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A 1,000-year-old temple
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built to commemorate
a visitation by a god.
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A coronation stone believed to
be a gateway to the heavens.
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And strange chants designed for
communicating with otherworldly beings.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: To enter ritual
allows us to reenter a space
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where the gods are alive, and
allows us to spend time with them.
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CLIFFORD MAHOOTY: You are going into
a frequency and harmony to actually talk
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directly with those beings
that are supernatural.
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NARRATOR: Throughout the
world, ancient rites and rituals
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connect us to another dimension.
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But just who or what are
we communicating with?
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DAVID CHILDRESS: All over the world,
ancient people and modern people
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are using rituals to
connect them with gods,
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yet these gods may well
be ancient astronauts.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we
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have 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, might we find the
evidence in our most sacred rituals?
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The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
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Here among the ancient mine
ruins of Chichen ltza stands
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the great pyramid of El Castillo,
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built by the Maya sometime between
the 9th and 12th centuries A.D.
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El Castillo served as a temple to the
feathered serpent god Kukulkan.
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It is also believed to be the site of
the Mayans' most important ritual:
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human sacrifice.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: They would
bring their human victims
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up the stairs of their temple, they
would cut up their being hearts,
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and that would be the form of
sacrifice the Mayans engaged in.
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RICK ROSS: In their rituals, there was
the sacred importance of blood sacrifice
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That by shedding blood, they
could empower their desire and
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be granted what they wanted.
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So there is a theme of blood that runs
through this system of sacrifice.
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That blood must be shed.
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NARRATOR: Although ritual
sacrifice is no longer practiced
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at El Castillo---
(horn blowing)
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worshipers still come to
celebrate a time when the Mayans
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say god Kukulkan descended from
the heavens to bring wisdom to man.
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They light fires to unite with
the spiritual realm, perform
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sacred dances and repeat prayers
in numerical sequences to enter
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a deep state of meditation.
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But the most powerful ritual
that takes place at El Castillo
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is a reenactment of Kukulkan's
descent to Earth, a reenactment
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that is literally built
into the pyramid itself.
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JON C. LOHSE: El Castillo is
a stepped pyramid with some
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outward radiating staircases.
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And these staircases have big
high balustrades on them.
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And on the autumn and the spring
equinox, the sun casts a shadow
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across the corner of this stepped
pyramid, and you see the
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shadows of the steps on the
staircase balustrade.
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This is a model of the pyramid
of Chechen ltza in Mexico.
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ERIC VON D�NIKEN: And every year, on March 21,
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when the sun goes up,
directly on the stairway here
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is created **** shadow
coming down the stairs
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which represents god Kukulkan
has descended to the humans.
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At the end, you see
the face of god Kukulkan
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On September 21st, it is the opposite,
this time when the sun
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rises up in the morning,
god Kukulkan goes up the stairs,
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and ends in a bright light
up on the little temple
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which means god Kukulkan visits
the earthlings, teaches them
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and after a certain period,
it disappears into the sky,
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with the promise to
return one day.
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What we see happening in Chichen
ltza, it is a light phenomenon.
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If we really see technology
being displayed here
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we see that somebody
engineered this
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so that at each equinox,
people would experience
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stone serpent coming alive.
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There was a visual reminder
of this connection to the gods.
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It could be that not
only are the Maya,
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celebrating their
extraterrestrial ancestors,
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but it could well be that ancient
aliens who came to Earth
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BILL BIRNES: instructed the
societies that they helped
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to maintain a connection with them
by performing certain rituals,
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celebrations at the appearance of stars,
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and keeping the story of the
extraterrestrial alive in their legends.
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Did the Maya really
conduct these elaborate
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and bloody rituals to
honor a mythical deity?
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Or might it've been as ancient
astronaut theories content,
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commemorating and actual visitation
by extraterrestrial beings?
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RICHARD BADER: A ritual is absolutely a
way to kind of reconnect with the gods.
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So not only, you are reenacting
your faith to this god, right,
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you are actually reenacting the original moment,
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when the god did a very specific thing.
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CHILDRESS: All over the world, ancient
people and modern people are using rituals
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to connect them with gods.
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Yet these gods may well
be ancient astronauts.
