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Gods descending to Earth...
Converging on the same hallowed ground...
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A holy shrine built to mark
the landing of a meteorite.
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And sacred caves whose walls are lined with
images of strange, half-human beings.
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Allahu Akbar.
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Are holy sites around the world
the product of man's reverence for God...
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Or are they the result of contact
with ancient space travelers?
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There's no
question that these monuments
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might have had some
kind of E.T. intervention.
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They're just too immense, too perfect
to be constructed by ancient mankind.
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Yes, it
was human beings who built this
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place but with technology given
by 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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And if so, how did they influence the
creation of mankind's sacred places?
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It is perhaps the most sacred
site in all of humanity,
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the place where three of the world's
most prominent religions--
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Christianity, Judaism and
Islam-- All converge.
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It is the heart and soul of what
is called the Holy Land.
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Temple Mount, Old City, Jerusalem,
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and this 35-acre plateau,
surrounded by ancient walls,
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has been considered
sacred for thousands of years.
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The Temple Mount
is sacred to Jews and Christians
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because it is at this spot
that Abraham bound Isaac
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and prepared to sacrifice
him in Genesis 22.
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For Muslims this side is sacred
because it's from the rock,
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where the Dome of the Rock today stands
that Mohammed ascended into heaven.
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What we have on the Temple Mount
really is a mixture of three religions,
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and each one of them has * aspect to it
which makes the place even more important.
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But in origin, really what we have is a place
where God touched down on planet Earth.
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And ever after, this is the place where
communications with the off the life
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with the divine realm
is to be made.
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Each year millions of pilgrims
come to Temple Mount,
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to worship God and
celebrate holy occasions.
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But why?
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In The X century B.C., King
David and the Israelites
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chose this rocky high ground
to build a great temple.
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This was the site that David,
the Great King of Israel had conquered.
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And so it already had a kind of a blessing
about it because this was where
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the people of Israel were destined to center
their lives in this sacred kind of place.
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According to the Bible, King David who had
just made Jerusalem his capital
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wanted to build in a
house for the Lord.
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But for reasons that aren't entirely clear
he didn't do so and it was his son
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Solomon who built the first
Jewish temple.
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Completed in 957 B.C.
by David's son, King Solomon
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the temple was set the house
the Ark of the Covenant.
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The sacred chest believed to have
contained the stone tables
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on which the 10 commandments
were written.
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But according to many ancient
astronaut theorists,
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the Ark also may have contained
a power source of extraterrestrial origin.
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In the Bible you read about
the Ark of the Covenant.
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Moses was ordered to go to
the Holy Mountain
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and the Lord gave Moses instruction
to construct the Ark of the Covenant.
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As we know later, the Ark of the Covenant
was something very, very dangerous.
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Solomon installed it
in the Temple and it served as
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the focal point of the Temple in
its innermost room, the holy of holies
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into which only the chief priest,
the high priest could go.
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It's in this innermost
sanctum, the holy of holies
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where God was viewed as
resident, so in a sense, the Ark
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of the Covenant was God's throne
in the holy of holies and the
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place where God
reigned from Jerusalem.
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According to the
Talmud, a central text of Judaism,
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King Solomon possessed
a magic ring with a special
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symbol called the Seal of Solomon,
today known as the Star of David.
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This special ring
would allow him to accomplish
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things beyond what mortals
could usually accomplish,
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and part of what he could do with that ring
with the seal on it was control the demons,
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and that gave him a
kind of power and an ability in
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the construction of that temple
that others would never have had.
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According to
Islamic text, King Solomon also
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had a magic carpet of green silk,
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sufficient for his throne
and all his forces to stand on.
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Now, magic carpets,
do they exist? Of course not.
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So what was it that our ancestors
try to describe in those stories.
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So where was he getting
these strange powers?
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Was he really in contact
with extraterrestrials who
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had literally given him a
spacecraft to fly around in?
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After studying the * geometry
and design of Solomon's temple,
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even Sir Isaac Newton questioned if the king
had built the temple with secret knowledge.
