hat is human history?
It is a record of the victors, of power and purpose.
Evolution, the agricultural revolution, and so on,
most are at least vaguely familiar with these concepts.
But what if it is not quite so simple?
What if the stories of the ancients,
tales of gods and angels, of giants and disasters,
are more literal than they might seem upon first glance?
Look closer, and an alternative history of the human race
may be revealed.
One which totally upends conventional knowledge
and the history of power.
This is an alternative history
which has been censored out of human understanding,
mostly forgotten or ignored.
Until now.

In early 1946, in the region now known as the West Bank,
a group of Bedouin teenagers
were tending to their sheep and goats
near the ancient settlement of Qumran.
To pass the time, monotonous as it was,
they threw around the rocks they found
littered across the rugged desert terrain.
When one such rock was thrown
into the dark expanse of a cave,
the teenagers were surprised to hear a loud shattering noise
echoing from within.
Exploring, they found a collection of large clay jars,
one of which had been broken.
Though they did not know it at that moment,
these teenagers had made a historic discovery.
Inside the jars were a series of ancient scrolls.
In the years that followed this discovery,
archaeologists, historians, and treasure hunters
would find additional scroll fragments
in 10 other caves in the area,
their composition forming some 800 to 900 manuscripts
collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Among these manuscripts were large portions
of a mysterious non-canonical religious text
which had long been forgotten.
It was called the Book of Enoch.
In its entirety, The Book of Enoch is made up of five books,
The Book of Watchers, Book of Parables,
The Astronomical Book, The Dream Visions,
and The Epistles of Enoch, containing some 100 chapters.
These chapters tell the story of the 7th patriarch
in the Book of Genesis,
Enoch, the father of Methuselah and grandfather of Noah,
the same Noah in the biblical story of Noah's Ark.
Yet, this was not the biblical story of Noah's Ark.
In fact, the Book of Enoch provides
an entirely different recounting of the events
leading up to the Great Flood of Noah's time,
that is a completely different doctrinal history.
It tells a story of the Watchers,
explained in biblical terms to be fallen angels,
sent to earth to watch over humans
at some undefined and ancient point in time.
Unfortunately, far from merely watching humans,
these Watchers became infatuated by human women,
and in short order, began to engage
in depraved sexual acts with them.
The Book of Enoch tells of the children born
through this interbreeding between Watchers and humans,
called the Nephilim.
These Nephilim were as described,
"giants and savages that endangered and pillaged humanity,"
or, said another way, "supernatural, man-eating giants."
Angered with what the Watchers had done,
those described as gods
chained them in a subterranean prison deep within the earth.
Enoch became the go-between gods and imprisoned Watchers.
The Book describes Enoch's journeys between heaven and earth
in his role as an intermediary,
how he flew with the angels and saw the rivers and mountains
and the very ends of the earth from above.
Yet, despite Enoch's intervention,
the gods decided the atrocity that the earth had become
must be punished.
Of course, the punishment would be a great flood.
This flood would destroy the Nephilim
and cement the Watchers in their prison.
Beforehand, however,
Enoch would be whisked away to heaven in a fiery chariot.
Interestingly, the Book of Genesis,
which tells of the Great Flood in Abrahamic traditions,
references the Nephilim in Chapter six,
describing "heroes that were of old, warriors of renown."
This is not the only place in biblical canon
which the Nephilim appear.
In Numbers 13:32-33,
the Israelites visit a land inhabited by Nephilim,
who are so large
they make the Israelites look like grasshoppers.
Of course, many things in the Bible
are seen in modern times as allegorical,
that is, more philosophical myth than historical record.
There is archaeological evidence of a great flood
in the earth's past,
one, incidentally, also spoken about in countless
religious and cultural traditions across the world.
Had beings like Nephilim giants actually existed?
Surely there would be similar evidence.
What if there is?
In our 30-minute documentary video about giants,
which we linked in the description and comments,
we highlighted dozens of stories of enormous skeletons
unearthed across North America,
together with many newspaper articles
from the late 19th and early 20th century
suggesting that ancient giants were indeed real
and coexisted with early humans.
