JONATHAN YOUNG: To devout Hindus,
Shiva is a real being who walked among us.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: Shiva came down
from these cities on the firmament.
He's the leader of a group of extraterrestrials.
Shiva was a force for incredible good,
but also a force for incredible destruction.
And he is said to have this trident
which could annihilate anything in its path.
DAVID WILCOCK: In the Hindu tradition,
you have to have destruction in order to have creation.
And it may be that Shiva will determine
the future of the human race.
NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited its origins to gods
and other visitors from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help to shape our history?
And if so, might humanity's fate
be determined by Shiva the Destroyer?
NARRATOR: India.
Covering over 1.2 million square miles,
it is the world's seventh-largest country.
And with 1.3 billion people,
it is the second most populated.
Roughly 80% of the Indian population practices Hinduism,
the world's oldest surviving religion
that dates back to at least 2000 BC.
And for the Hindu faithful, their gods are not mythological,
but are real beings
that have, at times, been present here on Earth.
YOUNG: These many gods and goddesses have different stories
and different energies
and different principles that they represent.
For many of the Hindu faithful, the gods are absolutely real.
They exist physically,
although they may not always be visible.
In general, compared to Western belief systems,
the tangible reality of the gods is much stronger in India.
I've grown up as a Hindu in a strict Hindu family,
so I know all the Vedas and epics.
You know, I've read them hundreds of times.
Hindus believe that the gods came down from the sky.
DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Hindus believe that
these stories are not simply myth.
They are historical records,
because they are actually called itihasa--
itihasa meaning "history."
NARRATOR: While in the Judeo-Christian tradition,
God is depicted as an all-powerful being,
in the Vedic texts,
Hindu gods often rely on the use of technology.
This has led ancient astronaut theorists to pose the question:
is it possible that these religious texts
describe not only encounters with the divine,
but also with extraterrestrial beings?
The Western mindset is different from that of India,
where they accept the idea of extraterrestrial beings.
The Hindu story of the Mahabharata
is loaded with references
to what seems to be extraterrestrial technology.
You've got flying vehicles.
You've got weapons that are voice-activated.
And you have destructions of civilizations
by what seems like nuclear detonation.
VON DANIKEN: In the Mahabharata,
there they write that one day
gigantic cities surrounded the Earth.
They did not have a word for "spaceship" at that time.
They say "cities."
And they make clear difference
that these cities were in the firmament, not in heaven.
And small vehicles came down
from these cities of the firmament.
The old Indians called these vehicles vimanas.
And out of the vimanas, the teachers came out.
No doubt we were visited by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Is the Hindu tradition
a story of extraterrestrial visitation?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest that this was orchestrated
by an otherworldly being known in Hinduism as Lord Shiva.
Shiva is Shiva is also called Mahadeva.
Mahadeva means "great god."
So he is god of gods.
He's the head of all gods,
and he's also the most powerful god.
Shiva has a dual function.
One of his functions is destruction.
The other one is creation.
Without destruction, there is no creation.
NARRATOR: Depictions of Shiva embody
this idea of destruction and creation.
Shiva is most often shown holding a drum called a damaru,
which he used to create the universe.
Around his neck is a cobra poised to strike.
In one hand, Shiva holds a powerful trident-like
weapon of destruction called the trishula,
and in the center of his forehead, he has a third eye.
Shiva is the only god that has a...
depicted with third eye.
If his third eye opens,
a very powerful light, uh, fire emits from his third eye,
and anything that it sees, it destroys totally.
Usually, when you talk about the third eye,
it's about enlightenment.
And then there is this other third eye,
this third eye that was able to annihilate things.
I don't think they're the same thing.
So the question is: What was it?
And what was Shiva?
Shiva appeared at a very crucial time
when, uh, two gods--
Brahma is the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver--
were debating who is greater.
All of a sudden, this blinding light, shaft of light,
appeared that has no end or beginning.
And then this voice came out of this light,
said that, "I am the greatest.
I am the greatest god there is."
TSOUKALOS: Shiva is almost always surrounded
by some type of a circular structure with flames.
Now, what did our human ancestor artists try to depict here?
Was he perhaps inside some type of a fiery craft?
