Ancient Aliens- Origins - Season 2 Episode 02- Extraterrestrial Rituals
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00:00:01Traditions designed to commemorate the arrival of celestial visitors.
00:00:07Rituals that echo lost technologies.
00:00:12And ceremonies intended to reconnect with other worldly beings.
00:00:20For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe
00:00:24exploring towering megalithic structures,
00:00:27mysterious artifacts, and stories of other worldly beings
00:00:32in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial origins.
00:00:39You know, it's fascinating that we have these rituals where people dress up to look like spacemen or aliens.
00:00:46Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens archives
00:00:50to the show's very origins
00:00:53to examine the evidence that we are not alone.
00:00:57We have never been alone.
00:01:07Some of the most compelling evidence we have of our extraterrestrial past is found in our rituals.
00:01:12These deliberate practices and ceremonies that we've created that typically honor some otherworldly entity.
00:01:19Right, and oftentimes you see ancient cultures wearing these elaborate outfits commemorating some extraterrestrial contact.
00:01:27And my question is, could that be living mythology?
00:01:31Yeah, it's like there's something in our DNA that wants us to commemorate things in humanity's past.
00:01:37And ancient aliens covered this way back in 2011.
00:01:40The same year Giorgio's meme was born.
00:01:42Correct.
00:01:52The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
00:01:58Here among the ancient Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza stands the Great Pyramid of El Castillo.
00:02:04Built by the Mayan sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries A.D.
00:02:11El Castillo served as a temple to the feathered serpent god Cucucan.
00:02:20It is also believed to be the site of the Mayan's most important ritual, human sacrifice.
00:02:27They would bring human victims up the stairs of their temples, they would cut out their beating hearts, and that would be the form of sacrifice the Mayans engaged in.
00:02:42In the rituals, there was the central importance of blood sacrifice, that by shedding blood, they could empower their desire and be granted what they wanted.
00:02:57So there is a theme of blood that runs through this system of sacrifice, that blood must be shed.
00:03:04Blood must be shed.
00:03:07Although ritual sacrifice is no longer practiced at El Castillo.
00:03:13Worshippers still come to celebrate a time when the Mayans say god Cucucan descended from the heavens to bring wisdom to man.
00:03:21They light fires to unite with the spiritual realm, perform sacred dances, and repeat prayers in numerical sequences to enter a deep state of meditation.
00:03:34But the most powerful ritual that takes place at El Castillo is a reenactment of Cucucan's descent to earth.
00:03:43A reenactment that is literally built into the pyramid itself.
00:03:47This is a model of the pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico.
00:03:52And every year on March 21st, when the sun goes up, directly on the stairway here is created triangles of light and shadow coming down the stairs, which represents god Cucucan has descended to the humans.
00:04:12At the end, you see the face of god Cucucan.
00:04:18On September 21st, it's the opposite.
00:04:22This time when the sun rises up in the morning, god Cucucan goes up the stairs and ends in a bright light up on the little temple.
00:04:32Which means god Cucucan visited the earthlings, teach them, and after a certain period, he disappeared again into the sky with the promise to return one day.
00:04:45It could be that not only are the Mayan celebrating their extraterrestrial ancestors, but it could well be that the ancient aliens who came to earth instructed the societies that they helped to maintain a connection with them by performing certain rituals, celebrations at the appearance of stars, and keeping the story of the extraterrestrials alive in their legend.
00:05:13Did the Maya really conduct these elaborate and bloody rituals to honor a mythical deity?
00:05:20Or might they have been, as ancient astronaut theorists contend, commemorating an actual visitation by extraterrestrial beings?
00:05:31A ritual is absolutely a way to reconnect with the gods.
00:05:38So not only are you reenacting your faith in this god, you are actually reenacting the original moment when the god did a very specific thing.
00:05:49All over the world, ancient people and modern people are using rituals to connect them with gods. Yet these gods may well be ancient astrologers.
00:06:04The hill of Uschnik, Ireland. Each year on the first day of May, the local citizens celebrate the sacred festival of Beltana, similar to the one first performed by the ancient Celts more than 2,000 years ago.
00:06:23Like the ceremony at Chichen Itza, it is designed to connect and communicate with beings from outside our world.
00:06:32This day was the day when you would set fires, bonfires, and then you would walk your cattle between the fires as a way to protect them for the coming spring and summer.
00:06:47And these May Day fires were a magical way of calling down protection upon animals and human beings.
00:06:58But why fire? What was it about this most basic of elements that made it so important to the ancient Celts?
00:07:08The association of fire with Beltana suggests that this is a time when extra vision, extra knowledge is available.
00:07:17And what the Celtic peoples were most interested in knowing about was in fact the other world.
00:07:26There is this notion that at Beltana there is a greater opportunity for actually perhaps meeting people from the other world.
00:07:35Might the fire rituals of the Beltana festival have been started by the early Celts as an attempt to recreate the strange lights and ignitions they saw from an alien spacecraft?
00:07:48Although no written records exist to explain the event's true origins, there are those who believe that such an incredible idea is possible.
00:07:58And to prove it, they point to a ceremony practiced each year by the Kayapo people of Brazil.
00:08:11A long time ago, Bebkur Roti appeared descending from the sky.
00:08:18And when he landed, there was a lot of wind.
00:08:21The earth was shaking and trembling.
00:08:24There was a lot of noise.
00:08:26The appearance of Bebkur Roti has been preserved to this day.
00:08:32In fact, it's a medicine man wearing a straw suit.
00:08:37And that straw suit looks eerily similar to a modern day astronaut suit.
00:08:45The Kayapo remember the very special suit, this man or alien war,
00:08:52which essentially completely enclosed the body.
00:08:56And what's more interesting is what a neighboring tribe said, namely the Bakari.
00:09:02They already had such a thing hanging in a hut in the 19th century.
00:09:08But for the Kayapo, the Bebkur Roti festival is only one of the ways they honor an ancient visitation by an extraterrestrial being.
00:09:18They also recount his visitation in their everyday lives by wearing symbolic headdresses made of feathers.
00:09:31There is this feather headdress that has a row of feathers.
00:09:35And when it's worn, it looks like a halo.
00:09:39And these feathers represent no more and no less than outer space.
00:09:45The Kayapo see outer space as being a flat disk spreading out into infinity.
00:09:52The band that holds these feathers together is a symbol for the rope that the Kayapo ancestors used to climb down to earth from a celestial world.
00:10:07Could the Kayapo rituals of Brazil
00:10:14really have been inspired by an extraterrestrial visitation?
00:10:20Perhaps the answer can be found by examining a sacred African tradition,
00:10:25encrypted with the knowledge of the cosmos.
00:10:29You know, it's fascinating that we have these rituals where people dress up to look like spacemen or aliens.
