Vernon Harcourt - 1838

Source video: Secrets of History from an Old 1838 Book: Forgotten Books of the 1800s – Part I (presenter "Jason"; channel Archaix / Jason Breshears). Note: the transcript contains no sponsor segment, so there was nothing to omit on that count.

1. The book

• The book is real: published in 1838 by Leveson Vernon Harcourt, defending the biblical Flood against geological criticism ^[1][2][3].
• Jason says he had never read or had access to this book until a viewer ("an errand") sent it to him. He has Book Two as well and expects one or two more videos from it.
• He claims the book draws on 14th–18th-century source materials, which is what gives it value.
• He says it independently verifies his own prior theses: Phoenix, Typhon, Nemesis X, the pre-flood and post-flood worlds, Gilgamesh, Hercules, Nimrod, Osiris, the sun, and vapour canopies.

2. Significant points raised (by theme)

2.1 Old books as sources / Bible translations

• Jason highlights Harcourt's citation of the 1478 Bible of Bonifacio Ferrer (Valencian/Catalan) as an example of how words and meanings changed from translation to translation. This is historically accurate — Ferrer's Valencian Bible was printed at Valencia in 1478 ^[4][5].
• He uses this to rebut claims that "everything before 1776 is fake" or that "the Bible was invented in the 1500s." He notes his own 1662 Bible references earlier translations.
• Harcourt also cites a Greek emperor "Isaac" (1185), styled "Cersac" by "Via Hardun," and (per Jason) Edward Gibbon. A chat member ("Joel") identified the cited "Angelus" as a Greek monk.

2.2 The three branches of the "Caucasian race" (Harcourt's classification)

Jason stresses this is Harcourt's 19th-century classification, "not saying it's real":

1. Scythian and Tartarian — "of no consequence in literature"; oral tradition, no documents.
2. Aramaean — Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Phoenicians, Abyssinians, Jews, and probably the original Egyptians.
3. Slavonian / Indian (Sanskrit), called Pelasgic by the ancient Greeks, from which Greek, Latin and southern-European idioms derive.

• Jason adds that modern Greek is heavily influenced by Indo-Iranian via the Dorian invasions after the "sea peoples" disappeared (1135 BC).

2.3 The Giza / Great Pyramid thesis

• The pyramids "carried the reader of hieroglyphics back to the origin of the existing world"; Jason claims pyramids antedate hieroglyphics, and that Giza hieroglyphics were "forged in 1837" (he names Howard Vyse — transcript "Humphrey's Brewer / Colonel Howard Vice").
• The pyramid was "said to be the work of Philitis" (transcript "Feliton"). Jason links this to his book Lost Scriptures of Giza: Philitis was post-flood, knew the "secret chambers of Thoth," and was invited to Pharaoh's court.
• Northern Egypt was "the raised land" (not Mitzraim/Waset/Keit) because it had recently emerged from water.
• He cites evidence for the pyramid having been underwater: "wave crust"/water damage on the Great Pyramid; two-thirds submerged; water damage on the Sphinx; fossils and sea shells found at Giza by Frederick Norden (transcript "Frederick Nordon Lewis") in the 1700s; high saline/moisture readings inside the pyramid.
• He attributes the submersion to a ~300 ft dip of the North African plate, not to rainfall/uniformitarian explanations. He cites the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (transcript "71755") as an example of rapid catastrophic change (60,000 killed; the quay broke off and sank).
• Diodorus Siculus and Strabo called the Sahara the Triton Sea. He dates the plate's rise to 1899 BC (340 years after the Noachic flood of 2239 BC), creating the Nine Bows (nine rivers) of the Giza delta and the land of Goshen.
• The Great Pyramid = the "ēkur" (divine mountain with "the plans with numbers"); later Sumerian ziggurats were named after it. Giza means "border" — a border between realms/planes, effectively a "stargate."
• Mena/Menes (Egyptian) = Anom (Sumerian) — the same name written in opposite directions; also called the Scorpion King / Narmer. He places Menes/first dynasty at about 1879 BC.
• Abraham/Abram connection: a 110-year-old man from the Philistine city of Gerar (Greek Philistion, "native of Philistia") visited Pharaoh and knew the secrets of Thoth — the same story Jason says appears in Egyptian texts and in Genesis. He equates Abram with Brahma, and Sarai with Saraswati. All in Lost Scriptures of Giza.

2.4 The floods (his list)

• He insists these floods are centuries apart and are wrongly merged into one by Christians, Jews, and "Younger Dryas" proponents.
• The Ogygian deluge left Boeotia/Greece uninhabitable for 189 years (per Greek authors), which he uses to show Harcourt's own flood date of 1529 BC is mistaken.

