The NXR Podcast - THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - The Biblical Case For The Existence of Mermaids ｜ Episode 7 w @hauntedcosmos_

00:00:00.000 There was a young woman in Russia who loved a young man who she met often in the woods at night.

00:00:11.200 She didn't tell her mother of these rendezvous, but she loved them nonetheless.

00:00:15.260 The young man promised her his hand in marriage and told her that he was leaving for Moscow

00:00:19.500 to tell his father of his new bride so that he might come back and take her with him.

00:00:25.420 The young woman ran to her mother and excitedly told her the news,

00:00:28.800 but the old woman warned her daughter not to trust a promise from a man who left

00:00:33.620 and eventually the young woman was in sorrow because the man never returned

00:00:39.140 the young man who had promised marriage to the girl for his part was found again someday

00:00:45.920 he was found dead by the banks of the river he was covered in water and had been drug back to

00:00:51.880 the surface though clearly he had fallen in he was the victim of russia's first rusalka the

00:00:57.900 lifeless women who dwell at the bottom of the rivers and lakes,

00:01:01.240 who are scorned in life and who are therefore cursed

00:01:04.120 to take the souls of others in their death.

00:01:19.500 This is the emotional disjunct.

00:01:22.080 Life is much better down where it's wet.

00:01:24.500 I feel like it was a heavy cold open.

00:01:26.480 It was so good.

00:01:27.900 But then you just got a little mermaid. 1.00

00:01:30.700 Little mermaided in. 0.54

00:01:31.800 Yeah, exactly. 1.00

00:01:32.600 Just some little mermaids.

00:01:33.960 Are we going right now?

00:01:35.600 I think we're going.

00:01:36.300 Oh, wow.

00:01:36.800 I think we're going.

00:01:37.460 Hey.

00:01:38.320 Fantastic story.

00:01:39.700 Under the sea.

00:01:40.720 Under the sea.

00:01:41.560 So how do you pronounce it?

00:01:43.360 Rusalka?

00:01:44.260 Rusalka. 1.00

00:01:44.920 R-U-S-A-L-K-A.

00:01:47.280 So that is, we're going to talk about a few theories of mermaids.

00:01:49.920 For sure they're real.

00:01:51.260 And we know where to find them.

00:01:52.360 Let's get first things first.

00:01:53.660 First things first.

00:01:54.180 So in terms of percentages,

00:01:56.400 mermaids 100 not that they did exist they do exist and we know their exact location you'll

00:02:02.420 have to stick around to the end of the video to find that out wait a minute it's a big promise

00:02:06.100 i'm sticking around but i got a theory um but what we want to do for at least you know the

00:02:13.300 opening portion of this is just say there's a lot of conceptions of mermaids i mean this is a

00:02:17.440 universal myth legend for a very long time and you've given us one and it was great for a cold

00:02:23.020 open to just grab the listeners the but the one that you provided for us is dark you vary but to

00:02:28.920 be fair they're all pretty dark they're all dark yeah mermaids and that's why i was obviously i i

00:02:34.000 thought it was going to be funny you guys i think were terrified the my i didn't catch on to it

00:02:38.700 until you started saying i was so confused i've never in my life been more confused life is much

00:02:44.920 better than when joel did that yeah so that's the lie that they tell the rouselks exactly well that's

00:02:50.020 that's why i was saying no but seriously um a lot of little girls today are being indoctrinated and 0.92

00:02:55.040 there's a fascination with mermaids and it's always in this positive light mermaids are great

00:02:59.620 right go back to hans christian anderson we need to go back to if you're a mermaid you're in hell 0.94

00:03:04.500 you don't want to be like these girls yeah you're in hell of sorts now um and then you'll either 0.99

00:03:11.760 cease to exist an annihilation kind of thing or you will be in hell later um but let's real quick

00:03:17.300 let's get some theories so one is the rusaka yeah the rusaka it's like a woman scorned who dies for

00:03:23.880 some reason the the subtext is that she kills herself in the river and since she died in such

00:03:29.000 scorn or she was drowned in the river yeah or she was drowned in the river by the by the sorcerer

00:03:33.260 and she's now forced to take the lives of others by the same means so she hunts men and usually

00:03:39.060 yeah usually men usually men yes right so that one is a revenge so that's the russian myth yep

00:03:44.220 And that's a revenge story that these are women who were once, 1.00

00:03:47.120 they were once human, they lost their lives unfairly,

00:03:50.520 or they made a deal with the devil, some sorcerer, a coven,

00:03:53.360 or in some conceptions,

00:03:55.260 I'm pretty sure I'm familiar with at least one story where,

00:03:58.380 and it's also Russian, it's the Rusaka,

00:04:00.460 where some men took these women and robbed them and drowned them in the river.

00:04:07.620 And then later on, those same men come back and are seduced.

00:04:12.120 they see these women who are bathing naked in the nude in the river

00:04:17.300 and who are beautiful.

00:04:18.720 Oh, come, come, you know, and they come and then they drown.

00:04:21.740 If you ever come across a nude, I'm just going to say person,

00:04:26.820 but especially lady, and she's beckoning you into the woods, 0.97

00:04:31.840 the ocean, off of your boat, if she's singing to you,

00:04:36.440 what you want to do is say, that's the demon's house

00:04:40.360 and you just stay home.

00:04:42.460 Be gone.

00:04:43.040 Turn around.

00:04:44.140 You say, 1.00

00:04:44.820 I've made a covenant with my eyes 1.00

00:04:46.480 not to be enticed by the demon mermaid ladies. 0.89

00:04:49.480 Amen. 0.60

00:04:50.420 I've seen too many stories about this.

00:04:52.100 This is a common danger.

00:04:52.920 Kids, you need to know this.

00:04:54.500 Kids, you need to know this.

00:04:55.400 This is like a D.A.R.E. program

00:04:56.560 for being enticed by sirens right now.

00:04:58.580 Don't do drugs. 1.00

00:04:58.920 Hey, run away. 1.00

00:05:00.000 Do not mess with mermaids. 1.00

00:05:01.940 That's right.

00:05:02.360 And don't stop at home.

00:05:03.620 Just run straight to church and repent.

00:05:05.720 Go to church.

00:05:06.380 Yep.

00:05:07.040 You need to get saved.

00:05:08.360 You got stuff to repent.

00:05:09.660 Yeah, that's right.