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The hill of Uisneach, Ireland.
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Each year on the first day of May,
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the local citizens celebrate
the sacred festival of Beltane
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similar to the one first
performed by the ancient Celts
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more than 2,000 years ago.
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Like the ceremony at Chichen ltza,
it is designed to connect
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and communicate with beings
from outside our world.
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JOSEPH NAGY: This day was the day
when you would set fires, bonfires,
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And then you would walk your
cattle between the fires, as a
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way to protect them for the
coming spring and summer.
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And these Mayday fires were a
magical way of calling down
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protection upon animals
and human beings.
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But why fire?
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But what was it about this most
basic of elements that made it
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so important to the ancient Celts?
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NAGY: The association of
hills and fire with Beltane
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suggest that this is a time when extra
vision, extra knowledge is available.
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And what the Celtic peoples were
most interested in knowing about
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was in fact the other-world.
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There is this notion that at
Beltane, there is a greater
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opportunity for actually perhaps
meeting people from the other-
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world or of seeing into their world.
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We have some stories from
medieval Irish tradition where
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a hero happens to come near
a sidhe-- one of those
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otherworldly dwellings
which is in a hill.
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And the sidhe is open, and what
he sees inside it is a fire.
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Now, the fire inside the
otherworldly dwelling makes it
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possible to look into the
otherworldly dwelling and to see
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some of the details, including
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the people there and
what they look like.
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NARRATOR: But might the fire
rituals of the Beltane Festival
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have been started by the early
Celts as an attempt to recreate
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the strange lights and ignitions
they saw from an alien spacecraft?
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Although no written records
exist to explain the event's
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true origins, there are those
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who believe that such an
incredible idea is possible.
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And to prove it they point
to a ceremony practiced
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each year by the Kayapo
people of Brazil.
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A long time ago, Bep Kororoti
appeared descending from the sky.
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TSOUKALOS: And when he landed,
there was a lot of wind.
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The earth was shaking and trembling.
There was a lot of noise.
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The appearance of Bep Kororoti
has been preserved to this day.
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In fact, it's a medicine
man wearing a straw suit.
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And that straw suit looks
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eerily similar to a modern-day
astronaut suit.
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GISELA ERMEL: The Kayapo
remember the very special suit,
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this man or alien wore,
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which is essentially completely
enclose the body.
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And what more interesting is
what a neighboring tribe said,
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namely the Bakairi-- they already
had such a thing hanging
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in a hut in the 19th century.
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NARRATOR: But for the Kayapo,
the Bep Kororati Festival is
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only one of the ways they honor
an ancient visitation by
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extraterrestrial being.
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They also recount his visitation
in their everyday lives by
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wearing symbolic head
dresses made of feathers.
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There is this feather
head dress that has
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a row of feathers, and when it's
worn, it looks like a halo.
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And these feathers represent
no more and no less
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than outer space.
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The Kayapo see outer space
as being a flat disk,
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spreading out into infinity.
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The band that holds these
feathers together is a symbol
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for the rope that
the Kayapos' ancestors
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used to climb down to
Earth from a celestial world.
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Could the Kayapo's rituals
of Brazil really have been
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inspired by an
extraterrestrial visitation?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining a somewhat more
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traditional ceremony-- one
still performed to this day,
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and to an audience of
millions around the world.
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.
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In the crown room, lies a 336
pound oblong stone block
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known as the Stone of Destiny
and also as the Stone of Scone
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It is been present at the coronation of
nearly every English and Scottish monarch
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for more than 800 years.
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Its purpose to unite the
new ruler with God.
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And there are those who believe,
it is part of a meteor
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that fell to Earth more
than 3,000 years ago.
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CHILDRESS: In England today,
all the kings and queens
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are crowned on what's known
as the Stone of Destiny
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And this stone, according to legend,
goes back to the biblical story of Jacob
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who had rested his head on this stone.
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COPPENS: Jacob in the Bible has a dream,
he falls asleep on a stone
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And he sees a place nearby from
which angels ascend in heaven
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but also for which
angels descend to Earth.
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And when he wakes up, he says
this is a gateway to heaven
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where earthy things can go to heaven,
and heavenly things can come to earth.
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ANDREW COLLINS: The Stone *** one day
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the connection point between
heaven and earth.