It is possible that Shiva is the same extraterrestrial
that other cultures call by different names.
Enki, Odin, Zeus,
Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan.
NARRATOR: The earliest Vedic texts
were first written roughly 4,000 years ago,
but Hindus claim that the stories originated
hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years earlier,
existing as part of an oral tradition
passed down from one generation to the next.
And ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that Shiva first arrived here on Earth
at a time before the existence of modern humans,
and before the event known, in the Biblical tradition,
as the Great Flood.
Every culture around the world
that has any type of ancient writings
or documents or even oral traditions,
they always talk about some kind of great flood...
...that had a massive catastrophic effect,
and utterly wiped out
much of life on Earth in a single day.
What I find interesting about this
is that Shiva is the god of destruction.
In the Hindu tradition, you have to have destruction
in order to have creation.
Is there a connection there?
(speaking Russian)
TRANSLATOR: Tibetan lamas claim that, after the Flood,
when the whole Earth flooded,
and the waters gradually receded,
man was created anew
by means of the seed that was guarded by Shiva.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Shiva was an extraterrestrial visitor
that was responsible for both the creation and destruction
of an earlier race of Earthlings?
And if so, did he do this
to clear the way for modern humans?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
further clues can be found by examining a mysterious temple
in northern India and what might lie beneath it.
LAYNE LITTLE: One of the more mysterious aspects
of the site of Ellora are the tunnels.
Tunnels like these
lead to a vast city under Kailasa Temple.
NARRATOR: Aurangabad, India.
200 miles northeast of Mumbai
stands a monolithic temple complex
known as the Ellora Caves.
These 34 sites of worship, extending over a mile,
were carved out of a high cliff,
and are believed to date back to between 600 and 1000 AD.
Cave 16, known as Kailasa Temple,
is a massive shrine to Lord Shiva.
At three stories high, it stands twice as tall
as the Parthenon in Athens,
and archaeologists believe it was chiseled out of the hillside
starting at the top and ending at the bottom.
Some historians estimate that construction of the temple
required the removal of over 400,000 tons of rock,
but even more incredible is that mainstream archaeologists
propose that this feat was accomplished in just 18 years.
If people worked every day for that 18 years,
for 12 hours straight with no breaks,
then they would have to have removed
five tons of rock every hour.
This is ten thousand pounds of rock every hour.
In reality, such a feat is not even possible today
with modern technology.
If it happened in 18 years,
it is very hard to account for...
Another baffling fact is that if they removed
400,000 tons of rocks,
they have to be thrown away somewhere.
But we do not find any evidence of rocks being piled up nearby.
Uh, it hasn't been used to build any other temples
or any other structure.
Where did all that rock go?
NARRATOR: Could humans living over 1,000 years ago
really have constructed Kailasa Temple
in only 18 years?
And if so, how is it that all the rock that was excavated
has simply disappeared?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
a powerful device described in the ancient Vedic texts.
Interestingly, there is a device called Bhaumastra
mentioned in the ancient Vedic texts.
This high-tech machine would be able to quickly drill
into the rock and basically vaporize them.
This could basically change the rock into air.
This device was mentioned multiple times
in ancient Vedic texts, which was used to mine
for precious stones and metals.
Could this be how Kailasa Temple was built?
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Bhaumastra machine
described in the Vedic texts
was really a technological device
that existed on Earth thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
but suggest it was used not to build Kailasa Temple
from the top down, as mainstream scholars propose,
but carved out the structure from the bottom up.
One of the more mysterious aspects
of the site of Ellora
are the tunnels that seem to go nowhere at the site.
Some of them turn at odd angles.
Some go as deep as 40 feet.
Now the reasons for this are, for the most part, unknown.
This is one of the tunnels
leading underground at the Kailasa Temple.
You can see that the local authorities
have fenced this off.
But if you look through this hole,
you can see that this tunnel goes vertically down.
Local authorities believe that tunnels like these
lead to a vast underground city under Kailasa Temple.
NARRATOR: What could be the purpose
for these tunnels below Kailasa Temple?
And why are they fenced off from the public?
