 Hey guys, Matthew LaCroix here. Today I wanted to do a special kind of video, something truly unique to my channel, a combination of an awareness campaign for an ancient site, as well as new startling information that most people have probably never heard. Today's show was inspired by the need to take action. It was a site that many know that I talk about frequently. For those who have watched my channel often, this is a site that is dear to my heart. And for those who are new here, I'm gonna provide a little bit of an overview at first to explain the significance of this site to catch up everybody at the same level. That way, once you see what I'm gonna share in terms of the urgency of why I wanna create a campaign of awareness, is that there are truly disastrous things going on right now at the city of Eridu. And I have photos halfway through that are really gonna highlight that. But in order to really grasp the significance of this for this message to be heard, we really need to have a little bit of history and an understanding of why Eridu is so important and why this campaign and this information is so important. So I hope you enjoy some of this. I put a lot of work into creating this campaign and creating an understanding of what Eridu is. So for those who don't know, Eridu is in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia. It's near the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers where it empties into the Persian Gulf. Now this was where supposedly everything started. This is where civilization was first lowered from kingship down from heaven to create the first city on earth where everything from metallurgy to astronomy to understanding physics to animal husbandry to growing massive agricultural crops using rivers and so forth, the birth of civilization began here and I have a map just to highlight to show where Eridu is in location to other ancient Mesopotamian cities but we're gonna do a little bit of background. We're gonna do a little bit of history and you really get into this to try to understand why this is so important. So thank you so much for joining me and I hope that you can understand the importance of this place and help this campaign that I'm trying to create here and I have more information as we go along. So to start, this is an artist's rendering of what Eridu likely looked like back in antiquity well over 10,000 years ago completely contradicting what our modern history books are telling us based on so much evidence that we're gonna get into in a minute here but basically just imagine when you see this depiction that an ancient city built in a pure spot of perfection to create a civilization on the banks of these fertile and very important rivers that connected to all different areas. I ran all the way up to Anatolia, Turkey down to the Persian Gulf which then leads you all over to Egypt and around the world. So that's why this is such an important spot and this depiction shows these famous reed boats that they used to use on a lot of the channeling in the areas because there were reeds growing all over the place. And you'll see why that's important as we go along here because it's indicative of this region. So moving along cause I have a lot to cover here we have to try to understand a little bit of history of Eridu. Now the most important part of Eridu arguably besides the city is this single mountain that stands out in the middle of nowhere. It's the only elevated spot in miles and miles and miles in this open desert. And this mountain was an ancient temple one of the most important temples literally in the world known as Ia or Abzu temple. And Abzu meant was the term for the underworld and Ia was a god of that underworld ocean. God of fresh water, God of magic knowledge, God of the oceans and he was banished to the underworld based on a lot of different reasons that is a complicated story. So understanding that this is his sacred temple. This is the most sacred place for him. This was his temple and you'll notice in the depiction which was done by artists from accounts that have been described of it long ago and depictions that you can read in Cuniform tablets they created this. And you can see that it's not just a temple on the mountain but it's a temple that has entrances almost reminiscent of Egypt that go down into the underworld which is gonna be interesting for why I'm creating this campaign awareness. This is a depiction that's been done that you can find on Wikipedia of what these temples looked like, how magnificent and how well built they were. And this is the temple of Ia Abzu on the hill that we'll get more into but that's essentially what these temples looked like on the mountain and on top. Now, for those who don't know this information as well as others, I wanted to start by sharing one of my favorite tablet readings that describe Eridu and why it's so important. Most people have heard of the Sumerian King List. So I didn't wanna use that as a reference but that's obviously another one you can use to see the city and why it's important. You can also use the Iraq list of kings and sages as another tablet that mentions it but in particular, this is gonna be Eridu Genesis. This city, Eridu mentioned as the first city can also be read in other tablets as well. So keep an eye out for that reference because it's every time you