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JONATHAN YOUNG:
To devout Hindus,

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Shiva is a real being
who walked among us.

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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Shiva came down

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from these cities
on the firmament.

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He's the leader of a group
of extraterrestrials.

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Shiva was a force
for incredible good,

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but also a force for
incredible destruction.

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And he is said
to have this trident

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which could annihilate
anything in its path.

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DAVID WILCOCK:
In the Hindu tradition,

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you have to have destruction
in order to have creation.

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And it may be
that Shiva will determine

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the future of the human race.

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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,

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mankind has credited
its origins to gods

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and other visitors
from the stars.

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What if it were true?

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Did extraterrestrial beings

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really help
to shape our history?

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And if so, might humanity's fate

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be determined
by Shiva the Destroyer?

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NARRATOR:
India.

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Covering over
1.2 million square miles,

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it is the world's
seventh-largest country.

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And with 1.3 billion people,

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it is the second most populated.

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Roughly 80% of the Indian
population practices Hinduism,

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the world's oldest
surviving religion

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that dates back
to at least 2000 BC.

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And for the Hindu faithful,
their gods are not mythological,

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but are real beings

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that have, at times,
been present here on Earth.

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YOUNG: These many gods and
goddesses have different stories

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and different energies

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and different principles
that they represent.

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For many of the Hindu faithful,
the gods are absolutely real.

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They exist physically,

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although they may not
always be visible.

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In general, compared
to Western belief systems,

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the tangible reality of the gods
is much stronger in India.

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I've grown up as a Hindu
in a strict Hindu family,

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so I know
all the Vedas and epics.

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You know, I've read them
hundreds of times.

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Hindus believe that the gods
came down from the sky.

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DEEPAK SHIMKHADA:
Hindus believe that

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these stories are
not simply myth.

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They are historical records,

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because they are
actually called itihasa--

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itihasa meaning "history."

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NARRATOR: Thousands of
depictions of the Hindu gods

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can be found throughout India,

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carved into temples,

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painted on ancient rock walls,

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and in the form of giant statues
that dominate the landscape.

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And even greater is the sheer
number of these sky gods

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that make up the Hindu pantheon.

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There are 333 million gods
in Hinduism.

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They are divided
into two realms:

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a higher realm

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and then the lower realm.

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And the devas are not
immortal beings.

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You obviously
have a lot of power,

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more power than
ordinary human beings.

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NARRATOR: While in
the Judeo-Christian tradition,

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God is depicted as
an all-powerful being,

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in the Vedic texts,

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Hindu gods often rely
on the use of technology.

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This has led ancient astronaut
theorists to pose the question:

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is it possible
that these religious texts

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describe not only
encounters with the divine,

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but also with
extraterrestrial beings?

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The Western mindset
is different from that of India,

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where they accept the idea
of extraterrestrial beings.

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The Hindu story
of the Mahabharata

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is loaded with references

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to what seems to be
extraterrestrial technology.

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You've got flying vehicles.

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You've got weapons
that are voice-activated.

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And you have destructions
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by what seems like
nuclear detonation.

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VON DANIKEN:
In the Mahabharata,

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there they write that one day

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gigantic cities
surrounded the Earth.

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They did not have a word for
"spaceship" at that time.

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They say "cities."

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And they make clear difference

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that these cities were in
the firmament, not in heaven.

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And small vehicles came down

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from these cities
of the firmament.

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The old Indians called
these vehicles vimanas.

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And out of the vimanas,
the teachers came out.

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No doubt we were visited
by extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
Is the Hindu tradition

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a story of
extraterrestrial visitation?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and suggest that
this was orchestrated

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by an otherworldly being
known in Hinduism as Lord Shiva.

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Shiva is a member of the Hindu
trinity of major gods:

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Shiva is also called Mahadeva.

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Mahadeva means "great god."

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So he is god of gods.

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He's the head of all gods,

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and he's also
the most powerful god.

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Shiva has a dual function.

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One of his functions
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The other one is creation.

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Without destruction,
there is no creation.

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NARRATOR:
Depictions of Shiva embody

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this idea of
destruction and creation.

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Shiva is most often shown
holding a drum called a damaru,

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which he used
to create the universe.

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Around his neck is a cobra
poised to strike.

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In one hand, Shiva holds
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weapon of destruction
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and in the center of his
forehead, he has a third eye.

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Shiva is the only god
that has a...

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depicted with third eye.

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If his third eye opens,

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a very powerful light, uh,
fire emits from his third eye,

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and anything that it sees,
it destroys totally.