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It was very highly advanced architecturally
catching certains ** of light
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being very precise in his
astronomical alignment.
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And the question for modern
scholars and architects is,
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what was the level of technology
available to King Solomon
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that allowed him to design
and lay out the temple
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according to these principles.
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There's a text, as a matter of fact,
called the Testament of Solomon,
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that suggests that Solomon didn't
only use mortal builders and architects,
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but he brought in demons.
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He forced them to do some of the labor
because demons are especially strong.
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Might an advanced
energy source within the Ark of
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the Covenant have allowed King
Solomon to wield immense power,
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and might that power have had an
extraterrestrial origin?
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After King Solomon's Temple was destroyed in
the sixth century B.C. by the Babylonians,
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a second Temple was built on the
same site in the first century B.C.
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by King Herod the Great.
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According to the New Testament,
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it was this Second Temple that
played a significant role in the
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life of Jesus of Nazareth
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because it was here that Jesus
chased out the moneylenders,
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an event which led to his
crucifixion and death at the
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hands of both the
Jews and the Romans.
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And it was also nearby,
on the Mount of Olives,
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that Jesus reportedly rose from the dead
and ascended bodily into Heaven.
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When we
get to the story of Jesus,
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we find that his disciples believed
that he ascended into heaven
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and then some day
he would return.
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So this idea of the extraterrestrial
reality of which Jesus is part,
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it's something that in the biblical
traditions says yes, you can buy that.
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But might Jesus like King Solomon
before him really have been connected to
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an other worldly reality,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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The topic of * we're dealing with,
extraterrestrial contacts
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are common one because we
have Jesus ascending
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in the New Testament, these stories
give credence to the fact
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that there is some type of
technology that is lifting up
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human beings into a craft,
into a waiting ship.
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Nearly six
centuries after the
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Second Hebrew Temple was
destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.,
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Persian invaders built yet
another holy shrine on the site--
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The Dome of the Rock, known to
Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
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This magnificent
seventh-century architectural
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monument of Islam was built over
a huge outcrop of bedrock which,
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according to Muslim tradition,
was the site from which Muhammad
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had been taken up
into Heaven by God.
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In fact, there is a
hole in the rock showing the
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exact route that Muhammad took
when he ascended into Heaven,
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to Allah, to have a vision of the
divine, and to return back once
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again to this very site.
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So for Muslims the
Dome of the Rock
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is a very significant and a
very sacred place.
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According to the
Islamic Koran, the rock from
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which Muhammad ascended is
called the Foundation Stone.
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This rock is believed by
religious scholars to have also
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been the very stone beneath
the Ark of the Covenant
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and the holy of holies
in Solomon's Temple.
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This is where God
came down to Earth and where
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certain people actually are said
to have made contact with God,
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so this is a piece of rock which
is of such importance because of
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the fact that something of the
divine manifested itself there.
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That stone
signifies the coming together of
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the kingdoms of Heaven and Earth.
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The problem is, we've forgotten
that whoever visited us in the
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past wasn't God, but it was
extraterrestrials.
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Some ancient
astronaut theorists believe that
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Temple Mount was one of the
earliest intergalactic gateways.
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But could space travelers really
have landed here tens of
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thousands of years ago?
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It seems that the
reverence for the site of
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Jerusalem may stem from it early
on being some kind of a spaceport,
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a gigantic landing
pad for extraterrestrials,
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and that's why King Solomon
built his temple there,
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and then later the Muslims
built the Dome of the Rock.
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Might Temple Mount
really be the place where
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ancient aliens first made
contact with early humans?
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And might its spiritual
significance help provide proof
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of its unique
extraterrestrial history?
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Perhaps further evidence may be
found only a few hundred miles
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away in the heart
of the Muslim world.
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Saudi Arabia, the
heart of the Middle East.
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In a narrow valley
50 miles inland from the Red Sea
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lies Islam's holiest city Mecca.