00:10:40Right. Or, for example, in Africa, where we have the Dogon people who celebrate the celestial deity Namo every year by wearing these elaborate, very bizarre-looking wooden masks.
00:10:52And they even say that their creator god comes from a star called Sirius B.
00:10:58Which can't even be seen with the naked eye.
00:11:00Right.
00:11:01We covered this in the first season of Ancient Aliens in an episode called The Visitors.
00:11:09Mali in Northwest Africa.
00:11:11Deep in a remote valley live the Dogon people,
00:11:15who are the descendants of a nomadic tribe that settled here around 1000 A.D.
00:11:23The Dogon is a very long and ancient tradition.
00:11:26And, in my opinion, maintain some of the ancient Egyptian traditions and myths that have been carried on right into the present age.
00:11:37Parts of ancient Egypt may not have died.
00:11:42They were carried on to this day among the Dogon.
00:11:50But what exactly are their beliefs?
00:11:53Dogon mythology holds that the sky god Ama created the first living creature known as Namo.
00:12:00Still today, Dogon celebrates a festival in the honor of Namo and that visitation that occurred in the remote past.
00:12:15How do we know this?
00:12:17For this festival, they have wooden masks that date back to a very long time ago when this festival began.
00:12:29Dogon masks tell the mystic stories of their ancestors.
00:12:39This is a sculpture of the creator.
00:12:42They call him Ama.
00:12:44He's embracing the universe.
00:12:47This is how they pass on information from generation to generation.
00:12:52By stories carved in masks.
00:12:54The events.
00:12:55But could Namo have been a real person?
00:13:08Some see eerie similarities between the Dogon's legend and the story of the mysterious pharaoh Akhenaten.
00:13:15Akhenaten believed he was directly descended from the sun god Aten.
00:13:21Namo was said to have been created by the sky deity Ama.
00:13:26Is it a coincidence that both cultures, although thousands of miles apart, shared mythical tales of beings coming from the skies?
00:13:35And both Namo and Akhenaten were depicted with elongated heads.
00:13:41Is it possible that these legends were based on real events?
00:13:45The Dogon dwell in the central plateau region of Banya Gara.
00:13:56Their knowledge is centuries old and their priests have been sharing it with chosen individuals only.
00:14:01In the 1920s, French anthropologist Griel and ethnologist Dieterlen visited the tribe and were invited to share their secrets.
00:14:14But one secret stood out.
00:14:20The Dogon claimed that their god Ama came from a specific star in the Sirius constellation.
00:14:27The same place where the ancient Egyptians believed their god Osiris was born.
00:14:34This star, which modern astronomers refer to as Sirius B, the Dogon called Potolo.
00:14:42But what baffles experts is that the star is so far from Earth, it's impossible to see with the naked eye.
00:14:49I was very intrigued by this, by the way. I mean, the Dogons should not have known about the existence of this star.
00:14:59Sirius is the second nearest star from our solar system. It's eight light years away.
00:15:05In fact, it's not even visible with standard telescopes. It was first seen, literally seen, and photographed in the 1970s.
00:15:12Modern science has corroborated that Sirius B does indeed exist.
00:15:21Problem is, the Dogon knew about this before modern science corroborated it.
00:15:28I mean, that's spooky.
00:15:30That's spooky.
00:15:34Measurements taken with the Hubble telescope in 2003 have confirmed that Sirius B is what's known as a white dwarf.
00:15:43We're a partially burnt-out star with extremely dense mass.
00:15:47Although it is smaller in size than Earth, it's estimated to weigh eight times as much as our Sun.
00:15:56But how did the Dogon acquire this ancient knowledge of astronomy that seems to be centuries more advanced than that of modern science?
00:16:05The mystery is, how did this story get passed on down generations?
00:16:12If the story came from a time before astronomers knew there was a companion star to Sirius, which can't be seen with the human eye.
00:16:21This is the Dogon symbol for Sirius.
00:16:24When you move it around, you can see an orbit around the center marked by Sirius A.
00:16:28Sirius B circles around it, so it is a circular system.
00:16:34This sign is practically an astronomical model that the Dogon could not have invented because only Sirius A is visible.
00:16:42Sirius B and C are invisible.
00:16:46However, their description of the orbit is correct.
00:16:50One assumption is that this god, Namo, who brought them this knowledge, could have been an extraterrestrial intelligence.
00:16:59Since the early 20th century, the tribe has been routinely studied and researched by anthropologists.
00:17:08This has led many modern historians to claim that the Dogon must have learned about astronomy from Westerners.
00:17:15When critics suggest that this knowledge was given to them by modern ethnologists, that's simply incorrect, because we know that this story goes back hundreds of years earlier than any modern ethnologist ever went there.
00:17:33If it were ever proven that all this information is exactly correct, including the parts that are still being studied by astronomers, this would mean that the Earth had visitors from outer space in prehistoric times.
00:17:48Either they inherited that knowledge, and the question is from where, from a previous civilization, or from some sort of extraterrestrial civilization, or it's a coincidence. In my view, it is not a coincidence.
00:18:02If the Dogon people really possessed this advanced astronomical knowledge, were there legends based on real events?
00:18:14The ancient Egyptians and Dogon were far from alone in their belief in gods or mystical beings that came from the sky.
00:18:24Is there an explanation for similar myths shared by ancient cultures all around the world?
00:18:32And what does that reveal as to who these visitors may be?
00:18:37Perhaps the answer can be found, not in Northern Africa, but here, in the rocks and canyons of the American Southwest.
00:18:54Thirty miles south of Gallup, New Mexico, lies the Pueblo of Zuni.
00:19:08Sheltered from the desolate high plains, this adobe city is home to the Zuni Indians, one of the oldest indigenous tribes in North America.
00:19:17They have inhabited this land for almost 2,000 years, and have protected their secrets even longer.
00:19:29The Zuni are a very interesting culture in that they're one of the few cultures that really have not opened up to the rest of the world about their star knowledge traditions.
00:19:39Most of this type of information is very closely held by the natives.
00:19:43And I really find it very intriguing that this is the time period in history where now we're starting to learn more and more about their star knowledge.
00:19:58Much of the Zuni people's history is etched in the rocks in the New Mexico desert.
00:20:02Tribal elder Clifford Mahouti and archaeologist Dan Simplicio have studied the Zuni's secret history firsthand.
00:20:18They've collected stories passed down through generations that are rooted in the belief that the tribe's creators and protectors are supernatural beings from the sky.
00:20:28This one's kind of interesting here.
00:20:32I would imagine it was created in the last century, but on this design, you can see the star figure.
00:20:39Celestial images oftentimes are depicted in a lot of our cultural petroglyphs, and this is one of them where it depicts the star.
00:20:45It could be the supernova of the crab nebula.
00:20:51Our Zuni mythology in the prayer system and the ritualistic protocols talk about these people that came over here and told us how to actually live our lives as being sky people.