00:05:10.360 that's right. So Rusalka, revenge. That's what that is. It's a revenge story and they're, 0.91

00:05:15.480 they're plaguing men. And these are common, common mythological tropes. Many, many various

00:05:21.540 mythologies will have some kind of wrong that's done, a life that's wrongly taken. And, uh, and

00:05:28.380 so then that, that spirit of that person, uh, you know, becomes a haunting entity and ultimately

00:05:34.560 seeks for justice. I think the human desire for these sources, some of these mythological

00:05:40.040 foundations really come back to our desire for justice and our understanding that justice isn't

00:05:45.740 perfect in this life. And so rather than believing the gospel that God is going to accomplish perfect

00:05:53.300 eternal justice, we mythologize justice in the form of the vengeful spirit. So you see this,

00:06:00.220 I mean, this permeates mythology and on many, many levels. The Chinese, the hungry ghosts.

00:06:04.540 that's within the mealing in i think scandinavian of the the child that was born out of wedlock 0.99

00:06:10.220 and the mother killed the child and now the child comes right black-eyed kids yeah right

00:06:14.300 that's related to the black even changelings and some right yeah very very common thread that runs

00:06:20.340 through a lot of these so brian real quick tell us uh about um because you let's just be honest

00:06:25.340 you're useless in this episode you told us by your own admission i i'm i'm i'm utterly i'm 0.93

00:06:31.020 virtually useless you're utterly useless i said you're going to contribute humor yeah i'm going 0.99

00:06:35.240 to contribute i'm gonna i'm gonna make fun of you guys for saying you believe in mermaids 0.98

00:06:39.180 if i feel like it if i choose it convenient to also believe in mermaids at some point

00:06:44.960 it will no longer be cringe it will actually be really cool but one thing that i was gonna say

00:06:49.140 you can contribute is um like the disney movie based off of the hans christian anderson original

00:06:55.400 yes give us a little bit of his conception of what were mermaids his conception is much more

00:07:00.360 dark that they're all dark it's wrong for her to it's a tale about escaping the boundaries

00:07:05.700 of your given domain right which is again i mean it's gonna come up in many things that we talk

00:07:12.840 when you desire wrongly to go outside of your creational bounds and you attempt to do that

00:07:18.020 only death results and so at the end of the tale the the mermaid lady that wants to become the man

00:07:24.440 for the sailor who's you know handsome and whatnot she ends up in constant pain and you know knives

00:07:30.340 There's the feeling of the earth under her feet like knives.

00:07:32.940 Right.

00:07:33.100 It's nothing like the animated.

00:07:34.840 No.

00:07:35.140 There are no singing lobsters.

00:07:37.100 Right.

00:07:37.360 To be found anywhere.

00:07:38.660 And at the end, she just dies.

00:07:40.220 It becomes the foam on a wave, essentially.

00:07:42.360 And so part of his conception was there's a reason.

00:07:45.800 It's not just for the sake of love.

00:07:47.320 She sees this dude and is dissatisfied with the mermen down below. 0.99

00:07:52.500 The mermen aren't hunky enough. 1.00

00:07:53.620 Potential suitors. 1.00

00:07:54.560 The bikini bottom.

00:07:55.320 Part of it is in his conception, mermaids live.

00:07:58.880 he said much greater

00:08:01.640 longer lifespans than

00:08:03.680 humans. So humans put them at 80 years. 0.59

00:08:05.820 70, 80 years. But mermaids

00:08:07.760 would live to be 300. But the

00:08:09.600 difference is that when the human dies that they

00:08:11.580 have an eternal soul that would transcend.

00:08:14.360 But the mermaid is 1.00

00:08:15.540 soulless. Which is why 1.00

00:08:17.440 Ariel is red-headed. Gingers have no souls. 1.00

00:08:19.440 Gingers don't have souls. And also Nephilim. 1.00

00:08:22.100 Red-headed six-fingered giants.

00:08:24.580 Ryan has red hair.

00:08:26.040 Just for the record, there's a reason that 1.00

00:08:27.500 That old joke of gingers have no souls, 0.95

00:08:29.360 that actually comes from somewhere. 1.00

00:08:31.420 God gives little hints.

00:08:32.560 I'm not saying it's true.

00:08:33.340 Like, colorful frog, don't eat it.

00:08:36.100 Yeah. 1.00

00:08:36.880 Redheaded person. 1.00

00:08:37.760 Watch out. 1.00

00:08:38.240 Don't trust them.

00:08:38.960 Don't trust them.

00:08:39.580 Don't trust them.

00:08:39.960 Okay.

00:08:40.580 Indeed. 0.94

00:08:41.780 Here's my issue with the Rusalka type stuff.

00:08:46.740 I'm uncomfortable having a category in my head

00:08:49.140 of a person that is lingering after death.

00:08:53.200 Right.

00:08:54.220 And who's...

00:08:54.780 i'm more comfortable with this with some sort of sentient being that's soulless than i am with a

00:09:01.180 person whose soul is lingering yeah right exactly and to go back to the you know um the little

00:09:06.520 mermaid the actual you know little mermaid 1.0 before disney you know made it happy and you know

00:09:11.640 all those it uh what i was gonna say is only a 300 year lifespan he actually says they become

00:09:16.740 the green glowing you know seafoam once they die their soul doesn't go anywhere they just

00:09:21.160 meld into the ocean but also the reason why she wanted to fall in love is it wasn't because she

00:09:26.020 couldn't find an underwater suitor but the only hope so she actually has this mermaid has a

00:09:31.340 discourse with one of the sirens they're different they're like basically you know um uh sirens of

00:09:37.400 the sky wind you know with wings and she has a discourse with one of them and they say well the

00:09:42.800 only way that you would have any hope of regaining a soul um is that you would have to make a um a

00:09:48.480 soul being a human being that has a soul fall in love with you and you could share in his and so

00:09:53.560 that's that's part of the motivation is not just finding um a partner for erotic you know romantic

00:09:58.560 reasons the siren trying to become uh souls and therefore immortal and so that's so that's one

00:10:05.820 conception so you have the rusaka you have that that little mermaid you know the famous one but

00:10:10.820 the dark version the original version um there's also enox yes you want to tell us about that one

00:10:16.360 I know that that's your big one.

00:10:17.900 This is like Joel's big.

00:10:20.000 Joel's like, I am Enoch.

00:10:22.420 Joel flew us down here

00:10:24.440 just so that we could get to this point.

00:10:27.040 To share this theory of mermaids.

00:10:29.120 To share a theory of mermaids.

00:10:31.380 Well, mermaids bring all the boys to the yard

00:10:33.780 and then they drown them. 0.95

00:10:35.260 That's right.