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It was almost like the English
strengthened their own belief
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that Westminster Abbey
was the access one day.
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They placed it within a throne
right in front of the *** pavement
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Within this *** pavement, are circles
and swirls and linings
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that represent the
universe as a whole.
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And the monarch becomes what's
known as a cosmocrator,
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looking over not just what
was going on on the earth
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but the stars, heavens as a whole
while sitting on the throne.
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NARRATOR: Is this ancient stone
merely a symbol of divine right
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Or might it, at one time, have held
some strange unknown power.
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Throughout recorded history,
coronation rituals have incorporated
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devices like the Stone of Destiny,
as a way of linking the new ruler
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with superior beings
beyond our world.
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COLLINS: What is coronation
in the first place?
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Well, it is the idea that the monarch
can embody some kind
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of cosmic consciousness,
something that is divine.
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And this is actually best seen through
the eyes of the old traditions
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related to the Japanese Mikados.
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They would have to sit upon the throne
which would be considered to be
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the point of creation of the world
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BIRNER: There is a notion called
divine right of Kings,
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that a certain British kings had, that
somehow the sovereign is God's
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represented upon planet's Earth.
But for the ancients, it went steps further.
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But if some other worldly power
is actually being handed down,
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who or what is the
source of that power.
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NOORY: If you are an extraterrestrial
and you came down to this planet
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one of the first things you would try to do
would be to mingle with leadership.
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And I think the Pharaohs believed that
they might've been gods themselves.
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ANDREW WYATT: The king was
considered a deity?
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Did he go back into his room and
sit and talk with the gods?
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I don't know, we weren't there.
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But he did certainly communicate
with the deities through these rituals.
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In addition to the Stone of Destiny
another ritualistic symbol
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which features in most coronation
ceremonies, is that of the scepter.
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The scepter is a symbol of
divinely granted authority
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And in ancient times, often took the
form of a staff or a golden one.
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According to historians, its use
dates back to ancient Egypt.
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And there are those who believe,
it is connected symbolically
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to the Egyptian Ankh.
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When it comes to the Ankh ancient Egypt,
we find this intimate familiar with lsis.
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Isis symbolizes the Ankh,
because she is the one
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who is able to restore life.
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It is the symbol of transformation,
the symbol of alchemy,
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the symbol of ritual.
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MARTELL: The Ankh is always a symbol
used in Pharaonic times as a scepter.
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But an interesting play on the
word, Ankh, shows that also stems
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from the word Anunnaki, which meant,
those who from heaven came to earth.
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TSOUKALOS: And what's fascinating to me,
it's that the Ankh, in many occasions,
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is also shown next to the Djed pillar.
And the Djed pillar also,
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is one of the earliest symbols, we have
in ancient Egypt, and both symbols
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describe a connection to the stars.
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If you combine the two, in some of the
ancient Egyptian carvings that we see
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something very technological
is described or depicted.
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Now, over time, the Ankh symbol
turned into something divine
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but it never was that, because according
to the ancient astronaut theory,
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ancient symbols are based upon
something that our ancestors
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encountered in real life.
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You have to wonder here if the
original ankh wasn't some kind
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of high tech device that the ancient
astronauts used and then it was given
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to the kings for their use,
and with the coronation ritual
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and the holding of the scepter, suddenly
normal people become as gods.
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CHILDRESS: And today all we have
is a symbolic representation
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of this high-tech object.
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NARRATOR: If the throne and the scepter
are identified with a connection
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to otherworldly or
extraterrestrial power,
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what about the most iconic
of all coronation symbols,
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the crown, itself.
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What says kingship?
It's the crown.
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It is clearly a device, whether
you see a crown as a symbol
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or whether you see a crown
as a something literal
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it is clear that somehow it was very
specific, something placed on your head
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establish this connection.
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Some historians believe
the idea for the crown
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may have originated with
a divine image of the halo.
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Sumerian described their gods, the Anunnaki,
as literally having a glow about them,
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and this was carried into more recent times
as angels with a halo over their head.
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These were the beings that
from heaven came to Earth.
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Kingship now wants to have this same
lineage of connection with the gods.
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by placing the crown,
on the king's head.
