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Sacred tattoos.

These are primeval symbols that speak to something in us that's very deep

-seated and very universal.

Severe body modifications.

The tribe's people sharpen the edges of their teeth to look like serpents.

Extreme adornments. Girls in the high -end culture stretched out their necks

with brass rings to emulate their sacred ancestors.

Could these metamorphic alterations of the flesh...

represent more than mere self -expression or even acts of religious

Might they contain a message critical to the future of mankind?

The reason why they did this to their bodies is in order to gain the strength

the gods that they tried to imitate.

We now have technology that is equal to what we see the gods using in these

ancient stories.

Maybe now we're going to be able to turn ourselves into a species just like the

gods.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

makes a bold and permanent decision to transform the scara, or whites, of his

eyes into black.

He claims he wants to appear more otherworldly.

Christian Magnemi is a very forward -thinking person in fashion.

By choosing to go to the extreme of coloring his eyes completely black,

almost alien -like, this is a trend happening across the board.

Body modification, tattooing, piercing, all types of adornments to change the

physical appearance of our bodies. It's almost as if humanity in a fashion sense

is gearing themselves to look more alien.

People feel liberated by the idea that they can appear extra human in some way.

They can look like something extraterrestrial or they can look like

primeval. There's something self -dramatizing and empowering about it.

Today, tattoos and piercings account for a nearly $1 billion industry.

Trending modification practices like ear elongation and branding the skin are

all on the rise.

But what could motivate someone to alter their body in such a way?

The way we adorn our bodies is essentially telling a story and sending

The fact that more and more people are expressing themselves through body art,

it tells a bigger story on a cultural level.

Now that we're so connected through the Internet, it's easy to find inspiration

from others and what other people are doing in body art practices.

Symbols communicate things that we're not quite able to put into words.

It goes beyond just wanting to make a statement about one's individuality.

It demonstrates what you believe in.

While tattoos, piercings, and body modification are modern forms of

expression, they also harken back to humanity's ancient past and mirror the

practices of many so -called primitive tribes that exist around the world

A lot of what we do finds inspiration in ancient roots from all over the world.

These are things that we've seen on, say, like National Geographic and books

on TV over the years.

And they've inspired newer forms of body modification and body expression.

Rites of passage, like skin stretching, have been seen throughout history in

different parts of the world.

The revered Buddha, the Dayak of Borneo, the ancient Rapa Nui of Easter Island,

and the modern Fulani tribe of West Africa all have colorful histories of

ear stretching.

The contemporary Morsi women of Ethiopia, tribes of the Amazon, and the

Butecudo people of coastal Brazil all share a history of skin stretching for

decorative lip plates.

But are these practices being adopted by mainstream society simply as a fashion

trend?

A bold form of self -expression?

Or could it be motivated by a profound link to our ancient past?

When people have tattoos, it's something meaningful.

And so my question is not, today, why do we tattoo ourselves?

I ask the question, when did we first tattoo ourselves, and then why?

September 9, 1991.

11 ,000 feet high in the Oostelaus.

Two German climbers near the Austrian -Italian border.

happened upon a frozen corpse.

Scientists call him the Tyrolean Iceman, or Ötzi, and places time of death

between 3400 and 3100 B .C.

What we find so amazing about Ötzi, he's very well preserved.

So well preserved that scientists and anthropologists can even tell that he

a lot of medical conditions.

And that leads us to Ötzi's tattoo.

In 2015,

More than two decades after the initial discovery, scientists were able to make

a more detailed scan of the Iceman's epidermis.

The results were extraordinary.

Under examination, it was found that Ötzi, the Iceman, had in fact

61 different tattoos over his body.

And almost all of these took the form of parallel lines.

Either two together, three together, in one case, seven together.

These tattoos, it's amazing.

They are actually located on acupuncture points throughout the body. Most of

them are on the joints, the lower back, the thoracic area, the chest.

And what that tells us is he had some knowledge of healing.

Acupuncture is a traditional form of Chinese medicine.

involving the pricking of the skin with needles along the body's neurohormonal

meridians to alleviate pain and treat various medical conditions.

Traditional historians place the origin of acupuncture in China at approximately

100 B .C.

Acupuncture did not exist as a formal system of therapeutic treatment in China

at the time that Ötzi received his tattoos on the other side of the globe.

