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Superhuman strength...
Supernatural powers...

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And the awesome ability to fly.

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Throughout history,
mankind has

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told incredible tales of
gods and superheroes.

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But do we yearn to possess
these extraordinary powers for

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another, more profound, reason?

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Implanted within our
DNA is this desire to

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become god-like, to fly in the

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air, or swim through the ocean

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or especially to ascend
into the stars.

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Humans were created according
to the image of God.

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So we are part of them.

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If the so-called gods had

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incredible powers, we
have them in us, too.

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Could ancient stories
of god-like kings and

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heroes really have
otherworldly origins?

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Many of the sacred powers
given to kings of the past

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we know today were more
than likely technology

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that ancient man was given
from the actual gods,

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which we know were probably
extraterrestrials.

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Millions of people around
the world believe we have

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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

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Does it help to explain our

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continuing fascination with
stories of gods and heroes?

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Greece.
The Island of Crete.

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On the Lassithi Plateau, over
half a mile above sea level,

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lies the Dikteon Cave.

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This sprawling complex of caverns
stretches nearly one and

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a half square miles, and
archeological finds have shown a

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human presence dating as far
back as 6,000 years ago.

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Historians believe the first
inhabitants of the area actually

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lived inside the cave, and
according to legend, its many

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chambers were once home
to an otherworldly being,

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Zeus, the Greek
god of thunder.

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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the
son of Cronus, the king of the

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first generation of gods
known as the Titans.

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Zeus's father, Cronus, is
not particularly excited

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about giving birth to a child
because he's heard a prophecy

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that one of his children
is going to over throne him

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So, just as soon as
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he just swallows them all down.

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Now his mother Rhea,
who's Cronus's wife,

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is distraught about this.

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So what she does
is substitute a rock

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that she's wrapped up
in swaddling clothes.

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Gives it to Cronus,
which he swallows down.

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And what she does is
hides Zeus away in a cave.

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So he grows up there.

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In Theogony, the
8th-century BC poet Hesiod

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describes the cave Zeus was
hidden in as lying in these very

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mountains,
and specifically near

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the city of Lyktos, the
location of the Dikteon Cave.

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But the similarities between
this cave and the cave of Zeus

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described in Greek
mythology go much further.

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The ancients say that when they
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it is about own recorded
events of their past.

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According to the Greek myths,

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the child Zeus was nourished
on a mixture of honey and

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milk at the udder of the goat.

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Now around 1900 AD, a chamber
of the Dikteon Cave was

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identified by locals as
the birthplace of Zeus,

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and when archeologists went in
there, they discovered an alter

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with the remains of numerous
religious offerings,

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amongst them honey
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These remains date back 4,000
years, to the exact period in

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which the ancient Greek
stories took place.

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The question is, is this once

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again a coincidence that modern
excavations find remains in

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this cave that match up with

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what's written in
Greek mythology?

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Also found in
the Dikteon Cave were

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numerous artifacts dating back
to what would have been the time

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of Zeus's childhood according
to the Greek stories.

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Among them was a fragmentary
inscription bearing a hymn...

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a hymn dedicated
specifically to Zeus.

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Could the Dikteon Cave really be

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the cave described in Theogony?

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And if actual locations from

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Greek mythology really do exist,

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could legendary characters and

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events also be based
on historical fact?

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We think of mythology

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as something which
has been invented.

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But really, when we look at the
ancient Greeks, they believe

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that the War of the Titans
physically happened.

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That this was a war,
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fought in heaven,
by the deities.

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In Greek mythology,
the War of the Titans is a

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celestial battle waged by Zeus

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and his siblings,
known as the

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Olympians, against their
father Cronus and the Titans.

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The Olympians, who are the
victors in this battle, were the

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gods worshiped by
the ancient Greeks.

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But according to ancient
astronaut theorists, these

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human-like beings
may have been

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something other
than divine, and

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this mythical war may have been
an actual historical event.

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To support this claim, they
point to the existence of

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similar myths and stories told

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by different cultures
throughout the world.

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When it comes to warring
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is not a stand-alone issue.

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We have the same
thing in Ragmornak.

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In Norwegian mythology,
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this idea that the gods fought
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We also have stories from
Sumerian, Babylonian, Hittite

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accounts where it says that the
wars were fought between gods.

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We see the same story of Titans

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being over throned
by a new set of gods.

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In the sumerian epics,
the Annunaki coming here

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as the original culture
in ancient Iraq.

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So these similarities tell of
a warring race of beings that

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squabbled amongst themselves
about the rights of various

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areas on the Earth.

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What can explain
the similarities of these

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ancient war stories that emerged
from all over the world?

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Could they all be describing
the same historical events?

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And if there is an historical
basis for the legends and

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stories, what does
that suggest

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about the incredible powers and

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weaponry supposedly
possessed by the gods?

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It's very possible that
the Clash of the Titans

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known from the Greek times is
actually speaking of a much

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earlier epoch of extraterrestrials
having a type of battle.

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The ancient Greek gods had
helmets that made them invisible.

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They had breastplates that
made them impervious to their

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enemies' weapons.

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They had tridents that
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they had winged sandals that
gave them the power of flight.

