The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:25AJ Gentile?

  The Basque people live in a small area between Spain and France. They look like normal people, but their genes match nobody else in Europe, nobody else on the planet. Science says this is because their society developed in isolation. They didn't mix with neighbors. They were never conquered. Nobody migrated in or out. The Basques explain it differently. They didn't always live in Europe. Their real homeland was destroyed thousands of years ago, and in their language, they still have a name for it: Atlantica. The Basques are the children of Atlantis.

• 1:05AJ Gentile?

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• 2:30AJ Gentile?

  Around 360 B.C., Plato wrote down a story that his own audience found hard to believe. He didn't invent it, and he didn't claim to. The story came a few generations earlier, told by the Greek statesman Solon. Solon visited a temple in Egypt, and the priest there told him something that surprised him. They said Egyptian records went back thousands of years further than the Greeks. Those records described a great civilization in the Atlantic Ocean, out past the pillars of Hercules. Today, we call that the Strait of Gibraltar. Through the pillars, the Mediterranean ends, and the open Atlantic begins, an island empire that disappeared in a single day and night, 9,000 years before Solon heard the story. Plato said mountains ring the island.

• 3:14AJ Gentile?

  The capital was built in circles of land and sea. These defenses made the island impossible to conquer, so Atlantis grew powerful. Its navy had 1,200 warships, and it was wealthy. The island was rich in oracalcum, a rare red metal almost as valuable as gold. It covered the walls of temples and the homes of the rich. Oracalcum means status. In Greek, oracalkos means mountain copper.

• 3:39Speaker 02

  Mountain copper, the most valuable metal on Earth, and they named it like a Yankee candle.

• 3:44AJ Gentile?

  Like the Atlanteans, the Basques were famous for copper work and were master shipbuilders. By the 1500s, the Basques traded copper all over the world, even with the tribes of North America. Basque whalers may have followed whale migrations to Newfoundland as early as the late 1300s, 100 years before Columbus. But the Basques say their ancestors from Atlantica traveled the world thousands of years before that. When French explorers reached Newfoundland, the people spoke in a language built from Basque. The explorers thought the land was brand-new. It wasn't new to the Basques. Thousands of years later, we still tell the story of Atlantis, and everyone knows how it ends.

• 4:25AJ Gentile?

  Earthquakes and volcanoes destroyed most of the island, and anything that was left sank beneath the ocean after a great flood. But the people of Atlantis were doomed long before that. Doomed didn't come from the sky, or the earth, or the water. It came from their blood.

• 5:00AJ Gentile?

  An island sits in the Atlantic, green and volcanic, richer than any land in the known world. At its center is a city built in rings. A canal runs through the heart of it from the open sea to the royal island at the center. The harbors are packed with foreign ships carrying amber, ivory, tin, cedar, grain, and gold. Tonight, the Ten Kings gather at the citadel for the contest. Each man offers a prayer to the other nine. Sorinaku, good fortune. The kings will need luck today, but they're not here to compete with each other. They have to work together. Inside the sacred grounds, a dozen bulls roam free. These aren't cattle. They're descended from the first black bull that came out of the sea when Poseidon made the island.

• 5:44AJ Gentile?

  Priests raise them well-fed and strong, but never tamed. They're taught to hate humans and to hate kings most of all. Some have killed kings. Those bulls get saved for breeding stock. Before dawn, each king gets anointed with an oil of cedar, salt, and royal blood. The bulls learned that scent when they were calves. They hate it. The Ten Kings must bring down a bull and keep it alive. They can't kill it, and they have to do it with their own hands. No man may enter the grounds with metal, no blades, no spears, not even a fishhook. According to the law, the contest happens every winter solstice. No king can refuse. Nobody is above the law. The animals are taken to the circle until the kings arrive.

• 6:29AJ Gentile?

  They wait for hours, driven crazy with thirst, heat, and the thunder of drums. Finally, the kings enter. The bulls are released. And once they catch the scent, they charge.

• 6:45AJ Gentile?

  When the kings catch a bull, if they survive, they have to drag it alive to the bronze pillar where the laws are written. There, over the words that bind their houses, they sacrifice it. The kings mix that blood with wine and toast. Sorinaku. Then they drink. While the fires burn down, the kings discuss how to govern the city. Tonight's gathering is somber. There's a problem in Atlantis, and the citizens want answers. None of the kings have one. The people want to know why their babies keep dying.

• 7:32AJ Gentile?