In 1876, renowned English spiritualist
Emma Hardinge Britten published Ghost Land,
in which she writes of hidden tunnels
beneath the Ellora Caves
and the meetings of a secret cabal of mystics
in an underground city.
Britten tells of spiritually contacting a mysterious figure
named Cavalier Louie,
who witnessed the clandestine society.
LITTLE: Cavalier Louie states that he was taken
into the site of Ellora, where he was led through
a secret passageway into an underground chamber.
The underground chamber opened up into a huge amphitheater,
and there were these wondrous metallic thrones
that were being charged with powerful galvanic batteries
that rose up into the air.
And seated on these thrones
were seven mysterious hooded figures.
But the most interesting one
was the one in the center who spoke,
and yet was not always there.
His body shimmered in and out of physical space and time.
NARRATOR: But why would vast rooms and tunnels exist
deep underground beneath Kailasa Temple?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
this could be further evidence that Lord Shiva
has a connection with the Great Flood.
CHILDRESS: We have a great deluge
that changed the face of the Earth
and forced people underground.
So you have to wonder,
is this some kind of ancient city,
many thousands of years old,
that was once some kind of extraterrestrial base?
And as the water receded,
they create this temple from underground.
Presently, archaeologists date the Kailasa Temple
from the fifth to the tenth century AD.
But there is nothing in the temple
that really gives it a date.
And, in fact, like many things in ancient India,
and-and around the world,
uh, these temples may be much, much older
than the mainstream archeologists are saying.
NARRATOR: Could it be that hidden beneath Kailasa Temple
is an underground alien city?
And if so, would this prove that the being Hindus call Shiva
was really an extraterrestrial visitor
who gave technology to an earlier race of humans
and ultimately destroyed them?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining a sacred icon
believed to hold extraordinary power.
McGOWAN: The Shiva Linga stone
actually can be a force for incredible destruction.
HENRY: We're dealing with some kind of cosmic power
that we didn't fully understand
until the discovery of nuclear fission.
NARRATOR Sirsi, India.
Ten miles outside of this city,
in the southwestern state of Karnataka,
within the river Shalmala,
is one of the country's most popular pilgrimage sites,
Sahasralinga.
Hidden under these waters for most of the year
lie stone sculptures known as Shiva Lingams.
These sacred idols are representations
of the god Shiva,
and are visible to thousands of pilgrims once a year
at the festival of Maha Shivaratri.
Maha Shivaratri is a festival
where Shiva is worshipped for his great nature.
Maha Shivaratri is usually held in the end of February
or beginning of March.
During that month,
the water level of the Shalmala River drops down
so that all the Shiva Lingas are exposed.
LITTLE: Shiva's depicted as the Shiva Linga,
as kind of a spherical column,
the flaming pillar that is the cosmic axis of the universe.
Every Shiva Linga that's in worship is set into a yoni.
This is a-a special base,
and it actually serves kind of a utility of function.
It's a spout so that when you pour offerings
over the surface of the linga, they wash over the sacred body.
Images of the Shiva Linga are found throughout Southeast Asia,
even in parts of East Asia.
Sometimes images of Shiva as the lingam
also made its way into China and into Japan.
NARRATOR: The Shiva Lingam first appeared over 2,000 years ago,
and there is still debate over what this shape
was originally meant to symbolize.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the icon may represent
an incredibly powerful technological device.
Paris, France.
1900.
At the Paris Congress of History of Religions,
Swami Vivekananda, a scientist and monk
credited with popularizing Hinduism in the West,
gives a lecture addressing the meaning of the Shiva Lingam.
HENRY: For centuries, Western scholars have assumed
that the Shiva Linga has purely a sexual connotation.
The cylinder is the male phallic symbol
and the yoni is the complimentary female symbol.
Then in 1900, the Hindu scholar Swami Vivekananda
came to Paris to deliver a major lecture
about Hinduism and symbolism.
During this lecture, he said that the Shiva Linga
actually symbolizes the coming in or going out
of the divine manifesting energy of Shiva.
SHIMKHADA: It stands for energy.
And it has often been misrepresented in the West
that it is simply a phallic symbol of Shiva,
which is not the case.
It is obviously a pillar.
"Linga" means a pillar.