This is not a phenomenon confined to the United States.
Similarly, enormous skeletons have been found
in the Amazon Rainforest, Africa, and elsewhere.
In fact, stories of giants
permeate human history and tradition.
The famed explorer Marco Polo
once wrote of a race of giants in Zanzibar who were
"so strong they can carry as many as four ordinary men,"
while the people of modern-day Tangier, Morocco
once claimed their city's founder was a giant named Antaeus.
According to Irish myth, the so-called Giant's Causeway
off the northeast coast of Ireland,
an astonishing 40,000 interlocking columns of rock,
was built by the Irish giant Finn McCool
so that he could walk across the sea to Scotland
to fight another giant.
Further, stories of giants dot Norse legends
and ancient Greek mythology.
Perhaps if giants did exist,
as these records across countless cultures suggest,
then the Book of Enoch is less allegorical
than it might originally appear,
less fantastical myth and more grounded in actual history.
It is interesting to note that for centuries,
the Book of Enoch was an important part
of both Christian and Jewish religious traditions.
Many, if not most, sects accepted the book as scripture.
Further, some have even suggested
that the Book of Enoch was the inspiration
for the Book of Genesis,
due to their many parallels and overlapping stories.
The question is thus, what happened?
Why is the Book of Enoch not part of the Bible?
To answer this, we must go back to the early centuries
after the death of Jesus Christ.
Far from the rigid canon of 39 Old Testament
and 27 New Testament books that we know as the Bible today.
Originally, there were numerous gospels and religious texts
which made up the broad spectrum of Christian tradition.
As the Christian religion grew after the death of Jesus,
the burgeoning Christian church needed to know
which texts should be read and followed,
which teachings should be applied,
which texts would be deemed as acceptable
and divinely inspired.
The church needed, out of diversity,
to create uniformity, they needed an official canon.
In a story popularized in modern times
by Dan Brown's seminal work The Da Vinci Code,
this canonization is remembered as happening,
somewhat nefariously, at the Council of Nicea
in the 4th century.
There, according to the story, Emperor Constantine
and other high-ranking church authorities
shaped the Christian canon
to conform to their own secret agenda.
Unfortunately, this is not historically accurate.
The Council of Nicea
did not determine the official Christian canon.
Don't blame Dan Brown,
the famed philosopher Voltaire,
made a similar assertion in the 1700s.
But while the story may not be factually accurate,
it is accurate in a sense.
High ranking members of the church
certainly did pick and choose what to include
in the official biblical canon,
they argued, pulled strings,
cast their opponents as heretics,
and almost certainly sought to expand their own power.
It just didn't take place at a single council,
but rather, as a much longer process
between the 1st and 4th centuries.
It is generally understood
that by the end of the 4th century,
the process was complete and the Bible was officially set
without the Book of Enoch.
How could something as influential,
if not vital, as the Book of Enoch be left out?
To answer this question, one might examine other gospels
which were also censored from the final product.
Consider the Gospel of Peter,
a fragment of which was found in Egypt in 1886,
which tells the long-missing story
of a resurrected Jesus leaving his tomb
and features two gigantic angels
and a floating cross that talks
"And they heard a voice from the heavens, saying,
"'Thou hast preached to them that sleep.'
"And a response was heard from the cross, 'Yea.'"
Or, consider the Gospel of Mary,
that notorious work in which Mary Magdalene
is named not only as one of Jesus' disciples,
but his favorite one, perhaps even his wife.
Within this gospel, the disciple Peter asks
why he and the other disciples
should listen to Mary, a woman, to which Matthew responds,
"If the Savior made her worthy,
"who are you then, for your part, to cast her aside?
"Surely the Savior knows her full well.
"That is why he has loved her more than us."
Like the Book of Enoch, these gospels tell extraordinary
and history-challenging stories.
Perhaps then, it should be no surprise
that these texts were censored out
by early power brokers of the official Christian canon.
It stands to reason that the Book of Enoch
may have been totally forgotten
if not for its survival in small orthodox sects
of Ethiopian Jews.
In fact, the only pre-modern version of the text
was written in Ge'ez, an ancient African language.
It was this version which Richard Laurence,
