What was your favorite part of this video? I want to thank Paul Davidson from the KZfaq channel "Inquisitive Bible Reader" for crafting such an amazing video!

If the Bible and other ancient texts aren’t enough to make you question at least some of the things we’re grew up being taught, then you’re not ready for the truth.

I saw in the Valley of Kings in an Egyptian Pharaohs Tomb depicted on a wall painting an image of an Central tree with a male and female figure talking with a talking four legged snake. All had cartoon balloons filled with hieroglyphics above their heads. Egyptians had the Adam and Eve story as well - long before Israel.

I still can't believe this guy went from recording his withdrawal from heroin to this. He's lucky you got out before fentanyl took over

My man! I just filmed my episode on Acts for my Secular Bible Study Series and wanted you to know I used the conversation between you and Carrier for a bit as well as his article. That video from you was like 10 months ago, but man did it stick with me. Geeked for this one too! Your origin vids are solid!

Adamma said, “no you go trim you own bushes. The Adamma does not mow another Adamma’s yard.” And so it was until even today.

I think that those who view “Bible stories” as worthwhile parables are not going to care if there are similarities between them and their assumed predecessors… “The song remains the same” In the interim, those that are rigid in their beliefs that the Bible is “the word of God” will consider archaeological research to be sacrilegious… C’est la vie…

What was really surprising to me in regards to Genesis is the wide spread idea that the first Adam was neither male nor female, and God divided the first Adam to make male and female. So far I have found the idea was the corner stone of the Ebionites belief, the Thomasine Christians, but also Clement of Alexandria‘s belief. And many consider Timothy 1 & 2 a late forgery which indicates that Paul believed as he said that all were equal in Christ. But the suggestion is already in the canonical gospels.

When reading the Bible and the gnostic scriptures side by side and along side with the Samaritan tablets it will help the reader find greater insight to what one is seeking to understand.

Knowing that the Book of Kings itself mentions the worship of Asherah in the temple of Jerusalem, and I glossed over that passage multiple times in my church years, is genuinely frustrating 😂

This is another well-researched video. Good job, Derek!

Great, Derek! unravel the myths, they are necessary!

Your videos are always fascinating, and really, really well done. Awesome stuff.

Excellent shorter, concise, presentation on new research revelations! Very much appreciated! I think you have now found your best style!

Everyone should read the book: Urantia. It talks about several Gardens of Eden. The interesting thing about this book is that no one knows who wrote it. Interesting video.

I love exploring what ideas the Biblical writers had access to, it is not that they just copied but how they retell, and how they change/adapt/even challenge the original shows what they wanted to say as their message - probably in their exile - about their faith/national origin stories. I think about how in the new testament we have Jesus taking the existing passover symbology and introducing the new communion of my body, my blood. I feel the writers of OT mythology are doing the same 'you have heard story A; but what about this version'

I would like to see this kind of more short videos. Your narrative style is fantastic.

*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* ("The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE." "Ancient Israelites and their origins date back to 1800-1200 BCE.") *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? *"Retired bishop explains the reason why the Church invented "Hell" - Ideapod"* Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"* *"The Search for Noah’s Flood - Biblical Archaeology Society"* *"Eridu Genesis - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering - World History Encyclopedia"* Watch *"How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"* (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science) *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei

Well researched and nicely presented. Very informative.

Good episode enjoyed it bro

Watched about a DVDs worth of great content so here you go. Thanks🎉🇦🇺🎸🎼

I must be in diff time zone here in Canada where it’s only been posted for 16 min. So many who seem to have watched already Lol. It looks great.

New to the channel and listened to a couple of productions so appreciated the scripts but having watched this one, I can’t believe the work and production values that goes into the visuals. What an amazing labour of love and love of knowledge. Incredible work.

I love this one. I like when you hit the clay.

Saw you during the 'Recovering from Religion' fundraising stream! Eager to check out your work 🙆🏾‍♀️✨

Magnificent Derek!!! Yet another triumph. Keep up the good work, young man. (And, by the way, if you want a profitable side hustle, consider doing NON--MythVision voice overs. You have a marvelous voice, brother! So give that some thought.) For now...ciao.

