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20260920-Mission Pergamon— Field Report from the Aegean
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Hello. Um, Bruno here. Uh, I come as an emissary as always of the Stones and Serpent crew. Um, I have my bullet points here. So, I'm going to try to go over them um very quickly and efficiently with my English.
So, well, I am right now in the island of Samothraki or Samoth in English. Um, I'm back in this island um because of unexpected travel logistics and because of some things that happened during this um scouting location scouting that I'm I've been doing for the past two months and a half. It was in Turkey
Um in in different places. Uh I was with um accompanied by Martin. Um he was with me um doing all the logistic and meaning uh the field work as uh mapping um you know all the scheduling while I was um
Having even I was trying to make logistic to open some doors that were not in in in the actual schedule like um interviews that we managed to do actually. So at the end uh thanks to Martin um and his help uh I was able to perform some uh conversations, interviews um
Some traveling actually with them. So we decided to to take the scouting a little bit farther, meaning that we um started to record as um not just uh as a scouting for the stones and serpents documentary
Also as a material research material. Um so it was a very interesting time in the first month in Turkey. Um I had the lack of sitting with um like specialized professors and >> even in the tourism area like um the chairman of the whole west coast tourism um guides kind of association I don't remember the name to be honest of the association but um but you will be able to see the interview that I had with him and also with professor. I didn't record the interview because he didn't wanted
To. But we have some footage that he allowed us to take and he gave us a lot of material um written material about uh what we were researching in specifically at that time um about
Pergamon or Bergama as they call it in Turkey nowadays. Um which is a very interesting place. Um we we we managed to be there with Martin. Uh we did um a scouting of um of the territory from the east coast of Turkey or the west coast of the Aian. If you see it from the sea or from mainland from Turkey, they will be like um uh westside coast. Um we were in Kushadas
Um this um beach um town city port at the same time. Uh we met some very u cool people there that were very interested in what we were doing. Actually I performed the interviews over there. Um at the same time uh we met we knew this um hotel owner. So we were staying with Martin. We were thinking about a couple of days at the end. We were there like for a week a bit more even and also in that place we managed to have this other interview with this professor
Chal Kuchuk is the name and he gave us this very very interesting interview. Um that's not recorded because he didn't wanted to be on camera but he gave us all his documents. You can find them actually online is the documents that all the guides uh of um archaeological sites and and and they are very respected um
Reports and um essays I will not say essays like u documents that he writes about um what we know about these sites from his perspective. as a professor. Um these sites I mean so many of them cuz uh I knew something about this but I knew better after that you know from ancient Greece times. Uh in Turkey there are like five more times of ancient sites of that that time that in modern Greece
Five times more ancient sites you know related with the with with the research of stones and serpents. So obviously it became like a very important place for us. Right now is the last frontier actually for us of the project. Um also even if you think about Roman times it's like three more times of ancient sites Roman ancient sites um in Turkey that in Italy kind of thing you know and it's huge. It's a huge country. Well, just to give you to to give you the information about the actual um
Route we did as a scouting so far, it was Kushadas. Uh then we cut into the into mainland uh to Pergamon. We managed that. We started in Istanbul. So from Istanbul, we went to the south right away. The Kushadasi is right next to Ephesus. So we were in in in that area. Um so once we settled there we did Kushadas
Pergamon to mainland and then Eastanbul again. So this was the the route from east the coast to the bed of mainland and then to the north to the Bosphorus in Istanbul. At the same time, my um Martin uh was doing his own um field reports before I arrived to Turkey. He was already here. So, he went to different places like Capedokia and and and also which is you know is Constantinople uh is uh Bisantium is the Roman Empire is the Byzantine Empire. So is quite connected with all of the SNS um
Right now uh just to give you um an idea of where we are now uh I'm I'm alone here for past month and a half. I've been here already. I mean abroad for two months and a half and now I am um alone. I'm in Greece back in samoth
Uh because I had to let leave um Turkey because of timings visa you know I'm a tourist so I have 3 months in 6 months period so I have to go out because I'm waiting for the crew the SNS crew and we had the schedule um for this month um for them to be able around this month or October to be here and now because of logistics, because of budgeting uh I mean budget um and delays on budget and delays on many other things to be
Honest. Um what happened is like the team is coming but in November. So I needed to find a place to stay uh during this whole time. Right now it's 18th September. So I have to wait for a bit and I couldn't actually manage to stay in in in in Istanbul
For all of this time waiting because of what I just said. So I came back to Samotra to Samotra um which is an island that I really love like I'm still uh understanding it and I'm right now in a tavern Greek tavern in Therma which is like 20 minutes from where I'm actually living. I will show you where I'm living. Um I'm living at the beach. Um I was like two or three days um completely just under rocks just putting some stones because of the wind.
And then I had the luck of one guy uh came one morning with a box and he put this box in front of me. He says like okay this is for you. and he gave me a box with different things like candles, food, um you know different things that you need when you are abroad by yourself and in this manner kind of stranded in an island you know and also he told me that he was leaving this this day that that that he woke me up in the morning
And if I wanted to take his uh shelter uh I I could uh remember his I just asked him like what's your name and he was like I'm victorious you know from um from Muldova
From the independent um from Moldova the country you know the and well I was so you know he didn't say much he just went away and I was like just waking up so but now I'm staying in his place and once I leave at some point somebody else I think will be able to use it and I will leave some stuff for that person that comes after me. Um I will show you this place. This is where I'm staying. Um and and to not get more like extended in this video
That it should be 1 minute and already I've been talking for like 12. So the island
Another beautiful place. Um, so I'm staying here until the island allows me. I'm reaching out with this video to everyone interested in what we are doing. Uh, for any kind of support, uh, we will really appreciate it as a team. Uh, because all of this is not just for me, you know, uh, is because, um, I I I need the crew here and the crew wants to be here also. Of course, they want to help me and everything with this time that I have to wait, but you know how it is. I mean,
We're making a documentary. We're making a movie. So, sometimes you have everything you need. Some other times you need to wait for it and make it happen. And we are doing exactly that now.
I want to take uh this time um to extend my deep respect respect and appreciation and I cannot be more thankful [music] with uh all the information conversations exposure to the topics that stones and serpent is researching with Dr. for Ammon Kilman. [music] um thanks to these hours of conversations um and interviews with him, I can say by my own experience, which is uh an expedition I did last year uh in Spain in Malta Island in Greece, 2,500
Kilometers around uh the one of the coast of the AGN in Greece, which will be like the west coast of the AGN. See um and now this year I was in Turkey for 2 months and a half and I had interviews, conversations and I was able to sit down and have a proper conversation with professors with the chairman of the archaeological tourism
Sites in Turkey. um and different conversations with people about these topics about uh ancient Greek time and medicine
Uh the the cult practices the um technology that they were using in the different topics that you know uh that stones and serpents are engaging with. So I want to extend [music] again my deep appreciation and respect to Dr. Rammon Hillman. I want to say hi to the congregation and be for all the support also. [music] And as I was saying and I will say it again now I can go I was knocking doors and having conversations sit down and talk for hours with a a person that is knowledgeable about all
Of this onsite and with all the information and the exposure to these topics that I had thanks to Dr. Raman Humeman I was able to sit down and [music] talk with them in a proper manner. So again, thank you so much. Greetings again from the boat.
The weather in the Mediterranean can be quite rough. [music]
We have lost the ability to execute or perform the mystery. And we have lost it because we no longer see.
People say it's more psychedelic. It's not psychedelic. Whatever.