Modern Hindu scholars have theorized
that the Shiva Linga stone
actually represents atomic energy.
When we think about this idea of what atomic energy can do,
how it can be used for good but it can be
extraordinarily destructive,
this certainly pertains to the mythology of Shiva,
who is chaotic energy, who is a force for incredible good,
but also a force for incredible destruction.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that this symbol of Shiva's power
actually represents atomic energy?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest the proof can be found
by examining this mysterious shape.
MOHAN: The cylindrical structure of the Shiva Linga
is similar or almost identical to a modern-day nuclear reactor.
And the groove that surrounds the base
represents the structures
built to dispose of the polluted water.
In ancient times and even today,
Hindus pour water or milk on top of Shiva Linga
as a ritual.
Today we pour water over the top of nuclear reactor to cool it.
And interestingly, most Shiva temples
are always found near water bodies,
like rivers or lakes, just like nuclear power plants.
So is it possible that Shiva Linga
actually represents an ancient nuclear power plant?
HENRY: In the story of Shiva and the Shiva Linga,
we're obviously dealing with some kind of a universal
or cosmic power that we didn't fully understand
until the 20th century,
with the discovery of nuclear power and nuclear fission.
These discoveries that predate modern man
are completely changing our conception of the ancient past
and connecting us to the true history of humanity,
all before the time of the flood.
NARRATOR: Does the Shiva Lingam symbolize
an extraterrestrial technology
that existed on Earth before the Great Flood?
Could it be a message left for us
by our ancestors that an advanced society of humans
existed long ago and suffered a terrible fate?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining a 4,000-year-old text
that describes how to harness electricity.
LITTLE: Sage Agastya is said to have brought
secret science to India.
WILCOCK: Sage Agastya was directly trained
by extraterrestrials himself.
NARRATOR: Ujjain, India.
1924.
Lost pages from an ancient Sanskrit text
called the Agastya Samhita
are discovered in the city's royal library.
While the exact age of this text is not known,
some Hindu scholars believe it could date back
more than 4,000 years.
In it are the collected works of Sage Agastya,
a disciple of Shiva and the first in a line of Hindu saints
known as siddhas.
LITTLE: "Siddha" means a perfected one,
or an accomplished one.
These are people who have powers
like shrinking to a small size, growing very large,
flying through the air.
Shiva is generally regarded as being the ultimate siddha,
the first and primordial siddha.
NARRATOR: According to Hindu texts,
the ancient siddhas wielded highly advanced technology.
The siddhas are masters of creation.
The Siddha Bhogar has been credited
with many wondrous technologies
that he is thought to have created
long before the advent of modern industry.
He is credited with building a steamship,
a telescope,
a parachute,
a locomotive,
and also various devices to fly through the sky.
Sage Agastya is very important for siddha tradition as well.
He is said to have brought the secret culture
and secret science to India.
WILCOCK: When you read the legends
about how Sage Agastya got his knowledge,
we hear that he was directly trained
by extraterrestrials himself.
NARRATOR: Dr. Varam R. Kokatnur,
a chemist and avid researcher of hieroglyphics,
studied the lost pages of the Agastya Samhita
that were discovered in 1924.
What he found fascinated him to such an extent
that, in 1927, he read the translated pages
before the American Chemical Society in Detroit, Michigan.
The chemists were astonished,
and reached the same conclusion as Dr. Kokatnur had:
that this ancient manuscript provides accurate instructions
for how to make a dry electric battery.
WILCOCK: The battery doesn't show up
in our conventional technology until the 19th century.
What the heck is it doing in the Agastya Samhita--
the sacred text that was Agastya's personal writings?
If Agastya knew how to build a battery,
then how can we rule out all of the other marvelous technology
that is described in the same document?
NARRATOR: On March 31, 2016,
author and researcher David Childress
met with physics professor Dr. Michael Dennin
at the University of California, Irvine,
to put Sage Agastya's centuries-old instructions
for building a battery to the test.
So we need a well-cleaned copper plate.
DENNIN: Okay, so that's the copper plate here.
That's gonna make one end of our battery.
All right.
And we need an earthenware vessel.
We've actually chosen to substitute that
with a plastic petri dish.
All that vessel is is an insulator to hold our battery.