2.5 The vapour canopy and the post-flood world

• The pre-flood world had a vapour canopy/mesosphere ("an ocean in the sky"), filtering sunlight, letting in some UV. Native Americans called it the "time of the dark purple light."
• Result: giant creatures and people, higher oxygen and pressure, rapid healing; killing someone "took work" (his reading of Cain and Abel).
• Collapse = sky "flash-froze" like glass/crystal (the firmament); iceberg-sized pieces fell, then melted; the burning sun and distant moon appeared; large creatures died from lack of oxygen, not cold; only smaller creatures born afterwards thrived.
• Volcanoes eject superheated gases/water into the atmosphere (creating canopies), not primarily lava.

2.6 Ovid, Deucalion and the ark/pyramid

• He quotes Ovid on the flood (Jupiter/Zeus destroying the race by flood; clouds pouring down; fountains of the great deep broken up by earthquake).
• Deucalion (transcript "Ducalon") = the Greek Noah ("new wine sailor"); his wife Pyrrha ("red") = the wine link; offspring = a "stony progeny." He links this to petrifaction at the flood (citing physicist Paul LaViolette,
• The ark/original Argo: the Argo of Jason and the Argonauts was named after the original ark; the ark's builder = Noah. The caduceus (staff with serpents) predates Moses by seven centuries.
• The first "ark" was the Great Pyramid — built to preserve knowledge through a cataclysm; survivors later reinterpreted "ark" as a boat and had it land on a divine mountain (Mount Meru), the "centre of the earth" = Giza (0° latitude/longitude of the pre-cataclysm world).

2.7 Babel / Shem / Sham

• Harcourt identifies the Tower of Babel with a great pyramid of earth and brick. Jason ties shem ("name" and "architectural structure") to boundary pillars with witnesses — the Great Pyramid as a shim/boundary marker to "somewhere else."
• A Samaritan Targum on Babel (Latin: faciamus... mediocrem locum simulacrum) is translated by Jason as "let us make a place of worship and an image in the midst of it."

2.8 Al-Ma'mun and the alpha pyramid

• In 820 AD the Caliph Al-Ma'mun tunnelled into the Great Pyramid, dislodged a ceiling block and found three granite plugs, then the Grand Gallery, Queen's Chamber, King's Chamber, antechamber, and an empty sarcophagus — with only salt crystals inside.
• Because no other pyramid worldwide replicates these upper features, Jason argues the Great Pyramid is the alpha pyramid and all others are copies.

2.9 Sippar / City of the Sun / Eden

• Berossus and Abydenus (via Josephus, Contra Apionem and Antiquities, and Eusebius) mention Sippar ("Sephar"/Hebrew Sifir = "place of books"), where the flood hero buried pre-flood records. Jason links this to the City of the Sun (Heliopolis) near Saqqara, the benben stone, and the phoenix.
• He argues Sippar → Hesperus → the garden of the Hesperides = Eden ("walled garden/fortification"), the Giza complex with its retaining wall and Nile-fed orchards.

2.10 Ham, Noah's nakedness, and the "stony progeny"

• Hercules = Ham (per the Recognitions of Clement); Ham, knowing the flood was coming, engraved forbidden sciences on metal/stone and recovered them after the flood.
• On Noah's nakedness, Jason argues (using "scripture to interpret scripture" and Levitical law) that Ham slept with his mother, not a homosexual act — hence Canaan's curse. He cites Strong's Concordance: only two references to "father's nakedness."
• Noah's wife = Naamah (transcript "Neya/Neyma"), granddaughter of Enoch; he describes Noah and Naamah as "titans" whose immediate offspring were giants.

2.11 The serpent, the bull, and the moon

• Harcourt: "The serpent was an ancient symbol of the flood… but after it came into contact with Jewish history, it assumed another meaning." Jason ties nahash ("serpent") to "interpreter."
• He links Typhon to the Ouroboros (circle/cycle = the Typhonian calendar), and says Typhon was originally a canine — hence the Sphinx was originally Anubis, later recarved into a lion (head of younger, discoloured rock).
• Cerberus (three-headed dog guarding the underworld) = progeny of Typhon and Echidna; he connects it to Anubis and to the Aztec "great dog" at the head of the nine rivers (the Nine Bows).
• Kneph (transcript "Nef") = temple at Elephantine; he links the name to the Phoenix.
• The bull was a lunar symbol (horns = crescent), sacrificed to the moon; Minoan bull-leaping reliefs at Knossos, Crete. He argues the bull became solarised only after the patriarchal takeovers following the cataclysm, when goddesses were "kidnapped" as consorts of male gods — his proposed origin of marriage (he says he has no pre-cataclysm references to marriage as an exclusive contract).

