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In The Missing Key, Matthew LaCroix moves from Sumerian flood tablets to masonry he thinks is older than the cultures built over it. Ziusudra, or Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh and the Atrahasis account, is for him the figure behind Noah. Shuruppak, he says, came out from under flood silt, and a map fragment read by Irving Finkel sends the boat toward Lake Van. In eastern Turkey he shows basalt reliefs he calls nearly flawless, stone melted by extreme heat, sun signs, a flower of life, and a cup he reads as a doctrine handed on, all beneath later Urartian and mud brick work. Symbols, not a script, are the only language he grants those builders. The same flower is cut into Aswan granite at the Osireion, under rougher dynastic stone, and the same stepped cross appears at Lake Titicaca and Puma Punku. Later societies took the signs and the credit. He allows the name Atlanteans, then sets it aside. A capable culture stood in many regions until the Younger Dryas, about 11,600 years ago.
Key points
- LaCroix roots the biblical flood survivor in Mesopotamian tablets and in Shuruppak’s place under a thick blanket of silt.
- A reconstructed Babylonian map, as he reads it, puts the boat’s landing near Lake Van.
- Around that lake he shows melted stone, precise basalt carving, and sacred signs under later walls and mud brick.
- He treats those signs, including the flower of life, as a symbolic teaching about creation rather than as decoration.
- The Osireion and the Andean stepped cross are his main parallels for the same two layer masonry and the same ideas.
- The destruction date he offers is the Younger Dryas, about 11,600 years ago, for a culture he sometimes calls Atlantean.
Short quotes
Why is this symbol present in eastern Turkey and nearly the same one is present across the world in Pumapunku, Bolivia?
Matthew LaCroix, The Missing Key lecture
He asks why one mark shows up in eastern Turkey and again at a famous site in Bolivia. Watch at 3:23
Because remember that entire story is considered by many to be a myth and not real.
Matthew LaCroix, The Missing Key lecture
He notes that many people file that flood story under myth. Watch at 9:57
It's unrivaled with the precision of how they created these symbols without making a single mistake on any of them.
Matthew LaCroix, The Missing Key lecture
He is struck by symbols cut, as he tells it, without a single slip. Watch at 23:42
For 3,000 years, cultures rose and fall throughout the area, including the Armenians, who never knew that this site existed.
Matthew LaCroix, The Missing Key lecture
He says later peoples in that region, Armenians included, lived there for millennia without knowing the buried site. Watch at 26:56
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