see a quinoa form tablet from Mesopotamia, that's been uncovered from the Ashurbanilpa library or libraries at Babylon. This Eridu is always the first city that is shown as being on earth created. And so I wanna read just a little part from Eridu Genesis. Basically, when the royal scepter was coming down from heaven, right? Kingship, same as the Sumerian King List. The August crown and royal throne already being down from heaven. The king regularly performed her perfection. The August divine services and offices and laid the bricks of those cities in pure spots. The first link of the city's Eridu, she gained to the leader, Nudemud who was the name, Nudemud was the name for Ea or Enki. The second bad Tibera, she gave to the prince and sacred one. The third, Lerak, she gave to Palisade. The fourth, Sapaar, she gave to the Dalian Utu. The fifth, Sherupec, she gave to Ansood. So these are literally demigod kings that are ruling these cities that essentially they were given designation by the Anuraki, the hierarchy of it. And so this city is the very beginning of where it started, okay? Now, a little bit of history into this site. This Eridu and the main city complex started to be excavated in the late 1800s, about five years after the Ashurbanapal Library was found by Austin Henry Laird in 1848. So this site was just being discovered after they had been tried to figure out where these ancient cities are. And this depiction though is basically the last time that it was visited by archeologists. This is the Oxford University and this is Eridu circa 1946. And they're out here doing excavations, research, checking this out. And basically we get to see what it looked like. And here it is another picture from that time when the university came. Oxford came and took these photos and explored the site and they found incredible artifacts. But that's the whole, why this whole story is bizarre and why we're gonna get into why this is so important, this campaign, that this is what they found. And this is in the British Museum still today. And it shows that they found this ancient tablet depicting a king of Err III, Amar Sin. And he was a king of Eridu and it's housed in the British Museum. Now here's the wild thing. Those pictures taken in 1946, they supposedly excavated until 1948 and then all works ceased. So they found these incredible tablets, found the ancient city of Eridu mentioned as the first city on earth and then they decided to cease all archeological digs. The entire area was abandoned, okay? And if you don't believe me, get ready for some of the photos and some of the evidence I'm gonna show for that to show that this is perhaps the greatest conspiracy of any ancient site in history. This is the beginning of what I hope is gonna be a campaign to protect this site and bring in archeological digs from nations all around the world so it can be fair and honest and try to truly uncover and find what these treasures are that remain. And you'll see some of those treasures in a moment. Now let's jump forward. Here we are, this is 2021. This is what you're gonna see if you go on Google Maps right now and type in Eridu and Sumer. This is where your first place you're gonna go to. Now I kept a map in the top left just as a reference guide for people and just in case they aren't familiar as we go along where this is. But basically one of the things you'll notice if you look at the map is Eridu is actually set apart a little bit from those rivers. Now that's important to understand because notice that Iraq and Ur and Lagash and Babylon are all located in the confluence of those rivers now. Or at least this is the Fertile Crescent map from say circa 4,000 years ago or so. But look at Eridu. It's quite a bit further away, isn't it? That shows you how much older that city is to all the others because and as I'm gonna get into my hypothesis is that the Euphrates River and Tigers used to flow in different areas. And that's why Eridu is set apart. So this is the city center of Eridu. This is where commerce was government. This is where the markets were and the temples in terms of libraries not the Temple of Ea, but the other temples for general worship and the libraries were here. This is where they were located. This is the only part of Eridu that's ever been excavated by archeologists. That was when Oxford went there and when we had some other archeologists from Iraq and I think Germany were there and they did do some digs there and they found those artifacts. That's where those came from. But then this all work was abandoned. I will point out that there are other sites in this and as I was talking about earlier in the video that were never even looked at. So this is, it's a bizarre symbol at the bottom there. For anyone looking at this, I would love if you could send me your opinions on what that ancient symbol that almost looks like a dragonfly or an arrow. But I'd be love theories on that for anybody who's dug into that. But here you can see the walls of the ancient city and we have photos of that as we go along to show this on the ground. But basically this is what it looks like today. No notice. I'm gonna say this again, but this is like with highlight of this. No infrastructure at all. No roads leading to it really. No fences, no one studying it. It's just left abandoned in the middle of the desert. And