Wow this is amazing. Awesome work on your video ❤ So these other stories came about long before the bible was ever written correct?

For several decades, I've been reading scholarship on ancient culture, philology, Judeo-Christian history, Biblical studies, religious parallels, mythological traditions, astrotheology, etc. The evidence keeps piling up and it is overturning centuries and millennia of orthodox dogma and conventional thought. As far as I can tell, it's not clear there is a single thing that is ultimately original and unique to the Abrahamic religions, maybe not even the character 'Abraham'. Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Manichaeanism, and Islam all developed out of, borrowed from, and were syncretized with diverse other influences closely surrounding them. This is absolutely undeniable at this point, and yet fundamentalist-controlled Biblical studies has been hopelessly trying to hold back the tide. Ancient Jews didn't even recognize themselves as a single people or necessarily always identify separately from other people. Various Semitic, Semitic-influenced, and Semitic-like people were spread out over vast regions; and they mixed freely without clear demarcations. One Jewish scholar went so far to assert that there wouldn't have been a way to absolutely determine who was and was not a Jew in the ancient world. This kind of understanding, though, isn't exactly new. Even in the ancient world, Christian apologists were already forced to admit that so much in Christianity was identical to other contemporary and prior religions. And by early modernity, Biblical studies had advanced to this same admission, among many French thinkers and those like Thomas Paine. Plus, there is the influences from Greco-Roman philosophy: Neoplatonic exegesis, Stoic natural law and liberty of soul, etc.

Great production Derek (& Paul). Very professional & engaging video 👍

My mind is blown. Thank you

The story of Horanu and the sky goddess is so reminiscent of the story of Hades & Persephone that I wonder if a thread was carried down to the Greeks to create their myth as well. Very cool.

Hey Derek, i'm here from Brazil, by your interview to Antonio's channel. I'm sort of binge watching your channel and I'm really enjoying it. Congratulations for your work!

Whenever going out to take someone else's land,Always Say God Promised the land to You!!!It gives you a Legitimate Reason 😉

Excellent work Derek! Thank you.

Outstanding Content!

The Old Testament is Hebrew mythology. It is Israel's way of making sense of their origins & history.

This was a really good video, Derek!

Well done on this video. I do wish you would have had more timeframes included. James True did a phenomenal job on his show about Adam and Eve and religious sacrificial lambs theories, which ties into this as well. If the creator of this video hasn't seen it, might I suggest it.

Great job on this.

Wow Adam & Eve were plagiarized from Near Eastern mythology? Shocked I tell ya Seriously Derek: I am in awe of this channel and all the effort put into these very informative and educating videos You're doing sacred work

Very interesting! The fact a perfect and loving god would go ahead and create human beings, knowing it would go terribly wrong, was always one of my greatest problems with being a Christian.

I always enjoy your content and gives me alot information to ponder. However, may i note that in this age of AI, it is so refreshing to hear your distinct voice. Thank you again for your tireless efforts.

Amazing!

Wow! I loved this documentary. A lot of connections i hadnt made or even heard of here. Makes me want to play around with my homebrew Pathfinder mythos. Thanks so much :)

Horanus being represented as being a falcon makes sense, in the natural people would often witness snakes being carried off by birds of prey , so that would make them masters of snakes

Great work derek!

Another great one brother

Nice job on this. Very well thought out and very well portrayed with language and pictures ❤

Can we just debunk religion already omg

The Hillsdale college presentation series on genesis with Professor J. A. Jackson is pretty thorough, you should have him as a guest on mythvision one day, if you haven't already, it would make for an interesting interview I think.

Thank you !!!!! This is the video I needed now.

Excellent video thank you for sharing with us ❤

"your mind makes it real" - Morpheus

The Gnostics say that Aeon Sophia (abundant, fruitful, productive, wise) had a "twin sister" described as her opposite (dry, arid, barren, rocky, unproductive, desolate). Sounds like the Earth without any water. The Man fashioned from clay initially could not even stand up and was lifeless. There are 2 lores which state Sophia had to breath into the Man & also that Eve had to breath into Adam to animate him.

Oscar winning performance by MythVision!

