Religion arose from the Amazon jungle | Ed Barnhart and Lex Fridman

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Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America. Ed is in part known for his groundbreaking work on ancient astronomy, mathematics, and calendar systems.

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*GUEST BIO:*
Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America. Ed is in part known for his groundbreaking work on ancient astronomy, mathematics, and calendar systems.

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[rustangw]

This is one of my favorite guests!
It's really enjoyable learning from a teacher who is passionate

[heitormaiarodrigues]

I am Brazilian, and when I served the army I spent one year in the Amazon rainforest near Colombia and Venezuela. Lots of places with interesting stories about ancient peoples, lots of stones carved in the middle of nowhere… Not once I heard about academics of archeologists going there… My post was near a comunity that had contact with the west only for 80 years… It had an incredible aurea of magic

[dudedabsworth]

I love that he isn’t trying to beat his ideas into us. He acknowledges how little is actually known as opposed to what scholars claim we know. There are so many questions unanswered and so many people that want to get paid for having the answers they race to put out a theory and claim it as fact.

[eeayquetting]

" I think religion in South America began in the Amazon" is actually what the man said.

That is a much different thing than religion as a whole originating in the Amazon.

[chrispeters]

I wonder if the ingestion of psychedelic plants in the amazon was in some way responsible for these religions forming. Ayuhuasca for example

[rafalkamiski]

The topic its interesting... I gonna left it for tomorrow. Any way thx for top notch interwiev... Lex!!!

[adhawk]

Mysterious cities of Gold. Please search and watch this 80's cartoon series. It's got 2 season, 45 or so episodes. Everything in this interview is it this series. I would love to know if Ed Barnhart has seen it, and his opinion. Obviously it's a cartoon, but super well researched for the time. It's 40 years old👍👌🇦🇺

[bretnetherton]

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

[philthh]

Imo religion is necessary for a developing civilization

[jeff]

Anyone check if Diddy has that snake haired idol in his place?

[om-om-om.]

Interesting that some of the Hindu gods have snakes about the head. Maybe the Meso American god's snakes APPEAR to come OUT OF his head because it's represented as only 2 dimensional. The Hindus were into 3 dimensional statues later on and the snakes (Naga ?) seem to extend from the back of the diety...
Snakes...i recall one story the Native Americans have regarding snake beings interacting with the humans...

[jcdelaga]

Ok we need the host to take b12. More emotion more mannerisms 😅😂😆 Otherwise, I'm enjoying the interview 👍

[JCastle]

The fang deity is a jaguar. The fangs. Msn eater.

[masterg]

"the cosmic serpent" by jeremy narby, read it if you like this

[jolenesmoove]

He talks about gods who are both wonderful and terrible at 12:00. Sounds a lot like the Old Testament god.

[jammintoast]

Evidence of religion, via ritual burials, is something like 100.000 years old. Not sure what this guy is talking about 1800 bc for.

[franciscolaureano]

So, describing the original demon that brought them paganism

[DanielMcCraw-wglk]

Maybe somebody's religion came from the Amazon.

[spencera]

I understand why people in antiquity were religious…. I have absolutely no idea why modern people in the information age still pretend to be