that's the whole point of why this is, this campaign is being done and why I'm showing this. Now this is the temple of Ia, the Abzu temple that we showed in the beginning on the only mountain in this entire area that sits up over the city and basically commands over the entire region. It's quite an interesting landmark, whether or not it's natural or if they created that hill. I would love to, we're gonna get more into that as we go along, but I would love to know more about that for sure. But this is basically just to the south of that city complex when you look it up on Google Maps. And the first thing you'll see is it's a large mountain structure in the center that you really just looks like some eroded hill. Now look at the tire tracks. This is one of the things that is so appalling right now because it's gonna start this. And this video is gonna go from sort of getting into being upset, but it'll end on a happy note as we go along. So don't worry. But I do need to show my frustrations for what's going on here. These are tire tracks from trucks, from people that just live in Iraq that know about this site and are coming out here and just driving around on the site. They're driving over extremely valuable ancient relics, just driving over them doing donuts down here you can see and driving over one of the most important ancient sites in the world. And nobody cares. And I'll watch these images as we go along here because you're really gonna see this. So this site that I'll show in some pictures is quite a large mountain complex of ancient temples. The temples are all eroded. They're so ancient that they're all eroded and they're underneath the soil and the mountains basically eroding away and revealing all these treasures. Like it's like something out of a movie. Now this is gonna make a lot of people really upset but that's the whole point of getting a campaign awareness to get people angry to do something about this. These are photos from 2020. This is basically like right now. And these are people and I'm not gonna go into who they are. I'm not gonna go down that road but I'm just gonna tell you that I've looked into these people and they're just residents of cities in Iraq. They're not archeologists, they're just people that heard about this, happened to watch some videos or knew about it and they came out here to loot the sites and then basically show off what they were finding and then selling everything most likely on the black market. I have a lot of these photos, okay? And these photos are saved because I know for a fact that when this video comes out those photos are probably gonna get taken down. So these are captured now for everyone in the world to see what is going on in Eridu right now in the state of this site. This is the Temple of Abzu'iyah right there in the distance, okay? That's what it looks like from afar as they're approaching it and just sort of jogging towards it this group of six people, okay? And they're going to the site and they all share photos of what they found. Now, here's when they come up to the remnants of Eridu, some of the walls. You can still see, look at that. Notice yet again, I'm gonna point out one more time. Look at the perimeter of the site. What do you see? Do you see any fences? Do you see any kind of areas that are blocked off because they're studying it or uncovering it? It's very obvious to anyone regardless of if you're interested in conspiracies or suppressed information, it's right here in front of you. This is 2020, this site is sitting here completely right in the open with no work that's been done on it and it's just being eluded. That's it, it's just being eluded right now. Who knows how much it's been stolen? You ready for this? It gets worse. This is those individuals going up the temple mountain and showing all the remnants of things eroding down. Some of those aren't rocks or some of them are carved stone. As you'll see, the mountain was much larger and it's been eroding over thousands of years and it's revealing all of these treasures from these temples because terrible catastrophes have happened here and basically destroyed everything and we'll show more as we go along here. The photo on the bottom left, anyone who knows me and has watched my channel he knows I've used that a million times. I love that photograph. That photograph is showing the edge of the temple complex coming up the mountain and part of the temple wall showing, coming out of the ground with like what looks like almost vitrification rock and burned rock on top from some kind of a catastrophe. Now look at this other photo in the background. That's a photo they took. They're standing at that spot and they're walking up to the top of the temples. I just wanted to give a reference for that to show what these people are doing right now at the site. Notice no work has been done. That photo is at least 10 years old on the bottom left. Nothing has been done except what you're about to see. Just some of the things they started to find, right? Oh, just some cuneiform writing in an ancient tablet right here unearthed and not cleaned off yet. Pottery ceramics. More important than some people might know. Pottery and ceramics were symbolic of when the priests would go up to these temples and give offerings. They would sometimes place precious jewels inside, sometimes