Old News documentary
By TransVision
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In the heart of America along the upper Arkansas River, in some of her most remote sandstone canyons, suspected consonantal Ogham inscriptions survive alongside constellation maps and precision sundials marking the equinoxes, the summer solstice and summertime cross quarters Beltaine and Lughnasad. Native Americans knew their skies, too. But this rock art seems to have been left by Celtic sailors with a mission to explore far beyond the coastal regions of the New World a thousand years or more before Columbus. The early, weekly set of podcasts were excerpts from the DVD documentary Old News. From the 2006 Celtic New Year, Samhain (Hallowe'en) through Beltaine 2008 (May Day), a new podcast was added every 6½ weeks, to mark each of the cross-quarters, solstices and equinoxes. Most archaeologists view this story as heresy, as it suggests a wider diffusion of trans-oceanic cultures in ancient times than they are prepared to accept. However, not all explorers colonized. These forgotten Celtic sailors memorialized their inland excursions with sophisticated, captioned, petroglyphic sundials for regulating calendar counts to the planet's annual cycles.
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| 1 | VideoKansas GRN alignments | Unorthodox examples of archaeoastronomy with Celtic Ogham captions known in Colorado and Oklahoma for over 25 years apparently are NOT isolated. New matching, finds in central Kansas are bolstering the body of evidence favoring this radical idea that Celtic peoples were in mid-America, perhaps a thousand years before Columbus. | 12/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoPolitics of Archaeoastronomy, Part 1 | Pyramidology, an obsession in Great Britain in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, helped usher in the hybrid science of archaeoastronomy, though you won't read about this in the Wikipedia article. Judging past practices as pseudoscience using modern sensitivities, the collaborative authors have banished this, nonetheless, formative genesis reported here. | 5/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video1987 spring equinox expedition | Fair Use rationale: the closing 3 minutes of the March 23, 1987, CBS Evening News is reproduced free of charge in the context of a collection of associated video podcasts under provisions of the "Fair Use" doctrine in U.S. Copyright Law (copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html). This one is preserved for its historical value as an independent illustration of suspected ancient Celtic archaeoastronomical alignments and petroglyphic writing in southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle, a news story first enterprised two years earlier by this podcaster, Scott Monahan. CBS News' awareness of these finds apparently either derived directly from Monahan's one hour KRMA TV documentary "History on the Rocks" which premiered in Denver on May 7, 1985, or derived indirectly from subsequent print media stories (onter.net/scripts.html) which did not acknowledge Monahan's antecedent, copyrighted broadcast. Its neutral perspective on the status of research in 1987 justifies this archival record as "Fair Use" in a scholarly context. Otherwise publicly unpreserved, any repurposing of this video may infringe CBS' rights. See also: Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, Center for Social Media (centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf) | 3/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoCelts & Indians, more than cousins? | Citing articles from The Atlantic Monthly in January 2000 and from the 1925 Kansas Historical Society Collections, anecdotal, archaeological and ethnographic accounts suggest Celtic sailors may have left genetic fingerprints in America before 1200 CE. | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSnuffing Colorado Ogham in the bud | Archaeologists ganged up against BLM Historian Don Rickey, Jr., to condemn his claim of having discovered ancient Celtic Ogham writing in SE Colorado in 1975. Correspondence and documents from the 5LA1115 site file assembled in the late 1970's by the Office of the State Archaeologist Colorado (OSAC) reveal official co-ordination to kill the story before it could gain traction based on systemic, institutional bias. Download the 20 page report (2.9 MB) with Scott Monahan's contexual thread remarks in blue at http://www.onter.net/biblio/5LA1115.pdf | 12/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoSeltic or Keltic? | Most people believe the name of the tribes that roamed throughout Europe and the British Isles into the Middle Ages is pronounced with a hard K, but linguistic tradition argues in favor of a soft S instead. | 11/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoCrack Cave's equinox dawn discovery | Ogham inscriptions were found in June 1984 on the wall of a crevasse in a southeastern Colorado sandstone bluff. Their decipherment led investigators to return for the autumnal equinox to observe the key petroglyph's pinpoint illumination as the sun rose in the east. | 9/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoLughnasad sunrise & Gemini memorial | Speculation of a rare triple planetary alignment in the Gemini Constellation carved in stone in 471 is all the more intriguing because of the memorial's presence at a unique observatory in southeastern Colorado, home to a dramatic sunrise alignment curiously at the midpoint between summer solstice and fall equinox, one week into August. The Celtic astronomy connection is explained by philosopher Rollin Gillespie in 1986. | 8/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSummer Solstice at Compass Cave | The northernmost cove in Oklahoma's Anubis Cave complex features an enigmatic compass rosette on its floor that portrays the earth's 23.5 degree tilt from the ecliptic either side of due north. On the back wall is a Celtic Ogham inscription that translates as: 'in the month of June reaches the illumination this far out'. Indeed, at sunset on the summer solstice, the shadow of the rock wall reaches its southernmost extremis of the year, just eclipsing the last vertical mark of the description. | 6/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSun Temple: Beltaine 2007 dawn | Authors Martin Brennan and Chas Clifton visit a solar observation site in southeastern Colorado, marking an ancient Celtic cross quarter date, ending spring and beginning summer. A thin ledge in front of a large circle carved on the sandstone cliff is the only place to witness the peculiar May 5 sunrise within a 3-sided notch defined by the horizon and a dramatic rock overhang. This year, clouds obscured first light, but the sun does an encore appearance along the edge of the cliff face minutes later. | 5/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoSpring EQ 2007 w/ Martin Brennan | The author who discovered the winter solstice sunrise lightshow inside Newgrange and other archaeoastronomical alignments nearby at Dowth and Loughcrew, Ireland, witnessed a remarkable series of ancient equinox shadow plays in Oklahoma on March 20, 2007. Martin Brennan says it was like being in heaven. The especially precise fit this year was due to near cloudlessness and an equinox moment only 15 minutes before lights out, which is a testament to how accurately the ancient artist knew the exact celestial cusp and carved the sophisticated petroglyphs. | 3/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Imbolc 2007 & waxing spring sun | Where did we ever get the notion a shadow or no shadow cast by a groundhog at daybreak on February 2nd foretells the severity of weather until the vernal equinox? It's actually an echo from the distant past: the Celtic observance of Imbolc! | 2/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoWinter Solstice 2006, snowbound | Dawn broke clear at Newgrange today. A sunbeam penetrated its interior, but in Denver, a fierce blizzard dumped more than 24 inches in 24 hours on the eve of the first day of winter. Old News director Scott Monahan and family greet the holiday, thigh-deep in snow in the backyard. | 12/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Samhain 2006, Celtic New Year | Documentary producer Scott Monahan explores the links and legends between Hallowe'en and the Samhain cross quarter date which heralds the New Year. Most modern pagans celebrate Samhain on November 1, but astronomy suggests the date floats, as do the dates of the equinoxes and solstices. This year it coincides with Election Day in the USA, Tuesday, November 7. | 11/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Videoarchaeoastronomer Rollin Gillespie | NASA rocket scientist Rollin Gillespie pinch-hit as a volunteer astronomer in the project to decipher enigmatic rock writings found in southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle, many featuring archaeoastronomical aignments. Truly a renaissance man, Gillespie's interests were wide-ranging and his work, pioneering, especially in the construction of the Saturn V moon rocket engine and the genesis of the Trans-Lunar Injection equation that put astronauts on their precision S-curve trajectory to the moon and back. Here, he offers some philosphical observations on the difficulties that often arise in vetting worthy new ideas which, at the outset, seem radical, even crazy. | 10/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoMithraic Observatory in Oklahoma | Oklahoma's Anubis Cave may be one of the world's foremost surviving examples of Mithras worship. Mithras was a ancient pagan sun god, born of rock, and co-ordinator of celestial rhythms. Much more on this fascinating topic, related star maps and archaeoastronomy in the 85 minute DVD documentary, Old News, available for purchase at http://www.onter.net | 10/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoHistory on the Rocks doc trailer | KRMA TV, Channel 6 in Denver, premiered Scott Monahan's ground-breaking documentary "History on the Rocks" on May 7, 1985. The broadcast led to stories in the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and by the Associated Press, and 1987 television news reports by Bob McNamara on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and by Eve Savory on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Sunday Report. | 10/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoCanadian Broadcasting report on us | Experts dispute which Europeans first explored North America and when they first arrived. With excerpts from Scott Monahan's 1985 Denver PBS documentary "History on the Rocks" Canadian Broadcasting Company science reporter Eve Savory interviews diffusionist proponent Dr. Barry Fell. Fair use doctrine applies, copyrighted materials exchanged. Much of the footage used in the CBC report was provided by this author. | 10/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Old News documentary audio track | If you enjoy listening to this podcast, we know you'll appreciate even more watching the accompanying video, available now for purchase as an NTSC DVD at http://www.onter.net | 9/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoArabs sailed to ancient America | A series of petroglyphic symbols representative of sounds in the ancient Shahri tribal language spoken on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula has turned up on