00:10:35.900 Because they're trying to steal the soul.

00:10:36.480 Actually, it's a very like Lilith motif.

00:10:38.740 It is.

00:10:39.040 Or succubus motif.

00:10:40.860 Yeah.

00:10:41.100 Because they're trying to steal the soul,

00:10:42.600 the life, the blood, the child of the thing.

00:10:44.320 Whatever it is, the force.

00:10:45.460 Vampirical.

00:10:45.820 Vital.

00:10:46.360 of vitality yeah it's very vampiric actually yeah anyway so enox so enox conception and i like this

00:10:52.200 one because it makes a little bit more sense of like where you know what's the origin where did

00:10:55.680 they come from um so enox says that you know that it's not just that the watchers these fallen

00:11:00.540 angels that see the daughters of men that they are lovely and come into them take them as wives

00:11:04.960 that it's not uh that it's it's not like genghis kong style it's not that these fallen watchers 0.64

00:11:11.340 that they forcibly take human women as a harem of wives but that these daughters of Cain right

00:11:19.640 so there's this godly line of Seth so naturally we'd assume that the women who actually 0.66

00:11:24.220 would actually join in marriage with these watchers who are in rebellion against God 0.66

00:11:29.760 would be worldly and carnal and rebellious women daughters of Cain but that they're not forced 0.57

00:11:35.420 into the marriage covenant but they actually do so willingly they're actually attracted because 1.00

00:11:39.460 they're carnal sinful human women and therefore attracted to rebellious angelic fallen creatures

00:11:45.200 and so they um and and these for the record these watchers are not they don't look like um

00:11:50.520 they don't look like ogres think thor yeah so these are are uh but but think thor in in two

00:11:56.560 instances one um attractive glorious strong majestic magical supernatural but also think

00:12:03.780 Thor in the sense of like us, like us.

00:12:08.480 Like I think of even the Psalms that ultimately is a messianic prophecy

00:12:11.820 speaking of the Christ and the author to the Hebrews,

00:12:14.060 who of course is the Apostle Paul, he makes that clear.

00:12:16.840 But in the Psalms, you made man just a little lower than the angels, right?

00:12:21.820 Who is man that you should be mindful of him,

00:12:23.600 but the son of man that you should care for him.

00:12:27.040 Angels, at least some angels,

00:12:29.780 there's a debate to be had about cherubim and seraphim

00:12:32.040 and four living creatures and the 24 elders.

00:12:33.960 But at least some of the angels, messengers,

00:12:36.480 that actually have earthly visitations look a lot like us.

00:12:41.380 Every description that we have of them, they look a lot like us.

00:12:44.100 Higher beings, attractive beings like the men of Sodom

00:12:46.800 want these angels for nefarious, crude purposes.

00:12:50.940 So they're more attractive than your average human,

00:12:53.740 but they're not so majestic and supernatural

00:12:56.860 that people don't think that they're human at all.

00:13:00.040 Well, it's part of why it's so easy for the Greek gods

00:13:02.540 to get human women in all of the Greek myths. 0.77

00:13:05.040 Exactly.

00:13:05.440 Is they're very attractive.

00:13:07.460 And they're close.

00:13:08.380 So exactly.

00:13:09.040 They look like Timothy Dalton.

00:13:10.380 They look like men.

00:13:11.980 Not monsters, but men.

00:13:15.060 They're not men, but they look like men.

00:13:17.600 And they're close enough to men in terms of genetic relation

00:13:22.860 that they actually could procreate.

00:13:25.880 That these fallen watchers,

00:13:27.340 and I know that's a whole can of worms.

00:13:28.460 We talked about it last night.

00:13:29.500 you know that maybe we'll make that a bonus episode um in fact i think we will i think you

00:13:34.860 know just if you become a patreon supporter uh you can have access to some of the bonus material and

00:13:40.960 uh part of that is in-depth analysis and some theory and history of hollow earth theory

00:13:46.060 but we'll probably throw an angel episode we'll argue about angels yeah we'll argue about angels

00:13:51.880 how physical how spiritual we'll just throw down yeah we're actually going to move the chairs how

00:13:56.880 virile are they it's just gonna be just be a wrestling match where we'll each dress up in a

00:14:01.840 costume that demonstrates our our favorite conception of what an angel might be dibs on

00:14:06.080 smeagol yeah brian's gonna dress in a costume covered with eyes and six wings personally if

00:14:12.380 i had to jump off the top of the bookshelf yeah just completely to be clear it's like me and ben

00:14:17.480 verse you because you're kind of you're tall okay that's what me and ben we actually we're about to

00:14:22.560 so i need a tall guy it's really that you're like eight-year-old boys we stood back to back

00:14:27.680 dude you're so by comparison short king thank you so okay so i appreciate the point is the point is

00:14:34.100 this angels being close can procreate the women are volitional and that this is a first they're

00:14:40.920 already of the line of cain and rebelled against god in in one degree but now this is just full

00:14:46.360 sinned like there's no coming back we hate god um and they know they're not tricked they know that

00:14:52.560 these are rebellious watchers fallen angels um and they willingly they're not taken captive but

00:14:58.060 willingly join a marriage and that the offspring of this unholy union is the nephilim um and then

00:15:05.100 from the nephilim descend giants uh but it's not just the watchers have sinned they're then locked

00:15:10.400 in gloomy dungeons that's their punishment uh the nephilim are the product of this sin and they're

00:15:15.340 wicked and sinister, and monsters of sort. But then no one ever talks about what happens to the 0.76

00:15:20.980 women. Well, except Enoch. Except Enoch. And Enoch says that the women's curse is that they became

00:15:26.520 sirens. And he uses the word sirens. They become mermaids and are banished to the sea. And in

00:15:33.560 biblical terms, the sea is often, heaven won't have a sea. Because the sea often is referred to

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00:18:25.940 So Joel, in this conception, if I'm not mistaken, there's an element where the theory is that in some way,

00:18:35.860 giving way to these beings is a seeding of their soul.

00:18:40.380 A seeding of their soul.

00:18:40.600 So they become soulless.

00:18:42.520 Exactly.

00:18:42.980 In the sense that some portion of their soul has been consumed or taken from them.

00:18:49.500 Am I mistaken?

00:18:51.380 Yes, and in this theory, the mermaids themselves as physical creatures becoming mermaids may have died off, may no longer exist.

00:18:58.700 But think like Michael Heiser, Nephilim kind of thing.

00:19:01.340 So like the demons, right?