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Usually, when you talk
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it's about enlightenment.

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And then there is
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this third eye that was able
to annihilate things.

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I don't think
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So the question is: What was it?

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And what was Shiva?

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Shiva appeared
at a very crucial time

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when, uh, two gods--

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Brahma is the creator,
and Vishnu, the preserver--

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were debating who is greater.

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All of a sudden, this blinding
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appeared that has
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And then this voice
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said that, "I am the greatest.

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I am the greatest god there is."

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TSOUKALOS: Shiva is
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by some type of a circular
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Now, what did our human ancestor
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Was he perhaps inside
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It is possible that Shiva
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that other cultures
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Enki, Odin, Zeus,

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Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl,
Kukulkan.

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NARRATOR:
The earliest Vedic texts

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were first written
roughly 4,000 years ago,

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but Hindus claim
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hundreds and perhaps even
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existing as part of
an oral tradition

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passed down from one generation
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And ancient astronaut
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that Shiva first arrived
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at a time before the existence
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and before the event known,
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as the Great Flood.

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Every culture around the world

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that has any type
of ancient writings

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or documents
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they always talk about
some kind of great flood...

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...that had a massive
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and utterly wiped out

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much of life on Earth
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What I find interesting
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is that Shiva is
the god of destruction.

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In the Hindu tradition,
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in order to have creation.

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Is there a connection there?

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(speaking Russian)

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TRANSLATOR: Tibetan lamas
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when the whole Earth flooded,

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and the waters
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man was created anew

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by means of the seed
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible

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that Shiva was
an extraterrestrial visitor

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that was responsible for both
the creation and destruction

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of an earlier race
of Earthlings?

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And if so, did he do this

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to clear the way
for modern humans?

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Ancient astronaut
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further clues can be found
by examining a mysterious temple

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in northern India
and what might lie beneath it.

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NARRATOR:
Aurangabad, India.

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200 miles northeast of Mumbai

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stands a monolithic
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known as the Ellora Caves.

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These 34 sites of worship,
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were carved out of a high cliff,

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and are believed to date back
to between 600 and 1000 AD.

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Cave 16,
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is a massive shrine
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At three stories high,
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as the Parthenon in Athens,

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and archaeologists believe it
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starting at the top
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Some historians estimate
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required the removal of
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but even more incredible is
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propose that this feat was
accomplished in just 18 years.

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If people worked every day
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for 12 hours straight
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then they would have
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five tons of rock every hour.

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This is ten thousand pounds
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In reality, such a feat
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with modern technology.

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If it happened in 18 years,

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it is very hard
to account for...

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Another baffling fact
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400,000 tons of rocks,

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they have to be
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But we do not find any evidence
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Uh, it hasn't been used
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or any other structure.

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Where did all that rock go?

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NARRATOR: Could humans
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really have constructed
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in only 18 years?

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And if so, how is it that all
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has simply disappeared?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

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a powerful device described
in the ancient Vedic texts.

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Interestingly, there is
a device called Bhaumastra

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mentioned in
the ancient Vedic texts.

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This high-tech machine
would be able to quickly drill

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into the rock
and basically vaporize them.

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This could basically
change the rock into air.

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This device was mentioned
multiple times

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in ancient Vedic texts,
which was used to mine

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for precious stones and metals.

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Could this be how
Kailasa Temple was built?

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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Bhaumastra machine

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described in the Vedic texts

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was really
a technological device

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that existed on Earth
thousands of years ago?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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but suggest it was used
not to build Kailasa Temple

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from the top down,
as mainstream scholars propose,

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but carved out the structure
from the bottom up.

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One of the more
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of the site of Ellora

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are the tunnels that seem
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Some of them turn at odd angles.

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Some go as deep as 40 feet.

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Now the reasons for this are,
for the most part, unknown.

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This is one of the tunnels

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leading underground
at the Kailasa Temple.

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You can see that
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have fenced this off.

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But if you look
through this hole,

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you can see that this tunnel
goes vertically down.

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Local authorities believe
that tunnels like these

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lead to a vast underground city
under Kailasa Temple.

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NARRATOR:
What could be the purpose

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for these tunnels
below Kailasa Temple?

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And why are they fenced off
from the public?

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In 1876,
renowned English spiritualist

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Emma Hardinge Britten
published Ghost Land,

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in which she writes
of hidden tunnels

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beneath the Ellora Caves

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and the meetings of
a secret cabal of mystics

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in an underground city.

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Britten tells of spiritually
contacting a mysterious figure

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named Cavalier Louie,

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who witnessed
the clandestine society.