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Here, in the year 570, Muhammad,
the founder of Islam, was born,
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considered by Muslims to be a
prophet and the messenger of God.
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At that time, Mecca was a
prosperous commercial center,
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a port from which goods
brought from India and farther away
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in Asia were transported over land
north to Damascus and by sea to Egypt.
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It was in this commercial center that prophet
Mohammed received his first revelation.
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If you want to encounter Mohammed,
if you want a way to meet with his ideas
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one of the greatest places to go
is to go to Mecca.
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Muslims pray in the direction of
Mecca five times a day.
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So certainly as a holy shrine
it is the center of the Earth.
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A Heaven's gate, where the
opening of Heaven takes place.
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And that's why it is so revered.
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In the center of
Mecca lies the Grand Mosque,
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the largest and holiest place of
worship for Muslims...
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And at the heart of the Grand Mosque is
the Kaaba, a cube-shaped granite
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structure measuring 43 feet high
by 36 feet wide.
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According to Islamic tradition,
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the Kaaba was built
approximately in 2000 B.C. by Abraham,
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a figure who serves as
patriarch to both Muslims and Jews.
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In the Bible it is
said that Abraham had a couple
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of children, and his first son
was Ishmael and his second son
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was Isaac, and it is said in
Islam that Abraham and Ishmael
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were in fact the two that came
to build the Kaaba.
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Covered by black
silk and embroidered in gold,
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the Kaaba is the most sacred
structure in Islam.
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Nearly three million Muslims
make a pilgrimage to the Kaaba
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every year,
a journey known as the hajj.
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Every Muslim, if he or
she can do so, sometime in a
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lifetime is obliged to go on a
pilgrimage, or the hajj,
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to Mecca, in a way, to walk in the
footsteps of Abraham and of Ishmael,
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to walk in the
footsteps of Muhammad.
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The main ritual performed
at the Kaaba is for pilgrims to enter into
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the enclosure where the Kaaba is,
that cubicle structure
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and circumnavigate the Kaaba seven
times in a counter clockwise direction.
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In one part of that building
there's a black stone
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that is imbedded in the
side of the building.
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And nobody knows exactly where it came from
but the legend is that it came down from
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the sky, it was brought down
by an angel and found
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it's way into this particular
location of the shrine.
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There's another tradition that suggests
that this rock had been worshiped long
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before Mohammed's time and that it
is in fact an ancient meteorite...
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Which for ancient peoples would
have been a sign from a god or gods.
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Now, during the
time that they're encircling the
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Kaaba seven times, if they are
able, they should try to kiss
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the meteorite stone, but because
of the numbers of people,
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especially in recent times,
that's impossible,
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so the practice is that if you're
unable to kiss the stone,
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you should point towards the stone.
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That shows your respect for the
stone and your veneration of it.
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People believe that,
of course it was a meteorite
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that fell from the heavens,
that they had been able
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to keep, some of it is in small fragments,
it's broken away but they kept it intact
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with this * structure around it.
It is a magnificent artifact.
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Might the black stone
really be a meteorite
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as many scientists
and scholars believe?
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If so, what does that say about the
historical and possibly metaphysical
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origins of the Islamic faith?
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It's kind of strange really that other
Muslims are all praying towards Mecca
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and to this black stone that's there.
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There are stories that the Kaaba in
Mecca is radiating some kind of energy...
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That it energizes people and
increases their spirituality and health.
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Perhaps it's coming from this
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meteorite, this black stone of
extraterrestrial origin.
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Today, because of its intense spiritual
significance in the Islamic world...
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Any forensic examination of the
Black Stone is strictly forbidden.
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As far as Muslims are concerned,
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the Black Stone simply
"descended from paradise."
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Archangel Michael
descended from the sky
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and Michael gave Abraham
an information in a written form.
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And this information
was sealed into a stone.
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And this stone is the today's Kaaba.
It is said it is a stone from Heaven.
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The ancients possessed an ability
to look toward the
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heavens in order to get their
divine guidance.