place things like sage and other sacred herbs. Very important for offerings. There are pottery pieces strewn all over the place just sitting there that in there showing this because they're like, look at this, right? We're gonna pick all this up. Look at what's right in front of you. Sit standing out of the ground. You can't see this at any ancient site basically anywhere in the world. These places have all been somewhat protected and are looked at even if they haven't been fully excavated for one reason or another, sort of like Tiwanaku in Bolivia. But this site is completely different. It's just abandoned, deliberately abandoned. Now look at this pillar in the top left of the screen. That's a pillar, part of the temple pillar right there. You can see the markings in it. That's an actual temple pillar from the temple of Ea. Now this is gonna blow some people's minds and really make some people angry and also make people curious. These are two photos they took of on the temple and you can see temple walls and tablets strewn all across this area where probably was an entrance to one of the temple entrances which is why these are all over the place and look at the cuneiform tablets all over the ground in pieces, stories, ancient stories about our origins, our history, the gods coming down, the very beginnings of everything and they're just being picked up by people and sold in the black market for thousands of dollars to secret private collections like the Skoyan Collection and then we'll never hear about them again because these are demonized tablets and even if they were to make it out because of the significance, we're gonna get into this, the significance of Ea Enki, what he plays in history as the serpent god, the god of the underworld, right? Pitchfork, Trident, think about that. He became demonized and that's why this site is the way it is. It's a two-fold thing. One, because of the church, supposedly this may be the biblical Eden, okay? This is where the Enki, the snake was worshiped. This is Ea's number, most important temple in the world, right here. So is it any coincidence that this was completely abandoned and is left to looters right now? On top of that, it predates all of history, supposedly. It's the first city. It could be 50, 100, more than 100,000 years old. If you were to add up the Sumerian king list, all the different ages of kings, this city may be over 200,000 years old and likely rebuilt over time, which is what that more primitive brick is on that you see in the other photos. But this site is truly important. And if you look at the screen, I haven't even talked about the other part yet, besides the atrocities that these tablets just being taken away. And by the way, you could fit these together because that tablet would be part of other broken pieces. And that's how you would get the story. But these are mostly gonna be sold in fragments separated and no one's ever gonna know what it really says. Yes, those are seashells on the right there. Think about that for me and look at that. It's not just a few seashells, they're strewn across the site, okay? Now, if Eridu predates what we think of as the younger dry as the last Ice Age, when the Laurentide Ice Sheet in North America creeped all the way down past into New York City area all across the country. And all these ice sheets in Northern Hemisphere basically melted from a massive coronal mass ejection or some incredible event. There is always talked about in these tablets, the Atrahasis nearly epic of Gilgamesh, nearly every tablet that discusses the flood tells it in the same way. And they state that a wall of water from a tsunami basically came over the land and destroyed everything, okay? And this area is near the Persian Gulf. So if you think of an enormous amount of water flooding in coming both from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean as well as from the Persian Gulf from two different sides converging, it would make sense that if this was a kind of a conversion zone that these shells would end up getting stuck up here. That's truly incredible thinking about that. So those are likely shells from before the younger Dryas and really prove the younger Dryas catastrophes and that Eridu is one of these anti-Diluvian pre-flood cities of antiquity, which is why this is so important. Now, this is gonna make people really upset. Another one of these parties in the group showing these tablets coming out of the ground sticking up and then just showing this uniform writing in these incredible, it's a tablet, but it's probably one of the ones that went up on the murals on the wall of these temples and they're just holding it and they're about to go home and they're about to sell it for a lot of money and no one's ever gonna see it again. And I want people to be angry because this is what's happening right now to this temple and these sites. They're just walking around, they're showing off what they're finding. This is the part of this video that I really would like to stop for a minute and just take a moment for people to understand the significance of this. The video doesn't end here. There's a whole nother section I wanna do that goes over even other new discoveries that make for how significant this site is to all of the world. But before we do that, I wanna stop here and really talk about this for