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These are all profound examples

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of an ancient alien technology
that the Greek gods possessed.

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If mythical gods and
monsters really did exist,

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were they, as ancient
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extraterrestrial beings?

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And could this help to explain
the enormous and enduring

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popularity of gods, Titans and
other so-called "superheroes"

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in today's popular culture?

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There's so many different places

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where the characters of
the superheroes come from

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but naturally so much of these come
from mythology and from literature.

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Because those are such
strong bodies of work

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they're so familiar,
and they become

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the architecture of
all types of heroes.

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The stories exists partly

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because we want to
dream of such powers,

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We want to imagine
what might be possible

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if we had unlimited dominance.

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We watch endless
amounts of television

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and movies which
says that amongst us

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are a group of people who
are more than just human

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super humans, and that
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are born that way or that
something happens to them

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which triggers this.

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But basically the underlying
subconscious message

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revealed is that we are
capable of becoming gods.

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Implanted within our DNA
is this desire to become

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god-like, either to fly in the air
or to swim through the ocean

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or run super fast or especially
to ascend into the stars.

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Why are human beings
so drawn to stories

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about beings with superior
abilities and technologies.

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Are they looking
for something larger?

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and more powerful
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or perhaps, within?

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In Greek mythology,
the Titan Prometheus

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is often credited with
creating human beings

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out of basic materials
found on Earth.

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Prometheus was playing with mud

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and made little figurines of it and
Athenea was fascinated with this and

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breathed life into them.

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The cynical read is to say

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what he wants is somebody
who to worship him

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like people worship Zeus.

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He created us in his image
and he gave us all these skills

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culture and technology
and medicines,

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and makes us what it means
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Zeus realised he couldn't
uncreate these beings

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but what he could do is limit
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and restrict them their capacity and
prevent them from becoming god-like.

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It's as if the extraterrestrials

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wanted to keep us from having all
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In another
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Prometheus is said to have stolen
a spark of Zeus's lightning bolt

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in order to give humans
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When we are talking about a
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we realise that this is not the
god as in the supreme being

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the one, but clearly somebody
else, an ancient alien

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We pursued throughout
history to master

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the powers of the gods

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but the question is where
did all those ideas originate,

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and the answer is very simple.

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Due to extraterrestrial
contact, in our remote past.

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Could humans really

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be the creation of alien beings
with extraordinary powers?

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Do we have a
subconscious desire

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to reconnect with the so-called
gods of our past by becoming

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more like them through
advancements in technology?

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Could this explain the origins
of ancient tales of gods and

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heroes who were thought to
possess extraordinary powers?

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Perhaps the answer can be found

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near the Greek valley of Phocis,

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and by examining the legend of
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Lydia, 716 B.C.

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Gyges, a shepherd in the service
of King Candaules, becomes the

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unlikely successor to the throne
of this ancient kingdom in

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modern day Turkey.

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But the story of how this modest

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servant rose from a shepherd
to a king is so fantastic that

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many scholars and historians
have dismissed it as mere myth.

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Gyges is out in the field and
there's a terrible earthquake

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He sees a cave open, goes in
the cave and sees a gold ring

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He just kind of walks
in this chamber, which is like

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a tomb where he sees a dead
body that has some jewelry on it

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so he grabs this ring off
because he's a poor man

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He puts the ring on
and discovers that

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it gives him the power
to be invisible.

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Here, he has the kind
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and does it use it well?

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Well, actually it's a little
questionable how he uses it.

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He comes up with a plan.

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The next time he goes
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he brings that ring with him,
turns himself invisible,

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seduces the queen,

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kills the king,

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takes over the palace.

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What we have here is really
a multi-layered legend

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We have not only the
story of the fact that

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somebody in the past had
the cloak of invisibility

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but actually that he
did not invent this

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that it was a legacy from a
race who had buried their dead

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and that alongside these
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which were technological

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What kind of a magical amulet or
technology are we talking about here?

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Was this the ring of the gods that's
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and is the ring of cosmic sovereignty

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According to legend,
a bloody civil war

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irrupted following the
death of King Candaules

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It ended when Gyges obtained
approval for overthrowing the throne

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from the oracle of Delphi.

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A mysterious priestess whose
eerily correct prophecies

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The oracle of Delphi,
whether it's a prophet

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or a soothsayer had
a direct relationship

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to the extraterrestrial being.

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The extraterrestrial being
communicated through the priest

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who then interpret that
into a language that

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the listeners could understand.

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But was it really a god
who endorsed Gyges reign,

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or was Apollo, the son of Zeus,
an extraterrestrial,

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as astronaut theorists contend.

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Was it perhaps the
same extraterrestrial

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who let Gyges to find the
ring that enabled him

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to see his power,
in the first place.

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And if so, 
could this be an example

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of aliens endowing a human
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to carry out some earthly agenda?

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When I read stories
like Gyges of Lidia

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who has found this ring

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which gave him the capability
of becoming invisible

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then there are two
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one, is it just fantasy or do
we have another reference here

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that describes
misunderstood technology.

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Because today, researchers at

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Duke University are trying to
develop an invisibility cloak.