  The Basques have the highest concentration of Rh negative blood on Earth. Rh factor is a protein in red blood cells. The name comes from rhesus monkeys where researchers first found the protein. It's passed down through primates and has been for millions of years. Most people have it. You probably do. And if you do, you're Rh positive. That's 93% of people on Earth have it. The rest are Rh negative, and their blood doesn't carry the marker at all.

• 7:58Speaker 02

  I say it like I got a C minus in monkey blood science.

• 8:03AJ Gentile?

  Most people's blood has a marker, a protein on the surface of the cell. A few people don't have this.

• 8:08Speaker 02

  Okay, so there's regular blood and high test. Got it. Verpies and zombies, take note. A Basque bisque is delish.

• 8:16AJ Gentile?

  And the trait is recessive, which means it hides. When populations mix, it fades. Every generation dilutes it a little more. But 1 in 3 Basques is Rh negative. That's double the rest of Europe and 5 times the rest of the world. And because the trait hides, even that number undersells it. Most Basques carry the gene, whether their blood shows it or not. For blood like that to stay concentrated, a population has to breed inside itself for a very, very long time. But Rh negative comes with a cost. When an Rh-negative mother carries an Rh-positive child, her immune system might reject the baby as a different species.

• 8:56Speaker 02

  A different species. The blood itself is saying alien. What do I have to do, draw you a chart? Even the word Basque sounds like a lizard people word.

• 9:05AJ Gentile?

  It's an immune response, not a confession.

• 9:08Speaker 02

  That's exactly what a lizard people immune system would want you to think. But when your baby's born blinking sideways, they'll say it and warn you. Go ahead, feed it a cricket. Feed it a cricket.

• 9:19AJ Gentile?

  The first pregnancy is usually fine, but the ones after that are dangerous. The child weakens in the womb. Untreated, the child can die. But here's what science can't explain: a trait that kills children should disappear. Instead, the Basques have the highest frequency in the world. Nobody can prove where it came from. It can't be traced to any place on Earth. Because, according to the legend, it didn't come from Earth. It came from the gods. The Basque weather god Mari lived in a cave in a mountain with her husband Zugar. Basque gods lived on the ground among the people. Plato tells the story.

• 9:55Speaker 03

  And Poseidon, receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, beget children by a mortal woman and settled them in a part of the island.

• 10:05AJ Gentile?

  Gods having children with humans. The Sumerians told the same story, and they called the visitors...

• 10:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, nunaki.

• 10:12AJ Gentile?

  Right. Beings who came down, shaped humanity, and shared their blood with it. In the Book of Enoch, divine beings mate with humans and create the Nephilim. Every culture uses a different name, but the story is the same.

• 10:24Speaker 02

  Lizard people, different tuxedos, same lizard.

• 10:28AJ Gentile?

  But when divine blood is mixed with the humans, the offspring are often evil and violent, like the Nephilim. Plato wrote about that, too.

• 10:37Speaker 03

  But when the divine portion began to fade away and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, the human nature got the upper hand.

• 10:50AJ Gentile?

  The blood thinned, and Atlantis fell. The families of the old blood escaped into the mountains and never let their blood thin again.

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• 12:33AJ Gentile?

  For thousands of years, Atlantis was a paradise. But the island doesn't feel like paradise anymore. The founding families carried the blood of the gods, and for a long time, that blood held. But some have been marrying outside the bloodline. Every generation, the old blood gets thinner, and something in the people changes. The kings don't work together anymore. Now they just argue. Sometimes those arguments turn violent. Sometimes entire families go to war. Tonight, in a stone house near the Citadel, a young woman of the old line is having a difficult pregnancy. Her husband has a good name, but his family isn't of the old line. The midwives have seen this for years, always in mixed marriages. The mother will survive childbirth, the child never does. The midwife

• 13:18AJ Gentile?

  almost says "sori neku" out of habit. She stops herself. You don't wish luck on a child who's already gone.

• 13:26AJ Gentile?

  The kings gather and announce what the midwives already knew. Old blood doesn't mix. When it mixes, the children die. Nobody can explain why it works this way, only that it does. The old families make a decision. They call it "the rule." The rule says the old line can only marry within the old line. Any children born against the rule get thrown into the sea. It's the only way to keep the blood pure and to keep the peace. That decision outlives the island. Because deep under Atlantis, the ground is restless, the air is getting warmer, and the water is coming.

• 14:11Speaker 00

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• 15:11AJ Gentile?

  During the last Ice Age, the Bay of Biscay wasn't a bay. Sea levels were 400 feet lower, and the space between Spain and France was dry land. River valleys ran for miles past today's coastline. People could walk across the land that's now open water. Then the ice melted, and the seas rose for thousands of years. The rise came in surges, and during the biggest one, the ocean climbed 50 feet within a few lifetimes. People watched the land their parents grew up on go underwater. The water drowned the forests, then the valleys. High ground turned into islands, then the islands went under too.

