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ERICH VON DANIKEN: The symbol of the egg

is a worldwide symbol.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It is more widespread than the cross.

It was something that contained great power,

that could conceivably be released.

WILLIAM HENRY: It seems to point to our source of origin.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to wonder now,

if we're coming to much the same conclusion

as was already reached

thousands of years ago.

Where are they getting this information?

Is it coming from extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited its origins

to gods and other visitors from the stars.

What if it were true? Did extraterrestrial beings

really help to shape our history?

And if so, might the truth be found

once we decode the Cosmic Egg?

NARRATOR: An ancient painting on a cave wall in Africa.

Ceremonial clay objects discovered in Sweden.

A mysterious sculpture found in China.

Throughout the ancient world,

there is a symbol that is more pervasive than any other:

the symbol of the egg.

YOUNG: The egg is one of the most universal sacred images.

It is more widespread than the cross,

or the star, or the wheel.

It appeals to people in all corners of the Earth,

and all times, and traditions.

VON DANIKEN: We found stone eggs all over the world.

For example, stone eggs were found in Egypt.

And even on Easter Island, a stone egg was found.

So the symbol of egg is a worldwide symbol.

RIC RADER: What's amazing is that the egg,

what we call the egg cosmogony,

is a feature of several cosmogonies.

We have it in the Nordic tradition.

We have it in the Mediterranean tradition,

not only Greco-Roman,

but Egyptian and also the Phoenician mythologies.

We also have it in some Middle Eastern,

and even Vedic mythologies.

So these are radically different cultures.

Is it possible that there's a common origin

for South American,

Native American, Norse, and Vedic mythology?

We have no evidence.

So it would be hard to say where they come from,

and why they all use this image.

NARRATOR: Why is it that so many ancient cultures,

separated by thousands of miles,

all use the symbol of the egg?

For one thing, obviously, it is associated with birth.

Well, birth is a great mystery, so it's the worship of life.

It is also taken as a symbol of rebirth.

We use it at the Easter time, in the spring.

RADER: The cultures that birthed these stories

recognized something in the story of birth,

of creation, of fertility, of reproduction,

that was meaningful for their stories.

NARRATOR: While the most obvious interpretation of the egg is

that it symbolizes fertility and the natural creation of life,

some researchers question

why there are so many depictions of eggs

found throughout the ancient world

that depict humans emerging from them.

CHILDRESS: We have these many stories from around the world

of how life starts in the form of an egg,

including human life, too,

starting with a sperm and an egg.

But how would ancient people realize that

humans also have these eggs?

NARRATOR: Could ancient people have somehow

had the knowledge that humans emerge from eggs?

Or might this symbol have held a less literal,

and more profound, meaning for them...

one that reveals an extraterrestrial connection?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the stories connected to the egg

provide undeniable evidence

that this was not simply a representation of fertility.

Nearly as widespread as the symbol of the egg

is a concept commonly known as "The Cosmic Egg."

While the name varies from culture to culture,

the story is always nearly identical:

that the entire Universe originated from an Egg.

They're called cosmic eggs,

they're called silver eggs, they're called magic eggs,

they're called enchanted eggs,

they're-they're called the-the eggs of the gods.

I mean, all around the world, there are these creation stories

of the egg breaking open and the water of life coming out.

In Chinese mythology, there is, uh, this notion

that the-the universe emerges out of a primordial chaos.

And this primordial chaos,

in many accounts, is self-contained.

It's like a cosmic egg.

And from this primordial chaos,

which contains everything, the universe is generated.

And first, it divides into two principles: Yin and Yang,

and then three, and then 10,000,

basically, ad infinitum.

Hindus have thought about the expansion of the universe

in the shape of an egg.

"Brahmanda" is a Sanskrit term composed of two words:

"Brahma" and "Anda."

And "Brahma" means "creator god,"

"Anda" means "egg."

So it is actually "cosmic egg."

Many different ancient cultures describe a creation myth

in which the universe actually hatches out of an egg.

It is incredible to look at the sheer diversity

of different teachings, that all point back to the idea

that the universe originated

from some sort of primordial centrality.

NARRATOR: The story found, in numerous cultures,

of the cosmic egg,

representing a central point

from which the universe exploded,

has led some to ask if this might actually be

a description of what scientists today call "The Big Bang."