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Duke University engineer
professor David R Smith

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is the director for the center for
meta-material and integrated plasmatics

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For the past decade,
Smith and his team

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have been working to
create meta-materials

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or artificial materials
that are not found in nature.

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Just like a piece of glass can
control the way light bends

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Smith is set out to prove
that certain man made

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materials can actually
be constructed to

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render objects invisible.

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This is actually an example
of a meta-material

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this is a bunch of
pieces of circuit board

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all cut out and
assembled together

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and on the circuit boards
are little pieces of copper

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that are tied in circuits,
and each circuit has

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a certain response to
electromagnetic radiation

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and the combination of these
patterns plus the shape

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gives us something that we
can call an invisibility cloak

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The idea behind the
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renders something inside of it invisible,
and it's self invisible as well

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At present, the device only
makes objects disappear

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at microwave frequencies

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But Dr. Smith believes
that soon this technology

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will also be able to make objects
invisible to even the human eye.

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Just in the last year or two, there
actually have been experiments

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showing certain of the
cloaking idea is transitioning

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to the visible spectrum,
red, green, blue.

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Those experiments are
actually being done now

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We will have invisibility
cloaks at some point that

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we could wear as humans.

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I definitely think
we're gonna get there

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because science and speculative
science go hand in hand.

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Science creates a base point,
speculative science pushes it

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farther into the future, and
that's how technology advances.

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An actual cloak of invisibility?

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Though still in development,
researchers in Japan have

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designed an optical camouflage
system that makes special

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reflective material seemingly

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disappear, including the person
wearing it, thus bringing us

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closer to achieving a fully
functional invisibility cloak

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like the one described
in the story of Gyges.

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Could this mean that other
seemingly far-fetched devices of

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fantasy, like flying carpets

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and magic wands, are
also based on science,

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and if so, might they have
been used in the ancient

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past, perhaps in the hands of
extraterrestrial visitors?

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Just because 
we are working on these

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technologies today does not
mean that we are the first.

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Because we find
multiple references in

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ancient texts that describe
devices with which you were able

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to go invisible.

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So much of our storytelling

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deals with the fact that
what we deem to be magic

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can really be science
at a different time.

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If legendary tales like
the story of King Gyges

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could be proven to be real, what
does it suggest about other

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fantastic stories of
gods and titans?

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Hisarlik, Turkey

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Within this archaeological site

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lie the ruins of Troy, a place
once thought by mainstream

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scientists to be no more than
myth until Heinrich Schliemann

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unearthed its remains in 1871.

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Here in the 12th century B.C.,

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the ancient Greek city was the
center of the Trojan War,

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a Greek battle described
in Homer's <i>Iliad.</i>

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According to the epic poem,
the goddess Athena gives King

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Diomedes the power of divine

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vision during the war so that
he could see like the gods.

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Athena comes down and she
wants to help the Greeks, so

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she finds Diomedes and she says,

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"I'm gonna help you out here.

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So what I'm gonna do is strip

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away this mist that's
over your eyes.

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You, as a human being, you don't

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really know what's going on.

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You just see battle, but once I
strip away this mist, you're

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gonna be able to see what's
really going on, which is that,

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in addition to a battle going
on, there are gods fighting.

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King Diomedes sees that
Ares-- the god of war-- is

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fighting alongside his enemy
Hector, and he was not to use

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this sight to attack the gods,

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but that is exactly
what he uses it for.

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The side aspect of
it's a question--

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did the gods really have this?

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Were they superhuman like we

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want to become, or did they have

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technology which enabled them
to do these kind of things?

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Diomedes and the gods'
power of super eyesight

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may seem like pure fantasy, but

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enhanced vision is also becoming

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a reality thanks to advancements
in spectrometer technology.

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Spectrometers are devices used

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to measure properties of light
over a wider range of the

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electromagnetic spectrum than is

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visible with the human eye, and

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today, just as we are developing

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cloaking devices, we are also
developing technology to see

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through those devices.

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Technology is driven
by society's needs.

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more than anything else but myths
have a way of inspiring us

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and they represent part of the
imagination which we need

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to even envision the next
generation of technologies

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If I dream, I could
go to another galaxy

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I will sooner or later
go to another galaxy

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We are the offsprings
of the gods

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and all these things
are in our brains

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We think we are very powerful.

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In practice we are not, but we

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have technology to develop the

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power because we are
the sons of the gods.

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Might technology be our
way of reconnecting with the

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gods, or did the so-called gods
deliberately deny us their

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superpowers as a way of
motivating our imaginations and

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technological achievements?

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Perhaps further evidence can
be found in the heavens at a

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Mexican ceremony that

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commemorates real-life close
encounters with alien visitors.

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Veracruz, Mexico Five
men in ceremonial dress

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ascend a 100-foot pole.

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Once at the top,
one of the men

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performs a sacred dance while

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playing a flute and
drum atop a platform.

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The other four men
launch themselves off.

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It is a ritual known as
La Danza de los Voladores,

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or The Dance of the Flyers.

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The ritual has the leader
stand on top of the pole

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on the top of little platform,
and the four flyers

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wrap up cable around that
pole and then branch out

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fly around in a pyramid shape,
in perfect synchronized order.