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That head piece symbolized the translation
of a human being heir apparent
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into a sovereign, to deify that sovereign,
to make that sovereign extraterrestrial.
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Some of the earliest cave drawings, we
can find in the world, show these
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humanoid beings with halos around their
heads and that is very fascinating
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because if you look
today at modern day astronauts
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if you have the sun rising behind them,
or even just with their flashlights
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that they have on the sides of
their helmets, well, if someone
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is not knowledgeable in technology
sees this, well it looks like their head
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is surrounded by this divine light,
which is not divine at all,
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it's a light source.
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So over time, people, our ancestors,
started to imitate the gods,
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these extraterrestrials,
by wearing crowns.
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The throne, the scepter, the crown:
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Could these symbols of coronation have
been inspired not by the imagination
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or even spiritual visions, but by
some sort of alien encounters.
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If so, what other ancient rituals
might find their roots in a kingdom
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not of this world.
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Tabasco, Mexico
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Prospectors drilling for oil
unearth the colossal stone head
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weighing more than 20 tons.
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50 years later, 16 more heads are
discovered, each with a unique face
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and not characteristic of the
indigenous people
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These gigantic heads are believed
to have been carved by a mysterious
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ancient culture known as the Olmec.
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But even more mysterious, perhaps,
is that each appears to be wearing
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some sort of helmet.
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PETER FIEBAG: The mother culture of
Central America was the Olmec.
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In older images made by the Olmec, we can
see helmeted beads dressed in overalls.
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dressed in overalls ascending.
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They've wings and they have
microphones almost
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in front of their mouths.
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Are these the heads of rulers?
Or priests?
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Or were they maybe aliens
that they wanted to portray?
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NARRATOR: Could these giant Olmec
heads be the depictions of visitors
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from another planet?
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Some ancient astronaut theories believe,
these colossal heads are the proof that
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the Olmec communicated directly with
otherworldly beings through shamans,
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their holy men.
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LARS KRUTACK: A shaman is an
intermediary or a messenger
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between the spiritual worlds
and the world of humans.
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Shamans can inherit their power
and their knowledge
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but more often than not they're
chosen by particular spirits.
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COPPENS: When it comes to the Olmec, we
know that they say that people were taken
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to become transformed into a person who
was going to make the connection
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between our world
and the other world.
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In order to answer the spiritual realm,
the shaman must use
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particular tools to get there.
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These include instruments
like drums or rattles.
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Aid the shaman in his or her
communication with that world.
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Like the Olmec, many ancient cultures
throughout the centuries have believed
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Shamans could communicate
with otherworldly beings.
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But what exactly were these beings?
Were they really gods?
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Or were they perhaps extraterrestrials?
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NANCY RED STAR: There are star ancestors,
we call them ***.
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That's a *** word, and so, they are
the ones that come from another world.
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Similar to Hindus, Buddhists,
and even ancient Egyptians,
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many native american tribes claim
to communicate with their gods.
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by means of telepathy.
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STANDING ELK: Telepathy is basically one
of the communications
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that is practiced with
many spiritual people.
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Feathers work as antennas and they bring
in a message at times when it's necessary.
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CLIFFORD MAHOOTY: There's basically
three things, chanting, drums and song.
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What it is, is that they are going
into a frequency in harmony
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to actually talk directly with those
beings that are supernatural.
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In the area of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah
graphic depictions called petroglyphs
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can be found of ancient
native american shamans,
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and the otherworldly creatures,
they claim to communicate with.
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Here we have a classic shaman
with the hour glass figure
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feet pointed upward, arms which
have birds, feet at the end
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it signifies spirituality, and it's got
horns with the fringes coming out.
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One of these petroglyphs,
called the Ghost Panel
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depicts nine ft tall figures conducting
what some believe is an actual encounter
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between shamans and star beings.
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Looks like a group of figures surrounding
or standing or hoovering around
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a central ghost-like figure, which
is called the Holy Ghost.
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If you look at the head of the Holy Ghost,
you'll see that there are two eyes
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in the front of his face,
but if you look to the left
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you'll see the side of his head.
This is a device which you do not see in
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any prehistoric art.
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And this mostly is one of the reasons why
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I feel that this represents an event.