TSOUKALOS: In 1931, Belgian astronomer George Lemaitre

proposed that the entire universe

originated in one single point.

He called it the "primeval atom."

This primeval atom,

he also referred to it as a cosmic egg,

that was at the beginning of all of creation.

The question is: how did our ancestors know about this?

Was it just a hunch or was it that they were told?

If somebody told them that means we're not alone in the universe.

End of story.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder now,

if we're coming to much the same conclusion

as was already reached thousands of years ago,

in the Sanskrit texts.

Where are they getting this information?

Is it coming from extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: Might the symbol of the Cosmic Egg,

and the creation stories that go along with it,

reveal that our ancestors had scientific knowledge

of how the Earth and, in fact,

our entire universe, was created?

And if so, is it possible

that this was taught to them by extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that,

while this is one possibility,

there may be a more tangible explanation

for the concept of the Cosmic Egg--

one that is connected directly to the arrival

of extraterrestrial visitors.

NARRATOR: Mali, West Africa.

Here, hidden within the Cliff of Bandiagara,

lie hundreds of villages occupied by the Dogon people.

Believed to be the descendants of the Egyptians,

archaeologists say the ancient nomadic tribe

settled in this region around 1000 AD.

Like many other ancient cultures,

the creation story of the Dogon involves a Cosmic Egg.

YOUNG: In West Africa, the Dogon creation myth

is that the earliest divinity, Amma,

the god of all things, took the form of an egg,

and this is what unfolded to become creation.

When the egg opened, it became a whirlwind

and scattered its contents in all directions.

This ultimately formed all of the galaxies and planets.

NARRATOR: The Dogon say that their gods, called the Nommo,

came down to Earth in Cosmic Eggs...

...and when descending from the sky,

they made the ground tremble.

TSOUKALOS: They said specifically--

these eggs, they came from out there.

They came from the vastness of the dark,

the vastness of the cold.

Well, what a more poetic way to describe space?

HENRY: The Dogon said that they

originated from the star Sirius B.

What's interesting about that

is that we didn't even discover Sirius B

until 40 years after

the Dogon published originally, this story,

which is, of course, much more ancient.

It suggests that the Cosmic Egg is a symbol for the craft

of these extraterrestrials, who the Dogon said

came to Earth from Sirius and influenced their civilization.

NARRATOR: Could the Dogon have been given knowledge of Sirius B

by extraterrestrials that came to Earth in egg-shaped crafts?

Might the Cosmic Egg not only represent knowledge

of how the universe was formed,

but the actual vehicles primitive people witnessed

descending from the sky?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest there is evidence that similar craft

have even been witnessed in modern times.

April 24, 1964.

6:00 p.m.

Socorro, New Mexico.

While chasing a speeding car,

police sergeant Lonnie Zamora hears a loud roar,

and sees a flame in the sky, to the southwest.

Thinking a local dynamite shack might have exploded,

Zamora breaks off the chase to investigate.

NICK REDFERN: He headed off to where

he thought the explosion had come from.

As he got to the site,

he saw an egg-shaped object,

standing on a tripod leg formation

with two small creatures outside of it, in white overalls.

NARRATOR: According to his account,

as Zamora began to approach on foot,

the creatures quickly jumped inside the egg-shaped vehicle,

and it lifted off into the sky, in a column of fire.

Of course, by the time backup arrived, the object had gone.

But fortunately, the landing marks,

where the craft had come down were still visible,

clearly demonstrating

that something had touched to the ground

and had left the ground again and took to the skies.

NARRATOR: Within days,

a team of investigators from the FBI,

the Air Force and the nearby White Sands Missile Range

examined the site.

As soon as the media picked up the story,

more witnesses came forward with similar descriptions.

It made headlines around the world, because J. Allen Hynek,

who was then head of The Center for UFO Studies,

and who had been working for the Air Force

on the study of UFO investigations...

he got in touch with Lonnie Zamora,

and arranged to come to the ground.

REDFERN: Dr. J. Allen Hynek was very much a skeptic of

the UFO phenomenon and arguably, in some cases,

even a debunker of the phenomenon.

To a great degree, that changed when he looked into

the Zamora case and, ironically, he ultimately swung around

and became a full-on believer in the UFO phenomenon.

