yeah not regular right not that
chunky stuff but the really processed fine powder right okay you know there’s expenses i guess
hephestus this is a hymn to hephestus and i want you to look at the first the end of the first line
Akamaton pur. It’s calling Hephaestus the Akamaton pur. Pur is the word for fire, for fire.
Now, wait a minute. We know that Medea sows the seeds of fire, and that’s what makes her medicine so profoundly strong.
What is the Akamaton pur? What does that mean in Greek to be Akamaton?
What is the, go ahead, no, this one, there we go. What does it mean? It means without a sense of toil?
how Victorian England you just it’s just kind of mmm not tired yeah not tiring
yeah okay without a sense of toil that which never fades is a comma toss that
which never fades what is that flame the vestals talk about their flame this way
right? It’s the flame that always lives. This is our Hephaestus as we live on Lemnos. Okay,
just I’m holding it up here. Great. Ever-living flame, ever-living flame. Chewy, hit me with the
next one. What else is he? I wanted you to know it’s on the previous page. It’s there here. Light
this up. What else is he? He’s Phosphore or Phosphoros. And who is that? Who is that?
Phosphorus is Lucifer, the bringer of light. And he is part, for those of you who have not met
Satan, he is part of a much older pre-Christian, pre-monist, it’s before Judaism, right? It’s
It’s coming out during the Bronze Age, and what they’re doing is they’re worshiping sun and moon and earth, and the stars are the powers, right?
The stars are the powers, and within this religion, you have a title of she who understands those drugs best, and she is the medwa, or the granddaughter of the sun, okay?
so all right um and i want people to be thanking so phosphorus he’s a guardian he’s a guardian he
is that morning star remember venus that we were talking about before right it’s right okay so
wait we want to get to the science don’t we let’s get keep going we need to get to the science
boom no it’s okay go to that one boom fantastic i wanted you to see here oh yeah bringing to light
and all that and oh look look the name of an eye salve isn’t that interesting by the way christing
means to apply a substance to somebody’s eyes that causes you to enter a state of mania you love it
um a lot of eye stuff here keep going we need to mosey along because people need good time here
what is the god that we worship so our authors are scientifically inclined authors
in their archaeometry journal, archaeometry, said that we need to maintain, you know, to find out
what was in those things, what was in those clays and earths that they were using, right? Well,
and we need to appreciate the cult in order to do that. Well, this is the cult name for Hephaestus,
Technodiitos. And look, they give it the one example is what I just showed you from the
Orphic Hymn to Hephaestus, right? This is one of those hop hocks, legomena, right? It’s only going
to appear once because that author is pulling from the air this concept. What is techno dietos?
Techno is from techne, which is the word for art or skill or science, science. And dietos is your
diet. It is your regimen. It is your way of life. So the way of life of our divinity,
our Limnian God, is a way of techne, of skill, of skill and precision. When you have to make
calculations, you’re functioning within a techne. So what is this? This is a big sign that says,
hey this guild these people are educated as hell right and we’ve got to be careful of what they’re
doing the greatest physician in all of rome is galen and he’s going to this lenient priestess
he doesn’t know how to do this process he knows about all he knows is it only works if she does
it otherwise it doesn’t work and it’s stuff is being faked and galen talks about that constantly
the drug market in rome you know lots of fakes and so doctors develop stamps seals impressions
that you can put into a pill in and and people can see it and say oh this obviously belongs to
dr so-and-so he’s reputable so we can use this one um galen still doesn’t have that knowledge
that the priesthood does so we’re talking about technical technical crafts these medical guilds
these medical priesthoods these medical temples it’s where all of the basic knowledge is the
anatomy that what we would call physiology anything to do with growth anything to do
um with any of the hard the botany and brought into the pharmacology all of that stuff these
um these medical guilds priesthoods really is what they are they’re the ones who are kind of
shouldering the the burden of all the knowledge yeah it’s fantastic give me the next one let’s
go sail i’m going to take a few more than five more minutes i’m taking another 15 but here
um to paraphrase renfrew’s comments on cognitive archaeology to access pathways of thought
via the means of proper scientific inquiry one does not need to rely solely on methods of
scientific analysis, but rather on the explicit nature of the reasoning that
sustains it. In this paper we build a case for the nature of limnion earth as
an ancient medicine, not on testing or analysis of a sample, because we’re not
going to have any of the originals, right? We’re rather on the basis of reasoning
out of the evidence available. So doing, we arrive at a composition for limnion
earth and the active ingredient within by examining the evidence and focusing
the ritual of its extraction is the ritual a covert form of both a geochemical process and deliberate
beneficiation right now unfortunately what you’re seeing is that’s an invasion of church
right it wasn’t they were turning it they were yeah one of the weaknesses of this article
is that it takes the entire history of the drug and you have to realize that things are different
when the classical priesthoods break down and are replaced they’re forbidden and then replaced
the knowledge is lost so if you’re going to talk about anything post-classical you’re going to be
you’re going to be you know it’s no wonder that you find this stuff doesn’t actually work
because you’re using that corrupted pool of knowledge.