00:21:06If you listen to a lot of religious chants and songs and prayers, that's all they talk about.
00:21:21They're talking about space. They're talking about out there in the universe where they came from.
00:21:25So they depicted on that rock wall here, but the actual meaning of it is somewhere more profound and more complex than that.
00:21:36These drawings are thought to have been created around 1200 BC.
00:21:41Yet they appear to depict modern space travelers and their vehicles.
00:21:45If you move back a little bit, you can see another figure here.
00:21:54It has a dome. It has eyes.
00:21:58There's something coming down.
00:22:01And a nose.
00:22:02Like a nose through the nose, but it kind of flares out.
00:22:05I think it was something to do with the ancient ones when they saw something.
00:22:09They took as much description of it to put it on there.
00:22:12Of course, it's not going to be exactly what they saw, but that's as best as they can do for something that they saw.
00:22:19With all petroglyphs and things like that, I mean, they're up to interpretation.
00:22:25Sometimes they're just doodlings of people.
00:22:28But other times they may well be actual descriptions and depictions of some kind of god from outer space, some ancient astronaut.
00:22:40And when you go around, say, like the Zuni Pueblo, I mean, that's what they'll tell you.
00:22:45Those petroglyphs aren't.
00:22:47Even the Zunis themselves call them the spacemen.
00:22:51This one seems to have two legs coming out like that.
00:22:56It has a broad, diamond-shaped body.
00:23:00There probably was a bitter head that tipped off here.
00:23:04That's very different looking than humans are.
00:23:08Now, usually they're called UFOs.
00:23:11But in the Zuni way, we've always been taught that they're the keepers of the upper world, which means space.
00:23:18Now they're sky people.
00:23:21Beings that are of the extraterrestrial origin.
00:23:25And this is still within our mythology and our religious practices today.
00:23:36Like most Indian tribes, the Zunis call these sky people Kachinas.
00:23:41According to the Zunis' creation story, the Kachina gods came down from the sky.
00:23:54Every year, the Zunis participate in a ceremony known as the Shilako Festival.
00:23:59Dressed in traditional costumes to represent the Kachinas, the Indians celebrate the arrival of the gods on Earth.
00:24:11This is a figurine of Kachina gods.
00:24:13And these guys are some gods from the sky who came down.
00:24:18They wear weird helmets.
00:24:20This one has a helmet as a head.
00:24:24And if you look at the whole body of it, it's as if it wears some type of a suit.
00:24:32This one here also has the helmet and the visor.
00:24:36For the Pueblo Indians, like the Zunis, these are their sky gods that every year they have special ceremonies people put on these special costumes and masks to reenact the coming of the gods.
00:24:49They really look like ancient astronauts.
00:25:02If you look at the poetry and the legends and the stories from American Indian tribes in the southwest, they have the legend of the star people.
00:25:11The star people came to Earth and seeded planet Earth and they came on flying ships.
00:25:19If you speak to the elders, they will tell you that a lot of us believe in the existence of extraterrestrials.
00:25:28The Zunis don't have a written language.
00:25:31The storyteller comes and he tells the young children how it all happened.
00:25:34All of their songs that they do in their ceremonies tell the story over and over and that's how they pass down traditions, customs, beliefs.
00:25:45They tell it in the Indian way.
00:25:47They use things they understand to explain things that they don't understand.
00:25:51I remember my grandparents talking about a craft that flew and had actually crash landed on one of the mesas east of here.
00:26:02There's no interpretation of what an aircraft is, so the closest thing that they could interpret as anything capable of flight is a bird or our mass kachina dancers.
00:26:16We are very, very superstitious people.
00:26:22It's always been in the history of Zuni that they have always been here, even right here where we're sitting right now.
00:26:29But you just don't see them. They're in a different frequency.
00:26:33And those are very, very sacred and those are very, very secret.
00:26:37They're out there somewhere.
00:26:38Could rituals really serve as ancestral records of contact with extraterrestrials who came to Earth in the remote past?
00:26:52Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further proof can be found in an elaborate ceremony that honors their descent from the sky.
00:27:08You know, it's incredible to me how many of these ancient rituals involves the power of flight.
00:27:14In Mexico, for example, you have the participants descend from the sky commemorating the arrival of their so-called gods.
00:27:22Right, and anthropologists might argue this has something to do with bird worship.
00:27:27But that's not what the ritual looks like at all.
00:27:30They're not flapping their arms like wings. They're attached to a pole and they're smoothly gliding through the air.
00:27:36Yeah.
00:27:37Yeah, right. It's like they're mimicking something technological, like a glider or an airplane or something.
00:27:42Right.
00:27:48Veracruz, Mexico.
00:27:52Five men in ceremonial dress ascend a 100-foot pole.
00:27:56Once at the top, one of the men performs a sacred dance while playing a flute and drum atop a platform.
00:28:04The other four men launch themselves off.
00:28:07It is a ritual known as la danza de los voladores, or the dance of the fliers.
00:28:17The ritual has the leader stand on the top of the pole, tiny little platform, and the four fliers wrap a cable around that pole and then branch out and fly around in a pyramid shape in perfect synchronous order.
00:28:29It's a stunning and daring thing to do.
00:28:33And they are representing the birds, they are representing the four cardinal directions, they are representing the elements.
00:28:39Heavily symbolic and mythic. It is a powerful ritual.
00:28:42The Teutonic people who practice this ceremony today claim it is a dance that was invented 500 years ago as a plea to the gods to end a severe drought.
00:28:57But could this ancient ritual have different, perhaps other worldly origins?
00:29:04What we have here with the voladores is 100% living mythology, something that describes and illustrates in front of our living eye the descent of the gods from a long time ago.
00:29:22According to ancient astronaut theorists, the Voladores ritual is a reenactment of a close encounter with alien visitors in the distant past.
00:29:35They believe extraterrestrials descended upon the flat mountain tops of the Palpa region in Peru around 500 AD, dropping from their aircraft and gliding down to earth in spiraling circles.
00:29:49The Voladores ritual was very technological as in, you know, these beings descending from the sky in the circle signifying arrival of the gods.
00:30:06Where does that flying or descending gods' motif originate?
00:30:13Our ancestors saw something.
00:30:19Because why would you hurl yourself from a 100-foot pole out of nothing to imitate a bird?
00:30:28Birds are not that important.
00:30:31Something very significant happened.
00:30:33Could an alien encounter really be the inspiration for the Voladores ritual?
00:30:40And could the Teutonic people who created the ceremony really have been trying to mimic the ancient gods' power of flight?
00:30:47As further evidence that early humans may have encountered alien visitors equipped with the power of flight,
00:30:59ancient astronaut theorists point to various artifacts and statues depicting ancient gods.
