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Sep 26, 2026
Darren KelamaHOST
We are exploring a highly provocative peer-reviewed academic paper by A.W. Mitchell.
Darren KelamaHOST
It's titled The Shasu Mutation.
speaker_1HOST
And Mitchell argues that the stunned silence in 1872 was really just the tip of a massive historical iceberg.
Darren KelamaHOST
Yeah, because this paper claims that the biblical flood wasn't just the innocent borrowing of a good story by some ancient writers.
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speaker_1HOST
To find it, we have to travel back to 1500 BCE, long before the Babylonian exile, to identify the raw human material that provided the initial coding for this tribal deity.
Darren KelamaHOST
And who was that?
speaker_1HOST
We are looking at a population known in Egyptian imperial records as the Shasu.
Darren KelamaHOST
The Shasu nomads.
Jeremiah JamesHOST
He built a massive temple called the s- on a place called the Soleb in what is now Sudan, and he carved into the temple inscriptions naming foreign peoples and territory name are known to the Egyptians.
Jeremiah JamesHOST
And one of those inscriptions have fascinated scholars for decades because it refers to a group of people called the Shasu of YHWH.
Jeremiah JamesHOST
Now, Shasu was a term Egyptians used for a group of nomadic people, but it's those three letters, YHWH, that matters to us because the scholars have recognized a connection between this Egyptian name and the biblical name, YHWH, or Yahweh.
Jeremiah JamesHOST
Let me, let me share this with you right here.
Jeremiah JamesHOST
It's a, a Cambridge source.
WillHOST
Yeah.
SamHOST
Where were they before the conquest? Like, Egypt tells us that they were the Shasu, so they spent some time wandering for a while.
SamHOST
We know that from the Bible, but where were they before the wandering? And the only answer I can find, gee, maybe they were in a city that was suddenly abandoned where all of the slaves that were building store cities in Egypt, in the city of Rameses, in the city of Pithom, in the region of Goshen, suddenly vanished.
WillHOST
Hmm.
Collin ConkwrightGUEST
And then you get into, you know, I mean, I think just recently there's been some talk about Anastasi I, this sort of ancient Egyptian papyrus.
Collin ConkwrightGUEST
like third millennia BC discussing the Shashu or Shashu giants that were in the Levant region.
Collin ConkwrightGUEST
And there's a relief, there's an ancient Egyptian relief that anyone can look up and it shows Egyptians with two giants as their prisoners and they're kind of like beating them and they were spies apparently.
Collin ConkwrightGUEST
So, you know, the idea that they were larger hominids, like that is everywhere.