Yeah, and now if we’re going to have the stuff that works,
that sample that actually works,
that has that ancient reputation of being such a great drug,
we’re going to have to go all the way back
to the one that the Limnian priestesses produced.
That’s what we’re going to have to do.
Give me the next one, Chewy.
And, you know, it’s not that hard to do that.
um yeah yeah uh believe the sacred earth that blah blah the alum oh here look at the bottom
the alum bearing waters of the spring derived right so what happens he says the ritual of the
extraction of this clay and of the creation the ritual of the creation of this limnian earth
right um and manual processing imparted with divine blessing whatever it’s off what a procedure
part natural part man-made that was carried out successfully on a set of days year in um year out
this involves the redirecting of the waters of the nearby spring over the pit from which the earth
was bring being extracted right yeah yeah the redirection was carried out deliberately in the
course of a year the pit on its own would have provided no more than a clay used for potting
lowest grade or a clay blah blah blah with um uh those different constituents in it and he gets
down to he says the alum bearing waters of the spring derived from alanite rich rock below would
have been absorbed by the clay enriching it into alum which we believe to have been the special
an ingredient. Now, notice, now go ahead and take it down. Notice that he’s concerned about what is
the one ingredient? What is the one thing, right? What is that one communion? What is that one drug
they were using? Greco-Roman pharmacy is so far advanced that they would never be asking the
question, which drug is the one doing the job? Remember, we’re talking about balance. We’re
talking about changing human physiology by means of the balance that’s in nature. That’s why it’s
good for you to have some venom every once in a while. Yeah, fantastic. Let’s go to the next one.
See what they do. These people are using venom, by the way, right? The venoms are all, they affect growth. Oh my God, chronic. Imagine this chronic administration. How are they, go ahead and leave that up, but how do they ultimately, these venoms, how are they administered, right?
You make a compound drug with the venoms in it, and then you impregnate a strip of cloth, bandage,
and you put it over wounds that you have self-inflicted.
Isn’t that nice?
And you get a chronic administration of your venom-enriched formula.
And, yeah, to watch what it does to growth is amazing.
It’s amazing.
the stuff that that they were doing in antiquities is um is mind-blowing when you get into the tech
when you get into the remember these works in in greek these are never these are not translated
these are not translated right why because classicists are um are not trained in the
sciences traditionally so it’s it they’re it’s like struggling go to the next one it’s like
struggling with the you know giant gorilla documentary evidence for alum galen says
limni and earth is astringent this is powerful evidence that the alum is a significant component
of limni and earth as there are very few potential astringent substances so look what is he doing
he’s interpreting let’s just see what the source says let’s just see what the source has blow it
up to you this one the print is terrible on this one blow this one up whoever did this for that
article shame on you you should be go back yep blow that one up thank you so much um here we go
watch this two-tone yeah hey
yeah so the limnian earth has the strongest effect it has the strongest capacity of all the earth
and you say, wait a minute, what am I talking about? Those earths, you gotta leave it up,
those earths are what you get from metalon. Metalon sounds like metal. It’s not. Metalon are
mines. Metalon are mines. When you are digging into the dirt to harvest, to farm out those
medically active components that create the balance. Those things, you’re creating
earths, earths. And the limnian form taken at this one time a year by the same priestess,
right, or the same priestly line, I should say, that this is the stuff that really works.
and you’re going to want to say, oh, it’s one thing.
It’s one ingredient because that’s how our medicine and pharmacy,
that’s how they’re oriented.