• 15:48AJ Gentile?

  But the drowned world didn't vanish. Trawler's have pulled up worst stone from the seafloor, tools and weapons from villages that went under with the land. And up in the Pyrenees, there are cave paintings of animals that went extinct during the last Ice Age. People lived through all of it, and people remember. Basque fishing tradition remembers that world. Basque fishermen have names for huge parts of land at the bottom of the bay. Youscar names, names like drowned valley and lost land, passed from father to son. The families say the names are older than anyone could say, handed down from ancestors who knew that land when it was still land. Mainstream science says that's impossible. The names would have to be thousands of years old, kept alive without writing, without maps,

• 16:33AJ Gentile?

  and without the ability to go hundreds of feet underwater. Science assumed the basques showed up about 6,000 years ago. By then, the bay was already a bay. There was nothing to name. So the basques claimed to be an ancient civilization. Mainstream science says they were superstitious sailors. But then, the bottom of the bay was mapped with sonar, and all the underwater valleys, hills, and rivers are right where the basques said they were.

• 16:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, see, Grandpa's bedtime story's just passed peer review.

• 17:02AJ Gentile?

  But skeptics had an answer for that, too. The entire seafloor is covered with hills and rivers. It's easy to guess. But in 2021, an artifact was discovered in the area, a 2,000-year-old bronze hand, and written on it was the word "sori neku."

• 17:36AJ Gentile?

  The rule is a generation old now, and the old families keep it the way they keep the harvest calendar. They marry each other. They bury the children of those who don't.

• 17:49AJ Gentile?

  And they mark their houses. A smith works copper by firelight, a hand, flat, thin, life-sized, with a hole punched at the wrist. He scratches five words into the bronze. Every family knows them by heart. They go up on doors across the old quarter. The hand tells everyone, "People of old blood live here." A mother lifts her daughter so the girl can reach it. It's the same woman who buried a child in the years before the rule. This daughter was born of old blood, and this daughter lived.

• 18:19AJ Gentile?

  The girl presses her palm flat against the bronze and says the word her mother taught her: "sori neku," good fortune.

• 18:31AJ Gentile?

  The ground starts to move. The first shock knocks the market stalls flat. The second opens cracks in the walls. And the sea and the Great Canal begins to move the wrong way. It pulls back toward the ocean, dragging ships with it. The kings order an evacuation, and whole households move at once, down to the water, onto the boats.

• 19:59AJ Gentile?

  The sea comes back at sunset. By morning, there is no harbor. There is no city, just water to every horizon. A handful of boats drift east for days, rationing water, watching for land that doesn't come. A grandmother holds a child against the wind and starts talking, because the child won't stop shaking. It's her again. She's an old woman now, and the girl in her arms is her granddaughter. She tells her about the Green Isle, the beautiful place where their people lived before the water came. She tells it slowly, carefully. By the third night, the child is telling it back to her. She teaches her the word too, the one her own mother taught her on a door that doesn't exist anymore: "sori

• 20:42AJ Gentile?

  neku." Beneath the boats, the drowned country slides past. The elders name what they're passing over, the Valley of Two Rivers, the High Meadow, the Deep Water, spoken out loud so the children learn them.

• 21:01AJ Gentile?

  Land rises ahead, a green coast, and behind it, mountains. The boats come ashore, and a man carries something wrapped in a cloth up the beach, holding it against his chest like a child. He unwraps a small bronze hand, and before he drives the nail, he says the word into it: "sori neku." Then it goes up on the first door of the new world.

• 21:25AJ Gentile?

  Atlantis is gone, but its people and its story survived.

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• 22:37AJ Gentile?

  In the ruins of an Iron Age settlement in northern Spain, an archaeologist found a flat piece of bronze. It was a hand, life-sized, thin as a coin with a hole punched at the wrist. And it was found where it fell 2,000 years ago, at the doorway of a house. The village was burned by the Roman army, but the ash sealed the house and everything inside. The team thought it was a helmet decoration. Nobody noticed the writing until months later. When the bronze was cleaned, it revealed five words in an ancient Iberian script. Experts knew the first one: Zoriniku, "good fortune." The modern Basque word is Zoriniku. In 2,000 years, only two letters changed. The last word is close to the Basque word "to give," so maybe it's an offering or plea

• 23:22AJ Gentile?

  to the gods. Until the Hand of Irilegi was found, linguists thought the Basques were illiterate. Makes you wonder what else they got wrong. This is the oldest Basque sentence ever found. Three of its five words are still debated, but the first one, any Basque speaker can read on sight. That shouldn't be possible, because languages change. Greek changed, and Latin bled into dozens of languages around the world. An English speaker would have trouble speaking to English speakers 200 years ago. A thousand years ago, they wouldn't understand a word.