Beautiful. Wow. Very professional, and honest. You present the current state of facts that are known...as you know them at least. I think you are one of the least biased people out there. Ty for your work in this subject matter.

What of the Viking serpent Jörmungandr. Thor defeated him and he’s a storm being. Are there parallels with norse mythology

good job brother,

The Garden of Hesperides in Greek mythology is also an interesting parallel. Heracles has to confront a serpent protecting a tree of sacred golden apples.

*the flood myth was probably the break through of the Med Sea that created the Black Sea and destroyed the many towns/villages that were there*

The name Adam refers to the color red and more specifically blood. It also has the meaning of a vessel/body, or more abstract: matter. I think the idea of soil is derived from this notion and not the other way around. So Adam can be read as flesh (red matter of the body) and I think it means alive / the living (one).

Thank you so much for addressing the Goddesses. It's about time . I wish more of the scholars you feature would do the same.

I loved this!

Wow. I've started it over or rewinded it 15 times!..to hear something again! Guess I'll be here awhile! PACKED with info and ideas❤❤ 😊 thanks!

In the Bible there are two Messiah's! The Lamb of God/Jesus and the Lion of Judah/David. Read Hosea 3: 4-5 Isaiah 55: 3-5 Jeremiah 30: 9 Ezekiel 34: 23-24 Ezekiel 37: 24-25 Rev 19: 11-16. Words anti-Christ/Ante' Christ have two different meanings. First is any against the teachings of Jesus Christ. Second is 1500's French Provincial coined by Nostradamus meaning, The One Who comes BEFORE the return of Christ Jesus. As in a game of cards the Ante' comes first before the cards are dealt. A.M/P.M stand for Ante' Meridian/Post Meridian. ❤

After watching this, I looked down the strip on the RH side ... apart from some more MythVision podcasts (all worth watching, btw), one from ESOTERICA (another great channel), a "Sam's Trains", there's so much pseudoscience trash about the Annunaki, ancient aliens, hollow earth... oh, Miniminuteman is on the RH side as well...he's going to be a busy boy with debunking. Love his channel, too :P Keep up the great work, mate, and greetings from Australia.

“They given him the wisdom like anu, given him the robe to rule the land, but they not given him eternal life “…

When cane killed able and was sent out of Eden he went to join the pre adamites where did they come from if Adam and Eve were the first two people on earth.?

I haven't even watched half of the video but I feel the need to comment! Excellent so far! Fills in some blanks for me. The garden story in Genesis is preceded by another middle eastern story that's similar, and I can't remember from which tradition is came but it too had supernatural beings guarding its entrance. These were gardens in either Babylonia or Persia and were 'king's gardens', a place where the king and his family could relax and reconnect with nature and which had caretakers who tended to the garden (like Adam and Eve, who could eat of any fruit they wanted), and these gardens were also a symbol of the king's power since water had to be diverted to make them grow and only the ruling class had the financial means to divert a resource like water. These gardens, like the Garden of Eden, were also guarded at their gates to keep enemies of the king out, so to be expelled from the Garden (of Eden) meant you were no longer in the king's favor. Derek, I believe I picked this up from one of your shows with either Kip Davis or the other guy who often appears with Kip on your show (sorry, so many names, so little time)! Either way, the story in the bible is not unique nor original to the Jews...

Kudos. Your work is magnificent and most valuable. It would be great if your videos could be translated to Spanish and other languages so they could reach a wider audience.

my man just casually ended all abrahamic religions

Ancient mesopotamia was where the schools of the planetary prince calagastia stood. These schools were used to teach the evolving colored humans as well as the more primitive andonites(neaderthald) about animal husbandry. Later when the Material son Adam and Eve came to earth they taught in the gardens the skill of agriculture to their direct decendants(midway creatures) and only the most evolved and superior races and tribes. Most notably the hebrew tribes of the yellow/blue race

I hope Dr Josh and Meghan looked this one over... it is, after all, their field of specialty...

The texts covered in this video remind me of the two contrasting systems of thought studied in Jane Ellen Harrison’s book Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, a very good book. 👍

🎉Mind opening indeed. Thank you 🙏

This doesn't disprove the bible, it actually solidifies it.

