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>> In August of 2012, a research
team helmed by Quentin Atkinson

of the University of Auckland
in New Zealand utilized certain

algorithmic methods which
analyzed phonetics from over

100 ancient and
modern-day languages.

Their methods were similar to
tracing evolutionary biology

by starting at the
branches of the family tree

and finding the root.

Their goal was to figure out if
all the languages in the world

derived from the same area.

In an interview
with NPR, Quentin

explained how they
gathered this data.

>> What we use are what
are called cognates.

These are words that
show similar form that

indicates that they are
related by a common ancestry,

over 6,000 across the 200
meanings in 100 languages.

And from that, we can build
[INAUDIBLE] data matrix,

we call it.

And so if you imagine, down
the left-hand side of the data

matrix, you've got
all your languages.

And then along the top
of the data matrix,

you've got all of
the possible cognates

that we have identified.

And you fill in that
matrix by putting a 0

if that language doesn't
have the cognate, and a 1

if the language does
have that cognate.

And if you fill that in
for all the cognates,

you get this sequence of 1's
and 0's for each language.

And it's a bit like
having a sequence of DNA

for each language.

And that's the data that we
then input into our analysis.

>> Through their
research, they pinned down

the eight-millennia-old origin
of the largest global language

ever created.

They also determined
all of these languages

began in one area.

>> There are two competing
theories for where these

languages came from.

The first theory was put
forward by Marija Gimbutas,

an archaeologist.

And she argued the
languages spread out

from the Russian steppes region
about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.

And that's linked to
archaeological evidence

for an expansion at that time.

The alternative theory
is that the languages

spread much earlier from
Anatolia, what is now Turkey.

>> This interesting study
done by Atkinson relates

to an ancient story about the
Tower of Babel in the Hebrew

Bible.

In Genesis 11:1 through 9,
it states, "Everyone on Earth

once spoke the same language.

As people migrated east, they
settled in the land of Shinar."

>> For those who are
not familiar with it,

the Tower of Babel is a biblical
story about the idea of a group

of people who were all centered
in their civilization around

a tower, and that this tower
somehow allowed them to all

have the same language and to
all be able to speak with one

another.

Then the legend
reports that there

is some sort of
destruction of the tower,

and in the aftermath of this
happening, that the people

themselves were scattered, and
that they no longer could speak

the same tongue, or
the same language,

and thus we became confused.

It's like a fall from
grace type of story.

You have to
understand that there

is a very significant
difference between how

the scholarship on
ancient civilizations

is seen in the open,
unclassified world, as opposed

to how it is being seen
within the secret government

and military industrial complex.

They are going
back, and they are

looking at every single
mythology they can find.

And they are asking
questions, which need

to have scientific answers.

One of the questions
that they ask

is, what the heck was
the Tower of Babel?

They have started to
learn that no matter

what the ancient mythology
is, you dig deep enough,

you double-click on it, and
you find out, wait a minute,

there's something here that
suggests this is not a myth.

So it's very interesting
to note that in 1899,

in the town of Sippar, there
was a very interesting stone

tablet that was found
right near where

Babylon was originally located.

And it actually has
an X-marks-the-spot,

treasure map-type of derivation
of the location of the Tower

of Babel, allegedly.

Now, what's interesting about
this is that the Tower of Babel

X-marks-the-spot
location is up in Turkey.

>> This possibly-new
understanding of where

the Tower of Babel was located
coincides nicely with Anton

Parks' research of the Garden
of Eden and the understanding

of the language according
to Sumerian texts.

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>> We were able to locate the
divine mountain of the Anunna

gods, along with
their Garden of Eden.

Thanks to the elements
found with Google Earth

and Gary [? Zeitlin ?]
from NASA,

it took us straight to eastern
Turkey, close to Road 5651.

What can be noted in the
Sumerian tablets, when they

clearly speak of creating
workers to serve the Anunnas,

the main geneticist
is always Enki.

Enki is very proud
of what he is doing.

However, he always has
to do it in secret.

And here, something important
occurs in the research

that I've carried out.

In order to be able to
secretly teach values,

besides from changing
their genetic code,

in which he probably injected
things that we cannot

comprehend nowadays, the gods
were using a specific language

in Eden, the
[INAUDIBLE] language,

the language that
comes from the skies,

the language which
comes from An.

In my years of
research, I understood

that the Emesa, the
matrix language,

was mostly used by
Sumerian priestesses.

The so-called Emesa
contained more particles

than the languages
used by the male gods.

So Enki used the Emesa,
the matrix language,

to encode the ancient
languages we find on Earth.

I think that Enki had
the desire to work

for the benefit
of the human race,

to secretly bring
them knowledge.

And to be able to do that,
they had to use a code.

