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NARRATOR: Seven stone giants
standing guard
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over a Pacific island.
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But what are they protecting,
and from whom?
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WILLIAM HENRY: According to
the people of the island,
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they face the actual homeland
of their ancestors.
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NARRATOR: Could the answer be
found some 2,000 miles away?
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DAVID CHILDRESS: We are baffled
by what it's all about.
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NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists,
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Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress
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embark on an
incredible journey...
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This is the famous Hiva.
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NARRATOR: ...to a land
of bizarre figures...
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Look at all these heads with
the big goggle-shaped eyes.
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NARRATOR:
...and forbidden places...
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ANIATA KIMITETE:
If you step on the site,
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something bad is going
to happen to you.
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NARRATOR:
...in search of what could be
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the ultimate evidence
of mankind's
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extraterrestrial origins.
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HENRY: If we can crack the
mysteries of Easter Island,
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we're going to be able to open
up once and for all
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the true mysteries
of the ancient world.
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NARRATOR:
Easter Sunday,
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April 5, 1722.
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Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
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is 2,300 miles off the coast
of Chile,
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leading a fleet of three ships
on an expedition to establish
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a western trade route
to the Spice Islands.
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In the early afternoon,
he is alerted by his crew
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that they have spotted
a small island,
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and that there is smoke rising
from it in several places,
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suggesting that it is inhabited.
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When they reach the shore,
they are surprised
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by the appearance
of some of the natives.
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When Roggeveen and his crew
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discovered Easter Island
in 1722,
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accounts were written down
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that not only
did they stumble across
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normal Polynesian-looking
people, but as well,
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people of giant proportions,
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who were light skinned,
had red hair,
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and even blonde hair.
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NARRATOR:
As recorded in the ship's log,
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they also made another,
even more unexpected discovery.
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JACOB ROGGEVEEN READER:
"We noticed certain
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"remarkably tall stone figures.
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"These stone figures caused us
to be filled with wonder,
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"for we could not understand how
it was possible to erect them.
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"Some of these statues were
a good 30 feet in height
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and broad in proportion."
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NARRATOR: Roggeveen named this
remote land "Easter Island,"
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after the day on which
it was discovered.
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But today,
nearly 300 years later,
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Roggeveen's questions concerning
the strange appearance
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of the natives, as well as
the origins and purpose
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of the gigantic stone statues,
known as moai,
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have yet to be answered.
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One can imagine that the moai,
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being set up all around
the island with their backs
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to the outside world
looking inwards,
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were a kind
of protective barrier
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that the ancestors
would look after them,
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and protect their little world.
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HENRY:
The thing about these moai
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is that they have these very
strange faces, very elongated.
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They don't look quite human.
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They're humanoid,
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but they're somehow different
than ordinary humans.
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They look almost alien
in appearance.
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And you have to wonder, what do
they ultimately represent?
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NARRATOR:
Carved from volcanic rock,
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the nearly 900 moai each weigh
up to 90 tons,
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and the tallest of them tower
above the landscape
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at heights of more than 30 feet.
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There have been many theories
over the years
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as to how they were moved.
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The first theory is thought
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that they must have been
dragged horizontally
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on sledges or rollers
or something of that kind.
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It was tried again recently
for a TV film,
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and again they moved it
a few meters
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but it really doesn't, uh,
prove anything.
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TSOUKALOS:
The idea
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that the trees were cut down
at some point,
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and they were all used
for rollers, wooden logs,
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falls by the wayside,
because wooden rollers
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would not be able to support
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the weight of some
of these statues.
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BAHN: You're talking about
several hundred statues,
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and it would depend on the size
and weight of the statue,
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the number of people you had
available to help,
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the distance you were going
to go, the kind of terrain.
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So, basically,
we don't really know.
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NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
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the answers to just how
the moai were transported
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and positioned in the island
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can be found in the legends told
by the native people,
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legends that suggested
a type of energy,
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known as "mana,"
was used to literally levitate
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the giant sculptures into place.
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According with, uh, oral
tradition and the legends...
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The king was given
the gift of mana
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from the great creator god,
Makemake.
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Legend holds
that the king commanded
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that these
great stone statues walk.
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TSOUKALOS:
And one has to wonder,
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well, either they all
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were off their rockers
describing these things,
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or they witnessed something.
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And I'm leaning more
in the direction
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that they witnessed something
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because there had to have been
a spark of inspiration.
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And so, in my opinion,
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mana was some type of
extraterrestrial technology
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that allowed these stones
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to be levitated into place.
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YOUNG:
When the statues had pupils,
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they came to life,
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imbued with mana to have
supernatural powers.
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CHILDRESS: According to
the Easter Island myth,
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this power came out of the eyes
of the statues,
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and was this mystical power.
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It's like it was creating
some kind
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of force field of energy
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that surrounded the island
and protected it.
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So you have to wonder if there's
something real here,
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and was it some kind of
extraterrestrial technology?