My best understanding of the "man from clay" theory came from zechariah Sitchin's THE LOST BOOK OF ENKI. The traditional genetic work of mixing egg and sperm by the Anunnaki was performed in crystal vessels before in vitro fertilization by teams of birthing mothers. However, on Earth, seeking a viable mixture of a native forest creature's egg and Enki's own essence to create a worker race showed to be ineffective, bringing the process to be performed within, not a crystal vessel, but a clay vessel fired from Earth clay. This modification of vessels was the answer they were hoping for and progress was rapid from that point on. Man from clay. -- Texas

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

Truly fascinating.

That's an subjective view of things. It's an eccentric fiction as fiction goes, I give it credit for actually trying soo hard to sound serious.

The mountain in the East sounds more like Northern Pakistan. It has abundant rivers, greenery, and irrigation land along with tall mountains. Seven out of ten of the world's top peaks are in Pakistan. Apparently, this area has a Pashtun population who claim to be descendants of Israelites.

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I love your Aura Derek ,U re a beautiful soul Brother,Hard-worker and dedicated,Keep on doing great work brother,Wake us up ,break the element of ignorance to our people

i always have disbelief on jewish propaganda whether it's politics, or bed time mythologies. thanks we got archeologist,scholars to show us the truth about this ancient manga stories

It's simple. According to the author of Genesis, creation took place about 2500 years before their time. If the Genesis creation story is true, then you would certainly expect to discover many variations of the story even before Genesis was written. Therfore, previous legends that are similar to the latter account of Genesis do not necessarily conclude that Genesis is borrowed or just another copy cat legend. The fact that there are corroborating stories only reinforces the likelihood that the overall story of creation is true.

Something often missed in interpretations is how snakes behave and how that influences the story. Snakes are almost universally opportunistic, anxious, territorial predators. You do not control them, you “handle” them.

Nice production.

The "CLAY" in the ancient stories is " KI" which The Elohim or Annunaki called the earth. Which was translated to "CLAY" by some , and "DUST" by others. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It refers to the hominems / beings that were here on Earth ( possibly Denisovians). The ancient stone tablets also refers to them as " the black headed people". As the Annunaki beings where called " shining ones / Nacosh, and depicted in statues made of white porcelain with blue lapis lazuli stones to show they were blue eyed. Whereas the " black-headed people " had brown eyes and hair. This Is also shown in the birth of Noah story, where his father Lamech went and asked his father in law if the child was his because his hair was "white as wool and when he opened his eyes he lit up the whole room". This refered to platinum blond and blue eyed. So the made of " clay" meant made of earth.

For 1 adam and eve was not the first people if you read and pay attention to the book of creation it literally says that the creator made men and women (plural) and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Being fruitful and multiply doesn't that mean to mate and create children? Then it breaks down to 1 person the creator made and placed him in this garden. Now lets use some common sense and think about the fact that he never says ANYTHING to adam about not eating off of the two trees correct? Nothing was said in the newer bibles about not eating from trees until after eve was created 🤔. So if you read a bible from the 1800s and/ or a bible from the early 1900s it NEVER says ANYTHING about not eating from two trees EVER instead It talks about adam being in the garden for a while and becoming lonely and the creator notice that adam is lonely and bored so he put adam to sleep takes a rib from adam and creates Eve. I'm pausing from the story for a second because I have to explain something that people look over all because it is intentionally is looked over to misguide us and to push the lie we have been taught! But if adam rib was used to create eve means they have the same blood type and could give bone marrow if a transplant was needed and the ONLY way bone marrow can be transplanted it would have to come from a family member............ Which means Eve WAS NOT created to be adams wife which the bible never says eve was created to be his wife nor lover but was created to be a companion. They were brother and sister because what purpose would he need to create her from a rib when he can create life from clay? Now back to the story..... So after eve was created he tells them that they can not partake of the fruit which if you paid attention to the creator telling the men and women to be FRUITFUL and multiply so telling them to not partake of the fruit means they was not supposed to mate and have children and why is that? Because they was family and not mates! So one day eve is roaming the garden when something calls her name she follows the sound and come across the angel Gabriel (originally it wasn't a snake) and Gabriel BEGUILED now beguiled means to flirtatiously talk to someone to get them excited for sex. So they partake of the fruit and eve loved it and goes to adam and says that he should do what she did and partake of the fruit and she beguiles adam and they partake of the fruit so on e they do so adam and eve notice that adam cant look at eve and not show that they have done what the creator told them not to do (they became sexually aware of the body and adam looking at eve would make him erect when it didn't before so adam thought to grab leaves and cover up his erectness and vover up eves body so it wont cause him to be excited and when the creator show up they became afraid because they knew the creator would know what they did because they are covered now and the creator told them that they would have to die...... The creator was furious about what happened and was upset that adam didnt tell eve to not communicate with the angels (i forgot to say something about that before) so instead of ending them because it wasnt really their fault he makes them leave the garden to be bound together and THEN he cursed Gabriel to become a serpent!