So they created a linguistic
code for each tribe.

And I think that regularly,
maybe every generation,

they had to change
the code to prevent

the Anunnas from finding out
about the hidden knowledge.

>> It is interesting
to note that according

to Anton's research, the
language that has been coded

into the universe for the humans
to speak is called the matrix

language.

In Sumerian, this
means the language

that the female life
creators, like Tiamat, spoke.

How has this coded
language helped

us survive against the
wrath of the demiurge.

>> This is a crucial
part of my work.

I discovered that
all common languages

were coded from Sumerian.

We can look for idioms
from anywhere we want--

African tribes, Native American
tribes, all the way to China.

When you get to the innermost
part of primitive languages,

you can always understand
the words in Sumerian.

For example, if
you take the word

"tool" in the language
of an African tribe

and you translate
it into Sumerian,

it will become "the thing
we use to chop wood."

The idea is a code used in
order to be able to communicate

secretly with humans.

In concrete terms, this idea
of coding language and creating

new ones with Sumerian
syllables, this desire

to be able to communicate
secretly with the human race,

it's going to design the many
different languages on Earth--

old Chinese, the Hopi,
many of ancient idioms

we find in Africa
or in Australia.

We can find common roots with
ancient German and ancient

English.

Enki knew for a fact that
human beings would not

be submissive to the
gods on the whole planet,

so he gifted them with
the ability to make tools.

And in my theory, he also
wished to code human language

so the gods could
not understand.

>> Anton Parks suggests
that once the humans had

the knowledge to
survive on Earth,

they sought to build their own
future and escape the gods.

Could there be an actual builder
of this new human settlement?

In the Hebrew Bible, it
suggests that the builder

of the Tower of Babel
was the King of Shinar,

and his name was Nimrod.

What an interesting
name for someone

who defies the laws of Yahweh
to create his own connection

to the creator.

Could Nimrod have been
the representation

of the first group
of humans to use

the knowledge taught by Enki?

>> Nimrod, interesting
character--

he was said to have
built the Tower of Babel.

He went up against God
himself, tried to get

closer than anybody
else had ever done.

As a result, God struck
down the Tower of Babel,

and as a punishment to
humanity for having attempted

this act, confused the languages
so that everybody couldn't

understand everybody else.

Is there anything more
behind this story?

Is there something
of importance?

Well, what is the
Tower of Babel?

Well, the Babylonian
civilization

is focused around Babylon.

And Babylon is in lower Iraq.

They now see this area
as the center of reality,

the center of everything.

This is the omphalos, the axis
mundi, the axis of the Earth.

That gravitational shift
from northern Mesopotamia

to southern Mesopotamia was
the result of the Babylonians.

This is why the ancient city
of Uruk is in southern Iraq,

when all the old
accounts say that it

was ancient name for
Urfa in southeast Turkey.

This is why Nimrod is associated
now with Babylon and not

with southeast Turkey.

>> The biblical story of Nimrod
and his area of proposed reign

happen to be in the same
area that a group of ancient

astrologers once resided.

This group was
called the Chaldeans.

Could this ancient
group have been

practicing some of the
ancient teachings by Enki?

>> Urfa was the
stronghold of Nimrod.

Well, this was the traditional
homeland of the Chaldeans.

They were star worshippers.

They recoded stars.

They had knowledge of the
comets, knowledge of eclipses,

and everything like this.

They were the
scientists of their day.

So what Abraham was
trying to do is knock down

their beliefs, their ideas,
their mystery tradition.

and install this new idea.

So it is possible that
what he was trying to do

is to, essentially, kill off
the wisdom tradition that

had been that of the
Chaldeans up to this point,

and that Nimrod somehow
steps in, whoever

or whatever he represents,
to try and prevent this

from happening.

But unfortunately, according
to the legends, God intervenes,

saves Abraham.

And that's
essentially the story.

So yes, there is
something in this.

I do accept that what
Abraham was trying to do

is bring in a new
era that didn't need

our connection with the stars.

But what the implications
of that is for Judaism

or even Christianity,
I don't know.

>> Could this battle between
Abraham and Nimrod really be

representing a battle between
Enki and Enlil for the control

over the human race?

>> What the Mesopotamian
story tells us,

that Enki introduced
contention into human speech.

And there are
biblical scholars who

think that that was the basis,
then, of the Tower of Babel

story.

Now what's interesting,
though, is, earlier, Enki

was said to be the
provider of wisdom.

He was said to have been
the one who wanted humanity

to have the knowledge
that would undo the gods

or the control of gods.

So we have this
kind of conflict,

now, in the
Mesopotamian stories.

People who have really studied
the Mesopotamian stories--

and we're talking very
good biblical scholars

and Mesopotamian scholars--

they're so ambivalent
about the Enki figure.