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LITTLE: Cavalier Louie states
that he was taken

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into the site of Ellora,
where he was led through

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a secret passageway into
an underground chamber.

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The underground chamber opened
up into a huge amphitheater,

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and there were these wondrous
metallic thrones

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that were being charged with
powerful galvanic batteries

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that rose up into the air.

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And seated on these thrones

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were seven mysterious
hooded figures.

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But the most interesting one

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was the one in the center
who spoke,

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and yet was not always there.

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His body shimmered in and out
of physical space and time.

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NARRATOR: But why would
vast rooms and tunnels exist

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deep underground
beneath Kailasa Temple?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

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this could be further evidence
that Lord Shiva

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has a connection with
the Great Flood.

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CHILDRESS:
We have a great deluge

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that changed
the face of the Earth

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and forced people underground.

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So you have to wonder,

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is this some kind
of ancient city,

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many thousands of years old,

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that was once some kind
of extraterrestrial base?

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And as the water receded,

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they create this temple
from underground.

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Presently, archaeologists date
the Kailasa Temple

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from the fifth
to the tenth century AD.

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But there is nothing
in the temple

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that really gives it a date.

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And, in fact, like many things
in ancient India,

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and-and around the world,

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uh, these temples may be
much, much older

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than the mainstream
archeologists are saying.

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NARRATOR: Could it be that
hidden beneath Kailasa Temple

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is an underground alien city?

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And if so, would this prove
that the being Hindus call Shiva

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was really
an extraterrestrial visitor

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who gave technology
to an earlier race of humans

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and ultimately destroyed them?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining a sacred icon

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believed to hold
extraordinary power.

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NARRATOR
Sirsi, India.

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Ten miles outside of this city,

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in the southwestern state
of Karnataka,

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within the river Shalmala,

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is one of the country's
most popular pilgrimage sites,

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Sahasralinga.

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Hidden under these waters
for most of the year

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lie stone sculptures
known as Shiva Lingams.

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These sacred idols
are representations

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of the god Shiva,

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and are visible to thousands
of pilgrims once a year

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at the festival
of Maha Shivaratri.

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Maha Shivaratri is a festival

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where Shiva is worshipped
for his great nature.

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Maha Shivaratri is usually
held in the end of February

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or beginning of March.

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During that month,

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the water level of
the Shalmala River drops down

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so that all the Shiva Lingas
are exposed.

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LITTLE: Shiva's depicted
as the Shiva Linga,

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as kind of a spherical column,

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the flaming pillar that is
the cosmic axis of the universe.

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Every Shiva Linga that's in
worship is set into a yoni.

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This is a-a special base,

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and it actually serves
kind of a utility of function.

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It's a spout so that
when you pour offerings

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over the surface of the linga,
they wash over the sacred body.

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Images of the Shiva Linga are
found throughout Southeast Asia,

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even in parts of East Asia.

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Sometimes images of Shiva
as the lingam

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also made its way into China
and into Japan.

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NARRATOR: The Shiva Lingam first
appeared over 2,000 years ago,

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and there is still debate
over what this shape

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was originally
meant to symbolize.

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But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

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that the icon may represent

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an incredibly powerful
technological device.

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Paris, France.

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1900.

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At the Paris Congress of History
of Religions,

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Swami Vivekananda,
a scientist and monk

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credited with popularizing
Hinduism in the West,

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gives a lecture addressing
the meaning of the Shiva Lingam.

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HENRY: For centuries,
Western scholars have assumed

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that the Shiva Linga has purely
a sexual connotation.

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The cylinder is
the male phallic symbol

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and the yoni is
the complimentary female symbol.

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Then in 1900, the Hindu scholar
Swami Vivekananda

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came to Paris to deliver
a major lecture

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about Hinduism and symbolism.

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During this lecture,
he said that the Shiva Linga

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actually symbolizes
the coming in or going out

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of the divine manifesting energy
of Shiva.

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SHIMKHADA:
It stands for energy.

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And it has often been
misrepresented in the West

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that it is simply
a phallic symbol of Shiva,

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which is not the case.

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It is obviously a pillar.

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"Linga" means a pillar.

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Modern Hindu scholars
have theorized

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that the Shiva Linga stone

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actually represents
atomic energy.

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When we think about this idea
of what atomic energy can do,

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how it can be used for good
but it can be

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extraordinarily destructive,

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this certainly pertains
to the mythology of Shiva,

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who is chaotic energy, who is
a force for incredible good,

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but also a force
for incredible destruction.