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It's a stunning and
daring thing to do.

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They are representing the birds.

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They are representing the
four cardinal directions.

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They are representing
the elements.

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Heavily symbolic and mythic, and
it is a powerful ritual.

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The Totonac people who
practice this ceremony today

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claim it is a dance that was

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invented 500 years ago as a plea

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to the gods to end a severe drought.

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But could this ancient ritual
have different, perhaps

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otherworldly origins?

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What we have here
with the Voladores

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is 100% living mythology

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something that describes
and illustrates

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in front of our living eye

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the descent of the gods,

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from a time ago.

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The motive of the god
descending from the skies

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is one of the most
ancient stories.

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If you go back to
the Old Testament

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you have the stories
of the sons of gods

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descending from the
sky and they see the

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daughters of men and they
create a race of giants.

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In the Book of Genesis, Jacob

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sees a ladder ascending into the

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heavens with angels ascending

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and descending upon this ladder.

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Jesus, in the Book of John,
describes the heavens opening

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and beings descending
upon the son of man.

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According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

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the Voladores ritual is a
reenactment of a close encounter

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with alien visitors
in the distant past.

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They believe extraterrestrials
descended upon the flat

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mountaintops of the Palpa
region in Peru around 500 A.D.,

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dropping from their aircraft
and gliding down to Earth in

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spiraling circles.

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The Voladores
ritual was very technological,

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as in, you know,
these beings

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descending from
the sky and the

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circle signifying
arrival of the gods.

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Where does that flying or
descending gods motif originate?

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Our ancestors
saw something

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because why would you hurl
yourself from a 100-foot

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pole out of nothing, 
to imitate a bird?

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Birds are not that important.

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Something very significant happened.

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Could an alien
encounter really be the

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inspiration for the Voladores ritual?

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And could the Totanac people,

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who created the ceremony, really

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have been trying to mimic the
ancient gods' power of flight?

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As further evidence that early
humans may have encountered

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alien visitors equipped
with the power of flight...

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Ancient astronaut theorists
point to various artifacts

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and statues depicting
ancient gods.

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One such example is the Mayan

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god, Ah-Muzen-Cab, also known
as the flying "Bee God."

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Another is the most prominent
god of early Mesoamerican

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culture-- the winged
deity Quetzalcoatl.

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Mesoamericans believed
in the winged serpent

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or the Quetzalcoatl, which came
from the sky bringing wisdom,

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power of the wind, and also
influenced everything

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that happened in the every
day life of the Mayans.

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In fact, they looked to the sky
for all their answers, from

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everything as simple as when to

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plant corn, to when to go to war.

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Uh, they believed all answers in

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the universe came from the sky
and trying to relate that to

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their daily lives.

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The ancient record are loaded
with fantastic examples

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of the gods flying around.

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These are the ancient aliens,
and humans are being shown the

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ultimate capability of these gods.

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In my eyes, because we are
the sons of the gods,

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we are the offsprings of the
gods whatever humans can dream,

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whatever humans think

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was once reality in the past or

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will be reality in the future.

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July 21st, 2003
The English Channel.

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Felix Baumgartner becomes the
first person to cross this

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22-mile wide body of water in

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free fall using a specially
made fiber wing.

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But the Austrian daredevil
is just one of many who have

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used wing-suits to simulate flying

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by means of a free fall.

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A wing-suit
is basically a jump suit

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that you put on under your rig

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and it's designed to
actually make you fly.

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when you exit the plane.

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The material inflates underneath

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your arms, in between your legs,

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and creates basically an airfoil

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that you glide on through the air.

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It's an amazing feeling because

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you're actually the
pilot and the plane.

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It is total freedom.

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You feel as though you're flying.

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Though you are falling,

492
00:29:26,355 --> 00:29:29,356
you're using the air
to maneuver your body.

493
00:29:29,493 --> 00:29:30,992
And the wing-suit helps you

494
00:29:30,994 --> 00:29:33,893
cover a lot of ground
as you're descending.

495
00:29:34,997 --> 00:29:39,366
Some people have been exceeding
two-to-one glide ratio.

496
00:29:39,368 --> 00:29:41,201
For example, three-to-one would

497
00:29:41,203 --> 00:29:44,705
mean for every foot you descend,

498
00:29:44,707 --> 00:29:46,973
you're traveling
three feet forward.

499
00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:51,012
We got these flying
guys that have these

500
00:29:51,014 --> 00:29:53,781
wings attached to their backs,

501
00:29:53,783 --> 00:29:57,518
and they hurl themselves out
of planes, and some even have

502
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,754
rocket engines attached to them.

503
00:29:59,956 --> 00:30:04,826
And so they essentially
themselves become airplanes.

504
00:30:04,828 --> 00:30:08,496
Now imagine showing that to

505
00:30:08,498 --> 00:30:10,764
someone from a hundred years ago.

506
00:30:10,834 --> 00:30:12,900
That person would be in complete

507
00:30:12,902 --> 00:30:15,169
awe of what they are witnessing,

508
00:30:15,171 --> 00:30:17,905
not understanding that there's

509
00:30:17,907 --> 00:30:21,008
technology involved with this.