the Archbishop of Cashel, used in 1821
to produce the first ever English translation of the book,
the version used to inform study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Curiously, though the Book of Enoch
was omitted from the established Christian canon
and subsequently forgotten
in all but the most obscure corners of religious tradition
and theological study,
the Bible does contain numerous references to it.
There are references to the Nephilim
in Genesis and Numbers.
Genesis also contains an extensive recounting
of Enoch's lineage.
The Book of Hebrews describes how
"God had taken Enoch away,"
seemingly a reference to his being taken to heaven
via fiery chariot before the Great Flood.
Jude, meanwhile, contains an entire paragraph
transcribed almost word-for-word from Enoch,
suggesting that the Book may, in fact,
have served as an early inspiration
for canonical biblical texts.
Further, Corinthians 11:5-6
contains instructions from St. Paul
that women should cover their heads while in church.
This, seemingly a direct reference
to the fact that the Watchers in the Book of Enoch
were attracted to women with long flowing hair.
This is a practice which remains
in Roman Catholicism and Islam to this day.
Though it was censored, even forgotten,
the Book of Enoch never truly disappeared.
There is something deeper behind the Book of Enoch
and its incredible stories,
something which goes beyond simply
whether or not it is part of the Christian canon.
It has been pointed out that Enoch,
the 7th patriarch of the Bible,
seems to reflect the 7th antediluvian king, Enmenduranna,
in Babylonian tradition.
The ancient Greeks believed Enoch
to be the same as the god Hermes,
while ancient Egyptians had someone similar
in their own tradition.
The examples could continue, and so it must be asked,
why does Enoch, no matter his name,
keep appearing in the traditions of the ancients?
The answer may go back further than the Greeks,
Egyptians, or even the Babylonians,
back to the ancient Sumerians.
According to Sumerian texts,
earth was visited by a group of supernatural beings
sometime in the distant past.
These visitors are described in Sumerian tradition
in a way that is eerily similar
to descriptions of the Watchers in the Book of Enoch.
Instead of Watchers, however,
Sumerians called these beings the Anunnaki,
which literally means "those who came from the heavens".
They were gods, to the Sumerians
to modern thinkers like Zecharia Sitchin
and Erich von Däniken,
they were an ancient race of aliens who came to earth.
Interestingly, Sumerian texts tell stories
of these Anunnaki, much like the Watchers,
beginning to interbreed with human beings,
creating an entirely new species in the process,
reflecting the creation of the Nephilim.
Like the gods of the Book of Enoch,
the Anunnaki became angered with the condition of the earth
and brought about a great flood.
Is it possible the Book of Enoch,
as well as other related traditions,
are simply retelling the older Sumerian story
of the Anunnaki?
Consider the Agricultural Revolution,
which began around 10,000 BCE,
during which time human beings transitioned
from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering
to one of agriculture and settlement.
According to historical record, as early as 9500 BCE,
in what is now modern Kurdistan,
barley, wheat, and rye were being cultivated,
oats, peas, and lentils were being grown,
while goats and sheep were domesticated.
Some 500 years after that,
copper and lead smelting were taking place in the region,
alongside weaving and pottery making.
Additionally, this ancient Kurdish culture
was the first to develop a script,
standing as one of humanity's earliest literate societies.
Some have asked how human beings
could have made this jump so fast.
Interestingly, the Kurdish people
claim to be the descendants of the "Children of the Djinn"
the Children of Spirits.
Is this an ancient cultural reference
to the procreation between Anunnaki and human women?
According to the Sumerians,
it was the Anunnaki who brought advanced knowledge
and technology to human beings,
lending a helping hand, as it were,
to the progression of human civilization.
Many have suggested that this explains
seemingly impossible monuments
like the pyramids of Giza or Teotihuacan,
those ancient monuments of
"extraordinary sophistication
"which is completely unexplained by the cultural
"and social circumstances of historical record."
Perhaps this also explains how human beings
were able to transition from nomadic hunter-gatherers
to sophisticated civilizations
in a historically insignificant amount of time.
Incredibly, the Book of Enoch
describes an almost identical process taking place,
with the Watchers mirroring the Anunnaki
in providing humans with advanced knowledge and technology.
