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Kircher's Egyptian Chronology | Overview Deep-Dive

This deep-dive discussion (utilizing NotebookLM) uses as its "source material" my translation of Athanasius Kircher's "Oedipus Aegyptiacus" ch. 10 - his Chronology of Ancient Egypt from the Great Deluge up until the birth of Alexander the Great. While most of it is historical fantasy based on the Old Testament, I think it contains some interesting tidbits and insightful commentary on intersection between mythology and history. As I made my recordings of the individual chapters last year, I became convinced that Isaac Newton must have based much of his own Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms (also a very interesting work) on Kircher's earlier work such as this. I gave the AI hosts explicit instructions to proceed in a linear fashion through my translation using as many direct quotations from the text as possible; not to reference other sources except for explanatory purposes; and importantly, not to cast any modern social commentary on the subject. (it being google Gemini, the AI has this habit of injecting leftist 'critical theory' bias into everything it spits out, which is disturbing to me as the program is specifically designed for students). In the end, it's interesting to see where they go (and also what they choose to leave out- caveat emptor!) For individual videos (Latin & English) of the chapters- see the rest of the podcast/playlist!

37 views • Apr 17, 2026

Liber Floridus: Overview, Astronomical diagrams et cetera

In this video I scroll through and provide some partial translations and commentary on what's in the "Liber Floridus" - one of the OLDEST hand-written illuminated manuscripts that remains in preservation today. This, the "Ghent MS" copy of the book is the one ORIGINAL hand-penned copy of the encyclopedia edited and compiled by Lambert of St-Omer over a thirty year period from AD 1090-1120. Written in a early medieval abbreviated Latin (quite legible and fairly simple to translate), It contains early Christian educational material, lots of classical / Biblical ancient history & theological / philosophic discourse (including some interesting apocrypha and some occult topics), histories and genealogies of several European nation-states, some early natural science topics of botany and zoology, and several particularly fascinating astronomical diagrams which are my main focus in this video. In this screen recording, I am reading & speaking completely off the fly with no script or preparation. If you have the patience to bear with me in this presentation, I guarantee that some of these diagrams will absolutely blow your mind. 0:00 Introduction to the work & mention of previous readings on this channel. 1:26 Diagram 1: peoples of Asia, Europe, and Africa 3:08 Diagram 2: "the 6 ages" wheel of cyclical time 6:58 Diagram 3: Minos' labyrinth & the Minotaur 7:58 Diagram 4: The ratio 6:5 - Macrocosm vs Microcosm 9:30 ages of man (the microcosm) 11:14 Diagram 5: the 12 winds 13:19 Diagram 6: Macrobrius' Latitudinal Climatic zones 15:52 Diagram 7: Course of the Sun during Solstices & Equinox. 17:32 Diagram 8: Lunar course over the 4 seasons of the year 18:00 Diagram 9: of life & death (from Apuleius) 18:43 early Christian calendars of Martyrs and festivals 20:03 Isidore's Chronicle of 5 ages (brief summation) 22:57 Lambert's Chronicle of AD 0-1120 24:09 skipping-over the bestiary etc. of Isidore 24:35 a xenophobic depiction of a Mongol Tartar (in the 12th century) 25:06 The Venerable Bede's Historia Anglorum is mentioned (not read) 25:47 a glance at the the Greek Alphabet 27:57 On to Astrological signs! (constellations) 29:53 Diagram 10: a detailed look at the zodiac/ecliptic (glanced at) 30:05 Diagram 11: MAJOR POP-UP DIAGRAM of observational astronomy 33:57 Diagram 12: Lunar effects and affects on the earth. 35:10 Diagram 13: Bede's Northern-Polar diagram of planetary orbits 37:04 Diagram 14: Macrobrius' diagram of planetary orbits 37:49 end of commentary... segue to text-only notes from here on... 39:10 scrolling-through some calendar-ciphers... 39:48 Section on Alexander the Great... 41:35 Chronology of Christian Popes 42:05 History of Roman Emperors 42:19 Byzantine Emperors... 42:33 Return to Noah's Ark 43:02 Plato's supernal regions of the cosmos & Anima Mundi 43:31 Cicero's Somnium Scipionis 43:48 Diagram 15: A strange Macrobrian schematic 44:28 Diagram 16: another Macrobrian fusion of Astronomical diagrams 45:25 Diagram 17: Hours of the planetary rulers (according to the Hebrews) 45:43 Diagram 18: A closer look at direct observations of planetary motions 46:08 Diagram 19 & 20: Totally psychedelic Macrobrian fusion of astronomy. 46:22 Diagram 21: Alchemy of the seasons 46:45 Return to Genesis 48:24 Miscellaneous chronologies, wrapping it up... Liber Floridus on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OQ1-igA9LI4C note: the scans are formatted like micro-film: very small images with very high resolution.

69 views • Apr 12, 2026

Thirsty Kingsnake visits for a drink

I set up my camera to remotely record birds at the bowl (working on a longer edit with the birds + commentary) and caught this surprise visitor- a gorgeous California King Snake (Lampropeltis Californiae). #californiakingsnake #kingsnake

20 views • Apr 8, 2026

Sapphic Stanzas aren’t so easy in English

A little poem in Sapphics about Sapphics. Si tu scias, scis!

1031 views • Apr 7, 2026

Stuck Again & Nightstand (Dev Lemons cover)

Two very great songs by the incomparable @dev_lemons I enjoy figuring things out by ear + memory, so my cover versions usually deviate from the originals. Stuck Again is such a rich aural tapestry in its production, and it was challenging to work out how to play in a live take on a single guitar, especially for an amateur like me. Tonally the song is a bit ambiguous- as in it's hard to tell what's supposed to be the tonic vs 5th (that's the point & dev has several songs like this). So which is the melody and which is the harmony? not quite sure. Combining my interpretations of the 2 finger-style parts and adding some thumbed bass notes results in some very 'Girl from Ipanema'-like chords, so I leaned into the bossa feel :) one could also interpret the piece in a more classical manner, it's really a great song. I didn't do a great job with the vocals on Nightstand because the guitar part is quite difficult, unless you're a loop machine. I unfortunately missed that minor-augmented descending note on each leading line & also forgot the ending.. sorry, my hand was tired from the continuous barre chords. 0:00 STUCK AGAIN 2:27 NIGHTSTAND Note on the recording: audio/video is live with no edits or cuts, though I do jump between 2 takes in between the songs. I used Audacity for the EQ, compression and a touch of reverb. Recut the processed audio with original video in Shotcut & added the lyric text- this part took the longest as it kept crashing. I eventually figured out the trick.

144 views • Mar 31, 2026

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