00:31:06One such example is the Mayan god, a Muzankab, also known as the Flying Bee God.
00:31:15Another is the most prominent god of early Mesoamerican culture, the winged deity Quetzalcoatl.
00:31:22The Mesoamericans believed in the plume serpent or Quetzalcoatl, which came from the sky bringing wisdom, powered the wind and also influenced everything that happened in the daily life of the Mayans.
00:31:38In fact, they looked to the sky for all their answers, from everything as simple as when to plant corn to when to go to war.
00:31:45They believed all answers in the universe came from the sky and trying to relate that to their daily lives.
00:31:50The ancient records are loaded with fantastic examples of the gods flying around.
00:31:57These are the ancient aliens and humans are being shown the ultimate capability of these gods.
00:32:02In my eyes, because we are the sons of the gods, we are the offspring of the gods, whatever humans can dream, whatever humans think was once reality in the past or will be reality in the future.
00:32:21July 31st, 2003. The English Channel. Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to cross this 22-mile-wide body of water in freefall using a specially made fiber wing.
00:32:40But the Austrian daredevil is just one of many who have used wingsuits to simulate flying by means of a freefall.
00:32:53A wingsuit is basically a jumpsuit that you put on under your rig and it's designed to actually make you fly when you exit the plane.
00:33:05The material inflates underneath your arms, in between your legs, and creates basically an airfoil that you glide on through the air.
00:33:16It's an amazing feeling because you're actually the pilot and the plane.
00:33:22It is total freedom. You feel as though you're flying.
00:33:26Though you are falling, you're using the air to maneuver your body.
00:33:34And the wingsuit helps you cover a lot of ground as you're descending.
00:33:39Some people have been exceeding two to one glide ratio.
00:33:43For example, three to one would mean for every foot you descend, you're traveling three feet forward.
00:33:51We got these flying guys that have these wings attached to their backs and they hurl themselves out of planes.
00:34:00And some even have rocket engines attached to them.
00:34:04And so they essentially themselves become airplanes.
00:34:08Now imagine showing that to someone from a hundred years ago.
00:34:15That person would be in complete awe of what they're witnessing, not understanding that there is technology involved with this.
00:34:25Just using our own body, we cannot fly. We have no wings.
00:34:29We have no wings. But of course we have the fantasy and we have the technology to develop wings that we can fly.
00:34:38The pursuit of flight has been one of the most sought after quests in all of mankind's history.
00:34:46Why? Because with flight, you could reach conceivably the realm of the gods.
00:34:54From the ancient Greek myth of Icarus fashioning wings of feathers and wax to modern daredevils like Felix Baumgartner.
00:35:09Human beings have been fascinated with and often frustrated by their desire to fly.
00:35:15But have birds really served as mankind's inspiration or something else, something extraterrestrial?
00:35:26And if so, might ancestral rituals preserve the memory of their visitation?
00:35:32Perhaps further evidence of otherworldly contact can be found in our oldest and most sacred funerary rites.
00:35:45When you're thinking about rituals that involve whole communities of people, you're typically not thinking about funerary rites.
00:35:53But these are some of the most powerful and mysterious practices we have.
00:35:57Right. And they include some pretty interesting rituals like mummification, for example.
00:36:02And the Egyptians, you know, were very elaborate in how they prepared the body.
00:36:05Right. And we're told that allegedly all of this was done in order to prepare them for the afterlife.
00:36:12But my question is, did they witness extraterrestrials getting ready for a journey to space?
00:36:19In fact, we covered that question in a 2014 episode called Secrets of the Mummies.
00:36:24Vatican City, April 2nd, 2005, Pope John Paul II dies, bringing his historic 26-year papacy to a close.
00:36:41His corpse is chemically preserved and transported to St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing.
00:36:50In a funeral service watched by millions, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger speaks of the beloved pontiff's soul being guided to the eternal glory of heaven.
00:37:01His body is then interred in a large underground tomb beneath the church.
00:37:11We can see that a great deal of care was taken to preserve Pope John Paul's body.
00:37:18And the idea is that death, in fact, is just the beginning of this journey.
00:37:24Many modern funerals, those that take place in Europe and the Americas, many of the initial ideas actually have their roots in ancient Egypt.
00:37:39In ancient Egypt, bodies were mummified and put into sarcophagi that resemble human beings.
00:37:46And this is still done today in many religious traditions, including the Roman Catholic Church.
00:37:51The preserved body of Pope John Paul II is essentially a mummy.
00:37:58But why do so many people go to such great lengths to preserve the body after death?
00:38:07Our ancestors believed in an afterlife and that the proper ceremonial rites at time of death allowed the departed to travel to the reward, to the next life.
00:38:17It was often imagined to be in the heavens, the stars, and that this travel allowed the person to come into their full reward.
00:38:27We have all over the world, people continue to preserve bodies and it's because there is this idea of living forever.
00:38:34That death is not the end, it's a beginning, it's a transitory state.
00:38:37For some reason, everyone has this idea that we need the body to live forever.
00:38:45If people truly believe there was a spiritual essence that infused the body that left at the moment of death, they can't justify mummification.
00:38:53What can explain the fact that for thousands of years, in cultures throughout the world, people have held a belief that the preservation of the body is necessary to transition into the afterlife?
00:39:10Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found hidden beneath the desert sands of Upper Egypt.
00:39:19The Valley of the Kings, located on the western bank of the Nile River, lies one of the most expansive burial grounds in all of Egypt.
00:39:35The tombs were constructed between 1539 and 1075 BC for pharaohs and other nobility.
00:39:49To date, 63 tombs have been discovered in the Valley of the Kings.
00:39:54One of the Kings.
00:39:55One of the best preserved is that of pharaoh Ramses VI, who ruled from approximately 1145 to 1137 BC.
00:40:12More than 4000 years ago, King Rameses would have started taking this to become his tomb, or as he called it, his house of eternity.
00:40:21For ancient Egyptians, a tomb wasn't just a place where they would end up dead.
00:40:28A tomb was a place where they would start their eternal life.
00:40:39The Egyptians believed that in death, the soul would split into several parts and begin the journey to the afterlife.
00:40:47But to make this transition, it was essential to reunite the soul with the physical body.
00:40:54And while the Egyptians were not the first to mummify their dead, no other ancient culture went to such great lengths to preserve the body and ensure entrance into the next life.
00:41:08Ancient Egyptians would put a body that needed to be mummified in a dry room and they would first take out the internal organs and they'd pack that body with natron salt to start the drying process.
00:41:26And then they would remove the brain and then they would rinse the body with sweet-smelling oils and they'd cover the entire body in natron salt and it would stay that way for about 35 to 70 days.
00:41:45Once the body was all dried out, they would wrap the entire body, putting amulets and other special jeweled objects in the linen.
00:41:56And then once it was completely wrapped, it would be done.