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Does the Ghost Panel really
depicted an actual visitation
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by extraterrestrial beings?
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And if so could the horns coming
from the shaman's head,
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similar to the feathers found in
the native american head dress
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really represent some sort of antenna?
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A device for giving and receiving
information or energy
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perhaps from another world.
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And is this energy at all connected
to ritualized chants and prayers
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employed by the shaman in
their effort to communicate
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with star beings.
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In the early 1980's, using a device
for measuring electric charge,
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called an electroscope, biochemist
doctor Boguslaw Lipinski,
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claims to have successfully measured
the amount of energy created
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through rituals and prayer.
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BOGUSLAW LIPINSKI: The instrument
called electroscope
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measures the flow of current between
two oppositely charged plates.
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Electrons are the purest form of energy.
And this form of energy now is
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being explained by physicists
in terms of vibrations.
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NARRATOR: In 1985, Dr Lipinski
took his electroscope
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to the shrine of Medjugorje,
in Yugoslavia.
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To measure what if any energy is
created by large scale group prayer
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For decades, thousands of people have
gathered here claiming
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to see an apparition of Virgin Mary,
floating in the sky above.
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I found out that during the times of
apparitions, particularly when the groups
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of people pray, I got readings
on my electroscope.
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This graph shows measurements of the
energy when people start praying
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the energy comes very quickly up.
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(People praying and chanting)
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Somewhat similar to Dr. Lipinski contention,
that the ritual of prayer generates
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energy is a scientific concept called
quantum entanglement.
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This theory supports the idea,
that human beings might
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be able to communicate telepathically.
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The idea of quantum entanglement
is that a single particle
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can split and become
two individual particles,
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COLLINS: and they still somehow retain
a link between each other.
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They can communicate
with each other.
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It's not only real but it can explain
the idea of telepathy and remote viewing.
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And if we assume that extraterrestrials
do exist, then it becomes
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the most obvious form of communication
that we can use between us.
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Maybe this is already occurring,
just maybe this has been going on
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for tens of thousands of years.
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And this can easily be induced
for the use of sound
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of tones and notes.
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Could the provocative implications
of quantum entanglement
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help to explain why so many cultures,
claim to communicate with
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otherworldly beings telepathically.
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And could the elaborate head dresses,
like those worn by native americans
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and even the crowns of ancient kings,
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be linked to some sort
of ancient technology,
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for communicating
with alien beings?
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Perhaps the answer can be found by
examining more contemporary examples.
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The times of rites and rituals still
practiced by billions of people
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around the world.
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The Giza Plateau,
May 26th, 1954.
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Egyptian archeologist
Kamal-el-Mallakh is lowered into
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a long narrow pit he discovered
on the south side of the Great
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Pyramid of Khufu.
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With the use of a torch and a
mirror, he catches sight of a large oar.
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The oar belongs to a
143-foot-long ship that has been
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buried beneath the earth.
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The ship was constructed for
King Khufu, the second pharaoh
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of the Fourth Dynasty, who
reigned from around 2589 to 2566 BC
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and is generally accepted
as the builder of the Great Pyramid.
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It is what egyptologists call a
solar barge; a funerary boat
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that was built for the sole
purpose of carrying him across
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the heavens.
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AIDAN DODSON: The significance
of boats in the funerary context,
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are intended as, were a posthumous
pilgrimage to the city of Abydos.
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Abydos was the sacred city of Osiris,
the God of the Death.
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ROBERT BAUVAL: The word God, according
to ancient Egyptians is ***,
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it means a being that
came from the cosmos.
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The word origin doesn't exist
in Ancient Egyptian.
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They truly believe, they were
very adamant about this,
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that their origins is in the sky.
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In the case of King Khufu,
we find there is a literal boat
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thought to be a boat of a million years, even
though this might appear
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to be a normal ship,
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it is actually something far more,
it can also represent a spaceship
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because they just didn't speak of years,
they spoke millions of years,
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and this is precisely what
space travel is all about.
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Somehow, the dead body was
able to go on this voyage.
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But could funerary boats, like the
one found near the Giza pyramid
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have been the early Egyptians
attempt to recreate an alien spacecraft.
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BIRNES: What could this represent?