So where did Otzi get these tattoos that were made with the knowledge of

acupuncture points on the body?

We think acupuncture is from China, but here's something even older and from the

Alps. The fact that we find these tattoos at specific meridian points

that this civilization knew of the meridians in the body, understood how

runs in the body, which is quite an advanced process for that time.

So where did this knowledge come from? Is it possible that it came from some

kind of higher thought, downloaded into the healers of the time?

Was it possible?

That acupuncture is really coming from extraterrestrials?

Could the Tyrolean Iceman point to the possibility that tattooing originated as

a result of contact with extraterrestrial visitors?

While it may sound far -fetched, ancient astronaut theories suggest that some of

the most popular tattoos found in both the ancient and modern world contain

symbolism connected to the cosmos.

Some of the earliest yearnings of our ancient ancestors was to recognize and

connect themselves to the cosmos, to the movement of celestial objects, to the

cycles of the seasons.

In modern tattoo art, we're not only seeing a proliferation of celestial

whether the sun, the stars, the phases of the moon, astrological symbols, but

we're also starting to see ET images.

These are primeval symbols that speak to something in us that's very deep

-seated and very universal.

Tattooing or body modification can be a way of remembering one's ancestors,

remembering one's connection with the cosmos.

A yearning to connect with the cosmos is perhaps as old as civilization itself.

And ancient astronaut theorists suggest that tattoos represent far more.

than merely a symbolic representation of this.

They believe that the desire to alter the flesh through tattooing and other

means may be embedded deep in the subconscious mind, and that perhaps the

of this human need can be found encoded in the well -preserved skin of Egypt's

mummies.

Dear El Medina, Egypt, 2014.

Using modern imaging equipment, Dr. Ann Austin scans the body of a female mummy

dating back as far as 1300 BC.

What she finds is unexpected and contradicts long -held beliefs regarding

roles in ancient Egyptian society.

One particular torso was a human female who had the image of Hathor tattooed

onto her body.

In ancient Egypt, having the tattoo of Hathor on your body would clearly be an

indication of your status as a priestess of Hathor and as a person who's not

just a representative of Hathor, but maybe in direct contact with the goddess

well.

Prior to finding these mummies, it was believed that women in Egypt were only

tattooed if they were prostitutes or dancers.

We see that, no, these were most likely, you know, priestesses.

The tattoos relate to a deity, to a sky god, Hathor.

The symbol for Hathor would sometimes be the head of a cow, horns, a disc in the

center.

The Egyptian tattoos are very symbolic of their close association with the

cosmetics. They were very in tune with their gods. They felt through these

symbols they were communicating with the gods.

The Egyptian goddess Hathor is an earlier incarnation of Isis, considered

primeval goddess, from whom all others were derived.

In the temple of Hathor, in Dendera, the goddess is depicted sailing in a ship

of eternity.

along the night waters of the Milky Way.

Dendera is one of the most important ancient Egyptian sites.

It clearly depicts travel through the sky with the so -called sun barges.

And our ancestors knew that ships do not fly across the sky or across

the sun. So why would they describe barges that came down from the sky?

What is depicted in Dendera are the extraterrestrials as they're traveling

across the sky.

Is it possible that the mummy found at Deir el -Medina was tattooed with

representing extraterrestrial visitors to Earth?

My idea is that the ancient Egyptians worshipped those symbols.

Because not only did they have to illustrate that they were of the ruling

but also that they had a direct connection, or so they thought, to

The reason why they put that on their bodies is in order to gain the strength

of the gods that they tried to imitate.

And these gods were flesh and blood extraterrestrials.

Do the tattoos found on the mummies at Deir el -Medina reveal attempts to

connect with the power of a god or an extraterrestrial being?

And did the ancient Egyptians permanently mark their flesh in order to

divine beings or leave a lasting commemoration of contact with

visitors?

Humanity has always used symbols and sigils and cryptography to

convey messages.

The Egyptians realized there was a lot of power in symbols, and they knew how

use these symbols. When they would tattoo, we have to wonder, was it to

communicate with the gods through their tattoos, to emulate the gods, to embody

the gods?