00:42:03The Egyptians understood the most important factor in mummification, the removal of fluids, which ensures that bacteria cannot survive and the body will not decay.
00:42:16Although archaeologists have discovered much about how these mummies were prepared, the Egyptians left behind no texts or instructions on mummification.
00:42:29Just how the Egyptians came to create this complex practice remains a mystery.
00:42:36But they did leave behind extensive records regarding their thoughts on the afterlife.
00:42:44This right here is a very good depiction of the journey of the afterlife with King Rameses.
00:42:51You see him here on a solar barge being protected by all the different gods behind him, goddess Isis and goddess Osiris.
00:43:01This right here is god Anubis. And god Anubis is the god of the mummification.
00:43:09The most important story in Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris, how his brother Set coveted his brother's power and killed him.
00:43:22Then his wife Isis, in grief, got help from Anubis, who then helped Isis breathe life back into him to survive into the next life with the help of Anubis, the inventor of embalming and mummification.
00:43:39The mummification process in Egypt is often related to the star Sirius, which we call the dog star.
00:43:48And the mummification rites were overseen by the Egyptian god Anubis, who was a jackal headed god.
00:43:56And so you have to wonder if Anubis wasn't some real physical extraterrestrial god.
00:44:05The ancient Egyptian temple walls are covered with images of transformation.
00:44:11And what it reveals is that their core sacred science was about human transformation or ascension into celestial beings.
00:44:22So you wonder, is it possible it's because those who originally taught us the concept came from the stars?
00:44:30Could it be that the ancient Egyptians' beliefs about the afterlife were influenced by extraterrestrial visitors?
00:44:44Was it from these visitors that they learned the process of mummification?
00:44:49And if so, what was their ultimate agenda?
00:44:54Perhaps further clues can be found by examining the rituals of the Inca, who believed that mummies could communicate with beings from beyond Earth.
00:45:14Cusco, Peru.
00:45:17This sacred city was once the capital of the Inca Empire.
00:45:22And by the 13th century was the center of one of the largest and most sophisticated pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas.
00:45:37The Inca were renowned for their proficiency in architecture.
00:45:42And widely regarded as the most important of their many temple complexes was the one known as Coricancha.
00:45:50Historical accounts describe it as a magnificent palace of gold that housed the most holy objects of worship for the Inca.
00:45:59The mummies of their dead kings.
00:46:02That's where the king did his most important rituals and where the mummies of the previous Sapa Incas or kings were kept.
00:46:15And those mummies were communicated with on a regular basis.
00:46:21Even today, descendants of the Inca recreate the centuries old practice of using the mummies in sacred ceremonies.
00:46:34Four times a year they were brought out and the living descendants would then consult with them about the affairs of state as well as what they should do in the future.
00:46:42It was believed that these mummies could communicate with deities or other worldly beings in this twilight realm or in this state between life and death.
00:46:57They even had people specially trained to take care of the royal mummies and some of the duties that these caretakers had were interpreting what the mummy wished to say, arranging meetings with the living and the dead and strangely even taking the mummy outside so he could urinate.
00:47:18But why would the Inca, the most advanced civilization in South America at the time, treat corpses as though they were living, thinking beings?
00:47:35Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the Incan creation story.
00:47:41The Incan creation myth describes how the world was created by the Ayer brothers.
00:47:48And the word Ayer actually means mummy.
00:47:53So written right into the myth from the very beginning is the idea that mummification is of central importance to whomever and whatever these gods are.
00:48:04Is it possible that those mythical gods were actually extraterrestrial flesh and blood beings of some kind?
00:48:12But if the Ayer brothers really were extraterrestrials, why would the Inca have used the same term for these alien visitors as they did for their mummified dead?
00:48:28Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the Inca may have witnessed these otherworldly space travelers emerging from a state of suspended animation.
00:48:38What if they were trying to mimic whatever it is they saw and so if someone with no technological knowledge witnesses someone who is in suspended animation and then they come alive?
00:49:01They have just witnessed the resurrection of someone, someone coming back from the dead, when in reality that was never the case.
00:49:10Is it possible that the Inca witnessed alien visitors coming out of hibernation and that this is why they mummified their dead?
00:49:25Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim that this might also explain mummification in other cultures, most notably the Egyptians.
00:49:36It's possible that the exaterrestrials who visited Egypt would have needed to have some sort of hyperbaric isolation chambers to get from their home world to here.
00:49:49Now if that is true, then it's also possible that the mummification ritual actually originated from this long-term hyperbaric storage that they were doing with their bodies inside sarcophagus-like chambers.
00:50:04One idea certainly is that human beings and these societies were seeing extraterrestrials who were wrapped in certain body suits and then they would come back alive.
00:50:19They were put in a special suspended animation that was similar to mummification.
00:50:24And perhaps this is why the Egyptians were doing mummification.
00:50:31Could mummification really have been an attempt by ancient people to imitate extraterrestrial space travelers?
00:50:42Perhaps.
00:50:43But ancient astronaut theorists propose that there may be an even more profound explanation.
00:50:51That early humans were not simply imitating alien visitors, but intended to join them in the future.
00:50:59And they suggest that other ritualistic processes were left behind, granting humans the ability to commune with other worldly beings at will.
00:51:14You know, while we have a lot of rituals that are about people commemorating the past or past encounters, we also have a lot of rituals that are about people contacting the gods.
00:51:26Oh, absolutely. There are multiple cultures that talk about creating specific sound frequencies in order to communicate with the gods.
00:51:34But that's not all. They also took mind-altering substances in order to access other realms.
00:51:41Yeah, and all these cultures had shamans and priests that acted as guides.
00:51:45And we still have them today.
00:51:47So you wonder, were some of our present-day rituals taught to our ancestors by extraterrestrials to make contact with them?
00:51:53Mm-hmm.
00:51:59The Amazon jungle, Peru.
00:52:04Stretching from the Andes Mountains to the eastern shores of Brazil,
00:52:09this rainforest is home to more than 80,000 species of plants,
00:52:14many of which shamans and religious healers have consumed for thousands of years.
00:52:20As a way to access realms, they say, are inhabited by other worldly beings.
00:52:29In the Amazon, one of the shamans' jobs, aside from going to the other world and speaking with the spirits,
00:52:36is to find the plants right here on Earth that can heal the people of his tribe.
00:52:42And in the Amazonian belief systems, each plant in the jungle has its own spirit.
00:52:55And one of the shamans' gifts is that he can communicate with these plant spirits.
00:53:00Originating in the central Andes of South America, ayahuasca, meaning the vine of the souls,
00:53:09is a psychedelic brew consisting of two different types of plants cooked with water.
00:53:14This is drunk by the shaman, but in order to enter the spirit world, to gain information about diseases,
00:53:23to foresee the future, to carry out a healing for somebody.