What’s the one drug, right?
No, no, no.
No, the thing compounds here.
And he says, what else does he say?
He says, it’s got a styptic power in it.
It’s got a styptic power in it.
Go to the next one.
This is what that word styptic is coming from.
it comes from this greek word stupsis which means a contraction you know it’s astringent causes you
to stop bleeding right cause you to stop bleeding and dying now wait a minute is dying medicine yes
in antiquity dying is medicine all you baptists out there who have been died in the purple
and have been to the death and the resurrection those of you who have been there know what i’m
talking about. You’ve taken that thalassemia, that death-inducing drugs. Wait a minute. You
mean they even had death-inducers? Yes. Why? Because when you put somebody into a death state
under the right conditions and you bring them back using the proper eidola, the proper images,
we get idolatry in English from that. When you have the proper images, you can give somebody
a new life. How’s that? You send them to the other side and bring them back. You know what that does
to your psychology? Let me tell you something. Medical professionals of Australia, for those of
you who have ever had to deal with patients of mental issues, psychiatric issues, psychological,
counseling, any of those. You can take certain types of patients like the splenic melancholic
people, and you can put them through a week of fasting, give them a drug, drop them into a cave
full of snakes, and after three days, pick them up on the other side. Don’t worry, there’s water
in the cave. And although it’s completely dark, if you follow the stream, you’ll get eventually
to the outside. Have people died doing this? Yeah, but you know, you got to break some eggs,
baby, for the sake of mental health, right? When you get to the other side, they call it,
you look like you’ve come from the cave of Trifonius, right? It means that you’re completely
and utterly destroyed and afraid, terrorized. Why? Because they gave you a psychosis-inducing
drug when they dropped you in there. Now, my question for you modern healthcare and allied
fields. You know, we would never do this. I don’t care what side of the globe you’re on. We would
never do this. But for some reason, you could take a person who’s depressed and you can cure
them of their depression. And it’s a one time deal. Is it something to do with all of the brain
chemistry? I’d like to think that was an elegant, elegant part of it. Yeah. But, you know, hey,
it may be fun, too. Maybe you’ve got maybe you’ve got some people you counsel or you’ve got some
patients who would be well served by getting dropped into a cave full of snakes um after
taking psychotropics yeah it may now the other one that was i did read galen was talking about
the cure for one of the cures for a type of i guess the best way to call it would be manic
depression is involves intercourse right drugs and intercourse which you never think about that
either right but at what point you know what they’re doing is they’re working
with the brain right and at what point do you stop and say okay what are the
drugs that they’re using what are the effects that they’re having on the brain
and how does the sex act that’s involved how does that sex act reset the brain as
well is there something that your brain is doing while orgasming that is
different and those drugs are affecting it in some way and that’s gonna cure
your depression, right? We’re cleansing ourselves. They’re looked at as purifications,
purifications, and you’d be surprised at all the mental health care that ancient physicians are
wrapped up in. You’d be really surprised at all the mental health care drugs. Amazing, beautiful
stuff, beautiful stuff. Let’s go back. Oh, God. Yeah, I’m on a little bit of an extra roll, but
I’m going to give you everything. Look at this. Galen makes it clear that lemony and earth should
not be washed more than once. I’ll just tell you that really quick. He says, look, the other stuff,
you got to wash it a couple of times, right? Two to three times, he says, but the stuff that is
already prepared by the priestess, don’t touch it. Don’t do that, right? You’re going to alter it.
And the author of the article makes some conclusions about, well, what does this mean?