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Excellent!

Dama=Adama in Spanish means woman! The Eridu Genesis claims that a woman Adamma was created first! That woman through DNA manipulation had 7 daughters then the Gods impregnated them and 7 males were born, and so on! That's where we get the story of the seven sisters!

ALL mythology!😂

The story of Adam and Eve was a Temple ceremony. Temples were the way to pass down knowledge.

Well of course Israel didn't come first . Thats why it bothers me when you call the God of Israel creator of the universe!

So where is Lilith, before Eve.

So basically, people who weren't there telling us how it happened and discrediting those who were? Incredible

You're amazing.,

In the legends of the Jews, one of the plants Adam took from Eden was the Crocus Sativus. The Golden Fruit of the tree, by the way, is almost certainly Saffron. Yes, the Crocus does not grow on a tree, but note that Mustard also does not come from a tree... See the root of the Semitic z-h-b root, which is related to the Semitic word for yellow, as in the Yellow Heifer of Gaon, which is derived from the Semitic word for Saffron, which is derived from the Sumerian Azubir, which is a homograph of HURSAG, as in NINHURSAG, who was certainly associated in some way with all of the later deities of Mothers and Childbirth in the minds of those educated scribes of the Ancient Near East who attested this lineage of knowledge until around 300 ce. I guarantee that Ninhursag did not just leave the knowledge base of the scribes in the 3,000 years of her presence in the scribal pantheon. It was the destruction of the scribal schools that buried a lot of these relationships. The Crocus and its Saffron is all over the place in Judaism and Christianity. It seems like a few generations of Iconoclasts destroyed a lot of the early suppositions of the Semites and Christians. A cover-up is apparent. Just see the Aluma mosaic. Note that the corner motifs are the same vesica piscis of Christianity, and the same design on numerous Levantine depictions of the Pillar Capitals of the Second Temple, as well as the horns (in Hebrew a thread of saffron is a q-r-n, a horn) of the rosette of the Magdala Stone, but they have bound it up in the Aluma mosaic (note that k-r-k in the Semitic languages refers to rolls, scrolls, and bound things, as well as fortresses, as in the Krak des Chevaliers) in the mosaic, and in the circle, there is a cross with two birds (probably sparrows) eating two of three threads of Saffron at the top of the crucis (yeah), where the threads emerge from the cross at the point of the intersection of two overlapped circles, by which method the Equilateral Triangle is derived by which process the rosette is created... It's a language game. What does Saffron have to do with anything, though? I have a pretty good idea. See the Saffron robes of Eos > Eostare > Easter. See the Krokos (see the Greek word for yolk) of a Saffron Robed Easter Egg. Language games. It's like bending reality, but reality doesn't need to be bent, as it is already bound by language and a chain of referents to something someone once called the foundation of the World. It's more like a rolling away of a false reality, a g-l-l, a 𒄬(ḫal, "roll") of the Heavens like a s-p-r (see the ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel to see the Heavens roll up like s-p-r... lol... language game), or like the rolling away of a of one Mountain and the dividing (𒄬) of another. This is the scandal of the Church of Mary Magdalene at Rennes-le-Chateau: Sauniere set the Crocus at the center of the Crucis.

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