00:53:28We know some of the history of ayahuasca because archaeologists have found artifacts from the rainforest,
00:53:33which date back 3,500 or 4,000 years.
00:53:38But those are only the surviving artifacts that they've found.
00:53:41Potentially, this could go back to the beginning of time.
00:53:46Ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT,
00:53:50one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man.
00:53:54But strangely, this chemical compound only works when consumed under precise conditions.
00:53:59Ingest DMT, it's inactivated in the intestine by certain enzymes.
00:54:07So, in order to get the DMT to be activated and to be able to be absorbed,
00:54:12they had to combine it with other plants.
00:54:15Ayahuasca contains a mixture of two plants.
00:54:19There's actually quite subtle and sophisticated knowledge of plants goes into the preparation
00:54:25because these two things separately will not work.
00:54:29You have to mix them together.
00:54:30And let's not forget that there's 150,000 different species of plants and trees in the Amazon.
00:54:36It's really quite an amazing achievement of ancient chemistry
00:54:40to bring these two plants together to produce a highly psychoactive, visionary brew.
00:54:45But how did ancient people living in the jungles of Peru over 3,000 years ago,
00:54:54with tens of thousands of plants to choose from,
00:54:57figure out that combining these two particular plants would produce these powerful visions?
00:55:02According to the mythology of the Oshwere people of the Amazon,
00:55:08their ancestors didn't discover this on their own,
00:55:11but were guided by extraterrestrial beings.
00:55:14The shamans communicated with their spirits and were told to go into the jungle
00:55:25and turn two corners, as the myth goes.
00:55:28And then they would find this plant.
00:55:31And they brought that back to the village, prepared it in the appropriate way.
00:55:34The oral tradition says that ayahuasca is a linkage to the upper world.
00:55:42And it is entirely possible that they were given this gift by their own gods,
00:55:50which may be extraterrestrials.
00:55:57If the Oshwere story of how their ancestors discovered ayahuasca is true,
00:56:02could they have been guided not by spirits, but by extraterrestrial beings?
00:56:09Beings who communicated with them on another plane of reality.
00:56:18Between 1990 and 1995, scientists at the University of New Mexico administered DMT,
00:56:26the active ingredient in ayahuasca, to 60 volunteers.
00:56:30And discovered shocking results.
00:56:34Medical researchers actually administered DMT to patients in a controlled medical setting,
00:56:40and they had exactly the same experiences as those reported in the jungles of South America and elsewhere,
00:56:46who were experiencing ayahuasca.
00:56:48Ayahuasca users typically experience hallucinations in the visual form,
00:56:53and a lot of them say that they see other beings.
00:56:58And a lot of them say that they get messages sent to them from these beings.
00:57:04In several cases, those intelligent entities said to them roughly the following,
00:57:09We're so pleased you've discovered this technology.
00:57:13Now we can communicate with you more often.
00:57:16Perhaps what we're dealing with here is intelligent inhabitants of other dimensions.
00:57:21Why would so many people report such similar experiences while using ayahuasca?
00:57:30Is it possible extraterrestrials gave the ancients the recipe for this powerful concoction
00:57:37as a way to communicate healing powers with shamans?
00:57:39And if so, might the very core of mankind's knowledge about medicine have come from an otherworldly source?
00:57:52Huashan Mountain, China.
00:57:54This 7,000-foot-high peak in the Shanxi province is believed to have been the place where Shenong,
00:58:02a benevolent emperor that ruled the area more than 4,500 years ago, was conceived.
00:58:08According to accounts from the Han dynasty, Shenong not only introduced agriculture to mankind,
00:58:15but also developed a profound knowledge of Chinese herbs.
00:58:18Shenong pledged that he would venture out into the world and test every plant on the planet
00:58:28in order to determine its benefits for humans and also to catalogue the more toxic or dangerous effects of ingesting these plants.
00:58:39Sometimes he would ingest, of course, poisonous plants,
00:58:43and he would suffer poisonings up to 70 times per day.
00:58:50More than 2,000 years later,
00:58:54Shenong's findings were compiled in the Divine Farmer's Herb Root Classic,
00:58:59a medical journal that became one of the foundations of Chinese medicine.
00:59:04But just how could this mysterious being have tested so many herbs,
00:59:09some even containing deadly poisons?
00:59:13Shenong was a quite unusual person.
00:59:17It's said that he had a transparent stomach,
00:59:20and he himself, after ingesting these poisons, would look into his own stomach
00:59:26and see how these poisons were interacting with himself,
00:59:31and then he would take the antidotes for it.
00:59:33So you have to wonder if he's not some kind of extraterrestrial.
00:59:41Shenong could, in fact, have been an astral or star being
00:59:46who came to Earth to teach the secrets of healing.
00:59:50This idea would explain his strange appearance
00:59:53and also his ability to withstand ingesting poisonous plants without ever being harmed.
01:00:04Might Shenong have been an alien visitor?
01:00:07One who traveled to Earth in order to educate mankind about medicine
01:00:12and the healing nature of plants?
01:00:13And is this proof that ingesting DMT, a practice that dates back thousands of years,
01:00:21actually connects shamans with extraterrestrial beings?
01:00:26Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
01:00:29and claim further evidence lies with the supernatural healing rituals of the San Bushmen.
01:00:35The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.
01:00:48Here, the native San Bushmen hold elaborate fireside rituals lasting for hours into the night.
01:00:56During these ceremonies, their shamans perform what's known as a trance dance,
01:01:00through which they reach an altered state of being and access other dimensions.
01:01:09The trance dance is thought to activate an energy in their body called Noom.
01:01:15And this energy opens a portal of sorts that enables them to travel into the spirit world.
01:01:21And when the Bushmen activate this energy,
01:01:25they're able to put their hands in the fire without being burned.
01:01:28They can see vast distances, and it's as if in every way, shape and form,
01:01:33they're transformed into super powerful beings.
01:01:37By accessing the power of Noom energy,
01:01:41it is believed that a shaman who can extract illness,
01:01:45see the insides of the sick,
01:01:48and travel out of their own body to the land of the gods.
01:01:51This Noom goes up the body, and then often it goes out of the crown of the head,
01:01:58and that's usually when the out-of-body experience occurs,
01:02:01and they travel to the spirit world.
01:02:03I've seen a Bushmen put a coal in his mouth and he wasn't burnt.
01:02:07They put their heads in the fire, and although their hair might singe and even catch fire,
01:02:11their face won't be burnt.
01:02:12So something is happening with this Noom energy.
01:02:16They call it boiling energy.
01:02:17It's almost like there's a vibrational change in the whole body,
01:02:22and probably in their DNA in some way.
01:02:25Could the so-called Noom energy really be inherent in shamans,
01:02:31accessed only while in a sort of dream state?