It must mean there’s a soluble component that’s being washed out of it, right? Okay, well,
that’s nice this possibility yeah great observation sure um and uh altered rocks that are red oh now
he’s going to start talking about what are the other ones look we get alanite alanite’s an
insoluble potassium aluminium sulfate that forms on relatively high temperature hydrothermal acid
sulfate alteration of volcanic rocks oh my god that is perhaps the nerdiest thing i’ve ever heard
in my life. But that’s great science, people. This paper is trying to track down, the two
authors, they’re trying to really track down what is it in the substance. But they recognize at the
same time that we’re never going to figure out what it actually did because we don’t know all
the cult. We don’t know all the science behind the cult. What is it that they’re doing in their
preparation the drug you know they prepare drugs in the human body they’re you’re taking the body
and you’re tweaking it to the point that the body is able to produce a communion medea did this the
first she used her vaginal excretions why she kept her drugs there yeah wait a minute what
not in a little you know i don’t know i can see a sack or baggy or i don’t know maybe something
even nice you know cigar box or something like that um she kept them where in her vagina you
know those ones that christ you that she figured out they’re prepared via human filtration she used
her vagina as a factory one author flaccus calls it a it’s not really a factory it’s the
the means the black box that you can put something in that creates something else
right it’s that mortar from the mortar and pestle right that’s how he phrases it for her vagina
right and she’s not the only one we have examples of vaginal drugs we have others
in especially in the oracular tradition with like the god apollo yeah so there’s a completely new
dynamic approach to what the existence is in a state of health you are in a state of balance
with those wild roots that are out there and those things that grow on the trees and
all of those fruits all of those fruits and you know some of those fruits come in the form of
animals and there’s certain animals you can lick and certain animals let’s go to we need more body
fluids in here let’s go to the go to the next yep boom um alum look he’s just going to talk about
alum that’s great that’s great let’s keep going because i don’t want to keep holding people too
long okay breakthrough keep going this well this is what we’re concerning people ultimately it just
comes down, the paper says, is it alum? Is it kaolin? Is it montmorillonite? Is it hematite?
Keep going. Yeah. Lemnian earth appears to have been first recognized as a pigment,
but not as a medicine. Wow. So what do the authors do? They go back to as many references
as they can. They can’t to the drug or to the substance that’s ultimately used as a drug or
medicine and they can’t get they can’t penetrate into the cult so they can’t see those seeds of
fire right um so we have a combo here okay we’re just going to throw those out it may have something
to do with one of these one of these substances right right okay um and he says at once it’s
called meal toast right and that’s the dye that’s the dye okay we’re dyers we’re religious dyers
who are able to cross a quantum barrier, yeah, to the other side. I get it. Okay. Kind of makes
sense. We’ve got wheat rust in there. I just wanted you to see that, that red wheat rust in
Robigo. And then all of a sudden we start talking about, is this medicine? Yes. But we’re talking
about drugs that can be used to enchant. And you say to yourself, what? Now, if you’ve ever been a
counselor or psychologist, psychiatrist, say you’re a psychiatrist and you’ve given drugs, you’ve given
out your prescription to somebody, what you are doing is you are enchanting that person. You’re
putting them into a state that they’re not normally going to be in. Now, they looked at it positively
in antiquity. They looked at it as you are taking away the pain, and you are replacing it
with an artificial but naturally embedded power, and that’s namely those drugs.
Go. Give me the next one. Oh, God, look at this. People are a word for toxic, by the way. It comes
from toxelma, and what does that mean in Greek? It means arrow, arrow. Remember, the Greeks said
before they got there the autochthonous people were um the pelasgians and these are um horse
cultures that developed ultimately those poisons that the scythians then um push and use right
medea has 12 scythian assistants who are known for their drug knowledge as well right so you know
this is a big deal by the way media also built a gigantic bridge underneath the euphrates river
right with all sorts of beautiful stuff on the inside so um if you think you know better you
don’t you don’t you know what i mean you can’t how can you get more beautiful than that let’s
keep going boom conclusion in this paper we offer the bulk composition of lemony and earth the
medicine as being essentially a clay consisting approximately 40 percent 35 20 and five percent
now how closer are we to anything historically do you see how this type of research is difficult
because what have we really learned okay all it gives us is like a a shadow of what the
ingredients may have contained right notice i said contain not what they were what they contained in
the processing what is she doing in the processing of this drug and that’s the
problem that you have to go to the cult to be able to penetrate to get those
answers mmm give me the next one boom yeah this the ritual of extraction at
the bottom provided a means for concentrating both clay and soluble
minerals okay so all of that brings us to that conclusion right that there’s
got to be something that they’re doing in the process we don’t know all the details we know we
don’t because people like galen didn’t right and so they’re keeping this within their guild yeah
so it’s not i don’t know if it was that if it really matters that we got um no we don’t need
to see that go to this one please nope this one i’m going to hurry up here now here in the end i
want to just i want to so we have that paper and i want to introduce you to just a couple of ideas
that are in the environment of a cult that you may not have picked up on, but certainly would
influence how we’re looking at the manufacture and use of these drugs. Conisalos. What is
conisalos? Well, it’s a cloud of dust, right? But it’s also that mixed oil and sweat on wrestlers.