a minute. You've seen just what I showed you, those are all genuine photos of what's happening right now in Erudu. You see there's no infrastructure, there's no one studying it, it's been left in the desert. We as the people, if we don't do this, no one's gonna do it. This is the time and we have to take action. We're losing one of the most important sites in all of ancient history. And every moment that goes by, this site is being pillaged more and more. So this is the campaign to protect Erudu. And I really hope people share this, please create images, take this, create an image off it, share this and do anything you guys can do that's in a nonviolent way to try to help this site be protected. And I've included some contact information down there, no phone numbers or anything because I wanna keep it open to how you guys wanna do it. But I highly encourage you to be creative to try to get this message across because listen, they know about this site, they're well aware of it. This is very purposeful. So the only thing that's gonna, the way this is gonna change is if people get angry enough and push enough that finally action is taken. And once action does get taken, you can't go back again. It'll then finally be protected because the world will know and the spotlight will be on them. So please reach out to these individuals, please be creative and help out in any way you can to try to save this incredible site even if it's just sharing this video or telling others that this is going on, this site right now really needs our help. So as stewards of these great libraries of the earth is our responsibility to protect what is being lost so that we understand everything from where we come from to who we are and where the first cities on earth were built and where it all began. This site needs to be completely protected and studied by the world and having all those, everything that comes out of it, every tablet to be on display. We need an Eradu display at the British Museum. We need to have an entire display, not like the Ashurbanapal Library, but just for Eradu, okay? So thank you to everyone that helps out. And now I want to move on to some really, really exciting connections that'll even spark even more interest in protecting this site. For those who don't know, so many of the temples on earth have now been understood to be mapping the heavens as above so below the hermetic law of correspondence seems to be one of the most important things that we find for the reasoning on why these sophisticated ancient lost civilizations built these structures all in different places of the world. Now I'm showing just one of the more well-known ones which is the three great pyramids of Giza and the three great periods of Teotihuacan in the Aztec realm of Mexico, which by the way were built pre Aztec to see you understand that just like the pyramids of Giza were pre-dynastic built before that and then later cultures came after. But when these were originally built, they were essentially aligned at the time if you go back and look at the procession of the equinox and we try to figure out where the stars were aligned they were built to align with the three belt stars of Orion 10,400 BC. That's if you add 2000 to that to make up to convert BC you get about 12,500 years or so ago. That's the time period we're talking about the between 12 and 13,000 years ago these sites were built to align to all the three belt stars of Orion. Now going further, when you look up the ancient city of Gobekli Tepe and you look at the ancient history of Egypt with Osiris and the embodiment of Osiris in Orion what you find is that the original name of Gobekli Tepe not Potbellied Hill, but the original name for it was Portisar and Portisar to the locals means the umbilical cord of Osiris. Now for those who don't know Gobekli Tepe is found in the Anatolia region of Turkey right above the Fertile Crescent at the northern end of the Fertile Crescent. So I have been studying this and researching it and looking at star constellations, looking at Orion looking at the three belt stars in the center and I saw what only few others have potentially ever discovered yet. This is very, very new. I've seen one other reference to it so far and that's it. I saw Aridonis and I noticed how Aridonis has a similar name to Aridu and I noticed how it leads from Orion, like a snake. And I thought that was really, really interesting and I thought about the Hermetic Law of Correspondence and how the ancients built to map heaven on earth to create a mirror image of the heavens on earth in these ancient temples. And that's when I started digging into Aridonis which means the serpent river of the cosmos. Think about Enki, his symbols as the serpent, the God of the manipulating the physical world, higher consciousness, vibration, the divine feminine energy of creation. That's what the serpent represents. So here is a map of the Fertile Crescent now and this was a smaller version earlier on but now think about it for a second. If everything's mapping from the heavens to earth, look at this for a second. Aridu located at the bottom part of the rivers of Euphrates and Tigris with Gobekli Tepe at the top. Gobekli Tepe is the umbilical cord of Osiris, right? So it's the top here with the rivers of the Euphrates flowing from it down to the Persian Gulf, okay? And when