The cow and disc representing Hathor was not the only tattoo discovered on the

mummies at Deer El Medina.

One of the bodies also bore another powerful symbol.

She had the eye of Horus, and they say the eye of Horus is composed of six

which relate to our six senses. Not the five we think we have, we have six.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.

and thought. But what is thought? Is that extrasensory thought? Is that the

we communicate non -verbally?

So the eye of Horus also has a very magical type of element to it.

The all -seeing eye or the eye of Horus as it was depicted in ancient Egypt was

one of the holiest of symbols. It served to remind the individual

That human life is incomplete without some sort of higher vision or without

awareness of providence of a higher world.

That was a central idea to the ancient Egyptians.

The eye of Horus is the eye of God that sees everything.

We're talking about an Egyptian god who's quite possibly an

Many of the symbols found on ancient mummies, like the Eye of Horus, have

used as tattoo designs for centuries and are still popular with tattoo

enthusiasts today.

But why do they endure?

Is it possible that a simple but iconic image of an eye devised more than 3 ,000

years ago still speaks to humans today because we intuitively understand the

power behind it?

People adorn themselves with bodily art, tattoos, or body modification without

knowing why that pentagram or why that obelisk or why that pyramid speaks so

deeply to them. If you ask them, they might not be able to give you a very

answer, but their experience of that symbol is answer enough.

It inspires awe.

It tells us that we come from something larger.

Could the tattoos of our ancestors contain a record of humanity's past and

messages meant for us to decode today?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining not just tattoos, but far more

extreme body modification.

Tana Island.

Every year, on February 15th.

Residents of the Pacific island chain of Vanuatu gather together here for a

military -style parade with USA painted and sometimes even tattooed on their

chests. It is a tradition that began more than 60 years ago and is inspired

events that took place during World War II when American forces descended upon

the remote island chain with modern machinery and supplies.

During the Second World War, when the Americans reached the Pacific and took

over many of the islands, supplies would be dropped from aircraft or brought in

on landing strips.

And this brought many new things to these local populations, everything from

canned foods to manufactured clothing to other items they'd never seen before.

The native people, who had never encountered this type of modern

were awed by these visitors from the sky, who bring with them food and gifts.

All the aboriginals were fascinated.

They'd light up a cigarette, hold out a voice recorder, record their voice. The

aboriginals thought this was all magic.

They had never seen great ships, and the goods, the weapons.

Arthur C. Clarke's third law is any sufficiently advanced technology is

indistinguishable from magic.

After the war in the Pacific concluded, the U .S. soldiers left the islands, and

overnight, the bounty of technology and modern luxuries was gone.

In memory of the American soldiers, and in the hope that it would bring about

their return, The natives formed a cult devoted to the people who had visited

them from the sky.

The people would try and recreate the circumstances that brought this cargo

to them. They started to create replica items associated with the

Americans and their presence, even rifles.

They would scrape away runways and make straw models of the planes that landed

to try and lure the soldiers to once again land and bring all their amazing

technology.

Every religious experience begins with the miraculous.

Some individual or group will have an experience where they feel they have

witnessed something or undergone something that is outside of the

they will create monuments to that experience, whether it is a statue of a

deity, whether it is a pyramid, whether it is a cathedral.

We see this across history and all over the world to this very day.

Is it possible that much like the so -called cargo cult in the South Pacific,

ancient people also constructed monuments and even entire religions

interactions with visitors from the sky?

The term cargo cult is very interesting when applied to the ancient astronaut

theory because we can see that even in modern times how man has interacted with

things coming from the sky or other technology they didn't understand.

This has been playing out for thousands of years here on Earth.

If extraterrestrial visitation inspired the ancient people to build temples in a

certain fashion, an attempt to reproduce misunderstood technology, could it also

have motivated them to tattoo and otherwise modify their bodies?

Similar to how the people of Vanuatu adorned their chests with the letters

continuing to imitate the soldiers who visited before most of the islanders

even born.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest Additional evidence that cargo cult

practices include body modifications can be found by examining numerous other

cultures throughout the world that also undergo extreme body alteration.

In Brazil, the Kayapo worship a god they call Beth Kororoti, who they depict in

ceremonies with a straw suit that is eerily reminiscent of a modern -day

spacesuit.