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NARRATOR: Of all the many
mysteries of Easter Island,
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perhaps the most puzzling
involves
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not only the construction
of the moai,
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but their positioning
on the island.
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880 of the 887 moai face inland,
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but on the west edge
of the island,
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seven of the moai
are positioned on a platform
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known as Ahu Akivi,
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and face outwardly,
towards the sea.
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Moais face in, it's believed,
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because they're protecting
the village that they oversee.
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Ahu Akivi is the one exception.
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The moais there look out to sea.
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Not only that,
they're identical.
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NARRATOR: But why would these
seven identical moai face out
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to sea, when all of the other
moai on the island face inland?
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Could it be that they were meant
to point to a specific location
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somewhere farther out?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by drawing a straight line
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from the line of sight
of the seven moai.
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Following it on
a northwesterly route,
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the first landmass in its path
is the Marquesas Islands,
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roughly 2,300 miles
from Easter Island.
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NASON: The Marquesas are an
extremely remote island group,
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which is part of
French Polynesia.
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It's a three-and-a-half-hour
flight northeast of Tahiti.
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And it's a part of what's known
as the Polynesian triangle,
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which is bound by Hawaii
in the north,
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Easter Island in the east,
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and New Zealand in the west.
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It was the last place on Earth
that was discovered.
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And there's probably more
mystery shrouded in the Pacific
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than any other place
in the world.
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NARRATOR: To follow up on
the incredible theory
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that Easter Island's origins
might be found
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on one of the remote
Marquesas Islands,
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in June, 2018,
ancient astronaut theorists
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Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress
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set out to explore the islands
for themselves.
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This is gonna be a great
exploration
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to see what connection there is
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between Easter Island
and right here.
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Should be quite the adventure.
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-TSOUKALOS: Hello.
-KIMITETE: Hello.
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I'm Giorgio.
Pleasure to meet you.
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-I'm Aniata.
-Hi, I'm David.
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NARRATOR: Arriving on one of
the Marquesas Islands,
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ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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and David Childress meet
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with local guide
Aniata Kimitete.
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Let's go explore.
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-Great.
-All right.
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NARRATOR: She has brought them
to an area known as Kamuihei,
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a sacred place believed
to be rich
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in what the natives call "mana"
or spiritual power.
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Here, they hope to find
the answer as to why seven
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of the nearly 900 giant statues
on Easter Island
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are all facing in the direction
of this remote island chain
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in the South Pacific.
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KIMITETE:
So we are arriving
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at this spot
where I really wanted
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to show you about this site.
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Oh, look at this.
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KIMITETE: What we see here
is what we call petroglyphs.
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TSOUKALOS:
Yeah.
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So you have three turtles.
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So one, two, three here.
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And also, on the rock,
you can see a canoe.
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-Okay.
-So you have the head
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of the canoe here that looks
a little bit like a bird.
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CHILDRESS: Their canoes had
a bird head at the front.
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TSOUKALOS:
Do you see the beak?
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-CHILDRESS: Yeah, that looks
like a bird head.
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TSOUKALOS: And what is the
significance of the turtles?
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KIMITETE: The turtle is actually
the messenger from the gods.
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He was a very sacred animal.
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People were not allowed
to eat them.
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TSOUKALOS:
You know, I think
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this is really interested
what you said,
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that the turtle is regarded here
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as a messenger of the gods,
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because this is not
something new.
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It's not something native
to this area.
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There are other parts
of the world
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where the turtle is described
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by having descended
from the sky.
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And the idea that this is here,
too, considered
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a messenger of the gods,
that, to me, is a connection
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to potential extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,
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numerous ancient cultures
have origin stories
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that involve some sort of
a divine or "cosmic" turtle.
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Followers of Japanese Shinto
venerate the Kame-ishi,
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a stone turtle that portends
the end of the world.
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In Guatemala, there are legends
of giant flying turtles,
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and even artifacts that feature
the image of a man wearing
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what appears to be a helmet
lying inside a turtle shell.
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In North America,
the Iroquois Indians tell tales
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of a "sky goddess"
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who falls to Earth from the sky,
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whereupon a giant turtle
rises up
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from the ocean to catch her.
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I think it's interesting here,
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this canoe, which would have
been very large,
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has the bird head on it.
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And you have the Birdmen
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of Easter Island
that are so famous.
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NARRATOR: One of Easter Island's
ancient traditions involves
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Tangata manu,
or the Birdman cult.
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According to legend,
the creator god, Makemake,
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was looking in a mirror and saw
a bird land on his shoulder.
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Seeing his image combined
with the bird,
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he decided to make a son
who was half man, half bird.
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In turn, the Rapa Nui people
of Easter Island worshipped
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the Birdman as the predecessor
of all humans.
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One of the central focuses
of the rituals,
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the annual rituals
at Easter Island,
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was that of Tangata manu,
the Birdman.
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And the Birdman is
a universal symbol
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that we find in many parts
of the globe
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that relates to ancestry
associated with figures,
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characters in feather coats
who were seen
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to be able to go between
this world and the next.