They teach humans metallurgy and mining,
science and medicine, how to read and write,
and how to read the stars,
they teach humans to wear cosmetics and make jewelry
and reveal the secrets of the art of war.
The Book of Enoch 8:1-3a reads,
"And Azazel taught men to make swords
"and knives and shields and breastplates
"and made known to them the metals [of the earth]
"and the art of working them and bracelets and ornaments
"and the use of antimony and the beautifying of the eyelids
"and all kinds of costly stones and all colouring tinctures.
"And there arose much godlessness
"and they committed fornication and they were led astray
"and became corrupt in all their ways."
Was the Book of Enoch, in this way,
merely reflecting and retelling the story of the Anunnaki?
It is interesting that the most common example
given of something "completely unexplained by the cultural
"and social circumstances of historical record,"
that is to say, something the Anunnaki
must surely have helped ancient humans with,
are the Egyptian pyramids.
According to the ancient Arabian historian Al-Maqrizi,
these pyramids were built by a king named Saurid,
who lived before the Great Flood.
Incidentally, Saurid translated into Hebrew, is Enoch.
Consider elsewhere in the Book of Enoch,
in a chapter in which Enoch bears witness to
"the secrets of the lightnings"
and "the secrets of the thunder."
Some have suggested, this chapter is meant to
illuminate the riddles of energy and electricity.
Again, this relates directly to the Anunnaki,
who many believe have been trying to reveal similar secrets
to human beings through crop circles for some time.
In our latest video, called Crop Circles Contain Blueprints
for Free Energy Devices,
we talked how in only the past few decades,
crop circles have appeared across the world
detailing complex mathematical equations,
magnetic diagrams and motors, mechanical routers
and the field lines of an electrical charge,
the work, according to some, of the Anunnaki.
In fact, consider Enoch's description
of his journey to meet the gods
while keeping in mind the UFO sightings
which often accompany and compliment these crop circles,
"I was taken to a kind of floating palace," Enoch said.
"It was huge, like carved glass.
"The floor had glass plates.
"Through the floor you could see the stars
"we were crossing."
With this in mind, one might wonder
if the 'fiery chariot' which took Enoch away
before the Great Flood was not in fact, an alien spacecraft.
It may seem hard to believe
that stories as mind-blowing as these,
of Watchers and Anunnaki and Nephilim giants,
stories which permeated ancient cultures
for thousands of years, should be largely forgotten,
the Sumerians erased
from the pantheon of ancient civilizations,
the Book of Enoch censored from biblical canon.
However, given the way these stories
fundamentally reshape human history
and redefine what human beings are
their exclusion is perhaps no surprise.
Yet, maybe these stories were not, in fact, totally erased.
Consider the well-known biblical story of Adam and Eve
and the Garden of Eden.
Read it not literally, nor philosophically,
but as an allegory.
Read it metaphorically.
God creates Adam to watch over the earth,
much as the gods send the Watchers to do
in the Book of Enoch.
From Adam's rib, god creates Eve,
Adam and Eve procreate, representing the interbreeding
between the Watchers and human females.
Adam and Eve are told
they can eat anything they want in the Garden of Eden,
except fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Of course, they do eat from the tree of knowledge,
representative of the Watchers bringing advanced technology
and knowledge to human beings,
which perhaps they were not
mentally evolved enough to handle.
Just as eating from the tree of knowledge
provided Adam and Eve with the knowledge of God,
so too did the book of Enoch describe how the Watchers
"revealed the eternal secrets
"which were preserved for heaven,
"which men were striving to learn."
Reading the story of Adam and Eve this way,
it is easy to see the parallels between it
and the Book of Enoch.
And perhaps that is just the point.
Perhaps the people who wrote the story of Adam and Eve
were simply retelling the stories in the Book of Enoch
in their own way,
retelling the Sumerian story of the Anunnaki,
as so many across religions and cultures had before them,
inserting this crucial piece of human history allegorically
into their own religious canon,
so that these ancient records could continue to exist.
What is human history?
Is it that which is understood
through officially sanctioned history books?
Or is it something deeper, something more incredible,
if, perhaps, forgotten?
Maybe the answer has been hiding in plain sight
the whole time.