Their traditions include intricate body painting, face tattooing, lip

stretching, and peculiar haircuts, all to harness the power of this

being.

And perhaps the most extreme body modification of all is practiced by the

Cayenne people of Burma. There is a tradition amongst the Cayenne people of

the women wearing the spirulina.

brass rings in their neck and they wear these throughout their life

and it can take many many hours to actually put these coils in place

there is a tradition that this female dragon had begun the dynasty of the

cayenne people and the reason they do this is to resemble this dragon in

Kai in foundational mythology of dragons play a very prominent role that act as

messengers between the world of the divine and the world of humans.

They are very powerful magical creatures as well and they're associated with

ultimate knowledge.

Is it possible that this creature actually came from the sky world and was

to be the influence behind the foundation of these people, a memory

never forgot?

Could it be that there are cultures around the world today keeping alive an

ancient story of alien visitation by altering their flesh?

And is it possible that the growing trend of body modification in the modern

world is due to a deep -seated memory of our extraterrestrial origin?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining one of the most peculiar

practices of the ancient world.

Headbinding.

Viacha, Bolivia.

November 2018.

Just 30 miles east of the mysterious ancient site of Pumapunku,

uncover 500 -year -old tombs believed to have been built by a pre -Incan

civilization called the Bacajes.

The remains of more than 100 people are discovered within.

And a number of the skulls are found to have a very bizarre abnormality.

They appear dramatically elongated.

According to archaeologists, these specimens display evidence of a body

modification practice called head binding.

The head can be changed in its shape. Generally, it's elongated.

And this is done when a child is perhaps six months old through to the age of

three and their heads are bound up and this pushes the skull upwards and

these bizarre shapes.

Just by gazing upon them you can't help think alien because that's what they

truly look like.

Curiously, this extreme form of body modification was widespread throughout

ancient world, occurring on nearly every continent and practiced by many

cultures that are believed to have had no contact with one another.

This is a process that has been going on at least for the last 10 ,000 years and

is found in every part of the world, from the Pacific Islands to Australia

to the Near East to the Americas.

And the strangest are those of Paracas in Peru.

Everywhere we find the same process. It seems as if it was mimicking people who

originally existed that had long heads in the first place.

In Vanuatu, anthropologists asked the people who were still doing head binding

up until the 1960s. And they asked them why they did that. And they said, this

is what the gods look like with these elongated heads.

And if that is the explanation for head binding around the world, then who are

these gods?

They're apparently extraterrestrials who have a naturally elongated head that's

just part of their DNA.

And humans want to look like them.

If ancient people did encounter extraterrestrials,

and perhaps even coexisted with them, might there have been something more

profound at play than mere deification and imitation?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe that it may, in fact, be programmed

into human DNA to want to become more like our alien ancestors, and that

traditions of body modification

and tattooing represent practice runs, preparing for the day when we could

ourselves to actually become like the aliens.

Vancouver, British Columbia.

August 13th, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry visits self -described transhumanist

Russ Fox.

Yeah, he's in his room right there.

Oh, thank you. To get a first -hand look at technology that proposes to

transform the human race.

Hi, William.

Hi, how are you? I'm William Henry.

Pleasure to meet you. Good to meet you. Good to see you. Thank you very much.

This is Eric. Hi, Eric. How are you? Nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you

well.

In his 2015 book, The Skingularity is Near, William Henry proposed that

humankind is reaching a point where the body will be radically transformed.

Well, you came at a perfect time. Eric is going to have an NFC chip installed

today. Fantastic.

I will begin by cleaning your hand.

He is eager to investigate how this is already beginning to happen.

Russ prepares to implant Eric with a biocompatible glass tube. So we are

to install the chip.

Containing an NFC microchip. So the implant itself was pre -sterilized and

loaded into a syringe, so it will be literally injected under the skin.

You now have a chip.

NFC stands for Near Field Communication, and it allows phones, tablets, laptops,

and other devices to easily share data with other NFC -equipped devices.

Russ, what technology is...

Have you got implanted? I personally have a number of different chips in both

my hands, as well as a magnetic vision implant, an RFID and an NFC in either

side for different purposes.