NARRATOR: The incident immediately became

a part of Project Blue Book,

a special Air Force operation that began in 1952,

to catalogue and investigate the sightings

of unidentified flying objects.

Although publicly, Project Blue Book downplayed

the entire UFO phenomenon,

and certainly the Zamora case in particular,

behind the scenes,

something very, very different was going on.

Major Hector Quintanilla,

the boss of Project Blue Book at the time,

prepared a secret memo for the attention of the CIA,

and essentially, the memo said there was no doubt

that Zamora had seen something unusual;

something from somewhere else had touched down on our planet.

WILCOCK: We have a shiny metallic object

in the shape of an egg.

There are multiple eyewitnesses

that actually say they saw this and there are

hundreds of witnesses who heard this roaring sound.

We have landing traces.

There's so much evidence, it's unbelievable.

NARRATOR: Statistics compiled between 1925 and 2014

by the National UFO Reporting Center

show that have been 4,455 sightings of egg-shaped craft

in less than a century, in the United States alone.

HENRY: These statistics only cover

the sightings of egg-shaped craft

in a very short period of time in the United States.

If we extrapolate that and look at it as a global phenomenon,

then there must be thousands

of such sightings during this same period of time.

This tells us that these ancient stories of egg-shaped craft

descending from the skies are not only true,

but that this has been going on for a very, very long time.

NARRATOR: Could Sergeant Zamora have had a similar encounter

to what the Dogon say their ancestors witnessed,

thousands of years ago?

And if so, might this mean that the symbol of the Cosmic Egg

was used to represent not just the beginning of the universe,

but also the craft used by the beings

that gave our ancestors this knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest there is

even more to the meaning of this universal symbol,

and that additional clues can be found by examining a stone egg

that bears another mysterious symbol.

NARRATOR: Coming up... NARRATOR: Silves, Portugal.

1984.

Farmers digging a well for agriculture,

on land overlooking the ancient harbor,

come across a mysterious object 15 feet beneath the Earth--

a six-foot-long limestone egg with a mysterious design,

protruding from its surface in three places.

The egg has been dated to at least 3,500 BC,

and scientists conclude it could be even older.

Today, the Algarve Egg is on display in the Lagos Museum,

19 miles from where it was discovered.

Author Peter Daughtrey has studied the egg meticulously,

in an attempt to discover the story

behind this mysterious stone artifact.

How does this museum classify this stone?

They classify it as a menhir, a standing stone,

which there are many all the way up the west coast of Portugal;

France, Brittany and into the Gaelic countries,

Ireland, Wales, Scotland.

Most of them are just big lumps of stone

that have been dug up and-and erected

with a little bit of shaping.

As you can see, this is a lot more than just

a simple stone that's been dug up.

It's-it's really a piece of sculpture,

or was a piece of sculpture.

TSOUKALOS: Which is very interesting

to see these different eggs

or these navels or omphalos, from all around the world--

Symbols of creation.

Mm-hmm. Exactly.

Everybody, every race has one.

There is... there's an interesting,

old legend, a Slavic legend,

from areas like Bosnia and Yugoslavia,

which says that they originally came from a,

a land in the western ocean, which sank.

TSOUKALOS: Interesting.

DAUGHTREY: And the center of their religion on the island

was a large white egg; stone egg.

This was white.

You can see it's been buried,

it's got the earth discoloring it,

but it's sand-- white sandstone.

We're talking of something that's-that's incredibly old.

And this thing, up the middle here,

all the, uh, resemble the rod,

which throughout history,

has been a symbol of power and of creation.

Moses had a rod.

And in Mesopotamia, the rod was regarded

as the symbol of the power of the gods.

TSOUKALOS: If you look at this,

this could be referred to as the origin of that staff

that is used in medicine with the snake around it.

NARRATOR: In Greek mythology, Asclepius, the god of medicine,

is always depicted with a serpent-entwined rod.

And the Greek caduceus,

a staff carried by the messenger god Hermes,

consists of two serpents intertwined,

closely resembling the design on the Algarve Egg.

While the snake and egg are both considered fertility symbols,

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the combination of the two may hold another meaning.

They believe it may represent extraterrestrial technology...

...and as evidence, point to the Druid's Egg,

or "snake stone."