510
00:30:21,310 --> 00:30:24,410
Just using our own
body, we cannot fly.

511
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,680
We have no wings.

512
00:30:25,682 --> 00:30:28,148
But, of course, we have the
fantasy and we have the

513
00:30:28,149 --> 00:30:32,252
technology to develop
wings that we can fly.

514
00:30:33,355 --> 00:30:37,058
The pursuit of flight has
been one of the most

515
00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:40,928
sought after quests in all
of mankind's history.

516
00:30:41,030 --> 00:30:41,996
Why?

517
00:30:42,198 --> 00:30:44,865
Because with flight you could

518
00:30:44,867 --> 00:30:49,335
reach, conceivably,
the realm of the gods.

519
00:30:53,175 --> 00:30:58,545
From the ancient Greek
myth of lcarus, fashioning

520
00:30:58,547 --> 00:31:00,548
wings of feathers and wax,

521
00:31:01,050 --> 00:31:04,150
to modern daredevils,
like Felix Baumgartner,

522
00:31:04,752 --> 00:31:06,819
human beings have
been fascinated with,

523
00:31:06,821 --> 00:31:10,854
and often frustrated by,
their desire to fly.

524
00:31:11,561 --> 00:31:16,730
But have birds really served
as mankind's inspiration?

525
00:31:16,732 --> 00:31:17,365
Or something else?

526
00:31:17,967 --> 00:31:19,867
Something extraterrestrial.

527
00:31:21,871 --> 00:31:25,973
And if ancient visitors could
fly, what other powers might

528
00:31:25,975 --> 00:31:27,609
they have possessed?

529
00:31:28,011 --> 00:31:32,547
And what abilities might
early man have had and lost?

530
00:31:33,149 --> 00:31:36,984
Perhaps the answer can be
found, not in the skies...

531
00:31:36,986 --> 00:31:40,118
but deep beneath the sea.

532
00:31:44,715 --> 00:31:46,472
Cape Sounion, Greece.

533
00:31:46,474 --> 00:31:50,643
Perched on the headland,
surrounded on three sides by the

534
00:31:50,645 --> 00:31:53,179
sea, lies the ruins of the

535
00:31:53,181 --> 00:31:57,114
Temple of Poseidon, built in 440 BC.

536
00:31:57,385 --> 00:31:59,485
The second son of the Titan King

537
00:31:59,487 --> 00:32:01,854
Cronus, Poseidon was worshiped

538
00:32:01,856 --> 00:32:03,756
throughout Greece almost as much

539
00:32:03,758 --> 00:32:06,727
as his younger brother Zeus.

540
00:32:07,829 --> 00:32:10,762
Poseidon was
the god of the sea,

541
00:32:10,931 --> 00:32:14,331
he was also the god of earthquakes
and, strangely, curses

542
00:32:14,633 --> 00:32:16,568
When Poseidon
was in a good mood,

543
00:32:16,570 --> 00:32:18,770
he created new
lands out of the sea.

544
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,675
He gave calm waters
for good voyages.

545
00:32:21,676 --> 00:32:23,209
When he was in a bad mood,

546
00:32:23,211 --> 00:32:25,543
he destroyed ships
and brought storms.

547
00:32:30,661 --> 00:32:33,561
Poseidon does rule over
the kingdom of the sea.

548
00:32:33,562 --> 00:32:36,462
It is envisioned as a kind of
place where people live.

549
00:32:36,563 --> 00:32:38,563
And when he comes
out of that place

550
00:32:38,564 --> 00:32:41,964
yes, he rides the spectacular
kind of like water chariot

551
00:32:42,063 --> 00:32:45,963
that is driven by dolphins and
he holds a really big trident.

552
00:32:46,365 --> 00:32:47,299
In Greek mythology,

553
00:32:47,301 --> 00:32:49,702
Cronus eats all of his children

554
00:32:49,704 --> 00:32:52,237
except for Zeus, who eventually

555
00:32:52,239 --> 00:32:54,006
rescues his siblings, including

556
00:32:54,008 --> 00:32:56,708
Poseidon, from
the belly of his father.

557
00:32:57,378 --> 00:32:59,745
A potion is prepared that
makes him heave up all the

558
00:32:59,747 --> 00:33:01,280
other siblings of Zeus, and

559
00:33:01,282 --> 00:33:03,348
these become the gods of Olympus.

560
00:33:04,886 --> 00:33:07,820
But ancient astronaut
theorists believe

561
00:33:07,822 --> 00:33:09,822
this Greek myth is actually a

562
00:33:09,824 --> 00:33:12,724
metaphor for an
extraterrestrial event.

563
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,527
They believe the notion of gods

564
00:33:15,529 --> 00:33:19,364
being vomited up from the belly
of their father actually

565
00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:24,233
describes mutinous aliens being
expelled from the mother ship.

566
00:33:28,511 --> 00:33:31,811
Anything which is followed
up into a living creature

567
00:33:31,812 --> 00:33:34,012
will not be able to
survive for three days

568
00:33:34,213 --> 00:33:37,513
it will die from suffocation
and will begin to decay

569
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:42,087
So what we have here is not a
creature, but something else.