01:02:33And is it possible that the genetic makeup of these medicine men
01:02:39is what allows them to access other dimensions?
01:02:46The San Bush people have a tradition that they are the first tribe ever created.
01:02:54They're the oldest people in the world.
01:02:57DNA tests have shown that they probably are,
01:03:00that all other cultures and all other peoples that spread throughout the world
01:03:07came originally from where the San people are now.
01:03:17When we look at the San Bushmen and we see the clear genetic evidence
01:03:21that they are the primordial seed of human civilization and life on Earth,
01:03:26it is possible that their DNA is especially well equipped to have this potential to access these non-ordinary states of consciousness,
01:03:38which may in fact be a key to physically journeying into them,
01:03:43giving these people the ability to do things that most of us seemingly cannot.
01:03:47Is it possible that the San Bushmen have special knowledge of how to alter their genetic makeup in order to access other realms?
01:03:59A knowledge that is shared by shamans around the world?
01:04:02And might this knowledge or power have been given to them by alien beings?
01:04:08Ancient astronaut theorists believe an undeniable connection between shamans and extraterrestrials
01:04:15can be found in cave paintings that date back thousands of years.
01:04:19The Lascaux Caves, southwestern France,
01:04:29discovered in 1940 near the village of Montagnac.
01:04:32This cave complex is covered in Paleolithic paintings dating back more than 17,000 years.
01:04:39Anthropologists believe ancient shamans used these subterranean chambers to perform sacred rituals.
01:04:49And curiously, among the many Ice Age animals that are depicted on the walls,
01:04:56there is a strange creature that has the body of a man and the head of a bird.
01:05:01The technical term for such a creature is a therianthrope.
01:05:06And that's from the Greek therion, which means wild beast, and anthropos, which means man.
01:05:12Clearly, these are not things that one encounters in everyday life.
01:05:17The imagery of cave art is best explained as the experiences that shamans undergo in a deep state of trance.
01:05:27When they return from the trance state, they then depict on the cave walls the visions that they have seen in this deeply altered state of consciousness.
01:05:44The Birdman found in Lascaux is reminiscent of one of the Egyptians' most important gods, Thoth.
01:05:51It is also consistent with the depiction of the Sumerian sky gods, the Anunnaki.
01:05:58But is it mere coincidence that these shamans are encountering the same types of beings while in a trance that the world's earliest civilizations depicted as their gods?
01:06:08In all of these different indigenous cultures around the world, there are remarkable similarities of what types of beings people claim to be meeting when they go out of body.
01:06:22This suggests that in the dream plane and in the shamanic state, there is in fact a real place that we are going and real beings that we are encountering when we get there.
01:06:33This is where the ancient astronaut theory suggests that they were the same teachers, the teachers that went to all the ancient cultures and brought them the basics for what we have accomplished today.
01:06:51But there was a big noticeable change in human behavior around 40,000 years ago, exactly at the time that our ancestors begin to manifest the first amazing cave art.
01:07:09But what is clear is that it's not a coincidence that at the moment that the cave art begins, we also witness in the archaeological record a radical change in human behavior.
01:07:23Could the Lasko Cape paintings be proof that shamans really do communicate with extraterrestrial beings, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
01:07:35And if so, might it be that the rituals performed by tribal elders enable them to bridge the gap between humans and these otherworldly entities?
01:07:48Perhaps the answer can be found by examining a somewhat more traditional ceremony, one still performed to this day, and to an audience of millions around the world.
01:08:01You know, a lot of these ancient ceremonies have survived to the present day, like for example, coronation ceremonies.
01:08:14Yeah, look at the British royal family, their rights with the coronation involved scepters and crowns and other objects as part of their coronation going on for centuries.
01:08:25Yeah, they even have this strange object called the stone of destiny that they place in the throne.
01:08:30And what all this is doing is elevating the king or queen to a higher realm.
01:08:35These strange rituals give them the right to rule.
01:08:38Edinburgh Castle, Scotland in the crown room lies a 336 pound oblong stone block known as the stone of destiny and also as the stone of scone.
01:08:56It has been present at the coronation of nearly every English and Scottish monarch for more than 800 years.
01:09:06Its purpose to unite the new ruler with God.
01:09:10And there are those who believe it is part of a meteor that fell to earth more than 3000 years ago.
01:09:19The stone was seen as an axis mundi, the connection point between heaven and earth.
01:09:24It was almost like the English strengthened their own belief that Westminster Abbey was the axis mundi.
01:09:33They placed it within a throne right in front of the Cosmati pavement.
01:09:39And within this Cosmati pavement are circles and swirls and lines that represent the universe as a whole.
01:09:50And the monarch becomes what's known as a Cosmocrata.
01:09:57Looking over not just what was going on on the earth, but the stars, the heavens as a whole by sitting on the throne.
01:10:08Is this ancient stone merely a symbol of divine right?
01:10:14Or might it at one time have held some strange unknown power?
01:10:23Throughout recorded history, coronation rituals have incorporated devices like the stone of destiny
01:10:29as a way of linking the new ruler with superior beings beyond our world.
01:10:35What is a coronation in the first place?
01:10:38Well, it's the idea that the monarch can embody some kind of cosmic consciousness, something that is divine.
01:10:49And this is actually best seen through the eyes of the old traditions relating to the Japanese Mikados.
01:10:58They would have to sit upon the throne, which would be considered to be the point of creation of the world.
01:11:06There's a notion called the divine right of kings that certain British kings had,
01:11:13that somehow the sovereign is God's representative on planet Earth.
01:11:18But for the ancients, it went steps further.
01:11:21But if some otherworldly power is actually being handed down, who or what is the source of that power?
01:11:33If you were an extraterrestrial and you came down to this planet,
01:11:36one of the first things you try to do would be to mingle with leadership.
01:11:40Then I think the pharaohs believed that they might have been gods themselves.
01:11:45The king was considered a deity.
01:11:50Did he go back into his room and sit and talk with the gods?
01:11:56We don't know. We weren't there.
01:11:59But he certainly did communicate with the deities through these rituals.
01:12:04In addition to the stone of destiny,
01:12:07another ritualistic symbol which features in most coronation ceremonies is that of the scepter.
01:12:14The scepter is a symbol of divinely granted authority.
01:12:18And in ancient times, it often took the form of a staff or a golden wand.
01:12:27According to historians, its use dates back to ancient Egypt.
01:12:31And there are those who believe it is connected symbolically to the Egyptian Ankh.
01:12:37When it comes to the Ankh in ancient Egypt, we find that it is intimately familiar with Isis.
01:12:44Isis symbolizes the Ankh because she is the one who was able to restore life.
01:12:49It is the symbol of transformation, the symbol of alchemy, the symbol of ritual.
01:12:55You have to wonder here if the original Ankh wasn't some kind of high-tech device that the ancient astronauts used and that it was given to the kings for their use.
