Butler dedicated decades of his life to traveling across the Middle East and the American Southwest. His claim was audacious: He argued that God had left a “second witness” in the Earth’s crust. While the Bible provides the written Word, Butler believed that rocks, mountains, and fossilized formations provide the visual Word—a tangible proof of biblical narratives, from Genesis to Revelation.
Butler asserts that the biblical stories and Egyptian dynasties originated in South and Central America. He claims that ancient Egypt began in the West as early as 23,000 years ago. Identification of Ancient Ruins: when rocks cry out horace butler pdf
In this narrative, the Amazon River is identified as the River Gihon, and the Orinoco as the Pishon. But the smoking gun, according to Butler, was the identification of the "Ethiopian" rivers and the geography of the Exodus. Butler dedicated decades of his life to traveling
Horace brought it to town two mornings later, propping the stone upright in his workshop where light from the high window painted its streaks like scars. That night the radio kept him awake, but not with music — with the desire to listen. He pressed his ear to the cool surface and swore he heard something: syllables beneath noise, like roots moving. He shook his head and laughed into the dark. He could not shake the feeling, though, that the stone wanted something. Butler asserts that the biblical stories and Egyptian