The Gospel According to the House Hippo

The Gospel According to the House Hippo

After an 11-month hiatus that felt like a biblical epoch, Tristan and Scott are back to ask the tough questions, like "Do you remember the name of our own podcast?" and "Do Christians actually believe in angels?". The answer, according to Ancient Aliens, is that they shouldn't because angels were actually extraterrestrial visitors misunderstood by primitive humans.

Join us as we dive into the linguistic weeds, tracing words like the Hebrew malak and the Greek angelos to reveal how "messenger of God" got deliberately misinterpreted as "messenger from another planet". We'll explore similar divine go-betweens in Akkadian, Zoroastrian, and even Islamic traditions, all while trying to figure out how a Canadian PSA about a tiny, crumb-eating hippo is the key to media literacy. We connect the dots between cherry-picking ancient texts for aliens and the more sinister historical revisionism of the Lost Cause and Nazi archaeology because of course we do.

Stuff mentioned in the epsiode:

House Hippo PSA (Concerned Children's Advertisers)

Ice Angel (2000)

Assassin's Creed Isu lore

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (angel hierarchy)

Michael (1996) - John Travolta film

Angels in the Outfield (1994)

Draw with Jazza YouTube channel

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