01:13:07And with a coronation ritual and holding a scepter, suddenly normal people become as gods.
01:13:14And today, all we have is a symbolic representation of this high-tech object.
01:13:24If the throne and the scepter are identified with a connection to otherworldly or extraterrestrial power, what about the most iconic of all coronation symbols?
01:13:37The crown itself.
01:13:39What says kingship?
01:13:42It's the crown.
01:13:43It's clearly a device.
01:13:45Whether you see a crown as a symbol or whether you see a crown as something literal, it's clear that somehow it was very specific.
01:13:53Something placed on your head established this connection.
01:13:56Some historians believe the idea for the crown may have originated with the divine image of the halo.
01:14:05Sumerians describe their gods, the Anunnaki, as literally having a glow about them.
01:14:11And this was carried into more recent times as angels with a halo over their head.
01:14:15These are the beings that from heaven came to earth.
01:14:18Kingship now wants to have that same lineage of connection with the gods by placing a crown on the king's head.
01:14:26That headpiece symbolized the translation of a human being heir apparent into a sovereign to deify that sovereign, to make that sovereign extraterrestrial.
01:14:40Some of the earliest cave drawings we can find in the world show these humanoid beings with halos around their heads.
01:14:52And that is very fascinating because if you look today at modern day astronauts, if you have the sun rising behind them or even just with their flashlights that they have on the sides of their helmets.
01:15:04Well, if someone who is not knowledgeable in technology sees this, well, it looks like their head is surrounded by this divine light, which it's not divine at all.
01:15:18It's a light source.
01:15:20So over time, people, our ancestors started to imitate the gods, these extraterrestrials by wearing crowns.
01:15:35The throne, the scepter, the crown.
01:15:41Could these symbols of coronation have been inspired not by the imagination or even spiritual visions, but by some sort of alien encounters?
01:15:53If so, what other ancient rituals might find their roots in a kingdom not of this world?
01:16:02It's really clear that rituals are very important to the human experience.
01:16:09And the ones we most commonly practice today are religious, the Catholic mass, for instance.
01:16:15Right. And there are so many ancient rituals that we are doing today while we have no idea why we're doing them or how they came about, but we are still doing them.
01:16:27Yeah. And this may trace back to the extraterrestrial visitors.
01:16:31To me, it goes back to this notion that there's something embedded in our DNA that compels us to commemorate and honor the past.
01:16:42Vatican City, Italy.
01:16:46Pope Benedict XVI walks down the aisle in St. Peter's Basilica carrying a golden crucifix.
01:16:54Upon reaching the altar, he lifts the thuribble, a metal vessel suspended from chains, in which incense is burned for purification.
01:17:07The Pope recites the Eucharist prayer. And then he and his congregation consume the consecrated bread and wine.
01:17:15They are, according to the most sacred laws of the Church, eating the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ.
01:17:24The mass, the communion, the transubstantiation of eating the body of God allows us to ingest the divine energy.
01:17:33This is called mana, or magical energy. And the almost cannibalistic aspect of the ritual is crucial for atonement, which is at-one-ment, to become one with the divine source.
01:17:48But what does it mean to become one with the divinity?
01:17:53Most historians say the ritual of the Catholic Mass can be traced back to the Last Supper,
01:17:59when the act of Jesus serving bread and wine to his disciples, during what was actually a Passover Seder,
01:18:06created a powerful spiritual bond that must not be broken.
01:18:11But there are others who believe the Catholic Mass stems from a ritual practice thousands of years earlier.
01:18:19Scholars have speculated that the Mass is actually inspired by Egyptian mythology and a similar ritual that was done for the goddess Cyrus.
01:18:28The idea is, we take the divine substance, the body of the god into us, so that we are one with that transcendent energy.
01:18:36The legend of Osiris tells how he was killed and dismembered by his jealous brother,
01:18:42then resurrected from the various parts of his body by his wife, Isis.
01:18:47Egyptian priests reenacted this ancient event with a ritual involving clay and wheat.
01:18:54The ritual has to do with making wheat cakes that resemble the pieces of the dismembered god,
01:19:02which are then hidden, and a woman playing the wife goes and finds the pieces,
01:19:08and then in the end, the priests eat the pieces.
01:19:11Those who ate the sacramental wheat cakes believed they had brought the god Osiris back to life within themselves.
01:19:20But where did early Egyptians get such a profound idea?
01:19:25The question then is, are they mimicking things which they saw?
01:19:31And somehow it involved this transformation from a data's iris to a person who was regenerated.
01:19:40When we're looking at some of these rituals, really contact with the divine is a technology,
01:19:45whether it's spiritual or whether it's practical or whether it's to mimic extraterrestrials.
01:19:50Could the Roman Catholic ceremony of eating the body and blood of Christ
01:19:56actually have its origins in the ancient Egyptian story of Osiris?
01:20:02And if so, does it suggest that the Catholic religion, like other ancient beliefs,
01:20:08has its roots in an extraterrestrial encounter?
01:20:12A ritual is a participatory performance, and the main objective of a ritual is to communicate something
01:20:18about an underlying belief or an idea.
01:20:22These ancient rituals coincided with the appearance of various constellations in the sky,
01:20:28various stars.
01:20:29All across the world in ancient societies, there was a belief that human beings
01:20:34were placed on planet Earth by the star people.
01:20:37Mythology-like legend has real history in it.
01:20:41There's a strong sense of connection to those sources when one enters into ritual.
01:20:49Our deepest yearnings are for things we cannot remember.
01:20:52We yearn for lost wisdom, lost possibilities.
01:20:55It seems we work toward goals we do not understand.
01:21:00And it seems we are driven by aspirations that are truly mysterious.
01:21:10The ones who come from another world, our relatives, are the ones that bring the laws and the instructions
01:21:16and the ceremonies and the rituals here so that people will go through this process of evolution.
01:21:22Are today's frequently practiced rituals such as prayers, funerals, and coronations
01:21:35really based on early man's attempts to emulate ancient alien visitors?
01:21:41Or are they something even more profound?
01:21:45Could they provide an actual means with which humans may communicate with,
01:21:50or even return to, another, perhaps, extraterrestrial existence?
01:21:57If so, we may only know the truth when we, ourselves, make the journey.
01:22:04Or perhaps, when they return.
01:22:08The word ritual means right or truth.
01:22:17So when we're enacting a ritual, it is a performance of the original truth.
01:22:22And then it's up to us then to pull on the thread and ask the question, where did it come from?
01:22:27Yeah, and so by studying them and finding their origins, we can, you know, understand what these rituals are really about.
01:22:34Right. I think many of these rituals still in existence today are breadcrumbs that lead to a past of extraterrestrial contact,
01:22:46where our ancestors didn't quite understand we're communicating with flesh and blood extraterrestrials.
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