They say, yeah, he was
said to be this great guy.

He sometimes is
identified with the snake

in the Garden of Eden.

And then he later became
identified with Prometheus

in the Greek version
of the story,

where Prometheus tries to
come down and give humanity

this certain knowledge
that would advance them.

And then the other gods
come in and say, no, no,

you can't do that.

And then there were all these
repercussions to humanity

and dividing them up.

The people in the
Tower of Babel story

were really anarchists who
were opposing the archons.

And they were saying, the
heck with the archons.

We're leaving.

We're going to establish
our own little anarchy,

and we're going to move over
here and build our own city.

And we're going to go
do things on our own.

>> And what was it that they
were going to do their way?

Just eight miles north of
the ancient city of Urfa

is another famous site
known as Gobekli Tepe.

All that is revealed is
the top of what could have

been a great tower of sorts.

95% of the site remains
below ground to be uncovered.

Could the ancient humans
have gathered here

to use their knowledge
of the universe?

>> Gobekli Tepe is the
oldest stone circle complex

in the world.

If you can imagine
Stonehenge in England

and transpose it onto the top
of a mountain top in southeast

Turkey, and then multiply
it by at least 20 times,

and then cover the stones with
beautiful carvings of animals

and representations of abstract
humans, and give them T-shaped

tops.

The fact is that Gobekli Tepe
is in northern Mesopotamia.

This is clearly the cradle
of civilization in this area.

This is where the
Neolithic Revolution began.

This is where even the
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

at Gobekli Tepe who
discovered the site

suggests that the Anunnaki
had their power base.

It's clear that a lot
of things started here.

>> A site only becomes sacred
upon the foundations of many,

many old temples.

Gobekli Tepe is
one great example.

It's an entirely
artificial hill.

The clue's actually in the
name, the original name.

It means Potbelly Hill,
or the Hill of the Navel,

in its true context,
which, to me, tells me

that it's a navel of the Earth.

And like so many other navels
of the Earth around the world,

it's a place where
the rules of physics

work in this certain way
that allows you communication

with other levels of reality.

>> The whole evolution
of language in the human,

homosapien, sapien brain has
been cultivated, manipulated,

and managed by technologies
that could influence the human

brain's development of language,
and that when we read about

the Tower of Babel being a time
when the human population had

one language, had
one thought system,

if it's true that there had
been competing geopolitical

territorial forces of competing
non-humans on this planet.

And that there was a time
when humans were unified.

That would not have been a
good step for the competing

non-humans.

And it could very well be
the Tower of Babel story

was one of those moments where
humans had been homogenized.

And something did not want that
homogeneity in human thought,

humans together, humans
working as a group.

And that from the outside,
there was a disruption in what--

for just a brief
moment, may have

been a unification in thought
without war or conflict

of human beings.

>> Unification-- a dangerous
thing to have if you plan

to rule over a people.

But could this unification have
been an actual tower, or just

an ancient location
where people gathered

to exchange knowledge,
a location in which they

could communicate
important information?

>> Babylon is actually
an old Sumerian word,

which means gate of
God, which for me--

and my understanding of the
ancient mysteries tells me

everything I need to know.

Anything referred to as a gate
of God, or a navel of the Earth

is usually sort of an
energetic hot spot, where

the laws of physics are
slightly different, or just so,

that allows you to
step through a portal

into a level of existence.

For me, the Tower
of Babel essentially

represents the levels of
attainment of knowledge that

gets you to rise
slowly, ever upwards

towards the mind of God.

The summit, of course,
being the connection,

or the interchange between the
physical and the nonphysical.

The way that they
communicated in the old days

was through metaphor.

And the more we go into
the historical era,

the more we mistake the
metaphor for reality.

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>> In one of the traditions,
Enlil just gets really annoyed,

because of the noise
humanity is making.

And that just--
noise is too much.

Let's just get rid of these
horrible little things.

But Enki doesn't want
to go that route.

Humanity are his creatures.

And his project is to bring
wisdom and understanding

to humanity.

And again, I think there's
a beautiful message hidden

beneath that symbolism.

>> Some experts like Jack Carey
believe the story of the Tower

of Babel is not just the
location that offered a gateway

to the gods, but a location
that humans created.

A frequency that could
defy the current reality.

>> I believe absolutely that
the Tower of Babel was a center

where humans were being
taught divine knowledge.

And chief among
those secrets was

the power of the spoken word.

And that they were being
taught a language, which

they were being-- was
forbidden by the leadership

of this extraterrestrial
intelligence to teach them.

Imagine a species that has
developed a language that

is so potent that
it literally uses

the laws of harmonic
resonance in order

to create instantaneous
change in your surroundings.

That's what they
were being taught.

And it was strictly forbidden.