00:19:03.060 That Jesus, you know, when he cast out Legion, it goes into the pigs, you know,

00:19:06.260 or a demon when it's displaced goes through arid, waterless places until it can find a host.

00:19:11.320 In Michael Heiser's conception, his scheme, you know, which I think is absolutely plausible,

00:19:16.680 that these are the disembodied,

00:19:19.280 these are not fallen angels or rebellious angels,

00:19:21.860 but these are the disembodied Nephilim spirit

00:19:24.180 that they can either go above or below. 0.98

00:19:28.000 And so this would be the wives now 0.95

00:19:30.500 that were the mothers of the Nephilim 0.51

00:19:33.260 and the wives of the fallen angels 0.88

00:19:35.160 that they forfeited their soul

00:19:37.260 by taking part in this union

00:19:38.800 and they became mermaids

00:19:40.300 and then maybe the mermaids eventually died off,

00:19:42.720 but likewise, not going above,

00:19:45.000 not going below uh no more soul and so they too like the nephilim are disembodied spirits but in

00:19:51.280 the water kingdom that is interesting because if you yeah i mean i guess no one talks about the

00:19:57.440 ladies you know they don't really talk about yeah because every other party gets a really clear 1.00

00:20:01.280 punishment yeah the angels the watches except the women the nephilim do the giants do that's

00:20:05.840 interesting so do you like do you buy that no okay i was gonna say i think it's possible so

00:20:12.000 hollow earth man you guys heard that episode oh yeah i was i was like on board with you're like

00:20:15.960 a solid 40 percent of like the crazy idea yeah because we weren't even talking about the later

00:20:20.160 conceptions of that we think are absolutely you know but uh i specifically said so i have no one

00:20:25.740 to blame but myself but i said the the uh the king kong godzilla version of hollow earth and i put it

00:20:31.140 at a 40 with creatures ecosystems i stand by it large reptiles and dragons and sea monsters and

00:20:39.880 They've got the primary water down there.

00:20:41.260 So, of course, they live a long time.

00:20:41.880 So, what's the percent on Enoch's view of the mermaids?

00:20:44.220 So, this one, I'm going to put it between 10% to 20%.

00:20:47.800 Okay. 1.00

00:20:48.560 Because what I like is the idea of the women being punished. 0.98

00:20:52.100 Me too. 1.00

00:20:53.500 Punish the women. 1.00

00:20:54.560 I know it sounds bad, but honestly, we do live in a world that is the divine feminine 1.00

00:20:59.440 where women are always a victim. 1.00

00:21:01.700 Whether it's abortion, whatever it is, they're always the victim. 0.99

00:21:04.340 And often, our own actions rise up and become a punishment for us.

00:21:08.400 Yeah.

00:21:08.960 Where those who hate wisdom love death.

00:21:10.540 And so there's divine punishment in addition,

00:21:12.480 obviously in terms of God's wrath,

00:21:14.380 but God also pours out his wrath

00:21:15.940 in them receiving in their bodies

00:21:17.200 the due penalty of their sin.

00:21:18.580 Right.

00:21:18.860 For example, in Romans.

00:21:19.720 So it's like, what's crazy about it is the whole idea.

00:21:24.460 But what's at least in terms of the patterns interesting

00:21:28.420 is that that would align the natural consequence

00:21:32.260 of you giving way to this.

00:21:33.860 Hey, you went and did drugs.

00:21:36.480 Right. 0.99

00:21:36.900 And then you went crazy 0.95

00:21:38.020 and you stabbed your boyfriend 57 times, you know? 0.94

00:21:40.980 Yeah.

00:21:41.160 It just happened in the news.

00:21:42.360 Right.

00:21:42.680 A hundred times.

00:21:43.620 Two hundred times.

00:21:44.940 Was it a hundred?

00:21:45.520 It was a hundred.

00:21:46.280 Only got community service.

00:21:47.060 She got, and all she got was community.

00:21:48.540 She got one hour of community service.

00:21:50.440 For each stab.

00:21:50.940 For each stab.

00:21:52.380 She should have become a siren.

00:21:53.860 Can you imagine that guy? 1.00

00:21:55.320 Like if he was a Christian,

00:21:56.460 he's in the great cloud of witnesses right now.

00:21:57.940 Like, are you serious?

00:21:59.120 Is he judge of California?

00:22:00.380 Did he make it?

00:22:01.760 Oh, I don't know.

00:22:02.500 Like, I don't know.

00:22:03.840 Did he make it?

00:22:04.860 Like a hundred stabs?

00:22:05.600 What did she stab him with?

00:22:06.700 A toothpick?

00:22:07.340 Stranger things have happened, Joel.

00:22:08.080 Or was this a knife?

00:22:09.320 I don't know.

00:22:09.640 I don't know.

00:22:09.900 That guy's gone.

00:22:10.440 Y'all told me about this story.

00:22:12.520 Okay, it originated from Brian.

00:22:13.900 This guy says nothing to do with his mermaid.

00:22:15.080 Another thing that I like about that.

00:22:16.240 Okay, and then I was going to say,

00:22:17.160 we got to get your theory.

00:22:17.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:18.360 So another thing that I do like about Enoch's thing

00:22:21.100 that I am probably around a 10%er on.

00:22:24.660 Okay, so I'm not that far off.

00:22:26.340 I mean.

00:22:26.960 I said 10 to 20.

00:22:27.760 I'll say 10 or less.

00:22:29.680 It depends on the day.

00:22:30.820 10 or less.

00:22:31.580 And zero is less than 10.

00:22:33.180 And zero is an option.

00:22:34.640 Five is less than 10?

00:22:35.520 But what I like about it in terms of reconciling mythology

00:22:38.940 is that it actually gives an origin story

00:22:41.140 for Lilith-type creatures,

00:22:44.420 for succubus-type creatures,

00:22:46.240 sirens, mermaids,

00:22:47.300 and not just sirens.

00:22:49.420 It could be all of these,

00:22:50.580 the witch, bird lady, 0.97

00:22:52.880 all of those things, 0.99

00:22:54.340 like the demonic feminine.

00:22:55.340 As well as the siren myths

00:22:57.460 that we do see in history.

00:23:00.680 Yes.

00:23:01.520 You know, that there are these creatures in the water

00:23:04.280 who will entice you in this this transcends cultures this goes oceanic lakes rivers this is

00:23:11.280 anywhere you find bodies of water this kind of mythology really does attend so similar to some

00:23:17.340 of the other topics that we've dealt with on haunted cosmos with ghost stories and with dragon

00:23:22.420 stories and with um giants you do have to do something with the question of where did these

00:23:27.880 stories come they come so universally and and we and we don't ever adhere to the answer of well

00:23:33.440 well, it's a Jungian motif in the human psyche

00:23:35.840 that just came out of the ether.