Could it mean that the ancient Egyptians
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believed that their honored
dead would then rejoin
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the deities in the sky,
the extraterrestrials?
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NOOBY: Ancient Egyptians were
experts at mimicking what they saw.
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And let's assume that Gods came down
from heaven, or ETs came down from space
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The Egyptians tried to
emulate what they saw.
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TSOUKALOS: In order to mimic the
idea, of returning to the Gods
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who have descended from the sky,
funerary boats were created.
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And the idea of funerary boats came
after the egyptians encountered
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the heavenly barges which
descended from the sky.
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As in most modern societies, funeral
rituals are usually based upon the notion
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that the spirit moves
on after the body dies.
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For some, there is the belief
that the souls or spirits of the
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dead reconnect with god
or some sort of deity.
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And for many ancient societies--
like the Egyptians-- death
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also meant a return to the stars.
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BAUVAL: What is also interesting
about the ancient egyptian belief
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is that after the final fall or
conversion was going back to the stars.
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I always quote Carl Sagan on
this: "We are star stuff."
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Some star exploded some billions
of years ago, and we're it.
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But we're star stuff become conscious.
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Having said this, it is not
impossible that we contain
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the knowledge of our origins
literally within us, and that
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there's a way to retrieve
that information.
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It may well be that the ancient Egyptians
had found some sort of inner route.
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NARRATOR: The use of funerary
boats during burial was not
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unique to ancient Egypt.
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The Norse Vikings also
incorporated boats into their
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funeral rites, sometimes burying
their dead with actual boats,
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but more often forming the shape
of a boat with large rocks above the grave.
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On certain occasions, they would
even create giant pyres to burn
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their dead within these rock
formations, believing the pillar
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of smoke would elevate the
deceased to the afterlife.
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Burning the dead on a large pyre
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was practiced in ancient
Rome as well.
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And in India, most Hindus still
use funeral pyres to this day.
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SHIMKADA: The cremation ceremony
basically is performed
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by the male members of the family.
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and then there are the priest
who guard them on how to do it
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00:35:24,771 --> 00:35:29,009
And they put them on, you know,
the pyre, and then the eldest
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00:35:29,311 --> 00:35:31,645
member of the family
has to light the fire.
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00:35:31,647 --> 00:35:35,115
And then they sit there
until everything is burned.
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00:35:35,117 --> 00:35:40,184
BIRNES: It purifies the soul that it
could pass on to the next life.
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NARRATOR: According to some
Ancient Astronaut theorists,
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the idea of burning the dead may
have been inspired by an ancient
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encounter with
an alien spacecraft.
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00:35:51,666 --> 00:35:55,166
BIRNES: There's still
another aspect to this.
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If we look at the Vedic texts
and read about the Vimana; the
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00:35:59,975 --> 00:36:05,010
ancient craft that made war upon Earth,
these were craft that came in fire.
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00:36:05,514 --> 00:36:10,751
Could it be that the passing of
the soul from one life to the
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00:36:10,753 --> 00:36:14,588
next is like the
appearance of the Vimana?
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00:36:14,590 --> 00:36:16,957
The appearance in flame?
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00:36:16,959 --> 00:36:21,762
and so that flame emulates
the actual craft itself?
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00:36:21,764 --> 00:36:25,766
Is it possible that
when our ancestors
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00:36:25,768 --> 00:36:31,004
witnessed rockets or spaceships
taking off and landing with
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00:36:31,006 --> 00:36:35,509
all of this fire and this
smoke that they, over time,
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00:36:35,511 --> 00:36:40,480
thought that by burning their
dead, they would imitate what
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00:36:40,482 --> 00:36:43,483
they saw in the past?
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00:36:43,485 --> 00:36:49,656
Meaning, as the body burns and
the smoke rises up to the sky,
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that they were ascending into
the sky, becoming a god.
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NARRATOR: If rituals of
burial were ancient man's
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attempt to reconnect with
gods or alien visitors,
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did they succeed?
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00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:10,811
Some would answer by pointing to
the billions around the world
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00:37:10,813 --> 00:37:12,913
for whom death still acts as a
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00:37:12,915 --> 00:37:19,415
gateway to Heaven---
or somewhere else far, far away.