Druid eggs are oval or roundish stones,

often made of a calcinatious material, like this.

According to Pliny the Elder,

these druid eggs were used to cure illness,

and if you looked through the hole in these stones,

you would be able to see supernatural creatures.

Are we really just talking about

a magical stone with magical properties?

Or were these magical properties actually rooted in reality?

What if this Druid stone was not necessarily

just a ritual object,

but that originally it was an extraterrestrial type of device?

NARRATOR: Might the Druid's Egg

have actually held otherworldly powers?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

further clues can be found

by examining another egg-shaped object

that was said to connect humans directly to the gods.

NARRATOR: Delphi, Greece.

Standing in the center of this archaeological complex

is a stone artifact known as an omphalos.

The omphalos is carved with a pattern

not unlike that found on the Algarve Egg,

only these lines criss-cross the entire stone.

It is thought to be an ancient reproduction

of the original omphalos that,

according to the Greeks, marked the "navel of the Earth."

This here is a small-scale replica

of the omphalos of the oracle in Delphi.

It has these bizarre strands on them, intertwining,

and, in fact, the plaque at the place

where this thing is located--

it actually says that this object fell from the sky,

and afterwards, because of Zeus, life began on Earth.

NARRATOR: According to Greek mythology,

the celestial stone enabled

direct communication with the gods.

The Delphic tradition was something like channeling.

An oracle, a human being, a high priest,

but still, a person,

could receive the wisdom directly from a god.

And at the center of this strange tradition

was the omphalos egg.

CHILDRESS: So you have to ask, what was going on here?

Why was the cosmic egg so important

to these priestesses?

And were they able to somehow use it

as some technological device

to stimulate their, their brains to,

to make these predictions?

NARRATOR: Could the omphalos, like the Druid's Egg,

have been a technological device that connected humans

with otherworldly beings?

And might these ancient stories associated with the Cosmic Egg

still hold a message today--

that within us lies a connection

to greater powers in the universe?

Perhaps further clues can be found by taking another look

at the symbol on the Algarve Egg,

and how it might be connected

to a biological structure that lies within the human body.

NARRATOR: Coming up... NARRATOR: Almaty, Kazakhstan.

May, 2013.

Writing in the journal Icarus,

scientists Vladimir Shcherbak and Maxim Makukov

make a shocking proposal:

that there is an intelligent code

that can be found in our own DNA.

CHILDRESS: They concluded that there was a certain amount

of mathematical precision and...

and what's known as digital checking built into our DNA,

like computer codes have--

checking codes to make sure that all the other codes are right.

NARRATOR: We now know that DNA's genetic code

is an elegant language composed of billions of characters,

perfectly ordered, much like computer machine language.

But it is so complex, and so precise,

that geneticists still don't know where DNA came from.

The two scientists claim their research supports

a controversial theory about the origin of DNA

that was first suggested by Francis Crick,

one of the two men responsible

for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.

HENRY: In the article, they went on to propose that

our DNA didn't come from Earth.

Their theory is cited as evidence of Panspermia,

or the idea that we were, in fact, seeded from the stars.

NARRATOR: The basic premise of Directed Panspermia

is that the building blocks of life were sent to Earth

by an advanced civilization in the distant past.

And ancient astronaut theorists suggest

this may be part of the message contained

within the stories of the Cosmic Egg.

All around the world, there are stories of glowing eggs

descending from the sky, and out of which life began.

And that can be translated into one single word: seeding.

The seeding of a planet.

When we look at the Algarve egg,

these intertwined snakes

can also be interpreted as DNA strands.

CHILDRESS: Here's something that's supposedly

5,000 years old, and it has a double helix on it.

It seems to be symbolizing, somehow, this cosmic egg,

this cosmic creation that, that is...

where all life and, and humanity all started.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the design found

on the Algarve Egg represents the structure of DNA?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that this genetic symbol can be found

throughout the ancient world.

VON DANIKEN: The DNA spiral is shown

on different antique rocks and stelaes.

Just, for example, look at the Sumerian cylinder seals.

There you see DNA spirals between the gods,

the same as some Sumerian stelaes.

There you see so-called flying geniuses or winged geniuses.

Between these winged geniuses

is something which archeology calls the tree of life.

But if you look at the tree of life

it's in reality a DNA spiral.

The two winged geniuses are working.