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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
this symbol of Shiva's power

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actually represents
atomic energy?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and suggest the proof
can be found

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by examining
this mysterious shape.

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MOHAN: The cylindrical structure
of the Shiva Linga

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is similar or almost identical
to a modern-day nuclear reactor.

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And the groove
that surrounds the base

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represents the structures

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built to dispose
of the polluted water.

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In ancient times and even today,

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Hindus pour water
or milk on top of Shiva Linga

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as a ritual.

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Today we pour water over the top
of nuclear reactor to cool it.

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And interestingly,
most Shiva temples

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are always found
near water bodies,

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like rivers or lakes,
just like nuclear power plants.

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So is it possible
that Shiva Linga

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actually represents
an ancient nuclear power plant?

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HENRY: In the story of Shiva
and the Shiva Linga,

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we're obviously dealing
with some kind of a universal

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or cosmic power
that we didn't fully understand

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until the 20th century,

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with the discovery of nuclear
power and nuclear fission.

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These discoveries
that predate modern man

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are completely changing our
conception of the ancient past

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and connecting us
to the true history of humanity,

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all before the time
of the flood.

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NARRATOR:
Does the Shiva Lingam symbolize

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an extraterrestrial technology

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that existed on Earth
before the Great Flood?

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Could it be a message
left for us

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by our ancestors that
an advanced society of humans

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existed long ago
and suffered a terrible fate?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining
a 4,000-year-old text

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that describes
how to harness electricity.

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NARRATOR:
Ujjain, India.

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1924.

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Lost pages from
an ancient Sanskrit text

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called the Agastya Samhita

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are discovered
in the city's royal library.

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While the exact age of this text
is not known,

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some Hindu scholars believe
it could date back

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more than 4,000 years.

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In it are the collected works
of Sage Agastya,

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a disciple of Shiva and the
first in a line of Hindu saints

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known as siddhas.

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LITTLE:
"Siddha" means a perfected one,

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or an accomplished one.

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These are people who have powers

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like shrinking to a small size,
growing very large,

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flying through the air.

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Shiva is generally regarded
as being the ultimate siddha,

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the first and primordial siddha.

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NARRATOR:
According to Hindu texts,

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the ancient siddhas wielded
highly advanced technology.

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The siddhas
are masters of creation.

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The Siddha Bhogar
has been credited

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with many wondrous technologies

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that he is thought
to have created

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long before the advent
of modern industry.

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He is credited with building
a steamship,

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a telescope,

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a parachute,

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a locomotive,

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and also various devices
to fly through the sky.

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Sage Agastya is very important
for siddha tradition as well.

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He is said to have brought
the secret culture

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and secret science to India.

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WILCOCK:
When you read the legends

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about how Sage Agastya
got his knowledge,

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we hear that he was
directly trained

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by extraterrestrials himself.

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NARRATOR:
Dr. Varam R. Kokatnur,

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a chemist and avid researcher
of hieroglyphics,

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studied the lost pages
of the Agastya Samhita

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that were discovered in 1924.

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What he found fascinated him
to such an extent

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that, in 1927,
he read the translated pages

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before the American Chemical
Society in Detroit, Michigan.

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The chemists were astonished,

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and reached the same conclusion
as Dr. Kokatnur had:

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that this ancient manuscript
provides accurate instructions

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for how to make
a dry electric battery.

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WILCOCK:
The battery doesn't show up

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in our conventional technology
until the 19th century.

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What the heck is it doing
in the Agastya Samhita--

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the sacred text that was
Agastya's personal writings?

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If Agastya knew
how to build a battery,

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then how can we rule out all of
the other marvelous technology

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that is described
in the same document?

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NARRATOR:
On March 31, 2016,

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author and researcher
David Childress

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met with physics professor
Dr. Michael Dennin

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at the University of California,
Irvine,

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to put Sage Agastya's
centuries-old instructions

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for building a battery
to the test.

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So we need a well-cleaned
copper plate.

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DENNIN: Okay, so that's
the copper plate here.

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That's gonna make one end
of our battery.

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00:29:07,146 --> 00:29:08,147
All right.

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And we need
an earthenware vessel.

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We've actually chosen
to substitute that

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with a plastic petri dish.

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All that vessel is is an
insulator to hold our battery.

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These are transparent,
so we can look inside

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while we do our test.

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And then we need copper sulfate.

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00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:24,596
So I've got some copper sulfate
solution here.

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It's a liquid and it's blue.

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That tells you
about the copper inside.

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00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:30,069
Okay, and we need moist sawdust.