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Your Mind Can Transform Your Body and Cure Everything - Redone

The Weird and Wonderful Economy of Vatican City

Hey hope that it's always spring in your

heart that you're centered and grounded

within you as a wise man a sage

well-versed and skilled in the art of

alchemy the transmutation of a mundane

substance from the mixing of just the

right ingredients and substances to

alter its state into something

extraordinary something considered

sacred and revered by all the ancient

civilizations milk and honey

esoteric talk for the secretion of

serotonin and DMT substances

endogenously produced within that went

flood her bodies we enter a state of

heaven on earth a flow stay where every

one of her experience is magnified

uplifted you could be in a terrible

place and usually you would be miserable

but the spark inside of you lights you

up and you have this big white smile and

you emanate joy passion your environment

begins to change from a wilderness to a

fertile land it's contagious

and you start to inspire others wisdom

flows your life purpose and direction is

crystal clear and not a struggle

synchronicities and coincidences begin

to follow you and you begin attracting

your heart's desire remember those days

as a child filled with Wonder and awe

that is the best way I can describe the

joy that floods your life when your

pineal gland is awakened and secreting

DMT the scientific

name of this wise men within us all is

the endocrine system it is comprised of

many chambers or vials known as the

endocrine glands which release their own

specific hormones into the bloodstream

which help control mood development and

the way our organs work of these there

are seven which the stages referred to

as the chakras of the seven glands each

is represented by a corresponding chakra

spoken of an ancient literature starting

from the base of the human anatomy the

testicles or the ovaries are connected

with the root chakra the adrenal glands

with the sacral chakra the pancreas with

the solar plexus chakra the thymus with

the heart chakra the thyroid with the

throat chakra the pineal gland with the

third eye chakra and the uppermost

chakra the crown chakra is associated

with the pituitary gland these glands

are the physical aspect of each chakra

of which the most well-known and the

focus of this video will be on the

sexual and pineal gland semen retention

empowers us and makes us feel amazing

not just because we keep her sexual

energy which is our life force within us

but because of the process of

transmutation that causes our energy to

rise up the spine and enter the pineal

gland causing it to be fruitful and

secrete DMT thrusting us into higher

states of consciousness or all of our

dreams and desires which before seemed

impossible and hopeless become

achievable in this day we begin to

attract all good things sexual energy

was considered sacred among the ancients

they depicted sexual energy rising up

the spine and flowing into and

activating the pineal gland as serpents

rising up a tree or staff and being

consumed by an eagle which would then

open wide its wings signifying an

awakened third eye or pineal gland

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hermès was the messenger between the