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And here we have the same ideas
on Easter Island.
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Is there more to see
on the island?
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We have a lot more
to see on the island.
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-Okay.
-So let's go.
-CHILDRESS: Okay.
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NARRATOR:
After showing Giorgio and David
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the ancient petroglyphs,
Aniata takes them to a site
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that has some of the most
striking statuary
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in the Marquesas.
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Right now,
we are at the Tohua of Temehea.
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So, the tohua
is the gathering place.
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And so this sculpture here
is a modern sculpture.
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But is this based
on something old?
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KIMITETE: Yes. Because the site
that we're on was rebuilt.
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Even though it's modern,
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it's really based
on the original statue.
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TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow. Okay.
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Is this considered a tiki?
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Yes, these tikis represent
the population.
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CHILDRESS:
So, to the Marquesan people,
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wh-what is a tiki?
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A tiki, at first, was
the representation of our god
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of magic and sorcery.
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He was one of the only god
in French Polynesia that has
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the face of a man.
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He became our protector,
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because when you have a tiki
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by your side, then you're
protected from your enemy.
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NARRATOR:
In the Marquesas,
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the word "tiki"
can be used to refer
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both to an ancestral figure
that came to the islands
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in ancient times
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as well as the statues
that represent him.
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They are variously carved
in both wood and stone
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and often depict a being
with large, goggle-like eyes.
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The lore has it that
Tiki was the primary ancestor
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and was created in the image
of the sky god.
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The local people made statues
in honor of their creator god,
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Tiki, and used them in worship.
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CHILDRESS: And this is
what Tiki looks like,
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-as a god?
-KIMITETE:
Yes, because th-they say
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in the legend that,
when Tiki left
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the Earth,
they made the sculpture
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of how he looked like,
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just to have something
to remember from Tiki.
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So that's how he looked like,
actually.
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He looks very strange to me.
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This is a representation
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of what your ancestors thought
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this figure looked like.
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It doesn't look like a man.
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It looks... weird.
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Yeah, I mean,
he-he sort of looks like a man,
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but, with these big goggle eyes
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and the elongated head
and everything,
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he looks
like an extraterrestrial.
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From what you know,
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do you think
that the people of the Marquesas
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went as far as Easter Island?
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Are there any legends or stories
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-behind that?
-So, there is
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one story where--
when they said, um,
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that one chief of the island
sent his seven sons
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to Easter Island,
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because they were fighting a lot
over here.
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So he sent them away.
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Told them, uh,
if they wanted to come back,
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they had to make peace
with one another.
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NARRATOR:
Seven brothers?
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Princes who left the Marquesas
Islands for Easter Island
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hundreds of years ago?
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TSOUKALOS:
I think it's really fascinating
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that, in the Marquesas, there's
a story of seven brothers
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that were exiled by their father
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in order to go to Easter Island.
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You combine that with the fact
that there is this platform
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on Easter Island with
seven moais standing on there,
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that would indicate to me
that the Marquesas
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and Easter Island
are, in fact, connected.
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NARRATOR: But if the stone
carvings and ancient legends
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prove that the origins
of Easter Island
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can be found some 2,000 miles
away in the Marquesas,
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could there have been another,
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perhaps extraterrestrial,
reason for the exile
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of the seven royal brothers
from their homeland?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest the evidence points
to everything
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from the strange faces
of the tiki gods
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to bloody stories
of human sacrifice.
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♪ ♪
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NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos
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and David Childress are
in the remote Marquesas Islands.
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They are searching for clues
that may help them solve
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some of the most
compelling mysteries
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concerning an island located
some 2,000 miles to their east,
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Easter Island.
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I think
it's really fascinating that,
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of all the standing heads
in Easter Island,
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seven of them actually point
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in the direction
of the Marquesas.
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And so now the question is, why?
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I think it's quite possible that
the Marquesas and Easter Island
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are, in fact, connected.
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NARRATOR:
But perhaps equally compelling,
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if not slightly disturbing,
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are numerous carvings
found throughout the islands
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which depict strange,
big-eyed gods known as tikis.
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So, right now, we are
at the Tohua of Hikokua.
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The tiki placed on site
like this,
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like, really, uh, sacred site...
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...they were made
to scare the people away,
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because they-they were telling,
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"Hey, this is
a very sacred site,
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so be careful."
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"If you step on the site,
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"if you do something wrong,
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then something bad
is going to happen to you."
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I think if we are talking
about extraterrestrials
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in ancient times visiting
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and you follow
the ancient stories,
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when they came down
with fire, smoke and noise,
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that that is the reason
why they were afraid.
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There are
multiple other versions
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of the exact same motif
worldwide,
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with people with elongated
skulls and giant goggle eyes.
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Like, uh, what comes to mind
immediately is in-in Peru.
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-Yeah, at Tiwanaku
a-and Pumapunku...
-Yes.