491
00:29:30,169 --> 00:29:31,938
We're gonna actually start with
dry sawdust,

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and when we add the copper
sulfate in our battery,

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it'll become our moist sawdust.

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00:29:35,741 --> 00:29:37,576
Okay, and then we need
a zinc plate.

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So finally
the silver-looking plates,

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those are our zinc plates.

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That makes the other end
of the battery.

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00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:45,584
All right, let's see
how this works, then.

499
00:29:45,684 --> 00:29:46,853
Okay, so we start
with the copper plate.

500
00:29:46,953 --> 00:29:49,721
As I said, you put that
at the bottom.

501
00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:51,590
And then we add the sawdust.

502
00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:53,759
Okay, and what does
the sawdust do?

503
00:29:53,860 --> 00:29:55,094
Well, one of the important
things in the battery

504
00:29:55,194 --> 00:29:57,930
is to make sure the two metals
don't touch each other.

505
00:29:58,030 --> 00:30:00,032
They have to stay separated
or the battery is shorted out.

506
00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:03,169
Now we're gonna add zinc on top.

507
00:30:03,269 --> 00:30:05,604
Now we're gonna add
the copper sulfate.

508
00:30:05,704 --> 00:30:06,873
CHILDRESS:
What does that do?

509
00:30:06,973 --> 00:30:08,274
DENNIN: So this is
our electrolyte solution.

510
00:30:08,374 --> 00:30:10,209
It's a key element
to the battery.

511
00:30:10,309 --> 00:30:13,512
It's gonna cause the chemical
reaction that'll take electrons

512
00:30:13,612 --> 00:30:17,083
from one of the metals and allow
them to flow to the other metal,

513
00:30:17,183 --> 00:30:21,487
and that'll give us
our current and our battery.

514
00:30:21,587 --> 00:30:23,455
Now we're gonna take our volt
meter and we're gonna check

515
00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:24,723
and see what sort of voltage

516
00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:26,492
we're getting out
of this battery.

517
00:30:28,260 --> 00:30:31,097
And as you can see, we've got
one volt on the volt meter.

518
00:30:31,197 --> 00:30:33,399
So our battery is actually
working and running.

519
00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:36,869
Wow, and this really validates
this ancient text.

520
00:30:36,969 --> 00:30:39,638
So what can you do
with one volt?

521
00:30:39,738 --> 00:30:41,840
DENNIN:
Well, with one volt

522
00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:44,076
and a typical single battery
like this,

523
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,678
the cool thing is
you have enough energy content

524
00:30:46,778 --> 00:30:49,715
that you could lift a person,
say a 200-pound person,

525
00:30:49,815 --> 00:30:52,985
about ten meters into the air,
if you had the right machinery

526
00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:54,586
to hook this battery up to.

527
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:56,555
CHILDRESS:
Wow.

528
00:30:58,790 --> 00:31:00,526
NARRATOR:
A battery with enough power

529
00:31:00,626 --> 00:31:02,394
to lift a person off the ground?

530
00:31:02,494 --> 00:31:06,365
Could the technology described
by Sage Agastya

531
00:31:06,465 --> 00:31:09,068
be connected
to the floating thrones

532
00:31:09,168 --> 00:31:11,537
that were allegedly witnessed
in the chamber

533
00:31:11,637 --> 00:31:13,940
beneath Kailasa Temple?

534
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,809
Is this further evidence
of an advanced society

535
00:31:17,910 --> 00:31:20,379
that arose
thousands of years ago,

536
00:31:20,479 --> 00:31:23,549
during a time
when extraterrestrials

537
00:31:23,649 --> 00:31:25,651
coexisted with mankind?

538
00:31:25,751 --> 00:31:29,956
But if so,
what happened to Shiva

539
00:31:30,056 --> 00:31:32,992
and the devices
he brought to Earth?

540
00:31:33,092 --> 00:31:36,195
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

541
00:31:36,295 --> 00:31:40,799
the answers may lie hidden high
on a Himalayan mountain peak

542
00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:43,535
that is forbidden to climbers.

543
00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:56,282
NARRATOR
The Tibetan Himalayas.

544
00:31:56,382 --> 00:32:00,452
In this harsh desolate region
of the world

545
00:32:00,552 --> 00:32:04,190
stands a mountain
sacred to billions of people,

546
00:32:04,290 --> 00:32:07,759
the distinctive peak
of Mount Kailash.

547
00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:11,897
YOUNG: Mount Kailash in Western
Tibet is a remarkable peak.

548
00:32:11,998 --> 00:32:15,767
It rises some 22,000 feet
pretty much straight up.