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This could very well be another
one of those cases.
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According to
researchers, the position of the
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Kaaba is precisely aligned with
the rising of the star Canopus,
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the cycles of the moon, and the
summer and winter solstices.
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But just how-- And where-- Did
the ancients obtain such an
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advanced knowledge of astronomy?
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Just as the planets are
revolving around the Sun,
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the knowledge of traveling around
the Kaaba is a symbolic reference
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for knowledge of astronomical
alignments taking place at that time.
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In Islam we have stories of wind angels
that have descended with lots of light
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and a lot of wind and the earth trembling.
So what was described there?
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Wasn't necessarily a quote - unquote
divine encounter but a flesh and blood
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extraterrestrial encounter.
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Might the Kaaba's
interplanetary alignment suggest
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that ancient Muslims may have
possessed secret knowledge?
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And might their veneration for
the Black Stone really serve to
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commemorate an ancient encounter
with extraterrestrial beings?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answer to both these questions
is a resounding yes.
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And they point to further proof
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in a series of caves located
halfway around the world.
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Western India, April 28, 1819.
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While hunting tigers just
outside the village of Ajanta,
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British officer John Smith
discovers 29 elaborate cave
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temples carved into the side of
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a rocky cliff overlooking the
Waghora River.
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Believed to had been
constructed in 200 B.C.,
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the caves' architecture and artwork
reveal new insights into the
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origins of India's mysterious
sacred past.
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Ajanta is unique in the sense
that these other ** of India.
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Here they started the work from 200 B.C.
and this work continued to VI century A.D.
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As you walk into the Ajanta caves
you see all kinds of temples,
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carved out of solid rock,
niches and alcoves, even statues...
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But it's all been carved out of
one giant block of rock.
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Visited yearly by thousands
of Buddhist worshipers,
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the caves are considered
sacred even to this day.
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Built as holy shrines and
temples by devoted monks,
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they contain numerous places of
worship-- Complete with
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paintings and sculptures
depicting the life and times of
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the Supreme Buddha, often referred
to as the Enlightened One.
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There are many different sculpture
subjects at Ajanta.
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Many of the sculptures are of the Buddha.
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In addition to those sculptures,
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there are various depictions of
other mythological beings.
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These are called Jatakas.
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These Jatakas show these
previous lives,
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and these lives could be related to, say,
the Buddha being born as an animal,
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being born as a deity,
or being born as a human.
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Even today,
modern engineers are baffled
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as to how the caves could have
been cut from the 70-foot-high
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granite cliffs more than
2,000 ago.
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These caves were created
through the removal of
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stone, literally tunneling into
the surface of the rock.
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Rock was removed, it was
chiseled away, taken out, and
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any interior space that you see
at the caves today, were created
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through this removal of stone.
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Any architectural details that
one finds at the site, any
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sculptures, they're actually
carved from the same piece of
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stone, which is the
mountainside itself.
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According to researchers, the Ajanta
complex is significant because of the
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deliberate positioning of the
caves around the cliffs--
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An arrangement that reveals an unusually
advanced understanding of celestial activity.
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The caves are carved
into this horseshoe bend, and
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are oriented in
various directions.
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Some are oriented towards the
west, others to the south, and
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some are oriented to the east so that
they are oriented towards the rising sun.
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It does seem to be the case that
ancient peoples in India were
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very much interested in the universe
and the relationship of heavenly bodies.
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Evidence of the cave sculptor's precise
knowledge of celestial
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movements can be found in two
particular caves.
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Each contains large stupas, or
dome-shaped structures featuring
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Siddhartha Gautama,
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the supreme Buddha and spiritual
teacher who founded Buddhism.
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Cave 19 is oriented towards
the winter solstice,
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and what this means is that on
the day of the winter solstice,
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the morning sunlight would
filter through this large window
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on the facade and the sunlight
itself would illuminate the stupa.
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This is also true of Cave 26 at Ajanta.