These are transparent, so we can look inside
while we do our test.
And then we need copper sulfate.
So I've got some copper sulfate solution here.
It's a liquid and it's blue.
That tells you about the copper inside.
Okay, and we need moist sawdust.
We're gonna actually start with dry sawdust,
and when we add the copper sulfate in our battery,
it'll become our moist sawdust.
Okay, and then we need a zinc plate.
So finally the silver-looking plates,
those are our zinc plates.
That makes the other end of the battery.
All right, let's see how this works, then.
Okay, so we start with the copper plate.
As I said, you put that at the bottom.
And then we add the sawdust.
Okay, and what does the sawdust do?
Well, one of the important things in the battery
is to make sure the two metals don't touch each other.
They have to stay separated or the battery is shorted out.
Now we're gonna add zinc on top.
Now we're gonna add the copper sulfate.
CHILDRESS: What does that do?
DENNIN: So this is our electrolyte solution.
It's a key element to the battery.
It's gonna cause the chemical reaction that'll take electrons
from one of the metals and allow them to flow to the other metal,
and that'll give us our current and our battery.
Now we're gonna take our volt meter and we're gonna check
and see what sort of voltage
we're getting out of this battery.
And as you can see, we've got one volt on the volt meter.
So our battery is actually working and running.
Wow, and this really validates this ancient text.
So what can you do with one volt?
DENNIN: Well, with one volt
and a typical single battery like this,
the cool thing is you have enough energy content
that you could lift a person, say a 200-pound person,
about ten meters into the air, if you had the right machinery
to hook this battery up to.
CHILDRESS: Wow.
NARRATOR: A battery with enough power
to lift a person off the ground?
Could the technology described by Sage Agastya
be connected to the floating thrones
that were allegedly witnessed in the chamber
beneath Kailasa Temple?
Is this further evidence of an advanced society
that arose thousands of years ago,
during a time when extraterrestrials
coexisted with mankind?
But if so, what happened to Shiva
and the devices he brought to Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
the answers may lie hidden high on a Himalayan mountain peak
that is forbidden to climbers.
DUNCAN ROADS: Almost every pilgrim who goes
to Mount Kailash reports unusual experiences.
CHILDRESS: Is it possible that Mount Kailash is some kind of
extraterrestrial base inside of a mountain?
NARRATOR The Tibetan Himalayas.
In this harsh desolate region of the world
stands a mountain sacred to billions of people,
the distinctive peak of Mount Kailash.
YOUNG: Mount Kailash in Western Tibet is a remarkable peak.
It rises some 22,000 feet pretty much straight up.
It's seen somewhat conical from one side,
more like a pyramid from another.
It is the origins of four of the world's great religions:
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Daoism.
SHIMKHADA: Mount Kailash is believed to be
home of Shiva.
He's supposed to reside on top of Mount Kailash.
Because of that, it is sacred.
NARRATOR: Dr. Ernst Muldashev,
a prominent Russian eye surgeon, has led 21 expeditions
examining some of the most remote regions on the planet.
In 1999, he spent a month at Mount Kailash
studying its structure.
What he found led him to put forth a controversial theory,
one that suggests Mount Kailash may be much more
than just the mythological home of Shiva.
Dr. Ernst Muldashev led an expedition
of Russian scientists to Mount Kailash.
And he observed that its apex, its peak, highly resembles
a man-made pyramid and began to develop the theory
that, in fact, the apex of Kailash is man-made
or perhaps made by extraterrestrials
as the home of Shiva.
(speaking Russian)
TRANSLATOR: This is a huge pyramid,
the largest pyramid in the world.
It is, in fact, very similar to a step pyramid.
NARRATOR: Could Mount Kailash really
contain an artificial structure that is home to Shiva?
According to all religions that revere the mountain,
setting foot on its slopes is a dire sin,
and it is claimed that many who ventured to defy the taboo
died in the process.
This, along with the fact that China prohibits
climbing Mount Kailash,
has made examination of the peak impossible.
But curiously, many who visit the mountain
have reported strange happenings.
Almost every pilgrim who goes to Mount Kailash
reports unusual experiences along the way.
A lot of people report rapid aging if they stay in the area.