• 23:52Speaker 02

  A thousand years? You mean, I can't understand English from last Tuesday. What's a riz? And who's skipity? Is he dangerous?

• 24:01AJ Gentile?

  I honestly don't know what those words mean.

• 24:03Speaker 02

  Okay, Boomer.

• 24:06AJ Gentile?

  Almost every language in Europe, from Irish to Russian, sits in one big family tree. Not Euscarra. It has no relatives anywhere. Linguists spent careers trying to connect it to African languages, Native American languages, even ancient Sumerian. Nothing sticks.

• 24:20Speaker 02

  They tried every language on Earth. On Earth. The search area might need an update, just saying.

• 24:27AJ Gentile?

  Euscarra has some Latin words, but they're borrowed and came along very recently. It's a language that comes from nowhere, unless you count the middle of the sea, because they have a word for Atlantis, Atlantica, but not a word for their own country. The Basques don't even have a word for themselves. They call themselves Euscaldo, which means "one who has Euscarra," not someone from a place, someone who speaks a language. And the language refuses to die. Rome tried, then the Visigoths, then the Moors. Euscarra survived. In 1937, Francisco Franco's regime banned Euscarra. It survived anyway. Not through books or media, it was illegal. Instead, it was spoken quietly at dinner tables.

• 25:10AJ Gentile?

  Parents taught their children, just as they were taught, just as their grandparents were taught going back thousands of years.

• 25:16Speaker 02

  A secret language your government can't read? Somebody write that down. Don't tell the IRS.

• 25:22AJ Gentile?

  DNA from a 5,000-year-old grave in northern Spain only matched one group of people still alive today: the Basques. And even their bones looked different. They have broader shoulders and bigger frames. Basque skulls, measured in the 1800s, were closer to Cro-Magnon than other Europeans.

• 25:39Speaker 02

  Different blood, different language, different skulls? At what point does science just admit th-th-th-these are X-Men?

• 25:47AJ Gentile?

  5,000 years, the rule held. And though the Basques now live in a valley between the mountains, they know their blood is of the sea. Thousands of years ago, Atlantis fell and millions died. But by luck, or the will of the gods, a few escaped. And the Basques have a word for someone who's blessed or lucky: Zoriniku.

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• 27:21AJ Gentile?

  High in the mountains, where the snow closes the passes half the year, there's a door with a bronze hand nailed to it. The woman who lives behind it came here on a boat. She was the girl who wouldn't stop shaking. She's an old woman now herself, and tonight, her own granddaughter is asking questions. The girl knows the story: the rings of the city, the red metal flashing in the sun, the night the sea took it all back. She can tell it in order, beginning to end, because that's how she was taught, and that's how she'll teach it. Tonight, she's asking a different question. She wants to know why she can only marry inside the old families. The old woman gives her the only answer anyone has left. We keep the rule. She doesn't explain the why, because she doesn't have it.

• 28:05AJ Gentile?

  The why's stayed behind on the island. And when everyone keeps a rule, nobody living has seen what breaking it cost. What survived is the keeping. Marry inside the old families, mark the door, say the word. The girl puts her palm on the bronze hand, the way her grandmother taught her, the way somebody taught her grandmother. Zoriniku. The island will soften into a bedtime story. The Green Isle, a beautiful place, far away, gone. Nobody will write it down, and nobody ever writes the rule down either. It lives where the language lives: in the mouth and in the blood. Thousands of years later, we drew that blood out of their arms and put it under a microscope.

• 28:59AJ Gentile?

  An isolated society in the mountains between Spain and France carries blood that matches nobody. They speak a language related to nothing. They tell a story about an ancient island that fell beneath the sea. It's a great story, but is it true? Well, the story starts with Plato, and that's the biggest problem. Most scholars think he invented Atlantis as a warning about power and arrogance. Everything tonight was dramatized from Plato and the Basque legend. Even if Atlantis were a real place, people still can't agree on its location. There are a few candidates, like Bimini Road and the Reshot Structure in Africa, but the geography isn't quite right, so they're just theories for now. There's no physical evidence either. Nobody's found the Egyptian records shown to Solon.

• 29:41AJ Gentile?