They are changing out information of the DNA,

and replace it...

by another information.

The situation is absolutely clear,

you just have to look at it with today's eyes.

CHILDRESS: It would seem that this serpent and egg energy

have to do with our sperm and eggs,

and the DNA helix which is intertwined serpents.

So how would ancient people know about this?

Did it come from extraterrestrials?

HENRY: The Cosmic Egg, the entwined serpents, DNA,

are all ultimately representative

of the symbols of humanity itself,

and the creation of humanity by extraterrestrial beings.

One place where we can see this in action

is with the Archangel Gabriel,

who wields a caduceus wand at the Annunciation scenes

in which Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary

and announces that she will bear the Christ Child.

This is suggestive of genetic manipulation

with the caduceus being the symbol of a group of god beings,

angelic beings who had a hand in manipulating human affairs.

JASON MARTELL: Is it possible that this Algarve Egg

was connected to the idea

of a genetic modification of humanity or somehow depicting

the idea of knowledge that DNA could be somehow harnessed?

NARRATOR: Could the mysterious symbol found on the Algarve Egg

have been left as a clue that we are the product

of genetic manipulation by extraterrestrials?

Might this explain why there are

historical depictions of humans hatching from eggs?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

but propose that the story

of the Cosmic Egg has yet another chapter,

one that can only be understood by examining

a biological structure that may play the most important role

in what it means to be human.

Coming up...

NARRATOR: Throughout the world, there are ancient traditions

that identify the center of the head

as being synonymous with the center of the Earth...

the center of the universe...

and the very center of creation itself.

This center is often depicted as egg-shaped,

and is identified in some cultures as the third eye.

There are multiple cultures

that point us in this same direction.

The Hindus have it as the third eye, or the bindi.

The Buddhists have the third eye on Buddha's forehead.

We see symbology in Mesoamerica which seems to symbolize

the ability to contact and communicate

with the higher spiritual realms,

using this secret symbol that is consistent

throughout all the major world religions.

When you talk about the third eye, it's about enlightenment.

It's about this connection to the great unknown

or the force of the universe.

We think that we are separated from the world,

when in reality, we are all connected

to every single object in the universe...

and that inherently means that we are directly connected to

every extraterrestrial being throughout the entire universe.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Cosmic Egg isn't only

a symbol for the universe, or how the universe was formed,

but represents a connection that exists within

each and every human to the cosmos?

And possibly to extraterrestrial beings

that came to Earth in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists point out that,

while the third eye has historically

been considered a metaphor, there is an egg-shaped structure

within the brain that is critical in defining

what it means to be human: the thalamus.

Shaped like two identical eggs,

the thalamus lies at the center of the brain

and is the hub responsible for relaying information

from most of the sensory receptors.

Scientists studying the effects of thalamic stimulation

on comatose patients have recently suggested

the thalamus might be the most important factor

in human consciousness.

HEATHER BERLIN: The thalamus is like

a relay station in the brain,

so you have all the primary sensory information coming in,

like information coming in your eyes

through your retina and through your ears

and all these sensations.

The first place they go, after the primary sense organs,

is they get funneled to the thalamus.

And then the thalamus sorts out this information

and relays it to the various parts in the cortex

that process that primary sensory information.

If the thalamus is damaged,

usually it will knock out consciousness.

It's a very critical point where all the information comes to,

and then it's distributed in the cortex.

HENRY: The thalamus is called the Lamp, the Open Eye,

even the Third Eye.

And when you look at this, you wonder:

was it in fact a gift

from extraterrestrial beings that awakened us?

That enabled us to become connected to the diviner,

extraterrestrial realm?

Perhaps the extraterrestrials that had a hand

in fashioning the human body and in tweaking the human brain,

placed the thalamus there, in its egg shape,

as a connecting link to the greater civilization,

out of which we originally emerged.

NARRATOR: Could the thalamus be the physical representation

of what ancient cultures referred to as the third eye?

And if so, might this brain structure act

as a connection to greater forces in the universe?

As incredible as this notion may seem,

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the thalamus

can also be found represented

in one of the most prominent symbols of ancient Egypt--

the Eye of Horus.

CHILDRESS: The Eye of Horus, also known as the Eye of Ra,

was a symbol of protection, royal power and good health.