2.12 Medusa, Andromeda and human sacrifice

• He reinterprets Perseus and Medusa: the Kraken = a tsunami; Joppa (Jaffa) was destroyed; Argos was threatened; a virgin was sacrificed to the sea. Jellyfish toxin paralysed the victim (to appear willing); a giant squid was placed on her face; if she survived, her disfigured face ("turns men to stone") became Medusa, and the squid's tentacles became the serpent-hair.

2.13 Rome, Numa, and the 170-year count

• King Numa forbade images of the deity for 170 years of Rome. Jason notes Rome was founded 753 BC; 170 years later = 583 BC, the year the sun darkened (predicted by Thales of Miletus) and the Pythian oracle declared a new age — a "phoenix year" on the 138-year countdown.

2.14 May and November / the Typhonian calendar

• The Scots avoided marriage in May ("only bad women marry in that month").
• The Celtic year began 1 May; beltane fires (two fires, men and beasts passed between them; purification) and 1 November fires — Jason links May↔November as a six-month pair.
• Phoenix = mid-May; Nemesis X = 1–2 November (his model: the Terran and Nemesis planes intersect twice yearly, at the "ecliptics").
• Irish Samhain (transcript "Shna O Shamna"/"midoo") = month of mourning = the Egyptian mourning for Osiris.
• The Milesians' banner was a serpent around a rod (same as the "appendage of Hercules").
• He ties the Tuatha Dé Danann and Fomorians/Fir Bolg at the Battle of Moytura to weaponising a sun-darkening, as Jacob did against the Canaanites (1687 BC), and Atreus (an astronomer) did against his warlord brother in 1273 BC.

2.15 The "egg" and parthenogenesis

• The Typhon/orphic egg symbol (winged egg, pyramid, eye; serpent encircling) = the Typhonian calendar.
• The Egyptian egg-god Ta = Phoenician Vulcan = Greek Typhon/Phoenix.
• Jason predicts (his own view) that eggs of amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds will hatch "something else" under a parthenogenetic field of Nemesis X — hence dinosaurs on the surface while human remains are found deep in coal seams. He frames this as a natural cycle recurring in 2039–2046.

2.16 Moses, the zodiac and Job

• Harcourt: the writings of Moses show no astronomical observation; no star is named in the Pentateuch; years/months are lunar, with no intercalation rules.
• Jason argues there was no solar zodiac in the ancient world (Egypt had the 36 decans); the solar zodiac was built from the 7th century BC over ~600 years.
• Mazzaroth (Job) is, he says, a later Jewish interpolation, not "zodiac" — he cites a Jewish source to that effect.
• Kesil (transcript "Chessel") = Orion; Eridanus = "river of Orion," an emblem of the deluge; Dendera zodiac scorpion accompanied by the hippopotamus = emblem of Typhon.
• Wilkinson dates the zodiac to ~1,800 years before his time, i.e. no zodiac in the most ancient temples (Thebes).

2.17 The 1838 author's core argument Jason commends

• Harcourt argues Deucalion's flood was confused with Noah's, and that the ancients attributed the flood to abundant rains, not lake-bursting. Jason repeatedly accuses Harcourt of the uniformitarian error — assuming water rose rather than the land sank.

3. Lists Jason emphasises

• His own books/works: Lost Scriptures of Giza (~20 years ago), When the Sun Darkens (phoenix phenomenon), Nostradamus and the Planets of Apocalypse (follow-up), Shocking Secrets of Antiquity, the two "Bronze Age race wars that divided history," and Chronicon.
• Themes verified by the book: Phoenix, Typhon, Nemesis X, pre-flood/post-flood world, Gilgamesh, Hercules, Nimrod, Osiris, the sun, vapour canopies.
• Names of one man (Hercules): Sargon, Gilgamesh, Nimrod, Bel/Baal, "Amidon," Adonis, "Addis" (uncertain renderings).
• "Two Egypts": southern cities — Waset/Thebes, Karnak, Edfu, Abydos, Valley of the Kings (no pyramids) — vs northern (Lower) Egypt, where all ~138 pyramids are; separated by ~450 miles of desert.
• The 138-year Phoenix cycle, the 1,460/1,461-year Sothic period, the 365-year Enoch count, the 52-year Mesoamerican calendar round, and the 33 jubilees / 50-year jubilee.

4. Authorities and sources cited (within the video)

5. Key dates mentioned

6. Closing

• Jason says he had reached 3 hours 8 minutes and had not yet reached his most important files, so he announces a Part II (in a couple of days), which will cover: the Star of the God Rimfan, the Tabernacle of Molech, "Baal was a man," the real history of Gilgamesh and Sargon I, and how Baal may have been taken out by a shape-changer.
• The video ends with a non-standard apocalyptic monologue outro ("These are the death throes of an age… the apocalypse has always been about removing the veil between worlds").

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