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It's oriented towards the summer
solstice, and so on the day of
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the summer solstice, that light would
filter and strike the stupa within it.
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Now, this would
have been very difficult to do,
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itself, because you're cutting
solid rock from inside of a cave.
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So you would need some pretty
high-tech gear in order to
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tunnel and build and chip away
inside of solid rock in order to
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really be perfectly
oriented to the solstice.
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Might the Ajanta caves
had been constructed with
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the aid of advanced
alien technology
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as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
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If so, might they also had been considered
sacred by the locals because of their
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connection to early
extraterrestrial visitors?
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Many ancient astronaut theorists look
at the stupa and say it's a symbolic
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reference from the power of light.
Many times is symbolically shown with
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a young Buddha placed in there
and it almost looks like he could
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be manipulating some type
of controls within the stupa.
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The stupas were always used
as a, as a way for Buddha to
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ascend or descend into the heavens.
And he do see stupas in this art work
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very possibly saying that the
Buddha was going into space.
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There was an obsession of
ancient human beings
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to depict things that they saw.
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And I think they did it with
carvings on caves and
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depictions and
sculptures and monuments...
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Because that's what they saw.
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They were duplicating what they saw.
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But what they depict are very
strange things.
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They depict gods
and half animal/half god type figures.
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So you have here what seems to
be some kind of special
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subterranean temple that's built
for extraterrestrials or some
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kind of space gods.
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What were the
Buddhist monks seeing?
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Could the Buddhist monks have
been helped by some kind of an
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extraterrestrial presence?
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The ancient astronaut
theory suggests that if
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we find paintings or carvings
of half men half animals,
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that that means that those creatures
at one point really existed because
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they were genetically created
by extraterrestrials.
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The sculptures and wall
paintings at Ajanta are
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some of the oldest surviving
works of art from ancient India.
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But was their elaborate
construction really the result
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of early human contact with
space travelers?
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If so, might there be additional
evidence of stone-carved shrines
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in other regions of the world?
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Evidence that might provide the
clues to our own origins.
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Lalibela, Ethiopia.
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Hidden from view within this
mountainous African landscape
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lie 11 churches carved entirely
from a single block of stone.
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If you approach to Lalibela
you don't even see anything.
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But the moment you get closer
all of the sudden the ground opens up
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and you have these huge
magnificent churches
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that have been cut
out of the bed rock.
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So really rather than building
Lalibela was cut from the rocks.
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From upstairs to downstairs.
So really what you have is
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an amazing engineering
feet which literally tops
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everything we know
about building technics.
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Religious ritual is central
to the life of Lalibela.
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Each year nearly 21,000 Christian
pilgrims come to worship.
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Ethiopian Christianity is a much
more directly tied to the Old Testament
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than the Christianity practice
in the rest of the world today.
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Christianity was introduced to
Ethiopia at about the same time
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it was introduced to Western
Europe, to France, for example.
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Interestingly enough, that of
all the Christian world,
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Ethiopia is the only place where
they have these monolithic churches.
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Mainstream
archaeologists believe the
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churches were carved as early as
the 12th century.
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But engineers who have studied
the design of the churches have
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concluded that their construction
is scientifically inexplicable.
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When you see the
churches of Lalibela
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you can see that they are using
what probably have to be power tools.
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Anytime you're cutting hard
stone, you're looking at
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specialized cutting tools, you
need iron tools.
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Even today we would have to use power
saws and grinding wheels and chisels.
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But if, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
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the churches of Lalibela could not
have been made without modern
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technology, then who,
or what, built them?
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Now, according
to the story, the life of King Lalibela,
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which is written down
in the 15th century,
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the angel Gabriel came to King Lalibela
and took him off to the heavenly Jerusalem,
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where he had a
conversation with God,
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and God said that he wanted him to go
back and build these churches.
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So he came back and had them constructed,
he had them hewn out of the rock.
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It took years to complete the job.
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It was 24 hours a day, but
Lalibela had the help of the angels.
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So according to legend angels
came down from heaven.