But it was also known as the Eye of Providence,

the all-seeing eye of God.

Now what is incredible is if you look at the thalamus,

and all of the structures surrounding that,

it looks like the Eye of Horus.

The similarity is really pretty astonishing.

NARRATOR: According to scientists and historians,

the Ancient Egyptians were likely aware of

the shape of these brain structures.

Well, we have to remember that the ancient people

were pretty conversant with

cutting animals open of all kinds.

And humans were cleaved open, broken open.

There would've been any number of ways

for early humans to start looking at brain structure.

It's clear that thinking comes from the brain,

but what was the part of the thalamus for this?

How would the ancient Egyptians have known about

how all of these parts of the brain function together?

Is it possible that they got this knowledge

from extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: Could the Eye of Horus

help solve the puzzle of the Cosmic Egg?

And might the symbol of the Cosmic Egg,

with intertwined serpents,

represent both the thalamus and DNA,

the two biological traits

that are most important in defining

what it means to be human?

Scientists estimate that 98.8% of our DNA goes unused.

And so, it would seem that our creators,

possibly extraterrestrials,

have designed a tool to help us ultimately unlock

all the potential that we have already in our DNA and bodies,

and become greater than we are today.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the simple design

of the Cosmic Egg is a message handed down

from extraterrestrials to humanity,

telling us not only where we come from,

but where we are going?

Or does it symbolize our connection to the cosmos?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

there may be an even more profound explanation.

NARRATOR: In the tradition of the Kabbalah,

the ancient Jewish mystical philosophy that

arose in the sixth century BC,

an egg-shaped bubble of iridescence

surrounds every human body.

Indian texts dating back 5,000 years

refer to this life energy as "pram."

And Chinese writings from roughly the same period

contain a similar concept known as "chi."

Today, there are some scientists who propose

that there is, in fact, such an energy that surrounds us

and connects us to all things in the universe,

a notion that is represented in a theory

called the Holographic Universe.

This scientific discovery, which is mathematically proven,

tells us that we have an illusion of a physical universe,

when, in fact, it is all emanating

from a geometric seed or an egg; a singularity.

All of space and all of time,

and all of the universe itself is simultaneously

in a singular point, or a seed, like an egg,

and is telling us that, in fact, there is a geometry,

that it's possible that these egg-shaped energy fields exist,

and they are, in fact, the true essence

of what it means to be alive in this universe.

NARRATOR: Curiously, in 2006,

Italian scientists, using data gathered

by NASA'S Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

announced that the universe might actually

be in the shape of an egg.

Seven years later, in 2013,

NASA scientists announced

that while it looks circular to the naked eye,

the Earth, too, is in the shape of an egg.

Is it possible that the ancient symbol of the Cosmic Egg

represents this notion

that all things in the universe are connected?

WILCOCK: When we ask, does the Cosmic Egg

represent the Big Bang?

Does it represent the human thalamus?

Many of these ancient cultures

were very consistent in the use of symbolism

as a multidimensional function,

and all these different aspects of the universe

are ultimately emanations of

this one central identity, or the Cosmic Egg itself.

In looking at the shape

of the Cosmic Egg across all various dimensions,

whether it be at a macro level-- the shape of the universe;

the micro level-- the shape of the thalamus;

they all seem to be interconnected,

explaining that this shape seems to connect us

with a higher state of existence,

possibly even with higher states of beings:

what we might call extraterrestrials.

HENRY: Like the Christian Cross,

like the Star of David,

like the Hindu Mandala...

the Cosmic Egg is a symbol that connects.

But it goes beyond just connecting.

It seems to point to our source of origin.

And ultimately, as we embrace the symbol of the Cosmic Egg,

it causes us to recognize the unity of all of creation

and this fundamental, very simple idea

that we all came from the same original point, seed,

or Cosmic Egg, that broke up, dispersed

and will one day reunify.

NARRATOR: Might the Cosmic Egg be an important clue

for what connects us to other entities in the universe--

entities that may even be our creators?

If so, is it their intention that as we discover more

about not just the mysteries of the universe,

but the mysteries within each and every one of us,

we will arrive at this conclusion?

Perhaps one day soon,

we will discover that within the symbol of the Cosmic Egg

lies the key to ascending beyond Earth,

to join our alien ancestors

in the stars.

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