heavily patinated rocks in southeastern Colorado. While their meaning is unknown, there can be no doubt the writing found in the heartland of the United States matches the writing on rocks in Dhofar, Oman. An authority from the port of Salalah, from which frankincense was trafficked in ancient times, vouches for the authenticity of the matching inscriptions, literally halfway around the world. This vignette is a postscript to the hour and a half documentary, Old News. | 9/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoPathfinder, native equinox site | Accompanied by researcher Carl Lehrburger, Old News cameras capture the timelapse of a dramatic equinox sun dagger crossing a wall of Circle of Life petroglphs, some of which were apparently engraved precisely to honor, perhaps celebrate the equinox at noon. The event is highly suggestive of the Navajo legend of Changing Woman, a powerful force in the creation myths shared or modified to one degree or another by several native cultures in the American southwest. | 9/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoControversy, academic resistance | Dogmatic professionals in academia reject outright the theory that Celtic sailors may have voyaged to North America and explored her central plains a thousand years or more before Columbus sailed the Atlantic. In these excerpts from the 85 minute video documentary, Old News, a spirited debate between an archaeologist and advocates of the theory videotaped by the Denver PBS affiliate KRMA, shows how unabated and vitriolic the resistance was more than 20 years ago. Even authoritarian experts are susceptible to being misinformed. Apparently little has changed since the mid-1980s. Just hours before a November 2004 University of Colorado forum to examine evidence favoring the theory, the anthropology department protested in the campus newspaper, declaring the venue unworthy of anyone's time or consideration. Such is the paradox of academic elitists motivated to protect their status quo world at any cost. Rather than exhibit even token intellectual curiosity regarding these finds, a professor and his graduate student chose to demean the discoverers in the student press, a priori. How they can demonstrate such an unscientific attitude is an eye-opening lesson in the intolerance and condescension by those presumably entrusted to tell it like it is. | 9/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoAncient Celts in America theory | Over the objections skeptics and many in academia, new theories pointing to pre-Columbian Old World voyages to America are emerging. In this 3 minute series of excerpts from the 85 minute video documentary, Old News, several key aspects favoring the possibility of an ancient Celtic expedition to the heartland of America are graphically described. Steering winds and currents led these intrepid adventurers to the mouth of the Mississippi River where they travelled upstream. Afterall, rivers were the common highways of their day in the Old World, many centuries ago. The literate crew left distinctive, vowelless Ogam writings in the caves and shelters on the high plains of southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle. Many inscriptions relate to a clearly European perspective on the celestial constellations. The fact that a cross quarter alignment site survives is further evidence these inscriptions were not made by Native Americans. The full story is on the web at onter.net | 9/2/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoOld News documentary trailer | Rock art discoveries over the past generation demonstrate Christopher Columbus arrived long after other European sailors explored North America. The exciting evidence, dated by nuclear chemistry, is carved on the remote sandstone cliffs and within caves of the rugged Oklahoma panhandle and southeastern Colorado canyon country. Written messages in an ancient Celtic alphabet known as Ogham survive in proximity to the more abundant imagery of the wonderful petroglyphic art of the Plains Indians. "Old News" documents the passion by advocates of pre-Columbian, transatlantic contact and the stunning intolerance of most professional archaeologists to seriously consider the evidence. Particularly compelling are archaeoastronomical links to the Old World. Rock art shadow plays that occur only at equinox sunrises and sunsets, a Lughnasad cross-quarter dawn and a summer solstice sunset are all accompanied by predictive Ogham inscriptions. Additionally, engraved constellation maps tie these remarkable finds to distinctively Indo-European understandings of the Zodiac in ancient times. The "Noble Twins" inscription, for example, memorializes 3 planets traveling through the Gemini Constellation, a rare and noteworthy event for ancient sky watchers, observed just before dawn on Lughnasad, August 8, 471 CE. Woven into some of the star maps are secrets of the initiates in an arcane, astral religion known as Mithraism that pre-dated Christianity. Mithras and his entourage are symbolic participants in a revealing shadow-cast --- a virtual ancient motion picture --- at equinox sunset in Oklahoma's Anubis Cave. The full story is on the web at onter.net | 8/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 24 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
An Interesting Concept
Its becoming more and more clear that voyages from the old world to the new world occurred before Columbus. Roman ship wrecks, Viking settlements, Chinese maps, and now this. It makes sense when you think about it. There was really not change in technology from ancient times to the days of Columbus. I wish there were more podcasts like this.
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