00:23:37.980 It's just in the-

00:23:38.940 It came from something.

00:23:39.760 The Bendis Mundi that circles the earth.

00:23:41.660 It's the band of thought.

00:23:42.700 And we just latch on.

00:23:44.140 These thoughts come in and out of our head.

00:23:46.340 That's nonsense.

00:23:47.360 Yeah, that's nonsense.

00:23:48.000 So my idea, one idea for mermaids

00:23:50.600 that I think is plausible according to me-

00:23:53.600 Right, which authoritative.

00:23:54.840 Right.

00:23:55.380 We're excited.

00:23:56.140 So I made it up.

00:23:56.700 Host of the Hone Cosmos podcast.

00:23:58.640 Seriously though.

00:23:59.340 We're excited.

00:23:59.780 We're excited on this.

00:24:00.920 I made it up.

00:24:01.400 This is 100% made up.

00:24:02.580 But it is compelling to me.

00:24:05.240 So we know that there's different angelic types.

00:24:10.020 You know, you have the seraph and the cherubim.

00:24:11.480 And they all serve different roles.

00:24:14.260 So thrones, powers, dominions, principalities.

00:24:17.320 I think that it's-

00:24:18.340 They're 100% physical.

00:24:19.940 Okay.

00:24:21.700 Definitely not.

00:24:22.740 They're all male.

00:24:24.860 This is just common knowledge.

00:24:26.180 Only Joel in the history of Chris.

00:24:27.620 This is common knowledge that we all agree on.

00:24:29.200 Go ahead.

00:24:29.860 No, it's not.

00:24:30.640 No, it's not, to be clear.

00:24:31.780 But I think that it's not outside the realm of possibility, given texts like Daniel 10 and Daniel 12, where you have the prince of Persia resisting the angel sent to Daniel.

00:24:45.040 For weeks.

00:24:45.800 Right, for 21 days.

00:24:47.180 For a long time.

00:24:47.820 And he needed the archangel Michael to help him, which is awesome, by the way.

00:24:51.400 But so you have a prince that is an angelic prince that's put in authority over a dominion of men, Persia.

00:24:58.720 A principality.

00:24:59.420 Right. And presumably it's a fallen principality, which is, this would be Calvin's view that God

00:25:04.280 put a fallen principality over a fallen people, Persia. Oh, I'm saying the region is the

00:25:09.940 principality, the prince, fallen prince over reason, uh, fallen principality. But I was saying

00:25:14.740 that, that what if like a dominion or principality, sure, could, could be not bound to groups of

00:25:22.160 people, but to geographies, to certain geographies. I don't think this is outside the realm of

00:25:26.860 possibility because we know that the acts- We're excited, emphatic truth. Well, yeah. Well, no. So

00:25:33.420 we know that the acts in the unseen realm affect the seen realm. We know that the angels blowing

00:25:39.000 trumpets in heaven make earthquakes on the earth. This is a one-to-one thing. I don't understand

00:25:43.860 the mechanics and I'm not going to pretend to explain the mechanics, but we know that that

00:25:47.160 does happen. So you could have, in my idea, you could have angelic type entities, whether fallen

00:25:54.760 or not over geographic realms. And they govern the natural processes of those realms to some degree

00:26:01.340 to carry out God's decree. Very medieval. Right. It's very medieval, but I love it. And if you

00:26:07.000 want to call it a fairy, you can do that. It's fine, but it's not technically a fairy. And so

00:26:11.900 in this way, not only does this answer the possibility of mermaids, because you can have

00:26:17.420 some of these things falling into sin. And so therefore creating particularly stormy seas

00:26:25.560 or rugged waters or rugged wilderness or a desert or a forest that's very dark,

00:26:32.400 that's easy to get lost in like the Japanese suicide forest, clearly overseen by a fallen

00:26:37.460 geographic angel, obviously. But then this also allows you to answer the positive side,

00:26:43.780 where you have river daughters in folkloric myths

00:26:49.240 and the old man Willow, who's very good and kind to people

00:26:53.280 and actually gives life to people.

00:26:55.540 It allows you to have a Narnian conception of nymphs

00:26:58.740 that's not completely negative,

00:27:00.560 but that actually maybe some of the nymphs do dance with Christ, with Aslan,

00:27:05.480 and they help bring about his dominion on the earth.

00:27:08.760 And so if some of these then fall,

00:27:10.980 they take on, because they're now made lesser,

00:27:13.780 They take on a more physical form,

00:27:16.640 but they're still over that area

00:27:18.740 and God still uses them.

00:27:21.280 They're still bound to bring about his decree,

00:27:23.680 even if they think that they're going against it

00:27:25.340 and suing discord into the music,

00:27:26.700 but they're really not.

00:27:28.000 But they would seek to destroy.

00:27:30.860 So instead of a body of water giving life,

00:27:33.640 it's a body of water that takes.

00:27:35.400 And ultimately these mermaids are physical representations 1.00

00:27:38.920 of something that's supposed to give life, taking it.

00:27:42.420 right and and we know that that's not supposed to be and so i that that's my uh i like my idea

00:27:48.880 no that's great i like that conception because again i do think that from that you can derive

00:27:53.760 an origin story because that's one like where do they come from and so if you have watchers and

00:27:58.440 they're falling and then you know in and being fallen each one is appointed within the sovereignty

00:28:04.840 of god uh you know appointed over a particular principality thinking of the prince is the watcher

00:28:10.740 the principality being the region uh but that some of these regions they're geographic they're

00:28:15.140 not just cities where people dwell but geographic a mountain um a um a river a ocean a desert um

00:28:24.040 and this is why every religion has a holy mountain right because there's a being on the mountain and

00:28:28.700 then and take exactly but then in falling and being assigned to a particular region um that

00:28:34.700 they took on certain attributes in the physical of of that region then okay like so where that

00:28:43.080 gets me is okay um poseidon dagon right so the philistines one of their chief gods was dagon

00:28:50.440 the fish god what if he what if dagon is a watcher right fallen and but over the region of the water

00:28:57.820 and then in terms of supernatural power just just for the record remember in in the book of job just

00:29:03.000 in the first couple of chapters, Satan, right?

00:29:05.940 So there's this divine counsel,

00:29:08.540 the sons of God who are angels,

00:29:10.520 but then Satan is among them.

