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In an archive talk, Tankhem weaves the pyramids, the Sphinx, and Abydos into a reading of Egyptian myth about a drowned earlier age. He lingers on a small astronomical monument from Heracleion, a city he says the sea took in a tsunami off Alexandria. The stone, in his account, is unusually plain. At the start of finite time it names four generations of disordered gods and goddesses, present before Shu lifted the sky. He treats that company as the submerged ones, buried by a flood but not destroyed, and he identifies them with the biblical Nephilim under another Egyptian name. On the Sphinx he does not follow the famous water-weather case for a pre-Egyptian date. He keeps an Egyptian origin in the pyramid age, and says the magic is in the theology rather than in a lost civilization of masons. Later temples, including the Osireion, are read as deliberate archaic undercrofts. Even when built with the newer shrine, they point downward to those fallen beings, who remain a buried power the living sanctuary draws on.
Key points
- A monument from drowned Heracleion is read as a direct line about the beginning of time.
- That line is said to place four generations of unordered gods before the sky was raised.
- He equates those submerged figures with the biblical Nephilim and says the flood buried them without killing them.
- He dates the Sphinx with the pyramids and treats the ultra-ancient reading as someone else’s thesis.
- Underground rooms in later temples are interpreted as a stored link to that earlier power.
Short quotes
there were four generations of disorganized gods and goddesses
Tankhem, Egyptian Nephilim in the Tankhem archive
This is the cosmology he reads off the monument from the drowned city. Watch at 6:38
the pre Egyptian origin of the Sphinx comes famously from John Anthony West
Tankhem, Egyptian Nephilim in the Tankhem archive
He names the source of the very ancient Sphinx thesis before setting it aside. Watch at 12:30
very few entities are actually killed within Egyptian mythology
Tankhem, Egyptian Nephilim in the Tankhem archive
In his reading the flooded beings suffer and stay buried, but they are not wiped out. Watch at 30:42
Video by Tankhem. Watch on YouTube.