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...you have the same
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goggle-headed, eyed, uh,
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-you know, people.
-Exactly.
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You have that in Mexico, too,
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-with the Olmec statues.
-Yes.
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These may be depictions
of actual extraterrestrials
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who visited the Earth
thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR: Eerily similar
to the tiki of the Marquesas,
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figures with oversized skulls
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and enormous eyes have surfaced
at archaeological sites
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throughout the world.
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Among these are
the Dogu figures of Japan,
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the aboriginal Wandjina
petroglyphs of Australia,
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the terra-cotta figurines
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recently unearthed
in Northern Ghana,
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the trickster god Eshu
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of the Yoruba people of Nigeria,
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and the stunning petroglyphs
of Karahunj,
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otherwise known
as Armenia's Stonehenge.
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So it does seem that Tiki,
he's walking,
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he's living and breathing.
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He's not just a spirit, is he?
401
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No. He's not a spirit.
402
00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:10,102
So, um, they-they say
that Tiki is not really a god,
403
00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,354
but he's not really a man also.
404
00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:16,233
Aniata, thank you so much
for showing us everything here.
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-It's truly tremendous.
-You're welcome.
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00:21:17,902 --> 00:21:19,361
-Thank you so much.
-Have a nice travel.
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Thank you.
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♪ ♪
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NARRATOR: One day
after their informative visit
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to the island of Nuku Hiva,
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Giorgio and David travel next
to the nearby island of Hiva Oa
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to see firsthand
the most unusual
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of all the island tikis.
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Hello.
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TSOUKALOS:
Good to see you.
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-Yep.
-Okay.
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NARRATOR:
As their local guide,
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they have enlisted
Hiva Oa resident, Heimata Bonno.
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This is...
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-incredible.
So, what are we looking at here?
-CHILDRESS: Yeah.
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TSOUKALOS:
What is this?
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Oh, it totally looks
like a llama.
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No question.
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I totally think
this looks like a llama.
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I mean, there's no question
in my mind.
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And I also don't think
that this was altered.
427
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This is original.
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And I don't see any,
uh, changes.
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CHILDRESS:
So either this is not authentic
430
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or, if it is authentic,
it's a llama
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and it proves connection
to-to South America.
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NARRATOR:
South America?
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Is it possible that the llama,
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believed to be native
to South America,
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was known to people living
on this remote island chain
436
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some 3,500 miles away?
437
00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:57,042
But how?
438
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Some people say
that it's a woman giving birth.
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Do the women here
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in the Marquesas Islands,
do they do this?
441
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They lie on their stomach
and give birth? No.
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TSOUKALOS:
This is crazy.
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CHILDRESS:
Huh.
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TSOUKALOS:
To me,
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it looks like something
from the sky.
446
00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:24,111
It's like, uh,
maybe some flying vehicle.
447
00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:27,239
-It's a great question.
-Yeah.
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TSOUKALOS: Perhaps
what we're looking at here
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is some type of a craft,
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because you have the windows
in the front,
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which are these giant goggles,
452
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and then you have the mouth
in the front,
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which, to me, looks
like some type of an air intake.
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Underneath,
you have a lifting body
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that goes
underneath the entire body.
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And if you combine that
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with the story of this object
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or this woman giving birth,
459
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if someone has never seen
passengers disembarking
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from an actual airplane,
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if they have no idea
what is happening,
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well, all of a sudden,
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a flying vehicle
is giving birth to people.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that this ancient statue
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that has been interpreted
in modern times
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as a fertility goddess
467
00:24:19,541 --> 00:24:23,754
is actually depicting
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
468
00:24:25,172 --> 00:24:27,675
I think that tikis
are nothing else
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00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:30,260
but misunderstood technology
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that, over time,
turned into divine objects
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of magic and sorcery.
472
00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:47,861
Can we go look at it? Great.
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TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow.
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Clearly, this tiki,
the head is missing.
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But I see
that it has six fingers.
476
00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:14,138
It's very feasible to me
that they actually tried
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to imitate whoever visited
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or whoever came here
to impart this knowledge.
479
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:23,480
Why would they carve six fingers
480
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if they did not see six fingers?
481
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:29,862
So we should not say,
"Oh, this is just fantasy."
482
00:25:29,862 --> 00:25:33,574
I think they saw someone
with six fingers.
483
00:25:33,574 --> 00:25:35,284
Is that possible?
484
00:25:35,284 --> 00:25:36,452
Yeah.
485
00:25:36,452 --> 00:25:37,828
-Yes.
-Yeah.
486
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TSOUKALOS:
So these are protectors.
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And all the tikis here
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and the moai on Easter Island
are protectors as well.
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So, on Easter Island,
you-you have
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seven moai,
and they are looking
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towards Marquesas.
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Is-is this some ancestors?
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TSOUKALOS:
Or a connection?
494
00:26:16,366 --> 00:26:19,703
NARRATOR: All of the ancient
tikis in the Marquesas
495
00:26:19,703 --> 00:26:22,581
are positioned to look in
the direction of Easter Island.