00:29:12.200 And God says, you know, from where have you come?

00:29:14.020 From roaming to and fro over the earth.

00:29:16.300 And then, you know, God says,

00:29:18.220 have you considered my servant Job?

00:29:19.800 And there's this wager of sorts

00:29:21.380 all underneath the sovereign banner of God.

00:29:23.360 So Satan is not autonomously free.

00:29:25.460 He must do only that which falls

00:29:27.780 within God's sovereign plan, but he does have power.

00:29:31.280 And God says in the first phase,

00:29:33.000 Later on, he allows Satan to afflict Job's body with sores.

00:29:35.820 But before that, the boundaries that God sets is you cannot touch his flesh.

00:29:41.780 And during that, one of the things that Satan does,

00:29:43.820 besides just stirring up the evil intentions of the Chaldeans to rob Job and these things,

00:29:48.480 is that Satan actually goes and has power over the wind

00:29:54.120 and causes a great wind to blow so that the house of Job's children 0.81

00:29:59.840 capsizes and collapses upon them and kills them.

00:30:04.340 Also, when Jesus calms the storm, 0.99

00:30:08.180 who's to say that there wasn't some kind of demonic power

00:30:11.980 causing the storm in the first place,

00:30:14.340 trying to capsize the boat where the Son of God is?

00:30:18.320 But then what makes Jesus so significant

00:30:20.860 is like the disciples say,

00:30:22.500 who is this who has power over the wind and waves?

00:30:24.640 Well, we know from Job that Satan had power over the wind.

00:30:27.880 So it's not that-

00:30:28.680 He's the prince of the power of the air.

00:30:29.540 Right. So it's not that God, God is not superior in the sense that he has exclusive, he's the only one that has, but he has the greater power. So even dominating Moses, dominating each of the different gods, real gods, not just smoke and mirror, but real gods in Egypt, they're able, the magicians can cast down their staffs. They too actually turn into snakes.

00:30:52.280 But what's superior about Yahweh is that Moses, his serpent, swallows up the others.

00:30:58.160 And so Jesus calming the wind and waves, what if it's, it's not that he has power over the wind and waves and that Satan didn't,

00:31:04.380 but that Satan is actually trying to capsize, he's stirring up a storm on the water, the Sea of Galilee,

00:31:10.700 but Jesus, when he gives his command, it's the superior command.

00:31:14.080 And then even Jesus walking on the waters, turbulent waters, again, in the midst of a rough sea,

00:31:19.160 It's exercising and symbolizing Christ's dominion

00:31:22.180 that he walks on the realm of the dead, 0.73

00:31:24.380 that he tramples upon it.

00:31:25.760 There's no reason as well.

00:31:27.140 I mean, to go back to my classic haunted cosmos conclusion

00:31:29.920 that these also just can't be a demonic phenomena.

00:31:34.700 Right, right.

00:31:35.400 You know, where you have demons

00:31:37.480 who are engaged in trickery for all those purposes

00:31:40.720 and that you have demonic powers

00:31:42.760 that are involved in stirring up

00:31:44.980 all of the wind and the waves and involved in,

00:31:46.900 because we know that demonic powers when they were oppressing or possessing a person could

00:31:50.940 affect their physical health as well it could give them like basically epileptic seizures

00:31:55.200 throwing them into a fire like all of these different assaults on the physical there's

00:31:59.480 some mechanism that we don't understand by which the spiritual enemy can afflict the physical

00:32:06.140 and bring power to bear in the physical realm so i actually think that there's another possibility

00:32:12.620 here without positing a new type of soulless 300-year-old woman or even an elemental spirit

00:32:19.520 type of category where you can also say, look, if you're not down with any of that and that's

00:32:24.520 too far off the reservation for you, if it's real, it absolutely could be demonic powers.

00:32:31.340 Yeah, just a manifestation.

00:32:32.080 Engaged interception.

00:32:33.260 So there is a...

00:32:34.240 Yeah, that's for sure.

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00:34:24.860 There were a few things that I,

00:34:26.260 so the one is I actually don't think

00:34:28.680 that the watchers are the only ones that fell.

00:34:31.880 We know that Lucifer also fell

00:34:33.400 and he was not a watcher.

00:34:34.480 He was probably a cherubim because of Ezekiel 28,

00:34:37.200 but we don't know that for sure.

00:34:39.000 And so I think that it's quite possible

00:34:41.200 that within that whole timeframe,

00:34:43.460 you had multiple different ranks of angels falling.

00:34:47.880 And I do like the, even when they fall,

00:34:52.260 them remaining ordered as a reflection of them remaining under God's sovereign decree and over

00:34:58.600 his power. And so they don't fall out of their role. They just fall into a twisting of their

00:35:05.160 role. And then Calvin talks about this in his commentary on Genesis at length, actually. He

00:35:11.400 talks about how a fallen angel, like a messenger, would take on a twisted version of the same role.

00:35:19.880 So they would visit you while you're on DMT trips, for example.

00:35:22.680 Right.

00:35:23.200 And they would bring a message.

00:35:24.120 Right.

00:35:24.320 A fallen principality becomes the prince of Persia, 0.98

00:35:27.080 and they lead Persia further into their sin. 0.98

00:35:29.920 A fallen elemental would become, for example, 0.95

00:35:35.080 the Egyptian god of the Nile. 0.96

00:35:37.860 Right. 0.91

00:35:38.220 Who in the first plague, God kills and fills the Nile with his blood.

00:35:42.600 Right.

00:35:42.760 And then, by the way.

00:35:44.100 Or Dagon.

00:35:45.160 Right.

00:35:45.640 Or Dagon.

00:35:46.320 Just real quick, though.

00:35:47.680 This is amazing. 0.99

00:35:48.780 So the Egyptian sorcerers are able to do the serpent thing, 0.94

00:35:53.400 which is dragon. 0.99

00:35:54.220 They're able to turn water into blood.

00:35:56.180 They're able to do the frogs.

00:35:57.700 They're not able to do anything else after that.

00:35:59.640 And it's because the goddess of frogs in Egypt

00:36:03.880 was the goddess of fertility and sorcery.

00:36:07.800 And so when God kills the goddess of sorcery

00:36:11.520 and fertility in Egypt,

00:36:12.900 the magicians can no longer count.

00:36:14.720 They're like, we're doing all the spells.

00:36:16.120 It needs to work.

00:36:17.440 That's just really fascinating to me.

00:36:18.820 That is fascinating.

00:36:19.460 To me, that's actually a melding of all of these.