Fingernails grow faster, hair grows faster.
(Muldashev speaking Russian)
TRANSLATOR: Pilgrims go to Kailash
to absorb the energy of the mountain.
What I personally felt near Mount Kailash?
I felt some energy.
I usually do not feel energy.
I do not have psychic powers, but I felt it.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that there really is
some sort of energy emanating from Mount Kailash?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest that, considering the strange anomalies
and the legends that warn against ascending the peak,
Mount Kailash may be radioactive.
As further evidence, they point to a drawing
that was discovered in the Mogao Caves of Western China,
approximately 600 miles north of Mount Kailash.
Between 500 BC and 1500 AD,
Buddhists stashed away over 50,000 manuscripts
in the Mogao Cave system.
These went undiscovered until Aurel Stein,
a Hungarian-born British researcher, came there in 1907
and rediscovered the cave.
Hidden among these manuscripts was an incredible diagram.
It's from a second-century manuscript,
and it's of Mount Meru, the cosmic access,
or stairway to heaven, of the Buddhist and Hindu tradition.
Mount Meru is readily identified
as a representation of Mount Kailash.
The thing about this diagram
is that it appears to be highly technological.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that this diagram appears incredibly similar
to a modern-day particle accelerator,
the type used to power a nuclear reactor.
And some propose that just before the time
of the Great Flood, the remote mountain peak
provided the perfect location for extraterrestrials to dispose
of their nuclear technology,
much like Yucca Mountain in Nevada is used
to store nuclear waste today.
Is it possible that Mount Kailash in Tibet
is some kind of hollowed-out mountain,
hollowed out thousands of years ago,
perhaps by extraterrestrials,
and could be completely poisoned by radiation?
NARRATOR: Could Mount Kailash contain
the ultimate physical evidence
of an earlier advanced civilization here on Earth?
One that had nuclear capabilities,
which were given to them by extraterrestrials
represented in the form of the Hindu gods?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the truth about our past
may be uncovered by taking a closer examination of Shiva
and what he truly represents.
NARRATOR: August 5, 1927.
Russian philosopher
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nicholas Roerich
is exploring the Himalayan Mountains when he sees
a giant oval moving at a high speed
and glowing like the sun.
Changing directions from south to southwest,
it disappears into the sky.
Many of these UFO sightings are reported by Hindu pilgrims...
...who move towards Mount Kailash.
They've also reported UFOs around Mount Kailash
sometimes appearing to go directly into the mountain.
And some people even claim there is an underground UFO base,
as there have been reports of UFOs coming from the sky
and disappearing at ground level.
NARRATOR: If Mount Kailash was once radioactive,
as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
could the presence of UFOs in the area be a sign
that it is once again safe to access?
Or could it still contain working technology
that extraterrestrials continue to utilize to this day?
Some ancient astronaut theorists propose the answer may be found
by taking another look at Shiva,
and the possibility that he is not just the bringer of energy,
but is energy itself.
When J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb,
observed the first atomic explosion
at the Trinity test site,
he cited a line from the Bhagavad Gita.
"I have become death, destroyer of worlds."
That's the title of Shiva.
Perhaps we should listen and look at these stories
from a new perspective.
What is the description about?
Could it be that Shiva was some type of energy?
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Shiva
is a representation of some incredible cataclysmic event
that happened thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, but also insist
that another demonstration of Shiva's destructive powers
is not only possible but inevitable.
We are approaching
the beginning of a new future for mankind.
So, in a sense, it's the end of an era
and the turning of a new page.
Even though Shiva's function is to destroy,
and he's given that title,
god of destruction, at the same time
he makes it possible to create.
So, destruction is part of creation.
TSOUKALOS: The extraterrestrials will come back,
and it will be the most amazing chapter in human history.
NARRATOR: Is Shiva really nothing more
than a mythical Hindu god?
One that offered early humans a way of describing
some incredible catastrophic event?
Or is he something more?
Something of extraterrestrial origin?
Perhaps the answer lies not in the images
carved upon the walls of a temple
or in the words found written in sacred texts,
but in the awesome power of energy
and mankind's increasing ability to harness it,
as we make our journey back to the stars.
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