Why Did Ancient Cultures Describe the Same Beings?
Film8 min2026
In 1872 a British Museum scholar read a broken tablet from Nineveh and found a story he recognised: a flood, a boat, a mountain, birds.
UNBOUND sets the likenesses beside the differences: winged guardians from Nimrud to Eden, messengers such as Hermes and Èṣù, tricksters from Coyote to Loki, and the Babylonian and biblical floods. Then four explanations: contact, the human mind, Jung's archetypes and real beings. Rev Benton's answer: "we're all reading from the same hymn book", the same intelligences of the one Light read in different tongues.
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