00:36:21.540 But the point is, these are real gods.

00:36:23.160 When we say god, we don't mean there's only one true, capital G, god.

00:36:27.360 But lowercase g.

00:36:29.440 What we would conceive of as divine beings.

00:36:31.440 Yes.

00:36:31.900 So this is just when people colloquially say demon.

00:36:36.120 What you're saying is actually basically the same thing I'm saying.

00:36:39.500 There's different categories.

00:36:40.340 There's just different categories of spiritual being that fell.

00:36:43.940 And within the realm that God gave them, they fell.

00:36:46.760 They operate fallen within that realm.

00:36:49.200 But they're fallen now, and they do fallen stuff.

00:36:51.260 And some of them are still there,

00:36:52.160 and then some of them have been locked in gloomy dungeons, 0.98

00:36:54.600 particularly for the sin of procreating with the daughters of men

00:36:59.860 and creating the Nephilim. 0.89

00:37:01.080 I think that the sin of the watchers who fell and did that

00:37:03.800 was so grievous that they are locked in gloomy dungeons.

00:37:07.360 The disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, I believe,

00:37:10.020 are the unclean spirits.

00:37:11.600 But I also think that other angelic categories could have fallen.

00:37:14.840 Right. But not yet been locked away.

00:37:17.200 Right. They're still here.

00:37:18.460 Because they didn't commit the same sin.

00:37:19.920 Right. And so in God's sovereignty,

00:37:22.060 he delights to see them used against their will to achieve his ends.

00:37:26.660 Right. I mean, yeah, God uses death to destroy death on the cross.

00:37:29.200 Exactly.

00:37:29.620 God uses the flood to save no end.

00:37:31.580 We've talked about this already is that God loves to do that. 0.95

00:37:35.740 So he uses Persia to destroy Persia. 0.91

00:37:38.320 I can't emphasize this enough.

00:37:39.940 God doesn't, you guys know what deus ex machina type,

00:37:42.880 Where you have a plot and a story, and then all of a sudden, just by magic, everything's fixed.

00:37:48.360 And you're looking at the story, and you're like, that's not that satisfying.

00:37:51.700 Right.

00:37:52.100 Because you can't really see how the resolution came about.

00:37:55.000 It's much better, like Frodo and Smeagol and Gollum, you know, Smeagol Gollum and the ring,

00:38:02.080 that Smeagol, through his slavery to the ring, Sauron's will to dominate would end up dominating a character

00:38:08.820 that led to the downfall of his own dominion.

00:38:11.140 And he swore by the precious and then broke the vow.

00:38:14.000 And then in breaking the vow, he condemned the ring itself.

00:38:18.540 And you guys, forgive me.

00:38:19.940 This is the cringiest thing I'll do this whole series.

00:38:21.820 It's like in Harry Potter.

00:38:23.360 J.K. Rowling just ripped this off of Tolkien.

00:38:25.300 But is that more cringy than it's like the Avengers?

00:38:27.600 But it really is. 0.99

00:38:28.440 I want to make this point because she just ripped off the Christian gospel

00:38:32.600 when she made Horcruxes where the soul of the serpent enemy.

00:38:38.320 Part of it's lodged in Harry.

00:38:40.140 he becomes sin is killed by the serpent but then because he gave his life for his friends rises and

00:38:46.280 they are protected by his death for them in the resurrection and the the serpent ends up devouring

00:38:51.300 itself through his even in the final battle where harry potter destroys voldemort he doesn't cast a

00:38:57.500 killing spell he casts a disarming spell and voldemort cast a killing spell that rebounds on

00:39:03.220 himself right so rolling just stole all of this from you know i'm not putting in the same league

00:39:09.180 as tolkien just for the for the record thank you at all not even but it is good i like her but she

00:39:14.000 stole that story and not stole this is how good storytellers work it's not deus ex machina it's

00:39:20.400 god uses means so some people i think when they come to the story of redemption and how it works

00:39:26.320 itself out in creation we really want to simplify it down to a deus ex machina thing where it's like

00:39:32.180 All of a sudden, everything's just, boom, fixed.

00:39:35.320 But God really does like to use the serpent to kill the serpent, 0.99

00:39:39.780 death to kill death. 0.97

00:39:40.700 God likes to use a... 0.94

00:39:43.140 So there is such a thing as a deus ex machina.

00:39:45.180 There's a miracle.

00:39:46.040 There's such thing as a miracle, technically,

00:39:48.420 where someone is miraculously healed.

00:39:50.380 But that's from our perspective.

00:39:52.780 God operates on a system that he developed,

00:39:55.580 which is his sovereign decree from eternity past.

00:39:57.820 And most of that sovereign decree is carried out in a system

00:40:01.380 that he delights to use that we can also understand,

00:40:04.680 which is things that are categorized

00:40:06.580 and that operate within their categories

00:40:08.480 and their spheres normally.

00:40:10.600 And through that, what seems to us a very slow process,

00:40:13.740 but is actually very effective.

00:40:16.060 So speaking of systems, I like systems.

00:40:18.220 I think for the most part in systems,

00:40:20.140 I think this is what we have so far for the listener.

00:40:22.500 One option is messenger angels.

00:40:25.480 Angel just means messenger.

00:40:26.520 So like Gabriel.

00:40:28.240 So for those messenger angels who fell,

00:40:30.860 and that was their role.

00:40:31.880 Now they're still within their role, giving messages,

00:40:34.820 but now it's lying messages, twisted messages.

00:40:37.500 So one conception of mermaids is it's all a lie,

00:40:40.880 a lie promulgated by demons.

00:40:43.380 And these messenger, well, you know, fallen angels,

00:40:46.640 messenger angels, and people have sightings of them.