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And at night they did the work
that the human beings could not do
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because they were sleeping.
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So there were actually two shifts
of workers at the rocks of Lalibela.
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One, human beings working during
the day, and the other,
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extraterrestrial beings working
at night, doing the night shift.
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To me, that is a
very fascinating story,
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because in my opinion,
angels do not exist.
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Angels were merely a
misinterpretation of
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flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials who descended
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from the sky with
means of technology.
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And that is what these
quote-unquote, "angels" used.
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If the churches of
Lalibela were constructed with
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the help of celestial
beings, why?
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Was it to worship God?
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Or was it to honor some other
mystical-- Or extraterrestrial-- being?
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According to the Kebra Nagast,
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the ancient holy book
of Ethiopian Christians,
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the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant--
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The gold box containing the
Ten Commandments--
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Was transported to Ethiopia from
Jerusalem sometime in the 9th century B.C.
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The child of Solomon
and the Queen of Sheba was named
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Menelik I, and he is attributed
with being the first king of Ethiopia.
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When he was 22 years old, he
said to his mother, the Queen of Sheba,
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that he wanted to meet
his father, and so she arranged
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for him to go to
Jerusalem to do that.
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And he spends an extended period
of time there, and got to know
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the young noblemen of his age.
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And the night before they left,
they went into the temple and
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they took the Ark of the Covenant
and together Menelik
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with these noble boys made their
way off back to Ethiopia.
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Could the Ark of the Covenant
ever have resided in Lalibela?
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There is no historical reason to
believe it could have,
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but inlegend you do hear that there
was a time when it was in Lalibela.
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Now, interestingly
enough, in Lalibela there is an altar,
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which is in the exact
dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant.
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And then the question is really,
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what if some of the churches in
Lalibela at some point might not
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have shielded the Ark of the
Covenant as well?
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According to the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church,
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00:35:37,582 --> 00:35:43,928
the Ark no longer resides within the
churches at Lalibela but instead
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00:35:44,012 --> 00:35:48,080
lies 200 miles north
in the city of Aksum.
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00:35:48,311 --> 00:35:51,264
Even today there's
a special temple that's guarded
441
00:35:51,363 --> 00:35:56,213
by the Ethiopian priests, and no
one else is allowed inside it,
442
00:35:56,326 --> 00:36:01,318
and it's said that the Ark of the
Covenant is kept inside of this church.
443
00:36:02,074 --> 00:36:04,530
And there is one
big cathedral, it's called the
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Cathedral of the Holy Virgin
Mary in the city of Aksum,
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00:36:09,231 --> 00:36:14,050
and down there is a tunnel, and
under this tunnel are the
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00:36:14,155 --> 00:36:17,077
remains of the Ark of the Covenant.
447
00:36:17,743 --> 00:36:22,288
This is known, this is not a a secret.
I have been there.
448
00:36:24,630 --> 00:36:27,121
Is it really
possible that the Ark of the
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00:36:27,214 --> 00:36:31,902
Covenant might still be hidden
deep within the cathedral at Aksum?
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00:36:32,149 --> 00:36:36,548
If so, why has it been
concealed for so long?
451
00:36:37,794 --> 00:36:42,211
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the extraterrestrial
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00:36:42,298 --> 00:36:47,826
source of the Ark's legendary
power will return one day to reclaim it
453
00:36:49,055 --> 00:36:52,506
and some believe the
return will happen at the same
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00:36:52,648 --> 00:36:57,978
sacred place where alien beings
first arrived.
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00:37:03,830 --> 00:37:08,020
Eastern Lebanon.
The Bekaa Valley.
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00:37:08,618 --> 00:37:13,933
Here at this archaeological site
stand the ruins of Heliopolis,
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00:37:14,192 --> 00:37:19,486
built in the fourth century B.C.
by Alexander the Great to honor Zeus.