realm of the gods

and of humanity he held a caduceus which

represents the spine and sexual energy

rising up to open the third eye on his

feet and helmet worm

you guessed it opened wings now look at

this Mesopotamian hieroglyph where the

human spine is depicted as The Tree of

Life above is again wings wide open

signifying a wide open pineal gland

they are literally filling up their

stores with this energy notice also in

this depiction the tree comes from a

seed bag just as your energy comes from

your seed bag the hidden truth behind

the Eagle and the serpent is the holy

grail of truth and once you tap into it

you will be awoken as your ancestors

were at the center of the Norse

depiction of cosmology is the world tree

upon the mountain of the gods this tree

connects to the nine realms the lower

realms are at the bottom and the higher

realms are above including Asgard the

realm of the gods which sits above all

realms just as the tree gate Rahzel is

at the center of the earth connecting to

the realms your spine is also at the

center of your body connecting all your

chakras when your energy rises you begin

to experience reality based on which

chakra your energy is residing in when

it rises to the top your pineal gland

will open just as the eight Rozelle is a

portal to all of the realms which the

gods can travel so is your spine the

pathway your energy travels through all

the chakras the eagle at the top of the

tree represents that pineal gland and

just as the Eagle eats snakes in nature

when your Kundalini energy or serpent

rises to the top of your spine the Eagle

What Pre-American Hawaii Was Really Like

Hawaiians are a proud people with strong traditions.
But what was their country like before the United States showed up and took it away?
Here’s a look at what pre-American Hawaii was really like.
According to legend, when the first Polynesian explorers discovered Hawaii sometime prior
to 600 AD, they discovered a series of advanced temples, roads, dams, and fish ponds that
had been built by the island's original inhabitants.
Just who those inhabitants were, though, is a mystery.
Some believe they were a legendary race of little people called menehune who live deep
in the forest and only emerge at night to build their fantastic structures in a single
evening before returning to hiding.
Others think this legend is simply a recent construct.
The name menehune seems to be a corruption of the less flattering manahune, which means
"the lowly people" instead of "the little people."
Some think Tahitian settlers around the year 1000 AD pinned this derisive nickname on the
island's original inhabitants, while others think it was the Europeans in the 18th century,
and that the whole little people legend was a corruption of European tales of elves and
gnomes.
Whatever the case, it seems someone lived on Hawaii before the Polynesians arrived.
Who they were and where they went, though, is something we may never learn.
Anyone who has seen Moana has a good idea of how the Polynesian explorers first found
Hawaii.
Crowding into 50-foot-long double-hulled canoes, the Polynesians spread across the Pacific
for millennia, sailing with the help of the stars and by closely observing ocean swells
and bird flight paths.
The second wave of colonizers arrived around 1000 AD, and they hailed from Tahiti, 2,400
miles from Hawaii as the crow flies.
The Tahitians reportedly subdued the already settled populace and conquered the islands
for themselves, giving rise to what would become a rigid class system and a relatively
sophisticated form of government in which the chief class reigned supreme, and the regular
people had to do their bidding.
The Polynesians stopped arriving in Hawaii around 1300 AD.
In fact, they stopped taking long oceanic voyages entirely.
The reason for this cessation has long been a mystery, but some scholars suggest that
the Polynesians had been taking advantage of favorable wind patterns, and that when
those patterns changed, they no longer had the wind at their back.
Like India, Hawaiian society developed into a rigid caste system.
Everyone in Hawaiian society had a defined role to play based on the circumstances of
their birth.
At the top was the king, who belonged to the ali'i, or chiefly class.
The king had a number of privileges that went with his rank.
For example, he collected taxes and headed up religious rites and festivals.
He also led armies into battle.
Other members of the chiefly class, who were said to have descended from the gods, were
the children of people whom they considered superior.
Some earned their way into the class by being exceptionally strong or skilled.
Others married into it.
Regardless, the king had the final say.
Next in the hierarchy were the kahuna, a rank made up of priests and craftsmen whose skills