570
00:33:42,789 --> 00:33:45,857
It could've been an object,
which was clearly of a man-made

571
00:33:45,859 --> 00:33:47,326
or extraterrestrial origin.

572
00:33:48,028 --> 00:33:49,862
A mutiny took place.

573
00:33:49,863 --> 00:33:53,563
Some of the extraterrestrials,
they had sex

574
00:33:53,564 --> 00:33:57,164
with a wonderful
earthly female, woman

575
00:33:57,367 --> 00:33:58,670
They were not allowed to do this.

576
00:33:58,773 --> 00:34:02,841
So, one of these
extraterrestrials who were not

577
00:34:02,843 --> 00:34:04,209
allowed to go back with the

578
00:34:04,211 --> 00:34:06,947
mother spaceship had
the name of Poseidon.

579
00:34:06,948 --> 00:34:12,952
Poseidon fell in love with
the beautiful human girl.

580
00:34:14,354 --> 00:34:16,190
And he made her pregnant.

581
00:34:17,592 --> 00:34:20,325
Poseidon is married,
all right.

582
00:34:20,395 --> 00:34:21,494
He's got a child.

583
00:34:21,496 --> 00:34:23,228
He's got some grandchildren, 
right.

584
00:34:23,564 --> 00:34:26,863
There's a whole caste
of sea nymphs as well.

585
00:34:26,934 --> 00:34:28,867
All of them presumably,
like, live in this place.

586
00:34:29,270 --> 00:34:33,335
Poseidon had the power of
the deep, the unseen place.

587
00:34:33,407 --> 00:34:34,673
If you look out at the sea, you

588
00:34:34,675 --> 00:34:37,376
see a surface, and you're aware
there's a whole world below

589
00:34:37,378 --> 00:34:41,378
that, suggesting powers beyond
that which meet the eye.

590
00:34:44,724 --> 00:34:46,624
Among the mythical creatures

591
00:34:46,625 --> 00:34:49,825
associated with Poseidon
are the Telchines

592
00:34:49,826 --> 00:34:52,526
a race of advanced fish children.

593
00:34:53,027 --> 00:34:57,327
These human like beings could
live both in and out of water

594
00:34:58,028 --> 00:35:02,228
They're masters of technology
and seem to match up with

595
00:35:02,229 --> 00:35:06,029
the fish gods of ancient
sumeria who worked for Enki

596
00:35:06,030 --> 00:35:09,330
the great god of alchemy, and
technology and smith craft

597
00:35:09,822 --> 00:35:13,422
The Telchines are also
kind of in the shadowy

598
00:35:13,423 --> 00:35:16,323
territory of god
human monster things.

599
00:35:16,524 --> 00:35:20,725
They're just these kind of
figures who are not gods

600
00:35:20,826 --> 00:35:22,726
but they're like human beings

601
00:35:23,627 --> 00:35:26,627
There's one story about the
Roman version of Zeus, Jupiter.

602
00:35:26,628 --> 00:35:28,028
trying to destroy them.

603
00:35:28,029 --> 00:35:30,729
Now, we don't know whether
they are actually all destroyed

604
00:35:30,730 --> 00:35:36,430
but it's possibly because of their
relationship to the magic.

605
00:35:40,547 --> 00:35:44,247
In Greek legend, the Telchines
were also metallurgists

606
00:35:45,548 --> 00:35:48,648
They were said to have created
Poseidon's magical trident

607
00:35:48,749 --> 00:35:53,149
and to have casted the first bronze
statues of the gods of Olympus.

608
00:35:55,550 --> 00:35:57,550
And according
to some historians

609
00:35:57,551 --> 00:36:01,351
the Telchines may not
have been creatures of myth

610
00:36:01,552 --> 00:36:04,252
but were beings
who actually existed.

611
00:36:08,953 --> 00:36:11,153
There were people
called Telchines,

612
00:36:11,254 --> 00:36:13,654
we do actually have
evidence of these beings

613
00:36:13,955 --> 00:36:17,855
they were actual ancient
greeks who had specific tasks

614
00:36:17,856 --> 00:36:21,656
and traits like metallurgy,
like smiting and so on.

615
00:36:21,657 --> 00:36:25,357
And so you could see how
it is that a being like Telchines

616
00:36:25,358 --> 00:36:28,158
that these things could in fact not
these just these mythological beings

617
00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:31,359
but like actual people.

618
00:36:31,660 --> 00:36:33,860
So the way we look at the
ancient greeks and Rome,

619
00:36:33,861 --> 00:36:35,661
is the way they would
have looked at the stories

620
00:36:35,662 --> 00:36:37,562
that are being told about the ***.