This NFC chip has all of my business links and web URLs, and this is a built

business card. So I can actually scan it with your phone and give you my contact

info.

Just like that. And it brings up my contact info and saves it in your phone.

Look at that. So I've got your phone number. I've got your contact details.

So all of these things you use to start your motorcycle, get in your home.

I replace my keys with these chips, so that way I don't have to deal with

or having keys stolen.

So these chips interact with a lot of different devices in my life. I could

bring you to my house and show you some of them. I'd love that. Let's go for a

trip. Right on.

Humanity has a long history of interaction with extraterrestrial beings

here with technology.

have long tried to imitate or be like the gods.

So I will wake up the bike with my RFID chip. I introduce it to the sensor.

Okay.

And the bike is awake.

Awesome. Just like that. Okay. And now today, we have transhuman technology

where we're augmenting the physical body in an effort to duplicate many of the

capacities that we attribute to the ancient gods.

So to access my home, scan my chip.

When the doors unlock, we can enter. Very nice.

After you. Thank you.

What I'm hoping to see here by coming to Russ's home is to see the future. Where

is Russ going to go with this? What has he got access to in his own home, and

how is that going to change him?

So this is my dining room table. Okay. It doubles as an RFID -operated safe.

What I do is I scan my RFID chip on top, flip hinge.

and there is my drawer very nice so these devices in here are implantable

technology pieces i have and i will show you what they are fantastic

so this first device this is called a north sense

this device is mounted to the body with piercings this device will vibrate

whenever it faces magnetic north essentially turning into a human compass

here we have some magnet implants So this is a small chip that encases

tritium gas, and it will glow right through your skin.

And because it is radioactive material, it's not battery -powered, it will

constantly glow, and it has a 12 -year half -life.

Wow. At what point do we become more than human in the transhuman process?

I think that we're always going to be building on to our existing humanity,

it's important to appreciate our existing humanity.

We don't want to lose touch with that.

When I look at Russ, I see someone who's on the cutting edge of our technology,

but he's just the beginning of where we potentially can go with this. We're

talking about transforming humans into super beings.

With the emergence of technology that can be implanted within the flesh, is

humankind on the brink of possessing abilities similar to those described by

ancient people in reference to their gods?

Has body modification all been a preparation for this?

Evolution.

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining plans to merge tattoos with

technology.

Boulder, Colorado.

2018.

At the University of Colorado, Dr. Carson Bruns.

and a team of scientists begins work on developing a new technology that

promises to transform what it means to get ink.

Smart tattoos.

We're trying to engineer new tattoo inks that will add new function to your

skin. The first one that we invented is a UV -sensitive tattoo ink. It's

basically invisible under normal lighting conditions, but when you go

intense sunshine...

And it gets exposed to the UV light, so that high -energy part of sunshine that

causes skin cancer and sunburn, it turns blue. And it acts like an indicator

that shows you that your skin is dangerously exposed to high levels of

radiation.

Dr. Bruns has also created tattooings that change color as the body's

temperature changes, essentially creating a human onboard thermometer

at any time.

We can use nanotechnology to engineer tattoo particles so that they have

properties, like a thermal battery or a thermal storage type of mechanism.

And so one thing that you can imagine doing with a tattoo would be covering

entire body with a sort of thermal storage material that would keep your

a comfortable temperature when you went out into the extreme heat or the extreme

cold.

Smart tattoos are even being engineered to monitor and treat health conditions.

If we have a chronic condition that needs drugs, we can envision a tattoo

that slowly releases a drug or a hormone into your body that helps regulate

either your blood chemistry or your mood.

I also envision tattoos that can really strengthen our skin, make our skin

stronger to forces and damage.

The military may have a lot of use for full -body tattoos that can help protect

soldiers, for example, from certain types of skin damage.

Carson Bruns is doing fascinating work on the human skin.

He believes that we can change the nature of skin altogether, using skin as

new platform for technological development.

Humans have always tried to imitate the gods, and perhaps tattoos are a

reflection of this.

In ancient times, they might have seen the gods wearing something like tattoos,

and they started tattooing their own bodies in imitation of what the gods

wearing.

But today, we now have technology that is equal to what we see the gods using

these ancient stories.