496
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,374
But why?
497
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,628
And if both the moai
and the tikis are depictions
498
00:26:27,628 --> 00:26:30,047
of extraterrestrial visitors,
499
00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:32,591
why do they appear so different,
both in height
500
00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:35,052
and appearance?
501
00:26:35,052 --> 00:26:37,846
Is it possible that
the seven brothers of legend
502
00:26:37,846 --> 00:26:40,015
left the Marquesas
for Easter Island
503
00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:42,309
because they were fighting
with each other?
504
00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:46,438
Or could they have been fleeing
for their lives?
505
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:49,525
For Giorgio and David,
506
00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:53,070
these questions form the pieces
of a confounding puzzle,
507
00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:54,780
one they are both determined
to solve
508
00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:57,783
before they return home.
509
00:27:04,081 --> 00:27:05,749
♪ ♪
510
00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:07,709
NARRATOR: While visiting
the ancient site known
511
00:27:07,709 --> 00:27:11,797
as I'ipona, located
in the Marquesas Islands,
512
00:27:11,797 --> 00:27:13,882
local guide Heimata Bonno
513
00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:15,926
has just shown
ancient astronaut theorists
514
00:27:15,926 --> 00:27:18,887
Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress
515
00:27:18,887 --> 00:27:21,223
a number of sacred tiki statues
516
00:27:21,223 --> 00:27:23,892
which have six fingers
on each hand.
517
00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:26,478
That is, uh,
very interesting to me.
518
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:30,107
NARRATOR: He has also just
informed them that the tiki gods
519
00:27:30,107 --> 00:27:32,067
were believed by the natives
to possess
520
00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:34,987
an extraordinary amount
of what they called "mana,"
521
00:27:34,987 --> 00:27:37,030
a spiritual power,
522
00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:39,992
which, if consumed,
would make the natives strong
523
00:27:39,992 --> 00:27:42,077
and virtually invincible.
524
00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:44,788
So, how-how does this tiki
have mana?
525
00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:46,623
How does it get the mana?
526
00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:04,975
I see.
527
00:28:04,975 --> 00:28:07,019
NARRATOR:
Eat the mana?
528
00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:10,939
Is Heimata Bonno describing
a form of ritual cannibalism
529
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:14,109
in which the natives of the
Marquesas would eat the bodies
530
00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:17,779
of those who they believed
possessed spiritual power?
531
00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:20,365
And where is the mana contained?
532
00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:22,701
The mana's coming out
of the eyes, right? Or...
533
00:28:27,581 --> 00:28:29,082
So they would...
534
00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,376
eat the eyes and the tongue,
535
00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:32,878
the brain?
536
00:28:42,679 --> 00:28:44,723
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the natives
537
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:47,935
of the Marquesas Islands
believed that the mana,
538
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:50,062
or spiritual power,
539
00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:53,732
of their tiki gods
could be literally consumed?
540
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:56,443
If so, was their eagerness
541
00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:58,528
to eat the organs
not only of the tiki,
542
00:28:58,528 --> 00:29:01,698
but of their offspring,
one of the chief reasons
543
00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:03,784
why the so-called seven brothers
544
00:29:03,784 --> 00:29:05,827
fled the Marquesas
for Easter Island
545
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:08,997
thousands of years ago?
546
00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:12,167
Here there are
very large boulders
547
00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:13,669
of basalt.
548
00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:15,504
It's very heavy.
549
00:29:15,504 --> 00:29:17,589
I know in some places
in Polynesia
550
00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:19,967
and Micronesia they have legends
551
00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:22,844
that the stones are...
are flying through the air.
552
00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:35,190
So they are giants
and very strong,
553
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:38,318
and they can lift
these big stones?
554
00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:49,287
-Oh.
-NARRATOR: Giant bones?
555
00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:52,457
Found in caves
on the Marquesas Islands?
556
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:54,001
Could this be the evidence
557
00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:56,461
Giorgio and David
have been searching for
558
00:29:56,461 --> 00:30:00,048
that suggest the early
inhabitants of Easter Island
559
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:03,552
were, in fact,
giant alien hybrid beings?
560
00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:06,680
Beings who forged
a colony of giants
561
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,224
much like themselves,
562
00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:11,601
and who commemorated
their time on the island
563
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:14,146
by fashioning
giant stone sentinels.
564
00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:19,901
We have these stories
of giants worldwide.
565
00:30:19,901 --> 00:30:24,322
In Malta, we have some
of the biggest megalithic sites
566
00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:27,868
in all of Europe,
that allegedly were built
567
00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:29,745
by the giants.
568
00:30:29,745 --> 00:30:32,831
The giants were offspring
569
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:37,335
of the gods after they mated
with human women.
570
00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:42,299
Then you have stories
of the giants on Sardinia,
571
00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:45,677
many of whom have been suggested
were originated
572
00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:49,014
by extraterrestrials.
