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Prehistoric Origin of the Zodiac? – Hugh Evans, DemystifySci +424

2026-06-02 Entertainment
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Hugh Evans walks us across two thousand square miles of North Wales where the zodiac lives in the land itself, constellations pressed into mountains and rivers and place names older than Babylon ever dreamed of writing down. Before Ptolemy standardized the sky for empire, before Mesopotamia carved its tablets, someone in Gwynedd, Wales looked up and then etched the traces of the heavens into the Earth. Hugh helps us trace the thread of early celestial awareness from Göbekli Tepe to Northern Wales, by way of the tin routes of the Bronze Age, and the star that's missing from the Pleiades. Hugh's website: https://originofthezodiac.com/ Hugh's Books: https://amzn.to/43alekU PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b HOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album! Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here Streaming: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-here PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show 00:00 Go! 00:05:01 Time as a Tool of Power 00:14:06 Mythology as Memory System 00:19:00 Welsh Landscape as Star Map 00:26:42 Ptolemy, Babylon, and Zodiac Origins 00:39:10 Proto-Constellations and Paleolithic Star Lore 00:46:53 Place Names, Churches, and Encoded Astronomy 01:00:13 Discovering the Gwynedd Star Map 01:12:09 Göbekli Tepe, Ancient Metrology, and Shared Systems 01:31:26 Bronze Age Trade and Maritime Civilization 01:49:43 Civilization as Memetic Legacy 02:08:08 Three Celestial Rings as Cultural Framework #zodiac #starmap #wales #ancientastronomy #neolithic #constellations #ancientcivilization #mythology #cosmology #bronzeage MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Top Comments (10)

@nathangwaltney3067 2026-06-03

Hope there are more discussions to come with Hugh. Enjoy his mindset and appreciate his taking on of such a vast subject.

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@davidp518 2026-06-02

@149:40; 'There must have been a group of people that had the ability to travel around the world'; it's preserved in Greek as Homer's "Odyssey".

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@The_Green_Knight_8888 2026-06-02

It's worth noting that the Druids were the Priestly elites of the Ancient Celts, and every Ancient Greek and Roman reference to them mentions that the Druids were obsessed with the movements of the stars and supposedly they also had the same beliefs as the Pythagoreans. So it's interesting that they would have the Zodiac. Also, Babylon was influenced by Indo-European Invaders, while the Celts were Indo-European, so this could mean that the Zodiac and Astrology could have been an Indo-European invention.

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@DemystifySci_Podcast 2026-05-30

Listen to DemystifySci at all podcast locations: https://anchor.fm/demystifysci Our book, Paradox Lost, is now on pre-sale! https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0b Listen to our music everywhere, download at Bandcamp, or pick up a record here: https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-here

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@jasoncox7257 2026-06-08

Hugh is a genius, and his books are outstanding.

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@GinaGraziano-h7l 2026-06-07

Great conversation.

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@stephm2839 2026-06-06

If I could give it more than one like I would, this was a great conversation and I can’t wait until Hugh returns

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@nuthinasitseems5213 2026-06-07

There were two events that led to Britain becoming and island. The Dover Strait Megaflood ~160,000 years ago: A sudden, violent geological event. Glacial lakes in the North Sea overflowed and catastrophically breached the Weald-Artois chalk ridge. This was a massive, high-energy flood that carved deep valleys and permanently severed the land bridge, creating the Strait of Dover. The inundation of Doggerland ~8,200 years ago: A slow, climatic process. Rising sea levels from melting glaciers gradually drowned the low-lying land. This process was accelerated by a tsunami from the Storegga Slide, but the final submergence was the result of inexorable sea-level rise, not a single catastrophic breach.

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@keevancrawford6708 2026-06-04

Gap analysis, love it early mid Holocene.

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@CuRu_ApCraig 2026-06-27

SO glad you had Hugh on! You got so much out of him.. thanks to your open minds and incredible knowledge base that I greatly appreciate of course. 💜♾

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