621
00:36:40,863 --> 00:36:42,963
We've got the stories of the Telchine

622
00:36:42,964 --> 00:36:46,664
and they were able
to survive under water

623
00:36:46,665 --> 00:36:49,965
for unlimited amount of time

624
00:36:50,266 --> 00:36:52,266
Now, how is such
a thing possible

625
00:36:52,267 --> 00:36:56,467
unless you have access
to some type of technology

626
00:36:59,268 --> 00:37:02,968
An Israeli company is
currently developing

627
00:37:02,969 --> 00:37:05,869
a human artificial gill system

628
00:37:05,870 --> 00:37:11,470
that allows humans to take
oxygen from surrounding water

629
00:37:11,471 --> 00:37:15,248
without the need of oxygen tanks

630
00:37:15,249 --> 00:37:19,249
You can potentially
can remain underwater

631
00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:22,450
for unlimited amounts of time.

632
00:37:26,251 --> 00:37:29,651
All the technology that
we are discovering today

633
00:37:30,547 --> 00:37:32,447
is in fact old news.

634
00:37:32,448 --> 00:37:34,948
It's been around before.

635
00:37:35,652 --> 00:37:37,755
Could the
ancient Greek myths

636
00:37:37,757 --> 00:37:40,457
really be based on actual events?

637
00:37:41,462 --> 00:37:43,462
Were the Telchines early humans

638
00:37:43,464 --> 00:37:45,564
enabled with god-like abilities?

639
00:37:45,766 --> 00:37:50,269
And were these powers really
misunderstood alien technology?

640
00:37:50,771 --> 00:37:53,505
Perhaps the answers can be

641
00:37:53,507 --> 00:37:56,941
found, not in the past,
but in the present.

642
00:37:57,478 --> 00:38:01,947
As modern day advances in
science and technology give us,

643
00:38:01,949 --> 00:38:07,282
perhaps, our greatest evidence
that we are not alone.

644
00:38:10,384 --> 00:38:12,184
The ability to fly

645
00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,829
to thrive underwater,

646
00:38:15,831 --> 00:38:19,665
and to travel through space
and explore the universe.

647
00:38:20,969 --> 00:38:23,770
At one time, these were all

648
00:38:23,772 --> 00:38:25,971
believed to be impossible notions.

649
00:38:26,308 --> 00:38:31,075
Dismissed as mere
science fiction or myth.

650
00:38:32,047 --> 00:38:34,681
But mankind's continued advances

651
00:38:34,683 --> 00:38:36,950
in technology have made the word

652
00:38:36,952 --> 00:38:39,487
"impossible" almost obsolete.

653
00:38:40,689 --> 00:38:42,956
In our modern world, steroids

654
00:38:42,958 --> 00:38:45,291
can help generate Herculean muscles,

655
00:38:46,693 --> 00:38:50,631
titanium joints can replace
and even improve upon

656
00:38:50,632 --> 00:38:51,999
our own natural ones.

657
00:38:52,901 --> 00:38:55,669
And even prosthetic gills are

658
00:38:55,671 --> 00:38:57,671
being developed, 
so human beings

659
00:38:57,673 --> 00:39:01,877
can breathe underwater without
the use of air tanks.

660
00:39:05,679 --> 00:39:09,216
Today, government contractors
like Raytheon-Sarcos and

661
00:39:09,218 --> 00:39:12,887
Lockheed Martin continue to
develop exoskeleton machines

662
00:39:12,889 --> 00:39:14,325
for the U.S. military.

663
00:39:18,827 --> 00:39:23,764
When worn, they can allow
soldiers to walk, run and lift

664
00:39:23,766 --> 00:39:26,501
hundreds of pounds with
virtually no effort.

665
00:39:29,103 --> 00:39:30,969
What makes
exoskeletons so cool

666
00:39:31,042 --> 00:39:32,242
is that it's an every man thing

667
00:39:32,243 --> 00:39:34,343
Every body can pick one, 
put one on,

668
00:39:34,444 --> 00:39:36,044
anybody can be the hero.

669
00:39:36,545 --> 00:39:39,245
You can take a person with any
sort of physical weaknesses

670
00:39:39,246 --> 00:39:41,446
and make them greater than
the person without them.

671
00:39:41,547 --> 00:39:46,947
Exoskeletons would be a
prime example of something

672
00:39:46,948 --> 00:39:50,348
coming out of comic books
into mainstream reality.

673
00:39:51,249 --> 00:39:54,945
And in reality, exoskeletons
are becoming very popular

674
00:39:54,946 --> 00:39:56,346
with the military.

675
00:39:57,647 --> 00:40:00,947
A soldier can wear the Raytheon
exoskeleton, for example,

676
00:40:00,948 --> 00:40:02,948
and lift 200 pounds

677
00:40:03,343 --> 00:40:06,043
While these
modern day super men

678
00:40:06,044 --> 00:40:10,544
may be limited in their mobility,
the development of exoskeletons

679
00:40:10,545 --> 00:40:12,945
represents an incredible evolution

680
00:40:12,946 --> 00:40:16,046
in the relationship
between men and machine.

681
00:40:19,247 --> 00:40:23,247
But did such incredible
technology exist before?

682
00:40:23,548 --> 00:40:26,848
Perhaps in mankind's
ancient past.

683
00:40:28,149 --> 00:40:31,248
Now, it is possible that some type

684
00:40:31,249 --> 00:40:35,649
of exoskeleton technology
was used in the remote past

685
00:40:35,650 --> 00:40:37,550
for example,
on the Giza plateau?