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00:37:19,804 --> 00:37:23,327
But beneath the Corinthian
columns and remnants of both
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00:37:23,404 --> 00:37:27,925
Greek and Roman architecture lie
the ruins of a site that is
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00:37:28,013 --> 00:37:30,068
much, much older.
461
00:37:30,337 --> 00:37:35,788
According to archaeologists, it
dates back nearly 9,000 years.
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00:37:37,469 --> 00:37:44,807
The ancient city of Baalbek, named
after the early Canaanite deity Baal.
463
00:37:45,321 --> 00:37:49,578
Baal is the god of life,
the god of the sky, the god of the sun.
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00:37:49,673 --> 00:37:53,956
He was the god that was venerated
on the sight of Baalbek
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00:37:54,031 --> 00:37:57,125
during the Canaanite and
the Phoenician times.
466
00:37:59,219 --> 00:38:04,650
And so because it was already sacred
to the God Baal, then later the Greeks and
467
00:38:04,685 --> 00:38:08,676
the Romans then would build
temples on this very same spot.
468
00:38:11,818 --> 00:38:14,764
Archaeological
surveys have revealed that the
469
00:38:14,874 --> 00:38:18,269
enormous stone foundation that
lies at the base of the site
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00:38:18,924 --> 00:38:22,573
dates back tens of thousands of years.
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00:38:23,511 --> 00:38:26,039
Baalbek, as we know
from the archaeological
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00:38:26,129 --> 00:38:29,519
evidence, must have existed
during the Neolithic Period,
473
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,167
between 6000 to 8000 years or
even 9000 years B.C.
474
00:38:36,734 --> 00:38:39,583
But even more
significant to ancient astronaut
475
00:38:39,664 --> 00:38:45,134
theorists is their belief that
the colossal stone platform may
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00:38:45,221 --> 00:38:49,143
once have served as a landing
pad for space travelers.
477
00:38:53,506 --> 00:38:58,178
We don't know why Baalbek
was chosen as this specific sight,
478
00:38:58,213 --> 00:39:02,451
may well be some kind of
special power place.
479
00:39:08,887 --> 00:39:14,620
But was originally there,
before the Roman temple was this
480
00:39:14,711 --> 00:39:19,833
spaceport platform that was
apparently used for
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00:39:20,864 --> 00:39:23,663
extraterrestrials coming and
going on Planet Earth.
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00:39:25,715 --> 00:39:28,458
As evidence,
researchers point to the
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00:39:28,553 --> 00:39:31,876
gigantic megalithic stones
incorporated into the
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00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:37,038
foundation, each weighing
between 800 to 1,200 tons
485
00:39:38,794 --> 00:39:41,001
and perfectly fitted together.
486
00:39:43,793 --> 00:39:47,634
This is the real mystery
of Baalbek. Heavy stones came to be
487
00:39:47,669 --> 00:39:50,946
there, why they were placed there,
and specifically how they were
488
00:39:50,981 --> 00:39:54,614
transported into place, because some
of the stones are of such magnitude
489
00:39:54,649 --> 00:39:57,632
that modern machinery is incapable
of putting them there.
490
00:39:57,667 --> 00:40:00,451
But somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
491
00:40:02,516 --> 00:40:07,803
Some have suggested that this
stone alone weights an excess
492
00:40:07,838 --> 00:40:15,971
of 1,200 tons. How was it moved there?
Because obviously it's situated
493
00:40:16,006 --> 00:40:20,334
on top of these stone roads that
we can find down here.
494
00:40:20,369 --> 00:40:26,770
Which means that this stone had to
be lifted and then set on top
495
00:40:26,805 --> 00:40:29,773
of these stones down here.
496
00:40:32,601 --> 00:40:39,334
And because these stones were gigantic
ancient people assumed that
497
00:40:39,369 --> 00:40:44,414
extraterrestrial or unknown forces
brought them to the site itself.
498
00:40:48,775 --> 00:40:52,528
It is one of the oldest, oldest
megalithic sights on the planet
499
00:40:52,563 --> 00:40:57,105
and it has these huge stones laid out
in a precise geometrical shape.
