Hi everyone. It's been a while.
I've been working on my book The Ancient Religion of the Sun,
but it's finally ready.
The second edition has just been released today
and it's now available again in bookstores including Amazon.
The first edition was published back in October 2018,
but around March last year I started working on a major update to it,
which is why I stopped making videos for a while.
The book puts forward the thesis, which my husband and I
have come to after years of research,
that there was once, what we call, an ancient Religion of the Sun,
which was one of, if not the biggest religion of the ancient world.
As the name suggests,
in this religion the sun was venerated
as the supreme manifestation of the divine,
which is why all the major civilizations of the ancient world worshiped it,
such as the Egyptians,
Indo-Europeans,
Maya and Inca,
and why we find hundreds,
if not thousands of sacred sites aligned to the sun across the world,
sharing similar designs and symbolism.
In the book I trace this religion as far back as I can,
using the most ancient oral histories and texts to discover its origin,
possibly tens of thousands of years ago.
This journey winds back through the world's oldest civilizations
and then further back
to the major global cataclysm that ended the Ice Age
around 9,700 BC,
and then even further back into the Ice Age
to the civilization that numerous sources say existed during it,
all the way back to the fabled golden age
remembered in a number of traditions as the ultimate origin
of the Religion of the Sun
and which existed sometime deep in the past.
I examine how many of the major religions of the ancient world
share very similar founding stories,
which recall that they were established following a great cataclysm,
by highly civilized seafaring teachers who I call the wisdom bringers.
I reveal how they are described in incredibly similar ways
and in some cases even share the same name.
I detail the historical accounts that reveal these teachers
taught the arts of civilization and the Religion of the Sun,
founding civilization anew in disparate parts of the world
and how they later became known as gods,
even though they had been real people.
I then explore how this religion further spread across the world,
over thousands of years,
with the global seafaring civilization they founded
and its institution of divine sun kings,
which my husband and I call the Lost Civilization of the Sun.
This civilization essentially existed from around 9,700 BC
and built many of the most enduring and enigmatic sights on Earth,
surviving in scattered remnants right up until the last few hundred years
in some of the most remote places,
like Easter Island and the Canary Islands.
I explain why we find the same ancient symbols,
building styles, artifacts, languages, genes, religious ideas,
and practices like ear extension
and skull elongation, across the globe.
I bring together the information that identifies who built
many of the world's ancient sites that are aligned to the sun,
using genetics, linguistics, oral histories,
and the work of some outstanding researchers
whose work I highlight.
I dare to go where most researchers won't,
revealing the true identity
of many people where they aren't supposed to be.
Some of the finds may absolutely shock you.
They certainly shocked me,
and completely changed my view of history.
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I then look at what happened to this lost civilization
and how it became fractured
into the different traditions we know of today
and was eventually destroyed,
through wars, conquest, genocide,
and the rise of other religious ideologies.
Tragically, the destruction of its remnants continues even now.
Everything in this book is based on hard evidence,
including ancient texts, the oral histories of indigenous people,
historical accounts, archeological finds,
geology, and the latest in genetics and linguistics,
using over 1,300 references.
I also outline why the sun was seen as so spiritually important,
using excerpts from some of the most famous
and treasured sacred texts in the world.
My research has led me to believe
that the ancient Religion of the Sun
was one of the most powerful influences on human history.
The fact is, that although the understanding of it has been lost,
after so many hundreds and even thousands of years,
it has never really gone away,
and in the last chapter, I look at its modern revival
in the many traditions making a comeback.
If you've ever wanted to understand ancient history and religion
and the broader context of your own cultural tradition,
then I highly recommend this book.
I don't make any money from its sale,
as I don't believe in profiting from this kind of information.
It simply pays the cost of producing it.
If you'd like to support the work I do,
you can send me a donation through my website.
So that's it.
If you get the book, I hope you get a lot out of it
and I hope it will provide a new perspective,
to the way people look at ancient history and religion.
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