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00:37:21,402 --> 00:37:25,205
Vatican City, Italy.
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00:37:25,207 --> 00:37:30,010
Pope Benedict XVI walks down
the aisle in St. Peter's
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00:37:30,012 --> 00:37:33,480
Basilica carrying a golden crucifix.
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00:37:33,482 --> 00:37:38,385
Upon reaching the altar, he
lifts the thurible, a metal
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00:37:38,387 --> 00:37:44,522
vessel suspended from chains in which
incense is burned for purification.
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00:37:44,526 --> 00:37:46,493
(Pope Benedict speaking Latin)
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00:37:46,495 --> 00:37:50,831
The Pope recites the Eucharist
Prayer, and then he and his
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00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:54,868
congregation consume the
consecrated bread and wine.
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They are, according to the most
sacred laws of the Church,
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eating the actual body and
blood of Jesus Christ.
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CHRIS CHAPPLE: In the Mass,
the priest is empowered
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by the prayers that are said to
energize the substance of the bread
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00:38:16,115 --> 00:38:19,815
and the substance of the wine, such
that it becomes transformed
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or transubstanciated, changed
into the living presence
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00:38:24,517 --> 00:38:27,817
of body and the blood of Christ.
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00:38:27,818 --> 00:38:31,518
JONATHAN YOUNG: The Mass, the
Communion, the Transubstantiation
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of the eating of the body of God
allows us to ingest the divine energy
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this is called Manna, or magical energy.
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00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:43,517
And the almost the cannibalistic
aspect of the ritual is crucial
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for a ***, which is head one,
to become one with the divine source.
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00:38:50,420 --> 00:38:54,957
NARRATOR: In the New Testament,
the Second Letter of Peter states that
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00:38:54,996 --> 00:38:58,962
believers in this practice "become
partakers of the divine nature".
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00:38:59,333 --> 00:39:01,568
They become united with God.
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00:39:03,270 --> 00:39:07,706
The Roman Catholic Church
adheres to this interpretation
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00:39:07,708 --> 00:39:12,344
of Communion so strongly that in
the 16th century, the Council of
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Trent declared anyone who denied
it subject to excommunication.
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00:39:18,252 --> 00:39:22,588
And during the infamous Spanish
Inquisition, nonbelievers were
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00:39:22,590 --> 00:39:27,226
branded as heretics and were
often burned at the stake---
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00:39:27,228 --> 00:39:28,929
or worse.
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00:39:30,031 --> 00:39:35,869
But what does it mean to become
one with the divinity?
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Most historians say the ritual
of the Catholic Mass can be
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00:39:40,775 --> 00:39:44,977
traced back to the Last Supper,
when the act of Jesus serving
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00:39:44,979 --> 00:39:48,881
bread and wine to his disciples,
during what was actually
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00:39:48,883 --> 00:39:54,252
a Passover Seder, created a powerful
spiritual bond that must not be broken.
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00:39:55,890 --> 00:40:00,392
But there are others who believe
the Catholic Mass stems from a
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00:40:00,394 --> 00:40:03,596
ritual practiced thousands
of years earlier.
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00:40:03,598 --> 00:40:06,432
YOUNG: Scholars have
speculated that the Mass
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is actually inspired by Egyptian
mythology and a similar
525
00:40:09,136 --> 00:40:11,870
ritual that was done
for the god Osiris.
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00:40:11,872 --> 00:40:15,708
The idea is, we take the divine
substance, the body of the god,
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into us so that we are one
with that transcendent energy.
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NARRATOR: The legend of
Osiris tells how he was killed
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and dismembered by his jealous
brother, then resurrected from
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00:40:27,254 --> 00:40:30,657
the various parts of his
body by his wife lsis.
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00:40:31,359 --> 00:40:35,794
Egyptian priests reenacted this
ancient event with a ritual
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00:40:35,796 --> 00:40:37,463
involving clay and wheat.
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00:40:38,065 --> 00:40:41,800
YOUNG: The ritual has to do
with making wheat cakes that
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00:40:41,802 --> 00:40:46,639
resemble the pieces of the
dismembered god, which are then
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00:40:46,641 --> 00:40:50,175
hidden, and a--- a woman playing the---
the wife, uh, goes and
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00:40:50,177 --> 00:40:52,144
finds the pieces.