573
00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:52,100
The origin story
of the giants in the Bible
574
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:55,479
is that angels mated
with human women.
575
00:30:57,147 --> 00:31:00,400
The offspring were the giants.
576
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,819
CHILDRESS:
So we have to wonder,
577
00:31:02,819 --> 00:31:06,948
are the seven sentinels
actually giants?
578
00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:10,243
Part alien and part human.
579
00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:13,080
-(rumbling)
-Perhaps they were escaping
580
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,208
the Marquesas Islands
because they were
581
00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,793
the ruling elite,
582
00:31:17,793 --> 00:31:20,545
and essentially,
they were overthrown
583
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:22,214
because they had this power,
584
00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:24,466
and they went to Easter Island.
585
00:31:26,593 --> 00:31:30,430
Heimata, it's been
so interesting here.
586
00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:34,059
You have such good information.
I really appreciate it.
587
00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:35,352
-(speaks foreign language)
-TSOUKALOS:
Yeah, thank you for sharing.
588
00:31:35,352 --> 00:31:36,728
You're welcome.
589
00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:38,271
NARRATOR:
Could it be that
590
00:31:38,271 --> 00:31:40,690
the so-called seven princes
of the Marquesas
591
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:43,693
were giant alien-human hybrids?
592
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:47,864
Hybrids who may have had access
to extraterrestrial technologies
593
00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:50,617
that caused them
to be thought of by the natives
594
00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:53,245
as kings or gods?
595
00:31:54,996 --> 00:31:58,792
And if so, could it be
that the real reason
596
00:31:58,792 --> 00:32:01,128
these seven brothers left
the Marquesas
597
00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:03,797
was not because
they were fighting,
598
00:32:03,797 --> 00:32:06,675
but because they were fleeing
for their lives,
599
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:10,804
in fear of being killed
and eaten by the natives?
600
00:32:10,804 --> 00:32:14,057
Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer
601
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:15,976
is a profound yes,
602
00:32:15,976 --> 00:32:18,770
and believe that
even more answers can be found
603
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:23,108
not only by examining the
stone statues of Easter Island,
604
00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:25,527
but by also taking a closer look
605
00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:27,612
at what some of them are wearing
606
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:29,447
on their heads.
607
00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,582
NARRATOR:
Isolated in the vast expanse
608
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:42,169
of the South Pacific,
Easter Island remains
609
00:32:42,169 --> 00:32:45,755
a land of mystery.
610
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:50,594
Since its discovery by Europeans
in the 18th century,
611
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:53,430
very little is still known about
the people who once lived there,
612
00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:56,141
or their origins.
613
00:32:56,141 --> 00:32:58,977
But of all the mysteries
involving the island
614
00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:01,813
otherwise known as Rapa Nui,
615
00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:04,608
the most persistent involve
616
00:33:04,608 --> 00:33:08,987
the nearly 900 megalithic
statues known as moai,
617
00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:12,866
and why they were put here
in the first place.
618
00:33:12,866 --> 00:33:16,036
The moai are considered to be
619
00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:19,581
no more than perhaps
a thousand years old.
620
00:33:19,581 --> 00:33:22,834
However, it has been established
621
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:26,087
that some of them penetrate
down into the ground
622
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,882
by a great amount of feet
623
00:33:28,882 --> 00:33:31,092
to reveal the rest of the body,
624
00:33:31,092 --> 00:33:33,428
not just the oversized head.
625
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:37,557
And the amount
of catenation suggests
626
00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:40,352
that they are infinitely older
627
00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:42,437
than a thousand years.
628
00:33:42,437 --> 00:33:46,233
They could go back many,
many, many millennia.
629
00:33:47,609 --> 00:33:49,194
When you visit Easter Island,
630
00:33:49,194 --> 00:33:52,072
and you look at
the sights there, the statues,
631
00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:54,991
the megalithic walls,
you realize they're much older
632
00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:57,244
than what, you know,
history tells us.
633
00:33:58,745 --> 00:34:01,289
NARRATOR:
Further clouding the issue
634
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:05,502
is a discovery
that was made in 2017.
635
00:34:05,502 --> 00:34:09,297
With the help of photography
and 3-D modeling programs,
636
00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:13,593
archaeologists discovered
that the 13-ton stone hats,
637
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:17,013
known as pukao,
on the Easter Island moai
638
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:19,808
contain a wide diversity
of petroglyphs,
639
00:34:19,808 --> 00:34:22,811
made by what appear to be
different groups of people.
640
00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:29,442
The hats that are on top
of the Easter Island moai
641
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:31,278
are a little bit of a mystery.
642
00:34:31,278 --> 00:34:33,530
But recently, they've
been analyzed, and carvings
643
00:34:33,530 --> 00:34:36,366
have been found on them,
which has, like, questioned,
644
00:34:36,366 --> 00:34:39,995
you know, the idea
of what they really represent.