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00:40:58,595 --> 00:41:03,165
At a time, when the prehistoric people
who would have lived there,
501
00:41:03,325 --> 00:41:05,426
who would have gone to the back of
that alley in Lebanon
502
00:41:05,461 --> 00:41:09,936
would have no concept of how to
move stones of that nature.
503
00:41:13,278 --> 00:41:16,539
But if the moving,
hoisting, and setting of such
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00:41:16,617 --> 00:41:19,400
massive stones was so incredibly difficult
505
00:41:20,005 --> 00:41:23,522
then who-- Or what--
Placed them there?
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00:41:23,796 --> 00:41:27,296
And perhaps more importantly, why?
507
00:41:27,573 --> 00:41:29,178
We know that the
ancients always went to power
508
00:41:29,309 --> 00:41:32,273
places and Baalbek clearly is
one of them.
509
00:41:33,017 --> 00:41:35,405
It is a place where the gods
were worshiped, where the gods
510
00:41:35,484 --> 00:41:38,261
this were said to be present, and so
when it comes to Baalbek,
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00:41:38,341 --> 00:41:40,910
platform was built there for a reason.
512
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:43,972
For what purpose it was used is
a question we can't answer at
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00:41:44,066 --> 00:41:47,914
this moment in time, but what we
do know is that whatever was
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00:41:48,005 --> 00:41:50,907
happening there had a great
religious significance to them
515
00:41:51,010 --> 00:41:53,327
and was linked with worshiping deities--
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00:41:54,135 --> 00:41:56,858
Deities which clearly are
of an otherworldly origin.
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00:41:59,787 --> 00:42:02,768
Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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00:42:02,867 --> 00:42:07,595
believe, that Baalbek had been
considered a sacred place for
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00:42:07,691 --> 00:42:10,843
tens of thousands of years
because it was where
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00:42:10,928 --> 00:42:14,903
extraterrestrial beings first
arrived on Earth?
521
00:42:15,704 --> 00:42:19,573
The answer may have been found
on excavated clay tablets
522
00:42:19,682 --> 00:42:22,288
inscribed with cuneiform script,
523
00:42:22,509 --> 00:42:26,807
written nearly 5,000 years ago
by the earliest known human
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00:42:26,922 --> 00:42:30,943
civilization, the Sumerians of
Mesopotamia.
525
00:42:32,635 --> 00:42:35,602
What's really interesting about
Baalbek it's that has always been known
526
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:38,814
as the landing place.
There's an actual text from Sumerian
527
00:42:38,849 --> 00:42:40,958
times called the
Epic of Gilgamesh.
528
00:42:43,666 --> 00:42:47,109
Gilgamesh actually claims to
have seen rockets descend and
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00:42:47,246 --> 00:42:50,689
ascend from Baalbek, the landing place.
530
00:43:00,322 --> 00:43:03,547
A comparison
between Baalbek, Lebanon and
531
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,900
Jerusalem's Temple Mount reveals
a striking resemblance between
532
00:43:07,991 --> 00:43:10,419
their massive stone platforms.
533
00:43:10,913 --> 00:43:13,989
Might they have been built for
the same purpose--
534
00:43:14,307 --> 00:43:17,208
To support the weight of spacecraft?
535
00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:20,752
Hopefully at one
point archeology will be so
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00:43:20,854 --> 00:43:23,502
open-minded that they actually
want to explore this further.
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00:43:23,890 --> 00:43:27,912
We may never get the
answer, but at least trying to
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00:43:27,998 --> 00:43:31,742
find out what happened, I think,
is what drives all of us.
539
00:43:33,569 --> 00:43:37,219
Did otherworldly
forces really descend from the
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00:43:37,339 --> 00:43:40,541
heavens at the world's holiest places?
541
00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:45,570
It may be that the world's
faithful already know the truth,
542
00:43:45,865 --> 00:43:52,438
or perhaps the truth will be
withheld until some day in the future.
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00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,500
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