549
00:32:15,867 --> 00:32:18,304
It's seen somewhat conical
from one side,

550
00:32:18,404 --> 00:32:21,673
more like a pyramid
from another.

551
00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:25,477
It is the origins of four
of the world's great religions:

552
00:32:25,577 --> 00:32:29,581
Hinduism, Buddhism,
Jainism and Daoism.

553
00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:32,784
SHIMKHADA:
Mount Kailash is believed to be

554
00:32:32,884 --> 00:32:34,987
home of Shiva.

555
00:32:35,087 --> 00:32:38,924
He's supposed to reside
on top of Mount Kailash.

556
00:32:39,025 --> 00:32:42,028
Because of that, it is sacred.

557
00:32:45,264 --> 00:32:47,633
NARRATOR:
Dr. Ernst Muldashev,

558
00:32:47,733 --> 00:32:52,538
a prominent Russian eye surgeon,
has led 21 expeditions

559
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:56,475
examining some of the most
remote regions on the planet.

560
00:32:56,575 --> 00:33:01,913
In 1999, he spent a month
at Mount Kailash

561
00:33:02,014 --> 00:33:03,815
studying its structure.

562
00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:09,355
What he found led him to put
forth a controversial theory,

563
00:33:09,455 --> 00:33:13,325
one that suggests
Mount Kailash may be much more

564
00:33:13,425 --> 00:33:17,329
than just the mythological home
of Shiva.

565
00:33:17,429 --> 00:33:21,067
Dr. Ernst Muldashev
led an expedition

566
00:33:21,167 --> 00:33:23,569
of Russian scientists
to Mount Kailash.

567
00:33:23,669 --> 00:33:27,673
And he observed that its apex,
its peak, highly resembles

568
00:33:27,773 --> 00:33:31,110
a man-made pyramid
and began to develop the theory

569
00:33:31,210 --> 00:33:35,114
that, in fact, the apex
of Kailash is man-made

570
00:33:35,214 --> 00:33:37,616
or perhaps made
by extraterrestrials

571
00:33:37,716 --> 00:33:40,152
as the home of Shiva.

572
00:33:40,252 --> 00:33:43,222
(speaking Russian)

573
00:33:43,322 --> 00:33:46,325
TRANSLATOR:
This is a huge pyramid,

574
00:33:46,425 --> 00:33:49,528
the largest pyramid
in the world.

575
00:33:49,628 --> 00:33:53,432
It is, in fact, very similar
to a step pyramid.

576
00:33:59,305 --> 00:34:01,340
NARRATOR:
Could Mount Kailash really

577
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,710
contain an artificial structure
that is home to Shiva?

578
00:34:06,578 --> 00:34:09,581
According to all religions
that revere the mountain,

579
00:34:09,681 --> 00:34:12,884
setting foot on its slopes
is a dire sin,

580
00:34:12,984 --> 00:34:17,923
and it is claimed that many
who ventured to defy the taboo

581
00:34:18,023 --> 00:34:20,092
died in the process.

582
00:34:20,192 --> 00:34:24,096
This, along with the fact
that China prohibits

583
00:34:24,196 --> 00:34:25,964
climbing Mount Kailash,

584
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:29,301
has made examination
of the peak impossible.

585
00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:32,304
But curiously,
many who visit the mountain

586
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:36,242
have reported
strange happenings.

587
00:34:36,342 --> 00:34:39,178
Almost every pilgrim
who goes to Mount Kailash

588
00:34:39,278 --> 00:34:42,248
reports unusual experiences
along the way.

589
00:34:42,348 --> 00:34:46,418
A lot of people report rapid
aging if they stay in the area.

590
00:34:46,518 --> 00:34:50,756
Fingernails grow faster,
hair grows faster.

591
00:34:50,856 --> 00:34:53,091
(Muldashev speaking Russian)

592
00:34:53,192 --> 00:34:54,893
TRANSLATOR:
Pilgrims go to Kailash

593
00:34:54,993 --> 00:34:57,496
to absorb the energy
of the mountain.

594
00:34:57,596 --> 00:35:00,666
What I personally felt
near Mount Kailash?

595
00:35:04,136 --> 00:35:06,071
I felt some energy.

596
00:35:06,172 --> 00:35:08,274
I usually do not feel energy.

597
00:35:08,374 --> 00:35:12,378
I do not have psychic powers,
but I felt it.

598
00:35:17,249 --> 00:35:19,218
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that there really is

599
00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:23,955
some sort of energy
emanating from Mount Kailash?