you look at descriptions of Aridonis, you find that it describes very, in these exact words, it describes the river flowing from the three belt stars of Orion to the southeast, exactly as the Euphrates flows. Which if someone's wondering why doesn't it depict say the Nile with Orion's belt because the Nile flows the opposite direction and we'll get into that a little more as we go along but that's the evidence to show what I believe is an ancient connection of the stars for Aridu and the significance of the Euphrates River with Gobekli Tepe. And I theorize that because when you read things like the Atrahasis now, the Igigi before humans were clearing the lifelines of the land. I didn't, I don't think it just means for agriculture lifelines like the lifelines of the Aridonis to connect that energy, okay? That's why this area was so incredibly fertile. And so I believe that these rivers used to have the Euphrates probably mirrored exactly the constellation of Aridonis more than 10, 12,000 years ago. Now here's the Mulepin. This is an ancient human form tablet that came from the libraries of Babylon. Now one of the incredible things that comes out of tablet one is it talks about the southern path of Ea containing 15 stars or constellations. And it goes into the river Aridonis begins humbly as all rivers do at the feet of Orion beandering toward the west it loops back on itself and soon dips south becoming lost from view to most of the Northern observers. And it goes into the stars of Aridonis winding and tumbling down until it gets to the very end a blue star. That's so fascinating thinking about this on earth how it's mapped, okay? Leads us to this wonderful quote I found online. This was the only person that I've seen that has made this connection. Whoever wrote this fantastic. I'm gonna quote them and read this right here. The path of Ea begins at or after heavenly Aridu which on earth was the most ancient of the Sumerian cities in heaven astronomically the same as the constellation Aridonis known as the river of forgetfulness or the underworld. The underworld, the path of souls, the energy of the earth, the serpent Enki, the Abzu temple. Abzu, remember the temple on the mountain is called the Ea Abzu temple. Abzu is the word for the underworld. It all connects. This is the famous connection to the stars for why Aridu is so important and why go back to so important. The knowledge of gobekli tepi is the wisdom library of the ancient stars. It is mapping the astronomical procession of the equinox, zodiac calendars all the information of the heavens is mapped there. It is the ancient library that connects to Aridu. This leads us to the end. After just talking about the connection with gobekli tepi and Aridu and the campaign for saving that ancient site of Aridu we get into thinking about what this all means. I think what gobekli tepi was is potentially the most important astronomical library of the cosmos on the whole planet. It was the centerpiece for all the knowledge that disseminated down to the pyramids of Egypt and Aridu and all these ancient places that were basically physical libraries on earth. And this was a library of the cosmos. And gobekli tepi was mapping so many things after so many constellations but really what it was mapping was the different ages of man. The energetic changes of the ages of man the rise and fall of consciousness. Just like the Maya said consciousness goes through stages. We are reaching the age of universal consciousness when we'll no longer be bounded by the third dimensional material world but we'll rise above to truly understand what we really are. And as you can see here this is just a rough depiction of these 12 ages of the zodiac and they represent a 2,100 year cycle each coming to the great year which is over 25,000 years. And that great year signifies what they were essentially mapping. And here is the point where if you see what the sun is on the left side we are going from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. That's why all of this is finally becoming known again. We're moving to a time of a golden age but we're in that transition and the transitions are always difficult to go through. So I want people to remember why these sites are so important and why it's so important that we preserve them. So please help me support the campaign to protect Aridu. Get this information out to as many people as possible so that this site can truly be saved and be studied by people all around the world so that we can get a hold of these tablets. If enough public awareness right now is on this site then whatever is potentially excavated in the future can hopefully not go into some Vatican library in the darkness somewhere. And we can have it to study it to be able to understand these ancient stories that connect us so much to our history to understanding who we are and where we come from and how we're connected to the stars. Thank you so much. I hope everybody enjoyed this show. My name is Matthew LaCroix and my website is thestageoftime.com. My YouTube channel is my name Matthew LaCroix and I encourage you to check out my books The Illusion of Us and the Stage of Time and check me out on Facebook and Instagram and I hope we can share this message, okay? Get it out to as many people and preserve this incredible site of Aridu long into the future.