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Short posts, each answering a single question.Start here if the dictionary and the long essays feel like too much.Every post ends with where to read further.
10 posts
How Saturn became a black cube
From one photograph of a planet to the Kaaba in Mecca, the sources make the trip in three steps.
Where does the number 33 come from?
One count of vertebrae drags in the age of Jesus and the top degree of a secret society.
Is the pineal gland really a third eye?
How a small organ in the middle of the brain became the centre of a spiritual story.
Why does the Jesus story resemble the solar year?
How December 25 and three days in the tomb get read as the movement of the sun.
Where in the Bible does flat-earth belief start?
How a single word in Genesis becomes a dome over the sky.
Why is 666 tied to carbon?
How a first-century cipher ends up in the periodic table.
Who started the reptilian story?
How a reading of Sumerian tablets turned into reptilian rulers.
Was Tartaria really on the maps?
How a place name on old maps becomes an erased empire.
Where does the artificial moon idea come from?
How one neat coincidence about eclipses becomes a claim of engineering.
If two words sound alike, are they the same word?
A look at the move that turns SUN and SON into one thing.