600
00:35:24,055 --> 00:35:26,925
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

601
00:35:27,025 --> 00:35:30,896
and suggest that, considering
the strange anomalies

602
00:35:30,996 --> 00:35:34,600
and the legends that warn
against ascending the peak,

603
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:38,204
Mount Kailash
may be radioactive.

604
00:35:39,605 --> 00:35:42,808
As further evidence,
they point to a drawing

605
00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:45,811
that was discovered in the
Mogao Caves of Western China,

606
00:35:45,911 --> 00:35:51,082
approximately 600 miles north
of Mount Kailash.

607
00:35:51,183 --> 00:35:54,386
Between 500 BC and 1500 AD,

608
00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:59,225
Buddhists stashed away
over 50,000 manuscripts

609
00:35:59,325 --> 00:36:01,493
in the Mogao Cave system.

610
00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:04,263
These went undiscovered
until Aurel Stein,

611
00:36:04,363 --> 00:36:08,734
a Hungarian-born British
researcher, came there in 1907

612
00:36:08,834 --> 00:36:11,002
and rediscovered the cave.

613
00:36:11,102 --> 00:36:15,374
Hidden among these manuscripts
was an incredible diagram.

614
00:36:15,474 --> 00:36:17,776
It's from
a second-century manuscript,

615
00:36:17,876 --> 00:36:20,779
and it's of Mount Meru,
the cosmic access,

616
00:36:20,879 --> 00:36:25,083
or stairway to heaven, of the
Buddhist and Hindu tradition.

617
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:27,686
Mount Meru is readily identified

618
00:36:27,786 --> 00:36:31,156
as a representation
of Mount Kailash.

619
00:36:31,257 --> 00:36:33,359
The thing about this diagram

620
00:36:33,459 --> 00:36:36,562
is that it appears to be
highly technological.

621
00:36:38,297 --> 00:36:39,898
NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists

622
00:36:39,998 --> 00:36:44,169
suggest that this diagram
appears incredibly similar

623
00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:46,805
to a modern-day
particle accelerator,

624
00:36:46,905 --> 00:36:51,209
the type used to power
a nuclear reactor.

625
00:36:52,578 --> 00:36:55,481
And some propose that
just before the time

626
00:36:55,581 --> 00:36:58,550
of the Great Flood,
the remote mountain peak

627
00:36:58,650 --> 00:37:02,954
provided the perfect location
for extraterrestrials to dispose

628
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:04,590
of their nuclear technology,

629
00:37:04,690 --> 00:37:08,059
much like Yucca Mountain
in Nevada is used

630
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:11,463
to store nuclear waste today.

631
00:37:11,563 --> 00:37:15,301
Is it possible that
Mount Kailash in Tibet

632
00:37:15,401 --> 00:37:19,104
is some kind of
hollowed-out mountain,

633
00:37:19,204 --> 00:37:21,940
hollowed out
thousands of years ago,

634
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,809
perhaps by extraterrestrials,

635
00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:27,813
and could be completely poisoned
by radiation?

636
00:37:30,882 --> 00:37:33,051
NARRATOR:
Could Mount Kailash contain

637
00:37:33,151 --> 00:37:34,653
the ultimate physical evidence

638
00:37:34,753 --> 00:37:38,757
of an earlier advanced
civilization here on Earth?

639
00:37:38,857 --> 00:37:42,127
One that had
nuclear capabilities,

640
00:37:42,227 --> 00:37:44,796
which were given to them
by extraterrestrials

641
00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:48,166
represented in the form
of the Hindu gods?

642
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,502
Ancient astronaut theorists

643
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:53,539
suggest that the truth
about our past

644
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:58,076
may be uncovered by taking
a closer examination of Shiva

645
00:37:58,176 --> 00:38:01,012
and what he truly represents.

646
00:38:09,054 --> 00:38:13,058
NARRATOR:
August 5, 1927.

647
00:38:13,158 --> 00:38:15,694
Russian philosopher

648
00:38:15,794 --> 00:38:18,830
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Nicholas Roerich

649
00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:22,100
is exploring the
Himalayan Mountains when he sees

650
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,103
a giant oval
moving at a high speed

651
00:38:25,203 --> 00:38:28,674
and glowing like the sun.

652
00:38:28,774 --> 00:38:31,977
Changing directions
from south to southwest,

653
00:38:32,077 --> 00:38:34,880
it disappears into the sky.

654
00:38:37,349 --> 00:38:42,020
Many of these UFO sightings are
reported by Hindu pilgrims...