00:40:51.760 And especially if witchcraft is involved,

00:40:55.500 aka pharmacy drugs, then they might actually,

00:40:59.120 you know that these messenger angels may appear like to have a tail and jump out of the ocean or

00:41:05.080 communicate with them so that's one is just to fascinate people to distract people to twist and

00:41:10.080 pervert truth take them away from christ that's one conception another is uh that there was

00:41:14.700 actually a punishment for the women who engaged with uh the fallen angels fallen watchers um

00:41:21.180 and so it's not just their children cursed the nephilim and not just uh the watchers cursed who

00:41:25.680 did that and you know going to gloomy dungeons but the women became sirens that's enoch's version

00:41:30.240 uh and then uh the other one that you're saying is that uh that each of these angels that fell

00:41:36.360 some of them being watchers some of them being messenger angels some of them maybe a cherubim

00:41:39.920 like like lucifer uh fell and had different regions and different roles and took on certain

00:41:45.120 physical uh uh physical aspects of their region their geographic region and so those who were

00:41:51.460 over water or oceans or these kinds of things became known as fish gods like Dagon or within

00:41:57.720 you know Greek and Roman mythology you know like Poseidon and and that they might have also

00:42:04.200 it's possible taken daughters of men and that maybe the Nephilim version of a fallen angel

00:42:12.240 who was over a water arena and took on physical aspects maybe that hybrid conception is a mermaid

00:42:20.360 Whereas a hybrid, you know, if it's, I know this sounds a little bit ridiculous, hear me out, but if it's a fallen angel that had a land role and went to a land principality region, and then human women who live on land, it's a Nephilim that's a land creature, but unhinged.

00:42:37.800 Whereas if it's a, you know, water type angel over a water region, still land women, but then it's half human, half fishtail mermaid.

00:42:48.800 I wouldn't say that.

00:42:49.740 but someone would joel would someone who really loves i'm not saying i i'm saying i'm not saying

00:42:57.280 that that's what happened but i'm just saying that's another yeah it could be a way to conceptualize

00:43:01.720 it i basically if i were to put my idea in a sentence it would be that there is such a thing

00:43:06.640 as an elemental spirit and some of them may have fallen thus creating evil rivers evil forests

00:43:13.140 evil mountains and and therefore mermaids old man willows and and the mountain you know the

00:43:19.140 third man of the mountain who who kills you or something and the mermaids but in that conception

00:43:23.500 what what is a mermaid yeah okay so i would say that in that conception you can have a physical

00:43:28.440 manifestation of the spirit that's over that area that lures you to your death for this not even for

00:43:35.660 deception because they hate the image of god right and so they want to see it dead right and so that

00:43:40.960 and so they do what they can to kill it but it's not real it's it's a physical it's an apparition

00:43:44.780 right it's real i would i would say that it's real but it's not physical it's real it is physical

00:43:48.800 i was just it can be it can manifest as physical because the angels that appear before lot and

00:43:55.120 they they have physical form they're able to eat and they interact abraham you know they're you

00:43:59.840 touch them it is a real thing but that doesn't follow from that that that is its permanent

00:44:03.960 form right it could also be that they have the capability of taking on temporarily this form

00:44:11.460 for the purposes God has given them.

00:44:13.600 To take on different forms like we do outfits.

00:44:15.660 Because they don't just,

00:44:16.840 angels and spiritual beings aren't just given

00:44:19.900 to perform purposes in earthly settings.

00:44:22.820 They were also made to perform functions

00:44:24.780 in heavenly settings,

00:44:25.660 which we comprehend very little of

00:44:27.060 because we're not the imagers in heaven.

00:44:29.540 Like that's not our job.

00:44:31.680 We have dominion over earth.

00:44:33.660 That's what we're given to do.

00:44:35.780 And in a sense,

00:44:37.520 what we're saying ultimately is that

00:44:39.680 man in christ then is following after the lord the same way that the armies of david followed

00:44:46.060 after david are to go out and wage war spiritual battle against the powers and principalities that

00:44:54.000 are in principle defeated and being driven out entirely so everywhere christians go there should

00:45:00.220 no longer be a haunted mountain let me give you hey let me give you an example of this river

00:45:05.320 river anymore. So St. Columba was an Irish monk who was a missionary to the Scottish people of

00:45:14.380 his day. And I can't remember the date, but it was before St. Brendan. And the legend says that one

00:45:20.220 day he was standing on the shores of Loch Ness and he was trying to think of a way to get to the

00:45:25.160 other side of the river that flows out of the loch, which is just another word for lake. And he's

00:45:30.500 thinking, he's like, I don't know, it looks kind of dangerous. All of his buddies are behind him

00:45:34.560 as other monks. And he sees down the way a little bit, a collection of the people that he's actually

00:45:41.120 trying to convert. And so he goes over to them and he sees that they're in the midst of burying one

00:45:46.460 of their fellow men who had just died because he got into the lake and was attacked by the monster

00:45:53.680 that lives in Lake Loch Ness. And so Columba says, okay, here's what we'll do. I'll revive this guy.

00:46:00.860 He stretches his staff over the man's chest, and he comes back to life, and all is made well.

00:46:06.000 But then he says, I'm going to go a step further, and I'm going to show you not only that the God

00:46:10.120 of the Christians has sovereignty over life, but also over this monster that you're so afraid of

00:46:15.340 dealing you death. And so he tells one of his monk fellows to swim across Loch Ness to get the little 1.00

00:46:22.940 boat that's on the other side and to come back to him. And so this young man, without any hesitation,

00:46:28.720 and he takes off his cassock and he jumps in.

00:46:31.260 And soon after he jumps in,

00:46:32.500 people start to see the big ripples of the monster.

00:46:35.620 They know what's coming.

00:46:37.020 And the monster lifts its mouth above the surface

00:46:40.560 and starts to roar at the man.

00:46:42.500 And right when he is about to clamp down his jaws on the man,

00:46:46.140 St. Columba commands him to stop in the name of Christ.

00:46:49.440 And the monster stops and he cowers away

00:46:52.140 as if he's yanked back by ropes from a mighty ship.

00:46:56.180 And he's yanked down to the bottom of the lake

00:46:58.480 and he doesn't come back again.

00:47:00.160 And the man swims across, gets the boat and swims back.

00:47:02.440 And then all of the people converted 0.63

00:47:03.980 because they saw the power that the Christian got. 0.97

00:47:06.580 It's Boniface, but instead of Thor's oak, 0.95

00:47:09.220 it's a sea monster.

00:47:11.560 And I'm going to say that could have happened.

00:47:14.620 Yeah, absolutely.

00:47:16.800 I feel like that's an end of episode story.

00:47:19.340 That's a mic drop.

00:47:20.140 That's a mic drop.

00:47:20.780 That's an end of episodes.

00:47:21.960 Yeah, that's fantastic.

00:47:23.740 All right, so if you want to find more info

00:47:25.360 on some of the angel kind of stuff

00:47:28.420 that we're talking about,

00:47:29.280 Hollow Earth,

00:47:29.860 and that gets into primary water 1.00

00:47:31.080 and gets into all the mermaid type stuff, 1.00

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The NXR Podcast - May 17, 2024

THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - The Biblical Case For The Existence of Mermaids ｜ Episode 7 w @hauntedcosmos_

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