And that stuff is potent, man. You can make some potent drugs out of that. Look at number three.
It’s also a demon of the same class as Priapus.
Now, wait a minute, and you’re going to say,
oh, you’re going to feel your modern world kind of breaking down.
What do they mean?
It’s a demon.
It’s a demon.
A daimon is a power.
A gospel is what a drug does.
Yeah.
An evangelion, a gospel, are you kidding me?
The word before the Christians, way later than Jesus started referring to it?
You mean that meant the capacity of a drug compound?
Yes, that’s its gospel.
It’s what it does to save, to bring sotedia, or salvation.
You didn’t think it was odd, did you, that Jesus is the old great physician, right?
Because all of those Christs are, right?
They’re dealing with drugs.
Now look at here at the bottom, a demon of the same class as Priapus.
priapus is the god on limnos with that giant erection that giant erection that’s where we
get our english term priapism yeah they called it satiriosis in ancient uh both greek and latin
use that and it means that you’ve got a constant erection now the physician said seven days as long
as you can go this way using these cold drugs seven days of sustained erection otherwise they
said people die i wish i don’t know maybe it was cardiac i don’t know what it was but i can imagine
that there’s a stress on the system physiologically you know what i mean i’ll let you health care
people figure out what causes that somebody give me a give me a response if you know it and what
is this coni salas what what is this that i this is the word that we were just looking up right
the stuff that you scrape off of naked wrestlers right it’s got the sand from your arena on them
and everything um and what is this book that we’re the source that we’re looking at it is his
hesychius and he’s an ancient lexicographer and he’s going to tell us he’s going to define it
for us in greek so he says the coni salas is the coniortos thank you very seriously okay and what
is that it is skirtesis it’s a dirty amorous dance where hate on in did the men on the
where your genitalia are stretched out right right okay wait a minute do i need that drug for this
it’s all connected give me the next one you’re in the medicine people knee deep look at it what is
What is a coniortos?
It’s dust raised or stirred, it’s dirt, but look at the bottom, a dirty fellow.
That’s the Victorian way of saying that dirty dance that the conisalos does by shaking himself
in a certain way to get you to be able to enter into the right.
That’s here, we’ve got it.
Okay, fine.
What do we have to do?
there’s somehow we can use the sweat of this business to figure out what’s going on look at
these texts i know you don’t believe me look at these medical texts i’m about to bring up hit me
with the first one this is galen people pure medicine in this section he’s writing perihidros
tos what is that oh it’s a hydros it’s sweat it’s sweat he oh my he went to great lengths to talk
about medicinal varieties of sweat. Did you know that the people around you have sweat that can be
used in the composition of medicines? Interesting. What about this one? What kind of substance is
this? Periuron, right? You guys are going to recognize that one, right? That’s urine. I have
never seen so many references to urine in my life is when I started reading
Galen that’s also because they use urine as a method of diagnosis so when you
come to me and you’re like hey hey doc I’ve got but you know I’ve got this
thing going on kind of dizzy and you know first thing I say is let me drink
some urine yeah so you drink your patient’s urine and the act of doing that allows you to use
your mind to determine what the state of that ill balance is right so if your urine looks this way
if it smells this way you know you can tell from the smell gail is big on smelling urine
He’s big on smelling urine. He’s always smelling urine. It’s patient’s urine. Give me some urine,
right? But it’s a way to diagnose because you’re dealing with the natural. If you can go out and
pick up a toad and lick its whatever and enter into a mind-altered state, it surely makes as
much sense to say you can gain knowledge from the body products the bodily products of somebody
of another person yeah so you can see right away the line especially with the sexuality because
remember the priestesses are blamed as being prostitutes later right so the acts that they’re
performing um there we are chewy fantastic couple of tie fighters um let’s go to the last couple of
slides what else we were at sweat and urine what else are we going to be testing here oh people
look now this is the big one are you ready petty pomaton porforon right what is this this is a
special communion formula made from the porfora from the purple right oh god right you mean they
drank that stuff they used to dye stuff with? Yeah, they did, and they also used it rectally
and ocularly, right? Love it, love it. It stains, by the way. Heracles’ dogs all drank it, and it
stained their lips purple. Keep going. Dogs are another form of temple guardian. I know that only
because they said that in antiquity, right? Oh, dragons and wolves, those are temple authorities.