That the leadership looked
down and said, what?

You're teaching this
invention of ours--

how to use the most potent
weapon that we have,

which is our speech,
to create change?

How is that going to turn out?

And this battle
between Enki and Enlil,

that are claimed to have
been in charge of the planet,

may have been the result
of why that center was

actually destroyed.

At some point, Enlil was very,
very irritated with the fact

that humans were being
taught all of these things.

These secrets were all
considered to be forbidden.

Chief among those is the
secret of the language

that allows you to create
change in reality at will.

The construction of words
using syllables that exhibit

frequencies that can
literally cause a stone

to float in mid-air
by speaking a word.

That's the kind of power
that they possessed.

Sound causes change
in your surroundings,

because of its
natural relationship

with the rest of creation.

A word is no less
valuable in creation

than a rock sitting there.

They were all created
by the same laws.

And the fact that you're
able to make a sound

is something that is
a universal present.

Let's call it that.

It was bestowed upon
us by the Creator

of this entire universe.

It's almost as though-- not only
is every single physical object

in our reality connected
with all of this,

but-- yes, because we're a
creation of the same thing,

we're able to make these
vibrations with our bodies.

And in some occult
groups, they call

them barbarous names
of incantations.

They have all of these
different sacred words

that supposedly if you speak,
let's say in a ceremony,

it will cause a
particular kind of change.

That's tied into this whole
idea of harmonic resonance.

And our bodies vibrate to
these same frequencies.

And therefore, our words
vibrate to the same frequencies.

So-- yeah, it's
all tied together

in one big, beautiful universe.

>> If the humans were able
to control matter by using

a language that
changed frequency,

could Gobekli Tepe have been
used to harness this frequency?

>> I think of Gobekli Tepe.

I think of other monuments
that were purposefully buried.

Maybe because they
were too powerful.

Maybe because the
creatures that built

them didn't want us to destroy
ourselves with that technology.

Maybe those areas, if
you go deep enough,

have the kind of rock
strata necessary in order

to cause these vibrational
frequencies to occur.

>> Is it possible that Enki
tried to unify the ancient

humans through knowledge?

But in order to survive
the wrath of Enlil,

humans had to scatter
throughout the globe

using their coded cognates.

Are these the same
cognates that Atkinson

has been piecing together?

>> When we look at the ancient
descriptions of the Tower

of Babel--

for me, I look at
it as a scientist

from the physical evidence.

But the common theme
that weaves them together

when they talk
about the tower is

that it was a
warning to humankind

of our use of knowledge.

>> Some experts like Jonathan
Young believe our path

to returning to unification
is an individual journey.

>> Let me speak to
guilt for a moment.

That leaving these
paradise stories

was our fault, leaving
the Garden of Eden,

or the fall of the
Tower of Babel.

That we had something good.

That we messed up
through our mistake.

This is psychotherapy 101.

This is blaming
ourselves for something

that was larger than we were.

To distribute people around
in different geographical

locations with
different languages

speaks to the
diversity of humanity.

And in a way is
respectful that there

are many different cultures.

This is on an
individual level-- what

is called the polyvocal
quality of psychology.

We have many energies,
desires, agendas, voices.

And we're struggling to
pull that all together.

This is personal work.

Collectively we have many voices
in a community or in a nation.

After all, there probably isn't
just one path to transcendence.

There are as many as
there are seekers.

And this is a story of the many.

>> But-- actually, I think
the ancient Egyptians touched

on the fundamental truth, which
is each one of us every minute

of every day are constantly
making choices between good

and evil.

They may be very small choices.

In some cases, if you're
dealing with a president

of a major nation, that person's
choices between good and evil

may have huge implications
for everybody else.

But we're all playing
the same game.

We're all having to
make those choices.

And those choices add up to
the structure of our lives.

>> Could this structure have
been coded in our universe

and in our language to help
us understand our purpose?

Reporter Linda
Moulton Howe believes

that whatever the humans had
tapped into at Gobekli Tepe,

they knew that they
had something powerful.

They had to hide
it and disappear.

>> Whoever built Gobekli Tepe--

the fact that they buried
that very important 30 acres

of these rings of all of
these limestone columns

meant something
new, that something

potentially destructive
to the whole planet.

That's the key-- potentially
destructive to the whole

planet.

And they didn't want
Gobekli Tepe destroyed.

>> Could certain humans
have buried Gobekli Tepe,

because a bigger catastrophe was
about to happen that would wipe

out any trace of this knowledge?

>> Then comes the flood.

The cataclysm wipes
everything out.

But that knowledge
persists through the flood.

And after the flood,
they are again

offering the gifts of
civilization to mankind.

>> Up next, was the flood
the next attempt to destroy

the knowledge of the gods?

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