686
00:40:38,751 --> 00:40:43,251
Imagine the operator of one
of those exoskeleton machines,

687
00:40:43,752 --> 00:40:45,152
coming out of that machine,

688
00:40:45,853 --> 00:40:49,253
that person has super powers

689
00:40:50,654 --> 00:40:54,254
even though the person does
not have any powers at all

690
00:40:54,555 --> 00:40:59,055
That person is only operating
sophisticated technology.

691
00:41:00,056 --> 00:41:03,256
One could argue, with
all the advancements

692
00:41:04,257 --> 00:41:08,351
we are making today in science
and all the other academic fields

693
00:41:08,852 --> 00:41:11,452
we are becoming more god-like

694
00:41:12,753 --> 00:41:14,753
We are not becoming gods,

695
00:41:15,254 --> 00:41:18,154
we are not turning
into real super heroes

696
00:41:18,555 --> 00:41:22,355
we are only becoming god-like

697
00:41:22,756 --> 00:41:25,656
because of our technology.

698
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:27,854
I think we have innate

699
00:41:27,856 --> 00:41:30,123
need to push our bodies and our

700
00:41:30,125 --> 00:41:31,791
minds to the utmost limits and

701
00:41:31,793 --> 00:41:34,394
strive for super intelligence,

702
00:41:34,396 --> 00:41:38,530
super strength and
other superpowers.

703
00:41:38,767 --> 00:41:40,100
The reason is that people have

704
00:41:40,102 --> 00:41:42,769
long been fascinated with what

705
00:41:42,771 --> 00:41:44,771
could be stronger than humanity

706
00:41:44,773 --> 00:41:48,041
itself, and if it's not human,

707
00:41:48,043 --> 00:41:49,776
then it must come from somewhere

708
00:41:49,778 --> 00:41:52,711
else, either a god or
an extraterrestrial.

709
00:41:54,915 --> 00:41:57,516
But with all of these
scientific achievements,

710
00:41:57,586 --> 00:42:00,086
is mankind perhaps making himself

711
00:42:00,088 --> 00:42:02,389
more and more vulnerable to what

712
00:42:02,391 --> 00:42:04,825
could be terrible consequences?

713
00:42:05,627 --> 00:42:09,727
There are many tales of
ordinary mortals ascending to

714
00:42:09,753 --> 00:42:14,953
become rulers, to become gods and
various positions of enormous power

715
00:42:16,854 --> 00:42:20,854
Often these characters
then become corrupt

716
00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:25,055
and the stories stick around and
are retold over a long period of time,

717
00:42:25,056 --> 00:42:28,256
long after their sources
have withered away.

718
00:42:28,557 --> 00:42:30,957
to teach us that power corrupts

719
00:42:31,058 --> 00:42:33,158
to be careful what you wish for

720
00:42:33,359 --> 00:42:38,059
and to be very cautious if
ever holding great power

721
00:42:38,956 --> 00:42:41,956
because of its ability to harm.

722
00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,763
Almost 50% of our stories
are about technology

723
00:42:45,764 --> 00:42:47,700
run amuck, or the dark
side of technology,

724
00:42:49,105 --> 00:42:51,104
because when you talk
about superpowers,

725
00:42:51,406 --> 00:42:53,072
when you talk about all
this transformation,

726
00:42:53,074 --> 00:42:54,940
everything comes at a price.

727
00:42:55,377 --> 00:42:57,911
And you always have to weigh
whether or not price is worthy,

728
00:42:57,913 --> 00:43:00,512
or necessary to make,
for the greater good,

729
00:43:00,514 --> 00:43:01,813
and sometimes it's not.

730
00:43:01,917 --> 00:43:04,316
Sometimes, the price you
pay is just too great,

731
00:43:04,318 --> 00:43:05,617
when you lose your own self.

732
00:43:06,788 --> 00:43:09,421
Are all of mankind's scientific

733
00:43:09,491 --> 00:43:13,527
achievements really examples
of emerging technology?

734
00:43:14,129 --> 00:43:16,229
or is the yearning
for superpowers

735
00:43:16,231 --> 00:43:20,768
and heroic feats embedded
in our collective DNA?

736
00:43:21,470 --> 00:43:26,239
Are humans finally catching
up to the abilities of beings

737
00:43:26,241 --> 00:43:28,842
who have been here before?

738
00:43:29,144 --> 00:43:31,111
And were they gods?

739
00:43:31,413 --> 00:43:34,548
Or, as some believe,
alien ancestors,

740
00:43:34,549 --> 00:43:39,486
living thousands of years
ago, but possessing powers

741
00:43:39,488 --> 00:43:43,224
and abilities thousands
of years more advanced?

742
00:43:44,226 --> 00:43:46,825
Perhaps only time and further

743
00:43:46,827 --> 00:43:49,660
advancements in
technology will tell.

744
00:43:50,196 --> 00:43:53,296
Or perhaps it will all be revealed

745
00:43:54,398 --> 00:43:56,665
when they return.

746
00:43:56,765 --> 00:43:58,865
sync and corrections by Bellows
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