655
00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:47,993
...who move towards
Mount Kailash.

656
00:38:48,093 --> 00:38:52,564
They've also reported
UFOs around Mount Kailash

657
00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:57,168
sometimes appearing to go
directly into the mountain.

658
00:38:57,268 --> 00:39:02,474
And some people even claim there
is an underground UFO base,

659
00:39:02,574 --> 00:39:06,712
as there have been reports
of UFOs coming from the sky

660
00:39:06,812 --> 00:39:09,948
and disappearing
at ground level.

661
00:39:12,484 --> 00:39:16,455
NARRATOR: If Mount Kailash
was once radioactive,

662
00:39:16,555 --> 00:39:19,525
as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

663
00:39:19,625 --> 00:39:23,462
could the presence of UFOs
in the area be a sign

664
00:39:23,562 --> 00:39:26,932
that it is once again
safe to access?

665
00:39:27,032 --> 00:39:30,636
Or could it still contain
working technology

666
00:39:30,736 --> 00:39:34,873
that extraterrestrials continue
to utilize to this day?

667
00:39:34,973 --> 00:39:39,310
Some ancient astronaut theorists
propose the answer may be found

668
00:39:39,411 --> 00:39:42,313
by taking another look at Shiva,

669
00:39:42,414 --> 00:39:46,885
and the possibility that he is
not just the bringer of energy,

670
00:39:46,985 --> 00:39:49,421
but is energy itself.

671
00:39:51,156 --> 00:39:54,426
When J. Robert Oppenheimer,
the father of the atomic bomb,

672
00:39:54,526 --> 00:39:56,595
observed the first
atomic explosion

673
00:39:56,695 --> 00:39:57,929
at the Trinity test site,

674
00:39:58,029 --> 00:40:01,399
he cited a line
from the Bhagavad Gita.

675
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,603
"I have become death,
destroyer of worlds."

676
00:40:04,703 --> 00:40:08,774
That's the title of Shiva.

677
00:40:08,874 --> 00:40:12,043
Perhaps we should listen
and look at these stories

678
00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:13,579
from a new perspective.

679
00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:16,715
What is the description about?

680
00:40:16,815 --> 00:40:21,419
Could it be that Shiva
was some type of energy?

681
00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:26,558
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Shiva

682
00:40:26,658 --> 00:40:30,361
is a representation of some
incredible cataclysmic event

683
00:40:30,462 --> 00:40:33,865
that happened thousands
of years ago?

684
00:40:33,965 --> 00:40:38,970
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, but also insist

685
00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:42,508
that another demonstration
of Shiva's destructive powers

686
00:40:42,608 --> 00:40:45,644
is not only possible
but inevitable.

687
00:40:47,412 --> 00:40:49,815
We are approaching

688
00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:52,784
the beginning of a new future
for mankind.

689
00:40:52,884 --> 00:40:55,353
So, in a sense,
it's the end of an era

690
00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:57,956
and the turning of a new page.

691
00:40:58,056 --> 00:41:01,059
Even though Shiva's function
is to destroy,

692
00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:02,528
and he's given that title,

693
00:41:02,628 --> 00:41:05,564
god of destruction,
at the same time

694
00:41:05,664 --> 00:41:07,699
he makes it possible to create.

695
00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:10,736
So, destruction
is part of creation.

696
00:41:10,836 --> 00:41:13,071
TSOUKALOS: The extraterrestrials
will come back,

697
00:41:13,171 --> 00:41:17,809
and it will be the most amazing
chapter in human history.

698
00:41:22,113 --> 00:41:24,716
NARRATOR:
Is Shiva really nothing more

699
00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:27,653
than a mythical Hindu god?

700
00:41:27,753 --> 00:41:30,722
One that offered early humans
a way of describing

701
00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:33,659
some incredible
catastrophic event?

702
00:41:33,759 --> 00:41:37,428
Or is he something more?

703
00:41:37,529 --> 00:41:41,633
Something of
extraterrestrial origin?

704
00:41:41,733 --> 00:41:43,969
Perhaps the answer lies
not in the images

705
00:41:44,069 --> 00:41:46,972
carved upon the walls
of a temple

706
00:41:47,072 --> 00:41:50,676
or in the words found
written in sacred texts,

707
00:41:50,776 --> 00:41:54,613
but in the awesome power
of energy

708
00:41:54,713 --> 00:41:58,449
and mankind's increasing ability
to harness it,

709
00:41:58,550 --> 00:42:02,688
as we make our journey
back to the stars.

710
00:42:02,788 --> 00:42:05,657
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