Look at this. What else do we need? We need spittle. Did you ever notice that Jesus was spitting in people’s mouths and eyes, spitting on the ground, putting it in people’s eyes? Ah, right? Here it is, the spittle. Galen has an entire section in this one, at least in this one, treatise on the use of the spittles and what kind of different spittles do what.
But remember, when you see these ancient physicians slash shaman represent, they’re always doing crazy stuff with their own body fluids, right?
The masters of Greek democracy who were influenced by people to push the world towards what we call democracy.
Those people were using drugs.
Epimenides was using drugs.
they took his skin off him when he was done and they turned it into a relic and the spartan
efforts watched it guarded it keep going um do we see how much drug use is going on
it’s amazing and finally milks milks and the strangest milk that i’ve seen the strangest
milk that i’ve seen is the milk of the parthenos and in this treatise of galen he talks about what
to put on the breasts of the Parthenon. He doesn’t just call them, he doesn’t use the word
maston. He uses tithos, which is, or tithon, which is a grape-like breast. It’s a developing,
you know, kind of early puberty developing breast, right? And he talks about the milk
from that and what it does and what it looks like. Yeah, so you can see, so if Galen is going to
have access to that level of knowledge um you know that’s probably the tip of the iceberg for
what the priestly crafts are doing right um but you know i never thought i never thought of
harnessing body fluids um that are being used in medicine until i started seeing how they were
creating these medusae um and that’s when i noticed the lateral slits and the arms and the
constant exposure they also have whipping they’ll do this thing where they whip the back and then
they’ll apply a salve to it something about the release of whatever it is that that whipping
action does whether it’s adrenaline or whether it’s but um they’re using the drugs like imagine
your doctor never tells you take this medicine go home and you know have your wife you know beat you
with a cane while you take the medicine well i don’t know doc does that make does it make a
difference um with the medicines they’re using it makes a big difference but they’re also claiming
to be able to control things that we’re not able to control the mental illness for example also
they have cancer treatments um they have um galen uses lemme and earth on a breast and i was talking
when i was in grad school i was taught because i i was privy privy to these texts and i got my back
tereology advisor and i said hey can we sit down with some of the people from bacti microbiology
and classics and can we have like can i give a paper on this cancer cure and maybe we can come
up with what the hell is going on and we had a nice discussion about it but um it was basically
guesswork it was it you know well it could be something you know some one person said it could
be some kind of radioactive element in the ground in the clay that was causing some kind of you know
deterioration because galen says he takes it he puts it on the breast he sews up the breast
and then the lump goes away it dissolves right um so i don’t know we got to some interesting
possible conclusions just like this paper did but the fact is until we get into the source cult um
we don’t you uh we don’t have a hope of ever trying to really you know achieve what they
achieved or get to what level that they got to give me that last slide i want to um i just wanted
to end here by saying look this is uh this is a priest writing this he’s writing about
phariacs and he says hey this uh limni and earth and he uses the word milta here miltos here right
which is um what the guy in the paper was talking about but what does he say at the end on that
bottom line, he says, it is a thelcterion for every sort of problem. It’s a thelcterion. That’s
that word that means to enchant, to enchant. Yeah. And they’re using it in order to, they’re saying
we’re able to change a mental state, for example, towards sexual drive, right? You can change that
with the right drugs. So the person, the model for ancient medicine, I’ll end with this,
then we’ll take some questions. The model for ancient medicine is that the person has a natural
disposition, and that differs between all individuals. There is no drug, one, that is
going to treat all of those different individuals. It doesn’t work like that. The fact is every
individual is different. And by understanding your particular composition, you can balance
yourself with what is in your environment. So it’s a very different model of medicine. It’s very old,
uh very bronze age and it relies almost exclusively on an in-depth knowledge of uh plants and animal
products as drugs uh good for human use yeah thank you very much for coming today um i appreciate it
very much and i’m gonna put i’m just gonna ask it’s anybody want to ask any questions let’s see
um anybody from maybe from down under everybody say tan congregation nice i don’t mean to to
turn you know turn you away but does anybody have any right now let me just explain right now you
can go on the chat that we have here and you can post a question if you’re curious about something
or you want to follow up on anything just give me a thank you edward thank you edward i appreciate
it um that’s the approach that newer medicine is taking look at this somebody thank you dr
You’re welcome. Do that one that says, that’s the approach. Yeah, where’d it go? Oh, it disappeared. Look at that. That’s the approach that newer medicine is taking. Well, that’s interesting. I hope it is. I hope it is, neoprototype. I hope it is, because I think there’s a lot of valuable stuff there that we kind of dropped in the Middle Ages, kind of dropped and let it go by the wayside.