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00:40:52,146 --> 00:40:54,680
And then, in the end, the
priests eat the pieces.
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00:40:55,082 --> 00:40:58,183
NARRATOR: Those who ate the
sacramental wheat cakes believed
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00:40:58,185 --> 00:41:02,722
they had brought the god Osiris
back to life within themselves.
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00:41:03,624 --> 00:41:08,258
But where did early Egyptians
get such a profound idea?
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COPPENS: The question then is ---
are they mimicking things which they saw
542
00:41:15,099 --> 00:41:18,735
And it somehow involved this
transformation from a dead
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00:41:18,736 --> 00:41:21,339
Osiris to a person
who was regenerated.
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00:41:23,444 --> 00:41:27,112
When we're looking at some of
these rituals, really, contact
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00:41:27,114 --> 00:41:30,816
with the divine is a technology,
whether it's the ritual or
546
00:41:30,818 --> 00:41:32,084
whether it's practical or
547
00:41:32,086 --> 00:41:34,252
whether it's to mimic
extraterrestrials.
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00:41:35,089 --> 00:41:38,891
NARRATOR: Could the Roman
Catholic ceremony of eating the
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00:41:38,893 --> 00:41:43,261
body and blood of Christ
actually have its origins in
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00:41:43,263 --> 00:41:45,665
the ancient Egyptian
story of Osiris?
551
00:41:45,967 --> 00:41:51,003
And if so, does it suggest that
the Catholic religion, like
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00:41:51,005 --> 00:41:53,105
other ancient beliefs, has its
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00:41:53,107 --> 00:41:56,273
roots in an extraterrestrial encounter?
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00:41:56,744 --> 00:42:00,811
LOHSE: A ritual is a participatory
performance and the main objective
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00:42:00,899 --> 00:42:03,099
of the ritual is to communicate
something about
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00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:04,698
an underlying belief or an idea.
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00:42:04,799 --> 00:42:11,098
These ancient rituals coincided with the
appearance of various constellations
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00:42:11,099 --> 00:42:12,799
in the sky, various stars.
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00:42:12,999 --> 00:42:15,798
BIRNES: All across the world
in ancient societies
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00:42:15,799 --> 00:42:19,698
there was a belief that human beings
were placed on planet Earth
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00:42:19,699 --> 00:42:20,999
by the star people.
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00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:25,739
YOUNG: Mythology, like
legend, has real history in it.
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00:42:27,741 --> 00:42:31,043
There's a strong sense of
connection to those sources
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00:42:31,045 --> 00:42:32,879
when one enters into ritual.
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00:42:32,881 --> 00:42:36,715
Our deepest yearnings are for
things we cannot remember.
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00:42:36,717 --> 00:42:39,418
We yearn for lost wisdom,
lost possibilities.
567
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:45,024
It seems we work toward
goals we do not understand.
568
00:42:45,026 --> 00:42:51,260
It seems we are driven by aspirations
that are truly mysterious.
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00:42:53,133 --> 00:42:57,500
RED STAR: The ones who come from
another world are relatives
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00:42:57,543 --> 00:43:01,543
are the ones that bring the loss
and the instructions in the ceremony,
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00:43:02,544 --> 00:43:06,012
in the rituals here, so the people will
go through this process of evolution.
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00:43:06,014 --> 00:43:13,253
Are today's frequently practiced
rituals such as prayers---
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00:43:13,255 --> 00:43:19,192
funerals--- and coronations---
really based on early man's
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00:43:19,194 --> 00:43:23,394
attempts to emulate
ancient alien visitors?
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00:43:23,398 --> 00:43:27,865
Or are they something
even more profound?
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00:43:27,902 --> 00:43:31,836
Could they provide an actual
means with which humans may
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00:43:31,906 --> 00:43:36,906
communicate with-- or even
return to-- another, perhaps
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00:43:36,910 --> 00:43:39,512
extraterrestrial existence?
579
00:43:40,414 --> 00:43:46,449
If so, we may only know the
truth when we ourselves
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00:43:46,487 --> 00:43:47,620
make the journey.
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00:43:47,622 --> 00:43:51,222
Or perhaps--- when they return.
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