Maybe now we're going to be able to turn ourselves into a species just like the

gods.

Is it possible that ancient people came into contact with more advanced beings

that had smart tattoos much like those that are being developed today.

Could these otherworldly visitors have had technology hidden within their skin,

appearing as artwork?

Conducting tattoos that we're working on are black right now, so it looks like

an ordinary black tattoo pigment.

But you could even merge the technology with the art so that you could have a

tattoo that looks like a normal artistic tattoo but has this hidden function as

some kind of electronic or detecting device.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, with such technology,

extraterrestrials could truly have appeared to be gods to ancient people.

And they believe humanity is very close to becoming like these alien ancestors.

Silicon Valley, 2018.

Futurist Elon Musk introduces a new technology venture aimed at what is

self -directed evolution.

He calls it Neuralink.

By means of a special hypodermic needle, the company intends to inject an ultra

-thin mesh called a neural lace within the neocortex.

forming a body of electrodes that are able to monitor brain function.

A neural lace uses microelectrodes they place inside of the brain that can

actually read and write onto neurons. It's a bidirectional informational

exchange, and it eventually will allow you to receive information from the

Internet.

Through the use of neural linking, we can connect brains through the Internet

through technology.

When this is the case, we could send thoughts to one another.

Another thing you could do if you were able to read brain activity would be to

control devices remotely with your mind. So it would give a telekinesis in

principle as well.

The technology that Elon Musk is developing could potentially also be

the human body in the form of tattoos.

Nanotechnology is allowing us to make electronics small enough so when

tattooable electronics come online, you can do things like a scalp tattoo.

If we're able to read brain activity from this sort of seamless and permanent

interface in our skin, you could imagine a new form of communication, almost

sort of a technological telepathy.

Is humanity nearing a time when we'll no longer be a cargo cult, unknowingly

mimicking a far more advanced civilization that once visited Earth,

fact, become just like these extraterrestrial visitors?

Have we evolved from imitation to replication?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining new developments in body

modification designed to facilitate space travel.

In the 21st century, tattoos and body modifications are no longer fringe and

longer merely decorative.

Technology implanted within the flesh can facilitate superhuman abilities.

But of greatest interest to ancient astronaut theorists is the role that

tattoos could potentially play in space travel.

The next generation of spacesuits are going to be embedded with a lot more

technologies, and it's possible to make tattoos that can interact with the

spacesuit. So you can imagine even a spacesuit that would be able to read out

information that those tattoos are providing and send them back to mission

control.

Scientists are even beginning to develop technology that could make spacesuits

obsolete.

We can use nanotechnology to engineer tattoo particles so that they have

properties covering your entire body.

Super skin, e -skin, eye skin is skin that is enhanced or laced with

Since 2002, the U .S. military has been very interested in creating a new skin

for the military.

This augmentation will transform us from human into the next level of evolution,

augmenting the body to make us smarter, to make us stronger.

We're going to keep improving the technologies, and we're going to keep

embedding them more and more intimately with our bodies to improve our abilities

as humans and ultimately give us more power.

But if the first humans to apply tattoos to their flesh... and perform other

body modifications, such as head binding, we're attempting to imitate

extraterrestrials. Are the technological enhancements we're making to our bodies

today part of our destiny?

And if so, where does it lead?

Through nanotechnology, you can augment the skin to make it more adaptable to

living in space.

to make us smarter, to make us stronger, to make us more resilient.

We're able to become like the gods through the implantation of this

When you take it right back to its roots, tattooing is very transformative

has a lot of roots in what we would call magic.

And our ancient ancestors were very much in tune with the cosmos.

And what we're doing right now, we're bringing this back to...

The magical modality that it is, it's dormant now. Is this making us more

extraterrestrial -like?

Any advanced alien species that makes it across the galaxy is going to have

learned how to self -direct their evolution.

We're augmenting our bodies and moving forward with our evolution.

Is there a message about humanity's future encoded in our very flesh and our

attempts to alter it?

Could it be that tattoos, piercings, and body modifications are inspired by

extraterrestrial visitors from the past?

Perhaps we are just now arriving at a destiny that has been foretold through

human hieroglyphs, one in which we will become the equals of our alien

ancestors.