645
00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:42,330
Perhaps there is
something else going on here.
646
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:44,374
It could well be
647
00:34:44,374 --> 00:34:46,710
that a number
of different cultures
648
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:48,837
lived on Easter Island.
649
00:34:51,381 --> 00:34:55,135
One of the most fascinating
monuments on Easter Island
650
00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:58,638
is the stone platform, or ahu,
651
00:34:58,638 --> 00:35:00,765
known as Vinapu.
652
00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:04,352
And this is a huge
megalithic construction
653
00:35:04,352 --> 00:35:06,688
that is essentially a wall
654
00:35:06,688 --> 00:35:10,317
made of cyclopean
megalithic blocks
655
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:13,737
that all interlock
with each other.
656
00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:17,699
When you look at this,
you cannot help but think
657
00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:21,578
of Cuzco in Peru.
658
00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:24,122
And there has to be
a relationship
659
00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:25,957
between the two cultures.
660
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,792
All of these
661
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:31,671
part of a much bigger
transmission of knowledge,
662
00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:34,132
where the belief,
663
00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:38,011
the common belief was
an origin amongst the stars.
664
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,601
NARRATOR: If, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
665
00:35:44,601 --> 00:35:47,771
the seven moai
that face out to sea
666
00:35:47,771 --> 00:35:51,483
really do represent a race
of giant alien hybrid beings
667
00:35:51,483 --> 00:35:54,944
that fled the Marquesas Islands
hundreds, and perhaps thousands,
668
00:35:54,944 --> 00:35:57,030
of years ago,
669
00:35:57,030 --> 00:36:00,283
do the hundreds of other moai
670
00:36:00,283 --> 00:36:02,452
represent their offspring?
671
00:36:02,452 --> 00:36:04,496
And if so,
672
00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:07,749
could they have had contact
with other parts of the world,
673
00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:10,543
making Easter Island
a virtual hub
674
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:13,046
of extraterrestrial activity?
675
00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:18,301
CHILDRESS:
Easter Island has also got
676
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:21,513
the strong legend that it is
the center of the world,
677
00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:24,265
or the "navel of the world."
678
00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:27,686
And there are various places
around our planet
679
00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:30,939
that are said to be
the "navel of the world."
680
00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:32,732
They're in Cuzco,
681
00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:34,734
at Delphi in Greece,
682
00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:36,444
at Sardinia,
683
00:36:36,444 --> 00:36:38,238
and in Egypt.
684
00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:41,616
In many cases,
there's a stone ball
685
00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:45,120
that is marking
this center-of-the-world spot.
686
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,664
And we have that
at Easter Island.
687
00:36:47,664 --> 00:36:49,833
These navels of the world
688
00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:52,627
are apparently power places,
689
00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:55,755
places of vortex, energy.
690
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:57,799
It would seem that
they are all connected
691
00:36:57,799 --> 00:37:01,970
to this worldwide energy grid.
692
00:37:01,970 --> 00:37:06,766
Why did this huge
megalithic culture emerge here?
693
00:37:06,766 --> 00:37:09,436
Perhaps this tells us
694
00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:11,938
that there is
some special quality
695
00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:14,232
with Easter Island,
696
00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:17,235
one that was recognized
by the ancestors
697
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,654
of the Rapa Nui culture.
698
00:37:21,489 --> 00:37:23,616
NARRATOR: Were the seven moai
that face the sea
699
00:37:23,616 --> 00:37:26,202
positioned so as to indicate
a warning
700
00:37:26,202 --> 00:37:28,955
to those natives
on the Marquesas that wanted
701
00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:32,917
to hunt them and eat them
for their power?
702
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:36,546
Or were they meant to serve
as a commemoration
703
00:37:36,546 --> 00:37:40,508
not only of Easter Island's
extraterrestrial origins
704
00:37:40,508 --> 00:37:45,555
but of the history
of alien activity on our planet?
705
00:37:45,555 --> 00:37:49,350
As far as Giorgio Tsoukalos and
David Childress are concerned,
706
00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:51,978
there still needs to be
further investigation
707
00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:55,857
before those questions
can be answered.
708
00:38:01,321 --> 00:38:04,157
NARRATOR: On the last day
of their incredible journey
709
00:38:04,157 --> 00:38:06,242
to the Marquesas Islands,
710
00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:08,828
ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos
711
00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:10,538
and David Childress
712
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:13,917
meet at a café
on the island of Nuku Hiva.
713
00:38:13,917 --> 00:38:17,003
They are confident
that their investigation
714
00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:20,006
has led to not only evidence
of a direct link
715
00:38:20,006 --> 00:38:22,801
between the Marquesas
and Easter Island
716
00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:25,136
but also a greater understanding
717
00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:28,348
as to the kinds of beings
who lived on these islands
718
00:38:28,348 --> 00:38:31,267
thousands of years ago.
719
00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:35,355
Well, this was an in--
incredible experience.