were much sought after.
The rest of the people were called the maka'ainana.
These were the common people who farmed, fished, payed taxes to the king, and served in his
army.
They were allowed to keep only a third of their goods and pay.
The rest went to the king.
And at the very bottom were the kauwa, or "outcasts."
Sadly, the kauwa were often prisoners of war.
After their capture, they were either enslaved, given the most thankless and difficult of
the farm labor, or used in human sacrifice.
For hundreds of years, ancient Hawaiians lived by a very strict code of religious and social
laws called kapu, which enforced the caste system.
The rules, laws, and mores of kapu depended on men and women remaining within their birth-based
station in life, and these guidelines were supposedly handed down by the gods and the
spirits of the ancestors.
Kapu dictated, among many other things, what the specific genders could eat, what body
parts of a chief a common person could come in contact with, and what color of feathers
certain people could wear.
Those who violated kapu were often sentenced to death.
The all-encompassing power of kapu began to dwindle as more and more Westerners arrived
on the island.
Islanders noticed, for instance, that British explorers lived in hourly violation of kapu
and lived to tell the tale.
According to The Journal of Polynesian Society, Liholiho,also known as Kamehameha II, son
to one of Hawaii's most powerful and beloved kings, King Kamehameha the Great, effectively
blew up the system in 1819 by eating in public with a woman, which was a taboo under kapu.
Like the Polynesians before him, Captain James Cook is said to have discovered the Hawaiian
islands by accident.
In 1778, his crew came to Waimea Bay on the island of Kauai at the time of a makahiki,
a period of peace and prosperity, and they were treated well by the natives.
It didn't hurt that Cook and his men, having come from Tahiti, were somewhat well-versed
in island hospitality.
The British sailors greeted the Hawaiians with gifts, and according to The Coffee Times,
the islanders responded by granting three days' worth of…ahem, adult favors.
A second encounter ten months later on the Big Island went swimmingly, too, probably
because Cook again arrived during makahiki.
The third time, though, was most definitely not the charm.
Cook tried to set sail for the north in early February, 1779, but had to return to shore
to repair his ship.
Tensions rose, and a boat was stolen from the British.
Cook then attempted to take the King hostage to force the islanders to return his boat;
instead, they attacked him.
Cook and four of his sailors were killed in the fight.
Cook's death also coincided with the rise of a new power in Hawaii: King Kamehameha
the Great.
Likely born sometime around 1736, Kamehameha defeated his cousin in a bitter Civil War
that ended in 1782 with Kamehameha ascendant.
By 1791, he had subdued the entire Big Island, and in 1795 he conquered Maui and Oahu with
the help of Western muskets and cannons.
The last holdout to his reign capitulated in 1810, when the Hawaiian islands were finally
united under one government, King Kamehameha's.
Despite Cook's violent demise, Hawaii soon became a popular destination for European
and American ships sailing through the Pacific.
Not only was it well situated for a mid-voyage pit stop, the islands also had a wealth of
rare sandalwood, which was especially coveted in China.
A booming economy soon emerged, with traders swapping sandalwood in China for silk and
porcelain, which they then sold in America for incredible profit.
It seemed for a while to be a win-win-win, but it wasn't long before Hawaiians began
suffering the consequences of the sandalwood boom.
Native sandalwood cutters were exploited as cheap labor and began dying from harsh conditions
and overwork.
The sandalwood forests dwindled, meaning workers had to go further and further up the mountains
to find trees to cut.
According to Keola Magazine, at one point Hawaiian parents started pulling sandalwood
trees from the ground to save their children from the sad fate of being a sandalwood cutter.
As a result, the trade eventually died out.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans and Americans, Hawaii was a land of mostly unexploited natural
resources, with the locals particularly taking pride in the vast numbers of whales that flourished
in the seas nearby.
Unfortunately, that changed in the early 1800's, and the results were devastating for Hawaii.
Whalers from New England flocked to the islands in great numbers.
They mostly wanted whales, but while they were on the islands, they wanted other things
too, like fun, and food, leading to prostitution, gambling, and upheaval of the local farming
and fishing cultures.