  There's no ruins, no artifacts, no proof of an advanced civilization at the bottom of the ocean. But there is plenty of evidence of settlements underwater, and we find new ones all the time. Ships have brought up tools, pottery, gold, even wine. But it's all Stone Age, Iron Age, and Bronze Age stuff, unless you count the Antigthera mechanism, which is pretty incredible for its age. But nothing about it says Atlantis.

• 30:04Speaker 02

  A 2,000-year-old computer, and nothing about it says Atlantis. Okay, okay. Nothing about it says Greece either.

• 30:12AJ Gentile?

  And the Basque legend of Atlantica probably isn't Basque. Nobody can find it anywhere before the modern world fell in love with Atlantis. It looks like something the fans made up, and I'm one of the fans. But I want to see real evidence, not an internet meme. Same with the fishing names. We couldn't find those anywhere outside Atlantis folklore. Euscarra is an orphan language. With no parents, that's true, but there are others, like Japanese and Korean. But Chinese has seeped into almost every Asian language, just like there are Latin words in Euscarra. So a few languages might not have parents, but they've got neighbors. The bronze hand of Irilegi has skeptics, too. The worlds don't match Euscarra as well as the stories claim. But the blood is strange.

• 30:55AJ Gentile?

  Science knows exactly what RH negative blood is. That gene has shown up in ancient bones all over Europe, but nobody knows why their recessive gene stuck around so long or why it's so prevalent in the Basques. The Basques probably aren't the children of Atlantis, but they still might be the children of a flood. When the ice melted, the rising water took the coast, and whoever lived there got pushed into the mountains. However the Basques out there, they stayed, and maybe they had to. When an RH negative mother carries an RH-positive child, the first baby's usually fine, but the ones after can die. A Basque woman who married inside the valleys mostly carried children like herself, safe.

• 31:38AJ Gentile?

  A Basque woman who married an outsider buried babies. And nobody really knew why until the 1940s. Even if the Basques didn't create the rule, their blood may have enforced it. That gives the Basques a unique identity. It's a story they all share. And I think that's why America feels so divided. We no longer have a shared story. We all live in our own story now. We keep what we like, we throw out what we don't, even if we throw out the truth. We sort ourselves into tribes that only tell one version of the story. And every tribe squares its version is the whole story, and it never is. The Basques kept one story alive for 5,000 years. We can't keep one through an election. I don't know how a country gets its story back. I don't think anybody does.

• 32:22AJ Gentile?

  But I can always pray. Zoriniku.

• 32:36AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. You're Sackelfish.

• 32:39Speaker 02

  The oldest basket artifact is a bronze and it says good fortune. As a guy with no hands, I find it culturally insensitive. Beautiful, but insensitive.

• 32:49AJ Gentile?

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• 33:25AJ Gentile?

  time travel, extrasolar objects, quantum theory, robotics. It's random. The DMT laser code was crazy. And if there's someone you'd like to see on the show, let me know. I'm always on the hunt for good guests. If you're looking for books mentioned in the episodes or by a guest, we now keep them on a website called the library. The link is below. Maybe. It's new. Or go to theyfiles.com. The link might be there. Maybe. It's new. Remember, the Y Files is also a podcast. You can take us on the road and listen 24/7. I upload at least twice a week. Episodes, campfire stories, interviews. It's called The Y Files Operation Podcast. It's available everywhere you get your podcasts. And speaking of 24/7,

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  check out our 24/7 stream of the Y Files backstage. Over there, we run episodes back to back with some fun, unique content in between that you can't see here on the main channel. And the live chat is more entertaining than anything. Special thanks to our patrons who make this channel possible. Every episode of the Y Files is dedicated to my Patreon members. Couldn't do any of this without you. Thank you. I appreciate you. And if you'd like to support the channel, keep us going, and join this community, become a member on Patreon. For as little as $3 a month, you get access to purpose-like videos, early with no commercials, exclusive merch, and two private live streams every week just for you. And the whole Y Files team is on the stream. Last week, we had Hybrid, Mrs. Y Files was on there, Victoria, Gino was there. And you get to meet all of us, but

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  But if you're gonna buy merch, make sure you become a member on YouTube. Hear me out. YouTube members get 10% off everything in the Y Files store forever. And it's only $3. So if you're gonna spend $40 on t-shirts and fistful coffee mugs, become a member, get the code, it pays for itself, and then just cancel. I don't mind that. The code is there to save you money, not make me money. Everything from membership goes to the team. I don't touch it.

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  Those, those are the plugs, right? I've been talking for an hour. I must've got them all. I think I did. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

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