think we’re behind a little bit we can’t end without any mention of mark 14 you know what is
that mark 14 51 and 52 says jesus christ was arrested in a public park at 4am with a naked boy
screaming i am not a child trafficker um that’s what the greek says check it out go to the next
one why do you think scientists are bringing back these old recipes oh yeah no i’ve actually talked
I’ve talked with a couple of biochemists now three actually three yeah and there’s an interest of
course in novel sources of novel drugs I think that’s what it is mostly but the approach in
every person that I’ve talked to the approach has always been what’s the one thing that’s going to
you know we’re gonna study we’re gonna find one drug and we’re going to study that one drug and
what it does to the body, and that’s going to be our drug. It’s a very one-dimensional approach,
and scientists are going and physicians are going to have to get used to a new model if they’re
ever going to embrace what the Greeks were doing. You’re going to have to change the way you think
about medicine being a one drug straight one direction vector to a cure um that it’s life
is not like that um and what can you do though with our capacity now right what can you do except
take one of these formulas and hash out what all the chemistry is in each of those plants
but if i’ve got 45 ingredients you know and this is what biochemists say to me um you know it’s too
much it’s overload right it’s overload there’s so much that can be going on you’d have to i had one
tell me you’d have to make a model an ai an ai it was hamilton i think it was hamilton you’d have
to make construct an ai that would be able to break down what every drug is doing and how not
that but you’re going to have what it’s doing in the body and i know for a fact though just
those interactions alone i can’t imagine with our level of tech being able to track that um
yeah it’s just it’s information overload it was much better when the knowledge of how to do that
was um was codified by religious groups yeah religious slash physician slash remember the
The temple of Asclepius with the serpent on it, right,
and our symbol of medicine, that’s all a cult.
That’s not, you know, ancient Johns Hopkins, right?
It’s a cult.
Let’s go.
Question, could we cover the counterfeit drugs more?
I think it would be interesting to understand
how they grifted in comparison for the real deal.
That’s a great question, Kerry.
That’s a great question.
Yeah, Galen warns us, he says, you get adulterations and it will change.
He said, you can tell from the color, you can tell from the texture, you can tell from the taste whether or not something’s been adulterated.
And he even says, in some cases, he says, hey, this stuff that they’re trying to pawn off as limnion is not, right?
You notice it doesn’t have the seal and the color’s a little bit off.
um so people are trying to to um adulterate drugs obviously for the same reason they do now
right if you can take a cheap substance and put it into um your drug as a substitute
um you’re going to because you’re going to be you know making more coin um but uh galen says it’s
it’s it become a huge problem so the response of doctors and seals that that’s an entire it’s a
mechanism to keep the drugs legitimate it’s almost like a an old fda or something right um when when
when this drug has my stamp on it you know that i produce quality material right dr andreas sucks
don’t go to him right right um but this other guy is great right galen’s always talking about
these physicians all the time so notice can you notice that the physicians are a lot more
well-rounded well-rounded in antiquity i don’t know this science of geology i don’t know that
metallurgy i don’t know the you know um x y and z about die formation and mordant how do you use
mordant to fix the dyes and what does that do um to the entire drug the doctors in antiquity are
having to have this working active understanding of plants and animal substances and dirts and
spits and urine right you can imagine that after after a long day of traveling and you know finding
buying 20 000 these pills and gotta get them gotta get them back to the marketplace and you know now
you’ve got patients you gotta drink their urine it’s it’s a tough life you know sounds like a
tough life is there anything interesting in the greek text of leviticus that’s that’s of course
it’s all interesting right it’s all interesting um uh you know you can talk about the oils that
are used in the preparation for the priesthood of the tent you know they call that tent in greek
the telestarian right what is telestarian it’s an oracular um place that you can capture the voice
of a god very pagan very pagan but they’re using the same um they’re using this not only the same
plants. But also, you know, when Moses is holding up the serpent back in Exodus,
there’s a reason. There’s a reason. Remember those priests of Hephaestus who are that
unquenchable fire, right? They hold up the snake. They hold up the snake, right? The Egyptians know
about the craft as well, right? They do. They have their own traditions. And to be honest,
their medical traditions suck compared to the greek the ebers papyrus is garbage compared to
the greek and it’s not it’s not because you know the people were not smart the egyptians were
dummies or anything um it’s a fact that um the language that they use is hindering their capacity
for abstract thinking and the greek language um encouraged it and uh just whipped the garbage out
of every other language in the Mediterranean.
Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, is writing in Greek.
He’s writing in Greek.
He’s taking his Greek theriac, and he’s writing in Greek.
And people are like, look, he looks so handsome and powerful.
Yeah, he’s a druggie.
He’s a junkie, people.
And Galen’s complaining about having given more opium all the time.
Yes.
How about, can we go to modern-day Limnos and try to recreate the medicine?
I’d say that would be worth a shot, Ion.
I would.
I’d say that that would be, and you know, somebody, somebody is going to be intrepid
and try to go all the way, you know, you know, it’ll probably be somebody who sees the positive
benefit, right?
I mean, imagine this thing supposedly, you know, if we have the purple and we can supposedly
treat tumors, wouldn’t we want access at least to analyze this stuff and see what’s going
on?
I don’t know.
it seems like a seems like a no-brainer i’ll catch you guys i thought we’d go this summer
um but no it didn’t work out grade one boo let’s go to the next one um when did galen live second
century anno domini during the reign of marcus aurelius and a little bit thereafter yeah he was
commodus’s physician too he kind of thought commodus was a moron yeah love it go to the next
one kind of okay give me one comment here here how about yeah oh look at this i know someone
i know someone who tried to suck the venom out of a snake bite of a child are they a vampire
my god man um are they a vampire um yeah uh speaking of vampires that’s a very greek thing
that’s if it right dracon the order of the dragon is a great concept right dracon what is that
dracon um yeah uh that’s that power that’s that guardianship um and the funny thing is when you
are listen this is what i find is neat maybe is there a medical application i don’t know but
medically it’s interesting to think about when i am on that wave of the communion and i’ve had
the drug i’ve had the theriac and i’ve had with it the um thanosimo the death inducers that death
state inducer um when i’ve got those drugs on board um i get a thirst for blood and a taste
for flesh i get a thirst for blood and a taste for flesh uh i’ve seen rights that use baby blood
i’ve seen it um um they were christian sex i was looking at early christian sex
um and the stuff that they did there’s a lot of stuff going on man um and you can never draw a
line between what’s the religion and what’s the what’s the medicine yeah okay i think we’ll call
it. Cerberus, get that off there. Get that off. Satanic congregation, thank you for that. Thank
you for that. Thank you for showing up to all of our friends in Australia who are looking at
modern medicine and its approaches as being insufficient. I think those professional
physicians in antiquity those midwives all of those pharmacologists i think they would say the
same thing i think they would look at us and say what a simplistic stupid approach it’s probably
their language set anglo-saxon garbage probably um thank you very much for coming tonight watch
this video now it’s nice mesmerizing hit it chewy hell satan teenage mutant ninja turtle shell
Well, magic even stronger than the drugs to sell are the songs, the magic fleece, darkness through dreams, an animal skin with the song of the queen written there with magic ink guarded by a dragon in the grave of Mars.
On the east side of the black sea
Dragon venom from the god with horns
I am being Ionic
Watch the image
Jude’s letters in Greek
Cornucopia
Ouroboros
Cleo, Medea and Bacchus
The dragon venom will knock them back
Phase interferometry
Traces floating
Crazy eyes, drinking purple mead and whiskey
With Lady Medea, straight out of Babylon
Venus with a penis, gold horns of Alexander
Hit you with a Mandelbrot set on the DMT
Way up the L-M-N-O-P’s
Slang, what words will it mean?
Dragon venom of darkest dreams
Thanks for watching.
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