720
00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:38,149
From all the people we've talked
to, these ancient civilizations
721
00:38:38,149 --> 00:38:43,112
are way older
than what we were taught.
722
00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:44,906
Yeah, you have
these strong connections
723
00:38:44,906 --> 00:38:46,950
from the Marquesas
to Easter Island.
724
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:50,370
And the idea
of the-the flying turtle
725
00:38:50,370 --> 00:38:52,372
would be what you would think of
as a disc...
726
00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:54,499
-Yes.
-...flying.
727
00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:57,043
They knew
that turtles don't fly.
728
00:38:57,043 --> 00:39:00,839
So why would they have stories
of flying turtles?
729
00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:04,968
If we had, uh,
airships landing here,
730
00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:08,346
and then the people
are-are wondering,
731
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,390
how do these turtles fly?
732
00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:12,934
-Yes.
-And the extraterrestrials
733
00:39:12,934 --> 00:39:17,146
tell them,
"Well, they fly with this energy
734
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:19,232
-called mana."
-Mm-hmm.
735
00:39:19,232 --> 00:39:23,570
And there, they transcribe this
mana energy to-to everything.
736
00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:26,322
And, you know, it--
the-the tikis have the mana,
737
00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:28,116
the stones have the mana.
738
00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:30,243
Uh, mana's everywhere.
739
00:39:30,243 --> 00:39:33,913
And, all of a sudden, something
that was technological in origin
740
00:39:33,913 --> 00:39:35,248
becomes magic.
741
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:37,125
It becomes sorcery.
742
00:39:37,125 --> 00:39:39,043
It becomes something divine.
743
00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:42,046
Everything
that they're talking about
744
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,841
and depicting would seem
to be extraterrestrial.
745
00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:47,760
One of my favorite pieces
that we saw
746
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,514
was that tiki of this woman
laying on the stomach
747
00:39:51,514 --> 00:39:53,933
and she's giving birth.
748
00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:56,978
But that's not the position
in which to deliver a baby.
749
00:39:56,978 --> 00:40:00,481
To me, it looks like some sort
of a flying object,
750
00:40:00,481 --> 00:40:04,110
where passengers
are disembarking, or pilots.
751
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:08,948
And if this is seen by someone
who has never seen an airplane,
752
00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:10,825
well, then,
for all intents and purposes,
753
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,827
that thing is giving birth.
754
00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:15,788
So, to me,
it's a-- it's a wonderful
755
00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:18,917
and interesting
misunderstanding.
756
00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:21,252
It really shows,
I think, this connection
757
00:40:21,252 --> 00:40:23,713
between the Marquesas,
758
00:40:23,713 --> 00:40:28,384
perhaps also that these places
are-are space ports,
759
00:40:28,384 --> 00:40:29,427
in a sense.
760
00:40:31,304 --> 00:40:33,806
And isn't necessarily, uh,
761
00:40:33,806 --> 00:40:37,268
the way that Western
archaeologists tell the story.
762
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,814
Whether it is tikis here
in the Marquesas
763
00:40:41,814 --> 00:40:44,734
or moai in Easter Island,
764
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,820
we're looking
at misunderstood technology.
765
00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:50,990
Because I think
that when you combine this
766
00:40:50,990 --> 00:40:53,284
with the old stories of legends
767
00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:55,244
of people descending
from the sky
768
00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:58,373
with a lot
of noise, smoke and fire,
769
00:40:58,373 --> 00:41:00,917
those depictions may represent
770
00:41:00,917 --> 00:41:03,711
either
extraterrestrials themselves
771
00:41:03,711 --> 00:41:08,174
or craft
that the extraterrestrials used.
772
00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:12,553
NARRATOR: Were the seven stone
sentinels of Easter Island
773
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:15,306
placed there to commemorate
what may once have been
774
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:17,308
a land of giant hybrids,
775
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:21,813
part human and part alien?
776
00:41:21,813 --> 00:41:25,942
As far as Giorgio Tsoukalos and
David Childress are concerned,
777
00:41:25,942 --> 00:41:29,445
the answer is a profound yes.
778
00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:32,240
They also believe the ancient
moai on Easter Island
779
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,950
now serve a different,
780
00:41:33,950 --> 00:41:37,453
if perhaps unintended, purpose.
781
00:41:37,453 --> 00:41:39,956
Instead
of silently standing guard,
782
00:41:39,956 --> 00:41:42,834
as if to protect the island
and its secrets,
783
00:41:42,834 --> 00:41:46,421
the moai might actually be
helping to reveal the truth
784
00:41:46,421 --> 00:41:50,049
about mankind's
extraterrestrial history,
785
00:41:50,049 --> 00:41:54,303
a history that may very soon
repeat itself when we,
786
00:41:54,303 --> 00:41:57,807
in the not-so-distant future,
could come face-to-face
787
00:41:57,807 --> 00:42:00,727
with those same alien visitors
788
00:42:00,727 --> 00:42:04,772
who were once immortalized
in stone.
789
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:08,067
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