And chasing after the whalers came another wave of visitors: Christian missionaries who
were trying to stop the whalers.
That led to violence, and eventually a fort was built to protect the locals from the rampaging
whalers.
That in turn was replaced by a jail, which again was focused on locking up whalers.
This cycle continued until 1859 when oil was discovered in Pennsylvania, eventually leading
to the demise of the whaling industry, a little too late for Hawaiians, and for the whales.
The people that benefited the most from the unruly whalers were those missionaries.
They began arriving around 1820, right after Kapu, the ancient Hawaiian system of religious
practices and social norms, had been effectively abolished.
It was perfect timing.
And the Christians who sailed to Hawaii at the beginning of the 19th century were incredibly
effective in their efforts to sway native islanders to their cause.
By promising to protect Hawaiians from an unruly and often violent invasion of whalers,
they assembled congregations in no time, convincing locals that Jesus was more powerful than the
old gods with their now abandoned kapu rules.
Soon, even the descendants of King Kamehameha the Great were worshiping in one of their
churches.
The legacy of the Christian missionaries in Hawaii is a checkered one.
Their arrival almost certainly helped strip power from native chiefs and kings and spurred
the effort to claim Hawaii for the United States.
But on the plus side, they also helped create the written Hawaiian language, which allowed
the Hawaiian people to preserve aspects of their culture that otherwise may have been
irretrievably lost in the waves of colonization.
Hawaii's economy saw a number of fluctuations following the arrival of the Westerners.
First, there was the sandalwood boom.
Then came whaling.
When the whaling industry went under, Christian missionaries working to save souls on the
islands quickly changed course and began buying up land for another cash crop: sugar cane.
Hawaii's climate was perfect for growing the sweet stuff, and the God-fearing businessmen
went planting so much sugar cane that they had trouble finding enough men to cut it.
According to the Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum, one of Hawaii's oldest sugar cane
plantations, Hawaiian sugar cane farmers benefited not only from Hawaii's wet climate but from
the American Civil War, which ravaged Southern crops, creating a market for island ones.
Eventually, Hawaii would support what many called "the Big Five" sugar cane growers,
and the heads of these five firms didn't stop at sugar production.
They became savvy politicians, managing in a relatively short amount of time to take
power away from native Hawaiians and put it in the hands of the islands' white minority
population.
As Time put it,
"By virtue of interlocking directorates and interlocking marriages, [the Big Five] controlled
wholesale and retail business, agriculture, banks, land, shipping, society, everything."
Next time you enjoy a Dole pineapple, just keep in mind that the company exists because
the Dole family overthrew the rightful government of Hawaii.
While white businessmen were trying to consolidate power in Hawai'i, the nation's ruler, Queen
Liliʻuokalani, was battling to protect her people and their traditions.
Born Lydia Kamakaeha in 1838, she became ruler in 1891 when her brother, King Kalakaua, died.
She quickly worked to implement a new constitution that would both restore her power as monarch
and also re-enfranchise the poorer classes who had been shut out of power.
That wouldn't do for the rich white businessmen in Hawaii, who plotted a coup to overthrow
the queen in hopes that it would force the United States to annex the island nation.
Attempts to stop the coup were hampered when the U.S. Marines intervened on the side of
the coup leaders.
Unable to face the military might of America, Queen was overthrown in 1893 and arrested
for treason by the new ruler of Hawaii, Sanford Dole, whose cousin would then cash in by founding
the Dole pineapple empire.
A gifted poet and songwriter, the Queen wrote a book about the ordeal called Hawaii's Story
By Hawaii's Queen.
Imprisoned and faced with the imminent execution of her most loyal supporters, the Queen was
forced to sign official abdication papers in 1895 in order to spare their lives.
Three years later, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, the U.S. officially
annexed Hawaii in order to secure it as a naval base, exactly what Dole and the other
conspirators had hoped for when they planned their coup.
In 1959, Hawaii finally became a U.S. state, but the past hasn't been forgotten, and efforts
to restore to the native people a voice in their own governance continue to this day.

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