Hugh Evans: The Origins of the Zodiac

Summary

Researcher Hugh Evans claims to have found the true origin of the zodiac in a giant star map of more than 1,000 square miles laid out across the landscape of northwest Wales (Gwynedd), centered on the mountain Cadair Idris. He argues that Neolithic people, or survivors of a pre-Flood civilization linked to the biblical Enoch, encoded all twelve zodiac constellations into hills, rivers, standing stones and Welsh place names around 5000 BCE. The episode also covers ley lines, telluric earth energies, Stonehenge dating, and host Cliff's own theory that the earliest Maya were a multicultural group of migrants driven by the Younger Dryas catastrophe.

Key takeaways

• 1Hugh Evans's book 'The Origins of the Zodiac: Cadair Idris and the Star Maps of Gwynedd' claims a complete zodiac is mapped across over 1,000 square miles of northwest Wales, which he dates to around 5000 BCE.
• 2Evans says Cadair Idris represents the Plough (Big Dipper), the surrounding rivers trace the ecliptic, and Idris is the Welsh and Islamic name for the biblical Enoch, whose Book of Enoch he says refers to this location.
• 3About twenty Gwynedd towns beginning with 'Llanfair' have St. Mary's churches with yew trees he claims are 5,000 years old, and he says they correspond to the twenty brightest stars.
• 4Evans argues that Welsh, not Latin, is the root of words like 'quadrivium' and 'precession,' and claims ancient Britons named hydrogen ('water quickly').
• 5He cites post holes at Stonehenge carbon-dated to 8000 BCE, Welsh bluestone quarries dated 8000-6000 BCE, and claims to find Scorpio and Sagittarius on pillars at Göbekli Tepe.
• 6Host Cliff proposes that the pre-Classic Maya (El Mirador's La Danta pyramid) were a multicultural group of migrants fleeing the Younger Dryas impact, which he links to the formation of the Carolina Bays.

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So I was reminiscing this afternoon, looking at photographs from our recent visit to Guatemala and tical and a number of pyramids and temples that I had a chance to climb, and it struck me with a good thought. And the general narrative about the populating of the Americas, and this is what is taught in the universities, is that there was a land bridge during the last Ice Age that led people from Asia, which was you know, Soviet Union, to the America's via a land bridge to Alaska. So the ice was the temperatures were so cold that it froze a portion of the ocean and created a land bridge. It's known as the Bearing Straight. We all taught this in college and in high school. I mean I think I learned it in high school. And that's the general theory of populating the Americas is that people were looking hunters and gatherers were looking to feed their families, and the game what they call megafauna animals were leading them into the Americas via Alaska. Now this is this is uh, you know, like I said, it's been taught for decades and it makes a lot of sense if you're looking at portions of Canada and into the United States. Where it doesn't really work is when you start talking about Mexico and Central America, because that's a long way to go, that's, you know, thousands of miles. And this is where my theory comes up, my hypothesis of great migration. Hey, Cliff, your host of Earth ancients. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Aug 8, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.